Not Your Average Night

[areyna]

Go! Go! Go! Go! Run! Kevin frantically willed his limbs to perform a greater speed in escaping the human chasing him. His paws hit the concrete floor ever so lightly while the wind whispered through every hair on his furry cheeks. The human finally skidded to a stop losing the motivation in continuing to pursue him, or as the stranger put it, that forsaken cat. Kevin’s muzzle smiled in pure victory though he ceased to slow maintaining his fast feline pace. Man it had been too long since he ran freely in his true form. The feeling was quite relieving his tails twitching with excitement. What a rush. He always did contain an odd liking to playing tag as he described it. The adrenaline of simply being chased and the longing to escape was addicting!

He departed from the grounds of the compass diving into some dark green bushes. Kevin scurried up the rough flaking bark of a random tree hopping from limb to limb focusing intently on keeping his prize locked firmly in his jaw. He could smell the sweet liquid beyond its tin prison. He could hear the precious bubbles fizz uncontrollably while he bounced from tree to tree. Clearly now he had absolutely no sense in direction what so ever. In all honesty he was just going with the flow of the forest. Yes, the thought of becoming remotely stranded should have worried him but such concern failed to grasp his attention. He could only think about guzzling down that heavenly liquid trapped within his teeth. After a few more strides here and couple leaps there Kevin managed to find an opening to the never ending blanket of leaves.

He popped out of the surrounding vegetation bringing with him a hand full of cling-ons sticking to his fur like a magnet. Ruffling his specked coat to rid of the pesky plant life he lethargically trudged his merry way through the soft grass scanning the horizon for at least a subtle hint to expose his location. Not long till his cat eyes fell upon a churning lake, its waters dazzled by the high full moon above photocopying a rippled version of the rock in the sky. He stared dazed at the sparkling round disoriented disk in the water tapping his paw gently on the cool waters, watching the moons reflection fade away with the wrinkles in the lake.

The cylinder can slipped from his mouth partially startling the distracted cat for he truly forgotten his reasons for arriving here. Momentarily that is. Kevin caged his true form once more wearing the skin of a human, a wide grin present as he anxiously picked up the green can picking open the soda tab accompanied with a pleasant hiss. Kevin brought the Mountain Dew to his nostrils filling them with the sugary caffeine engulfed aroma. Oh just the smell quickened his heart rate releasing an idiotic chuckle from his throat as though he were already in a drunken stupor. When was the last time he had the opportunity to taste the awesomeness of that of soda. Too long ago to remember which fueled his desires even more. Inches, only inches from his lips till he stopped abruptly just as the first drop threatened to fall from the silver rim. He lowered the soda fixated on a sudden sound coming from the darkness. He scanned beyond himself determined to find the origin of the noise. Cautiously, he stood up slowly retreating to his left following the side of the lake. He was beginning to freak out a little. Did someone follow him? How absolutely creepy……

[Anzeh]

She had seen him the moment before he vanished into the brush. In fact, it was mostly due to the soda can that she'd spotted him, the flash of light reflected off of it caught her attention, and she'd managed to get a flash of him before he ceased to exist to her line of vision. She'd been right! After celebrating in silence for a moment, Chaos peeled of he skin and took to the air, following the flashing tin can like an SOS signal. When she saw the lake in sight she dropped down to land amog the brush in a tiny opening between the trees.

Chaos slinked through the trees with her wings, full of holes but still suitable for flight, tight against her back. She hadn't caused so much as a ruffle until she was quite near the lake, when something scampered underfoot and caused her too lose her balance, snapping several twigs in the process, but managing to dart behind a tree before she was spotted by her prey. Her perfect plan had been compromised!

Putting her skin back on she walked through the wall of foilage, breaking a few twigs. She smiled at him through purple eyes, rings of hypnotising red dancing through them, the sign that her will-manipulation powers were already working.

"Where am I?" she asked, pulling twigs and leaves out of her hair.

[areyna]

The snapping of twigs grew louder their cracking piercing the silence of the night. If Kevin remained in the form of the nekomata his pointed ears would be twitching madly from all the noise. At this point he easily pin pointed the source of the noises anticipating who or what will reveal themselves from the mass of trees. His eyes squinted when a girl pursued into the open picking the residue the forest left in her hair. She seemed confused like she was lost turning to Kevin expecting him to answer her question. Kevin examined the lake again and the random girl shrugging.

“Heck, I don’t know. Somewhere near a lake.” He responded swirling the can of Mountain Dew, the green liquid circling the silver tin inside. “Well, while you’re here, why don’t we get acquainted?” He said, almost in a flirty like tone, grinning while taking a sip of the soda. A small tremor ran through his body as the soft drink hit his tongue descending toward his stomach

“Ahhhh. That’s’ good stuff right here.”He held up the can high offering himself to another swig.

He felt the caffeine surge through his body, jumpstarting his heart, creating massive amounts of energy and adrenaline. He missed such a compulsive sensation filling him with such joy and exhilaration. He wiped the excess from his lips with his tongue that ridiculous smile present still. He sauntered closer to the girl bravely placing his arm around her shoulder.

“So new found buddy, who may you be? I’m Kevin or Kevs for short.” He pointed to himself and took another round of caffeine then pointing a finger at her. “You?”

He released her from his strange friendly gesture strolling toward the lake. “Let’s sit by the water. It’s so preeeeetty.” He giggled stupidly. The caffeine took its odd effects quickly, like usual, naturally leaving him in a drunken-ish type of stupor added with overwhelming hyper liveliness that could last for 6 hours straight! A record for him. He beckoned her to approach him. “C’mon, we don’t gots all night.”

And with that another gulp left the can.

[Anzeh]

Chaos nodded slightly and watched the nekomate drink down more of the liquid in the shiny can that had helped her find him in the first place. From where she stood, she could make out the logo on the can as Mountain Dew. Oh, yes, it was a soda can. She was following teenage boy with a soda can. Geez, why'd she alwasys have to get the jobs that were no fun whatsoever?

He sauntered closer to her and draped an arm over her shoulder, asking her name after seemingly putting on his flirt face. God. Times like these she wondered if it were possible for people to be so... annoying. Albeit he hadn't said anything that most would ever find annoying, it was just his entire presence and countenance that annoyed her so very much. It was okay though. It would all be okay. Kevin would be in the room soon enough. Even sooner if everything went her way.

She smiled and said, "Chaos," pronouncing it like Ciao, as that was the way it was supposed to be pronounced, but teachers and students alike said it KAY-os, like it was spelled. That was one easy way to **** her off, and if you were male it usually meant death. She made special attention to enunciate so he got it. "Chaos. Like Italian Hello."

As he walked over to the edge of the lake, she walked over as well, pulling off her shoes and sliding them into the lake. It felt nice. She'd completely forgotten her original plan to not go near the lake, but at the current moment he had no reason to believe that she was a danger to him

"It's nice here." She said.

[areyna]

Kevin began swirling the soda can again absent mindedly for a few moments, dazing. He wasn’t really thinking about anything; actually nothing was running through his mind. He was merely staring. Staring into the open space for no apparent reason at all. Heaving himself from a daydream of pure nothingness he sported that silly grin when the stranger shared her name with him. The second stranger he met with a hilarious name, a name that amused him more than a name should. Spelled “Chaos” but pronounced “Ciao”? He giggled.

“So if you went to Italy and someone greeted you, they would say Ciao, Ciao?” he threw himself into another laughing fit, repeating while waving to Chaos as she entered the shore of the lake. “Ciao, Ciao! Hahahaha!”

He stood there cracking up due to the sudden giddiness and hyper boost. Everything, everything seemed funny to him. One of the very characterizes driving most people off the edge once they experienced a taste of Kevin. Quickly they spat him out, disgust clear on their faces. He wondered if he was annoying her, his new found buddy. Probably was, the chances were high. He was used to such fate that in a way it became a added routine feeling when he acquaints someone for the first time. In the words of Sophie, Kevin is an acquired taste, when someone likes him they just do even though others fail to agree or see a logical reason behind it. Kevin knew this, he knew it well yet why would he let the opinions of others change him? Now that was simply stupid.

He sucked the remaining gulps from the soda can dry putting on a pitiful frown when the liquid ceased to fall. Turning to Chaos, he raised the can in front her.

“All gone……” he whimpered.

Coming up short for a decent place to rid of the trash, for the time being, he dropped the cylinder and it landed quietly in the grass. His body jolted again, another twitch, and he smiled then protruded his lips in an inquisitive facial gesture. Another twitch. The caffeine effects were raging faster than he expected. Awesome! The sooner the better! At this rate the twitcheds proceeded every 5 seconds and his animal self control began to slowly diminish. He eyed Chaos up and down, trotted cautiously to her, learned forward where his face was millimeters from hers and whiffed in her scent. Just like that. Retreating he revealed a mischievous smirk.

“You smell good.” He admitted. Not human like which was the motive for his test, to find out.

Good. He shook his head widely exposing two cat ears poking out of his long, pulled back dirty blonde hair and a tail swished behind him. His pupils stretched into diamond slits, those stormy blue eyes shifted into a golden grey tone.

“Peek a’ boo, I’m a kitty.” He said tilting his head to the side. “Did I say u smelled good? Cuz I think you do, I wasn't lyiiiiiiiiiiing”

He waded his feet in the lakes water chuckling like the little five year old boy he was at heart.