🔻After the medical attention from the 3 Ladys of the cuddly apocalypse, the 8 join up inside to just play cards, poker, potato chips, candy & smashed pennies is the currency. Their stock piles very in size but the game has been going for awhile now, it's rather even. This stalemate goes for while till a final hand comes with everyone in! The Grandfather clock sounds off and everyone is quick to toss their cards at the one who had everything to gain and nothing to lose, this one complains about finishing the hand!
They all gather in the dining room.

🔷️Salen W.:
"Aah, here you are. You've been disappearing a lot lately my sky rose."

🔷️Valin:
"(It just isn't my night)"

🔷️Salen W.:
"Oh don't worry, i'm only here to eat. And to talk about how my mother also wants you."

🔷️Valin:
"I am not cougar chow."

🔷️Salen:
"No you are not. You're ment for someone young, like-"

🔷️Ori: bubbly
"ME!"

🔷️V & Salen & Sig:
"!!!"

🔷️Salen W.:
"You? Come now child, i think you should run off and let the grown ups talk."

🔷️Ori: not so bubbly
"I am a grown up."

🔷️Salen W.: condescending
"Sure you are. You're a fully grown woman, yes, i can see it now, why, what ever was i thinking."

🔷️Ori: burst bubbles
"But, i am."

🔷️Salen W.:
"-"
🔷️Valin: annoyed
"She's the same age as me."

🔷️Salen W.:
"Auh? You can't possibly believe the little lier?"

🔷️Ori: crushed
"mph."

🔷️Valin: evil glare
"If you say one more thing towards her i'll insert this knife into a part of your body."

🔷️Salen W.:
"!eh!...mh...Fine, if that's how you want to be, i'm sure you'll be happy with my mother."

🔻She leaves & Valin looks over to Ori, the ALWAYS bubbly Young Lady is quite the depressed little spirit. She pulls her hood over her head & sits there as tears fall. Valin trys to find words to say but remains quiet & goes to eat...suddenly her hood is pulled back, Ori looks to Valin, who's staring behind her. Hands rest on the shoulders of her seat. She looks up/back at

🔷️Ori:
"-!"

🔷️Miranda W.: motherly
".....my dear child, forgive my daughter, she is not experienced enough to know when one with as much experience as her stands before her. I am far from being blind to your condition...you have my sympathy for the life you must of lived...lift your spirit back up, you are undoubtedly blessed to have the group of friends i've seen you with today. Cherish them child."

🔻She leaves, Ori giggles some, Valin smiles as he looks at her...

🔷️Roc:
"So the defeated comes over to eat the scraps i leave behind?"

🔷️Kelly:
"These seats were open, that's all."

🔷️Inry: disgusted
"And i'll pass on food that fell from someone's mouth."

🔷️Roc:
"Heah, well i wouldn't even share my scraps with losers any way."

🔷️Nil: sad
"(If she won't share with me she's not going to share with anyone)"

🔷️Igaz Vespria:
"Losers like you shouldn't even have gotten involved in that game! You can't be us!"
📚5'10"_feet tall, Redish pink spiked hair, hazel eyes🔹️Blue dog hat with a star on its forehead🔹️Dark red jacket with a black right arm & mechanical looking left arm🔹️Black tank top with a shattered  4 point star on his chest & twin red blades crossed in back🔹️Black gloves with a bar missing in back & they start from mid hand🔹️Black pants🔹️Black & red visible-steel toe boots

🔷️Grimmjow Coyote Ulquiorra:
"Weaklings have no place on the battle field."
📚6'1"_ft, Icy blue short spiked hair, Blue eyes🔹️Panther skull hat🔹️White jacket with thin black lines detailing with a icy blue collar & sleeve ends🔹️White shirt with a black holes in his chest that resemble a paw reaching for his throat. A white panther necklace🔹️Pitch black gloves with icy blue back designed to resemble fur🔹️Pitch black pants🔹️Pitch black combat boots

🔷️Nil: depressed
"(I wish i had better friends)"

🔷️Walter:
"(Maybe we should've ate on the floor?)"

🔷️Roc:
"Wanna go again tomorrow? I wanna see if we can do it even faster."

🔷️Kelly:
"You just have to be the victor in everything you do don't you?"

🔷️Roc:
"Heah heah heah, of course! There's no point of competitions if you don't aim to win, and if you don't win, then you shouldn't of even tried."

🔷️Igaz V.:
"Why bother? Do we really need to do it again? Get me a real challenge!"

🔷️Grimmjow C.U.:
"There's only a hand full of people here i'd actually like to fight."

🔷️Inry:
"Do you mean really fight them, or something like the snowball fight?"

🔷️Grimmjow C.U.: sadistic smile
"Actually fight."

🔷️Walter: chills
"(I prefer Valin's smile over that one)"

🔷️Inry:
"Have you three fought it out yet?"

🔻The Igaz & Grimm point to

🔷️Roc: pleased
"Hmph."

🔷️Grimmjow C.U.:
"In our fight club, she is the top fighter, beating everyone."

🔷️Roc:
"Too bad there's no one left here worthy of my time."

🔷️Inry:
"I thought you considered Valin a challenge?"

🔷️Walter: startled
"(Ah! I forgot-)"

🔶️Valin: memory
"I'm a forgetful li'l so an so. But we collectively have forgotten to ask a number of things. Anything and everything concerning our nameless *friend*."

🔷️Walter:
"(Did i forget because-)"

🔷️Roc:
"What are you talking about? When did i say that?"

🔷️Inry:
"The first night here. The two of you almost got into a fight."

🔷️Roc:
"When?"

🔷️Inry:
"After the movie, don't you remember?"
🔷️Walter: worried
"(What should i do?)"

🔷️Roc:
"I don't remember this ever happening."

🔷️Grimmjow C.U.: eccentric
"HAHAHAHA! You got so badly beat you don't even recall it happening!"

🔷️Roc: furious
"SHUT UP!"
[readys fist]

🔷️Inry:
"I said they almost got into a fight, not that they did."

🔷️Roc: furious
"Where Is He?"

🔷️Inry:
"(Ah oh)"

🔷️Kelly:
"You need to calm down, there's no reason to fight Valin!"

🔷️Roc: furious
"Be Quiet! Now Where Is-"

🔻Alarms! 3 different ones nearby, a grandfather clock chiming elsewhere near a Cheetah's Purr, Church Bells by it self. 1 far off, the sound of a bamboo fountain. And, lastly, a silent alarm goes off that only a lucky few can pick up, Violet once more alone, turns her Rabbit phone off.

🔷️Igaz V.:
"What the hell is going on?"

🔷️Grimmjow C.U.:
"A cry for help?"

🔷️Kelly: whispering
"we need to get going!"

🔷️Roc:
"What was that?"

🔷️♀️Employee: pa
"The first movie is about to begin, will all going out for the movies please head out now."

🔷️Grimmjow C.U.:
"Hehhh, it's Die Hard night!"

🔷️Roc:
"Mph...Valin can wait, i'll deal with him after the tonight's selection."

🔷️Walter: relieved
"(Good)"

🔷️Roc:
"Go ahead and tell him, i'm not going to cheap shot him."

🔻The 3 leave...

🔷️Nil:
"Hhh, first Walter, now Inry. You guys trying to piss her off?"

🔻Leaves

🔷️Kelly:
"What was he talking about? And how come Roc didn't remember arguing with Valin?"

🔷️Walter:
"What Valin was doing earlier, we forgot. They, forgot, i'll say more outside."

🔻The 2 nod. The 8 slowly gather at the balcony

🔷️Walter:
"As we walk out, i need to say something to everyone as we head out."

🔷️Gia:
"What's wrong?"

🔷️Walter:
"We, have forgotten to ask that guy things, but, it would seem that Roc and Nil have forgotten everything."

🔷️Inry:
"You spoke to them after the first night?"

🔷️Walter:
"Yeah, i wanted to get them to join us, i wasn't sure if Valin could find anyone. But they couldn't remember anything, and i almost got her to hunt Valin down then. You two fight?"

🔷️Valin:
"I went to this place to figure out what it was and was roped into their fight club. But i didn't go back when the set of fights were over."

🔷️Inry:
"Well you're gonna have to be careful, Roc is going to come after you because she doesn't remember, she believes she must of been knocked out when you two *fought*."

🔷️Valin:
"And who's fault is this?"

🔷️Inry:
"A bit mine, but it was Grimm who really set her that way."

🔷️Valin:
"Hm, oh well, won't the first time i daunced wit-er, so i know what step to use."

🔷️Ori: li'l happy
"And what step is that?"

🔷️Valin:
"Boogie woogie run away form youie."

🔷️Ori:
"hm, nice."

🔷️Valin:
"Walter, you were saying they forgot, but you too forgot? Did, they forget the forgotten?"

🔷️Walter:
"Eeah?...w-Well Roc seemed to but Nil remembered the previous talk. But the weirdest thing is, she actually seems to of soften up!"

🔷️Sig:
"No way!"

🔷️Walter:
"Yes way, let me tell ya-"

🔻Valin holds Ori by the shoulder as the 2 slow down, she's confused, but it quickly vanishes as she turns red

🔷️Valin:
"i know you hate it when i do this, but, does this make you feel better?"

🔻a comforting hug as he holds her up similarly to before, but more Parent~Child like, his chin sits on her head. She scrunches up into the embrace & crys

🔷️Ori: comforted
"yeeaahh, it does...thank you."

🔷️Valin:
"if you want, we could sit out tonight. we can't sit out being deerrein, but we could sit out the activities."

🔷️Ori:
"mh, i'm good...we can join in."

🔷️Valin:
"you sure?"

🔷️Ori:
"i'm sh-! Your nose."

🔻The Deer-a-fication has begun! Valin puts her done & looking ahead to see everyone scattering, the 2 take off. Foot wear & gloves are hastily removed as fingers & toes shift and grow keratin, tails grow, bodys shift from their Human biped form to a ReinDeer's quadruped form, heads reform, limbs & necks' lengths change, and of course, their antlers, which seem a bit bigger than before.
And before they have a chance to groan about their upper clothing still being on, they are wisk off & the bags once more form around their clothes. They bite onto their clothing bags & gather together.

🔷️Kelly:
"Well, if we don't make it here and get our clothes off before it starts, we don't need to worry about them being stuck on."

🔷️Gia:
"It was nice of him to think ahead like that!"

🔷️Valin: sarcasm
"real nice."

🔷️Inry:
"So do you have any plans for tonight Ori?"

🔷️Ori:
"ummm...Not really."

🔷️Valin:
"How about we do something small first, let's do hide and seek?"

🔷️Sig:
"Seriously?"

🔷️Violet:
"i'll play...i'm, pretty good at it."

🔷️Kelly:
"Well i can't see why not, we did do follow the leader last night."

🔷️Inry:
"We haven't been able to get any higher or farther in our attempts to fly. Unless we're going to do more of yesterday, we don't really have anything else to do but fool around."

🔷️Ori:
"Not It!"

🔷️Val~Gia~Inry~Vio~Sig~Kel:
"Not It!"

🔷️Walter:
"Ah! Mh...i guess i'm it. (Awe man)"

🔻The 7 run off

🔷️Walter:
"1, 2, 3~~10, 11, 12~~20! Ready Or Not, Here I Come!...mh. (i don't see anyone. Ori's pure white fur would make her the hardest to find...well, i guess this can be fun if i can find everyone)"

🔻Walter begins to wonder around, looking for the others

🔷️Walter:
"(Pick a spot and don't move, remain as still as possible, hide till the seeker gives up...i heard a lot of noise, so a couple of them are hiding within bushes...where are you)"

🔻His search has him sticking his nose into bushes, hoping

🔷️Walter: worried
"(Nothing is going to bite me, nothing is going to bite me, nothing is going to bite me)"

🔻But nothin, he continues to search till finally, his first

🔷️Walter:
"Found you Gia!"

🔷️Gia:
"NnAh!"

🔻She is nestled between 2 bushes

🔷️Walter:
"(Ok, she was one of the bush hiders, next)"

🔻As Gia goes back to where everyone's clothing bags are, Walter continues to search, passing by 2 stripped saplings in a deep mound of snow. He looks around bushes some more & comes across

🔷️Sig:
"I know i'm golden, but i did hope i'd last longer."

🔻Sitting still next to a small pale tree with a bush on 1 side

🔷️Walter: happy
"(That's two, five more)"

🔻after a bit more searching the next one is as flat to the ground as possible

🔷️Walter:
"Comfortable?"

🔷️Kelly:
"Wanna join me?"

🔷️Walter:
"You make three."

🔷️Kelly:
"awe."

🔻Walter passes the odd saplings again

🔷️Walter:
"?...hm...(those...look like antlers...-! Are Those Antlers?!)"

🔻he goes along side them & carefully puts his front right hoof on the nearest 1...wiggle...wiggle wiggle...WIGGLEWIGGLEWIGGLE!-!POP!

🔷️Valin: GASP
"Stop!"

🔷️Walter: startled
"wAAAAh! Valin!? How Did You Bury Yourself?!"

🔷️Valin:
"I imitated a snake and shake un shimmied my way unda, i got fully under!"

🔷️Walter:
"eeaauh?"

🔻an image of Valin *Reindeer* slithering his way under the snow with a mischievous smile

🔷️Walter: sad
"(i really didn't need to imagine a noodle deer)"

🔻Valin trys to get up

🔷️Valin:
"ah, fudge muffins, i'm stuck."

🔷️Walter:
"Well it looks like you made your bed, now you have to sleep in it."

🔷️Valin: *annoying*
"Mukatsuku."
[japanese]

🔷️Walter:
"?...to you too."

🔻walks off

🔷️Valin: annoyed
"...i don't doubt it."

🔻Walter resumes his search

🔷️Walter:
"(Ori and Violet, just two more)"

🔻Walter searches & searches, but can't seem to find either one

🔷️Kelly:
"Ori and Violet are good at this."

🔷️Sig:
"Remember she said she hide the whole night away at the party."

🔷️Gia:
"How You Doing Over There Valin?"

🔷️Valin: irate
"JUST, PEACHY!"

🔷️Inry:
"Walter, you ready to give up yet?"

🔷️Walter:
"(I'm thinking about it).....YEAH, I Give, Come On Out You Two!"

🔻Walter goes to join the others when a voice rings out

🔷️Christopher Lloyd: *yu hu?*
"Walt?"

🔷️Walter: boggled
"-!??"

🔻Walter turns around & pokes his head around a bush

🔷️Valin: ala Christopher Lloyd
"Doesn't something in this mound strike you as odd?"

🔷️Walter:
"....-, rrr-right. I'll help you get free...Hey, can i get some help with this?"

🔻The others come over

🔷️Inry: 😈smug😈
"I wish i had a camera!"

🔷️Valin: annoyed
"Rack off."

🔻They dig him out

🔷️Gia:
"How did you manage this?"

🔷️Valin:
"Like a plow followed by shimmying and circular limb motion. I snaked my way in."

🔷️Walter:
"(again)"

🔷️Gia:
"Hmhm! So you became a sahara sand viper equivalent snow reindeer? I wish i saw that!"

🔷️Valin:
"The night is still young, and i might hide this way again."

🔷️Sig:
"So like now, we'd have to dig you out each time?"

🔷️Valin:
"Hopefully not, but possible."

🔷️Kelly:
"Ori...Violet, you better hurry if you want to see a beheaded Valin!"

🔷️Valin:
"jee thanks."

🔷️All:
"......."

🔷️Gia:
"Where are they?"
🔷️Valin:
"Ey!"

🔷️Inry:
"I don't hear anything, no bushes moving or snow crunching."

🔷️Valin:
"OIY!"

🔷️Sig:
"Maybe we should go look for them?"

🔷️Walter:
"Yeah, i'm worried about them."

🔻The 5 walk off...

🔷️Valin: shouting
"GET BACK HERE OR I'LL BITE YOUR HOOFS OFF YOU-"
[waving head around]

🔷️Sig:
"Was it smart to leave Valin like that? If we're worried that something happened to the others, what if something happens to him while we're gone?"

🔷️Kelly: playful
"I think we'll know when something happens to him."

🔷️Inry:
"..."

🔷️Gia:
"What's wrong?"

🔷️Inry: serene
"Imagining the silence."

🔻They all stop, it's quiet. They relax....Valin starts shouting again! They groan

🔷️Walter:
"We probably should split up, even if we don't know what became of them we should AAAAH!"

🔷️Others: shocked
"Huah? -!AAAAH!"

🔻A snow covered Valin runs their way like a steam locomotive! They move out of the way & Valin speeds by

🔷️Walter: mad
"Are you trying to kill us?"

🔷️Valin: irate
"You could have dug me OUT, FIRST!"

🔻Laughter

🔷️kelly:
"Ah? Ori?"

🔷️Gia: puzzled
"Is that coming from above us?"

🔷️Sig:
"Ori where are you?"

🔷️Ori:
"Like Valin, in a very clever hiding spot!"

🔷️The 6:
"...?...-!?"

🔻Sounds of a tree rustling, they look around till Ori comes plummeting down out of one, she laughs!

🔷️Sig: boggled
"What in the world, how'd you get up there?"

🔷️Valin:
"Are you part mountain goat?"

🔷️Ori:
"No, look at the shape of the tree! It's split an jagged, it must've been struck by lightning, it made it perfect to climb."

🔷️Kelly:
"It, was noisy coming down, if it wasn't i'd say you should've kept that to yourself..it would've been the perfect place every time."

🔷️Ori:
"It certainly was! But it seems that Violet has a pretty good hiding spot too."

🔷️Walter:
"She is hiding well."

🔷️Gia:
"She said she was great at this."

🔷️Kelly:
"Let's keep looking for her."

🔷️Ori:
"I bet i can find her! She's good at hiding, i'm good at seeking!"

🔷️Valin: looking up
"And hiding."

🔻They split up to look for Violet, they search for some time when in a large cluster of bushes, Violet is finally found. Ori looks around the bush before peering into it

🔷️Ori:
"Hey Viy, did you fall asleep?"

🔻Ori backs up & Violet stands straight up in the middle

🔷️Ori: giddy
"Heh heh heh! I found her!"

🔷️Violet:
"mh. (i was wanting valin to find me)"

🔷️Walter:
"I swear i looked in there, i never saw her."

🔷️Ori:
"She's well in there, but i saw her twitch, so i knew what i was looking at was her!"

🔻She steps out

🔷️Violet:
"(another chance gone)"

🔷️Valin:
"If i recall the rules right, doesn't this mean Ori or Violet are it now?"

🔷️Kelly:
"I think it's the last one found."

🔷️Violet: deep breaths
"(M-Me?)"

🔷️Inry:
"I believe so."

🔷️Valin:
"RUN!"

🔷️Ori:
"Good Luck Violet!"

🔻Everyone scatters

🔷️Violet:
"Mh...(well, if i find Valin first...then maybe, i can finally ask him, for what i want for Christmas)"

🔻She stays put & looks around. She stares at the snow, the tracks made, following them

🔷️Violet:
"(I'm sorry, but i'm not going to play fair)"

🔻She silently moves, so silently that she ain't making any noise as she moves through the snow

🔷️Violet:
"(that suit really helped me become even quieter)"

🔻Like the wolf on her clothing, she stalks the forset as silently as possible. She follows the tracks, and around the next bend is

🔷️Violet:
"(Valin, i-)"

🔷️Sig: startled
"Uh, i'm cought already? I didn't even hear you coming."

🔷️Violet:
"!!!...mh...f-found you..."

🔻Violet finds everyone, scaring each of them as she snakes up on all of them, Valin ended up next to Gia. After everyone is found it moves on to the next person. The night moves on as they continue to play hide and seek.
However...a point comes in the night when *One* of the group finds paw prints in the snow, the size & number suggests a lone Wolf is in the area. The Finder proceeds to cover the few prints up....
Regardless of the prints left behind by a nearby predator, the night continues on with out incident...

🎄Day 4

🔷️Walter:
"Hey...it's that feeling again."

🔷️Ori:
"This feeling? Is this what you felt last night?"

🔷️Kelly:
"It is, it means it's morning."

🔷️Gia:
"We should get back to our clothes so we don't freeze when we lose our fur."

🔷️Inry:
"Agreed, it ain't that bad out as long as i'm not freezing."

🔻They move off and come back to their clothes filled bags. But for whatever reason, though they know what is about to come, they do not take these aside to change in solitude. Although they are together as they return to being Human, none of them take note of;
Their spikes, when their antlers fall off spikes grow back longer than before.
Their ears still fully deer like.
Their tails fully fured.
Their feet, though correct length, are digitigrade & cloven hoofs still.
These area that seem to remain as the collective thought of *Now is the time to get dressed* takes hold. And it's only a short bit into getting dressed that these areas, an Ori's regression, take place.
Fully Human, clothed, and accurate formed, the 8 begin their treck back to the hotel. Seemingly oblivious to what's happening, they chat jovially. Upon their arrival they go to the fireplace, Enigma isn't there, then without a word, they turn for the breakfast tables. They once more eat an over abundance amount of food.
But as they go to leave the room

🔷️Roc: evil villain
"Found you!"

🔷️Kelly:
"Roc wait!"

🔷️Roc:
"Quiet girly! You and me are going, right now!"

🔷️Valin:
"Here? There's no room for a row here."

🔷️Roc:
"There is in the lounge."

🔷️Valin:
"May hap, but i'm sure we'll be kicked out of here if we fight."

🔷️Roc:
"Well what guarantee do i have that you'll fight me later if i let you go? No, i'm not going to let you get away."

🔷️Valin:
"How about some collateral?"

🔷️Roc:
"Like what?"

🔷️Valin:
"One of my friends."

🔷️*Friends*:
"What!?"

🔷️Valin:
"If we don't fight then you can beat up on one of my friends."

🔷️Roc:
"Hmmm?...You are rather protective of them, you would show up if i were to put them through the hurt locker."

🔻Taking advantage of her appearance, Ori does the Sweet & Innocent & Too Cute routine; big sad eyes looking up at ya

🔷️Ori:
"Please Roc, don't hurt us. I'm just a kid."

🔷️Roc:
"....."

🔻reaches for Ori, hand on head...forehead flick

🔷️Ori:
"Auwh!"

🔷️Roc:
"I'm aware that you're older than you appear, and for this i'd hit you just as easily as anyone else here."

🔷️Walter: upset
"Just leave her al-"
🔷️Ori:
"You'd treat me like everyone else? Like a grown up? Really? YOU WILL!?"

🔷️Roc:
"Eah?...Hmph, of course i would."

🔷️Ori: ecstatic
"WAHOO! Yes! She'd treat me just like you guys!"

🔻She jumps around

🔷️Roc:
"Not that this is very grown up behavior."

🔷️Valin:
"Believe it or not but i know two women at work that'd act like this, one's older than me."

🔷️Roc:
"Hmph, foolishness.

🔻She grabs Ori

🔷️Roc:
"I'm also well aware you bit Salen's head off yesterday in regards to this one here, so i'm sure you'll come if i were to hurt this one."

🔷️Valin:
"So when shall we dance?"

🔷️Roc:
"New Years, we'll fight as the ball drops. It'll be the perfect way to bring in the new year."

🔷️Valin:
"Ahhh, looks i'll have to stay up that night, the Vincenersonian callander only acknowledges Fireworks Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas! So i'll be free what ever night that is."

🔷️Walter:
"Fireworks day?"

🔷️Inry:
"He means the forth."

🔷️Walter:
"oh."

🔷️Roc:
"Make sure you show up."

🔻Pats Ori's head & walks off

🔷️Valin:
"Sayinara!...hm?"

🔻a courist of disapproval groans & glares (All but Ori & Violet- who silently backs away & leaves)

🔷️Valin: nervous
"Eh-kheh?...Yes?..."

🔻The group chase a screaming Valin through the building while Ori just walks slowly after them.....
Valin lays unconscious, beaten up, abandoned.

🔷️Inry:
"I can't believe he'd do that."

🔷️Gia:
"Do you think Roc would really come after us if they don't fight?"

🔷️Walter:
"(Was she lieing earlier?)"

🔷️Kelly:
"Maybe we should try finding that guy to tell him Valin's out?"

🔷️Walter:
"Maybe..."

🔷️Grimmjow C.U.:
"While i don't know what Valin would be *out* for, let me just inform you that was all for show."

🔷️All 4:
"What?"

🔷️Grimmjow C.U.:
"Everyone knows wrestling is fake right? Well, while our fights are as blood drenching real, all the smack talk, is just for show."

🔻As suddenly as he appeared, he was gone

🔷️Kelly:
"So all of that, is a big show?"

🔷️Gia:
"It certainly didn't look it."

🔷️Inry:
"Well Ori never acted like she was in any real danger, maybe she's snuck into their club before."

🔷️Walter:
"While Sig chased Valin like we did he was rather quiet."

🔷️Kelly:
"And gone now. Along with Violet."

🔷️Walter:
"We, kind of didn't give him a chance to explain did we?"

🔷️Gia:
"I guess we should go find him."

🔷️Walter & Inry: reluctantly
"yeah. (and get a walloping for our troubles)"

🔷️Kelly:
"Then let's go get Valin."

🔻They take off...

🔷️Sig:
"...hm."

🔻returning to the scene of the crime, they don't see Valin anywhere

🔷️Gia:
"Excuse me, but do you know where Valin is? Six foot, blue hair, black clothes?"

🔷️♀️ Employee:
"No, i'm sorry i haven't seen your friend."

🔷️Walter:
"Do you think he left, after he woke up?"

🔷️Kelly:
"I don't know."

🔷️Inry:
"Maybe he's with Ori and Sig?"

🔷️Walter:
"Maybe...maybe we should wait and apologize later."

🔷️Inry:
"Yeah..."

🔻in a dark quiet corner of the hotel, Valin lays unconscious, while Violet tends to his bruises...

🔷️Violet: caring
"...(i do this for you...and you...do that for me...Valin)"

🔻Else where

🔷️Ori:
"Come on, copy me!"

🔻Ori has found some kids to entertain, the lot of them are dancing the dance she did for the sugarplum fairy. The band is preforming the melody as they do it. Ori has an emotionless expression on her face as she dances, her movements are as graceful, but her face belays a sadness.

🔷️Kids:
"Thanks Ori-o!"

🔷️Ori: happy
"Your welcome!"

🔷️Kids:
"Later!"

🔷️Ori:
"Lātz!.....mh...(i don't want this family to break up...i wonder if i can do anything to bring everyone together?)"

🔷️Mirei Mistral:
"Hey there, why are you so sad?"
📚5'1"_ft, Pink li'l long-short hair, Red eyes🔹️A white & gold hat with floppy ears that have cute pirate cats on them-{1 per & 1 up top] with a dog mailman in back🔹️White & gold jacket with 3 cute pirate cats on the back standing over a dog mailman🔹️Blue shirt with a gold collar that has a bell attached to it🔹️White gloves with black paw prints on the back🔹️White & gold pants, left pant leg has the 3 pirate cats being chased by the dog mailman-{going down] while the right pant leg-{going up] has them chasing him🔹️Light blue shoes

🔷️Noah Trahma:
"Yeah, there's so many fun things to do here with everyone!"
📚5'8"_ft, Violet hair, styled bangs & high up tied ponytail, Blue eyes🔹️Winter cap that has a green field with a friendly yet demonic triceratops being laying flat on its stomach🔹️Small chest & full sleeves violet jacket🔹️White full button shirt with a black shirt with 3 platinum blondes (twin girls; 1 shy, 1 mean. Older lady is stoic) on the back. Necklace with a pendant watch that looks to be a balance of dark/neutral\light with an indicator on neutral🔹️Brown gloves with metal knuckles🔹️Pale blue pants🔹️Long brown boots

🔷️Ori:
"Well, my new family just got into a big fight, and now they might break up."

🔷️Mirei M.:
"Oh, you poor thing. Familys faght all the time, i'm sure things will get better."

🔷️Ori:
"hhhh, there's no guarantee, i know that too well."

🔷️Noah T.:
"Then maybe you can do something to remind everyone why they're together to begin with?"

🔷️Mirei M.:
"Yeah, do something you know that will make them all happy?"

🔷️Noah T.:
"Or you could always lock them in the basement with all the others that need help with their issues?"

🔷️Mirei M.:
"I really don't think the hotel will like that."

🔷️Ori:
"?...i think i have an idea."

🔷️Mirei & Noah:
"What is it?"

🔷️Ori:
"Well..."

🔻Violet, who had to leave Valin alone for a bit, comes back to find him gone

🔷️Violet: frantic
"!!, No!!...my chance to ask..."

🔷️Valin:
"Auch."

🔷️Sig:
"Have a good nap?"

🔻They're outside

🔷️Valin:
"Mph, yeah, but it would've been nicer if i took it willingly and didn't wake up in a crawl space. They really hate me huah?"

🔷️Sig:
"They didn't do it, they left you where you fell."

🔷️Valin:
"Hm, i doubt they'd believe me that it's just us playing around would they?"

🔷️Sig:
"You never know, they just might!"

🔷️Valin:
"O'viously i got the playful you right now."

🔷️Sig:
"Seems like it, so...what are you going to do?"

🔷️Valin:
"Hmm...well i can't pass on the nightly activity, so i'll head out an just stick to myself."

🔷️Sig:
"That won't be any fun will it?"

🔷️Valin:
"Heh, i'm quiet use to being on my own, i'll be fine."

🔷️Sig:
"If you say so. But i think the event won't be the same if you aren't fully into it with the group."

🔷️Valin:
"I can fake it."

🔷️Sig:
"....."

🔻As the day went on, Valin kept away from the others, Ori was running around doing something till she disappears, Sig seems to watch things play out.
The hotel activities today doesn't interest the team do to their fracture over the misunderstanding.
Late into the day as the band takes 5, everyone begins to hear music playing. They search till

🔷️Chopin Francais:
"It's coming from outside."
📚5'7"_ft, Silverish black hair, Hazel eyes🔹️Top hat of silvery black color🔹️Beep blue long jacket, sleeve ends are folded & frilly, collar is tall & folds iver🔹️A shirt with a photo of a night in a field of flowers. Pocket watch that's stuck on a particular time🔹️Silk white gloves with black fingers. Beads bracelet with the *Amelia* on it🔹️Deep blue pants with a black belt🔹️Black boots

🔷️Maria G.:
"Are they putting on a movie early?"

🔻Walter & the others go outside

🔷️Inry:
"The booth's dark, they aren't getting any movie going right now."

🔻They look around & eventually they spy the source. Up on another balcony is a violinist playing Silent Night...Valin is playing Lindsey Stirling's Silent Night on his violin. Everyone is captivated by the solo performance, Valin plays through the melody twice before stoping & returning inside

🔷️Walter:
"Come on!"

🔻They rush inside & hurry to the floor above the lounge, but by the time they arrive Valin has already gone.

🔷️Gia:
"Where'd he go?"

🔷️♂️ Gatherer:
"He went downstairs, probably to the fireplace."

🔻They return downstairs & find Valin fast asleep infront of the fire, Violet is nearby and Sig join the 4, Ori stands outside by the window

🔷️Ori:
"(Maybe that'll work, but if not, hopefully my idea will)"

🔻She runs off into the woods, alone....
Dinner comes & only the 4 are there, Valin & Violet and Sig are no where to be found, and Ori hasn't returned.

🔷️Kelly:
"We're only half now."

🔷️Inry:
"I doubt all three of them have sided with Valin and left."

🔷️Walter:
"It wouldn't be the smartest idea if they did though."

🔷️Gia:
"Valin said he lives out in the woods by himself, so they could of gone there?"

🔷️Inry:
"Do you know where it is?"

🔷️Walter:
"No."

🔷️Inry:
"Neither do i, so i doubt he'd take them there. Didn't he say only two others knew where he lived?"

🔷️Kelly:
"Yeah, he did. If they did leave it's our fault."

🔷️Walter:
"Their acting was just too good."

🔷️Inry:
"(Thinking about it, i think her acting was better and more convincing)"

🔷️Gia:
"The movies will start soon, and so will..."

🔷️Inry:
"We'll find out when the time comes."

🔷️Walter:
"Yeah, i guess..."

🔻walking by

🔷️Ammy K.:
"And i thought we had big appetites."

🔷️Inuken K.:
"You can never tell who's a big eater sometimes."

🔷️Kelly:
"Eh? Mh, we have been eating a lot haven't we?"

🔷️Gia:
"And yet we've kept our figures!"

🔷️Inry:
"Could it be from the, spell?"

🔷️Walter:
"It could be."

🔷️Kelly:
"Maybe our bodys need it after it goes through what it does?"

🔷️Gia:
"As long as i can keep my figure i don't mind."

🔷️Inry:
"I have mixed feelings about it."

🔷️Walter:
"Why?"

🔷️Inry:
"Though we found Valin a sleep earlier, have we slept at all since that first night back?"

🔷️Kelly:
"Hmm, big appetites, no sleep."

🔷️Inry:
"What else has changed?"

🔷️Walter:
"Mh, now that you bring this up, we only seem to worry about things when someone points it out."

🔷️Gia:
"Like those questions we forget to ask?"

🔷️Walter: worried
"Yeah. What's happening to us?"

🔻Their alarms go off

🔷️Kelly: excited
"Oh! Time to go!"

🔷️Inry:
"We'll find out about the others shortly."

🔷️Walter: excited
"Yeah, let's go."

🔻They take off as the announcements are made. Outside by the tree line the 3 wait

🔷️Walter:
"Valin, we-"

🔷️Valin:
"Have you seen Ori?"

🔷️Kelly:
"Ori? No we haven't seen her since, we..."

🔷️Sig:
"She wouldn't have run off would she?"

🔷️Valin:
"No, she's tough, she'd stick around. We should get going.

🔷️Inry:
"Valin wait!"

🔷️Valin:
"We better hurry, don't you think?"

🔷️Gia:
"We can apologize afterwards come on!"

🔻They hurry along to the spot, where Ori awaits them. The area has been done up into a shelter like fasion, snow walls built up high, with soft material to lay on within. But what captures their attention more is Ori herself, a grow woman with snow crusted antlers, ReinDeer ears & feet.
The Men stare at this wild beauty as Ori, in a dancer's get up, does the one thing she does best, the one thing that has made countless people happy when she's done it, dance...the dance she preforms seems to take advantage of her cloven feet as she glides around on the snow, her arms wave about and wrap around her like welcoming arms for a family to be held gently in. Snow vails the dance in a gentle powder from her antlers. The 7 watch, for an unkown amount of time as Ori's dance tells a tale, that only She knows....When she comes to an end of her dance she spun till she faced them, raises her arms high into the air- reaching out to the heavens, she then bends forward & puts her cloven hands down having turned into a ReinDeer within this 1 motion.
They are all ReinDeer now, changed virtually instantly when her dance came to an end. All 8 sets of clothing stored within the deerskin bags.

🔷️Ori: pleading
"Please, don't break up now, after all the fun we've had. I don't want this family to split apart."

🔷️Walter:
"We're not going to."

🔷️Valin:
"Hm?"

🔷️Inry:
"Grimm told us it was all just a show."

🔷️Gia:
"Wrestling fake!"

🔷️Valin: happy
"Hm...-!Akh!"
🔷️Sig:
"Wrestling Is Fake?"

🔻Laughter! Ori watches, even the shy Violet is *quietly* laughing. Ori smiles & tears fall...

🔷️Gia:
"So Ori, what's with this? How'd you make it so fast? You didn't need to go through so much trouble did you? Is this a theater?"

🔷️Ori:
"It ain't a theater, it's a lounge! I brought all these blankets out here and made the walls as high as they are so we can just relax tonight."

🔷️Walter:
"But how did you do it by yourself?"

🔷️Ori:
"Well...i asked for the spell for help. I used my antlers to make the walls!"

🔷️Valin & Sig:
"!!!"
🔷️Kelly:
"You did what!? How did you manage to get the spell to activate?"

🔷️Ori:
"I came out here where it happens and asked, i closed my eyes and put my hands together, and just asked. (I really wanted to bring everyone together, i could feel that it wanted the samething!)"

🔷️Inry:
"I can't believe that the spell seems sentient."

🔷️Gia:
"Maybe it reacted to her strong emotions?"

🔷️Violet:
"we became reindeer once she did, our clothes are in those bags again."

🔷️Valin:
"Where seven humans stood an where one danced, now eight reindeer reside in their stead."

🔷️Ori:
"Please, let's just relax tonight?"

🔷️Walter:
"Wait, we need to talk first."

🔷️Valin:
"As far as i'm aware we all hate wrestling do to how fake it is."

🔷️The 4:
"Ah!"

🔷️Sig:
"Surprising that Grimm hates it too huh?"

🔷️Kelly:
"Can you forgive us?"

🔷️Valin:
"Mmmh, not fully, you didn't give me a Chance to explain before you pummeled me, but yeah, we're still friends. Friends who fight yet stick together have stronger bonds in my opinion. Got two prime examples from my past for that."

🔷️Sig:
"Then you and Roc must have the strongest bond! Or you must be in love!"

🔷️Valin:
"I'd hit you if i could. There's brawling and then there's fighting."

🔷️Inry:
"So what is your relationship with her then?"

🔷️Valin:
"She's fun to tumble around with." [dead silent] "please tell me your lips are frozen shut and not silently thinking i'm-"

🔷️Gia: sarcastic
"No! We weren't thinking that at all!"

🔷️Ori:
"Hey! Everyone get in already! The wind is bitter tonight."

🔷️Sig:
"She's right, it is windier tonight. Mph, and colder."

🔷️Inry:
"I don't like it when it's as cold as it is, let's get in there."

🔻Though the walls are tall, the unfinished roof of sticks as well as the one wall gone, lets the cold in, but regardless of this it is still warmer in this small fort than it is outside of it. The 8 huddle together as they lay there, their backs to the opening. It is too cold & windy this night to do anything besides sharing their warmth with one another. In order; Walter, Kelly, Valin, Gia, Inry, Ori, Sig, Violet...

🔷️Valin:
"(Ori, you became a hybrid by sheer will power?)"

🔷️Walter:
"(If she can force it to happen, can i make it end?)

🔷️Sig:
"....?"

🔻Violet peers in Valin's direction

🔷️Violet:
"(i moved too slowly)"

🔷️Sig:
"..."
[he grins]

🔻This is the 1st night they've rested since the start of this, respectively, the 8 of them eventually fall asleep 1 by 1, as the weather worsens...
...
...
...
The sounds of a trapped creature...a rope, pulled tought, a pad of paper...a burned down mansion. Someone dreams, of reentering the scene of the nightmare.
...
...
...
Happy times, a sunday drive, silent words spoken, a child peers from the back, everyone is happy...when suddenly, the world is sent spinning, one way then another. Sky became ground, ground became sky, again, and again, till forward & back switch as sky remained the ground...silence, still, ness...a horrifying roar!

🎄Day 5

🔷️Ori: screaming
"AAAH-HaHh!? -!Ah!"

🔻The fort is dieing, the wind is grinding away at it every moment

🔷️Walter:
"Jesus, when did it get so bad?"

🔷️Valin: loudly
"Say It Louder, I Don't Think He Can Hear You!"

🔷️Gia:
"That Feeling, It's Morning!"

🔷️Kelly:
"But We'll Freeze To Death If We Turn Back Now!"

🔷️Inry:
"We Can't Stay Here, It Won't Last For Much Longer!"

🔷️Violet:
"are we, going, to-"

🔷️Kelly:
"Don't Think Like That, We'll Make It!"

🔷️Walter:
"Grab You Bag, We Need To Get Back As Fast As Possible And Hope We Only Change Back When Outside The Hotel!"

🔷️Gia:
"What If Someone Sees Us?"

🔷️Valin:
"Like Who? Unless You Don't Want Frosty To See Ya I REALLY DOUBT You Need To Worry About It!"

🔷️Walter:
"Come On, Let's Get Going!"

🔻Leading the way, Walter grabs his clothing bag & pushes on, slowly everyone follows suit. Pushing through the blizzard. When what they don't want to happen, happens.
With clinched teeth

🔷️Walter:
"Eh!"

🔷️Sig:
"We Just Lost Our Antlers!"

🔷️Kelly:
"We Have To Just Keep Going!"

🔷️Inry:
"I Can't See! Where Are We?"

🔷️Gia:
"I CAN'T TELL!...WALTER, CAN YOU SEE IT?"

🔷️Valin:
"Egh! -?"

🔻Ori, shrinking, is falling back where Violet is. Valin drops back to them

🔷️Violet:
"(He came for us)"

🔷️Ori:
"Valin!...Thank You."

🔻wrapped head & neck around her neck, giving a look to Violet

🔷️Walter:
"Mph!...I Don't See It!"

🔷️Valin:
"Ori's Shrinking And Losing Her Fur!"

🔷️Ori:
"I'm f-Fine, J-Just Keep g-g-g-Going!"

🔷️Violet:
"(My hoofs are breaking, these fingers are freezing)"

🔷️Sig:
"Off Kilter Limbs Aren't Making This Easy!"

🔷️Gia:
"We Have To Be Close, tell Me You Can See It!"

🔷️Inry:
"My Back Legs Have Shrunk, They're Slowing Me Down!"

🔷️Kelly:
"A Backwards Tilt Is Better Than A Forward One! Sorry By The Way!"

🔷️Walter:
"(Damnit! Where is it? We have to be close, we don't go that far from the place)-!Ah! (My legs are deforming now!)"

🔷️Kelly:
"Walter? Can You See It?"

🔷️Walter:
"Mph...-?.....I Think I See It!"

🔻A head of them is their destination, the Log Cabin Hotel

🔷️Valin:
"Do You See Any Peeping Toms Or Marys? I REFUSE To Re-Form Infront Of Any One!"

🔷️Walter:
"As Far As I Can Tell, No!"

🔷️Ori:
"Then Let's Not Fight It And Change Back!"

🔷️Sig:
"Time To, What? Again Valin?"

🔷️Valin: Annoyed
"RE-Form!"

🔷️Sig:
"(Re-form? And you call yourself a writer?)"

🔻They return to their Human forms & hastily get dressed as they could.

🔷️Walter:
"Come On!"

🔻Holding the door open, everyone goes in & the shivering 8 go to the seemingly never out fire

🔷️Gia:
"We're safe in here."

🔷️Inry:
"I hate being without fur."

🔷️Valin:
"Preaching to the choir bub."

🔷️Walter:
"When he gets done with us i'm going to be glad to get away from this place."

🔷️Kelly:
"It'd be nice to get away from it all, maybe go somewhere else for awhile?"

🔷️Walter:
"Yeah, that sounds nice."

🔷️Violet:
"....(wait...that ain't...no, that's not what they wanted...i don't...i, this ain't right, i-)"

🔷️Sig:
"After we warm up, let's go get some food, hm?"

🔷️Violet:
"ah? um...yeah."

🔷️Valin:
"I think i'll stay right here."

🔷️Inry:
"You need to eat as badly as the rest of us, come on."

🔷️Valin:
"jee dad, twist my arm why don't ya."

🔷️Gia:
"I know i could use a good meal."

🔷️Kelly:
"Come on, let's go eat!"

🔷️Valin:
"Are any of you warmed up yet? I most certainly am not!"

🔷️All 8:
"...."

🔷️Violet:
"(My desire...no...that's not my desire...i'll never forget, or turn from what i want)"

🔻She looks to the freezing Valin. He spys her glance & she looks away

🔷️Valin:
"Viy?"

🔷️Violet: surprised
"Eh! Y-Yes?"

🔷️Valin:
"While we were getting dressed, i saw your shirt. Your hat is a creepy wolf with bunny ears attached. Your shirt looked to be a bunny about to be lunch to a wolf. I don't get it."

🔷️Violet: depressed
"well..."

🔷️Valin:
"Sorry, it must be something personal to you, i won't ask again. (Won't stop me from wondering though)"

🔷️Violet:
"...mh..."

🔷️Ori:
"I'm glad i made that fort, if i hadn't then we would've been out in that all night."

🔷️Sig:
"What a stroke of luck the fight made you decide to do that, where would we have gone if you hadn't? If the fight never happened?"

🔷️Inry:
"So your beating had a silver lining."

🔷️Valin: annoyed
"Hmph."

🔷️Kelly:
"Let's not think about that anymore. It was a bad rush to judgment and it could of split up our-"

🔷️Matsu Maverick:
"What are you all talking about?"

🔻They all look up

🔷️Matsu:
"Why were you all outside, and what are you talking about?"
📚Black from spikey hair to his boots, red eyes, peach skin, 6' tall guy in an outfit that looks like he stepped out of a high end D&D movie, a Warrior.

🔻He comes down, a woman, Matsuwi's twin sister, comes down behind him

🔷️Myra Maverick:
"The storm has been going for hours now, where were you?"
📚6' tall, black long hair, red eyes, peach skin, a priestess crossed with an archer

🔻Myrrah is rather beautiful & doesn't share her brother's serious expression that never matches his tone

🔷️Inry:
"Who are you two?"

🔷️Matsu:
"We're just passing through."

🔷️Myra:
"We were...mh?" [siblings lock eyes] "We were here because of what happened. But it seems that the source has been dealt with."

🔻Suppressed shock by someone

🔷️Matsu:
"You were there, right? I'm sorry your lives were thrown such a, curve, ball...but heed this warning, it isn't safe to mess with what you do not understand. There are others here who came for the same reason, to locate the source of that power surge, some will sacrifice anything to find it."

🔷️Myra:
"So you should be careful if anyone approaches you about it."

🔷️Sig:
"Like you?"

🔷️Matsu:
"Of course, we won't be staying long, even if we must walk through the blizzard to get out of here. You'd do well to keep away from me."

🔷️Myra:
"You talk like you're doing something involving shape shifting, there are a great many pit falls in that kind of magic. You should stop before you can't. You are not trained to handle magic."

🔻They go back up to the 3rd floor of this room, a large rectangular object wrapped up in cloth sticking out of broken case sits where they go

🔷️Walter:
"Who were they?"

🔷️Sig:
"A cursed meddlers."

🔷️Valin:
"I love their clothes."

🔷️All Else: stunned
"....???"

🔻They stare at Valin

🔷️Valin:
"Well, it's clear that there is others here besides him. But can we really trust no one?"

🔷️Inry:
"Didn't you tell me you had to take risks to make friends?"

🔷️Valin:
"I'm wanting everyone's thoughts on this."

🔷️Ori:
"I think we should be careful no matter what, but we shouldn't be too afraid to try things out."

🔷️Gia:
"I agree, but this has been a lot of fun! Even with a few moments of terror."

🔷️Kelly:
"We're skirting around what happened that night, but i am enjoying myself."

🔷️Walter:
"I'd like it better if we weren't being turned into things. I really want this to end."

🔷️Inry:
"It ain't bad, but i agree that the back and forth is bothersome."

🔷️Sig:
"I'm enjoying this, but i'm ready for the next big surprise in my life!"

🔷️Violet:
"....."

🔷️Kelly:
"What about you?"

🔷️Violet:
"mh...it's...ok."

🔷️Walter:
"Hm, we can't exactly quit with him gone...should we though when he gets back?"

🔷️Valin:
"We can't, for he might go nuts if he returns just before and hears we quit. All his hard work wasted since he'd have no time to replace us. He might curse us."

🔷️Sig:
"yeeah, i don't like the sound of that. For our own sakes we may want to just see it through to the end."

🔷️Walter: pondering
"good point, we may regret it more if we upset a mage."

🔷️Ori:
"Then what should we do?"

🔷️Walter:
"...We'll go with it. It's not possible to back out without him here and depending on when he gets back it could go badly."

🔻Verying agreement

🔷️Kelly:
"With this decided, let's go eat."

🔷️Valin:
"Is the only thing you can think of is food?"


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