~Candy~
This game was insane. I woke up back on my bed, and immediately I grabbed the game case, and a picture of all they guys were on it, Snow in the middle reaching his hand out. I went downstairs to see of anyone else was home yet. No one. So I just ate by myself, and did some homework, even if it was hard to concentrate. I almost turned it on again, but decided sleep would be better. I could continue playing in the morning, which is exactly what I did. I woke up a few hours before school, got dressed and brushed my hair quickly, then laid back down and turned the system on, and powered up the watch and hit start. I closed my eyes this time so I didn’t feel like I was being sucked up into a tornado.
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I opened my eyes and found myself not in the forest this time, but in the main lobby area thing in the castle. The cold marble floor was cold against my cheek and I stumbled when I got up. It was very quiet, and I looked around, wondering if I should call out. But instead I just wandered to my room, which was the same as before. Then I went down to Snows room and looked at the door handle. I took a deep breath and knocked softly. There was no answer. So I knocked again. “Snow?” I asked. Still nothing. I turned the door handle and opened it up. “Hey Sn-” I saw the snow leopard crouched on the floor then suddenly pounce at me. I saw it morph into human snow and he grabbed me and hugged me tight. I hugged back to keep from possibly falling over. It was rather beautiful, but it was so shocking all I did was squeak.
“You came back!” He sounded like I had just given him the best present of his life.
“O-Of course I did.” I chuckled and shook my head a little. “Why wouldn’t I?”
“I thought you didn’t like me.” He said quietly.
“What in the world would make you think that?” His nails stroked my back and I could have melted into a puddle at his feet at that moment.
“You left.” He said simply. I pulled back from him a little.
“I have to leave sometimes, I have important things to do back where I come from, like school and, and stuff.” I explained.
“What’s school?” He let go and sat down, looking at me with interest.
“It’s a place where humans go to learn. Math and science and skills like that.” Did they not have school here? Oh, of course not, this was a game. But it was starting to feel less and less like it.
“I don’t understand.” Snow frowned. I couldn’t help but smile and I looked at my watch.
“How long can you stay?” He asked.
“A few hours.” I stopped and thought for a moment. “What do you want to do?” I asked. His eyes lit up and he jumped off the bed, turned and squatted down his hair pooled onto the floor like a curtain that was too long for the wall.
“Come on!”
“You mean…like, get on, are you sure?” I stammered. He nodded. “Well, alright…” I awkwardly pressed myself to his back and wrapped my arms around his neck carefully so that I wouldn’t choke him. I had never been carried like this before and it was a little nerve wracking when he stood up and I was fairly high up off the ground. I held a little tighter and he spoke softly.
“I won’t drop you, I promise.”
“Ok. I trust you.” He didn’t move for a moment and then started jogging, then into a full run. My hair blew back, like I was using my hair dryer, and I laughed. This was, fun. “Where are we going?” I asked as he raced out of the castle and past the garden and pool.
“You’ll see!” His voice wavered as he ran. It made me blush a little. He was strong, and not even breaking a sweat carrying me, and it didn’t seem to affect his speed either. I felt a swoosh of air next to me and feather covered wings smacked me in the face. Snow stopped and turned. “Hi Talon.”
“What’s she doing here?” Talon flapped his large wings a few more times before planting his feet on the ground. I held onto Snow just a bit tighter.
“Morning Talon.” I greeted. He frowned.
“Morning.” He said flatly.
“Were, you two going to do something?” I asked.
“Yes but you need to get off of him first.” Talon crossed his arms.
“Come on Talon, be nice.” Snow got down again and let me off. I took a few steps back. “This is a training arena! Do you train Candy?” I shook my head quickly.
“Oh no no, I don’t.”
“Obviously.” Talon muttered. I moved over by a different tree that was more away from them.
“Stop being so sour!” Snow pushed him. “Don’t be jealous I got her and you didn’t. Just because you’re older doesn’t mean you get everything.” Snow smirked.
“You’ll regret that statement kitten.” Talon got into a fighting stance, but with a playful smile. He looked much less intimidating like that.
“Bring it bird, I’ve been craving some crow.”
“I’m a hawk damn you!” They jumped at each other and started wrestling and I chuckled watching them. I failed to notice something coming up behind me, and it snatched me before I could even scream and ran with me. I was thrown over a shoulder and couldn’t see what or who it was and I was paralyzed with fear. We soon stopped and it put me down.
“Yay! Now I get to play with the human!” I saw the gray haired Lee in front of me. I was suddenly relieved, but still shaken, since I knew who it was.
“Why did you do that?!” I asked.
“Because Snow is hogging you and that’s not fair. We haven’t seen a human before and I wanted a chance to play with you.”
“You scared me to death!” I exclaimed and then felt hot tears slide out of my eyes.
“I-I’m sorry! I do it to Light and Vic all the time, and they don’t cry! Why are you crying, don’t cry, you’re freaking me out!” He hopped around me and that just made me laugh a little and I wiped my face quickly.
“It just frightened me. You could have just asked me Lee, I would have played with you.”
“Really?” He looked down at me. I think he was the shortest out of the boys, which was kinda nice. He didn’t seem as scary as the others, at least not at this point. The sharp horn on his head did make me a little nervous though, since he seemed to be very bouncy and he swung his head a lot.
“Of course.”
“Do you like water?”
“Well, yeah, I do.” I didn’t tell him that I couldn’t actually swim. I usually stuck to the shallow end, since I taught myself how to barely stay above water. He was a water creature, maybe he could teach me sometime.
“Really?! Lets swim together sometime!” He said excited.
“Alright alright.” I chuckled. Then I heard a darker voice hiss from behind Lee.
“What are you doing?”
