Pearl in the Pond

On the seventh day of the seventh month early in the morning, a young Dan Burroughs found himself running late to school once again! Dan was chronically late in life. It's a if five minutes just went by faster for him.

"Oh crap I'm gonna be chewed out for sure! Mrs. Ruthles is no joke." Dan instinctively covered his ears long have they been grabbed up by his math teachers talons.

Finally putting on his shoes Dan is on the move! No wait he forgot his backpack!

The streets of New Corke were plugged with people so much that rain would have to wait in line to get to the ground it seemed. Merchants in funny costumes could get swept away by the tide of people and little Dan had to get through quick.

"I'll never make it on time like this!" Dan decided to go to the roof tops. They were connected by sometimes shoddy pathways, but Dan had lived in New Corke all his short life. He quickly found an elevator up a building called Lapis Rapids then clicked the up button approximately 200 times waiting for the doors to open. "Rapid? More like oh I don't know super slow and stupid, whatever!"

The doors open with a 'ding' and Dan presses straight to the top, floor number 7. The elevator dings on every floor without stopping anything but Dan's heart everytime he thinks the door might open on his way to the top.

'Dong' the elevator reaches the top.

"Dong? Whatever it's top floor I guess." Dan looked out in the near distance to where his school was to see the path he must take. That's when he realized the scene he had just entered.

"Hey kid scram if you want to live!" A scrawny man with scary tattoos depicting a Phoenix was holding a small ?blue? dog by it's back leg upside down.

'Leave him alone! I'm not scared of you!" Dan was a martial artist, and was far from skinny. His body honed through grappling arts like wrestling, and judo.

"I'm not playing around kid." The man pulls out a gun and points it up. "Beat. It."

Dan was pretty scared now. Just as his heart started to waver the upside down dog swayed up to bite the gun wielding hand of the scrawny bad guy.

"Ow! Little beast you'll pay for that!" That split second was all Dan needed to close the distance and get behind to a rear naked choke on the bad guy.

"You're going to sleep buddy!" Quickly the bad guy goes limp, and the blue dog let's go of the hand while taking the gun. Dan let's go of the choke and drags the bad guy to the elevator and sends it to the bottom floor. That's when Dan really gets a good look at the blue dog.

"You're not a dog are you?" Dan asked the strange creature.

"You're not very smart are you? The not dog replied.

Dan shook his head dejected.