Chapter 2 - Special
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Lila enrolled Foxkin into the gym and he was taking classes at the local school as well. She sat to speak to him one evening after he got home from his class.

"I have a few things to ponder with you and would like your input, do you have a moment?" she asked him.

"I suppose if it's important enough for you to ask then I should take the time to listen" he said with a grin, "so what's up?"

"Well..." she said "I want to know what you want and or expect while living here." She looked at him waiting to see what he'd say.

He sat there and pondered carefully the question she had put forth. Then he proceeded to answer.
"I only expect to be accepted for who I am and not what I can do. I expect to be loved like anyone else and I hope to mature and grow in time. I will take what I am offered, and consider at the time it's offered if it's for me or not, and if I turn it down don't feel bad about it, just accept that I do have a planned path and whatever or whomever steps on that path I will either walk with it until I get to where I'm going, pass on by or take the hand that's offered and hold on." he paused before going on,
"My ultimate goal is to beat the devil in the battledome before I hit my 3rd
Maradan year."

Lila was impressed at Foxkins maturity. "How old are you in human years Fox?"

He thought about it... in Maradan age he was just over 1 years, but in human years every 35 days to 45 days or so in Mara was approximately one
year of human age, thing was the male pets tend to mature faster than the girls in Marada He was closing in on 14 or there abouts.

"I think I'm about 13...nearing 14 why?"

"I was wondering, that's all" Lila said...then she surprised him with an offer he'd been considering for a bit.

"You're old enough to make this choice so here goes, how would you like it if I offered to pay for a name change if you want one?"
His jaw dropped "Oh my!" he said, "Man that's something I'd been thinking about for a long time!"

"I'd consider it if I had a good name to go by, but most of the times the town halls secretary says the name has been picked."
"How would I get a new name if I have no idea what to choose?"

"We'll all ponder it if you want, maybe we can find something you like, there' s just one more thing."

Fox looked at his new owner and wondered if it was going to be a dreaded pass the pet on comment or another question.

"Would you like to be portaled and or potioned LE?"

The half gasping squeal from Fox's mouth was enough for Lila to know she'd asked a dream come true question and made him relax a lot at the same time.

"Oh! OH! Ohh...!" He was beside himself with excitement, "You really; really mean it?!"

"You bet" Lila said with a smile, "I plan making Ragdonly into a quell again soon."

"Again?" he looked at her stunned... "She was one before?"

"Yep!" Lila said smiling.

"Your pulling my leg, you know how expensive that is to do!" He exclaimed.

"Mighty sure I know the expense there kiddo" she laughed, "believe me she's been a quell two times already then decides she wants something
different, I just let her go with it, she is after all my first born and why not she studies hard and trains daily sometimes twice but classes will be only once a day soon. Might as well let her have her fun. She wants to be an angel quell now so I'm saving for that. figured might as well ask you to and see if your interested."

Fox couldn't believe his luck. Mandy certainly did find him a good home to be in, and with all this generosity he figured he might as well have some fun with it and then pay it back by being a strong fighter later on when Lila needed him.

He looked at Lila and said "If your offering a LE potion I'll accept when I find my 'true' self till then I don't mind being portaled it could be fun, but if I hit an ugly faze I'm seriouslly gonna whine about being ugly." he laughed and smiled.

Lila was pleased to see he was learning to relax and enjoy the ride she was offering him. It wouldn't be long, he's be strong enough to beat the devil TC in the battledome and if she could help him to get there she'd do what she could to help him get there.

She watched from the kitchen, Lila had done the same things for her to but planned on passing her to her son Bryan and Chance was happy that Fox was getting the same treatment as she did when she moved here.

"At least he won't be totally alone" she thought, but she did feel a bit sad, yet happy to knowing that in a few more weeks she would be going to Lila's son's home which was exciting but the part that made her the saddest was that she wouldn't be staying here with her brother and Ragdonly.

"I guess what comes around does go around...maybe I should have been nicer."
Chance's revelation came too late thou, being that Bryan had called that same day and told his sister that his house was done being built and that Chance could be transferred to him any time she wanted to do so.
He also told her she could have Chance for visits anytime she wanted. Chance didn't know it but her days with her brother was limited even if she was able to come back home anytime she wanted to.

When she was mulling over this factor, in another part of the house Ragdonly was getting ready for training and was chatting on the phone with Tisha.

"You wouldn't believe it Tish! He's sooo nice! and Chance treats him like crap! it's a crying shame... I don't normally stick up for anyone but there's something about him..."

Rags listened to her sisters comment over the other end of the phone.

"I think someone has a crush!" she teased. "He IS after all that 'cute' fella you told me about a few weeks ago isn't it?"

Rags blushed again for the 2nd time that week. Man what was it about her blushing so much!...

She mumbled in agreement about him being cute and then said
"It doesn't matter anyway he's not going to be worried about me or anything else, I found out his stats and he's a serious trainer so I think he's more intent on his education and training than anything else even mom's paying him alot of attention"

She said and smiled over the phone...even thou she knew her sister couldn't see the smile.

"Which makes you happy to know, I can hear it in your voice." Tisha said.

Rags laughed out loud and plopped into her moon chair.

"He's special sis, I can feel it in my bones, there's just something about him."
"His sister may treat him like crap but personally I think I can work with him when the time comes, mom's always striving to make us all better and Chance fights it by being too slow and not working hard enough to get good stats."

"I like having her here she's not ALL bad but sometimes
I wish she'd think before speaking, it's gonna bite when she realizes just how good she had it here, and by then it's going to be too late."

"Don't focus on Chance", Tisha said to her sister,

"I love my new place, Tiggs treats me good and I get as much time as I need for training but Bryan doesn't get to do much training since he's not as well off as you guys"

Something Ragdonly knew

"Chance will learn the hard way that she should learn to appreciate ALL she gets no matter how little or
how big it is."