Pokemon [Lovebird]

Ember glanced around the camp and padded over to a spot at the roots of a tree, where she lay down.

He sensed something was wrong and stepped back, holding a single fore paw up to show himself as unthreatening. "Ember, why are you acting all weird? You can trust me!" he declared proudly.

She pinned her ears back, eyeing him in suspicion.

"What, what's up?" his gaze snapped to her when she stepped back. "I'm sure it's nothing bad. You're safe."

She took a tiny step back, her eyes harrowingly warily.

"I don't know, that's what I'm trying to figure out!" he explained cheerfully. He licked his lips when he smelt it again. "But it smells really good."

She stiffened. "Smell what?" She asked warily.

When she waved her tail around, he barely managed to smell a trace of her heat scent, though he didn't know what it meant. "Hey, you smell that?"

She swished her fail around to her side as she finished her meal, trying to ignore his babbling.

He pressed on, hoping she would take his words as a compliment. "And you do seem really nice. I don't know why you're being so grumpy right now, but everyone has bad days. You can always come to me if you ever need help."

Her ears twitched but she didn't respond, continuing to eat her food.

He sat down and stared at her while she ate, smiling at himself since he just helped another pokemon out. "I wasn't kidding when I said your a pretty Flareon."

She crouched down, licking up the pieces and munching ok them.

Blue was too young to completely understand mating habits, but he had seen it enough times outside of his territory to know how it worked. He had always looked forward to doing it with a cat he liked. Reaching the camp, he tosses over some pokemon food to her. "Here, it's all yours."

She followed him silently. She wasn't usually this irritable, but she had gone into heat the other day so it was quite understandable.

His tail drooped and he stood up. "Fine, follow me." He turned and walked to his camp, not even bothering to look back to see if she was following.

"Well, I'm tired and hungry," she snapped.

"Fine, then, don't worry about the chores, I'll do them. But I want to play!"

She shook yet head. "I don't want to."

"What are you talking about? You wouldn't have to do that. Just change the nests. C'mon, it'll make the fight exciting." He crouched down and narrowed his eyes challengingly.

She groaned. "I don't really want to since I don't need you following me around doing everything for me, and I certainly don't want to do that for you."

"Wait, that wasn't the deal," he corrected himself, "but I will leave you alone if you don't enjoy this next game. How about we fight until one of us is pinned down and can't move, and whoever loses has to do the chores that need to get done today. Deal?"

She snorted. "Definitely."

He saw her annoyance and edged her on. "Hey, wanna make a deal? If you don't enjoy the next game I'll leave you alone for awhile."

She glared at him, rolling over onto her paws.