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“What do we do with it?”, Gwen asked, as Pavitr rocked what appeared to be a medium-sized rock, except it wasn’t a rock. Well, unless a rock is completely smooth and is bright, electric blue.
See, about an hour ago, Pavitr, Gwen, and Hobie were sent to a dimension to take down an anomaly that got displaced. Pretty standard stuff. However, the dimension they were sent to was a fantasy dimension, and the anomaly they were meant to be getting (an Electro anomaly) was fighting (and winning) against a dragon that had lightning running across its scales.
The three of them intervened, and after some fighting, caught the anomaly. Sadly, the dragon, whose name was Bronte, didn’t survive. The Electro took too much of her electricity. Her last words were for them to take care of her egg.
“We’ll take care of the egg, and raise the baby!”Pavitr tried to sound upbeat and you’d think he was excited about the prospect of taking care of a dragon egg if you ignored his shaking and the sound of his voice fluctuating as he spoke.
Hobie and Gwen looked at each other in concern before Hobie spoke up, “Of course bruv, we ain’t gonna let nottin happen to it.”
“Yeah totally.”, Gwen seemed skeptical, “But uh, quick question, what are we going to tell Miguel?”
Pavitr looked panicked. “You don’t think he’ll make us get rid of Madhu, do you?”
“Madhu? You named it already?”, Gwen asked
Pavitr gave a sheepish shrug, “I mean we can’t be calling her ‘The Egg’, she needs a proper name.”
Gwen crossed her arms “And why do you get to her, and how do you know it’s a girl, it could be a boy dragon.”
“I get to name her because I held her first and I just know it’s a girl. I can feel it!”, Pavitr answered,
“As for what we’re going to tell Ol’ Miggy, he can't get rid of something he doesn’t know about.”, Hobie said, a grin on his face.
Gwen looked at him like he just grew a second head, “You can’t seriously be thinking that we keep this away from him. I mean, how are we even going to keep it-” Pavitr cleared his throat and looked at Gwen expectantly “How are we going to keep her adams from decaying?”
“Don’t worry about Gwendy, I’ll take care of it. First, we need to worry about who’ll take care of the egg” Pavitr cleared his throat again “I mean baby Maddy, sorry Pavitr.”
“First off, her name is Madhu, Ma-D-uw, say it right. Second of all, I’ll be the first one to take care of her. She’s my baby”, Pavitr said with a sense of finality
“Alright man, so you’ll go straight home, I’ll be by to bring you a day pass. Now with all of that taken care of, let’s get out of here.”, Hobie said as he grabbed the Electro anomaly (he’s going to pretend that Pavitr didn’t give his head an extra kick) and opened up a portal to HQ that he and Gwen went through. Pavitr went through another one that opened straight in his room.
At home, Pavitr began working immediately to make sure his baby had everything she needed. Looking around his room for things he needs. He thought of everything he knew about dragons and eggs
“Let's see, we can make a temporary nest out of my sweaters and a basket.”, he said as he emptied his laundry basket and made sure to only put clean sweaters inside.
“Hmmm, most dragon eggs need to be kept warm, I think Maya Auntie still has those shake and warm hand warmers.”, he murmured to himself, before turning to the egg “I’ll be right back Śiśu, I’m just going to go get something to warm you up.”, with that, Pavitr left his room and began looking through the cabinets. It wasn’t long before he found them, his Auntie is a very tidy lady and places things in the same place.
“I’m back Madhu! And I brought the warmers, just gotta shake them up real quick and…there we go!”He placed a few of them on the egg, trying to make sure Madhu got optimal warmth.
~ At HQ ~
“So are we really getting ready to lie to Miguel about the egg?”, Gwen asked as both she and Hobie dragged the anomaly to the holding area.
“Gwendy, we already talked about this, we’re keeping lil Maddie.”, Hobie said, not looking at all bothered by this entire situation. Unlike Gwen, who seemed like she was jumping at every little sound.
“But what are we going to do if Miguel finds out? What if he tries to make me go home?”, She asked, sounding just a little bit more fearful
At that, Hobie stopped and clasped both hands on her shoulders, “Gwendy, I promise that you don’t have to go back home until you are ready to go home. And if that twat tries to make you go back, then I’ll just bring you back. Okay? You just gotta trust me on this”
“Okay, I trust you.”
“Good, now let's drop this guy off, I still need to find a day pass for Maddie.”
“Welp, let's go and get this over with then.”
Shortly after the conversation, the anomaly was dropped off. Somehow along the way, Hobie managed to take not one, not two, not three, not even six but fourteen different day passes.
“You never know when you’ll need them.”, Hobie said nonchalantly when he showed off his loot to Gwen.
Just as he was hiding them away, Lyla appeared before.
“Heeey kids! Whatcha up to?”, she asked, sounding a little too peppy.
“Nothin much, bruv. Just getting ready to head back.”
“ReaallY, and there’s nothing you want to tell me nothing at all? Nothing about your plans for today?” The AI asked
“Nope! Nothing at all! Now if you’ll excuse us, we really gotta get going. Talk to you later. Buh-bye now!” Gwen said quickly as she pushed Hobie into a portal.
“Huh, why didn’t Gwen want to tell me that they were going to go bowling today?”, Lyla wondered before disappearing
~ Earth-50101 ~
Hobie and Gwen arrived at Pavitr’s room to find him asleep, slightly curled around a laundry basket. Inside it was the egg, nestled in the clothes surrounded by heat packs.
“Awe, like a sleeping kitten.”, Hobie cooed as he carefully placed one of the day passes on the egg
Gwen had already taken a picture, “Blackmail picture”, she said quietly
Hobie rolled his eyes, “He won’t see it like that, he’ll want it as his profile pic or something. Anyways, I could use some Z’s myself.” He said before lying down on the ground and falling asleep, just like that. No pillow, no blanket, just the hard ground.
Gwen tried getting a picture of him as well but Hobie webbed the phone out of her hands.
“You need some Z’s too Gwendy.”, Hobie told her, “Pav has some extra blankets in his closet to use for guests.”
“I- yeah, okay.”, Gwen said
Inside the closet was a stack of folded blankets, just like Hobie said there would be. She made herself a pallet and laid down on the floor. It took her a bit but she eventually fell asleep.
As of right then and there, their secret was safe. But how long could they keep it that way?