They weren't the same species though, so that was perfectly fine.
Haruka was a Cheetaun, after all. She had a short fur, slight hint of a muzzle, long tail, and bright golden eyes. She also had a mane of longer hair that she kept trimmed short. As the pokegirls all went through stages of growth instead of continually growing in the human manner, she was just recently at the Juvenile stage - meaning she was taller and thinner than Akane, looking as if she'd reached her eleventh year instead of being eight like Ranma and Akane.
"Yah," declared Akane, running forward.
twist, turn, bend, duck, went Haruka, the human opponent seeming to go into slow motion to her accelerated mode. Each punch, kick, or grab, was neatly avoided as Haruka tried to figure out this odd situation.
Ranma pouted briefly, having wanted to be the one challenged, but a drifting smell quickly drew him away from the dojo and sent him in the direction of the kitchen.
That left Soun as referee as Akane threw everything she had into a fight with a young girl who blurred out of the way of each attack.
Haruka was panting when Akane finally stopped, and Akane was breathing too hard herself to ask any questions. Soun felt inclined though. "So you're being taught Anything Goes?"
Haruka smiled, showing her fangs. "Yep. Spar with Ranma all the time!"
Akane gulped air before asking a question. "Why... Why didn't you fight back?"
Haruka shrugged. "Wasn't needed. Besides, I just hit this growth stage and I'm still a little clumsy."
"Growth stage?" asked Soun.
Haruka explained. Pokegirls went through spurts of rapid growth and development. From Baby to Infant to Juvenile to Young Adult, then onto full pokegirl status when they reached Adult. Finally reaching Mature and Old Adult and Matron status eventually. It made you a little clumsy when you were going through those early stages of growth, mainly because every time you woke up your arms and legs had gotten longer.
"Can I?" said Akane, holding up a hand and feeling she knew the other well enough now to ask.
Haruka considered her with those bright golden eyes before consenting.
Akane stroked the pokegirl's short fur, feeling the soft silky warmth of it.
Haruka slitted her eyes in pleasure, as she did rather enjoy being groomed.
The mother watched, curious when one of the girls had interrupted the cooking lesson to ask about something in their back yard.
Makoto found a nice place with a lot of sun, and further demonstrated that she wasn't a human girl by doing something perfectly natural to her. A sickly looking tree would have eventually been dug out and replaced with a koi pond.
Makoto's physical form seemed to fade away as she approached the dying sapling. The wood trembled and begin to shift around, new leaves popping out on bare branches. The wood groaned as it expanded and sent new roots and branches out.
In a few minutes it had stopped, the wind now rustling through the new leaves sounding almost as if it were giving a contented sigh.
As for Mrs Tendo, she just stared at it as she tried to understand what had just happened to the girl she'd been following.
"Makoto's a Dryad," said a voice.
Mrs Tendo looked to the side, seeing the catgirl who didn't have fur was lying curled up on a rock.
Minako opened one blue eye to regard the Tendo's mother. "She's a Dryad so that's how she sleeps and gets a lot of her food and stuff. She links with a tree and kinda merges with it. She'll be in there for awhile, she hasn't done it for awhile. The rest of us will take turns guarding her tree while she's in there."
"Oh," said Mrs Tendo, realizing that their new guests might have special dietary requirements. "She's fine like that?"
"Myesssss," said Minako, stretching out one limb at a time. "Nyah. Thiss is nice."
(Posted Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:36)
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