"It's not the same." Sarah crossed her arms and glared at Kai.
Kai shook faer head. "Look, nothing in the rules says your magical pact animal has to be a cat, all right."
Sara closed her eyes and shook her head slowly. She wanted Kai on the team. She recommended faem for it. But at fourteen, that had been driven by her crush as much as anything else. Now...that was before she fully understood where fae got faer power. "I know, I know. Three of us have cats, but Cassie has a fox, Vics has a cobra, and Bobbi has an owl. I get it. And we all have themes for those!"
"And I have a theme for mine!"
Sara pinched the bridge of her nose. "You told me you could transform-"
"-By waving a wand around-" Kai interjected.
Sara looked at the four foot long bone topped by a reptilian claw that looked more like a spear than anything else, even with the obsidian gems ringing it. "Technically that is correct," she said. "And your transformation doesn't change your body, so you don't belong with a Monster Squad-"
"-they told me to talk to you. It really is just an outfit change."
Sara shook her head and looked at Kai more closely. It certainly was that. The "outfit" was...well, bone armor. With very little under it. Fae had a really nice physique that the armor showed off well, perfectly suited to just hiding enough to maintain their androgeny. And, of course, the stub nosed reptile skull helmet. "You look like you stepped out of some old time movie about cave people," she said bluntly.
"To be fair, last time my pact holder had a bonded person, it was 78 million years ago."
Sara nodded slowly. "And thus, Kai, we get to the crux of the issue. The real problem at the heart of things. You cannot - and I don't believe I have to say this - you cannot ride a goddamn Spinosaurus down I-95."
Kai looked over faer shoulder slowly, at the pileup that stretched back over the horizon. In front of it was Kai's pact animal, curled up in the road, snoring quietly. "I think," Kai said slowly. "That what you mean is I should not. Because I'm pretty sure Fluffy and I just proved you can."
At the sound of their named, the forty-five foot lizard yawned.
"Please get Fluffy of the street and come inside," Sara said finally, doing some mental math. If nothing else, the next time Vicky Villainous created a giant monster, the Tri-State Magical Girl Union would have something of similar mass.
Besides, how could she say no when Kai was giving her those puppydog eyes?
"Great!" Kai said cheering up instantly. "I'm going to call Rowan too. Xi bonded a therizenosaurus!"
Sara groaned. She really needed to learn how to say no when Kai was giving her those puppydog eyes.
