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 Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 8:50 pm
 Runt uncomfortably squirmed through the foliage of the dense forest. At first he thought exploring freely would be a lot of fun. It turns out he was wrong. It was nearly nightfall now, and he'd seen no sign of his trainer Reiko
Surely she's out looking for me. He assured himself, gulping down a knot in his throat. Grove is too, she'll find me easy. The little dratini shuddered. "Unless... they forgot about me." Runt gazed around at his surroundings as the shadows engulfed him. Tears made his eyes swell, but he painfully prevented himself from crying.
Runt let out a whimper as he heard a disturbing sound coming from somewhere around him.. Or everywhere around him. He paused, eyes widening in fear. "Wh-who's there?" He peeped, cautiously twisting his head to gaze into the shadows behind him.
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 10:22 am
From the bushes burst a large and dark shadowed creature, bumbling about very loudly. From one who happened to be scared, it was quite a terrifying thing - at least for the moment it took the teddiursa cub to get into sight. He was large and light brown, with big blue eyes and a curious expression. His back paw on the right side had some large white bandages around it however. "Oompa? Ooooooooompa, where'd you go?" came a woman's voice from up ahead as the bear moved to nose at Runt. "Hi there!" he said happily, eyes sparkling as he looked at the other pogey.
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:17 am
Runt was utterly petrified as the Teddisura rose from the foliage. He squeaked and squirmed, finding himself unable to escape as the figure came closer. The little dratini whimpered with fear as the pokemon nudged him. Fear only departed when the Teddisura spoke.
Runt blinked, and sighed heavily. "Oh... Hello." He was relieved that the cub meant no harm. "My name is Runt." The dratini smiled, his fearfulness completely dissipating. "I'm so glad to see a friendly face!"
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:25 am
Oompa smiled back, reaching a paw out to lightly pat at the dratini's head. "I'm Oompa. You lost?"
By this time, the bear's trainer came out - a young woman with green hair and sunburnt skin. "Hey there." she said, crouching down near the cub to hold a hand out towards Runt. "Oompa, be careful, you don't want to hurt it." she told her companion softly before turning back to Runt with a smile on her face.
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:37 am
Runt grinned. "Well, nice to meet you Oompa!" The smile was quickly replaced with an intense blush. "Oh... urh... is it that obvious?" If he had appendages to hide his face with, that's what he would be doing now. Oh, how embarrassing!
Runt spied the woman he'd heard earlier, and beamed. "Is this your trainer? She looks nice." Runt gently nudged the hand, peeping happily. "Tini! Tini!"The little dragon pokemon was thankful for the appearance of these two, and he showed it in his eyes.
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 11:50 am
The bear blinked and shook his head. "No, just wondered cause you seemed scared." he assured Runt with a smile.
"Yes. Steeeeeeeve." the teddi agreed, turning to lick the woman's cheek. "Takes care of me and makes my leg better. Even if it hurts when she's cleaning it."
The woman smiled, reaching out to pet Runt's head before carefully reaching to pick him up - her arms were open and movements slow so as not to startle him and let him have room to move if he didn't want to be lifted. "Come on, let's get you out of this thicket. There's more light over here and you can have some food." she cooed.
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:20 pm
Runt blushed again. "Oh I wasn't that scared..." The dragon gulped and moved to a different subject. "Your leg is hurt? How come?" He tilted his head, realizing the bandages for the first time. "I sure hope it's not too bad!"
The dratini hesitantly cowered away from the woman's arms. He's never let any human but Reiko hold him before. It wasn't because Runt didn't trust this new woman, not at all. He was simply unsure if Reiko would view it as disloyalty or not. It wasn't worth risking disappointing her. "W-will you help me find my trainer?" Runt hoped he didn't offend her.
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2009 12:28 pm
Steve smiled and pat his head lightly. "Come with us little one. I won't carry you if you don't want me to. It'll be easier for you to see in the clearing though." she said gently, voice still reassuring. It was okay if he didn't want to be picked up. Some pogeys just didn't or weren't comfortable being handled by strangers.
"Oh. Okay." Oompa agreed before smiling, "Got hurt in a big battle. Steve says I was too small to be fighting the way I was. M'not s'posed to battle like that anymore and she's gotta take care of me till my leg's better. The people at the pogey center, they couldn't make me better with the machine. S'why Steve's gotta do somethin called re-bli-tat-toon." From his voice, anyone could easily tell the pogey was very young, which would have been obvious anyway from how he behaved.
"Suuuure. We'll find your trainer. We're good at that stuff."
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