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A Day In The Life Of...

Manami was up at the crack of noon, always wanting to make sure that she got in plenty of beauty sleep, and as per usual it took the fox a bit of time to ooze out of bed. Even after she did she drug a blanket with her, half wrapped around her, as she made her way to where the mirror in her massive mess of a room was located. She let the blanket fall and her hands lifted up to rest against the glass and she yawned as her gaze locked with that of her reflection. She stood there starring at her reflection and she seemed to be in deep debate of something, what to do... what to do... what did she want to be today? Her ears turned forward and after a moment there were subtle changes that said Manami had gone from she to he.

He starred at himself a moment longer before his form changed again, cycling through what forms he had access to thus far. He could turn into Amano and Arlen almost flawlessly, Shizuko was a little different though he wouldn't admit to anyone that stealing his brother's form was still a work in progress. It was the wings! He was till trying perfect that feature... because Manami had no wings of his own he wasn't quite sure how they should look, how they should feel, how they should move. He would need to see about pouncing Shizuko soon to see about getting a good study of his little brother's wings he decided. Shizuko was a good boy, so laid back unlike Amano so he was certain that Shi would obey and allow him to get a peek at those wings for as long as he needed to truly understand the inner workings of them.

Once his form was decided upon, that of Arlen as he loved the way the claws clicked on the stone floors of the castle he and his family lived in, before he went digging around through various piles of clothing trying to find something perfect and that would work given the form that he was currently wearing. As he picked this up, debated, then threw them aside he found himself realizing that he hadn't attempted a female version of Arlen's form yet. He grinned in a manner that showed many sharp teeth before he set to chuckling at how amusing that could look. He found a pair of pants that should work, stepped into them in an super careful manner so as not to slice the pants up with his dangerous claws before he pulled them up, buttoned the front, buttoned the strap in the back that went over his tail, then abandoned his room to race off down the hallway.

Today's agenda was already written out, first thing was first, that was finding food! He was hungry for... well most anything really but whenever he was in this form he always felt the desire to eat fresh meat. He blamed Arlen since he'd studied his brother so much that he was starting to pick up some of his habits when he was in this form of his. He really did his best to really mimic them well, do what they did, ate what they ate, acted how they acted. The only one he had a hard time mimicking personality wise was Amano since he had no idea how his sister acted alone. He knew that Amano didn't like him, wouldn't obey as well as Shizuko did, she was hissy, bratty, and pouted a lot. He had no idea what she might be like on her own... he might need to see about trying to tail her in a more innocent form. Perhaps when he perfected his Shizuko he would be able to follow Amano better and learn her true mannerisms. Another idea filed away for later.

Manami, in the guise of Arlen, headed into the kitchen, crawled upon to the counter, and went clicking across it to the cabinet he was looking for and opened it up. Inside were cookies! He grabbed those before closing it again and jumped off the counter giving his best raptor growl before landing. He then went stalking across the kitchen in his best impression of a predator stalking prey as he approached the refrigerator, snarled at it, and then pulled it open to look inside. Grinning the raptor went digging around for meat. Once he found some of it he tossed it on top of the package of cookies and went over to the table, crawled up into the chair that Arlen usually occupied, and set to munching on his lunch.

Once the meal was done Manami abandon his raptor form so that he could head off in search of Shizuko. He wanted to catch up with his young brother, Manami was the self declared oldest of the trio after all, and he proceeded to spend the next few hours watching him, studying those wings, the way they moved, even went over to run his hands over them, petting the pretty decorative appendages. As far as he knew they were to small for flying with but at the same time they were a pretty decoration that he found himself a little envious but at the same time he did have three tails which neither of his other siblings had. It was hard work doing what Manami did, one needed an eye for detail to master the skill that he was working on. It had taken many days of tailing Arlen to get down the details of his form, many days of watching his siblings to memorize their markings, and now Manami was pretty confident that he was going to make wings the next time that he tried to take on Shizuko's form! It was exciting, that meant being able to tail Amano. Tailing Amano meant being able to better mimic her and being able to mimic her perfectly meant annoying her perfectly.

Life was indeed going to be complete once he was able to get his hands on these skills! Walking along down the hallway Manami moved along his form seemed to shift again as his body changed over from his own form to that of his blue colored sibling. He paused to looked himself over, grinning a bit as he looked at his long, pretty blue tail, spun around to try to get a look at his wings, then smirked, well it seemed that it was time to find and bother Amano! His tail was wagging wildly behind him as he sought out his grouchy sister... this should be excellent!

Keys =/= Shiny

Those things were rather amusing Manami thought to herself, watching the way that they walked around in such a happy manner, shuffling up and down the stairs, keeping to their straight lines. That they didn't cut in line, didn't push, they were just happy to get in from one door, down the stairs, across the paths, and out another door. They were a lot different then Manami who was used to fighting to get her own way with basically any situation that arose. This seemed all to neat for her and she didn't much care for it...

"Therethereisdashiny!" The gray creature with the green eye said from where it was hovering next to Manami, reminding the fox girl that it was even there. She turned to look over at the gray... thing and starred at it for a long moment, seeming to be trying to figure out once more what the thing was talking about but caught the word 'shiny' just as a rather pudgy goose went racing by, bouncing across the insect lizards, seeming to be carrying a... key in its mouth?

The fox girl's tails set to lashing back and forth behind her as she starred at the goose with the key, "Wait... a second...?" She murmured, turning to give the gray creatures a long, angry sort of glare, "You pulled Manami here to find a shiny! Keys do not count as shiny, gray thing lied to Manami and that doesn't make her happy!" She lifted a hand up to give the Nutbar a bop on the head, causing it to shoot down to the ground where it proceeded to bounced off the stones steps and fly back up into the air as though it were made of rubber. Its reaction was one that helped in calming down the disgruntled kitsune as she found it rather amusing the way the creature bounced.

Her attention went back to the goose that seemed to be disrupting the other creatures, getting in their way, and basically causing them to get caught up as though in a many car pile up on a highway, "Poor critters, Manami does like them even if they are to calm for her tastes." They were cute which made her a little more biased toward them instead of the goose which was rather... plain by comparison. Not to mention she was annoyed with the thing for being so boring. She had been hoping for a huge treasure like what the pirates always had in the books she looked at and instead she found out that the gray creature seemed to think that a key counted as being a shiny treasure!

Well... sometimes keys opened locked things she found herself thinking, they opened doors, chests, safes, all sorts of things that treasures could be hidden in. So perhaps it would be worth pursuing? She turned to glance back to the Nutbar that was starring at her as though it might burst into tears at any moment, "Manami has decided that she will help you, if only to see that key unlocks." She told the gray thing before she started along, moving to trot down a stair case, finding herself amazed by how gravity didn't even seem to apply to his world. It made things far more interesting and made her wish that back home had stairs that worked magically like this.

The girl gave a squeak of surprise as she tripped over one of the insect lizards as it went shuffling passed her, sticking to the paths even as she tried to cut ahead, "What out, creature! Manami needs to catch that wild goose!" She scolded the creature. All of them paused and turned to look up at Manami at once, seeming as though they were all a little hive minded like bees were. Her ear gave a twitchy, tails going still, "Ahh... don't stare at Manami like that bug things!"

They starred longer, seeming almost confused by the presence of something in their world other then just the lot of them. They exchanged looks before they looked in the direction that the goose had raced of in, "Uh-oh... Manami think the goose in in trouble." She whispered to the gray thing that was still hovering around her. They followed the goose in a very specific manner, they never went backwards only forward, seeming almost to be herding the key stealing fowl along certain paths, nipping at it when they would get close enough to do so. They would disappear through one door, pop out another, down stairs, across a path, in another door, and back out... until suddenly they were coming out of the door near to where Manami was standing.

The fox gave a squeak of surprise as she spun around on the balls of her feet before she lunged, tackling the goose which caused it to started to honk, flail, flap, and otherwise kick up quite ruckus but the more important part was that it dropped the key. She released the goose so that she could grab it up and the lizard bugs proceeded to once more herd the thing around as though it were a fun game provided to them by the ones that had let the bird in. Manami smirked, turning around to hold up the key to show it off to the gray thing, "See! Manami is a genius!" That or she was just lucky. More likely the not the latter was true.

The Finale: Part Two: The Treasure Within!

The door before them was massive, it had to stand at least ten feet tall and was just as wide, it glittered in the light that fell down upon it and it had her starring, mouth hanging open. This was it! This had to be it! She dropped the goose which gave a rather grumble honk sound as it landed before turning to glare up at the girl, a glare she was ignoring before she turned her attention to the Nutbar, "Now what?" She asked, the Nutbar had told her that the goose was supposed to be their guide... so it needed to start to guide them! She looked down at the bird before lifting a foot to nudge it, "Get to being a tour guide you bird! She is getting tired and she wants to go home soon!"

The goose gave a honk sound before it looked up at the Nutbar that was just starring at it dumbly before it set to walking again, its webbed feet smacking against the floor as it went, as though it were trying to stomp its feet in indignation. The fox girl merely shrugged before following along after, giving a sigh as she went. She didn't know where they were going or now long it was going to take but she was determined to see it through to the end, to get her hands on the shiny thing, and then be on her way home!

About five feet forward the group came to a halt within arms reach of the door and she blinked, starring at the door, looked to the goose, then to the gray thing, "Huh?"

The Nutbar's mouth spread into a wide smile, "Seetourguidebroughtustodashiny!" It said, clapping its hands together in delight.

Manami was pretty sure that she was getting the first migraine of her life in this moment, "Guide... it didn't... it didn't guide! We walked five feet foward!" She raged, ears laying back.

"Butdabirdyleddawaywastheguidedawholetime." It said, shaking its head as though it thought that Manami had missed that when it was so important. The Nutbar turned to stare at the door, its tongue lolling out once more in a dumb manner before pointing, "Openopenopenopendadoor!" It said in a sing song voice.

The fox girl lifted her hands to rub the heels of her hands against her eyes, growling as she did so. She was getting very, very frustrated now. Even Amano on her worst day wasn't as annoying as that gray thing was! At least it appeared as though they were at the end of this trip. She only had to open the door with the key she had found and the treasure would at last be hers. She stepped forward, slid the key into the lock and turned it. There was a little grinding sound as though the lock hadn't been open for a very long time and she set to pulling it open with the help of the Nutbar and the goose before they starred at the close of a room that was behind it.

"What the...?" Manami rounded on the Nutbar that was laughing as though it were the most amusing thing in the world what was behind the door, "What? What! What are you laughing at stupid gray thing!?"

It stopped for a moment, tongue lolling out, its ever vacant eyed stare on her before it pointed, "Wasjokesofunny!" It said, before there was another round of giggles, "HesaidbehindshinydoorwassamethingasinNutbarhead." It said, lifting a hand before another portal sprang to life underneath Manami's feet.

"What... WHAT?!" She shrieked, "BUT THERE'S NOTHING IN THERE!" She yelled, apparently not understanding the joke of sorts as the portal swallowed her up.

It deposited her back home, back in the hallway she'd been when she was taken, the same place, same time, as though it had never happened... the nothing that indicated that it had was the overwhelming headache she had and the need to nap. She swore then if she ever saw another of those gray things again she was going to kill it!