I’ve been feeling really scattered/stressed lately and so I decided to ask my facebook friends for some prompts. I took the first 5 to be posted on said status and here they were: “Mega man”, “Perniciousness”, “Dogs”, “Adventure”, and “Anvil”.
Hope you enjoy the random and unedited story I came up with to go along with these prompts! Any critiques or thoughts, please feel free to share them! xxx
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“Would you hurry up and just pick one already?”
Ralph didn’t even need to turn around to hear the eye roll attached to his older sister’s complaint. He continued to suffer from indecision over which adorable puppy to choose from the bumbling heap of dogs before him in the fenced off area. Each furry canine was practically hurling itself at Ralph, trying to leap over the fence and into his arms. Besides being too cute to handle, it also made Ralph’s choice all the more difficult.
It had only been a couple hours ago that his parents had finally agreed to allow the young boy to get his own dog. Of course, he had to agree to take care of the thing, but the boy had been so excited at their sudden acquiescence that he had practically pushed his driver—AKA, his older sister—out the door and to the nearest pet store.
And here he stood, hours into one of the most difficult decisions of Ralph’s twelve year old life span.
“They sure are cute, aren’t they?”
The soft, feminine voice to Ralph’s side caught him off guard as he turned towards who he guessed was the shop owner or worker, “Uhh, yea.”
She smiled, her eyes crinkling at the sides, “Well, what wou—“
The lady was cut off when suddenly a dog had finally managed to do the impossible: jump and clear the top of the fence.
Ralph suddenly felt his legs fly into action as he took off after the escapee, his sister’s squeals dying in the background. He cried after the excited puppy but the golden canine was already out the door before he or the shopkeeper could do anything.
He continued to chase the dog down the sidewalk and worried it would at some point, veer off onto the busy street, “Pernicious,” he mumbled to himself, suddenly remembering the new vocabulary term his teacher had drilled into their heads earlier that school day.
The young boy had to give this dog some credit; it was really giving him a run for his money as he watched it barrel through some outdoor café tables and down a side street. Ralph was out of breath by the time he made any headway in catching up to the four legged creature.
Ralph heard his sister’s shrieks behind him, quite a bit off, as he continued to follow this dog. He knew without a doubt that this would be his new dog, his new companion. If only he could just get his bloody hands on him and stop this crazy adventure.
As the dog veered in between a man’s legs, Ralph saw his opening. Giving it his all, the young boy pushed off the ground and leapt as far as it would take him. The dog couldn’t get away this time!
Unfortunately, Ralph only felt the force of concrete and sidewalk below him instead of the feel of golden soft dog fur. He moaned in pain and disappointment and looked up in time to witness the dog hadn’t even glanced back at him and was crossing the next street already.
Ralph growled and started getting up when he was suddenly forced back down to the ground as something came crashing down on him, “Oooof,” he groaned as his face was squished into the ground once more.
He glanced up to see that it was, in fact, his annoying older sister, come to ruin his fun again, “Got you, you stupid punk!”
“Get off me! He’s getting away! Why are you so heavy?! You’re like an anvil!”
His sister’s absolute disgust at being related to a heavy iron block gave Ralph the amount of leverage he needed to slither his way out from under his sister and begin his mad chase for his dog.
This had to stop.
Ralph could run as long as any other boy his age, longer even; but this dog did not look like he was going to stop any time soon. But what could stop him?
That was when Ralph thought of something. Dogs usually came when called, right? This dog just needed to be called and he would come back to him, right? It had to work.
Only problem was, what on earth would this dog listen to?
“Airbud? Jack?” Ralph decided to just start calling all the names he could think to call a dog, “Oh, Spot? Spooot?!”
Ralph screamed name after name. Once or twice, the dog would glance back as if he were almost correct but no success. Nothing seemed to stop this dog.
“Wilson? Xylohone? ….Mega man?”
Suddenly, the dog came to a full stop and turned around. Ralph almost crashed into the dog, having had to come to such a quick stop as well before he crashed into the dog. Said dog continued to sit where he was, wagging his tail in complete ignorant bliss as to the mad chase he had instigated.
“Mega man?” Ralph repeated, double checking that that was in fact the name that had stopped the dog.
The golden lab stood up and wagged his tail aggressively, tongue flopping out in excitement.
Ralph only smiled, exhaustion forgotten as he kneeled down and hugged his new dog around his neck, “Mega man it is then.”
The newly named, Mega man, licked the boy’s face in happy response.
Pinch me, 