Treetop Encounter

daxis was now hyped up from the coffee intake, and of course he was gonna want more.

"hold that pot! I be in in jiffy.." he said not making sense. as he was upside down he used his upper bodystrength to flip himself rightside up, and climb back through the window he fell out.

he cartwheeled over to kyne accidentily bumping the hot pot of coffee on him.

Kyne jumped in surprise when Daxis cartwheeled in and bumped hot coffee onto him.
"Hot!!!! OW!!!!" He yelled. Then, of course, in the way of liquids.... "....now it's cold!"

Both Zeke and Leo were beside themselves laughing at this.

"Great, now there's no more coffee!" said Kyne grumpily.

daxis fell back after bumping kyne."we can always go make more right?"he said finally calmed down.

daxis walked out of the room to go explore looking for food of course.
he wandered the halls till he came to a big staircase leading downwards.

daxis peered down as he said " helloooo .....ellloooo......elllo"as it echoed down the sairwell."maybe i should get someone to come with me ?"he said to himself returning to the room."can someone help me find some food.. im gonna starve." just as he said that his tummy growled.

he then walked back to the stairs waiting for anyone to come with him.

Leo stood up, finishing the last of his coffee. "I'll go," he said, exiting the room. Before he left, he turned around. "What about you two?"

Kyne shook his head. "Probably going to be crowds..."

Zeke just said, "Nah." And was back to his default anti-socialness.

"All right," said Leo, going over to Daxis by the stairs.

"So.... down the stairs?"

daxis waited and saw leo coming towards him. he nodded in confirmation.
he slowly put a foot down to make sure it wasn't gonna give out when he put his full weight on it. he stepped down with both feet, then jumped up and down. then continued walking now knowing he wasn't gonna fall.

" I hope there's something edible down here..don't you ?" he said making small conversation with leo, as he hadn't really gotten a chance to talk with him.
when they reached the bottom daixs saw a long line of doors of different coloured doors.

"Leo... which one is the kitchen?" he said as he pointed and moved his finger down the line of doors." sure is ... quiet down here.... you'd at elast think there would be noise coming from a kitchen ...Right?" daxis said as he not sure he wanted to go through any of the doors to find out what was behind them.

Leo nodded. "You're right.... That's odd." He walked down the hallway a bit. "I can't even smell any food, either. You think you would, right...?"

He paused a moment, seeing a shadow from behind a slightly open door farther down. "Hey, I think there's someone there we could ask!" He said, heading towards the door.

daxis followed behind leo." you sure we should even be here? what if theres a scary person in there?"he said trying to whisper it.

daxis went closer to the partly open door slightly poking it with his finger to make it move.but the door did not move from just a touch, so he used his foot opening it all the way now. daxis was being paranoid, and jumpy and hid behind leo." is it gone yet...?" he said meeping.

Leo laughed at that. "Come on, Daxis, we're both adults... We can take any scary person on."

However, Daxis now had him thinking paranoid thoughts. What if it's an ax murderer?! he thought.

Leo watched as the door swung open. As the door swung open, he saw a meat cleaver slam down onto a table, blood flying. He screamed and jumped backwards, quite startled.

"Uh...." He said, when he saw it was a man in a chef uniform, chopping meat. "Sorry to bug you.... You know where we could get some food?"

The meat cleaver chef turned to them, grinning. Blood splatters stained the front of his white uniform and dripped down the blade of the meat cleaver and onto his hands and the cuff of his sleeves.

"Riiiight this way," he said, motioning for them to come in.

when daxis saw the scary looking chef he turned a pale white , screamed loudly and girlish that even kyne and zeke could hear, then feinted.

after his feinting spell he woke up to see leo then the scary chef again. daxis froze in place. " dddd---don't hurt me..." he meeped

---elsewhere----

Kyne looked up when he heard a girlish scream. "Did you hear that?" he asked Zeke.

Zeke looked up. He'd been napping again. "Not if you didn't," he said.


---returning to the chef----

The chef bellowed a loud, full laugh.
"Hurt you? You're too scrawny to cook!" he said, laughing more. "Just kidding.... he said, putting the meat cleaver down.

"I'll get my partner to help you out. KAGA!" he yelled.
Just then, a dark haired man appeared, dramatically taking a forceful bite of a pepper.

"Yes?" said Kaga.

"Help these two find some food," said the large Chef, returning to his work. Kaga motioned for them to follow.

Leo piped up quietly, "so... he's a scary guy, hey?"

"Not really," said Kaga. "I first met him....... "*TEN MINUTES LATER*

Leo looked around. "Where are we?"

daxis only nodded, not paying attention to leo,being more focused on Kaga with how strange he was when he made his entrance.

daxis looked around at where they had ended up. and where they had indeed ended up was Kitchen stadium. daxis was intrigued by the amazingly built stadium.

" ohhh what's this ...." he said looking at a big bin filled with something that was covered by a large cloth. daxis smelled something fruity , and realized it was peaches." PEACHESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he glomped leo.

"mmmm what are we doing here.... anyways?" he questioned Kaga.

Kaga pulled them over to a table. "You are going to judge the battle for Iron Chef!" he said, then proceeded over to his podium (or whatever) and started announcing the battle in another language. For some reason, Leo could hear an announcer voice over top in a language he could understand.

Then, with great drama, the cooking battle began!

daxis finds a seat at the end of the table, and listens to an anouncer voice.
anouncer:todays challenger is Gilligan... a mysterious chef who alwasy carrys his trusty meat cleaver, going up against Iron chef Sakkai!!, todays battle will consort of a delicacy of peaches.....*goes on about peaches for five more minutes*

daxis wakes himself by snoring loudly. suddenly Kaga shouts on the podium" IRON Cuisine!"

daxis leaned over to whisper to leo "what'll we do if we don't get back in time for kyne and zeke?"

Leo shrugged. "Bring them the left overs?" He then got absorbed in watching the battle.

Sakkai was apparently making some sort of peach ice cream, whilst Gilligan was making peache glazed ham.

---Elsewhere----

Zeke yawned. "Wonder what's taking them so long?"

"Maybe we should have checked on that scream.." said Kyne, getting up.

"Worth a shot," said Zeke, joining him in leaving the room and going down the stairs.

daxis' mouth was watering as he watching them making the odd and delicious creations." I don't think there will be any leftovers...." he said to leo.

a river of drool was forming on the table from daxis who couldn't wait to eat.
"ohhh i hope there's seconds"he said.

Leo grabbed a conveniently placed napkin and attempted to dam the river of drool.

"Can I get more napkins?" he said to a passing assistant. They quickly mopped up Daxis' mess.

-----elsewhere-----

They walked down the hallway of many doors, trying to see where Leo and Daxis might have gone. Zeke saw a suspicious looking door and walked over to it. He stopped suddenly, upon opening it, and Kyne bumped into him. They both tumbled in, the door closing and locking behind them...

IT was quite a tight fit. And broomy, as well.

"Good going." said Zeke.

daxis was getting tired of waiting for food when he all the sudden heard a timer with a female voice say: "ten seconds remaining."

he then perked up holding his fork and knife in hand."mmmm......I wonder if zeke and kyne are looking for us?" he said licking his lips at the food that was being brought to them on massive plates.

he immediatly dug into the food like a snowplow. by the time daxis had finished eating they were being asked to judge what they ate. but daxis was now feeling sick from eating way too much.

" judges please choose the winning chef..."Kaga said

daxis tried to sit up but didnt want to move, and wasn't going to talk since he was too full to do anything so he wrote a name on a napkin.hiding it from leo he handed it to Kaga. ( on the napkin it said gilligan).

Leo ate his food slowly, unlike Daxis, and between bites spoke. However, what he said and what a voice over his own said were quite different.

Leo: "Wow... Peach glazed ham! Yummy!"
Voice: "The flavours are dancing on my pallet!"

Leo: "Oooh... Ice cream!"
Voice: "What an elegant blend of fruit and desert! Wonderful!"

.... you get the picture.

At the end, when Kaga declared it to be voting time for the chef, he grabbed the napkin Daxis had passed him, and passed his own vote, as well.

There was a drum roll.

Kaga stood on his podium "The winner of the peach battle is.........

Iron Chef Sakkai!"

Gilligan gaped, tears streaming down his face.

"I failed!" he wailed, running off stage. "My dreams are broken! I'm sorry, Mama!
"

"Oh no!" said Leo, following him. "Come on, Daxis.... He needs comfort!"

----elsewhere----

Zeke: "Well, you got us in here, you get us out...."

Kyne: "I told you, I can't reach the door knob! We're stuck! If you just reach past me we can get out."

Zeke: "You can't reach the knob because there IS NO KNOB!"

BANG!

A large, crying chef ran into the broom closet, trampling them both.

daxis felt abit better now thta he had sat there for awhile thinking why didnt I get one of those voice over thingies ......he pondered .

then he heard leo calling him." im coming...." he said following after leo who was following gilligan who was running and crying. when daxis saw him run to a closet he stopped for a minute."I shall comfort youuu...come leo to the comfort CAve!"

he paused for amoment " gilligan?...."then tried to think of some way to comfort his loss. he then pulled out a mini dulcimer, and starting strumming away pretending to know what he was doing. he began singing. Horribly.

Zeke and Kyne, bowled over by the chef, used their combined effort to get him out of hte way so they could escape. It was then that Zeke heard something that sounded either like a dying ostrich or Daxis singing and badly playing a miniature dulcimer that was very out of tune.

"Daxis, where have you been....?"

Leo just seemed to accept this, although he regarded Kyne sternly. "What were you and Zeke doing in a broom closet?"

daxis stopped playing the dulcimer and dropped it making it smash on the floor, and answered zeke."uhhh... Kitchen stadium......where were you?"he questioned back.

daxis went to pick up the dulcimer and throw it in a garbage can, since it could no longer be useful.

daxis went back to try to comfort gilligan saying"its ok... don't cry better luck next time...im sure your mama will understand?"

"Where was I?" said Zeke. "I went looking for you and was locked in a closet with that fruit," he said pointing to Kyne.

"Who are you calling a fruit, maidy boy?"

Zeke's face went red and he crossed his arms. Unexpectedly, he said, "At least I've got the legs for the dress..."

Meanwhile, while Daxis was comforting Gilligan, he overheard.

"You wore a maid outfit?!" He said laughing. "I have to see that!"

"Great," said Leo, "'cause we've got picture-"

"No. We. Don't." said Zeke.

"IT'll cheer him up," said Kyne, trying to convince him.

Zeke crossed his arms and muttered something angstily.

daxis reached into a pocket of his pants digging out a photo of zeke in the maid outfit, and handed it to gilligan " this oughta make you laugh.." he said giggling himself.

daxis then noticed the ribbon still on zeke. " uhh... zeke... the ribbon....on your---" he stopped with a deer in the headlights look on his face.

Zeke blinked. "You didn't tell me before I left the room?!" He glared at Kyne.

Kyne shrugged. "I think it looks good on you."

Zeke grabbed one of the ribbon ends and untied it from his hair, glaring more at Kyne.

Of course, this added to the picture made chef Gilligan laugh harder. "You have to be the most interesting people I've ever met!" he said. "Lunch is on me for today!"

He paused, feeling the need to clarify. "But not litterally...."

daxis sighed"i don't wanna eat anymore..."almost making anotion like he was about to fall over.

"where'd Kaga go?" daxis questioned." I could've sworn i saw him asecond ago..."daxis shrugged " I'm gonna go back to the room... I don't wanna see another peach for the rest of my life " he said.