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 Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:35 pm
Chase shrugged, narrowing his eyes slightly in Ari's direction. Did the neko actually think he was comfortable in this environment with people staring at him for nothing? He would rather they stared at him because he had done something. Maybe that Nikon human had quick communications to other places. . .
The bo frowned, but when the teen came cautiously near to their table with two pieces of paper in hand, Chase forgot about the staring and tried his best to speak properly with the strange human. The human did not want to talk though. He just set down the papers on the table and left to go back inside, glancing over his shoulder.
"You know this talk?" Chase muttered questioningly to Ari, nudging the menus and leaning forward as he watched the teen step inside.
If Ari could decipher the words on the paper, Chase could order it. It was a group effort. Or Chase could just tell the teen to bring out random things. He was pretty sure they had a bison or a antelope in there somewhere. . .
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:41 am
"Talk? Writing?" Ari asked. Chase sure did confuse the neko, but he was able to understand what the boy was talking about. Tail twitching, Ari looked at the menu and nodded. When with families that had small children, he had to read them stories.
What better way to learn such written language than being forced into reading to young children? He read from the top to the bottom, pointing to everything he read as he went down. They had things that were probably not Chase's cup of tea...
"Coffee...Tea...Sandwich...Chicken breasts..." Even Ari did not seem to like anything there. He was more of a fruit person himself, with the occasional snack on meat or noodles. Glancing over at the human boy, the neko sighed. "Chase okay with chicken breast? Ari want fruit..." he mumbled.
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:17 am
Chase nodded, raising his eyebrows as the neko read off the lists of words. He sighed and screwed up his face as he listened. Another couple walked onto the street and headed down toward them. The lists of food didn't sound great, but maybe it would taste okay. What the heck was a sandwhich anyway?
"Okay. Chicken breasts and fruit. Got it."
The boy looked at the window of the store, then grinned.
"Hey! Food please!" He shouted in the general direction of the door. "Chicken breasts and fruit!"
He looked back at Ari with a pleased expession, his stomach making a small growling noise. His experience with humans in gerenal wasn't that good or nurturing.
"That was right, right?"
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:56 pm
Ari slapped his forehead and shook his head when Chase yelled out his order to the building. He grumbled when the human asked if he was right, which made the neko only shake his head again, ears laying back. "No...Not really..." he mumbled. Ari leaned his elbow on the table and placed his cheek into his hand. He had been raised around people who went out to dinner, and, from that, he learned how things were done. But seeing as Chase came from a completely different background, one would decide to go easier on the boy. The neko called over one of the waiters who had stepped out of the building. He had a strange look on his face. Maybe taking the order of a neko was strange to him. "He wants chicken breast and fruit. Me too," he said, trying to sound as 'human' as possible so that the confused-looking teen could clearly understand him. The waiter nodded, jotting down the notes and asked what they would want to drink. Ari thought for a moment before saying, "Water." That was really all he knew. Though, he was sure Chase would not mind just water. The waiter walked back into the building. "That was right."
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:01 am
Chase frowned.
"What? I did it wrong?" He muttered as he watched Ari motion to one of the waiters who had stepped out of the building. He came over and Chase stared hard ahime, wonderig why he had no food in sight. People were hungry here! He glared at the look the teen gave Ari; no one gave his family that strange expression!
Chase stopped. Time seemed to freeze.
What did I just think? He's not my brother, or cousin, or father. Or anything. . . His defiant expression dropped into a thoughtfully lost frown. He nodded slowly at Ari as he heard him say something when time seemed to start again.
The truth that Chase seemed to not be able to wrap his mind around, was he needed someone. He needed a family, need Ari. The neko did look like his brother cheetah in a way. The sandy hair was a start.
His head snapped up suddenly from looking at the table.
"We get food now?" He demanded, his brow furrowed but his eyes curious.
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:30 am
The waiter came back with waters and set them down on the table before scurrying back into the building. Ari looked at the glass of water thankfully, picked it up, and began to drink from it. Once he had finished a very long drink, he set the glass down and sighed happily. "Get food now?" he responded to Chase's question. He shook his head and said, "No...People have to make food. Make it yummy." The neko smiled pleasently and shut his eyes as he waited for the food. Who cared how people looked at him? He had lived with it all his life that he was numb or immune to the looks people gave him...He knew how most of the people in the city worked. Their minds were not even close to being such labyrinths as he had heard from other slaves in the cages. No, they were not misty, cloudy, or mysterious. The minds of the people around him were stupid...And they constantly said how superior they were. Oh well...What was there for him to do? He shook his head and looked at Chase again. "Something wrong?" he asked.
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:47 pm
Chase shook his head, frowning some more.
"No. I'm hungry!" The cheetah boy felt like slamming his fists down on the table but halfway through that action he untensed his fingers and let them drop to the flat surface with an irritable sigh. He then folded his arms and put his head down on them before falling still.
"They're gonna call the evil humans soon," he muttered, his voice muffled since it was faced down. "They'll come. . . "
Chase didn't care though. His eyes were closed and his mind was floating through possiblities on end about ways to beat up the slave-catchers and to stay free. So far, he had five or seven good ones, but the majority of the ideas ended with Nikon and going back to the room in that strange bigger room. What'd they say it was? A house?
The boy turned his head to the side to and stared meaningfully at the building, willing the food to come floating out.
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Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:25 pm
Ari sighed and shook his head gently side to side before looking up at a bird flying by. Any wild neko would have instincts telling them to attack and kill the poor little feathered creature, but those instincts were dulled in a captive neko who had known nothing but the ways of human society. Those simple, natural impulses meant nothing to the sandy haired neko. He had, to put in words for a wild neko to hear, lost those feelings.
'Oh well' was his common answer for such a conversation when talking with the children of past families. They would often ask why he did not act like the nekos they had always seen in books or had heard of in stories. But, Ari did not care for those wild creatures...He did not care for anything wild even though he longed for the freedom that something wild held. Perhaps those creatures took it for granted...Perhaps everyone took it for granted.
He snapped out of his thoughts when he smelled food and looked over to see the waiter come out and set their food down in front of them. The neko smiled greatfully and nodded his thanks. But, the teen did not seem pleased with that when it came from Ari, so he went back into the building quickly just to get out of the neko's sight. "Okay, eat now~!" he said happily and ate slowly.
Hopefully...Hopefully the food they were eating was not poisoned with anything. No one ever made it against the law to give poison to an escaped slave. Well, it was against the law to kill them, so the poison was only to be strong enough to knock them out long enough to take them back to the slave halls. Ari shivered nervously...
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:26 pm
Chase was quiet for a long time. Not a sound, no growls, no groans or moans of something that annoyed him, no hisses. He was silent, his closed. Then the foodcame, signalled by the lovely heaven filled scent and the sound of something heavy hitting the table. Chase immediately sat up, wincing to himself as his ribs stretched too fast, but he didn't even look up at the teen or Ari. He simply gave this predatorial glance around and sniffed at the dish. Then Ari something that more or else told Chase he could eat this food. Chase didn't need telling twice! He sniffed at it then picked up the chicken, tearing a chunk off with his teeth and chewing as if this was his first meal in days.
It tasted like the most weird thing he had ever had since he had entered civilization! He swallowed his mouthful then grabbed at the glass of water at once, swallowing half of it in one gulp. He looked at Ari with a pained expression.
"Don't they kill anything fresher?"
Chase wasn't usually picky if the prey was killed two days ago, but this was the strangest thing he had ever devoured! Yet, he'd still eat it because it was edible. Or so Ari said. . . The silver haired boy looked down at the chicken then sighed in a disgruntled manner before starting to wolf it down again.
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 11:47 am
Ari made a face at the other's instant predator-like eating habits. He looked away and shook his head before eating his own chicken. It tasted fine to him. The different seasonings were probably the stuff that made Chase look at it strangely. Ari chuckled nervously as he tried to explain. "Seasoning...Humans have weird sense of taste...They like to put yummy seasonings on the food to make it taste better," he said. Well, that was his outlook on how the humans did things. It always seemed logical to him, anyway. He had no problems with the flavor since he was raised with it most of his life. But, in the beginning, it was the most disgusting thing he had ever put in his mouth. He watched Chase a little longer before going on eating his own chicken. "Still food, though."
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:09 pm
Chase had just gulped down his water and was about to pick at the fruit in Ari's dish when a queer sound filled the air. It was like an alarm, or an annoying parrot. Whhhyyyrrrr! Whhhhyyyrrr! It was distant, but it made the hair on the green eyed boy's neck stand on end. He froze for a few seconds, then growled and continued with hsi plan to pick through the fruit. His stabbed at a pink crunchy but juicy square with his finger and it broke almost in half. The boy frowned then scooped it into his fingers and into his mouth as he glared over his shoulder; the noise was becoming louder and closer.
It was annoying, and to Chase it was something he wanted destroyed. After a long few seconds more, the cheetah boy pushed his chair away from the table and stood with a huff.
"It's annoying! I'm gonna kill it," He announced, before turning and beginning to stalk towards something he would never expect.
Police cars.
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:19 am
Ari's ears perked up as he glanced around frantically. What was that sound in the distance? It was familiar...something he had heard many times before. He watched Chase jump up and say he was going to kill the sound. All thoughts of food were gone, and now the only thought remaining was escape. The neko hopped up from his seat and grabbed Chase's wrist. "No! Don't kill sound! Police cars...Come take us away!" he whispered. He did not want to cause a commotion; although, all eyes in the surrounding area were on them. Everything was just as he thought; police were coming to take them away. Unless, of course, he was just being a bit paranoid and jumping to conclusions. "C'mon, c'mon!" Ari urged.
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:47 pm
Chase looked as if he would punch Ari in the face for holding him back. And physically too! The boy stared at the neko, wide eyed and pensive until he nodded and turned back to the table in a tranquil manner to pick up a few of the tasty fruits. He wasn't in a rush, but then again he didn't know what the. . . police would do. He wrinkled his nose as he looked back at the street they had stopped running on. So much for quietly eating!
"Fine," He growled, then sighed and playfully leapt onto the railings of the fencing around the seating area.
The couple who had just sat down there sprang up with a gasp and darted away, the man sending them a glare. Chase stood there, looking towards he sound as he reflected quickly on what Ari said. Come to take us away. . . He smirked.
"I'd like to see them-" He started with a silkly daring drawl, then he stopped, his breath caught in his throat as flashing lights appeared on the street and sped towards them. The green eyes flashed dangerously and he took a step back. Noisy usually didn't mean dangerous, but they were fast as well! His expression, unfathomable.
"Okay. Let's go!" He proclaimed with lightning speed, turnign tail in the opposite direction with the fruit in his fingers.
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Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:22 am
Ari growled quietly to himself. Chase was a fool not to listen to the one who had escaped and be recaptured many times before. The neko was about to run off when he looked over his shoulder and saw that Chase had grabbed some fruit and was moving in the direction of the police cars. Grumbling curses to himself, he stood up on one of the tables he was near and watched the human boy. Well, at least when the boy saw the speeding, noisy cars he turned around and ran...but in the wrong direction! Did he want to go back into the city? Ari huffed.
"This way!!" he yelled out, pointing to the open fields and forests just outside of a wall that bordered the city from the outside world. It was not a tall wall, and they would be capable of easily jumping over it. Even if he could not bring Chase with him, he would escape on his own and finally be free! After years of planning it out and figuring out ways to escape different home settings, he would finally be free!
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Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:49 pm
Chase gave Ari a fleeting glance then the police cars, before shaking his head. The cars were closer to the field than the millions of undiscovered buildings that were in front of Chase, and he did not want to get remotely close to those noisy vehicles! The thought made him cringe and shake his more. Ari could face those scary beasts on his lonesome, but Chase knew when to back down from a fight. He turned his back on the neko and the blue and red flashing lights, and blindly dashed to where ever the cars weren't!
Chase was looking right left and center for something to get high on, or to jump up onto it escape the cars. The cars would have, in Chase's mind, followed them into the field, but they never went high than the ground that they drove on. A panic filled Chase that he hadn't felt for so long, it seemed to choke him.
"No. . . No. Higher!"
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