Gabe tossed his bag on the bed. The room was nice, if not a little small. But it was better than sleeping on the street, and he probably didn't have to worry about his neighbor shooting him in the middle of the night. He glanced around the room, and then sat on the bed. He wondered what would happen to him with this turn in the road. Would he try to blend in here, or just keep to himself? He shook his head, than looked at the door.

"Thanks for showing me around Shin. I guess I'll see you around, huh?"

"Yeah, guess so." Shin smiled, slinging his coat over one shoulder and turning to the door. The tour around the mansion had been easy enough to finish with just two people. He'd showed Gabe the pool, the garden, the classrooms, the danger room, and hey, even the library and the kitchen. Finally, they'd stopped at Gabe's assigned room.

"Take it easy. If you want to do a simulation in the danger room with someone some time, give me a call man. I'm sure we can set something cool up. Later." And with that, Shin walked out to leave Gabe in his room all alone. He whistled off down the hall with his hands thrust casually into his pockets. Today was a good day~

Gabe smiled as Shin left, than sat down on his bed. He thought about what the young man had said, than stopped for a second.

-Danger Room? What the hell is a Danger Room?-

Gabe shrugged it away, thinking it was some horrible nickname for the gym class or something. He set about unpacking what little he had left, and putting it all into the dresser. It all would have fit in one drawer, but Gabe seperated his shirts, pants, and underclothes into 3 drawers, than hung his sweatshirt and trench in the closet. He sat back down on the bed, giving himself a reminder to go clothes shopping when he got the chance. He was still reeling from being robbed, and hadn't even thought to do that yet. He'd been wearing the same pair of jeans for going on three days now.

It was a weird feeling, waking up from a nap in the middle of the afternoon. It seemed to the thirteen year old like she had been asleep for hours, but her clock told her that it had been closer to one. The sleepy illusionist wandered out her door the the restroom down the hall. She was not one of the fortunate few to have her own bathroom. Maybe in a few years, when she was old enough to live in the adult hallway she'd have her own. Although, by that time she'd be going to college or possibly even living on her own.

On the way back from the bathroom, Katrina heard a scratch on the inside of one of the bedroom doors. It sounded like a dog was trapped inside. Did Bruce accidentally get stuck in someone's bedroom without their noticing?

“Bruce? Is that you?” Katrina whispered quietly to the door, then listened to see if everyone's favorite Rottweiler was actually inside. A moment after her question, there was a small answering whine from the other side of the door. The poor thing was trapped! That was easily fixed, if only someone with opposable thumbs came along and operated doorknobs for those unfortunate animals who did not possess such remarkable digits.

Katrina turned the door handle and one second too late realized her mistake when not one large dog, but four rapidly growing dogs erupted from the doorway, knocking her over in their exuberance and excitement at being free. There were flashes of various browns, blacks, and white furs as four puppies flashed past (and over) her and each ran a different direction.

Katrina stared after them from her seat on the floor, wide eyed with surprise on her face, “Oops.”

A tabby kitten emerged from the door, tail held high with perfect dignity, as she waltzed out of the room after her rambunctious young siblings.

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FYI, these are Cold Steel's pets:
Cammie, tabby kitten
Thor, male, black and white husky puppy
Mackenzie, female, Golden Retriever puppy
Bruno, male, brown and white (with black ears), St. Bernard puppy
Roxxie, female, black and tan, German Shepherd puppy

Gabe was sitting in his room when he heard barking. Lots of barking. Like a doggie stampede at the Petsmart Corral. He opened his door a little wider, only to be tackled by a blur of brown and white. Gabe thudded to his back, and was promptly treated with slobber all over his face as the St.Bernard pup proceeded to give Gabe a bath he didn't really need. Gabe had a vision of the flintstones as Fred would open the door for Dino. Gabe pushed the dog off of him, and couldn't help but laugh. He grabbed the pup by the collar, and faced him.

"Who do you belong to, huh, pup?"

If only the dog could talk. Gabe shook his head, and peeked out the door as another dog, this time a German Shepherd came blazing past the door, followed by a kitten who acted like it owned the world.

"Let's go find your owner, huh buddy?"

Gabe looped his belt around the dog's collar, making a makeshift leash, and headed out into the hallway.

Toothbrush in hand Sam heard small barks as he started to brush his teeth, “Gingivitis is the number one cause of all tooth decay!” Sam said mocking the toothpaste commercials. Looking over to the door Sam saw his small pack of pups and his lone kitten sitting at the door. Looking back to the mirror Sam spit his toothpaste from his mouth and said, “Wait a sec we can go for a walk in a second!” brushing his toothbrush under the water to get the extra toothpaste out of it Sam noticed he heard the door opening and then the barks disappeared. Setting his toothbrush in his cup by the sink Sam tightened the towel around his waist that trailed down to his knees.

Running from his bathroom to his front door Sam spotted a familiar thirteen-year-old blonde who looked like she was just tackled by the pups. “Kat?” Sam asked a little surprised that she just opened the door, “Ahh did the pups get out again?” Sam asked as he looked back to his pillow on his made bed, “CAMMIE?” Sam asked as he looked from her usual spot on his pillow to his windowsill.

Extending his hand down to Kat and then pulling her up right Sam asked, “Was there a small tabby that ran off?” Cammie only got out once and it was difficult to find her, she had a knack for finding the most obscure spots and waiting till dinnertime for the residents just to pig out on what ever was left over.

Knowing his dogs personalities somewhat he knew that Bruno and Mackenzie would stop to play with the first people they saw, both were very friendly and loved attention. Thor and Roxxie on the other hand, they had there own way at looking at everything. They loved attention but preferred to be difficult, mainly running form someone who chases or chasing something that runs.

Looking down one direction of the hall way then the other Sam sighed slightly then in a calm voice he asked, “Which way did they go Kat?”

After the appearance and disappearance of the dogs and the cat, the next being to emerge from the doorway was a towel clad Sam. Katrina went from being surprised to being embarrassed in six seconds. Sure, she'd seen Sam without a shirt on before, but never with just a towel. She apparently had just interrupted him after a shower.

“Uhh, yeah, the kitten got out too.” Katrina blushed deeply, but let Sam give her a hand up. “I'm really sorry, Sam.” For letting the dogs out and seeing him in a towel. “They kind of went every which way. I'll help you catch them again.”

Down the hallway, a man with tousled dark blonde hair was leading one of the puppies toward them with a makeshift leash, a belt threaded through his collar. Katrina didn't recognize him, but used the opportunity to look away from Sam and his scantily clad state. She waved and called to the newcomer.

“Down here! Thanks for finding him again.” She set off down the hallway to take the leash from him and return the pup to Sam's room. “Well, that's one down. We still have three more to go, plus a cat. I really didn't mean to let them out. I thought that Bruce- a different dog- was trapped in the room by accident. I didn't know we had so many puppies running loose around here too.”

The thirteen year old was trying to pull the dog back towards the room, but he didn't really want to go back that way. He was also big enough now that his weight was becoming substantial enough to counteract the slim thirteen year old's. Katrina leaned and tugged and the dog yanked and pulled in the opposite direction. It seemed they were at an impasse.

Gabe jogged after the girl and the St. Bernard pup. When she stopped in front of an open door, and next to Sam standing in a towel, he shook his head, confused.

"Um, I'm Gabe. Your Bernard decided I needed to bathe. I figured I'd try and find out where he belonged. If it's any help, a Shepherd and a tabby kitten went down the hall past my room."

He looked at the girl pulling on the dog's 'leash', and laughed. He grabbed the collar, and pulled the dog into the room. Then he looked at the toweled Sam.

"Dude, I'll help you find your other pets, but you might wanna get dressed before you go running through the mansion to find them."

Oblivious to the blushing Sam looked gave Katrina a smile, “Hey it happens, let’s just find them before they end up making a mess I have to clean up.” He grinned and then spotted Gabe one of the residents he met not to long ago and actually handed him off to shin to help him find his room. “Bruno!” Sam smiled as he saw his tiny Saint Bernard pup, Bruno was starting to get bigger but since he was always with him Sam didn’t pick up on it but from a distance and tugging his way towards Sam and Kat he noticed he was getting bigger.

Looking down to Kat he said, “There not that old actually me and Arielle found them in the woods, after that me and Ari took them in.” he really didn’t feel like talking about the depressing story that consisted of him burying half of the puppies that he found in the woods when all of them were left to die. It was a messed up story he didn’t feel like telling Kat, no reason she should know the cruelty of this world right?

Waving to Gabe as Katrina ran over and took a hold of a belt that was around Bruno’s neck trying hard not to laugh he watched as Kat was her get dragged off. Letting out a high pitch whistle Sam then followed it up with “Bruno!” he half expected the dog to come back on his own but didn’t have the chance, for Gabe was already on his collar pulling him into his room. Sam shut his door and then nodded to Gabe.

“I’ll change after I get the pack back, the longer I take the more trouble they get into, sides this towel isn’t going anywhere…” Sam headed off down the direction Gabe said Roxxie and Cammie went. “Not your fault Kat it happens, sides I was going to walk them anyways but I might not need to now.” Laughed Sam as he spotted Roxxie at the end of the hall, “Roxxie!” Sam called getting the dog’s attention. Roxxie jumped forward and stuck her rear in the air her tail wagging issuing a challenge to Sam and the ones who were going to help.

“Thor is going to be twice as bad,” Sam sighed as he watched Roxxie bark then run around the corner. Sam started to run in his towel as his feet thudded against the floor with each step. Maybe he should have changed; he could feel his towel loosening. Slamming his hands on it he formed an ice belt that connected his towel to his torso preventing Kat and Gabe from getting a view he was sure they didn’t want to see.

((OOC: If this is still open))

With headphones on and her ipod's volume set on full blast and her hands folded behind her head, Arielle laid on her bed, bobbing her head to the beat of a couple new Beyonce' songs, freshly downloaded illegally from the internet. Today seemed like it was going to be just another chill day with no excitement whats so ever, which was odd considering the building she lived in were inhabited by gifted people who could break hell loose on the world if they chose to. Her door was cracked only slightly, but it suddenly moved into a more opened position. At least it looked like it moved by itself from Ari's position on her bed.

Investigating further, she looked down and saw the behind of a little husky puppy poking from her opened closet.

"Aurora," she called her husky puppy's name. She removed her headphones and hopped off her bed. She smiled as she neared the pup and remembered when she and Sam first found the litter, though she chose more to focus on the time they've spent here at the mansion whether than the heartbreak of finding them left for dead in the forest. As she grew closer she heard aggressive growling and the sound of ripping fabric, not to mention the jerks of the puppy's head. Arielle's eyes widened as she saw her favorite silk blouse in the jaws of the little beast.

It was a good thing Arielle never developed a sonic scream or Canary cry ability because the shriek of shock from her mouth could be heard from outside the mansion.

"Bad dog! Bad dog Aurora!" she said grabbing on to the Husky pup and raising her to her eye level. At least...Arielle thought it was a her. She noticed the puppy's face was slightly different from Aurora's and upon looking down, Arielle found a little something extra that females lack in their anatomy.

"Thor!!!" Arielle shouted with a scowl on her face. This husky didn't belong to her, it was Sam's. She should have known because Aurora usually behaved herself. Thor was just a little monster at times and the evidence of it was a piece of her yellow blouse still trapped by his jaws. A moment later, Arielle felt something warm and wet on white tank top.

"AHHHHHHH!!!" she screamed again seeing Thor's urine hit her abdomen. She immediately placed the pup down and looked at the yellow stain with horror. Thor let out a playful bark and another one causing Arielle's Husky, Aurora and her Shiba Inu, Belle to scurry from under the Brazilian's bed where they had apparently been resting. One last bark from Thor and the male husky dashed from Ari's room, followed by Aurora and Belle who decided they wanted in on the canine break out.

"Belle! Aurora!" Arielle called, but the puppies had disappeared down the hall with Thor.

"Meow...." a tabby cat meowed at Arielle walking past her room as well.

"Cammie?! Arielle reached to catch the cat, but it dashed off in the direction Thor and her pups had taken off. "Great..." Arielle let out an aggravated sigh and ran off down the hall in search of the pets.

((OOC: This is Aurora and this is Belle ))

“Hi Gabe! I'm Katrina. I'm also in the doghouse, I think. Could you help us track down all the pups that escaped?” Katrina found looking at Gabe to be a welcome relief, because it was easier to avoid looking at Sam in his towel.

>>>"Dude, I'll help you find your other pets, but you might wanna get dressed before you go running through the mansion to find them."

Gabe obviously agreed. It's not that Sam was hard on the eyes or anything like that. It was just the thought that Sam wasn't hard on the eyes that made the poor innocent thirteen year old flush each and every tint and shade of red distinguishable to the human eye.

>>>“I’ll change after I get the pack back, the longer I take the more trouble they get into, sides this towel isn’t going anywhere…”

Katrina's face found yet another shade of red it hadn't yet been as she turned to stare at Sam in disbelief, then quickly turned away again. “Let's hurry,” she coaxed the two boys and rushed ahead of them down the hall towards where a miniature German Shepherd was taunting them at the corner. She was just in time to hear a shriek coming from a room down the hall. She turned the corner a bit faster than she meant to and had to scramble not to fall. Two puppies she hadn't even seen yet trotted out of a doorway after the black and white husky. Seeing the teen barreling toward them, they turned tail and fled in the opposite direction.

Were the animals multiplying? What was with all these dogs all over the place?

A dark skinned woman dashed out of the room after the dogs right before the blonde teen had reached the door, so that Kat had to swerve out of her way to avoid hitting the woman. Katrina thought her name was Ari or something like that. She'd seen her at supper a few times, but they hadn't really crossed paths other than that.

“Where did those dogs come from? I thought there were only four!”

Gabe watched as Katrina and Sam took off after the Shepherd pup, not at all amused by the fact the Sam froze his towel to his waist. Gabe shook his head. Going after your pups was one thing, but you should at least do it fully clothed. Gabe jogged down the hall, and saw two huskie pups and a shinu ibu pup run off down the hall followed by a South American woman. Gabe shook his head, and turned around. He was just about to follow the 'parade' when he heard another bark. He looked down the hall, and saw a golden tail wagging at almost warp speed. He jogged down the hall, and sure enough, there was a golden retriever pup digging into a potted plant.

"Hey you! Are you one of the missing pups?"

The dog turned and faced at him, dirt on her paws and nose. She wagged her tail as her tongue lolled out of the left side of her mouth. He walked up to him, and nuzzled his leg. Dirt turned into mud by dog snot was stuck to his jeans now. He definitely needed to buy more clothes. Gabe reached down to pet the dog, but she bolted out of his grasp, heading the opposite direction of the other dogs. Gabe took off at a run, following her as best he could.

"Why couldn't I be some type of mutant tracker or something?"

((OOC: If you've ever read Twilight, and seen the movie, you'll get the joke.))

Sighing again Sam watched as two more pups shot out form Arielle’s room, “Cammie!” Sam yelled. The Cat paused then turned its head to look at Sam let out a small meow and then took off running after the dogs. He sometimes wished his pets weren’t so playful but instead lazy, if that was the case he could just leave the door open and they wouldn’t bother trying to run. Waving to Arielle, Sam said, “Got a prison break!”

Tapping Katrina on the shoulder as he continued running Sam said, “Arielle was with me when I found them! She took two I took the others.” Sam turned his back on Katrina and Arielle as he continued to run. As he turned his back he saw Mackenzie shoot down the opposite hall followed by Gabe, if he could catch Mackenzie he was defiantly going to have to thank him.

Rounding the corner Sam spotted the dogs running down the stairs to the first floor chasing after them Sam got to the stairs and tripped on something he couldn’t identify and preceded to fall down the large staircase. Normally falling down the steps wasn’t a big deal but he was in the towel.

He laid face first on the floor of the down stairs as his bare butt was showing; thankfully the towel was still covering the front. He slowly got up and pulled his towel back down over his butt. The belt of ice held the towel on but it didn’t cover all that needed to be covered, like his but after falling down the stairs.

He really hoped Katrina wasn’t there to see his bare ass and worse yet if Arielle had seen it, she would have never let him live that down. Falling down the stairs in a towel while chasing a pack of dogs just to moon two girls was pretty funny in Sam’s opinion, inappropriate but funny.

"What he said," Arielle spoke to Katrina jerking a thumb at Sam as he ran pass them in his towel. "I got two puppies. A female husky and shiba inu. And apparently Sam's husky is a bad influence on them! They never act this way! And he pissed on my shirt!" Arielle sighed frustratedly and followed Sam on the chase. Though she halted at the top of the stairs glancing down at the view below of Sam's behind.

"And so, the day has not been completely ruined. There is a god in heaven. Glory be his name for crafting one of the finest asses I have ever seen. Thank you Jesus!" she said waving a hand in the sky as if she was in church worshiping even though ironically the comment she just made was littered with sinful thoughts. Skittering down the steps she stopped beside the ice elemental with a wide grin.

"So if your done flashing your posterior, we've got a couple of puppies to catch! By the way, you better thank Thor later because you owe me a new blouse now!" she said jetting off after the puppies and their feline companion.

Gabe ran after the dog, sliding around a corner. Unfortunately, sliding on hard wood flooring usually means sliding a little farther than intended. So to complete the slide, Gabe hit a bench, and took a header into the wall. With a resounding crack, Gabe hit the floor. Stars were everywhere. He stood up, shaking his head to clear it, when the pup came streaking at him. Gabe spread his legs to brace his feet, and try to catch the out of control retriever. It went right between his legs, it's tail wagging at full speed. Which, unfortunately, caused Gabe to take a tail wag in the junk. He fell to one knee, swearing under his breath. He turned, and watched the dog round another corner. He stood back up, and took off after it again.

"Come here puppy! Uncle Gabe ain't gonna hurt ya!"

Gabe turned the corner, and almost slid into a student. The student's face turned green. Not like sick green, like reptile green. A huge fan around it's neck sprouted out, kinda like that acid spitting dino in Jurassic Park. Gabe uttered a quick apology, and took off after the dog again.