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"Wet me OWT! It Dawk in hewe...I scawed..."

Realizing the horse isn't about to set him free soon, Kero ponders his options...and decides the most obvious solution is the best. Rising into the air, he spits on the side of the kettle, thinking it is the side nearest the window.

Flying up, he presses up on the lid, trying to get out once more.

As Lyssan soon finds out, telling him what she is about to do, and ordering him to come out slowly, proves to be a big mistake. When he hears she is going to take off the lid, Kero starts to formulate an idea to get away from her. He knows she is very angry, just from the sound of her voice, and that means he is in serious serious trouble. So, as she takes off the lid, he plays possum, acting like he has been knocked out by the fumes.

His plan bears fruition, too. “You poor thing.” She croons, gently lifting him out of the pot and replacing the lid. He stirs in her hands, but only a little…until suddenly he shoots high into the air, out of her reach, chortling.

“Foow Yoo!” He shouts as he flies down past her, heading for the Nursery, where he knows he can lay down and pretend he was taking a nap. It had worked before, when he had stolen some cookies from Mommy.

Lyssan, meanwhile, simply sits back, watching as he flies, curious as to where he is going, but having a good idea. After all, where else would a kid go when he was scared? That thought crossing her mind, she morphs to a fox and begins climbing up to the nursery.

Meanwhile, Kero is in a spot of trouble, as Kya and Enia have already both heard of his downstairs escapades, and are both berating him for it. “Why yoo wuun Kev speshaw day?!” Kya almost cries to him, as she is picked up and hugged by Enia, who tries vainly to comfort her while giving Kero a look. “You, little dragon, are in serious…” she starts, but Kero doesn’t hear the rest, because he is gone in a falsh, so quickly that the smoke cloud he leaves behind takes one look at Enia and darts away, leaving another smoke cloud that does the same thing, only this time it leaves behind a normal, dissipating cloud of smoke. Of course, while Kero is running, this strange smoke has Enia and Kya scratching their heads.

As Lyssan is climbing the stairs, she is nearly bowled over by a copper-gold missile, moving so fast she doesn’t even realize who it is until it is too late for her to use any of her spells…and besides that, she isn’t sure her ‘foot-be-stuck’ spell would work in midair. Yelling a very unladylike word or two as she slips and falls on her rear due to the dragon’s swift flight past her, Lyssan is then left stunned on the stairs as Kero journeys down to Amestru’s library.

Amestru was absent, having heard his mate’s cries for help…or at least, hearing her cries. He wasn’t sure help was exactly what she wanted. It was hard to tell when his mate started cursing in languages lost to antiquity, though he was certain calling for all of the winds in Kami-no-Kaze’s bag to come and freeze the step that had hurt her solid for a millennium was a bit much.

Kero, however, was currently shuddering between a stack of books in the children’s section, clearly afraid. Mommy was very very very mad at him, and Now Enia and Kya were too. He had to hide. Hide until the danger passed. And he nwas hiding. The books were good hiding place. Kya could ever find him in them.
They were very good.

“What are you doing in here, child?” Said a voice, and looking up, Kero sees two tiny little monsters have suddenly appeared in front of his nose. Both of them wearing white coats. He remembered about people in white coats. Daddy had shown him a picture in a storybook about them. They did mean things to dead bodies and made them turn alive again. They must think he was dead.

“We should send for Lord Amestru. He should know this child.” Said the other one suddenly, and Kero shrank down again, preparing to fly. His sudden takeoff knocks over a pile of books and a number of them off their shelves as he flees out the door and down the hall, heading towards the laundry room where he can smell soap. Nothing beats soap. Mommy won’t be able to find him at all.

Arriving in there, however, he hears something he never thought he would hear…and that he really doesn’t think he wants to hear again. Keveka, his big brother, is singing. Loudly. There is something about how he goes looking for the right notes…and misses them. It drives Kero wild…and he suddenly remembers it is Kev’s life day…and turning about, he swiftly vacates that premises, though without the wanton destruction or humorous effects of before.

Now he has only one choice for a hiding place. The Kitchen, where the Horse-Lady reigns supreme. He would have to sneak through quietly…and he makes the decision to sneak along the cabinets. Slinking inside very slowly, he crawls along, moving surely among the metal pots and pans, and crawling across a counter. Suddenly, he sees his nemesis, the Horse Lady. He quickly stashes himself behind a big pot of water as she comes closer and closer. He is worried that she will grab the pot…but at the last second, she turns and ducks down underneath it. With a sigh of relief, Kero starts to move, when suddenly!

“HEY! What are you doing back in here, you troublemaker?!” comes the cry of an angry brownie. Champy’s head hits the top of the cabinet she was leaning into and Kero takes flight once more. This time, however, he is not so lucky. His flight knocks over the pot of water right onto Champhy’s already hit head. Thankfully, the metal misses her, but she takes an impromptu bath nonetheless. Kero is already gone by the time she looks up, but the swinging doors of the storerooms show where he has gone to hide.

Crouched by a metal barrel of crabs, Kero is trying his best to look like a stone. He is silent and wary. His heart is pounding. But here he is safe. Nobody can find him here. Nobody. Not Mommy or Daddy or Enia or Keva or the Horse Lady or Kya or the Men in White. He is safe.

As he climbs up to get a better look inside, he realizes something is wrong. The tub is sinking beneath him. Suddenly he realizes what is going on...his weight is warping the material that makes up the tub, allowing the water to flow away. Immediately he jumps into the air, flying away from the strange creatures.

This proves to be a mistake, however, as the force of his takeoff was more than enough to capsize the tub and spill out the rest of the water and all the strange spindly creatures, who are now scuttling about. With a start, he realizes he is in even ore trouble if Champhy finds him, and immediately rights the tub, then sets about gathering crabs, trying to catch them and get them back in.

Flying through the kitchen, he finds his mama in the laundry rom, tracking him still. He immediately flies into her arms, crying hard, crab still hanging from his nose.

Kero bawls to his mama for about five minutes, crying and rubbing his glowing backside.

"Mama Mama Mamamama...Mean Horsey Lady hit me on my bottom. She hit hawd! It huwts! Owies!"

Kero does not answer her for nearly ten minutes, crying his eyes out and cuddling her. Eventually, he calms down even more, and begins to tell her how he had hidden from everyone in a small room, and smellled weird salty water, and gone up on the case for a better look at it, and the case had spilled and tipped over, and all the mean snappy pinchy scuttly things had escaped, and how he had tried to catch them, ansd how Champhy had smacked him unexpectedly, many many many many many many times. It hurt. It hurt so bad.