OTA - Wooloo Shearing Season - Horseshoe 16

[luckydragonsfoot]

Who: Katsuya, his pokemon, and You!
Where: Gym, and Kitchen
When: Late Day 16 (After the train leaves the platform again)
What: It's time to shear Wooloo! ...And deal with a recent power development at the same time.
Warnings: Nah.


[GYM CARRIAGE]

While most people are getting ready to greet new people on the train platform, Katsuya has a veritable laundry list of things he intends to get done- and fast. Technically this could've been done a few days back- but ultimately, he had the sneakiest feeling that...well, he wouldn't really get the space he needed.

So, he keeps dear Amar comfy, gets his things ready, and focuses on other things. Drawing out on the leather he bought, what cut-outs need to be made for what he intends to gift with this bow for Madoka (though he'll be giving her the bow with the klefki, he thinks). Buying the agreed upon klefki. Buying himself his deck of cards, for that matter.

And then, then.

He'll be spotted in the Gym carriage after the train leaves the platform- shears slowly at work on a less than patient Amar.

"Oii oii, hold still dammit..! Y' fidget too much I'm gonna cut somethin' tha' ain't wool!"

"MmmmMMEEEEEH!" is the 'pouting' response, followed by an inky black dragon head poking out of the blond's shadow.

Katsuya is quick to gently pap it back down using his elbow. "Nope- you don' get t' help."

"AAaaAaaouuuuun...."

"Tha's a no! Geeze, take th's long t' show up at all, now I can't ev'n get y' t' sit tight..." he mutters, clipping away.

Boy that's a lot of wool though.

[KITCHEN CARRIAGE]

And now for the fun part.

"Geeze it's a good thing Blue got cookin'..."

Katsuya has taken one of the sinks, it appears, and if one looks inside they can see why. All of the shorn wool from his wooloo- currently looking very different (and jacket-free) at his side alongside Kaseri the ponyta- is now soaking in the sink, filled to the brim with somewhat warm water.

Katsuya himself sort of...pokes at it occasionally, and otherwise just sorts through his cards while sitting on a chair. "Well, least it'll clean up faster th's way I guess."

Mostly he has to soak it at this point...

Comments

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Pffff, yeah I don' think it's gonna be anythin' that big," the blond snorts.

"Keep'n her still would be good though yeah. Anyway I dunno- I'll get a decen' amount of yarn prob'bly, but it sure ain't enough for a coat."

[blue_ice]

"Mm. Figuring it out later, huh."

Kaiba just nods and crawls closer, gently offering a hand to Amar. He'll try petting first before trying to hold her.

"Easy now. Good girl...is there any special technique that keeps her calm?"

Probably should've asked that first.

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Ehh, not really. She's pr'tty good over all, jus' bein' whiny at th's point."

"Aaaouuuuu." A head pokes out of his shadow again.

His elbow shoves it back down again.

"Th's guy ain't helpin' either," he snorts, frowning at the shadow in question as it ripples. Amar at least, is receptive to being pet.

[blue_ice]

Kaiba shifts to hold Amar still, carefully out of the way of the shears...but he definitely heard something. His eyes narrow.

"...what was that."

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Take a guess, we talked abou' it two weeks ago," is Katsuya's casual reply as he carefully slices a cloud of wool off his wooloo.

"Go figure, bein' in a blizzard helped."

[blue_ice]

"Your ka..."

That sure was a Red Eyes. Kaiba shifts down so Jou can cut where he needs to, gently stroking Amar's hooves.

"Have you had any ill effects from it?"

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Yup! Feels weird t' call 'm tha' though, gotta say...shadow def'nitely suits 'm," he remarks, the dragon peeking up with big, curious red eyes.

"Oii oii, that doesn' mean y' get t' come out..!"

"Aaaouuuuun," is the dragon's whine.

[blue_ice]

"...Will it hurt anything if he does?"

Kaiba watches Amar's reaction to the beast carefully. He keeps stroking her, snuggling a little closer.

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Nnnnn..."

The dragon delivers the greatest puppy dog eyes it can muster.

"...Not on purpose anyway..."

"AOUUUUUU..."

"Don' 'awww' me, yer freakin' massive man!!"

[blue_ice]

"...how massive?"

Kaiba may regret asking. But they're in a big space.

[luckydragonsfoot]

Katsuya frowns, pausing from the half shorn sheep- who looks quite strange as a result.

Looking to Red Eyes...the dragon lifts out their head. Which is absolutely the same size of a horse's. A horse on the train would already be madness...

But the head is attached to a neck, which is now three feet out without sign of the shoulders...

"...Give an idea?"

[blue_ice]

"...yeah," Kaiba agreed. It was bigger than his Blue Eyes holo...but of course, that was designed to be roughly on par with humans.

"Probably better next time the train lets us out," he sighs. "But hey, anyway."

He'll wave to the dragon. It may be the rival of HIS dragon, but it's still a dragon. And his friend's protector. So that's somethhing.

[luckydragonsfoot]

Katsuya is going to have an interesting day indeed when he explains how large Blue Eyes actually looks when summoned outside the constraints of the train.

"Yeah, tha's my thinkin'. He tries t' stick 's head in everythin' too, so even jus' his head bein' out's no good."

Just as he says that, Red Eyes is moving their head over to sniff at Kaiba. Because of course they are.

[blue_ice]

Kaiba cranes his neck up to look, wondering. What a big boy.

"Wouldn't expect anything less from your shadow." But he welcomes it, offering a little smirk.

"Looking after him?"

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Aaaauuurrra-Aa-aa-aa-aa-aaaa..." Is the strange, clacking< reply, Katsuya pausing to stare.

The staring is replaced by a snort, when Red Eyes proceeds to (very lightly) butt their head against the other.

"Pfff. I'm thinkin' he wants some attention- payback f'r you sendin' Blue Eyes at me, huh?" Go on, give the dragon a scritch!

[blue_ice]

"Seriously?" Kaiba grunts as the dragon headbutts him. He reaches up a hand, settling it on the wide head...and he gently strokes their horn.

"All right. You did well, bringing Jou back to us. Is that what you wanted to hear?"

[luckydragonsfoot]

"I don' think he wants t' hear anythin', he's just wantin' t' get pet an' such," Katsuya snorts.

"'s basically a giant cat, an' you jus' fell for it man! Now he knows he'll get th' attention!"

[blue_ice]

"...ugh," Kaiba grumbles, but it's fond. He continues to pet the dragon, resigned to his fate.

"Has he been helping you with the shearing? Or hindering?"

[luckydragonsfoot]

"Ehhhh...Latter t' be hones'. Keeps gettin' 's face int' everythin', I dunno how th' hell I pulled th's off before..."