The Float
Aura lay sprawled all over her bed asleep. Kero was also lying down next to her, on the floor. Her tail twitched in her sleep and she lazily gnashed her teeth together. She was snorting and snuffling now. Kero looked up as her sleep became restless. Her paws trashed the air as if trying to kick off an opponent. Kero got up and watched as she snarled. He raised a paw to wake her up when she started mumbling to herself. "A...ven. Aven." She said as she stirred. Kero tilted his head. Aura opened her eyes. A great yellow cat face filled her vision. "Kreee!" She screeched in her bird like screech of surprise. "Kero, what is it?" She asked. Kero snickered and lay back down. "What were you dreaming about? You were thrashing about and snarling. Then you said Aven." He said. Aura slid out of bed. "Don't quite remember, you scared me awake, and now without time to recall it before I woke up, I forgot." She said. Kero frowned. "Aura, you should remember them, people with magical powers usually have dreams that mean something. They can even show parts of the future sometimes, it's certain that dream would mean something if you remembered it." He explained. Aura snorted. "So, this only happens after the seals broken, or would it have been in my whole life?" she asked. "Whole life. Why?" He asked. Aura smirked. "Tell me what this is supposed to mean then.
"I was randomly fighting Kabuto, from this show I watch, who was for some reason just standing there and getting hit. I was also randomly switching between being me and being Mario. Apparently, I almost killed Kabuto, so Jeremy, from a different show, came up and somehow turned Kabuto into not one, but two squirrels. And Kabuto turned into fried chicken somewhere in there. But some random people and I were at this wooden building thing with a huge window like at a zoo, and it looked like a regular outdoor setting, but it was apparently underwater because there was a giant fish swimming through it. For some reason I asked one guy if he could find an entrance for us to go in, and he looked, but he said he could not find one and that we would have to go through the hole he was pointing at that looked like a hot tub and that we had to go in the white suits. And the weird thing about that was that nowhere in the entire dream were there any white suits, but I knew exactly what he was talking about. So it was time for lunch, and we were sitting at a nice, long wooden table eating Mexican food. Some woman I don't really know came up behind me and repeatedly tapped me in my back, but I ignored her. She kept it up, and I eventually turned around. The Kabuto squirrels were on her shoulders and apparently Kabuto needed some of our food to turn back into a human. All I had left was a little-bitty tiny thing of those nasty refried beans that I don't like, so I gave that to her, and then another person I thought for some reason was my cousin, who was sitting next to me gave her some salsa. And then one of the Kabuto squirrels randomly bit my hand. And then I woke up. ((A/N: This is actually a dream a friend of mine had, but she said I should use it here))"
Kero scowled. "You're mocking me, aren't you?" He said. Aura nodded. "Yes, I find the idea of future telling dreams for magic peoples as quite stupid, myself." She said. Kero growled. "Well stop it. Do not mock me, okay?" He said. Aura snorted loudly as she reared up on her hind leg over the plushy like guardian in tiger form. "Or what?" she asked. Kero snarled and folded his wings around him, opening them to show him in his true form now. Aura flattened her ears. "So what, I know you wouldn't fight your best while I'm crippled, it's part of you personality, while wounded animals are much more vicious than most, so I could still kick you're as-butt around." Aura corrected noting Harriss hovering over her shoulder scowling. Harriss disappeared again. Kero growled, knowing she was right and hating it. Aura looked down at her leg. Her paw was growing well, it only had to regrow her toes and claws, then some fur and she could start using it. She limped to the area under her bookcase and fished under it, coming out with a ziplock bag of dried meat. She opened I and threw Kero a large piece, snagging one for herself.
Kero opened his mouth and started gnawing on the tough rabbit meat, forgetting about Aura mocking him once she gave him a snack. 'Typical,' She thought sliding into bed. Aura and Kero chewed the snacks in silence for a while. Aura gulped the last shreds of her piece down and looked at Kero.
"Kero, when I bit my paw off, and won the race you brought me straight to the tree to put the bandages on, right?" She asked. Kero nodded, wincing at the memory of her mangled stump. Aura continued. "So what about Power?" She asked. Kero thought for a minuet. "She's likely still in the woods, but there shouldn't be a time limit on how soon you have to catch her after she's defeated." He said. "But I don't know for sure." He finished. Aura looked out the window. " We might want to hurry then, it's already been two days, and with your true form you can fly me there." She said. Kero nodded, transforming. Aura slid onto his back, like she was riding a horse. Kero's wings opened up as her and Aura went out the window. Taking off, Aura yelped and her claws shot out reflexively. "OUCH!" Kero yelped. "What was that for?" He demanded. Aura readjusted herself, clinging closer to his neck. "I slipped and was about to fall." She said. "Whoops..."
"…Hey Kero, exactly how fast do you fly?" Aura asked out of nowhere. Kero thought. "I don't know, why don't we find out?" He flapped harder, letting his magic guide him over to Power. Kero flapped hard, and Aura pressed herself deep as she could into his fur. She peeked over his shoulder, careful not to interrupt the wing movements, and saw the ground zipping past. She looked at the city, as it also flew past. "He flies fast." She muttered. Kero slowed down panting a few moments later. He circled once, then spotted Power who was gazing back up at him. The pair landed next to her.
"Hello." Aura said sliding onto three paws. Power nodded but said nothing, shifting her gaze to Auras paw. She looked surprised at the fact it was smooth striped skin and the wrist like part had grown back. "Your foot!" she exclaimed. Aura grinned. "That is the result of combining lizard and dragon and a few other things into me, it's growing back." She said limping over with her key. Power looked at the key and sighed, but made no attempt to fight or flee as Aura drew out her staff. Power was re-sealed and Aura wrote her name on the new card. Kero walked over. " Whew, no fight, that's good, especially considering how you're missing a foot." He said. Aura nodded. "I hate walking on three paws, it's so annoying." She muttered walking back to Kero.
She went rigid as her bad leg started floating, the rest of her following. She relaxed and looked down as she drifted up. Kero gasped. "It's the Float card!" He said. Aura looked down. "Gee, you think?" she said sarcastically, as Kero grew smaller and smaller. Float pushed her up even faster. She watched the ground below her and looked at the city. "I can see my house from here!" She told Float. Float seemed hesitant for a moment and stopped. Float slipped out from under Aura and she went plummeting towards the ground. She flailed a moment in the air, before spreading her wings and gliding down. Float yelled in frustration. Aura turned to the frustrated card. "Watch your language, and what are you yelling about anyway?" She flapped over to him. "Why aren't you scared? Most people would be terrified of falling from this height!" Float yelled. Aura looked amused. "Well, incase you couldn't tell from the claws, stripes, wings, magic, and all the other stuff, I aint' most people." She told Float, patting it on the back. Float sighed and began to drift off. Aura gabbed Float's balloon and pulled him back, oh no you don't, after I get you signed you're staying here." She fluttered back to the ground next to an anxious Keroberos. "You okay? Sorry, I should have sensed Float, he's a trickster, loves to scare people. Why couldn't I sense him?" Kero asked himself. Aura shrugged. "If it's any consolation, neither could I." She offered. Kero scowled. "Oh, that's strange." He said. Aura laughed and searched her pockets, clutching Float. " Here it is!" She said summoning her staff. Float squirmed, but Aura held him still while she sealed and signed the card.
"Okay, now you can come out if you want, and roam around, just don't get seen or caught, or do anything REALY bad." She said. Float floated out and floated into the sky and floated around over the city. "Well, let's get home!" Aura said climbing onto Kero. The two took off, heading back home.
A screech of terror was heard behind them. Both of them turned to see Float up to 'minor' mischief already.
"…Sometimes I question my idea of letting the cards roam free..." Aura said giving one last look over her shoulder at the flying tanning bed, and passenger.