And here we are again!

Author's Note: So, I know that Ian's Bitbeast is a snake but I made him a mouse. The reason being at the time I was writing Ian in I couldn't for the life of me remember what Ian's Bitbeast was so, we all got stuck with a mouse.

Totally pointless telling you guys that, but I thought you'd like to know.

Anyway.

Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or any of its characters.

WARNINGS: OOCness. Bad Language.

Enjoy!


The Eyes Of An Animal

Chapter Seven: Cats, Dogs And Horses

"Kai, Bryan fainted" meowed Ray as he sat on Bryan's chest.

"Oh really" Kai wasn't really listening; instead the phoenix smirked down at Tala who was sitting on his haunches looking horrified.

Tala was a dog.

This was something he hadn't quite realised yet.

"Yeah he did" continued Ray trying to get Kai's attention.

He jumped up on to Kai's shoulder where he balanced precariously and sank his claws in to the Russian's skin.

Kai pushed him off and was vaguely disappointed when Ray didn't fall on his head and die.

"I think you should wake him up" said Ray opinionatedly.

"Oh and we always do what you think" jeered Tyson from the safety of Max's trouser pocket. He smirked at Ray who stuck out his tongue and sat on Bryan's chest with his head held high.

However Ray was unable to keep this stance for long as a small breathing distracted him.

Looking down he saw with his huge golden eyes a small chubby mouse.

The mouse was quietly hyperventilating.

It was also crying.

"Aww, don't cry" cooed Ray soothingly.

He placed a paw on the mouse's head to comfort.

The mouse's heart almost gave out.

"Kai! Can I keep it?" asked Ray.

"No, you can't keep Ian!" replied Kai.

Kai was currently trying to stop Tala from biting his own foot.

However, Tala seemed determined that if he bit his foot it would solve things.

"But it's sooo cute!" whined Ray "I'll look after it, I promise! I'll take it for walks and I'll feed it properly!"

"No. I thought you ate mice anyway"

"Who could eat that?"

Kai looked down at the mouse which still had Ray's paw pressed down upon its head.

The mouse had its two front feet pressed together in prayer.

It was still crying.

"Pleeeease?" begged Ray.

Kai sighed, "fine, but don't eat him"

"Yay!" cheered Ray "isn't that great?" he looked down at his new pet with a grin.

The mouse, formally known as Ian, screamed and fled as fast as his short stumpy legs could carry him.

"Ahh mouse!" Ray promptly fluffed his tail and trotted after the little fat mouse.

Kai picked Tala up by the scruff of the neck and smirked.

"Don't you dare laugh!" growled Tala.

"Wouldn't dream of it"

Tala glared at him and then looked down at himself "what am I anyway?"

"I don't know," answered Kai "you're definitely some kind of doggy thing, but the main point is that you now have a bushy tail"

Tala looked at his butt and watched in fascinated horror as his tail moved from side to side.

"Hate to interrupt," said Max cheerfully "but Ray's just run out the house following the fat mouse…I mean Ian"

"Can't you deal with it?" asked Kai while Tala tried ineffectually to grab his new found tail to have a proper look at it.

"I'm a little busy with Tyson and Bryan" Max pointed.

During the commotion Bryan had come round from his dead faint to discover that Tyson the Gecko was standing on his chest trying to blow out its cheeks.

On seeing this rather strange sight Bryan had grabbed a book and brought it down on the Gecko.

However, thanks to Ray, Tyson's reflexes had improved as of late.

Thus Bryan brought the book down on his own chest.

He snarled.

It wasn't the pain that was the problem; it was the fact that he'd just been out done by a small Gecko that really got to Bryan.

So, howling like a blue fisted maniac Bryan leapt up and proceeded to demolish the room in his bid to catch the little shit.

With a heavy sigh Kai grabbed Tala, pulled Hiro from the kitchen and left the house in search of Ray.


"Mouse! Mouse!" Ray looked under a bush with his bottom waggling in the air "mousy! Come on out little brother, I won't hurt you!"

Ray scurried to another bush as he heard a little rustle "mouse?" Ray stuck his head in the bush and came face to face with a pair of yellow eyes in a furry face. Ray took this sight in very silently.

"Hello" Ray glanced down and, between the leaves of the bush, discovered that the furry face was attached to a cat body.

It was female.

Ray suddenly became very interested.

"You're not a mouse"

The female cat blinked.

"You're not the elephant cat bitch from next door either" added Ray.

The female cat blinked again.

"So who are you?" asked Ray.

The female cat purred.

"I'm Ray" said Ray, he heard a noise behind him "excuse me" he tried back out the bush and discovered he was stuck, giving the female cat a grin he gritted his teeth and tried again, no luck.

The female cat purred again.

"I'm not stuck!" Ray laughed falsely "I do this all the time!" he tried again and yowled rather unbecomingly when someone grabbed his tail and pulled him back with no regard of the sharp thorns that scratched Ray's skin.

This action had Kai written all over it.

Ray gave Kai a grin and a furry wave "Kai! You have to see this! There's a cat in the bush!"

"Fascinating" said Kai without enthusiasm.

To his annoyance Hiro, on seeing Ray, had fled for his life.

They could hear the older Granger bawling his head off three streets away.

"No really! There's a cat! You need to…to…" Ray trailed off as he looked over Kai's shoulder and saw an interesting sight.

There was Johnny and beside him walking along quite happily was…

"Kai, there's a horse coming towards us" Ray patted Kai's shoulder with a paw but Kai wasn't listening as he realised he'd also lost Tala. "Kai, there's a horse, it's green!"

"Need to get a leash for that damn dog" Kai muttered to himself still not listening.

On second thoughts, why not just let Tala stay lost?

That way, Kai had one less furry problem to deal with.

Then Kai could focus more on the main problem.

Why they were all turning in to animals.

Hadn't Ray said something-?

"Kai! You really need to see this! There's a green horse behind you"

"Not now, Ray" said Kai still lost in thought.

Ray had said something…

"It's green!"

"Ray, shut up"

Something about someone he'd seen…

"And it's got a blue mane and tail!"

"Shut up, Ray"

Someone they all knew…

"And it's got a hat on!"

"Be quiet for one moment"

Someone who had known who Ray was despite Ray being a cat at the time…

"And it's talking about Picasso!" gasped Ray as he heard the horse explain to Johnny the differences between the work of Picasso and Cézanne.

"Ray, if you don't shut up I'm going throw you in a tree and leave you there" threatened Kai.

Ray's tree climbing skills were a little to be desired as the fire brigade had discovered when Ray had managed to get stuck at the top of a tall oak tree.

Both Kai and Max had listened to Ray's small furry screams as the fireman had descended the tree.

When Ray had appeared he'd been pulling out clumps of fur with distress.

"And it's eating a slug!" Ray's huge eyes went bigger.

"A really big tree" Kai murmured to himself as he continued to think.

"Eww, that's sick!" Ray wrinkled his nose "at least snails have a crunch to them!"

"In fact the tree would be so tall that you wouldn't be able to see the bottom"

"Kai, there's a green horse with a blue mane and tail wearing a hat and talking about Picasso and Cézanne while eating a slug which is totally disgusting and it's standing right behind you!" meowed Ray all on one breath.

"Ray, shut- what?"

Kai turned and took in the sight of the horse which was green, had a blue mane and tail, was wearing a hat and eating a slug; Kai then looked at Johnny who was looking at the black cat on Kai's shoulder with a look of alarm as Ray grinned at him.

"Johnny?" Kai looked back at the horse.

"Kai? What's with the furry hair ball?" asked Johnny as he watched Ray jump off Kai's shoulder and over to a snail.

He watched as Ray looked down, sniffed and scoffed the snail in one.

Johnny wretched.

Ray grinned, jumped back on to Kai's shoulder and turned to face the horse and his boy with snail slime trickling down his chin.

"What's with the horse?" Kai asked back.

The horse nodded at him "long time no see, Kai"

Kai frowned as he recognised the voice "don't tell me that's Oliver"

"Alright" said Johnny "it's not Oliver"

"Good"

"It's Oliver as a horse" Ray managed round the snail.

Kai glared down at Ray who grinned up at him with pieces of snail shell stuck between his teeth.

"What is that?" asked Johnny pointing at Ray.

Ray artistically put a paw to his mouth and rasped in a loud whisper "I'm what you call a cat!"

Johnny glared at Ray while Kai gave a small smirk.

"I can see that!" said Johnny irritably and then he realised Ray had just talked "did that cat just say something?"

"Would you feel better if I said no?" enquired Kai.

"Why have you got a talking cat with you?" demanded Johnny.

"Why have you got a green horse with you?" challenged Ray not letting Kai get a word in, he levered himself up and puffed out his chest whilst pouting childishly.

"Because I have! Got a problem?" snapped Johnny.

"Yes!" Ray stamped his front paw crossly "it's eating a slug! It's green! It has a hat on its head! And it's talking about Picasso and Cézanne when everyone knows that Vincent Van Gogh is the best artist around!"

"Is not!" Oliver spoke or rather neighed.

"Is too!" Ray hissed back.

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Is not, you furry little midget!"

"Is too, you overgrown green pompous prick!"

"Watch your lip, you little hairy moggy!"

"Back at you, fashion disaster!"

"Have you looked in the mirror lately? At least I've not got snail goo dribbling from my mouth!"

"Least I'm not a sickly green colour!"

"Least I don't have a bald patch on my butt!"

"Least I'm not wearing a hat that makes me look like an old woman!"

"Why you little piece of junk! Come and say that to my face!"

"I wouldn't want to die of poisonous slug breath!"

Kai and Johnny looked at each other with the same question running through their heads.

What had they done to deserve this?

"Well, well, well it does look like we're having fun" said a voice behind Kai.

Kai whirled round so fast Ray had to sink his claws in to Kai's skin to keep a hold. Ozuma was standing there arms folded and a knowing little smile on his face that made Kai hate him just that little bit more; Ray on the other hand grinned with delight as he saw a bag full of cat food sitting by Ozuma's foot.

"What's with the cat food?" asked Kai unable to stop himself.

"Something to keep dear little Ray busy while you bombard me with questions that I won't answer" answered Ozuma smoothly.

"So you know what's happening then" said Kai his eyes narrowed.

"Indeed I do" Ozuma gave a small smile.

"And the slugs know too" said Ray rather randomly and non too helpfully "and they know Vincent Van Gogh is the best artist"

"He is not!" snorted Oliver

"Is too!"

"Is not!"

"Is too!"

"Oh for the love of God shut the fuck up the pair of you, before I put you both in a tree!" snapped Kai.


So Ozuma has arrived. Does he really know what's going on? Will he give away the information willingly? What will he want in return?

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Thanks for reading.

Until next time!

Kiki