Sink or Swim?

Tony Marino-Knight · 01-30-2011, 02:42 AM

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Somebody save the idiot pup please...? >.>

Alright, this he had to try.

It was a normal day...sorta... Tony was in the manor, Fia and Zo were off somewhere over the rainbow, his mother was out somewhere as well (supposedly the same place), his father was busy, and Tony was bored. B-o-r-e-d. But most of all, he was tired of being cooped up in the manor and oh so very curious about one thing in particular; swimming. Oh yes, he knew it was cold outside and yes, he had already stuck his paw in the river water and found it particularily freezing. But because Tony was not only stubborn and curious, he felt the irresistible urge to do what was called 'swimming'. And he didn't want to wait till summer; that was much too far away. He wanted to swim now.

With all the perfunctory casualty as an every-day walk, Tony let his overly large puppy-paws take him straight to the edge of Rabbit Lake, albeit the edge was not technically the edge of the water, since it was frozen solid all the way through. Now, although Tony was a heavy pup by nature--muscle ran in the gene pool--the ice nearest the edge was thick enough to support his meager weight. And of course, since nothing bad had yet happened to the pup, he was unaware of the true danger that lurked behind anything he thought fun. He testingly padded the ice with a tiny paw, feeling the chill begin to take in the tender flesh; yet still, he began to walk across the slippery surface, stopping every so often after a paw sliding too far this way or that. The dark brown pup was in stark contrast with the icy blue lake edge, and was easy to spot should anyone really try. But another thing Tony had not taken into account was just how large the lake was, coupled with how much of it was frozen. The little pup could take days just searching one small section for an open patch of water to swim. With a defeated sigh, Tony began to take his frozen paws back across the ice, jumping every so often in an attempt to lighten his gloomy mood, when a resounding crack was heard. His little ears perked straight up as thick cracks began to form around him and spiderweb further and further out, and at once, without knowledge of what was truly happening, Tony knew to be terrified. The emotion--mainly, the intensity of it--was unfamiliar to the pup that was normally filled with bravery and bravado, and that only served to scare him more.

The ice began to float apart like small islands, and Tony all of a sudden found himself stranded, yet...in a surprisingly good situation...? He stuck his entire paw fully into the water, but yanked it back when it easily cut through his meager pup coat to his nerves, chilling the bone on contact. I don' wanna swim anymore... He just wanted his mother... He was scared and alone and didn't know what to do and Tony just wanted to be home with his mother and father right then...! "Momma!" he cried out, his head veering side to side, looking for his mother.

Guardian walks. "Guardian talks." Guardian thinks.

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