X-Men {Semi-Advanced} discussion

Teddy had finally gotten up the courage to leave his Master's house. After being abandoned so many times and hurt by so many previous Masters, finding one who was nice to him, one who gave him a name and affection, he was terrified of leaving her and having her disappear while he was gone. It took quite a bit of convincing for him to accept that she would not leave without him, and as such he now decided to take the chance to learn about the place they lived at now. He was in his dog form, an adorable Golden Labrador puppy, as he ran around, sniffing everything that he was interested in with a collar around his neck that said he was owned by someone. Or at least, it looked like he was wearing a collar, it was a simple illusion so he could wander freely and if he got lost, beg someone to take him to the address on the 'collar'. He was sniffing around on a sidewalk when he came across a piece of leather folded funny. It had a persons scent on it and he nosed it open to see a picture and weird green thingies folded inside. Someone must be looking for this.... he thought to himself, plopping himself down in front of the wallet and tilting his head to the side to stare at it, one of his ears flopped across and over the top of his head. He suddenly bounced to his paws excitedly, an idea forming in his mind. OH! I KNOW!! I CAN FIND THE PERSON THIS LEATHER BELONGS TO AND GIVE IT BACK AND BE GOOD AND GET PETS!!! he thought excitedly, sniffing around before scooping up the wallet and charging off eagerly down the sidewalk with it in his mouth....only to trip over his own paws in his eagerness and tumble head over tail onto his back. Wriggling back onto his paws, he scooped up the wallet again and charged off.

Teddy stopped many times in his rather straightforward charge to sniff out the person's scent before scooping the wallet up and taking off again, overexcited at the idea of doing something good that would make someone want to be nice to him. He practically lived off of kindness, especially now that he was around his Master, who was nicer than any of his other Masters. She didn't hurt him for anything, not even that one time he spilled his food on the floor by accident. His mind was a whirl of happiness and excitement, and as such he almost didn't see the car as he charged for the road, only to be stopped by a person picking him up. Tail wagging furiously, he looked up at the man who picked him up, his whole face lit up with excitement and keeping a firm grip on the wallet. "Whoa, there little one. You may be charged with fetching a wallet, but you gotta wait to cross the street." he said with a chuckle, scratching behind Teddy's ears and watching his tail wag even faster. Waiting for the light to turn, he walked Teddy across the street and put him down, watching him race around him twice in excited circles before charging off again.

Teddy was passing an elementary school when the children were suddenly let out for recess. His eyes widened when he saw all the kids and his whole little body wriggled in excitement. He loved kids, they were always super nice to him and smelled of food and he'd never been hurt by a kid, they even would make an effort to pet him when they passed him in the shelters. So of course the right thing to do was......forget entirely about his quest to return the wallet, drop it in a hidey hole, then charge eagerly towards the kids as fast as his tiny paws could take him in order to be wrapped up in the embrace and pure love that any child has for a dog. He spent the better portion of the morning playing with the kids, chasing them around excitedly and being pet and fed the crumbs from their snacks....it was heavenly. But, all good things must come to an end, and that was the same for the children as the bell rang to call them all back inside, though not without all of them giving him a good farewell pet. Tongue lolling from his mouth as he panted, he moved to leave the playground to find some water when he tripped over the wallet he was supposed to be returning. Remembering his self-assigned task, he scooped it up again and took off, trying to focus this time.

His focus did not last long. He got entirely sidetracked by a bird he swore, in hindsight, was mocking him, so he had to spend a good handful of minutes chasing it down, barking excitedly. Remembering when he once again tripped over the wallet, he scooped it up and charged away again....only to stop outside a restaurant that smelled of very delicious food. His stomach rumbled and he was so tempted to beg for scraps, but he had to find the owner of the wallet before the owner got any farther away. Focusing, though a whine at his desire to try the new smells food, he ran off again until finally, finally he found a trail that smelled of just the person and he followed it until he could spot someone standing on the bridge. He moved to hide and transform back to human, then quickly dusted the wallet off on his clothes in case of slobber (he'd drooled quite a bit over the food smells), he ran up to the man excitedly, bouncing on the balls of his feet with a huge grin on his face. "HIYA!" he chirped happily. "I know you don't know me and that's okay because I don't know you but that doesn't matter because I found you and that's great because I was looking for you and...." he paused in his rambling to take a deep breath and hold out the wallet with a huge grin. "I think you dropped this! I found it over on the other side of town, so I brought it to you!" as he spoke, he looked so impossibly ecstatic over the simplest of things as returning a lost item that one would be hard pressed to not smile back.