[ Despite the din of his own cries, Pumpkinpatch hears Gohan and looks down at him. The cat is some twenty feet up, backed all the way to where the base of his branch meets the tree, bunched up in such a way that he looks rather like a grouchy pumpkin. He pauses his yowls for just a moment to scowl down at Gohan, flicking his tail impatiently. If you were up this high on such a thin branch, you'd be stuck too. And he's not stuck!-- He's just... carefully planning his descent. It's very dangerous.
Zelda, who is standing on the opposite side of the tree trying to encourage the cat to jump down into her arms, also manages to hear Gohan over the noise. She peers around the tree and spots the boy. ]
He must be. He refuses to come down, no matter how I call to him.
[Gohan jumps a little at the sound of another voice. He wasn't expecting anybody else here. It was a girl... She must be the cat's owner.]
I can get him down for you, if you want me to?
[He didn't want to force her to accept his help, courteous boy he is that was taught to respect what women are capable of. But he'd never be able to live with himself if he didn't at least offer.]
[ Zelda looks from the boy, to the cat, and back to the boy again. The tree looks sturdy enough to support the boy's weight and has enough thick branches that it probably wouldn't be too difficult to climb. Link would be up and down the tree without even hesitating.
But this is probably more dangerous for a young boy than Hyrule's most unkillable cryptid. ]
Are you sure? He's awfully high up and I wouldn't want you to get hurt.
[ What if he falls out of the tree and breaks an arm or something? Zelda would feel horrible if some well meaning stranger got hurt because of her silly cat! (Because really, how can he not figure out how to get down when he got up there just fine?) ]
[Which begs the question of how a child gets into situations where he'd have to rescue animals from trees enough to become an expert at it.
Now, realistically, he could just fly up there. But he doesn't want to alarm Zelda with doing something like that, not to mention he doesn't like showing off his powers more than he has to.
So instead he chooses to just jump up there. Or rather, he disguises his flight up there with a well-timed and executed jump, so here is this child casually leaping 20-30 feet into the air to rescue a cat from a tree.]
[ Zelda makes the incorrect assumption that Gohan means that he's an expert at climbing trees, which is a perfectly normal thing for young boys to be experts at, so she nods her approval.
And wow, he's not kidding about being an expert tree climber... Zelda watches in amazement as the boy effortlessly bounds his way up the tree. He makes it look just as easy as Miriam did leaping up the side of a cliff.
(The people in this world really are incredible!)
Pumpkinpatch, meanwhile, is significantly less impressed by Gohan than Zelda is. When the boy reaches the cat, he will find Pumpkinpatch perched tensely on the tree branch, fur all puffed up and ears folded back. While he's annoyed about being stuck up in this tree, he's even more annoyed about the prospect of being rescued. Proud warrior cats do not need rescue! ]
[Gohan nimbly lands in the tree, delicately perching himself on the branch, across from Pumpkinpatch. It was immediately obvious to him the emotional state the cat warrior was in.
Thankfully, Gohan's always been a bit of a natural empath when it came to animals, almost as if he could understand them, in a way.]
It's okay, I'm not here to hurt you.
[Gohan gives a gentle smile, befitting the calm, even tone he's speaking with.]
You're not stuck, you're just too tired to get down right now, right?
[The cat weirdly reminds him of Vegeta in a way. Gotta appeal to that pride...]
[ Gohan's gentleness does not initially endear him to the cat. Pumpkinpatch flicks his tail irritably against the side of the branch. Don't you come up here and patronize him. You couldn't hurt a great warrior even if you tried; you're barely more than a kitten.
But as Gohan continues, the cat begrudgingly begins to settle (although his tail continues to thump against the branch). All right, perhaps you're not as much of a disrespectful upstart as you seem. It's a very hot day, the heat must be sapping his usual strength.
Pumpkin doesn't move from his spot, but he at least doesn't seem so annoyed by Gohan. He watches the boy expectantly to see how he plans to handle this conundrum. After all, he's stuck up here too now. ]
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Zelda, who is standing on the opposite side of the tree trying to encourage the cat to jump down into her arms, also manages to hear Gohan over the noise. She peers around the tree and spots the boy. ]
He must be. He refuses to come down, no matter how I call to him.
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I can get him down for you, if you want me to?
[He didn't want to force her to accept his help, courteous boy he is that was taught to respect what women are capable of. But he'd never be able to live with himself if he didn't at least offer.]
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But this is probably more dangerous for a young boy than Hyrule's most unkillable cryptid. ]
Are you sure? He's awfully high up and I wouldn't want you to get hurt.
[ What if he falls out of the tree and breaks an arm or something? Zelda would feel horrible if some well meaning stranger got hurt because of her silly cat! (Because really, how can he not figure out how to get down when he got up there just fine?) ]
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[Which begs the question of how a child gets into situations where he'd have to rescue animals from trees enough to become an expert at it.
Now, realistically, he could just fly up there. But he doesn't want to alarm Zelda with doing something like that, not to mention he doesn't like showing off his powers more than he has to.
So instead he chooses to just jump up there. Or rather, he disguises his flight up there with a well-timed and executed jump, so here is this child casually leaping 20-30 feet into the air to rescue a cat from a tree.]
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And wow, he's not kidding about being an expert tree climber... Zelda watches in amazement as the boy effortlessly bounds his way up the tree. He makes it look just as easy as Miriam did leaping up the side of a cliff.
(The people in this world really are incredible!)
Pumpkinpatch, meanwhile, is significantly less impressed by Gohan than Zelda is. When the boy reaches the cat, he will find Pumpkinpatch perched tensely on the tree branch, fur all puffed up and ears folded back. While he's annoyed about being stuck up in this tree, he's even more annoyed about the prospect of being rescued. Proud warrior cats do not need rescue! ]
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Thankfully, Gohan's always been a bit of a natural empath when it came to animals, almost as if he could understand them, in a way.]
It's okay, I'm not here to hurt you.
[Gohan gives a gentle smile, befitting the calm, even tone he's speaking with.]
You're not stuck, you're just too tired to get down right now, right?
[The cat weirdly reminds him of Vegeta in a way. Gotta appeal to that pride...]
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But as Gohan continues, the cat begrudgingly begins to settle (although his tail continues to thump against the branch). All right, perhaps you're not as much of a disrespectful upstart as you seem. It's a very hot day, the heat must be sapping his usual strength.
Pumpkin doesn't move from his spot, but he at least doesn't seem so annoyed by Gohan. He watches the boy expectantly to see how he plans to handle this conundrum. After all, he's stuck up here too now. ]