🔻Engima is slow to reappear, when he does he is in a elegant Santa suit, it is masterfully made.

🔷️Enigma: pleased
"As i once said, i may not be as padded as he is, i think i look stylish in this."

🔷️Gia: *blushes*
"I think you do."

🔷️Kelly:
"Same here."

🔷️Ori:
"(Valin's fake happy darkness is hotter than you)"
🔷️Valin:
"AA-CHOO!"
🔷️Walter:
"Bless you."

🔷️Valin: sniffles
"Thanks. That came out of no where. (Someone saying something nice about me?)"

🔷️Enigma:
"Now as i exit stage left for a quick wardrobe change, decide your positions for the sleigh."
[with a snap, he's gone]

🔷️Inry:
"That wasn't really him was it?"

🔷️Sig:
"A walking mirror?"

🔷️Kelly:
"Well whatever that may have been, we already have our positions set don't we?"

🔷️Walter:
"We do."

🔻they look to each other & nod. They then gather infront of the sleigh with Gia & Violet by the sleigh, then Ori & Sig, Valin & Inry, lastly, in front, Walter & Kelly. They wait for Enigma to return, upon doing so he walks over to them and hooks them up to the sleigh

🔷️Enigma:
"Hmm, maybe i should have invested some time in hiring some Elfs."

🔷️Kelly:
"Real Elfs, the Santa version. Or make people into Elfs of the Santa variety?"

🔷️Enigma:
"Homunculi."

🔷️Kelly:
"A, what? What's a homunculi?"

🔷️Valin & Inry:
"Artificial life form."

🔷️Ori:
"You can create life?"

🔷️Enigma:
"Temporary life, they wouldn't last forever."

🔷️Ori:
"Neither do we."

🔷️Enigma:
"...You're right...but, these would only last a short while. A kin to the life span of some short lived animals."

🔷️Ori: disappointed
"Oh..."

🔷️Enigma:
"...There...All of you are hooked up to the sleigh. Now i'm undoubtlessly sure the 10 of you tried to fly. But with the two who were here before these two joined gone, i'm sure all of you have racked in some, air time, am i right?"

🔷️Inry:
"So far we've only been able to clear each other's backs without touching each other."

🔷️Walter:
"Though we have gotten a fair amount of distance clocked in."

🔷️Enigma:
"Hm. Well today you'll be going above the trees and you will be racking up quite the distance."

🔻He places a traveler's satchel into the sleigh before getting in

🔷️Enigma:
"Do not worry, there will be no whips at anytime."

🔷️All 8:
"Good!/Preferable./Better not be!"

🔷️Enigma:
"(However i will be flicking the reins)...Alright everyone, we're going to just circle around tonight, do not go towards town. Now, rise up...."

🔻They slowly look back at him (turning to each other) & stare at him

🔷️Enigma: disturbed
"...mgh."

🔷️Sig:
"Aah-kh, we, jumped. We didn't just float up into the air."

🔷️Walter:
"We figured that you'd have to help us with a straight up take off."

🔷️Enigma:
"Ah..i see...alright, one moment." [reaches for satchel, pulls a book out] "Let me see...hmm...ah...ready." [puts it back] "When we get into the air, think that you are still on the ground, and run."

🔷️All 8:
"Got it."

🔻Taking the reins into 1 hand he mumbles as he waves & moves his fingures-! Waves his hand forward & a magical breeze whooshes around the lot of them & the sleigh! The team felt it and go from light surprise to *Ready!*. They rise up into the air and near the open sky

🔷️Enigma:
"(Nearly there...ready?)" [readys to flick the reins] "(and...NOW!)"

🔻He flicks the reins & like a shot they take off! Reins & harnesses jingle! He is forced back into the seat having been standing

🔷️Enigma: startled
"WHAO!"

🔷️Valin:
"Please remember passengers to remain seated at all times and keep your hands and feet within the ride at all times!"

🔷️Enigma:
"Perfect unison, synchronicity, you've perfected this?"

🔷️Kelly:
"Thank Ori! One night she had us do this, we did it every half hour or so!"

🔷️Ori:
"I knew we would need to be ready for this, so i made sure we would be!"

🔷️Enigma:
"Hm, clever girl....hm hm, i'm quite enjoying this!"

🔷️Inry:
"So are we!"

🔷️Valin: dying
"(I'm not)"

🔻The 8 ReinDeer breath hard as they run about the sky. Enigma pulls 1 way & they turn that way

🔷️Enigma:
"Heah! (I'm surprised as to how well they're doing this! It would seem i found the right group for this after all)"

🔷️Ori: giddy
"(I'm so enjoying this! I could never imagine doing this for real!)"

🔷️Enigma:
"...hm hm hm!"

🔻They speed up around leave the area they were circling & zigzagging around. No one is concerned about where they may or may not be going. Regardless, everyone is enjoying this!

🔷️Walter:
"This is the most fun we had in ages!"

🔷️Kelly:
"It feels almost like a rollercoaster!"

🔷️Inry:
"I love this!"

🔷️Ori:
"Let's do more dives!"

🔷️Valin:
"NOOO!"

🔷️Sig:
"Oh come on, just go with it!"

🔷️Gia:
"WA-HOO!"

🔷️Violet: happy
"(This, is kind of fun!)"

🔷️Enigma:
"Only A While Longer! Then We Need To Land And Have You Rest For Awhile!"

🔷️Ori:
"Awe Man!...mh?...Hey, does anyone feel that?"

🔷️Sig:
"Feel what?"

🔻BOOM!!! Everyone Screams as a sudden savage gust of wind hits them from their right! They jackknife & Kelly slams against the sleigh!

🔷️Walter: FRIGHTENED
"KELLY!"

🔷️Enigma: pained & straining
"Damnit!"

🔻They whip back round as they now spiral like a prop!

🔷️Valin: SCREAMING
"WE'RE GOING DOWN!"

🔻The Screaming continues as they go hurtling into the forest below.

⚫Fade to Black⚫
《Sounds of wood hitting flesh hard & branches breaking as well as metal twisting》

🎄Day 8

🔻...gray images...A small child is given a fluffy pet & is extremely overjoyed by the gift of the tinny cotton ball. The 2 are always together, the floppy eared thing always remains by the side of its owner...but a moment comes when the child watches as the nice smelling fluffy one is mauled before their eyes.
The scene trembles as it burns to a black out...
heavy foot steps with 4 tinking sounds to each step,
sounds of dripping,
a 4 clawed hand comes into view,
a fang filled maw appears as drool falls from a nose & eyeless creature.
A Crimson Mark appears on its forehead as it growls. It LUNGES at
🔷️Walter: startled
"AAAH-HaHh!"

🔻He franticly extends his front legs out to examine them, he freaks out-!

🔷️Walter: pained
"Hhhh, right....?...where, am i?"

🔻Covered in snow, his antlers are broken, he's banged up

🔷️Walter: pained
"?...-!Ah, Kelly! KELLY!"

🔷️Gia: distant & shouting
"Walter! Come This Way!"

🔷️Walter: pained
"where?...Shout Again!"

🔷️Gia: distant & shouting
"OVER HERE!"

🔷️Walter: pained
"eah? back there."

🔻He gets up, stumbling several times before finding his footing, and walks off. The connecting straps have snapped & hang from him

🔷️Walter: pained
"egh. (Kelly, how is she? What brought us down?)"

🔻He hobbles his way over to her. The crash site, tree limbs are all over the place. The sleigh is broken & tilted to its left; skis gone, front end fractured in several places, frame bent, most of the reins are gone with what's left draped over the front end

🔷️Walter: pained
"Gia, where is everyone?"

🔷️Gia: pained
"The only one i've found, is..."

🔻Just as badly hurt, antlers broken

🔷️Walter: pained
"eah?"

🔻He steps round her to see

🔷️Gia: pained
"He hasn't woken up yet."

🔻Enigma lays unconscious, badly hurt. He was dragged to the side of the sleigh

🔷️Walter: pained
"(He's bleeding badly)...w-We need to find the others."

🔷️Valin: pained
"you can take me off the milk cartons."

🔷️Walter: pained
"Valin!"

🔷️Gia: pained
"Inry!"

🔷️Inry: pained
"What about me?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"I'm more important than a researcher, i'm, a writer!"

🔷️Inry: pained
"And why is a writer more important?"

🔷️Valin:
"Because if you research something you could change the world and me being a writer...entertains it. It's just better, i'm not going to explain it fully."

🔷️Inry: pained
"whatever."

🔻Both badly hurt, antlers broken

🔷️Gia: pained
"That's five."

🔷️Inry: pained
"Five?"

🔷️Violet: pained & quiet
"five..."

🔷️Sig: pained
"Make it six."

🔻Everyone is badly hurt with broken antlers

🔷️Valin: pained
"Ori? Where's Ori?"

🔷️Walter: pained
"Has anyone seen Kelly?"

🔷️Sig: pained
"Maybe, there's a mound of snow back here with a broken antler sticking out of it."

🔷️Walter & Valin: pained & loud
"Kelly!/Ori!"

🔻They hobble their way over to the mound behind the sleigh & they all dig...Ori out

🔷️Valin: pained
"Ori! Wake Up, Please Wake Up!"

🔷️Walter: pained
"Kelly?...KELLY!"

🔷️Kelly: pained
"over here."

🔷️Walter: pained
"Kelly!"

🔻He quickly hobbles to the 3 legged & 1 eyed Kelly

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"walter."

🔷️Walter: pained
"Your leg is broken? And your eye!"

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"from when i collided with the sleigh."

🔷️Walter: pained
"I'm sure when he wakes up he can take care of you."

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"maybe...how's ori?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"Ori, come on, wake up!"

🔷️Sig: pained
"She moved, so i think she'll be ok."

🔷️Gia: pained
"Hey Kelly, let's get you over to the sleigh so you can lay down, ok?"

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"ok."

🔷️Gia: pained
"Walter lean against her right side, careful with her leg. I'll support her from the left."

🔷️Walter: pained
"Got it."

🔻They carefully move Kelly over, when she gets there they help her down to the ground

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"daddy?"
🔷️Walt & Kel & Gia: surprised
"Ah!"
🔷️Valin: pained
"Not even close Oricorio, but i'm glad you're awake."

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"mph? valintime, what...happened?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"We experienced some unexpected turbulence. The bane of Kiki and her delivery service an every branch of it out there."

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"turbulence?"

🔷️Walter: pained
"(Turbulence, that makes sense)"

🔷️Sig: pained
"What hit us?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"Rogue wind, my dad would warn me about it from when he jumped out of planes."

🔷️Walter: pained
"Your dad was a daredevil?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"Soldier, never fought."

🔷️Inry: pained
"My plane was hit with turbulence when i moved to this country, it really shook up the plane."

🔷️Walter: pained
"My dad had a business trip out of the country and his flight was hit by some pretty bad turbulence."

🔷️Sig: pained
"So am i the only one who didn't know what hit us?"

🔷️Kelly & Gia / Ori: pained
"Yes. / yeah..."

🔷️Sig: pained
"Mph..."

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"he's bleeding badly we have to do something."

🔷️Gia: pained
"We need to stop the bleeding on all of us. But if we don't get him to stop he'll-"

🔷️Valin: pained
"He'll be fine."

🔷️Walter: pained
"No he's not, he'll-"

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"live..he won't bleed out."

🔷️Inry: pained
"Not as long as he's outside in the cold."

🔷️Sig: pained
"(At least more are clueless this time)"

🔷️Walter: pained
"Why is he going to be ok?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"Truthfully *ok* ain't right. He won't bleed to death because the cold will slow his heart and it'll freeze over before his slowed flow kills him. He'll freeze to death first."

🔷️Gia: pained
"Then we need to get help, and fast."

🔷️Inry: pained
"Does anyone know where we went down? How far from town we are?"

🔷️All:
"....."

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"didn't we fly off in random directions?"

🔷️Sig: pained
"I think we did."

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"but, we need help."

🔷️Violet: pained & quiet
"but will we find it in time."

🔷️Gia: pained
"You can't think like that Violet, we will find help!"

🔷️Valin: pained
"There is one last problem."

🔷️Sig: pained
"What now?"

🔷️Valin: pained
".....have none of you realized the sun is out?"

🔻Whiplash as they snap their necks skyward, cept the still buried & laying down Ori

🔷️Valin: pain
"Looks to be close to noon, no? We're all still reindeer."

🔻They look to Valin with confusion, cept Violet

🔷️Valin: pained
"I keep notes of all things i do. I've been writing a log of our in-deering experience. We've all been slowly going Deer, minded. We're Human, not reindeer. Kelly's *leg* isn't broken, it's her arm."

🔷️Violet: pained & quiet
"he's right. i remember the truth, because of..."

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"You're right...we've been losing ourselves to this."

🔷️Sig: pained
"Didn't, you tell me there might be side effects like that?"

🔷️Inry: pained
"Yeah, we did...And we forgot."

🔷️Walter: pained
"What we did, how we did it...The night before last night, how we spent it."

🔷️Inry: pained
"But if you knew how come you did it too?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"I take notes because of how forgetful i am. You wouldn't believe how much i'd forget if i don't write stuff down."

🔷️Inry: pained
"Mh...sorry."

🔷️Valin: pained
"We all have issues, don't we?"

🔷️Inry: pained
"yeah."

🔷️Walter & Kelly: pained
"mh hm."

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"...."

🔷️Gia: pained
"...mh"

🔷️Sig: pained
"...(we're)"

🔷️Valin: pained
"The spell would always break via outside disruptors, this time the crash, for me."

🔷️Walter: pained
"(Something told me my hoofs were wrong when i woke, but, i was more concerned about-)"

🔷️Valin: pained
"Our forms are broken an hopefully the part of the spell affecting our minds. But it's o'viously broken another way if we're still reindeer with what time it is. We should rest a bit an wait to see if being conscious will trigger the spell."

🔷️Sig: pained
"Ah! It won't! We were our true selves when we woke up after that blizzard!"

🔻They stare at him

🔷️Sig: pained
"...s, sorry. i got carried away because i knew this one."

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"could it be that he's out cold?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"Our nameless deer-a-factor."

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"right, we still don't know who he is. but, could it be because he's unconscious that we're stuck like this?"

🔷️Inry: pained
"It's a possibility, but that would mean he'd have to remain awake all night."

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"he could sleep during the day."

🔷️Inry: pained
"True."

🔷️Walter: pained
"....Does everyone remember how our antlers are always last to be complete and first to change?"

🔷️Sig: pained
"You think they have something to do with it?"

🔷️Kelly: pain & weak
"Didn't they start regrowing too? For all of us when we returned to normal?"

🔷️Valin:
"Not only did they do that, we would keep some aspects of deer-dom at the point we'd get dressed, aiding our *We're truely Reindeer* slippage of mind. The last time had the most *still reindeer* before the complete humanizing of fawns. Final note, if we do change back, i'd like to point out we'd be naked as jay birds freezing our asses off, for our clothes are back there at that little way station of his. We'd die before he does."

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"then, we're going to stay like this, till they grow back?"

🔷️Gia: pained
"That'll be next year."

🔷️Walter: pained
"That's if he doesn't wake up. And, like Valin pointed out to Roc and Nil, his death may not free us from this."

🔷️Kelly: pained & weak
"Then we could potentially stay like this for the rest of our lives?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"for how ever short or long it is."

🔻All are silent....Valin bites onto the harness on Ori & pulls her out of the snow

🔷️Valin: pained
"While you looked comfortable in that snow bed, but it's time to gather with the others."

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"couldn't i have five more minutes?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"You can lean against me when you get over there."

🔷️Ori: pained & weak
"can i lean against you now?"

🔷️Valin: pained
"yeah, you can."

🔻All 8 gather near Enigma

🔷️Walter:
"We need to find help, but we're not in any state to really do it. Let's just sit here a bit to get some strength back."

🔻They all lay on their stomachs, resting...when

🔷️Inry:
"I...had a dream."

🔷️All:
"?..."

🔷️Inry:
"When we crashed, before i woke up, i."

🔶️Inry: pained
"Aah!...no, get, Back Here!" [Galian Beast walks away] "No! Aah!"

🔺️Inry in his Fox Costume mutates into a Fox. After slipping free of his costume & giving it a curious sniff he walks off yipping away...

🔷️Inry:
"I remember becoming a fox, and wondering that place."

🔷️Valin: guilty
"mphhh, i had a dream too. What i missed of my change, and then hunting you guys down. and, fighting you."

🔷️Inry:
"Did the creature's memory tell you why it took off?"

🔷️Valin: guilty
"no, it didn't. (It was because of the comment i made when necro death was stalking us. Some small part of me remained i guess, since i was still changing)"

🔷️Sig:
"I remember what i became too, and i remember, what i did too. I had become some reptile."

🔷️Gia:
"Do you remember becoming a copy of that thing?"

🔷️Kelly:
"No, just the change."

🔷️Ori:
"You really don't remember any of it?"

🔷️Kelly:
"...no..."

🔷️Walter:
"(Kelly)..."

🔷️Valin:
"I'm sad to say, that it had a bit of a euphoric feeling to it."

🔷️Inry:
"Mrph...after the pain, it kind of did, which is odd."

🔷️Sig:
"Not if it's to keep us from panicing around monsters."

🔷️Inry:
"The raccoon girl."

🔷️Walter:
"The guy turned into a siamese cat."

🔷️Kelly:
"Everyone turned into normal animals were calm and talkative. But once you threw that cat into that creature, they all became vicious towards it."

🔷️Walter:
"You're right, was it because i threw it? Or because of the blood?"

🔷️Kelly:
"The spell broke-"

🔷️Valin:
"Through outside means..."

🔷️Sig:
"I doubt every spell can be like that, they aren't that easy to break on tv."

🔷️Ori:
"I don't know, sometimes all it took was one good shake," [deepish ton] "*Snape Out Of It!*"

🔷️Valin: light ton
"AHHHH!...Where am i?"

🔷️Ori: deepish ton
"You've been under a spell sweetheart."

🔷️Valin: light ton
"You saved me!"

🔷️Ori: deepish ton
"Kiss me."

🔻Everyone is bewilderedly bothered by it as the 2 make kissing sounds

🔷️Gia:
"You done yet?"

🔷️Valin: light ton
"Don't interfere!"

🔷️Ori: deepish ton
"I can't keep my hands off this angel somebody marry us before it's too late!"

🔷️Sig:
"These soap operas are getting dull."

🔻Valin & Ori act rejected & *Hmph*/Nose up them

🔷️Walter:
"Before the show starts up again, i do believe we were going to rest here a bit. In silence."

🔷️Valin & Ori:
"mph..."

🔻They lay there resting, silently. As shadows move, 8 sets of calm breaths, the tranquil scene is broken by the sound of, breaking. They all snap awake to their antlers falling off, a slite fear hits them as they wait for the transition back to being a furless & freezing Human...

🔷️Kelly & Ori: fresh pain
"AAhh!"

🔷️Walter & Valin: worried
"Kelly?/Ori!"

🔻Kelly looks to her front right leg as her right eye opens, it's red, but clears up as her leg mends. Ori too mends after being ran over by the sleigh.

🔷️Valin:
"Ori."

🔷️Walter:
"Kelly your le-mh, your, arm. You're -! AH!"

🔻Everyone's Antlers Grow Back!

🔷️Gia:
"Our antlers are back?"

🔷️Ori:
"While i'm happy to be feeling better, i don't want to stay a reindeer forever."

🔷️Walter:
"Is this part of the spell too? Too ensure we don't cripple ourselves while we were like this?"

🔷️Sig:
"Would've been nice if he explained well more than he had."

🔷️Valin:
"I hate games that don't give you a complete manual or, in story or optional tutorials. Leaving it for the player to figure it out is lazy creator negligence. They deserve to be shot."

🔷️Sig:
"Agreed."

🔷️Kelly:
"So what now?"

🔷️Valin:
"We need to split up and go find help."

🔷️Gia:
"Like this?"

🔷️Walter:
"We have no choice, we can't wait for us to return to our true form first because we won't survive it and it may never happen. I only question if they'll understand us?"

🔷️Inry:
"I'd imagine that the eight of us can be understood by the reaction of the guy from the sona, us meowing and barking."

🔷️Ori:
"Heeheehee! I loved the look on his face! Shear terror to utter Confusion! It was too much for him and he passed out!"

🔷️Inry:
"Maybe we could just pretend to be normal reindeer, we could just bleat and get them to follow. I've seen videos of when animals ask for help."

🔷️Gia:
"I've seen them too, they make me cry."

🔷️Ori:
"So should we sound like deer? But how does one sound like?"

🔷️Valin:
"Come to think of it, have we even made a deer noise before?"

🔷️Kelly:
"Mmh, no?"

🔷️Inry:
"We started to believe we were reindeer but have yet to sound like one."

🔷️Sig:
"That's ironic."

🔷️Valin:
"We're talking animals who dreamed we were humans."

🔷️Walter:
"We, need to hurry. We have to find help."

🔷️Gia:
"But what about him? We can't leave him alone can we?"

🔷️Inry:
"If Roc is correct, then there is predatory animals out there, someone should stay behind."

🔷️Gia:
"I really wouldn't mind doing it. Unless one of you two, if not both of you, want to stay?"

🔷️Ori:
"I'm going!"

🔷️Kelly:
"I'd like to go, but are you sure you'll be ok alone?"

🔷️Gia:
"I will be."

🔷️Kelly:
"Ok, then i'm going too."

🔷️Valin:
"One thing before we go, though having these reins and harnesses on might help with getting not shot an getting help. They're torn, and we're dragging verying lengths of straps, if we have to excape something, they could get snagged, and we'll be dead. Let's carefully get these off first."

🔷️Walter:
"I agree, let's use our antlers to do it."

🔻They carefully use their antlers, sliding them between their bodies & the gear

🔷️Kelly:
"They're torn, it should make it easier to remove them."

🔷️Inry:
"We still need to be careful not to jab each other or squeeze the breathe out of each other."

🔷️Ori:
"Mine are already loose, i guess they were pulled pretty good earlier."

🔷️Gia:
"They're coming off easily enough."

🔷️Valin:
"The body ones are. Sig, if you put your antler into my eye,~"[demonic look]"~i will kill you if i survive."

🔷️Sig:
"Egh?...so, if i pluck up, i best pluck away your life to live myself?"

🔻They stare at each other...

🔷️Valin:
"Viy, please get the muzzle."

🔷️Sig: dejected
"aah."
🔷️Violet: surprise
"Mh, me? O-ok. mh."

🔷️Valin:
"I'll get yours next."

🔷️Violet:
"Mh, ok."

🔻Using the tusk like front branches she carefully gets Valin's off

🔷️Valin: charming grin
"Thanks."

🔷️Violet & Ori: pleased
"Aahhhh."

🔻Valin gets her's off too

🔷️Walter:
"That's all of them...now then."

🔻They look to each other...

🔷️Gia:
"Stay safe out there you guys."

🔷️Walter:
"You too. Try to keep from drawing attention to you two."

🔷️Gia:
"I will be quiet and remain by him to keep him warm."

🔻The 7 turn & walk in separate directions...

🔷️Gia:
".....Good luck everyone....."

🔻She turns & moves to be beside him and sits down up against him...as she lays there, in the sleigh sits the bag Enigma put in it....

🔷️Walter:
"(pick a random direction and just go straight. Our best option, but we aren't going full circle, not that there was enough of us to truely do that. But we search this way today, we'll check the other way tomorrow. Let's just hope to find something right away) Wishful thinking right?...but let's hope for a miracle."

🔷️Kelly:
"(I wonder how far we will go before night falls?)"

🔷️Ori:
"(I'm glad it's calm now, but didn't the weather report say it was going to be a chain of blizzard's? Or was it just snow storms?...either way, i really hope we find a way home)"

🔷️Violet:
".........(this, silence...is this how death will be like?...if we can't find help, everyone will die)"

🔷️Inry:
"(Even if this is our best option i'm not sure if we should've split up so much. One reindeer isn't going to survive a pack of Wolves)"

🔷️Valin:
"(Why is the song *last call* playing over and over again in my head? 🎵Sirens are blaring, the doors are closing. This is the Last Call. Hop on, let's go🎵. While the lyrics both do an don't go with what's happening...am i subconsciously thinking about giving up? Hurry up or give in? Fancy Pants more than likely *Will Not* survive this. The odds are against us you know? So, is my mind running the numbers and figured we might as well be reindeer?.....Don't give up, not yet...Alright)"

🔷️Sig:
"(This is annoying. I wish i was home. We'll find help some where. How are we going to find anyone way out here? We're useless. Just got to push on. We'll think of something, i'm sure i can come up with a sure fire way to save everyone....i must survive)"

🔻They wonder on, the forest seems unending & unchanging. It gets later & later as they walk on, and, something stalks them. Keeping its distance as it decides when to strike...when...a ReinDeer slows & looks around, seeing a passable patch of green for a meal, the ReinDeer goes over to eat...something moves nearby, it circles the ReinDeer, getting behind it, readying to strike! The bush rustles, the ReinDeer takes notice but doesn't move beyond a slight twitch...IT CHARGES! The Cursed Beast bears down upon the costumed partier! -! The ReinDeer evades the Wolf's jaws!

🔷️Valin:
"(A Wolf!)"

🔷️Wolf: hungry
"Gurrrrh!"

🔷️Valin:
"Heah, well aren't you a majestic beastie!"
🔷️Wolf: surprised
"!!!"

🔷️Valin:
"Well this will be fun! You want a meal, then you're going to have to work for it! That is how it works right?"

🔷️Wolf:
"??...gurrrh."

🔷️Valin:
"Let's Dance Wolf!"

🔻The Wolf attacks again as Valin brings his antlers DOWN! It barely stops in time & runs to circle

🔷️Valin: smug
"(I'm happy now that they grew back!)" [antler swipe!] "(They be not scythes, but they will do)"

🔻The Wolf zig zags to try & get around Valin's antlers & front hoofs! It lunges & Valin moves away-Thump!

🔷️Valin:
"!! (Tree!?)"

🔻He backed into it! The Wolf Lunges for Valin's jugular! -! Valin tips over, dropping left as it goes into the tree!

🔷️♀️Wolf: pained
"YIP! Aah!"

🔷️Valin: baffled
"*Aah*? You can speak? (Not good, are we loosing our humanity?)"

🔻As she trys to get up her legs flail about in the air till she can roll over onto her paws

🔷️Valin:
"Mph, a girl? Sorry for looking, but i must say, knowing now that you're a girl. You are a beautiful goddess of death!"

🔷️♀️Wolf: flustered
"Mh...thank you?"

🔷️Valin:
"!!!oah!!! You can talk! And your voice, is...whao."

🔷️♀️Wolf: *blushing*
"Mph, thank you, but...i'm as surprised that You can talk as you are that i can."

🔷️Valin: shocked
"Egh! Wait...does that mean, you aren't a normal wolf?"

🔷️♀️Wolf:
"I am normal. But i'm not a wolf."

🔷️Valin:
"Then are you a victim of a mage or are a mage?"

🔷️♀️Wolf:
".....What's a, *Mage*?"

🔷️Both:
"....."

🔻Valin tips over..He pops up

🔷️Valin: boggled
"Seriously?"

🔷️♀️Wolf: embarrassed
"Mh, yeah."

🔷️Valin:
"?...(She nicked me) are you, a werewolf?"

🔷️♀️Wolf: slitely upset
"No, my kind are not like those things."

🔷️Valin:
"? (Then what is this beautiful creature?)...Valin Crystal Cross. You are?"

🔷️Luna:
"Luna Warren."

🔷️Valin:
"A moon name for a wolf?"

🔷️Luna:
"All of my siblings have star related names because of our mother."

🔷️Valin:
"Oh...where, are they? (I don't hear any-)"

🔷️Luna:
"They're dead."
🔷️Valin:
"Ah!"

🔷️Luna:
"...i'm, all that's left of my family..."

🔷️Valin:
"(Luna)...i'm really a human. A guy who can use magic, a mage, turned me into a reindeer. Me and my friends are trying to find help because the mage is unconscious and won't wake up."

🔷️Luna:
"What happened? And, could you explain magic to me?"

🔷️Valin:
"Will you try to eat us?"

🔷️Luna:
"No, you're not animals, so i won't eat you."

🔷️Valin:
"Technically, my wolf lass, both you and me are animals too. Whatever you are."

🔷️Luna:
"Then...i don't eat people."

🔷️Valin: pleased
"Hmmm...come with me. It's pretty much time for us to turn around and head back if we didn't find any help. Technically i have, you know the area right?"

🔷️Luna:
"Yeah, i do."

🔻The others make it back 1st

🔷️Gia:
"...-! Hey."

🔷️Ori:
"Hey Gia! How's the sleeping prince?"

🔷️Gia:
"He's still out. His bleeding has stopped. So i guess the cold is helping him with that."

🔷️Ori:
"Well there's that at least, for i found nothing. I even ran for awhile, i couldn't find anything. I tried flying, but i couldn't get any higher than we did with out him."

🔷️Gia:
"Hm, well that should help with searching still."

🔷️Ori:
"Maybe, i feel really tired now."

🔷️Gia:
"Oh...? -! Kelly, Walter!"

🔷️Kelly:
"Hey Gia, Ori."

🔷️Ori: playful
"Why are you two together?" [swaying butt] "did you two have some alone time?"

🔷️Walter: embarrassed
"W-We didn't, we j-just-"

🔷️Ori:
"Ah, hah?"

🔷️Walter:
"We Really-"
🔷️Kelly:
"It's ok Walty, we can tell the young one how things work."

🔷️Ori: begging puppy
"Pwease?!"

🔷️Gia:
"Hmhmhm!"

🔷️Sig:
"Should we come back later?"

🔷️Gia:
"We?"

🔷️Sig:
"Sorry, i was alone for too long and began talking to myself."

🔷️Inry:
"How many sides did Valin say you had?"

🔷️Valin:
"Enough for a full party."

🔷️Gia: yelling
"Valin Look Out! There's A Wolf Behind You!"

🔻He spazzes

🔷️Valin: startled
"WHERE!?"

🔻Looking around franticly as Luna leans away

🔷️Walter: yelling
"It's Right There Beside You!"

🔷️Valin:
"Huh? Oh, you mean?"

🔷️Violet:
"(a, wolf)"

🔷️Valin:
"Everyone, i'd like to introduce to you, the beautiful miss Luna Warren.~"
🔷️Ori: sad
"(Beautiful?)"
🔷️Valin:
"~You remember how we wondered if there was more out there? Well she's of a Wolf People race. She un her's are not werewolfs, that's a racist insult. Nor is she nor her's, viral, infectious, so you won't become her kind via any means cept ma-gēka."

🔷️Luna:
"Hi everyone."
📚Wolf Luna; average hight, blue eyes, grayish white fur coat with brunette fur between her eyes down to just onto her muzzle then back covering the top of her head with most of the sides behind her eyes & down the back of her head to between her shoulder blades where a Wolf's Mane ends

🔷️Sig:
"Is, she going to eat us?"

🔷️Valin:
"She doesn't eat other people, nor does her kind on large. Those who chose to live as *Wolfs* might, but that is very low odds on happening. But then, if she ate yus, she wouldn't need to eat for a few months."

🔷️Sig:
"Ouch...times six."

🔻Ori jumps over to Valin

🔷️Ori:
"Heah heah heah! You found us a lōc, al? Hm? Did, i get smaller?"

🔷️Valin:
"Um, you might've? (I can't remember if she became eye level or just taller)"

🔷️Luna:
"You must be Ori."

🔷️Ori:
"I am! Nice to meet you Luna!"

🔷️Luna:
"Nice to meet you too."

🔷️Walter:
"Do you know the area Luna?"

🔷️Luna:
"Yes i do."

🔷️Walter:
"Do you know where the nearest town or residence is?"

🔷️Luna:
"...i do..." [looks towards] "over that mountain."

🔷️Valin:
"Yeah folks, we went over the mountain during our wild ride before the wind got a hold of us."

🔷️Kelly:
"We're no where near anyplace we can get help?"

🔻Luna goes to Him

🔷️Luna:
"I'm sorry...And he does need help too. I can feel how weak and vulnerable he is. I can lead you to the mountain and show you the best way across, but if we go around, it'll take too long."

🔷️Valin:
"Unfortunately Balto-yna here can't get us there and back in time, no matter what."

🔷️Luna:
"I'm sorry."

🔷️Inry:
"So are you saying we should just give up!?"

🔷️Walter:
"We can't just give up! We have to at least try!"

🔷️Luna:
"I was told that's how you would react, that's why i am willing to lead whoever wants to go. But we'll want to move quickly if we are to go."

🔷️Walter:
"Then please, take us."

🔷️Luna:
"..."

🔻Examines Enigma again

🔷️Luna:
"...We can wait till tomorrow to go. It'll be better for everyone if we move when the sun's out."

🔷️Valin:
"Besides that tidbit, we should do a little recon of the area. Lu seys~"
🔷️Luna:
"Lu?"
🔷️Valin:
"~that there is a stream near by, but it maybe frozen over. We may do ok with leafs for food, but i think we should really find something other than snow to, drink. This will help who ever stays behind."

🔷️Walter:
"Good point. Tomorrow we make sure the area is safe and get some water in us before we go."

🔷️Luna:
"It isn't safe."

🔷️Kelly:
"Why?"

🔷️Luna:
"There's a...mountain lion. She's pretty territorial, she doesn't except me being here, and she won't hesitate to kill any of us. She once killed a crippled wolf with an infected paw."

🔷️Kelly:
"So technically Roc was right. Wolves, mountain lions. Technically Luna's a hunter. So that's all three."

🔷️Luna:
"Don't worry, i only take what i need. The rest of the time i just stay on the move...for, i..."

🔻Valin nuzzles Luna

🔷️Ori:
"....."

🔷️Gia:
"Though i'd love this chance to explore the outdoors, i'd just slow everyone down with me wanting to look at everything. So i'll stay here with this one."

🔷️Ori:
"Are you sure?"

🔷️Gia:
"Yeah, i can already feel the urge to go explore. Not be a deer, but to ex, plore...." [quietly] "oh how i'd love to get lost out there."

🔷️Valin:
"um, you are lost out there."

🔷️Gia:
"Hm, i guess so...but i mean just taking off and going any which way my wonder lust took me."

🔷️Valin:
"Mh."

🔷️Walter:
"If you truely want to stay, then be careful tomorrow."

🔷️Gia:
"I'll only leave him alone for short periods of time for, the necessities."

🔷️Walter:
"Hm."

🔷️Kelly:
"We should get to sleep."

🔷️Luna:
"Don't worry, i'll keep an eye out."

🔷️Valin:
"(Same, i'll keep you company for some of the night, i'm quite use to little sleep. Playing games and writing my storys have eaten so many hours of my sleep)"

🔻They move closer to Enigma, with Gia being right up against him. The others get close but leave space as they seem to fall asleep right away. Luna looks around, then notices

🔷️Luna:
"why are you still up?"

🔻The 2 talk quietly

🔷️Valin:
"i'm going to stay up with you."

🔷️Luna:
"you need your sleep too for the trip tomorrow."

🔷️Valin:
"i'm going to be fine."

🔷️Luna:
"...you, don't trust me, do you?"

🔷️Valin:
"where's the logic of me bringing you here if i don't trust you?"

🔷️Luna:
"right..it's just..."

🔷️Valin:
"it's something that can wait. right now we need to focus on the surroundings."

🔷️Luna:
"ok...."

🔷️Valin:
"...(Luna)...do, you come out here for a run every now and then, or were you out for a bite?"

🔷️Luna:
"no, i was...actually leaving the area."

🔷️Valin: worried
"!!!...so, i got lucky to see you?"

🔷️Luna:
"yeah."

🔷️Valin:
"(when she gets done helping us...She's going to leave)...so, where do you come from?"

🔷️Luna:
"from the east, across the water."

🔷️Valin:
"you're from another country?"

🔷️Luna:
"n-no, from...i, can't remember the name. but, mom told us a lot more about where lived than dad did."

🔷️Valin:
"why?"

🔷️Luna:
"mom lived a human's life while dad and his family lived as wolves. so, he didn't care about anything that we didn't need to know to survive as wolves."

🔷️Valin:
"so she taught you about everything else?"

🔷️Luna:
"yes, we went to a nearby town to its library, we read all kinds of books there."

🔷️Valin:
"(She almost sounds like she went through that Amish Rumspringa thing, since she's out here, does that mean) you chose nature?"

🔷️Luna: sad
"...i chose survival..."

🔷️Valin:
"survival?"

🔷️Luna:
"it's, the thing you said that can wait."

🔷️Valin: gulty
"(Heartless. Had i known i would've let her talk, shut up!) you think i don't trust you, you chose survival...does that mean, you're alone?"

🔷️Luna: crying
"....."

🔻Valin scooches over the best he can & wraps his head/neck around her shoulders

🔷️Valin:
"please don't cry, don't let despair ruin your beauty."

🔷️Luna: caught off guard
"ahh!!!...mh."

🔻She leans into him...

🔷️Valin:
"(Little wanderer, hie thee home...i'll give you a home where you can forget)"

🔻They remain like this as it fades, to, black....

🎄Day 9

🔻Valin gently kicks awake

🔷️Valin:
"Good morning sunshine."

🔷️Inry:
"Mph, five more months. It's still white out."

🔷️Valin:
"...?"

🔻He looks to Luna, V gets a twisted look (She's concerned, ears droop) & turns back to Inry. Opens wide & breaths in! CHOMP! Inry springs awake screaming waking everyone up!

🔷️Walter: freaked out
"What's happening!?"

🔷️Ori:
"Valin has begun mimicking me! Or he's become a cannibal?"

🔷️Valin: sunshine glee
"Morning!"

🔷️Inry: angry
"(I'll show you a good morning)"

🔷️Gia:
"...He's still out...-!"

🔻Luna comes over to place her nose & mouth against his forehead

🔷️Ori: glee
"(Jealous?)"
🔷️Valin: internal crying
"(Is she kissing him?)"

🔷️Luna:
"He's getting colder, but slowly for some reason."

🔷️Walter:
"Well he didn't wake up from Inry yelling like the rest of us did."

🔷️Inry:
"Is that why you did that?"

🔷️Valin: glee face lie
"Yep!"

🔷️Luna:
"...With how slow he's freezing, we have more time."

🔷️Kelly:
"Then we don't have to rush checking the area."

🔷️Walter:
"Then let's split up, Luna will lead me and Kelly over to the source of water while the rest of you take a look around."

🔷️Gia:
"Don't forget the major difference between a canine's paw print and a feline's. The mountain lion's tracks won't have claws to them."

🔷️Sig:
"The mountain lion doesn't have claws?"

🔷️Violet:
"claws retract."

🔷️Sig:
"Oh, right. (Stupid)"

🔷️Kelly:
"If it is out there then you should pair up."

🔷️Valin:
"Me and my good ol bud buddy bud Inry!"

🔷️Inry: annoyed
"(you get eaten first)"

🔷️Ori:
"Want to go with me?"

🔷️Violet:
"mh, sure?"

🔷️Sig:
"That means i either go alone, join one of you, or i stay here."

🔷️Kelly:
"I'll go with you. Ok?"

🔷️Walter: worried
"mh?" [looks to Luna] "...ok."

🔷️Gia:
"Stay safe everyone."

🔻They take off...Walter keeps glancing to the Wolf

🔷️Walter: worried
"(Is she really a person, or is she a clever animal we can understand..and, she can understand us)..."

🔷️Luna:
"(He's scared...But unlike Valin, i don't feel the odd mix of joy. Walter is just scared, of me)"

🔷️Walter: worried
"(Valin was quick to trust her, but why? Just because she claims to be a person? Though i guess it wouldn't make complete sense for her to lie, what would-...we are alone right now. But how would she explain it to the others?)"

🔷️Luna:
"(His anxiety is so strong, do i really scare him that much?)...Walter?"

🔻He spazzes

🔷️Walter: worried
"Ye-yeah?"

🔻she stops

🔷️Luna:
"...you're safe with me, i promise."

🔷️Walter:
"Ah!...mph. (that face)...i believe you."

🔷️Luna:
"(But he's still scared)...let's keep going?"

🔷️Walter:
"Yeah."

🔷️Luna:
"...(All of them fear me. Ori seems too playful though and i think i get that she doesn't like me. But...i can't shake the feeling that one of them, hates me. This feeling is so strong yet i can't point out who it's coming from...Valin...His words. Though he fears me, there's that, joy? Serenity? But other than that, there's another feeling that no one else has ever given me)"

🔷️Walter:
"(She has a sadness in her too. And my fear of her must be affecting her. I will try to not be afraid of her)...how much farther?"

🔷️Luna:
"It's right up there, see it?"

🔷️Walter:
"?...yeah."

🔻With the sleigh just out of sight they arrive to a frozen creak

🔷️Luna:
"Do you think you can put a hoof through it? Some areas don't look that thick along the edges."

🔻Luna goes to one such spot, puts her front paws together, & pushes up off the ground & slams them down a few times

🔷️Walter: confused
"?...(She can tell?...i guess some people could tell, like ice fis-)"

🔻Crack/Splash!

🔷️Luna: heard only
"There."

🔷️Walter: terror
"!!!!"

🔻Luna shakes her legs off

🔷️Luna:
"...? What?"

🔷️Walter: terror
"(Was that her true form! Oh my God, she is a Werewolf!)"

🔻As if she heard him she becomes depressed & her ears droop

🔷️Luna: sad
"(His fear grew stronger, after he saw...then?)"

🔷️Walter: terror
"(She is most definitely Not a wolf! What if she curses us!?)"

🔷️Luna:
"(Will Valin act this way too?)...c, can you, break the ice too?"



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