WILD MEW APPEARED! || Open
Characters: Pip Bernadette + Mew [coyotealpha] & OPEN to all in Colvus (Yes, this includes all of you Winding Way peeps 8D)
Content: Pip brings Mew (somewhat against his will) out into the city. A guy with a floating pink feline hovering around him? You know that gets attention real quick.
Setting: Around and about the fine city of Colvus.
Time: A bit after ( Read more... )
Content: Pip brings Mew (somewhat against his will) out into the city. A guy with a floating pink feline hovering around him? You know that gets attention real quick.
Setting: Around and about the fine city of Colvus.
Time: A bit after ( Read more... )
He caught sight of a familiar-looking redhead as he made his way to the docks. After a few moments of memory-sifting, he was finally able to recognize that the man was definitely from the 4423, although Gorobei had only seen him around a few times. He believed the man's name was Kip, or something like that, though he wasn't really sure, so he just called out, "Hey, friend!"
That's when he noticed the giant cat-looking creature floating around the man. There were two things Gorobei hated most in the world: magic and cats. It seemed that the two of them had combined to create some horrible creature straight out of one of Gorobei's most horrifying dreams. The thing seemed completely harmless, but he was sure that that's exactly what it wanted you to think!
Gorobei stopped dead in his tracks and his face fell. His body froze on him, and he stood there, immobilized, in the middle of the street, staring at a strange thing.
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He was about to ask how the boatswain was doing when then he noticed the man staring at the feline beside him. Pip turned to it, who only looked at Pip with its huge blue eyes and giggled once more, twirling around once and started to drift towards the other man. "Ah, don't 'ind the lil' tyke," Pip remarked at the sight of Gorobei's expression. "Its a, uh... pretty 'ong zory 'ow it ended up here vith us." A story that he wouldn't forget for a long time now, that's for sure.
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"Long story, huh? How much did I miss?" Kambei had said something about being away from the mainland, but Gorobei had really been to interested in the details, other than knowing when the ship would get back.
"It's been a long time, friend." He hated not remembering this man's name, no matter how few times they'd seen each other. Anyone else would remember. "Where were you headed? I was going to make it back to the ship, but you wouldn't mind if I joined you, would you?" It made him a little nervous to leave one of his crew mates with a floating cat, so he opted to join the man.
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"Veen 'ometime since I vast vaw you as vell," the mercenary responded with a grin while scratching the side of his head and trying not to move his hat too much in the process, though that seemed unlikely. Mew floated back up once the hat moved too much and whirled around Pip's head again, chirping. The brunette only sighed and gently patted the cat on the forehead to an appreciative sound of 'mew~'. "An' to ansver your question, why don't ve go somevhere for a drink n' snack? I'm famvished after that long trip."
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The cat continued to stare and giggle, which were both just plain creepy, for lack of a better term. It gave the cat human qualities that unnerved Gorobei to no end. Gorobei sent the cat a nervous glance before reacting to Pip's statement. "The thing we're looking for? Since when have we been looking for a thing?" Well, he felt out of the loop, even more so than he normally did.
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Mew only twirled in a circle and giggled again before settling on top of his hat again. It was a bit hard to move his head with the cat there, but Pip managed somehow as he sighed again and explained briefly. "Vell, afvter you left we vent somevehere" he started, choosing not to reveal where they were just yet. It would be bad if this information was on the wrong hands after all. "Zere the cap'n got a job to do vich vas to get cargo 'rom a ship'reck."
And that point the mercenary point/gestured vaguely to the feline on top on his hat. "And the cap'n said itz a high 'ance zat its zis lil' thing since ve 'ound it ina box o' chains."
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They had to box away that cat to keep it out of trouble.
He was now sure that its intentions were far more sinister than it let on. If worse came to worse, he'd have to use Heihachi as a human shield to block the magic that it would no doubt send at him one day. It was amazing that Pip was so relaxed around this thing. So, Gorobei, not wanting to look out of place, feigned a relaxed posture as well, and probably failed.
"It's not far from here. It's just a pub that serves the kind of food you'd find at a pub, but it's good, I promise." He did his best to grin enthusiastically. He was having a hard time thinking of a way of leading the other two while still keeping his eyes on Mew. The best he could come up with was, "Down a block and to your left," and pointing and the general direction. Normally, he was bad with directions, but in Colvus, he knew his way around.
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He nodded at Gorobei's direction. "Right zen," he replied as he started on his way down the path that the boatswain pointed out, Mew still bouncing happily on the top of his hat with little regard for its own safety. Pip was pretty sure it could just fly off anyway if it wanted to. Mew looked around the town as he walked, eyes gazing at everything with a childlike curiosity - as if it hadn't seen Reial before. Which could be true, given how the thing had been found in a box. It probably hadn't even seen the sun in ages.
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The place was rather packed, which was a bit odd considering it wasn't that late in the day, so Gorobei grabbed a seat at the bar instead of bothering with trying to find a table. "So, why is it that the thing follows you around? Do you attract cats, or just magical pink things?" The bartender was there, and Gorobei quickly ordered some food and a tall glass of ale. He was going to need it if he was getting through the day with those giant blue eyes staring at him.
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Once he had ordered his own things as well (salad with rum; Pip was having a desire to eat something green today), he looked at the feline when Gorobei asked him that question, Mew looking back with its big sapphire eyes curiously. "I 'unno m'self, t'be honvest," Pip replied with a casual shrug, "But itz not zo 'ad, anyvay. I'm zure ze lil' tyke von't 'ause much trouble." And as if in agreement, the feline swirled around them both around the heads before settling on Pip's shoulder, chirping a happy-sounding 'Mew!' as the man laughed lightly and lightly patted the cat on the head again. "See?"
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It pained him to take his eyes off of Mew. The damn cat liked to giggle and float around, and Gorobei wasn’t sure how that was supposed to settle his nerves. The cat thing was obviously up to something, and no amount of reassurance from the man he still couldn’t remember the name of wasn’t going to help that. “Of course it’s not so bad. It’s just a floating…” Gorobei trailed off, beginning to feel those giant blue eyes on him once again. Luckily, his inability to articulate, a rarity that is almost unheard of, was covered up by the bartender returning with his drink.
“Ahaha! Any time is a good time for a drink, yeah?” He took a large swig of his mug before looking back to Pip. “That thing, uh, doesn’t drink alcohol or eat-“ feed off my fears “- human food, does it?”
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Still, it was kinda odd for Gorobei to be so stuff. Why was the man this tense anyway? Sure, the feline was kind of odd to be certain but even Freya hadn't been so tense with it - and Freya was a rat. So why the tension from the boatswain? Did he fear cats or something? Well, it wasn;t in his place to pry anyway, so Pip didn't make a comment.
"Vell..." he glanced at the feline who had just helped itself to a lettuce leaf from his salad. "I suppose it 'ats lettuce, at 'east. Not too sure 'bout the alochol 'ough." He was pretty sure the feline wouldn't be able to handle all that alcohol anyway,
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When the glass of alcohol crushed into tiny pieces in Gorobei's hand, he knew it was about time to start getting control of his emotions. Unfortunately, that thought was quickly passed by for how nice the blood on his hand was looking to him at that exact moment.
Spinning his hand around a bit and prodding some of the glass still in the skin, Gorobei's face began to twist into a horrible smirk. With one glance back at Mew, his hand was on the hilt of his sword, popping it out of its sheath. "Kitty, kitty," Gorobei muttered, standing to his feet slowly. His eyes were beginning to dart around the room, but his attention remained on the cat. His laugh was loud, but lacking the normal jovial quality that it was normally noted for.
With one swift motion, the sword slipped into the air, and he made a lunge for the cat floating in front of him.
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Mew gave a frightened cry as it curled up into a ball mid-air, a pink bubble of protection - the same bubble that had protected Pip and the rest when they were in that shipwreck appeared around it and protected its creator inside as the blade struck with a loud clang. The mercenary twirled the gambit knife in hand and raised it to deflect the second the blow that came soon afterward.
"Merde, 'orobei!" the man swore, slipping to his family's tongue for a second as he struggled against the berserk samurai. "Vat th' 'ell iz 'rong 'ith you?" As he spoke, Mew only contiuned to tremble inside its barrier, clearly frightened at the violence that the samurai had shown towards it.
The commotion was also starting to attract the people in the bar.
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This time, his smile was a bit lighter and his laugh a tad more childish. He was by no means back to his normal self, but at least he seemed out to have some fun with Pip, rather than slaying him. "You're pretty good!" The other patrons of the pub didn't seem to think so.
"Get the hell out of here!" the bartender yelled, although where he had found the brass to yell at a crazy man with a blade was lost on the rest of the customers.
After a moment of pouting, Gorobei's smile was back and he was urging Pip to go outside. "Come on! I bet you can't beat me!" With a quick yelp, he slipped past Pip, hitting his blade against Mew's barrier as he went out the door. The fresh air seemed to calm him a bit, but he was still ready to fight. It had been a long time since someone blocked his sword. It had been a long time since he had fought, also, but his mind was to focused on having competition to note this.
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Needless to say, the mercenary knew he was pretty much dead meat. But if this was what could prevent the man from outright slaying him and the feline... well. It wasn't as if he had any choice in the matter. Pip sent an apologetic glance and bow to the bartender first before he followed Gorobei out of the joint, nervously fiddling with the cloth that covered the handle of the knife. He twirled it again, once, twice and then three times before grabbing it reverse.
Mew had finally managed to stop trembling, but kept its distance from Gorobei and closer to Pip as it hovered behind him, a scared whimper coming from it. The mercenary turned to the cat and muttered a 'Zorry', before gently pushing the ball it was in to the side, giving it a smile before he turned back to Gorobei and held up his dagger. "'eady ven you are zen, Gor'bei."
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