Central Palace

Hi everyone!

This has been a busy month for all!

Let's start off with Teresa.

Hm? What's that? *listens to earpiece* Actually, change of plans. There's been some new developments as of today, and so we'll be talking about those first!

Today, we have a brand new guest to Central Palace!!! Welcomes and celebrations are in order. According to the message I just received, we apparently have a LOT to catch up on today. So without further ado, let's begin.

GEORGINA DELIVERS A MESSAGE

Today (April 21st, 2016), a new Central Palace citizen, straight from Australia meets everyone for the very first time. *boing boing boing* He introduces himself to each Central Palace Citizen as RooRoo, who is a cute little pouched marsupial who has his very own box/basket thing!

Fast forward to a couple of moments later. RooRoo has a deep voice!!! What's going on??? Oh, so apparently RooRoo had been using his mother Georgina (AKA Georgie)'s body. Ok, cool.

Georgie introduces herself (in quite a deep voice) to BO first of all. Georgie then speaks with GooGoo, who was very confused. GooGoo had already been introduced to RooRoo and was confused as to how RooRoo turned into a man???

After things are cleared up a bit (and after both GooGoo and Karii reach their hands into Georgie's pouch to feel how soft it is--it's very soft), Georgie speaks with Karii and reveals that she used to train some bears how to kick. Karii is very impressed. Like incredibly impressed. GooGoo is excited and hauls a LOAD of bricks over and asks Georgie to break through the layers. He is only expecting the first couple of layers to be broken, so he is absolutely blown away when Georgie breaks 500 layers (according to SO). Karii is beyond awestruck. Her eyes are wide and she looks up, awed, at Georgie. She begs Georgie to teach her 'her ways'

Georgie tells Karii about how she trained some of the bears, then suprises Karii when she speaks reverently about Cameron, who she believes is a "WORLD STARRR". Karii is delighted and somewhat taken aback that Georgie knows about her father and asks how she knows. Georgie reveals that her uncle's friend was Sergeant Major, whom Karii immediately recognizes as the legendary bear, the most powerful protector ever to exist. Karii is beyond astonished.

Georgie then tells Karii that she has a secret, but that she must not tell anyone, including her babi. Karii gasps, tells Georgie to hold on one moment, and turns around to prepare for this important secret. She takes some deep breaths and mutters quietly to herself, "I must not tell babi! Can't tell babi! Big secret. Don't tell babi!" After a short moment, she is ready and turns back around, ears close to Georgie's mouth. Georgie tells her that she must speak with her babi first. 

"Oh...but I just got ready!"

"You can get ready again later."

"Okie! Babiiiiii!!!"

Cameron arrives and the first thing he sees is a massive pile of broken bricks.

"KARII!! Did you do that??"

"No babi! I--"

"WOW, KARII THIS IS IMPRESSIVE! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU!!"

"Babi!!! I didn't do this! Geor--"

"OH KARII, YOU ARE SOO MODEST!!"

"No babi! Seriously!!"

Karii then shows Cameron the video of Georgie destroying all those bricks. Cameron is mindblown. Eyes wide, he moves to touch Georgie's legs.

"So...much...power!" Cameron is almost drooling. 

When Georgie turns around and reveals her tail, Cameron goes to touch this too.

Shocked by the sheer power it holds, Cameron squeals loudly in awe, which in turn causes Georgie to yelp and jump back. Georgie gives Cameron a strange look.

"It's...it's just...it holds SO MUCH POWER!!!"

Georgie smiles uncomfortably and goes on to praise Cameron some, which boosts Cameron's ego and causes him to whip out his cape. Cameron is extremely pleased to hear Georgie calling him a "WORLD STARR".

Karii shakes her head and smiles at Georgie. "Sowwy, my babi knows no modesty."

Georgie chuckles. "That's ok, my son is like that too."

Cameron pulls Karii close to him. "This is my daughter Karii! She's really really good!"

"Oh yes! I've met her. She's a really nice child."

Cameron nods enthusiastically.

Georgie asks Cameron if she could speak with him privately.

"Oh, ok! Go away, Karii!" With that, Cameron tosses Karii roughly off BO's desk.

Georgie gasps audibly. "Uh-I'm going to go check if she's ok..."

"Oh no, Karii's fine! She always lands on her--" Cameron peers over the edge. "Uh, oops..." Cameron watches Karii for another second, then shrugs and turns back to Georgie. "She's fine!" he says cheerfully.

Georgie tells Cameron about how she knows Sergeant Major, and tells him about how he is just like Cameron, very silly, but also very strong. Cameron is excited. He can't believe that such a legendary bear was also a silly bear just like him. Georgie clarifies and tells him that very very few people knew about his silly side and that he didn't show it in public. Cameron says "oh" and wonders if that means he should stop being silly with everyone. He decides not to do that.

Georgie begins to tell Cameron her secret. She reveals of a prophecy that foretells of how a certain descendant of Redfur Gangling will deliver to the world a true hero.

Cameron is stunned for a moment, eyes glassy. He then goes and digs out his ancient family tree book and flips the pages. He stops at a page and points to a name. It is one of his ancestors, Redfur Gangling. Cameron shakes his head. He tells Georgie that it can't be, that he wasn't even meant to be the leader of the protectors. Cameron launches into the story of how he came to be the leader.

"It was supposed to be Curtis...Everything was leading up to that moment--everyone knew that Curtis was to be the next great leader and it was all planned out. On that day, I was standing next to him to make sure his new cape wouldn't be getting in the way of anything. As the headmaster prepared to formally crown Curtis as the great leader of the protectors, Curtis suddenly tripped somehow and the headmaster crowned me instead. Everybody was shocked. I was shocked. But the headmaster refused to uncrown me. I told him that it was an accident, that I wasn't supposed to be the leader. I wasn't even properly trained! But the headmaster just shook his head and told me, "there are no accidents". And well, that's the story of how I became the leader."

Ok, let's pause here to accomodate some more context and a little backstory from the Owners. 

Gangling, as a young Redfur, was scorned by the other warrior bears who saw him as an outcast, a bear who looked different from all the other warriors. The warriors were all selected from a prestigious species of specially bred all-powerful bears, so when they saw that Gangling was selected to become a warrior, they were incredibly insulted, especially when he began rising in the ranks and became one of the most powerful warriors.

Now we fast forward many many generations later, to Cameron's young days at the Warrior's Academy with the other protectors. The warrior trainers knew that Cameron was a descendant of Gangling, and with a deep-seated grudge that had been carried on for many many generations at the Warrior's Academy, they denied Cameron of proper training and dedicated him to minor, trivial tasks instead.

However, Cameron has always been a determined hard-worker, and trained on his own anyway, on trees, old buildings, using sticks, and anything else he could find, quietly becoming stronger and stronger despite lack of formal training. His parents pitied him and felt bad that they couldn't do anything to fuel his ambitions, so they gave him away to a rich family of protectors (Curtis's family) in hopes that they could somehow help him get closer to becoming a true warrior. 

Curtis welcomed Cameron into the family, delighted that he had a younger brother to care for. He would sometimes teach Cameron simple tricks from the Warrior's Academy even though it was strictly forbidden to share knowledge from the academy to "outsiders". He was a loving brother and very kind to Cameron until the coronation disaster happened.

Fast forward again to the days, weeks, and months following the crowning. (This information has nothing to do with this story, but is interesting to know nonetheless). We now know why Curtis seems to hate Cameron so much. In his eyes, Cameron had stolen his once soon-to-be title of the all-powerful leader of the Protectors right from under his nose! From then on, Curtis held a deep grudge and hatred against Cameron, but since he still has a shard of respect for him as a Protector, and also due to the fact that he abides by the warrior code, Curtis knows he can't harm or seriously sabotage Cameron, so he resorts to seriously annoying Cameron instead. And hey, what do you know, it works. Cameron can't stand Curtis to this day. *ERHER ERHER*

All right, back to the story!

Georgie tells Cameron that his headmaster is right, "there are no accidents". Cameron was destined to be the leader and Georgie assures him of that. Georgie tells Cameron that she will go check up on Karii to see if she is ok from the fall she had. Cameron smiles and rolls his eyes. He bet Georgie that Karii was probably down there playing with the dust bunnies. Georgie tells him he's right. Cameron calls Karii up and tells her to come before she gets all dusty. Karii comes up and shakes the dust off her fur everywhere and onto Cameron. They mess around a bit before Cameron leaves.

Karii is ready for the secret Georgie had. Georgie tells Karii about the prophecy, and tells her that Cameron doesn't know, but it's about him. (The true hero he delivers to the world is Karii.)

Aaaaand, that's pretty much the end of the story.

Uh, as for current news, I'll save that for a later post. This post seems to have gotten hijacked...

(Sorry, Teresa)

Teresa and her dance group, the Island Girls, are going head to head with the Royal Galaxy Dance Crew during this year's RAG Awards, which is a HUGE honour for the girls. Teresa has been training the girls VERY strictly , EVERY single day, from restricting their diets to challenging their flexibility. Their group number is entitled Stars Collide.

They've gotten costumes from Alaska Lee and Jimmeta Bear's new clothing line, 'Ready for Battle' (More about this in a moment)