DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything in this fic, no matter how badly I want to. All the rights belong to their respectful owners.

It was a plain-old boring ordinary Saturday for Blythe Baxter. She was enjoying the cool breeze and doing some sketching on the roof of her apartment. She was in a bright green short-sleeved shirt, with beige shorts and one of Mrs. Twombly's sunhats. As she looked out across the city, she saw the trail of a jet plane. That was probably her dad, heading out on today's flight to the west coast. Not as a passenger mind you, he was the captain. He mostly flew international flights, but had taken that flight to cover for an old friend of his. Blythe went downstairs to see what Mrs. Twombly and the pets were up to, and to show Zoe one of her newest designs.

When Blythe walked into the front door, she was surprised to find Mrs. Twombly busy talking to a girl, about her age, carrying a cute little bunny on her shoulder. "Oh Blythe, thank goodness you're here. Would you mind taking Kiko to the day camp area? I have to finish up with Bloom here, and the pets seemed to want to see you."

"Sure Mrs. Twombly, I can get that done." Blythe picked Kiko up off of Bloom's shoulder, and let him ride on her all the way to the day camp area, where she let him through the door first so he wouldn't get trampled should the pets all come at her when she went in. "Hey everybody I'm here! I brought a new friend for you to meet too." Oh I said this was a plain-old boring ordinary day didn't I? I suppose I forgot to tell you that Blythe could understand animals. She could talk to them intelligently, and they talked right back, clear as day.

The pets swarmed Blythe, and she was glad she had let Kiko in first. Everyone was excited to see her, and when she managed to calm them down enough for her to talk, she let them know that she wanted them to try and make Kiko feel at home, and that she had some very important things to do, and would be back in time for lunch. She then proceeded to climb into the dumbwaiter, and headed up to her room.

Russell was the first to approach the newcomer. "Hello there, and welcome to Littlest Pet Shop, the best pet shop in the whole city." Russell pulled out his clipboard (thank you hammerspace!) and began to ask Kiko a series of questions. "Do you know how long you'll be staying here?" Kiko shook his head no. "Do you have any irregular dietary needs?" Kiko shook his head again. Do you have an issue with any of the following? Singing, dancing, painting, lackluster jokes…"

"Hey!"

Russell continued, "… or magic?"

Kiko shook his head no. "I'm totally fine with magic, my owner has it."

"So, your owner is a magician? I would be careful about telling Sunil that."

"No, Bloom isn't a magician, she has real magic."

"I don't quite understand what you mean by "real magic" Could you elaborate please?"

"Bloom can use real magic, it's not her flipping the deck over, or her assistant opening a trapdoor, she can use real magic."

"Interesting. Now how about your bedding preferences…" After the marathon of questions, Kiko was finally able to just kick back in the front window of the shop, and relax with a good carrot.

Blythe was working on her latest outfit for Zoe, when her phone rang. "Talk to me Jasper"

"Blythe, I just saw the strangest thing. A girl walked into an alley, and disappeared."

"Come on Jasper, do you really expect me to believe that? There has to be an explanation, maybe she went into the backdoor of one of the buildings there?"

"No, Blythe I'm totally serious, you know the alley between the butchers and barber on thirty-first street?"

"The one that runs into the back of the Bank?"

"Exactly, there are no exits other than the street. Now tell me that she went inside a building along the alley."

Blythe sighed. "Are you sure you're not just remembering things differently? I don't want to seem mean, but I can't take you seriously talking like there's something mysterious going on there, it's in the middle of one of the busiest parts of town."

"I know what I saw, and I'm sticking with it." Jasper hung up. Blythe was worried she had upset him, he could be funny, but normally when you figured out he was up to something, he would fess up.

"Is it always this boring around here?"

"What do you mean boring? This is plenty of fun." Vinnie replied from his position in front of the TV, watching his favorite show, Shake a Leg.

"I guess it's just me. I'm used to a lot more action. Say, Russell do you have any good balls around here? Not too bouncy, but not too un-bouncy either?"

"It depends on the range that you're looking for. Check the basket in the corner, it should have all of the good balls in it, unless Buttercream's been through it again."

"OK, be right back." Kiko went over to the basket and began rummaging around in it, pulling out the occasional ball and bouncing it to test it out. "This one will do just fine I think. Russell, can you help me push that cat tree over there next to the armchair?"

"Why are we suddenly redecorating? I like the pet shop how it is now."

"We're going to play a game, and we need two goals. Can you get that box of squeaky toys and put it over in the window? Thanks Russell. Now we just need to pick teams." Kiko called all the pets into a bit of a huddle, and explained what was going on. "We're going to play a game. I call it paw ball, and the rules are simple. Try to get the ball, into the other team's goal, without using your hands."

"Uh Kiko? We don't have hands, remember?"

"Right, um OK so your front paws are your hands then, sound good? Good. You can bounce it off your head, or kick it around with your paws, but you can't touch it at all with your "hands". Let's pick teams."

The teams were: Russell, Vinnie, Zoe, and Minka versus Kiko, Pepper, Penny, and Sunil. Kiko seemed to be really good at the game, but Minka was a fast learner, and she had a tail to use too. About a half an hour later, the door to the dumbwaiter opened, and Blythe had to duck to avoid being smacked in the face by a stray kick from Penny. "Oops, sorry Blythe."

Blythe smiled. "It's OK Penny." Then Blythe took a quick look around. "What on earth are you doing down here? If Mrs. T sees the pet shop like this, she'll freak!"

"We're playing paw ball! It's lots of fun!" Kiko motioned for Blythe to join them, and Blythe decided to sit on the armchair-turned-goalpost and watch the match instead. Penny had the ball, which sent Blythe cowering behind the chair. Penny kicked, the ball hit the edge of the cat tree, soared through the goal, bounced off the wall, and landed on top of Blythe. She came out from behind the chair, and came face to face with Kiko, who was standing on top of the cat tree.

"That's a very pretty necklace you have there, is it supposed to be a fairy? It's very sparkly."

"A fairy? No, it's a butterfly. How could I design a fairy necklace, when there are no fairies to draw?"

"But there are lots of fairies you could draw. My owner is a fairy! You could draw her!"

"That's very funny Kiko, here's the ball. I'm going to go see if Mrs. T has something for me to do." Kiko's words bothered Blythe for the rest of the day. Why would he make something like that up? He seemed to be fairly nice, and it's not like he would be back again, why was he trying to look better than the other pets?

Later that day, when Bloom came to pick Kiko up, Blythe decided to see what was going on. She told Mrs. T that she was going over to the sweet shop and would be right back, and then barreled out the door, after the mysterious girl. She rounded the corner, and Bloom was…gone. Blythe looked across the street, and down the street both ways, but couldn't find her. Then Kiko's words came back to her. "My owner is a fairy! You could draw her!" Blythe looked up, and was amazed to see a humanoid figure flying away, with what looked to be a rabbit sitting on its shoulder.

Blythe went into the sweet shop, and called Jasper right away. "So Jasper, about that alley earlier today…"

So, what do you think? This is going to be a little series of one-shots bringing all sorts of unusual pets and people to LPS. I am going to be doing mostly requests, but I may do a few that I feel like just doing for the fun of it. Send as many requests as you want, I'll find time eventually to write all the ones that I can.