#//Maru just won't have pyro-accidents//

[shygunfire]

“Hyung-Nim?”

“It’s so good to see you again!”

“Eh? No, Nix-Hyung’s been kind!”

“Wasn’t Star-Nim just so nice?”

“Don’t go attacking people!”

“They don’t bother me much, really!”

“I know I’m safe with you, after all.”

“Hyung-Nim, happy birthday!”

“Ho-Hyung?”

“I’m glad you two can get along again.”

“Vampire?!”

“Here, take my blood. I don’t want you to suffer the way I did.”

“Merry Christmas Hyung-Nim!”

“You make me want to be reckless.”

“D-DATE?!”

“Ho-Hyung...Let me do this for you.”

“No...this feels...natural.”

“Mu Young.”

“H-Hey! Quit it! I’m not cute!”

“At least this time there’s no shenanigans?”

“They’re both so cute! Why not both?”

“I’ll name you ----- and this one can be ------!”

“Don’t worry you’ll get to see your sister when we go over to visit ------.”

“An egg?”

“It’s so warm, huh Mu Young?”

“It hatched!”

“Hello ---!”

“She’s such a good girl right Mu Yo---?”

“-- Hyung, want to play with ----- and ------ today?”

“Mu Y----, want to go on a date today?”

“It’s so pretty! Mu ----- is this really for me?”

“M- -----, I ---- you.”

“H-, thank you-”

“I-”

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Maru gasped himself awake, head pounding hard enough that he turned over in bed and threw up into his trashcan. While he’d normally be fine with trying to lay there for a moment and catch his breath, an unfamiliar grumble made him bolt up with a shriek, four sets of eyes (one of which it immediately turned out was fake) staring at him from the end of the bed.

“Uh?!”

Two were dog eyes, a big black and tan dog with an orange bandanna around its neck and eyes like Maru’s own, and a Jindo with bright blue eyes and a blue bandanna. The other pair was a thing Maru couldn’t recall ever seeing before, a doll that had a bulbous head, crayon face scribbled on it and holding what looked like a jagged piece of wood.

“Wha- Wha- Wha-?!” Maru wheezed in a panic, his heart beating harder than ever. What were these dogs and doll-thing in his room?! “I...Okay, calm down, think. What did you do last night?”

Except that absolutely nothing was coming to mind.

“Okay...Who’re you then?” He cautiously crawled down from his headboard to the other three, the doll-thing chirping in a...rather cute way as he looked at the bandannas. One read ‘Peach’ and the other read ‘Lychee’. “Huh...Peach and Lychee?”

He looked at the doll thing, and after a moment of consideration, he picked it up too. “Huh...No nametag on you...” He stared at the creature’s covered face in thought.

“Well...I must’ve gotten up to something crazy, if I kidnapped dogs and whatever you are...”

The creature chirped, and suddenly retrieved a piece of paper from Maru’s desk with an abnormally long arm. He read it quickly, but was still left in complete confusion. Contest? He entered a contest? And this being had been the prize? He looked at it again, and it (she, the paper said it’s a ‘she’) chirped and seemed to smile at him.

“...I...might need to keep this a secret.”

Something about their eyes was tugging on his heart, and he hugged the little being as the dogs nosed their way into his lap.

“Ah...It’s almost Christmas?” He’d spotted his calendar. “I’d better make sure I send Hyung-Nim a card.” Maru got up, glancing at the dogs and this ‘Mimikyu’ and figuring he should feed them first before he did anything. And turn up the heat in his apartment; it was freezing in the bedroom.

“I hope he’s doing well for the holidays.”