Title: Dragon Pet 1/1
Author: Mistress Tsunami
Archives: my site, eventually, and prolly mediaminer under _shinchansgirl_ .
Pairings: none really. 1x2x5 and 3x4 if you look *really*really* hard.
Warnings: Silly little one shot ficlet. Weirdness. OOCness. I have no beta or else this would be beta'd. Spell check is a wonderful thing, however I hardly ever use it. And an OC dies, but we don't like her very much anyway.
Disclaimer: I own no part of Gundam Wing or the Slayers universe from which my original characters are supposed to come from. The story and OCs are mine, tho. No stealing. And I guess I gotta claim the grammar and spelling errors, too.


Kit was, decidedly, not happy. She could not, however, tell you exactly why.

Maybe it was the fact that she was hungry.

Maybe it was the fact she had run into that goddess-thrice-damned sorceress.

Maybe it was the fact that said sorceress had blasted her Lord-only-knows where, and she was now stuck wandering around this town in human form. She forced a check on her anger.

Oh yes, when she found Lina Inverse, she was going to *kill* her.

**Flashback**

"Prepare to die, Kit Silverdragon!"

"Huh?"

"Lina, watch out, you're going to hit the - "

"Dragon Slave!"

"Transport Rock!"

"Oh no!"

"I'll kill you Lina - " Thud CRASH. "Ouch."

**End Flashback**

Oh yes, Lina was going to pay, but first, food.

Wondering about the strange names on the stores, Kit decided that 'Pizza Parlor' had possibilities.

If anyone thought that a girl with a tail sticking out of her jeans was odd, they wisely didn't mention it.

~~~***~~~***~~~

"Ex_cuse_ me, I _do_ have a schedule to keep, people!" Kate decided that this was not one of her better days. The explosion of that big rock she had been hiding behind had taken her Gods-only-knew where. Not that she was complaining, anything to keep her away from that dark-haired, justice-seeking, freak princess, but she had people to steal from!

Somehow, she doubted that fact mattered much anymore, but hey, one could always hope.

~~~***~~~***~~~

The man was absolutely crazy. Money? For food? Couldn't he tell that she was a dragon, for Ruby-eye's sake? Not that she was a _dark_ dragon or anything, no. Kit was what one might call a first class empath/assassin. A small one, but a good one none-the-less. She took pride in the fact that she could turn off her emphatic abilities at will.

But right now, she couldn't quite figure out how to turn them back on.

And the cursed man was getting distracted again. This time it was a guy with a long, chestnut-brown braid and vibrant purple eyes that had gotten his attention.

"Afternoon, Duo," the man greeted the new boy.

"Afternoon, Bill, what's new?"

"Not much, the usual?" 'The usual what?' crossed Kit's mind, but she was a little too depressed to ask.

"Yeah, with an extra Hawaiian."

"All right, carry out, right? 50 creds for the lot." The boy - Duo - placed something on the table. "And do me a favor and try and cheer the missie there up. I think she's foreign."

Kit bristled, more a defensive move than anything.

"Well hey there," Duo greeted. "What's up?"

Kit was in a bad mood. Too bad for him. "I'm lost, I'm hungry, I have no idea what what's-his-face over there is talking about," she told him sharply, "I'm alone, and I wanna go home. Go away."

Duo whistled. "What a streak a bad luck." //I can't just leave her like this...// Duo thought. "Where's your home?"

"The Isle of the Silver Dragons."

"Uh...Neva heard of it. Name's Duo, by the way. Yours?"

"Kit Silverdragon."

"Kit, huh? Cute." //Maybe...// "Hey, I think I know some guys who can help ya out. They're the ones I'm gettin' the pizza for. Wanna come?"

Kit thought nothing of it. No one would dare harm a silver dragon. In fact, she thought he was being rather nice. "I guess so..." Another bout of depression hit her. "It's not like I have anywhere else to go." //That's the only problem with us silver dragons, we're no bigger than cats! I couldn't fly anywhere fast if I wanted to.//

"Great! I'm sure they'll be thrilled!" He pulled out a small device commonly called a cell phone. "I'll just give 'em a call so that they know..." He punched in some numbers and held the phone to his ear. "Hey! Fei-fei! We're gonna be havin' company over for supper 'night, so set an extra place. And tell Hee-chan to keep the laptop out 'cause we gotta search for a flight ta get 'er home. Thanks, buh-bye!"

Kit stared at him in shock.

Bill, having heard only Duo's phone conversation, quietly laughed to himself. Duo hadn't even left enough room for this 'Fei-fei' to speak, let alone argue the point.

The girl was in good hands, so long as she could keep her sanity, which was questionable with Duo around.

~~~***~~~***~~~

Kit followed Duo nervously. More nervously than usual, in fact. That was because she was starting to panic, realizing for the first time that she was as far from home as she could possibly be.

She was in another world.

Another factor that contributed to her unease was the fact that she had panicked when one of those shiny noise-making machines - in other words, a car - had zoomed by. She had tried to change into her dragon form in her panic, and hadn't.

Ok, so she could feel that her teeth were sharper than before. Improvement? Yes. And, yes, *maybe* she had lost a couple of inches, closer still. But the fact still remained that she hadn't been able to pull off a full change.

This served to both irk and confuse her to no end. And Duo had the gall to look at her with a look that clearly said, 'You're tail twitches? Cool! Um...why are you playing with it?' all in one nano-second.

Men! They just never understood. Not that anyone on this planet would understand her problem anyway.

It crossed Kit's mind that they were quite a distance from the town, but for her it did not seem odd, or even that far away. She was surprised when she walked into the cabin, though. To her it seemed so...plain. And there were *four* more people living here?

"Hey guys! We're back!" Duo called. One by one the rest entered, Wufei sputtering something about 'unfair warnings' and reminding Kit of the freak princess Amelia. "Ok everyone, this is Kit. Kitten, these are the guys. Alrighty then, let's eat!"

"Maxwell, you forget your manners," Wufei chided. "My name is Wufei. Chang Wufei," he told Kit.

"Quatre Winner, pleased to meet you."

"Trowa Barton."

"Heero Yuy."

Kit smiled. "Pleased to meet you," she said with a polite bow. She then turned slightly to sit beside Duo with a calm "Let's eat," and felt all four sets of eyes staring at her.

Or, more precisely, her tail.

She couldn't help it, her tail twitched. She *hated* it when people stared at her tail. She sent them her best polite glare. Quatre politely turned away, but Heero, ever the direct one, walked up and pulled it.

Kit screeched, turning to him with ears flat back and teeth bared.

Heero glared the Heero-glare-of-death-(tm), and Duo gulped. "Um, Kit?" he asked, "What are you?"

Kit sighed, preparing herself for a long explanation, but still held her tail protectively.

~~~***~~~***~~~

One explanation later, the five pilots left Kit in the livingroom while they went into the kitchen to discuss the situation.

"She's crazy," Wufei spoke up first.

"Mentally insane," Heero corrected.

"Same thing. The onna belongs in a psycho ward."

"I think she's cool."

"Huh?" Four pairs of eyes turned to stare at Duo.

"Well, she's obviously not with OZ, right? So I say we let her stay," Duo explained.

"Duo, I know that you've had strange pets follow you home, Yuy's living proof of that, but this is a little ridiculous," Trowa commented.

"I don't think that she would enjoy it much, either," Quatre added.

"But 'Fei knows a lot about dragons, right? So me 'n him can keep 'er when she gets all dragon 'n buy 'er a collar 'n food 'n _everything_. _Pwease_ Fei?"

Wufei was developing a slight twitch, and had already thought of several ways to outlaw puppy eyes on three of the colonies. "Dragons do not make good pets, Maxwell."

"So Hee-chan can help us too! Pwease guys?" Duo upped the notch on the puppy eyes another thousand watts.

Heero sighed. "_If_ she goes full dragon and is of a _reasonable_ size, _then_ you and Chang can keep her, but _I_ am _not_ helping. Agreed?" He asked the others. There were nods of agreement all around. "And I will decide what is reasonable."

Duo whooped for joy and went back out to get to know his new friend/future pet.

Two weeks later, one very small, very unhappy dragon really did become his pet, still cursing Lina Inverse and swearing to take revenge on her.

~~~***~~~***~~~

Kate, on the other hand, was fairing much better, and actually managed to stay out of both prison and mental ward by making herself a decent enough living as an OZ spy.

She died in an explosion caused by Deathsythe, who was being piloted by a small dragon in Duo's lap at the time.

Said dragon was feeling very happy indeed.

~Owari~

END to Tsunami’s fics.