Sometimes I'm playing with idea of not updating, but then I hit myself for even considering that... It's probably because I have you guys as an audience. Thank you for letting me tell this story. To those who are here just to see it end, it won't take long.

Chapter 316: No one is purrfect

Rick was puzzled by his Thanatorish girlfriend. He didn't know what he said to her to change her from scary big thanator to caring girlfriend. "Well, maybe I've did 'that' to her after all." Rick thought, the idea still set his skin crawling whenever he even thought about the possibility of mating with her, it was however slowly changing, sure the idea was still disgusting, but not downright revolting. Since that night, she was spending all her time with him. She was also very accepting, Rick found that when it was lunchtime. The lunchtime was a time to go on a hunt and kill something. "[It is like having a small cub]" She said while looking at Rick who was sitting on the shore of the pond. The pond was the place where Rick wanted to spend some time after getting the splints done and she happily spent the time with him there.

"[What do you mean?]" Rick asked while looking at her. She was looking down at him with a smile.

"[That I will hunt for you]" She said while moving her face close to Rick, for rick it was a little too close but since he was mostly immobile, he couldn't just move away, for it might've been seen as an insult, and insulting something this big while your legs were broken wasn't really smart.

"[I will bring you whatever you want.]" She gently purred into Rick's ear, and while it was supposed to be a whispering, Rick heard that slightly louder than she thought it was.

"Oh no, not another piece of raw meat… Wait a moment!" Rick thought, realizing that she just said 'whatever you want' and thus making it possible for him to get some fruits instead of raw meat. He however had to put it in a way that it doesn't seem like he isn't capable of digesting it. He wanted to make it sound perfectly normal, it however was rather hard for thanators were carnivores, and thus eating fruits was completely unthinkable for them.

"[I'll try something different then.]" He said, making her wonder what he meant by that but she kept on smiling on him, even though she didn't know what he was going to do.

"[Let's go then, I'll go with you]" Rick said, wanting to show her what was he going to eat. "I never thought that I would end up as a vegetarian with carnivorous girlfriend…" He thought grabbing her muzzle and she quickly placed him back on her backs.

"[What kind of food do you have in mind?]" She asked him as they've set toward the forest. Rick however told that when he'll see it, he'll tell her. The trip to the forest wasn't as uneventful as Rick hoped it would be for her curiosity wasn't easily sated. Truth to be told she wasn't that curious about what kind of food was he going to eat, but about his history.

"[Where are you from Rick?]" She asked him and Rick found that he didn't want to tell her that.

"I don't know how I would explain space travel to her. She probably never saw an AMP too so she couldn't even imagine what kind of technology we have." He thought, deciding to tell her that he came here from the na'vi home tree. That however brought up another question.

"[What are the na'vi like? I've only ate them, I never lived near them. Did they try to hunt you?]" She asked and rick realized just how different their mindsets were. While she thought that he was merely living near them and because he was 'thanator' just like her, she thought that he must've hunted them for food and stuff like that.

"[Quite the opposite, they were afraid of me at first, but they quickly got used to me and eventually even started to like me in the end.]" Rick told the truth, making his new girlfriend wonder just what he did to make the na'vi consider him as a friend. Maybe he hunted with them, or maybe he protected them from the dangers. She however realized that this was probably not the cause, because although he was a thanator, he still possessed a human body. Human body was frail unless covered by their removable carapaces and unless it was armed by their long range weaponry which could kill after several shots.

"[How is that possible?]" She asked him after she figured out that he wasn't exactly the best fighter around here.

"[I am not entirely sure.]" Rick answered. In order to steer away from that topic, he decided to ask the same question.

"[What about you? You always lived in the valley?]" He asked her and she slowed down.

"[No, I lived south of here, my territory was big, yet it still wasn't enough. The food was getting scarcer ever since the Na'vi who were living there suddenly vanished one day and never returned. Although I didn't hunt them, they were the ones who were luring the animals in order to kill them easily, I just waited till they've got the animals close enough and then attacked the animals and if it was possible, I also attacked the na'vi. That is however in the past. After they vanished however, I was forced to go elsewhere. I eventually ended up here.]" She said as if it was something shameful to end up in the valley of thanators.

"[It is not so bad here]" Rick countered but she seemed to disagree with him strongly. She however didn't want to argue with him for they were already in the forest and arguing thanator wasn't exactly the sneakiest thanator.

"[What are we hunting?]" She asked him and Rick looked around, he immediately spotted the fruits which were growing on the nearby bush.

"[Well I've already found what I was looking for]" He said making her turn around and look at him with confusion with her eyes. He however used her turning around as a chance to grab her nose which was a signal that she needs to place him onto the ground here. She was however too surprised by that statement that she moved him onto the ground after a few moments.

"[Are you sure this is the place you were looking for? I cannot see anything edible here.]" She pointed out but Rick was already crawling toward the bush. He was dragging his legs behind him for even though they were splinted, it still hurt whenever he stood on either of them, not to mention his stupidest idea ever: Trying to walk with them. Although normal person would make several steps to get over to the bush from the place where he was dropped, he was forced to crawl there which took a whole minute. When he was finally there, he sat under the bush and grabbed the fruit while his girlfriend watched him with confusion.

"[Although being a human means that I am not as strong or fast as other thanators, it also means I can eat these.]" He said while taking a bite off the fruit. The fruit was juicy and it immediately reminded him of Tarya who was the one who showed these fruits to him, she liked them so much and even Rick started to enjoy them after he got used to the taste for they were sour at first, but when you ate your way to the center of them, their sweetness was so great that Rick sometimes wondered out loud if they were sweeter than kiss from his beloved. He of course did that in order to request a kiss from Tarya who happily gave him one or two, "or ten." Rick remembered.

"[How does it taste?]" She asked him and he reacted to that by grabbing another fruit.

"[Chew it but don't swallow it, for I'm not sure if you can or cannot eat it]" He said and threw it to his girlfriend who caught it with her mouth. It was like the games he and his friends played while watching the holo-vision movies while enjoying the synthetic replica of popcorn. It was back on the ISV venture star, instead of ending up in cryo like the other passengers, Rick, Peter and some other girl, were selected as a security personal for the trip.

Although nothing usually happened on these trips, RDA was paranoid and therefore always selected three soldiers who wouldn't get into cryo but end up as a security personal. Rick and Peter who were good friends volunteered to stay awake. Their reasons were however completely different, for they managed to smuggle a container full of their favorite liquid onto the board. It was strange that nobody noticed that there were two containers with same designation on board, or nobody seemed to care. The container however was big enough to smuggle enough booze to last the two of them for at least a year, Peter however ended up being transported to Eywa knows where.

The aforementioned game however consisted of trying to catch the synthetic popcorn with your mouth while also trying to catch whatever booze was floating around in your mouth before catching the popcorn. "I miss the zero gravity booze games." Rick thought while watching the thanatoress chew on the fruit. At first she seemed to be disgusted by it completely but as she chewed more and more, the disgusted look seemed to slowly fade, but it never disappeared. After a few moments she spitted what remained of the fruit out.

"[I think I'll just eat meat.]" She said, making Rick smile. He knew that she couldn't like the taste for she wasn't meant to like it. Just like Rick couldn't eat grass like the yeriks do, she couldn't eat fruit. It wasn't a matter of taste, it was a matter of if she could digest it or not.

"[Give me another moment and I'll gladly go with you]" Rick said, immediately grabbing another and wolfed it down with admirable speed. She smiled at him and walked over to the bush under which he was sitting and sat right next to it.

"[Thank you Rick]" She thanked Rick by purring the sentence out right next to his ear. She knew it would be harder to hunt with Rick on her back but she liked the idea of being together even while hunting.

"I think I'm starting to like her, just not in that way though." Rick thought after hearing her purr like that. There was no need to eat more than two. One was enough already for the fruit was big as a melon, and although it was solid as a cooked potato, it still made Rick feel heavy after eating only two. "Maybe I shouldn't have eaten more than one" he thought, realizing that he was in for one wild ride.

"[Let's go then]" She said, letting him grab onto her and lifted him up.

"Yup, that wasn't a good idea" Rick was now absolutely sure that he shouldn't have eaten the second one for he started to feel funny immediately after she started walking.

Don't puke Rick, no matter what!
I'm pretty sure that it would be considered offensive to puke on your girlfriend, no matter what species she is.

Answers to readers, b'cause I have nothing better to do:

The good doctor: I agree…with the P.s.

-Forgotten shock trooper: Well, at least they will finally start earning their pay

-Hideout Writer: That's a revolutionary way to get rid of viruses alright!

-MikeTheDisabled: Re-reading it? It can't be that amusing!

-The stone tiger: I think it would be funnier by switching the second and the third event. Just for the lolz of course!

To be continued…someday

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