The Epic of Luminite and Trondle (WIP)

Once upon a time, in a far off land, there lived a little wolf pet named Lummie. Lummie had grey hair, with light blue tufts on the ears, tail, and paws. He also had white fur on his face and underbelly. In addition to all that cuteness, Lummie had warm ember eyes that could melt your heart. This little Luminite was definitely not worth eating. He was quite friendly, and had gotten lonely out in his cold home in the frosty Shiverchill Mountains. After many months of indecision, Lummie decided the only way to fix his problem was to set off away from home. So, after a week of packing, he left his comfortable home to find a friend.

On the first day traveling, before Lummie had made it out of the mountains, he meant a friendly Yeti named Bok. Bok was bare-chested, with white fur covering the other parts of his body. He was holding a cup of Hot Chocolate. “Hey, who are you?” Bok shouted over a blizzard. “My name is Lummie! I’m looking for a friend!” Lummie yelled back. Bok replied, “Friends? If you want to meet friendly creatures the best place is Firefly Forest! They’re very friendly over there. Also, I can give you some supplies if you need them!” “Thanks,” Lummie responded, “I’m sure I could use something!” After Bok and Lummie agreed on what the Luminite would need for the journey, Lummie left Bok’s cave with a grin on his face, weighed down from the gifts from his new friend.

Continuing on, the petite Luminite soon arrived at a plaza in the center of a place called Frostfire Village. The settlement was quite beautiful, with gorgeous buildings, carved by ice. These buildings were clearly created by someone who knew what they were doing. The most impressive of these was right in the center of the plaza. It was a large, cavernous building that resembled a church, in a way. There were no religious symbols, or other signs of it being a religious building, however. Frostfire Village on the ground was quite beautiful, but from above, it was even more astounding. Several branching streets worked together, so when you looked from above, the village looked like an elaborate snowflake. Glancing around this settlement, Lummie saw, a sign nearby reading “Firefly Forest, three hundred miles south.” Without stopping to rest, Lummie headed south, like the sign said.

After two more months of traveling, the Luminite was beginning to get bored. He had gone for weeks without seeing a trace of civilization, and he still was not out of the mountains! Just as he was beginning to lose hope, however, he spotted green on the crest of the next hill. Lummie had reached Firefly Forest! Suddenly filled with energy, he enthusiastically bounded up the hill. As soon as he reached the top of it, he couldn’t believe his eyes! The forest was stunning! There were trees as far as the eye could see, and he could hear the chatter of creatures playing in the woods. He leaped down, and saw a potential playmate. This creature, however, was quite strange, to say the least.

Armadillo is obsessed over luminite

Oh shut up epi.

NOOO------

This friend, as stated in the paragraph above, was quite peculiar.
It was not bacon. It was like a gigantic pig with big tufts of green leaves on its head and had big ears and a large tusk that glistened like freshly whitened teeth. It had seemingly menacing blue eyes and a big dumb nose. He did NOT particularly like other animals.

“What are you doing here?” Trondle snarled at the Luminite as he cutely approached him. Lummie gave him an irresistible innocent baby-eye look.

“Aww, you’re so cute!” Trondle said enthusiastically. He nudged Lummie and Lummie uncharacteristically hissed at him. Not very nice!

Wow, this is very cringy…
:green_circle: The Entity…

Shut up, Mr. Entity! -ARMADILLO

Lummie, in his innate self-defense, advances by biting Trondle in the nose!
Trondle snorts with pain and then he decides to use a physical spell on him! :physical:Clobber does a lot of damage and hurts Luminite! He squeaked indignantly and proceeds to use :storm: Blowout towards Trondle. He resists it, but it lands some :boom: critical damage! Owch!

“Why are you fighting?” a friendly, gentle voice said approaching them from behind. “Trondle, I know you haven’t eaten yet but attacking a little Luminite is very rude!” She bent down to acknowledge the furry wolf. “Are you all right?”

Lummie squeaked a “yes,” although he knew the fairy wouldn’t be able to understand him. Trondle oinked apologetically to the cute little wolf. He didn’t mean to disappoint Flora, but this little wolf is dangerous! It was an :ice-element: Ice monster! Plants do not like being around ice! But something was telling him that maybe this harmless little wolf-thing could be the opposite! They could be friends!

While pondering this, Trondle watched as the Luminite and Flora walked away. Briefly, he debated whether he should follow, but, eventually, he decided to wait and see if Lummie approached him on his own. While he was waiting, he decided to go see if he could find some food. He knew the Merchant near Flora’s house sold some premium chipotle. Trondle especially liked it with extra guacamole. So, Trondle made the short walk to the Merchant and purchased his meal for twenty Florans. As he chowed down, Trondle began to wonder how the young Luminite had gotten all the way down from Shiverchill Mountain, which was more than a two month journey, and why? It must have been pretty important if the Luminite was willing to give up his entire way of life in the mountains. This puzzled Trondle so much, he tried to solve it until noon, when he admitted defeat, and decided to ask Lummie himself.

Rising from his seat in the grass, Trondle trotted around the forest until he found the Luminite. Awkwardly, he began to speak. “Hi, umm… sorry about earlier, I get aggravated really easily. Anyways, I was hoping we could be friends, and I was also wondering why you traveled all the way down from Shiverchill to get here?”

Lummie responded with an excited bark. “You want to be friends? Actually, I left the Shiverchill Mountains to find friends, and a Yeti told me that this was the best place for it! I’m so excited! We’re gonna be besties!”

“Oh, um, sure,” Trondle said placidly. He gazed at the forest, which was covered in a seemingly endless amount of fir and globe-shaped trees. Eucalypti suddenly became the playground for young Sproots, who giggled with excitement. Spectrals protectively kept their Shades, who ate strawberries and blueberries hungrily. He could also hear the sounds of whooshing, undoubtedly the sounds of Applepots swinging on the forest trees, scavenging in hunger.

“Hey, I have an idea,” the pig-like creature smiled to Lummie. “How about we go inside that forest and have some fun? I think you’ll like it!”

“Oh,” Lumininte said enthusiastically. He brightly shook himself, beaming. “That sounds amazing! Let’s do that! Yes, it sounds very amazing and brilliant and let’s go before I become a statue with boredom!” He tugged Trondle’s sharp tusk, and the monster yelped with surprise and excitement.

They ventured into the woodland, their eyes darting for fun. Pompalms stomped around, searching for wood and sticks to create beds for their young. Every once in a while, you would hear the snickering and mischievous laughter of TripTrops, who deliberately performed exuberant pranks on passing Truckles, who bucked at them with ferocity.

“Hey, let’s try playing hide and seek!” Luminite exclaimed. He wagged his small tail, pouncing on a scurrying caterpillar. “Ooh, let’s do that!”


Feel free to rate the story so far! Constructive criticism is appreciated, it helps us grow our writing skills! If you want, you can try and guess which parts ARMADILLO wrote, and which parts Forest wrote.

Note: If you are in the Bounty’s Class Group Chat, you may notice a reference to one of Forest’s posts. Two references are actually currently included, but one was in a private DM between me and Forest. -ARMADILLO

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Explain the tag-team tag? So I can put it in the tags topic.

Well, basically, it’s for when two users team up to make a collab. Also, would you like to rate the story?

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Haven’t read it yet but I will. I’m going to add the tag to the topic first.

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While I appreciate your opinion, this topic is not for commenting which pet is better. It is for rating and discussing this story, and if need be, Forest and I posting a continued version down below, if we reach the character limit. (Yes, there is one.) And yes, I did remove the post, not to stifle your opinion, but to keep this on-topic.

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The story is great, well done with the lore. (Armadillo made me read it and rate it lol)
The writing’s good- although it does read more like a post and not a short story in a book with the bold lettering and the quotes, but that’s fine.

Overall solid 9/10 because some drawings and art of the characters would be neat and some minor issues with the writing, like grammar and sentence structure.

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Umm…
I haven’t read this yet, but I’m sitting here wondering: Isn’t Luminite Troudle’s Weakness!?
:thinking:

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interesting choice of adding commentary (idk i’m just used to very serious stories)

he’s right y’know

yes
it
is

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A. Actually, the original plan was not to add commentary, but Epi did it without permission, and Forest and I decided to roll with it.

B. Epi was actually the one who said “shut up, Epi.”

C. NO HE ISN’T!!!

People, I have to ACTUALLY SCROLL DOWN to see this! That is Not Okay!!!
So bump, I guess.