Alright and here it is!...the second chapter NOBODY asked for. Also a big thanks to tttooohappy who made the beautiful cover picture and had to put up with me, helping me take the story to the right path all week, thank you very much bud, I appreciate it.
Again, I got inspired after reading "we are the crystal ducks!" from Toonfreak, which bye the way I recommend if you like cute, fluffy stories, seriously give it a check.
Now on to the chapter!
Once inside, Pink sniffed the air, lifting her ears up briefly. There were huge trees towering over the border, providing fresh shade. The grass was definitely shorter but felt a bit softer under her paws, as there wasn't any thorns. There were patches of grass all over the place, yet some weird river like paths seemed to be crossing in the middle of them. Furthermore Pink noticed some particular constructions. One was a tall beige thing that shut water down to a pond like pit from it's tip, other were white constructions that resembled humans and basal creatures like dogs and horses. A few yards away the paths lead to a huge lake stood in the middle of the park with a medium sized bridge that went above.
Pink had no idea of what to make of the strange environment. However the humans in it seemed to be content. Furthermore she managed to observe a few basal creatures such as birds, bugs and even dogs on the area and the humans didn't seem to care. She wondered if they looked hard enough, maybe they would find more meadow natives like themselves.
"See?, it doesn't look so bad." Pink said as she kept hopping around. Pearl tried her best to catch up, running with her little skinny legs to her side. "Pink, I don't think this is a good idea, what if they become aggressive because we are in their territory." Pearl said. "Well they cam to ours first, so they shouldn't be bothered" Amethyst said. They all began to argue when the sound of scraping was heard. They all turned around to hear the sound. A few yards away where below the bridge and near the lake's edge, some dirt seemed to be flying up.
"Huh?, is there a basal dog in there?" Asked Amethyst. Garnet perked her ears up and sniffed. "No". She slowly crept towards the bridge. Pink hopped behind her to take a peck while Amethyst followed her and Pearl flied up from the bridge. Soon some shuffling was heard and a figure came out. she looked like a buff canine lady, with muscly arms and legs, with dog ears and tail and multicolored braids. The lady sniffed at the group and raised an eyebrow.
"can I help you something?" she asked. "Sorry to bother you, we are new to this place, do you by chance live here?" asked Pink. "Well nice meeting you, I am bismuth and nope, I am just exploring these guys land." She said. "Who?" asked Amethyst confused. "The humans coming into our homes." Bismuth said. "Oh I see, well we are here for the same." said Garnet. "Uhmm I am going to be honest guys, I don't think they are friendly." Bismuth said. "Did you loose your home to them?" asked Pearl. "Not yet, but it is a worry." Bismuth said. "Look we are worried too but we are trying to get to know them, maybe they aren't so bad." Pink said. "I am not sure, so far everyone who has see me, turns their head away and when I tried to speak to them, they rush off." she said. "Well you are a bit...big. "commented Amethyst. "That doesn't mean I will pounce on everything I see!, I am a Pitbull lady not a basal bear and they are the ones who move into our lands and you know how that ends!" Bismuth said.
"Well if what are you are saying it's true...then we have to go see these humans." Pink said. "What?!" asked Bismuth and Pearl confused. "can't you see?, they are as scared of us as us of them. If we met up then we might get them to know us better." Pink said. "Look no offense but I don't think I can help you in there, you want to do it, go ahead but I don't think I will be much help, just yell for me, if you run into trouble with them ok?" she said. "Will do, thank you so much!" Pink said and the canine gave her a nudge before the group was on their way towards a beige path, that lead to the constructions.
The surface was hard and it felt a bit weird on her furry paws. Pearl tried her best to catch up to her, her long claws, making a clacking sound as she slightly trotted towards her side. Amethyst and Garnet followed without problems. Eventually Pink made it to the round pond like construction. Clear water with leaves was poured in squirts inside the round base from the top of the construction. Basal birds stood on the top round structures, chirping and splashing in the water.
"See guys?, they made a pool for birds...and a perfect hunting spot for me" Amethyst said flickering her tail in excitement. "Don't you dare lay a finger on those birds in front of me!" Pearl fluffed up and flied to the second level. She dipped her feet on the fresh water and sighed. "Uhmm not bad" she admitted and got in, preening her feathers. Pink stood on her legs and jumped to the edge. "I wonder if anyone else has seen this before." said Pink. "well I did" A loud high pitched voice said. The group jerked their heads around but they saw no one in the perimeter. "Who said that?!" Pearl chirped out fluffing up. "Right above you." They looked up to see a feline woman resting on the branched tree, settled a meter away from them. The feline maiden was pretty much the size of Amethyst, with green short fur and a lighter green triangular haircut.
"Oh!, Another feline fam!, hey there!" The wildcat woman trotted towards the tree. "You guys are obviously new to this place aren't you?" Peridot asked raising an eyebrow from her spot. "Well...yea we live in the meadow just a mile away from this park. I am Pink, the fox maiden is Garnet and the bird lady is Pearl over there." Pink pointed out with one of her ears to Pearl drying out her feathers. The feline maiden rolled her eyes and began to make her way down from her spot, climbing down and using her talons to support herself.
"Figures, you newcomers are always the same. I am Peridot, I am a domestic cat maiden." She said in a superior tune and licked her whiskers before climbed on the edge of the first level to her. "First of all, this is a fountain, it provides birds with water and bathing" she said. "See Pearl?, Amethyst was right." Pink said and she huffed. "We were thinking of exploring the park, maybe even a house or two." Pink added. "A house or two?!, now I know you are wild. There are more than DOZENS of houses around this park." Peridot said siting down on the edge. "More than dozens?!" Asked Pink. " yes, they have settled in a lot, if we are lucky there will turn the other sides of of the park nicely too" Peridot said. "We live there!" Pearl chirped glaring.
"So?, this is a good thing guys. These people have it all easy!, food it's available everywhere you go!, the cities are organized and we don't have to worry about the seasonal weather because everything it's either roofed!, plus humans love us." Peridot said. "That can't be true!, we just met a pitbull maiden that said they were terrified of her" Pearl chirped. "Then why would they leave this beautiful for us?, I am telling you anyone who wants to thrive alongside humans just has to cooperate and make an effort with them. She probably approached too fast or was rude. trust me, I live in an old barn and all I have to do it's hunt for basal mice and I get some food and milk." Peridot said. "Wait, wait, wait!, You get food in for hunting mice?!, dude who are those people you live with?!, introduce them to me!" Amethyst said ears and tail, perked up in excitement. "Get your own humans!" Peridot said hissing.
"OI, I AM RIGHT ON IT!" Amethyst said and darted away to a grass patch, a few yards away. "Amethyst wait!" Pearl squeaked and flew after her.
"We are getting out of topic here!" Garnet said and looked around the park. A set of what she guessed, were barriers surrounded the perimeter, which in addition to the many trees and green patches of grass and human constructions, made it impossible to see the outside of the park. "How much further do you think they will advance?" she asked as she sniffed the air. "Who knows?, these people are ambitious, they will probably stop, once they have all their needs satisfied and their commodities installed, go ask them" Peridot said stretching out, near the edge of the fountain and settling herself comfortable.
"M-maybe we should go mingle, it may be the only way to get to know them, besides it's the neighborly thing to do right?" Pink said. Garnet nodded and she hopped back to the grass patch, looking for Amethyst. Upon arriving they saw a family, consisting of a female, and her two young cubs, one female and one male. They were all settled on a picnic blanket. Amethyst slowly walked near the humans with her tail on high and the tip, slightly curved down.
"Hey there, new neighbors!" She greeted. The female looked at her up and down. "Oh uhmm, hello, can we...help you something?" she asked. "Oh uhmm hi, forgive our friend, we are new here, we live in the meadow, we just came to say hello and all that." Pearl said. "Oh uhmm...hello?, we had never seen anyone... native in this park, it's certainly a surprise." She said. Suddenly the pair of cubs ran up to Amethyst. "Kitty!, kitty!" They yelled excited as they began to pet and rub her fur. "Hey there little rascals!" Amethyst said purring and batted at their hands playfully. "KIDS NO!" the mother yelled and rushed towards them. "You can't just go up to them like that, you don't know if she is friendly enough!" She scolded pulling them away from the wildcat woman. "Oh it's fine lady, I like cubs." Amethyst said purring and went to nuzzle the kids, who went back to pet her. The female looked wary at her kids and was about to say something, when Pink took the chance to approach their picnic mantle with Garnet.
"Excuse, is there something you need?" She asked. "Oh sorry we were just curious abo-" "BUNNY!" One of the female cub squeed and hoisted Pink up by her armpits causing her to gasp and trash around with her hinds. "Baby what did I say about picking these up without permission?, what if she scratches you?!" The mother scolded again and Pearl and Garnet looked uneasy at the whole scene. "Madam they are just kids playing, I am not going to scratch them, they just startled me that's all." Pink said calming down and sniffed the child. "Hey there mini human, my name is Pink." She said as the child stroked her back. "You are so pretty and soft~." The female said nuzzling her. "Why are you all pink?, are you the easter bunny?!" The boy asked going towards her. "Are you hiding eggs here?!" the girl asked smiling but all Pink could do was look at her friends confused.
"Alright kids, that's enough we have to go" the female said going towards her children. "Awww nuuu!" The two kids whined at the same time. "Mommy I wanna play with the easter bunny!" The female said. "Mommy can we bring her home?!" Asked the male. "Absolutely not!, she has her own home and we have to go to ours." She said and took Pink out of their arms before gently plopping her on the ground.
"Ouff" Pink squeaked softly as she landed on her rump. She watched the mother, taking out a small bottle from what she assumed was a bag. She poured some transparent liquid on the cubs hands and rubbed before going to pick up everything. "Sorry, we have to leave, nice meeting you, thanks for playing with my kids." She said before walking away. Pink and the others shrugged at the weird encounter and kept going their way.
"Maybe they are just confused, they had never seen people like us before, it's natural for them not to know." said Pink. "Oh garbage!, we were here before they know what we are!" Pearl said. "Maybe they need to get to know us, the cat lady said all we had to do was being friendly" Pink pointed out. "You just tried that and they struct to me as rude!" Pearl chirped. "Look one way or another, we need to make sure they know the meadow it's our home and we live there, maybe if we are friendly, they will realize we can all share this space, they keep their houses and park and we keep the meadow. It sounds fair to me" Pink said. "How are we even going to do that?" Asked Pearl. "yea we need a way to show them we can all coexist" Amethyst said. the sound of footsteps and leaves shuffling made hem turn around. A male human placing a flayer on a tree. Pink couldn't understand the words but she recognized the same rhomboidal symbol in white, yellow and blue. "Uhmm I wonder what those say." Pink said. Amethyst took another look "It says...Easter Picnic on Sunday and...easter egg hunt?" read Amethyst out loud confused. "Uhmm" Garnet took the flayer and marched back to the fountain.
"Please explain us this." She said. "That?, it's just a flayer for the up coming Easter picnic." Peridot said lazily opening one eye. "we know what a picnic is, what's easter and what's an egg hunt?" asked Amethyst. "Ohh Easter it's when humans celebrate the arriving of spring." She said. "what do they harvest eggs?, urgg barbarians." Pearl shuddered. "No, they don't harvest stuff like us. They have this weird folktale about a rabbit that comes delivering these easter cacao eggs that human cubs eat." Peridot said. "Cacao eggs?, that's not real, cacao comes in beansl" Pearl chirped. "They made it real, They will put these eggs for the children to find in these small baskets and then eat them." Peridot said. "Is that why those kids called me Easter Bunny?" Pink asked and the feline maiden nodded.
"That doesn't make any sense!, rabbits don't even lay eggs and why would they even put the eggs themselves if the story says a bunny has to do it?" amethyst asked. "Yea and how come I never heard of this?!, all I heard was our tradition of Eastra turning from bunny to woman to help life blossom on spring but never something this crazy, who thought of this?"" Pink said amazed.
"the tradition is long standing or so I think but the park belongs to the diamond corporation so, I assume they are in charge of the event." Peridot said. Everyone got stiff at the moment. They knew that was the group of humans responsible for the settlements. The natives told that three female leaders had no interest or liking for basal creatures or any living being other than humans and their alpha was as pale as the moon and was often seeing wearing white, furs from basal creatures. They told that they would choose a territory to settle and chase out and even kill any creature that got in the way. Others also told that the ladies had a personal collection of basal creatures at their homes, the vastest territories ever seen, where even bird maidens were spotted alongside them. They even told that they would choose the ones they liked at their new acquired territories and lure them with promises of food and shelter into their households. Nevertheless most witnesses told the ladies being incredibly elegant and well off in resources and that it was rare to see them outdoors, unless they were either mingling with other humans or going after a new patch of land.
"Ok this is bad, maybe we should leave if this is their park." Pearl said. "Believe me, they are the most clever and capable humans I had ever seen, they made all of this and celebrate bunnies!, I don't know, I honestly think we felines would be much better holiday mascots but again, humans are just crazy about rabbits for some reason I don't get. You guys don't even purr." Peridot said and Pearl glared at her.
"...But what about the stories? and that family back there acted weird when thy saw us-" "Any mother would feel nervous about her cubs playing with stranger, she was probably just defensive. Humans love bunnies, just come to the event and you will see, bunny drawings, bunny costumes...and yet not a single cat" she mumbled. "No...I am going to do something better" Pink said softly. "Huh what?, lay eggs?" Asked Amethyst. "We know what they like!, we won't attend their easter picnic we will GIVE them their easter picnic!" Pink said standing up on her hinds.
"I am going to be the Easter Bunny!" Pink said.
Anyway, that was the chapter, if you made it tot he end, PLEASE COMMENT SO I CAN KNOW YOUR OPINION, believe me guys that's what keeps me going.