A Christmas Tale

Chapter 3: A Competitive Snowball Fight

Ol jumps from his log, running over to Cb as he snatches the script. Cb just smiles smugly as  Ol just places his head in his palm. "What is it?" Tet stands and walks over as she mimics Ol's expression. A couple moments pass as Mischief raises an eyebrow "What's wrong? how far did we go off plot?" Tet shakes her head at mischief, picking the page out of Ol's free hand as he hardly moves. The paper is flipped in their direction as it's revealed to everyone and Cb begins to laugh. "It's just a picture of a potato crushing a house...?" Luke begins as Kie continues for him "Then... It'll all work out in the end just meant..." Cb wipes a tear from his eye "I created the most random of characters, gave them the weirdest plot arcs in the history of this game and then tied it all together with a giant potato through manipulation!" He shouts triumphantly as Tet gasps in disbelief "You put way too much thought into that." Cb just tilts his head "Did I? I managed to get you all to move to the ending I wanted through your own actions or otherwise. I didn't get a turn-based fight in there though, drat!" He throws his arm across his leg as Ol moves back to his seat, laughing a little "I'm not sure if anyone's going to top that of all things." Luke stands "I accept thyn challenge mortal!" He bellows as he coughs "I mean, I'll go next..." He laughs nervously as he grabs a bit of paper from the pile and Cb tosses the pen over. He runs away to a log far away from the group as everyone snickers "This'll be interesting." Kie smiles as Tet massages her forehead "Yeah, but only because he's going to take this way to seriously..." Luke's pencil races along the page as Cb begins to sneak up on him but Mischief quickly grabs his collar, peaking over his shoulder for a moment to find a wall of text already on the paper as he holds out his hand. Tet walks over and places three more sheets in his hand as he continues, not even looking up from his intense concentration. Kie runs over, pulling the three gawking friends away as she throws a ball of snow at the potato loving boy. His eyes jolt to her "Fire and ice huh? You underestimate me!" He ducks out of Mischief's grasp, rolling backwards as he scoops some snow up as he tosses it at the girls. Unfortunately, Kie seemingly disappears as the ball instead hits Mischief between the eyes. The snow falls from her face, showing her angry smile as Cb screams from a cold slush being stuffed down the back of his shirt. He turns, slamming a mound of snow as Kie ducks, sliding between his legs as the snow flys over to Tet as she walks back to her seat, knocking her sandwich out of his hand as she too smiles menacingly at him. Mischief and Tet grab some snow in unison as Kie winks back at him. He cowers, bracing himself for a gigantic hit as the others prepare their shots. He waits for a moment as nothing happens, opening his eyes slightly as his entire body turns cold all at once. His hands grab the walls that now surround him, pulling a small hollow area away as he prepares to burst outwards. Meanwhile, outside the girls are walking away, clapping the cold snow off of their hands as they hear the white cocoon scraping slightly before a blizzard erupts from that spot. "Flaming tornadoes in space!" Cb shouts enthusiastically as everyone just stands there, watching the balls of crushed ice whiz past them. "fire? You're throwing something col..." Somehow he manages to pop a marshmallow into Kie's mouth as she speaks, still missing every other shot as she falls backwards. Mischief runs to her side as Kie throws out her arms as she bursts through the first few inches of the snow. She looks mildly shocked as if she didn't expect to be hit at all while Tet strolls over to him. He hits one or two throws before he suddenly stops spinning, his wrist being grabbed as the rest of his ammo which quickly moulds back into the floor. "Are you ok Kie?" She calls as she looks over at the new snow angel on the floor "Come on, try it!" Kie calls over, presenting her creation as Tet tosses Cb forward "Ladies first!" She huffs as he lands in a cross shape, moving his arms slightly as he gives a confused look "I'm being pushed  around by three girls and you use that phrase of all things?" He says before some snow flies on top of him as Tet jumps down next to him. She burns a hole in the snow, creating a snow angel with an impressive wingspan next to as they both get up and look at each other's creations. "Pretty standard" Cb says as he flings Tet a large thumbs up as she just stares at him confused "You haven't made a snow angel, you've made a snowbird man..." They both stare at the outline of a strange creature that has a long beak with small detailed wings with sharp movement lines crashing from below. "And you said he took things too seriously..." Tet's comments but he ignores her before directing his attention to Mischief "Aren't you going to try?" but she shivers and shakes her head "I won't be jumping into a freezing mound of white cold thank you..." She is quickly pushed over as she flails her arms around as she lands, unintentionally creating an angel as she gets up and gives Kie an evil stare. Kie looks to the side, whistling innocently as Mischief preps a snowball before aiming it towards her head. She throws it as  Luke gets up, causing Kie to slip slightly as the snowball passes her in a near miss. Luke sprints over, still coming back to reality as he gasps in sadness "You did a snow fight without me?" everyone begins to laugh as they take their character sheets and sit back down in their places as Ol pops his head up from behind his log. "Is it safe now?" He says quietly as a sheet is pushed before him. They all read through it, basking in the mostly irrelevant details as he coughs to prepare himself for narration.