Prometheus

Chapter 26: Tales of the Boiling Isles

Chapter 26: Tales of the Boiling Isles

Tales of the Boiling Isles - Trixx

Sometime before Walking down Memory Lane

Trixx could be seen peering into the window of the Beast-Keeping classroom of Hexside in her true form. She liked visiting the place. They were nice, she got free scratches (even though she could get plenty of those back home), she got tasty snacks, and best of all...

She had the perfect victims for her pranks.

Through the times she's visited, she always made sure to be careful not to talk unless there was no one around, barring whoever was left at the end to clean up. Her existence baffled the class, as none of them had ever seen a Zorua before. Thanks to this, the teacher decided to turn the opportunity to have the students study her, taking down everything they could observe about her in the thought that she was a newly discovered species.

Trixx would admit she felt a little bad leading them on like this, but at the same time, she supposed she was technically a brand-new species, just not in terms of fiction that is.

Plus, those snacks were really good!

So, she played along with it, allowing them to believe that she was just a curious little fox. There were certain things she wouldn't do, and for those, she always ensured they knew her displeasure with either scratching or a Dark Pulse to the face. It only took a few Dark Pulses for them to understand her boundaries. She at least indulged them by revealing she could understand everything they said, as well as informing them of her species' name by speaking in her native tongue.

Today there was one girl in particular that was on her pranking radar. Her name was Viney. Trixx recognized her from the Greater Basilisk incident and for her unique mix of Beast Keeping and Healing track colors. Trixx got along pretty well with her griffin Puddles.

Most of the class had already left, but Viney remained as she finished jotting down some notes and cleaning the nearby pens. She was still in the midst of trying to catch up, mostly due to being a multi-tracker which meant she had double the normal workload of others.

Viney sighed as opened the door from outside to the classroom, setting her broom with the others nearby. "Phew! All done!" Viney said as she let out a yawn. "Man, I'm beat. Time to go home, get in my jam-jams, and do nothing but snuggle up with Puddles." Viney said before walking over to Trixx.

"You sure look comfy," Viney said, scratching her behind the ear.

The Zorua sat up on the desk and leaned into Viney's hand. "A little lower please."

Viney smiled. "Okay, how's this?" Viney obliged, moving her hand lower and eliciting a satisfied purr from the fox. Viney cooed at that and stopped scratching her after a moment as she headed to open the door for Trixx. "Alright, let's-"

Viney paused as what happened just registered in her mind. "Wait, did you..." Viney turned to Trixx, rubbing her eyes and staring at Trixx.

"Say something." Viney requested.

Trixx tilted her head in faux confusion. "Ra?" Trixx said, reverting to her native tongue.

Viney stared at Trixx for a bit before pinching the bridge of her nose. "Knew I shouldn't have stayed up watching Die Bard," Viney grumbled before heading back to the door and opening it. "Alright little Zorua, time for you to head home."

Trixx stretched before hopping off the desk and trotting over to the door.

"Man, I must be more tired than I thought," Viney said to herself as Puddles walked over, tilting her head in confusion about what her owner was talking about. "Bye Zorua!" Viney bid her farewell.