(Another beautiful day at the Hinata- I mean, Fluttershy's home. What a good way to go out for a hike, don't you think?)
The narrator suggested, as Dororo came out of Fluttershy's cottage, stretching and yawing as he just woken up. "It's so good to have fresh air after waking up." Dororo looks around at the tranquil view of animals and plants around him. It's like he's back at Earth with Koyuki. Though, not anymore.
Much to be expected Fluttershy who was quite well known for tending to her garden and the animals living around her home was up quite early feeding some of the smaller critters before going about watering all of the plants scattered around her home specially the ones placed within pots since there were not getting much of anything from the ground because of there isolation within each individual container.
"Now isn't that nice." Dororo observes. Unlike Koyuki, they both just practiced and honed their skills in combat and only sometimes they get to bond with nature. He didn't actually had time to just relax and loosen up. Maybe he'll take that chance today.
The pony having been focused sitting on the ground to speak with the smaller animals only just realized that Dororo was out of the cottage, she wave a small smile when spotting him to let him know she had seen him before returning to the small critters feeding the last of them before coming over to shyly wish him a good morning "G-Good morning" even with countless attempts to make her more brave time and time again she always retreated to her original shy state at least until she became close friends with someone.
Because of his mask, his smile wasn't visible, but his eyes said otherwise. "Good morning miss, Fluttershy." Dororo said in equal politeness. "The animals here in Equestria are same of those back on Pekopon. truly the vastness of space is remarkable. Or so said by Kururu." Dororo looks up the sky, wondering why aliens such as them, could be welcomed on other planets peacefully, and not taking them over. A reason for Keroro to just laze around to eat or play anything he wants to. Dororo sighs.
"Twilight once said animals are one of the few things a lot of places have in common...a-at least this was the case back when she was looking into something related to space things; I have never been too good with that sort of stuff " her ears went down for a second as she had a few ideas run around her head before looking back up trying to keep herself calm "A-Anyway do be sure to enjoy your day, I-I will be here if you need anything" with this she was quick to go back to tending the animals and plants, she was able to deal with those a lot better than she was dealing with other intelligent creatures that could speak like her.
"All the geeks study them."Kururu spends most of his time lurking that 'who-knows-what' kinds of things back on Keron. Though, sometimes he can be kind of... creepy at some point." Dororo sees a rabbit. "Actually, if you want to know about them, ask your Princess. She and Kururu seems to be in good terms when we got here." He said trying to call the rabbit over to him, but to no luck.
True to those words the animals around the garden seems to pay close attention to Fluttershy whenever she had something to say but other people would get nothing more than a normal reaction out of them "It's alright little one ... He won't bite" she gently nuzzled down on the fluffy white bunny causing it to look delighted and eventually began to move closer to Dororo "I do not mind as long as we can all getting along... I hope no one get's hurt in the future "
Dororo pets the creature ever so lightly. "If only Pekopon was like this." Dororo laid back. "I noticed your vocabulary had changed... When we got here, I noticed some of your are using 'Somepony' or 'anypony' instead of what you're saying now... Did Kururu do something?" He asked, suspecting another of his crazed cohort had done something.
"I-I hope not, it just slips out naturally sometimes but I try to avoid it sometimes since there are a lot of creatures that are not ponies in equestria..." She commented this in thought, she had actually reduced the usage of phrases with the finishing 'pony' bit, must have stuck onto her at some point, the rabbit was delighted to be pet even if not showing it too much it was not going anyway so it was clearly enjoying being pet.
Dororo looks at the forest and thought to himself 'just like old times', and thinks if he can go through and looks around,
(Sounds like a good idea)
"I-If your thinking of going into the forest just do be careful... many wild animals live in there that even I have had trouble with before not to mention the fauna could also be ... p-problematic" recalling the time back when they had trouble with poison joke, the effects varied a lot with each individual but it was still troublesome to be affected by it.
"Fauna?" Dororo seems to be intrigued by that. "What is... a Fauna?"
"Fauna is everything that can be considered a sentient living creature " she spike this shyly, out of the few bits of things she knew biology was one of her strong points even when she only seemed to be taking care of the plants and animals without much strategy behind it "Y-You did not know this? Does your planet not have any fauna ?"
"I kinda heard that word before, but I don't know who said it. Or I just heard something similar." Dororo thinks deeply on it. "But if you referring to animal like creatures, then yes... Although it's different from here and on Pekopon."
(Hey kids, Dororo is referring to an animal that is a Faun. It's like a deer only younger, I think.)
She remained silent for a moment, maybe she was the one that heard something wrong when the creature before her spoke up, this was more than likely her own confusion but no need to be pointing hooves here as it did not lead to anyone getting hurt "I-I am just saying you should be careful is all " she tried her best to give a sure smile but the fact she was usually holding other expressions made it come off a bit odd.
He seems to have noticed this. "Have I said something wrong, miss?" Dororo asked curiously. Wondering is he ever offended her at some point.
"N-not really, I just thought that I heard something wrong so I ended up rambling on about something completely unrelated is all " she commented this as her ears folded softly against her head since in her mind she did actually believe she made a mistake
"Pardon me on my poor choice of words. It's just that, I, myself, hasn't encountered such majestic creatures like yourselves before. Usually we meet aliens that are strange looking and purely grotesque. So, I really haven't had time to think on what I was about to say." Dororo bows like what the Japanese people he used to live with.
"N-Not at all, I am sorry for having such a short use of my own vocabulary, I must have accidentally confused you with what I said and then I in turn became confused with what you said" she too apologized with her ears still down feeling bad about this entire confusion, it was silly to see the two apologizing over something so minimal but for one Flusttershy was bad with interactions so she feared making a bad impression.
"Hmm. You're as polite as that white one. I'm very pleased of your people's hospitality." Dororo picked his katana as he stood up. As he did, he noticed someone enter the forest. Namely purple pony, and a certain green Keronian sergeant he knew well. "I think I saw one of your friends along with Keroro enter the forest." He said to Fluttershy pointing towards that direction.
"Oh that was likely Twilight, she probably got asked to show around the forest " she commented that softly as her ears lifted back up in attention when looking off in the direction of where the frog pointed "Looks like you were not the only one with i-intentions to head into the everfree" the female gulped silently "I-I suppose of necessary I could head in there with you... I likely know the forest more than most "
"Indeed." Dororo nodded. "Come on then, I'd soon rather know what Sergeant is doing than to watch them go in there alone."
She simply nods her head slowly, mainly because rushing into the forest was more than a little dangerous but then again she was not heading in there alone, hopefully these outsiders knew what they were doing. Walking slowly she began to venture into the forest, her animals, while loving of her did not need her to survive so they would be fine.
Dororo wonders if this girl could handle herself. All in all, he trist her to know what she's doing. By some individuals said that a certain forest was dangerous enough for them not to venture alone. but to be on he safe side, he preps his weapons.
If Fluttershy had any sort of skill with any weapon then she would likely do the same but her mind never was one to hurt any sort of creature even the ones that wanted to hurt her to begin with. Wondering deeper into the wounds she found herself in a constant state of warning as she tugged the frog away from certain plants and bushes explaining how most were either poisonous or were known to house dangerous animals "C-Careful... snakes are not that uncommon for these areas..."
"I see..." He unsheathe his katana every time he was tugged by her, even though his senses already knew that any potential dangers around him. "If I may, what are those two doing in here anyway if it's that so dangerous?" He asked, wondering if this one knew the purpose of her Purple Unicorn friend to venture in this jungle.
"There might be ruins further into the forest ... Twilight always comes in here to explore those or she might just be visiting Zecora" the comment was made and she went silent for a moment considering any other reason for the female to come along into the woods again " I-If it's not that I could not know" once more tugged away from a patch of blue flowers on the ground she was extra careful with those even if the flower was not exactly that dangerous, the effects were just troublesome
Dororot spots the strange flowers and stops for a moment. "These are kind of interesting, what are they?" He asked, sitting near the patch.
"They are called poison joke, m-me and the others bumped into them once, while their effects are not dangerous they are not enjoyable either..." she commented that keeping her distance from the plants since she had no intentions of touching them ever again in her life time "W-when I last touched them it caused my voice to turn very deeper, so like I said not dangerous but not pleasant"
"Mind if I take some?" Dororo said, despite of being said not to. "I may not look like it, but I know a lot about herbs and ingredients, surely this thing might come handy while I'm in your world... if I may?"
"Mind if I take some?" Dororo said, despite of being said not to.
"I may not look like it, but I know a lot about herbs and ingredients, surely this thing might come handy while I'm in your world... if I may?"
"S-sure just be careful to not let it come into contact with your skin at any time" she spoke that with a bit of hesitation but then again it was the forest and he said he knew what he was doing, she was in no right to decide what the forest did or did not want
Dororo examines the flower and though his fascinated by it, he picks up a flower... with his bare hands.
(Snap)
"U-Um a-are you really sure you know what your doing? coming in contact with that stuff will really affect you if your not careful " she spoke this now seeming worried when he just went ahead and grabbed the flower even after she spoke her word of warning about it causing side effects
Dororo doesn't seem to be affected. "Hmm, I don't feel... any stranger than usual." he seems to try and even rub it on himself, destroying the flower in the process.
"Last time we were exposed to the flowers the effects did not come in until the following morning ... exposing yourself to that much on the other hand, your going to end up in an even worse side effect than us when we only stepped on them by accident" she tried to keep herself relaxed, after all how bad could the changes possibly be right?
"T-Twilight, we were in here looking for you... why would you come back into the forest ?" the female asks this softly not really wanting to seem confrontational but she was curious about what the guys were doing here.
"I simply asked for some company to come explore the forest, it's quite unsafe to be in these parts without any side help after all" she spoke as if the reasoning was something anyone could come up with.
"Yeah, and the great Leader of the Keroro Platoon is the great choice to protect her!" The green frog croaks his laughter. Which Dororo seems to be in neutral. (Great Leader?)
Twilight seem to have a slight questioning expression spread over her face as the current exchange went down but she was not about to say much about it besides that " Well we were on our way deeper into the forest, would you two want to come along with us?"
"No worries, Remember I told you guys I single handedly protected my cronies in the forest, don't you know. I've even held one of those bear-giants under my thumb! It was nothing really... No help at all." "But, you just ran-" Dororo was cut short as Keroro slapped his mouth shut. "Ahahah, yeah, like I said, only the best." Keroro laughed.
Fluttershy let out a small squeak when the other frog went about smacking the one who came with her " A-are you alright?" she asks this gently placing her hoof on the creatures shoulder until she heard the offer to come with them " I-I am not sure about going deeper into the forest"
"I'd like to explore more. This place would be a good start to find more herbs to make some useful remedies in time if I needed to. Life of a Ninja must adapt in all situations, as my partner Koyuki would say." He agrees to the Purple pony's suggestion.
Keroro nodded. "The more the merrier, right miss Twinkle?"
"It's Sparkle... but yes I agree, while the forest is not the safest place to be the more people we have the less chance there is any large animals will come closer given the size of the group" she spoke this fixing her saddle bags with her magic before turning around ready to continue on their path into the forest
"O-Oh dear I don't like the sound of this" with a bit of a hesitant step she started to follow along with Twilight in the other, this was not going to be a good day for Fluttershy.
"What do you think, Dororo?" Keroro whispers to the blue ninja keronian. "Sir?" He turns to him. "If we find a perfect place for Kururu's Genetic Mutation Plant, we might recover some of this icky monsters back home, and use them for the invasion!" Keroro said, looking back at the two ponies if they're listening... they;re not. "So... wanna help?"
Keroro's plans usually plays off itself, but lately, this is the first time Keroro actually asked Dororo to help him with something! On top of that, he is actually noticing him for a change. With his memories of the past hurtings caused by his commanding officer temporarily blocked off, Dororo nodded in agreement. "Excellent!" Keroro smiles with glee. "Come on then, let's follow and try to spot a good place."
They would not be the only ones plotting something while walking, the two ponies where were moving a bit ahead of the little frogs were also discussing " Fluttershy, do you trust these creatures?" Twilight asked this trying to play it off normally by not looking back at them or anything like that.
Fluttershy on the other hand wasn't as stealthy turning back to look at the two if asked if she trusted them "T-They don't seem aggressive at least.." she could not say, the one frog that had been keeping her company back in her home seemed like a nice guy "W-why are you asking such a thing?"
The purple pony very carefully turned to make sure that they were not looking taking out a scroll from her saddle back to show to Fluttershy " I asked the princess about, we know close to nothing about them we are in complete darkness here in terms of understanding... call it me being an egghead... but it makes this entire thing seem really fishy. To anyone else the personality of wanting to know the place where they are visiting would seem normal but these creatures have been asking more than any normal visitor would ever need; might be a bit rough to jump into conclusions but it's possible their planning some manner of attack"
This caused the other to gasp a bit " N-No Twilight they would never do something like that" the purple pony closed the scroll and put it away
"Maybe, could just be me jumping to conclusions but the princess is ready to act immediately and drive them back in a manner of minutes of necessary"
"What's up?" Keroro suddenly pops behind them with his head sticking out like a jack-in-the-box. His head snaps back into place as his body drew closer to him and kept pace walking beside the ponies. Dororo was left behind them.
"Oh Keroro, nothing particularly interesting, it would seem we are getting closer to where I wanted to come so our walking should be done in a few more minutes" she spoke this gesturing for Fluttershy to go back to make company to the other frog since it seemed this one choose to move forward with her.
"Ohh, Alright then." The green frog seems to give off a smile. "So, Ms. Sparkler- I mean, Sparkle. What types of animals live here in the forest of Free-ever?" He asked, as he takes out a notebook.
"As Fluttershy mentioned before there are quite a number of dangerous creatures in the forest, there should be in risk of encountering them if you stay with us so don't worry" the female nods her head to reassure the other so that he would not ask any other questions
Like a sort of bad luck, A roar is heard from somewhere. "uhh..." Keroro stops in his tracks and sweats nervously. "Is that what I think it is?" He ducks behind Dororo as quick as a fly.
With a sigh, Dororo just turns and decides to return to town. "I've had enough... Let's go back" The others reluctantly follows, completely forgetting what they went in forest in the first place.
(An odd predicament this is...)