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 Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:43 am
It was a lazy day around the base. Thought it wasn't quite summer yet, the city had been having scattered hot and humid days. Days that weren't fun for the humans outside, and were perhaps even more unpleasant for the fur-covered strays. Gang members were still coming and going, doing their duties, but most had decided to stay in the shade of the old building they called home. Cloud was no different.
He loved bad weather, it was a reasonable excuse for him to sit around and be lazy all day. On a large pile of patted-down old newspapers on the lower floor of the building, the leader was sprawled out, laying on his back with his feet sticking up. He wasn't alone of course. Surrounding him were 5 or so female cats, purring constantly and occasionally turning to Cloud to groom him quickly or just to give him some cuddles.
Cloud did like the cuddles.  Radio, on the other hand, usually did not get so much attention from the ladies. While Cloud was relaxing and being pampered, the large striped rat was scurrying about the garbage and litter of the room. Every few steps he would pick up a piece of something, sniff it, and then toss it back down on to the ground. While his buddy Cloud had tasty food delivered to him, Radio usually had to fend for himself. It wasn't hard for him to find food here, and he was glad to have the protection of the cats, he was. But on days like today, he would rather be laying around and being lazy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:55 am
Solus wasn't one to lay around all day. He decided to see how long he could stand on just his front legs before he fell over. His tongue stuck out as he concentrated on balancing. He tried to straighten his body as much as possible. "I got it!" As soon as he said that he flopped over onto his back only to see Chet staring him in the face. "It was all your fault I fell Chet! Your distracting me."
Chet just gave him an annoyed look. "But I was just standing here the whole time. Maybe if you weren't so fat you could do it." Chet yawned and flopped over onto his side. "Why can't you just relax like Cloud is."
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:11 am
Zeek, unlike the other two, had actually been out and about. Zeek was a cat that enjoyed action quite a bit, and he'd heard yesterday from an.. ah, informant, that a certain restaurant had been expecting a shipment of fish today. Of course, the gang co-leader had decided, why not have a little raid? He'd taken a few cats with him, but was returning alone, aside from his mouse companion.
Oh, and a big ol' bag of fish. "Honey, I'm hoome! " He called, bursting unceremoniously through one of the many broken windows of the abandoned house. He smiled like an idiot, despite the rather pathetic state of his fur. He was all wet, from diving through ice chippings and he'd actually gotten a bucket of water thrown at him. There were also some pieces of fish attached to his fur, though most had been shaken off on his was home.
Zeek smirked, clawing the bag open then dumping it on the floor and trotting happily over towards Cloud, and, consequently, the women surrounding him. after all, someone had to clean him up. "Nice raid today, " He commented, flopping on the floor near Cloud, purring slightly as a female busied herself with a piece of fish tucked behind his ears.
Elena, the mouse, more commonly known as 'Blue', wasn't quite as happy. He grumbled, shaking out his short fur after jumping off Cloud and scurrying as far away from them as possible. Ugh, fish smelled so bad. He snorted, huddling up in his grumpy corner to get his fur clean.
Dumb Zeek, could have left him out of the raid this time! He could have.. stayed home, and hit on that pretty lady-mouse that Radio hopefully hadn't gotten to yet..
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:33 am
At first, Cloud's only reply to Zeek's entrance was a frustrated grumble as some of the females began to pay more attention to the manx than to him. He stood up made his way over to the fish, some of which were scattered about on the concrete floor around the bag.
"Solus," he said loudly, "come have some lunch." He then motioned to the bag of fish with his paw. "And, Chet..." oh yes, Chet, the little squirrel with the snarky comments. Cloud didn't always enjoy his company. "Go play with Radio and Blue, will you?" his tone was very taunting, but hey, a gang leader can't always be nice to everyone.
Gnawing on one of the larger fishes from the bag, Cloud adressed Zeek with a mouth half-full of food. "Where's the little crew you took with you earlier, eh? They decided to stay out, or...?" he wasn't too curious about how Zeek obtained the fish, as he knew that he pulled off stunts like these often. Crazy, crazy Zeek.
Radio scurried happily over to Blue, though upon reaching him, wore a more disguisted expression. "You smell terribly of fish... " he mumbled. "Zeek take you out on another 'adventure'?" Without waiting for a reply, he changed the topic. "That female... have you seen her around? You know, the new one... the one assigned to Zeek's little brat. A real 'beaut, ain't she?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:44 am
Solus instantly got up after hearing Cloud. "FOOD!" he lept at one of the fish on the floor and started tearing it apart, you couldn't really tell if he was eating it or not. He stopped for a moment and looked at Zeek, there was fish remnants all over his face. "Thanks Zeek!" He grinned a big fishy smile and started back on the fish.
Chet didn't like talking with most of the others. But he reluctantly went over to where Radio was and flopped down onto his belly and decided to just sleep until Solus woke him up for some ridiculous reason.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:58 am
Zeek, though he did quietly take notice of Cloud's grumpyness over stealing attention, was pretty distracted, rolling onto his back like a normal lazy cat. He wasn't really hungry right now, he'd eaten enough fish for today. "No problem, Solus. " He said cooly, eyes closed, then blinking one open at Cloud's question.
"Mmm? Those guys? " He yawned. "Oh, yeah, animal control got them. " He closed his eye again, lazily, as most cats in the room gasped in shock. ".. I was kidding, they're fine. They just went to eat their fish in some alley. " Zeek rolled his eyes.
"So, any idea where my spawn has ran off to today? "
"Evidently, " Blue replied dryly, fussing over his fur a bit more then glancing at Radio. "If I would, I wouldn't tell you. " Else Radio would just whisk her off, like all the other lady-mice that'd came around here. "But I'll agree with you on that, quite a pretty little thing! " Well, at least Spawn's mouse, Zorro, didn't seem the type to get swept off her feet or anything. Both good and bad for him. Radio would need to work harder on that one, but.. so would Blue.
"Hello, Chet! " He acknowledged the squirrel loudly, though he didn't quite enjoy talking to him, Blue quietly took pleasure in pestering his peers, even the unpleasant ones.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:17 am
The animal control joke gained no response from Cloud. He knew that if members had really been taken away by animal control, Zeek would have been at least a little more concerened when talking about it...
Ah, Spawn. Zeek's son, or atleast, that's what he had told everybody. It was no surprise; a lot of the gang had at least one 'offspring' running around somewhere.
"I'm not sure where he is, he ran off earlier with that little rat of his. You'd better hope he's not someplace trying to pull off stunts like yours, Zeek." Cloud said with a short laugh. "What's he do, anyway? From what I've seen, he dosn't really do much for the gang..." he mumbled. "Stupid kids."
Cloud turned to Solus, a small grin spread across his face. "So, Solus..." while talking, he tried his best to ignore the fact that Solus was tearing up a fish like some kind of angry kitten... "Do you have any kids that you know of?"
Personally, Cloud has lost count of his kids. But with Solus'... personality, Cloud usually assumed that females wanted nothing to do with his friend.
Radio probably did too. He frowned as Blue spoke of the female, and he knew for this one, there'd be a lit of competition. For the moment, he ignored Chet and Blue, and went back to his little foraging mission in the piles of scraps on the floor, mumbling quietly to himself about why he deserved females more than Blue.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:26 am
Solus looked up from the mutilated fish and looked at Cloud. "None that I know of. But you never know what can happen when your asleep." He looked around slowly and turned back to Cloud. "Did you see a black cat over in that corner?" He turned to look at an empty corner and then around the room again. "I think there's a group of them following me." He leaned over and whispered to Cloud. "They want the cardboard box I sleep in." He ten turns back to the corner. "BUT I WON'T LET YOU HAVE IT! IT'S MY BOX!"
Chet looked up at Blue. "Hi." He then turned his attention to Solus having one of his moments and sighed. "He has so many problems." He put his head back down and closed his eyes.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:37 am
"Hmph. " He paused, pondering over where Spawn might have run off to... Hmm, hadn't there been other kittens in that litter? Where were those other two... He was about to comment on that when Solus spoke up, and Zeek quirked a brow, then laughed lightly.
"Solus, you worry me sometimes, really. " The blue cat said, waving off a few of his ladies, now that they were just about done cleaning his fur up and trotting over to sit next to Cloud, prodding at a fish, though he didn't actually intend to eat it. Nope, no one had ever told Zeek not to play with his food.
Speaking of playing with food.. "Hey, Cloud, thinkfast! " Zeek uttered quickly, before flinging the fish he'd been toying with towards Cloud's face. Food fight time!
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:43 am
"Oh it's alright Solus..." said Cloud, trying his best to keep a straight face. "I won't let them take your box. I will assign the gang's best guards to ensure the safety of it."
And before he could even say another word, a fish smacked him in the face with enough force to nearly knock him over. "Gah!" he yelled, giving Zeek a dirty glare. He was going to get it, now. Laughing first, Cloud grabbed Solus's mutilated, nasty looking fish in his jaws and whipped it as hard as he could at Zeek.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:50 am
Solus smiled when Cloud told him about the guards and almost laughed when the fish hit Cloud but his face quickly changed to an expression of pure horror as Cloud picked up his fish he didn't have enough time to stop him before he threw it at Zeek. "Noooooooo! I named him Larry! He was full of squishy goodness!"
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 9:59 am
Zeek was incapable of holding back laughter at Cloud's reaction, but forced himself to calm down, after all, he expected Cloud to want revenge. He ducked under the mutilated fish, whiskers twitching in amusement as he reached for another to fling it at Cloud. "Why, Cloud, you didn't even ask Solus before you took his fish! How impolite of you! " He smirked, scurrying towards the black and red cat and standing at his side, but his shoulders were tense and eyes focused on Cloud in case of another attack.
"Cloud, I think you should apologize to Solus for taking Larry away. "
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:28 am
Cloud sighed, grabbing one of the smaller fishes from the bunch and setting it down in front of his crazy friend. "Solus, I am sorry I took Larry away... this fish, he is just for you, and his name is Leroy." Ignoring Zeek, he decided he should have some fun with Solus instead. "And you know, Leroy told me... that he would very much like to be throw at Chet and Blue. He wishes to announce his deep compassion for them, but he can only do that while flying through the air."
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:44 am
Solus calmed down and looked at the fish. "I understand." He put on a serious face and whipped the fish at Chet and Blue. He had some tears in his eyes as he watched the fish fly at Chet and Blue. "I hope he fulfills his wish."
Chet heard everything and had already predicted Solus would throw the fish. He took off as soon as Solus picked up the fish. He stopped a few feet away and turned to see how the others had fared against Leroy.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:41 am
"Oh, brave Leroy. " Zeek said solemnly, turning to salute the fish as it flew towards his and Solus' familiars. Inside, however, he was grinning like an idiot, because he knew this would be good.
Blue blinked as Chet suddenly dashed away, looking around in surprise and then he saw.. a fish flying at him. He squeaked in surprise, ducking. The fish didn't so much his him in the face as fall on top of him. What. The. Hell. "What was that for?! " The rat squealed loudly in annoyance, and for such a tiny thing, in comparison to all the cats, its clear he didn't have issues making himself heard. He continued his mad, annoyed squeaking while pushing the fish away to free himself. Curse you, Leroy!
"I had just gotten the fish smell off of me! "
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