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[[Type: Diary Entry]]

Dear Diary,

Hello, empty book. My name is Ovelia and I live in a small building with other creatures and I enjoy reading. I feel sad lately.

--Ovelia stops writing, puts the book under her bed, and leaves. She comes back an hour later.--

I'm afraid the new egg will hatch into something cuter than me and Eve will stop talking to me. I'm not cute and little anymore. She says I need to meet new people but I know it's just because she wants to get rid of me. I'm scared. I don't know where to go if I leave so I stay.

[[Type: RP Entry]]

The day had finally come.

As per usual, Ovelia had stolen away in her private quarters where she wrote in her journal constantly-- Eve was distraught about it, but at times, usually after she checked on the new egg, she felt no remorse towards Ovelia and decided instead to go out and blow all of her money on worthless odds and ends, all gold, some fake but still treasured. She knew she was slipping back into the mindset she once had before she found Ovelia, but she didn't care. Nothing mattered but the gold-- and the egg.

She was having a hard time peeling herself away from the egg whenever she would check up on it, and one day, she couldn't. She stood over the egg for hours with her eyes wide open, unblinking. Something was affecting her. 'Mew and Nixi feared the worst, but knew they shouldn't interfere (lest they be pulled in).

And during the one day Eve could not leave the egg's room, it began to glow black. She wasn't sure if it was a figment of her imagination or if it was really happening, but she knew the room was growing colder, and it frightened her. She gripped the side of the small cradle she had kept Ovelia's egg in earlier, which was now being used for this new egg, and winced. Her whole body began to feel prickly, like needles were trying to pick at her flesh.

The egg cracked.

Out poured a stench so vile it made Eve gag and turn to run out of the room, but curiousity got the best of her, and she pulled her shirt above her nose and watched as a small puppet doll pulled itself from the egg shells. It had a rickety sound to it despite it being a newborn, and it pulled itself along with a small cross of wood with strings hanging down, attached to his own limbs. This new creature filled Eve with both dread and the longing to hold her precious Ovelia once again.

The doll's egg melted away and evaporated, leaving the new doll in his small blue uniform to look around curiously with something of an evil smirk left on his wooden face.

[[Type: RP entry]]

"What happened yesterday?" asked 'Mew, bluntly.

'Mew, Eve, and Nixi were sitting around in the kitchen, Eve holding a half-eaten sandwich and Nixi taking a drink of water from her bowl. Eve looked down at the small cat with the blotchy panda markings and looked into his green eyes... he looked worried. Maybe he could sense the complete wrongness of the puppet too.

Eve sighed. "The new egg hatched, and I'm afraid of it."

'Mew flicked his tail and leapt out of the room. Eve shrugged, until she heard the familiar creak of a door opening. She immediately jumped in fear, went to call 'Mew back and tell him not to go in, but Ovelia entered the room-- apparently it was her door, not the puppet's, that had opened.

Ovelia kept her eyes on the ground and pulled a yogurt from the fridge, slid the silverware drawer open, and plucked a spoon from the bin. She turned with a swish of her blue velvet dress-robe, and disappeared into her room again, her back wings remainingly eerily still.

"Teenage angst," muttered Eve, but she knew the new creature was affecting them all. And she wanted it gone.

[[Type: RP Entry]]

The next day, Eve forced herself to go to school. She had been missing quite a few days lately and she desperately needed to get a list of the work to make up. Not very entertaining, but it's how this entry begins.

After a full day of school and 'learning', she got in her car and drove home. All day the thought of Ovelia being angry at her and the creepy new .. thing.. really took a toll on her nerves. But when she opened the door to her home, something was terribly wrong.

Her sofa was turned over and slashed up, and her coffee tables and flower vases were thrown and smashed. Her favorite throwpillows were just messes of yellow fabric and cotton now. She stared, too shocked to do much else, until she realized her pets may be in danger. She ran into the living room and called out, "Ovelia?! 'Mew? Where are you? Nixi?"

The door to Ovelia's room scratched with Nalvoro's claws and Ovelia opened the door, frowning. Nixi and Nalvoro leapt out, nervously looking around, while Eve blinked and stared. "Where's 'Mew?"

'Mew, in his smaller cat form, came out from the puppet's room, unblinking. "What happened?" he asked, completely bewildered, not remembering that he had just torn apart Eve's living room against his will. Eve ran a hand through her hair, stopped as it got stuck in tangles, and just cried.

The first of the misfortunes had struck. The puppet smiled as it napped.

[[Type: RP Entry]]

The past few days had been relatively eventless. Eve went to school. Ovelia went out for hours at a time. Nixi and Nalvoro would watch the 'tube. And as for the puppet, well, he grew large enough to reach the doorknob and came hobbling out of his room a day or two ago. Everyone just stared at him, frightened, but nothing happened. He just moseyed on over to the kitchen and rummaged around 'til he found the gallon of water in the fridge. "Guess he's thirsty," whispered Ovelia, who had been watching intently. He pulled the gallon out, took a sip without getting a cup, then spilled it all over the floor.

"...Of course," muttered Nixi, and her and Ovelia began to clean it up. They knew by now it was no use trying to reprimand the puppet nor try and get rid of it.

Eve already tried to.

And she has a black eye now.

Ovelia threw away the empty water gallon and sighed as the evil little puppet disappeared into the living room. Life was going to be hell living with that thing.

[[Type: RP Entry]]

Things finally began to settle down. Despite the evil living under her roof, everyone began feeling a little better than when the puppet was still an egg. Even Ovelia began talking to Eve again, much to her delight, and the whole household seemed brighter. It was getting very chilly out lately, and the crispy leaves that fell to the ground made Eve happy every day as she left school and walked home. It was a lovely feeling.

However, she had no idea the puppet was just biding his time, he hadn't really changed at all.

[[Type: RP Entry]]

"Have you seen the puppet?"

It was a cold, windy afternoon and the breeze tinkled the little wind chimes as it bustled past Eve's house. She sat outside on the door step, huddled in a thick blanket that she bought at the flea market for a couple dollars. "What, Ovelia?"

Ovelia stood on the door step, her dress flowing in the cold gusts, not minding the climate. "I said, 'have you seen the puppet?'"

Eve shrugged. "I don't even remember the last time I saw it. I think it was when Nixi and Nalvoro disappeared... but, I'm sure they ran away. Nixi's been bitter ever since we left for a week without telling them, and Nalvoro just needed to go out and find a mate. I'm not worried."

Ovelia sighed and walked back inside as 'Mew meandered out to Eve. "Dinner yet?" whined 'Mew, still in his cat form. He licked his front paw and smiled coyly. "Tuna sounds good."

Eve stood up and followed Ovelia and 'Mew inside. "Start up the fireplace, Ovelia."