Cheating a Chef of his Sushi

25 July 2015

17:21 ZeroItamae paces around the back door to the kitchen, seeming a bit frantic and impatient. He occasionally stops to look around, hoping to spot someone with his late shipment of fish. The unicorn huffs with a drawn out sigh, not exactly wanting to deal with such a hold up in the early morning. Zero thinks of all the prep work that he has put on hold, and with each pony or griffon that passes by, he grows a bit more impatient. ***

17:28 Serilde pulls a meager cart with fish through the streets, fresh caught from late last night, but the cart load was certainly less than the chef would be used to. The golden feathered griffon reaches the shop and pokes her head in, giving a small chirp. She spots Zero pacing and gives him a weak smile. "Well...You see...the ships must have had a rough time last night...and we have no salmon...and I couldn't find anyone who did..." The formel says in a solemn voice. ***

17:47 ZeroItamae perks up a bit as he notices the griffon peek into the kitchen. The unicorns blue eyes seem to light up and he smiles, knowing that he might be able to finally continue with his day as usual. His demeanor rapidly shifts from pleased, to annoyed as his eyes scan over the shipment, and noting how it seems a bit light. He stamps his right forehoof in a huff of frustration as he listens to the formels excuse for the lack of salmon. The gray unicorn takes a deep breath, trying to regain his composure before answering. "Just wonderful, at least that explains why you're late. That doesn't however, explain how I'm going to keep my customers happy when the most popular fish we serve isn't here." Zero glares at the griffon, looking for a more satisfying answer. ***

17:54 Serilde taps a claw on the ground and looks away from the pony, dragging it across the tiled floor with a soft scrape and frowning at the edge of her beaks. "Look...Sorry...I don't know what else to tell you. Perhaps you could just tell your customers that you ran out." The griffon notes with a sigh, before turning back to the cart. "Anyways, let me help you unload what we have." As the cart is unloaded, Zero might spot a receipt for a delivery also dated this morning to his competitor across the street, which seems to include salmon, enough for double his usual order even, and the markup on it was much higher than he normally paid. ***

18:16 ZeroItamae shakes his head at the griffon with disappointment. "What that's increadibly unhelpful. Sure, I'll tell my customers I'm out of salmon, and drive them right to our competitor. Great idea!" He forces a little laugh, and turns his attention back to what pieces of his shipment that did show up. "Right, well I'm going to just check the invoice real quick..." The unicorn scans over the invoice while the formel starts unloading the delivery, and happens to notice the receipt for his competitors delivery. He quickly spots the mention of salmon in their order, and how they seem to have bought out what limited supply there is. "You've got to be kidding me. Did they pay you guys under the table or something for this nonsense?" He says with an accusatory tone. "So you had enough to sell to the other restaurant, but not us? Didn't think we could handle the marked up price or something?" The stallions seems more than irate at this point, and he waits to see what the formels next excuse is. ***

18:24 Serilde stops with a box in claw, frowning and turning to look at the stallion with incredulity. "What? I, I'd never engage in such business practices. They just offered me more for everything than you usually pay," Serilde explains, turning her beak up. Her voice wavers just a hair though as she speaks, though she was pretty sure that the stallion wouldn't be able to find out that she'd been bribed to keep Zero without any fish. She shakes her head and turns once more, placing the last box in the massive ice chest in Zero's kitchen. ***

18:50 ZeroItamae furrows his brow as the unicorn looks at the formel in disbelief. "Oh I'm sure this all one big coincidence." He looks a bit closer at the formel, looking for any signs of guilt on her expression. He watches the formel drop the last box into his ice chest, but its obvious that hes not ready to just drop it yet. "Humor me for a moment, will you? Usually when a price changes, or theres a lack of supply, someone would let me know, and yet nobody bothered to lift a hoof to tell me there would be no salmon. They paid you in advance, didn't they." He gives a stern look to the formel, hoping that she might reveal a bit more information. "Either we work something out here, so I can get my product...or you're going to give me something else." ***

00:44 Serilde snorts at the stallions threat and walks past him over to the cart, taking it into her claws and turning to look at him again. She snatches the receipt for the other store out of Zero's magic and stuffs it back into the cart. "Look, I would have told you about the price change, but that was this morning and they bought everything before you could get to it. What, you think they bribed me not to deliver to you or something?" SHe asks, though there's a slight blush that appears under her feathers as her beak quivers under the scrutiny. ***

22:43 ZeroItamae huffs softly, and at a glance the unicorns visage would give away the fury building within him. He closes his eyes for a brief moment, calming his breathing, and simply walks over to the shipment put away. Zero quicky opens up one of the chests, and frowns. The unicorn turns to the formel as she fixes up her cart, and in a commanding voice he says, "Don't be so hasty now, you haven't even let me inspect the shipment personally yet. Any professional delivery company knows they need to stay around until the product I did actually recieve, is cleared by me. I've only opened one chest..." He scoffs, the unicorn shaking his head. "What kind of fool do you take me for? Come look at this tuna. You call this shishimi grade?" The unicorn keeps his eyes locked in a stony gaze at the formel. While other plans form in his head. "The issue is simple", he thinks. "The restaurant is being gouged by the competetion, and soon, we will die off. Can't pay the company enough to take back the salmon we need...but there is another way." He knows his kitchen like the back of his hoof. With a multitude of heavy objects, and potential weapons laying around, the unicorn simply tries to beckon the formel closer to execute his plan. ***

22:46 < GyroTech> (How umm dark are we talking. No cutting up or anything like that right? ^^')

22:48 < ZeroItamae> (Nah.)

22:49 < ZeroItamae> (More like misdirection, lulling into a fall sense of security, knocking her out, maybe interrogating her a little bit before deciding he'd rather have different delivery bird, so he makes her, disappear~)

22:51 < ZeroItamae> (Probably mixing in various other fun things like foodplay)

22:52 GyroTech snorts at the stallion as he tells her to stay and then lurks at the edge of the door. "Well you've never had an issue with my shipment before, so This is out of the ordinary, but fine." She taps a talon on the ground impatiently as the stallion goes through the crates. She makes a face at the stallion's accusation and snarls at him. "This is the same exact quality that we always deliver, at the same exact price. I don't know what you're complaining about." The formel stalks over to the and looks it over, pulling out a handsome looking fish. "See look at this, smell this, this is great, fresh caught quality, but if you don't want it, I'm sure we can find some other establishment who will take your reserved shipment off our hands." ***

22:52 < GyroTech> (Gotta prepare her like sushi~ Wrap her up in seaweed, maybe add in some fish~)

22:53 < ZeroItamae> (Hhehe, that could be arranged~)

23:03 ZeroItamae examines the fish held by the formel, and shakes his head, feigning disappointment at the sight of the fish. He raises his hoof, pointing to a discolored spot on the fish, "Take a look at this spot, this fish has been tainted! See how discolored it is?" He rambles on, saying anything he can to keep the formel focused on the fish. He takes a heavy whiff of the air, and fakes a displeased look. "And it smells of ammonia!" While the unicorn does his best to distract Serilde, Zero is concentrating on a simple spell, focused on a heavy cast iron pan held on a shelf above the two. He silently lowers it from the shelf, and maintains eye contact with Serilde, during his false accusations. Once in place, the unicorn prepares to make an aimed strike at the back of the formels head, with the intention of at least knocking her out. "I will ask you one more time...did our competitors pay you off. Be civil why don't you, and try not lying to me this time." ***

23:12 Serilde narrows her eyes at the stallion as he continues to go on a rant. She looks at where he points and shakes her head. "There's no discoloration there," she says flatly, and then as he talks about ammonia she growls in frustration. "There is no ammonia either, and I cant believe you're putting me through this song and dance. How about this, I'll take 10% off this shipment and you just accept it and move on. We'll probably have salmon again tomorrow." She says, looking him over. "And No, we were not paid off by your competitors. They just bought all the fish we had. I'm sure you can go down to the docks and maybe you'll find someone who failed to sell their salmon but it is not our fault that you're without it." She narrows her eyes and swishes her tail. The formel did not look very happy with him at all. ***

23:29 ZeroItamae sighs deeply, and then nods to the formel. "10% huh...how kind of you. Really, I'm humbled." the unicorn looks up to Serilde, and his expression seems to go almost blank. "I would take it, you know. But theres one big problem you see. I gave you a chance, and still, you lied to me again." The unicorn's tone is cold, and lacking the anger that should be there. He simply seems calm, a sense of control in his eyes. The cast iron pan hovering just behind the formel raises back, and the unicorn with a hefty swing of it, strikes the formel on the back of the head. Taking care to not break anything, but to simply knock the formel out. He shakes his head after the almost satisfying clang of the pan striking against the formel is heard. "I tried to be civil." ***

23:36 Serilde watches his reaction and then sighs, turning to pick up the box, when she catches him continuing. "Lied to you? Lied to you about what?" She asks with a growl. "Fine, I'll just take your shipment abck if you're so unhappy with it and then you can be without fish for the day." She picks up the crate when suddenly she's hit with a loud thunk. The force of the pan causes the formel to collapse, dropping the box she'd picked up with it and spilling it across the floor. THe griffon lays motionless except for breathing, compltly at the mercy of the stallion. ***

23:39 ZeroItamae pants heavily for a moment as the unicorn stares coldly at the formel. His mind is racing as the flow of adrenaline in his body rapidly increases, and he tosses the pan to the side, striking the floor with a few loud noises to accompany its weight. He takes a moment to consider if anyone may have heard anything, but a quick look at the back door would show that the docks outside remain barren around this time. Concentrating his magic onto the back door, he shuts it tightly, limiting the formels odds of anyone hearing her. He trots past the formel to one of the nearby shelves, and levitates a large spool of butchers twine. Not really the typical use for it, but it would work wonders for keeping his prey nice and secure. Zero glances back at Serilde with a devious grin appearing across his visage, and takes a few steps toward her. He circles around the larger griffon for a moment, sizing her up, and once satisfied he begins to unravel the twine. He guides the end of the twine underneath the griffon, and starts the lengthy process of tying up Serilde's limbs, humming softly to himself as he does so. ***

23:46 Serilde is out cold for the process as her limbs are tied together and her beak is forced shut. Finally, she blinks awake grogilly, feeling her head dmarting from where the stallion had hit her. Squirming on the ground she pulls at the twine and finds that her legs were tied rather tightly together. She mmphs and turns looking around to see the stallion who had done this to her. She growls at him as he puts the final touches on her bindings, narrowing her eyes. ***

00:05 ZeroItamae makes quick work of binding up the formel, and stops his pacing right in front of Serilde. The stallion applies the finishing touches his to the bindings as the grifon starts to wake up. Her squirming has little effect at this point, and Zero chuckles softly under his breath as he watches her quickly piece the situation together. It doesn't take long before their eyes meet as Serilde looks around for her captor. The stallion grins all the wider as the griffon growls at the him, taking great satisfaction from the look in her eyes. The unicorn stares down at his prey, and reaches one of his forehooves out to Serilde. Zero gently rubs his hoof along her cheek, ending at her beak before the stallion starts to force her against the ground. The applied pressure steadily rises, just to the point of becoming a bit painful. "This could have ended quite differently, you know. But that would be redundant...you knew exactly how this would end when you arrived this morning. Well, to the point of trying to lie and cheat me out of my inventory. How typical of a griffon...Since I can't get what I need, I'll just take something from you." he says with a commanding tone to the formel. He takes his hoof off of Serilde's beak, and leans down to lick along her beak, and up towards her face. His coarse tongue wetting her feathers with his sticky, warm saliva. ***

00:15 Serilde meets the eyes of the grey furred stallion with a fierce gaze, a burning anger showing at the indignance of being tied up like this. How dare that stallion think that he could get away with doing something so humiliating to her. She lets out another low growl and begins to twist, tryring to get her beak to her bindings so that she could cut them with her sharp tooth. This is ended rather ubrupthly as her beak is pressed down upon by the hard hoof. She can smell the musky scent of his feet and wrinkles her beak as she 's pushed against the tile floor. As the pressure becomes painful, she only lets out a soft grunt, refusing to betray the sensations to the stallion. The formel makes a face as she feels his hot wet saliva dripping down her beak and matting her golden brown feathers against her scalp. Take something from her...she'd show him. She twists her head and tries to gore his muzzle with her beak, but cant get the angle. Still it'd probably need to be taken care of before things went too far. ***

00:47 ZeroItamae keeps his gaze affixed on Serilde's expression as he playfully torments his prey. That ferocity in the formels eyes was in no way lost on the unicorn. As cold as his stare may seem, his empathy for her situation was at a peak. He could nearly feel her burning hatred, and knowing how slim her chance of escape was, he couldn't help but find it comical. Her constant attempts to fight back only strengthened the stallion's resolve. The formel may not give him the direct satisfaction of yielding, but he didn't quite expect that from a griffon in the first place. He gives one more small lick against Serilde's face, taking a moment to enjoy the taste before pulling his muzzle away. A little bit of saliva trails away from the unicorns tongue before dripping onto Serilde's face, leaving her nice and sticky for his amusement. Though relatively unphased by her attempt to strike at the stallion, Zero attempts to make a point to her by shoving his musky hoof down against her wet beak once again. "There it is! That ferocity, that rage, I can see it in your eyes! Just like the typical griffon, always go down fighting. And you will. But you didn't get here on fair grounds, and how would you? You're clearly bigger, stronger, faster. But what good is that with a little guile and a keen sense of timing, hm?" He laughs, rubbing his hoof down against her. "You see...I've decided I'm going get some ironic payback for ponies everywhere. Throughout history all the stories of griffons eating ponies...preaching to the choir here aren't I. You might know where this is headed." he says before pulling his hoof away, and trotting behind the formel. "But like I said, why play fair? I'm starting from the rear, away from that sharp beak of yours." and with that last remark, the unicorn leans down, and lifts the griffons hindpaws towards his maw as it steadily opens. His hot breath washes over the soft surface of Serilde's hindpaws, and he simply waits to see what other fight the griffon might have in her. ***