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Pheonix and 13
"13. Hmm. I haven't seen you before. And I think I know why. You look like a rat! Disgusting!"13 had spent the first part of his life away from the rest of his siblings, raised differently. He was younger as well, just by almost a week, but still younger. When 13 had been re-introduced to the rest of his family, he was shocked to see some of them were already all grown up. He had known some of his siblings would grow up faster then him, for the only two siblings he had known before this were already all grown up.


Jake and Alex were raised in the same tough way 13 was raised, so 13 stayed close to them to ignore the 23 new sets of eyes looking at him. 13 was scared. His brother and sister let him go off on his own, urging him to make new friends. 13 turned back to look at them, then bumped into a large, yellow object.

"Ouch!" It exclamed and walked back a few feet. 13 looked at the creature and saw it was a large yellow dog with purple markings, goat feet and horns. The dog looked down and exclamed with delight to see 13.
"So! You must be my new little brother! Nice to meet you! Name's Goat. How are you?" The yellow dog shook 13's paw excitedly and his tongue flopped out in a playful fasion. That got 13 to smile. "I'm 13. That's Jake and my sister's Alex."
"Hmmm, Alex. That's an unnusual name." Goat hummed, then laughed. "Just kidding. C'mon 13, I'll introduce you to the crowd!" Goat pulled on 13 paw and he had no choise but to follow. Then Goat stopped. 13 peeked arround the large yellow dog to see a beautiful creature.

She had sparkeling purple eyes and beautiful fir that changed from purple to yellow. She had a long poofy tail and two orange fiery wings. A silver tag saying "PPS" hung from her neck. "Where are you going Goat?" The dog said with an air of disdain. "I'm just going to show out new brother arround, Pheonix. His name's 13." 13 gave Pheonix a shy smile and a slight wave. Then a look of disgust spread over Pheonix's face.
"13. Hmm. I haven't seen you before. And I think I know why. You look like a rat! Disgusting!" Pheonix said. 13 felt like he had been stung. "Pheonix, you don't
really mean that, do you?" Goat said, the joy in his voice gone. "I did." Pheonix said. "I really know why they kept you away from me, the sight of you makes my feathers shiver." And with that Pheonix walked away. "C'mon 13. She is mean sometimes. She does it too all of us." Goat said and guided 13 over to a group of dogs, chattering away.




"These females are Fox, Sunrise, Felicia, and Sprout." He said motioning to the nearby group of dogs. The ones Goat had said were Fox and Sprout began to giggle, white Sunrise smiled and Felicia just sighed. "Goat, do you know where Jester is?" Sprout piped up. "I think he left to go to the river, sprout." Goat said. "Thanks!" Sprout said and ran off. Fox followed close behind. "Fox always acts like she is littler then sprout even though she is already an adult." Goat said to 13 as they walked away.



Then a large purple dog ran up to Goat, trailed by a pup with yellow eyes and one with a glowing moon on its tail. "What's wrong Zodiac?" Goat said. 13 automaticly assumed this "Zodiac" was the leader figure of this large family. "No, Goat. I just wanted to meet 13 here. I have already talked to your siblings and I wish to speak to you." Zodiac said and smiled at 13. They Zodiac began a long talk about the history of the family and a lot of other boring stuff. 13 let his eyes wander. He spotted a group of four pups peeking out from arround a corner.




He assumed the one with the funny ears and tail was "Jester". The one with the ragged ears seemed to be mouthing something to one of the pups near Zodiac. The pup with the moon on her tail mouthed something back and the four pups dissapeared behing the corner.
"13!"
"Huh?" 13 said and fixed his eyes back on Zodiac. "You can go and play now." 13 thanked Zodiac and wandered off. He saw the moon-tailed female slip away to where the 4 pups had dissapeared. He followed her down a dark corrador, the only light coming from her moon charm. The light dissapeared arround a corner. 13 heard voices. He smiled and stepped forward.
Into a dark, wet, hole.
(Might write more later, i have something in mind for those pups I receved in trades!)