Nansee Teodinn woke up with a start. She had another nightmare, the same nightmare she had been having for awhile now. But funny enough, she never really remembered having a nightmare, just waking up with the she did.
Nansee got up out of her bed and went into the kitchen. After getting a glass of water, she stared out other window to admire the Astradin twilight sky. Although she couldn't see it just by looking out the window, her world was in danger. Monsters had somehow made their way into Astradin and were stealing resources and were brutally mean. Nansee tilted her head as the Astradin stars visibly rearranged themselves into a new formation. Nansee's father, an acclaimed scientist, would have told her that it was just the planet moving and rotating around Astradin's sun and moon. But a kid could imagine differently.
Suddenly, a loud bang came from her basement. Nansee didn't panic, much, because she knew it was her father working late again. She went to the downstairs stairwell to check to see if he was okay.
"Daddy…?" Nansee called down the stairwell. After a few long minutes, he answered,
"I'm okay Nan, come down here for a moment though please."
Nansee did as she was told and walked down the steps. The closer she got to the table that her father was working at, the more a rather disgusting and chemical smell filled the girl's lungs. Nansee accompanied her father at the table, and peered over the edge standing next to Mr. Teodinn.
"What is it?" Nansee curiously asked as she looked at an apparently breathing pink mass that was on the table. It had no eyes from what Nansee could tell, unless it was laying facedown. The creature also seemed to have possessed feet from what Nansee could figure, but there were attached directly to the body, not to legs from what the girl could tell.
"I don't know." Mr. Teodinn said, slightly out of breath. "Can't find a good name to sum its powers up. English, Latin, French, Greek, Japanese, or anything of the like doesn't seem suitable."
The creature then started to move, to sit up possibly, and Nansee ducked under the table in case it did something in the like of hurting her. After the creature had sat up to its liking (it had been laying face down after all), it stared at the scientist with wide eyes and a curious smile. Nansee peered over top the table again to give it a closer look.
"It's cute." Nansee couldn't help but say, startling the creature a bit since it didn't know she was there. Nansee's father smiled at her remark, and at this sign the creature realized the girl had said something nice about it.
"His name is Kirby." Nansee then said. Both scientist and creature looked at her.
"Kirby? He?" Mr. Teodinn asked, slightly amused.
"Does he LOOK like a girl Daddy?" Nansee asked, looking at her father head on. For this, her father gave no reply.
"Poyo?" the creature wondered, giving its first word. Father and daughter stared at it while it looked at them curiously. Nansee then turned to her father and asked,
"Can I keep him?"