As Lorraine and Gilda came in from their day out, they were met by an enthusiastic Koromaru. The shiba wagged his tail happily as the pair came in, still wearing the hoodies Rarity had made.
“They’re home.” Alastor called out from the living room.
As the pair entered the living room, seeing Alastor sitting at a chair with a newspaper and a cup of tea, Koromaru raced in and ran around in circles, happy for a reason that Lorraine really couldn’t place.
“What’d I miss?” Lorraine asked, looking at Alastor.
“Oh, not much. We retrieved the hound as you can see.” Alastor nodded at the exuberant doggo.
“Yeah, I think we can see that.” Gilda deadpanned. “What else? Something feels off.”
“Eeeeeee!” Came an eee’ing from the hallway.
That definitely sounded like John.
The pair turned to see… Yes, that was definitely John, only it was as if John became the size of Spike and also became bipedal. The anthropomorphic bug waddle/ran down the hallway, holding a kitten in his chitinous claws.
“Lookit!” John cried happily holding up the kitten to their faces.
Said kitten mewed and stretched out a paw to pad at the doe girl’s nose.
“They’ve been like this all day.” Alastor said somewhat flatly.
"Aw, it's so cute!" Lorraine said with a silly grin as she let the kitten bat at her nose. "What's its name?"
“Her name is Socks.” John said, accompanied by another mew from ‘Socks.’
“That is adorable.” Lorraine grinned.
“So you got the cat.” Gilda commented, only for John to waddle/step over and present the cat to Gilda’s face.
Gilda now was face to face with bright green eyes. There came a surprisingly loud purring from the kitten as it stretched a paw out and placed it on Gilda’s beak.
Socks gave a honking squeak.
Gilda blinked. “Okay. I get it. She’s cute.”
Socks seemed to struggle a little bit, so John leaned forward. Sock then proceeded to climb onto Gilda’s face and crawl up on top of her head. She then settled down atop the hen’s head, purring.
“What do I do?” Gilda didn’t dare move, lest she disturb the cat.
There was a ~woosh~ and John was back to his normal quadrupedal state. “Well, she’s made your head her bed, soooo… move slowly.”
The doe took a step over and sat on her haunches. She raised her fore-hooves. Said hooves morphed and unraveled into something like roots. Then the “roots” wrapped together into something resembling paws. Her “paws” picked up the kitten, then deposited the kitten onto Gilda’s back.
The kitten seemed only mildly annoyed, but decided to stay on the hens back.
Gilda plodded over to the couch, where Koromaru had jumped onto to lay down. Before she could sit, Socks jumped off her back and crawled onto Koromaru to lay in a fuzzy black lump.
“Welp, couch is taken.” Gilda said as she moved to sit at one of the dining room seats.
“They’ve got along rather well.” John said, hopping into another arm chair. He looked at the doe girl. “So, how was your day?”
"Got some clothes, they should be here tomorrow," Lorraine replied. "I found out the Persona 5 crew exist here too, got a link to a chat room and everything too."
“Cool.” John smiled. “They would be interesting to meet.”
“Wild Card’s a shameless flirt.” Gilda commented.
“Well that sounds delightful.” Alastor chuckled. “Did his comments go over our doe’s head?”
“Meh.” Lorraine shrugged.
“That could mean anything.” Alastor blinked.
“No, it means meh.” John countered.
“He’s got a point.” Gilda pointed at the bug.
“Fine, spoil my fun.” Alastor went back to his paper.
“And I’ll start dinner.” Gilda got to her feet and plodded into the kitchen.