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Character(s): Prince Naveen and Timon
Content: Naveen and Timon run into each other.
Setting: A fountain near one of the Actua Are Hotels
Time: Afternoon
Warnings: None... unless Timon needs a warning.

There were a lot of disadvantages to being stuck as a frog. There was no question about that. And yet, even though Naveen would give anything to be back in his normal human form, he still tried to make the best of his amphibious form. There was no point in needlessly fretting about it, that wouldn't get him changed back.

Being a frog, Naveen needed water, and the only sources of water he could find in the city so that weren't bathtubs and sinks so far were fountains. So you could often find the frog prince lounging in these fountains like they were his own private swimming pools. No one had complained about him doing that yet, so there was no harm in him continuing to do so, right?

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The problem with public swimming pools was that you never knew who you’d be swimming with. Now, Timon hadn’t been particularly picky where he had stopped to bath. Unlike Naveen, he was more than privileged to use Vyers’ sink as his own personal bathtub – which he often did. However, on this particular day, he had chosen to use one of the cities fountains. He had the feeling Vyers was beginning to catch onto what he had been using the sink and his toothbrush for. Not only that, but the demon had spent what felt like hours on end in the bathroom simply admiring himself. If he hadn’t gone out to look for somewhere to bath he would have surely been stuck waiting all day for his turn in the bathroom.

“Sing hey! For the bath at close of day that washes the weary mud away!” The meerkat sang loudly while he scrubbed his fur clean. He was completely unaware that he was among company in the fountain. Who would expect company in a fountain? “A warthog is he that will not sing: Oh! Water hot is a noble thing!”

No one would expect company in a fountain. And while Naveen was surprised when someone else's very loud singing interrupted the tune he was humming to himself, Naveen was to occupied in his own thoughts to realize just where the singing was coming from. Not to mention that Naveen certainly wasn't going to tell another music lover to stop singing, no matter how loud it was.

But, Naveen was to preoccupied with his own thoughts to realize that he was swimming into right into the singer, and he didn't realize until he collided with him headfirst.

“Oh! Water is fair that leaps on high in a fountain beneath the mysterious dome up high. But never did a fountain sound so sweet as splashing water on my fe-AGH!” The unexpected collision, as well as the force behind it, was more than enough to send the meerkat flying forward face first into the water when the frog swam into him. He let out a cry in surprise only to have it replaced the sound of gargling until he submerged.

A series of coughs could be heard when Timon finally pulled himself out of the water. He looked himself over briefly in disgust before shaking some of the water off. The fountain was freezing. It was for that reason he had been slowly working from his legs up, allowing himself to get used to the water. The meerkat groaned, unsure whether to start over or simply dive in before he remembered the reason he had found himself soaked wet in the first place.

“Hey, what’s the big idea?” He shouted, turning around to face the culprit responsible for knocking him over.

Naveen flailed a bit in the water after the colision before he managed to right himself. Only to find himself facing a very, very loud meerkat. The way the meerkat was acting made it seem like he wasn't the type to brush it off as the accident it was.

Naveen exhaled sharply through his nose in annoyance, and replied "It was an accident. What were you doing in here in the first place?"

All previous traces of anger that had been on the meerkats face vanished as stepped back to observe Naveen. His surprised expression said it all: the last thing he had expected to run into was a frog, especially here of all places. Timon scratched his head and looked Naveen over from head to toe. He didn’t look particularly threatening, what being a frog and all, but even then he was surprisingly larger than an average frog. At least as far as Timon could tell. It had been some time since he had last seen one, never mind spoken with someone his size. Well, other than Urd that one time.

It took Timon a moment to realize he had been asked a question and recover from his surprise. “Hu? Oh, me? I was bathing, of course! A guy has gotta keep clean somehow, you know. Some of us care what we smell like. What about amphibian such as yourself, what are you doing in here? You weren’t spying on me, were you?”

Edited 2010-03-30 03:42 (UTC)

The meerkat's sudden change of attitude took Naveen by surprise, not that it was a problem, though. Naveen was the non-confrontational type. Though, the meerkat's surprised expression was curious. Had he been expecting something else?

When the meerkat mentioned he had been bathing, a rather disgusted look crossed Naveen's face, "Bathing? Why would you be doing that out here?" Naveen asked, then he added, "And no I was not spying on you, I was just swimming..."

What was that look for? Timon wasn’t sure whether or not to feel offended or embarrassed. He didn’t see anything wrong with what he had done. This was incredibly normal. A frog of all animals should have been used to sharing water like this. Unless of course this one thought he was better than everyone else. Judging by the size of him, that wouldn’t of surprised to the meerkat. He could easily see the largest frog of a group being the leader. That was usually the way it worked with most species.

“Why wouldn’t you? Water is water, no matter where it is. A fountain, a lake, what difference does it make?” He raised a brow at the frog and carefully began to smooth his fur out. If this guy really was a leader, hopefully he didn’t think he could start bossing him around too. “I don’t see what the problem is. Well, other than maybe the slime you brought in here with you... This thing is more than big enough for the two of us. If you were looking for your own private swimming hole maybe you should have picked somewhere a little less in the public.”

A frog would have been used to it. A human, on the other hand? Well, it wasn't unreasonable for a human to be somewhat disgusted by the idea of sharing where he was swimming with someone who was bathing. And, who knows where that meerkat had been, anyway?

"Wouldn't you rather bathe somewhere private?" Naveen replied, even though he knew an animal like the meerkat wouldn't care about something about that. "And it is not slime, it's mucus," he added.

“There is a personal sense of higher status I like when you do.” He admitted thoughtfully at the idea. It certainly changed the odds of bathing in the same pool of water as some gross animal. Whether that animal was some smelly warthog or just plain ugly, Timon had no intention of getting into it. As far as he was concerned, there were far worse things than a frog to bath with. “Given the circumstances though, this’ll have to do. After all, there’s no water current here. It’s perfect, aside from the company maybe.” The meerkat concluded, muttering the last part so not to have Naveen hear.

Suddenly Timon paused. “W-wait. Did you say mucus?!” A look of both horror and disgust appeared on his face as he looked down at himself. If this frog had said… He had really been bathing in mucus all this time. A stranger’s mucus, yet! He must have been covered in it. The meerkat stammered away from the frog, his paw over his mouth. If anything, he looked as though he was going to be sick.

"Yes, mucus," Naveen rolled his eyes at Timon's reaction, it looked it was the meerkat's turn to be disgusted. Apparently that was the final straw for the odd little meerkat, never mind that he had probably bathed in worse things when he had been in the wild.

"That is why bathrooms were invented, you know," He added.

“Gross!” Timon cried out, sticking his tongue out in disgust while he tried to wipe his fur off. In the end, however, he only proved to gross himself out further. He could only hope there was another fountain or body of water sitting around somewhere nearby. If he had to walk home covered in… Ugh. He frowned at the frog that appeared completely unconcerned about the matter, even if it had been his fault in the first place.

“Why didn’t you tell me earlier? And what are you talking about, what about ‘bathrooms’?” the meerkat asked in frustration. “How would you know what those were made for, hu? If you know so much about them why aren’t you using one now?”

"It cannot be as bad as you are making it out to be," Naveen said to the meerkat who was overreacting to the whole mucus thing. Really, if he was so worried about sharing the water like this he should just bathe in private.

"And you want to know how I know about bathrooms?" Naveen replied as he leaned in closer to the meerkat, "Because I am not supposed to be a frog, I'm human. And I am not using one because I'm not taking a bath"

“Not as bad?” the meerkat repeated in disbelief. “How would you like it if you had bathed in another guys mucus?!” He gagged at the thought in disgust and tried to push it away from his mind. “Forget it, I don’t even wanna know.” This was after all a frog he was speaking with. Who knew how many other weird and disgusting habits they had.

Noting that Naveen had leaned in closer to speak with him, Timon curiously did the same in order to listen. At his words, the meerkat drew back and looked at the frog in surprise. “Human?” He asked while looked the frog over. Was he, could he really be? Timon was silent for a moment, looking as though he had seriously considered the frog’s words true. However, that quickly changed when he found he could no longer contain himself and burst into a fit of laughter. “Yeah, right! You almost had me there. Human! Of all ridiculous things… You couldn’t possibly be! I mean, look at you! What makes you think you're a human?”

To be perfectly honest, Naveen wasn't really surprised that the meerkat didn't believe him.

"Because I am," He replied, what more of an answer did the meerkat need? All things considered, he should probably elaborate, "You see, I am really Prince Naveen of Maldonia, but I was cursed into this form by a voodoo man."

Not that he expected the meerkat to believe him, but what else are you gonna do at a time like this?

This story just kept getting better. Not only was he a human now, he was also a prince! The prince of Maldonia! The meerkat proceeded to laugh even harder at the frog at that thought. “A prince!” he repeated between laughs. “You’re a… a prince too? Oh, this is too good. My sides, oh! You’re killin’ me here!” Timon clutched his sides, arching over while he continued to laugh. In all honesty, this was by far the most ridiculous thing he had ever heard. “If you’re a prince I’m a ferocious man eating lion.”

He said it had been ‘voodoo’ to blame. Really, voodoo? The only thing Timon needed to know about that was it was a lie. How could anyone take something that sounded that silly serious in the first place? Did this frog even hear what he was saying? He would need more than ‘voodoo’ and ‘because I am’ that to convince the meerkat he was truly human. Timon’s laughter was an obvious sign of that. “What proof do you have that you’re a human?”

Naveen was seriously getting fed up with this meerkat. He glared at Timon in annoyance, "You do not believe me," he said matter of fact-ly. He was pretty much ready to leave the annoying meerkat behind, because he did not want to deal with this anymore.

"Proof? Somehow, I doubt you would believe it if I showed you."

The amphibians glare went unnoticed by Timon, his laughter rising once again before he finally began to calm down. That was not to say he was anywhere close to have believing anything Naveen had to say however, nor to make the frog feel any less offended. This was just the sort of thing that the meerkat knew would get old fast. If Naveen had persisted that he was human this long he would likely continue to do so for awhile. That was juuuust peachy.

The meerkat wiped a tear from his eye, an amused grin across his features while he turned to look at the frog again. “What was your first guess?” He asked in response. “To be honest, I doubt you even could prove it if you tried. Where did you even get the idea that you were a human in the first place? You don’t look anything even remotely close!”

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