He seriously left me...

[Numa]

"What a day to pick to hunt..."

The red canine grumbled quietly to himself, his ears back and his head down as the wind blew violently against his face. More than once, he had to shake a leaf or twig from his snout, the wind plastering them to his face as his master dragged him through the trees...

Don't mistake it, the jindo loved his human... to a degree. The man fed him regularly and the food tasted pretty good. The bowl wasn't kept very clean but he could live with that. He got to run on the treadmill for hours on end and had to pull weights around the house but he didn't really mind all that much. The pain went away after a short time. The human snored so his dog barely got any sleep, even though he was chained up outside with no dog house. He would just flip his water dish over his head to block out the sound...

Nope, all that he could deal with but hunting right before a storm? The man was crazy...

Unfortunately for the little jindo, they were not hunting. As they moved deeper and deeper into the Lesser forest, the man looked over his shoulder at the dog following him obediently, yelling at him in order to be heard over the screaming winds and the booming thunder...

"Don't worry Numa. I'll toughen you up and you'll be the best bear dog in the town!"

The jindo looked confused... His human still thought he'd make a decent bear dog?! He was crazier than originally imagined. But the human continued to drag the dog deeper into the woods, straining against the harsh winds and defying all logic and common sense. But the dog was convinced he was just drunk or high again and was about to sober up... Any minute now, he'd realize how foolish this was and would take them home again. Only when the man tied the dog's leather leash around a nearby tree did the severity of the situation sink in...

He was seriously going to leave him out here...

"Sweet dreams pooch. I'll come get you in the morning."

Kneeling down, he gave the socked dog a pat, ignoring the fact that the animal was shaking with terror, his jaw practically to the dirt and his cobalt eyes wide. Without a second glance back, the blond man departed hastily, carelessly opening an umbrella as the skies let loose a small torrent of rain. The jindo stared after him, not bothering to back in complaint or strain against the leash. He knew both tactics were pointless and never helped. So instead, he stared after the two-legger until his tall for disappeared between the trees...

He'd seriously left him out here, alone and in the middle of a storm...

[Shroxx]

"Apricots and tinfoil! Yowch! Cursed vine! I will avenge thee, paw! Aiie! Okay, so I won't avenge you..." Came a voice from behind the tied up jindo. Stumbling out from amongst some thorn covered plants was a pink and black mutt.

Her golden eyes glared at the thorny plants. "Yeah, that's right! You better stay over there, or I'll bite'cha! Ha! That's what I thought. Some plant you are." She sneered at the vegetation as if it was talking to her. She suddenly narrowed her eyes and huffed at it. "Why I never!" She snorted at the plant before turning. Seeing the dog, she grinned and trotted over.

"Why hello there! How're you? And most importantly, who are you? I'm Shroxx... some call me Butterfly, but I simply can't imagine why." She said sarcastically. Her black ears perked. "So... why are you all tied up?"

Her curious looking face was black, forming a masquerade-like mask on her pink fur. The top of her neck was black, and on her back it seeped down to form a butterfly's wings marking that went along her sides as well. Pink markings mingled with the black. Around her paws, forming a ring, were black butterfly tattoo's. The top of her tail was black with pink butterfly markings as well, and the bottom was a mixture of pink and white.

[Numa]

The noises behind him were enough to scare the jindo right out of his fur. Luckily, it was attached to his skin so it merely stood on end, making his curly tail appear to be a simple contton puff on his rump. Leaping up from his once casual sitting position, the little dog scrambled about in a blind mindless circle, panicking of course. Whatever that thing was, it smelled like a wolf... and wolves eat dogs...

He didn't want to be eaten...

His scrambling came to a halt soon enough, the leather leash entangling his cream colored legs and pulling them out from beneath him. Yelping was all the male jindo could do before his face collided with the muddy ground with a nasty sounding "squish". Great, not only was he about to be eaten but he was going to look like an idiot the whole time. Maybe he could make the wolf laugh so much, it forgets to eat him or suffocates or something...

Pushing his foolish thoughts aside, the brute sighed deeply, blowing bubbles in the watery mud considering his nose was still imbedded. Well, he might as well face the beast. Better it, or she from the sound of things, starts on the front of his body rather than his sensitive rear. In one swift movement, the jindo rolled onto his back, expertly kicking the leather from around his legs and rolling onto his feet...

He kept his cobalt gaze closed at that point, waiting for the wolf to take a bite... or laugh at him, one or the other...

[Shroxx]

She sat down on her haunches while laughing. "You're weird." Shroxx said. The pink and black mutt shook herself slightly. "Horrible weather, isn't it? Normally I'd be heading over to my shack to stay dry, but I felt like exploring today. Then a vine attacked my foot! Can you believe that?" She asked increduliously.

"Anyways, I'm Shroxx. How do you do? What are you anyways? Some sort of chihuahua and poodle mix?" She asked while cocking her head. The wolfish beast eyed the leash attached to his collar. "Hmmm.. that's going to be hard to chew through." She stated in a 'matter-of-fact' tone of voice. She stood up and walked around him. The tip of her tail flicked his nose as it passed by.

"Hey! I think I can actually see your real colors! Oh no, wait, that was mud. Sorry and nevermind." She grinned broadly. "So.. want me to chew through the leash and let ya go? Being tied sucks, I know. I once had this owner, but he kept me there with a rusty old chain. I was lucky that one of the links broke, otherwise I'd still be there! Bleck! His den smelled like onions anyways, so I'm glad I left." Shroxx's tail wagged softly while her golden eyes looked into his own.

[Numa]

Silently, the jindo thanked the heavens the wolfen beast chose to laugh rather than attack, allowing him to crack on eye open and get a curious glimpse of the creature. Her colors hurt his eyes. Bright pink? That's bizarre... never seen a wolf like that before. But the brute kept quiet, closing his eyes again as she walked toward and around him.

Yup, she was going to eat him...

But the last time he was attacked by a wolf, they didn't exactly talk so much. Curious, he dared to open one cobalt optic yet again, staring at the female's black face with a raised brow. She was smiling at him? Well, the jindo couldn't say he'd seen that before, a wolf smiling at him. Not just smiling but stretching it from one ear to another. He didn't know wolves could smile... Growing more bold as time passed and she neither growled at nor attacked him, the brute furrowed his brow at her in a pouting sort of fashion...

"Excuse me, I'm a Korean Jindo..."

But he immediately regretted it, remembering that he was talking to an animal much larger and stronger and faster than himself. Looking away, he lowered his pointed ears a bit and tried to follow her non-stop conversation, using one paw to wipe away the mud on his face when she made a joke about it...

"um... n-no... You don't have to chew through it. I'm sure my master will be back any minute now."

Forcing his own smile, the little dog nodded, immediately turning to look down the trail his master had followed. he truly expected that man to come back soon...