Junis fishing trip 4

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The two didn't have to look for long for the second catch. Swimming deeper, the second fish attempted to sneak past Juni, but one can't just sneak past a cat on a hunt.
The fish learned that the hard way, when he felt Junis tail wrap around him, capturing him. Juni took the fish from her tail and put him in the sack, where they stored their catch. "You have to do better than that to avoid me," She playfully mocked her prey as she once again closed the bag. "Two down, one more to go."

Kately watched with amusement - she had heard that her boss, Arlena, had been teaching her tail skills to others, but she hadn't witnessed it in action before, and now she was in the company of one of the respected underwater researhers and space explorers, not to mention one of her personal idols, tough she'd never dare say it out loud.

The two entered deeper waters in hunt of the last fish. Kately, hoping to pass time as they were looking, tapped Juni on shoulder to get her attention. "Our last fish resides in deeper waters, right?. While we're looking for it, I'd like to ask you something..." 
Juni turned to face Kately. "Actually, I'd like to ask something from you first, ok?"
Kately blushed a bit from the sudden attention. "From me? Well, I'm not that interesting...."
"No need to be so modest," Juni said. "As I understand, you work as a dolphin trainer over at GRA?"
Kately nodded. "Yeah. Ever since I was a kid, I've had an affinity towards animals. Call me crazy, but I felt like I could understand all that they're saying, in their own way, and found the ways to communicate back. I actually had a little frog when I was just a girl. I called her Sarah, and I managed to teach it some neat tricks too..."
"But you were educating yourself as a lawyer, right?" Juni asked.
"Right," Kately replied. "Hardly fufilling profession, I admit, but back then it seemed that the money's there, know what I mean? It was blind luck I found out that GRA had need for animal trainers. Now I train their rescue dolphins, and as private sector they can afford a salary for adequate for living.
"But GRA, they're still military organisation, right?" Juni asked, but she could see Katelys eyes flare up.
"I can see where you're going with that, and I advise you to stop," Kately said sternly. "The dolphins don't attack anyone, they participate only in rescue/recon missions!" Kately sighed. "Sorry, didn't mean to snap at you. You'd be suprised how many ways reporters have to ask "isn't it true you're turning those innocent dolphins to killers". Sometimes I just wish to give them a good, thorough whack!"
"I know the feelig." Juni comforted Kately. "And no need to apologise. Besides dolphins, what other animals you can tame?"
Kately seemed to ponder the question for a while. " Hmm, good question. Well, I wouldn't want to brag, but with enough research, I can tame just about anything, tough marine animals are speciality."
"How'bout Piranhas or Barracudas?" Juni asked, smirking.
"Hmmm....maybe if I had enough meat...or a nosy journalist as a sacrifice." Both of them chuckeled a bit behind their regs before Kately continued. "But in all seriousness, taming's all about building a trust between human the animal and easiest way to achieve that is through food."
"No arguments here," Juni replied. "Even people are happiest with their bellies full."

Kately chuckled when from the corner of her eyes she saw some movement from nearby rock. She stopped and looked at the rock, spotting a lone fish loooking right at her. She tapped on Junis shoulder to gain her attention. "Target, fish, 12'O clock, really close," She whispered, trying to be as quiet as possible. However, the communicator wasn't senitive enough to pick it, resulting only on barely audible muffle.
"No need to whisper, you know." Juni told Kately. "If he hasn't been spooked by our gear allready, then she must either be a deaf or really brave."
Kately nodded in agreement. "So how do we proceed now? One false move and he'll swim off...."
"Just keep his attention for a while," Juni said and let herself sink on the sands, took her reg off and began to sneak towards the fish all cat like, moving really slowly and sometimes stopping mid-step to remain quiet, while kately continued her staring contest with the fishie.

But the fish was no fool. Suspecting that he's about to end up as a dinner for two, he turned, only to spot Junis jaw wide open, ready to catch him. The fish swam out of the way and began to flee towards a nearby cave, hoping to find a good hiding place, or tunnels to loose the hungry cat. Juni dropped the slab, put her reg back on and swam after the fish, using her own tail as a propeller to speed up. "Meowl! You're mine, fishy!" She yelled, following the fishy towards old cave. Forced to abandon the dropped slab, Kately did her best to follow the two, kicking her feet extra hard to follow them inside the cave...

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