Inner-Selves, No. 23 Part B

"Oh, you have guests, sorry to interrupt everyone, I'll just drop by some other..." Dash started to say, he stopped mid-sentence when his eyes took a glimpse at the diapered bobcat with a sword strapped across his back. "Hold on a second, what's a stinkin' youth sprite doing here?" the cheetah said, staring at Fidget directly in the face. His eyes were narrowed, Fidget returned a similar expression. "You wanna run that by me again, I'm a bit hard of hearing" Fidget said sounding irritated. "Uh oh, this could be bad" Seth thought to himself. "Hey, hey, don't get in a fight you two, this is someone else's house" Sophie said. "Now hold on Dash, he's not like that, let me explain" the leader started to say. "You don't have to explain anything leader, I'm sure the widdle baby youth sprite can speak for himself" said Dash mockingly. "I don't know who you think you are, but you better watch what you say you freckle-faced furball!" Fidget said, fire burning in his eyes. "Hmmph, if you must know, my name is Dash the cheetah, I'm the leader of a bike gang in these parts, and I also happen to be the number one hater of youth sprites!" the cheetah declared. "I think you'd better leave, Fidget gets hot-tempered when you talk down to him" Seth advised. "Shut up, this baby can defend himself can't he, unless that sword is just for looks" Dash said. That was the last straw for Fidget, he got up and grabbed the hilt of his sword. "This ain't just for looks Freckles" Fidget smirked. "Both of you stop this instant!" the leader said. Sophie got up and tried to grab Fidget's wrist, but Macho stopped her, once Fidget got an idea in his head, there was no use trying to stop him.
Fidget drew his sword and jumped toward Dash, aiming for his head, Dash ducked and Fidget flew out of the tent, crashing into Dash's mini-bike and startling the members of his bike gang. "What just happened?" asked one of them. "Hey isn't that a youth sprite? That's not good, big bro Dash hates those guys with a passion" said another. Dash came running of the tent, swinging a chain like a whip at Fidget. "You better not have damaged my bike baby-face!" he shouted. "Who cares about your stupid bike Freckles!" Fidget replied. He swung his sword, but Dash dodged it and tried to strike Fidget with his chain. Fidget instinctively held up his sword to block it, but the chain wrapped around the blade, immobilizing Fidget. "Darn it!" Fidget shouted. Dash came up and punched Fidget in the face, he sent Fidget flying into a nearby tree, his sword was now laying on the ground at Dash's feet. Fidget got up and wiped some blood off of his lip, this guy was stronger than he looked. "That punch was pretty good, I can't take many more hits like that, but I won't give him another chance" Fidget thought to himself. The others were standing outside the tent watching, Seth and Macho had given up on trying to stop Fidget, he was hopeless as far as Seth was concerned, and Macho knew Fidget well enough to know that he wouldn't change his mind about fighting this guy. Fidget made a quick dash towards his sword, Dash tried to hit him again, but Fidget ducked and slid along the ground, grabbing his sword in the process. He got to his feet and tried to attack again, this time Dash held his chain out in front of him with both hands, stopping the attack.
"What's wrong little baby, was all that big talk for nothing, it's past your bedtime anyway" Dash said. "Shut up jerkface!" Fidget shouted. He began to raise his spirit energy level, the others could feel it increasing, Dash smirked a bit, but still wasn't phased by what was going on. "Hmmph, your spirit energy is impressive, but I still think it's just all a part of your rouse" Dash said. "Fidget could cause some serious damage to this place and a lot of bystanders if he attacks with that much power" Seth thought to himself. He was about to intervene to stop Fidget when they all heard a beeping sound. One of the bike gang members looked down at his watch and noticed that the alarm was going off. "Whoa, hey bro we better get going, or your sis is gonna get really mad!" he called out to Dash. "What?! It's that time already?! Darn it, the last time I was late my sis liked to have bitten my head off!" Dash said, panicking. He turned to look at Fidget and glared at him, he hated to cut this short, but he had no choice. "Consider yourself lucky baby-face, you get to live another day, but I'll be back here tomorrow at the same time, don't go anywhere" Dash said to Fidget. Dash got to his mini-bike and started it up, the leader came over to him. "Dash, I'm telling you, that guy's alright" the polar bear pleaded. "And I'm telling you, youth sprites are all the same, we'd be better off without them" Dash replied. He sped off down the road, the rest of the gang followed him. "You're wrong Dash, things are different now, I wish you could see that" the leader said softly. After that, everyone went inside and went to sleep.
The next morning, Fidget was awakened because he felt a breeze over the lower portion of his body, he stirred awake slowly to see Sophie on her knees kneeling over him, she was taping a fresh diaper to his waist. "Uh, Sophie, what're you doing?" Fidget said, blushing. "Oh, well you messed yourself during the night, so I thought I'd take care of that for you" Sophie said, trying hard not to let Fidget see her blushing. "How'd you know how to make a clean diaper appear?" Fidget asked. "Daisy taught me and Macho a lot during our training, she said things like this might come in handy" she replied. Fidget tried hard not to smile, he was actually kind of glad it was Sophie that changed him, it felt almost...special. "Well, thank you..." Fidget said. "Oh, no problem" Sophie answered, rubbing the back of her head.
A little while later, the rest of the group was awake, Daisy got the directions to where they were going from the leader, and they got ready to leave. Fidget refused to budge however, he was challenged last night and insisted on waiting for that cheetah to arrive. After several pleas, Seth got tired of waiting and tried to drag him out, Fidget grabbed onto a heavy rock that was used as a chair and hung on. "C'mon Fidget, we gotta get going!" Seth said to him as he held Fidget by the ankles. "No way! That guy is coming back tonight, I'll look like a coward if I'm not here!" Fidget shouted. "Forget about your darn pride Fidget, getting this fireworks maker to help us is more important!" Seth replied, now grabbing Fidget by the waist of his diaper to get a better grip. "I said no!" Fidget shouted. Fidget gripped on tightly, and so did Seth, eventually Seth fell backwards with Fidget's diaper in his paws. Fidget turned around, covering himself, Sophie shyed away, and Macho tried his hardest not to laugh.
Soon after they were on the move to the location the leader had told them. Seth had convinced Fidget to come along by telling him he wouldn't get his diaper back unless he came with them. Fidget obliged, but the whole time they were walking, Fidget didn't say anything to Seth or look at him. They would reach their destination by noon according to the leader.