It's a hatching day in Primary Village! What new friends will hatch today?
It is so impressed with the wisdom of Elecmon's advice. There ARE some things that are rewarding to bite and others that are less so! This is important and useful information which resonates with the creature's experience of the world!
It flops on its side in the grass for a bit, tired out by all that wiggling, then rolls up onto its feet and observes the green blob's climbing attempts. Hey! Maybe it could help! Or MAYBE... it could BITE THE BLUE CREATURE.
Help? Or bite? Bite? Or help?
Wait, hang on, it knows this one! If you're confused about whether or not you want to bite something... you LICK it!
Slorp!
Chibimon is licked! It has a scaly texture with a bit of fresh hot marshmallow flavor.
It responds by swinging the teeny red blob at the creature, bopping it. It doesn't hurt the red creature much.
The teeny blob made SAD SOUNDS.
The creature pauses, taken aback.
Does it like the sad sounds? They feel nice to hear. But it also feels a different feeling, a more complicated one, harder to pin down.
Confused and unsettled, it sits still for a moment, trying to process this development. What is this new feeling made of? How should it respond? There are so many actions it could take! It can jump and hop and roll and wiggle and flap its ears and lick things and bop things and smush its face on things and... and...
Aha!
The feeling makes it want to BITE THE BLUE CREATURE AFTER ALL!
It promptly does that.
The red creature can bite into Chibimon's leg. The toasty blue scales don't immediately yield a take-home bite, but that leaves possibilities like staying latched on, or letting go and trying again.
This second, stronger bite ("Hot Bite!") not only bites into Chibimon but also singes it, tearing through with a sizzle. The red creature gets a good mouthful of toasty hot marshmallow dragon leg.
While Chibimon is distracted limping from that, the green blob
SUCCESS.
The red creature bops its nose against the green blob in triumph. Then it attempts to copy Elecmon's 'making it easier for creatures to climb onto or off of my head' pose.
Good!!!
Now the red creature can BRING ITS FRIENDS as it immediately charges for the nearest biteable plant.
(Chibimon hops off toward a different biteable plant.)
Charge! The green blob wobbles a bit, but manages to keep both itself and the red one on.
This particular biteable plant has strong gray-brown woody parts, thin red-brown viney parts, green leafy parts, and dangling clusters of round purple parts.
That's SO MANY PARTS. And they are ALL BITEABLE.
It tries the green parts first, because they are the same colour as grass, which it has bitten before. No need to get TOO adventurous straight away.
The woody parts are tougher and taste somewhat bland and stale, but with a little overtone of standing tall and strong and immovable.
(The teeny red blob takes advantage of its elevation to sit in a corner of two woody parts and nibble leaves from there.)
The viney parts are fresh but a little bitter and stringy, with a feeling like your skin thickening between you and the world outside you. Also, biting completely through a vine may cause a little limb of vine and leaves and an orb-cluster to tumble onto your head.
GOSH. This is an UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT.
It flaps its ears and wiggles its self until the little vine falls off, and then it examines the little vine. Yes, there's the part where it bit, and here is the rest of the vine! And the other part where it bit is still attached to everything else! It all makes sense!
It bites the orb parts on the separated vine.
The orbs burst with sweet tangy juice-and-flesh that also tastes of having an armored shell with razor sharp parts so that anyone so foolish as to try biting you not only can't, they get cut in the process.
Bite for bite, it's also the most filling food he's yet had excepting other blobs.