Name:Ichigo Gender:Male
Favorite Song:Strawberry Avalanche Strawberry Art:
(can be a picture, story, poem, play, animation, or anything else your heart desires as long as it is created and made by you)Ichigo ran through the tunnels, snuffling as he tried to pinpoint the sweet scent he had smelled all the way at the opening of the cave. He frowned in concentration as his tiny paws hit the ground rapidly. He sensed another voxxie in his way and swerved around
Josef, apologizing as he continued forward. "Sorry, your highness!" He then almost crushed Josef's only child,
Mozart. Thankfully, Ichigo leapt at just the right moment and soared over the youngster. "My apologies, young prince!"
He then ran straight into
Maddox. "Sorry, sorry, sorry! I didn't mean to run into you! I'm just trying to find this amazing food thing," he said once he'd untangled himself from his fellow colony-mate.
"Mmmhmmm," Maddox said, standing slowly. "I'll help you."
"Really? Thanks, Maddox!"
"Mmmhmmm. What does it smell like?"
"Um...sweet. Fruity, I guess...but not like oranges or lemons, or even lime. It's different."
"Blueberries?"
"No, sweeter."
"Raspberries?"
"Not sweet enough."
"Cherries?"
"STILL not sweet enough."
Maddox nodded, trotting beside his fellow colony-mate. "We'll find the food, then."
Ichigo followed the larger Voxxie through the tunnel system that eventually lead up to the food storehouse in the cave portion of their underground labyrinth. "We're getting closer."
"Hey, are you guys looking for peaches?"
"YAAAAK!" Ichigo yelled as he jumped in fright. "Mozart! Don't scare me like that!"
Mozart laughed. "Sorry, but I got you back for almost stepping on me earlier."
Finally catching his breath, he responded to the young royal Voxxie. "Fine, fine. No, we're NOT looking for peaches. We're looking for some sweet thing that's a fruit, but it's not a fruit I recognize."
"Perhaps you're looking for strawberries?"
"AAAAAK! Whyyy do you dooo this to meeee?" Ichigo said between breaths, turning and sensing his leader behind him. "
Mandshurica, you startled me!" Under his breath he muttered, "It would appear that your son inherited your sneaky ways."
Mandshurica smiled coldly. "What are you both doing so near the food supply? You know perfectly well that I feed you what you need. If you are hungrier, you only need to alert
Canzone, and she will give you more to eat. You don't need to steal from us to make your point known."
Ichigo's body tensed in fear. "No, no! We aren't stealing! I just keep smelling this new food, and I'd really like to know what it is! Maddox agreed to help me find out what it is that I keep smelling, so...we followed the scent to here."
"Describe it," Mandshurica ordered, harshly pushing past the two larger voxxies and into the storeroom.
"Um...well...uh..." Ichigo struggled for words. "It's very sweet, and is most likely a fruit. It doesn't smell like meat at all."
"Cherries, perhaps?" Mandshurica said, shoving a few under Ichigo's nose.
"No, too sour. This is far more sweet."
Mandshurica then pulled out a strawberry and waved it under Ichigo's nose. "This fruit, then? It's relatively new - Canzone managed to find them growing on a bush not far from the entrance of the cave. We don't know where they came from, but they're quite delicious and sweet."
"That's it!" Ichigo said happily, his tail wagging just the slightest bit. "What is it?"
"This is a strawberry," Mozart said, standing beside his mother. "Not as good as a peach, but still a yummy treat."
Ichigo smiled as he smelled it again. "It smells so nice..."
"Would you like to try a bite?" Mozart asked. "You can have one bite of my strawberry, if you'd like. In fact, we could even trade! Do you like peaches?"
"Not really."
"Then if you ever get a peach, give it to me, and I'll give you a strawberry in return if you like it, okay?"
"Deal!" Ichigo too the strawberry from the young one's paws and stuffed half of it into his tiny mouth. He practically fell over from the sweet, candy-like flavor that ruptured into his mouth and hit his tastebuds full force. "Oh...oh...this is amazing," he mumbled around a mouthful of red berry. "This is great. I think I'm in love."
Mandshurica smiled and chuckled a bit. "You won't feel THAT until you meet a special lady, I'm afraid."
Ichigo swallowed, his face grinning as widely as he ever had. "That was awesome. Can I have another one?"
"We're on short supply right now, and they're not essential to living, so I'm afraid it's one per Voxxie for now....unless my son would like to give you his next time, as you two were considering doing."
Ichigo nodded sadly. "Oh, all right then. How often do they grow?"
"They're not common, unfortunately."
His tail dragged against the ground as he left. "Well, thanks for the treat, Mozart." On his way to his sleeping quarters, he ran straight into
Bellisma. "Oh, sorry about that," he said, trying to skirt around her.
She humphed, snorted, and kept walking forward after flicking her tail rather rudely into his face.
He then ran straight into
Jiang Qiao.
"Oh, sorry!" the little one said, backing off. "I'm usually pretty good at not running into others - I must have to work on that some more, though."
"No, it's my fault," Ichigo said sadly. "I really would love another strawberry."
"We get them about three months of the year, so chin-up! You'll have another one before too long." Jiang happily swished his tail against the elder's legs. "Don't look so sad, all right? It's not as if we're out of food!"
Ichigo throught for a moment and found the young one to be correct. "You're right," he said, perking up a bit. "Hey, do you want to go explore the lower level of the tunnels?"
"Sure! I'll go and get Mozart to join us!"
Ichigo smiled as he felt the ground tremble. Jiang was off and running, and when he came back, he'd have Mozart with him. Ichigo nodded as he sat and waited for his two young friends, feeling grateful for knowing such great voxxies as them.
by chescab » Mon Jul 06, 2015 12:09 pm 
