AnimalTale

AnimalTale

Kara Wolfe didn’t remember anything but the fall, and her name.

 

She groggily pulled herself off the ground. There were yellow flowers everywhere. Shame she didn’t land on them.

 

“Welcome to your new home!” a cheerful voice called out. “My name is Peck, and I’d like to show you around.” Kara looked up to see a pink and purple bunny smiling and offering a paw to pull her up. Her blue wolf paw hesitantly gripped Peck’s. With surprising force, the bunny pulled her up.

 

“Follow me!” Peck hopped off over a strange looking bridge, yellow footprints following her. Kara leaped after her, trying to keep up with the quick bunny.

 

“Here in Jamaa, everyone has their own unique style. Let’s start by customizing yours!” I was faced with a strange board in front of me. Peck explained how to change my colors, and I went with purple and black with deep blue hearts. The friendly bunny frowned for a second, then her smile returned.

 

“Everyone seems to love the new you! How do you feel about it?” I smiled, but something about this bunny made me uneasy.

 

Peck’s smile remained. “Let me teach you about staying safe in this new world! She made a hand gesture, and a blood-red heart floated out of my chest.

 

“Do you see that heart?” I nodded. “That’s your soul, the very culmination of your being! It starts off weak, but will become much stronger when you gain LV!”

 

“W-what does LV stand for?” I asked, nervously speaking.

 

“Love, of course! Everyone wants some love!” I sighed in relief. Love couldn’t hurt anyone, right? “I’ll share some with you!” Little white pellets surrounded the bunny. “Love is shared through these cute little white things… friendliness pellets. Move your soul around! Get as many as you can!”

 

I quickly moved my paw so that I my soul absorbed the first pellet that came at me.

 

I immediately felt a pain in my chest. A warning screen came in front of me. 1/20 HP - it was red. I looked at Peck, hoping for an explanation.

 

Her completely evil, mutilated face made me scream and jump back. My chest hurt even more.

 

“YOU IDIOT.” Though her voice was louder and more demonic, it still regained the ‘cute’ quality.

 

“In this world….

 

It’s kill

 

or  BE killed.”

 

I tried to move as far away from the demon-bunny as I could.

 

“Why would ANYONE pass up an opportunity like this?!”

 

All my moving failed. She surrounded me with those cute little white pellets. I realized they were bullets.

 

“DIE.”

 

She let out an evil laugh that scared me out of my fur.

 

Suddenly, the bullets stopped just as they were about to close on me. I looked at Peck’s shocked expression as a flaming… thing? hit her. She flew off to who-knows-where.

 

I saw a panda with deep red eyes looking at me. She had black hair in a braid and two buns (not very neat) and a purple dress with a blue crest that had a strange insignia on it. She gasped when she saw me.

 

“Well hello there!!” She had a calm and soothing voice. Then she noticed my cuts. She stared at them for a moment, then glared in the direction Peck went flying off in.

 

“What a terrible creature, torturing such a poor, innocent, youth.... Oh, do not be afraid, my child, come here! I won’t bite, I promise!” I hesitated before walking over to her. She firmly grabbed my black paw with her gloved one. “I am Liza… caretaker of here and the land around it. I go by this place every day to see if anyone has fallen down. I used to greet and help them myself, but-” She glanced to where Peck went. “Anyways. You are the first new person to come down here in a long time! Come. I will guide you through this strange new world. This way!” I leaped after her.

 

I didn’t know my journey had just begun.

TO BE CONTINUED