Your friends tell you a rumor that the shamans will be eternally grateful if you bring them a powerful medicinal fruit. Problem is, it only grows on Tookie Island. Do you dare venture to this mysterious island of primitive gryphons? Do you think your friends are telling you the truth or playing a prank on you?

Even as a teenager, Malfosa was a bit of a stoner. The other gryphons that were his age were well aware of his addiction to hallucinogens. Whenever mal got "baked", they saw it as the perfect opportunity to pull pranks on him as he was an easy target during his times of weakness and the results were, more often then not, hillarious.

This particular time, a pretty young female tried convincing him that a powerful fruit with healing properties was on a far away island and that she needed it for her potions. Always one to help a beautiful gryphoness, Mal set out to retrieve the fruit.

The gryphoness thought she was playing a joke on Mal, she thought she was sending him on a wild goose chase. Little did she know that such island did exist and it was inhabited by tiny primitive gryphons that did not take kindly to the larger gryphons.

Apon landing on the island, Mal quickly located the fruit and sat on the ground. He was starting to get a little hungry and the fruit looked like the perfect "munchie". He bit a few of the ripe, yellow fruits off the branch.

A rustle in the trees startled him.

A few inhabitants of the island crawled out of the thick foliage of the island. They were barely larger then the size of a house cat but Mal, still strongly feeling the effects of the hallucinogens, thought that the fruit he just ate had made him grow to a monsterous size!
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About the Picture Itself
Malfosa's first challenge for the Windsonde community!
I was having trouble coming up with an idea for this challenge... then I remembered that Mal was a hippy who takes part in numerous hippy activities, including drug use. I assumed that a gryphon who was stoned out of his gourd from strong hallucinogenics that stumbled across a group of little gryphons would probably assume that either he had grown into a giant or that the world around him shrank.

Most of the Tookies actually seem to like Mal. My guess is that it's because of the mane. Tookies like how soft and fluffy it is! XD

And so I don't have any complants... I am not in any way, shape or form trying promote drug use! Mal is my only character that can get away with more contraversial content like this in my artwork... because he's Mal! I try to keep him as close to that "hippy left over from the 60s" as I can.

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Tookies used
Ulario: Thaine (Blue Quaker/American Eskimo Dog)
La-Lizzard: Molokai (Quetzal/Kodkod)
Biancarox08: Haruki (Scarlet Macaw/Red Fox)
ChatLunatique: Naika (Sulpher Crested Cockatoo/Angora Cat) - Well... you said she wanted to make a newst in Mal's mane!

Thanks to all of you for letting me borrow your tookies!



Character & Image © 2010 Traci Vermeesch-Vezina
Please DO NOT copy, alter, repost, etc without the consent of the artist! Character/Image are NOT public domain!