Exceed OneShot Stories

Follow the Frog! - A Frosh Oneshot

In a quest to find Forsch's favourite and most beloved animal, Frosch starts a search to see a Frog. But fate has other ideas. She only briefly saw a frog, and in order to see the creature in all it's wonderful glory Frosch would have to have to, well, follow the Frog!

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Frosch stared at the picture in the children's picture book intently. It was a new book that Rouge had bought for her that very same day. It was a book about frogs. Frosch never knew there were so many frogs in the world like herself. There were frogs that were different sizes, shapes, colours and they lived in different places all over the world. Any doubts that she had about being a frog were now gone. If frogs could be different but still be frogs, she still could be too.

"What ya doing Frosch," Lector asked, approaching his friend with unusual 'swagger' for a cat or of someone his size. But he thought it was all a part of his charm.

"Frosch is learning about frogs!" Frosch yelled enthusiastically, gaining a few side glances from their guild members.

"Sounds good," Lector smiled, "where did you get it from?" Peaking over his friend's shoulder, Lector glanced at the various frogs on the page, and as Frosch slowly turned the page, the next set of frogs filling the page.

"Rouge got it for Frosch!"

Hearing his name from his much beloved Exceed, Rouge quickly and silently appeared beside the two exceeds, "what are you two doing?"

"Frosch is telling Lector about Frosch's frog picture book!" The exceed said to her companion.

The dragon slayer nodded and watched the two exceeds interact, pointing out things that interested them in the book, that was now spread across the floor so that they could both get better access to the images and to make pointing easier.

Eventually however Frosch was left by herself once more. Rouge and Lector were called away by Sting. Both of them were always very involved in the guild, especially with Sting being the new guild master. Frosch like to help sometimes but her book was very important to her now.

It was then Frosch got an idea. All of this looking at pictures of frogs made Frosch want to see an actual frog. Frosch couldn't remember when she last saw an actual frog. The more the exceed tried to remember the more she realised it had been too long. So, standing on her own two feet, the exceed slowly started waddling out of the guild, her new book tucked under her arm and into the streets of the town that Sabertooth Guild resided in. The name, eluding Frosch for the time being.

The streets were full of people, stalls either side of the street, selling all kinds of goods. From her short height Frosch couldn't exactly see what they were selling but from the amount of people around the stall she knew it must be good. She doubted it was pet frogs though.

"Where should Frosch go?" The exceed thought aloud, "Frosch needs to find frogs, so Frosch should go to the pond!" Frosch approved her own idea aloud and headed towards the park, or where she thought the park would be. There was a pond there, and her new book taught her that frogs were always found near water and mostly ponds.

Happily waddling down the road, Frosch avoided the feet of the many people in town and went in the direction of what she thought was the pond. It was then she saw it. A blur of green hopping across the road and down an unknown road that she had never been down before. But she knew what the blur of green was. Hell, she was one too.

"FROG!" Frosch yelled and at once started to follow the frog.

Meanwhile, back at the Guild...

"Frosch! Rouge called, checking around the guild for his companion. He checked his favourite sitting or napping spaces but had no luck finding the exceed, much to his horror.