You turned around while you were still sleeping, your muscles tensed when you felt something small and furry crawling next to you under the blankets of the bed.

Suddenly you opened your eyes and there it was (your dog's name). The small (dog's breed) barked happily and quickly started to started trying to climb you when it saw you were awake. You laughed, rolling on the bed and making a mess with the sheets while the small (dog's color) dog was still tickling you with its small body. (Name of the dog) had been your first and (as yet) most durable pet. Your parents gave it to you when you were still at the tender 7 years old age and it had become your best and most adorable Christmas gift of all times.

(Dog's name) was a small (dog's breed) dog, who always played with you, licked your face when you were sad, and who loved to sleep next to you. You adored it, and it had always had a small place in your heart, even when it did not always behave quite well...

Carefully you grabbed the small dog and got it out the bed, before you put on your old rabbit-shaped slippers and got up.

You two walked to the kitchen, and then you started cooking a big breakfast with eggs, bacon and (your favorite juice / smoothie / coffee). (NOTE: you can change the type of breakfast if you do not like it for the fic) That definitely was one of the best advantages of being alone in the middle of nowhere: you could eat whatever you wanted.

But how did you get there? As is often the case, the truth is almost always the simplest and most disappointing answer. You see, your great-grandmother had this (HUGE) super old piece of land in the middle of nowhere (your parents kept saying that it had been a kind of hostel, although you doubted the facts) and when she passed away the place was inherited directly by your parents. Originally the idea was to sell it, but due to some problems with the location and the lack of buyers, not everything happened as they expected and, when the winter holidays arrived, the house was still without a single available buyer. So, (and because nobody took care of the house and in general everything in the property) your parents did not have a better idea than to make you stay to take care of it during EVERY DAY OF THE WINTER HOLIDAYS.

Yes, that's how your parents were.

Basically... you had been put against your will to take care of an old house, miles away from the nearest town. And, although at first everything had gone more or less well since the beginning of this snow storm going to the town to talk to any other person (or looking for some kind of entertainment) had become almost impossible.

You sighed depressed: 5 days later and you definitely believed that death from boredom was a real possibility. You did not even have WiFi to entertain you or talk to your friends!

Meow.

You opened your eyes, suddenly looking at the little hairy ball that was rubbing affectionately against your legs. Oh, yes, you had also found this little friend living in the attic of the house during one of your first days, shortly before the snowstorm started. The young (cat's color) cat seemed to be a female, which you had found out (thanks to the veterinarian of the town) was pregnant with a small litter of kittens. Immediately your maternal instincts had turned on and now the small cat (whom you had decided to name (cat's name)) was officially part of the family.

"What happens (cat's name?)" You asked, crouching at its level under the table "Is something wrong?"

The female cat meowed again and approached one of the windows covered by long curtains, gently scratching the wall beneath it. Intrigued by its strange behavior you got up and pushed aside the curtain...

Your eyes opened to your new vision, it was a miracle! It had stopped snowing! You honestly did not believe that this weather would last long enough to go anywhere far away from home, but you were definitely not going to waste an opportunity like this.

Smiling openly you scratched behind the ears of (cat's name), who purred complacently and quickly ran to your room and changed to warmer clothes, preparing to go outside as soon as possible.

Once you were dressed and ready you opened the big entrance door, letting the cold morning wind immediately hit your face. You smiled and took a step toward the outside of the house, letting your boots slowly sink into the fresh snow.

You were definitely going to enjoy this.

...

The first thing that Nepeta Leijon saw when she opened her eyes was white...

And everything else too.

White, white and more white, there was white everywhere! Great hills covered in white, almost as if they were completely completely made of sugar! Even the huge brown trees that could be seen in the distance were also covered by the strange substance!

But it did not smell like sugar, she thought sniffing the air carefully. Slowly the young troll brought her nose up to the strange white substance covering the ground until she touched it for a second. A chill ran down her back. Ahh! It was cold and wet!

Everything was really cold in that place, the olive-blood troll thought as she clung to her long garbardine, the shivers and chills now running all over her body. Her mind went back to her old cave with her warm and hairy lusus, immediately missing the warm weather of her old home.

The truth was that the trolls were not made for cold weather. Their thin, gray skin could only provide them with a much lower amount of heat than a human's, and the higher the troll's blood the lower temperature.

Wait, the others! Her friends! Equius! The cat-loving troll turned in all directions only to realize something...

She was completely alone.

...

Not far away from there, two more trolls experienced a similar situation. The taller, a highblood known by the name of Gamzee Makara, opened his eyes when he suddenly felt that his whole body was cold… unusually cold... Immediately he realized that he was not in Alternia: this place was a much more... white... and cold.

The impressed troll took a step forward, unfortunately without noticing the four-wheel device that was at that moment collapsed and half covered by the snow in front of him. As a result, the tall troll stumbled over the device and, consequently, over the troll fallen a few centimeters away.

A small shriek came from the mouth of the troll on the ground, a bronze-blood also known as Tavros Nitram.

"I'm SoRrY tAbRo" the purple-blood troll apologized when he recognized his friend, and quickly pulled himself off the low-blood troll.

"WhErE wE aRe?" he asked.

"..., i DO NOT KNOW" Tavros raised his head up to look at his friend "uH GAMZEE, cOULD YOU HELP ME, uH, tO GET OUT OF HERE?" he said gesturing towards the big pile of the strange cold white mass that was piling up on his legs and his wheelchair.

"WhAt?" Gamzee then realized the uncomfortable situation of his friend "oH yEs, Of CoUrSe BrO".

The taller troll began trying to pull the four-wheeled device covered in the strange white substance but, to the misfortune of the two trolls, this seemed to be hooked.

"uH, w-wHAT DO WE DO NOW?" the bronze-blood troll asked, his body began to tremble, although he did not know if it was because of fear or cold.

The other troll, ignoring that (without being buried in the strange cold earth) he was beginning to suffer the same reaction, cleaned the snow from the lowblood troll and he slowly slipped one arm below his knees and the other behind his back, and lifted him up in the air.

The truth was that Tavros was quite light, his two paralyzed and weak legs were just weak muscles and bones. This, added to his natural strength due to his high blood, made it easy enough for Gamzee to lift the little lowblood troll, who quickly blushed a light bronze-brown.

"LeT's Go FiNd ThE mOtHeRfUcKiNg OtHeRs, TaV" Gamzee said as he walked away with the troll still in his arms, leaving the four-wheel device behind.

...

Terezi Pyrope was confused. Unlike the aforementioned trolls, she had woken up a while ago, and since then the young troll had been walking, trying to find something or someone in that strange place. She was really confused; No matter what she licked, everything always tasted like white, and her smell it was not helping much either. Her nose felt strange... as if it was full, even though she still could smell some things (usually white).

So, unable to orient herself and without the help of any of her companions, the teal blood troll walked without direction through the strange place, her body began to tremble violently as time passed. This increased to the point where she felt that, if she could not find a source of heat soon, she would faint in the strange, soft white earth.

She was thinking about this when suddenly she felt something hit her in the back, and instinctively turned around, hitting the unknown creature with violence as her nose got up, trying to detect the smell of the stranger.

"neyh!"

Terezi opened her eyes. "3R1D4N? 1S TH4T YOU?" she asked, looking at where she thought the sea dweller had fallen.

Eridan raised his head from the ground to look at the blind troll. "yeah, shit, wwho more wwould it be?" he yelled, picking up his rifle from the ground and getting up. The violet-blood troll looked at his partner, the truth was that she did not seem to be very well; her face was flushed with teal and she was trembling violently (although he should not say that, considering the way his body was shivering at that moment), and the fact that she was looking to the opposite side while talking to him told him that no, she probably had no idea who he was.

The female troll frowned; yes, it was definitely him. She could barely be happy to have to be with the sea dweller, but if that meant there was a chance that the rest of her friends would be fine, she was more than willing to do it.

"4ND TH3 OTH3RS?" she asked, still looking towards the opposite place.

Eridan sighed and turned her (a little violently) to the right side. "i do not knoww, wwhen i opened my eyes it wwas only me" he turned around while checking his rifle.

"so far you are the only one of us i havve seen"

Terezi inclined her head, thinking deeply. The male alien interrupted her "come on, wwe havve to leavve this place before one of us starts to freeze"

The sea dweller began to walk in what was probably a random direction, clearly suggesting that the teal-blood troll should follow him. She frowned because of this again, but then started to walk behind him.

It was not like she had any better option anyway