Snowy Standoff

Crunch...crunch...crunch...

She could hear the very snow crushing underneath the stranger's footsteps. He was giggling. The little piplup's imagination was put to work as she imagined just who might be approaching. A tall terrifying monster. It had to have been light enough so that the ground did not quake with each step, but big enough to have a gullet that would swallow her whole. The piplup began to shake as her imagination ran rampant. Red glaring eyes that would stare holes into you, long sharp daggers for teeth that could tear her apart, that sinister laugh that sounded so innocent...did it know?

Her heart seemed to stop at the thought. It had to have figured her out. She was being hunted, was she not? The piplup could feel sweat beginning to form despite the cool temperature air. The monster grew closer. She took in a deep breath, her cheeks puffed out to their fullest as the monster continued to talk. Oh Arceus, was it bragging about its previous feats now!? Chase a charmander into a lake? Did the monster know it was her this entire time? Was this some demon sent from Arceus himself to punish her for not joining her friends in the after life!?

Another step and she saw it. She wasted no time in unleashing the beam of ice upon the unfortunate being. No! She would not die today! She would live, live enough for the both of her friends! Without waiting to see if the monster had even been affected by it, she turned and darted around the tree so that she was on the opposite side.

The original plan was to continue into the forest, far away from the demon. She stopped, however. The voice of the demon cried out, the voice toned with panic as it begged to be freed. The only conclusion she could draw, was that she had frozen it. She dared not to leave the safety of her tree just yet. Her back was pressed against the bark as she listened to the frantic and terrified tone of the beast. It had promised to go away, but what if it was some elaborate ruse?

She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. Her heart felt as if it was bound to leap out of her chest still. She exhaled slowly and quietly, the very steam that puffed out from her beak seeming to shiver along with her fearful little body. She opened her eyes.

She was going to do it.

She was going to look at the demon.

The piplup flipped herself around so that her belly was to the bark rather than her back. Slowly, she peered over to the side to gaze at the demon that had been sent forth fromt he depths of hell itself. A demon that was bound to be powerful, able to rip things apart just by touching them, a demon that was...a minun.

Her mind seemed to encounter a critical error as she got a good look at the so called demon that she had been terrified of this entire time. Her beak's jaw dropped open as an eye brow raised. The minun flailed helplessly in the snow as the ice from her attack had pinned him to the ground. The piplup's wings dropped from the bark to her sides, no longer hugging the tree for protection.

She seemed to process this for a moment, before rage began to boil within her soul. Her eye gave a twitch. THIS was what she had been scared of? THIS was the all terrifying monster?

"What the f*ck is wrong with you going around and scaring people like that!?" she shouted at the top of her lungs, her wings flailing at her sides as if to emphasize her point. All fear that had been farmed before had now rotted away as it was burned by the flames of anger and disappointment with herself.

The piplup stomped closer to the minun, no longer hiding behind the shelter that the tree held. A minun. That was it? That was what all of this had built up to? Honestly, she would have been more satisfied to see a quagsire!

"You can't just go around creepin' mons out like that!" she chastised the minun as she made her way over to the pile of ice that pinned the minun to assist him in freeing him from the prison, "It's dangerous out here!"

ooc// merp

The minun had successfully been freed. The piplup folded one arm over the other as she stared at the minun with quite the disapproving look. Her foot tapped against the forest floor impatiently as she watched the minun checked on his unfortunate arm. The smile the minun delivered was forced, but it did not fool the great and clever mind that was Namataki's.

The minun knew it was a dangerous shortcut and yet he still came? Namataki only had one response for such an answer to her question, "Oh so you're stupid." Blunt, but she was not exactly known for possessing a filter between her brain and her beak.

"It aint worth going some place new if you're just going to get wrecked!" she scolded the Minun, though she did not really have any place in doing so since she was not all too strong herself. She pointed a flipper at the minun while the other flipper bent and rested on her hip.

"And don't thank me," she commented, "I was the one that put you in that situation." She seemed to be a bit mildly annoyed at being thanked. It was quite ungrateful and rude, especially with the tone to her voice. Unlike a certain grass snake friend of hers, she was not one to accept empty grace.

ooc// merp