Holly Daye

Name	Holiday
Gender	Female
Type	Human
From	Superheroic Earth
Class	Senior
Totem	Aardvark
Smarts	8
Bod	9
RWP	3
Nuts	8
Drive	4
Looks	6
Cool	6 (7)
Bonk	3
Powers	Monster Out (10x sized snowball-thing) Instaskill Duplication Standdown Hyperstat x2 *S/gm, B/F*
Clusters	*
Skills	*
Knacks	Handle Any Situation +3
1st	Alchemy/Varnhagen
2nd	Astronomical/Saii
3rd	Optimism/C'thain
4th	Earth Geography/Rubio
5th	Olde Englyshe/Hicks
6th	Choir/Caroline
7th	Interpersonal Rel/Rubio
8th	Track Biathalon/ahlKhat

Winter Snowe

Name	Snow
Gender	Female
Type	Human
From	Earth
Class	Freshman
Totem	Virus
Smarts	4
Bod	4
RWP	2
Nuts	3
Drive	2
Looks	5
Cool	5
Bonk	2
Powers	Bookworm Family Ties Macho
Clusters	*
Skills	Make Friends/Influence People +3 Research +3
Knacks	*
1st	Fertilizer/Herring
2nd	Cartography/Rex
3rd	Hungarian/Hirayama
4th	Uni.History/Argle
5th	Fiction/Singe
6th	Choir/Caroline
7th	Interrogation/Sanger
8th	Relax.Tech/Neko

Evie Greene

Name	Evergreen
Gender	Female
Type	Human
From	West of California AU
Class	Freshman
Totem	Spider
Smarts	9
Bod	6
RWP	5
Nuts	5
Drive	4
Looks	2
Cool	5
Bonk	5
Powers	Interdimensional Travel (random) Luck Bookworm Zap Talk to Mirrors Teleportation
Clusters	*
Skills	Research +3 Surfing +2
Knacks	*
1st	Time Travel Tech/Kamikaze
2nd	Realtime Geometry/Rex
3rd	Non-Sentient Languages/Luau
4th	GalGraph/Huntington
5th	Honors English/Leland
6th	Choir/Caroline
7th	Warfare/Hagen
8th	Adv. Cheer/Carson

The Chorale group met for the last time before the holiday break, discussing where they'd each be performing or how long they'd be in their vacation destination. Caroline, the clone who ran the class, was headed back to Bugtown with her clone sister Caroline who taught the Chaos Geometry courses. A couple more of them and the whole school could have her as a teacher at least once a day!

A good half dozen kids in the class would be remaining in town, while a lot of others had pooled their resourses and were going to a skiing trip. There were local activities planned, and the rest would probably be meeting at one or more of those. As the class bell rang and they headed to their next courses, the inseperable trio of Holly, Snow and Evergreen hugged and split up. They'd be back together after school, as they always were.

During 8th period they were essentially in the same place - doing very different activities. The very active Holly and well balanced Evie were on the track, practicing their different skills. And Snowe was there on the edge of the track and field hill watching with the rest of her relaxation class.

Suddenly, professor Neko, the Relaxation Tech instructor, puffed up all fuzzy and gave of a startled yeowl. The whole class followed him - well, most of the class. Some folks had just fallen asleep there on the hill.

"What was that all about?!" asked Snowe, cleaning soda off her shoulder from where one of the other students had sprayed her in surprise. "Professor Neko?"

The feline-person settled back down, but couldn't seem to get his tail to stop being poofy. "Sorry, just ... smelled something strange, something canine. You know how I get around dogs, right?" He chuckled nervously.

"Well we do now," Snowe said. She glanced around, and saw the source of his distress. It was a canine all right, but it had wings, and many tails too. "Now that's a cute puppy!" she said, and gave a little whistle to catch its attention. Though she could tell it was in a hurry to go somewhere, it trotted up to the hill anyway. Such was her ability to make friends!

The animal was clearly intelligent, and on arrival proved to be female. She barked a few times, flexed her wings - she had two pairs - and wagged half her tails while the others were standing happily up. Mentally, then, she said, would you like something?

"Oh! You ... well I don't know, you just showed up, I was wondering what you wanted here? Poor prof Neko," she glanced at the feline who was all but sprinting away down to the field. Maybe he had something to do down there. More likely he was following his spliced gene instincts and fleeing the big doggie...

The creature turned and looked, it almost appeared that she would have given a quick chase just to see what Neko would do. But instead she turned back to the students who were now gathering. I am here to recruit caretakers for others of my breed. Egyptans need company, you know. Especially those on their way. Some of the staff have offered to help raise them, but what about you? Do you have time to devote to an Egyptan like me?

Snowe jolted a little, and some of the others in the class nudged her. "Well, yeah, I guess I do! What about my friends?" They looked down the incline, to the track where the cheerleading squad was finalizing a routine, and the Biathalon students were packing their air guns away. The class bell rang, ending the school day - behind the hill could be heard the jubilant cheers of three thousand students suddenly free for their winter break!

Your friends would be welcome to try, call them over. The Egyptan said, sitting down. The staff members who were going to meet her came up the hill along with the girls. Chatting among themselves, the Egyptan and staff members decided that it would be best to find students who were staying for the break, instead of those headed off on vacations. Since these three were remaining, and had no prior committments to deal with at home, they were to each receive a coccoon that would hatch shortly.

As the girls watched, their coccoons started to break open at almost the same time. They were spending the night at Evie's place, somewhere past the beach. She teleported everyone there and her parents were pretty happy to have folks over for a holiday dinner.

What with them being 'West' of Cali and everything, not everyone from that plane of reality could teleport as easily as Evie could. Her dad did a bit of hopping, and was thrilled that they were going to play host to an Egyptan as well!

It was obvious which coccoon was whose, and certainly the little Egyptan cubs responded to their owners with glee. Greenie would lay around on the warm ground near Evie, while Puffybuffy lept around trying to fly (with limited success having tiny cub wings), and Reddy ... well he was just there underfoot nipping at Holly's fingers whenever it looked like she needed help.

"They're so awesome," Evie laughed, petting the evergreen-scented Egyptan at her side. Each of them had a different feel - Puffy was soft but sort of chilly, while Reddy was like velvet.

"But will they grow up before break ends, or do we get to bring them to school because they're too young to leave alone?" Asked Winter.

"I'm going to bring Reddy with me anyway," Holly said. "I've seen them around campus, I can't see why not."

So they agreed, in two weeks at the end of Winter break, they'd be finding the other Egyptan owners and letting their trio mix with the others on campus.

Name: Reddy
Type: Santa's Little Helper
Age: Teen, Male

Name: Puffybuffy
Type: Snowball
Age: Teen, Female

Name: Greenie
Type: Needles
Age: Teen, Female

It took until almost the end of the school year, before the Egyptans were actually grown up. Half a dozen others were there, in the newly made 'Attendant Animal Care Shelter' on campus. Flitters, small dragons, cats, frogs, Egyptans and Ferilons sat in comfort in the large room, it was much bigger on the inside than the outside, some kind of magical portal or filter or something allowed that to happen in many areas of the campus. But it was especially helpful here, where the animals needed room to run or bask in the ...

"Is that a sun under the ceiling?" Asked Snowe, "I mean... indoors?"

"Yes, it is," said one of the attendants. "Your Puffybuffy stays clear of it, we have a 'nocturnals and light-aversive' area for those types." He waved his hand at the dome off to the left, where it was shaded and kept cool. Though the Egyptan was in no danger of 'melting', the Snowball cub along with her companions liked it in the cool shade better than out here where the other sunny-day types romped. They were in good company, though, and had never complained.

"Well it's ... been fun," Holly said, sadly. "But I won't be coming back next year, I've graduated. These two will be here again... Maybe I should volunteer some time here so they can be together like they have been..." The other girls agreed, their older friend would be sorely missed when they got back to school for their Soph year. And how could they possibly spilt up the trio of wintry Egyptans!

NEXT!!

Name: Reddy
Type: Santa's Little Helper
Age: Adult, Male

Name: Puffybuffy
Type: Snowball
Age: Adult, Female

Name: Greenie
Type: Needles
Age: Adult, Female