Haven't posted a short story in a while...

She narrowed her golden-topaz eyes, pupils thinned to a serpent-like slit. "You dare to call me impotent?!" she hissed. Her claw-like nails dug into the granite counter that stood in between us. My gaze lacked interest or any sense of intimidation. "Unfortunately for you, dear Daisha, I don't fall beneath your gaze, although I've heard from many a man that it is indeed quite deadly." I flipped my black loose curls from my    deep purple eye. Hardly did I ever uncover this eye, for I don't want to unsettle prey with the difference in color from my right eye, which was a shade of turquoise-seagreen much like the color of the Caribbean waters. Although as of now, unsettling Daisha was exactly what I wished to do. She flicked a forked tongue from between her serpentine-like fangs. "Damn you, Kumori! Do not try to pull your sly tricks around me! You kitsune are nothing but trouble!" The amused look in my eyes quickly faded, replaced with a noxious glare. "Do not confuse a wolf spirit with one of those damned foxes! Unless you have a death wish I'd watch that forked tongue of yours!" I spat, my blue-grey ears lying flat against my head, baring my fangs. My thick tail swished angrily as I growled my warning. Daisha hissed, a menacing sound from deep within her throat. "Watch yourself, wolf! I have a hundred years on you!" I laughed, a series of bark-like sounds. "You amuse me, serpent. A lizard like you couldn't take on a wolf such as I!" She hissed again, mouth open wide as venom lept past her fangs. There wasn't much force put into the shot, but the acrimonious threat was clear. The granite hissed and fizzled beneath her venom, before bubbling out of existence. "Lizard, my scales! A lizard has no place among the serpents!" she hissed. "You made the same mistake, Daisha. Don't hiss at me over a misstep that was yours in the first place," I growled. The sound was deep within my throat, a menacing warning much more threatening than her acidic spit. She straightened up, her scaley arms crossed over her chest as her golden serpentine eyes glared poison into my soul. "Well. I see that this visit has done nothing to help the situation at hand," she spat. I crossed my arms over my chest, mimicking her stance as my tail fluffed out and my ears laid flat against my head in an irritated fashion. "As I thought it would," I growled. She narrowed her eyes. "I'm sure you won't have a hard time finding the exit. Be gone with you now, Daisha, before I rip out your still heart and hang it as a wall decoration." "Kumori, you are going to get yourself killed someday," she hissed as she turned to leave, "and I'll be there to see to it that you get reborn as a damned human." "You will be one of many, Daisha, I can promise you that," I muttered as she disappeared in a swirl of acidic ash.