Elsa wrote:

Pets

Michiru: Sit. Roll Over. That's nice. You're a good little bitch, Haruka.

Oh, not that kind of pet? Sorry. ^_^

Tomoe Hotaru looked around her.

And she bowed her head in defeat.

She just couldn't pick one. All of them seemed to be
so... so...

Pokemons. They are irresistible.

The puppies were cute and she'd have picked them a few
years ago if faced with the choice but now they just felt
wrong. The cats, too. The fishes, the birds, everyone of
them seemed to be...wrong for her. It was an instinctive
feeling, as if a part of her disliked all the pets in the
store.

My. How grim.

"Setsuna-mama, have you ever had a pet?"

Pluto: I like to think of all the senshi as my little pets.

"Setsuna-mama, you're being enigmatic and mysterious
again."

Pluto: When you have talent, you should flaunt it.

Setsuna just chuckled at the look on Hotaru's face

as the younger girl pouted.

"Don't worry. I'll call Keroberos now."

Sigh.

Well, that was Hotaru's initial impression. Hotaru
blinked and looked at it again. It did faintly look like a
dog, rather like a greyhound or a German Shepherd, but this
was no dog. Muscled hide the shade of black hinted at a more
reptilian nature. The head of the creature was obviously
saurian, something Hotaru remembered from her father's
lectures about biology and evolution. It was also the size
of a lion. Plus, it's eyes glowed an eldritch green. This
was definitely not a dog.

Hmm. Different from the one I'm familiar with. :)

"You, my dear, have been hanging around that Ukiya
girl for far too long." Setsuna said with a smile, as she
affectionately played with the Hound's head. "They come from
a pre-historic era, before any human ever walked the Earth.
Kero-chan here is usually covered in a bluish goo because of
that,

Great. And you thought dog slobber was bad. :)

"They are my servants, Hotaru-chan. Attuned to my
energies, the Hounds are like myself and yet not. The best
comparison would be a goddess and her worshipper. I can't
exactly give them away."

Sure she can. Gods sacrifice their followers all the time. :)

"Pets is more like it. You'll probably have an entire
species serving you. Do you want to?"

She'll probably get something and cuddly to serve her. Something along the
lines of head lice.

Multifaceted red eyes, vaguely insect-like in their
construction, regarded her over mouthful of steel pencils
set in a skull-like head. Black chitinous skin gave it a
body like that Alien thing she saw in that gaijin movie.
Its hands and feet were roughly identical. Prehensile
fingers and toes, seven digits per hand and foot. Five
"fingers", if you called claws that seemed to be over a foot
long as fingers, and two opposable "thumbs". Hotaru noted
that they were constructed in such a way that they were all
perfect for clinging to branches and other similar objects.

My, what a wonderful thing to bring to show and tell.

Two long antennae sweeped back over the head, faintly
twitching. It had a huge wasp-like thorax that seemed to
glow faintly in the moonlight. All in all, a rather
impressive sight.

"Er... my pet is a insect

an insect

Hotaru blinked, shaking away the feelings she got.
"Hey, he can talk!"

"A parcel of your power does wonders plus the link
that you have managed to establish with him. Look at him and
notice the difference. Though I have to question the choice
of name."

Hotaru: It will fool people into thinking he's harmless.

Hotaru glanced from her guardian to Bob. The black
chitin was now much more... polished, giving him a
healthier sheen. Red eyes peered at her with more
intelligence and there was a healthy light dancing behind
those eyes.

"He will be the first. He will spread your power among
others of his kind until all serve you."

Hotaru nodded blankly as she suddenly felt a hollow
emptiness in her stomach. For some strange reason, she could
tell tyhe feeling was comngt

the... coming

"He will take care of himself. He does stay nearby.
There's a nest of byakhee near Mt. Fuji and he will probably
stay there."

"A nest here?"

"Where do you think all those stories about Tengu came
from?"

Hotaru: Myths?

Pluto: Yep. And I'm making that up too.

"And by the way,  Hotaru."

"Yes, Setsuna-mama?"

"You cannot bring Bob to school for show-and-tell."

Called it. :)

By the time Crystal Tokyo comes on the stage, each Senshi
should have an appropriate servitor race. Hehehe. Bob the
Byakhee will probably be a regular member of the cast, once
I figure on moving beyond the Dance vignettes into the
Dance chapters.

That would be something to see.

Nice work. Hope to see more.

D.B. Sommer



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