Ruby was not long the only one to find something unexpected on her back. Miles above in the blue sky, there was a twinkle, of the sort created when anime characters are 'blasting off again.' Something hurtled downward from it, clouds whooshing past. As missiles went, it was... an odd one. The blur coalesced into a strange sight: a brown-haired smiling boy in a dive, gray donkey ears stretching from the sides and top of his head and a long matching tail trailing behind. A bit before breaching the tree line -- still a good distance from the ground in Deep Forest -- he broke the dive and began to somersault forward, the tail making it look like a horridly inefficient buzzsaw in profile. At last, the young man landed in a sit on the absolutely-not-pink unicorn's back, touching down delicately enough that she would not even have known he was there, if not for the sudden weight. And the tickling of his tail as it swished back and forth in delight.
The unique trumpeting of Gaeva had extended to the mind of Gaius, where a group of individuals jumped at the call. They had been denied their chance of becoming proper UV characters, so the precursors to Devon -- from a prince who learned not to be stingy when lost in a desert and a mysterious donkey peddler just happens to pass by, to a guy who learned that breakups are especially hard when the girlfriend's mother is a vengeful witch -- weren't going to miss an appearance in a one-shot. Granted, most were lukewarm at best about their conditions, but at least it would be something to do. However, over the heads and long ears of the stampede leaped the enthusiastic child who would claim the prize. He touched down gracefully, grabbed the other kid in attendance -- the original front-runner for Devon's spot, one of the few to get a name, and practically identical to the more pro-active child discounting fur appearance and personality -- and then hurtled through to proper character-dom.
Where, having apparently become one with the second boy, he rather liked it. Eyes and ears darted about, drinking things in. Just from the lavender unicorn he was seated upon and the blanketed red one close by, it seemed a more colorful place. He decided the two equines might prefer he join their club, and he was all too happy to comply. His limbs, torso and head changed shape, mostly gray fur rippling over him as his human clothes vanished, and his hands and feet melded into hooves. At last, a creature looking like a miniature version of Devon sat on Gaeva's back, tail still aswish. Unaware or uncaring how odd it looked to have a small donkey sitting upright on a unicorn's back, he lifted a forehoof in greeting and brayed a 'hello.'
Devon, too far to know any of this, but close enough for the RP Magic to affect him, felt a strange, irresistible impulse. Sticking his right elbow out to the side, he brought the hoof to the side of his muzzle and declared,
"I shall call him Mini-Me." He then shook his head, wondering what had brought that on, and beginning to worry that the strange plant he'd had with dinner (before Gaeva decided that afternoon was more awesome) had been cannabis after all.
((OOC: Aye, this looks to be a lot of fun. 
Sorry that it's kinda long))
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