A/N: Sorry for lateness. I'm posting two chapters to make up for it though. (the one I missed –cough-) I had surgery on the 20th, didn't get home till the 22 (I think, I slept a lot through this time) and slept and felt like crap until about Tuesday. I might actually have to delay my posts to every other week since I'm running out of material. I only have a few more prewritten chapters and I want to give people time to write. –kicks self . - Now on to the smexyness of Mouko. –drools-
Enter Mouko
The jingling of the small bell above the door grated on my battered senses and I flinched at the irksome sound. Earth humans were filthy smelly creatures and I was sick to death of all of them. Just then my heightened, if more than slightly offended, senses picked up on a sweet smell. Crisp apples and warm woman with an underlying scent that was all her own. Lita. In that moment my day wasn't so bad. "Mouko!" I heard and turned towards her voice. She was smiling widely at me and the sent of her joy filled the room. "Over here!" I breathed deeply. Warm sunlight on a spring day. I gave her a smile and walked over to her table. Other scents blended with hers to tell me that there were others at her table. Though I had known they were there, until that moment I hadn't acknowledged them. Lita and two other girls slid over to make room for me and I nodded my thanks, keeping my eyes on Lita's.
"Hey Saiai," I said as I sat down and she blushed instantly making my smile widen.
"Hi Mouko!" A blonde girl shrieked at me. I tried to suppress my wince but I knew that I didn't do too good a job. Lita looked at me sympathetically and I wiggled my eyebrows at her.
"Hi," I said but kept my eyes on Lita's. She blushed again. I loved it when she did that. It was so cute. I just wanted to lick her. She turned her head from me.
"Mouko this is Chewy," she said, stuttering over my name a little. The spicy smell of her nervousness floated up to me and I had to fight to not openly sniff her. Earthlings thought that strange for some reason. I inhaled deeply and glanced around the table. Two blondes-one with pigtails the other with a red bow-, a brunette, blue haired girl, black haired girl, and Lita.
"Hi," I said simply knowing that I should be scenting each of them for future references but my Saiai was in the forefront of my mind. That seemed to be happening a lot lately.
"Sup?" Chewy said smirking.
"She's new," one blonde said. She had been at the arcade when I had first met Lita. I chuckled and ached an eyebrow at the group of girls.
"Are you guys the greeting committee or something?" I ask. Chewy gave the raven-haired girl a puzzled look.
"He's new too," she supplied with a slight smile. She didn't seem as if she trusted me too much and I really couldn't blame her.
"Oh," Chewy said. I felt a familiar hot energy flow towards us and turned to the door sharply knowing that Seika would be walking through the door any moment. The annoying bell rang and Seika walked in, her sent of dark spices and hickory smoke. Comforting.
"Seika!" The high-pitched squeal came again and I actually could hear my ears ring. She waved Seika over to us and girls once again scooted over to make room for another person. Seika moved stiffly over to us and I couldn't suppress a smile at the sour smell that told of her annoyance.
"Hey," I said with a grin as I put my arm around Lita. Seika raised an eyebrow and smiled slightly.
"Hello," she said simply, reserving judgment. I turned to my Saiai and gazed at her shimmering aura, spell bound. I could feel myself getting lost in her but I couldn't seem to help it. I started slightly when the loud blonde's small hands slammed down on the table. Did she have to be so loud all the time?
"Now we all know each other," she said brightly.
"It'd defiantly be a party if Aisu was here," the blonde with the bow in her hair said with a fuzzy look in her eyes. We all know each other, I asked myself. No one had bothered to introduce me to anyone but Chewy though no one seemed to notice this little fact.
"And Kyoufuu," Chewy added. Seika and I both turned to look at her sharply. Kyoufuu? I glanced at Seika and could almost see the thoughts moving in her head though her sent gave a lot of her thoughts away anyway.We would have to tail these girls.I wasn't too thrilled about spending more time with the loud one but it did meanI could spend more time withmy Saiai.
I glanced out the window as I felt the fine hairs on my body rise at the weather changes out side. Thick gray clouds blanketed the sky darkly. "Seika," I said solemnly, I could feel the dark energies swirling. "Look outside." She gazed out the large windows and we shared a glance. She felt it. She nodded fractionally and I blinked slowly to say that I understood. I would meet her there. She rose almost fluidly and I knew all too well how deadly those movements could be when she wanted them to be.
"I think I better be heading home now," she said calmly andI knew her mind was already on the battle ahead. Seika was nothing if not a master strategist. As she disappeared from sight Chewy cleared her throat.
"Yeah, I think I need to be going as well," she said and Lita, the blue haired girl and I scooted out of the long seat so that she could leave. Once she was standing we sat again. "Adieu my friends," she said before hurrying out.
"Well since everyone is leaving," I said, letting my sentence trail off suggestively. I leaned forward to sip Lita's strange fizzy drink that was surprisingly good and scratched the back of my head trying to figure out what it was. "Shall I walk you home, Saiai?" I asked, knowing that my eyes were brighter than usual.
"Um," Lita hesitated and glanced at her friends. I knew she wanted me to but something stopped her. I saw the others shrug out the corner of my eye and she finally turned to meet my eyes. "I think we were going over to Serena's afterwards." Who was Serena? One of the girls surly.
"Oh," I said disappointed. If I could walk her home I could be assured of her safety but I didn't have time to argue. I knew that Seika could handle herself but it never hurt to have backup. "Well I'll see you tomorrow at lunch," I said with my usual smile and walked amiably out the door in the opposite direction that Seika had gone. I turned down a dark alleyway and casually transformed into a peregrine falcon, the fastest thing in the air on this planet. Though I had expected the panicky mind of a bird to be slightly overwhelming like the squirrels of this planet I found it surprisingly easy to subdue. Flying at top speed I spotted a giant black fireball in the middle of street. Definitely Seika.
Plunging headlong out of the air I swooped down low to the ground behind Seika, changing from falcon to my normal form before my paws hit the ground. My pointed ears twitched at the sound of some woman's screams of agony and my fur fluffed with the discomfort, my tail curling slightly. I flexed my claws to try to ease my tension knowing that it wouldn't help until the woman stopped screaming. "Over did it just a little bit, Eclipse," I asked grumpily, my voice little more than a deep growl. She cocked her head slightly and turned her head towards me slightly.
"It is my weakest attack, Tiger," she said evenly, usingthe childhood nickname she had given me when we were seven. I suppressed a chuckle. She hadn't called me that in years. I heard the foot steps of five girls coming up the street, three in heals and two in flats, but since they were up wind I couldn't tell if they were here to help or not. Not that Seika needed it. I had seen her demolish a small galaxy once so I knew that she was not taking this opponent too seriously. I circled her slowly, studying her.
"Kyoufuu," I said softly and she shook her head.
"I am not sure but I think that it is him," she said calmly but I knew she was just as stunned as I was.
"What do you plan to do about him?" I asked knowing that I shouldn't push but forging ahead anyway. She should have killed him when she had the chance.
"Flush him out. Then incinerate him," she said and I knew that she had gotten over her qualms about getting rid of him. I could barely suppress my purr of approval, and at that moment the fireball that held the woman burned down to ashes and the woman stood in a puddle of asphalt, burned and bruised.
"Who do you think you are? Another Sailor Brat," she snapped.
"We're not brats," a high-pitched voice yelled in indignation and I involuntarily clapped my claws over my sensitive ears. Not another one, I thought as I suppressed a moan of pain. She sounded almost exactly like the blonde that was Lita's friend.
"Good Joutei!" I hissed. "Is she calling dogs?" The girls went into some little speech that I missed as I tried to check if my ears were bleeding and to get rid of the ringing. I watched the fight from the sidelines with Seika nursing my injuries when a familiar sent hit my nose. Forgetting my pain my head shot up and I opened my mouth to get a better whiff. Green apples. Though I was outwardly calm my every sense screamed for me to find my Saiai and get her out of potential danger. My slitted eyes rested on the form of a brunette in green for a split second before moving on. The air rushed out of my lungs in a single great whoosh.
My eyes snapped back to the girl, the vibrant green aura floating around her. Lita. I felt a deep primitive, blindingrage fill me. The green haired woman had threatened my Saiai. Before I could move to rip her throat out Seika engulfed her in black flames and I jerked as I controlled my body's erg to maul the woman. The woman leapt out of the fireball, saying something along the lines of this isn't over and disappeared through a black hole. Seika tapped her staff on the ground in annoyance. I forced myself to a calm state so that I could understand the exchange between her and the girls.
"And who's the cat dude," the girl with the high voice squeaked. I chuckled slightly and gave her a wide grin, showing off my fangs. It was clearly a Big Bad Wolf "The better to eat you with my dear" smile. I could smell her fear; the sharp smoky sent burning my nose.My smiled widened.
"Just call me Tiger," I said.
"Yeah that's original," the girl who had attacked the woman first said sarcastically. My eyes narrowed. Though she gave off a bravado that was commendable, I could smell her nervousness too. Her instincts where telling her that I could be in front of her with my claws in her throat before she could blink and I toyed with the idea of proving those instincts right to teach her a lesson when Seika spoke up.
"Come Tiger, we have no business left here." I nodded my agreement though I inwardly mourned the loss of the opportunity to terrify the girl. Before I turned to follow Seika, my eyes were drawn to Lita's. I knew she wouldn't recognize me and had no intention of informing her of who I was until she could get over her slight fear of this form. She too let off an air of fearlessness but I knew better. I turned and padded away, catching up to Seika's long strides easily. Though I knew that I shouldn't be mad thatmy Saiaiwas keeping a secret from me since I was hiding a fewvery big ones myself, I couldn't help but ask myself if she would have told me as I had intended to eventually tell her.
Written By: Mouko (Angel84508)