Coco

She is a minor character in *A Wolf's Journey*. She is under the ownership of a young girl named Josephine along with her sibling Smoky.

## **Physical Appearance**

She is a Unovan Zorua with chocolate-colored fur and large pink eyes. Her paws, eyelids, eye dots, and the insides of her ears are white, and she has a pink bow on her tail. The tuft of fur atop her head and the ruff around her neck are also white, and she has a smaller pink bow on her forehead. She wears a pink collar with a yellow bell on it.

## ***A Wolf's Journey***

### **Chapter 13: The Fox Kit**

Roxie wakes up from a nap in the living room to see Kia hand-feeding Coco in the kitchen. The Lycanroc hears her stomach growling and imagines Coco as prey, since she knows that being hand-fed by a human is a sign of vulnerability. Roxie nears her and Kia, and observes her owner feeding a few Oran berries to Coco. She then listens as Kia tells Coco to help herself to whatever she wants in the kitchen before leaving. Roxie watches Kia leave, then turns back to Coco and becomes livid when she finds the Zorua eating her meat from her food bowl. She stalks up behind Coco and growls at her. Coco jumps and whirls around, cowering in fear. Roxie accuses her of stealing her food and states she'll teach her a lesson before proceeding to snap at her. Coco yelps in fright and jumps aside to avoid Roxie's teeth before running off. A chase ensues with Roxie snarling and tearing around the house after Coco, knocking over a few things along the way. They continue wreaking havoc upstairs.

The commotion attracts Kia's attention and she sees Roxie chasing Coco. Kia yells for Roxie to stop and that Coco is a friend before running after the Lycanroc. Coco jumps onto the railing and slides back down to the first floor. Roxie, her eyes focused only on her target and not her surroundings, pursues her, but trips over her own feet and falls down the stairs, banging her nose in the process and causing it to bleed. She stops rolling only when she whacks her head against the front door and slumps to the floor. Winded, she watches as Kia ignores her completely and rushes to comfort the terrified Coco, telling her that the big bad Lycanroc won't bother her again. She places Coco on the kitchen table, angrily storms over to Roxie, and sharply commands her to get up. Even though she's still winded, Roxie manages to do so. Kia scolds Roxie for chasing Coco like she did, saying that she can't turn her back on Roxie for one minute. She then grabs Roxie by the collar and drags her into the kitchen to make her apologize to Coco. Believing Coco to be weak for trusting a human and despising Kia's caring nature to "prey", Roxie refuses, snapping defiantly. Kia becomes even angrier and kicks her out of the house via the back door.

A few moments later, Kia emerges with Coco in her arms and leaves the yard. Roxie, curious, watches as she brings Coco into the yard behind theirs and hands her to a little girl, whose name is later revealed to be Josephine. Kia informs Josephine of what happened with Coco and instructs her to call her if she sees Roxie in the yard or anywhere near Coco without permission. Josephine understands and promises to watch Coco at all times for the time being in case Roxie shows up. Hearing this, Roxie bristles with anger, determined to catch her prey.

After Kia returns home, Roxie gets out from under the back porch where she's been hiding and walks up to the fence. She overhears Josephine talking to Coco lovingly, saying that she'll protect her from the big bad Lycanroc until she apologizes before carrying her into her house. Thinking that humans nauseate her for caring about weak Pokémon, Roxie barks in rage and kicks the fence until Kia tells her to stop the racket and calm down. Still angry about losing her prey, Roxie snorts and walks away.

Moments later, Roxie hears Josephine and Coco laughing. She peeks over the fence to see them playing together; Coco suddenly looks in her direction, prompting the Lycanroc to duck her head. After a few minutes, Roxie peeks over the fence again to see Coco and Josephine jumping on a trampoline right next to the other side of the fence. Thinking quickly, she runs over to the hammock and pushes it right up to the fence so she's right across from them before getting on it and jumping up and down in an attempt to grab Coco and make off with her. However, Coco sees her and dodges her outstretched paws every time. Roxie then sees Josephine glaring at her, with Coco holding onto her midsection. Josephine tells a now-frightened Roxie to keep her paws off her Coco. Roxie, not wanting anymore trouble with Kia, decides to back down and is about to get off the hammock when Josephine hits her on the head with a tennis racket. The blow is hard enough to knock Roxie to the ground, causing her to fall through the hammock and create a large hole in it. She then hears Josephine calling Kia and informing her of what just happened.

Realizing what's about to happen, Roxie, stuck in the hammock, tries to get out of it before Kia arrives, but is unsuccessful. Livid at her stubbornness, Kia insists that Coco is not prey, and neither are any other Pokémon living in the city since cities aren't part of the wilderness. She adds she's caused Coco and everyone else enough trouble and proceeds to spank Roxie until she cries and begs her to stop. Roxie cries that she's learned her lesson and that she'll apologize to Coco tomorrow for terrorizing her. Hearing this, both Coco and Josephine agree and return to their games. Kia takes Roxie inside, ties her up, gags her with a ball gag, and puts her in a large, sturdy kennel as punishment for her actions before reprimanding her again on what she did to Coco.

### **Chapter 14: Apologies**

The next day, Kia frees Roxie and takes her to Josephine's house so she can apologize to Coco. After a little coaxing, Roxie does so and is about to walk away when Kia stops her and tells her to kiss Coco on the forehead.