The Austrian Eagles present: The LAW Christmas Party! (Open Thread)

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Exposition feat. Shiori and Christina

"H-Hey, Dr. Morgenstern? Are you sure it's okay for me to go?"

"Of course! Why wouldn't it be? Also, I keep telling you to call me Christina," her boss replied over the phone. Christina had received an invitation to a Christmas party for the LAW community, but was unfortunately too saddled with work to attend. Shiori offered to take some obligations off her hands, only to be given the invitation instead!

"Christina, right." Shiori gulped. "I-I mean... I'm just an intern, right?" Now, she was trudging in the light Japanese snow, nervous as all heck -- after all, she was just a fan who got lucky! How could she have the right to share a drink with some of LAW's biggest superstars?

"Yes. A management intern, and a LAW employee. Not to mention a writer for their magazine. Oh, and perhaps you forgot, but you are also a wrestler." All Shiori could do was gasp at that reminder; she still couldn't believe that all of that was true. For her boss's part, Christina only giggled. "You have a roster page and everything, you know. Go have fun. Tell me all about it next time you come in."

"Right..." Shiori sighed, finally finding her hand on an aged, gilded doorknob. "So, this is the Eagle's Nest, huh?" The door in front of her wasn't just the entrance to a mansion, no. It was the entrance to the coolest frickin' thing she'd ever probably do.

It wasn't that Shiori had never met other folks around LAW before. After all, she helped manage a stable of them, wrestled Chiaki Nanami, and even shared a brief peck with Momo Kazan. But never before had she met so many at once. Heck, just being tweeted at by LAW's finest sent her consciousness for a spin.

It felt like an eternity passed before the intern worked up the courage to twist the knob, pull the door open, and step inside. But when she did...

"Uh, hello? Is this the place for the Christmas -- EEEEEE!"

...She all but lost her damn mind. Shiori knew that the guest list was gonna be a who's who of LAW's greats, but even in the party's early days, the cast of characters was still more awesome than she could ever imagine. Members of the Austrian Eagles and the Roduoko Gym, two of LAW's more well-known stables! A Young Lioness, symbolizing the promotion's next generation! A British Bunny and a Shinobi Sunshine...r, representing LAW's highly-competitive Tag Division!

"Holy guacamole..." Then there was her, plain-Jane Shiori Takeda, clad in a hastily-stitched together Christmas version of her match attire. Shiori stumbled inside, barely catching herself on the closing door before awe-strickenly staring at the party's guests... and standing right in the middle of the door, unaware of just how precarious her position might become when the party's next guest arrived...

Shiori Takeda, the Fangirl

[RedShinigami]

Harmonia looked over to Fin who nodded and went over to the new guests, Sheila was with her.
"Welcome to the Eagles Nest, home of the best Roster in the Universe. Please, have a drink.", she said and pointed to the beautiful, darkblue cups that showed a snowy landscape.
She looked at Mina.
"Oh...thank you not for me...", she said as the Pinqette offered a fruitcake.
The she looked to the other new arrival at the door.
"Hey, don't just stand there and leave the cold in! We don't heat for nothing, cutie!", she said referring to Shiroi, she said, walked over to her and gave her a cup of punch.
"Name is Fin Hellraiser, don't forget it.
Because I will be big.", she said with a wink and turned away from the Intern/Wrestler.
"Also, cool debut!", she grinned over her shoulder and gave her a thumbsup.
"Come in and make yourself at home. All of you. Well...almost all.", she said and still gave a frown when she looked over to Harmonia and Molly getting all flirty with each other.
"Well, have a wonderful party all you!"
She turned around.
"This pisses me off Sheila...", said with disgruntled.
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A few familiar faces like one of the British Bunnies who Mina had a short rivalry with. While a few were preoccupied with their merry circles, but she managed to pick enough of the chatter. Her fruitcake was rejected but no matter luckily she had alternatives. The newest guest first caught her attention. "They have Guacamole here tooo? Oh...you should get in unless you want to become a living snowwoman. I tried that before and...it wasn't fun..." Her tone trailing off as she recalled the eldritch horrors. "It wasn't cool as this place either haha!" Only to suddenly morph into her default bubbly state, wondering that will free the fangirl from remaining as a statue.

"European Christmas huh? Just like home...but I have brought Japanese food too. Mind if I share some of that stuff hmmm too?" Reaching into her sack once again and pulled out an medium sized cannon of all things. Why a cannon specifically? For easy distribution and decorating the place in some mischief. What did it fire? KFC. "Just give a moment to..." A loud click was audible throughout the room. "Not put the safety on.." A misfire caused a piece of warm fried chicken to fly across the room towards where Molly was standing. Just when they finally settled their food induced war.


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As a look of confusion crossed Finella's face, Sheila's followed suit. The smile plastered across her face dropped into a disappointed frown. Where she came from, Christmas happened in the middle of summer, and that meant grilling outside. But up north, that was going to be rather different. "Aww..." Still, as Finella led her further into the building, she seemed to forget her prior concerns, shrugging them off with a bright smile and a nod. Nothing could keep Sheila down for very long. "Mm! Okay! You think I won't be able to eat it all, huh? Is that a challenge?"

Molly accepted the cup from Harmonia with a smile, too. "Oh, thank you!" she said, raising it to her lips to take a drink. "I'm sure it's-no, it is very good!"

Despite the holiday cheer on display from these two, though, Finella had other things on her mind. To her, Molly was still one half of the British Bunnies, the team that had given her and her sister so much trouble, and the sister of her most hated rival in the League. No amount of festivity could make that up to her. Sheila, though, couldn't begin to imagine why. When Finella whispered to her, she looked back at her hostess with a raised eyebrow.

"Huh? Why? They're having fun, aren't they? What's wrong with that?"

What Molly wasn't expecting was for a piece of fried chicken to go flying toward her. Actually, to say that she wasn't expecting this would be understating things; out of all the excitement to be had at a party, getting blasted with rocket-propelled poultry was not even a sentence she imagined would ever cross her mind! She let out a yelp, jumping back out of the chicken's trajectory and spilling some of her drink in the process. "W-What the..!?"

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If this was anyone else then Mina could firmly explain the situation, but this being a familiar face situation made it far more volatile. She didn't accidentally bring Molly's holiday fun to a fowl end but still brought some unnecessary attention. She still didn't calibrate the KFCC. "Oh hahahah...heya Molly long time no see! Are the British Bunnies still kicking butt?" A middling attempt at creating levity through casual conversation. Not paying attention to where her fingers lied, she accidentally activated the cannon again, this time launching a cooked projectile into the ceiling where it stuck, occasionally dropping grease "Ummm...double sorry about that haha!" Every passing word she stepped along the hall, hoping to disappear among the shadows and not be forced on the naughty list this year.

[RedShinigami]

Finella turned her head to Sheila and could only sigh, a smile creeping back to her face.
"You know what you jumping wallaby? Next summer we will make an australian BBQ just for you.", she said and grabbed Sheilas cheeks with both hands, squeezing them. Sheila was not only one Monis best friends but instantly the gleeful and energetic Aussie became close with the other Edelstein Twin too.
It seemed given and Finella could'nt imagine a week where Sheila would'nt at least come over for tea or something.
For her the Aussie was like a little sister she bever had and both Harmonia and her treated her as full member of their family, celebrating her birthday, taking her to journeys and so on.
Sheila had found a place with the eagles were she was welcomed.
Then Finella frowned.
"Sheila, sometimes you hast have a head so it won't rain into your neck, huh? Look closer!", she said and whispered the word "Girlfriends" in her ear and then sighing.
"And you know who is the sister of this fine lady don't you?", she asked.
Then it happened... out of nowhere a fried piece of chicken sailed through the air and aiming at Molly.
She jumped, spilled her applepunch and splashed it on Harmonias blouse, making the hostess whince in pain as the ho beverage hit her.
Through the thin white and wet fabric her expensive bra came in sight and Harmonia looked with big eyes into the direction of the chicken.
"This...just...did'nt...happen...", she said and looked at Molly, then to Mina.
Finella started to laugh and went over to the Pinquette.
"Oh wow! What a fabulous contraption!", she said.
"May I take a shot?", she asked before the hostess of their party stood before them, looking pissed as can be.
"Excuse me..Fräulein Mina was it...what in gods holy FUCKING name get you the idea to throw...I can't even say it out loud...stuff on my gi-uhm good friend!", she asked with a twitching brow, carefully protecting Mollys and her secret for now."
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Time slowed down as Mina was close to adding another party she got blacklisted from. On the bright side, at least one person was amused but they weren't the main hostess either. First she had to deal with her cursed cannon. Scurrying over to the woman who resembled a wolf to pass the teal cannon towards her "Here! Press the red button to..." One more misfire led to another oily projectile sliding across the floor. "I'll turn it myself...There? Good!" Finally resetting the cannon back to safety mode. "Just give it back when it's time for me to jet...which might be two minutes..." Clasping her crown while she looked down in shame.

Mina directed her attention towards Harmonia and took a deep breath before suddenly dropping onto her knees. "You see I heard that in Japan, KFC is a very popular Christmas goodie so I decided to buy a little extra for the party. It is also one of my trademark manoeuvres to fire stuff from cannons, so I decided to combine the two together. But then I did something really stupid and forgot to put the safety. I am so sorry! I don't have a bad streak against your girl-I mean good friend despite her beating me up in the ring before over pies! So please don't curse me and my descendants for centuries!" Salivating due to her constant stress and discussion centring around food, however she still wasn't done. "or kick me out of here! I'll be good this year!" A slip of the tongue caused her to accidentally refer Harmonia like she was a certain saint.

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At Finella's suggestion, Sheila practically jumped for joy. She spun around in place to look up at the Wolf through sparkling eyes, throwing her hands up in a cheer. "Really!? You would? For me? You're the BEST!~" she cried, throwing her arms around Finella to pull her into a hug. The dark-haired Edelstein might not have been as outgoing or personable as her sister, but she was always willing to make time for Sheila. Even if she did think Sheila could be kind of stupid some times...which, to be fair, was true. The Australian was scratching her head, pondering the meaning of what Finella had just said to her - but when Finella spelled it out to her, she looked up at Molly and Harmonia, and everything made sense.

"Oh. Ohhh." She nodded, giggling a little to herself before she elbowed Finella in the side. "Heh...that explains why they're looking at each other so much, huh? Hey, at least that's good for Moni!" But as she continued, bringing up Molly's sister...Sheila was once again at a loss. She stared out into space for a few more moments before glancing back and shrugging her shoulders. "Uhh...no."

Either way, though, Sheila's attention would soon be caught by what was happening in front of her. The chicken shot out of Mina's cannon, only narrowly managing to bypass Molly, but causing her to spill her punch onto Harmonia's chest! Dropping the cup in her hand, Molly gasped, raising her hands to her mouth. "Oh gosh, Moni-! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to-!" She gulped, biting her lip and stepping back at the sight of how enraged Harmonia had become. She knew that Harmonia was normally a nice girl - which is why it was all the more alarming that she deemed Mina as warranting her wrath. Afraid for Mina, she got in between the two, hands outstretched. "Moni, it was an accident, I'm sure there's a perfectly fine explanation for this-!"

To all of this, though, Sheila could only turn to Mina with a thumbs-up. "Nice shot!~"

[RedShinigami]

The Hellraiser hugged her back and laughed.
"For you Sheila, we would do the impossible!"
Then she sighed.
"Chelsea Forster...aka Miss Bitchtits, thorn in my side, gods curse on me?! Oh forget it..."
Finella grabbed the gun and looked up an down.
"Niiice...I love big guns!", she said with a smirk.
But as she Moni approaching, drenched and having "that look" that some of her opponents in the ring did'nt take to seriously before they would eat the canvas.
Quickly she gave the gun to Sheila and looked away before Harmonia approached Mina starring at her with her blue eyes that seemed to consist out of pure ice right now.
Then she heard Molly and started to calm
down, looking at the woman kneeling before her.
"You know Mina...its Christmas, time to forgive, time to love...", she said and looked at Molly.
"Right, Molly?", she asked and looked back at her.
"Oh so you have gotten your ass handed to you by Molly and Chelsea. Good, so you know each other. But that blouse was expensive, you know?", she said calmly and but smiling.
"Tell you something...I go change and you will collect all the nasty, chickenshit you sprayed my house with. And then we have a drink and will laugh, huh?", she said and Finella shivered. This was the Harmonia you did'nt want to meet...
"You help me Molly?", she asked and grabbed her hand before walking off leaving Finella as the host.
"Boy, oh Boy. That was a close one lady, if it was'nt for Molly you would now be through this table...", Fin grinned and helped Mina up.
"I thought it was fun tough.", she said and
slapped Mina hard on her back.
Yes the Edelstein Twins were quite unique, charming but deadly if they wanted.
"Alright enjoy the party!", she said.
"Sheila, I'm with you soon, need to greet the bew guests while Moni is changing! Grab something to eat!"

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"Ohhh. Oh!" Sheila nodded her head to Finella's explanation, looking back up at her with a smile. "Yeah, I know her! I think." But when Harmonia approached Mina, she stopped. Everyone stopped, in fact. The presence Harmonia filled the room with was one that couldn't be ignored. For as kind-hearted as the model could be, she knew how to get peoples' attention when she needed to - and now, everyone went silent, waiting on the next word out of her mouth. All Molly could hope for was that the party wouldn't be ruined because of it, especially when it was she who was feeling the guilt of splashing Harmonia with the punch. Accident or no, it had still been by her hand.

To Molly's relief, however, Harmonia agreed to back down, leaving Mina with a threat. The Englishwoman let out a sigh before she looked up at Mina, showing her a silent smile just to send the message that there were no hard feelings between them. Still, even she had to shudder at the thought of what Harmonia could do to her if she so wanted. After all, she'd been perfecting new moves. Either way, she was quick to follow Harmonia up the stairs. "Right, of course! I'm just sorry about that, Moni..."

With the hostess leaving the scene, Sheila glanced back and forth. She grinned at the invitation to eat the food, but she walked over to take Mina's side. "Would it help if I ate the chicken?"

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