Anniversary Potion

Anniversary Potion

In one eastern Lunar Republics nation called that Mar islands, home to the republics most beautiful beaches, and resorts; melodic humming flowed through the home of a small island musician's home. Yet if any where to peer through the opened windows they would not find the owner of said home.

The local musician--the name of Melody Cord--has been away for the last nine days on a tour to each island and wasn’t due for home in another few short hours. Yet the same melodic humming echoed through the walls, reminding the empty house that it still had one resident within it.

Floating about, one of the native felines to the republics, know for their whimsical lives a wayward pranksters, and trouble makers--a Bakeneko cat, also known as a twintail. These creatures of pranking lived a married life of jokes and slapstick, though if they are able to find something--or someone--to hold on to, then usually the cat call their pranking days over.

As this cat floated around the house--her long dark-brown hair hanging from her head, nearly reaching the floor, but only managing to reach passed halfway of her back. She was doing something most twintails don’t do.

Reading.

Not just reading, like scanning over to get to the best part, but actual reading. Twintails usually are all born with a sense of detachment from the rest of the world, it is from this sense that they pull pranks, or perform other tasks to become noticed; or to remind themselves that they exist with the rest of the world.

Felines in general had this same sense of detachment, as do their cousins the griffons. Lions would remove themselves from the rest of the world by hiding within their own territory, Mau’s buried themselves in work, and knowledge using that as an exercise to find other matter mundane. The griffon race saw every new event in their lives as a test to prove themselves to the rest of the world.

However twintails would simply just wander about, causing mischief wherever they go. Most--if not--all of the pranks were harmless, they may loved mischief, but most twintails knew when to call it quits. And so they would move on to a new town, or settlement in order to find someone else to pull pranks on.

Though there is a time in every creature’s life where they crave something more than what they already know, or could learn. Yet all of these felines--at some point in their lives--realize that the world will continue to ignore you when you continue to ignore it.

Even with someone to care for, some felines still keep to their old ways, yet its nothing compared to what they would do without someone special to them.

The same was for this twintail as she flipped through the book she was studying. One entire year has passed since she has found someone to call lover, one year since the cat vowed to forever stay at her mare’s side, and today was the very same day of their anniversary. The twintail had already planned out the evening of her lover’s return from her tour but there was one thing she had to do first.

Smirking a confident smirk, the twintail closed the book shut tossing it to the small couch made only for two, and snapped her finger. To the untrained eye, items ranging from household kitchen items to foliage started to appear from thin air, but in reality the cat had already had all of the items set up in the kitchen she just simply teleported them in the room with her.

Keeping up with her own momentum, the cat clasped her hands together making an cast-iron cauldron appear in the middle of the room--give or take a few inches. The cat started to add various ingredients into the cauldron, she used her still fresh memory from alchemy book she just finished reading--mostly anyways.

The twintail wanted to make her anniversary with Melody a special one, just as special as their first time together. She happily sighed when she remembered how she wasn’t alone when it came to more nightly affairs. After their first time, the young couple soon became more adventurous with their love-making, though there were a few bumps in the road here and there. Yet they found out what works for them.

The only reason the twintail wasn’t with her lover right now was because she caught a ‘cold’ the day of Melody's scheduled departure. It pained her slightly that she had to lie to Melody’s face like that, not to mention make her worry, but it was for a greater good. She carefully added the right about to each ingredient, the book spelled out the consequences in vivid detail; most of which didn’t sound all too good.

Just as the twintail finished adding the last ingredient, the phone on the table started to ring. She quickly floated over to the landline, answering it in her usual cheery way. “Hello~ This is the home of Melody Cord, Kat speaking~”

“Kat?” A bright shine came to Kat’s dark-green eyes at the sweet sound of Melody on the other side. “Oh thank goodness, how are you feeling? You been eating right,” The mare asked, showing only concern for her lover.

Kat was overjoyed that Melody was that concern for her, even if she has a tendency to overreact to things. “Of course I’ve been eating Melody, you mustn’t worry so much.” She pressed the phone to her ear with her shoulders, so she could ‘sit’ in the air above the table. “So how was the tour,” Kat asked, keeping the phone close to her head while she floated around the table so as to not accidentally sever the line like she did the last few times. She couldn’t wait to surprise Melody when she got home, the mere thought of using the potion on her, and showing Melody brought an excited chill down her spine.

“The tour was great, we’ve met a lot of interesting people, but it would have been better with you around.” Yet again, Kat’s heart was sent soaring nearly out of her chest, and she almost did if it wasn’t for the phone-cord. “Though you may have to deal with being alone for a little while longer,” Melody said as though she was confessing a crime to one of the lunar guards.

“Huh, what do you mean? Did something happen Melody?” The news caught Kat by surprise, usually everything would be covered by the stage crew, and the bass guitarist for the band. The thought of being away from Melody any longer, not being able to smell her sweet scent, made Kat slightly upset.

“Well, we would be heading back right now, but it seems that Ace couldn’t hold back his sea-sickness. So right now we’re stuck until we can get something worked out for him. It shouldn’t take that longer but we’re looking at another hour or two.” Kat sighed, the thought of another hour from Melody was almost too much--already having gone nine days without her.

The heavy loom of dejected sadness was great enough to make Kat cease her cheery floating. “O-oh okay, I’m sure that everything will work out.” Melody could hear the sadness coming from Kat’s voice and it hurt her heart to even think about the dejected look that is most definitely on her face. “Tell Ace that I hope he feels better.”

“I will, and Kat if I don’t make it home in time. I wanted to say,” Melody started, wishing she didn’t have to say it over the phone instead of saying it in person.

“Melly?” Kat’s voice snapped Melody out of her worries making choose to do something she didn’t want to but yet needed to.

“I wanted to say that I love you, this year I spent with you have been the happiest of my entire life, and I would give anything to be able to spend another one with you.” Kat stood motionless, small tears started to form around her eyes, and she had to bite her lip to keep her sniffling quite--hopefully to where Melody couldn’t hear them. “Kat? Kat are you okay?”

“Y-yeah I’m fine.” Come on Kat, straighten up already. “I love you too Melly, the joy from the time I’ve spent with you has been more than I could ever hope to get from wandering around pulling pranks, and if I could I’ll take back all those years just so I can spend another one with you.”

“Kat,” Melody started, and Kat could tell that she too was on the verge of tears. “I love you Kat, I wish I could be there to say it to you in person, but I’ll do anything I can to get home as soon as possible.”

“I know you will, see you in a few hours?” Kat didn’t mean for it to sound like a question but from the way things are sounding she was all too sure.

“Yeah right, I love you Kat.”

“I love you too Melody, be safe.” It hurt, not be able to know exactly when she’ll see Melody, but Kat knew that it was out of her control.

“I will, see you in a few hours. Hopefully.” Melody hanged up the phone right after that, leaving Kat to deal with the new bit of information by herself. Hesitantly, she placed the phone back on the hook, and started to float around again this time without the joyful cheer.

She had it all planned out too, fix up the potion, drink said potion, wait until Melody got home, and surprise with the effects from the potion. Of said effects were as detailed in the book as a shaft growth elixir. With a male it would have grown the length of their shaft proportional to the amount of the potion that they drink, but with a female--without a shaft already--would have grown one also to the proportion to the amount that they drink.

“This isn’t fair,” Kat said, floating around the bubbling cauldron. Where the bubbling came from she’ll never know, seeing as she wasn’t dumb enough to lit a fire in the house, but frankly she didn’t care. “All that work, for nine days no less, and for what? A over the phone anniversary talk.” Few things in this world could make Kat angry, doing something and having it go to waste was one of them.

“Okay Kat, calm down. Melly said that she’ll be here in a few more hours than she originally thought.” As she floated about the place, she racked her mind thinking of how much of a time difference it would be.

“Math, fun.” Kat snapped her fingers, making a calculator from the bedroom appear in front of her. “Alright, I know that Ace gets seasick for at least several hours, but if they find a way to suppress that then they should be home in half the time.” As Kat talked out the situation, her magic was hard at work trying to keep up with her scattered mind. “Now if they were to be back at three o’clock, adding in Ace seasickness, and the time lost from it that comes to...six thirty-eight o’clock?!”

Kat couldn’t believe her eyes, not only there’s a three hour differences, but also a huge chance she could be wrong. “Gah! I hate Math!” She snapped her fingers again, placing the calculator back in the bedroom--hopefully--where it normally be. “You know what? I don’t care about time, I only care about Melody, and our anniversary.” Kat landed back on the ground with a huff, glaring at the cauldron.

“I got lost in the sinking forest because of you, attacked by a hive of bees, and nearly got mauled by a pack of insane fucking rabbits. Which I had to go back and pluck some of their stupid little hairs.” She still couldn’t close her eyes without seeing the rapid teeth from the crazed pack of rabbits, a hard week it has been for the poor twintail. “I also had to gut five bass-fish--which may have been good--still stuck to high hell.”

A large sickly-pink bubble formed and popped as the cauldron vacuous response. “Don’t take that tone with me, its your fault that I’m in this mess now.” Since Melody is not due for another near six hours, Kat was now stuck babysitting the bubbling cauldron. “There’s got to be something I can do,” She mused, picking up the alchemy book to read over the section that contains the potion.

“Now where is- Ah-ha! Here we go,” Kat started to read the section over to herself again, this time paying closer attention to the details of exactly how long it takes for the potion to take effect. “Okay so if I drink it now, the effects will be immediate, but highly intense and powerful. On the other hand if I cool it down, it’s happen slowly, and the feeling will be…” Kat stared at the page, the last part was smudged by a red stain.

“Great, just great. Now I don’t know which one to do. Okay if it feels intense now, later it’ll be...soothing? Maybe, hopefully.” Wanting everything ready, Kat got to work storing the bright--yet sickly looking--pink liquid in the refrigerator.

With the task done Kat turned to the kitchen sink and the weeks worth of dishes within it. “Guess I should get to work on the dishes, the bathroom, clothes, and...guh, the whole house it seems.” Kat snapped her fingers together, changing her outfit into that of a maid’s uniform. “I’m just not doing any of the windows.”