You can teach a dog not to bite

ᐡ ᐧ ﻌ ᐧ ᐡ I'm living in a [%&$#]ing cartoon

"Sorry about him, he's easily excited," Ragatha kept going, "But, she's Pomni, she's Gangle, he's Kinger and that's Zooble!" introducing me to a small female jester dressed in red and blue, a walking spool of ribbon wearing a mask for a face, a tall king chess-piece dressed in a robe, something that... I couldn't even describe correctly. A collection of parts that really didn't match but still clung to the same body.

Out of everything there, the jester looked like the only person who belonged here.

My eyes scanned these uncanny characters slowly, still unable to wrap my head around it. Like I was trapped between reality and a dream, stuck in a purgatory where I felt every unreal feeling. Every rise in anxiety, every cold gust from the miss matched things sighs. It felt it all. My 'skin', my 'fingers', my everything.

This was real.

"Ooookay... Uhm..." I finally got my voice to work and I was already stumbling over my words, "It's... It's nice to meet you all, but I would like to go the [&*$%] home please." I could feel every muscle in my body clench tightly one by one the longer I went unanswered. Not even the 'ring leader' was trying to answer me.

I went to ask again, raise my voice a little, demand it maybe. But someone else got to it first.

"You can't," an unfriendly voice chuckled behind me, drawing attention from everyone except Caine. Ragatha stepped back before I could turn around, pushing me behind herself like some sort of shield. Was I about to be mauled or something??

"Jax, please don't start." Ragatha's voice dropped the instant she spoke, exhaustion and grief filling each syllable painfully. While she didn't exactly hold me behind her, she kept herself straight to act like a space I can hide behind for some reason.

I peeked past her arm and locked eyes with the source of the laughter. Dude was tall, double my height, but I didn't feel the need to look up at him. A pair of pink overalls were draped over purple fur, no shoes or shirt but it wasn't like I really had any better of an outfit. The rabbit ears on his head bounced with his laughter as he mocked Ragatha, his yellow, shit eating grin grew wider when he noticed me staring.

"Start what? What do you mean, why can't I leave?" Clearly something was wrong between these two, but it had nothing to do with me, "I clearly came in from somewhere, now where do I go out?"

More laughing from the rabbit as he roughly shoved my head down to ruffle my fur aggressively, "You can't leave, dummy. You're stuck!" He spoke matter-of-factly, grabbing at my ear and yanking it upward so he could lean his face into it, "Should I say it a bit louder!?"

"Jax, cut it out-" Ragatha went to intervene only to quickly reel her arms back in. I snapped my head upward and bit the arm on my head. My jaw opened much bigger than I thought I was capable of and latched onto his arm while growling like a dog.

Jax yelped, shaking his arm violently in a sudden panic which knocked me off after a few aggressive jerks.

My body was thrown off, head spinning like a top while my mouth went back to be seamlessly closed. I fell into Ragathan again, her softer body almost knocked over when catching me. She didn't say anything about what I just did, none of them did. Not even Jax.

"A-Anyways!" Ragatha grabbed my shoulders and gently nudged me in a direction past Caine's still floating figure and away from Jax. I couldn't help but look back, glaring at the rabbit untrusting as if expecting him to pursue.

Though, he seemed content standing there, clutching his arm to his chest with a bewildered expression in his eyes, staring back as Ragatha guided our group away.

"What's his problem..." I grumble, still trying to get used to the fact that my mouth wasn't actually opening when I spoke.

"Oh, Jax is just-" Ragatha got cut off, mouth snapping shut as Zooble stepped up, using her clawed hand to take Ragatha's hand off of me.