The good doctor Michi Mizuno walked as gracefully as she could down the street, owing to the ace bandage wrapped around one ankle. Her daughter, stunned at the facets of her parent that were revealed that night, followed with stars in her eyes. The elder Mizuno was grumbling audibly. "Those hidebound idiots!" she growled. "Not able to see the benefits in something, just because it would make them obsolete! Dam them to Hell!"
She swung around the corner and almost rammed into a Splicer. She backed up slightly, the froze as the sight in front of her became clear. The female Splicer was of a new type of Splice that had begun to appear in Japan, a 'Taur-Fur. Like the Centaurs in ancient mythology, from the humanoid waist of the upper torso, the body was wedded to a fully quadrpedial animal's body where the animal's head would normally be. However, instead of a fully human torso, A 'Taur-Fur continued the animal theme by having a anthropomorphically matching 'humanoid' section.
The Splicer she was looking at was based upon a four-tailed kitsune. The woman was covered in a coat of the most intense red, only the paws and hands colored differently by their pelt of the darkest midnight black. The Fox-woman bowed her torso forward. "My pardons, sensei," the Spliced woman apologized.
Shaking herself out of her stupor, the pediatrician returned the bow and chuckled. "No problems, miss," she responded. "My mind was pondering a problem and I wasn't paying attention." She looked closer at the woman, noting the woman's total garments consisted of a red silk blouse and a belt-pack, and began to blush. "Where is your clothing, madam?" she squeaked.
The 'Taur covered her muzzle as she began to chuckle. "That is a funny question," she gasped out. Her twinkling eyes glanced over to take in Dr. Mizuno's daughter. "Perhaps we three could talk over a cup of tea."
Michi glanced at her child, taking in the awed expression and the slight blush, then laughed. "Perhaps we should," she agreed. She stuck out her hand. "I am pleased to meet you. I am doctor Michi Mizuno."
The Splicer took the offered hand in her own. "Scarlet O'Brannan," the furred woman replied, giving the hand a firm shake. "Very pleased to meet you."
The two unSpliced people were daintily sipping at their tea cups as the four-footed woman relaxed on the pillows beside them. Ami had come out of her awe-induced haze and had begun to grill the daring kitsune-woman. Scarlet had quickly given concise, if not complex, answers. From the blush developing on the girl's face, both the adults decided that very soon become another of the ranks of the recently-furred. As they finished their conversation, Dr. Mizuno asked the burning question on her mind. "Scarlet-san, why would you go with that particular Splice?"
The kitsune-taur shrugged her upper body's shoulders. "To make myself more," she paused momentarily, collecting her thoughts, "acceptable."
At the older woman's raised eyebrow, the red-furred fox-woman chuckled. "Pre-Splice, I was rather tall," she admitted. "Most adults would purposely slight me and the children would be intimidated. Since I've done this, the children are much calmer about me. I look like some sort of animated doll or a plushie." She graced the seated woman with a wide smile. "I feel more a part of life, like this."
In that moment, realization hit the pediatrician. With a bright sparkle in her eyes, Michi stood and bowed deeply to the still-seated Splicer. "I believe that I have found the path that I need to follow," she stated in formal tones. "My thanks to you, Ms. O'Brannan."
Scarlet lowered her head in response. "I am glad to have been able to guide you on your way, Doctor."
The two Mizunos left the tea-shop with a purpose in their stride, as the kitsune-woman polished off her drink, murring gently.
The pair of Splicers stopped in front of the entrance to the Anthro Diner and looked at each other, staring a quick, yet silent, conversation in the glance. The smaller of the pair, standing on two legs, nodded her head from under the the shadows of her concealing hood and reached for the handle. As she was about to touch it, the door flew open to disgorge a screaming redhead.
Her eyes rolling in panic, her hair sproinged out in places, Naru took one glance at the cloaked pair and waived her hands in the air as she ran off, screaming at the top of her lungs. "AAAAUGH! THE FURRIES ARE COMING! THE FURRIES ARE COMING1"
The larger of the pair, standing on four feet, shook her head and sighed. "Who was that?"
The smaller of the pair hung her head and let out a mushroom-puff of breath. "She's an old friend of Usagi's," she admitted in a small voice. "How embarrassing..."
The larger one reached out from her cloak, placing a large, fine-fingered and azure-furred hand/paw onto the smaller's shoulder. "She'll adapt," the larger woman soothed. "Now, let us get something to eat."
As the group of Senshi pushed into the booth, their leader pulled up a stool by the table as her cat hopped off to sit beside her fellow Mausian. Usagi took a good look around, then let her still-intimidating glare settle on the only non-furred person in their midst. Setsuna was ignoring the rest and looking over to the doorway.
Before the blond-haired, black-furred kitty-hawk could say anything, the emerald-haired woman spoke. "It looked like the last of the group ha...." Her eyes widened comically. "What in the name of Serenity?!!?" she gasped.
All heads turned to stare at the pair in the entrance that were taking off their cloaks. The larger of the two had decided to mate a lioness body with a torso of a mouse-woman to create a type of Chimera-taur. The pairing was striking, but paled to the fact that the fur that covered her body was of a ocean blue color. She wore the white smock-jacket of a doctor and her features were familiar to the younger girls. It was Ami's mother. That meant that the other...
The smaller of the two took off her cloak. She was a raccoon-girl, similarly hued to her mother. Where a normal raccoon was blessed with a tan colored pelt, Ami's fur was a bright cobalt blue. However, this wasn't what had the others gaping in surprise. It was what was over the fur that shocked them.
Starting at the feet, which were wrapped in flesh-hugging sapphire leather boots with six-inch silver spike heels, the eyes of the group roamed over the equally tight-gripping silver-blue leather slacks and white silk blouse topped with a silver-blue vest covered with silver rings, studs and zippers. From one wrist dangled a wide bracelet, which the group could clearly see had the word 'Queen' written on it in flowing English script. Around the normally-shy girl's waist, in the place of a belt, there was wrapped an obviously very functional cobalt-blue hued bull-whip. The group around the table blinked in unison as their teammate identified them and gave them a saucy wink.
Makoto whispered out of the side of her muzzle, confident that the others in the group, including Setsuna, would be able to hear her statement. "It's always the quiet ones, isn't it?"
Stunned bobbing was the unanimous response.
Haruka was livid. First her daughter, then her favorite strippers! She was in the garage, filling bottles with an amber-coloured liquid, giggling madly when her lover found her.
"Love!" she gasped. "Are you mad?"
The blond whirled to face her, sloshing some of the fluid onto the cement floor. "Mad?!?" she snarled. "Fucking yes, I'm mad! Those fucking freaks made my daughter a MONSTER!" Her bellows of rage blue the refined woman's turquoise hair straight back. "Then one of those fuckers had the gall to steal my favorite hangout and make it a haven for those abominations!" She leaned in close to growl into her shocked lover's face. "We've fought freaks like this before. Kill 'em and the effects go away."
Michiru could only swallow dryly, as she looked into those maniacally-flashing blue orbs.
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