Forgetful Fauna [Callie Ukai]

"Byyeee!" Callie would call out as she went out the front door. "Don't worry, I'll be back before dark!" She'd quickly add before closing the door. She had a free day today! A day where she could do whatever she wanted without anyone telling her what to do... Even if most days were like this, she still found these days to be the best! Especially as she was raring to go so early today, she was in an adventuring kinda mood, maybe she'd go explore somewhere she had never been before! This city was so large and populated with so many different people and areas to look at, she'd be surprised if she managed to see it all before she was too old too!

As such, she had to make a start now if she wanted to venture out someplace real far and get back in time so that no one worries about her! She wouldn't want anyone to have a bad evening spending the whole time worrying now would she? So with a light jog that more resembled a fast walk, she set off in a seemingly random direction, she was never afraid of getting lost, she knew the scents around where she lived so well she could probably smell 'em from a mile away! Plus if worse comes to worse she could just follow her own trail back afterwards! There was nothing to worry about~.


After quite some time of wandering between different streets and roads, admiring all the new sights, sounds and smells that filled the young girl with glee. She felt it was about a good time to take a rest! After all, she didn't want to be walking constantly all day and make her feet hurt for the next few days! That would be no fun at all. She decided to explore a close by alleyway, she could easily rest up there and maybe find something cool to add to her collection! However, what she did find wasn't quite what the young vixen was expecting.

At first, she thought being able to catch the scent of a cat was a fairly usual thing to do in an alleyway! But there were hundreds of them! W-well, okay maybe not hundreds... Though I assure you it was a whole lot of cats! What were they doing? They all seemed to be gathering around an open window up high, they seemed to be enchanted by something. Stopping to keen her senses further, Callie could make out what sounded like music, a-and a boy singing? W-wait a minute... S-she was sure she recognized that voice! It had been so very long since she heard it, but she was sure it was the one she was thinking of... It had to be! As silently as she could, she would climb up an old set of stairs to get a closer look, as much as she was fairly sure she was right... There was still a possibility she was wrong. So she'd be quiet for now until she was certain!

"Uh oh..." The cats didn't take long to be distracted by Callie's presence, she hadn't really thought of how much of an obvious indicator that she was here it would be until now. Woops. I-it also seemed like some of the small little kittens were actually venturing into the room, maybe they were scared of her? T-that would be bad! She didn't want to scare anything!... Wait, she could hear a voice talking to the kittens.

Well... So much for the quiet approach, she'd giggle to herself as she heard the boy inside panic and run into a closet. Yeaaah, would of probably been a better idea to knock first! It was still early in the morning so maybe he wasn't dressed yet. She decided to wait outside for the time being, she didn't want to intrude into the house unwelcome, even if she was almost certainly sure that this was indeed the boy she remembered! She was so excited to see him again, she wondered if he realized who she was yet... Or if he'd even remember her? It was quite a long time ago and well, they were both very young at the time. She hoped he still remembered her.

Regardless, Callie would bend over to pet the closest cat to her, this one didn't seem to be as worried about her presence. "D'aww, aren't you a cute little thing?"

"Ow!" Callie would cry out, more so out of instinct than it actually hurting, she didn't expect the cat to bite her like that and it surprised her. Although, it seemed as though the cat was trying to get her attention, did it want her to go into the boys room? That seemed awfully odd to her that the cat would do such a thing, p-plus I don't think just cause a cat invited you in somewhere that counted as a formal invitation, y-ya know? She still wasn't sure if the boy would want to see her... I mean she had climbed up to his window out of the blue whilst he was singing. Yeaaah... She probably could of made a better entrance for herself, heh.

Taking a step towards the open window, Callie would stop as she could hear the boy talking from inside and the many meows of multiple cats returning the call each time he stopped talking. W-what...? D-did that mean that the boy could actually understand what the cats were saying? That was so cool! A-and they told him that I was someone he does know, so that means he must've told the cats about her for them to know who she was themselves... Aww, that's so sweet.

After receiving a verbal invitation from the boy himself that she could come in, Callie hesitated. Honestly a little nervous to talk to the boy after all these years, what if he had changed? T-they may not get along as well as they did so many years ago!... Eh, nah. She was sure it'd be fine! Even if thoughts like that crossed her mind she always tried to keep herself optimistic! Although... She'd giggle to herself as she thought of a plan. Let's see how well the boy remembered her!

The young vixen would kneel down underneath the window ledge, making sure that she wasn't visible and that she didn't disturb any of the cats. Slowly, she would grasp her teddy Lulu with both hands and hold her upright, gradually lifting the bears head up over the window sill until its whole head would be visible to the boy. Next, after trying to hold back giggling, Callie would push under the bears right arm making the arm wave up and down. Hehehe, if there was anyone who knew how to make an entrance it was Lulu!

"Hehe, sorry. I guess that may of been a little bit of a stretch." Callie would laugh, still finding her idea funny regardless of if it worked or not. She would pick herself up off the ground and look through the window, certifying her thoughts of who it was she was talking to. "Zavie! It is you! I knew it had to be!" She'd say with a smile and a wave. "Sorry for kinda barging up here like this, but I was in the area and I saw all these cats outside your window! Naturally I was curious about it all and then I heard you singing and I was sure I recognized your voice so I just had to come up to see if I was right! It's been so long since I've seen you, do you remember me?"

If she was then invited inside, Callie would climb her way through the open window and stare around the boys room. "Woaah... This place is awesome!" Everything looked so soft and cuddly, like she could just fall over wherever she wanted and she'd be in comfort heaven! She was most definitely amused with all the small little knick-knacks he had lying about, it reminded her of her own room so much. "This place is so lovely... Almost as lovely as your singing voice Zavie~." She'd say in a teasing kind of way before producing the small fox trinket she had kept a hold of all these years from her pocket and holding it out in front of her. "Guess these things take a little longer than I thought they would, ey? At least they worked eventually! I always knew it would one day let me find you."

Callie nodded her head in joy, he did remember her! If only just, but that didn't really matter as long as he did a little! She always forgot it might be harder for other people to remember people they had only seen one time before as well as she does. Her nose was super sensitive, and once she learned the scent of someone she liked it was almost impossible to forget! If she'd ever detect it again all the memories of that person would just come flooding back! It was kinda like a small storage of memory that was unlocked with a scent key? She thinks... That's how she imagines it anyway!

"Yup! That's me, I'm so glad you remembered me all this time!" She'd give the boy a quick hug, she had missed him a lot over these past few years. "Yup, of course I got outta there. I used the trees, I climbed up real high so that I couldn't be seen and then traversed from tree to tree until I made my way out of there! I managed to save 8D too! Even though that night did something weird to him and he learned how to talk suddenly, which was really awesome cause before hand I couldn't understand what he was saying with just text on his little monitor!" She took a moment to stop and breathe, remembering what usually happened to her if she kept talking none stop without doing so. "I actually ended up going with 8D and met up with Professor J and Kay and they invited me to live with them! Which was really cool and where I've been for the past few years."

Callie smiled at the memory of it all, to her the night was but a happy memory, most of anything bad that happened that day erased from her memory completely. "Oh! But what about you?" She'd enquire curiously. "I didn't see how you got out of there either, I had hoped and presumed you had though while the professor was making a distraction!" The professor was quite a brave man ya know! Well... Okay brave may not be the best word, maybe more so overly confident in a stupid kinda way. But that's what she loved about him! "Oh and what have you been up to these past five years? I bet you've gotten up to lots of fun during all that time, right!"

"Yup! I could hear ya from down in the alley, it was really cute! Even if I couldn't understand what words you were actually saying, hehe." She'd giggle. "Yeah you can say that again! There are hundreds of the little cuties here." It would be lying if she said she wasn't a little jealous. She absolutely loved animals and would love for an animal to love her back just as much as these cats seemed to love Zavie. Her smile would grow even more as the boy showed off his own charm. "You kept it all these years! So the magic truly did work, huh?"

"Oh awesome!... Although why was it scary to be carried?" She'd question, in genuine confusion. It was weird, she couldn't really think in her head what he could of meant aside from that. She knew that something must've happened that night, but her mind had completely blanked out anything bad that had happened. That was just the way her mind worked, there was never any room for bad thoughts and memories when there were so many happy thoughts to put in there!

"Ya-huh! I love living there, there is always something weird or funny going on to make me laugh!" Which was very true! Especially with 8D around, he'd never let her go a moment of being upset without swooping in to cheer her up. He was the best! "I also help out working there too! It's a lot of fun and I get some money for doing it too so I finally have a way to pay for things!" Although... She was very careful with her money and often kept it hidden away and didn't actually like to spend it. Which meant usually when she did have to buy something she never had any money on her anyway... Then the usual process would ensue!

"Oh so this place is your bakery? Cool! I've been looking for this place for yeeeaaarrrs!" Honestly she was still a little in shock that she had randomly found the place after all this time. I mean, the charm meant it had to of happened sometime! And as large as this city may be, it isn't infinite so if she kept looking there was no way she wouldn't find it eventually. "The Kitty Cat Mercenaries? How could you call anything this cute a mercenary!" She'd say jokingly. "Oh and, did I hear you talking to them earlier? Does that mean you can understand what they say back to you? That's so cool Zavie! I'd love to be able to do something like that... Oh! Do you think you could teach me?"

Callie would smile with such joy at the knowledge that the boy had cherished the gift she had given him. It was always nice to get a gift, but to give one and see someone love it was always much, much better! "You're a very sweet boy, ya know that Zavie? And I'm sure this Raia person is okay! Ya just always gotta stay positive. People will always turn up eventually when you want them to around here. That's what 8D always told me! And I found you didn't I?"

"Ya-huh! I'm more of just a helper around the place, cleaning up anything that needs to be cleaned, making sure all the tables are ready for the costumers, helping out back when needed. But most importantly making sure everyone there is happy! It's really fun!" She found it so much fun to work there, even if she did make everything she did there into a game. That never bothered anyone cause she still got the work done! She couldn't think of another place that would let her get away with how much she goofed off sometimes.

"Oh... Is it?" Callie would question in confusion when the boy brought up newspapers. Although, then again she had never actually read a newspaper... Or anything for that matter! "That would of been useful to know! B-but I'm still kinda... Ya know, not great with the whole reading thing. Heh." Callie would blush a little, before playfully batting Zavie's arm when he teased her, not hard enough for it to hurt though. "Yeah right! Thanks for appreciating how hard I looked for ya. I bet you took way more naps on your search then mine!"

"Oh, is that so Kitty Cat Prince?" She'd question jokingly as one of the cats walked up to her to sniff at her before curling up beside her. Callie would pet the little kitty and giggle. "They look super ferocious if ya ask me, hehe." She hoped that somehow the cats didn't understand her and were offended by that in anyway, she thought they were all super cute and hoped that they could possibly all like her even slightly as much as they did Zavie, animals were just too adorable not to love! "Aww... That sucks." Callie would tilt her head and pull a disappointed face as she tried to think of anyway that it could work to learn how to speak to animals. But nothing really came to mind. "A-are ya sure there is no secret to it? Maybe its your hat! Or maybe that charm you wear? It could be something weird like that, then again probably not. Hmm... D-do they understand me?"