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Who: Madoka, Romeo and Maru
When: Day 14 of Fiddlesticks
Where: The games carriage
What: Madoka is still on her quest to show off her kitty to everyone ever. Today's edition: two cute kids and a cute cat.
Warnings: It's two cute kids and a cute ~~vampire hikikomori~~ kitty. What's the worst that could happen.

Madoka sure hasn't forgotten about the fact she promised to show off her kitty to Romeo! Sure, it may be a while later by now since they had the whole mission happening first and Madoka wanted to make sure Maru was alright again first after all that.. but now he seems to be in the same shape as ever, she figures it's the right time to show him off to Romeo. And to introduce Romeo to him, really, because this is a two way street. A two way street that leads to more cute friends for her adorable kitty pal. Because god knows Maru could use some more friends, especially ones that can be all happy and positive to him - and if anyone she knows is good at that, it's Romeo.

So she's asked Romeo to come out to the games carriage to meet her kitty and maybe play some games. Madoka has made sure to come out there a little in advance so Romeo won't have to wait for them. She's just sitting there and waiting with the cat on her lap, gently playing with his ears and giving them tiny scritches to pass the time.

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Romeo is excited to meet Madoka's new cat friend! They had pinky promised before the mission that they would all come back safely and they had. The bad crabs were defeated! So now he could meet up with Madoka and her friend and play games.

He had a bag of sweets that he had bought, to share. Though he's not sure if cats can eat sweets... Some might be able to. He will have to ask them!

He spots Madoka straight away and waves. "Hello! I brought us snacks!" He grinned at the cat and waved at him too.

Maru was quite content to sit in Madoka's lap and be pet. Soft little purrs and swishes of his tail showed just how happy he was.

After the events of the mission, and just as he'd promised, he'd been healed by the next day. Though he had slept most of the next two days. Today marked the day where he was actually awake and aware enough to actually meet this friend of Madoka's without zonking out on them.

His ears twitched hearing a voice he didn't recognise and sleepy eyes slowly opened and a small paw lifted in a return wave.

Petting Maru is absolutely one of Madoka's favourite hobbies lately. His reactions are just too cute, okay, she really adorable it when he softly purrs like that...

But thankfully she isn't focused on it enough to completely miss Romeo entering the carriage. She looks up at the sound of the boy's voice and smiles the moment she spots him.

"Romeo, hi!" She's already happy to see him in general, but his added words about the snacks just make her smile even more. She didn't even ask him to bring those, what a happy coincidence! Madoka gently picks Maru up to angle him a bit better, just so he can see the bag of sweets. "Look, Maru, there's candy! Isn't it so sweet of him to bring those?"

"I hope you like it! I didn't know if cats can eat sweets but I'm sure they can. I had a friend once who could be a cat sometimes. Sort of. And he liked sweets!"

He got closer and crouched down in front of them with a grin, putting the sweets down so they could help themselves.

Maru does seem like a very sweet cat and it's good to see Madoka looking so happy!

Maru almost pouted when he was lifted. He would see just fine from where he had been laying upon Madoka's lap. He yawned a little and then tipped his head back to look at his Eve. "I see."

His head dropped and looked at the guy, the candy was put elsewhere and now he found himself on an eye-level with the kid. Maru blinked. "Hi... Thanks for bringing candy." That was polite, right? He was being polite. Maybe...

Too late, Maru, you need to learn to live with being lifted! You're an active participant in this social situation now! .. Although he is trying to be polite. Madoka can tell. So there's definitely a smile on her face as she hears him thank Romeo like a good little kitty.

"Maru likes snacks, so it was a good idea." Madoka smiles, but then seems to realise that maybe she ought to not teach Romeo the wrong thing here, so she quickly adds-- "Um, I'm.. not sure if that counts for all cats though! Maru is special.."

Before Romeo goes around feeding all sorts of things to other people's regular cats on the train!

".. Your friend could be a cat sometimes though?"

"Oh you are a talking cat! You're welcome!" He doesn't sound too surprised honestly, it takes a lot to surprise Romeo. There are many strange and wonderful things all the time.

"Yes! He could! He still sort of looked like a person when he was a cat but he had cat ears and a tail like a cat and he was a superhero!"

He grinned at them both, "What are you playing?"

Maru wasn't sure why they'd left the cabin and his switch to go to the games carriage without his switch. It kind defeated the purpose in his mind. But he didn't say anything. He just yawned a little and blinked sleepily at the kid. Was he always this energetic and excited?

"We're not playing anything yet..." Were they going to play something. He looked up at Madoka. "Are we?"

Madoka smiles, rather glad at how easily Romeo is accepting the situation. It's not that odd though - he's always so friendly and easy-going that if anyone would find a talking cat not that weird at all, it'd be him. Besides, his friend definitely sounds like Maru to Madoka's ears, because she totally thinks her kitty pal is a superhero and not a monster like he claims to be.

For now she's definitely excited to focus on games though. Maybe it'd be a good idea to let Maru and Romeo get to know each other more? Games clearly make everyone get along!

"We could play one if you want? Like Hungry Hungry Hippos!" Does Madoka clearly have a favourite game? Yes. She doesn't even bother to try to hide it.

Romeo nodded, he liked playing games!

"Hungry hungry hippos? I never played that one before? Is it fun?"

If Madoka picked it it must be. Madoka has a good taste in lots of things!

Maru had heard of it, never played it. He was a bit too old for something like that he thought. But... if it made these two happy he'd make the little hippo eat a few marbles to make up the numbers. It didn't bother him much.

"I don't mind. If you've not played it, we should play that one." Maru said with a nod. Not that it was his decision or anything. He was just agreeing with the masses.

She laughs. "Fun? Of course it's fun!"

It's Hungry Hungry Hippos, clearly it's impossible for things to not be fun when that is involved! Madoka seems confident that Romeo will like it, at least, although part of that confidence may come from the fact that Romeo seems generally excited about most things. It doesn't seem like it takes much to impress him - although that's definitely a good thing in this case.

And while Maru might not be agreeing as enthusiastically (though that's normal, coming from him) she's sure they will all be able to have fun together. So Madoka already gets up in order to grab the game and put it out on the table for them to play.

"It's all about making sure the poor little hippos don't go hungry!"

"Okay!" He nodded with a grin at both Maru and Madoka. He was really excited to play a game with them both!

He nodded at Madoka. "Okay we can make sure the poor little hippos get lots of tasty food!"

He did have a question though. "Madoka? What's a hippo?"

Maru had jumped off of Madoka's lap and onto the floor when she stood to get the game sorted out. And from the floor he hopped up effortlessly to land on Romeo's shoulder.

"They're big..." Maru said, thinking about what he knew about hippos. "And have really bad breath." And that was about all he knew. Big and smelly. And they could kill a man with one bite. But the kid didn't need to know that.

It probably says a lot about how used Madoka is to Maru hopping around and finding his own resting spots everywhere that she doesn't even seem to bat an eye at the cat finding his way up on Romeo's shoulders. She's pretty sure Romeo won't mind anyway, he's sweet! And she can trust him with Maru too because of that.

"You've never seen them before?" She asks, giving Romeo a curious look. She guesses it makes sense.. Hippos probably would go to some sort of special seperate hippo heaven rather than the one Romeo is from, right?

"What Maru says is right.. I think they live out in Africa? They eat a lot, I think that's why they based this game on them!"

Romeo doesn't mind a cat on his shoulder at all. He grins and pets Maru on the head listening as both Maru and Madoka explained what Hippos were. He had never seen them before but he can imagine big and smelly and liking to eat a lot!

"I know where Africa is! It is a whole bit of the world a..." He thinks, "Continent! It is huge!"

Which was a good thing, if hippos were so big!

Maru's eyes closed for a moment to enjoy the pets.

Okay, so maybe he liked them a bit more than he let on. People on the train were free with their petting and that was just fine with him. So he leaned into those petting fingers, his head tilting until they reached his ear.

He probably should have gotten in on the conversation. But he was a little distracted.

Madoka may be having a conversation with Romeo, but don't think she isn't noticing what Maru is doing over there! She's been around him enough to be able to notice all his little things, like the way he's definitely leaning into those pettings.. It's just adorable. It makes her smile, seeing Maru take well to one of her train friends.

"It is." She nods, still with that smile on her face, though she makes sure to actually look at Romeo as she does so. "I'm sure they live somewhere there, although I'm not sure where.. but you're still really smart to know that, Romeo!" Hey, it can't hurt to compliment him a little, right?

She pulls the game out of the box, starting to set it up.

"Don't worry though, these hippos don't smell bad at all."

He beams at that. It's not often that he is smart! Though he tries hard, he just has lots of friends who know so much more than him!

"That's good! A smelly game would be really weird!"

He crouches over to look at the game as she set it up. "So those are the hippos?"

Well, he wasn't exactly hiding that he was enjoying the pets. He liked being pet. This was a new thing having people wanting and willing to give him attention like this and he was... well... he liked it.

He hung on when the kid crouched down though, and jumped up from shoulder to the kids head and sat, peering over to watch what Madoka was doing.

"... When are hippo's ever pink or green though?" He asked.

"Uh-huh, that's them!"

But whereas she just beams a smile at Romeo's question, it's Maru's question that comes after it that makes her laugh a bit more sheepishly.

"Well, I guess this game wasn't really going for realistic hippos.. But I think they're cute this way! I really like the pink one.." Surprising literally no one, right.

"Then you can be the pink one! It's just like your hair!" Because that's how it worked right? He hasn't read the instructions but in games you have colours!

"And Maru can be blue, like his fur!"

There's no brown unfortunately to match his own hair, but he doesn't mind!

"I can be blue." Blue was a good colour. He liked the colour blue. But black was his favourite. Sadly there weren't any black hippos. That was fine though.

He pushed himself up to his feet and in a single, smooth leap he went from the boys shoulder to Madoka's. He bumped his head against her cheek. "Pink is a good colour. There are pink hippos, you know?"

Madoka giggles slightly. "Really? I want to see them sometime.." Honestly, it's really hard to feel awkward for long between Romeo's happy energy and Maru's cute way of trying to reassure and soothe her like that. She raises a hand to give him some head scritches as a reward for being so good.

"Um.. Which one do you want to be then, Romeo? The green one? I guess it would have been a little better if we would have had one more person to play with.. Let's ask another one of our friends to join in next time."

"There are really pink hippos?"

Considering he had just learned what a hippo was a few minutes ago he isn't actually too surprised. But pink animals are a bit unusual!

"We could! We should ask Elfnein, I bet she would find it fun!"

Maru leaned into the petting and gave a low, happy purr.

There were pink animals... and white animals. There was a word for it but Maru couldn't remember what it was at that point in time, so didn't think it mattered too much.

And he didn't know who Madoka's Little Friend was talking about, so he couldn't really comment on that much at all. All he could do was enjoy Madoka petting him.

"That sounds good.. Let's ask her to join in next time. But for now we can just play it with the three of us. Then you can practice and really impress her later on!"

So she sits down at the table, making sure she's on the side with the pink hippo. Unfortunately that means Maru will have to live without his pets for a moment, since Madoka is gently lifting him up to put him on top of the table next to the blue hippo.

"Maru, can you play like this?" As a cat, she means.

"That's a good idea!" He grinned and sat down as well, next to the green hippo!

He blinked at the question though. It was a good point. Can cats play games?

Once Maru had been sat down on the table, he moved forward and sat down behind his hippo. With his two front paws he pressed down on the plunger and set the hippo's head shooting out.

"Yup." He nodded and looked up at the boy and then Madoka. "I can play." Would he be as fast as the others, he wasn't sure. But he could join them in their fun as much as possible and get a few marbles, he hoped.

.. Okay, give Madoka a moment here. She's just watching Maru as he's putting his adorable tiny paws on the plunger, and then pressing down on it.. It's so cute. It's so cute. This is impossibly distracting! How is Maru the most adorable kitty alive!

"Maru, you're so cute..!"

Give her a moment, surely she'll get around to actually starting the game soon.. But she's way too busy cooing over her cat right now.

Romeo grinned as well, Madoka was right. It was so cute seeing Maru pressing the plunger like that with his paws. He is a very cute cat!

And he clearly makes Madoka so happy! That's a really good thing and it makes Romeo smile even more.

Small points of pink blush dotted his cheeks at the sudden praise. He should have been used to it by now, but it was hard to pin-point just what thing Madoka would find 'cute'. To him, pushing down the little lever didn't seem the least bit cute. But looking at the two others he could clearly see that he had done something that had made them both happy.

"... Uhh... well..." No, he wasn't embarrassed. You're embarrassed! He's just a cat... trying really hard not to find somewhere to hide.

Thankfully Madoka is 100% oblivious as to any embarrassment on Maru's part. Maybe she would have noticed it more easily if he had been in his human form, but while he's a cat and she's half-distracted by his adorable little paws, it's much harder to notice. So no need to hide, Maru, your secret is safe!

Instead Madoka just smiles as she glances back to Romeo as well.

"What do you say, should we do a practice round first? I'll put in the balls, and all you have to do is make your hippo move to eat as many of them as possible! Make sure the hippos are no longer hungry!"

"Okay!" He nodded, "So we just press these levers to make them eat all the balls?"

That sounded easy enough, he pressed his own leaver once, just to practice.

He smiled at them both happily. He's ready!

Maru yawned and rubbed at one of his eyes delicately, before he put his pawns back on the lever.

"I'm ready." His hippo was the hungriest. His was going to eat the most balls, he was sure of that!

Little does Madoka know what monsters she's creating here, clearly..

Maybe since she's much too busy putting all the balls into the arena! The girl seems to be particularly careful about it, like she's trying to make really sure that they're all neatly lying in the middle and no one has any advantage.. This is a fair hippo eating contest!

Once she's content enough with it, she moves back to a position where she can push onto her own hippo's lever.

"Okay. On three! One.. two.. three!"

He grins at her as she sets it up and nods with a grin. He's ready!

On three!

He sits ready, hands hovering above the lever until she says three and then he hits down, pressing the lever as quickly as he can, to try and catch some tasty balls for his hippo to eat!

On three... Maru waited a beat before he started pressing down his lever. He wasn't as fast as the other two, he had to use his whole body to bounce up and down after all. But he decided it was quality over quantity. His hippo was making some very good bites and taking balls every time... But he wasn't looking at anyone else, his eyes were only on the head of his little blue hippo.

To be fair, Madoka isn't going quite as hard as she usually would. And even usually she wouldn't be going that hard to begin with - she's not a very competitive person, after all. What's more important is that everyone is having fun.

And that's exactly why Madoka is going a bit slower than usually right now. Even as she's pushing down on the lever, she's not quite just watching her own hippo - she's looking at Romeo's and Maru's too, and even making sure to catch a glimpse of their faces. Just making sure they're having fun with this!

"Good job, you two, keep going like this..!"

Romeo is also focused on his own hippo, or more accurately his hands pressing the lever. It's quite tricky, he's going so fast that he sometimes misses altogether!

But he's having fun, he's laughing even though his hippo really hasn't eaten many balls at all. "Come on mister hippo!" He laughs, "You're hungrier than that!"

Maru glanced up when the others spoke, and in doing so his paws slipped off of the lever and he dropped to the table with a bit of a clatter.

Shaking himself off, he sat up and rubbed his head a bit, looking slightly sheepish. "Oops..." And then went right back to making his hippo try and catch the few marbles that remained.

Oh no.

Oh no!

Granted, Maru slipping and falling like that is not a big deal at all in the grand scheme of things. He doesn't even seem that hurt, since he shrugs it off so easily a moment later.. but while the last few balls are gobbled up by the hippos, Madoka releases her lever entirely, turning all her attention to the cat. Of course she's going to fuss. It's what she does.

"Maru..! Are you feeling okay..?" She gently strokes her hand across his head, like she's looking for a bump of any kind.

"Oh no!"

Romeo has also let go of his lever, even as Maru clambers back up to continue playing.

"Did you get hurt? Do we need to get a cat doctor?"

Maru, who hadn't thought his slipping had been an issue, looked a bit surprised at the reaction from the other two.

He looked up at Madoka then over to her friend, and almost laughed. Instead he gave a soft purr and let his eyes close. Maybe she was looking for a lump, but she was petting him too, and that was nice.

"I'm alright... No lumps or bumps. No doctor." His little paws had just slipped, that was all. "... Are we playing again?"

It's not that Madoka doesn't trust Maru, but even as he says there's no bumps, Madoka still looks on top of his head for a moment more.. just in case. You never know. Madoka is way too used to people saying they're okay even if they're not! (Thanks, dad.)

But he does seem okay, so after giving him a last pat on the head, she lets go and looks between the cat and Romeo.

"Sure, if you two want to! We can easily do a few more rounds!"

"As long as you are sure we don't need to get a cat doctor!" Romeo looked at Maru again, worried. "Head injuries can be tricky!"

But Madoka is really smart, so if she thinks it will be okay... He nodded, "We can keep playing!"

Maru leaned a little into the touch and then leaned against the lever once the hand left his head, a head he shook.

"No cat doctor. I'm fine. I wanna keep playing." He hadn't done himself any kind of damage, but he was touched that these two had worried about him. He softly purred and bounced a bit to make the hippo's head shoot out. "Lets play!"

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aparantly I didn't have this tracked...

You're all good!

no katy you're exiled now

sits in the shame corner

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we can probably wrap this up after you guys tag? c:

yep!

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