The predator crouched low, ears folded back. Each step silent as it moved closer and closer. Breathing became shallow as the anticipation of the pounce came greater and greater. Suddenly the prey moved causing the creature to instantly freeze. It had to remain undetected if it wanted to catch its prey. The prey didn’t seem to notice the predator returning to its task unaware of the danger lurking just a few feet away.
Another step inched the great animal ever closer to its prey. Everything was going perfectly. The muscles in the beast hind legs tightened as its tail gave a distinctive twitch. One more step….
”SATSUKI!!!!” The mighty yell of the beast echoed through the laboratory shattering the calm serenity that was stringently enforced.
”GAAH” Came the cry of the beast’s prey as it was reduced to the ground.
When the creature pounced more then its prey came tumbling to the ground. Beakers filled with strange chlorine colored liquids cascaded down along with a table and the chair that the prey had been sitting upon. These objects littered the floor around the beast and its prey.
”Satsuki I luv you!” the creature purred before its sandpaper like tongued massaged the skin of its prey’s cheek.
”Damn it… White Tiger get off me!” The prey didn’t seem to enjoy having a 600 pound white tiger on her chest and violently shoved at it to get the creature off.
The large cat paid no heed to the human that now lay prone under its massive paws. The creature just continued to rub against the human known as Satsuki affectionately. A loud purr echoed from its maw. Vainly the human struggled until an idea came to Satsuki’s head. Reaching into her pocket she procured a small round object.
”Hey W.T. do you want a ball?”
Instantly the great cat eyes widened as it jumped back. Satsuki rose to her feet holding out the small circular object in front of her. The cat’s eyes became glued to the ball as its gaze intensified to notice nothing else but the ball. Satsuki grinned with delight; now having the creature that caused her nothing but torment under her complete and utter control.
”Ball…” came the mindless reply of the great beast.
Satsuki threw the ball up in the air watching the tiger eyes shoot up and follow the ball up then down. Nothing could distract the cat from its current line of focus, it was completely mesmerized. Remembering the massive amounts of work the young scientist had yet to perform; Satsuki realized she really didn’t have time to play around. Turning back to her work she half-hazardly tossed the round object over her shoulder. Little thought was put into what direction the ball traveled.
The tiger was after the sphere in an instantly, skidding across the floor as claws clicked against the white title of Satsuki’s lab. A bull in a china shop would have made less damage. As the ball bounced in a care free manor bouncing off what ever it came into contact with; the white tiger with its limited traction ended up skidding into what ever the ball bounced off. A few casualties that fell because of the great cat’s grand chase included, a desk full of test tubes, a tank of strange orange liquid, and a computer. The most unfortunate casualties was the ficus that had survived purely off Satsuki’s failed elixirs. May be that was a good thing for the ficus was starting to develop a taste for raw meat.
The ball didn’t stop in it’s bouncing in the laboratory, no this ball was made off a highly bouncy substance that didn’t lose its bounce until caught. It had been made by Satsuki just for the tiger, because Satsuki was sick of the Tiger’s constant distractions. After causing so much destruction in the lab the ball bounced its way out of the laboratory door and into the hall. To say the least the chaos that had ensued in the lab was only a warm up to what happened in the halls…
A trail of destruction followed in the tiger’s wake as it chased the ball that danced just out side of its reach. More things where left broken or destroyed including a priceless golden unicycle. No one really knew why the unicycle was there but no one really asked. It wasn’t until the great rumble that spawned from the tiger running through the hall that some one decided to put an end to the tiger rampage. This person happened to Chip; a resident of the hotel that Satsuki built.
”WHITE TIGER!” The yell could have been heard in the very bowels of the hotel.
In an instant the white tiger’s microscopic attention span fell upon the owner of the voice. The ball continued its journey now with out the tiger. Turning to face the voice the tigers crouched low, knowing it was in trouble.
”I’m Sorry!!” the great creature howled as giant alligator tears rained down its face.
Chip sighed surveying the anarchy around him. He remarked silently to himself how good of a job the tiger had done to the hallscape to dramatically alter its normally neat and tidy appearance. Only white tiger chasing one of Satsuki’s balls can do this much damage so it wasn’t hard for the always clever Chip to figure out what had happened.
”Why where you bugging Satsuki?” Chip asked in a very straight forward manor.
”Eh…” the great beast paused as it thought about the question presented to it. “Oh oh yeah yeah.” The tiger sat up straight. “Humpty dance is the dance so do the hump!” the big cat chanted.
The look that appeared on Chip’s face could have made even the most stoned face person snicker. “WHAT?!” The tiger blinked before it repeated its self “Humpty dance is the dance so do the hump!”
Chip smacked his forehead trying to process a proper response for what the tiger had just said. “Who told you that?”
The white tiger then paused again as it thought. “Um… The Lingerie Salesman!”
Chip again didn’t know how to repond to the information he was presented. “Lingerie Salesman?” The words escaped from his mouth and instantly fell onto the floor in a pool. “What Lingerie Salesman?”
The white tiger grinned like the Cheshire Cat “The Chicago Lingerie Salesman!”
”You know what I’m just going to stop asking questions… Now if you’ll excuse me I need to get acquainted with a bottle of whiskey.” Chip slunk off to drink himself into what seemed like a saner world.
”Umm…. OKAY!” The huge cat watched Chip leave.
For a long while the great predator just sat there staring off in the direction that Chip had disappeared. That was until a distinctive bouncing sound made the white cat turn it’s head. A wide grin spread across the White Tiger’s face as the sphere bounced into its view.
”BALL!!!!!!!!!!!” the chilling sound was quickly followed by the sound of crashing.
All in all it was just an average day in the Satsuki’s hotel…
Kadington · Tue Jun 17, 2008 @ 05:25pm · 0 Comments |