revenance_rpg | Everyone...meet Bert.

WHO: Ziva and whoever ends up running into her...and Bert.
WHERE: Near the Sandlot in Twilight Town... You know, big open areas.
WHAT: Ziva has a Meowjesty...named after Abby's hippo.
WHEN: Twilight? (A few days after the MoI adventure)
Warnings: Ziva, a Meowjesty, and her other spirits. There's probably going to be trouble.

Going to talk to Steve, Ziva had been able to put together the pieces from one of her winnings from the party. She'd been...surprised...to say the least when she found out exactly what a Meowjesty was. And it didn't help that Fluffy started doing his version of snickering when the new spirit appeared. Ziva just sighed, shook her head, and took her newest spirit (who she had named Bert) out of Traverse Town and over to the Sandlot, where there would be more room to figure out what it could do.

The three of them had been taking out some of the Nightmares in the area...and that was mostly Bert, as Fluffy and Ziva watched from a safe distance. (Neither of them wanted to get in his way, really.) It didn't take long for most of them to disappear, and she clapped, watching as the giant spirit ran back to where they were standing, before licking her like a dog would. And Fluffy just laughed again, causing Bert to try to lick him too.

"Taste of your own medicine, brat." She said, laughing as Fluffy tried to shake off the remnants of Bert's friendly 'attack', then fly off towards the other end. Bert seemed to pause, looking towards Fluffy, then back at her a couple of times. "What? He wants to play tag. Go!" He didn't move, except to motion towards her, a bench, and his back. Then she understood. "You want me to climb up then?" She used the bench as a boost before climbing up on the spirit's back.... And then he took off at full speed, causing her to almost fall before she managed to grab hold of enough fur to keep from ending up on the ground again.

The chase was on, it seems.

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Suddenly, the giant weight pressing him to the floor was gone, and Wash was free to move again. It took a moment for the fact that he hadn't died to sink in, and then he had his feet under him almost before he knew it, stumbling backwards and scrambling to get away from the giant Meow Wows that seemed to have it in for him. He wasn't ignoring Ziva's offer for help so much as he didn't see it at all. "You think?" he gasped. "That should've been the first fucking thing you taught it!" He was torn between his desire to calm down and his desire to give into panic and flee the scene before one of the bouncy bulldozers decided to try to kill him again.

Puddles calmed down when his person got to his feet and sidled up to his person's side, pressing his head against his person's shoulder. You're okay! Yes yes good good good! Melody would not be mollified nearly so easily; still hissing and snarling at the Meowjesties - even the one who had turned the corner - she backed up to her person, fully intent on protecting him from anything like this ever happening ever again.

It was fortunate that Yuffie had decided - for whatever reason - to sit on Wash and not Ziva, given that his armor was able to stand up to it. Ienzo eyed Wash for a moment; if he didn't go into a panic attack soon it would be surprising. "I truly am sorry, Washington; I had no idea that she would even think of it."

He headed towards Wash, leaving Yuffie with Lea. He kept a wary eye on Melody; he was significantly less bomb-resistant than his Meowjesty. Ienzo held his hands out palm up. "You're safe from them now." He would have said that Wash was safe now but there really wasn't any such thing as being unequivocally safe and he was fairly sure that both Ziva and Wash agreed with him on that point.

"I am sorry about all this..." Ziva watched as Wash scrambled up and backwards, pulling her hand back to stick it in her pocket. She'd started this entire mess, it was Bert that had run over him in the first place. Watching as Puddles and Melody moved closer, she backed up a bit more, glancing over to where Bert was hiding.

Sure, he would be good in a fight, but she had to figure out his limits first. A head tilt in his direction, Fluffy got the hint and flew towards him... she wasn't going to let him get any closer to Melody right now.

"Well, you should be safe from Bert, at least." He wasn't going to go near Melody unless necessary anymore. "I think I should be going now... Keep him away from Melody for now." A wave before she turned to head towards where her spirits were currently hiding.

"Right." It came out as a snarl. Wash had no illusions about his safety when he was in close proximity to a pair of Spirits that outclassed him many times over in terms of size, were untrained, and had each nearly killed him, both within the span of five minutes.

Some small part of him knew that he should reassure Ziva - it wasn't her fault her brand new Meowjesty was wild - but that part of him was very quickly drowned out by the parts that were trying their hardest not to collapse into panic. He needed a place to deal with things himself before he even tried to talk to anyone else. "I'm-" The sentence cut itself off, and he had to take another breath in order to finish. "I'm done." That accomplished, he turned and walked off, intent on finding a place where he could deal with this before having to talk with anyone else. He'd likely have bridges to repair after this, but that was a problem for later, when he might actually be able to think straight.

Everyone...meet Bert.

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