Skulls and Cherry Blossoms:
-Chopper's Origin Flashback pt 2-
"Wait, you can talk?" Dr. Hiriluk asked. Three days had passed, Chopper was still staying with the old quack and he had finally revealed that he could talk. "Then why have you kept silent?"
"I thought you'd hate me if I talked," Chopper answered. "When I talked to humans the other day... they shot at me. You see... people think I'm a freak for that."
"So what if you can talk?" Hiriluk retorted, "I can talk too, it's nothing to brag about." Chopper stared at the man in surprise. Suddenly, the beaker that Hiriluk had been tending too started bubbling up and smoke starting coming out the top.
"AAAAAAHHHHH!" Hiriluk screamed. "RUN CHOPPER!"
KA-BOOOOM! Hiriluk's concoction exploded and Chopper and Hiriluk were sent flying through the door and landed hard in the snow at the bottom of the mountain.
"Aww, I thought for sure that would work," Hiriluk complained, he turned to his companion, "hey Chopper, are you okay?"
Chopper sat up in time to get hit on the head by a flying piece of rock, KONK! Chopper fell backwards and ended up on his back in the snow again.
Hiriluk stared at the reindeer, "Eh? Well at least you're head was bandaged to begin with, right?" Hiriluk offered. "Hah hah hah!" KONK! Another piece of rock hit the quack on the head and knocked him on his back.
"Hey, did you call me 'Chopper'?" Chopper inquired.
"That's your new name," Hiriluk told him. "Tony Tony Chopper. You're a Tonakai Reindeer and those antlers of yours look strong enough to chop down a tree. Cool name, huh? Anyway, that's what I'm gonna call you. Hah hah hah!"
"Chopper..." Choppe repeated, he smiled and then laughed along with Hiriluk, "Teeheehee!"
-x-
"Listen up Chopper," Hiriluk instructed later that day as he and Chopper walked towards a town, "always pay close attention to your patient's symptoms and give them proper treatment. That's the way to save a person's life." Hiriluk and Chopper stood at the top of hill and looked down at the village. "Let's go! There are sick people who need my help!"
"GET YOU OF HERE YOU CRAZY QUACK!" someone shouted about an hour later, Hiriluk and Chopper ran screaming out of the 'patient's' house and frantically dodged the things being thrown at them.
"I thought lizard eyeballs would work!" Hiriluk protested as he and Chopper fled for their lives. The day went on in the same way.
"DON'T EVER COME BACK!"
"GET LOST!"
Hiriluk and Chopper got a lot of exercise while running away that day. "IT'S WAPOL'S GUARDS!" Hiriluk shouted as he looked behind him and noticed that there were now uniformed men after him. "Chopper, it's time to use the decoy plan!"
"The what plan?" Chopper inquired as he ran along beside Hiriluk in his reindeer form.
"GOOD LUCK PAL!" THWAK! Hiriluk ran in front of Chopper, then kicked him, the reindeer went flying backwards into the group of soldiers while Hiriluk ran away.
-x-
"YOU ALMOST GOT ME KILLED, YOU MANIAC!" Chopper shouted when he had finally made it back to the cave. He and Hiriluk were in the middle of a comedic dust-ball brawl.
"SO WHAT!" Hiriluk snapped. "YOU ALREADY CHEATED DEATH ONCE, YOU CLUMSY BLUE-NOSED CARIBOU!"
"THAT'S REINDEER! AND DON'T CALL ME BLUE-NOSED!"
