Lekio sneered lightly at Gust's first response. Of course he wasn't going to answer, he probably believed the cat-shark to still have the same malicious intent as he did when he first met him, and honestly, Lekio couldn't blame him. Cinder's smarts were starting to rub off on him, so there was that at least. But that didn't mean he wasn't one to still make mistakes.

"You callin me weak?" He raised his voice a little at this, clearly agitated by Gust's reasoning to not want to fight him a second time. Obviously, this wasn't a response Lekio was going to just be okay with. "Afraid to get your ass beat by a monster who's been hospitalized? Come on, wuss" Again, his maliciousness had faded in time, and was more playful sounding then anything.
"Where you have to be can wait, we won't be long, I bet I could beat you in seconds and once I have, I'll let you run on home with your tail between your legs! Haahahaha!" After laughing, he held a hand to his chest for a moment, giving a bit of a hearty cough before then looking back to Gust. "I don't get to see a lot of monsters while I'm in hospital you know. I don't get to swim in the lakes and such anymore either." The monster's eyes looked aside for a moment, genuine sadness showing as he said what he did. "Your friend took that away from me." He clenched his fists closed and bared his teeth again. "I have something I need you to tell Cherry" He declared, as he brought his hands up and as quickly as he could manage in his condition, shot out a speeding sticky bubble at Gust's legs "After we've had a rematch. One on one, just you and me Gust. Show me what you're made of"

(Potentially canon later)

It had been well past 2 and a half months since Lekio first ran into Gust and Cole and had his fishy tail kicked and sent to Cinder's Clinic. The catshark had learnt a lot that day from Cole, but he still had a lot to learn and a lot to grow past. For most of the time he had done as he was told, because he kind of had to, but often times he was a bit of a pain to deal with and made it hard to cooperate, but it wasn't anything Cinder couldn't handle.
The majority of his time was now spent in-doors of the Clinic in Woodland, healing steadily thanks to the help of Cinder both physically and mentally from what he had experienced under Cole's fury. He had a lot more time to think now, and ever since he'd been brought away from Cinnamon's shop, he had seemed a lot more calmer in attitude and personality, he still had snarky or cheeky moments, but nothing was as spiteful as he was months prior. It had taken a while, but he eventually gained his voice back and the ability to walk, and steadily he began to talk more casually overtime with Cinder.

That being said, he still did enjoy his walks alone, and today he'd gotten one.
It was early morning and he'd finally been let out of the Clinic to stretch his still re-developing legs, he had to stay in Woodland though of course and not be out longer then what Cinder said for him to be, but it was something. He'd fix the positioning of the funny-looking goggles he had to wear to help him see for now as he stepped out of the Clinic, taking in a breath of the morning air as he began to steadily walk along the path Cinder had taken him when they first went for a walk together a while back now, thinking of all the things she had told him about Woodland and the Underground in general. She'd introduced him to a lot of interesting food too ever since he'd turned up, he was always wondering what she'd show him next but never really told her about that. Maybe he'd do that later, if she wanted to talk then, for now he simply kept to her path and took it steady as he walked through Woodland.

Lekio gave a snarl as Cole gave him trouble, even when walking away. but he did actually run , around past the shop, out of sight. He didn't seem willing to risk getting the same fate as the tree had.

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Cinnamon tapped a small finger against her quivering lips as she listened to the two boys. She seemed rather unnerved at seeing Lekio at all. The talk Gust had said about the Princess part, in particular, seemed to make the unibunny even more nervous. "I don't think we've seen the last of him either. That type are pretty... Persistent."
She did smile at the talk of Gust returning though. "I for sure didn't doubt it~"
She couldn't help but to also be a bit concerned for Cole as well, fumbling her little paws together as she let him speak.
As for the species thing. "W-well, although you and I both know quite well that it doesn't mean very much at all, aside from maybe how you look, but that is not important. Cherry's species uh. Well, they've actually been missing for.. Some years now. Ever since I took in Cherry as a matter of fact so... Seeing him is. Concerning. I thought they where all still in hiding." Obviously, there was more to this story then what she had just said. Just what did she know though? "I'll explain, you two are trustworthy, but. Well that species is very. Mmm. Well there's reasons I did not go looking for them for Cherry, she was better around you and others, not people like Jes- Lekio." Her nose gave that cute little nervous rabbit twitch before both her ears shot up as a loud, and rather familiar shout sounded out from one side of Cinnamon's shop.
A shout they would all recognise to be that of Cherry's. "WH- WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE- GET OUT! GET OUT! CREEP!" Lekio hadn't left, he'd gone around part of the shop enough to not be seen and had opted for the bathroom window, it was small, sure, but enough to panic Cherry if he tried to see or get through it.
Any who knew her enough, knew she liked to keep it open to sing through during showers. She probably wouldn't be keeping it open after this.

Before either of the boys could act though, Cinnamon had gotten onto all fours and had rushed over in a very rabbit-run-like fashion, rounding the shop to help Cherry.
"Leave my daughter alone you dunderhead fribble!" She would shriek as her horn began to glow an angry pink/purple. Her magic had gotten ahold of the mostly orange shark and she attempted to try and pull him back out of the window. He somehow, had got his stupid fat head in, along with his shoulders and chest. Cinnamon didn't seemed to care if she broke half her house, she had to get him away from Cherry.
The dribble cracks in her horn now began to bubble aggressively, looking almost like her horn would break if she used it any further then what she was. But she continued. "BOYS! Go get her out! I'll deal with him, take her somewhere safe! Please!"
"Let go of me! I'm trying to help her!"

The shark would struggle, eventually, Cinnamon did get him out of the window and once she did, she threw him on the ground, knocking the wind out of him briefly, She looked back to Cole and Gust, rubbing her horn, trying to soothe the cracks, which seemed to now be leaking even more of the icing-like stuff that she had, had seeping out of the two cracks for years. But had she ever used magic much let alone in such a way in all those years? No.
When she looked back, Lekio was back up on his feet. Boy was he pretty quick...
"Back off and go back to the pond you crawled out of, she wants nothing to do with your kind" "She IS MY KIND" He growled back, approaching Cinnamon, but she didn't step back. "I said BACK OFF, she's my daughter and you'll have nothing to do with her!"
Lekio, whom seemed like he had, had enough of people getting in the way of what he wanted. "I'm tired of you people getting in the way... Wait a minute" He peered at Cinnamon. Before he seemed to then notice something. "No wonder you're keeping me from her, it's your fault she was separated from us in the first place" He spat, any morals or good in him seemed to be put aside, as he wasted no time to then- After realizing who Cinnamon was- land a hard hit to her small stomach, "Do you have any idea of the pain you put all of us through?" He continued, grabbing her by the horn with one hand and by the ears with the other and tightening his grip on both more and more.
Cinnamon would let out a pained cry, kicking her powerful feet to try and get him to loose his grip, she tried to light her horn to get him to drop her, but by then he had already gotten his next move into play.
He'd drop Cinnamon, before she hit the ground, he'd slam his tail into her back, sending her a short distance away, he watched to make sure she did not get back up. And she didn't.
"MUMMA!" Cherry was in the doorway, still soaking wet but she'd chucked her clothes on now.
Lekio smiled, finally, what he had came for.
"Princess~"

The two where quick, by the time Gust was free and they where on their way, Lekio was in view of the shop, looking rather proud of himself as he had stopped his soapy sliding and had opted for a prideful stride instead.
Again, there was still no singing to be heard, so how could Lekio hear Cherry?? There was muffle sounds from the hut, sure, but nothing distinct, not like what Cole had heard her do a couple days ago.
Lekio had reached the door when the two got there, Cinnamon had answered it, upon just seeing Lekio, she let out a shriek of a noise but he wouldn't get to say anything to her before Gust had gotten in the way, swerving inbetween the two and uppercutting the shark- "Ttssk! I thought I told you to stay still!" He spat, Gust's moves where successful and Lekio ended up right in front of Cole, bumping into him even "Who the h- Oh pussy cat, you're that pathetic you had to go cry for help to your little friends, did you?" He scoffed, "NONE of you will stop me, so get out of the way" He'd spit, attempting to turn and shove Cole away from him, "Sorry pal, he shouldn't of gotten you involved"

Gust's response made Lekio laugh, "Two things you have neither of!" His laugh kinda meant that Gust caught him off Guard though, and the cloud would blind his eyes, making Lekio bring his hands up to try and make it go away, "Ach!" And Gust's push would successful as well, Lekio's ego blinding him more then the clouds. He'd be sent soaring off of Gust and would hit into one of the nearby tree's. When he got up after falling down from this. A liquid dust leaked from some area's on his back. But it also seemed to bubble like soap.
"You little RAT!" Lekio took in some air before blowing more bubbles at Gust, this time they where all pink.
"I'm going to win her over, Gust and I'm going to let you have a front row seat at watching!"

Gust landed his hit just fine, catching the monster off guard actually, as he hadn't really expected Gust to retailiate, let alone full on hit him.
Lekio stumbled a little after the punch, putting a hand to his cheek that Gust had hit, his surprise only lasted seconds though, before he laughed again, "Big mistake kitten" He spat, a snarl crawling across his muzzle as he collected himself from the hit and prepared to hit back. "Garbage dump? I want to go to where she lives, not where you live"
The shark/cat  took in a breath and then blew, rather then air coming out though.. Bubbles did?
Odd, slightly glowing bubbles at that, that where fair in size, Lekio would kick one straight at Gust, one that glowed a pink, rather then blue like the other ones did. After kicking the pink one, he would punch his hands into two of the blue ones, causing them to 'explode' sending a slippery, soapy liquid around about the boys.
"Let's see how you fast you are now hairball" He spat, before he'd use the slippery liquid that now coated the ground from the bubbles to slide himself at Gust, aiming to throw a punch back, it certainly helped him to go a lot faster, but not Gust's level of speed. Was the cheetah quick enough to avoid the sticky situation that awaited from the pink bubble though?

The grin on the shark boy seemed to drop when Gust's tone did, he looked at the cheetah, cocking his head slightly as he took a step closer to the other monster, sizing him up to be intimidating, "Oh huh? Is that so?" His smile slowly grew back, "So you do know who I'm talking about then, Mmm? " He gave a scoff of a laugh before shaking his head, "And whom might I ask, is she taken by? Cause I assure you, I'm much better then any guy she's ever seen" The fin ears that the other boy monster had seemed to flare out aggressively at Gust, somewhat similar to a frill necked lizard would do.
"Don't tell me a scrawny little liar like you has fallen for her~ Oh please"