There is rapid knocking at the front door. Luna wakes up and sighs. Either this is Nyx, Flummox, or Vivian. She goes to open the door hoping for Flummox. Cuz Flummox is amazing. The other two are bitches.
It’s Flummox. He takes a wide step into the room and waves his hand wildly with a big crooked smile.
Luna copies the wild wacky waving, "Hey Flummox, how's it going?"
"It’s going scumbonkuously. Thought I’d pop by and see if there was anything new going on." Flummox goes to sit on the sofa. Luna closes the door. It's too cold outside. Kade enters the living room and proceeds to flop over onto the ground.
"It's been, erm, a day. We had some issues arise with Isaac earlier concerning his mother being a conduit divulgar and WAC work." Luna says somberly.
Flummox tilts his head down and stares at Kade. "Well looky here."
"Is that a clown?" Kade asks.
Luna shrugs and proceeds to hop to the top bunk. "They work at a circus if that helps?"
"Hm. Close enough, personally."
Melody walks in and waves at Flummox. "Hi! Nice to meet you"
Flummox looks over at Melody and raises his eyebrows. "MMMAAANNN I know a GOOOD pickup line you could use."
Melody blinks. "What is it?"
"Are you a car?"
"Uh... no."
"Cuz I’m a deer in the headlights of deat- uh I mean love, I meant love," Flummox says nervously.
Melody chuckles. "I'll have to use that on my boyfriend and girlfriend!!"
"Just don’t say the death part, and you’ll do great." Flummox says.
"Yeah I don’t plan on it" She chuckles. "I’m Melody, what's your name?" She extends her hand
"They call me a Flummox" He takes her hand and shakes it violently
"Flummox is a friend. He wants us to show him what being risen is like. He's good people." Luna explains.
Melody laughs. "Oh cool!! What's being risen?" She asks with a smile
"Actually, an extremely good question," Luna scratches her head, "I took it to mean human at one point, but I'm really not sure. I think in Kyle's case, he always likes interacting differently than other nonferals. He's always got information on things like the Moores or Divulgar types. He's perhaps a bit more special."
"Risen is risen up to bat, next to the challenge ahead" Flummox lets go and puts his fists on his hips with a smile.
Luna is stunned. "This entire time, it was a baseball metaphor???"
"My goodness I love baseball," Flummox smiles as he stares off into nothing.
"...of course you do. The sounds of cheering fans, the smell of hot dogs and cotton candy." Luna is getting a little scared. Melody nods slowly. She doesn't get it.
"Gotta love the Mets." Kade jokes.
"You met a what?" Flummox asks confused.
"Nothing."
Flummox stretches. "Anything on the agenda right now?"
Melody shrugs. "Dont think so. Anything you wanna do?"
Luna nods. "Yeah, we're all ears Flummox if you have something you wanna do."
"Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff I dunno man"
"I mean we have an angry crocodile in the bathroom right now, but who the hell wants to bring that bitch over?" she shrugs, trying to get some help with that. "Aside from that, risen usually just wait for problems to occur, which is when we spring to action and attempt to solve."
"What if we got Just Dance and started playing it." Kade suggests.
"Oh my god, can we??? Please??? I wanna play Just Dance!!!" Melody cheers.
"I do have it on the Nintendo Switch if that helps?" Luna adds.
"I’M A MASTER AT DANCING!" Flummox shouts.
Luna summons the Switch Harmonia gave her last year for Christmas. Then she hooks it up to the TV and turns it on. Lock quietly sneaks out of the room. A fully customized and hacked version of Just Dance comes on with every song imaginable and online mode appears on the screen.
"That works!!" Melody says excitedly. "Luna do you wanna play too?"
"Nah, you guys go first. I'm still a little sore after the psychic hold earlier," she smiles and watches.
Melody looks to Flummox. "You ready to dance??"
"You bet your grannies sweet nemernamblegernies I am." Flummox says.
"Note to self, nemernamblegernies means ass." Luna chuckles lightheartedly.
Melody turns on Baby Shark, "Are you ready to lose?", she asks Flummox. Flummox juggles in his idle animation.
Melody’s killing it. Flummox doesn’t care if there are too many people or even if he’s getting sensed by the game to get a score at all. He’s doing the dances and adding his own pizzazz to it as well. It’s just constant jingling sounds. Luna's jamming from the couch.
Kade is suffering in silence from Baby Shark but otherwise watches them go at it. Luna isn't even listening to Baby Shark but instead to her usual battle playlist. But she still nods along to the song on the screen. After Melody and Flummox finish the song, there’s a new song on the list that wasn't there before.
"Oooh, can I go next?" Luna asks.
Flummox isn’t even taking turns or standing in front of the tv. He’s just going at it in the corner.
"Yeah sure!! There’s a new song I think. Want to try that?" Melody notices much to Luna’s surprise.
"Huh? How is there a new song? I thought I unlocked everything??" Luna scrolls through and yup, sure enough, there is. "Uhh sure. I could use a challenge,” she says after 5 starring everything on all difficulties. It’s Poker Face. "...huh. Poker Face. Game on."
Roxy starts to walk through the living room to the kitchen but stops as she hears that. "What.” She looks at Flummox mostly, having not seen him before but doesn’t care enough to really ask because she’s heard him from the attic.
Melody smiles while Luna takes a deep breath and presses start. It’s just a normal Just Dance level of Poker Face.
"Nightcore version is better, honestly.” Roxy vanishes and reappears shortly with a bottle of Cotton Candy Faygo before sitting on the floor.
"I agree!" Luna says knowing exactly which version Roxy is referring to.
"Goes SO hard."
"It does!" She's fucking killing it!
As the song says 'Russian roulette is not the same without a gun'...