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"Dude! 'Course ya will, buddy!" Zell said chuckling at Shoom twisting around his arm.

Vana nuzzled his Lucia, smiling into her pale fur. "That'd be awesome, love." His twin chuckled, shrugging his shoulders at Duncan with a 'what can you do?' expression. Family. Gotta love 'em.

Looking up from her barely touched food Miaka gave the scared female a shaky smile. Adiina's arrival with flowers actually strengthened the usually cheerfully naive female's smile. She bit a small bite of the food on the dish before her and smiled up at her mate's words. "I believe you, Tamahome. And thanks."

The kitsu who lived together in the House in Bass'ken Woods exchanged glances and looks of mute disbelief at the kit's words, backed until it was clear that must be the case. Except for Cedrella, who was now sitting up proudly that one she had picked for her team (whether or not the teams would be made as she planned) had come up with it.

"Aw man... an inside job..." The fistfighter looked stunned, forgetting the comment he was about to make to Bryna -or was it to Phoenix?- and having stopped mid laugh at Shroom. Miaka was actually the one to voice their first thoughts. "But... no one in the family would want hurt anyone else!" For once her naivity bore the truth.

A soft voice, touched with sadness spoke up. "Intentionally none would... None of us would want to hurt someone we love. But sometimes... we do." The winged crimson female's green gaze moved between the teen alchemist near her to the starry pelted male across the room before her eyes shut, feeling her father Remus' gentle and comforting touch.

"So who's missing?" Adumialmîr spoke up in a voice belying her small size. The dawn colored Luck kit larger than her already started looking around, trying to remember who was who in the family and counting, though still wide eyed at seeing not just one but two other Luck kitsu today. Others looked to be counting in their heads, even the little Soot kit.

Except for AearHwesta, who bore a look of revelation and horror mixed with something that could only be described as a will to punish oneself as he dropped his wings around the Valefor and Seer. "The lasses o' terror."

Looks of disbelief. Different volumes of murmurings. "Nay... ye know I'm right. Haven't we all been sayin' it was nice they weren't here, getting in the way?"

"But they wouldn't take an egg!" Chroma exclaimed, her son Doron nodding vehemently beside her.

"Sure they would. They were talking about wanting to play with Miaka's kits." A small winged kit spoke up, tossing a long braid over her shoulder. "Trel-kit! Why didn't you say anything?" The witch's brown eyes flashed angrily in the first hints of her fiery temper. The perma-kit blinked. "Why would I? They used to say they wanted to play with your kits too, but waited 'til they hatched. Why'd I think they wouldn't this time?"

Having listened to everything Ginny's oldest kit giggled and pushed at the fishy kit with her nose. She kept her voice at a conversational level, since she was talking just to him and not adding anything to the larger collective. At the moment. "Sushi?" Cedrella giggled. "And you've fishy friends? Brilliant!"

"Uh-huh. An adventure." The luck kit peeped brightly with a shy smile at the blue kit, back to looking awed at the older lucks as she peeked around the curve of her striped gray ball her curly tails tight around it.

In all this Rune Bivrow said nothing, though at times she would to the 'commanders', her pale green eyes thoughtful. She shifted her wings, settling them better against her back. "So we have found the failing in our fortifications, and in ourselves." Remus Lupin nodded, remembering in his before how trust in the wrong person could turn sour. "We could not or would not see the possibility of it being one of our own. We were too close to the situation." She smiled softly at those who had brought the matter to their attention, showing she at least was not offended by their honest appraisal of the situation. "There should be no need to have any of us gathered here search the room however, Commander Squall. Feathers from the three girls were in the priestess' room when I came to her call." The White SeeD looked quite abashed. "I confess to have thought little of it, as they always visit the mothers and their eggs."

She straightened looking out at those gathered. "I'll contact the house, have them check the security recordings for the last time the girls were in and take another head count before we confirm the trio are the most culprits."

Drawing back so that she would not be so prominent to watch Rune softly spoke into her communicator. Squall and Cloud would be able to hear her speaking with someone about the security recordings and getting a trace on Clarice, Crystal, & Jessica's communicators. There was a long moment of silence as she listened to the other side. And waited.

Pale green eyes widened in a look of soft horror as something was clearly speaking to her again. Her expression was incredulous as she turned to the kitsus gathered with the look of one wondering how she was going to reveal what she now knew.

"The girls' communicators have been found by way of the trackers inside... but not the girls. Feathers everywhere - it looks like they took to the air." That she was worried despite her focused calm was not difficult to perceive.

A clear package with feathers, fur, and a recent painting of the mischievous perma-trio appeared soundlessly on the table in front of Squall (sent courtesy of the telekinetic rabbit familiar, Peter).



((sorry about the lateness ... ooc wise, I don't want to deal with RPing those innocents of many species holding down the fort in my home, so I'm avoiding getting the kitsus there like the plague. ^_^ I had a few other things I had to do to make this work without being an easy find for my family so... *grins* yeah. ^_^ My brain was too dead to more than start trying last night. ))

Valis had been listening intently, she had been played with when she was an egg... or more exactly she rolled around pestering sevvy when she was an egg, so the question now is where did they take the egg to play "Where is their favorite play spot? Would it be likely they took the egg there to play?"

Davey nodded his head, kits seemed likely culprit, naive, not knowing the real risks involved, just wanting to have fun, the question was how far could they get carrying an egg? "Is there anyone good at math? We can determine a search peramiter if we can determine the rate of speed they can travel carrying the egg without stoping, the estimated time of rest they would need, and the amount of time the egg has been missing we could easily narrow the search area to a more manageable size" It was like coursing the path of a ship deterimine the wind speed, weight of the cargo on a ship, current of the sea and you can determine the rate of travel and thusly the distance traveled in a period of time, he however knew nothing about the kits or the weight of an egg.. nor about flying so he wasn't much help there

Sushi jumped slightly as he felt the other kit's nose nudge him. His wings hugged his back tighter as he turned to look at her, smiling brightly, yet shyly.

" Y-yes I'm Sushi! And the fish are my bestest friends! Thought hey do seem to make fun of my name, or get offended. I wonder why...Whats your name?"

The young kit was so caught up in meeting this new person he hardly caught what was being said by the other kitsu. He got the jist of it without obviously ignoring his new friend, hopefully that was enough.

(( teeaaam two *thumbs up* 8D ))

Suddenly Soot darted off of Dachrun's back and over to Atae, pawing at her emphatically until the small belted femme followed Soot back over to Sigurd. She tilted her head curiously as Soot pointed at him. He looked... familiar...

Then Soot wrote something on the floor and she peeked down at it. ...Vergil? Wait... this was one of Uncle Vergil's kids? Soot squeeked and wagged Soot's tails when Soot realize she'd understood. The writing also slowly faded away... they'd managed to work out a spell that cleaned up Soot's soot trails and things a couple of minutes after Soot had left it, because Soot often used it to write since Soot couldn't speak.

With careful steps Atae padded over to Sigurd. "Ah... I'm sorry to bother you, but are you one of Vergil Sparda's kits? He's my uncle... well... great uncle, I guess. He's Grandda's brother..."

((Posting the rest later after I finish orienting myself... XD))

A little bit flustered by the sheer amount of kitsu there (she was used to being with a group of three or four others, or just her daddy), Era reluctantly stuck close to Isidora, although she was careful not to brush up against her again. At least she knew Isi, whereas she didn't think she had met a single one of the others milling about. "To ask the Yrre, Era is..." trailing off, Era both realized that she had slipped into her father's odd speech-patterns, and that the little purple bobtail was nowhere to be seen. But...panicking would do no good, she told herself, peering about. She was an adult, after all..she didn't need her daddy to lead her around anymore.

Yrre, being regrettably kit-small, was quickly separated from his Era and the Snapper. He didn't like this, not one bit, and bounced a bit with nerves as her rushed about, trying to see everybody and everything. "Where's to be being?" he called, trying to see his way through the mess, and ultimately being unsuccessful.

Why bother wasting all that energy? If they were moving as units, and not individuals, there was no need to get all riled up. They would all be looking, and running about and boosting their adrenaline...well, it would be easy to overlook something when one was moving so quickly and energetically. But then, Isidora had always thought that other kitsu were a waste of oxygen. This just furthered her belief.

Nodding to the commander Rune took the feathers and went to pass them out. With a look of apology to the kitsu in a pressed blue suit and hair that defied gravity worse than Zell's (though no where near as much as Squall's roommate Cloud Strife's blonde spikes) the White SeeD lifted a light green wing to separate him from Zell, Bryna, & Shoom and herd him with a gentle touch to where the Luck kitsu were gathered. "Ginny will be joining your group momentarily, but she knows the kit so..." Rune handed the DA a brown feather, flecked with white speckles. "Alone, she's likely to search out forests."

Turning, she handed an all white feather to Zell. "Zell, Remus saw Yrre earlier. He's small, like Adumialmîr. You guys find him and those he came in with." The fistfighter's blue eyes went wide. "Duuude. I dun wanna be in charge Rune!" Sighing Rune shot a look at the commander. "Squall? Cloud? You want to join these groups?" She already knew where she was going.

The young witch giggled and tossed her long brown hair over her shoulder. "Cedrella Molly Weasley-Potter." The kit said proudly, sitting up straight. "I'ma witch!" She was young enough to not think anything about telling everyone, yet old enough to know not everyone was a witch or wizard. After all... look at who she lived with!

Then she noticed the splitting of the teams. Heeeeeey.....! Both of the kits she had been talking to (or trying to talk to) were in different teams. So who would she go with? The anthro and Tamahome's other friends would not be the ones telling her where she was going to go... Cedrella wagged her tails so much her bum wriggled. She would stay here with her new friend Raw Fish and be leader of the group! The kit grinned brightly at Sushi & the Lucks around them.

Remus' youngest son made a confused pout. Only for a split second. His friend Isidora often pretended she was ignoring him. Giving Miaka a nuzzle, smiling at the mothers trying to cheer her up and straight our grinning at Tamahome's words & lifted mood -hey! when did Tama get a tattoo on his forehead?- Hemi hoped down from the raised mattress, gliding slightly as he automatically cupped his wing behind him a bit. Once down he pranced over to the black and red female. His father seeing this quirked a brow and shared a quick glance with Liliana before he was distracted as a voice drew his attention to the Hufflepuff coloring of a female making introductions.

Grinning, oblivious to how it might look, Hemi hugged Isidora with a bright. "Hey Isidora! So glad you came!" Seeing the female next to her the scarfed wizard blinked before smiling again. "Hi! I'm Hemi!"

Ginny had been trying to keep an eye on her wayward daughter while still keeping part of the organizing but lost track of her. Finding Cedrella again and seeing her smug look the redhead could guess what was going through her daughter's mind. According to Remus' observations, Cedrella was much like her grandfather, James. No... she could not let her daughter do as she was likely planning and trying to be the leader. Not of adults. Not until she had grown. Padding over behind her Ginny nudged the kit with her head. "Cedrella, if you're going to help I want you to go with Rune." She'll be able to take care of you... and keep you in line. The kit's brows furrowed and she frowned, then glanced at Sushi. "But I just made friends with Sushi!"

Ginny blinked, then smiled. "Hemi & Zell will keep an eye out for your friend. Don't worry." To Sushi she added. "Your group will likely be finding rivers, as that's what Crystal prefers. You and Cedrella can get together to play another day." Cedrella pouted, looking over at those gathered where Rune was heading with the last feather. Green. Jessica's then. They looked interesting. Tentacles? Hufflepuff colors? The sweatered kit? Okay. This might not be so bad.

"We'll see soon enough what would be said on the high seas." Rune said in her soft clear voice, slipping effortlessly into the conversation. She held out the green feather for the others to take in. "If we know our kits, she likely would have flown over sea. I would hope she would not attempt it with an egg..." The White SeeD's voice trailed off.

Aear, looking at them with intelligent russet eyes with his wings draped over his girls grinned. "Ye'll be gettin' a ship. Unnamed. My Hiril Anorfalf stays in Gaia's waters -is too risky tryin' to get 'er to the lands o' the kitsu- so that's where we'll be sailin'." A small Soot that only let wisps of soot off from his person before they dissolved into thin air ran towards the angelic sailor, and scurrying around behind jumped on Aear's rear then ran up his back to reast on the white 'snowed' blue head with a look of 'going with you'. AearHwesta sighed. "So ye be thinkin' of a name for her, mate. Lessin' ye want Rune-lass to name her. She's a dab hand at sea, but she's no captain." Rune blushed.

Sighing Zell looked over the other kitsu. How was he supposed to find one of those small bobtails in this crowd? Although he knew of Yrre -from him being close to Remus' SoulBrother Ember- the SeeD did not know what he looked like. "Yrre! Yrre!" Heh. What else was he supposed to do?

Daveys attention turned to who he assumed was Rune as she was handing over a feather "We should hope they be not so foolish, but I know all too well the lure of the sea, it be hard to resist" at the mention of a ship the blue and white angelic got Daveys full attention "Well I be glad to hear we have an able-bodied crew, and I thank ye' for the honor of naming her, I think I be liking to give the ship the name 'Calypso' after the sea goddess herself, perhaps it will bring us luck. Now for the next matter," he adressed the angelic "I would be liking ye to be my first mate as ye provided the ship and clearly have experiance, and Rune can be Second Mate as ye have vouched for her abilities at sea. As for the rest of ye," he turned to the rest of the group "do as ye be told and keep a weathered eye out!" He knew in all honesty that the angelic should be captain as he was providing the ship, but as Davey had been given the honor of naming the ship and being Davey Jones he couldn't not be captain, whoever heard of Davey Jones not being captain, it was perposturous!

Valis had been listening intently she had never been on a boat before and it sounded like alot of fun "Can I be something too? I wanna be a mate!" her cheeks flushed as she realized how bad that could have sounded to those who hadn't been listening to the whole conversation

"Yeh can be the physician if ye think yer hocus-pokus is up to it, lest we find one more apt naturaly to the task, not that I be expectin us teh need one. Now lets get a move on the more we wait the greater a head start the whelps have!"

Valis couldn't argue with the need to move as soon as possible so instead of arguing she muttered under her breath its not hocus-pokus

Dachrun had made his way over to the other Lucks by that point and didn't miss the small blue kit's outburst. He raised an eyebrow and gave his small perma-kit brother a meaningful look. (They still had yet to tell anyone exactly how it was that one of them was a perma-kit and the other not...)

Damerion frowned slightly and then shrugged, hopping down, and onto, Tuuli. "Anything what messes with my brother is in for a rude surprise, I assure you. Besides we'd have heard about it if there were any monsters around, we've got to many range-roving wanderers hanging about our place." With that he waved a paw in dismissal of the idea and finally realized he was still sitting on the other and hopped off.

Endless had by this point wandered over to Atae and the rest of the group in time to hear Davey's speaking. "Ah... I think Aear's taking his set over to search other seas... Captain... Jones? Probably why he put you in charge of the ship we'll be on." He peered over at Atae who seemed to be speaking with quiet animation to a little silver-haired kit in a sweater. "I can help with lookout or something, though, I suppose. I've been around the coast, so I know a few landmarks and seaside caves, I just wasn't traveling via ship at the time." He wanted to feel useful... he wanted so badly to feel useful. Anything to help get him out of this emotional pit he'd jumped into.

Atae smiled down at Sigurd. "Ah. I'm Atae, this is Soot." She gestured down at Soot who waggled little sooty tails with enthusiasm. "And my family was well last I saw them... I don't visit as often as I used to. I'm... trying to find my own place." She was quiet for a moment. "Grandda loves Uncle Vergil a lot, though personality wise they're sort of like night and day. Grandda isn't nearly as reserved and polite, and he definitely likes crowds and action more. Not that I've ever managed to show up over at Grandda's in time to catch Uncle Vergil and meet him personally... Soot's met him, though, and Soot likes him, so that's good enough for me. Not... that I wouldn't like to meet him in person... um... Maybe I can show you were Grandda lives sometime? I heard Uncle Vergil goes over there a lot." Moment of akward silence...

Bryna tapped Zell on the shoulder. "I'll help you look!" But rather than take off herself, she actually landed and then made him float up into the air so he could have a better vantage point. Shoom was still wrapped around his leg and peered downward. "Shoom help find! What is Shoom looking for?"

Duncan had grinned and shrugged back at the twins by the door before trotting around the room to get to his mother. Iris got up and went with him, thinking she'd stay and keep Naneth company while Naneth kept Miaka company with Diina.