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[orions_shadow]

'Matty'...

Shadow was napping in the bar, as he often did when he wasn't harrassing officers with stupid questions, or trying to find something interesting to do, like playing in the Jeffreries, when he suddenly lifts his head. Animals and their hearing, his ears are twitching, rotating to zero in on something before he hears something again, jerking to his feet and heading for the door.

He stands in the door, awkwardly bumps into someone walking into the bar and starts heading out into the hall.

Again, the voice calls out his name.

"Mom?" He finally calls back, coming to a fork in the halls, he looks in either direction.

"Where are you?"

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[so_vain]

Cat has been avoiding Ten Forward, due to the number of other cats there. It hasn't stopped him skulking in the corridors, though. He heard and smelt Shadow. And he could tell something wasn't quite right. So now would be a good time.

He put on a big grin and came around until he could be seen. "She's not here." He sounded particularly happy about that pronouncement.

[orions_shadow]

The young leoine turns his head to peer at Cat, as if he had any idea what was even going on. The beast grumbles, sneering slightly at the annoying, obnoxious sort-of feline.

"How do you know?" Oh, but that grin. That stupid grin on that stupid face. That was enough to put the hair on the boy's head on it's end in anger.

Really? You're making fun of him? Of his hearing his mother?

[so_vain]

"I don't smell her." He knew exactly how many cats there were around here - too many.

[orions_shadow]

Problem with that theory, Cat? Shad's mom was human.

"Shut up...you don't know what she smells like..."

[so_vain]

He shrugged. "If you know what she smells like, you find her." Cat was most definitely not going to help.

[orions_shadow]

That's a good point though. He can't actually pick up her scent anywhere. Might be due to the fact this place smelled so damn sterile.

"Are you trying to make me mad? Cos' it's working." Mostly in just the way he approached the situation. Shad doesn't take it too kindly apparently.

[so_vain]

"Maybe." There was a small smile on his face. He didn't like this lion and was quite happy to wind him up. "What're you going to do about it?"

[orions_shadow]

Shad was willing to agree to disagree, as it were. Avoid each other because it's not like Cat didn't make it clear that he didn't like him before.

But now? Now it's an open challenge from his perspective,and wound up he was. Very much so.

In a blink of an eye, he leaps at Cat, aiming to grab him by the shoulders and take him down to the floor.

"Rraah! M'gonna teach you some manners!"

[so_vain]

Cat's fighting generally involved bazookoids. Not having one handy - or indeed anywhere on the ship, made fighting tricky. Fortunately, he still had some instincts. Which were to twist as he went down. So if Shadow held on Cat would end up on top. If he let go, Cat would be able to roll away and go in for an attack of his own. The heels on his shoes could do a bit of damage, if he kicked out.

[orions_shadow]

He didn't know what that means. No, he takes the twist and ends up on his back, the breath knocked out of him. That doesn't stop him from gripping his claws into Cat's shoulder with his claws to prevent such an escape and swinging his other paw out at the mutant's face.

[so_vain]

Cat cried out and avoided the paw. But it was entirely by accident as he was looking round at his shoulder and trying to get out from Shadow's claws without ripping the material. "You've ruined my suit!"

Which was, of course, the most important thing.

He took a leaf out of Lister's fighting style, and went for a head butt.

[orions_shadow]

A headbutt probably would have worked on a human, but a lion? A super powered lion? He had endurance and pain tolerance. He released Cat's suit only to try and grab the catman around the neck with his muscular leoine arms.

"Good! It's ugly anyway!"

[so_vain]

Now Cat was really annoyed. "You have no style," he complained, as he attempted to get away from the lion's arms without messing up his hair. Which was never going to work, but Cat wasn't quite prepared to admit that yet. But he did try to aim some small kicks at Shadow's legs, although this really wasn't the right angle for it.

[orions_shadow]

The kicks to his legs were annoying, and the heel of cat's shoe nails him in one of his middle digits, he releases him, snarling and dropping to all fours.

"Who needs style? Style is for girls!" Okay so he still had a little bit of that naive 'boys vs girls' mentality. Sue him.

[so_vain]

"And cats." Cat was back on his feet. From here he could look big. "I'm naturally cool." He straightened his suit, worrying over the creases. Why had he left his portable iron in his room?

[orions_shadow]

"Puh. Naturally a tool." The young cat snorts, going to lick his paw and groom himself, not realizing that in doing so he's basically mirroring Cat preening his coat.

"You're the one getting up in my grills, tryin' to trick me. That's not cool."

[so_vain]

"I'm not trying to trick you." He pulled a comb out of his pocket and worked on putting his hair back in place. "I was not helping you. I don't help anyone."