A Duck in Manhattan [Active/Closed]

[onceuponaduck]

Characters: Duck, Wolf and possibly Elphaba? Don't know if that's it yet.
Content: Alone, frightened and duck-a-fied, things can't be worse for Ahiru... except they can when along comes a big bad wolf! Oh noes!
Location: Uh... maybe near the Empire States Building?
Time of day: Mid-morning
Warnings: None as of yet.

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[huff_puff_wolf]

Despite everything, Wolf was in as decent a mood as could be. He'd gotten to scare Dahlia Hawthorne a bit (although he hadn't heard from her since then, strangely enough), and despite the fact that the awful monster had ripped through the city again, he and his darling Giselle had managed to stay safe. Hopefully everyone else would get back on their feet, too. At least the monster had been kind enough to drop them off some potential meat! ...True, he would've vastly preferred something other than that big fish-mammal, as the stench was terrible. He could pick up on it far easier than most people. If only the monster had left them, say, a herd of wooly sheep! Or maybe a ton of chickens! Or maybe...

He stopped, and sniffed. There was a new, unusual smell amidst the normal grit of the city. One that he actually recognized. Suddenly excited, he darted off through the streets, following the scent. And his nose didn't lie...close to the ridiculously tall skyscraper, he came upon a small yellow duckling, looking like it was trying to carry

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[onceuponaduck]

Ahiru scurried along, although she had no idea where she was going at all. Would a place like this have a pond? Or maybe she could find a fountain or something around here? Ahhh, why was this place SO HUGE?!

Wait. What was that behind her?

She heard someone coming up behind her before she saw them. The little duck stopped dead when she noticed a large shadow looooming over her. Slowly, Ahiru lifted her head as she found herself being looked down upon. The human man's grin was absolutely FRIGHTENING.

"Q-QUACK! Quackquackquack!" she cried, as she flailed in surprise, scrambling backwards and lost footing, as her balance was thrown off by the large bundle on her tiny back. Ahiru fell backwards onto it, her little legs kicking and her wings flailing in panic.

[huff_puff_wolf]

Wolf considered this duck's response. A sentient, person-duck would give him some kind of answer right? Whereas normal, highly edible ducks quacked. And since this duck was just quacking...

"Hoo, HAAHHHRR!" he let out a victorious growl, bent down and quickly scooped the duck up out of the clothes-pile. At long last, after who-knew-how-long since first arriving in this dimension, he'd found a REAL animal! "Aren't you just the tastiest thing I've ever seen around here!" he exclaimed, beaming.

Of course, the question now was...how best to do lunch? It might be really nice to actually head home and prepare the duck the long way; make a real special treat out of it. But on the other hand, he was terribly hungry, and the duckling looked exceptionally good just as it was now...

[onceuponaduck]

Oh no! Her clothes! She let out another quack, flailing in the human's grasp as her clothes were left behind on the ground. The man's words, however, made her freeze and slowly look at him in growing horror.

Did... he just say she looked tasty?

Her face, almost comically, grew more horrified.

"QUACK! QUACKQUACKQUAAAAAACK!" she, well, quacked loudly. Why would he want to eat her?!

Maybe... Maybe this was all just a bad dream. Maybe she'd wake up and find she was still in Kinkan and she would be Princess Tutu rushing to give Mytho his heart shard and find a way to give the story a happy ending.

She closed her eyes tightly, willing, wishing to wake up. NOW! Please wake up me! she begged in her head. Wake up!

Cracking open her eyes she realized it was not working. She could still see Wolf looking at her thoughtfully. This... was real, wasn't it? Drosselmeyer would be glad. He'd get his tragic ending.

No. No! She couldn't think like that! Thus, she started quacking again, flailing desperately, trying to get out of the human's grasp.