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Sailor Eos was beginning to get the hand of this whole patrolling solo. Whilst it had been intimidating at first - what if she'd been ambushed!? - it appeared that the holiday season was the perfect time to start practicing, since she had yet to run into any real trouble. She'd even been able to practice a little energy-draining on a few unsuspecting crooks downtown, without so much as a peep from those horrid white moon senshi. Perhaps they were all busy chasing after their stupid, non-existant queen.

She was in a quieter part of town this evening, avoiding the centre for fear of crowds of last-minute shoppers and dodging the nastier parts of town because she didn't particularly feel like a fight. No, she wanted tonight to be chilled and relatively easy, just a bit of light exercise.

Initially she thought the wails of distress were just the wind, but they seemed too persistant. Eyebrows furrowed downwards in a confused frown as the blonde tried to follow the noise, curious as to what it might be. Once she'd rounded the corner it was difficult to miss the flailing back legs of a cat, with it's head stuck down the drain. Eos blinked widely - well, that wasn't a sight you saw everyday. She didn't think drains were particularly the favourite hiding places of cats. "You've managed to get yourself into a bit of a pickle there," she spoke softly, not wanting to spook the cat as she approached, "I think you could use a bit of a hand, hmm?"

Was the cat...talking?. It was mimicking her? Eos blinked, eyes wide, surprised that a Guardian Cat (since they were the only types of cat that could talk, right?) had managed to get itself stuck down a drainpipe. Didn't they have some sort of special power that would help them out? Now she thought about it, perhaps a 'removing-oneself-from-a-drainpipe' power did seem a bit farfetched.

"Hey, stay still or you'll hurt yourself." A quick glance around had confirmed that there was no-one about, and now knowing that this was no ordinary cat Sailor Eos felt a lot less ridiculous talking to it. Slender hands brushed against the flickering tail first before rubbing the pretty red hind, slowly making their way down to wrap securely around the feline's mid-drift. There wasn't really an easy, painless way to do this - she was just going to have to pull. "Ready?" she asked, not really expecting a response, more wanting to prepare the cat for what was about to come. "On three - one, two...three!"

She gave as gentle but firm a tug as she could, adding in a slight twisting action when she realized that the cat was wedged in.

With a satisying 'POP' noise the cat was free, though the momentum of the rescue sent Sailor Eos stumbling backwards a few steps. She made sure to keep a firm grip on the cat, however - rescuing the feline from the pipe and then dropping her on her head was somewhat counterproductive. Eos began to smile, pleased with herself, but her face was soon contorted into a somewhat disgusted expression as a horrible stench reached her nostrils. A horrible stench that was very clearly emanating from the wriggling ball of fur in front of her that was now trying to hug her.

"Heyyy you're welcome!" she exclaimed, not wanting to upset the cat but at the same time not wanting to get covered in smell-pipe-goop. Still, she was wriggling a fair amount and so eventually the blonde had to settle for somewhat goop-covered arms in order to fully restrain the feline. "You're a little messy though, huh?" Sailor Eos was still speaking as if she was talking to a regular cat - she knew about Guardian Cats, but she hadn't met one (at least not that she could remember). It was quite exciting, that she was finally getting to meet one! So much so that she could kind of let the disgusting smell and the gross pipe-goop slide just a little. She even reached up, scratching a little of the non-gross fur behind the red kitty's ears, "How on earth did you manage to get stuck in there, hmm?"