Anyway, the event cut their trip short, and they headed to another park instead. Althea and Garan had to go back to work, and they kissed their two babies goodbye, while the soldiers continued on with their search for battle pets.
Fortunately, when the kids were gone, the animals had returned to normal.
They became more snobbish, though. Of course, the day was long, so fortunately, there were indeed a few successes, particularly among the soldiers.
Other than Luis, Mao did get his Iron Panda, though he took 3 more rounds after the first failure.
He also almost lost his hand forming the contract, too.
Turbo got himself a large black dog as a battle pet. It was like a doberman, but chubbier and had a flatter nose.
One of the more unusual ones was what Chris got. A mole. They didn’t even know they had moles in there! Chris was looking for a good fit when something came up from below ground and bit him.
Well, that proved their reliability in terms of hiding, considering they weren’t detected for so long.
Anyway, even when it might seem like an odd fit since Chris was a wind user, he was more of a scout and having underground assistance could definitely help him out.
A lot of the other soldiers, like Gill and Loki, didn’t try at all. This was because, while they thought it’d be cool, they didn’t want to have to worry about another critter.
Anyway, the success of the three people inspired a lot of Alterrans. They wondered if they would also get battle pets!?
Later, it would get to the point that they had to control the entries to the Wild Animal habitat. Not only would it require a pretty high Contribution Points, but they also had to make an extra oath to take care of the animal well, on top of never using it against Alterra or an Alterran in any way or form.
Still, just as Alterra had surprising amounts of elementalists, the aborigines would also come to be surprised by the sheer number of battle pets that’d be roaming around very soon.
...
While the animal habitat was still busy, Lola and Yana now headed back home. They were too tired. They were not young anymore to handle that much stress.
At some point, the babies just wanted to ride on Fufi, so they put them on his back.
Sadly, each of the babies wanted to climb on the dog’s head.
"No! Bad Meatbaw!" Pepper yelled, tapping her brother on the face. How could Meatball accept it? The baby boy ended up hitting his sister with more force, and it ended up being an all-out fight where the two babies were pulling each other’s hair.
"No, you bad Peppa!"
The two old women immediately pried them apart, though not without the babies grabbing strands of hair of their sibling (which wasn’t a lot in the first place) in their small grasp.
"Hey now, don’t fight..."
Even when they were much smarter than kids their age, their vocabulary was still very limited at 1 year old. Amazingly, these words were what ended up in their vocabulary.
The two old women took the misbehaving babies and carried one each, to their chagrin.
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