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Sitting up a little more straight, Shun looked to Mot who was looking pretty worn down as well. The robot had taken a good deal out of all of them. Shivering, he looked as if he was about to say something else but a box came out of nowhere to smack him in the back of the head.

Swearing under his breath, he turned around and picked up the object. It had a note and a whistle inside.

"What the hell?" he said while furrowing his brow at the note. As usual, he was having trouble reading it. To him, the note said something about a thistle banging melted fads or whatever. He knew that probably wasn't what it said.

Picking up the whistle, he looked it over carefully to try and see if it was dangerous in any way. Then, with a sort of grimace, he went ahead and sounded the whistle.

Wait. Was that... Was that Hel? Riyo painfully forced her eyes open when she was rolled over, her face practically an icicle. "I t-t-think it's a little too late for that." The being sick part, at least. It was reinforced when the feline let out a nasty sneeze.

Was she thankful for Hel being there? Oh, Hel yes she was. No, Riyo didn't like help, but she liked dying even less. A wet nose made her shiver violently as her eyes turned up to a certain canine that had run off without her. Secretly it made the ghoul a little bitter, but she wasn't going to voice it. She simply gave Mitsu a cold stare before shakily pushing herself up off the hard ground.

Riyo had been about to scoot over towards Hel, but a couple of yips from inside her clothing made her lean away. s**t, was she hallucinating now?

The loud whistle made the feline cringe, eyes widening at the sight of Shun. "Dirty c-c-c**t.." It was a mumble under her breath, though it was clearly aimed at him from the way she was staring. Sure, the demoness hated Shun. She hated him like she hated Deacon, but she wouldn't leave him to die a slow death.

Well. Now she would.

Felix, who seemed glued to Riyo, gave Mot an 'Are you serious?' look. He still didn't like the boil. He liked him even less when he was doing that 'kitty kitty' thing as if it would somehow help his cause. He had a NAME, after all. However, the sound of barking dogs changed his tone rather quickly, taking a leap onto Mot's shoulders and clinging to his head as he stared down at the invisible dogs.

Riyo was so busy staring she almost didn't notice the sleigh pulling up, but the sound of angry barks made her head turn. She didn't flinch. The ghoul wasn't afraid of dogs, after all. "... Are those... W-w-warm clothes and..." Oh dear sweet Jack, hot chocolate. The chocolate part didn't matter as much as the HOT did.

The cold stare Riyo gave her made Mitsu shy away quickly, that guilty feeling welling up. She really hadn't thought through her decision to leave so suddenly and it was obvious Riyo was upset. She thought the ghoul had been okay, especially since she hadn't left her alone. Apparently she was wrong. Backing up a couple of steps Mitsu paused when she heard barking coming from Hel's coat, her wolfish head leaning down to poke at the Valkyrie's sleeves with her nose. What was in there she wondered?

Mitsu might have investigated further but the shrill sound of the whistle had her ears turning down, her head hunkered as if she were trying to retreat from the noise. Slowly her ears perked back up realizing it was safe to do so only to catch the sounds of dogs barking in the distance. For a moment she thought her vision was getting bad again, the sleigh coming into view and nothing else. It wasn't until it was closer that she recognized the scent of the visible dogs. If her conscious hadn't been weighed down so much Mitsu might have greeted the dogs with a bark of her own and a tail wag but instead she stood still curiously looking over the contents of what they had.

Gently she took a scarf though in her current state the cold wasn't much of an issue. The hot chocolate would be of no use, she couldn't have it.

After having sounded the whistle, Shun turned as he heard barking dogs coming close. He didn't really see anything initially, but he soon realized they were invisible dogs. And then he heard Riyo's little comment, along with that stare. Glancing towards her, he narrowed his eyes but said nothing.

Basically, he still didn't believe she had been hurt that badly. Riyo had freaked out and overdramatized over other things such as when they had all lost their clothing and whatnot. So yes, he just thought she was being a little wussy over anything else.

Whether he would have shown more concern if he realized otherwise was a pretty good question, however.

Once the supplies came by, he went ahead and grabbed a blanket and nothing else to wrap around himself. He still felt chilled, but it was better than nothing.

The reaper looked up as Mitsu and Shun approached, and seemed further relieved that her little ‘group’ was back together again. She offered Shun a very small smile before it faded, and a nod of her head. Indeed! She was back, and it touched her for Shun to show that bit of concern. The valkyrie looked at Mot as he explained what happened, and scowled. “If you had told me where you were sooner, I could have helped! You had enough time to tell me T-T-Y-L though.” Grumpy Hel was grumpy at Mot.

“Heh…good to see you still doing alright, Riyo. Your exterior matches your interior. Cold.” As much as it was a jive…it was possibly said with some affection too, and she waved a hand to ease the cat demoness’ worry about the yips. “Bah, those are just the rotten fox fires!” Her head turned though, as Shun…sounded a whistle…? Where did he get that from? That wasn’t the most startling of events though…it was what appeared after it was blown. Hel stood then, looking at the sled pulled by invisible mini-pets in awe. Woah! Magical whistle! Why didn’t Shun use this in their last field trip!? The ghoul had missed the box pegging him in the head, and instead soon found a baku’s arms around her. Hel returned the hug, and patted Xiu’s head. “Ah, more than fine, friend! I am concerned about you all, though!” Hopefully now they’d get better with this sled thing here…

She then reached out to pat Mitsu’s nose affectionately, and the yips continued in full force as Vili and FooFoo got a good look at Mitsu, and at the presence of other mini-pets.

Hel groaned with annoyance at the foxfires, and placed her hands on her hips as she watched her group members get a rather nice pick me up. Her brows furrowed though as the music suddenly came to a halt once more.

The valkyrie paused, staring up at the barrier above, before the ground started to make that…ticking noice. Her gaze immediately shot down. “…Ack!” She held out her hand, summoning her spear, and started to take swipes at the snow, kicking up the powdery substance before she reached the ground…only to have her weapon clatter against the unusually solid ground. “…You know what I am reminded of?” The reaper called out. “A music box. One winds it up, it plays music, yes? If you want more music, you wind it up again.”

Looking over at Hel as he heard some yips, Shun stared as she had foxfires in her tunic. He didn't ask. Instead he just hunkered down and shivered to try and warm up a bit with the blanket. The fact that it smelt of minipets did not bother him in the slightest.

When the music stopped once more, he furrowed his brow and looked around, listening to the ticking. He didn't really like the sound of that again. Something was definitely going on here, but he couldn't tell what that was. In any case, his attention shifted to Mitsu as she read the note. So that was what it said. Nodding to her, he placed the whistle inside the box, then flung it off to send it to the next lucky group of students.

"A music box.. that is one way to put it I suppose. The question then is.. .who the hell is winding us up?" he frowned.

Mitsu's tail wagged, waving to Vlad as he took off. With that it left them alone again still wondering what was going on. The music box thing was a good idea but what was with the force field that was keeping them in?

"Maybe we should check around to see if anyone else needs help?" They had gotten fairly damaged perhaps others needed help. "You don't think the JOY creatures made it inside do you?" She looked back toward the theater the music outside drowning out anything from within.