"I was beginning to wonder if you would sleep all the way back, child." Shilo, rolling her stiff neck, sighing at the loud pop that followed. Opening her eyes completly, Shilo quickly recalled that she was in a taxi.
Shilo turned to Nuada, who sat beside her. His back was straight, and his posture was flawless. 'Like always!' Shilo thought, inwardly smiling and rolling her eyes. She loved her Master dearly, but he needed to 'get laid.' Or something along that line.
Sigjhing, Shilo sat herself up. "How long was I asleep, Master?" Nuada, having turned his attention forward, simply smiled. "Six hours. Longer than usual." Shilo gaped at him, shaking her head in disbelief.
"Shit! Master! Why didn't you wake me up!" Shilo cursed, earning a chuckle from the taxi driver and a small smile from Nuada. Crossing her arms over her chest, Shilo huffed at her Master. He knew she had a bad habit of cat napping for long periods of time if she wasn't awakened.
The taxi driver, who winked at her as she sent him a glare for laughing at her, turned down a curvy driveway before coming to a complete stop. Shilo her eyes widening, peered out the window. She smiled as she gazed upon a strangely shaped building composed of several cylinder shaped towers surrounded by a stone wall and fence, which kept the driver from going any further.
Feelin giddy and delighted, Shilo, who was in charge of the human money, payed the driver his fee and ten dollars extra, before she exited the taxi, grabbing her green army bag off the cabs floor.
Nuada stepped out the other side, closing the door softer than she had, before the taxi driver waved goodbye, driving away and leaving the two standing infront of a massive gate. Smiling, Shilo made her way over to the gate, pressing a small button below an intercom set into the stone wall.
"Hello? Anybody in? Its Prince Nuada and Shilo Re-" Shilo was interrupted a voice that came from the intercom. "Both of you please look directly into the lens." Shilo sighed, as a sort of camera like lens flipped out of the wall, blinding her with a bright light, before stepping aside for Nuada, who didn't even blink from the light.
Shilo rubbed her green eyes, growling as she watched a picture of her and Nuada appear on a screen under the intercom, before the gates opened. Mumbling and shaking the spots out of her gaze, Shilo, her bag over her shoulders, followed Nuada forward to the large set of doors into the building. Ones she had not walked through in seventeen years.
The doors opened slowly, as Shilo and Nuada made their way in. Shilo smiled as she waved to the far wall of the large room, were a man in a suit stood behind a desk. "Welcome back." The man said with a lazy tone, as Shilo and Nuada stopped on the cleverly desgisued stone tile elevator.
"Watch your elbows and hands" The man said, as the the ground began to move down. Shilo waved goodbye to the man, as she and Nuada were lowered further and further down to the lowest level of the underground facility.
As the elevator came to a stop, Shilo grinned happily, as she found herself staring at a familiar set of huge doors! Shifting the bag up on her shoulders, Shilo pushed open the doors wide, stepping into the all to familiar library.
Shilo dropped her bags into the nearest chair, before giddly walking over to the tank that took up an entire wall of the room. Reaching forward, Shilo placed her hand on the glass, pushing her thoughts forward.
"Abe? Are you there?" Shilo whispered, smiling as she felt a sudden and strange tug of her hand. Shilo's grin widened, as a familiar figure swam towards the glass. "I say?! That cannot be who I think it is!" Shilo laughed, as Abe came to a swiming hault infront of her.
He blinked a few times, as Shilo removed the black cloak she'd been wearing, letting Abe take in her new look.
Besides her height, which was now around 5'9, Shilo's appearance had gone through a shocking change for those that had not seen her in so long. Her once shoulder-length chocolate brown hair was waste length and glossy. Her eyes, which still remained their usual cat like shape, were brighter and sparkeling with less innocents.
Her tail and ears, which, with the help of her Uncle Leonis, she learned to hide with a thought, making her able to pass as a normal human. The whisker marks on her cheeks, which were now longer, she was also able to hide. Among other traits, one right away would notice that her chest size had grown, and she'd curved out and was branded with abs and feminin muscles.
Abe blinked his eyes, as Shilo slowly revealed her chocolate brown ears and tail, smiling as the twitched happily back and forth. "By Einstein! Shilo!? Look at you! You look wonderful my dear!" Shilo laughed happily, as Abe pulled his hand back.
Nuada came up beside her, as Abe swam away from the glass of the tank and up. She smiled as he crawled out of his tank, slipping his breathing mechanism on as he made his way over to Nuada and Shilo, who, not caring if she got wet, pulled Abe into a hug. The fish-man chuckled, as she pulled away, wiping the water of her cheeks from the hug.
"Its so good to see you again, blue! I have much to tell, and show you, about my training!" Shilo said happily, as Nuada and Abe shook hands. Abe pulled his hand back, and nodded. "And we will, Shilo. We will. But shouldnt you go visit the others first?"
Shilo's eyes widened, as she gave a quick nod of her head, before turning to the door. "Are they-" Shilo is cut off by Abe, who nods. "Yes. Red and Liz are in their room." Shilo's smile widened, as she bowed to Nuada, who dismissed her with a small smile of his own.
Shilo, not waiting for a second order, happily made her way completly to the door, before exiting with a happy swish of her tail.