Call of the Wild

By: Basics

Disclamier: Credit to Homestuck goes to Andrew Hussie.

Three: Back to Square one

"Aradia! Do thomething before the little thnot biteth my fathe off!" Aradia walked into the now ruined respite block. The moment she walked n, she saw young signless on top of Sollux and Sollux protecting his face from certain harm. The younger was much shorter than she had realized. It did nothing to hide the nubbiness of his horns. His hair was really messy too; it had no particular shape to it. It was just a pile of fluff on his head. He's a very violent troll; she'll give him that. What he lacks in physique he makes up in anger, a lot of it as well. She continued to watch as the little grub was so very close to biting into Sollux's face.

Aradia signed and pinched the bridge of her nose. She was hoping that young signless would cooperate. Grunting at the fact she had to now manually remove the boy, she rolled up her sleeves ready to work. She made her way cautiously over the two. It didn't matter whether she was silently or just plain loud, the young troll would not budge from where he was. This amazed Aradia, it made her job a little less challenging.

"Okay nubbins, it is time to get off of Sollux now." Without a warning, she lifted the grub from underneath his armpits and off the ground.

"That wild beatht needth to be put on a leath or thomething!" Sollux wheezed. He sat up and gave the young Signless a mean dirty looks. Said troll growled at him.

"Do not fret over small mishaps , he's only a grub. He's probably more afraid of us than we are of him. He's probably hasn't even been outside the crypt before, everything is new to him."

"I'm not thure if taking him back ith the betht thing. If the crypt ith all he knowth then modern thivilization and even technology itthelf will freak him out. Thith may hurt your thudieth rather than aiding it, Mith Megido."

"You do not know that for sure Sollux." Sollux proceeded to jab a finger at the youngest troll.

"Look at him AA! He'th drooling, he'th naked, and he cannot even thpeak! How are you thuppothed to prove your tho called theory if we can't even communicate with him!"

Aradia looked down at the troll she was still holding. Sollux was right; although he is six sweeps his mindset must be younger than that. She looked up at Sollux and looked down at the young troll. He was currently sniffing her arms. She set him down and he made a mad dash to her suitcase that was propped on the bed. He then went to sniff the case.

"Hmm, I wonder.."

"Aradia what are thinking?" Sollux peered at her with curious eyes.

"That is it! We must teach him Alternian. Once we've done that we can test his DNA and finally answer the golden question of our travels." Aradia smiled and started bouncing around the room. She began to look for some cards and different types of book for the troll to read. Sollux on the other hand raised a single, a skeptic as usual.

"How do you know if he'th trainable?" Aradia frowned. She called over young Signless the same way you would call a pet over. It seemed to have worked, the troll looked over at her and made his way to her.

"Hello nubbins, my name is Aradia. Do you understand that?" He seemed to growl than answer her question.

"I told you. Let'th jutht dump him back to that eyethore of a crypt."

"Hush Captor. Why did you growl at me Nubbins?" he growled again and pushed away from her.

"Not Nubby! Me…not nubby!" Young Signless spoke with all difficulty.

"Well then what are called?"

"Me name, Karkat. Not nubby! B*****!" Aradia eyes widened. She then slapped the young boy across his mouth; the youngest began to whimper in pain.

"No! We do not say such things Nubbins! If you want me to call you by your real name you will have to respect me and call me by mine. My name is Aradia. Can you say Aradia?" he nodded while holding the red stinging cheek.

"Ah…ray…dee-ah….?"

"Good! You're getting there. If we teach you more you should be able speak as well as Sollux and I do." She patted him on he head but he shook her off.

"No!"

"What's wrong Karkat?" she turned her head sideways in a confused like manner.

"Me no want be like Tho…lux. Tho-lux me no like! Me like Ah-ray-dee-ah"

"Little brat!"

"Sollux please!" she shouted. Sollux began to say very bad words.

"Why he say words I no say!"

"He's a grown up Karkat, like me." Karkat then proceeded to puff of his cheeks and folded. She thought he was so cute while he was pouting. She giggled and patted his head. "Come now Karkat, we have a long day ahead of you. I have to teach you the entire Alternian language before our departure. Let's get you something to wear."

Tomorrow was going to be hectic indeed. Now Aradia was back to square one. In order to proceed she need to give Karkat something, something that would allow him to communicate with everyone and communicate her theory. He needs some education, and starting tomorrow he was going to get some.

For those who are new to my story Call of the wild is about Aradia trying to prove a point and she ends ups babysitting her evidence, I,E Karkat. Now before some flips out about why Karkat is talking 'all wrong for his character', I'll have you know it is correct. If you have been paying attention to the story you will know that Karkat was raised in the crypt, by who (we all know its crab dad!)? He doesn't know the language at all except the ones he learns from people who come by the crypt looking for treasure. Of course he leaned all the bad words. I decided to just block the words in order to keep the rating. I hope you like my story so far. And remember if there something is wrong and it needs to be edited or you have some idea on how to improve this work; please don't hesitate to review it. Good night everyone, I have class in the morning.