And currently at her office and home, Nali was taking care of a patient. A Lycanthrope who had come into her office with some rather nasty silver burns.
Kneeling down as she rubbed a special salve onto the werecheetah's leg to take care of the silver burns, Nali sighed and looked at him. "You know, Raphiel, you really should be more careful when it comes to disposing of silver weaponry."
The werecheetah, Raphiel blushed a bit and scratched the back fo his head. "Yeah, yeah, I know... I kinda lost balance because I was trying to carry to much tuff at once, and had the stuff literally crash down at my feet."
Chuckling a little, Nali rubbed the salve into Raphiel's shin thoroughly. "Perhaps you shouldn't be in such a hurry to do your work then." She suggested to the rather light-hearted werecheetah/advanced golem.
Raphiel smiled and nodded his head. "Yeah, you're right, Nali. I know I should have been more carefuk, but I just wanted to make sure I had my job done before the other got back, and had those nasty weapons disposed of." Raphiel sighed a bit. "I was hoping they'd take me on a mission soon."
Nali smiled warmly as she wrapped a bandage around Raphiel's leg. "Now Raphiel, you should know that rushing through your work can come off to others as to show you being impatient and immature. Both are characteristics unfitting members of the Edge Guard."
Flattening his ears back, Raphiel apologized to the healer. "Sorry, Nali..."
Nali couldn't healp but laugh lightly at the werecheetah naive nature and almost child-like innocence. "It's okay, Raphiel. Just make sure to take your time when doing your work, and to be more careful from now on."
"I will!" Raphiel said brightly, already out of his saddened state.
Finishing up with wrapping a bandage around his shin, Nali stood back up and looked at Raphiel. "It will be all right for you to stand now."
Hearing that, Raphiel sat up from the chair wooden chair he was sitting in. He stood on his feet, and was relieved when he didn't feel any pain from the pressure he had on his burned leg. "WOW! I feel okay! Thanks, Nali!"
Nali giggled a little and smiled. "Anytime. And for being a good patient, I'll give you a lolipop." Yeah, it sounded corny to say that to someone who looked like an adult, but seeing Raphiel's eyes widen and sparkle, she knew she made the right comment.
"Do you have any cherry-flavored ones?" Raphiel asked, his eyes wide and bright, sparkling with a mixture of hope and joy.
"I'll see what I have." Nali said. "Wait right here." She commanded as she opened a door and left the room to check on her stoage.
Raphiel sat down in a chair, grinning widly. "Mmm... Cherry..."
However, his ears perked up as he heard another door open. He turned his head and saw his teammates, practically limping into the office. "Oh, hey guys!"
They stopped in their tracks. "Raphiel?" Onoli asked. "What are you doing here?"
Raphiel shrugged hus shoulders. "Silver burn..." His eyes then widened as he concentrated on the werecat carrying Sheila. "WOW! Are you a werecheetah like me? You're pretty big! Oh, what's with the teeth? They dentures or something?"
Ranma's left eye twitched a bit. He looked down at Sheila in his arms. "That's a werecheetah?"
Sheila chuckled nervously. "Eh heh... They're not all bad, you know..."
Ranma sighed, but accepted that answer from Sheila. "All right."
"Hey, Raph." Gar said, while still leaning against Ranma. "You all right?"
"I'm fine, but what happened to you guys?" Raphiel asked.
"The bandits were prepared for us." Onoli said seriously. He looked over at Ranma and said, "Fortunately, Ranma here had interrupted the fight, and turned the odds over to our favor."
"Ah! Ranma eh?" Raphiel asked as he walked over to the Sabretoothed werecheetah. "I'm Raphiel Rey! Pleased to meet ya'! Thanks for helping my friends."
Ranma smiled a little. This werecheetah seemed a little 'slow' mentally, but he seemed to have a heart of gold. "Ranma Saotome. Pleased to meet'cha."
It was then a door creaked as open and Nali stepped out, holding a wrapped lolipop in her hand. "You're in luck, Raphiel. I did indeed have cherry... Flavored... And..." The Healing Mage trailed off as she looked at the gathered group of battered Edge Guard, and in the center was something akin to a werecheetah... But the black fur, and those fangs... Those dangerous-looking fangs.
A few flashes of memories from nali's childhood, as she was the only person to realize a bit of the truth behind what Ranma was. "Sabretoothed?" She asked, before she literally fainted from the overwhelming feelings and fell over onto the ground.
"NALI!" "MY LOLIPOP!"
"... Ranma!?"
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(Posted Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:20)
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