Job: Find Those Puppies!

Job: Find those puppies!
Rank: D
Player Requirements: D-Ranked Wizards
Job Requirements: Find the seven missing puppies! And return them too your client. Minimum of 15 posts. 150 words per post.
Job Location: Magnolia Town
Job Description: It seems a the owner of a proud litter of puppies that he was just about to sell has made a critical mistake! He left the pen opened by a hair, and the pups have gotten loose! They're insanely quick, and villagers have spotted them here and there for the past few days; some of them have even fed them! They're adorable, and it's not too hard to find them and gain their trust. Please bring them home!
(Note: The names of the characters and even the names of the puppies are up to you, show us your stuff!)
Enemies: (None)
Reward: 1000 Jewels


Lina walked around Mongolia town with the flyer in hand, trying to find the home of the man who sent out this job request to retrieve his seven escaped puppies. She wandered for a while beginning to get frustrated, until she tapped someone on the shoulder, the woman turned to her. “Yes?” she asked, “uhm…can you point me to where this house is?” she asked, giving her the job flyer. The woman looked it over, “hmmm, yes I can! Just go down this street, take a left then a right and go to the house with the brown painted door” she told her. “Thank you!” Lina smiled as she headed off to the man’s house, she ran down the street and took a left like the kind woman had advised, running into a few people but saying her apologies as she then took a right, seeing a row of houses. But the third house down on her right had a brown door, she looked at her flyer one last time before she walked up the steps, and knocked on the Door.

Lina knocked on the door three times before she could hear footsteps on the other side begin to approach. The doorknob turned as a man opened it on the other side. He seemed very polite as she smiled. “Hello sir, I accepted your job request.” Lina told him. “Ah, thank you very much dear, come in” he moved to the side and let her in, then she found the living area and sat down on his couch. Her hands in her lap. The man sat down as well on another couch opposite to her. “Alright, the other day I left the pen that I kept my seven puppies in open, even though it was just a pinch they managed to escape and are running about in Mongolia town. If you can find them for me, I’ll pay you the 1000 jewel my flyer promises.” He said. Lina stood up, “you can count on me, I’ll get you your puppies back in a jiffy!” she said. The man laughed a little, “Thank you very much. Bring them back to me when you find them all” he mentioned. “Got it!” Lina bowed as she headed out the door and down his steps.

Lina was now in the middle of the street in front of the man’s house. She knew this was a perfect job for her, she could track the scent of the individual puppies extremely well. She took in a deep breath as she began to shrink closer to the ground, until she was now a small silver fox in the middle of the road. She shook her ears and yawned, sniffing the air for any sign of the puppies. She could smell seven different scents that smelled similar… she picked one of them and smiled, “gotcha.” She laughed to herself, flicking her white tail tip as she turned around, padding through the street as she fallowed the scent of her first puppy, she even heard a few people awe at her. She rolled her eyes as she fallowed the scent past two small street food stores and headed between a narrow paths between two buildings. The scent getting stronger.

Lina made her way out of the small space as she rounded a second corner and into a park with a few park benches here and there plus a playground. She padded through the soft grass on all fours, flicking her fluffy tail as she looked up rather rapidly, her silver and white tipped ears flicking in all directions as she stood completely still. But then her nose sunk to the floor once more, she was in full blood hound mode. She ran through the park and even between someone’s feet under a bench. She fallowed the scent to the other side of the park when the scent just kept getting stronger, making her determination grow. Her speed increased as the strong scent did, until she felt her face run into something small and fuzzy, she looked down and spotted her fist small puppy sitting underneath the shade of a tree in the park. She smiled as she turned back into her human self, picking up the little pup carefully she began to carry it back to the mans house.

After much walking with the pup wrapped safely in her arms Lina finally made it back to the man’s house, it wouldn’t have taken as long if a few civilians and children hadn’t asked to pet the small pup, but she couldn’t say no. she opened the gate to the small backyard of the man’s house and put the small puppy down in the grass and closed the latch shut, just to make sure It couldn’t get out this time. She saw the man in the window as she waved at him, he waved back as she left to go get the next puppy.

Lina ran out of the backyard and jumped back into her fox form. All her senses were stronger like this, so it was only natural to use it. She sniffed the air a second time, still smelling seven scents but she knew which one she had fallowed first, so she picked one that went in the opposite direction.

Lina could smell the scent of the ocean mixed in with the stale scent of the second puppy she was after, it must have gone somewhere around the docks. She padded down the cobblestone street with the sun directly over her head, the hottest time of day. It made her pant as she tried to fallow the scent in all the shaded parts along the trail, she even saw tiny paw prints in some tried mud as she passed a couple of buildings. The water in her sights.

She sat and scratched herself behind the ear under the shade of a tree for a moment before continuing her search. The search led her down to the water’s edge as she walked along the beach with the wet sand on her paws. The water lightly lapping at her paws. Then right ahead of her she could hear whimpering, she looked up and saw a small pup stranded on a rock in the middle of the shore. A giant wave heading for it.

Lina’s eyes widened as she ran as fast as she could on her four legs over to the pup stranded on the rock, the wave barreling towards it threatening to drown the helpless thing as she dove into the water and swam over, she grabbed the pup by its scruff and jumped off the rock as the wave crashed over it. Jumping over the wave, she swam back to shore keeping its head above the water. It was whimpering and shivering in her jaws as she made it to shore, turning back to her human self and using her shirt to dry off the puppy best she could.

“Shhh shhh, you’re okay now. I’m taking you home” she cuddled the puppy close to her chest as she walked back to the man’s house, she walked to fast for anyone to ask to pet the puppy this time, but she made it back and put it back in the pen. Going off for the next one.

Then once again Lina found herself to be a small gray and white fox fallowing her next scent, this one began to lead her to a small neighborhood in the Mongolia town, Lina sighed to herself hoping that someone hadn't found the puppy and wanted to keep it. She didn't want to pry it from the hands of a small child. But she found herself walking up the steps of a house, she sighed as she turned back into her human self, knocking on the door. A man opened it for her.

“Yes?” he asked, Lina shuffled her feet nervously, “um, have you recently picked up a stray puppy? I’m looking for seven puppies that have gone missing. I have a feeling there might be one here.” She said. “Well your senses are right, miss. We found a puppy the other day and we've been giving it shelter.” He told her.

“Great! Well I’m going to give the puppy back to its owner, c-could I please have it?” she asked. “Of course, we thought it was a stray, but now that it belongs to someone…” he turned around, “excuse me for a moment.” He closed the door as she could hear the father arguing with a small boy about the puppy, hearing the boy crying having to give up the joy he had found. It made her heart shatter to hear the boy’s tears. But after what felt like a lifetime the father and his young son answered the door again, tears still streaming down the boys cheeks as he held the small puppy in his hands. “T-take it…” he sobbed. Lina hesitantly took the puppy as tears streamed down the boy’s cheeks again, she couldn’t just sit there. She got down on one knee and handed the boy some money.
“Here, go by yourself something with this. Don’t be sad, you can go get another pet.” She smiled. The boy’s face lit up. Lina smiled, happy she could make him happy.

The boy looked just about as happy as a child on Christmas morning, he turned to his father. “Can we really go get a puppy???” he said practically jumping up and down with excitement. His father turned to Lina and smiled, then turned to his son and patted his head. “Thank you so much dear, you’re so kind.” He said, “Oh its nothing, thank you” she said as she waved and walked down the street with the puppy in her arms. “No, thank you!” the boy’s father called, Lina smiled to herself again, stroking the small puppies head. She could hear the boy giggling at his father, “c’mon dad! Let’s go!!” he said as he dragged him down the steps and down the opposite side of the street to the pet shop. “Alright alright!” he said fallowing him.

Lina made it back to the man’s house a third time, gently putting the third puppy in the pen.

Lina was walking through the streets swiftly in her fox form once again a fourth time, she decided that it was going to take a lot more work to take the puppies back one by one back and fourth to the man’s house. So she decided she would do two or even three at a time. She chose another scent that lead her all the way to the other side of Mongolia town, after much sniffing and frustration finally found her fourth puppy in an alleyway, shaking and scared. She turned human. “aww its okay, I’m going to take you home, no need to be scared.” She scooped it up in her arms.

But now that she already had one she had to carry it by its scruff in her fox form, making sure to be gentle as it seemed to not be hurt as she carried it through the streets.

Lina then fallowed another scent with the pup she already had dangling in her jaws, just to find herself at her sixth puppy. Apparently the over confident one, was barking at a dog about fifteen times its own size, Lina dropped the puppy she had in her mouth down gently, she told it to stay as she ran over and jumped between the two. Hissing and threatening the larger dog. It backed off hesitantly as she picked up the puppy and went over to the other one. Putting the confident one on her back while she carried the other in her jaws again. “I think I’ll get one more…” she thought to herself as she picked up another scent, luckily this one was nearby, chasing a butterfly in a park. She went over and scooped it up on her back as she headed back for the man’s house. The weight making the trip seem longer.

Lina made it back to the man’s house after much walking with three puppies to carry, at least she didn’t haft to go back and forth. She went into the back yard and dropped all three of them into the pen. Watching them all run around happily. She didn’t even know how she managed to get a head count with them all running around like they were. “one…two. Three….four five…six” she counted. “that means I only have one more!” she said, turning around and bolting out of the place. She was so close to finishing the job, she fallowed her last scent faster than any of the other puppies not even realizing where she was headed by fallowing that scent. Once again she reached a park, small children playing as the sun was in about midafternoon, she fallowed the scent around to a giant tree, looking up seeing a tiny pup whimpering at the top. “How in the world did you get up there!?” she sighed.

Lina heaved a long moaning sigh as she trudged up the steep, huge, tree. She was questioning herself on how a puppy could get up there so high, but she decided for now she would just focus on the task at hand. She put one paw in front of the other, digging her claws into the bark until she finally reached the branch the puppy was on. It was looking off the edge, amazed by the view the beheld it. She took a quick rest before noticing the pup leaning dangerously close to the edge, she jumped into action and caught the pup before it fell to its death. She sighed in relief. “Dangit dog, dong scare me like that.” She sighed again, picking up the pup and carrying it down the tree. Then down the roads she had well memorized now, reaching the man’s backyard for the last time.

Lina turned back into her human form, petting the last puppy that she had in her hands. And lifted its small form to her face. Smiling, “aww you’re just all so adorable!” she laughed, kissing the last puppy on the forehead before putting back in the pen with the rest of its siblings. They all ran and played around with each other as she noticed the man come out from his back door, down his porch steps and stood by her side. Looking at his puppies pleased, “I’m very grateful that you have returned the puppies back to me. From now on ill double check their gate,” he laughed a little. Lina laughed with him, “You welcome! This was no problem at all. I was very glad I could help you out. After all they are adorable.” She smiled, the man turned to her with a bag of money in his hands, and he turned to her and placed it in the palm of her hand. She tried to thank him but he kept thanking her, she said her goodbyes as she began to find her way back to the guild.



~The End~