DISCLAIMER: I don't own Monster Rancher or any of the characters depicted therein. I have made up certain things, such as Gali's backstory.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: To Alex Warlorn: You want to know what happened? (Spoiler warning!) OK the bare-bones version: Grey Wolf thinks Tiger abandoned him (not true). Tiger fatally wounds Grey Wolf but the latter gets good before he dies.
OK, Naga is an even bigger pain to write than Gali, so this one is probably sub-par.
If there are any points that don't mesh with the series please review and let me know. Oh, what the heck, please review anyway.
If you read this far, thanks. Could you read just a little further, please?

Naga: Blue Eyes

Of course everyone believes Gali.
He's so good, right? While I'm the horrible, terrible, oh-so-cruel-and-mean-and-filthy purple lizard who kills for fun, right? I don't pretend to be anything other than that. Unlike certain monsters named Gali who I won't name.
What did you just say?
Shut your mouth and listen. I'm not the one who had happy fluffy first years with humans who apparently were more decent than average. I'm not the one who got spoiled rotten. I'm not the one who tied up my brain in knots contemplating stupid questions because I didn't have anything better to do.
I'm not the one who randomly decided to make the entire city go kaboom and skip off and join Mu because, again, I didn't have anything better to do.
I. Am. Not. Like. Gali. Whatsoever. Is that clear?
I'm glad we've come to an understanding.

***

You say you want to hear about Grey Wolf? Let me guess. You're going to tell all of your friends what I said, so they can all laugh at how stupid I am. How jealous I am of clever little Blue Eyes -
Yes, I said clever.
I'll call him Blue Eyes if I damn well want to… Brown Eyes.
Oh, you're scared I damaged him for life, then? That I screwed his eyes around backwards crooked-wise? That I opened him up and mucked with his insides? You are so paranoid I think I'm going to laugh. Just why would I want to do that? Do I look like an idiot to you?
… no, don't answer that. I know what you're going to say.
Really, Mu had a corner on any mucking.
What happened-? How do you expect me to know? Why don't you go talk to Mu, I'm sure he could tell you. What I'd like to know is just why you let Blue Eyes grow up so gullible.
All right, here's the situation: You're being told that your idol who you think can do no wrong –in Blue Eyes' case that would be you- just ran off to save his own hide. Don't forget that the very someone who is telling you this attacked the two of you just a while ago, not to mention knocked you out himself.
Did I mention he seems to want you to join his army?
Wouldn't the situation seem a bit off?
Brown Eyes. Back off before I take off your head. I MEAN IT.
… there. That's much better.
He believed it, Brown Eyes, otherwise he wouldn't have wanted to kill you. Get over it.

***

What would you know about it?
Easy for you to say. You have better things to look to. You have Blue Eyes. You have all your friends to back you up.
I have me. That'll have to do. And I didn't have anything better to look to then and I don't now, so get lost, you!
…what now?
Do I look like I can read minds to you? How would I know what he thinks? Why don't you go ask him yourself, Tiger of the Wind?