Ballroom Blitz

[Lucky]

"The pleasure of dancing with you is all mine." Came a sly voice from the back of the room. Lucky strolled in with all the confidence in the world, ignoring completely the humans and....metal toaster person? in the room. His blue and black eyes were fixated on one thing and one thing only: Laila. Laila was cute, female, and best of all, single. Who could resist her? HE sure couldn't, and sure as heck wasn't going to waste the opportunity.

"Hello Laila. Fancy meeting you here again." He said suavely, eyeing the female with a flirtatious smile. Of course he didn't tell her he'd pretty much followed her in here, and it was the entire reason he was here. Didn't matter. "Shall we dance?" He asked, wiggling his eyebrows up and down. "Let's show these two-footed losers what's it's all about!"

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Meanwhile, a skeletal, lonely looking boy stood leaning against the wall a short distance from the others. He looked mighty uncomfortable and there was a blush tinging his high, bony cheeks. Like Falco, he'd assumed the lesson was mandatory, so that's why he was here, but unlike Lucky, his confidence in the matter was zero. Who would want to dance with him, much less learn how to with him?

[Laila]

((xD Ohgod my Lungs.))

Laila had been watching the entire thing carefully, looking to examine her nails, then looking back up again to listen in to bits and pieces of conversation as she leaned against the nearest wall. As Krystal came in to the room she smiled slightly, glad to see that she wasn't the only Anthro female here.

'"The pleasure of dancing with you is all mine."

Laila's head snapped up as she noticed Lucky coming over with an air of confidence, much like Romeo. Laila chuckled softly at the memory, the pup definently did remind her of her previous Love in a number of ways. She had managed to catch his name at the Fancy Dinner and gave a friendly smile back towards the Pup, though she briefly wondered as to how he managed to sneak in here without her noticing. Perhaps he followed her? "Lucky." As the Pup asked her to dance, Laila gave a confident, teasing smile, "Hm. Very well." She replied before giving the Cd player next to her a kick with her hind leg to get it started. She then stood up on two paws, motioning for the Pup to do the same. Even if he couldn't stand like her very well, he could always try, and the Female had outstretched a paw toward him and a smirk on her face. "Impress me."

[Sayaka]

Ami was very excited, seeing that several other guys already had partners, she noticed a boy who kind of looked like a skeletan, maybe it was a costume like for the party. Maybe it was some kind of idea he came with for this whole ordeal. Either way she felt bad for leaving him alone. "Um, excuse me...would you like me to be your partner?" she asked.

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Beast Boy smiled. "Oh ocme on dude, you know i can't resist trying to win a ladies heart, but what about you? I thought you and Star were finally getting it off." he frowned but then he turned to Blackfire, he knew that they still had some bad history but there was no reason to not be nice to her since they were here. "Hey there Blackfire, wasn't expecting you here."

[Lucky]

"After you." Lucky replied, a teasing flirtatious tone in his voice and an equally flirtatious expression on his muzzle. Casually he stood up on his hind paws, balancing himself by pressing his front paws against Laila's. He glanced down at his back feet a little uncertainly as he began moving, began dancing, not entirely confident standing two-legged. But hey, if this girl could do it so could he.

As they danced about, Lucky looked at Laila, his flirtatious smile never changing. "So....your name's Laila? Did your pets name you that?" A hint of a smirk. "Or did you come up with that name all on your own?"

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Bonz's head snapped up in a manner similar to Laila's when Lucky spoke to her, an expression of utter, blank surprise on his face. "Uh..." Uneasiness gripped him like a lead weight, but he wasn't about to turn this girl down. Shock that she'd even asked him at all propelled him to respond ".....yes."

[Falco]

Falco says to Ikuto, "Never mind, you probably aren't worth the effort."

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Krystal looks around the room and sees another female anthro. Krystal wanted to have a conversation with the other anthro but it seemed she was about to dance with a non-anthro pup. Krystal then realized that there is one extra mind, which confused her. Krystal couldn't imagine the strain of having two different people inhabiting a single body would be. "Excuse me, Lady Bow I don't mean to be rude but are we starting soon?" Krystal asked Bow.

(Falco muse low, Krystal muse high.)

[Laila]

Laila gave the Dalmatian a reassuring smile as she saw the unease on his face, keeping a good grip on Lucky's paws to help keep him steady as they danced to the rhythm of a mellow song on the cd. Usually she was the one leading in any dances with her crew back in Mumbai, but for now she figured she'd let Lucky try his...luck at impressing her. Laila was mildly surprised, the Pup did seem to know a little about dancing, his rhythm was more or less natural.

Laila gave the pup another smile, smaller than her first as she caught the small smirk. "Pets? No...I was never owned by anyone. I worked at a club where I am from, and was born with this name." She replied before giving a teasing smirk to her dance partner. "What about you? Are you as lucky as your name implies?"

[7]

((ooc: originally, I was gonna use Cogsworth alone, but I think I'll troll 7 by forceing her to dance Feel free to exploit these little boogers))

7 had been watching from a molding on the wall. She had the bird skull, her personal sheild from the outside world, pulled down over her face. She thought the humans and animals were interesting, since she hadn't seen any alive in her world, but she didn't want to get near them. Being stepped on would do good to infuriate the white warrior. What she hid behind a front a anger was that she was actually pretty frightened by the whole place.

She huffed and turned her back. It was getting too crowded and she didn't want to be spotted. She was looking for something like a table to run across and exit the room. 7 didn't want to risk being on the floor where everyone had their big clumsy feet.

The white doll braced herself to leap and threw herself foreword. Suddenly she felt her neck ache as the lock dragged on her. Damn. She'd forgotten she had it on. Not haveing taken into account the weight of the lock, 7 was pulled to the ground sharply. She let out a frustriated yelp as she fell. Her hip hit hard and she skid across the floor, passing several guests before clawing her way to a stop. She cursed, flipping up to her feet.

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Cogsworth glanced into the room. He knew it was there, since he had spent his time days before getting aquainted with the layout of the house, but he hadn't seen the ballroom being put to use. It was a somewhat disheartening reminder of home. The whole mansion was really a bit too similar too Adam's castle. It was sort of a comfort and a pain.

Quickly refocusing his mind, he escorted himself in. Since it was annoying to have to crane his neck back and stare up just to talk to most normal-sized fellows, he found an end table to jump up upon. He quickly recognized that there was a lesson going on. Comeing from, well, a castle with a ballroom, he was fimilar with a few dances, but he could really dance about as well as the stereotype white man.

While he was a bit rusty, he noticed that there were quite a few men. Not participating, he realized, could have been his only option; he didn't mind just watching. Because he was standing rather still, it was hard to notice at a glance that he was a living clock.

[Lucky]

"Well, you might say that." Lucky smirked back. "They call me Lucky because I almost died at birth....but my pet saved me at the last minute. Plus.. I have this nifty horseshoe on my back." He tossed his head to indicate the row of spots on his back. "So....you own a club?" He cocked an eyebrow at the thought. "Like.....like a dance club? A human club? No pets?" He grinned. "That sounds like fun." There was a certain mature aspect of the "club" that Lucky was missing...he just thought it sounded cool. No pets, no parents, no worries. It was a pup's dream come true.

"Why'd you come here?" He wondered aloud. Surely a pretty girl like Laila with no pets had some special reason for coming to a place like this. Especially if Cruella was part of the equation.

[Laila]

Laila laughed slightly and shook her head. "Hmhm, No I didn't own it. The Local Don, Charlie Anna, did. I was born a stray and he took me in. Gave me a Home and requested that I dance at his club to earn my pay." She frowned a little. "I became the Star, but he also had a crush on me. Thanks to him, I never had many friends either. They were all scared of him, and every invitation I gave for a lucky dog to dance with me was turned down because of it. And with the fat pig's protection fee's so high, there were few who could actually afford to get in." She replied.

As Lucky asked her why she came here, the female smiled a little, her mood picking back up. "The same reason some of the others here did. Looking for love, a bit of a vacation. I mean..I used to have a love once but..He went missing. After that I just stopped looking." She said, shrugging slightly as she turned. "What about you?"

[Beast Boy]

It was lady bow's turn to nod at Kyrstal. "yes, we should get started despite us not having enough girls, i guess some boys will have to dance together." the green haired girl smiled to herself. Oh that was cruel. "But we shall start, alright people grab a partner!"

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Ami smiled. "Great!" she said happily taking his hand. "I'm Ami, its nice to meet you. I am sure we will be ok as partners!"

[Krystal]

Krystal was about to pick a partner when she noticed something skidding across the floor. She walked over to see what it was. Krystal crouched down to see what it was and couldn't identify it. It didn't seem to be a human, animal, or even a robot. Krystal could tell it was living being though because she could sense a mind coming from it. But Krystal could sense fear coming from it. "Hello, my name is Krystal," Krystal said, hoping it would put the rag doll-like being at ease.

[Lucky]

May 26, 2012 22:35:29 GMT -5 Laila said:

Laila laughed slightly and shook her head. "Hmhm, No I didn't own it. The Local Don, Charlie Anna, did. I was born a stray and he took me in. Gave me a Home and requested that I dance at his club to earn my pay." She frowned a little. "I became the Star, but he also had a crush on me. Thanks to him, I never had many friends either. They were all scared of him, and every invitation I gave for a lucky dog to dance with me was turned down because of it. And with the fat pig's protection fee's so high, there were few who could actually afford to get in." She replied.

As Lucky asked her why she came here, the female smiled a little, her mood picking back up. "The same reason some of the others here did. Looking for love, a bit of a vacation. I mean..I used to have a love once but..He went missing. After that I just stopped looking." She said, shrugging slightly as she turned. "What about you?"

Lucky glanced around suspiciously, as if afraid someone else might be listening. Then he leaned in close, covering his mouth with a paw to whisper "Actually, if you want the honest truth, I have my suspicions this is all the work of Cruella DeVille." He leaned back, still glancing around as if suspecting the very walls had ears. "I'm wise to her ways. If this is one of her plots to steal the farm, I'm going to figure it out and stop her."

[Laila]

Laila narrowed her eyes a little as Lucky looked around as if the walls had ears, a puzzled expression on her face, having not paid attention to 7 simply due to the fact that her attention was on what Lucky had been whispering to her. As the Pup said that this whole thing may be the work of someone called 'Cruella DeVille', Laila's puzzled expression hadn't changed. Farm? Plot? Laila gave a small, almost sympathetic smile and a shake of her head. "I'm..sorry, I've never heard of anyone by that name.."

[Lucky]

Lucky's eyes widened. "You've never heard of Cruella?!" He asked incredulously. "Seriously? Everyone back home knows Cruella...." He leaned back thoughtfully. "Well just consider yourself lucky you don't. She's a mean old witch who wanted to turn us all into a dalmatian skin coat. All 98 of my brothers and sisters and me. I'm just glad Mom and Dad were able to foil her little plot." He shook his head sadly. "But now she's got a new plot. She's out to steal the farm where I live. Every day she tries something new, and this whole island set-up...? It just seems like one of her schemes."

[Laila]

Laila lowered her eyes, processing the new information. So Cruella is some Human with the intention of trying to, at first, essentially skin and make a Dalmatian fur coat. Laila frowned. "That sounds horrible," She replied, looking over to Lucky and shot another smile. "I'm gad your parents were able to stop her, too," She replied and gave small shake of her head, "But I honestly don't think she'd be able to set up a place like this from what you've told me. And what is so special about your farm, if you don't mind me asking? Why would she want it so badly and change her tone so quickly? Trying to steal Puppies, then going after a farm..."