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The world was spinning and bells were ringing a ting-ping-jingle and Sin's lips collided with oily undead flesh and everything became a hazy sort of pinkish-purplish-bubblyish-floweryish and the Hunchack wobbled. She....

She had kissed him!

The world swam and his eyes rolled back in his head and he looked about to faint before a sharp pain from his unhealed stitches flew up from his leg to his brain and he snapped back to the Here.

She had KISSED him!

His mouth twisted upward in an awkward, raw and stitched rag-doll smile as he straightened as much as possible, uneven shoulders attempting to stand more proud.

He turned to the slobbering dog, readying his good leg to give Danny a firm kick, but once again he was saved by the reminder of mortality from his wounded one and he was drawn back to the matter at hand. The corner of his mouth twitched, eyes now sliding down as Sin flexed for Sammy's administrations. Those legs... those wonderful legs, so long, so strong, like a dancer's legs, just the perfect balance of fats and tissues and bone structure...

Well... well she had kissed him, right? That meant she liked him. That meant it was okay... how large around was that thigh anyway? No harm in a quick measurement for future reference... just to know, it was always good to know proportions, that was what his old Master had said.

His hands shot forward to the leg without a splinter, fingers looping around as though trying to measure manually.

He pulled back quickly, mouth still trembling at the corners. With his face usually covered, it seemed he wasn't very mindful of his expressions, but it was clear now why the boil didn't speak. He swallowed, taking another stumbling step backward as he tucked the gift under his arm, flushing once more as he gave an apologetic bow. What was he doing?? He had just met the girl and already he was... taking inventory. It was a perfectly natural way to think, of course, but still the patchwork boy was swelling with embarrassment. His chest tight, his breathing quickened into sharp, anxiety ridden hyperventilating through his nostrils and he turned tail to limp away as quick as he could. Escape, escape! Before you do anything else stupid!

Fleeing from his embarrassment, Christof took refuge in his Tent. A Christmas miracle had happened here tonight, and the Hunchback wasn't about to jinx it.

((BRB CHRISTOF'S PITCHED HIS TENT. HOOOOOOO! rofl ))

Alcie had noticed that a tree had made a move towards Sin but before she could rush over to help, Alcie heard a voice telling her to watch out. Oh Jack... Something was behind her wasn't it... The water demon felt all of the branches fall on top of her and she yelled out at the overly friendly tree. "Hey! Stop that!" Feeling the branches nick her arms, Alcie knew that they were probably going to leave a few scratches.

Though she was caught off guard, she was quick to defend herself. Alcie's weapon of choice was the sack full of joy and she reached into the bag and pulled out a few small tree ornaments and started throwing them at the tree. Feeling the adrenaline rushing through her and hoping that the ornaments would find their mark, Alcie hoped that these trees weren't as tough as they looked.

Alcyone's damage: Total = 14, average = 4.6 and it hits the tree because the total is even.
Alcie's health: 24

"Awwww man...hey...you play pretty rough, you know?"
A friendly tree wobbles a bit before falling at your mighty hero feet. Something tumbles out from it's branches. Score!

HP: 0
LOOT:

((WE ALL KNOW WHAT CHRISTOF IS DOING IN THAT TENT, BILI. DON'T LIE.))

One of the...followers? Junko blinked and looked genuinely thrown off by what Ren had said, her brow furrowing and a small frown forming on her quivering lips. She wasn't upset, she was cold and her feet were practically numb. "Oi! You wanna come over here and say that to m--"

"Mistress!" Junko gasped, her hands flying to the back of her head to clamp over the second mouth and shut Her up. "You can't do that, we're on the same side!" She whined to Her, turning away from the boil since he seemed to be doing just fine. One of the followers? That didn't make any sense. Weren't they all here together? So they were all following whoever led the way! If Junko wanted to take the lead then she'd have to walk ahead of everyone else, but right now her feet wouldn't allow her to walk faster than her friends.

...Follower?

Before Junko could dwell on it any longer chaos suddenly erupted in the blink of an eye. Sin was attacked, Alcie...Sammy and even Danny! Sammy and Danny seemed to do alright just fine, knocking out their attackers with one swift hit, but Sin had a terrible time with that pervert! She watched with wide eyes as the tree hit on her until...HOLY JACK YOU COULD SEE HER PANTIES! Th-that was just...gah! A-and the tree was ripping theeeeeem! Nooooooo! Junko had been about to run over and try to help her friend but she seemed to take care of it before Junko had the chance, running to the group anyway while Sammy pulled the splinter out Sin's leg. "Sin! Are you alright? And you too, Alcie?" Sammy and Danny had done perfectly okay. And it was so nice of her to help Sin! She was glad to see she wasn't always like she had been during sex ed, while she was perfectly justified in being upset...she may have overreacted a tad.

"That was...strange. I guess we can't trust even the trees?" Junko rubbed at the back of her neck, swaying her weight from foot to foot to keep them from getting too cold. "Should we start working our way to--" She jumped a bit at the sudden sneeze. Gah! Looks like some people weren't taking to the cold as well. Junko was shocked she wasn't completely frozen herself! But she was shivering, just doing her best not to shiver uncontrollably. Sigh, she should've worn a longer skirt...or a full length kimono for once.

Chaos.

Sheer, utter chaos. That's what Gabrian would later describe this strange trip as if asked. His general grumpiness was slowly dissipating in favor for confusion as the trees started to attack them. Though in all honesty... the nix found it hard to concentrate on the fact trees were attacking them left and right, mostly because he found that Sin's way of fighting was er... horribly distracting.

He was trying not to look; he would later have been able to place a hand on some sort of grimoire book and be able to swear on his life that he did all he could not to stop and stare. Unfortunately, he was only human demon, not to mention male, and he found his eyes straying towards her. Every time they landed on the Succubus, he found himself wondering why, in Jack's name, she chose to battle in such an outfit. The more lewd part of him was busy pondering that if this was her choice of fighting outfit, he rather wanted to see what her choice of a seductive outfit was.

Still, the fact remain that they were being attacked by trees, which was... odd, "See? I was right," he told the group grimly, not focusing on anyone in particular, "Not even a few moments in, and doom has exploded around us!" a pause, "Apparently though... doom involves being attacked by.... mentally retarded, inebriated... trees," Gabrian made a face as he said though, "One can only wonder if someone dropped the pumpkin they came out of once they were conceived or something," of course, as soon as he said this, the nix paused a second time, "Do Christmas things even come OUT of pumpkins anyhow?" Somehow, he severely doubted it.

See? See what he meant?

There was something horribly, deeply wrong with these trees, Gabrian was absolutely sure of it, specially as a rather happy one drew nearer. He was about to strike at it with his claws when he felt the by now familiar sinking feeling and he soon enough found himself once more, in serpent form, staring up at the large tree from the ground, where he twitched in irritation, "Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" he hissed as he drew back and away from the tree as fast as his serpentine body would allow.

It was like the shifting chose the most inopportune moments to happen! He could barely fight like this unless there was WATER around. Of the non-frozen variety anyhow...

As such, he tugged at the bag he was carrying and pulled out his sack of you by curling his tail around it. Once out, he opened it with his mouth and dug with it with his tail, curling it around some object or other before lifting it up and tossing it at the tree, "Go, AWAY!"

Gabrian: 25HP
Attack: 4 + 5 + 4 / by 3 = 4.3 ( aka 4)
Tree: 3 - 4 = 0