Its a kind of magic part 2 FIRST PART

Author note: Due to the episodes length it has been split into two parts.
If you have missed the first episode you can find it here

The story features primarily characters made by me and . If you don’t like fan characters, don’t read this story.
Everyone else happy reading!!!
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It’s a kind of magic - Day 2
Shadows from the past… 1-2
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The green raccoon sat and stared down on his roasted toast bread. He was exhausted and rubbed his face before continuing staring at the piece of food. All of a sudden something landed on his plate, he rubbed his eyes one more time and realized it was a brown muffin with chocolate pieces in it. He looks up and sees his young companion sitting across the table and smiling at him in her innocent childish way. He sighs a little and takes a sip of his coffee, before again looking at his burned toast bread.

“Do you want another one?” The young girl´s voice sounds.

“Beg your pardon?” Jack asks tired and slightly confused.

“You can have mine if you don’t like caramel and chocolate” She says and points at a pink muffin on her own plate.

“Oh.. no…. no.. it is just fine….” He assures her.
The whole morning Airy had been servicing him, bringing him breakfast and coffee, probably because she felt guilty of what had happened only a half hour ago, and tried to make it up to him….

In the early morning hours Jack couldn’t fight his sleepiness anymore and had fallen asleep. Few hours later he was woken up by Airy who was screaming and panicking, for a moment she had forgotten what had happened and was shocked to find herself in a bed with a stranger in an unfamiliar place. In her panic she accidently kicked Jack in the crotch, in the same strike she fell out of bed, with the head first. While struggling with the pain from her kick, Jack calmed her down and explained to her what had happened and her memories returned quickly. Luckily the other guests on the motel didn’t notice anything.

The green raccoon finishes the last piece of burned toast on his plate and looks at his companion who is just done stuffing herself with artificial colored sweets. She wipes her face and turns her sight to Jack.

“Are you feeling ok, Jack?”

“I am fine Shorty…..” He sighs tired.

“It is just…. You look a little sick…” She says worried.

“I am just tired… Didn’t sleep well last night…” He assures her, hoping she would stop asking.

“You had bad dreams too?” She asks him.

“Yeah… kind of….” He sighs.
“Are you done eating?” He asks her.

“Yes, can’t eat another bite.” She says.

“Good, let’s go back to the room…” Jack says and they both stand up and leave the small diner in the motel.

“All right here is the soap and a towel, I will pack our gear while you do your stuff.” Jack instructs the golden, orange hedgehog girl. She looks a bit uneasy at the bathtub and back at him.

“What?” He asks her.

“It is just…. I haven’t taken a bath on my own before…” She says and gives him an awkward smile which clearly revealed her embarrassment.

“Aw come on Airy, taking a bath is not rocket science, you can do it.” He assures her.
“It is quite simple really, first you fill the tub with water, second: Add some soap, three: Sit in the tub, four: Rub your fur in it, five: Empty the tub, and six: Add some new water so you can get the soap out. Here let me give you a head start.” He says and turns on the water.

But I don’t know how to wash my hair... Mom and Ember have a way of washing it so it doesn’t get messy. They say I have very delicate hair.” Airy says with a low voice.
Jack sighs, a part of him was more than willing to help her, as she was very attractive in her new form, but her being a minor inside made it so inappropriate, the very thought of touching her made him feel dirty.

“Airy…” Jack tries.

“Please Jack” The girl pleases.

“All right, all right….” The green raccoon sighs as he was way too tired to argue with her.
“But I will only wash your hair, you have to deal with the rest on your own, you are after all a big girl now.”

“Thank you Jack, I will get undressed right away.” The hedgehog girl said and starts pulling her shirt of. Jack holds a hand for his eyes and turns his back to her.

“Just call me when you are in the tub.” He mumbles, still having his back turned to her. He leaves the bathroom and enters the bedroom.
“Why God?! WHY?! I know I may not always have been a nice guy, but it is not like I have killed someone!” He mumbles to himself as he packs their belongings.

“I am ready now!” Airy shouts.

“Here goes nothing.” Jack sighs and goes back to Airy. He picks up the soap on the nearby table and adds the soap to her hair and starts massaging it roughly in the same way when he washes himself.

“No! No! You are doing it all wrong, you mess it up!” She shouts.

“Look Kiddo, I don’t know how Ember does it...”

“She… um… She massages it gently into my hair. Like this...” She stands up in the tub and places her hands on Jack´s head. He closes his eyes right away as he shouldn’t look at her. Gently she starts rubbing his head, which was very pleasant. Instinctively he was about to return the favor, but he stopped.

“I think I got it” He clears his throat, and gently pushes her away. Airy sits down in the tub again and turns her back to him. He sighs by relief behind her back and tries again to wash her hair, this time more gentle. Her hair was unusually soft, especially for a mobian hedgehog girl, and he knew from experience.

“Huh?” Jack moves some of her hair aside and finds a scar on the size of a mobian finger nail.
“What have happened to you?” He asks her as there was no hair there at all.

“When I was very little I fell and landed on the backside of my head.” Airy says blissful as she dozes off.

The green raccoon looks at it for a while as he found the scar quite unusual. He wasn’t a doctor or had any relevant experience on the field, but it looked more like a scar made with surgery rather than random injury, it was perfectly round and around it there were smaller scars that looked like they were made with stitches. He choose not to say anything, Ember and her family probably had their reasons for not telling Airy this…
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Few moments later they find themselves in the car.

“Thanks for the help Jack, it means a lot to me.”

“You are welcome” The green raccoon says simple, while overhauling a car.

“It was very nice… Mom or Ember doesn’t do it that way you do it. You were very gentle, I could swear I would have fallen asleep.” She smiles.

“It was nothing….” Jack interrupts her, he didn’t really want to hear more.

“Here Jack, I brought you something, hope it can help on your energy.” Airy says and hands her larger friend in green a bright coloured can.

“An energy-drink?” He asks puzzled.

“Aha…. Everytime Ember is tired she drinks an energy drink like this one. “ Airy says.

“Thanks…” He says as he opens it.
“I have reached a point where I will drink and eat almost everything just to get some energy, even Ember´s creepy cheese that always gives me the eyes.” He mumbles before starting to drink.

“Say… Where did you get this from?” He asks after taking a large sip.

“I bought it at the motel. I was unfortunately not able to pay full price, but the nice man behind the counter gave me some discount when I told him you weren’t feeling alright…” She explains.
“These things are quite expensive….” She says and looks down in her small wallet. Jack looks at her for a little while. Even though he was doing her a big favor, and she came from a wealthy family, he didn’t like taking money from a child even if she had chosen all by herself to buy him something. He empties the can.

“Hows the head Kiddo?” He asks her when they get on the highway.

“Better, there is still some pressure, but it is nothing, I don’t need painkillers or anything.” She smiles to him.
“… Does it still hurt where I kicked you?” She asks him a little embarrassed.

“I am good…” He says simple, he was still a little sore.

“Um, Jack?” The girl hedgehog says with a low voice.

“What Kiddo?”

“I need to go….” She says embarrassed.

“Go?! You mean like go to the toilet?”

“Yes…”

“Airy we just left the motel…. Fine… There is a gas station here….” Jack parks the car.
“Typical….” He mumbles when Airy is out of the car.

“Well now we are here I better get it done too.” He sighs and follows the golden hedgehog girl inside. Behind the counter an elderly man, who seemed very tired and apathetic, sat with a newspaper.

“Excuse me sir, can we borrow your restrooms?” Airy asks him politely. The old man lowers his newspaper and looks at her for a while with his sleepy eyes, before pointing at a door with a sign of a woman.

“Thank you.” She says and rushes to the door.

“If you are going too sonny, watch out for big cockroaches with bad attitude.” The old man says simple and continues reading his newspaper.
Jack shrugs and heads towards the men’s room next to the counter, he didn’t mind those critters. The green raccoon´s eyes widen when he got inside.

“The old man wasn’t kidding!” He thought to himself when he saw a group of three huge mobian cockroaches, dressed like rockers with bandana and leather vests. All of them were wearing weapons, bats, knives and one of them had a gun, all of them were smoking and judging by the conversation it was obvious they were arguing. When the door slams behind Jack, they silence and turn their attention towards him.

“Hey, how’s it going?” He gives them his usual cheeky smile. After studying him for a while they continue their conversation and ignore him as he heads towards the booths to do his business. He had just closed the door to his booth when another person enters the restroom.

“Hey this is the men's room!” one of the cockroaches growls. Jack freezes, hopefully it wasn’t Airy who was looking for him.

“Watch your mouth you bitch! Don’t you know who you are talking to?!” A deep woman voice sounds. The green raccoon gulps. Slowly he peeks through the keyhole and sees a very tall, light green mobian mantis woman with long curly blond hair, which covered one of her crimson red eyes, she was wearing a shiny black tight leather outfit that revealed her very curvy body. In mobian standards she was considered to be extremely attractive!

“Shit…” Jack mumbles to himself as he recognises her.
“It is Donna Prima Mantis, a chick with an extremely bad attitude combined with some mean skills meant to kill… I almost feel sorry for these guys.”

“I don’t care who you are little girl, but you picked on the wrong guy.” The largest of the cockroaches snarls at her and grabs his knife and attacks her. She dodges his attack and in a quick movement she pokes him various places on the body.

“I can’t feel my legs!!!” He shouts and lands on the floor with a large bam.
“I can’t move!!” He cries.
“HELP ME!!!” He begs his friends who have frozen.

“This is the ladysroom now! Move it bitches!!! And take the trash with you!” She says and kicks the cockroach on the floor. The other cockroaches do as she says and picks up their friend and rushes out of the door the fastest they can. When they are gone she looks satisfied and heads towards the booths. Jack’s heart sank when he realized she was heading toward his.

“Oh crap, I have to get out!” He looks around and spots some large pipes in the ceiling. He steps on the toilet seat and climbs up in the last moment when the green mantis opens the door. Jack clings to the pipe and his heart is beating rapidly. The last thing he wanted was her discovering him, he knew very well who she was, and unfortunately she knew him as well.

For about a month ago she and her friends were in Dalum at the disco where he usually hangs out. Being the ladies man he is he had seduced and scored her, despite she at first had shown some skepsis about him… and later on he had scored most of her friends too… When they had realized what had happened, they had a score to settle…. Due to their violent temper and strength in number, he was forced to turn to Ember for help, which resulted in a brutal fight, where they had to call an ambulance, and most of them were sent to the hospital. It was so big of a deal that it got in the news the following day.
Even though Ember didn’t have to go to the hospital due to her ability to heal fast, he had never seen her so wasted before. But then again, she was beaten, poisoned and stabbed multiple times during the brawl. At least she wasn’t shot, else she would have to go through a painful surgery to remove the bullets.
Luckily Donna Prima Mantis and her gang got the message, and haven’t been seen since in Dalum.

Jack wrinkles his nose when she pulls down her pants and sits down on the toilet. This was definitely a sight he could be without. If it had been a guy it would have been different, but since he considered females to be elegant and more decent, especially her, it was line crossing...
He closes his eyes and tries his best not to pay attention to all the sounds. All of a sudden he could feel something crumbling between his fingers. He opens his eyes and realizes the painting on the pipe was falling off under his hands. He gasps when a large piece falls, he tries to grab it, which results in more falling off. While Jack is struggling, the mantis woman reaches out for the toilet paper, but she stops when some of the paint lands on her hand, she hesitates and then looks up.

“WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!” She shouts the loudest she can when she spots the green raccoon on the pipe.

“Hi Donna, how’s it going?” Jack waves awkwardly.

“YOU!!!!” She pulls up her pants and grabs his tail.

“Get down here so I can KILL YOU!!!!!!” She pulls with all her strength. Jack holds on to the pipe the best he can. A large crack sounds from the pipe as it starts to give in to the force, the green raccoon´s fur raises, this was doomed to end bad… The mantis girl didn’t seem to care about the danger above her and kept pulling his tail, her mind was set on tearing the green raccoon to pieces. Another crack sounds and the pipe gets loose and falls down. Jack’s weight combined with her’s was too much for the old pipe.
The mantis screams when the pipe lands on her with Jack on the top. Without hesitation Jack gets out of the booth and the restroom, he rushes back into the store to find the rest of the mantis´s girlfriends scattered in the shop.

“Hey! Isn’t that Jack Rittler?” He hears one of them shout.

Frantically he scans the shop to find Airy and spots her near the exit next to the magazines, reading a magazine with bright coloured miniature horses with absurd large eyes.

“Oh, hi Jack.” She smiles when she sees him.
“Can I borrow some cash for a Rainbow Pony magazine? I am kind of…..”

“No time for that! Gotta go!!!” The green raccoon picks her up and keeps running.

“AFTER HIM YOU RETARDS!!!!” The mantis woman screams to her minions as she gets out of the restroom.

“But I didn’t pay for it!” Airy says confused as they exit the store.

“Then drop it!” Jack pants.

“But… but… it will get dirty, he wouldn’t be able to sell it like that…. Okay….” She lets go of it as they reach the car and Jack literally tosses her on the passenger side through the half open window. He jumps in on the driver-seat and starts the engine.
“Fasten your seatbelt Kid! This is gonna be a bumpy ride!” He says as he hits the red button with all his might and they fly straight up in the air.

“There…. Safe at last….” The green mobian sighs by relief when they are at least 10 meters above the ground.

“What happened Jack? Why were we running?” Airy asks confused.

“Well… There were some not so friendly people in the store and they wanted to come after me.”

“Why?”

“Well, it is complicated…. We um…. I used to date them... well... some of them... But it didn't work out that well... Let’s just say we have some disagreements, like you kids sometimes have on the playground. Some people doesn’t handle conflicts too well.” He tries to explain as simple as possible.
Airy looks at him for a while and turns her sight out of the window and looks at the women down on the parking space.

“Why did you date so many girls Jack?” She asks him after a while while looking a little confused. The green raccoon gets a little sweaty, how do you explain this in an appropriate way to a little girl without making it sound bad?

“Well you see....” He tries.
“Think Jack! THINK!” The thoughts echo in his head.

“I.... I... I am trying to find the right one... I am searching..... That is why I date many girls.” He lies.

“Oh.... I see....” Airy says sounding now very understanding.
“What are you looking for? Maybe I can help! When we find a computer we could..” She says excited but gets interrupted.

“It is very thoughtful of you Kiddo, but lets just tackle one problem at the time...” Jack says simple as he really wasn't interested in having a little girl meddling in his business.
All of a sudden something big hit underneath the vehicle and causes the motor to stop.

“AAAAARGH!!!” Airy screams as the car starts to fall down.

“Come on damn it! START!!!” Jack franticly turns the key back and forth. In the last moment the engine starts, the whole cabin and everything around them gets covered in thick black smoke, which results both Airy and Jack coughing. When the smoke clears a little they realize the car hover over the ground less than a meter. Not so far from them the mantis lady and her gang was coming their way. She had a black eye and there was some blood running from her forehead… There was murder in her eyes. She was closely followed by seven other young mobian women; one of them a huge light grey shark with a red corset, jeans and a west; a strange looking spider/monkey girl with green/blonde hair in pigtails, in goth like clothes and wide grin; three identical hyenas, wearing short yellow overalls, they were presumably sisters; a skinny brown mobian cat in a leather outfit and a cigarette in the mouth, and a goldfish with golden eyes and glasses.

“Jack Rittler! We have a bone to pick with you! You and your red, blonde-haired girlfriend! And we are starting with you!!!” The mantis lady threatens.

Jack steps on the speeder and they drive away in high speed. In the distance sirens could be heard and faintly red and blue lights could be seen. Behind they could see the girls were retreating. Jack steers them down the highway and continues for a while in full speed. When he feels it is safe, he slows down to the allowed speed limit to avoid attracting more unwanted attention. There were no more smoke inside the cabin but the car was still emitting smoke. As they think they have gotten away from trouble they hear another siren, and it gets louder and louder. Jack looks in the mirrors to find out where it was coming from. Behind them there was a police car giving them sign to pull over.

“Oh great, just what we need….” He growls and stops on the side of the road closely followed by the police car.
“What have I done this time….” He sighs and picks up a plastic card from his jacket

“Can I see your driver license please?” A woman’s voice sounds.

“Here….” He sighs and opens the window and then freezes as the lady seemed awfully familiar.

“Jack?!!!” She says very surprised.

“Olivia!” He almost gasps.

“Well I must say I am quite surprised to find you here! Here I thought I had found a safe heaven with no Jack Rittler. Have you run out of fresh meat in Dalum?”
Jack doesn’t answer the remark and hands her his driver's license. Normally he would answer back, but what he would say was not suitable for a child to hear. The policewoman, who was a brown and dark blue mobian german shepard with light blue hair and turkish eyes, looks a little uneasy at him and then studies his driver's license.

“Have you been drinking or taking any kind of drugs Jack?” She asks after a moment and looks a little concerned, as she was well aware he normally wouldn’t let a remark like that go with any naughty comments.

“I have been drinking an energy drink… Does that count? And before that I ate some burned toast which was more coal than bread… Oh, and a chocolate and caramel muffin too.” He replies tired.

“I am serious Jack! Have you or have you not.” The policewoman says this time sounding a little angry.

“No Olive I haven’t. I just haven’t sleep much this night.” He looks her in the eyes.

“Then I think you should get some rest as soon as possible. You shouldn’t be driving in that condition, and besides that… Do something about that engine! It looks like a bomb that is about to blow!”

“Am I under arrest?” Jack sighs.

“No… I don’t think it is not enough to charge you, but it is damn close… Consider this as a warning….” She hands his driver’s license back.
“Just get these things fixed before you run into one of my colleagues, they are not as overbearing as I am.” She says with a raised finger.

“Yes mother…“ The green raccoon growls to himself.

“Hey Sugah!” The german shepherd addresses Airy, who looks surprised.
“A friendly advice, from someone who speaks of many years of experience: Don’t get too attached to him, he doesn’t stick around… “ She says simple and heads back to her own car. As she drives by, Airy and Jack could see she wasn’t alone. On the passenger side a large grey wolf like mobian male sat, and he looks very displeased at Jack with his orange eyes.

“He must be Olive´s new boyfriend…” Jack mumbles to himself as the police car disappears between the other cars.

While the cops leave, Olivia´s words kept echoing in Airy´s mind. “He doesn't stick around... What does that mean? Would he just leave me?!” The very thought of being abandoned was terrifying!
“No way!... Grown ups would never do that! If I just behave myself and do what I am told, I should be safe!” Airy tries to convince herself and looks at the green raccoon who opens the car door.

“Well… We better do as the lady says…” The green mobian sighs and steps out of the car and kneels down where the smoke is coming from.
“Where on earth do we find a mechanic who can deal with sci fi alien tech and not go under the name Robotnik or Prower?” He scratches himself on the head. Airy jumps out of the car and joins him.

“Maybe I can help, I watched my brother customize it.” The golden mobian hedgehog girl says after a moment of thinking.

“You?... Oh well it’s worth the shot I guess…” The green raccoon sighs and grabs the car and tips it a little so she could get a better look.

“Awwww man!”

“What?! What is it?” Jack asks worried.

“The Flux-carburetor is toasted…”

“The… what?... what does it do?” He asks her.

“We can’t fly anymore… The Flux-carburetor is the most important part of the car that makes flying possible. We can only hover now….” She says sad.

“Oh… that sucks….” Jack concludes.

“Please hold it a little higher.” She instructs him and sits down on the ground.

“What are you doing?” He asks her while raising the vehicle a little more.

“I am cutting the connection to the rest of the engine, there is no need to pump energy in it… besides… it should get rid of the smoke….” She says and pulls a tiny pink swiss-knife out of her teddybear-bag. With a small scissor in her swiss-knife she cuts a black wire and folds it, with her free hand she takes a hair-pin out of her hair and attaches it to the wire so it won’t fold out.

“Definitely not a normal child… My own siblings would never pull that one out…“ Jack thought to himself.

“There… That should do the trick…. I hope…” She says as she gets back on her feet.

“Maybe there is something about her being mentally ahead of her peers…” He mumbles to himself as Airy gives him sign to follow her back inside the car. He turns on the engine and to their surprise most of the smoke was gone.

“You are a girl of many surprises Kiddo.” He smiles to her.

“I am a girl scout! Scouts are always prepared!” She says and salutes, the green raccoon chuckles a little.

“Well that was one thing on our ´to do` list….” The green raccoon says as he turns off the car and looks out of the window.
“Hmm… I wonder… Didn’t one of the brochures at the motel say anything about a Candy-Mountain store in this town?” He says after a while.

“As the matter of fact there was… I took one with me.” Airy smiles and takes the brochure out of her teddy-bear-bag.
“… But how is that gonna help us?” She asks puzzled as she hands it to her companion in green.

“The last time I was in a Candy-Mountain store with my family, I saw they had a free cinema where the kids and their parents could watch movies for free, in exchange for buying some of their sweets… I was thinking… We could go there… buy some candy… you can watch some cartoons while I take a nap… How does that sound?” He asks.

“YAAAAAAAH!!!” She shouts and claps her hands excited.

Jack smiles to himself as he turns on the car again.
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From the moment they stepped inside the candy store, there was a wide grin and sparkles in Airy´s eyes. She ran excited around and studied the large containers with various sweets and treats. In the center of the store there was a small Ferris wheel and a large blue unicorn animatronic.

“Oh look! It is Charlie the angry Unicorn” She grins and touches it.

“Damn those kids…” The robot says with a mechanic voice, Airy chuckles and Jack couldn’t help smiling a little himself.

“Yeah… those damn kids… I feel with you buddy.” He thinks to himself as Airy goes and picks the smallest empty bag.

“No! No! NO! You are doing it all wrong!!!“ Jack says and takes the bag out of her hands.
“What’s the matter with you?!!!” He says and puts it back. Airy looks shocked at him with wide eyes.

“But you said I could have some candy…” She says disappointed.

“You are a kid! Kids are supposed to be greedy!!!” He lectures her.
“…. Sigh… You are hopeless….” He says and hands her the largest one.
“Consider all the bad things that have happened to us recently, I say we are allowed to have some fun.” He winks to her.

“Thank you! Thank you!” She jumps up and down with joy.

“Safe your modesty till you grown up… for real… Go knock yourself out, I stay here next to our friend here.” He gives her a gentle push and she rushes to the containers and stuffs her bag with bright colored sweets. She had totally forgotten about Olivia´s words and had a good time. He sighs a little and sits down on a trunk made of plastic next to the animatronic.
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Late afternoon

“Had enough Sugar?” Jack asks teasing and supports Airy’s head as she pukes.

“Ugh… I am never gonna eat candy again…” She pants.
“Man I feel awful…” She pukes again.

“Just as soon we get something in you that don’t contain sugar, you will feel better right away.” The green raccoon assures her and pats her gently on the back.

After they had bought their sweets they went inside to watch a movie. As Jack had planned he took himself a much needed nap while Airy watched a movie. The nap had done wonders and already Jack was feeling much better, Airy on the other hand had managed to eat more sweets than her body could handle and had become ill.

“I guess my blood sugar has changed too…” She pants and dries her mouth.

“Well… It is not unlikely… Personally I can’t eat as much candy today as I used to when I was a kid.” Jack says and helps her up.
”Are you done yet?” He asks her.

“Yeah… I could use some water… My headache has returned…” She says as she rubs her head and follows the raccoon back to their car which was parked in a small harbor.

“Why was it we are here again? Can’t we drive around the lake?” She asks as she sits on her seat.

“Yes we could, but sailing over will save us time… We are already behind schedule, due to unseen events such as the tank station… And our pit-stop at Candy-Mountain… Besides the price in gas is approximately the same as a ticket.” He explains to his young friend and hands her a bottle of water which she starts to drink from right away; when the bottle is empty, he hands her a vacuum-packed sandwich. As she eats it, the ferry appears in the horizon. Jack steps inside the car and when the ferry is in harbor they drive inside it with the other cars. When they are onboard they head upstairs like the other passengers and find themselves a seat near the window. There they observe the ferry leaving the harbor. After a while, Jack breaks the silence

“Could you eat a hotdog? Cause I can.”

“I sure can, if you give me a moment, nature calls” The golden hedgehog girl says and leaves the table and heads towards the restrooms. As she passes by the mirrors on the wall inside the restroom, she stops and studies her reflection for a while. During their trip she didn’t have many opportunities to see how she really looks like. She looks around to be sure no one was there, and starts to stand on her toes and turn around so she could get a better look at herself. All of a sudden her reflection changes, she stops and gasps. Her reflection had now white hair shining like nacre in many colors. She was all wet and had no clothes on and everything was black behind her with some red glowing patterns similar to a computer motherboard. She raises her hand and touches her own hair, but it was still dry. Something emerges behind her reflection self, which looks like it was made of metal. She leans a little closer to get a better look.

“Miss?” An unknown woman voice sounds.
Airy snaps out of it and her reflection is back to normal.

“Is everything allright? You look like you have seen a ghost” The voice says now sounding a little worried.
Airy turns around and spots a small chubby human woman who presumably was the charwoman.

“I am fine” She assures the woman and walks inside one for the booths.
The woman shrugs and empties a large trashcan.

Outside the restroom.
“Why is it taking so long? It is not that long ago we were at a restroom.” The green raccoon begins to get bored. He grabs a menu on the table and scans it.
Next to him there were various of people walking by, both humans and mobians, mostly humans. There were particularly two young human girls in the 20s in the room that caught his attention, a red haired and a blonde. They sat in a corner and chuckled loud while drawing something on a piece of paper. For some reason these two seemed familiar…. He shrugs and continues to read the menu.

“These waffles sure look delicious, it has been a while since I had one….” He thinks to himself and turns a page.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!! “ Airy’s voice echoes. The green raccoon falls down from his chair by the shock.
“JACK!!! HELP ME!!!” She screams.

“I am coming!” Jack gets franticly back on his feet and rushes to the restroom.
“I am here now, what is wrong?” He asks her as he gets inside.

“I am bleeding! I am bleeding! There is blood everywhere!!!” She cries from her booth.

“Open up and let me look!” He says a grabs the handle but the booth is still locked.
“Where are you bleeding?!” He asks her worried as he hears her sobbing.

“In my panties!” She cries.

“WHAT?!” He asks her baffled.
“There is blood in your panties?” He asks this time more calm as she slowly opens the door and looks terrified at him with her deer-like eyes.

“………….Dude…………… You are just having period……….” He sighs.

“Period? What is that?! Is it treatable?!!” She asks him uneasy.

“It is normal for big girls” He assures her.

“But what is it Jack?”

“Well… It means…. You can have children now….” Jack says simple to her. She gets all pale in her face.

“I don’t want to have kids! How do I prevent it from happening?!” She panics.

“Trust me kid, you are not in the danger zone….” He assures her.

“But… How does it work? Does it mean I can’t touch you anymore?!” She asks him still a little uneasy.

“You don’t need to worry, and trust me it takes more than a touch…” He says calm and continues.
“… This is a girl thing… It is something you should talk about with your mother or Ember.” Jack says as he really didn’t want to explain how the reproduction system works to a little girl, especially since the charwoman still were in the restroom, staring at them with a dropped jaw.

“Don’t you have better things to do?” He asks her annoyed. Franticly she grabs her small wagon with cleaners and leaves.

“Stay put in the booth, I will get you something for the bleeding.” He plants his hands on her shoulder to calm her down. She nods and goes back and closes the door.

“Just hurry back okay?”

“I will” The green raccoon says and leaves the restroom and passes a human woman who scowled at him. He rushes to the first shop he finds and heads straight to the cosmetic area, the amount of hygiene supplements was scarce but he managed to find a small package of tampons. After he bought them he hurries back to Airy

“Here you go kid, there should be a small manual in the package.” He says and hands the box to his golden comrade.

“Thanks Jack…” She says sounding relieved and locks the door.

“This wasn’t so bad. If we don’t get crisis bigger than this on the rest of the trip, it will be a piece of cake.” He sighs satisfied and heads back to the exit.

“I AM GOING TO DO WHAT?!!!!” Airy shouts from her booth.

“What is it now?!” Jack sighs tired and goes back. Airy opens the door and looks at him awkwardly.

“What is wrong with them?” He asks confused.

“The manual says I have to stuff them in a sudden place….” She almost whisper.

“Aw come on, how bad can it be? They are designed for the purpose.” He tries.

“I am NOT gonna do it!!! I simply can’t!” She hands him the box and closes the door again.
“What sane girl would ever have something in there?” She mumbles.

“Fine…. I will see what I can do…” Jack growls tired and heads back to the shop. If it wasn’t because she was a kid and it was a sensitive subject, he wouldn’t be this docile. To Jacks luck he quickly found a package of sanitary napkins.
But on his way back, he got a grim surprise, outside of the ladies room, Donna Prima Mantis stood. He quickly hides himself behind a large sign and holds his breath; Airy is still in the restroom! Behind her the door opens, and one of Donna´s henchmen the cat girl comes out and whispers something in her ear. His heart beat raises, have they discovered Airy?! He sighs a little by relief when they leave and head towards the door that leads to the deck. When they are out of sight Jack rushes back inside. Before contacting Airy he kneels down to check for other feet beside Airy´s. To Jack´s luck they were alone.

“Kid! We gotta split!” He knocks the door.

“But what about my men….mens…menstruation thing?” She asks him and opens the door.

“We got company!” He says and grabs her hand and pulls her out.

“You… You mean? Oh dear…” She says worried and follows him the best she can.

“Let’s go down to the car deck, they won’t expect us there.” He says and pulls her down the stairs, on their way they almost bump into a person. It was a huge mobian grey/brown walrus at the same size as a human man, his shoulders was almost as wide as he was high, judging by his uniform he was working on the ship and he was of a higher rank. He looks down at the pair, despite it was impossible to see his eyes due to his very bushy eyebrows it was obvious that he seemed suspicious of them.

“Sorry sir.” Jack apologizes to him as he and Airy continues. Down at the car deck they hide between a group of large trucks.

“There…” Jack sighs as they both sit down.
“Not how I expected our break would be but okay…” He pants a little.

“You just couldn’t wait till we were in harbor couldn’t you….” A woman voice sounds not so far from them. Both Jack and Airy freeze. Slowly they peek their heads out and spot two human women, a blonde and a red haired, the very same Jack saw earlier. They stood next to an old Volvo.
“You just had to have this pencil now….” The blonde one says tired.

“Aw come on Louise, it isn’t that bad!” The red haired says cheerful.

“Tell that to the trunk! I can’t get our stuff back in there!” The blonde woman struggles.

“I know how to fix it.” The red haired climbs on the car and starts to jump on the lid.

“Are you sure this is wise Mie?” The blonde asks uneasy.

“Of course! It is a Volvo!!! They are designed to run over mooses…. You can drive these things over a cliff and they still keep going!”

“Oh yeah, that is a good point… well made…” The blonde says and climbs on the car too.

Both Jack and Airy sighs be relief it was just a couple of humans…. Strangely familiar humans….

“HIRRR HIRRR HIRRR” A hyena like laughing echoes all over the deck, they both freeze on the spot. Carefully Jack peaks through one of the trucks windows.

“Oh Crap…” He mumbles.
“It is Donna´s hyenas.” He grabs Airy´s hand and leads her away.

“What are we gonna do Jack?!” The golden hedgehog girl asks scared as it was obvious to her they were in big trouble.

“We have to get out of their sight without attracting any attention…. But how…” He rubs his face frustrated.

“How about we disguise ourselves?” The golden hedgehog girl suggests after a moment of thinking.

“Disguise ourselves?!.... How do you plan on pulling that one off? I don’t think they would be fooled by us switching outfit.” Jack looks at her resignedly, but Airy simply points at the truck behind him.

“Clothes for recycling?” He reads the sign as Airy grabs her tiny pink swiss knife from her teddy-bear bag and jumps on the truck.

“All right… Let’s see what we got…” He says and follows her. With her tiny knife she picks the lock and slowly opens the cargo, through the small hole she squeezes herself through and starts digging.

“Eh? He he he…. Houston, we got a problem….” She says after a while.

“What? There is no clothes?!” The green raccoon asks uneasy as she pops her head out to him.

“No here are clothes all right…. But it is only for women…. And most of it is pretty old school.” She says awkwardly and shows him a red dress with white dots.

“AH! AH! No way! I am not wearing it!” He says outraged.

“Well… I am open for other ideas….” Airy sighs.

“Oh Jackie! Come out and play! We know you are here somewhere! HIIIR! HIIIR HIIIR!” The Hyena’s laugh echoes again this time closer to Jack and Airy.

“Come here kitty! Kitty!” A second hyena chuckles.

“Give me the dress!” He takes the clothes out of the golden hedgehog girl´s hand.

“Dee Dee you idiot! Raccoons aren’t cats.” The first hyena snarls.

“What?! I thought raccoons were a cat sub specie like persians and lynxes Bi Bi.” The second Hyena says miffed.

“All furries, expect hyenas, are cats to you Dee Dee….” The third one sighs.

Out of the truck Airy climbs out, now wearing a too big t-shirt with Star Wars print on it, a black beanie that covers all her hair and glasses, that made her eyes look even bigger.

“You look like a nerd….” Jack says dry as she walks up behind him.

“There….” Airy says and sips the dress.
“Now turn around so I can see you.” She takes a step away from the green raccoon.

Reluctantly he turns around; it was obviously not with his good will. The golden hedgehog girl lowers her glasses and looks at him for a while.

“I don’t think the dress alone will work, we need more….” She crawls back inside the truck and few moments later she returns with a large purple hat.

“Why do you hate me God?...” He sighs as she gives him the hat on.

“Well… That helped a little…” She shrugs, he growls a little. Behind Airy he can faintly see his own reflection in the truck´s shiny surface.

“Argh crap…. I totally look like my aunt Daisy…..” He mumbles, before looking at Airy again.
“I do have a question though… What do we do with my jacket and hat? I don’t suppose there is a purse in there that can contain them…” He asks her.

“Good question….” She says and studies him.
“I know!” She says and points at his chest.

“Oh no, no no no no! It ain’t gonna happen!” He shouts.
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