Chapter 41: Densetsu no Neko

The Blood Queen stood in front of the others, her arms folded and her entire body in a pose that screamed "Yea, Whatever."
"Where's Arkcher?" she asked, looking around. "He was here a while ago."
"He already went back home," said Cheesemaster, "He got to thinking I was trying to take his wife away from him."
She laughed. "Really?! What a dummy. I don't think you could steal anything."
Some of the others giggled, but Cheesemaster was still pretty serious. "I think I might go home," he said. "I wanted to practice a new technique I came up with."
"Can I come?" begged C.C. Edna, tugging at Cheesemaster's shorts. "Please? Please?"
"Of course you can," he sighed. The sun was starting to dip beneath the horizon, and the others would probably start heading home. And they did.

Cheesemaster propped Edna up onto his shoulders and head towards his house, and Edna grabbed the cat and held it in his arms.
"Are you ready? You're going to live with me from now on!"
"I think the question is if you're ready," said Edna. "You're going to have to take care of a whole other person. You're adopting me, after all. It will be hard, won't it?"
"It will, but I'm not gonna let that get to me," he said.
"Cheesemaster, why did you adopt me?"
He stopped walking and thought for a moment.
"Because I don't like seeing orphans all alone like that," he said quietly.
"Oh."
"Is that all?" he said, looking up at Cheesemaster. He shook his head, and they both laughed.

Cheesemaster walked in through the door and let Edna down off of his shoulders, who in turn was about to let the cat down, but Cheesemaster stopped him.
"Hold on. It's probably got fleas and I don't want those all over my house."
He walked away into another room, as the cat struggled to get out of Edna's grip.
"Here," he said as he walked back in, holding a small bottle. "This, I use on Kat usually." He walked over and much to it's dismay, he sprayed the cat with it. "That ought to get rid of them. If it works for Kat, it should work now."
Edna let the cat go and it ran off.
"Come on, let's go outside," said Cheesemaster, opening the door, only to have the cat run outside as soon as he did.
"No! Kitty!" Shouted Edna, as the cat made it's way to a corner of the fenced-in yard.
"Oh, good. He didn't run away."
Cheesemaster walked over to a bench and took his Katana off of his hips, and took the blade out of the holder. Edna shivered.
"What are you going to do with that?"
"Stand back," he said, with an extreme sense of seriousness in his tone. "I don't want you hurt."
Edna backed away as far as he could. Cheesemaster took a very deep breath, and then leapt into the air. Edna nearly yelled at him to be careful, but he didn't; he probably knew what he was doing.

Cheesemaster took his sword in one hand, and held it horizontally in his hand, and then slowly rose it. He then began to yell:
"DENSETSU NO..."
He then began to fall to the ground at rapid speed.
"...NEKO!!!!"
With that, he struck the ground and a cloud of smoke enveloped him. Edna became worried, until he saw him arise from the dust cloud, his katana stuck into the earth.
"What was that?!"
"Legendary cat," he explained. "Your cat inspired me to make it."

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The two went back on inside and decided to make something for them to eat.
"Go ahead and look around in my kitchen, Edna. Tell me what you want."
Edna swiftly ran over to the cabinets and looked through them.
"Could I have some soup?"
"SOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP?!" came a voice; again, it was Kat. She came through that hole , which was still in the ceiling. "I HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT SOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!!"
Edna giggled and Cheesemaster sighed as he took the can of soup from Edna's hands. "Alright, alright. Kat can stay for dinner."
"What's Edna doing here? Isn't he supposed to be a hobo somewhere? Wait, Hobos are only adults, and wear knit caps. Edna's an orphan. Big difference!"

Edna would have usually been offended by the comment, but he was so happy that he rubbed it off; Kat was just someone who said things like that. That, and he'd just been adopted; so he was being very forgiving to her.
"What kind of soup?" She asked.
"I have no idea," he said, as he started preparing it.
"LEMEH SEE," she yelled, and looked at the can. "OK, I'm fine with that."
"Good," He said.

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After the soup was finished, Cheesemaster gave some to Kat and to Edna, but none for himself.
"Aren't you going to eat any?" asked Edna.
"I will later. I have to make a gift for Mushroom."
And with that, he sat down at his computer (also in the kitchen for some odd reason), and grabbed some discs and began to work.
"What are you doing for a present?" asked Kat, after a long silence.
"It's a surprise," He said. "I have to finished it tonight if I want to be able to mail it to her in time. After all, isn't Valentine's Day next week?"
"Not even next week. It's only about four days away." Said Kat.
"Then I'd better hurry..." Cheesemaster sighed, breathlessly.

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Meanwhile, up on Mt. Jazzeh, Arkcher was planning on creating a gift even better than anything Cheesemaster could ever give to MK. He thought for a long time, wondering what she might want.

I already bought her the CD's she wanted, he thought, And she's already uploaded them onto her MP3.
Then it hit him like an oncoming frisbee.
A card so she can buy songs online!
He ran as fast as he could to the wardrobe room, put on a heavy coat, and headed for the Eskimo village, and bought a card worth 1,000H$ (100 American Dollars) of song downloads, and ran all the way back home.
This will also keep her from pirating music, he thought. Arkcher disliked illegal things, and as a result was never too happy about how she often pirated music.

His only goal was that he made it so MK liked him better than Cheesemaster; because if she liked him better, it wouldn't matter if he resurrected Joey Ramone, Syd Barrett, and Keith Moon and got them to date her, and then make a band and play for her...well, if he did that, she'd probably enjoy it, but tell him anyway that he was trying too hard.

But no matter; he had to stop thinking about it so much. He'd give her the card as a present, and probably take her to Planet Horatio to eat and pay for everything! Well...maybe.
But the holiday was only four days away. So he'd have to make sure he had everything for her ready. Aloysius was also going to Hamsterdam, and said he would take Solrai out to eat as well, but he wasn't sure if he'd eat at Planet Horatio, since he felt it wasn't formal enough. As you know, Arkcher had recommended his father cooking his own meal for Solrai, but Aloysius said he had other plans. Of course, he hadn't told Arkcher what his plans were, so he was left to wonder about it.