in the unique June air... an unusual urge over takes me... i go for a walk...
~~~Night of Revelation~~~
"Just about a full moon, huh" i whisper to myself on the dark street, hugging the edge of where dirt meets asphalt, a well rounded but slightly oval moon hangs in the sky casting an azure glow upon me and the lightless country back-road i walk on towards a main road as a sound catches my attention **Splash! Splash! Splash!** i look around, standing infront of an old used-car lot, a commonplace hangout for local high schoolers, i listen for the sound again **Splash! Splash! Splash!** i immediately locate the sound emanating from a nearby manhole, its sealed closed however...
**CRASH!** a figure breaks out from it...
Pale green skin, horrid stench, glowing blood red eyes, and disfigured posture...
It was a Zombie
"aH, FiNaLLy sOmE FrEsH FOOd!" i fall backwards and defensively put one of my hands out
"Oh shit! Ummm Y-you don't want to e-eat me... hahaha ummm I'm gamey and-and i-i ummm haven't bathed in weeks hahaha!"
"NO maTTEr TO zOmBiE, i dEvOur FOOd aNyways"
"HELP!" i shout, skeptical that anyone would save me; it's 1 in the morning, and if so how would one kill it? i get the feeling the TV norm of a shot to the head wouldn't work...
The Zombie closes distance to me...
I'm not a religious person by any means, but damned if i'm not praying for a miracle to happen...
"Leave that human alone!" **FOOSH!** the Zombie suddenly was engulfed in flames! a feminine figure appears to my right and assists me to my feet, i notice that this person is very hairy...
"Thank you SO MUCH, but who are you?" the lithe figure stands up straight, shes not much taller than i am... maybe by a inch or two...
"I'm Nekomata, ~nya-ow~ stand back!" she pushes me back as she crouches back into a fighting stance, sizing up the zombie, Nekomata eh-wait... that sounds familiar, Either way this Nekomata seems to be on my side
With my little knowledge of Japanese, i can harold a guess that what i felt wasn't hair, well it was hair, but it was fur to be more exact...
Neko, Cat...
"Bad kiTTy iNTErrupT zOmBiE mEaL TimE!" the Zombie lunges at Nekomata, she dodges and swipes at its back as another Zombie jumps out of the manhole, i reach for a big stick to my right.
"Nekomata behind you!" she turns and attacks the one trying to flank her as i bash the stick over the head of the already weakened Zombie...
The Zombie falls to pieces...
Hey, I guess i'm stronger than i thought!
"Take this!" she cleaves through the zombie with sharp claw like objects, how peculiar...
The Zombie falls to pieces...
Oh, I guess thats just how they die then...
"Thanks again..."
"Thank you for alerting me to the other Zombie, to be honest..." Nekomata shifts from side to side, bashfully "...i'm ~nya-ew~ at this, i was so caught up in fighting the one Zombie that if you weren't here..."
"I was just returning the favor" she purrs at me, which feels awkward that i'm being purred at by something standing on two legs...
"Whats your ~nya-ame~?"
"i'm Ivan"
"~nya-ice~ to meet you Ivan"
"So... whats with the cat thing?" she cocks her head to the side in confusion
"I don't follow"
"Your a person, right?" i draw out the word 'right' while slowly reaching for that stick, she lunges and pins me to the ground.
At this point i'm praying again...
"~nya-ope~, i'm Beast race, Nekomata, i'm what you humans call a demon ~nya~"
"T-T-Thats nice" It went from odd girl pinning me to the ground, to a animal-like demon pinning me to the ground...
I'm sickened, but curious...
I mean if she was hostile, why'd she help me, i suppose i should ask
"A-Are you going to e-eat me?" she licks my neck... I think i screamed a little
"~nyahaha~ y-you sounded so funny ~nyahaha~" She laughs as she rolls on her back
I want to hit her with a stick but a part of me says no, i can't tell if its the desperate part of my brain or my common sense...
I think both
"Whatever" i headed back the way i came, back to my home i feel furry arms wrap around one of mine
"Where are you going?"
"Let me simplify it for an animal like you, my den"
She hisses at me
"You where ~nya-ice~ a bit ago!"
"I hate being toyed with" i pull arm out from hers, she gives me a heart-wrenching meow and begins following me
"Like i said, ~nya-ew~ at this!" i look back at her
"Wait... didn't you say that about fighting?"
"~nya-ot~ just that!, but at being a Guardian" i stop and turn around completely
"Wait... what?"
"It's my role to keep you safe... ~nya-ormally~ you'd have to fight me to satisfy a contract, but since you kinda assisted me, i think i can let it slide"
"by Guardian, does that mean you protect me unconditionally, or i tell you how you protect under circumstance and absolute command?" i have no clue what i just said, and i don't think she got what i was trying to say either
"Huh?" i think and reword it
"what is my role compared to yours? or more bluntly, what am i to you?"
"W-what are you thinking?!"
"What are YOU thinking?" i know exactly what i'm thinking, and vaguely about what she thinks i'm thinking...
"H-Hey! don't turn this on me!"
"I was only asking your opinion, why are you getting so flustered?"
"I'm ~nya-ot~!" she growls at me, our bickering continues untill we've reached my front door
"Quiet, this is where i live, so be quiet and maybe my sister won't notice you" i slowly unlock the door and creep by, my sister is passed out on the couch, in her underwear watching TV, apparently being a Lawyer and having to be in a business suit for long periods of time make your lounging clothes everything BUT clothes...
I swear she's going catch a cold one of these days, and i'm going to tell her 'I told you so'...
And then buy cold medicine...
"Who's that?"
"My older sister, Noelle" i guide her to my door and enter, i lie down on my bed, she slowly enters
"This area smells alot like you..." she mewls loudly as she trips over a replica sword
"It should, its my room, also be more careful Nikky"
''~Nya-ikky~?"
"If your entire species is Nekomata, then i'd need a name to differentiate you from a random stray one, right?" i say as i stare at the ceiling
"Thanks..."
"Don't worry about it, so, if your a demon are there other demons here as well?"
"Starting a hour or so ago, we started appearing on Earth"
Joyous...
"Hmm, Nikky is it too much to ask if stay in my room from here on out?"
"~nya-ot~ at all Ivan"
...Right, she never answered my question from before
"Furthermore, What am i?"
"A human?"
"To you i mean, if you're my 'Guardian' then what am i, your Package? your Client? or..."
"or what?"
...I might as well test the waters, repercussions be damned...
"Am i your Master?" i say with am unintentionally devilish tone that earns me a punch to the gut "URGH! damnit you're fucking strong" i say completely winded
"i'm your Guardian! thats all that matters!"
"Urgh, yes ma'am" she purrs at me
"Good ~nya-ight~" she curls up on the floor in front of my bed...
What is with this, should i mention this is similar to those game-
No! i should treat this like an everyday event, i just need to stay calm and stoic, i shouldn't force anything on Nikky, since she could easily kill me, She's my Guardian but i can't just push my luck...
So demons huh, sounds exciting...
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