✧ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴇᴇᴛɪɴɢ - ᴅᴛᴀᴇ ✧ "Dada! Tell me a story!" "Now kitten, it's getting late." "Just one story? Please? The one with Pebble and Jasmine and the Guardians?" "Oh, silly kitten. You've heard that one scores of times." "But it's my favorite!" "Fine, but will you go to sleep after this?" "Yes! Yes!" "Then settle down, kitten, and listen. "Long ago, when the Guardians still roamed the earth freely, and the land was pure and undivided, the Guardian of the Beach stood watching over his land, the long stretch of sand from the ocean to the forest. "Now, this Guardian, named Pebble, was lonely. Imagine how you would feel, kitten, if you were stuck somewhere with no one else to talk with. Pebble knew he could never leave his territory, lest something happened while he was gone. His only hope was to meet one of the other Guardians on the border. The problem was, the Guardian of the Ocean was too far deep for him to call to, and she would never come so far up to the surface. "On the beach's other border lay a thick and leafy forest. Now, why couldn't he just meet the Guardian of the Forest, you may ask? Well, although Pebble had seen her a couple times, slipping through the trees with the grace of a fawn, she was very, very shy, and whenever Pebble would call to her, she would run away, to where he could not follow." "Why did she keep running away, Dada? Pebble is nice!" "Perhaps she didn't know that, or it was her nature to run away from strangers. "Anyway, Pebble decided he could no longer bear his loneliness any longer, and he would find the Forest Guardian, even if it meant leaving his territory. "So he walked up to the border where the beach and forest met, preparing himself to leave the only place he had ever lived. But guess who showed up, kitten, when he stepped over the border?" "Jasmine!" "Correct. Jasmine had been watching the Beach Guardian from the trees, his wistful gazes into the forest, his lonely treks through the sand. She had watched him make up his mind and start walking up to her forest. When he had stepped over the border, she could bear it no longer, and jumped out from her hiding spot. "Pebble jumped in surprise, back to his territory. He had not anticipated that the Guardian of the Forest would be right here, waiting for him. Jasmine stood there, her legs all but tremulous, as she looked the Beach Guardian up and down. For both of the two Guardians, it was the first time they had met someone just like them." As the old cat finished his story, he smiled down at his little kitten, who was fast asleep, a contented look on his face. I hope you enjoyed the story! (yeah I definitely was not planning on writing a whole story; it just kinda happened to come out and I wrote it down) This is my entry for Pebbly Seaside and Jasmine Blossom! Art: Design: @ __Leafstar__ Program: Procreate Time Taken: 2 hours, 10 minutes Yep I totally speed-ran the background after forgetting about the deadline 0-0 Thanks for the extension! Tags:
