-1Viva Piñata: A New Beginning
(A Short Fanfic By: Tobias Pretzhog)
Chapter 1
War was only the beginning for Piñata Island. Not a soul knew what events would turnout after the chaos was finally over. This story recounts the tales of an misfit group of piñatas who triumph over their hardships and end the suppression against their kind as well as find out the story behind their own tragic past.
The Piñata Resistance, a hidden force and a helping hand who's goal is to end the sour tyranny that plagues their island and the world around them. Whether it be on the ground, underwater, or in the sky, the Resistance has been there to counter the sour onslaught to the best of their ability. But ability alone won't be enough as the sours still held the upper hand with their mysterious powers ranging from telekinesis to bending the air into fire. Anything was possible for the sours at this point. Knowing this, the Resistance constantly pray for a miracle
It was just another day defending the home turf as two exhausted fudgehogs emerged from an elevator, entering the heart of Base-3-R, just one of many bases located around the island. The pair were near opposite in personality and in variant color. Despite these differences, they ended up being the best of friends when they were first assigned together in a squad a couple of years back.
Jorelo, the black fudgehog, was lecturing to the white fudgehog, Falkor, about the recent events of their latest mission that was failed as they navigated through the halls. Poor Falkor knew he had screwed it all up, and Jorelo was just making matters worse for the stressed fudgehog.
Many of their missions involved them both taking down small scouting squads of sours. However this one was different and much more difficult. Both fudgehogs knew this fact beforehand, but Falkor had taken the mission for the brownie points, anything to rise above the ranks.
The frustrated white fudgehog was on the brink of blowing up in Jorelo's face when a dark blue and purple pretztail rushed at them, screaming her lungs out with joy as she ran. Both fudgehogs recognized the pretztail as their only other friend, Pandora.
"Jorelo! You made it back safe! I was so worried about you!" the eager pretztail said as she jumped into Jorelo, nearly taking him down with a tackle-like hug. The dark fudgehog wasn't surprised by her actions as he was greeted in such a fashion each time when he got back from a long day of killing sours. Despite going through a rut, he returned her hug just as firm.
"I'm fine, nothing to worry about Pandora," he replied calmly even though he was going to be chewed out in a few seconds by the Resistance base leader. It was then Falkor decided to butt into their conversation.
"Geez you two, get a room!" He joked harshly with them. Slightly bothered, Pandora released Jorelo from her grasp and faced herself towards Falkor, giving him a nasty glare. Jorelo knew it was just Falkor being humorous in his own, irksome way.
"There's nothing sexual about plain hugging Falkor, so shut it, besides, me and Jorelo are just friends anyways," Pandora scowled, throwing a decent fist into Falkor's left arm.
"Ow!" He shouted and rubbed the newly developed bruise, looking at the swelled area.
"I thought piñata resistance soldiers were tougher than that!" Pandora mocked him. Slightly insulted, Falkor glanced back up at Pandora, his eyes blazing an angry trail as they started to water faintly from the pain. Though the bruised fudgehog had known he would get the favor returned to him for making such a comment, he had gone through with the mischievous action anyways.
"Okay, that's enough guys," Jorelo parted between them, attempting to stop Pandora and Falkor from starting up a brawl. Both bickering piñatas eyed each other up as the peacekeeping fudgehog kept a paw on each one's shoulder to keep them in their place. "Anyways… Falkor, you and me gotta get to debriefing, I really don't want to keep the boss waiting after what had happened," Jorelo looked into Falkor's eyes like an infuriated viper, ready to strike if the fudgehog disobeyed. And just mentioning the boss forced Falkor to swallow hard from the fear of what was in store for him. He couldn't help but let the recent nightmare haunt him of how he had let Piñata Resistance down just a few hours ago. Falkor couldn't take that kind of pressure at all.
Jorelo drew his paws back to his sides and sighed, letting his bitterness flow out, however he didn't expect Falkor to break away from the group, leaving just Pandora and himself.
"I'll talk to you two later!" Falkor shouted at them without looking back as the double doors ahead slid back together just nearly after Falkor bolted past them. Pandora had exhaled her stress shortly after Falkor was out of her sight.
"Thank goodness he's gone," she said with a hint of unpleasantness. Jorelo turned towards the blue pretztail, sneaking a tiny chuckle.
"Eh… You learn to deal with him," Jorelo shrugged as Pandora rolled her eyes, pouring out a tiring groan.
"Sometimes I want to just tear him to shreds," she said as her anger temporarily returned to help her rip apart an imaginary Falkor limb from limb with only her paws.
"Anyways I should be heading to the boss's office too Pandora, we'll talk later," Jorelo started for the same doors as Falkor did, but unlike Falkor, Jorelo wasn't in such a rush, "just stop over at my room after the debriefing okay?" Jorelo didn't wait for her to reply, as he was already halfway towards the door.
Pandora wanted to yell out that she would certainly meet him, but by the time she was going to, Jorelo had already been obscured by twin doors.
"Okay Jorelo…" She murmured to herself as she gazed at the ground in a brief depression, wishing Jorelo didn't have to hurry around like he did.