"Aww, just have to ruin all my fun, don't you Cesia? Well, just gives me one more reason to hate Cid and want to get rid of him sooner, other than the whole evil plan to take over the kingdom and tried to kill us thing," Vace said jokingly, but anger seeped into his voice when he spoke of Cid.

Tamakatari made a nod to the princess.

"Yeah, whatever. It was better than being chained to a wall. And our mission was to protect the princess, no matter the cost. Even if it means dying. And even if I did die, it's no skin off the group's nose. I'm surprised that you even took me along."

Tamakatari rubbed his head. His head was pounding, but his gut hurt. He needed something to settle it down.

"God, if I ever needed a drink, it would be now. Vace, I'm joining you. I'd rather die drunk than sober. There's no fun in dying with all your brain cells."

"Then you could die right now and be happy..." Lynx commented.

"Low blow! Seriously Lynx, no hitting below the belt until they're drunk."

Tamakatari had already picked up a stick, and it had changed into a mace. It was smaller than he had intended it. Whatever that mage had hit him with, it was screwing with his powers. But, nevertheless, he pointed the mace at the mage.

"Whether you're a human or a cat, you're still annoying. And with my head pounding like this, you're best bet to survival would not be pissing me off. I've got no hesitations to killing you."

"While it would be fun to watch you mercilessly beat Lynx to a pulp, if you don't I'll buy the drinks since the others are using the pass to visit the blacksmith." Vace said.

Lynx held out his stick to the side, mumbled something, and the entire thing was set ablaze, then funneled into the stick, and formed at the tip. He pointed that tip at Tama. "And I you."

Tamakatari smiled.

"Ooh. Kitty learned some new tricks. And I bet you feel really big about yourself, huh? Feel powerful now, do ya'? Considering I can see you still haven't got your human legs down pat. You lean forward, as if you want desperately to walk on all fours, but you can't, because then you'd look silly."

Tamakatari turned to Vace.

"Sure, you're buying. Let's go find a bar, or somethin'."

Tamakatari started to use his mace as a crutch, and walked by Vace into the village to find a bar.

"Come on guys... last thing we need to be doing is arguing." Dawn stepped between Tama and Lynx. "You and Vace going and get your drinks or whatever while we get what we need. Just don't overdo it."

Lynx looked at Tama like he was an idiot. "I'm sitting down dumbass! And I've gotten used to walked, it was when you got patheticly beaten in one hit"