Lil Horned Fox

Title: Lil Horned Fox
Pairing: none
Chapter: N/A
Category: Seaspear
Au: Lil Monster
Word Count: 1,079
Rating: K
Summary:
Lil Monster are exotic designer pets, ones you'd think everyone would jump at the chance to own. One was fortunate enough to not stay unwanted for long.

They appeared on TV a few years ago, exotic designer pets that quickly became popular around the world, however their creation was still a mystery. Lil Monsters the biggest thing since sliced bread, but not something you saw in every household. They were genetically breed creatures who soon became popular companions due to their strange but often adorable appearances.

Back than the Onceler family hadn't thought much about getting one, even though many celebrities were often on tv bragging about the small creatures. But one day, they're only daughter Helen changed that when she brought home a monsterling that had been abandoned in a box. They cleaned him up and groomed his fur before giving him proper clothes rather than redressing him in the ragged shirt he had been left in.

From what they read on them from the internet, he should have still been with his birth mother during to how young he still was, and still needed to be fed formula as well. They took him in to get his shots and a proper check up, than was brought back home, as the vet had told him he needed a lot of love and affection due to him being separated from his mother too early.

They named him Otis and were quick to treat the horned fox as part of the family. It was almost like having another child in the house, a little 3 year old who would follow them around all day, and was often eager to play. Otis was well behaved, and would totter around the house mimicking things he saw, and playing with his toys. he went to bed when told, and put his toys away, though some nights he would crawl into their beds in the middle of the night.

It was just another day in the family household, Theodore, the father of the house was sitting in his chair reading the daily paper, Helen was at school, Norma was in the kitchen, making lunch, and little Otis was curled up in the man's lap, quietly reading every few lines. He couldn't read much, but he was learning.

"Otis!" "Mama" called,"It's lunch time!"

The little creature perked up his ears and hopped down from his "Papa's" lap and trotted over to his little table and tiny blue chair. Otis sat in his tiny chair and picked up his ham and cheese sandwich before peeling off the crusts while scrunching up his nose and stick out his tongue.

Norma giggled, despite being an animal, Otis acted like a small child,and she found it to be the cutest.

"Papa" "Mama" and "Helen" that's how he had come to refer to his family members during his 3 years living with them.

Otis ate his sandwich and sipped his milk from his sippy cup. It was apparent that lil monsters could safely digest human food, that included sugar filled junk food, which for some people, only humanized the creatures more, but wasn't enough to convince other people they were anything more than animals.

After finishing his lunch Otis picked up his plate and empty sippy cup and toddled into the kitchen, climbed onto the counter and put his dishes in the sink before hopping down.

As the day went on, Otis tried to help with the daily chores, often fumbling due to his small size.

When Norma was folding the laundry, Otis folded the small towels and made a matching game of the pile of socks, but it ended with him rolling around on the warm clothes fresh from the dryer, luckily lil monsters didn't shed unless it was for their winter coats.

Otis sat on the counter as Theodore started to mix together ingredients for brownies, and when the mixing was done, the little horned fox got to lick the spoon, getting chocolate on his little furry face. "Messy boy," Theodore chuckled and gently wiped his face. The tall man gave the young monster the egg timer as he put the tray of brownie mix into the hot oven.

The little monster carried the egg timer wherever he went until it eventually went off.

When Helen came home,Otis excitedly ran to greet her, and gave her a "welcome home"hug, "Hello to you to," she smiled and picked him up happily. Helen adored Otis like the little brother she had always wanted, and stayed home with him when her mom and dad went away to visit relatives, something Helen wasn't too fond of do to the way they would treat poor Otis.

The teenage girl laughed as Otis licked her cheek and played with her curly brown hair.

"Mom, dad, I'm taking Otis to the park," Helen told them as she got Otis' tags, the little creature tended to wander off as well a his bag, packing in with some toys and a sippy cup of milk. "Ok honey, you two have fun, bye Helen, bye Otis."

"We will, bye!"

'Bye bye Mama,' the little guy chirped in his mind while all that came out of his mouth were small fox yips as he waved his little hand.

The horned fox walked beside the curly haired brunette as she held his hand. People gave them looks as they walked down the side walk of the Sand Shore Neighborhood, some people awed when they saw him as he held the young lady's hand, trotting happily and eager to go to the park. Other's silently complained about how he needed to be on a leash.

There was a lot of back and forth about Lil Monsters and they're level of intelligence and docile nature, while some weren't as docile as others, they weren't a threat, but still some people assumed they were vicious and stupid creatures.

Helen tried to ignore them for Otis' sake, after all he was still very young even for a small animal, and probably couldn't comprehend this.

Otis could tell when there was tension, but he tried to not let it bother him, not wanting to worry his family.

His life was better from when he was sudden put in a box on the side of the road, he was happy, and that's all that mattered to him now, everything else was irrelevant to his optimistic young mind, ignorant to how things really were.

But that's a story for next time.