Chapter Two: Strange Pet
It was like any other day at the Neo Domino Park, with people walking their dogs, jogging in groups, and relaxing on park benches. One of the things that seemed to disturb these normal activities was talking about the Art Arsonist and the burning building from last night. Several groups of people were huddled together.
"I think he's going to burn down the Neo Domino Art Museum next. There are loads of paintings in the gallery."
"No, I think he will hit another art conservator, like that place called Rubens & Tyler where a lot of smaller museums send their art to be cleaned."
"Rubens & Tyler has a lot of high tech security, including a blast and fireproof vault. There's no way he could get inside."
"A guy I know from Security says the vault doors were melted. How could the guy doing the fires have the doors melted? He would die from the intense heat."
"I think… Wait isn't Yusei Fudo and Satellite, I want to get a photo of them."
Some heads turned when they saw Yusei Fudo; the Fortune Cup winner and member of Duel Team 5D's, having a walk with Satellite, and some individuals pulled out their cameras to take pictures. Mostly to take pictures of Satellite.
Satellite was strange looking animal that bore a resemblance to a lion, but the coloring was very different. The animal's mid section, lower back legs, ears and face were light blue. The pointed mane, top of his head, lower hind quarters, tail, frontal portion of this body, and some of the fur on the front legs were black. Yellow and light blue diagonal striping was on the lower front legs, the inner ears were yellow and a pink nose like a cat's. At the end of his tail was looked like a four pointed yellow star, which added to the strangeness. Satellite's eyes were yellow, but where the white of the eye should have been, was orange red. His mane was like Yusei's hair, and a final touch was a jagged scar going down from Satellite's left eye, as if he has been in a fight. Satellite also had a cool, calm intimidating look, one stare could usually get people to back off.
Crow had once remarked that if you dyed Satellite's mane with blond highlights then you would get another Yusei, but no one had tried to find out.
Not only was Satellite unusual looking, but he could do things other animals could not do. Satellite could shoot lightning from his body, light up his body to illuminate the darkness, and strike objects hard with his tail ( tail glowing when striking). Yusei sometimes used Satellite like a flashlight, and as a mini generator in repair jobs. Yusei also had the suspicion that Satellite could see through solid objects (They had found kidnap victim hidden in the wall, and that person would have died if Satellite had not kept making such a fuss). It also seemed the Satellite's intelligence was far greater than a normal animal's. For example, Crow kept yelling at Jack to get a job, and every morning when Jack got up Satellite would appear with the help wanted ads of the paper in his mouth (Satellite would refuse to leave Jack alone until Jack had read the section for five minutes). Not to mention Satellite could also eat things that would make normal animal's sick, like chocolate bars, ramen, waffles with maple syrup, Fruit Salads, sushi, hot dogs with all the trimmings, and Soft Serve vanilla ice cream (Satellite refused to eat pet food, and growled every time someone tried to take the human food away from him).
Yuesi was used to the attention when giving Satellite his exercise, and apparently so was his companion. Those two kept walking on ignoring the calls for Yusei and Satellite to smile for the camera. Sometimes a kid would break away from a group and come up and want to pet Satellite, and Satellite would allow that, while Yusei was holding him still. But other times a look from both Yusei and Satellite would get people to back off.
Finally arriving at a grassy field in a mostly deserted part of the park, Yusei undid the leash from Satellite's collar, and pulled out a rubber ball to play catch.
Satellite became excited and Yusei smiled, "All right Satellite, I know you want to play. But please don't use the ball as target practice for your electric shocks."
"RayRay," and with that play time began.
It was like watching a dog and its owner playing catch. Yuesi would throw the ball and Satellite would catch the ball and bring it back. But after a half hour Satellite decided to change the game. When Yusei threw the ball Satellite's tail lit up and hit the ball with his tail, like a batter in a baseball game. Yusei managed to catch the ball, and gave Satellite an odd look.
"Who is catching the ball, you or me?"
"Lux" Satellite walked over and rubbed against Yusei's leg. Yusei just smiled and scratched the top of Satellite's head.
At that moment Yusei's cell phone rang, and he answered.
"Hello, Yusei Fudo speaking"
"Yusei, its Bruno."
"What is it Bruno?"
"Mina and Trudge are here from the building that the Art Arsonist set fire to last night. Search crews went into what was left of the building after the ashes cooled, and they found something. Trudge claims it's similar to the capsule that you use to take Satellite with you on repair jobs. They want you to come back immediately to the flat and see what you can find with the device."
"All right, all come back with Satellite right now. We will be there in twenty minutes."
"Fine Yusei, we will be waiting."
With that the phone clicked off and Yusei looked at Satellite.
"Sorry Satellite, but we need to return to the house. There's a job I need to do, and it sounds really important. But tell you what, we will spend two hours at the park tomorrow, just you and me, okay?"
Satellite never liked it when his time with Yusei was interrupted, but Satellite would never do anything to make Yusei unhappy, and the promise of two hours at the park tomorrow sounded really good. So Satellite nodded and gave his agreement, "Ray."
Yusei smiled, "That's my good boy. Let's go home."
Yusei reattached the leash to Satellite's collar, and both started for home.
So here's the second chapter, and I hope you enjoyed it. As a reminder nobody knows what Satellite is and that he is different from other animals. Satellite's diet can handle foods other creatures cannot (I didn't think a Pokémon would like eating dog or cat food), and his thinking powers are highly developed. Yusei and the gang have accepted the fact he is different, and I figured with an electric based attack Yusei might use Satellite in his repair jobs. For the attacks, the poke ball, the scar on Satellite's face, and the reference to a kidnap victim more will be revealed in later chapters. Please R&R.