“Dragon?” Kitten looked up at him as she called his name.
“yes, Kitten” he called back, a little bit of smoke curling around his head in a question mark.
“Astrid’s birthday is coming up and I think we should do something special, but I can’t think of anything special enough.” Kitten sighed.
“What have you thought of so far?” Dragon asked as his attention sharpened on the potential for an adventure and he flew down to where Kitten was lying next to the pond.
“Well, I thought we could take her to the planet made out of blue diamonds and we could go swimming in the lake there and have a picnic. You know the one that is underneath the waterfall that goes up and up and up and where the water shimmers and glows because the stones at the bottom are all blue diamonds.” Kitten smiled at the thought of swimming in diamonds and wondered how she would look in a collar made out of them.
“Astrid would like that, why did you discard the idea?” Dragon asked.
“Cause it wasn’t special enough for her.”
Dragon thought a bit and the puffs of smoke from his fire formed into little gears working together around his head. Kitten was giggling at him behind her paws, she thought he was funny when he was thinking really hard on something that his smoke gave his thoughts away. Dragon, however, did it on purpose because he loved for Kitten to giggle and be happy.
“Maybe we can take her to the fire planet where the lava runs down the mountain made out of rubies?” Dragon offered up, thinking how much he loves to go there and how warm it is.
Kitten thought about that for a minute, remembering how beautiful it is when the lave flows and the rubies shine as if they were on fire. But then thought of Astrid there and said, “No, I don’t think she would like that. It would be much too hot for her.”
“So, what do you suggest?” Dragon asked, watching the fish swim in the lake and wondering if he could talk Kitten into getting her fur wet and swimming with him. Kitten really only liked swimming in the ocean where she could play with the clown fish and anemones. She liked their laughter and they tickled her until she giggled.
“I think all the other ideas are fun, but Astrid can do them any time, it doesn’t have to be her birthday and I want her to feel special.”
Dragon focused his attention on Kitten. His intense green eyes shone like emeralds as he watched Kitten lying next to him. Kitten was a smoky blue color with eyes the color of the sea, a Blue/Green that sparked in the sun, and in the middle of her forehead was a star, it was the symbol of the human whom she had connected her soul to all those billions of years ago. Dragon also had a star hidden on his body, but you had to know where to look to find it and only Kitten and Astrid knew about it. Dragon’s soul was connected to Kitten and he had adopted Astrid as his human a long time ago, so long he couldn’t even recall the exact moment in time. “Astrid is special,” Dragon said intensely but ever so quietly. You need to tread very carefully when Dragon’s get quiet and intense. “Who is making her feel un-special, I will talk to them.”
“No one is making her feel un-special.” Kitten said, patting Dragon’s paw to calm him down. But, inside she was smiling, she was very proud and happy that Dragon is loyal to Astrid. It was the thing she admired the most about him, his fierce loyalty to his friends and loved ones. He would rather hurt himself before he would ever hurt a friend.
“It’s just on birthdays people can feel down. I want her to know how special she is and loved, but I don’t know how to do that.”
Dragon thought in silence for awhile and watched a butterfly flutter around the flowers on one of the plants that surrounded the pond. Kitten was thinking so hard next to him she had her nose all crinkled up.
“Well, it has to be something that no one else can give her but us.” Dragon thought out loud.
“And it has to carry a bit of our soul and love so she knows that we did it because we love her.” Kitten added.
“Yes, but it also needs to make her smile. I like when she smiles and laughs, there is nothing more special in the world or in the Dreamlands than her laughter.” Dragon shared.
Kitten yawned really wide and let out a rumble, “I’m hungry, what should we have…”
Dragon popped up and started fluttering in the air like the butterflies he had been watching. “That’s it! Kitten you are the smartest soul pet in the universe!” He started flying loopdiloops in the air. First going one way and then going the other, his joy spilling out over the pond and his smoke floating up and over like confetti being thrown.
Kitten was bouncing up and down on the ground, trying to grab Dragon’s tail and get his attention. “Dragon! Dragon, stop flying around and tell me your idea!”
Kitten was bouncing more like a tigger than a cat and Dragon looked more like a kite than an actual Dragon.
“Stop it” Bounce “at once” Bounce “Tell me” Bounce “your” Bounce. Bounce. “Idea” Kitten huffed as she got particularly high at the same time as Dragon got low and she grabbed hold of his tail.
“We will make her a cake! A beautiful birthday cake!” Dragon said as Kitten started to climb up his tail.
“Ooooh what a wonderful idea! We can put flowers on it and a Dragon and a Kitten!” Kitten dreamed out loud. “it will be the most Beauteous cake ever.”
“ummmm, Kitten? Do you know how to bake a cake? Or decorate one?” Dragon asked with a concerned look on his face as he landed on the ground.
“No, but how hard can it be?” Kitten smiled.
