🔷️The Gatherers
Chapter 1: Hallow's Hunt

🎃Seasonal TF #1
🟢Frightful Fun
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🔻As the drooled upon man lays there not fully conscious, with the giddy observer above, his right han began to change!
Pink paw pads begin to form as chocolate fur grows, fingers begin to crunch in as they shift position as the hand shrinks, claws push out as the nails fall out. His fingers shrink painfully by how they twitch along with the palm crunching down to paw shape an soon size. This wakes him up, he looks down to his nude state, slow to recognize his hand's state or the monster barely in peripheral view. As his eyes focus he feels for his clothes which he realizes are gone as he feels the fur & claws of his right hand as his left begins to do the same. He looks to his right hand in shock & dismay as the chocolate fur grows steadily up his arm! His left hand crunching up like the right, chocolate fur grows as pink paw pads form an claws tear their way out while the nails fall out! The pain has him look to his left hand to see its finalizing to a paw!
He freaks out, which only makes him aware of the Demonic Beast above him! He stares at the oversized child like WereWolf Imp with contorted Arms up behind it clapping!
He trys to get up but his changing feet prevent him, he slips & stares at them! His feet are breaking down into paws as their nails fall out & become replaced by claws pushing out! His big toes twitch & get jerked back as they quickly shrivel up, the other toes all reposition as chocolate fur grows alongside pink paw pads! His shrinking feet turning paws get covered in chocolate fur as the same fur reaches his elbows an both areas turn white beyond that! His feet loose their big toes completely as the structure that was once a human feet fully breaks into the feet of a pawed creature! As the fur moves up his limbs they shrink down causing him further pain!
As he crys out Kelly is crying silently as Walter stares wide eye & shaky!
Fur from his right arm reaches his shoulder an begins to cover his torso, making his side crunch up & him to yell! Fur reaches his left side, causing it to crunch up as well! His legs are still shrinking down & raising up as the fur covering him continues to crush the human form into a Siamese Cat! Fur compresses his chest, back & sides, as the fur from his legs reaches his torso as well! It quickly connects with each other & as it slows much like it did from his arms a tail begins to grow out, a tail that is slowly covered in chocolate fur! His crys of anguish begin to sound choked as fur grows up the sides of his neck, the fur from his sides crushing his torso into a new smaller size as his waistline shrinks down as well leaving his belly an the center of his chest an back mostly the same size as before! His head isn't shrinking yet as the rest of him is much smaller! Fur rings his neck faster than it covers his chest & back, his crys are shifting into the pained yalling of a cat! His brunette hair starts being replaced by the white fur as it begins to cover his head! His torso is almost fully covered in fur & shrunk down as his head finally begins to break down! When the white fur reaches his ears it becomes chocolate in color as it covers his now moving & changing, lengthening, shrinking, moving up the sides of his head, becoming the ears of a cat covered out & in with chocolate fur!
As the changes near the end the now towering Demonic Beast stands over the siamese cat with a human face, it stares into his eyes when ever they would open!
As the white fur nears the face the yalling begins to calm as the fur on the forehead, cheeks turn chocolate, forming triangles that connect at their tips at the top outer edges of his eyes. The chocolate fur stay above his lower jaw as his mouth begins to change!
The siamese cat opens its eyes as the yalls turn from crys to just being communicative, he rolls onto his side & sits up as it just yammers.
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🔻His face pushing out forces the column of the nose to move, his head becoming almost cone like. The yalling becomes a little warped as his tongue lengthens a little faster as his teeth start to fall out of his mouth, he coughs out his teeth as new ones push out, causing him to sound a little annoyed as he paws his mouth. His nostrils begin to flare up & line up to creat a flat top. His nose becomes black as the chocolate fur grows at an angle to the under side of his growing muzzle. The shape of his nose becomes a upside down triangle that's only a little darker than the fur surrounding it, whiskers now grow out as the yalling resumes now that the muzzle is full. His blue eyes become more brilliant as it gets up an walks off, talking to himself all the while. The change happened, in just 1 minute.
Walter & Kelly stare at the siamese cat, then shift their attention to...it just sits there, staring down to where the human turn cat once layd, the expression on its face is a mix...of emptiness, longing, and despair...then, suddenly, sharply, it moves, smiles, as it looks out of the room, searching for its next toy! It drools, lilling its tongue!

🔷️Kelly: frightened
"(Is it going to do that again to someone else?)"

🔷️Walter: angry
"(No! It can't be allowed to go on an keep doing that! I have to stop it!)"

🔻he gets up

🔷️Kelly: whispering
"what are you d-"

🔷️Walter: shouting
"Hey! Over Here!"
🔷️Demonic Beast:
"Aah!"
🔷️Walter: shouting
"Over Here!"

🔻Kelly flattens out as much as possible as she stares WIDE eye at Walter in disbelief!

🔷️Walter:
"You want to do that to someone else?" [raises voice] "Then Do It To Me!"

🔷️Kelly: flabbergasted
"(What!)"

🔻it looks to be delighted by Walter's presence let alone his offer! It goes to move but Walter beats it to it & goes to the edge & jumps down to the maze of green below! The pained landing causes him to

🔷️Walter: fear
"(What am i doing? What did i just do? What am i going to do!?)"

🔷️Inry:
"(There!)"

🔻Intense Shrill!

🔷️Inry: confused & afraid
"(It keeps coming after me, does it know that i realize that i know its plan?)"

🔷️Valin:
"(What's going on? Did it develop a thing for Inry? Why is it now egnoring me? Hate to break it to ya reanimator, i don't like being egnored an Really developed a complex over it, you WILL pay attention to me!)"

🔻Valin moves to a triceratopian skeleton & removes 1 of the horns

🔷️Valin: furious
"(Sorry Cera, but i need to make a point!)"

🔷️Inry:
"(Maybe we should of came up with a different plan, it's tiring me out. If only it decided to go after Valin again)...eh?...-!"

🔻Stalker Hunter stands by Inry, staring at him!

🔷️Inry:
"Ffu-"
🔷️Valin: shouting
"DUCK!"

🔻Inry ducks as it goes to tu- SHUNK! The horn goes in & out of the gut area, Valin gored it from behind

🔷️Valin: shouting
"Take This Bastard!"

🔻It groan roars!

🔷️Valin: shouting
"Inry Kick It!"

🔷️Inry:
"Eh! Got it!"

🔻he gets up & gives it a good jump kick! It gives out a mixed roaring shriek! The 2 back off as it wobbles

🔷️Valin: mad
"I really hate being egnored."

🔷️Inry: worried
"I feel sorry for what ever woman marries you!"

🔻Valin laughs!..-!Stops & Moves back as it Swings around wildly!

🔷️Inry: surprised
"It ain't slowing?"

🔷️Valin: uneazy
"I guess my complex made me forget it got back up earlier."

🔻it whips round snapping the horn & it flys towards Inry! He grabs it & jams it into the other side!

🔷️Inry: sternly
"Valin, your turn!"

🔷️Valin: yelling
"Right!"

🔻he gives it a side ways kick &  it backs into a box, both Valin & Inry then kick it again to push the 2nd half of the horn deeper! It falls to its knees & holds itself up with its arched arms, its breathing is laborious

🔷️Valin:
"Did it actually work this time?"

🔷️Inry:
"Don't get too close."

🔷️Valin:
"Right right...mh, well let's just leave it like this an go."

🔻V starts off, followed by

🔷️Inry: accusing stare
"So you hate being egnored but you can easily egnor others?"

🔷️Valin: playful
"Aahh, whatever. This was..."

🔷️Inry: fear
"Mh, not good."
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🔻they slowly turn to see it standing behind them...it proceeds to slash the 2 horns, breaking them in front & back. It then looks up to them with a deep grumbling roar

🔷️Valin: regretful fear
"Egh! um, sorry?"

🔷️Inry: fear
"I think all we did was find out what it really hates."

🔷️Valin: sarcastic fear
"Yeah? I'm good at ticking people off."

🔷️Inry: snarky fear
"You don't say?"

🔻it postures & roars loudly an moves their way in a very fast jog!

🔷️Inry: shouts
"Run!"

🔻Demonic Beast crys out, a happy "i'm going to get you" sing-songy type of noise as it searches for Walter

🔷️Kelly: fear
"(Remain hidden! Please, remain hidden, Walter!)"

🔻The Demonic Beast continues to make playful noises! Finding some poor previous victim, groaning sadly, then moving on to resume searching for Walter

🔷️Kelly: worry
"(It really can't find him?...you, didn't take off did you?"

🔻as the Demonic Beast conitnues to look for Walter...

🔷️Walter: fear
"(What did i do? I-i can't move, or it'll know where i am! But if i stay like this forever, not only will i never get out of here, it could go after Kelly! I could never forgive myself if i let that happen because of me!)"

🔻Kelly screams!

🔷️Walter: shouts
"KELLY!"

🔻She begins to change into a Gray Hound!...

🔷️Walter:
"(No, i can't let that happen! I-i have to finish what i started!)"

🔻Demonic Beast's search moves to another location

🔷️Kelly: concern & assured
"(D-did he, really leave me behind?...no, it isn't like him to do that! He would've taken it with him, not left it in here with me!...he has-!)...!"

🔻she smiles

🔷️Walter: fear
"(Ok, where exactly is it?)....-!"

🔻drool drips down infront of him! It doesn't notice him having crawled out from a drain in the wall, he stands below it as it sways around atop the wall, looking around but not below!

🔷️Walter: terrified
"(I had to come out with it right above me?)"

🔻He stares at the drool flowing down in front of him!...it looks down & spys Walter & silently giggles as it closes its mouth, then drops a big drool ball onto Walter!

🔷️Walter:shouting in terror
"No!"

🔷️Kelly: shouting
"WALTER!"

🔻Walter Yells as his head becomes that of a Border Collie!

🔷️Walter: terror
"(If it lowers its head, i'm done for! I need to mo-)"

🔻sound of clanking! Both look right, but only the Demonic Beast can lean over the wall to the other side to look down the path, it sees something being hit against the tiles! It grins as it looks passed the dropped object, Kelly stands there staring at it! It gets down & runs her way all too gid-!WAM/Shatter! Kelly moves away from it, having collided into a wall & mirror, it groans as it trys to get up! She runs around the maze as

🔷️Walter: confused
"(What just happened over there?...wait, was that noise Kelly!? I have to move!)"

🔻as it gets up the 2 run around till they collide! They smile, then it crys out for the 1st time in anger! They look up at the wall in its direction. They look to each other & motion to run, that-a-way & take off!

🔷️Inry:
"We should just get out of here! That bear trap didn't work!"

🔷️Valin:
"Neither did crushing it!"

🔷️Inry:
"We can't kill it, we need to run!"

🔷️Valin:
"Fine, let's get out of here!"

🔻it roars & bashes junk at them spliting the 2 up, Inry continues to run on towards a door! -! But at it he stops!

🔷️Inry: scared
"(!eh! There's something out there!)"

🔻more debris flys his way & he takes off, he turns back to see Valin about to run through the door

🔷️Inry: shouting
"Valin There's Something Out There!"

🔻Valin stops with a skid as something moves in the darkness! Stalker Hunter brings both arms down & back as it moves for him! Valin gets his balance then moves as both a Mutated Creature comes in & Stalker Hunter thrusts its arms forward! Impaling the other creature, lifting it up! Inry gets to Valin behind the Stalker Hunter as it seemingly on auto pilot brings one of its blades out & repeatedly stabs the other & both motion to run & vanish into the darkness, it begins to dismember the other creature! Once done it turns to survey the room, believing the 2 are still there it returns to searching for them...
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🔷️Walter: whispering
"we need to find a way to kill this thing."

🔷️Kelly: whispering
"but how can we?"

🔷️Walter:
"we'll think of som-!"

🔻Walter trips as Kelly ran on, she stops to wait when down slams the Demonic Beast between them! It turns in Walter's direction!

🔷️Walter: yells
"Go!"

🔻She nods & runs as he runs the other way! It gives chase, an irate mischievous child wanting its toy! Walter out paces it in the garden maze till it goes over the wall again, blocking his path, Walter has a door to go through or duck under a fallen tree, it begins to suck on its tongue! He goes under the tree as in walks

🔷️GreenRook:
"Finally a friendly-"
🔻It spits at him!
🔷️GreenRook:
"-fac-!Mph! What the fu-Fur!?"
[notices creature] "AAAH!"
📚Blue armor & blackish gray uniform that has a black cog with a skull in it on the chest

🔻as Walter stands he spins round

🔷️Walter: loudly
"Sorry!"

🔻Continues to turn & runs off as the man begins to become a black cat! The Demonic Beast looks ecstatic but then looks in Walters direction then back & looks sad as it goes to look at the guy & go after Walter

🔷️Walter: guilt
"(What bad timing! I'm sorry that ha)-! HAH-HaHh!"

🔻it blocks Walter's way with only the tree to return to, it moves to Walter! To Walter's right on a dirt filled pot sits the cat with the spot in its eye. Walter looks around for something as it gets closer!...Walter grabs the cat & throws it at the Demonic Beast! The 2 cry out as the cat removes its left eye before tossing the cat aside, landing & bouncing off a bush! Now furious it hurrys to Walter -!it stops! The room has become filled with the vicious growls of the numerous cats & dogs that now seem to register the monster as a threat! Like a scared child it backs off as they surround it...they ATTACK, swarming the Demonic Beast! Kelly runs up to Walter & grabs him, they take off, leaving the room behind as it screams out in terror & pain...Walter & Kelly run, just run, an keep running, running, Running, RUN-

🔷️Women in Black: screaming
"STOP!"

🔻They grind to a stop, coming close to running right off the balcony to the grassy ground outside the building! Realizing where they are they fall back

🔷️Walter: hysterical
"We're outside!"
🔷️Kelly: hysterical
"We're outside!"
🔷️Walter & Kelly: hysterical
"We're Outside!"

🔻they laugh, baffling the 2 there to their side

🔷️Radiation Mask: calm confusion
"Some people just don't like partys."

🔷️Women in Black: confused
"And they helped plan it. I'm glad someone came back for us, you can help me get him down stairs back to the party."

🔻Both of them are in shock! They sit up

🔷️Walter: shocked
"The party?"

🔷️Kelly: fear
"We need to get out of here!"

🔷️Women in Black:
"Oh don't be so dramatic."

🔷️Radiation Mask: concerned
"Wait, did everyone leave before i got the lights back on?"

🔷️Kelly: manic
"Do you two not know what's going on?"

🔷️Walter: confused
"Wait, you told me to be careful earlier, why?"

🔷️Women in Black:
"It was dark, no power, i didn't want you to trip on something an get hurt or worse."

🔷️Walter: calm surprise
"Then, you have no idea of what's going on?"

🔷️Radiation Mask:
"What's going on? A third act party killer?"

🔷️Kelly: manic
"There's a monster running around here! It's transforming everyone it wounds into monsters as well!"

🔻A pause...then the 2 laugh!

🔷️Kelly: manic
"I'm being serious!"

🔷️Radiation Mask: playful
"It seems some one wasn't informed on the full plans for the night."

🔷️Women in Black: quietly
"it would explain why i got left to being out here."

🔷️Walter: annoyed & frantic
"There is a monster in there~" [yells] "~An It's Turning People~" [shouts] "~INTO MONSTERS!"

🔻the 2 stare at them...

🔷️Radiation Mask: concerned
"I, may not know your friends here, but, they seem to be truely serious, and frantic."

🔷️Women in Black: worried
"True...so, what does it look like?"

🔷️All 4:
".....?"

🔻they look into the building, Thee a cursed creature stands there staring at them

🔷️Walter: fear
"That..."

🔻it moves its right foot & turns slitely, the cords to the generator are right there

🔷️Radiation Mask: confused
"What's it doing?"

🔷️Walter: scared
"I don't know."

🔻it moves again & then looks down, to the cord, then glares at them

🔷️Kelly: terror
"Does it understand what that is?"
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🔻It reaches down & gabs the cords, a light tug, the generator moves! The 4 jerk!...It grabs the cords & YANKS them hard! The generator goes flying into a old wall, through it & towards the creature who grabs it & hurls it far away into the building! The lights die as the generator comes to a heap of junk stop in the ballroom! It Roars, the chest vibrating roar that thee monster can do! It stands there staring, waiting!

🔷️Women in Black: fear
"Wh-why doesn't it come after us?"

🔷️Kelly: confused
"I don't know..."

🔷️Walter: startled realization
"It can't leave, that's why it won't come after us!"

🔷️Radiation Mask: relieved
"Then let's climb down an get out of here!"

🔷️Women in Black: scared
"I agree! Let's go!"

🔷️Kelly: frantic
"No, we have to save everyone!"

🔷️Women in Black: concerned
"But he's too hurt to be of any help!"

🔷️Walter:
"Then we lower you two down so you can get him to safety an get help."

🔷️Radiation Mask: worried
"Will you two be ok?"

🔻They look to each other...

🔷️Walter & Kelly: firmly
"Yeah."

🔻with the watching creature standing there they begin to lower the guy down. Doing so seems to make it antsy! They drop him down & he falls back onto his butt.

🔷️Radiation Mask: loudly
"I'm good!"

🔷️Kelly:
"Your turn."

🔷️Women in Black:
"Ok."

🔻She climbs over & they lower her down. The creature gets real agitated & brakes a wall, grabs a chunk of it & throws it!

🔷️Walter & Kelly: screaming
"AAAH!"

🔻They fall over the edge & land on the ground below a little hard! The creature ROARS in anger!...they lay there, in shock!...they slowly get up

🔷️Women in Black: relief turn shock
"Looks like you two are coming with us....Wow! Are you two seriously going back in?"

🔷️Walter: steadfast
"Someone has to stop that thing."

🔷️Women in Black: concerned
"You should go get help, or at least real weapons!...they're..."

🔷️Radiation Mask: calm
"It's ok, i don't think you need to worry about them...come on, we have our own job to do."

🔷️Women in Black: worried
"Eh...mh, ok."

🔻she helps him up & they hobble off...
🔷️Walter:
"We have a Rabbit to find, it maybe trapped in here, but this place can become endless."

🔷️Kelly:
"So this means it knows its way around, it'll find us if we don't happen to find it first."

🔷️Walter:
"No, i doubt it knows the place that well. It's probably as much a victim to this place as we are, the only difference is we can leave."

🔻they walk on...the house ever the maze, the 2 wonder from 1 room to another, when they see in the distance what at 1st seemed like a pile of sticks, they slowly enter a bone field...

🔷️Valin: quietly
"hey, inry..i've a bone to pick with you."
[Mischievous smile!]

🔷️Inry:
"You haven't stopped joking since we lost that thing."

🔷️Valin:
"Look...you see my hands shaking right?...i-i'm just trying to calm my self down."

🔷️Inry:
"...got any more?"

🔷️Valin:
"Umm...i know a few little guys who are spoiled for choice when it comes to skull head wear."

🔷️Inry:
"Is that it?"

🔷️Valin:
"Plenty of fangs an claws for a charm bracelet or dream catcher or such."

🔷️Inry:
"Out of jokes?"

🔷️Valin: imitation
"Well if i break a bone i know where go get a new one!"
[Odd laugh]

🔷️Inry: confused
"?..."

🔷️Valin:
"Babbling brook over here who's soring for his violin to put some soulful music into the air."

🔷️Inry: annoyed
"Mh hm."

🔷️Valin:
"Oddly enough i have a lot in common with him, you know, except for the fact i'm alive an not a pervert!"
[Laughs normally]

🔷️Inry: annoyed
"I'm going to egnor you now."

🔷️Valin:
"Ouch, you wound me! Which is possible because i-"

🔻Inry stares at Valin

🔷️Valin:
"...i'm done...so done i'm going to lay my bones to rest with these friendly chaps, look at them smile!"

🔻Inry sighs in annoyance

🔷️Inry: confused
"...why are they all animal bones?"

🔷️Valin:
"That's your question? What i'm wondering is-"

🔷️Inry: sternly
"Valin."

🔷️Valin:
"No seriously..all these bones...none of them are chipped, no claw or fang nor blade marks, why?"

🔻Inry grabs 1 & looks it over, then another

🔷️Inry: surprised
"You're right..an they're perfectly smooth, they shouldn't be this smooth."
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🔷️Valin: worried
"An you know this, how?"
[side upward stare at him]

🔷️Inry:
"I'm a researcher, remember?"

🔷️Valin: concerned
"Into?"

🔷️Inry: calm & nervous
"Ah-..mh...ok, i don't know. I...found an animal skull once."

🔷️Valin:
"Aw Inry, that's all you had to say. I had one from a fishing trip, my friend two houses down of me had one. The extra room had complete mouse skeletons in it."

🔷️Inry:
"Mh...is the smell getting to you at all?"

🔷️Valin:
"Nah, but i would've hamd it up to rile Walter an his crush up some. We could use the rib bones as daggers."

🔷️Inry:
"They wouldn't be as effective as those plates were, but then who or what we used them against, who knows how effective they would've been."

🔷️Valin:
"Better than nothin..."

🔻a sudden burst of screaming

🔷️The 2: startled
"Eah!"

🔻Valin & Inry quickly find a table to hide under with a pile of bones on 1 side as a blind. Their target comes over with a partygoer dressed as a thief, grabbed by the leg dragging behind it. It drags the poor panicking woman to a clear spot & flips her onto her back & pins her down! It breaths & drools onto her face! It may have her pinned, but her arms are free, she wipes the drool off her face, spreading it some, as some of it gets into her eyes nose & mouth, she gags then spits as IT calmly, motionlessly, holds her there.

🔷️Valin: puzzled
"(Ok why?)"
🔷️Inry: grossed out
"(That's just sick)"

🔻Sneaking in through another doorway, Walter & Kelly arived in time to watch

🔷️Walter: startled
"(That power is something they all can do?)"
🔷️Kelly: scared
"(No! She's going to be turned into a cat or a dog too!)"

🔻She sticks her tongue out to wipe it off when she sees her hands change! She freaks out as the under sides of her hands become padded & claws push out as her nail fallout! All of these changes happen within 1 minute. She's unaware her tongue won't fit back in her mouth as her lips & nose turns black & her eyes change, her green irises become dark purple! Black fur grows around her eyes with streaks of black to white to gray fur leading to white fur growing in her ears. Gray fur grows on the back of her hands & the bridge of her nose, an white fur grows around her mouth alongside whiskers! Her face stretches out as her teeth begin to fall out, she spits them out as her stretching face forms a muzzle, her nose fully blackens as the gray fur grows up her face connecting with the fur from around her mouth & eyes, the black fur around her eyes gets wider. Her ears loose their lobes as they grow to aim forward & the growing fur fills them in. Her nose pushes out as the opening for the nostrils expands, curling back & up to the top edge of her square-ing nose. The black mask that screams out what she's becoming takes full shape, a Raccoon's mask, surrounded by white fur with gray fur break between the eyes. Her hands changes, fingers shift position to have the thumb & pinky sitting almost leveled with each other as they become the same length an size, ring & pointer fingers do the same as the middle fingers only sits a little ahead of them. Gray fur has begun to replace her orange hair from the front & sides. Her ears have grown to face forward & fur has covered the inside & most of the outside, her ears have begun moving up her head as it begins to compress down. Her hair gets replaced faster now. Her muzzle continues to push out to full length as her nose stays ahead of her mouth as sharp teeth grow in. Fur has covered all but the back of her head. Her terrified crys for help start to sound like the frantic crys of a Raccoon! Gray fur moves down her hands passed her wrists into her costume as so does the fur from her head having fully covered it! She begins to shrink down into her costume, as she does ITs hand would keep up with her, keeping her pinned to the ground with out crushing her. When her feet slip out of her shoes they can be seen changing. Her toes appear to lengthen as she shrinks & they shift position with the big toe moving back some pulling the next toe back a tiny bit, they loose their nails as claws push out.
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🔻Fur begins growing onto them as they vanish into her clothes. As she shrinks into her costume the chittering changes from frantic to just being noisy, a talkative raccoon. IT moves its hand & places 1 claw down the collar & lifts her up, dumping her out of her clothes, it rests its hand down as the chittery li'l thing rolls over to her feet as the tail grows out. She continues to shrink as gray fur covers her & her tail grows, furring up, gaining the black gray rings an black tip that raccoons have.
She just sits there chittering away as it stares down at her. The 4 still hiding, are in awe & shock over what just happened!

🔷️Walter: furious
"(Another monster that injoys transforming people!)"
🔷️Kelly: confused
"(She, turned into a raccoon?)"
🔷️Valin: awe struck
"(That was a little hard to watch, but cool)
🔷️Inry: confused
"(It can also turn people into normal animals? Why?)

🔻It continues to stare down at the raccoon..then, it brings its head back! All 4 see it coming & watch as it chomps down an eats her!

🔷️Walter: surprised
"(Wait! It just Ate her!?)"
🔷️Kelly: solemnly
"(It's Eating Her!)"
🔷️Valin: least concerned
"(Well, everyone has their preferences?)"
🔷️Inry: boggled
"(So it only eats animals? Weird)"

🔻as IT licks its mouth another, a transformed party goer. It walks by the Big 1...IT Grabs the other 1 & slams it to the ground! It doesn't react as it begins to shrink down, hands become paws as the sparse fur on it spreads out to cover it, its ears beome floppy dog ears as the tail shrivels up an becomes bushy. Its thick head breaks down in front as a flatter muzzle with smaller teeth. The back feet already paws shrink down. Only for a few odd moments does the changing creature react in a panic then calms back down to act like a golden retriever that it's becoming. The 4 watch as The Monster lifts the dog into the air & eats it too!

🔷️Walter:
"(Well this explains the animal bones)"

🔷️Valin: ponders
"(The change must do something for the taste)"

🔷️Kelly: terrified
"(I want to go home!)"

🔷️Inry: confused
"(I just don't get why it doesn't eat humans?)"

🔻The Monster moves a bit then lays down amongst the bones, pulling in some as it curls up. Valin smiles & Walter is shocked!

🔷️Walter: surprised
"(It just went to sleep!?)"
🔷️Valin: ecstatic
"(Yes! This is our chance!)"

🔻they look to their respective co-survivor, then get up & move towards it! When the 4 can see each other silent glee is shared between them before they share an intense look of purpose. They take a weapon into tight grasp & move to the creature, with quiet & careful placement, they tip toe their way over to the sleeping target. As they approach they each look around to see if any more will be showing up, all clear. When near, they pause, its arms protect its chest so no heart, but its spine is open for attack. They move ever so gingerly to its neck & ready to strike when its back, between the shoulder blades, begins to open up along the spine! Upon opening there is no spine, at least its own for out comes numerous bones that could be the remains of various animals.

🔷️Walter: confused
"(Is that-)"
🔷️Kelly: sickened
"(That's disgusting!)"
🔷️Valin: bewildered
"(Well ain't that special?)"
🔷️Inry: distracted
"(It cleaned the bones completely off of, everything)"

🔻A faint light can be seen before it closes

🔷️Valin: surprised
"(Wait, is that its weak spot?)"

🔻He taps Walter & Inry then motions a flashlight, heart beat, & points to the closed back. They move to it & adjust their shivs, waiting to thrust them in...the wait is painful as they try to keep from falling over from how they're crouched!...when finally it opens again, but they don't strike, they are mesmerized by the core of the creature! Kelly watches the 3 of them lower their shivs & lean towards the opening! She whips her arm in & stabs it- missing the heart! It seals up as bones were coming out trapping them an her arm & a Crimson Mark appears on its forehead!

🔷️Kelly & The Cursed Beast: loudly
"AAAAAAH!!!"
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🔻The boys snap out of it & grab Kelly & pull, placing their feet against it as they do & eventually pull her free! The Crimson Mark disappears & it gets up, it turns to face them. They tremor with fear as it stands full hight &-! Crys out in pain!

🔷️The 4:
"Ah!..aHH!"

🔻Her hand is empty, the shif is still inside it! It goes to swing its left arm at them but another sharp burst of pain stops it! They run for it! It hunches over as its back quivers, it lets out a deep groan as bones & the shiv plus blood goes flying out its back! Bleeding out of its mouth & back it very ANGERLY crys out before stampeding after the 4, on 2 legs & 4 depending on what gets in its way & going through doors

🔷️Valin: shouting
"Well We Got Its Attention Now!"

🔷️Inry: shouting
"Not How We Wanted It Though!"

🔷️Walter: shouting
"What Was Happening Back There?"

🔷️Kelly: shouting
"I Don't Know!"

🔻when the creature catches up to them they do their best to avoid it! Its movements are jerky & it screeches in pain every now & then which allows them to run! As they run they by pass a table full of sea food

🔷️Valin: shouting
"They Didn't Eat The Sea Food!? You Realize How Much That Cost Me!"

🔷️Kelly: shouting
"You Can't Be Serious!?"

🔷️Walter: shouting
"You're Going To Complain About That Now!?"

🔷️Inry: shouting
"Don't We Have More Pressing Issues!?"

🔷️Valin: irate shouting
"I MAY NOT GET A LATER!"

🔻They run but Valin notices something that makes his desire to run disappear! Inry, behind Valin notices his slowed step. As Walter & Kelly run through a door way Valin & Inry stop an look back to the creature as speeds their way

🔷️Valin: solemnly
"Inry, do you remember what i told you about these types of situations?"

🔷️Inry: puzzled
"Uh, always surround yourself with smart people?"

🔷️Valin: quiet solemnness
"yeah."

🔻Valin shoves Inry towards the door then kicks him through, slaming the door as he did! Some feet away the 2 look & head back. It's almost on top of Valin who swings his left arm back hitting the monster with the golden gauntlet! It recoils & looks to Valin!

🔷️Valin: smugly
"Hurts don-it? When i actually get dressed up for a costume party i go as authentic as possible! My claws an fangs are fake, but this, made broken, gauntlet, is real! Nice an heavy!"

🔻draws the gun he picked back up before fleeing the ballroom

🔷️Valin: faux assurance
"Ok, it's empty, but i can still use it as a club. I'm ready to dance, are you?"
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🔻it Roars!...Walter, Kelly & Inry run on with tears in their eyes! Valin is thrashed & bashed into the walls & floor as he begins to laugh, maniacally! This stalls the beating

🔷️Valin: maniacally
"Oh yes, take your time! The longer you're here with me, the farther they get!"
[Maniacal Laughter]

🔻it growls then bashes Valin across the room

🔷️Valin: sadist
"Come now, why aren't you laughing? It's contagious after all!"

🔻it moves to Valin

🔷️Valin: sternly
"Why so serious?"

🔻WAM! Valin's left arm hits hard & breaks as he slams to the wall. Pained laughter as he sits up

🔷️Valin: wavering playfulness
"Hey, is there anything i can do to get you to let me live?"

🔻head raised & eyes open, the monster is right there in his face

🔷️Valin: quivering smile
"Want my autograph?"

🔻ITs mouth comes straight at the screen with a guttural roar!

🔷️Kelly: exhausted
"Wait, Wait, i, i need to, to stop!"

🔷️Walter: exhausted
"Ok, we, we seem to-to be, safe, here..." [looks the way they came] "i, don't see, it behind us..."

🔷️Inry: exhausted
"Damnit! Why did, he have to, do that!?"

🔷️Walter: exhausted
"He, must of, noticed something an, wanted to try, an kill it, himself..i, rather believe that, than he, gave up."

🔷️Inry: exhausted
"After what we, went through, i don't know what, to think. (He did notice or realised something, but what?)"

🔷️Kelly: tired shock
"Walter, Inry, look!"

🔷️Walter: tired shock
"What is it?-!ah!"

🔷️Inry: tired shock
"Wait, ain't that?..."

🔻in the corner is

🔷️Kelly:
"Is it, dead?..."

🔷️Walter:
"Looks like it, but..this means~"
🔷️Rabbit:
"•••"
🔷️Walter:
"~The rabbit was never the creature!"

🔻the rabbit sits in the corner having been slashed to death by the monster, the body awaiting transformation

🔷️Walter: realization
"He saw what was happening an tried to help me!"

🔻they stare at Rabbit, Rabbit looks down to Armen, he has a look beginning for death, Rabbit holding a heavy object hesitates, shaking, then helps relieve Armen of his pain

🔷️Walter: solemnly
"If we had found em before learning the truth we would've killed em."

🔷️Kelly: solemnly
"I'm glad we never did..."

🔷️Inry: quiet & solemnly
"yeah, i wouldn't have been able to handle it when we learned other wise."

🔻Walter puts his left hand onto her right shoulder as she rubs her left arm...a distant roar! They look then move on, as Walter looks back

🔷️Walter: great full
"I'm sorry, and, thanks."

🔻they take off, camera pans round to the Rabbit..the large mask breaks to reveal a weak smile behind it as tears go down its face...the camera sits staring straight up at the ever taller, ever deeper ballroom as it slowly spins...Walter & Inry slow to a stop with Kelly behind them, they're more exhausted than before. When they hear off sounding heavy steps & crunching metal they take cover. Slowly walks by on 3 legs is a transforming Valin, nawing at the gauntlet...at 1 point he stops & his wolf-esk ears twitch, he turns & enters the room they're in & looks to them an growls a Wolf Dragon's growl. His left shoulder is mauled. Inry stands between the 2 & Valin

🔷️Inry: steady
"Go, i've got him."

🔷️Walter: worried
"You can't be serious, we can run!"

🔷️Inry: steadfast
"No we can't, just go."

🔷️Kelly: quietly
"walter..let's go."

🔷️Walter: shaky anger
"No i won't leave another behind!"

🔻Galian Beast growls louder as he begins to move their way

🔷️Inry: sternly
"Get out of here! Go!"

🔷️Walter: wavering
"Egh!..."

🔷️Kelly: weakly
"Mph-hhh...come on, let's go."

🔷️Walter:
"D-...!"

🔻He turns & puts his hand on her back & they take off! Galian Beast focuses on them

🔷️Inry: sternly
"Hey, focus on me!"

🔻He refocuses on Inry

🔷️Inry:
"...Valin..."

🔻as the 2 fled Stalker Hunter

🔷️Valin: playful
"Hey Inry, so you happy you came to the party? Who's the more foolish: the fool or the fool who follows him?"

🔷️Inry: frustrated
"I can clearly say that this is the worse party i've ever gone to!"

🔷️Valin: wavering
"I hate partys, i never should have come! This can only end badly for us!"

🔷️Inry: concerned
"Did you just give up? Only a Sith deals in absolutes."

🔷️Valin: snarky
"Good thing i ain't one, i think of every possibility, every, possibility. I'm just, leaning towards the bad right now."

🔷️Inry: concerned
"Do i need to worry about you giving up?"




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