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So, Last Time: Kai and Max turned to animals. No one knows why or how it happened. What will happen next? How will Hiro take the news?
And without further ado I give you Chapter Two!
Enjoy!
The Eyes Of An Animal
Chapter Two: Problems With Fur
"HIRO!" Tyson came running out of his house and spectacularly knocked him to the ground. "It is really good to see you! Grandpa said he's going to see you later, he's err got a few things to get at the shop"
Tyson allowed his brother to once again stand though Hiro wasn't allowed to get a word in "Kenny is going to be back in the next couple of days and so is Daichi! Hilary said she'd pop round in the next couple of days! You gotta come in! Ray and me have being dying to see you!"
"Aren't Kai and Max here too?" asked Hiro mildly as Tyson dragged him in to the house and to the kitchen so Tyson could get something to eat.
"Uh Max has gone home for a bit and Kai…has…disappeared and not come back, but that's Kai for ya!" Tyson sat down at the table and proceeded to scoff down a make shift sandwich.
"What happened to your hand?" Hiro pointed to the bandage that wrapped Tyson's hand.
"Oh! You haven't met Sourpuss yet!"
"Sourpuss?"
Hiro turned and smiled as Ray came in to the kitchen and sat down next to him.
"Sourpuss is a bird we…err found," explained Tyson "Grandpa said we could keep him."
"A bird?" echoed Hiro "a wild one?"
"You could say that" Tyson held up his bandaged hand.
"Why did you want to keep it?"
Ray and Tyson glanced at each other; they'd been hoping Hiro wouldn't ask so many questions. Grandpa had just said yes and gone to get some shopping, he had readily accepted both the turtle and the bird.
"Uh it's looking thin so we thought we'd feed it up a bit" invented Ray.
And right on cue Kai flew in and landed on the table looking in the peak of health. Hiro looked down at the bird.
The bird looked back.
"Well I can see why you called it Sourpuss, striking resemblance to Kai" Tyson and Ray glanced at each other "although it doesn't look thin" Hiro looked back up at the pair.
"Oh yes it is!" said Ray hurriedly "I know about this kind of bird…it's supposed to be at least threetimes that size" Ray explained making it up as he went along.
Kai flew and gently landed on Ray's shoulder, he waited until Tyson had quickly changed the subject before whispering in Ray's ear "if you make me gain so much as a pound I will cut out your stomach and eat it in front of you!" his voice full of venom.
"An empty threat coming from a small bird, don't you think?" Ray whispered back "especially since you won't touch a tiny worm"
Kai glared and gave Ray a nip on the ear "I will still make you feel pain"
"Kai, will you cut me some slack? I'm just trying to stop Hiro becoming suspicious or do you want him to humiliate you by finding out you're a bird?"
"Like he's going to believe that!" Kai was scornful "why don't you just tell him? Say, hi Hiro! By the way I forgot to mention Kai and Max have turn into animals!"
Ray stood up, smiling at Hiro and Tyson he went in to the sitting room. Closing the door behind him he grabbed Kai gently but firmly and pulled him off his shoulder. Bringing Kai round so they were looking at each other face to face…well bird beak to face anyway.
He snapped, "look! It's not my fault you're a fucking bird so stop biting my head off!" he put Kai on a the coffee table and sat down furiously glaring at Kai who glared back…and then lowered his gaze.
"I'm sorry, I know it's not your fault"
Ray gave Kai a filthy look before relenting; he sighed and gave the small red bird a smile "we'll keep looking. Cheer up, Kai. We'll find the answer"
Tyson grinned down at Max who was still in his paddling pool and taking some melon from Hiro "he's sweet Tyson, and you just found him in a box?"
"Uh yeah, someone had just left in there" said Tyson in a almost convincing voice "we've decided to call him Draciel, you know cos Max's Bitbeast is called Draciel and he's a turtle type thing"
"Appropriate" said Hiro stroking the top of Max's head with a finger, Max closed his eyes and smiled in pleasure. "I'm sure Max will love him when he comes back"
Tyson laughed uneasily.
"Please do this, for me, please" Tyson begged the red bird. Kai turned his head pointedly stubborn "come on Kai! Please do this!"
"I don't see why I should" replied Kai. He looked at the object of conversation: a bird cage complete with swing, birdbath and bowl.
"Kai! Grandpa won't let us keep you if we don't put you in this cage"
"Oh I'm a pet now!"
"You know what I mean!" whined Tyson.
"I can just easily live outside!"
Max, who had been brought inside and was sitting on a comfy chair in the sitting room, now intervened "Kai, stop being a spoilt brat! This is the Granger household and whether you like it or not Grandpa is in charge! And no, you can't live outside because you don't know the first thing about living as a bird and Ray won't be there to hold your hand…uh…wing"
"I'm not going in it," said Kai firmly "forget it"
"Please" beseeched Tyson "I promise I won't make any jokes" he clasped his hands together and fell to his knees in front of Kai on the coffee table. Kai turned his back on him. Tyson gave up begging; if Kai wanted to do it the hard way then fine. Silently Tyson picked up the wire paper bin that was by the coffee table, he pulled out the scrap paper in there and lifted the bin.
Kai flew to the top of the bookcase "that's not going to work, Tyson"
Tyson lowered the bin and tried begging again "it would only be for a little bit, once Grandpa is sure that you're cage trained you'll be let out"
Kai's feathers stood on end "cage trained!"
Tyson sighed, he lifted the cage on to the coffee table "you're not making my life easy, Kai. But I'm not begging anymore. If you change your mind the cage is there" with that Tyson stood up and left the room in a forlorn trudge, shutting the door as he left so Kai couldn't leave the room.
Max glared at Kai "you're not making it easy for either Tyson or Ray! They're just making the best of a bad job! Just get off your dam high horse and stop acting like a jerk! I know Tyson can be a smart aleck sometimes but there's no need to attack him just because he made a couple of jokes and make him get in trouble with his Grandpa!"
This speech would have made the President weep with shame.
The Prime minister would have begged for forgiveness.
Kings would bow down and pray for mercy.
Emperors would have cried for days.
"Pah!" Kai turned his back on Max.
Max sighed; he knew where Kai was coming from, but he also knew Kai's pride was getting in the way of his sense.
The door opened and Ray came in followed by a sniffling Tyson.
Tyson pointed at Kai who had looked round scathingly.
"He's being mean to me!" Tyson wailed putting on a over emphasized show, Kai rolled his eyes, he knew Ray wouldn't fall for Tyson's little act but he also know Ray wasn't exactly on speaking terms with Kai seeing as Kai had repeatedly snapped, glared and bad mouthed Ray in any way possible. Ray went up to Kai who turned around and looked at him.
"Ok Hiwatari, this is how it's going to go" said Ray "you are not going to get any food until you get in that cage, understand?"
"Perfectly" grumbled Kai.
"Right then," Ray turned and went over to Max, to take him the kitchen in order to feed him some melon.
Tyson followed the neko-jin out with a last 'you're a meanie' sniffle at Kai.
Kai stayed on the bookshelf sulking.
"He'll come round" said Ray putting a plate of melon and other fruit for Max to try.
"You think?" Tyson sat at the table waiting for Hiro and Grandpa to come back with the take away they had ordered.
Ray sat next to Tyson drinking from a bottle of milk "sure, we're just getting on each other's nerves because this has never happened before"
"I suppose" with a growl Tyson stood up and shut the window, sitting back at the table he sighed, "it's not only Kai. I've been feeling weird all day, flies have been buzzing all round my head all day and my eyes keep itching" he looked at Ray who had finished the milk and was starting on the cream "and you've been acting strange too"
Ray looked at him "what do you mean?"
"All you've been eating all day is cream, milk and fish. And you've already had three showers"
"I like to be clean" Ray replied defensively.
"What about that mouse that was in the garden? You stared at it for ages"
Ray thought about this.
A thought hit Tyson and Ray like a wet fish in the face.
They looked at each other.
"It happened to Max and Kai" said Tyson fearfully.
"Why them and not us?" Ray squeaked.
"Maybe we didn't do something they did" Tyson sounded hopeful.
"But we've been doing stuff together recently" said Max "and what would me and Kai do together? I mean let's face it, Kai's been a real bastard recently"
"Which is what he's like when he doesn't feel himself" Tyson sounded drained "and he slept in this morning, he never does that"
"Have you been feeling weird, Max?" asked Ray.
"Actually now that you mention it, I was craving fruit all yesterday. I had a cold shower too, and a cold bath both in the morning and night" answered Max cheerfully.
Tyson and Ray gulped.
"Are you two alright?" asked Hiro.
It was later, after dinner and a couple of movies, the night had set in and all were gathered in the sitting room.
Ray and Tyson both sat on the sofa with faces to match that of Brad Pitt when he heard about the latest twins coming his way. Tyson was hugging Max while Ray had Kai on his lap.
Kai was at this time trying to discover why Ray was whiter than a fresh fall of snow; he fluttered up in Ray's line of vision.
When Ray didn't respond Kai thought a more physical approach was needed.
He sat on Ray's shoulder and nipped Ray's ear.
When this didn't get a response Kai sighed, flew in to the air and dived bombed Ray in the face.
Ray suddenly found he had a mouth full of feathers.
"What's wrong?" Kai asked sitting back on Ray's shoulder.
Ray opened his mouth to answer but no noise came out.
"If I give you a bread crumb will you tell me?" Kai asked.
Ray never got the chance to answer.
"Ah!" Max cried out as pain seared through his chest, flippers and neck. Tyson immediately put him on the floor and sat down next to him, Max looked up at him and gasped, "it's the pain again"
"Excuse me, did that turtle just TALK?" screeched Hiro in a voice more associated with Ming-Ming than himself.
However his question was not answered as Kai suddenly lurched forward as the pain shot from his beak to his wings to his tail.
Neither Max nor Kai could keep the gasps of pain under control as the pain gripped their bodies more intensely than before; Kai fell to the floor as his body began to change and Max shrank in to his shell as the pain over whelmed him…
…
…Kai sat up and ran his fingers through his hair, then he realised: he was human!
Great! He'd been longing for a coffee all day.
Hiro stared with an open mouth.
He began to gurgle.
Tyson and Ray meanwhile had their vision fixed determinedly on the ceiling as if looking down was a little inappropriate.
It was inappropriate.
Both Max and Kai were stark naked.
"You- were…you were" Hiro pointed at them with a slightly shaky finger.
"Eloquent as usual, Hiro" was Kai's comment.
"I'm me again!" shouted Max jumping up and down.
"That's wonderful Maxie, but do you think you could celebrate with clothes ON?" squealed Tyson while Ray blushed slightly and Hiro stuttered incomprehensibly.
Both Max and Kai looked down…
Ah.
"Sorry dude!" said Max cheerily.
"That's fine, j-just go and get some clothes on" muttered Tyson.
"Hey not bad, Kai!" Max smirked "not seen much bigger, have you, Tyson?" Max grinned wickedly.
"Do you two mind?!" squealed Tyson again hands still covering his eyes "I don't really want to look!"
"What's the matter Tyson? Yours so small you don't know what they look like?" Kai smirked as he left the room to find some clothes.
"You can look now!" shouted Max a few moments later.
Ray lowered his gaze with some relief as Kai walked back in adorning a t-shirt over his jeans.
The phoenix scowled over at Tyson who still had his eyes covered "Tyson, get a grip"
"No thank you!"
"Ray, hit him for me"
"Hit him yourself"
"I'll do it!"
"Ow! Maxie!"
"Blame Kai"
Ray and Tyson looked at each other.
"Maybe it's gone…whatever it was" whispered Tyson slowly.
"Hopefully" Ray bit his lip.
Kai and Max both sat in chairs now a lot happier that they were human once again.
Hiro on the other hand wasn't fairing so well.
He kept staring at Kai and Max uttering syllables at regular intervals.
Max gave him a wave "hey Hiro!"
"You…and you! … You…weren't…you!" Hiro managed.
Kai raised an eyebrow.
"Max" squeaked Tyson suddenly "you said something about pain"
"Oh yeah!" said Max enthusiastically "I have never felt so much pain!"
"Pain" squeaked Ray.
"Yeah, through the chest and then your legs!"
"Legs!" squeaked Tyson.
"Then you feel kinda light headed!"
"Light headed!" squeaked Ray.
"And the pain gets worse and you can't breathe!"
"Can't…breath" gasped Tyson.
"Yeah, and then you can't feel your body, all you can feel is this pain!"
"…Pain" Ray fell to the floor.
"And you can't stand up or even move, you just feel so weak!"
"…Weak" murmured Tyson.
"And then the pain gets worse still!"
"…Worse…" Ray fainted.
"And then you blackout for a few seconds!"
"…Uh…" Tyson passed out.
"And you open your eyes and the world is suddenly so different!"
"Max" said Kai.
"And it's suddenly huge!"
"Max" said Hiro.
"And then you look at yourself and you're not human any more and you freak!"
"Max" said Kai.
"And you looked around you because everything is sooo different!"
"Max" said Hiro.
"And all of a sudden you realise you're an animal!" Max finished dramatically.
"MAX!"
"Oh bugger!"
All three of them ran over to the two piles of clothes that were now on the floor, they all watched as out from under Tyson's cap appeared a small lizard and from Ray's white top appeared the black head of a cat.
There was a silence.
Tyson and Ray both looked at themselves and then at each other.
"I'm a Gecko!" screamed Tyson "oh the shame!"
"Meow" said Ray.
He grinned.
So, to make matter complicated Tyson and Ray have changed. How will they take this?
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Thanks for reading.
Kiki
