The Hunt

Kitty Costume

“Where the f**k are you going?” 

“To steal from a dragon!” she said rounding the corner and heading out the door on another loud hiccup

“Wait you little i***t!” Yakir said, hurrying to put a tip on the table and sped after her out the door.

    She turned and was not shocked at all to see him in front of her.With a loud hiccup she poked him in the chest before slurring angrily “And another thing you ridiculously rude bastard I am a PRINCESS, not an i***t I am intelligent and I know what I am doing!” Another loud hiccup. “ I can’t believe I have allowed you to talk to me the way you have you, beastly man. I would have torn out your heart if you were anyone else.” she ended that sentence with another loud hiccup and a shove to his broad muscular chest. When he didn’t move she growled in frustration and turned to walk away. He cut her off again. “Get out of my way I have things to steal and you have wasted enough of my damn time.”

He had never seen her mad. It was cute and he got way more pleasure in making her mad than he should have. She was always nice to him when they crossed paths so it was different to see her be angry with him. “Maiio kiire(little i***t), you’re loud and drunk. You can’t steal anything now. You should go to your hotel and sleep all these bad ideas away.”

“I am going to Anilorac.” another hiccup she said walking around the man.

    He caught her by the waist and gently pushed her back in front of him. “Sleep it off.” he said not wanting to push her being that she was reckless when she was sober so he could only imagine how she would be drunk. 

“How dare you put your hands on me!” she said incredulously

She sounded much more like a princess despite the hiccups and slurring. She also was being more of a pain in the ass because of it.  “Where are you staying?”

“Thats none of your damn business.”

    She also became less proper when drunk. She was a regular savage in her own right. He wanted to laugh at her but he knew that would not go well with her. He didn’t want her to freak out in the middle of Surora so he had to find a way to appease her. He didn’t really want to give her any information. 

    He thought he could just stall her this way. Well he was sadly mistaken. A white light covered her body and her eyes went from black and white to yellow and feline. Her wings had disappeared and she now had a tail that was fluffy like a cats tail but it was purple and striped. She also  lost her horns and gained purple cat ears and whiskers. 

“The hell are you supposed to be?”

“Ever heard of a Cheshire Cat?” she said with a smirk and as she said it her entire body disappeared leaving only her eyes and smirk. Then the eyes were gone and the smirk vanished soon after.

Yakir couldn’t sense her at all. He couldn’t smell her. She completely vanished. He growled as he spun around reaching out to see if her physical form was still around. He heard a loud hiccup and could smell her again. He raced off towards it but once he turned the corner the  woman had vanished again. Luckily she hiccuped and he saw her reappear. She couldn’t keep up the form while she was hiccuping and drunk. “Stop being difficult Prihaala. I am over this game of hide and seek.” he called out to her which only earned a scowl from a distance. He was by her side in a second

“If you stop seeking I will gladly stop hiding. Until then.” she said before disappearing in the same fashion as before.

    He smacked his lips and waited for her to reappear again. When she did she was already down the street. It didn’t matter to him either way he could catch up with her in an instant. Yakir did just that and saw the tail turn a corner before he lost her scent again. It was weird being the one chasing after her for once. The hunted became the hunter.

    After a few more pop ups he was able to snag her calculating how far she’d been able to go so far and the direction she was taking. Yakir sped along and as he predicted her hiccups would reveal her right as he reached her. And sure enough she had appeared before him. He didn’t hesitate to wrap his arms around her waist and pulled her to him. He heard her gasp and he tried not to get distracted now that he had a handful of princess. “Shh kiire calm yourself, be a good little princess.” as she squirmed in his arms.

“Release me you son of a b***h. You won’t tell me anything and you are selfish.” furious hiccup. “I have been nothing but nice to you Yakir, yet you treat me like crap just because I want to tame you as you say. You don’t listen to anything I say.”

“I listen.” he said offended even though she was probably right.

“Let me go.” indignant hiccup

“Turn off the kitty costume.”

“It's my beast soul you bastard.”

“Turn it off and we will go to a nice place where you can sleep it off.”

“I don’t want to!” she said, starting to disappear again but then her phone suddenly rang. She somehow got it out of her clutch. “May I take this please.” she said sarcastically. He released her and she released her beast soul and returned to her normal appearance. She looked down at the caller ID and it read “Biggest Bro” on it. She flinched, that was not good, it was nearly 3 a.m. now. She answered.

“Hello?”

“What are you doing getting drunk before you go face a dragon and why the hell are you even hunting a dragon.” came her brother Reese’s sleepily frustrated voice.

Guilty hiccup. “I didn’t plan to get drunk.”

“That sounds like an excuse Zirri. Why would you not rest before going? In my vision your reflexes were slow, something gave you away and you died. Do you understand how much I hate visions of my little sister dying? Eaten by a dragon no less.”

    Zirri squatted down in shame. Reese was her eldest brother and he always looked out for her. He was upset she could tell in his voice. “I was eaten, you say. That is surely not ideal.” she pouted as her anger dissolved and annoyance took over seeing as the annoying beast just told her to rest and here it was her brother calling her to tell her if she doesn’t sleep it off she would die. She used her fingers and drew circles as her brother continued to lecture her about her being reckless once again. 

    He had never seen someone get calm so fast. He could hear the phone call with his sensitive dragon hearing so he knew her brother just told her what he had been telling her all along. He also heard the part where she gets eaten by a dragon. He hadn’t told her anything and the little fool would have died. The brother seems to think it is because she was hungover when she did it instead of the dragon itself overpowering her. Even the brother who had her pouting in a docile ball on the sidewalk had faith she would have survived at her best.

“I’ll sleep it off I swear.”she mumbled out.

“Do you have somewhere to sleep tonight since you won’t be going to Anilorac?”

 “I’ll figure it out.”she indignantly

“Be sure that you do. I do not wish to have anymore nightmares with you in them Rii. Be like Zinno and think things through.” Reese said in a gentler tone than he had been using while chewing her out.

“Yeah yeah, I heard you already. Do me favor.”

“What?”

“Tell me what the dragon who ate me looked like?” she said hopefully trying to get information

“Goodnight.” he said before hanging up

    Zirri flinched. She knew he hated to recall his nightmares. She shouldn’t have asked. She was the worst sister ever. She wanted to cry but then the deep coughing behind her made her still her tears.She glared at him. “What.”

“Are you ready to go to a nice place to sleep it off?”

He was patronizing her when she was down. She opened her mouth to tell him where he could shove that nice place but his next words made her pause.

“Play nice and I will tell you about Itriuz.”