by FluffyBirdie » Thu Mar 26, 2020 6:29 am
username: FluffyBirdie
name: Flue, Flu, Fleuid (generally Flue)
gender: male
prompt: Children laugh as they pick up the tiny cockatrice, who chirps to them in a friendly way. His colours are bright and attractive, and the parents, seeing that the little dragon wasn't threatening, allowed their kids to keep him. They named the dragon-bird, argued over his name spelling and pronunciation (the debate has yet to be settled), and spent the rest of day trying to teach Flu how to talk like a parrot. Day turned to night, and leaving Flue with a pile of seeds and a small blanket, the young humans left for dinner.
Like children do, they forgot about Fleuid, distracted with a million other things. It was a lot later in the night when, at the prompt of an adult, did they remember their new pet. The children thundered down to the backyard, noticing that the seeds had been eaten, and the little bird had somehow snuggled into the middle of the blanket, looking comically like a ball covered by cloth. They lift up the blanket carefully, expecting a little sleeping dragon. But what they saw was instead two glowing dots, and swirls that in the moment looked like worms. They screamed, and the cockatrice, equally frightened by the sudden sound, flew away.
Flue would remember that as the scariest moment of his life. Why would those kind humans screech so loudly at him?
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