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Here We Goat Again | Noah & Lea

Date: Sunday - August 27, 2017

Summary: On Sunday Noah decides to take a relaxing visit to the zoo, but as always Ashkent Creek and its giant pile of weirdness has different plans for him.

****No goats were harmed in the making of this Chatzy, though one mutant werewolf human hybrid might have been harmed... so you have been warned.

Sliding the last twenty he had in his wallet over to the attendant Noah tried to hold back a sigh. It had seemed like a good idea this morning, you know going to the zoo and walking around by himself. But now that he was here he couldn’t help but feel a little, well broke for one thing, and maybe well. He didn’t really know the other feeling but he guessed he’d figure it out later once he had an ice cream and looked at a few cute sea lions or something. Nodding a polite thanks Noah walked through the turnstile a girl in full hockey uniform catching his eye. That was interesting zoo outfit, but considering how adamantly she was talking to the man in the zoo uniform he guessed she may not be an average tourist.

Lea had chosen to stop by the Aquarium & Zoo briefly after her practice field hockey scrimmage. It always did her good to spend time here, and though the hours she worked would have to decrease once she went back to school and had more work and practices, it didn't mean that she didn't want to spend a ton of time here, even right after practice when her hair was done up in two french braids with strands of hair coming loose. She'd run into a man who had worked there ever since she was born - or if not quite that long, quite a decently long time. He'd pulled her into a hug (like he always did, even though she'd just seen him three days ago) and gave her a big smile. "Nice to see you too, Simon." Lea grinned. "We're gonna miss you, Lea. It's been a great time actually having you around, even though maybe I will have to bug your father into letting you actually come into the zoo part more than just the aquarium." She grinned again in response to him. "Well, if there's anybody who could convince him, you might be the one." She glanced over her shoulder, watching a few visitors come in - the height of the summer rush had mostly died down by this point, but she was glad to see that there were quite a few people still making their way in.

Glancing over toward the girl again as he put his wallet back in his pocket Noah stood toward the side pretending to look at his park map. She kind of looked familiar, like in the sense that he knew he hadn’t met her before but he might know someone related. Taking a few tentative steps with his map Noah kept his ears pricked wondering what the hell she could be here for. Hockey with the chimps? And while he knew he shouldn’t be eavesdropping a part of him couldn’t help it. He was a dog with a bone now, sitting in front of a juicy mystery. "We're gonna miss you, Lea.” the older man said and Noah raised an eyebrow well at himself. Lea, that name sounded familiar though he couldn’t remember if he knew any young Leas. But his thoughts were cut short by a weird sound coming from the path up ahead.

Simon pulled her in for another hug before Lea heard an odd (and quite loud) sound and whipped her head around, braids hitting her back. "Sorry..." Her voice trailed off. "It's just - there was something." She glanced back over to Simon, chewing on her lip. "You heard that too, right?" She fiddled briefly with the ends of her braids. "I'm going to go and make sure - well, let's just hope that it's no new random animals again, huh?" Simon nodded, noting that he'd go and check in in the information booth. Lea darted up to a nearby man - one who looked vaguely familiar - and gave him a tap on his arm (after all, he was almost a foot taller than she was). "You heard that noise, right? Wasn't just me?"

Lowering his Map Noah listened intently to the new sound cursing the mutant werewolf gods that he didn’t get the supernatural hearing part of the job too. Not that that would have been helpful in this case, as the noise just, well, it didn’t sound like any noise he’d ever heard in his entire life so it was hard to wrap his head around. Feeling a tap on his arm though Noah tried not to jump clear to of his skin mind returning to the present. “Uh yea, I heard it” Noah replied with a nod to the girl he had totally not be eavesdropping on. No not at all. Opening his mouth to say something more Noah instantly shut it as the sound of a high pitched scream ripped through the air.

Her whole body felt weird. Almost tingly, though not in a way that she could quite place. Lea glanced back up at the man. "Okay, good. So I'm not, like, hearing stuff or anything. That's good." How many times could one say 'good' before it stopped even sounding like a real world. Lea dropped her field hockey stick, letting it clatter to the ground as she covered her ears at the sound of a high pitched scream, only letting go of them once it subsided. "I - " She began, the uncomfortable feeling moving throughout her body, "I need to go and see what's going on." She quipped, trying her best to not allow any tremor of doubt to interfere with her statement. "I do work here, though I know I've got no proof of that right now. I just -" She took a few steps forward. "I need to make sure people are okay, that whatever that was," and whatever this feeling is "isn't anything too much."

Clutching his map tightly in his fist Noah just endured the scream, body tightening as it went on. This was not good, not good at all, and he could feel it in his bones. Looking over at the girl and the dropped hockey stick Noah nodded at her. It was probably a dangerous plan going to the noise but, something in him knew he needed to stay with her, he needed to go and join, if anything to just put this extra werewolf strength to good use. So steeling himself Noah shoved the map into his pocket. “I’m coming with you” he said picking up the stick she had dropped, heart already pumping adrenaline in his veins. Realizing though he hadn’t given much information to go along with that though Noah turned toward the girl “I have first aid knowledge and am good in a fight.” He quipped trying to clarify that he was doing this more because he wanted to help the people in trouble and like not because he didn’t believe in her own abilities to handle a situation. “You know this zoo better than I, where did the scream come from?” He asked taking a few steps forward with the girl.

"My mum's a nurse." She replied to his remark. "...and fine." Lea resisted rolling her eyes. She didn't need someone coming to help her, it was just a reconnaissance mission. But she sucked in her lower lip and gave a sharp nod, braids hitting against her chest. She brushed a stray piece of hair from her face and found herself wishing that she had at least changed into leggings and a shirt before coming here. But she couldn't change that right now. "It's by the pygmy goats. I think." She glanced back at the man, wondering if she was supposed to ask for her hockey stick back. If someone else would make it dirtier than the field already had. But she gave a small huff and took off, darting around the few visitors to the Zoo.

Noah took in the remark but didn’t say anything, because yea typical teenager being just teenagery in a time of crisis. Glancing down at the stick he’d instinctively picked up though the older boy blanched a little. “Do you want this back?” He asked her gently wondering if that’s what the whole issue was about. But that when he heard the sound again, louder this time and fell back into his rescue mission vibre. Pygmy goats. Ok he could work with that. “Alright lead the way” He said as she took off his long legs following her to the enclosure easily. But once they got there he was taken aback by what he found.

"I don't care. Just," Lea tapped her fingers against her thigh, "please try to not dirty it up too much." She'd have to wash it anyhow, as it had fallen onto the ground. But right now she had other things to focus on. She made it to the enclosure for the goats without too much trouble, but skidded to a halt once she arrived. There was a large, shimmery, glowing space where the newly-acquired zebras had stood previously. "Shit." Lea said, backing up a few paces. "There's - what is that?" She turned to the man. "It looks like somebody smooshed up a galaxy and brought it here real close. Or... not even quite that. I don't know."

Jogging alongside her to the enclosure Noah eyes blew wide, the image of the giant sucking swirling hole in the goat cage causing him to stop still, the stick clanging to the ground next ot him. “Holy fuck” He whispered to himself ears picking up on the rest of the patrons nearby. Babies were screaming, moms were fleeing, and both he and this girl had just run straight into the weirdest shit he’d ever seen. And he’d lived in Ashkent all his life. “Don’t know.” He shook his head. Because he didn’t really know, what it was or what he needed to do now and just. It was all a little much. But the one thing he could focus on was mitigating the damage. Yup. Take the problem and make it less of a problem Noah you could do that. Looking around Noah Identified the first of their long list of problems “The goats.” he breathed out looking at the girl.

Lea turned her head over her shoulder to look at the man. "Well, that's not good." Lea sighed, turning back to the goats at his remark. There were only two of them, a few others had disappeared right around when Aria had shown up, but her father and the other higher-ups in the Zoo had decided to keep the two in the enclosure. "They're not doing anything." She said, chewing on her lip. Though perhaps she ought to not have said such a thing, because just as she did, the shimmery hole seemed to almost make a noise and some stones from the outside of the goat enclosure fell into it. "Um." Lea practically squeaked, and before thinking anything through, she jumped into the enclosure and picked up and goat, rubbing between its ears to stop the excessive bleating. "You're okay. It's fine." She raised an eyebrow at the man. "Um, do you wanna grab Cherry?"

Jumping into the cage after the girl Noah headed towards the other goat, this one a few feet closer to the shimmering rainbow window thing. “Hey baby girl,” Noah whispered crouching down next to the other goat. It was clear Cherry was scared yes, but she had yet to start panic bleating which Noah found endearing. She kinda reminded him of the Captain, the UMAC barn goat. Though The captain probably would have noped the fuck out of there way before this point. “Ok got her” Noah informed the other girl as he gently picked her up. But that was when he heard it, the large screeching scraping noise. Turning back to look at the giant swirling portal thing Noah’s eyes widened a claw like hand reaching out through the hole. Something inside of the portal was trying to get out. And that’s when Noah started running full speed at the fence enclosure goat in tow. “Get out of the enclosure NOW” He yelled at the girl, knowing they both would have a better chance of survival from whatever the fuck that was if they weren’t boxed in.

Lea looked at the man, who was now holding onto the goat. "Good." A strong sense of tingles and pins-and-needles shot through her body again and Lea scrunched up, taking care not to drop Gumdrop. "I know!" She called back and darted over to the edge of the enclosure, quickly climbing up and over it. Once she'd made it over, she glanced back at the shimmery and glowing mess of a blob. "Can you watch her?" Lea placed Gumdrop on the ground. "But don't touch her, she's skittish as hell." She ran over to one of the zookeepers. "You've gotta get everyone out!" She called, just as a few plants and a (thankfully empty) pretzel stand found themselves sucked into the galaxy-like blob. "Page Tyler, tell him to make an announcement saying that - I don't know, that we need to have everyone leave asap and -" She sucked in a deep breath as he nodded. Lea darted back over to the man. "I should've introduced myself before. Hi, I'm Lea and my dad's an exhibits coordinator here. That's how I know a lot of people around."

Ignoring most of the remarks Noah scaled the wall with his goat easily, placing her down on the ground one he landed. “That’s a good girl” He crooned softly rubbing her forehead as she bleated a bit. Looking around though Noah was a bit confused as the girl left him with the other goat instructions on not to touch her. “Alright” He said to no one in particular as the other goat started frantically bleating “Its ok Gumdrop” Noah tried soothing the goat with just his voice but to no avail. And if he was being honest Noah was starting to feel a little bit like old gumdrop here, especially as he watched the demonic hand reach out again, stopped lightly only by the pretzel stand and a few plants. Watching as the girl dashed back over Noah took his eyes off the portal “Cool. I’m uh Noah.” He said noting the way the name sounded familiar, but he didn’t have time for that really right now “And Um. I don’t want to alarm you but there’s some sort of shit coming out of that thing over there so um-” Noah stopped the portal making the worst noise it had made so far. Looking back the older boy couldn help it was his eyes widened again, the portal opening and now instead of just the clawed black hand a large black leg was stepping out a body not far after it.

Lea made her way back to... Noah, his name was. Didn't she know a Noah? Lea shook her head, not focusing on that right now - but moreso on the goats. She bent down to scratch Gumdrop between the ears again when Noah made a remark and she stood up quickly, whipping her head around, eyes growing wide at the sight of the creature emerging from the shimmery-almost-galaxy looking space. "What's..." she began, eyes growing wide, "what's that?" She took a few steps back, almost tripping over her hockey stick that had fallen to the side. "What the hell is that?" She took in a sharp breath, her voice shaking.

“No fucking clue” Noah breathed out, all manner of politeness out the window, as his heart started to race. Nope, This was not good, and here he was in the middle of it. The middle of the zoo with a large black creature coming our of god knows where, his mouth (or at least what Noah thought was his mouth) dripping with blackened saliva. Hearing a the clutter of a hockey stick though Noah was brought back to the present, and the fact that he had a very young girl practically shaking beside him. He couldn’t let himself feel right now, for her safety and his. Putting on his game face Noa tried not to think anything of the large blackened mass practically sniffing the air before them and instead tried to think of a few ways “Stay behind me.” He said quietly maneuvering so Lea’s body was not in the creatures line of sight “I’m thinking if we just walk quietly away maybe it won’t catch on that we’re here” But of course it was then Gumdrop decided to bleat again, and the Monster’s head turned straight toward them body tensing as if it was going to pounce.

Lea felt her whole body tense up, and all she could think was that she hoped her father was somewhere else, that he hadn't decided to run to where the chaos was. Or perhaps he was on a late lunch break. Simon also had to be okay. Simon who smelled vaguely of spearmint and who Lea had climbed all over as a little girl when she visited her father. "Um." She coughed out, glancing around. "Okay." Agreeing, for once. Not protesting, for once. Dustin wouldn't believe her. Dustin - she thought, panicked. She hoped that he was okay, she was glad that he'd not come to the Zoo, for once. "Shhh!" Lea bent down, grabbing the bleating goat and hugging it against her chest, trying her best to take deep breaths. "What are you gonna do?!" She tugged on Noah's shirt.

While Noah commended Lea for her swift thinking in trying to shut up the goat, the damage was already done, the lumbering giant coming straight for them. Doing the only thing he could do Noah rushed forward hoping to take the monster thing off guard. “I’m going to FIGHT” He replied as he punched the black demon thing right across the big gaping jaw. And it was good that he’d had some werewolf strength left in him, because it knocked the creature back further than he’d expected, the claws of one of its weird claw like foot things only coming across to across to rip a small patch at the skin of his shoulder. Fuck. Yea that was going to sting a little when he got home, but it definitely could have been much worse without the werewolf god smiling down on him. Backing away though Noah didn’t really know what to do next, none of his training with this uncle had ever had him up against well, an actual monster. He’d only been trained to take down people for pete’s sake. Hearing it shriek a mighty ear piercing shriek Noah tried not to cringe knowing he was probably in way over his head, werewolf juju or not. But that’s when he remembered. “Lea Stick!” He called out to her hoping she wasn’t in so much shock that she couldn’t slide or throw him her field hockey stick.

Lea wanted to tell Noah that yelling 'fight' was probably not the best of ideas, and that fighting whatever this creature - it had to be a hallucination, right? - was, was a very poorly constructed idea. But she kept her mouth shut. "I -" She began again, "fine." Still keeping a steady hold on Gumdrop, she bent over and grabbed the hockey stick, her hands shaking. She'd have to buy a new one. It was okay, if it helped at all. "Here you go." She handed it over to him. She was supposed to be able to do something, not just stand here looking helpless and weak. She was far from a damsel in distress, even though that appeared to be the exact role she was playing right now. "Don't get hurt." She managed, giving Noah's shirt another small tug.

Catching the stick with relative ease Noah was glad that he could be useful in this way. Because fighting and defending was his forte, and while the girl was far from being a damsel in distress it sure felt good to use some of his natural talent. Centering the stick in his palm though Noah grinned. He had always been told he had a great baseball swing, and as soon as he had the stick in his hand he knew knew it was game time. Planting his feet Noah swept the stick in an arc with as much strength as he could muster sending the monster actually flying backwards this time. Yea hows them apples demon shit. Looking at the girl though as she told him not to get hurt Noah felt a little twinge of like, well a feeling he hadn’t felt in over 8 years. “I’ll try not to” He replied gently to her before running into the cage where the monster was now laying. He needed to hit it where it counted and now, while it was down. Bringing the hockey stick up Noah rammed it into the side of the thing the toe getting caught in a rib or something and breaking off. Oops. Hearing it shriek Noah readied himself for the next attack his jagged stick at the ready. But it never came the big lumbering demon deciding to ‘fuck this shit’ to put it lightly and climb back into the shimmering portal hole thing. “”Well that was easier than I thought it was going to be” Noah murmured to himself hand coming up to the gash on his shoulder, it wasn’t bleeding too bad but it still stunk like a mother. Hopping back over the fence towards the girl Noah held out her stick before realizing “Oh shit, your stick.”

Lea watched him carefully. Part of her wondered if she should race after him, but given that she weighed only just over a hundred pounds and was not trained very extensively in any form of self-defense (something she might need to rectify, she mused) standing with the goats and comforting them was probably best. While Noah was fully distracted she bent down to pet them, only looking back up when Noah returned. Lea bit down on her lip when he showed her the stick. She'd need it for practice - but that was okay. The creature was gone, possibly. If it had even been real. "It's - it's fine. You fixed it, right?" She glanced over to the shimmering hole. So not totally fixed, but the creature was gone.

Glancing back at the swirling hole Noah bit his lip slightly “I’m not sure how to really fix it” He commented with a shrug, wincing slightly as the move jostled his cut up shoulder. Holding the stick between his legs, Noah took off his shirt, wrapping the fabric the best he could around his wound, a small deja vu flashback of that kid in the woods coming back to him. “At least that thing isn’t coming for us any more, though.” He said looking around in case there was another one hiding in the shadows. But it was just him and the girl and the goats now. And that weird swirling shimmering hole thing. “But um yea thank you for letting me use this.” He said gesturing with the sick “I promise I’ll pay you back, or like get you another one.”

"It's okay. Better the stick than you or the goats or anybody else." Lea gave a small shrug. Her gaze shot to the injury on his shoulder but no, she'd done enough damage for one day, and healing a straight-up injury would lead to too many questions. "I mean, I won't say no to people buying me stuff." She took in another shaky breath. "But right now, I'd advise getting out of here asap. I'm going to head home I think, and I'd say that you should too, though you're a grown-up grown-up I think, so I can't really tell you what to do." Lea grabbed Gumdrop. "I'm going to drop her off near the info booth, though - can you get Cherry or should I just try and get her to follow me?"

“Well there is that” Noah replied with a small smile, chuckling slightly as she pulled the typical teenage move and admitted she was ok with him buying her a new stick. It was the least he could do though so he figured he make good on his promise. Looking around at the goats though he nodded when she said it might be time for them to go. “Sounds good to me. And yea I’m a full fledged grown up and everything, but fortunately for you I don’t like leaving a mess in someone else’s house” He teased leaning down to rub a pattern on Cherry’s fur. Walking with the goat in tow though Noah realized he had no way of really contacting this girl about her new stick. “Here though,” He said grabbing his phone from his pocket and handing it to her “Put your number in. Or like add me on tumblr or something, so I can text you about the stick.”

Lea couldn't help but smile back at him, despite everything else that was going on. "Messes don't do anybody any good, ever." She shook her head. "Trust me." At his comment, she paused in her walking and nodded. "Oh, yeah. Right." She grabbed his phone with one hand while holding onto Gumdrop with the other and plugged in her number and tumblr username, just for the heck of it. Then she shot herself a quick text with a string of ocean animal emojis. "There we go, all set." For now, at least. The zoo would have to close until whatever was going on could be solved.

Taking his phone back Noah looked at the ocean animals she’d sent with a bemused smile. Well that was one way to go about that. “Cool.” he said slipping the phone back in his pocket, and setting the goat down at the entrance. There were a lot of employees around the turnstiles trying to direct panicked people and make sure no one got hurt and Noah took that as his queue that he should probably follow. Glancing over toward her though Noah gave in to that small little nagging feeling in his brain and said words he’d didn’t really say much any more“So if if you’re ever in a dangerous situation feel free to text me ok. I’ll be there no questions asked alright” He said with a nod Because he would be, he really would. But she didn’t really need to know the gravity of it all. Giving Cherry one last pat though Noah stood up straightening his makeshift bandage a little “Well um I guess I’ll see you later then” He said with a small wave before walking towards the Zoo entrance. Saying today was a wild day would be an understatement and It would probably be a good long while before he came back to the Zoo.

Or so he hoped.

#touchofchatzy #touchofpotw #potw #1 minute to midnight #leaparrish #//don't know if there needs to be any trigger warnings on this #since its pretty tame all things considered #but let me know if you need one!

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