Foundations of Family

The small, spotted pup sniffed loudly , moved their face closer to Nova's and then smacked her snout with as much force as their tiny leg could handle.

"Uhm, ouch?" Nova glanced through their thick bangs at the tiny puppy. 

They were mostly orange with a bumpy, blue mane. Their tails were bright red with spots like a mushroom and similar mushroom cap patterns of their legs. 

"Well, your a fungi flavoured thing, aren't you!" Nova chuckled and pushed the pup gently with her snout. They examined the small hollow dug under the bush, just big enough for an adult hellhound to lie down in. They sniffed around then terribly-lit den, searching for any sign of a parent for this pups, when their nose hit something soft. They sniffed it and smelled nothing, a surefire sign that this was another pup, as hellhound pups have no distinct scent until they reach 6 months, to hide from predators. Nova gripped the pup lightly with her teeth and pulled it out of the hollow it was hiding in.
This one was mainly blue with and orange, spiky mane and white scale-like markings on it's back. Their paws were light blue and their tail tips were white. It had black, tear like streaks on it's face. 

"There's two of you, eh? Well, it looks like I'll be hanging out with you guys til your mama or papa or who ever else comes back to take care of you two." Nova said, but they knew that no parent would be coming back for these youngsters.                                                                                                                                                                                                                  The blue pup cocked their head at her and the orange pup snuggled closer to their sibling.

"I guess I'll name you two, to get some attachment so i can defend you better, you know.''
The pups seemed to not care, so Nova took that as a yes to names. 

"You look like a mushroom,so you'll get a mushroom name." Nova nosed the orange pup "Fungi is too basic.. so maybe a type of mushroom? Like Chantorelle, or Puffball, or...Enoki! Yeah! Enoki sounds good right?" The orange pup yawned and pawed at the ground.

"And how about you.." Nova looked over the other pup. "Well, you've got a sort of fish scale pattern going on so... maybe Ocean? No, too.. normal. Sea Foam? No, that's too weird. How about... Sea Salt? You look kinda salty."
Nova licked Sea Salt's unruly mane.

"Yeah, Enoki and Sea Salt!" Nova wagged their tails. "Well, Enoki and Sea Salt, I'm Nova."