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Joy by Taross

Joy

Taross

The air was filled with the mixed sounds of laughter, chirps, warks and whoops. Only occasionally interrupted by silence and the soft 'phunt' of a ball being kicked. After which the joyous cries would resume with the source of it bounding across the field in pursuit.


Taross smiled to hirself while shi watched. The draught chocobotaur had found hirself a nice, comfortable spot to nestle down and relax while keeping an eye on hir two chicks playing across the field. Autumn and Sterling themselves were completely focused on the ball they brought along. Both just kicking it as hard as they could and then racing one another to see who got there first to kick it next.
Even though Autumn was the older of the two by almost two years and with hir slightly larger strides should have an easy time at it, hir brother definitely had a bit more burst in him and regularly beat his sister to the punch... or rather... kick.


Watching them tear up the grass, Taross could see little bits of the duo's respective fathers in them. Aside from the obvious physical signs where Autumn clearly had taken a lot of Niko's vibrant orange in hir feathers and the silvery hue of Sterlings plumes was donated by Doni. Shi felt hirself subconciously puff up hir own feathers in contentness while shi sat there.


The pair ran in closer this time, both catching up to the ball almost at the same time and a small fluttery scuffle broke out while the pair vied for control over the ball. It was nothing serious, of course. Soon one or the other would get a proper unblocked kick off and the chase would be back on. And after a while both would finally run out of their near limitless energy and settle down against their mom to rest... and likely nap.


With all the humdrum going on in life, all the responsibilities and stress, these moments were important... nice... Joyful.


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A wonderful image done by :iconotherwords: of Taross and hir two chicks Autumn and Sterling.
These are only two of the three; Aster, who is Autumns nestmate, is not here for this one. Taross is his sire and for this image I (somewhat selfishly) wanted to have both kids hatched from hir at play.


I did struggle a little with the title. Nothing witty came to mind, something punny/innuendo like would be completely unfitting and just a description of the scene seemed bland. I eventually just settled on the feeling the image conveys. Joy... joy in life, joy in play... just generally... joy.


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Taross is mine
Autumn and Sterling technically mine too but Niko and DoniRoux do share in the work ;>
Art by :iconotherwords:
Artists submission: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45694049/



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