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 Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 7:36 pm
Caitlyn Masters was usually not a very outdoorsy person, all in all, but she was becoming fond of wandering Destiny City's park during the day. Not at night - she had heard too many rumors of weird incidents to want to go there after dark - but when it was bright and sunny, clearly there was no harm to be done.
She'd found herself a seat on a bench with few people around her, and was sitting back and enjoying the afternoon. It was really shaping up to be one fo those nice, quiet days.
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 8:53 pm
It was not a nice day. Not a nice day at all. Derpraline had lost her hat. Never mind that she had about three dozen others crammed into the subspace pocket along with a couple dozen pieces of macaroni art, some henshin pens for senshi she hadn't yet discovered but were sure existed, and a week old waffle or five. Okay sure so she had that one hat that she was never going to lose but...that wasn't the right hat for the park!
The right hat for the park had blown away like a sailboat on the water, something that even a curious, exploratory little kitten like Derp could not reconcile with a good time. Water was bad. Water was very bad and Parker could give her all the baths in the whole whole universe and it would not be good. So doing the thing that she thought was natural the little fluff was bouncing through the park in a manner that any fans of Pinkie Pie might recognize instantly...until she tripped.
Tripped and somehow performed a backflip midair that had one of those mysterious henshin pens dropping right into the lap of Miss Caitlyn Masters. Whoops.
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:04 pm
Cait had noticed the cat with the rather Pinkie Pie-like gait and she had simply not been able to look away. It was probably the most adorable thing she had seen in a very long time. Except then she tripped, which was clearly not good at all.
She was halfway out of her seat to make sure the poor thing was okay when something landed in her lap. She glanced down, and picked it up. At first glance, it looked to be...well, a pen - except as soon as she held it, it seemed to change, its colors becoming a dark red-violet and gold and a symbol rather like some kind of fruit appearing at the top.
"...What." She stared at it, cat temporarily forgotten, because how often did a weird color-change magic pen land in her lap? Never, that's how often.
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 7:31 am
"OHHHH~~!!" It was an exclamation of wonder from the little cat, slightly off-center eyes wide with wonder and joy as she stared at the transformed, personalized pen that was now resting in the verdant-haired young woman's lap. Without even thinking she clambered right up into Cait's lap, smashing her forehead against the thing as if they were going to meld into one being before she squealed with delight. "SEPHONIEEEE~" Yes that was utterly helpful! Totally!
Tugging at her sleeve with tiny teeth Derpraline tried to get the girl to raise it up into the air, transforming in public, in broad daylight, in the middle of the most dangerous part of town. That made perfect sense right? "Cmoooon Sephonie~ Derp found you. Good Derp." Now she was just butting her head against Caitlyn's elbow, demanding her head be patted. She wasn't wearing a hat, the least they could do would be to scratch her ears!
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Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2012 8:19 am
Cait was, at first, too busy staring at the pen and trying to make it fit into the fabric of reality, damn it to notice a cat staring at her in awe. It was really probably to Derp's benefit, insofar as catching the girl's attention went, to climb up into her lap and demand it with delighted squeals and attempts at mindmelds with Cait's new, magical, colorchange pen.
"...Well hello kitty, what are you doing." Cait tugged back on her sleeve, laughing.
Except then the cat talked.
And appeared to...address....her? As...Sephonie?
"...Are you...talking? To me? Because my name's Cait, not...Sephonie..." Sure, talk back to the talking cat. That was a logical reaction. That, and Cait did give in to the insistence to pet the kitty. There was simply no not petting a cat that cute. Talking or not!
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:13 pm
Being that she was who she was, Derpraline was barely listening to a word 'Sephonie' was saying at that moment. She was instead purring so hard that her tiny, fluffy body was all but vibrating in Cait's arms as she tried to snuggle closer. Cait was one of her senshi so it was okay to talk, okay to cuddle, and she didn't have to worry about bad things happening because Sephonie would keep her safe! In theory. In reality the girl didn't even understand what the pen was for, or understand that a talking cat was probably one of those things that you should back away from quickly because it was strange and unusual.
This talking kitty also smelled strongly of syrup. "Caitsephonie." She said it all in a burble of words, rolling the r's with her jubilant purr, head all but buried in the folds of the human girl's shirt. Who needed a hat when you had someone pretty to cuddle up to? "I'm Derpraline. Oh! Oh I forgot hat!" Trying to bounce backwards she instead tumbled right out of the pretty, soft, warm lap onto the ground, trying to flip with her tiny legs until a bonnet made out of bright crepe paper was sitting in front of Cait.
"Hat for Caitsephonie!"
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:41 pm
Cait fluffed the cat in her lap, glad to elicit more happy purrs from the small animal. Maybe she had imagined the cat talking, a small hallucination brought on by the stress of studying for finals. Yeah, that was clearly it. This was just a lost...very syrupy-smelling cat and totally normal other than that, and Cait should probably be looking for an owner for her.
Except then the cat talked again, and well, once was a stress hallucination, but twice? Twice was the cat is probably actually talking, holy crap. So the newly dubbed Caitsephonie stared at her small fluffy companion. "Hat?" She asked, confused. She tried to catch Derp before the cat fell and hurt herself, but it happened too quickly.
"Derpraline, are you alright?" She asked, concerned, but she did stand up and then get down on her knees, picking up the hat. "Oh, thank you!" She said, and then she remembered the pen. She held it out to Derp. "Is this yours?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 7:49 pm
Was she going to put the hat on?! Derp lived in the anticipation of these moments where her charges might actually put on the fantastically beautiful hats that she created so very lovingly with far too much free time. Of course that anticipation was thwarted by the henshin pen being offered back at her, causing that fluffy head to shake so hard it was like she was trying to get water off of her. It would be so much easier if she could be a girl right now! That thought came and went wistfully; not even she was fluffybrained enough to sit around Destiny City park in the middle of the day in human form. It was too...too...something. It was something.
Uh-huuuuh.
A glint off the pen caught her eye again, causing her to put her little paws on it to push the pen back towards Caitsephonie. "It's for Sephonie! Sailor Sephone!" Nudging the grassy-haired girl's wrist with her head she tried to at least be a little helpful. "Tonight you go SEPHONIEEE POWERRRR~ Trust Derpraline. You will know. Moon knows." Her nod was sage, her nod was wise, and her eyes were looking in two entirely different direction.
"Waffles?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:01 pm
The denial was vigorous, firm, and obvious, even from a cat, so upon the push, Cait took back the pen. "So...this is mine? I'm...Sailor Sephonie?" Saying that meant something to her. She couldn't say what, but it was definitely important. "I-I'll do that, tonight." She agreed, now intensely curious. Why did the name strike a chord with her?
Considering that this cat had not only gifted her a very thoroughly nifty hat (which Cait promptly set on her head, because she might damage it if she carried it) but had also given her some kind of magic pen that might unlock her destiny (or equally hokey things), waffles seemed the least she could do. "Do you want to go find a waffle house? Er, do you have an owner who might be looking for you?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:18 pm
SHE HAD PUT THE HAT ON. Both of those eyes snapped dead center to focus with glee on what was occurring in front of her with incredibly glee, vibrating with both excitement and purr as she launched herself back into Cait's arms to distribute all the love her tiny little body was capable of outputting. "Best! Best best best! Caitsephone best!" There was more silence, a few cuddles, before the girl decided to ask her questions again in a more pointed, slower voice this time. Derp's baby blues looked up thoughtfully.
"There is Parker but he is mine. You are mine too! An' there is...there is..." Her tiny little face fell as, in a fit of her own ditzy little mind, Derpraline forgot the names of the myriad senshi she had awakened. Even her fuzzy ears drooped like she was a dog at the idea, cuddling closer to Cait to try and just remember, for a minute, what she was doing here and now.
"I am safe with you. I like waffles."
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2012 8:33 pm
Cait happily cuddled the kitten, giggling at her enthused reaction to the girl choosing to wear her gifted hat. However, she did want her answers, so...
"Parker?" She asked. Was that...someone else Derp had surprised with a weird magical pen? Maybe so! "Well, I promise, I will keep you very safe." She said, holding the cat and standing up. "Let's see if we can find us somewhere that sells waffles, hmm?" It seemed the least she could do, really.
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 2:46 pm
Perking up brilliantly the little kitten snuggled in against Cait's chest voice quiet but insistent. It seemed that despite Derpraline's initial exuberance, she understood that they were going to be going around people that probably shouldn't be aware that the little cat could talk. "Ooh ooh I know where the best one is! I used to go there with Durh and they know Derpraline and sometimes they feed me!" Pupils dilated with excitement as she relayed some rather spotty directions to the girl. Of course they got turned around three times and almost ended up in a rather shady part of town, but eventually all was well and they prevailed.
Once in the door the cream-colored kitten wriggled out of Cait's grasp, hitting the floor running as she scrambled up into a booth that looked rather suspiciously like she'd been there before. Claw marks were, of course, the sign of this where they had grooved into the vinyl of the seat. Perched there, looking adorable, she finally stopped speaking and instead vocalized the same way felines had since the beginning of time -- mewling pathetically, adorably, insistently.
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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 4:25 pm
Cait considered herself very lucky that she and Derp eventually ended up where the kitten wanted them to. Of course, she figured that any waffle place that was willing to serve a kitten was a good sort of place, and whoever this Durh was, she had the right idea.
She laughed at Derp's enthusiasm, walking to the booth and sitting down across from her. She was surprised at how quickly a waitress showed up, to squee and fawn over the little kitten. Cait went totally ignored, at least initially.
However, once she managed to attract the waitress's attention, they did end up having a nice sit-down meal of waffles, leaving Cait to ponder the strange gift that the cat had given her -- the pen, not the hat, of course.
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