Everyone...meet Bert.

[4letters4ninja]

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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[unrecovered]

Wash had finally gotten well enough to leave the hotel room for more than just a food run - at least he wasn't too stiff to go very far anymore. He'd decided to head to Twilight Town for a change of scenery that was only minimally dangerous - nothing floating around here that he couldn't handle, at least. Melody pranced along next to him and Puddles trotted on his other side, nickering with excitement. They were going out! They were going to have fun!

They'd barely rounded one of the curves in the long, winding street when half the street was suddenly full of...something. Something big and fast and huge and somehow Meow Wow-shaped-

And that was about as far as his thought process got before the giant Meow Wow, which happened to be much faster than it looked, bowled him over. He bounced off the street with a startled and undignified yelp and lay where he landed, groaning. Of course. Of course.

Melody shrieked in fury and stood next to her person, bombs at the ready in case the thing came back for another round. Puddles sprinted after it, neighing at the top of his voice. Hey! Stop! You ran over his person! Don't do that!

Timeskip~

[unrecovered]

Oddly enough, Wash was pretty well accustomed to working off the sheer existential panic that came after a close brush with death - he'd had enough practice to get good at it. What he wasn't used to doing was tracking down other people afterwards and making sure they were okay too. He hadn't had someone to really care about in a while - it meant he'd fallen completely out of practice.

It had taken him hours to find Ziva with Melody and Fang in tow. She hadn't been anywhere he could find in Traverse Town (and he'd even checked the Post Office, of all places); she hadn't been in the tunnels in Twilight town; he'd hoped she wouldn't be on the Mother of Invention. He'd finally found her at the top of the clock tower in Twilight Town - it probably should have been one of the first places he'd checked instead of one of the last. Oh well. "Hey," he started quietly, not quite sure how to go about this.