Post by TwistedLover on Nov 25, 2013 3:40:44 GMT -5
Short Story | PG-13 | Complete
A prompt done for NINTEND0NT, requested a story for any of their characters. The ones that I picked were:
Sebastian
Valinen
Limelight
Ended up deciding to do a scene where Valinen and Sebastian first meet the telecreature called Limelight. It's only just at six pages long, but Middy seemed to like it quite a lot. Hopefully anyone else can enjoy it as well.
The forest wasn't his first pick of places to amble through but he couldn't say no to Valinen. Not with those watery eyes he could pull out, like magic or some kind of invisible power that simply compels you to do what he wants you to do. Even if that was going out through a forest that made his fur itch and the desire to curl up back at home in front of the TV grow almost oppressively.
Ahead of him he could hear Valinen prancing around, going out of his way to make the leaves under their feet crackle and break. Peering up through his glasses, and having to blow a bit of his hair out of the way, he could see that pink tail arcing through the air at a high velocity. The trajectory of each swish made it clear what emotion Valinen was feeling, something he didn't feel as often around other people.
Sebastian smiled softly and ran up beside him, jumping on top of a larger pile of leaves before his pink friend could. The startled look across the pink canine's face, slightly put-off at the same time, was well worth all the effort put into it.
“Sebastian, that was my leaf pile!” Valinen piped up, fur ruffling in mild irritation as he tried his best to glare. His best wasn't good enough, of course, because it just looked cute.
Not that Sebastian was going to tell him, the last thing he wanted was for his friend to leave him alone in the forest because of a comment he was only making in good jest.
Instead he picked the wiser option that would spare his friend's feelings and smiled slyly at him, a paw coming out to crunch down a straw leaf. “It was my impression that the leaves are scattered for anyone to crush if they wished to.”
His fellow's mouth opened to retort against his comment but closed within seconds. Valinen's face clouded over with further irritation, his nose scrunching up in the way it did when he knew Sebastian was right by a technicality and anything he said further wouldn't help the situation.
Maybe just to get back at him, or maybe just because he wanted to get back into the simple hopping onto innocent tree products, he turned away from Sebastian and jumped into a smaller pile of leaves nearby.
Not to be outdone, Sebastian surveyed the area and smirked to himself, spotting a large pile of leaves Valinen would undoubtedly desire to jump into some distance away. A quick mental calculation gave him the best course to the pile which would lead him through several others and he put the plan into action, jumping into the first pile.
“Where are you going?” Valinen called after him, no longer sounding irritated at him but simply curious. That curiosity disappeared to be replaced by mild outrage only a moment later, “Oh hey, you're not getting that pile!”
No more words were spoken after that, the challenge had silently been issued and behind him Sebastian could hear Valinen making a mad dash for the pile beside him. Unwilling to lose he bounded forward to the next pile, the crunching of leaves by his side alerting him to Valinen's arrival.
He was certainly a lot faster than Sebastian had expected, that was something he was going to have to factor in while he made his way to the pile.
Several jumps later and his friend could be heard just a bit behind him, almost caught up to him by now. There was no way that he could lose however, this was a challenge he intended to win simply because it was what he was best at.
How could a gamer lose a game, after all?
The pile was right there in sight, ready and glorious to be pounced upon. Not as glorious as seeing Princess Peach after defeating Bowser in a deadly and frustrating fight but right now it was the closest second he could achieve.
And Valinen was right there just inches ahead of him.
With a roar Sebastian pushed hard through his back feet, sending himself into the air towards the pile while Valinen jumped as well. Both of them sailing through the air and-
BAM!
Dazedly he imagined stars dancing around their heads as they lie beside each other, their heads still connected from crashing upon the pile.
Static shivered through the air around them, coming from everywhere yet nowhere at once. Sebastian tried to shake off the wobblyness of his brain, shifting his arms to push himself up. An impossible feat when Valinen was laying across his right arms.
“Hey, mind getting off me?” he huffed, nosing at Valinen's face. When the only thing he got in return was a distracted grunt he decided to go to bigger tactics.
“Ewww, that's disgusting!” the pink dog yelped, scrambling away quickly and scattering leaves through the air from his haste. He stood up and wiped saliva off his cheek, crouching down to then wipe his paw off on some of the leaves.
It wasn't as helpful as he had expected since the leaves simply decided to stick to his paw, prompting him to shake the appendage furiously to get the clinging pieces off.
Thankfully it was now possible to get up and Sebastian quickly climbed off the pile, ears pricking forward to better calculate where the static was coming from. The sound reminded him of his TV at home when he was switching out the cables for his different game systems. Except this was a forest and there were no electronics here... right?
“Valinen, stop that you silly dog,” he teased when the other's movements became so loud they muffled the noise he was searching for. Instead of giving him time to respond, as he no doubt huffily would, he reached out and grabbed the leaves that were sticking to his fur and pulled them off, letting them fall to the floor like creatures pretending innocence after mischievous deeds.
“Why can't I have four arms...” Valinen pouted as he settled himself back down onto the ground, looking curiously at Sebastian. He figured it was because of how strange he was suddenly acting, the pink one must not have noticed the sound just yet.
It seemed to be getting louder too, almost flickering between louder and softer as if someone was playing with the volume on a TV.
There was nothing in the trees, that was the first place that he had checked. Certainly nothing was hiding behind any of the trees around them either, that would be just silly and unfeasible. He'd have noticed a TV because they were too big to hid behind these twiggy trees.
He stared down. So that would only leave...
“Aha, we both tied. Therefore...!” and in a blur Valinen was on top of the pile, further onto it than they had been when they crashed.
The static grew almost deafening for a moment and through it he could hear his friend's sharp cry of “Ow, what in the world!?”
Sebastian stepped closer and gripped his friend's fur to pull him off the pile, carefully setting him down beside it while another paw reached out to sweep leaves out of the pile.
Underneath several layers of leaves in the giant pile there was shimmering lime green fur, clearly beloning to another animal that had been resting under the leaf pile.
“How'd they end up there?” Valinen asked curiously from beside him, the tone something one used when they didn't actually expect an answer but at the same time couldn't keep the question to himself.
“Certainly they didn't pile the leaves onto themselves,” Sebastian murmured, worry starting to nibble somewhere in his heart. “They had to have been there for long enough the leaves piled onto them...”
Pink ears shot up in alarm and the pink body shot forward, paws scrambling quickly to tear leaves fully off the lime body beneath them.
Sebastian stepped in to help, working on the side opposite Valinen. In less than a minute they had unburied their mystery creature.
Lime green fur made way to tanner fur, like their fur was trying to imitate clothing. Across the fur were strange pink patterns, little cubicle swirls.
It wasn't the strangest thing however, that was...
“Woah, is it a robot?”
Valinen's comment was rather correct, although Sebastian suspected this was a flesh and blood creature, evidenced by the feeling of warmth when he placed his paw on green fur.
Instead of replying, he softly said, “Hello, are you awake?”
The creature beneath his paw only twitched in possible response, fur bristling and clearly awake despite the lack of reply to his question.
“I'm sorry we jumped on you,” he continued despite the lack of communication returned, “we didn't know you were in there. Are you alright now?”
This time there was some kind of reply, in the form of a clicking sound that started to repeat. The canine-like body shifted and sat up, the face of the TV turning towards them.
Across the screen was the static he expected as the noise continuing along with the clicking. A lime paw reached up and patted at the TV, claws moving over it as though searching for something.
Sebastian leaned forward, curiosity driving him while worry kept him gentle. “Is there something wrong with your TV? Would you like me to help with it?”
The giant TV head shook in what he imagined was this creature's version of a 'no'. The claws continued to fumble along the TV's surface as he sat back to settle by Valinen again. Both of them stayed silent so they wouldn't mess with their new acquaintances' work.
By what Sebastian estimated was two minutes there was a crisper click and both the static and clicking noise went silent. The screen flickered back and then a scene of a dog happily running through flowers showed up.
“I never really liked that show, it's so boring,” Valinen piped up beside him, head cocked and looking at the screen almost boredly.
As if in reaction to what he was saying a flash of a bomb exploding flickered on the screen before the happy dog showed up once more.
“I doubt they're trying to show us the show itself. It seems more like they're happy and grateful that we helped them out of the leaves and woke them out of whatever they were in,” Sebastian dryly replied to his friend, using one paw to lightly bash him on the shoulder.
They both knew it wasn't hard enough to hurt him and yet Valinen still rubbed at the spot while pretending he was heavily injured.
“I can't believe you two!”
The words came from the TV, Sebastian realized as he looked curiously at it. Whatever had spoken the words had already flashed off the screen and this time there was an amused-looking man staring out the TV screen at them. He vaguely recognized it from some show he had once watched before getting bored with it when it wasn't interesting enough.
“Why yes, we beat each other up all the time,” he said cheekily, wrapping two arms around his pink companion and using a third to lightly rub at his head.
Valinen struggled in his grasp, yelping and barking in disagreement to the treatment. He wasn't putting in the effort he would if he had really wanted to get away and all three of them knew it.
Or at least Sebastian assumed they all knew it if the flash of a child jumping up and down clapping their hands and then another flash of a girl across the screen saying, “Friends are so very fun to have.”
Feeling like he had spent enough time harassing his friend, Sebastian released him and sat back on his hind legs, chuckling and dusting his fur off. Who knew how dirty the dirt could be?
“We could be your friend if you would like us to,” he offered the TV creature.
It stood up on its hind legs and he realized that it had to be a female creature, unless he was mistaken and this creature had a mis-gender looking body like Valinen himself did. That curvy body definitely had to belong to a female though, he couldn't imagine even Valinen looking like that.
Nor did he want to, either. The other canine would just know and then ignore him for days on end as his punishment.
“Would you really be my friend, Mister?”
There was now a wide-eyed child staring at him, hands clasped in front of her chest as though if she gripped her fingers together tightly enough that all of her prayers would be answered.
“Of course we would! I don't know anyone like you, who wouldn't want to be friends with you?” Valinen replied before he even had a chance. There were ruder ways he could have put it, although Sebastian couldn't deny the pair of them were already weird themselves.
What better friends for weird people were other weird people, after all?
“The other boys, they don't really like me so much you see, mister Franklin.”
“They don't want anything to do with me, I'm just a freak to them.”
He wasn't sure what shows those two scenes were from, they looked unfamiliar to him and none of the characters stood out as actors he had ever seen before.
“I'll bet the others put you under that leaf pile,” he said with a deep frown, looking around. Maybe one day their new friend would lead them to who had done whatever they had to her, she certainly hadn't been under that leaf pile for so long of her own accord.
He wasn't sure what he would do if he ever met those people though, he wasn't one to beat people up unless under extreme situations and this didn't really fit that.
“We won't do things like that to you.” Valinen's voice was firm and gave no compromises, he even stamped his foot down to emphasize how serious they were.
“It's true,” Sebastian pitched in, “while we may joke with each other and make each other angry sometimes we don't hurt each other.”
“Oh golly gee, friends!” the girl canine clapped her paws together and flopped onto her back directly onto the leaves they had scraped away. Her tail wagged happily, paws kicking at the air in unrestrained joy.
Valinen jumped into the pile directly by her, rolling himself onto his back as well to join her in her actions and what could Sebastian do but join the two of them?
Just the three of them together on top of a leaf pile, hearing the little crunching leaves beneath them like the ghosts of their pasts floating away into the fall air.
“What's your name, friend?” he asked, grinning as the two of them began kicking their paws harder to make up for the fact they only had four when he had six.
“Lime-”
“-light!”
It just seemed absolutely perfect for that to be her name, Sebastian thought to himself as he laughed and rolled back onto his feet. Rushing away, he jumped into another pile and the other two took off after him to their own piles.
She was the limelight of their day, after all.
Sebastian
Valinen
Limelight
Ended up deciding to do a scene where Valinen and Sebastian first meet the telecreature called Limelight. It's only just at six pages long, but Middy seemed to like it quite a lot. Hopefully anyone else can enjoy it as well.
The forest wasn't his first pick of places to amble through but he couldn't say no to Valinen. Not with those watery eyes he could pull out, like magic or some kind of invisible power that simply compels you to do what he wants you to do. Even if that was going out through a forest that made his fur itch and the desire to curl up back at home in front of the TV grow almost oppressively.
Ahead of him he could hear Valinen prancing around, going out of his way to make the leaves under their feet crackle and break. Peering up through his glasses, and having to blow a bit of his hair out of the way, he could see that pink tail arcing through the air at a high velocity. The trajectory of each swish made it clear what emotion Valinen was feeling, something he didn't feel as often around other people.
Sebastian smiled softly and ran up beside him, jumping on top of a larger pile of leaves before his pink friend could. The startled look across the pink canine's face, slightly put-off at the same time, was well worth all the effort put into it.
“Sebastian, that was my leaf pile!” Valinen piped up, fur ruffling in mild irritation as he tried his best to glare. His best wasn't good enough, of course, because it just looked cute.
Not that Sebastian was going to tell him, the last thing he wanted was for his friend to leave him alone in the forest because of a comment he was only making in good jest.
Instead he picked the wiser option that would spare his friend's feelings and smiled slyly at him, a paw coming out to crunch down a straw leaf. “It was my impression that the leaves are scattered for anyone to crush if they wished to.”
His fellow's mouth opened to retort against his comment but closed within seconds. Valinen's face clouded over with further irritation, his nose scrunching up in the way it did when he knew Sebastian was right by a technicality and anything he said further wouldn't help the situation.
Maybe just to get back at him, or maybe just because he wanted to get back into the simple hopping onto innocent tree products, he turned away from Sebastian and jumped into a smaller pile of leaves nearby.
Not to be outdone, Sebastian surveyed the area and smirked to himself, spotting a large pile of leaves Valinen would undoubtedly desire to jump into some distance away. A quick mental calculation gave him the best course to the pile which would lead him through several others and he put the plan into action, jumping into the first pile.
“Where are you going?” Valinen called after him, no longer sounding irritated at him but simply curious. That curiosity disappeared to be replaced by mild outrage only a moment later, “Oh hey, you're not getting that pile!”
No more words were spoken after that, the challenge had silently been issued and behind him Sebastian could hear Valinen making a mad dash for the pile beside him. Unwilling to lose he bounded forward to the next pile, the crunching of leaves by his side alerting him to Valinen's arrival.
He was certainly a lot faster than Sebastian had expected, that was something he was going to have to factor in while he made his way to the pile.
Several jumps later and his friend could be heard just a bit behind him, almost caught up to him by now. There was no way that he could lose however, this was a challenge he intended to win simply because it was what he was best at.
How could a gamer lose a game, after all?
The pile was right there in sight, ready and glorious to be pounced upon. Not as glorious as seeing Princess Peach after defeating Bowser in a deadly and frustrating fight but right now it was the closest second he could achieve.
And Valinen was right there just inches ahead of him.
With a roar Sebastian pushed hard through his back feet, sending himself into the air towards the pile while Valinen jumped as well. Both of them sailing through the air and-
BAM!
Dazedly he imagined stars dancing around their heads as they lie beside each other, their heads still connected from crashing upon the pile.
Static shivered through the air around them, coming from everywhere yet nowhere at once. Sebastian tried to shake off the wobblyness of his brain, shifting his arms to push himself up. An impossible feat when Valinen was laying across his right arms.
“Hey, mind getting off me?” he huffed, nosing at Valinen's face. When the only thing he got in return was a distracted grunt he decided to go to bigger tactics.
“Ewww, that's disgusting!” the pink dog yelped, scrambling away quickly and scattering leaves through the air from his haste. He stood up and wiped saliva off his cheek, crouching down to then wipe his paw off on some of the leaves.
It wasn't as helpful as he had expected since the leaves simply decided to stick to his paw, prompting him to shake the appendage furiously to get the clinging pieces off.
Thankfully it was now possible to get up and Sebastian quickly climbed off the pile, ears pricking forward to better calculate where the static was coming from. The sound reminded him of his TV at home when he was switching out the cables for his different game systems. Except this was a forest and there were no electronics here... right?
“Valinen, stop that you silly dog,” he teased when the other's movements became so loud they muffled the noise he was searching for. Instead of giving him time to respond, as he no doubt huffily would, he reached out and grabbed the leaves that were sticking to his fur and pulled them off, letting them fall to the floor like creatures pretending innocence after mischievous deeds.
“Why can't I have four arms...” Valinen pouted as he settled himself back down onto the ground, looking curiously at Sebastian. He figured it was because of how strange he was suddenly acting, the pink one must not have noticed the sound just yet.
It seemed to be getting louder too, almost flickering between louder and softer as if someone was playing with the volume on a TV.
There was nothing in the trees, that was the first place that he had checked. Certainly nothing was hiding behind any of the trees around them either, that would be just silly and unfeasible. He'd have noticed a TV because they were too big to hid behind these twiggy trees.
He stared down. So that would only leave...
“Aha, we both tied. Therefore...!” and in a blur Valinen was on top of the pile, further onto it than they had been when they crashed.
The static grew almost deafening for a moment and through it he could hear his friend's sharp cry of “Ow, what in the world!?”
Sebastian stepped closer and gripped his friend's fur to pull him off the pile, carefully setting him down beside it while another paw reached out to sweep leaves out of the pile.
Underneath several layers of leaves in the giant pile there was shimmering lime green fur, clearly beloning to another animal that had been resting under the leaf pile.
“How'd they end up there?” Valinen asked curiously from beside him, the tone something one used when they didn't actually expect an answer but at the same time couldn't keep the question to himself.
“Certainly they didn't pile the leaves onto themselves,” Sebastian murmured, worry starting to nibble somewhere in his heart. “They had to have been there for long enough the leaves piled onto them...”
Pink ears shot up in alarm and the pink body shot forward, paws scrambling quickly to tear leaves fully off the lime body beneath them.
Sebastian stepped in to help, working on the side opposite Valinen. In less than a minute they had unburied their mystery creature.
Lime green fur made way to tanner fur, like their fur was trying to imitate clothing. Across the fur were strange pink patterns, little cubicle swirls.
It wasn't the strangest thing however, that was...
“Woah, is it a robot?”
Valinen's comment was rather correct, although Sebastian suspected this was a flesh and blood creature, evidenced by the feeling of warmth when he placed his paw on green fur.
Instead of replying, he softly said, “Hello, are you awake?”
The creature beneath his paw only twitched in possible response, fur bristling and clearly awake despite the lack of reply to his question.
“I'm sorry we jumped on you,” he continued despite the lack of communication returned, “we didn't know you were in there. Are you alright now?”
This time there was some kind of reply, in the form of a clicking sound that started to repeat. The canine-like body shifted and sat up, the face of the TV turning towards them.
Across the screen was the static he expected as the noise continuing along with the clicking. A lime paw reached up and patted at the TV, claws moving over it as though searching for something.
Sebastian leaned forward, curiosity driving him while worry kept him gentle. “Is there something wrong with your TV? Would you like me to help with it?”
The giant TV head shook in what he imagined was this creature's version of a 'no'. The claws continued to fumble along the TV's surface as he sat back to settle by Valinen again. Both of them stayed silent so they wouldn't mess with their new acquaintances' work.
By what Sebastian estimated was two minutes there was a crisper click and both the static and clicking noise went silent. The screen flickered back and then a scene of a dog happily running through flowers showed up.
“I never really liked that show, it's so boring,” Valinen piped up beside him, head cocked and looking at the screen almost boredly.
As if in reaction to what he was saying a flash of a bomb exploding flickered on the screen before the happy dog showed up once more.
“I doubt they're trying to show us the show itself. It seems more like they're happy and grateful that we helped them out of the leaves and woke them out of whatever they were in,” Sebastian dryly replied to his friend, using one paw to lightly bash him on the shoulder.
They both knew it wasn't hard enough to hurt him and yet Valinen still rubbed at the spot while pretending he was heavily injured.
“I can't believe you two!”
The words came from the TV, Sebastian realized as he looked curiously at it. Whatever had spoken the words had already flashed off the screen and this time there was an amused-looking man staring out the TV screen at them. He vaguely recognized it from some show he had once watched before getting bored with it when it wasn't interesting enough.
“Why yes, we beat each other up all the time,” he said cheekily, wrapping two arms around his pink companion and using a third to lightly rub at his head.
Valinen struggled in his grasp, yelping and barking in disagreement to the treatment. He wasn't putting in the effort he would if he had really wanted to get away and all three of them knew it.
Or at least Sebastian assumed they all knew it if the flash of a child jumping up and down clapping their hands and then another flash of a girl across the screen saying, “Friends are so very fun to have.”
Feeling like he had spent enough time harassing his friend, Sebastian released him and sat back on his hind legs, chuckling and dusting his fur off. Who knew how dirty the dirt could be?
“We could be your friend if you would like us to,” he offered the TV creature.
It stood up on its hind legs and he realized that it had to be a female creature, unless he was mistaken and this creature had a mis-gender looking body like Valinen himself did. That curvy body definitely had to belong to a female though, he couldn't imagine even Valinen looking like that.
Nor did he want to, either. The other canine would just know and then ignore him for days on end as his punishment.
“Would you really be my friend, Mister?”
There was now a wide-eyed child staring at him, hands clasped in front of her chest as though if she gripped her fingers together tightly enough that all of her prayers would be answered.
“Of course we would! I don't know anyone like you, who wouldn't want to be friends with you?” Valinen replied before he even had a chance. There were ruder ways he could have put it, although Sebastian couldn't deny the pair of them were already weird themselves.
What better friends for weird people were other weird people, after all?
“The other boys, they don't really like me so much you see, mister Franklin.”
“They don't want anything to do with me, I'm just a freak to them.”
He wasn't sure what shows those two scenes were from, they looked unfamiliar to him and none of the characters stood out as actors he had ever seen before.
“I'll bet the others put you under that leaf pile,” he said with a deep frown, looking around. Maybe one day their new friend would lead them to who had done whatever they had to her, she certainly hadn't been under that leaf pile for so long of her own accord.
He wasn't sure what he would do if he ever met those people though, he wasn't one to beat people up unless under extreme situations and this didn't really fit that.
“We won't do things like that to you.” Valinen's voice was firm and gave no compromises, he even stamped his foot down to emphasize how serious they were.
“It's true,” Sebastian pitched in, “while we may joke with each other and make each other angry sometimes we don't hurt each other.”
“Oh golly gee, friends!” the girl canine clapped her paws together and flopped onto her back directly onto the leaves they had scraped away. Her tail wagged happily, paws kicking at the air in unrestrained joy.
Valinen jumped into the pile directly by her, rolling himself onto his back as well to join her in her actions and what could Sebastian do but join the two of them?
Just the three of them together on top of a leaf pile, hearing the little crunching leaves beneath them like the ghosts of their pasts floating away into the fall air.
“What's your name, friend?” he asked, grinning as the two of them began kicking their paws harder to make up for the fact they only had four when he had six.
“Lime-”
“-light!”
It just seemed absolutely perfect for that to be her name, Sebastian thought to himself as he laughed and rolled back onto his feet. Rushing away, he jumped into another pile and the other two took off after him to their own piles.
She was the limelight of their day, after all.
