StormCry & Shadowfax - Lycans

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((Ash and Zo are going to be 's and already be at the moonstone before the other four ))

Raven sighed when she heard Aiden's joke and said as she lightly hit his arm with a small smile coming to her face as she looked up at him, "I'm serious love. You need to talk to them before they might take it too far."

"Okay maybe not saved exactly but try to stop their jokes from going too far," Sabrina said in reply with a small shrug to what Liam said earlier after she had touched him on his shoulder. She then looked up at the moon before adding as she started to head to the moonstone, "I think we might need to start heading to the meeting spot to meet the others. Ash and Zo might already be there and Brazen and Blaire will probably be heading there soon if they're also not there already."
What Sabrina had said was true and Ash and Zoe were already waiting at the meeting spot, both sitting on tree stumps that weren't that far from each other and wondering where the other four were.

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Aiden chuckled when Raven swatted him. "All right, all right. I will talk to them. After all, I guess we won't want to keep our little princess with us forever. Some dog has to take her away at some point." he grinned.

Liam nodded. "Yeah. I actually expected to find your brothers already here, cooking up some prank or something. But I guess they must have been busy back at the village... or already have the prank set up." he shrugged and lead the way out of the burial grounds. The moonstone was not far away. It was where most burial services were held at. So it did not take him long to notice that Zoe and Ashling were already waiting.
"Your friends are already here." he said to Sabrina.

Brazen sighed. "We'd better get to the moonstone. That is where we told everyone to meet, and it is almost midnight. If they don't show, they'll just get to hear about all the fun we had." he and Blair giggled as they turned and started to walk back toward the burial grounds.
"Well, we already know that Liam and sis are going to be there." Blair said.
Brazen snickered. "Yep. That means we'll have to act surprised and bummed, because we are "late"." he laughed lightly, then he slapped his brother on the chest "I'll race you there!"
The two of them shot off through the trees, racing for the moonstone. Part way there, Blair shifted into his wolf pup form, because he was falling behind in the race. That gave him the advantage and he soon galloping ahead of his brother.
"Hey! No fair!" Brazen shifted down into his wolf form and quickly caught up with his brother.
The two of them made it to the moonstone neck-and-neck.
"I won!" Brazen spun in a circle, ignoring the others that were already there, though Ash's presence did not go unnoticed.
"Nu-uh! I won!" Blair barked and tackled his brother. The two of them began to play fight with snips and snarls, pouncing on one another and rolling around in the dirt and leaves.

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"Good but that can wait until tomorrow afternoon and what you also did with me as you took me as yours?" Raven said and asked in reply to everything that that Aiden said with a smile on her face before kissing him softly on the cheek and then looking back into his eyes again afterward.

Sabrina had nodded in both reply and agreement to what Liam said about her brothers before following him to the moonstone where she saw that Ash and Zo were already there and had beaten all of them. She nodded in agreement to what he said last about her friends being there before saying to her friends with a smile, "Good job for beating the trouble-making twosome. I actually thought that they'd be here already."
"Thanks and us too but I was also thinking that you'd be here first Brina," Ash said while Zoe just nodded in agreement before seeing the boys that they'd been talking about racing to where they were.
Sabrina smiled a bit more when she heard her nickname be spoken from her other friend's mouth before also noticing her brothers, rolling her eyes a bit as well especially when she saw them play fight with each other. "Guys enough and you both got here at the same time. Ash and Zo got here before all of us so just knock it off and get over here with the rest of us," she said after shifting to her own wolf pup form and going over to where they were and fighting. After she said what she did she shifted back to her human form while walking back to where she had left Liam, Ash, and Zo.

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Aiden smiled at Raven, his cheek tingling where she had kissed him. He reached up and stroked a strand of her black hair. "Well, I had to carry you off before some other mutt did." he winked at her.

Brazen and Blair both paused what they were doing when their sister shifted down to their level and chastised them. With a shrug, they both shifted back into their human forms.
"Well, well, well... I see everyone has decided to take their chance with fate!" Brazen said while rubbing his hands together and ending with an evil laugh.
Blair rolled his eyes. "If a certain person - not naming any names - hadn't have knocked down the widow's woodstack while eves dropping on her gossip comity, we would have been here a lot sooner." he gave Brazen and accusing glare as he spun the convincing lie. Of course, they had eves dropped on the widow and her gossip comity before, but that was another story entirely.
Brazen played along with the fib and shrugged. "Well, if they hadn't have resorted to whispering, I wouldn't have needed to climb onto the stack." he looked back at the others "As it is, they weren't talking about anything really interesting." he sighed, then clapped his hands together "So, if we want to get a good look at Casoc's ghost, we will need to go INTO the burial grounds and stand by his headstone. Anyone brave enough?"

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"I'm glad you did before someone else did because then I wouldn't have this family that I do now," Raven said in reply before kissing him on the lips and then pulling back afterward. "Think we should check in on Tami, Kieran, and the pups or maybe should we do that later if they're all sleeping right now?" she asked after she had pulled back.

Sabrina just rolled her eyes at Brazen's quip like Blaire did before everything that both of them said afterward. She narrowed her eyes a bit since she didn't completely believe what her brothers said as a lie of where they were and why they were late but just let it go (tehe Frozen reference ). "I'll go since you both know that I'm brave and Ash and Zo know that as well and they're also brave." Ash and Zo just nodded in agreement before standing next to Sabrina and the latter looked briefly over at Liam and wondered if he'd go too before looking at her brothers and friends again.

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Aiden sighed and thought a moment. "Why don't you go check in on them? I have some fishing stuff to put away. I'll catch up with them later."

(Agh! The infamous "let it go"! I am haunted by it!)
Liam shrugged his shoulders. "I guess I'll go too. It's just a bunch of rocks sitting in the ground. Nothing is going to happen with them." he narrowed his eyes at Brazen and Blair "Unless you guys cooked up some scheme while no one was around?"

Brazen blinked, dumbfounded, "Scheme? Why would we cook up a graveyard scheme? Especially when Casoc's ghost is the oldest story in our village?" he clapped his hands together again and smiled "Well then, since we are decided, let's head out!" with that, he began to lead the way down the narrow path which led to the burial grounds proper. He did not stop until he was standing next to a weather beaten stone with the name CASOC engraved in it.
"So... now what?" Blair asked, looking around at the others. However, he knew exactly what was going to happen. He would let Brazen take over and start a scary monologue, then he would cleverly take the fishing string, connected to a nearby grave stone, and yank on it. Then.... let the fun begin.

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"Okay don't take too long," Raven said in reply before kissing him again and then heading over to the medical hut where she thought that Kieran, Tami, and the pups still were. When she got there, she knocked softly on the door but didn't expect to get an answer. When Tami ended up answering the door, she was surprised.
"Raven?" Tami asked a bit tiredly. "Is everything okay?"
"Yes everything's fine," Raven said in reply to Tami's question about if everything being okay. "I was just coming by to check on you to see if you were okay."
"Oh yes everything's fine. Would you like to see Samantha and Sedrick again? They're awake and walking around but their eyes are still closed."
"Sure," Raven said in reply with a smile before Tami opened the door a bit wider for her to go in and went in with a small nod of thanks. "Aiden will be by later. He's putting away some fishing stuff from earlier when he went fishing with the boys." She then saw her niece and nephew and sat down so that they could get to her and sniff her so that they could used to her more.

Sabrina rolled her eyes a bit again when she heard everything that Brazen said and asked before following after him and Blaire to the grounds. Ash and Zo followed after her and she was happy that Liam was going too but didn't say anything or show that emotion on her face since she was careful with that. She looked at the weathered stone that said Casoc and then just shrugged when she heard Blaire's question.

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Aiden walked outside and to the back of the hut where he and the boys had cleaned the fish. He picked up the poles and the cleaning bucket, but he could not find the line. He searched for the line for a moment or two, then he finally gave up with a flustered huff. "I'm just sure I left that line with the poles..." he said as he began to put things away.

Brazen smiled. "Well, I was told that, if we want to increase our chances of seeing Casoc's ghost, we need to start chanting Casoc's name over and over again. Each of us should face the lake and call for his ghost." he walked around the others and began to position them all where they were facing the lake, and of course he left Blair standing behind everyone, so no one would see him initiate their prank "I've heard tell that Casoc is an angry ghost, and he will try to steal away someone and drown them, then he will try to inhabit their body. So, to keep him from doing that, each of you will need to hold an onion. It is said that he hated onions while he was living, and he carried that hate with him into the afterlife." with that, he cut open four onions, handing a half to each person. He blinked as the smell began to sting his eyes. This was going to be SO perfect. With everyone's eyes being full of tears, they would not be able to see right away that the ghost was not the real thing.
As Brazen continued, Blair inconspicuosly stepped over to the neighboring gravestone and grabbed the string. He gave it a good, strong jerk and instantly felt it slacken. He quickly began wrapping the string around his hand, trying to keep from drawing any attention to himself. After a moment, a wailing sound began to echo around the trees. He suppressed a grin. He had tied some whistles onto the ghost in random places so that it would howl as it rushed through the air.
Brazen paused as soon as the sound filled the air. "Oh. Well, I guess we might not have to chant his name." he said, glancing at the others.

Liam's ears started ringing as soon as the strange wailing began to howl through the trees. "What is that?" he asked, glancing at Brazen.

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Raven continued to play with her new niece and nephew, glancing at Tami and Kieran every now and again to make sure that neither of them were going to tell her to stop. If they did, she would of course but she didn't want to do that anytime soon since she was enjoying playing with them.

Sabrina, Ash, and Zo all looked at Brazen as they heard him say all that he did before being given a piece of an onion. Sabrina didn't think that it was really necessary but she didn't say anything and she also didn't set it down. She wanted to but she would wait a little longer to do that so that she could actually see or maybe she would just put it down at her side so that she wasn't holding it right in front of her so that it wouldn't bother her as much. All three girls then looked around a few minutes later when they heard the howling noise through the trees, Zo thinking that it sounded like whistles but didn't say that when she heard Liam's question and the other two also wanted to say that as well but didn't.

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(Don't know what to post for the adults...)

Soon, a glowing white form began to weave around the trees, coming from the direction of the lake and making straight for the burial grounds. Bits of pond scum adorned its head, draping around two, big, black, hollow eyes, and white robes floated and billowed in the breeze.
Brazen gasped. "It's a ghost! Casoc's ghost!" he said.
Blair finally dropped the fishing line. The ghost was moving fast enough now that he did not need to keep pulling it. He moved up behind the girls and feigned fright. "Whoa!"

Liam blinked some of the tears out of his eyes. Drat those smelly onions. He dropped his to the ground and wiped his eyes.
"It is not a ghost!" he insisted. Ghost stories were ridicules. He didn't believe in them. Suddenly, his eyes began to burn worse than ever. How stupid! He had onion juice on his hands and he had just rubbed his eyes. Now he could not see at all. "Ow! My eyes!"

"It is a ghost! Run for your lives!" Blair cried, running a circle around everyone. Brazen joined him and ran the opposite direction, and the two of them began to holler and yell as if terrified. In reality, they were doing their best not to bust their ribs laughing.
(let the chaos ensue... )