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Post by Trigger on May 5, 2011 12:55:36 GMT -5
(ooc: Takes place on day 2. Open to animals who could live on a farm and humans only.)
Now this was more like it. Trigger felt more at home already. He just didn't feel... comfortable around some of the dalmatians he had met the day before, and was glad to be alone for once. His whistle gently thumped against his chest as he walked along a dirt path, letting it lead him toward a welcoming farm. It wasn't home, but it would do for the time being.
"I wonder if any of those other pups know about this place." Trigger mused. He hoped Cupid and Ezrulie did, at least. He liked them. Bella he wasn't sure about, and that other girl... he didn't like her all that much for some reason. Which was weird for him, since normally he got along with most everyone. Trigger shrugged off the thought and continued walking, only stopping when he had reached a large apple tree that looked like it had ripe fruit just waiting to be picked. Oh, how he wanted some of it. He looked up at the fruit pitifully, mentally cursing his small size and putting his front paw on the trunk of the tree in a sort of attempt at getting at the fruit. It was a pitiful attempt, to say the least.
"Well... on the bright side, at least this tree provides shade. I sure am hungry, though." Trigger said, almost hoping someone would hear him and help him out. Oh, who was he kidding? He hadn't been followed, at least as far as he knew. Still, he hoped someone might have heard him.
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Tally
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"What I lack in looks, well, I make up in heart."
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Post by Tally on May 5, 2011 14:17:45 GMT -5
Bored already - at least for the moment - of the other pups' she'd met yesterday, Tally was racing herself around the farm. She thought she was winning, but wasn't quite sure, one way or the other. Busy trying to figure that out as she was, the pup didn't even notice the three-legged pup in front of her until she'd all but crashed straight into him.
I really should watch where I'm going when I run... was her first thought, before she realised that the pup she'd collided with wasn't anyone she knew. Lowering her head, Tally backed away nervously, her tail hanging between her legs as her shyness took hold again.
"I - I - I'm so sorry." she tried to appologise - and found that she'd just backed herself up against the tree. If the pup was gonna be angry, there was no way out for her this time...
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Post by Trigger on May 5, 2011 14:38:48 GMT -5
Trigger didn't even realize what was happening. One minute he had been lost in thought and the next someone much bigger than him had collided with him. He lay on the ground, dazed for a few moments, before shaking himself and getting back to his paws. "Oh, that's okay. I shouldn't have been standing there like that. Guess I just got lost in thought." Trigger said, his tail wagging to show he was all right. Now that he got a better look at Tally, he did notice some similarities between her and him. Most notably her blue eyes. Well, they didn't look exactly like his but at the same time they reminded him of his own.
"But, hey. On the bright side, our little collision gave us the chance to meet. That's good, right?" Trigger asked, deciding to not ask about her appearance just yet. In fact, he decided it would be better to not ask about it at all. "Oh, and I'm Trigger. Guess I should have mentioned that first." he said after a moment.
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Tally
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"What I lack in looks, well, I make up in heart."
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Post by Tally on May 5, 2011 14:56:35 GMT -5
"I guess." Tally replied, looking down at her paws. She was relieved that this Trigger wasn't angry, but still... meeting new people was something Tally found very awkward, and this would prove to be no exception.
"I'm Tally." she replied, keeping her voice low in her shyness. Wanting to say more, but at the same time, uncomfortable, she finally blurted out "Gee, uh... you kinda look like dad. Y'know, with the missing leg..." before clamping her mouth shut and cursing her stupidity. If she was looking for the fastest way to offend him, she thought, she'd certainly picked the right way to go about it.
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Post by Trigger on May 5, 2011 15:04:14 GMT -5
"Your dad has a missing leg too?" Trigger asked, not so much offended by the remark as he was confused. He could have sworn he was an only child, but then he remembered what had been said about Bella. Was Tally related to his parents too? "I mean, I thought me and my dad were the only ones. ...Is your dad named Tripod, too?" he asked. He just couldn't help himself. Now he needed to know for certain.
"And you shouldn't worry about it. The comment about my leg, I mean. I've heard worse." he admitted. There was a group of pups back home that teased him about it. He wasn't sure why. Only having three legs didn't make him less of a dog, did it?
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Tally
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"What I lack in looks, well, I make up in heart."
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Post by Tally on May 5, 2011 15:11:54 GMT -5
"Y-yeah..." Tally stammered. "H-how is that...? W-what... I...?" she'd heard what Lucky jr had said about alternate universes... but this was just impossible! "Y-your mom... is she called Cadpig?" she asked, almost not sure she wanted to hear the answer. Having siblings she never knew was just... creepy.
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Post by Trigger on May 5, 2011 15:33:41 GMT -5
"Y-Yeah... she is." Trigger stammered in response. So they were related after all. Trig still couldn't wrap his mind around the concept of alternate universes, so he was perplexed to say the least. "This is so strange... I could have sworn I was the only pup in my litter." he said quietly, almost as if he dared not speak any louder for fear of breaking the natural order or something. "How... how long have you been in this... this place, Tally?" Trigger asked at last, deciding to try and change the topic before it got any stranger. It just boggled his mind that Tally could have technically been an older sister.
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Tally
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Post by Tally on May 5, 2011 16:00:58 GMT -5
Tally's head was spinning as well. She had more siblings? She was just as stunned by this revelation as Trigger seemed to be, and was relieved when he changed the subject.
"I only got here yesterday." she replied, her shyness disipating a little around the other pup as she subconciously seemed to accept him as a family member. "I dunno what happened - I was just talking with Flash, and there was this light, and... here I was." She began hopping from foot to foot again, the way she had a tendency to do when she couldn't stand still for much longer.
"D'you like to run?" she asked, abruptly changing the subject. She hoped the answer would be yes - that way they could keep up their conversation while running. Because Tally was very curious about her alternate sibling.
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Post by Claudius on May 5, 2011 16:16:41 GMT -5
At first, the pup thought he'd found his way home again. The sights that met his eyes were all too familiar: The hayloft, the barn stalls, the fences, the surrounding fields.....all said Dearly Farm to him. Wagging his tail, the stumpy-pawed pup bounded forward as fast as he could go, intent on finding his older sister and brothers and telling them all about the weird experience that had left him sitting in the middle of a faraway field and wondering why.
But as he soon came to find out, something wasn't....right. The barn was devoid of life; the two cows he'd grown so familiar with were nowhere to be found, and there were no chickens in the henhouse. Ottie was nowhere to be seen, or his mother Spot, but what disturbed the pup the most was finding the hayloft empty...no other puppies. He was also bothered by the lack of scent, as if no-one had ever been here before him.
Disturbed, Claudius plopped down on his plump little rear end, whining pitifully. He was home wasn't he? Why wasn't anyone here? He hung his head, desperately lonely. Oh Desdemona, where are you? He wondered silently.
Amidst his reign of self-pity, a pair of voices made his ears perk. He stood to his feet, his hopes lifting. Perhaps....perhaps he wasn't alone after all? Quickly he made his way down from the barn loft and ran to the barn's southward entrance, looking around for the owners of the voices. It was then that he spotted two pups by the side of a tree.
Panting happily, wagging his tail, Claudius began running towards them. "Hey!! Heeeey!!!"
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Post by Beyonca on May 5, 2011 16:26:45 GMT -5
Another pup happened to wander onto the farm, the two-toned pup Beyonca wagged her tail feeling a sense of familiarity seeing the farm. "Wow, this farm reminds me of home. But then again this farm looks kinda bigger than mr. and mrs.Dearly's farm. I wonder if anybody is here?" Beyonca decided to investigate, she walked up and blinked seeing other dalmatians, she noticed Trigger whom she had met the day before but noticed two more pups that were new, one reminded her of her aunt Cadpig, the other however.... She blinked recognizing two familiar scents coming from the pup with the stump like paws "that's mom and dad's scents!" She barked before going toward Claudius "Excuse me but can I ask you something?" She asked Claudius
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Post by Claudius on May 5, 2011 16:38:00 GMT -5
Claudius turned his head at the sound of the voice behind him and tried to slow down; but then one of his large unwieldly paws struck a bump in the earth and he tripped. He tumbled head over paws before skidding to a stop with his head against the ground and his bum in the air. Dazed, he stared at the female dalmatian coming toward him with half-open eyes.
"Uhh...." He sat up, grinning goofily and rubbed his head with a clublike paw. "AH gee...I can't believe I went and fell..." He spoke each word slowly, deliberately, with the air of a child with special needs. He chuckled lightly before turning to address the other pup.
"Ah....yeah? What is it? Who are you?" She looked familiar...
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Post by Trigger on May 5, 2011 16:44:39 GMT -5
Tally's head was spinning as well. She had more siblings? She was just as stunned by this revelation as Trigger seemed to be, and was relieved when he changed the subject. "I only got here yesterday." she replied, her shyness disipating a little around the other pup as she subconciously seemed to accept him as a family member. "I dunno what happened - I was just talking with Flash, and there was this light, and... here I was." She began hopping from foot to foot again, the way she had a tendency to do when she couldn't stand still for much longer. "D'you like to run?" she asked, abruptly changing the subject. She hoped the answer would be yes - that way they could keep up their conversation while running. Because Tally was very curious about her alternate sibling. Trigger's tail wagged eagerly at the question. "Are you kidding? I love running! It's one of my favorite things to do back home besides swimming." he told her. "I guess you like running, too? I mean, you were running before we collided after all." he chuckled. The sound of another pup caught his attention. A black and white splotched puppy. Another dalmatian? Trigger could only presume so. "Hey, there! Come on over here, we don't bite." Trigger called to Claudius. It was then he noticed Beyonca. Oh, great. Her again. he thought. Best be friendly to her. She hasn't done anything wrong, after all. was his next thought. |
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Post by Beyonca on May 5, 2011 16:49:49 GMT -5
Beyonca sat and looked at Claudius "Are you related to Lucky and Two-tone Dearly?" Beyonca asked Claudius. Although she noticed he was kinda slow like her uncle Dipstick was and noticed his paws. "your paws, what happened?" She wondered if that mean Devil Woman did something to his paws.
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Post by Claudius on May 5, 2011 16:53:37 GMT -5
Lucky and Two-Tone... "Ah yeah, that's my Mum and Dad....ah..." He said this slowly, as he did everything. When Beyonca mentioned his paws he blinked and looked down as if noticing them for the first time. "Oh.....uh I wus born like this. I don't remember them ever lookin' any different." He grinned at her. "Who are you?" He asked again. "You didun answer me yet."
He turned his head happily at the sound of Trigger's voice. "Come n' talk with us. I wus just makin' friends!"
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Post by Trigger on May 5, 2011 17:48:59 GMT -5
Well, it seemed they wanted them to come to them. Not a problem for Trigger. "Come on, Tally. Maybe they'll want to race with us." he said, motioning for her to follow him. The three-legged pup padded toward Beyonca and Claudius, stopping once he was closer to them. Claudius' appearance didn't bother Trigger too much. Having his own appearance issues, it was nice to know he wasn't the only one. "Good to see more pups around here. I'm Trigger, but you can call me Trig if you like. What's your name?" he asked Claudius. He nodded to acknowledge Beyonca, but said nothing to her for the moment.
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