(LA Night)First Date (Activity)

[Joshua]

I grinned widely as I remembered one of my favorite foods that goes with almost everything.

"You like strawberrys?" I teased her, leaning close to her face and was rewarded by her not backing away.

She arched an eyebrow, "Didn't we just get finished with feeding each other fruit?"

"What, you never had strawberry shortcake with strawberry malts before? Or maybe . . . strawberry dacuries?"

At the alcoholic beverages mention, her eyes lit up and and with another flash of light, the dining table was candle lit and filled with strawberry-everything you could imagine-flavored food.

"Hm, the second sweetest thing in sight," I commented on the food.

"Oh, and what's the first?" Mai asked, already knowing the answer.

So I answered her with a slow, passionate kiss.

"Oh yeah," she sighed just before we sat down to eat.

[Maya]

"Hmm." I grinned, "Pudding an' alcohol for a whole meal- this i could get used to."
"Cos that would be so healthy." Joshua chuckled.
"I care about healthy food?" I said doubtfully, "The amount of running around i do, i doubt any of the bad stuff has a chance to do a thing to my body." I took a large mouthfull of strawberry cheesecake, and smiled contentedly. Joshua grinned at my obvious glee, and helped himself too. I racked my brains for something to say- we'd covered gut wrenching misery, old friends... Ooh! I swallowed quickly, and said,
"Hey, question, since you asked about Faith an' Will- how'd you meet Doc?"

[Joshua]

"That's actually a funny story," I chuckled.

"Half of it you'll have to get from him, since I only know it from my point of view, but actually we first met online on, believe it or not, a chat about gargoyles." I began.

"You're kidding!" she started to giggle.

"No I'm not. Anyway that's technically where we first met. Didn't make the best of impressions on each other, he couldn't type worth a darn back then. But, later on when I was being stalked by this really nasty demon, trust me you don't want to hear about that, I went back to that same chat and Doc was the only other person online. I told him about my problem and he told me he'd come across something similar, and lead me to the solution that helped me to vanquish the demon once and for all."

"For about a month or two, we just e-mailed back and forth. Usually with problems about respective demons we were dealing with at the time. First time I ever *met* met Doc, well... that's an even funnier story."

"What? Come on, tell me," Mai started to beg.

"Well, I hadn't master time portals quite yet, and in a rush to get out of detention one day in High School, I opened a portal that deposited me a week previous to that day in downtown Sydney, Austrailia. I landed on a vamp that had been sneaking up on Doc and some cajun female friend of his."

I couldn't continue the story from there because Maya was laughing too loud and was on the verge of falling out of her seat.

[Maya]

When i got my breath back, i gasped,
"Sorry... i just got this mental image of you landing on the back of a huge demon... only the demon sorta looks like a green kangaroo, and Doc turning round and giving you that look..." I laughed again. "Sorry. Sorry. So... after accidently squashing his stalker, you said what? Hi, i'm a time wizard, you wouldn't happen to be that internet guy would you?"
He gave me a withering look, and said...

[Joshua]

"Actually that's exactly what I said," I told her miserly.

I rolled my eyes and sighed as she dissolved into another fit of non-stop giggles and laughter. I smiled after a bit though, she had a very beautiful laugh, and seeing her smile like that was worth getting laughed at.

[Maya]

I managed to stifle my laughter, and smiled at him,
"You're such a dork." I said.
"Hey!"
I laughed again, and he smiled.
"Sorry, I'm a bitch." I shrugged. I looked down at the table which was still full of strawberrys everythings, "An i dont think i can eat a single nother strawberry, or i might like, turn red or something."

[Maya]

I grinned,
"Guess the eating thing didn't last so long, huh?"

[Joshua]

"Hey, wanna go to The Spot and end this date with a bang?" I suddenly panicked and hasitly added, "Not literally of course!"

Mai smiled, knowing exactly what I meant.

"What'd you have in mind stud?" she giggled, and for the strangest reason I knew exactly why. She didn't use 'stud' and to hear it coming out of her mouth, even for me, was rather strange, and definitely funny.

"Honestly, I don't have anything planned," I swore and pulled out the pad. "Only things after the swarm in the park is taking out a demon rising and saving three couples from being taken as sacrifices for the demons rising. And we could probably do all that on the way to the Spot."

[Maya]

I chuckled,
"Most couples plan a movie- we plan human sacrifice." I sighed. "Ok then." I clicked my fingers and returned us to the graveyard.
"I'm sorry about all this." Joshua said.
"Sorry?" I grinned, "Its not as if it's your fault, and i gotta say its handy knowing what bad guys we gotta expect." I took his hand, and we started walking, "Lets just find this demon thing and head to the spot."

[Jessy Jackson]

"I'll help you, Maya" I looked at Joshua coldly. after what he'd said earlier I had been awfully decent to him so now he deserved the cold shoulder.

[Maya]

As we passed one of the graveyards, there was a blood curdling scream, and i sighed- how useful. We ran full pelt towards the screaming to see a woman and a man being dragge by a load of demon minions towards a ritualistic looking area.
"Ok, break it up!" I cried, shocking the demons. Beside me, Jessy turned into a panther, and all three of us rushed forwards, knocking the demons flying and freeing the humans. "One couple down."I murmured looking around. Sure enough there was soon a seconde load of screaming, and then a third, as the other two couples were manhandled into the graveyard. About twenty minutes later we stood in the middle of a circle of dead demons, six non-sacrifices cowering at the side. We watched the bodies expectantly, Jessy reverting to human form.
"Are they not gonna go poof?" She moaned.
"'Parently not." Josh replied, glancing at me. I rolled my eyes in annoyance, clapped my hands, and each demon exploded... expect there were no bits left after.
"There we go." I said happily. "Ew... i have demon blood on my boot." I wiped it on the grass, and looked to Josh, "So... the Spot then?"
I almost laughed, actually- how glamourous can a date get? but i shrugged, ancient japan makes up for demons.


((Josh-If you write something here, and then we move to the spot... i think you might have to modify the post you already put there cos it doesnt quite fit!))

[Joshua]

"Well," I laughed as we noticed that we all had a little demon blood on our shoes, though Jessy's would have been more on her claws if things like blood and demon gore remained after her morphs, "To make this night the same as any other patrol night, we still have to hit the Spot. And I don't know about you my Mai, but I could do with a little dancing, and maybe more food, as the Spot does include catering services."

"Good point, and a good idea too," Mai kissed my nose, causing me to chuckle a little bit. Jessy headed off, after Mai told her to hook up with Nicki or something, but I kept my mouth shut.

Hey, I agreed with Mai, this *is* a private date.

[Maya]

[I'll see you later, Jess.] i called after her, in her mind [and dont worry about Josh... I'm sure he didn't mean to be mean about... whatever it was] I didn't know the details of the confrontation, but the tension between them was obvious.
"Ok then. Spot." I said to Josh. My stomach rumbled, "Hm, i am hungry. Guess it was all that slaying..."
So we set off towards the spot.