Knothole - Completely Dumb Luck

[L]

"Dinah! Dinaaah!" Alice called down the forest path, attempting to catch up with her cat. Her pet pixie-bob had gotten a tad too playful during a game of fetch and had run off deeper into the forest than she'd wished to trek. Gasping for breath, she persued the feline, calling after him yet again. "Dinah! Mommy's legs are getting tired! Wait for her!"

A moment later, she'd spotted the feline jumping down a wooden slide barely hidden by a patch of bushes. "Dinaaaah!" She cried, diving after the cat and just barely tackling him before flying down the slide in a rolling motion.

After giving out a loud scream, but landing COMPLETELY unharmed, she got to her feet holding Dinah in her arms. "Where are we, Dinah?"

[Jamie Lee]

Not too far away, the hedgerec would be able to hear a familiar voice protesting, followed by a particularly loud irritated howl and a sound of clanking metal.

"LET ME DOWN!"

[L]

Alice turned her head to notice a half-roboticized wolf tied to a nearby tree, flailing in an attempt to try and free himself. "Oh my." She said, approaching him slowly. "Mister Lance? How did you get up-"

Upon further examination, she noticed that his appearance had been somewhat altered since the last time she'd seen him. "... What on earth happened to you?!"

[Jamie Lee]

The wolf stopped struggling long enough to blink a couple of times in surprise at the girl who had just emerged from the forest. He had recognized her instantly - another resident from Greenpine, the village he and Dash had come from. "Alice?" he asked, beginning to kick his feet and struggle again. "Some dame tied me up! Get me down!"

[L]

Alice set down Dinah, and felt around the rope for the knot keeping it in place. She stood up on her toes to reach high enough to undo it, whilst the cat pawed at her ankles. "Dare I ask what you did to the young lady in question to deserve this?"

[Jamie Lee]

"Actually, I, uh... it was actually kinda... What I did to your boyfriend..." he mumbled out the last bit.

[L]

Alice's eyes widened as she finished undoing the rope. Dash was here?

"... What do you mean What I did to your boyfriend?"

[Jamie Lee]

The wolf stepped away from the tree, brushing away moss and loose bark, grimacing slightly as debris found its way into the puncture wounds earlier occupied by tenrec spines. "... Have you seen any of the others? Jacky perhaps?" he asked, attempting to dodge the girl's question.

[L]

Alice GLARED at his attempted dodge. "I don't know, I got seperated from the others." She said. "Now, tell me... What did you do to Dash?"

[Jamie Lee]

Lance furrowed his brow in agitation. "We got into a fight earlier. The idiot jumped me over something that wasn't even my fault, so I clobbered him for it. It was self defense."

[L]

Alice's eye twitched. "Self defense?" She said, pondering outloud in utter aggrivation.

It clicked in her head exactly WHAT he meant. "... Dinah."

The cat's attention, previously distracted by a large yellow flower, turned back to his mistress. "Mao?"

"Educate him."

The Pixie Bob attempted to leap onto the wolf's shoulders and give him a rightful face mauling.

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[Jamie Lee]

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Lance yelped, stumbling back and barely missing the furry little beast's attack. "Yes! Self defense! Sheesh! The %$@#ing little bastard rammed into me with that angry afro of his!"[rand=180072960302114622289658256009654644473547316566539939475778319302]

[L]

"You can either continue to make excuses, or learn your lesson and just get it over with. Whichever you would like, but frankly you're not walking away from here without retribution." She replied. "And it isn't an afro! It's a jerrycurl!"

The cat persisted during Alice's retort.

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[Jamie Lee]

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"IT'S NOT A $@#$ING EXCU--" in a flash Lance yelled out in pain as the cat attached itself to his face and proceeded to give him a rather interesting shave. A stream of vulgar cursing burst out of his mouth and he stumbled backward, tripping over a stone on the ground and crashing backward into a set of bushes. The whole time trying to pull the feline fury away by its tail.[rand=44252272622600613931953601053939157030406458997026397191786847577]

[L]

"Where is he now?" Alice asked.

Dinah was still attached to Lance's face, growling anrgy at having his short tail pulled.

[Jamie Lee]

Except the wolf was just a weeeee bit distracted to be able to think of much else besides; "CALL... CAT... OFF..."

[L]

"... OH. Dinah! Heel, boy!" Alice called after the feline.

The cat ceased it's attack and returned to his mistress' side. "Okay, NOW... Where is he?" Alice asked again.

[Jamie Lee]

Groaning irritably, the wolf crawled out of the bush and pulled himself back to his feet. He felt at one of the fresh cuts on the flesh side of his face and pulled his hand back when it stung, noticing the blood on his fingertips.

"I swear one of these days..." he grumbled. "He's back that way somewhere," he jerked is thumb in one direction. "There's a village that way that agreed to shelter me and Dash."

[L]

"So, you don't know EXACTLY where he is, just that he's over there?" She said, somewhat befuddled. "Oh my, this does make this a tad more difficult..."

[Jamie Lee]

"Yeah, well, good luck with that." he walked up to a tree and collapsed into a reclining position in front of it, closing his eyes.

"How'd ya'll offa that tree?!" a woman's voice suddenly shouted.

The wolf's eyes shot back open and his tail fluffed out. "[/size=1]Oh, $#@$ me,[/size]" he hissed, scooting up as far as he could against said tree and scrambling back to his feet as the rabbit came stomping into view.

Bunnie glared angrily at Lance, then blinked when she saw Alice standing there with her cat. Her expression softened slightly. Looking between the two briefly she turned her focus on the latest newcomer. "Oh, howdy," she said. "This scoundrel botherin' ya'll?"

[L]

"Oh. Um... Not really. Other than the fact that he beat up my boyfriend..." She replied. "Have you seen my boyfriend? His name is Dash... I've got a photo somewhere..."

She pulled out a photo of Dash and showed it to Bunnie.



"He doesn't normally look so dopey... I kinda suprised him with the camera."

[Jamie Lee]

The rabbit took the photo from Alice and gave it a look over, eyes becoming wide.. "He's your... you're his..." she paused and placed a hand over her mouth. "Oh mah stars, honey, yes Ah've seen 'im but he's..." she trailed off for a moment, then handed the photo back and grabbed the girl's hand to lead her. "Come on, come on. I'll take ya'll to him. Ah don't think he's awake just yet though."

She paused and looked at Lance with a mixture of anger and wariness as she considered what to do with him. "... Ya'll come with us also. Ah'll figure out what to do with you later."

The wolf just rolled his eyes into his head and followed after the two without a word.