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LW clung tightly to the b*****d of a thing. She was going to take a piece of it with her if it was the last thing she did...today. Sand flew up in her face as the tentacle slammed against the ground. Her nails dug in further in what could be considered an attempt to rip the stupid thing apart with her bare hands. Or just piss it off more. Which was how she ended up being slammed into the sand a good bit. A groan escaped and little stars exploded over her head for a few seconds. The she-wolf had decided right then and there she did not like the beach.

Your damage done: 3
Damage boss does to your castle: 9
Turns used: 2/6
REMAINING HP OF BOSS: 58
REMAINING HP OF CASTLE: -3 GDI LW

Welp. They'd given it their all.

And they'd gone down flailing fighting awww yeahhhh.

Ren turned to look at Jove. Or where he'd thought Jove was, except all he could see was a little fluffy tail poking out of the sand, and what might have been a small, pale skinned boil curled up in a ball. Stepping over to him, Ren reached down and promptly scooped Jove up, carting him over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

"Come on, Freckles, let's go celebrate our first victory. Or rather, our first 'WE WENT DOWN FIGHTING AND IT WAS AWESOME.'"



And then he promptly trotted off towards LW and Tybalt.

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"JOVE-KUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!"

The pale (and fortunately unburnt) kitsune went running across the sands with her Ball of stars tucked in her arms as she found the tallest landmark she knew would be near the ghost boil (Ren) and then seemed to note that said landmark actually had Jove over his shoulder as she jogged out to see how he did.


The fact that Jove was over a Gryphon's shoulder was the only reason why she hadn't just immediately thrown herself on the ghost boil in excitement.

And then he went and tumbled face-first into the sand. Tomoko walked over to him a bit..over-eagerly and ended up mis-stepping and just tripping over the ghost boil completely, also hitting the sand face-first. Whoops!

Immediately after landing on his head, the pup crumpled slightly, and then unfurled like a bizarre fluffy potato bug until he lay flat on his back. Fluffy ears flicked, moist grains of sand clinging to the soft fur. Was that... Wait. Waaait-

Jove had barely begun to sit up when the kitsune tripped over him, and he quickly stifled another wheeze. If there was one thing he had learned about ghouls, it was that they could get all weird when it came to acknowledging how heavy they really were. Especially when they tripped over you without warning! Tomoko wasn't really heavy anyway... For a living thing even. She just caught him by surprise!

The usual blush was already on his cheeks as he sat up, and tried to help the little kitsune out of the sand. At least she had landed in the soft stuff, above the line of the tide that had tried to wash away his poor castle...

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He warned her, didn't he?

Taking a few drudging steps, he came in behind her, feet warm and slightly aching from running barefoot over the sands, sometimes even hopping to miss obsticles in his way. Breathing heavily, he put his hands on his knees, suntanned skin dark against his white clothes as he looked over, seeing her tangled up with the blue pup.

"I warned you, and you're all over the place now . . ." the kitking called to her, looking over and nodding to the inhabitants of the deflated sandcastle, before going over to Jove and Tomoko, wondering if he could offer any help, kneeling in to the sand before them.

Jack knows, she could book it, if needed.

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In which there was a certain reaper boil who had come to see a certain redheaded wolf. Sparrow had been off to the sidelines, cheering, of course, for various people, and on his way to see Xiu, he had stopped by to congratulate LW.

Even if their castle wasn't quite, er...standing.

"LW! Oh, and look, Tybalt, how delightful. And, er, whoever this guy - Ren, isn't it, LW your boilfriend, right - what, er...is he doing to Tybalt, exactly..."


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The look Ren gave LW was a mildly indignant one.

"You can't separate me," he said primly. "What Tybalt and I have is love, ok. Pure love."

Then he darted away before Tybalt could smack him and found a new boil present.

"OH ANOTHER CAT THANK HEAVENS I'M NO LONGER OUTNUMBERED."

This was all said quite exuberantly, and Ren slipped across the sand to extend a hand to the boil, smiling brightly.

"I'm Ren. Did you come to say hi with Tomoko, then?"

Jove helped Tomoko get the sand off, gently brushing the remaining grains off her hair and ears. It was done with a comforting matter-of-factness, his way of silently telling her not to worry about the stumble. He knew the little kitsune's eagerness could get ahead of her feet on occasion, and accepted it as easily as he accepted her hair was blonde.

Fluffy ears turned forward as Tomoko spoke, and then perked up. She had been... watching? And cheering for him?

His cheeks began to glow as he blushed, and for the first time he was grateful for such an unusually bright sun overhead. It covered the flattered embarrassment as he shook his head. He had been paying so much attention to the castle and the crabs and his companions with all their bickering and sand throwing, he hadn't been listening to the spectators at all. The sheepish expression he shot her offered a promise to listen for her in the next round.

Ears perked once again as a stranger came over. Jove didn't know him, but by the way he spoke to Tomoko they were either familiar or... he was just a very friendly guy. Jove just blinked with big blue eyes.

At least until Sparrow stopped by, and then King. The white canine from that evening! The pup's tail wagged in return, ever so slightly. Tomoko really had been making friends out in the stands it seemed!

Jove shot a glance in Tybalt's direction. He couldn't help it, the black dog was just so opposite to the white wolfos...