~*~Why One Should Avoid Minty Green Things Someone Offers~*~
(^-^) "Beach!" Dolphin announced, as reliably as any modern day train conductor before plunking Xelloss down on a pile of palm fronds. Xelloss stretched out a bit and made himself comfortable, noticing that sand stuck to the sticky paw. Now it needed cleaning again.
"Can I have some ice cream?" He asked as the blue haired mazoku scooted onto the sand with a palm leaf (^-^), that would make cleaning the paw and snacking an all in one bonus!
"Xellie just had some." Dolphin waved her palm leaf in front of the kitty's nose. "I don't want Xellie to get sick. That a bad vacation."
The multi colored cat responded with only a mock pout.
So Dolphin waved the leaf more as her smile grew. "Oooo. Look at the moving target."
Xelloss' ear twitched as he watched the leaf flutter down to land on him and Dolphin dropped it. (^-^) With the green menace in the air, the neko rolled over and shredded the leaf with those razor sharp claws of his.
The blue haired mazoku watched this, before averting her stare at a spot on the sand, before darting over and digging deeply. "Dolphin know something here"
"Eh?" The neko mazoku dropped the shredded leaf and rolled over lazily watching the Dark Lord send sand flying everywhere, even managing to land some on Xelloss even though he was several feet away.
The neko shook the sand off and trotted over to stick his head in the hole curiously. "What you got?"
"Something down here! Dolphin knows these things!" More sand flew out of the hole. Xelloss moved to a 'safer' site and sat to watch.
"What Dolphin know?" ... hang on just one moment! 'What Dolphin know?' he muttered to himself. Gah, he was speaking like her! darn contagious speaking habits!
"Where there's stuff!" The blue haired mazoku exclaimed, tossing out an old and battered treasure chest. "Treasure!" (^0^) She chirped hopping out of the hole herself and began poking the chest, whilst Xelloss clapped his paws.
"That's clever you know." Well, clever for a dumb, insane, crazy, intelligence lacking blue haired floozy.
"Dolphin open." She poked it some more. "or not?" She asked thoughtfully staring curiously at the locked box.
"Open it!" The neko mewed, a tad impatient. After all, it might have something good in it wasn't there a saying about curiosity killed the cat? Never mind, old human wives tale after all, it doesn't apply to mazoku!
"Open?" Dolphin tapped the lock. To wait or not? To save it for a rainy day to open, she wouldn't be bored. So what if she controlled the rain, she could still save the surprise!
"Go on." Xelloss prodded. He wanted to know!
"Dolphin wait." (^^) She looked from the chest, to the palm trees, to the ocean. Hmm she wondered Had he ? "Xellie lie down on water before?"
"You mean float?" Xelloss asked, giving a lazy one purple cat-eyed look. He was more interested in this than he was letting on though.
"No lie down on water" It was fun! But Dolphin blinked as she realized something, how could she forget? "Wait, Xellie can't do that anyway."
"Why not?" The cat-mazoku flicked his tail slightly. Can't? Can't? Why can't?
(^^)"Xellie don't have water powers like Dolphin! Xellie have Ummmm.." What powers did Xellie have? (0.o) Purpleness? Sneakiness? The funny face look? Zelas had the funny face look Xellie powers come from Meanie Zelas of course! "Sneaky stealth, forest and tracking powers instead!"
"Can you try and teach me how?" Xelloss stretched himself before getting up to rub against Dolphin's leg, just like a proper cat.
(^.^) "Ummm. No Xellie don't have the powers." Dolphin patted the neko's head. He still a furry! Dolphin liked furries Xellie a funny colored furry, that was okay though.
"Awww" The kitty ears, whispers, and overall mood drooped considerably.
"Dolphin would if she could." She ruffled the mazoku's head and ears some more as she explained. "But Xellie don't have any power connections to Dolphin." Was Xellie getting fleas?
"Can't you make just a little one to teach me." He whined, doing the rubbing thing again. Cats must be always after something, Xelloss concluded from his own actions.
(0.o) "No Zelas get mad!" And Meanie Zelas was scary when mad, that would be bad for Dolphin and for Xellie. Maybe Dolphin should give Xellie something to make him happier instead of making Meanie Zelas mad. "Hmm" She poked Xelloss in the side gently, still a funny furry thing.
"You don't have to tell her." (^^) he suggested.
"No, Dolphin have something better." (^^) Ooooo Xellie would like this!
"What's that?" Xelloss inquired, once more curious.
Dolphin held out a fist. "This!" (^^)
"Eh?" Stupid this was just stupid how would Xelloss survive for ten weeks of it?!
"Xellie open mouth, Dolphin wants it to be a surprise!" A surprise that would make Xellie very happy!
"Umm." There came a time in every Mazoku's existence, when they had to ask themselves 'Do you trust the insane Dark Lord in front of you?' Although Xelloss was pretty sure that only applied to him at the moment.
"Trust Dolphin, she doesn't want to hurt Xellie c'mon." she started cooing to Xelloss as one would well, a pet cat.
Well, that seemed true enough. Besides if anything bad happened he'd be out of there before Dolphin could say 'Fishie' and back home with Zelas so she could undo whatever Dolphin did. Hesitantly he opened his mouth so Dolphin could pop something green in.
"Now chew." (^^) Xellie hadn't spat the present out, Dolphin knew Xellie would like it! Xellie would go have fun now!
"Tastes minty." (n.n) Xelloss commented, also knowing the flavour from somewhere, but he couldn't quite place it. It was on the tip of his tongue figuratively and literally.
"It minty smelling too!" Dolphin said, she loved giving presents!
"More?" Xelloss asked. It was very nice, curiously strong almost.
"Hmmm. Too much would be bad, but little more okay." (^^) Dolphin grabbed a few more leaves from astral space and hand fed them to the eager kitty before rubbing his head. "See, Xellie likes catnip!"
"Catnip?!" Xelloss mentally kicked himself, he knew he recognized the taste! Catnip is well known for its hallucinogenic effects on cats, and if dried and smoked Well he'd found out about that the hard way from Zelas. It also tended to drive cats a bit hyper? It'd be a lot easier to think if everything stopped moving around him
"Nothing wrong with catnip." (^^) Dolphin carried on rubbing the kitty's head. She liked catnip, it was all minty refreshing and minty smelly, and minty green, and minty fuzzy, and minty weird!
"You're messing up my hair" Xelloss' cat side was definitely dominant and under the influence of catnip as he rolled on to his back to bat the offending hand away from his precious shiny hair.
"Well, then" Lets see ah! Dolphin launched a tickle attack on the now exposed cat tummy. The violet neko gave a quiet squeal and latched onto Dolphin's arm with all four paws. As he clung on there, Dolphin rearranged her little violet friend in a half hug and continued to taunt him with her free hand (^^) If a cat could giggle, Xelloss sure would have been by now as he swatted at her attacking hand, although he wasn't using any claws.
(^^) "Xellie happy!" Dolphin knew her present would make Xellie happy! She ruffled his head one last time before putting him back on the sand.
Xelloss stood on all four paws for a grand total of zero seconds prior to wobbling and tipping over to one side. Then he made a discovery if you rolled in the sand, it was like a bath without the water!
Whilst Xelloss experimented with all the various roll in the sand techniques he could think up, Dolphin pulled the lock off the chest from earlier and threw open the cover. "Ooooo." (^-^)
"What's in there?" The kitty panted after bolting over.
(^^) "Knick-knacks!" Dolphin dug through the chest a bit and pulled at something. "Mostly this stuff though." She said, dumping a slimy green-blue thing on Xelloss.
"EEEeeeeeeee!" Xelloss had not been prepared for that and hurtled away from it, all fur puffed up.
"Yeah, it slimy seaweed. " Dolphin wasn't bothered by it in the slightest by it and continued looking through the chest.
When he had plucked up enough courage, the brave mazoku now a catnip-loving cat crept back up to the seaweed, circled it a few times then prodded it with a paw. He didn't see Dolphin throw some more over to him with a mischievous little smile.
Oooo who did that, certainly not Dolphin Nope it was the lady who looked like Dolphin, the one in the 'mirror-world' who mimicked her! (0.o) "Xellie look at your tail."
Tail? Oh, that. Xelloss turned to try and catch a good view of his tail. That wasn't very easy, which was when he realized "IT MOOOOOOOOOOOVES!" He screeched, scampering away from his own tail.
(^^) "And it's got seaweed on it!" Xellie was being very funny! Aw, he was such a kawaii little neko
"Eeeee!" Xelloss continued his escape from his tail and found refuge behind Dolphin herself. Ha! A Dark Lord could take a tail on any day! It wouldn't dare come behind here!
The blue haired mazoku picked the seaweed off Xelloss and threw it away. Xellie was scared of the seaweed. "There that better?" She didn't get a response, because, contrary to Xelloss' plan, that tail had followed him and he was now glaring at it. His glares were scary, that should make it leave! "There there Xellie" She tapped his head soothingly. "It won't hurt you"
Xelloss drooped, so much that Dolphin picked him up and put him in her lap, giving another head rub. "Aww what wrong?" The neko continued his droop, so Dolphin tried a different tactic, "Xellie thirsty?"
He shook his head no.
"Xellie hungry?" The blue haired non-neko mazoku continued to prod, what was wrong with Xellie neko?
He shook his head no again.
"Umm" (0.o) What could be the matter with Xellie? Not hungry or thirsty, but maybe "Xellie bored?"
"No." The neko replied sullenly, burying himself deep in Dolphins lap.
(o.0) "... What wrong then?" She was stumped, she had no clue. What to do, what to do? Xellie tell!
Xelloss responded by waving his long silky violet tail.
"What wrong
with tail? It's nice!" Dolphin rubbed his tail. Very furry, in fact it
was furrily soft! Dolphin loved furrily soft things, they were so fluffy, and
furry, and soft, and really really good things!
After a moment, Xelloss perked up and pulled his head out of Dolphin's lap so
he could roll onto his back. "Dolphin rub!"
Dolphin did so, and came to another conclusion about neko neko Xellie and his tummy. (^-^) "Furrily soft!" Did she mention she liked furrily soft things?
"Tummy furry?" Xelloss looked at the mentioned 'tummy'. It was? Looked fuzzy, not furry
Xellie furry! Except for," Dolphin pointed at the cold wet pink thing, it was Xellie's nose, "here!"
"Oh oh oh!" By the second 'oh' Xelloss had hopped out of the Dolphin lap, and by the third 'oh' he had begun to run around Deep Sea.
"What what what?" Dolphin gasped watching the circling overactive kitty named Xellie.
"Oooooooooooooh!" The catnip-ed cat continued to run circles around the Dolphin person.
"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?" What did Xellie want to tell her? Couldn't he stop running, she was getting dizzy
"Oooooooooooooooooohieeeeeeeahhhhhh!" The also slightly dizzy neko miscalculated his speed and footing, crashing into the earlier evacuated Dolphin lap. He then shook his head to shake off the dizziness and catch his breath, he was panting a little.
Dolphin reached down and scooped the tired kitty up, lifting him to her eye level. "Xellie want to swim then?"
Swim? Kitty-Xelloss couldn't remember the last time he'd done that. How fun! He scrambled from her grip and leapt in to. The big blue salty wet thing called 'sea'.
Dolphin watched this and walked over to sit cross-legged on the surface of the sea (^^) "Kitty paddle!" She giggled, Xellie swum in a funny way.
Xelloss had come to a sudden discovery, the sea was
"Weeeeeeeeeeeet!" He caterwauled, jumping into the relative dryness of Deep Sea's lap, hissing at the salty wet thing.
(^^) "Fuuuuun!" Dolphin added. Wet stuff was fun! Sea was wet. Sea was fun and wet!
"Weeeeeeeet and it tastes nasty." Xelloss corrected his lifeboat, spitting the taste of seawater away.
Xellie wasn't supposed to do that. (0.o) "Dun drink it." Silly Xellie kitty! Drinking her friend the sea! That and it made the ones who drank it act funny too.
"I want something to drink." The Mazoku-neko protested continuing to spit at the sea.
(^^) "Water? Milk? Punch?" Dolphin suggested.
"Milk!" The kitty yapped, or a variation of a meow that could be considered a yap.
"Dolphin think of how to feed a bowl to Xellie" (0.o) That wouldn't be easy here. Eh, Dolphin had an idea though She shrugged and pulled a baby bottle from nowhere. "Xellie drink?"
Kitty was happy to do this and laid back so he could feed from the bottle (^-^). Dolphin complied and fed the milk via the bottle to the happy kitty. It was a very odd, but a even cuter scene, blue haired young looking woman sitting on the sea feeding a purple cat milk from a baby bottle.
After a minute or so, Xelloss pawed the bottle unhappily. It didn't look right perhaps it wasn't right
"I want it orange." He mewed, that was it, it was the wrong color!
"Okay." Dolphin tapped the bottle turning the milk inside an orange color.
Xelloss pawed at the bottle again. That wasn't right. "Not green!" He whined.
(o.0) He asked for it to be orange and she made it orange. Maybe Xellie was color-blind. So she turned the milk green. "Green?"
"No purple." (o.o) Xelloss didn't like the look of this
"Purple?" And so, Deep Sea Dolphin made the milk purple in color. Xellie was being very strange, and glaring at her. He must be color-blind some kitties were. "Umm" She tapped the bottle making the milk bright yellow.
"Black!!!" Xelloss exclaimed.
Dolphin changed the milk black.
"Noooo! I said black." Came another protest.
(0.o;) Xellie was being confusing. The opposite of black was yeah, she turned it back to regular white milk.
"Yay!" The kitty exclaimed, guzzling away happily at the milk, now colored to his content.
(^-^) "Whew." Dolphin had worked it out!
"Good milk now." (^-^) Xelloss set about finishing up the milk.
"Yup." Dolphin looked down at the half empty bottle. Xelloss was busy drinking and trying to bat the bottle at the same time. "Xellie very hoppy today." She had to try hard to hold the bottle steady. "Very very hoppy" (^^) She added as he continued to bat the bottle, until Xelloss finished up and kicked the bottle away, to leap onto Dolphin's head.
"Where go now?" Xelloss asked crouching against the Dark Lord's hair, ready to leap after his next target, whatever it may be.
(^.^) "Maybe back home?" Deep Sea proposed. Home nice, Xellie should see home he was too bouncy, got to much kitty-nip stuff.
"Home good! Sleep good too!" Xelloss readied his back legs and pounced for a butterfly, only to land headfirst in the sand. He pulled his head up dizzily. "Bad pinkie thing!" he scolded, moments before a large wave came in and knocked the mazoku-cat off balance.
"Xellie shouldn't hop on water" Xellie doesn't have Dolphin water powers!
"I want to go home!!" Xelloss exclaimed leaping back into Dolphin's lap. "To my Fluffy!"
(0.o) "Dolphin doesn't have a Fluffy" Dolphin had a Wendel though and the big big thing Jeanie was it?
"I have a Fluffy." Xelloss looked at his tail. "That's another fluffy too." He said pointing at the said 'Fluffy'.
"Dolphin can be a kitty." She told him.
"I want to go to a fluffy sleep place." Fluffy like his blanket at home! Xelloss leapt back into the shallow waters.
(^^) "Okay, but first Xellie have to watch out for" Dolphin was interrupted by a big wave crashing into the kitty. "Wave) "Oh, Dolphin too late." Xelloss yowled as he got knocked over and then when he recovered his footing leapt into a very safe spot Dolphin's top.
(0_o) "Ummm" The blue haired mazoku pulled Xelloss out from there. "We go back now." And with that she teleported back to her palace.
"Where where where!?" Xelloss looked around eagerly. Home? No, this wasn't his home it was a room full of pillows!
"One Dolphin's palace room." She said dropping Xelloss on a big bunch of pillows, into which he sank and was lost from sight.
Xelloss circled around and round and round and coughed.
"That too fluffy." Dolphin said moving him to another pillow pile.
"I like the sinky one!" The kitty chirped bouncing on the pillows, and nearly sinking out of sight.
(^^) Sinky was fun, but "Dolphin hope Xellie can breathe when buried in pillows then." As Xelloss climbed to the top of the mountain of pillows and flopped out, Dolphin looked around before leaping into a whole separate pillow section.
"Ooooooooooooh!" Xelloss could make a pillow fort! So he made a little wall between him and Dolphin, whilst she made a pillow nest and cuddled up.
Xelloss buried down deep and snuggled down himself, surprised by a sound from deep within himself. (o.0) "Where's that coming from?!" He asked in response to the purr.
Dolphin didn't answer, she was snoozing.
Xelloss quickly followed
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