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 Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:24 am
Winter, snow, cold, it all didn't seem to bother the bombay as she sat behind a fish shop picking at her teeth with a fish bone. The scraps had been good and it wasn't like the humans cared she was there. She was a cute little cat with those large green eyes and fur black as night. Blackie had kept the rats away from the alley the best she could to keep the scraps to herself. That and she didn't like the company of other cats that came around. With her hair pinned back from her lightly tanned skin, and dressed in her usual kimono. Blackie was ready to start the day, breakfast had been eaten and now it was time to wander and see what else there was to do. With the cold of winter settling in and most the strays taking shelters in their clan territories, Blackie had yet to find a place for herself. For the time she lived in a blanket filled box close to the fish shop. Home sweet home she considered it. Pulling up the sleeves of her kimono, her black ears twitched to see if she could hear anything. There was just the common commotion of the humans, the coming and goings of cats on the streets. Life seemed simple down here, her black tail flicked as she moved out of the alley and along the edges of the buildings. Trying not to attract attention to herself, for she was considered bad luck... Being a black cat and all that superstitious nonsense. But it kept others away from her and that was how she liked things. Quiet.
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:46 pm
 "Oh oh! a sun spot!" Dmitry scrambles/bounds across the snowy land, leaving string of paw prints with occasional body prints behind him and his eyes shifts around, making sure there are no creepy people around before he finally settles in that sun spot, relishing in warmth. The snow starts to dust across Dmitry's body as his eyes disappears under his lids, the sun dragging him into a superficial slumber-land blissfully.
As the snow continues to fall down to the Earth, covering everything in its path.. that including snoozing Dmitry and he was too deep into his 'hunting' dream to realize that he's slowly being buried under the snow. As the tanned lady walks by, the small pile of snow shakes when the male cat is finally waking up from his catnap. "H-HEY!!" His muffled cry could be heard as the pile of snow shook more violently before falling apart, revealing brown and gray cat with snow clumped into his fur and he's shivering violently.
"H-H-Hello there." Dmitry manages to say while his body shook with violent shivering as his bi-colored eyes meets with the woman's green eyes. "L-Lovely day outside, innit?" He tries to look sophisticated but its kinda hard when he have a snow beard happening right along with snow clumps sticking to his curly fur.
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 5:06 pm
Snow coated her hair in a fine blanket before it was shaken away. The bombay wasn't too keen on stopping in just any place. She paused here and there, looking out of those humans that would take advantage of a cat like herself. Some humans were just insufferable and couldn't help inflict pain upon hapless animals they come across. Stopping to shake off another dusting of snow, Blackie jumped to one side as the snow itself began to more close to her sandled feet. The fur along her tail fluffed out making it twice its normal size. What the HELL was that?
Her question was answered as a small brown and grey cat appeared from the snow mound. This sent her even more on high alert, something was so close to home that it was dangerous. Hissing slightly, ears pinning themselves back, Blackie's hands balled themselves into fists as she watched the collared cat with darkening green eyes.
"It had been a lovely day. Until you chose to pop up out of no where." She wasn't going to sugar coat it all, her body language and tone spoke volumes of her mood. She had been pleasantly happy. Just walking along, minding her own business and this small cat had to rear his head out of the snow and ruin it! "If you are looking for the cute factor, you don't have it. The snow makes you look like you have some sort of disease." She pointed out quite bluntly.
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Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 8:26 pm
Why does my fur feels so heavy now? Dmitry wonders as he notices that it took him some effort just to move around and his eyes moves from the pretty lady to his fur, emitting a short squeak of dismay when he noticed tight clumped snowballs in his fur. "Oh...." His ears droops as the woman starts to berate him and being outright rude to him and he doesn't understand what he did wrong. All he did was go to sleep then wake up just when she was walking by. Squinting his bi-colored eyes in contrite manner, Dmitry peeks up at the lady sadly for a moment before the indignation conquered the sadness.
"What the heck are you talking about?!" Dmitry shot back as he tries to go in defensive position but ends up tripping over his half-frozen front legs, tumbling onto his back in front of the rude lady. Glaring up at the lady, "I was sleeping and YOU woke me up so now you are blaming me for 'popping out of nowhere?' You are a very rude lady." He squirms around and flips over to his paws once again, half struggling to get up because he feels like his limbs are frozen. When the rude lady commenting about cute factor and disease, he stiffens up as he whips his head toward her and was going to say something to defend himself but the coldness is starting to set in and its robbing him of his words and cognitive thinking. "D'nno whatcha talk'n about..." He mumbles as he shivers violently, curling up into the tight ball because its getting too cold for him due to the snow clumps in his fur and around his face.
"S-Sorry. Didn't....." His teeth starts chattering and his body is shaking visibly while he tries to apologize to the lady. "me-me-me-me-mean to ru-r-r-r-ruin y-y-your d-day." Tucking his head tightly against his body, Dmitry desperately is trying to keep himself warm but .. is failing miserably.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 6:42 pm
Stuffing her arms into the loose sleeves of her kimono, Blackie watched the cat as he started shivering. With that long fur? Surely he could be warmer than this, she was a short haired cat, but then she had been where it was warm for a while before really entering the cold. Nose scrunching at the collared cat as he toddled with that snow matted fur. Seriously? Couldn't he keep himself out of trouble?
"I'm hardly rude you furr ball. I just don't like being around other cats. You have a problem with that?" She was a bit snippy, but it was her nature, she had her rough spots and they were only growing rougher. "If you are that cold to be shivering, go home. Surely you have someone waiting for you with a warm blanket and saucer of cream."
Blackie knew a place where it was warn, she had just left it. The smoke room of the fish shop was always warm with the low fires in the smokers. While they door was left open a bit, the steam and smoke rose through vents in the ceiling. She didn't really want to drag this pathetic thing back with her, but she couldn't really leave it here in the snow...
Could she?
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:16 pm
Dmitry's ears pins back against his skull mostly to conserve any heat inside his body but there is a hint of annoyance there at the female's snippy attitude when he was trying to apologize to her. It is unusual for this male to get growly or snarky with females however it seems like this female is one of the few that could rake their claws against his nerves and he's not too happy about it. On top of trying not to freezing to death.
"Y-Yes." His shaky voice manages to appear after few minutes of him shivering in front of the female before his defiant bi-colored eyes meets with her green eyes in annoyance but there is a flicker of pain in them before he lowering his head back in the protection of his paws. "N-No ho-home." He forces the words out as he grits his teeth, becoming incensed on how trembly he sounds when he is talking to this rude-butt! His dark green bowl shakes visibly as Dmitry forces himself to unroll himself out of the ball because he's not going to give her some satisfaction watching him die like this.
Swaying little bit, the male manages to stand up in splayed leg position, breathing heavily as he closes one of his eyes, staring up at Blackie. "Are you ev-even cold?" He says while his chest heaves hard when his lungs constricts painfully at the cold air.
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:57 pm
Blackie watched the male as he shivered and shook from the cols. Really with his for with snow packed into it she would have thought it would have kept the body heat closer to the skin. Raising a brow she shook her head. Yeah she was feeling the n** past her clothing, But it wasn't enough to warrant the antics of the male. Seriously, this was getting fur pulling annoying. This was one reason why she didn't bother hanging around other cats. They were always doing things that were tedious.
"So you have come to the world of the strays?" She said with the widest smile possible. "So its about time that you toughen up and not sleep in the snow. You will be a whole lot better."
This was Blackie being kind, kindness to the bottom of her heart. But watching the cat shiver from the cold wasn't all that enjoyable. Groaning inwardly, she looked towards the blissfully grey sky she looked back to the collared cat in front of her. Turning on a heel she headed back the way she had come.
"Come on" Blackie said with a bit of impatience as she didn't really bother stopping to see if he was following.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:58 pm
With one trembling paw, Dmitry managed to dislodge few chunks of snow while he moves from the snow-covered ground to sidewalk and he winces when his pads starts to throb painfully and he takes in a deep hissing breath. "Looks like I did come to the world of the strays." Dmitry says as he stares at the female whom gave him a huge smile almost like she is really loving the stray's life instead of being owned. "In my defense.." He manages to get the words out between his chattering teeth as he watches the female turn away and walking away from him without letting him get any say in.
Affronted, the male with dark green bow tied around his neck shakes his wet paws to get rid of the excess water because he conveniently was sitting in the puddle of rainwater. Sigh...My luck isn't that great now.. He thinks to himself miserably as he takes few steps in the direction the female was walking in while shaking his paws then he starts trotting quickly after the female in hope that she would take a pity on this poor half-frozen male and take him somewhere warm. "What is your name, miss?" Dmitry tries to strike up a conversation and show her that he's not a stupid little cat but a gentleman with a good amount of intelligence. "I would like to apologize for my rudeness earlier.." His voice takes on this quavery tone because his body is shivering more violently. "Lapse in my j-j-judgement w hen I chose that sunny patch to nap in."
After few heartbeats, he realized that he didn't introduce himself at all and he twitches in annoyance before he manages to catch up to the female, his snow-clumped tail sways back and forth in air while he looks up at the female. "My name is Dmitry, miss. I apologize for my rudeness and not introducing myself." He smiles up at the female in hope that she would look down and stop being so rude to him.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:38 pm
An ear twitched as she heard that little voice of the collared cat behind her, he was speaking again wasn't he? Of course he was, no one ever seemed to be silent for very long. Arms enfolded within the sleeves of her kimono, Blackie glanced back at the male for a moment. Sniffing lightly, mostly to herself she walked past the alley way she had come from. She was going to take him somewhere that wasn't her own home.
"Those that have the privilege of crossing my path know me as Blackie. The black cat of bad luck." While she didn't think herself as bad luck, it certainly didn't stop her from meekly walking across the paths of the humans that believed in such foolishness.
Stopping she looked back at the shivering, sniveling cat that was behind her. His pace was painfully slow and she could easily just leave him within the cold to suffer his own stupidity. Groaning inwardly she turned around and paced back the distance and crouched down. She was taller than him after all, her back her him.
"Climb on and I will carry you. Or we'll never get anywhere." She said sharply, her tail curling on itself as the fur stood out as the cold was starting to sink through her clothing. And with this cat being wet with snow... She was going to be a mess. "And don;t touch the hair, its a pain to get it up every time someone tries to mess with it."
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 5:28 pm
"Blackie.... the cat of bad luck..." Dmitry thinks to himself with a frown, not liking hearing any negative labels tacked to any females. "I don't think you are a black cat of bad luck.. unless you are talking about that stupid superstition.." He says in a shaky voice as he continues to follow the female but stopping occasionally to shake off now loosening clumps of snow from his soaked body which means he's lagging even more behind along with the energy leaking out of his body. The soaked male shivers violently as he fights the instinctive curling up to stay warm while he forces himself to keep trundling behind the female with a miserable look on his face.
His bi-colored eyes meets Blackie's cool eyes when she glanced over to see how miserable he is and he could tell that she's irritated with him but he was too tired to give her an apology or something like that so all he did was droop his ears down and hunkers down in submissive position when she paced back to him then crouches down with her back facing him. His ears perks up once again in curiosity when she told him to climb on and his eyes looks at her really nice kimono guilty because his paws is muddy and wet and he really didn't want to mar that beautiful fabric. He knows that if he tries to argue, Blackie will gets more irate with him so he reluctantly climbs up her back and drapes his front legs over her shoulders and uses his hind claws to latch to Blackie's sides while being mindful of Blackie's hair because now he's in a precarious position and could get thrown far far away if he messed up her hair.
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 5:48 pm
She shivered as the younger cat clambered onto her back, those wet paws making cold patches through her kimono. She wasn't too worried about it, she was sure she would find another or some how clean this one. It wouldn't be that hard, surely... Turning her head as his heavy paws wrapped over her shoulders and she reached back to hold the cat up as she stood. A little off balance at first, she managed to get righted before she started walking again. For a dainty looking cat, Blackie wasn't the least bit of a weakling.
"Most humans believe in such things and its always fun to watch them do silly signs with their hands and things." There was amusement in her voice as she continued to walk, the cold and wet seeping through her clothing. Damn it to hell, why was she being so nice?
As Blackie walked down the sidewalk, her ears were ever alert to the humans that accompanied the place. Stopping a moment she turned down an alleyway and stopped again. Sniffing at the air, she moved over to what looked like a window that was left open ever so slightly.
"Here, this looks like a good place.." She said crouching down to let the cat down off her back so she could try and open the large window a bit further to allow them entrance. "This place has been abandoned for a while, but the heat was still on the last time I looked in."
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Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2015 8:27 pm
Dmitry stiffens up as Blackie was little bit off balance when she righted herself up and he peers at back of her head curiously, wondering why a meany like her is being nice to him when he have done nothing to warrant her ruining her clothes to carry him to a warm place. With a slight frown, Dmitry wisely stays silent as he didn't want to do anything to provoke her because if she's willing to take him to somewhere warm then he's not gong to press it. "Oh... so those humans are just stupid herd animals? Since if one human believes something, rest of them will follow that concept." He inquires curiously while noting the amusement in Blackie's voice and it caused his ears to perk forward because he thought he would never hear that kind of tone from this mean lady.
His bi-colored eyes is very alert as they scans all over the place, noting the landmarks he will need to remember so he could know how to get out of that place if necessary and his ears swivels around wildly, registering all of the sounds. When Blackie crouches down, Dmitry quickly slid off her back and grimaces at the muddy mess he made on back of her kimono and his ears pins back against his skull, silently promising to earn enough money whenever he grows up to buy her a new kimono. "And is it still on?" His voice shakes little bit because he conveniently lands in the puddle of water.. again. With delicate steps, he steps to side and shakes himself off with a shaky sigh and looks up at Blackie. "Why are you being so nice to me, mean lady?"
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Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 7:55 pm
"The owner of the place can't seem to keep people here, but the heat was still on. Lets hope they didn't just wise up and let it go out." Blackie said as she got the window open enough to let herself and the younger cat in.
As she stepped carefully along the sill, she looked around, whiskers twitching, sensing no movement in the basement, she dropped to a stack of boxes close to the window and to the floor. Folding her arms back into the sleeves of her kimono, she checked around again before glancing back to Dmitry.
"Looks all clear, come on down." She called back, moving over towards the other side of the basement.
Here she sniffed a little, move closer to the large contraption that spewed heat. While most of it rose through pipes and into the upper reaches of the building, no one else appeared to be around to bother them. Which was good, Blackie didn't know if she could handle more than just the one cat today. She apparently didn't hear Dmitry's question about why she was being nice. Either that or she just didn't know how to answer it. Whatever the case was, she remained silent letting the warmth seep through her sodden clothing and into her skin.
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:43 pm
"Ooooh... slumlords or something like that?" Dmitry inquires as he eyes the building suspiciously but the shivering is getting worse and he is starting to feel all lethargic because his body is trying to shut down to conserve heat and he starts swaying around little while his eyes squints while he fights the urge to close them. As the mean lady climbs into the building carefully, Dmitry managed to jump up on a plastic crate closer to the window and he cranes his head in, eager to get in because he could feel the heat wafting out but he knows that he gotta stay put until Blackie scouted out the area first.
As the brisk wind blows over Dmitry, he hunkers down more in miserable manner while his shivering becomes more violent . "Looks all clear, come down" is the most sweetest words he ever heard her utter and he didn't wait another second, clambering up and down the sill carefully, following Blackie's marks that were left behind and lands on the stack of boxes with a little grunt because his limbs starts to tingle painfully.
"I asked you a question, y'anno?" Dmitry grumps out the question as he shakes his legs out, trying to get the tingling to go away because it is starting to get more painful and all he wanted to do is find....some warm or hot water to sink into to warm up immediately. With a mental shudder as he realized what he wanted to do is go near that dreaded water again, Dmitry exhales forcefully as he pads toward Blackie. "Why are you being nice to me, mean lady?" He glares at her half-heartedly as his bi-colored readjusts themselves to the somewhat dim room, looking all over the place. "Looks somewhat nice...." And safe He mutters as he shakes his head, slinking off to examine every corners, nooks, crevices to make sure there is nothing hiding there.
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Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 4:31 pm
There was that voice again, it made her ears twitch as she glanced back at the smaller cat. Her slim black tail flicked behind her as she watched him come in from the cold. Her clothing and fur already started to dry our and soon she would be able to shake off the dirt and be almost back to normal.
"Just consider it your lucky day." Was the only answer that she wanted to give the collared cat as she scratched at her own chin.
The scar from her old collar having started to itch suddenly. Snorting impatiently to herself, Blackie moved closer to the heat source and settled down letting the waves of warmth sink into her fur. All the while she watched as Dmitry explored the place, not that there was much to see by dust, spiders and the like. Shaking her head, she wrapped her kimono over her feet and stared away from everything.
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