Is That You? By: OtakuSailorV
Chapter 9: City Escape
"Follow me!" Genki whispered and took off just as the footsteps started to fade on the other side of the building.
Tiger and Pixie followed behind him, all their feet crunching the waste in the alley down noisily as they ran. Genki thought he heard voices coming from behind them, but didn't dare to turn around and look.
He stopped as they turned the corner. Glancing back, he saw that no one was watching from the opposite side of the alley from which they had come, and turned back to the monsters. There was no one on the streets, which was peculiar for a big city. But Genki paid it no mind, seeing it as a perfect chance to try and blend his friends into their surroundings.
He searched the alley, pulling his friends back into it.
The bag that had hidden Tiger's horns now lay strewn across his back, just barely hanging onto him. Genki pulled it back up over his friend's head and patted the bag gently when Tiger started to grumble.
Pixie watched in interest as he pulled filth from the ground and tried to identify it. He grasped a bag that crackled in his grasp, and he smiled at it, shaking the wet, dirty mud from it and placing it on her head. "Hey! What are you-?!"
Genki 'shh-ed' her, shaking his head as he placed the bag firmly over her horns. "What are you doing?!" Pixie hissed at him.
Genki grinned and shook his head again, searching for other things to hide Pixie's noticeable parts.
He looked up, and saw a pair of old, dirty, wet shoes hanging from a line. Tiger followed his vision and nodded, jumping up and snatching them from their resting place by severing the laces with his teeth.
Pixie allowed Genki to place the shoes on her feet, and listened in annoyance as he re-assured her that she could take them off later.
She sloshed forward in her shoes, Genki beside her, and both peered out into the streets again.
Some cars were starting to make turns and drive their way now, so they were just in time. Genki nodded and started to head out when tiger stopped him.
"What about her tail and wings?"
Genki looked at Tiger questioningly. "What about them?"
"Well, humans don't have tails and wings, do they?" Tiger said, rather shocked at his friend for overlooking such a major detail.
"That's ok, they'll just think she's cosplaying. There's a huge convention downtown this weekend." Genki said with a shrug and turned back to the street.
"Cosplaying?" Pixie asked before Tiger could.
Genki nodded solemnly. "Yeah, it's a thing were people dress up as their favorite characters from shows and video games. And it's a good thing that you look so much like what they make you look like for the Monster Rancher video games. That way no one will think that you're really the monster from TV."
"Then why the bag over my horns and the shoes over my feet?" Pixie asked half-angrily.
"Well, a human doesn't usually get into a lot of stores without shoes on. And the horns might give you away." Genki pointed out, wishing his friends would let the subject rest so that they could get away before someone came along and noticed them.
"If we're in these 'video games', then why can't I go around with MY horns showing?" Tiger asked.
Genki sighed. "Because, dogs don't cosplay, and we're trying to make it look like you're a dog."
Tiger snorted at the fact that he was trying to lower himself to that pitiful human-serving species. But he let his friend win this battle, he was certainly never going on another rescue mission again.
Genki, glad that the conversation had ended, started off again.
Pixie and Tiger followed behind and to his side.
The people only glanced at them and none but a few teenaged boys stared as they passed. Both Tiger and Pixie were inwardly stunned that humans in Genki's world were so blind to what was right in front of them. If they had been back in their world, the humans would have at least been smart enough to question a Monster in disguise, especially such a bad disguise.
Genki smirked to himself as they nearer to the heart of the city.
Night was starting to fall, and it was getting colder. Pixie's feet were freezing inside of the wet sneakers, and Tiger wished that the dirty bag were not smothering his fur.
Genki shivered once as they got to the undercroft of the bridge that Genki and Tiger had originally crossed under.
Tiger slumped down on the shore, sighing and relaxing his paws.
Genki sighed as well, letting his sore feet rest.
Pixie shredded the shoes to pieces and threw them off her feet, letting her toes feel the breeze that swept under the bridge.
After a while, Pixie looked around, her eyes piercing through the falling darkness.
"Genki, where are we to go after this?" She asked.
Genki smirked and opened his eyes, sitting up and stretching.
"We're going to wait for Holly and the others to get here."
"And then?"
"And then we go back to Hikari's place and figure out this whole mess." Genki said and lay back down.
Tiger's head turned slightly, but his eyes remained closed, the bag that had hidden his horns lay next to him, where he had found it.
"Genki. . ." Pixie almost whispered as her head tilted backward against the wall of the bridge, the rumbling, hum-like sound and feeling creeping into her mind as the cars passed overhead.
"Yeah?" Genki asked.
"What happened to you after you fell off the Pirate Dragon and came here to your world?"
Genki fiddled with his shirt nervously and looked at the ground.
"Well. . ."
Genki took off into the long story of what had happened to him in the months since he had last seen his friends from the Monster World.
Pixie and Tiger listened with interest, sometimes glancing at the opposite shore for any sign of the girl Hikari and the others. But the story was enough to grasp their attention for the 2 hours it took to tell.
". . .And then I woke up in Hikari's cabin in the heart of the woods. She still hasn't said why she was living all alone out there though." Genki finished thoughtfully.
Pixie sighed, taking in the full story.
"And what about yourself?" Genki asked, grabbing his feet with his hands, and watching her expectantly.
"What about me?" Pixie asked.
"Well, you're a Pixie again, you don't have Big Blue in you anymore?" It was more of a statement than a question.
Pixie smiled and shut her eyes again. "Yes, Holly found out an ancient yet dangerous way to remove Big Blue from me, and make us two monsters again. It worked, but I was exhausted for weeks. I had just gotten to flying again when I was transported here."
"Hey, how DID you get here?" Genki asked suddenly.
Pixie puzzled over that.
"I just remember. . .a light. . .and I thought I heard you calling me. Then I got sucked in before I knew what was happening, and woke up by the shore of this same river not but a few days ago." Pixie pointed the river, her long finger trailing up the coast.
"That's like what happened to us." Tiger nodded from his side of the bridge.
Genki grinned at them. "Well, now you guys can check out my world and see what I was always telling you guys about!" He laughed.
Pixie and Tiger grinned at him. Yes, Genki's world was mysterious and strange, it might take them some time to understand it all.
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Yo!! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but, here's a new chapter. I would say that I promise to update by the weekend. But I'm leaving on Thursday to visit my aunt in Tennessee. ^_^ But I'll try to get another chapter up by the middle of next week. ^_~ Thanks to all my lovely reviewers, you guys are so cool and are really the ones that get me up off my butt to write. ^_^ Thanks so much for sticking with this fic.
Anyway, have a good time until I get back!!!
Ja!
Review!
Chapter 9: City Escape
"Follow me!" Genki whispered and took off just as the footsteps started to fade on the other side of the building.
Tiger and Pixie followed behind him, all their feet crunching the waste in the alley down noisily as they ran. Genki thought he heard voices coming from behind them, but didn't dare to turn around and look.
He stopped as they turned the corner. Glancing back, he saw that no one was watching from the opposite side of the alley from which they had come, and turned back to the monsters. There was no one on the streets, which was peculiar for a big city. But Genki paid it no mind, seeing it as a perfect chance to try and blend his friends into their surroundings.
He searched the alley, pulling his friends back into it.
The bag that had hidden Tiger's horns now lay strewn across his back, just barely hanging onto him. Genki pulled it back up over his friend's head and patted the bag gently when Tiger started to grumble.
Pixie watched in interest as he pulled filth from the ground and tried to identify it. He grasped a bag that crackled in his grasp, and he smiled at it, shaking the wet, dirty mud from it and placing it on her head. "Hey! What are you-?!"
Genki 'shh-ed' her, shaking his head as he placed the bag firmly over her horns. "What are you doing?!" Pixie hissed at him.
Genki grinned and shook his head again, searching for other things to hide Pixie's noticeable parts.
He looked up, and saw a pair of old, dirty, wet shoes hanging from a line. Tiger followed his vision and nodded, jumping up and snatching them from their resting place by severing the laces with his teeth.
Pixie allowed Genki to place the shoes on her feet, and listened in annoyance as he re-assured her that she could take them off later.
She sloshed forward in her shoes, Genki beside her, and both peered out into the streets again.
Some cars were starting to make turns and drive their way now, so they were just in time. Genki nodded and started to head out when tiger stopped him.
"What about her tail and wings?"
Genki looked at Tiger questioningly. "What about them?"
"Well, humans don't have tails and wings, do they?" Tiger said, rather shocked at his friend for overlooking such a major detail.
"That's ok, they'll just think she's cosplaying. There's a huge convention downtown this weekend." Genki said with a shrug and turned back to the street.
"Cosplaying?" Pixie asked before Tiger could.
Genki nodded solemnly. "Yeah, it's a thing were people dress up as their favorite characters from shows and video games. And it's a good thing that you look so much like what they make you look like for the Monster Rancher video games. That way no one will think that you're really the monster from TV."
"Then why the bag over my horns and the shoes over my feet?" Pixie asked half-angrily.
"Well, a human doesn't usually get into a lot of stores without shoes on. And the horns might give you away." Genki pointed out, wishing his friends would let the subject rest so that they could get away before someone came along and noticed them.
"If we're in these 'video games', then why can't I go around with MY horns showing?" Tiger asked.
Genki sighed. "Because, dogs don't cosplay, and we're trying to make it look like you're a dog."
Tiger snorted at the fact that he was trying to lower himself to that pitiful human-serving species. But he let his friend win this battle, he was certainly never going on another rescue mission again.
Genki, glad that the conversation had ended, started off again.
Pixie and Tiger followed behind and to his side.
The people only glanced at them and none but a few teenaged boys stared as they passed. Both Tiger and Pixie were inwardly stunned that humans in Genki's world were so blind to what was right in front of them. If they had been back in their world, the humans would have at least been smart enough to question a Monster in disguise, especially such a bad disguise.
Genki smirked to himself as they nearer to the heart of the city.
Night was starting to fall, and it was getting colder. Pixie's feet were freezing inside of the wet sneakers, and Tiger wished that the dirty bag were not smothering his fur.
Genki shivered once as they got to the undercroft of the bridge that Genki and Tiger had originally crossed under.
Tiger slumped down on the shore, sighing and relaxing his paws.
Genki sighed as well, letting his sore feet rest.
Pixie shredded the shoes to pieces and threw them off her feet, letting her toes feel the breeze that swept under the bridge.
After a while, Pixie looked around, her eyes piercing through the falling darkness.
"Genki, where are we to go after this?" She asked.
Genki smirked and opened his eyes, sitting up and stretching.
"We're going to wait for Holly and the others to get here."
"And then?"
"And then we go back to Hikari's place and figure out this whole mess." Genki said and lay back down.
Tiger's head turned slightly, but his eyes remained closed, the bag that had hidden his horns lay next to him, where he had found it.
"Genki. . ." Pixie almost whispered as her head tilted backward against the wall of the bridge, the rumbling, hum-like sound and feeling creeping into her mind as the cars passed overhead.
"Yeah?" Genki asked.
"What happened to you after you fell off the Pirate Dragon and came here to your world?"
Genki fiddled with his shirt nervously and looked at the ground.
"Well. . ."
Genki took off into the long story of what had happened to him in the months since he had last seen his friends from the Monster World.
Pixie and Tiger listened with interest, sometimes glancing at the opposite shore for any sign of the girl Hikari and the others. But the story was enough to grasp their attention for the 2 hours it took to tell.
". . .And then I woke up in Hikari's cabin in the heart of the woods. She still hasn't said why she was living all alone out there though." Genki finished thoughtfully.
Pixie sighed, taking in the full story.
"And what about yourself?" Genki asked, grabbing his feet with his hands, and watching her expectantly.
"What about me?" Pixie asked.
"Well, you're a Pixie again, you don't have Big Blue in you anymore?" It was more of a statement than a question.
Pixie smiled and shut her eyes again. "Yes, Holly found out an ancient yet dangerous way to remove Big Blue from me, and make us two monsters again. It worked, but I was exhausted for weeks. I had just gotten to flying again when I was transported here."
"Hey, how DID you get here?" Genki asked suddenly.
Pixie puzzled over that.
"I just remember. . .a light. . .and I thought I heard you calling me. Then I got sucked in before I knew what was happening, and woke up by the shore of this same river not but a few days ago." Pixie pointed the river, her long finger trailing up the coast.
"That's like what happened to us." Tiger nodded from his side of the bridge.
Genki grinned at them. "Well, now you guys can check out my world and see what I was always telling you guys about!" He laughed.
Pixie and Tiger grinned at him. Yes, Genki's world was mysterious and strange, it might take them some time to understand it all.
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Yo!! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, but, here's a new chapter. I would say that I promise to update by the weekend. But I'm leaving on Thursday to visit my aunt in Tennessee. ^_^ But I'll try to get another chapter up by the middle of next week. ^_~ Thanks to all my lovely reviewers, you guys are so cool and are really the ones that get me up off my butt to write. ^_^ Thanks so much for sticking with this fic.
Anyway, have a good time until I get back!!!
Ja!
Review!
