001 { howling in the dead of night }

[determinedhowl]

Characters: Koromaru and you, good sirs and madams!
Setting: All around the tower, starting in room 3-04.
Format: Starting in prose, but I'll match your preference.
Summary: Puppy did not have a good few weeks in the tower. Why all his friends either not here or acting strangely? :(
Warnings: Possible omg cute while everything else goes to hell pfffffffffffffffft.

The last three weeks have been very confusing for the humans he's seen, and even more so for the canine that awakened in a strange room with three strange people he didn't know. Though, they did seem to be okay... and running into Chie-san wasn't too bad, either!

But... where were his friends?

He couldn't really put his own collar on by himself (we do not count the one he awoke with, it doesn't do the same thing), so he carried it in his mouth for a while, unless someone was kind enough to put it on him. Really, he looked kind of down about it as he began searching every floor for any sign of them being alright.

Probably didn't help that the last thing he saw was one of his closest friends flying up to the moon on his own as they cried out for him...

> ...
> Bother the furball?
> Yes
> No

Comments

[boxingemperor]

Good. Keep on your guard around here. This place is kind of like Tartarus. There are a lot of bad things living here with us now.

[He smiles. Dog kisses are a good thing too.]

It's too bad Shinji's not here anymore.

1/2

[determinedhowl]

[He whines at that; yeah, he kind of figured it out before running into Akihiko and the others.

Wait.

HOBO BRO WAS HERE WHY DID NO ONE-]

[determinedhowl]

...

[Oh. >:

Where did he go, then-?]

[boxingemperor]

Yeah. I hope he's okay.

[Sorry pup, you just missed him. Akihiko's not too sure where he's gone. He can only hope that it's back home -- and not to a destroyed Iwatodai.

Gotta stay positive.]

No. He is okay. He has to be.

[determinedhowl]

[Here is pup, seconding that hope. Especially since... wait, okay. Wasn't he dead back-?

Okay he is a confused puppy who does not understand this but he can see someone likely needs a little nudge back into being positive so he will just stop trying to brain what that could possibly mean there's a world where he survives?! and nudge a certain protein junkie. Bro, it's Shinjiro. Shinjiro. If he can survive a bullet like he did in some bizarre time he was not from, then he'd be fine.]

[boxingemperor]

You think he's fine too, huh.

[He smiles again. It's hard to keep Akihiko down for long.]

I wonder how long you've been wandering around here.

[Do dogs get oatmeal too? All these important burning questions.]

[determinedhowl]

*bark bark!*

[It's Shinjiro. ...Like that needed to be stated again. As for that question, he lifts his paw three times with long pauses between each lift. Days? Weeks? Probably the latter and it would be easier to tell if Aigis-san were here. :(

The oatmeal sucked do you still have some bear meat.]

[boxingemperor]

[Hell yeah we have bear meat.

He's a little confused by Koromaru's body language, at one point holding out his hand; maybe the dog wanted to shake or something. Aigis would be really helpful. Or maybe Labrys! She was like Aigis, so maybe she could speak dog too.]

What do you want? Is your paw hurt?

[determinedhowl]

[aw yea best meat-]

...'roo. [Sob, they really need to work on signals so they all know what he's trying to say. But his paw's fine; he's only trying to tell him a number which is hard enough because what's counting. :c]