The four of them crept over to a sort of stack of stone blocks, peeking over it. "That front door is a no-go," Petra said, flatly.

Unfortunately, she'd been poking her head too high over it, and there was also the fact that besides Jesse and maybe Ivor, none of their outfits were made for stealth. The zombies turned to face them, making sickening gurgling sounds.

"I don't think you really need me to say this," Jesse drawled, "but run."

They all tore off again, Jesse throwing Ivor back onto her back and dropping to all eights, as Petra shot fireballs to keep the zombies at bay and Lukas bolted after her, ears flattened against his head and tail flapping in the wind.

Jesse was running at full tilt, racing across the ground, before she saw something glowing in one of the darkened windows of the mansion, and looked up, momentarily distracted.

A pair of yellow eyes narrowed at her, staring at her silently, from behind the eyeholes of a white pumpkin head before turning and walking away, out of sight of the window, which was rather high up.

"The-?" Jesse blurted, eyes widening slightly.

"What? What'd you see?" Petra called out from where she was flying across the ground, flying so that she was hovering in front of Jesse.

Jesse's brow crinkled. "Dunno. Some... creepy person... in the window." She hesitated, before adding, "they had a white pumpkin for a head."

"White pumpkin?" Ivor asked, looking down at Jesse curiously, "there's no such thing."

"Let's save the agricultural discussions for inside, huh?" Lukas huffed back.

Jesse almost tripped and fell flat on her face at that.

She didn't even pause as they came to a large series of glass windows. "Guys, get up to one of the windows!" she shouted. Easy for her, Petra, and Ivor- Jesse just scrambled straight up the wall, and Petra flew up. Ivor, of course, was riding Jesse, and got off quickly once they were safely on a ledge.

Lukas muttered something rather uncomplimentary about 'wish I could fly' or something along those lines, before bolting up a tree.

He popped his head through the branches, stray leaves stuck in his fluffy blonde hair and his tail twitching rather irritably.

Jesse shot a web at the tree branches, and Lukas grabbed on before Jesse forcibly retracted it. This caused the rather sticky string to snap several branches as it whipped back to her, Lukas flying through the air, colliding with Jesse, and both of them slamming forcibly against the glass, causing it to shatter and topple the both of them through.

Petra and Ivor winced.

"Ow," Jesse said flatly from where she was flattened on the floor, flat on her back. Lukas was lying on top of her, face centimeters from hers. "Oww... sorry, Jesse," and he grimaced as he dusted leaves out of his hair.

"I'm just glad I'm more durable than an actual spider," Jesse said, waving it off and climbing back up to her feet painfully as Lukas climbed off, batting at his hair and ears with his hands. "Ow."

"You guys okay?" Petra asked, hovering down while Ivor jumped down using a series of furnaces, careful not to stand on it for too long. Jesse grimaced and rubbed her back using her middle arms. "Well, I think my back's going to be one massive bruise come tomorrow, but sure, I think I'm fine." She then looked around the warmly lit room, noting the creeper painting with a raised eyebrow and the food storage units. "Looks like this is some sort of kitchen," she hummed thoughtfully.

Muffled voices came through the door, making all four of them jump a bit. Something about... a dog... and sparkles?

"I think we could avoid a lot of unpleasantness if- AUGH!"

"What the-!"

A man with darker skin, black hair, and red sunglasses had jumped back rapidly at the sight of them, the other being a guy with sunglasses and brown hair wearing a tealish tank top.

Jesse suddenly realized, that all of them were still in 'hybrid mode', as she'd taken to calling it (except for Ivor, but still). Lukas's ears and tail were pretty obvious, Petra had Blaze Rods hovering around her and her gold eyes were glowing, and of course Jesse had her red eye and four extra arms.

"Uh... hi," Jesse said, sheepishly. One of her lower arms waved a bit.

The guy with red sunglasses cowered back even more at that, flinching a bit. "Y-you're... you-you're monsters?"

Lukas crossed his arms playfully. "Hey, I'm half Ocelot, not half monster. Get it right," he joked slightly, although there was a note of concern in his eye. "You okay?"

The guy wearing teal scowled at them, unsurely. He didn't seem like he really wanted to say anything.

"Uh... okay, maybe... maybe we should introduce ourselves? I'm... uh, I'm CaptainSparklez," the guy with red sunglasses said nervously.

Oh. That explained the bit Jesse had heard about sparkles. Sparklez smiled weakly-nervously- before gesturing weakly at the male next to him, rubbing his head. "That's, uh... that's TorqueDawg."

Jesse nodded slightly, lower arms twitching agitatedly. "Um... hi?" she asked, sheepishly, lower arms going to rub her back again. It really did ache from her little fall.

"Are you going to hurt us?" Sparklez asked, in a quieter voice.

Jesse put up all six hands in hasty surrender. "Uh, haha, no. We're not out to hurt anyone." Lower arms reached into her pocket to pull out the book. "We, um, got invited by someone called the Host, and, well, not sure if you've noticed," Jesse jerked her head at the window, "there are a crap ton of monsters out there."

"But... you guys are half monster. Wouldn't it..."

"Just confuse the monsters, since we're HALF. Zombies don't seem to care either way, they sense that we're humans and have brains, they want it. Spiders, Blazes, creepers... they tend to be more hesitant to attack. Every other mob can have at us," Jesse responded, promptly.

"Ah." Sparklez rubbed his head, awkwardly. "Darn."

And then he rubbed his head again. "Sorry for the language."

"Jesse uses much worse, don't worry."

Jesse swatted at Lukas with a playful scowl, Sparklez smiling weakly at the childish display. "That wasn't about you getting an invitation... just that I was hoping that you could explain things."

Jesse put the invitation back into her pocket with a polite nod, before putting her lower arms behind her back. "Okay. Umm... this might be a little late, but, I'm Jesse. The ocelot hybrid here is Lukas, the Blaze hybrid is Petra, and he-" she pointed at Ivor, "is Ivor."

"'Jesse'?" TorqueDawg scoffed, "that's a boy's name."

Jesse opened her mouth to protest, before pausing as a flash of the boy which chocolate brown hair and bright green eyes and gray ears and tail popped into her head and then going, "Well, actually, it's a unisex name. It could go either way. So... can't really deny that."

TorqueDawg squinted at her, before asking, gruffly, "What are you guys, anyway? Some sort of Loser patrol?"

"Can I set this guy on fire, Jesse?" Petra asked casually, the flames from the furnaces seeming to get even hotter.

Jesse laughed nervously, rubbing the back of her head. "I, uh... I do hope you're joking there, Petra."

"Sure."

Jesse turned back to TorqueDawg with a sheepish smile. "Um... well, no, we're not... not a loser patrol, since we're hybrids... and I'm actually fairly certain all four of us can do some rather lethal things, from what I remember," and Jesse squinted her eyes shut thoughtfully. "Hmmm."

There was a rather awkward silence at that, before Sparklez said, in a rather nervous voice, "Well, that sea of zombie has us all trapped, so maybe you could hold off on trying out your lethal things on us until later?"

Jesse chuckled weakly at that. "Aha, sure." And then she registered what he'd just said. "Oh, wait, how many more people are in this place?"

A/N: Yes! Haha!

Sorry about the lack of updates. Even without school, today was busy.

I hate school sometimes, but mainly just because of the fact that it's boring and the homework is annoying. Otherwise, it's not that bad, I guess.

rebekahtpe: Since both are the same, I don't really care xD And yes. First idea is a go xD

TheRealRedGaming: Haha no. Though that would be hilarious xD

EchoWolfWinds: Will do my best!

RapidSammi: Naww thanks

angelwings: It'll probably come out later on xD

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