Dee Dee arrived to the island that Idir has requested she meet him at and she made her way over to the meeting point, she had just gotten a new friend not to long ago that being TreeDee and she was glad to have yet another Waddle-dee with her, he was also a noncombatant type so she was considering getting a farm set up in their guild base so the little guy can help with that Maybe even Natalya would like having the little guy around? he could stay in the Monster Ranch area they had set up, though more then likely Dee Dee will let him stay in her room with all the others since he was one of her friends!

As she walked she made sure BombDee, Kramer, and Geist were equipped incase of combat, if needed she could switch out some of the gear mid fight, well except for the combat armor that she placed on BombDee but it seemed to be the best place for it after all, so he still had that equipped, Kramer had the ruby Collar, and the Deerstalker hat was on Geist for the time being so after checking on all that Dee Dee nodded to herself.

Arriving at the meeting point she waved to Idir "Hey there you said you needed my help with checking out these portals?" she said as she then opened the mission screen on the system to see the mission again "Ah I see something is bothering the Friendly Races in the area and we need to figure out what's causing it" she nodded as the Word bubble expressed all this to Idir.

With that she closed the screen and looked to Idir "got everything you need? if so lets go" she gave a thumbs up and was ready to head out as she headed for the portal to see what the issue could be surrounding it

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Dee Dee looked at Idir "Yeah the gates will take us to a different place or world or something not really sure on that one, most gates are random, some are somewhat stable and will take you to the same place sometimes... I think... Ether way this one is a bit more prominent due to the fact that friendly creatures live near it, but somethings been causing issues at the portal" she confirmed as they hopped into the gate and got transported to another place or world, Looking around Dee Dee brought out BombDee for now to get another set of eyes out, and she was about to summon more when Idir pointed out something and Dee Dee grabbed BombDee and hid behind a rock that no normal sized person could hide behind, Dee Dee and BombDee on the other hand easily were able to hide behind it.

Looking over Dee Dee grabbed her Word bubble so it wouldn't float above or around the rock as she peeked around the rock, blinking a bit as the words "What are those?" popped up on the word bubble, Though she looked at them, then to BombDee who was watching as well then back to the creatures and she then took out her note book and started to make scketches of them and taking notes on what they were seeing of them as they wandered around, seemingly gathering some fruits and plants growing in the area and putting them in rather cruedly made woven baskets, clearly gathering food.

Though she did notice many had simply weapons like clubs and wore furs so they clearly where ready to defend themselves if needed so it was best to stay out of sight for now at least to get a better Idea about the creatures, though for some reason Dee Dee felt like she should know what they were.

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Dee Dee was wondering just what they were, Idir suggested beast like creatures, but looking around she also realized that they were like Idir said, preparing for something, ducking back behind the boulder to talk with Idir Dee Dee still couldn't shake the feeling that she should know what these things were, but she still didn't know why. When Idir suggested it might be a ritual or a sacrifice she Though the Idea was maybe close, but it was hard to say. "Regardless looking at the food they have gathered they don't seem to the be the ones Causing an issue to the other side of the portal, Besides the mission and the reports mentioned it was spirit activity not breasts or what not" she clarified.

Then the boulder exploded and she along with BombDee were sent flying along with Idir, when she landed she looked over at the creatures that had apparently found them, looking at the posture though and the fact they were not attacking them outright Dee Dee thought maybe they were scared of them? Then one smacked Idir with a Coconut and Dee Dee let out a little snicker before looking back to the creatures, after a moment she blinked, wait.. now that one was closer she was sure she knew what they were and she looked to BombDee then to the creatures "I... I think they are Some type of Waddle-dee!" her word bubble announced.. which prompted one creatures to gently poke the word bubble with a long stick.

Realizing they may be a type of Waddle-dee did help a bit, that meant Dee Dee had a basic Idea on how to deal with them, so she took out a load of tomatoes and held them out for the creatures. one looked at her while holding it's club at the ready, but then looked at the food, and the BombDee next to her, then back to Dee Dee and it tilted sideways a moment as if studying her then it nodded and looked to the others and made a few hand motions and the others seemed to calm down a bit as they walked over and took the offered tomatoes.

A few though were still looking at Idir with weapons ready one even gently poking him with a stick "They are waddle-dee's they are not harmful if you are not threatening.. here give them this!" she sent him some apples through a trade window so they wouldn't see her giving them to him. Then Dee Dee and BombDee were suddenly picked up and both of them reacted much the same way, flailing around for a moment before stopping and letting themselves be carried over to the collected pile of food and placed near it with other of the maybe-waddle-dee who were preparing the food so Dee Dee shrugged a bit and started to help out, even sneakily summoning TreeDee to help out, and none of the creatures seemed to notice an Extra Waddle around.

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Dee Dee had helped the Waddle-dee with the food and so did BombDee and TreeDee, the good news was the CaveDee? yeah she was gonna called them CaveDee, where friendly with her, but it seemed Idir was having a bit of an issue as he had smacked the one that threw the coconut at him in the head with an apple, and then another CaveDee clearly looking to get even with Idir for smacking one of them with an apple, tossed the man into the river before laughing and rushing off, well at least it was some harmless payback right? and from his mutterings Idir was trying to make sure he didn't attack the CaveDee's which was likely a good thing since they were clearly very strong, and they also would likely protect each other and she knew Idir was strong but there were a lot of CaveDee around.

It was then that things got darker and she noticed the difference in the CaveDee, a few even ran over and picked her, BombDee and TreeDee up and carried them away from the food pile and put them in with the rest of the CaveDee some even piling up on Dee Dee to keep her hidden, only her face being visible, which oddly only made it more clear that she looked very waddle-dee like. Regardless she seen the spirits that took the food leaving none for the CaveDee and they even scared the little guys, that wasn't fair! but the CaveDee clearly were scared of the creatures and as they left Dee Dee gently pets the CaveDee to calm them down, taking some food out of her inventory to give to them, which they ate happily and stayed near her.

Then the mission update popped up and Dee Dee read it. her eyes going wide as she realized these Waddle-dee were in trouble and she wouldn't stand for this... well she would stand for this, she would stand and go find out what was causing this to the Waddle-dee! but first she needed to make sure they had food so she looked at TreeDee, she was so glad she had gotten the little guy, and they nodded and rushed over to a large cluster of fruit trees and bushes and they activated their ability to make plants grow rapidly, which caused the fruits to start growing back rapidly, it would take a bit but she would leave TreeDee there to help make sure the CaveDee would be fed.

The CaveDee noticed though and they gathered around TreeDee, some getting their clubs and others sticks and they formed a protective circle around the helpful Waddle-dee, clearly understanding that he was helping them. It was Touching to Dee Dee to see this and she walked over to Idir "I am going to leave TreeDee here to help them get more food, they must be starving already, we need to go figure out what is troubling the Waddle-dee and put a stop to it!" the word bubble informed him as she got ready to go with him in the best lead they had, the direction the spirits left in.

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Walking through the area Dee Dee kept her eyes open as did BombDee wanting to make sure nothing was around that could be causing the issue, though as they walked it was becoming rather obvious that nothing corporeal was the issue as they were running into nothing that the CaveDee couldn't handle, they were clearly strong and brave enough, so Dee Dee had to wonder what would make them so scared? Then again they likely never had to deal with spirits right? But finally they came to an area with opened graves and some treasure on the ground and the mission update popped up.

After reading the update and hearing Idir Dee Dee looked at the graves and disturbed and looted, or partially there was still quite a few things there likely from the CaveDee not taking kindly to people looting the area, she nodded to Idir and she as well as BombDee started to put the coins and other treasure into the graves and fill them in, using shovels to get the work done a little faster, even handing one to Idir as they worked. It started to make sense now, the CaveDee were not scared cause they were ghosts, they were scared cause they were their ancestors, well Dee Dee would have to look into who came here and harmed the little CaveDee.

But she continued working, BombDee helping by picking up and placing more coins into the graves and Dee Dee covered them to speed up the process, BombDee even did the same to the ones around Idir so he could just focus on covering them up, though BombDee was making sure to put the coins into the correct graves or at least the ones it looked like they belonged to and was doing his best. The whole time Dee Dee looked over what markers the CaveDee used, and it was a pile of stones to mark the graves, so once done with covering some graves she left the rest to Idir and instead she started to pick up stones and build up the markers again.

"I wish we could find out who did this, I understand if they were also people like us.. it might have even been a mission for all we know.. but still to cause this much trouble just for some treasure in a place that some creatures still use and live near" Dee Dee had to think on that though, she went around scavenging in the ruins all the time, was that any different? Then again she didn't exactly go into graveyards and loot the graves, so yes it was different but maybe others didn't see it as different? It was a difficult thing to think about, but still she did feel upset due to the harm it cased the Waddle-dee.

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Dee Dee finished with the Graves she was tasked with, making sure nothing was left behind, leaving a small prayer as well and already the cold feeling in the air was clearing, and Idir made mention about why the CaveDee's would have attacked him, maybe he looked more like the ones that had come here to cause the problem, and he was also right about the fact that the portals and quests were random really so really the group could have just been doing the mission they were given but still it made her feel a bit upset though her expressionless face gave none of that away "Yes I know, but at least they didn't get to violent, I think they are more peaceful then anything else they were just worried that their ancestors would be disturbed even more.... wait...".

Dee Dee looked at the graves a moment something seemed off, Graves for Waddle-dee? that wasn't right... Waddle-dee Turn into Wapods and find.... Dee Dee started to look around and sure enough now that she was looking for it she found where things like clay pots and bits of broken wicker baskets used to be, she looked up and seen the spirits were still around as well but they didn't seem as violent and she was really glad she knew so much about Waddle-dee now "Waddle-dee don't die.. they turn into Wapod and find a container to inhabit in a safe place to reform into a Waddle-dee again though it takes time... these aren't Graves... this is the safe place they go to look you can see remnants of the containers they used... the people that came here must have busted them open to get the things inside instead of just opening them.."

Dee Dee started to take out some supplies from her inventory and started to quickly make some boxes "Bive me a moment" all of her words of course were being conveyed through her Word Bubble as she and BombDee quickly made some boxes and she even took out an old large Jar she found when scavenging and popped a lid on in, and with each one completed a spirit would fly into one of the containers "No wonder I didn't recognize the Spirits, just like the CaveDee they are a little Different too these are Wapods! without a waddle-doo around they couldn't tell the CaveDee to make new containers! they must have been using the food to stay more visible... see they are going into the containers!"

Finalyl as the last container was done and closed a CaveDee Wapod popped up, which Dee Dee decided to call a CavePod, it looked like a spirit form of the CaveDee except where feet would be it instead had atail like portion that went down and attached to the container "YAY they will come back if they are taken care of! Maybe the CaveDee didn't know this?" she blinked a bit but she had TreeDee and BombDee here to explain it so she gave Idir a thumbs up "We need to let them know lets go!" and with that she and BombDee picked up as many containers as they could an dstarted ot rush back to where the CaveDee and TreeDee where

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As they ran through the forest carrying the containers now filled With Cavepod's she explained "Waddle-dee's rarely increase in numbers! when they need more Waddle-dee's usually the fountain of dreams makes more or a Wapod will split into two and make one new Waddle-dee! if there are to many in an area they will split up so they don't do damage to the land they are very conscious of the land and just naturally live in harmony with it, that's why they adapt to different environment so well" she explained as they travelled as she wanted Idir to understand the Waddle-dee as much as possible.

Finally they got back and it was rather clear the CaveDee were all getting well fed as they sat around and some were even running around playing, it was a nice sight to see, clearly the food raised moral, Seeing them TreeDee waved to them and Dee Dee walked up and set the containers down and the CaveDee gathered around, and looked at the containers then to Idir as he made he proclaimed they solved the issue. then a Cavepod popped out of one of the containers and waved and the CaveDee waved back.

Then out of one of the containers a new CaveDee popped out and waved energetically to the others who all waved back and were quite happy, and they ran over and hugged their returned friend then they hugged Dee Dee and even Idir lifting the two up and carrying them over to the food circle they had made, Dee Dee then looked to BombDee "Explain to them would you?" And BombDee gave a salute and started to explain, and of course there was no sound since Waddle-dee language was silent to those that didn't understand it.

meanwhile Dee Dee was petting TreeDee who had wandered over to join them and the Waddle-dee looked rather content, and a CaveDee wandered over and seen TreeDee being petted and ran to the other side of Dee Dee and lifted her hand and placed it on it's head ]"Ooga!" the CaveDee said and Dee Dee smiled and pets him as well, with a few going over to Idir and wanting head pats a swell clearly.

As BombDee explained Dee Dee looked to Idir "Well with that figured out I think we are done here, lets relax a bit with the CaveDee and then leave later okay?" the word bubble suggested as she sat there looking quite content.

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