Fur the Discovery Episode II:
When the opposite poles meet...

Surprise. This is word describe a feeling, an emotion that we have when something we didn’t expected happens. It can go from the small signal in your head because the butter is more expensive, to the big jump of 3 meters because someone came by behind and shouted “Wasaa!” Even if almost all the stories today use the big and dramatic surprise to make the story more interesting, some do use the discreet one… but this story is not one of these…
When the door opened, Sparky didn’t have time to move before a female white mouse make him fell. Maybe it was just the mouse that ran under his legs, pulling one a bit, making him lose his balance, but he knew that it was also because of the surprise to find one of these run very fast out of his room. He was a bit scared actually, because if this mouse was running, it certainly was because his roommates had been bullying her, and the only image he had was Vardens, with an angry face, contracting his muscles. Even if he didn’t really know him, this image sounded so ridiculous that he just laughed at his own thought. Some people stopped to see him. They weren’t helping, they were just curious: a random black dog fell because of a female mouse that ran between his legs, taking a scared face, and then laughing. Fortunately, most of the people were busy so they were just three or four people that stopped to see him. Then, he heard a big sound coming from his room, like a giant dinosaur foot hitting the ground, and he was scared again But, the noise stopped, and a little “Woops!” came from the room. The voice was not very high, but not that deep, which reassured the lab, and it sounded… it wasn’t really explainable, but when you heard it, you felt like the one who spoke was a bit shy… Sparky didn’t move a millimeter, lost in his thoughts again. And, when the other guy finally came to door to see what happened, after cleaning the mess he certainly did, Sparky immediately fell in love.
Like the lab, he wasn’t really into fashion: he was wearing a dark green plain T-shirt with blue jeans a sport shoes, but it wasn’t the important part. He had the strangest fur Sparky had ever seen: it was light grey, except for his hands, and, the strangest of all, there was a yellow reversed triangle over each paw! Actually, there was a third one, in the middle of his face. His hair was drawn back in a med long ponytail, hiding the base of his darker ears. He had the deepest yellow eyes Sparky had ever seen, and the look he gave him, a happy and welcome look, was like a second sun, filled with all the joy of the world. Between them was the other reversed triangle, itself over his muzzle that was the same color as his ears and paws. Finally, a small beard was growing under his chin: this guy was the cutest thing he had ever seen.
When the roommate saw the dog half-lying half-sitting on the floor, he smiled with his wonderfully shiny white teeth, and gave him his help that the dog didn’t refuse, and then, they entered. The place was a bit messy, but still cool. There were in a small entrance-living room, with a couch and a TV apparently brought by the strange-wolf-roommate. There were boxes everywhere, certainly from the other guy, with a lot of stuff, like plants and lamps. From this room was starting on the right a corridor. The walls were white; with a light yellow reflect because of the light bulb of the lamp hanging on the same white ceiling. On the floor, were brown parquet, full of boxes and stuffs falling down from it. The roommate started the conversation:
-“So… hi, I’ll be your roommate for this year; I… I’m called Jugder, and you?” His voice was a bit hesitating, and shy.
-“I’m Sparky, I am a Lab, what about you?! You have the strangest fur I’ve ever seen…”He asked, and said, but much lower, just for himself to hear “And the cutest…”
-“Oh… that. I… I’m a Bolting Wolf…” he started, hesitating even more.
-“A Bolting Wolf? I’ve never heard about that. You seem a bit… embarrassed, what’s goin’ on?” answered the dog, curious.
-“It because I’m very… shy… don’t worry, it is not you. It is also because I don’t like to… to talk about my species…” he finished, like finally letting go a one ton metal box of his back.
-“Oh… I’m sorry…” apologized Sparky. “And it is not a big deal, I’ll wait ‘till the next party to get you so drunk you’ll tell me everything…” threw Sparky, laughing.
-“Yeah…” said Judger as he shyly started to laugh, his laughter becoming louder and more confident each second, until he frankly laughed with his new roommate, happy to Sparky, him was doubly happy : he had a very nice roommate, and he was also very cute, even cuter with his shyness…
When they were done laughing, something like 10 minutes later, Judger showed the apartment to his new friend. In the corridor Sparky had seen, there was three doors: two were opposite with each other, and another one it the end of the corridor. The two opposite doors were the rooms, and the last one was the bathroom. For the rooms, Sparky took the one that was on the right when you were entering the corridor, and Jugder, the other one. Sparky’s room was nice: the floor was the same parquet, but the walls were brownish white, and he had a wooden double bed that was against the wall opposite the door, barely in the middle. When you were entering, you could see a drawer on the right, against the wall, that was made of dark brown wood, and of the left, a desk was here for the work, in wood too, with a metallic grey chair. Just near the door, on the same wall, was a wall shelf, in wood too; the rest was empty, ready to be filled by his one-year-owner. Even if Sparky would have loved to see how Jugder decorated or at least started to decorate his room, they immediately went to the bathroom: blue tiles of the floor, small white tiles of the walls, a sink with a mirror, and toilets. They just stayed two seconds, because they were going to have time to discover it for the next few days. After this small tour of the place, Sparky helped his roommate to empty the boxes. After an hour, some plants, statues and posters were decorating the main room, and the small TV was replaced by a bigger one, thanks to Jugder’s mother, with a Wii connected on it. Even if some boxes were empty, they were almost 10 full that were going into the Bolting wolf’s room… so they went to their rooms to fit them out. When the college bell rang noon (this day, it only rang for the meals), the two canines met in the living room:
-“Jugder, if you don’t know where to eat, I met a tiger, Vardens, who told me to meet him at the canteen. He’s friendly and really nice, and will be certainly happy if I bring a friend. Would you like to come?” asked the dog.
-“Well… I don’t have much to do, since I didn’t meet anyone this morning…” answered the wolf, and bit ashamed, looking at the floor.
-“Cool! Let’s go!” concluded Sparky.
So here were the two friends, swimming into the crowd, following the current to get outside because the canteen is in building 3-A, and because they needed to breathe. Went they finally got in the school’s park, breathing as fast as they could to get the oxygen they needed to live, they saw the tiger running from 5-A to the place they were. He looked happy, and a girl was following him, a bit slower but not that much. When the four people met, it was of course Vardens who talked first, still very fast and happily:
-“Hey Sparky! I met this badger when I got out of my building and I… Oh! Who is this guy?”
-“I’m… Jugder…”answered, with his shy low voice.
-“Cool! And… what happened to your fur?!”Continued Vardens.
-“I…I” started Jugder, more hesitating than ever.
-“He doesn’t like to talk about it…” answered Sparky, seeing the problems that had Jugder to answer.
-“Yeah… Thanks…” thanked Jugder.
-“Your welcome” said Sparky. “So, Vardens, who’s that girl?”
-“I’m Chega, nice to meet you!” answered the badger, with a voice that wasn’t very high, but still with a normal pitch.
-“Yeah… And like I was saying to Chega, we should leave before the line get to long: I’m starving!” finished Vardens, as something growled.
-“It…it’s me…” said suddenly Jugder and the four friends laughed.
They continue to laugh while they were walking to the 3-A but when they got there, a monstrous line was already there. “Dammit!” swore Vardens. They took place in with the other people, and there, the discussed about a lot of things. First, about how cool this place was, and then about the life they had before this college. Sparky started with Barksin (without talking about his homosexuality, a bit scared to lose some friends he just made), then Vardens talked about Fralden, and when he was done, they knew everything about each inhabitant, feral animals, plants, bug and rocks of the city. It was his story that took most of the time, and even though they were near the entrance when he started, they were just near the food when they were done, and the distance between the entrance of the canteen and the gate to the food was wide! There, they passed the gate with their IDs, chose the food, paid and searched for a table. When they finally found one, it was Chega turn.
She was born in Blarmington, and even though she was quite popular in elementary school with a lot of friends, when she arrived in Junior High, a girl became more popular than her, and all his friends left her. This day she understood that she had to get real friends that would like her for what she is.
At this point of the story, she stopped because they were all done, and they went outside. There it was exactly like Sparky had always imagined: people were either sleeping on the grass, playing soccer or Frisbee or any other sports like that, studying on the bench or discussing while walking or on the grass. They immediately found a good spot and sat there of the fresh and comfy grass while Chega continued her story.
Finally, she found someone. One or two month after the start of her 6th grade, she met a girl who became her best friend and since then, she met two or three other people, that stayed her best friends… until they moved in another college. There, in the school’s park, she met the happiest, the most muscular, and the nicest guy she ever met. When she said that, Vardens blushed a bit and Chega threw “Plus you’re cute when you blush…” Everybody laughed and when they stopped, they all looked at Jugder. If everybody had asked questions, he had been silent, threatened by the idea of this moment, and when he saw everybody looking at him like that, he was so afraid that he ran away. Sparky looked at the others with a “sorry…” look, and ran after him… well, at least tried to. Just when he started running, a ball hit his head very hard, and he fell, fortunately on the grass. When he turned, to see something else than the grass, he saw his friends, plus someone else: a rabbit. Sparky had always loved rabbit, and had always found them very cute. This one was a white rabbit with black hair, a T-shirt with a big skull on it, and black jeans. He was looking at him with a very sorry look, some locks of his hair falling in front of his green eyes. His rabbit muzzle was slightly shaking and his mouth too. He didn’t know if it was made on purpose, but there seemed to be a lot of cuties around there. Sparky looked at him, more stunned because of the rabbit’s face rather than his shoot, and said, smiling:
-“Great shoot!”
-“Yeah, I guess… I’m really sorry, did I hurt you?” apologized the rabbit, a bit afraid of the answer.
-“Well, except the fact that I don’t feel my brain anymore, I’m in a perfect health, you?” answered Sparky, feeling the other one’s fear.
-“Well, I’m happy I didn’t hurt you that bad…” laughed the other one, finally reassured. “By the way, my name’s Carter, you?”
-“I’m Sparky, your new exclusive target. With me, you can train all day at soccer. 50 points if you hit the head, 20 if you hit the hand and a 100 if you hit the stomach. When do we start?” continued Sparky
-“Does he ever stop?” laughed harder Carter.
-“I don’t think so…” answered Chega, laughing, like everybody around Sparky, still in the grass.
-“Well… Was nice to meet you Carter, but I still have a shy wolf to run after and I’m sorta late now. See you all later?” said the lab.
-“Yeah, I guess you should go then…” answered the rabbit, calm now.
-“Ok… See ya guys.” concluded Sparky, before starting to run again to 6-A, room 145, to see what happened with his roommate. While he was running, he thought: “Jugder, and now Carter… This year definitely starts very well…”

TO BE CONTINUED…