Lela: Okay, why are you putting so many of these up right now, Ace?

Ace: 'Cuz, as you remember, I have a lot of the story already written up in a notebook. Up to chapter 6!

Kayla: Yay! There's another review, this time from DutchCherry12! *pushs Greed out the window*

Ace: Um, when Lela mentioned the chloroform, it was for your benefit, not his.

Lela: Once again, thanks for the compliment.

Sonya: And we aren't going to tell you what animals we are because that's part of what this chapter's about! *eyes narrow* I mean, come on, stupid humans.

Lela, Kayla, and Ace: SONYA!

Sonya: Am I not allowed to state an opinion?

Ace: Not unless you do the disclaimer too!

Sonya: Fine! Ace5980 does not own Death Note.

Kayla: YAY! ON WITH THE STORY!

4: Master, Boss, and Companion

Sonya didn't dare chirp, so basically, she was walking behind this Dorochet chimera, who was a good deal more helpful once he'd figured out she was blind. In her opinion, the sewer they were trekking through was a little tiny bit of an overkill, but she was in no position to complain, not when Dorochet's sense of smell was so much more powerful than her own. The only good thing about my predicament, she mused, is that the echoes of our footsteps can paint a vague picture of our surroundings for me.

Kayla sighed with relief when she picked up a familiar scent, the one she was looking for. She purposely trailed it to its eventual end at a door in an inn. She knocked loudly, her panic and worry returning as she stood there. The fear of discovery tended to do that to Kayla. A suit of armor opened the door to a nervously dancing Kayla. "Kayla, what are you doing here?"

"Need to talk to Ed. Where is he?"

"Sleeping."

"Thanks Al!" she yelped, dashing past him, switching to using all four legs in her distraction. Her hat flew off in the hallway area, and she burst into Ed's room, jumping onto his bed and waking him.

"What the hell, Kayla?" he yelled, then he caught sight of her ears poking out of her silver hair.

"Edward," she murmured, cuddling closer to him and burying her head in his hair.

"Are you some kind of puppy chimera or something?" he demanded, trying in vain to push her away from him so that he could breathe properly without feeling her hair tickling his face.

"Wolf actually. Much more dangerous."

"Uh huh," he muttered, totally convinced. "So you don't like being pet and having your ears scratched or your belly rubbed?"

"Actually," Kayla admitted lazily, licking along Edward's neck, "those all do sound pretty nice."

Lela awoke just in time to be unceremoniously dropped onto an unfamiliar black leather couch. She pushed herself shakily to more of a sitting position to see a boy with palm-tree-like hair smirk at her. "Now, you stay right here, little kitten," he purred, "you wouldn't want to get eaten, would you?" He left without giving Lela a chance to replay, the satisfied smirk remaining on his face still.

"Ooh, Lust, look, it's a chimera! May I eat her?" A fat man waddled over to poor Lela, picking her up by the scruff of her neck.

Some lady with curly hair and big boobs looked her over for a moment. "I don't see why not. She doesn't have any claiming marks on her anywhere."

"Actually, Lust, she's mine, and I'd prefer it if Gluttony didn't eat her, as it were." Palm tree boy was back.

"But Envy," the fat guy pouted, "you never labeled her as yours."

"Because I was going to get her collar," Envy added, buckling a black leather cat collar degradingly around Lela's neck. "Now, drop her."

Gluttony complied, letting go of poor Lela like she was acid. As she fell, Lela could read the writing on her tag, Envy's kitten. Wasn't this going to be fun? "Actually," she muttered dryly to herself, "I'm part panther."

Sonya was both glad and disappointed to leave the sewer. She may have hated the smell, but at least she could "see" down in there. Following Dorochet because it was the only option she could currently see, she walked until a hand, not Dorochet's, pushed up on her chin. "Who's this, Dorochet?" a male voice asked, "she certainly is cute."

"My name is Sonya, and in case you haven't noticed, I'm blind and can't see you."

There was a dry chuckle. "My name is Greed, little Sonya, and I bid you welcome to my home, the Devil's Nest, a hideout for well-to-do chimeras such as yourself. Now tell me, what animal are you?"

Sonya cocked her head, finding herself liking this Greed already. "Bat. I'm part bat."

"Why don't you use echo-location to see then?"

"Because it hurts Dorochet's ears when I chirp that high."

"Then, my dear Sonya, you simply must go higher, up out of poor Dorochet's range."

A smile lit up Sonya's face. "Okay then," she murmured, letting out a higher pitched chirp than any she had ever dared to utter before. To her amazement and awe, she could now see everything.

Ace: This chapter is dedicated to my friend, Lust, without whom I would not have decided to find a character she'd hate more than anything else I've ever created and then, Kayla would not be here.

Kayla: THANKS LUST!

Sonya: I will hunt you down and gut you like a fish, Lust...

Lela: NO HUNTING PEOPLE DOWN AND GUTTING THEM LIKE A FISH!

Sonya: Fine then. I guess I'll just offer Ed up as a reward for reviews instead...

Lela: Speaking of your friend Lust, weren't there other people in your FullMetal Alchemist, or what you call FullMetal Sexy B*tch Pirate, character assignments?

Ace: Heck yeah! I can find my friend Gluttony on here, our science teacher is Sloth, and I'm Greed. I WANT MONEY! I WANT WOMEN! I WANT LAND, FAME!

Kayla: Okay then...