Housepets!

"eyce-Ice.." Hackle mimicked finally having a name for the really hard, cold water, hackle makes a note to see if the home had a library he believed it was called, keeping his nerves in check from hearing that the Gol.ret. controls fire, since his try at bonding with fire nearly incinerated the whole forest but stopped it creating about a mile wide circle, his home being the center point

Jake stepped aside as the group entered and Kaylee escorted Hackle to the room they'd been in earlier. She helped him sit. "Let's just make sure you don't sit on any of these tails," she said, moving all three to one side before he sat. "Do you want me to stay next to you," she asked Hackle.
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"Of course," Jake said apologetically. "Do you want a towel, Amanda?" he said, offering the one he'd been using now it was mostly dry again.

Rig placed the weapon carefully back in the display case he got it from before dropping on a couch and stretching himself out over the length of it, "Well I would say we had a fun time in the forest."

I know you won't try to break my son in half, but there is such a thing as "not knowing your own strength," or "getting caught up in the moment." Lupa said, very clearly not in the mood for debating this. Until you can GUARANTEE that my son won't suffer any lasting injuries, there isn't going to be a fight.
But Moooooom!! Noah whined, sounding more like a toddler than the young adult he was supposed to be. We wouldn't get hurt!! It'd be fine!!
Noah, your mother said no, you should respect her wishes. Besides, I know for a fact you two would wind up trashing the yard.
....... We wouldn't trash all of it.

Rig sat back in the chair and thought about those phrases hard, coming to a rather sad conclusion, "I- I have tobe on the side with your mother's worry. I am, uh, obviously a predator. I can feel the urge to hunt, like it is in the back of my head. It is easy to control, but getting caught up in the moment" could be a danger for both of us." He cast his eyes down, his ears travelling to the back of his head, "I can heal, but, I do not know if it will be in time. I do not truly want to hurt you. But knowing this, if you still want to fight... I'm not going to say no, but I'm not going to fight all out either. I know what I can do, I know my limits and I will not put them to the test."

Hackle sent Kaylee a soft smile, while he used wind to keep the chemicals in the cleaning supplies from his nose since coming in, the soft material, obviously not fur, obviously soft "no have to" Hackle rolled shakes his head at their "issue" "It's better to get hurt in a spar with loved ones and friends near, then it is to die in battle around enimies because you were not prepared" Hacckle quotes from Kavick Inkheart, the only sentence he remembered by heart though he kne half of the words meaning it made him feel wiser

Kaylee worked her way through the words as Andrew entered and took up his chair again. "I think I get it," she said, "it's better to test your limits against someone who won't try to kill you?" She nodded and smiled to Hackle. "Smart words, I think." She crossed to the sofa next to Amanda and slipped down beside her friend. "You look tired," she told her friend.
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"Can I help you get the drinks in, Stephen," Jake asked.

Hackle sighed having always hated his lack of speach, or his inability to write due to the situations of living alone not knowing about civilization nearby "you, have.. test?" He tilts as he asks his question curious

Welsh Halfwit wrote:"I was joking a bit, Sandy," Andrew confessed. "But this," he added, stroking the top of Sandy's muzzle, "is about a thousand times better a sniffer than a human nose. Sometimes I envy how much you can smell but I imagine you've smelt some really bad things too, eh?"

"Oh, yeah!" Andy is treated to an enthusiastic description of all manner of foul smells from the dog as they enter the kitchen. Chief among them are smells coming from humans but this is said in innocence and it's likely that Sandy has no idea that he might be offending Andy.

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Holly pokes her tongue out at Kaylee cheekily as the cat calls her a cheat.
"You'd be surprised, Rig. Noah has already made one big crater." she says before listening to the thoughts of the pets and of Noah's owner.
"Well, how about this then. Instead of fighting, let's make a series of challenges and see if Noah or Rig can complete them quicker. Kinda like the Amazing Race but with magic." she suggests by way of compromise. "If there's to be a fighting component I'm sure we can make some sort of dummy to be attacked."

Amanda nodded, accepting the offered towel, "Thank you." She started to dry herself lightly, starting with her frost covered cheeks as she listened to the conversation, but stayed silent as the others said most of all that should be said and took a seat. She looked to Kaylee when she sat next to her, giving a small chuckle, "Maybe a little. It's been a long day, filled with more excitement than I'm used to. But, what about you? How have you been holding up with everything that's been going on? I mean, you practically carried Hackle here, and you've done a lot of other things today. If anyone should be tired it should be you."

Rig lifted an eyebrow, "I was there. I found him in a store and he got scared and ran away. Then I tracked him down and he got scared again so he punched me across the street. It was a pretty good punch, not too painful, but it moved me so it could not be that bad. I agree with your idea, a series of trials to test our skills, just like training. Sounds like it could be fun."

"I'm going to have to buy some of that odour neutral showr gel, aren't I," Andrew asked with a chuckle as he sat and scritched his new friends' head.
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Kaylee felt like yawning but swallowed it down. "Benefit of being a wanderer, Amanda," she said. "We get by on only a bit of sleep most days and nights." She grinned to her friend. "Kinda alien for a cat, I know. And I needed to be close to Hackle," she added quietly. "He's scared."
"P...put me down for the, um, tests too," Jake said as he waited near Amanda for the chance to ask her what she wanted to drink.

Rig stared hard at the rabbit after his request, " ... So it is me, Noah and the rabbit. Does anyone else want to join?" He looked around the room.

Yensid and Retlaw dropped onto the couch as well, pulling their hoods down. Yensid leaned his head against Amanda's side and Retlaw simply sat upside down with his head across Yensid's lap. They would've seemed like they were asleep, if it weren't for the quiet melody they were humming.

"I'll take a piece of that action, Rig!"

"Oh no you won't!"

"Although you do look like someone who could take a good punch from me," Jake said, looking over at Rig before getting doubts. "If I, um, pulled it. Which I would... of course." He looked back to Amanda. "Uh, can I get you a... you ladies a drink?"
"Tuna fish spritzer," Kaylee said. "Or Lemonade."

Rig flicked his eyes over to the rabbit, his gaze growing dangerously thin, "Insult me so and we will see who can take a punch..." He disappeared and reappeared holding a glass of orange soda in his paw, taking a draught from it and placing it gently on the table. "So, what should these trials be? Now that it is known who is to be joining into."

"I...I'm not insulting you, Mr, um, Rig," Jake protested. "I'm just... a lot stronger than I, er, look."

Deciding to take that moment to speak up, Bonnie jumps in with, "I'd need Sandy's help with the pyrotechnics, but I could set up a replica of one of the practice drills from work? It's more a 'decisions under pressure' and endurance thing, but it might make a good starter round..." as she gets out her spell book, trying to find one that would be useful for making props.

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((couldn't think of a good reason for little sandy to be quiet as long as i was gone, so... plan B: STALL!))

Meanwhile back in the woods, A certain exhausted and slightly out of shape Chinchilla has gotten herself turned around for the 15th or 16th time...

"Guys? ComeOnThisIsn'tFunAnymoreWhereDidEverybodyGo? KnewIshouldn'tHaveTriedToFollowThem... WhereTheHeckAmI?"

"Aah!" Jake said, almost jumping way back as the Dalmation spoke. He held his hand over his heart. "I didn't see you there! You're like a ghost or something!" He heaved his breath slightly.
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"Aren't we missing someone," Kaylee asked, looking around.

Rig sniffed around the air, "We are..." He takes another deep breath, "... Oh! We are missing other Sandy! There was a smell missing."

Kaylee sighed. "Never gonna get any rest today..." She sat up. "OK, um, Noah? Can you try and contact her? Find out if she's here? Guessing that she isn't, I suggedst Three teams. Bonnie and me, Amanda and Sandy and Rig and Noah." She paused. "Canines for scent, Felines for night vision. If it's OK?"

"I am okay with this idea. You seem to hint that it will be dark. Hah! Sounds like this will be fun." He glanced over at the Dalmatian, remembering their earlier dispute, "I think these teams are of good match up."

"Err, I mean search teams," Kaylee clarified. "For Sandy Chinchilla?"

"Oh..." He scratched his head, "Knowing that, shall we go Noah? Should not be hard to track her down with our skills."

Hackle sat there thoughtfully, watching them fret a bit over a missing kit was his best guess, having never met sandy offically or knew her scent, hackle decided to stay or he would get in the way of things besides to look around the new place till they returned seemed like a good idea, "Better mi stay, mi no, know scent, group slow with mi." he also jestured to his now only tingling leg but still keep him troubled with walking

Amanda was about to press Kaylee for her thoughts on Hackle being scared when Sandy's disappearance came to light. She suppressed a sigh as she nodded in agreement with the teams, "No complaints from me. How about you Sandy." She addressed the dog.

Rig stood up and grabbed Noah's wrist, a faint glow coming from him as he drew on the power of his runes, "She is not here. Even making my senses stronger, I can not smell her in this house. She must be out of doors." And in a flash they were gone, this time appearing on the roof of the house, giving them both a vantage point.

Welsh Halfwit wrote:"I'm going to have to buy some of that odour neutral showr gel, aren't I," Andrew asked with a chuckle as he sat and scritched his new friends' head.

"Hmm? Oh, no, you're okay. I think anyway. I haven't tried living with you yet. Motht human platheth have bad thmellth though..."

Buster wrote:Deciding to take that moment to speak up, Bonnie jumps in with, "I'd need Sandy's help with the pyrotechnics, but I could set up a replica of one of the practice drills from work? It's more a 'decisions under pressure' and endurance thing, but it might make a good starter round..." as she gets out her spell book, trying to find one that would be useful for making props.

Sandy hesitates at this suggestion.
"Are you thsure? I don't want to acthidentally burn thomeone..."

Neon Icy Wings wrote:Amanda was about to press Kaylee for her thoughts on Hackle being scared when Sandy's disappearance came to light. She suppressed a sigh as she nodded in agreement with the teams, "No complaints from me. How about you Sandy." She addressed the dog.

"Okay! Deal!" Sandy grins and wags his tail. "Bet me and Amanda find her firtht!" he challenges before glaring mock angrily at the empty space that had been Rig and Noah.
"Hey! That'th cheating! Let'th go catch up to them, Amanda!" Taking the cat's paw the retriever dashes from the house.

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Holly suddenly finds herself sitting in midair as the wolf disappears from under her. She drops a foot or two with a cry of shock until she manages to catch herself with her power. She glances around and then levitates onto Andrew's shoulder as he's the nearest creature to her.
"What about you, Jake? Will you go with them?" she calls down to the rabbit before apologising to Andy in advance in case she freezes his shoulder.

Jakes' eyes widened as he watched Holly. He raised a hand. "Lev...levitation," he asked hopefully as Kaylee let Bonnie lead the way. Bonnie being the professional, of course.

"I've seen how well you control those flames, you were showing off that bird earlier, you'll do fine." Bonnie starts up, trying to reassure sandy, "Besides I've got a few safety... precautions... nevermind we'll talk later..." She trails off, as the other dog bolts off, feline counterpart in tow.

Looking around, and noticing others have left as well, she turns to her designated partner. "We're looking for that little gray rodent right? We should probably retrace the route everyone took earlier. If she went outside, it's a good place to start." She explains as they head out, putting her nose to work and following the scent trail the group had left earlier.

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Sandy was pretty sure this was the fourth time she had walked past the same old rusted out truck, and was starting to get a bit worried... nothing but trees, trees, and more trees. Well, besides a stream, but there was no way she was going near water.
"Noah? Amanda? Rig? AnyOneOutHere?" They couldn't ALL be too far away to read clearly... she was just tired, that had to be it...

the dozen random wild animals she was sensing don't count...

"Keep it down. Sunset isn't for another hour. sheesh. Some of us are still trying to sleep." A grumpy voice complained from somewhere above her. a glance up revealing brown and white tail feathers sticking over the edge of a nest above her.

one of whom is apparently an owl...

"...IDon'tWanttoBeOutHereAnymore..."

Kaylee followed along, looking for her little colleague as best she could, doing what little she could with her mind to reach out that way whilst calling Sandy aloud as well.
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"Y...you don't need a black Rabbit out there in the dark, Hol," Jake said, realising it was just him, Holly, the Humes and the Lego set pair left. Oh, and Hackle too.

Hearing his name called, Sandy looks up from following the remains of the chinchilla's scent. "I'm here, Kay-" he replies automatically, cutting himself off and facepawing as he realises his mistake.

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"Good point, Jake. You'd be a bit hard to spot. And yeah, I can levitate." The rat scratches her nose absently: she doesn't feel any itch - this is just a habit of hers that she does when she's thinking.
"Think I should tell him, Andrew? Think he'll be able to handle it?"

"Best get him sit down first, Holly," Andrew said quietly, "You might want to take a seat first, Jake?"
"Well, there are some available now, I suppose," Jake said, taking the seat Kaylee had just recently evacuated.

Rig turns his nose to the sky, "Found her. She smells like dust. She must have followed us into the forest and become lost. You should try to see her mind while we get closer."

Kaylee shook her head as she heard Sandy Dog. "That dog... Oop, hang on Bonnie..." She put her hand in her pocket and came up with an old, brick style, mobile telephone. She dialled a number. "Hey, Andrew. Can you set something up for me?"
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Before Holly could hop off, Andrew's phone rang and had pulled the clamshell style thing from his pocket and opened it up. "Heya, Kaylee," he said. "When did you get..? Pardon? Oh, Ok. What?" He listened. "I'll ask. Good luck." He hung up and turned to Hackle. "Kaylee asks that, if anyone brings the missing Sandy back, can you signal the others? Something like a short burst of lightning or one roll of thunder?" He looked Hackle in the eye. "But only if you're OK doing it, yes?"

Amanda was caught off guard by the sudden leaving thanks to Sandy, but quickly started looking around once they exited the house. She couldn't help but giggle as Sandy mistook the calls for his name, "I can only imagine how confusing that can be. But, you smell anything Sandy? I don't see anything."

Hackle looked thoughtful as he register what was asked of him before getting the idea and nodding "Yes, for now mi, look around" Hackle used his nose to follow the largest closest smell of dust, leatherg parchment & ink, as he heard was a books smell from the whispering winds, hackle huff as his tingling leg was crawling to normal, this thre tails coiling around each other to look like one massively fluffy tail

Hotep the psychic wrote:

MrNeonShot wrote:

Hotep the psychic wrote: soon Horus tackled the two to the floor as the wand fired off a small wave the blew up the cash register near the three "HEY careful with that! those arent regular toy wands their real you know!" horus growled as she stands looking at the register now a burnt metal piece with money everywhere she humphed and soon sighed

Vinny set the wand down carefully.
"Well, dang! How was I supposed to know that the wand didn't require an incantation?" Vinny said before grabbing some chalk from his bag.
"Vinny, you have to be careful when it comes to magic wands. Just move away from where you currently are and keep your hands to yourself." Orange said.
"I'm really sorry! I can fix the register back to the way it was, but I'm not sure how to fix any damaged cash without your help, Horus." Vinny offered.

Horus stood slowly and sighed shaking her head grabbing the wand and spinning it reversing what was done easily she smiled and kissed vinnies cheek before moving to orange to kiss also and hug orange close

(OOCLY : could we slowl down guys i couldnt find oranges post and im waiting on hyper)

Kama yelped as the cash register exploded. He covered his head, making sure everyone was alright. After it was over, Kama decided to pick everything up with his sand.

Rig grabbed Noah's wrist and ported them down into the backyard, making his way mostly by scent. "She is most likely in the forest. At least, unless there are other things like Sandy out in the forest."