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“Innie, baby,” Wolf Chan called lightly to the running ball of creamy white fluff that was disappearing rapidly towards the beach, “Not so fast!”

If the little fox cub heard him, he did not reply but Wolf Chan had to admit that he wasn’t that overly worried about what could happen to him. This island was barely less than five miles in full circumference and only held maybe a handful of other skzoo who had decided to escape from the hustle and bustle of life back in the big hectic world and live a much more simpler one on an unclaimed deserted island. There was Tom Nook and his nephews, Timmy and Tommy who ran the local store, the Label sisters with the clothes shop and Blathers in his museum and Roger and Wilbur the Dodo’s in charge of the airport. A friendly turtle by the name of Kapan came along every other day to island hop and there were various little travelling stall owners who would pop over every now and then in order to exchange the island goods for things from the mainland and they were all friendly and coherent.

The only other permanent island residents were a duck by the name of Stay and a sleepy old bat by the name of Jay, both of whom relatively kept to themselves. Stay liked to turn up with left overs because she always cooked way too much or else some spare clothes that she think would fit, as well as more recently toys to keep the baby Foxiny entertained, though everyone called him Innie. Jay could be found wandering at night with stories and songs but otherwise stayed in his little house and generally caused no problem. Wolf Chan liked them all and it was a relief to get away from the manic tension of the city and the demands that were placed on him as a wolf therein.

He didn’t want to find a mate and produce children just because it was expected of him, he didn’t want to be forced into a job that he hated with a passion because it brought in the best money and would make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. All he wanted was to have the time and space to produce his songs, find a pack of his own that he liked and make a family that way. So the island getaway package had been almost a gift from the powers above and despite the complaints he, still, received from his family back on the mainly, the wolf was content to spend his days fishing, bug hunting and doing general maintenance over the island as well as taking the time to compose his songs and run his weekly online show of ‘Wolf Chan’s Room’ where he just reached out to anyone who needed a safe space and a chance to get away from it all.

Island Life had been wonderful, peaceful, and quiet, an almost perfect paradise where Wolf Chan was happy, healthy and in a clear mind which was relaxing on so many levels.

Then a storm had brewed up one night and changed everything.

The whole population of the island had taken refuge in the Residential Services building whilst the wind howled, the rain lashed, and several ominous crashing noises came from the outside. Wolf Chan had spent the whole night awake, counting and recounting everyone in the building to ensure that no one was crazy enough to run outside, fearing for some piece of priceless furniture or anything of the like. Thankfully no one was that crazy to do something like that, though the wolf did find himself half tempted to go out at one point because his large sensitive ears picked up the sound of a baby wailing in fear and pain, but he was pulled back by Blathers.

When the sun rose the next morning, and the rain had finally pattered out into nothing but a soft silence, Wolf Chan was the first to venture out onto their island. For the most part, everything was completely fine. A few trees had fallen down, the most notable one being on the side of the museum, but Blathers mused that it wasn’t too much of a problem as he had been planning on asking an old friend of his to come and build a coffee shop there, so it made way for a nice addition to cheer everyone up once it was sorted out.

A few roof tiles were off and Wolf Chan’s garden had been partially destroyed by what appeared to be a shed which was slightly annoying, but it was all fixable. As was the missing glass in the windows and the few other things that had gone awry. But as he had gone to check on one of the pounds towards the back of the forest on the far side of the island, his sensitive ears once again picked up the crying of a baby.

Placing down the stack of sticks he had been carrying, as firewood was always handy to have, Wolf Chan made his way towards the sounds, vaguely wondering if any of the other residents had picked up on the noise but not pondering on it too much. He hadn’t really explored this part of the island much and knew very little about it, but his main concern was finding the skzoo that was making the noise because babies should be with their Mam’s and Dad’s and being looked after, not wailing their lungs out like this. It took a good ten minutes to navigate through the trees and bushes, until Wolf Chan came to the edge of a small sandy cliff which led down to a small hidden beach.

The revelation about there being a hidden beach would have to wait for now, as Wolf Chan began charging down the incline to attempt to haul an upturned boat back to its right side. The craft was basic at best, nothing more than a sail boat really with a tattered sail and from underneath it came the wailing cries. There was only the smallest of crunches as the wood toppled back to the shore line in its proper direction, but Wolf Chan paid it no mind.

On the sand, wriggling unhappily on his back, was a little fox cub with creamy fur and an adorable white tummy and ears that were way too large for his head but completely adorable because of it. Only a cloth nappy covered its little body and some inner instinct made Wolf Chan scoop the little bundle into his arms and gently begin to rock the tiny little thing back and forth. “There, there,” he said patting the creature’s side and bottom like his mother had taught him all those years ago with his numerous cousins. “It’s okay, you’re going to be safe now, I’ll see to that.”

He resisted the urge to kiss the fox’s head, not because he was cruel but because he was sure that the fox’s parents would take it the wrong way and after everything they must have gone through. Though that was a point, Wolf Chan finally noted as he started to look around the wreckage of the small craft in search for the fox’s parents, who were not there. Sniffing the air, Wolf Chan felt a coldness go through him as he realised that there were no other scents other than the milky one of the tiny little baby in his arms who was squirming a little but had stopped crying.

Especially when the only thing that Wolf Chan found on the beach other than a few pieces of splintered wood, was a small chest with the word ‘Foxiny’ printed neatly on the top. The lock was easy to open and inside was a handful of baby care things, all neatly wrapped up in plastic and a small letter that had miraculously survived. It read:

“To whomever finds this, please take care of my baby Foxiny. I cannot let him stay on our island or else they will take him away. Tell him that Mommy and Daddy loved him, but they cannot ever come to find him.”

Sitting back on his haunches, Wolf Chan looked down at the fox who was now contently resting in his arms, sucking on his thumb. A terrible sadness filled the wolf, who placed the letter down and gave into his instincts to kiss the little cub. “Oh baby, I’m glad you came home to me.”

From that day on, Foxiny or Innie as he came to be known by everyone, stayed with Wolf Chan and everyone considered the cream-coloured fox to be the wolf’s son. They looked similar enough to pass as family when they smiled with crescent eyes and matching dimples and other than the colouring at first glance it was hard to tell. Innie’s ears were the only thing that really gave him away, but Chan always joked that he would grow into them one day. The rest of the island adored Innie anyway and had helped out with bringing the youngster up just as much as Wolf Chan did. Though they were more apt to happily play with the cub until he would start to cry and then give him back to Wolf Chan to deal with but that was typically the way of dealing with young that were not your own.

Though Wolf Chan would probably punch anyone who dared to tell him that he had no right to call Innie his son. Innie would probably do the same when he was old enough to understand, but for now, the two-year-old fox cub did not know the difference and was happy in his life.

Hence why he was running towards the beach to catch fishies without waiting for his Appa because, other than possibly tripping over a stray stick or something, there was not going to be anything that was going to eat him or try to kidnap him from it.

Though there was something odd on the beach today that made the little fox shriek in a high-pitched voice and had the wolf running to his side almost faster than the speed of light, which also caused the sleeping figure on the beach to leap up with a startled squark of surprise.

“Hard to seaboard boys,” a seagull in a sailor’s suit called out loud, still clearly half asleep, “The Kraken’s coming for tea and us ain’t got no sardines ready.”

Wolf Chan let out a long exhale of relief, “oh? Good morning, Gulliver.”

The seagull turned on the spot, “Stow the rigging, you salty sea dog! Or I’ll make yer dance with the fish!”

Innie whined at this, clinging to Wolf Chan as he had hidden behind the much bigger wolf with the hopes that he would be protected. Wolf Chan chuckled, petting the boy, “It’s okay, this is one of Daddy’s friends. Well, more menace to the beach but he’s not so bad when you get to know him.”

“You scurvy scum! I’ll have ye cleaning the poop deck for a week!” the sailor seagull continued on before seeming to fully wake up, blinking several times over and recognising the wolf in front of him, “OH! Wolf Chan! What you doing here, aboard my vessel?”

Wolf Chan affectionately rolled his eyes, clearly the seagull had swallowed way too much seawater once again or was it frog ale this time, “You’re on the beach, Gulliver, did you have a party and throw yourself overboard again?” Or more likely got yourself thrown off your ship by your Captain once again he thought to himself but kept his mouth shut.

For a second or two Gulliver seemed to be undecisive on how to respond before taking a look around and realising where he actually was. Immediately he started squawking and complaining about how the sea was an unfair mistress and beginning to search for his communicator which was probably broken into loads of pieces once again as he never learned his lesson. Turning to Innie, Wolf Chan knelt next to the cub and rubbed his nose against him, “You okay?”

“Yeah,” Innie responded, watching the seagull with confusion, “Why he upset?”

“Because he fell off his ship, again, and has probably lost his communicator and we’ll have to dig up the pieces to get him off the island,” Wolf Chan said.

“Digging?” Innie replied, his little face lighting up because if there was one thing that Innie liked to do, it was simply to dig.

Wolf Chan nodded and grabbed the seagull to stop his ranting, “All right, I’ll help you find all the parts, again. Though tell Innie about what they look like so he can help us find them faster.”

“Innie?” Gulliver asked, looking down towards the indicated fox cub and letting out a large squark of surprise, “OH MY GOSH! Isn’t he the cutest little thing ever!”

The fox cub was back hiding behind his Dad in a flash, not overly fond of loud sounds at the best of times.

Wolf Chan rubbed at his face with a sigh, glaring at the seagull, “He is, but no more shouting, kay? He doesn’t like that.”

“Oh, sorry,” Gulliver replied, in a much more normal voice. “But he is adorable. Though since when have you had a mate? I’ve not seen any cream wolves around you.”

Dipping his ears slightly in annoyance at that statement, Wolf Chan didn’t have to answer because Innie took up a firm but shy hold of his hand, almost hanging off the elder wolf as he turned his big brown eyes up towards the seagull. “Daddy says that I was delivered to him by a stalk cause Mammy is in a far away place where I cannot go to see her yet but will do one day.”

Gulliver blinked and got the hint that there was no means to disprove this to the cub who innocently accepted the words as the truth of the situation. He smiled, “That’s lovely! I’m sure she’ll be waiting merrily for that day. Now, I heard someone likes digging?”

Innie nodded, a little dimple smile showing up on his face as he listened to the description of the missing pieces before leaping into the sand to start digging for them.

Gulliver turned to Wolf Chan, “So, how did you really come across him?”

“He washed up on the hidden beach after a bad storm,” Wolf Chan whispered, keeping his voice low, “Someone had sent him off in a boat with a chest of things to help him and a note saying that they’d never come for him, but they loved him.”

The seagull winced, “That’s rough.”

“Yeah, it is,” Wolf Chan smiled when he saw the cream ears just poking themselves out of the top of a hole that was dug, “But he’s with me now and I wouldn’t trade him for the world.”

“Wah! Daddy! Help! A big scary thing is trying to eat me!” came a cry from the hole. It turned out to be a sandworm who was just as frightened of Innie as he was of it. Wolf Chan still gently cradled his baby boy in his arms, cooing sweetly at him and gently groomed his too large ears to calm him down.

Gulliver giggled at the sight and tried to take a photo with his broken communicator, which did not go down well. Though Innie did indeed find all the pieces for the seagull and helped him fix it so that he could get his picture taken though, in true pup fashion, he tried to lick the camera as thanks.

Wolf Chan had howled with laughter at that but had wisely picked up his cub and started down the beach to go catch some fishies otherwise there was going to be nothing for tea and hungry cubs were one of the worst things in the world.

Innie waved bye bye to Gulliver and promised that he’d come and play with him again soon. Gulliver smiled and nodded in return, before sitting down to await his shipmates coming to get him again. Yes, Innie was the right fit for Wolf Chan, and he’d hopefully bring him up all good and proper.

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“Hello everyone,” Wolf Chan spoke directly into the camera that was facing him, once he was positive that the feed was working and streaming live as it was meant to do. There had been a number of times where the stream wouldn’t work and either he’d end up talking to himself for an hour or so or else send out a five second video.

Which did result in some interest comments and content from his followers, though still how he got followers was a mystery. He was a bit self conscious at times and when he had started it had been nothing more than just a way to keep his family and friends up to date with how Island Life was going. Till Bambam sneakily shred the link to an group chat that they were a part of and things just kind of escalated from that point onwards.

Of course, these days with a precious five year old to look after, Wolf Chan did not do as regular live streams though his fans – which was still a very strange thing to hear if he was honest with himself – did not seem to mind in the slightest. Plus there were always hundreds of questions about Innie anyway and Wolf Chan had joked on his last live stream that it should just become the Innie Vlive. Which was met with a lot of positive comments.

Though all of them also said that they wanted to see Wolf Chan being the best Daddy to Innie as well and he wasn’t allowed to go off screen for long. Not that Wolf Chan was actually going to leave Innie unsupervised with his computer by any stretch of the imagination.

The baby fox would try to eat the mouse just to find out what it tasted like knowing him. As plastic was apparently a very favourite thing for chewing on at the moment because Innie was teething.

Wolf Chan made sure to only do his live broadcasts when the cub was fast asleep because whilst he didn’t mind Innie occasionally showing up – as the fans loved it and sometimes there were things that a wolf daddy had to do in the middle of the night for his little baby bread (It was Innie’s word of the moment, and Wolf Chan was going to haunt him with it for the rest of his life).

He smiled as he saw the number of viewers begin to climb up, along with the comments filtering across his screen and the little hearts flying up. That always made Wolf Chan very happy for reasons that he could never really identify and would sometimes sneakily do a long press in order to make a big heart appear for all his followers.

Though a couple of different dings appeared to advise him that some of his named contacts had also joined the stream that evening which caused his ears to flick.

“UWU! Look it! His ears flicked!”

“Oh my gosh! Are one of the Chatters here?”

“Must be more because both are going”

Were some of the instant comments that came flying up and Wolf Chan out of habit immediately flattened his ears and covered them with his paws. “My ears do not twitch when some of the Chatters log onto my streams…” he pouted cutely towards the screen which automatically ended up with more comments exploding onto the chat.

Though Wolf Chan immediately spotted ChatterJK’s comment of, “Ha! He’s always so twitchy around us. Wonder why?”

Which was followed by, ChatterJW “After the stuff we’ve pulled on him are you surprised?”

“Guys shut up! I wanna find out how my bestie in the world wide world is doing,” ChatterBB cut the other two off, “Plus I -need- an update on my prettiest baby ever! Where is he Channie? You better not be hiding him from me!”

Wolf Chan shook his head as the comments came up asking about Innie and he sighed, “Well hello to you two. Welcome to Wolf Chan’s blog about my Island Life and seemingly now the most important update, or should I say pupdate…” he cringed at himself but laughed anyway, “that everyone wants to know is about Innie right now, yes?”

There was another explosion of comments in response and Wolf Chan shook his head, “Well Innie is doing great at the moment but he’s currently fast asleep after a rather long day because, bless his little cotton socks, he’s getting his big boy teeth in and is teething. So I’ve been giving him lots of cuddles and soft things to nom on but his apparent preference is plastic which isn’t the best for him and I do try to stop him but you know….” Turning his attention away from the screen for a second, Wolf Chan frowned as his ears twitched again but not because another Chatter had joined the stream but because his “Innie-sense” was tingling.

This was something that had developed rather of it’s own accord ever since he had began to care for the cub twenty-four seven and after talking with a few parental groups, it was quite natural. Once a bound was formed between parent and child, then the parent would get a strange feeling when something was wrong or upsetting their cub and would be compelled to act upon it.

Because if there was one thing in the world that was the most heart breaking thing, it was dealing with your upset cub after whatever had occurred. Prevention was the best sort of cure and Wolf Chan was easily distracted by it.

“Erm, one sec guys, I’ll be right back,” he said with a quick smile towards the camera before thinking that he hit the pause button and instead shot off towards the little bed which the little creamy coloured fox slept in. Wolf Chan only had a one bedroomed house at the moment, though he was saving up for renovations to add a couple of extra rooms, but he had been able to secure Innie his own bed for now which was right next to his own bed.

Of course, in his slightly panicked father mode of ‘oh my gosh, my baby needs me right this second’ Wolf Chan not only forgot that he hadn’t actually paused his live stream in the first place, but also he had one of those special stands that was programmed to follow his movement whenever he was recording or streaming a video.

“Innie,” Wolf Chan called out in the most adorable softest voice to the ever so slightly whimpering fox cub, “Baby Bread. You awake?”

For a second there was no response and then the little cream fox wriggled around, whimpering slightly and reaching up with his green sleep suit covered paws towards his daddy. “Hwurts,” came the pathetic little voice and Wolf Chan’s heart broke.

“Tch, aww my little baby, Daddy’s sorry but I cannot give you anymore gummy medicine,” Wolf Chan said, gently stroking Innie’s cheeks whilst his other paw gently guided Innie’s little one to his lips in a comforting kiss, “You had some before bed.”

“Hwurts Daddy,” Innie complained, clearly caught up in his actual tiredness and the drowsiness that was gentle encouraged by the gum medicine which was supposed to help the little baby fox sleep through the teething during the night. He wriggled his arms and legs about as if he were stomping them in some form which was adorable too but the huffy little whines of pain just made it so heart-breaking for Wolf Chan.

The medicine that Innie had been given should have worked fine, it had done for the last couple of nights but it didn’t appear to be working right now, which meant that Innie couldn’t sleep and he would start crying in a minute unless Wolf Chan did something to stop that. He hated seeing his baby in so much pain and discomfort and being unable to help him but thankfully a couple of parenting online books had provided him with some ideas so he knew what to do.

“Does Innie want a hug from Daddy and then maybe your favourite squidgy to chew, followed by a bath and a story to see if that helps you fall asleep?”

“No bwath,” Innie slurred, shaking his head, “Sto Re!”

Wolf Chan had known that the bath would have been a long shot but a story was generally a good start. “And cuddles?”

“Lots!” Innie replied instantly, brightening up for a second before whimpering once again because his teeth hurt.

Chuckling softly, Wolf Chan gently plucked Innie from his pile of pillows, blankets and plushi’s, before securing him softly against his chest where Innie immediately settled himself with a happy sigh and an automatic sucking of his paw beans. Wolf Chan would have pulled it away but if it helped for a couple of minutes, then that was fine by him. Plus Innie was pretty good at not sucking his little paw beans, so an occasional slip was allowed.

As well as one of the most adorable things in the entire universe. There again, Innie was just adorable one hundred percent of the time.

Glancing around the room as he made his way back across it, Wolf Chan happened to notice that on his kitchen bench was a bottle of milk already in the warmer and he felt his brain click. Of course, he hadn’t given Innie his night time bottle before bed which was probably why the little cub couldn’t sleep very well. “Ah, Daddy was very silly Innie.”
“Why?” Innie asked, midway between a yawn and a whine, his large ears flicking as he scrunched his eyes up a little bit.

“Didn’t give you your bottle before beddies,” Wolf Chan replied, picking up the bottle and testing the temperature with his paw. Happy that it was right, though a little cooler than normal – but he honestly suspected that Innie would barely notice such a thing tonight – he handed it to the baby fox who carefully took it in both paws and began drinking from it. Innie was pretty much weened off needing the milk now, but he liked it before going to bed and if it helped him sleep the whole night Wolf Chan was not going to complain.
Thankfully being an insomniac wasn’t a problem when you had a fussy baby who wouldn’t sleep but it did lead to much more exhaustion when sleep finally did come along.
Making his way back towards the computer, as it was currently his only really big comfy chair that could accommodate the pair of them at the moment, Wolf Chan picked up the chewy squishy and then glanced at the book shelf. “Which story do you want, Innie?”

“Frey Frey garden,” Innie mumbled from around his bottle.

Wolf Chan could have guessed that one without having to really question it, because it was Innie’s favourite story this month and even though he had read it several hundred times over, he would certainly do it a hundred times more. Pulling the book out, Wolf Chan headed back to his chair and settled down with Innie and everything he needed.
“Do the bits to!” Innie asked, doing his wriggly nose thing.

“And the voices?” Wolf Chan asked, knowing the answer already as he set the bottle down on the desk, next to the squishy so he could get himself comfortably. He glanced at the screen, seeing only his video reflected but still not clicking to the fact that it was live and instead opened the story book “The Fairy Garden”.

“Once upon a time, at the bottom of a large garden, there lived a fairy who had a house which was made from a toadstool.”

Innie clapped at the picture of the toadstool house.

“On sunny days, the fairy could be found playing in amongst the daisy’s or else dancing with the fire flies. On rainy days she stayed indoors and helped the local spider to weave the most beautiful webs or else she painted fallen stars that had lost their sheen.

Wolf Chan drew a star in the air with his paw, which made Innie giggle and try to copy it.

She enjoyed her life and could wish for nothing more. Until one day, a strange visitor came. It was another fairy, but oh so different from our fairy. For this fairy had travelled all around the world and the many lands, had tails to tell of daring and treasure that seemed almost unreal.

The pair spent a week together, talking throughout the day about pirate ships, friendly dragons, wolves who were as big as trees and the musical gyroids that hid underground until they were ready to pop up and be found.

At the word gyroid’s, a squeakyroid which happened to be a favourite of Innie’s, let out a long squeak which caught the cubs attention for a few seconds before he clapped his paws together with glee.

But then one afternoon, the other fairy said that they were leaving to go and explore and the fairy who lived in a Toadstool house felt sad. She liked having her new friend around but he was too wild a spirit and she too nervous to step out of her house.

“I know,” he said, with a sudden grin, “Why don’t you start yourself a garden and when I come back from my adventures, I’ll bring you something to put in your garden along with the story that goes with it.”

Innie burped slightly from the milk he had drank, “Can we bwild a gwarden, Daddy?”

“We already have one Innie,” Wolf Chan said, turning the page.

“Oh, that would be wonderful!” she agreed and promised to start the next day.

They bid a sad farewell to one another but added on a ‘Stay Safe and Return Soon’

The next day, the fairy set about making her garden around her toadstool house and made sure that it was ready for when he would return with his first gift.

He returned three days later with a sea shell, “This came from the sea and if you hold it up to your ear, you’ll hear the ocean.”

Wolf Chan glanced around in panic because he didn’t have a seashell to hand so instead opted to just blow into Innie’s ear to make the sound of the sea. The cub was beginning to doze now, so that was a good sign.

So the fairy did so, and she did indeed hear the ocean.

He departed again and then returned again three days later, this time with the top of an acorn. “This came from a tree and you can hide under it when the big people come to snatch you away.”

The fairy tried and she did indeed fit underneath it, though she turned it into a little water table for the busy bees that flew around her garden.

Innie had a favoured hat that the liked for this bit but the fox cub was clearly almost in the land of sleep as he had completely settled in Wolf Chan’s arms and was once again sucking his paw beans.

Once again they departed and when he returned, some four weeks later, he came with a ladies handkerchief. “You can use this to separate your wonderful objects and even make yourself a gorgeous dress from.”

The pair spent two days together doing that just and when the fairy tried on her new dress, she felt completely wonderful. Every time they separated, the travelling fairy would return to her with new and wonderful gifts, all with their own story and soon her garden was the talk of the town.

Everyone wanted to come and see it, to hear the stories and marvel at the strange things that were there. The fairy was surprised at first but became so happy with so many visitors that she began baking cakes and making sweet teas constantly and everyone agreed that they were truly wonderful.

One time there was a great storm and the travelling fairy returned with a crystal rock tied with a piece of rope, “This is a weather predictor,” he told her, “It’ll let you know what the weather will do tomorrow and the next day if you ask it.”

The fairy nodded and asked when the storm would pass, the rock replied that it would be in two days, so she offered him a warming bath with a rubber duck, some fresh tea and her most favoured cake to eat. They spent a happy two days together, painting stars and weaving webs and a sort of tranquillity settled that she never wanted to end.

But alas, they came to part once again, but this time he produced several packets of seeds, “I’ll be gone a long time for my next adventure. But I want you to plant these and let them all grow. By the time they all bloom, I’ll be back to you with the greatest gift of all.”

“And what shall that be?” the fairy enquired but received no answer other than a smile with a wink attached to it and then the travelling fairy was gone.

As requested, she planted the seeds and told any who asked that when they bloomed she would receive the greatest gift of all. There was all sorts of speculation about what possible gift he could be bringing back to warrant such a title and the fairy enjoyed listening to the gossip in regards to it. But time slowed as she waited and waited for his return, the numbers of visitors declined as there were no new stories or wonderous things to see and soon she began to worry that she would end up lonely again.

Until one morning, she stepped out of her door to find the whole garden blooming with rainbow flowers everywhere and standing by the seashell and the acorn hat was the travelling fairy. She rushed to him, giving him the biggest hug ever and smiled so brightly, “You came back.”

“Of course, I promised you I would, didn’t ?”

“Yes,” she replied, still smiling though looking around excitedly, “With the greatest gift ever for me. What is it?”

The travelling fairy smiled, “It’s something that you can’t really see, but you can always feel right here.” He placed his hand gently atop her heart.

The fairy blinked and looked up at him, placing her hand above his heart, “For me? For real?”

“The greatest gift I could ever give you,” he replied, “My everlasting love and devotion as my wandering days are forever over if you will be my wife?”

They were married by the wise old owl later that afternoon and they stayed in the toadstool house with the garden of rainbow flowers and interesting items from all around the world and were never parted ever again.””

Turning his attention back to Innie, not having realised that he had literally been reading out loud without interruptions for an age, Wolf Chan smiled at seeing that the cub was now happily fast asleep and looked peaceful.

He sighed and placed a gentle kiss upon the cubs head before setting down the book and other pieces. He took Innie back to his bed, tucked him in, gave him goodnight kisses and then returned to the live stream.

Only to blink as he saw thousands of comments and hundreds of new notifications of followers and likes. “Huh?” he said aloud before realising his mistake in not pausing the live stream.

Particularly when ChatterBB typed, “OH MY GOSH! THAT WAS THE CUTEST THING EVER! IT’S RECORDED AND NO WE’RE NOT DELTEING EVER!”

authors babbling:
And I'm not deleting that ever. This was some major inspiriation that hit me completely randomly and I just had to write it out. The story that Wolf Chan reads out is my own and was purely made up for this story, but I love it so much I may try to make it into it's own thing at some point in the future. Which'll be fun

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Innie’s tail was wagging with extreme excitement as Wolf Chan caught his hood to haul him back before picking him up. “Daddy!” Innie complained, “Wanna get to the boat!”

“I know, but Kapp’n is not going to leave without us so there’s no need to run your little paws off,” Wolf Chan said, smushing his face playfully against the young fox cub that he had adopted.

Innie normally would have pouted but he was far too excited about the prospect of being able to go and visit another island today. Wolf Chan had finally be able to save up enough bells to get his house expanded and Tom Nook was busy sorting out the building work today which meant that the pair had to find something else to do for a few long hours. Since they had pretty much everything sorted that they needed to, food, housing items and toiletries were all accounted for readily, Wolf Chan had decided that it would be a good idea to take Innie on a trip to visit another Island.

Kapp’n was always available for excursions and Wolf Chan had way too many Nook Miles stored up so he figured it would be a nice trip. Plus Kapp’n always seemed to have a knack of finding unusual islands that provided all sorts of wonderful new treats so he was looking forward to it himself.

Settling himself against the light blue fur, Innie giggled, “But I’m so excited! A whole new Island!”

Wolf Chan giggled, pressing a kiss to the top of the young fox’s head, “Oh? You bored of this one?”

“No!” Innie immediately responded, looking horrified at the idea, “Innie loves it here with Daddy and everyone. But a new Island…” for a few seconds the young fox drifted off, clearly thinking how to explain himself and Wolf Chan just took the precious little moment to admire how cute his little baby fox looked in a pale pink coat with white flowers on it. Of course he also had a pair of red trousers on and then a matching pair of little pink shoes with large daisy’s on them. Innie had seen them at Able Sisters and asked so politely for them that Wolf Chan had no trouble buying them in the slightest. Innie could dress how he wanted, Wolf Chan was not going to stop him in the slightest, though there had been a long debate this morning – for all of five minutes – in the young foxes’ mind of if he was going to wear the outfit he now bore or if it was going to be the pink undershirt with the blue and white polka-dot dress.

Innie’s large ears wiggled, “It’s fun to explore a new place!”

“It is indeed,” Wolf Chan said, stepping on the pier and setting Innie down carefully, “Go and see if Kapp’n is ready for you.”

The Turtle had already waved to acknowledge the pair but there was a fondness in his smile as he pretended to be busy with ropes as Innie hurried forward to see if he was ready or not for them. It gave Wolf Chan the perfect moment to transfer the Nook Miles and also do a quick news story update. There wasn’t anything that caught his attention, except a story about a pirate raid on several islands but the authorities were tracking them down. Gullivar had confirmed that it was not him and his crew, as they would never do anything so dastardly. Wolf Chan could only hope that the Bad Pirates never came to their little Island and that no one had been hurt.

“Daddy!” Innie called, waving enthusiastically, “Kapp’n says he can take us to a really nice Island that is made of Candy!”

Wolf Chan raised his eyebrow up at the Turtle who laughed, “It’s always fun to tease the kiddies with. Anything in particular you need?”

The wolf shook his head, “Nope, just a good place to explore and have fun.”

“And make friends!” Innie piped up as he jumped into the boat but was so little of weight that he barely even moved it.

“I thought you wanted Candy?” Wolf Chan asked.

Innie clambered up onto Wolf Chan’s lap as he sat down, “Innie likes Candy but if I eat too much I’ll be sick, so friends would be nicer.”

Kapp’n chuckled and spun his special compass a few times before starting up the engine and pulling out. “Well, let’s see what we can do for you eh?”

The waters were soon lapping at the sides of the boat and Kapp’n sang:

“Sea monster be

misunderstood,
And it's sad.
Known me some sea monsters,
And they ain't so bad!

Sure, they may seem real fierce,
All tentacles and teeth.
Most of 'em got soft hearts.
They be real sweet!

The Island that they arrived at was brightly sunny, filled with palm trees and had a few cliffs that Chan was glad he had brought his portable ladder with. Innie virtually charged off the boat, tripping over the side but saved from face planting into the stones below by the quick reactions of his wolf dad.

Safely set down, with his paw being held, Innie began to explore the new island in earnest. There were lots of trees that had oranges in them, which Wolf Chan helped him to collect as they would be nice for a different type of harvest and also could be planted to give them orange trees back home. Innie wasn’t entirely sure about the orange when he first saw them, as they looked more like a rubber ball than anything else but Wolf Chan just patiently peeled the fruit, took a section and gave it to Innie.

Sniffing the new fruit, Innie carefully took it into his mouth before giving it a chew. His eyes widened in surprise, ears practically vibrating in happiness because he loved the taste so much. “Can I have more please?” he asked, already reaching his little paws up to try and grab the fruit and Wolf Chan laughed gently before handing the fruit over to the little cub.

“Not too much now, or you’ll have too full a tummy for your lunch,” prodding the youngster in the stomach, which made Innie laugh, Wolf Chan set off to explore the rest of the island. It was far smaller than their own, of course, but it was more than enough to get around whilst the house renovations were underway. Though the rest of the island didn’t hold anything much more of surprises, a few coconuts on the palm trees, an abundance of weeds which could be sold to Leif when he turned up on the Island again and an interesting bottle with a new food recipe inside it which sounded like it could feed at least ten animals. It was called Seafood Risotto and from the little picture insert it looked good.

In the centre of the small Island was a large pound and there were many shadows of large fish which made Wolf Chan smile. He carefully set about putting down a chequered cloth and pulling out a picnic basket, he set up a fine looking little feast and pulled out his fishing rod, “Looks like we’re going to get lots of fish here, baby.”

“Yay, fishies for tea,” Innie sang as he plonked himself down on the side, “Can we have them with chippies?”

“Of course,” Wolf Chan replied, reeling his rod out into the water with a satisfying plop. “Though this may take a little while, did you bring something to keep you entertained?”

“Books and colours!” Innie said, digging into the basket to pull out his colouring books which was one of his current obsessions.

Wolf Chan nodded and soon the only sound that surrounded the pair was the gentle scribble of Innie’s crayons on the paper and the occasional plop as the fishing line was pulled in and then set back down again.

After a long time though, Innie had coloured several of his pages and was starting to get a little bit angsty so dug back into the basket to pull out a small ball from within. “Daddy, is it okay if Innie plays ball?”

“Just stay within sight, sweetie,” Wolf Chan replied, wrestling a koi Karp into the fish bucket to put in stores once they got back.

Smiling brightly, Innie threw his ball and then chased after it, going all the way around the outside of the pound which was safely within eye sight of Wolf Chan. He giggled and rolled about happily, getting covered in grass stains and mud but it didn’t really matter as the washing machine would take care of his clothes and he could have a bath tonight which would be mega fun. Because Innie knew that Wolf Chan had gotten him the special bubbles that smelt of sweeties and another rubber ducky to play with. It would be so fun.

A wild throw saw his little red ball bounce off a couple of rocks and then fall down into a hole. “Oh no!” Innie raced up to the spot, “Daddy! Ball fell into a hole!”

“Coming, Innie,” Wolf Chan called, “Don’t try and get it yourself.”

“Won’t,” Innie replied, before turning to look at the hole, only to blink in surprise when he found that the ball was already poking itself out of the hole it had fallen down. Tilting his head to the side in confusion, he made a little noise and reached forward to prod it. Which naturally caused the ball to drop down into the hole once again but this time accompanied by a couple of squeaks of confusion. Innie’s ears twitched at hearing a couple of voices whispering to one another before the ball appeared back at the top of the hole.

Innie turned to look at Wolf Chan and pointed, “Daddy, I think someone down there.”

Wolf Chan frowned and reached to take the ball from the hole, realising that Innie could have easily gotten it which was strange. But as he lifted it up, he briefly saw a small white face that looked shocked before retreating back into the shadows with a squeak. Handing the small fox his ball, Wolf Chan knelt down to look further and tutted when he realised that it was too dark to see anything. “Hello,” he called out gently, “Is someone down there? Are you hurt?”

There was silence for a few seconds, before a tiny little voice went, “No.”

Wolf Chan’s ears pricked up, the voice sounded so young and terrified, “Hey, it’s okay if someone’s there. I’m Wolf Chan and I’ll help you out if you’re stuck.”

Something tapped on his side and he turned to see that Innie was holding out a yellow and red plastic torch to him as well as his ball, some fruit and a blanket. “Thank you, baby,” Wolf Chan said, pressing a kiss to the young fox’s head before turning back to the hole and clicking on the light.

Immediately there were three separate cries of shock and Wolf Chan felt his heart break at the sight. A tiny little sandy coloured puppy and a fluffy yellow chick were clinging to one another, looking absolutely soaked to the bone and standing in front of them was a small white ferret who was trying to look fierce but looked more like he was going to break into tears at any given second. All three were clearly underfed, soaked and in need of a good cuddle.

“Hey,” Wolf Chan called out more gently this time, “It’s okay, I’m going to help you.”

The ferret shook his head, “No!”

“But you are all cold and wet and I bet you’re hungry too?” Wolf Chan asked, figuring that the ferret was probably a little older than the other two. “I’ve got some oranges and Innie’s brought blankets.”

“No!” the ferret said again, though only after a seconds pause which showed he was listening.

Innie popped his head over, “Daddy will help! He the best ever! He gives the best baths and makes great soup too!”

“Oranges?” the puppy asked, having been sniffing the air, coming closer to the ferret looking hopeful and Wolf Chan quickly grabbed one from their stash and lowered his paw down so the pup could take it.

Which he did without a moments hesitation before running back to the chickie with a cry of, “Lixie! Orangies!”

Wolf Chan watched as the little chick uncurled slightly and blinked at the fruit which his friend was unpeeling and offering to him. A little feather reached out to take the offering and the chick began to eat.

The pup wandered back to the ferret who was looking a mixture between furious and curious and was also offered a piece of the fruit. He took it more slowly than the chick but still took it and when he seemed to realise that Wolf Chan wasn’t going to do anything nasty to the food, he turned his little face back up towards the light. “No bad?”

“No!” Innie cut in before Wolf Chan could, “Daddy the best Daddy in the world! He tucks me up at night with all the blankies, makes soup when I’m ill and reads the best stories ever! He help and make you all happy and warm again.”

The ferret blinked, seeming to think this through as he stared at Wolf Chan. The wolf smiled warmly at him, “I’m Wolf Chan, what’s your name?”

“Jiniret,” the ferret replied softly.

A dimple appeared on Wolf Chan’s cheek as his smile grew, “And you’re little friends?”

“Bbokari,” Jiniret pointed to the chick, “Muppy,” he said, pointing to the puppy who looked a bit confused but seemed to accept it.

Wolf Chan smiled, “Well, in that case, do you three like fish and chips and hot milk for supper?”

The sparkly eyes that all three sent him confirmed that this was indeed a trend with small, fluffy animals and within the next half hour he was back on Kappan’s boat, heading back to their Island with three new sons to look after.

Innie was showing Muppy his colouring book, whilst Bbokari and Jiniret happily napped on his lap. In a way he was glad he had done the house renovations now, even if he wasn’t quite sure that there was going to be enough room for them all but he would try his very best. Though for now, he had priorities in getting all three bathed, fed and wrapped up in the warmest clothes before he did anything else.

Being a Daddy to one fox was hard work, adding three others was sure to bring about a whole knew layer of mayhem but the wolf already knew that he couldn’t give them up now. Even if he didn’t know how they had ended up in a random hole in the ground on a deserted island.

authors blabbering: I realise that I changed a name but it just made it easier for typing purposes 

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“Hmmm,” Wolf Chan tilted his head to the side, looking at the new little trio who had ended up staying in his house for the past week and tried his best not to coo out loud. Because damn it, they all looked adorable as ever but were clearly in need of new clothes.

However, there was a little voice plaguing the back of his mind that if he started adding buying clothes to the rest of all the little things that he had done over the last week, then he would get far too attached and never want to let them go again. Not that the thought hadn’t already crossed his mind of course, because it was becoming quite clear to the wolf that there was probably next to no chance that anyone was coming for these three adorable little creatures. Jiniret had practically told him so himself, but until officials confirmed it all.

Shaking his head to dispel the thoughts, Wolf Chan decided that he was going to buy new clothes for the three newer boys because there was no way they could continue walking around in their old things. Muppy just about fitted in some of Innie’s clothes but clearly looked uncomfortable in them. Probably because in terms of style, the little fox was a little bit all over the place and had wild choices when it came to things like colours and patterns. Granted he looked happy in all the things he wore, but Muppy was clearly a bit more on the quiet side when it came to colour choices. Plus, he had informed Wolf Chan that his name was PuppyM but Jiniret had a habit of calling him Muppy in order to be mean. Wolf Chan said it was cuter on him though and Muppy decided that he’d like to stick with the name for now.

Felix, or Lixie as he was generally known, was smaller than the pair despite being older and had to put up with some of Innie’s baby things as it was the only option Wolf Chan had for him. However, the sleep suits were adorable and the accessories box made Lixie very happy indeed. Innie also liked playing dress up with Lixie, having found his old costume box and the pair were clearly having a whole lot of fun with it.

Jiniret, was too big for all the children sized clothes that Wolf Chan had and was too small for his clothes, but with a little bit of string and a few safety pins, they had made the best of the situation. But it was clear that the little ferret couldn’t quite make up his mind if he liked this or not but there was still a lot of sadness in the little creature.
“I think we need a shopping trip,” Wolf Chan announced, knowing that Innie would be up for it in a heart beat.

Which indeed the little fox was, zooming out of the living room to leap onto his Daddy’s head, “Yay! For clothes for new brothers?”

Innie had decided that Jiniret, Lixie and Muppy were his brothers, despite Wolf Chan trying to dissuade this little thought from the babies head just in case he got hurt from it. But it was pointless as Innie was stubborn and refused to give up on the things that he liked the idea of. So Wolf Chan had to go along with it and hope that if there were parents for the three that they’d have some way for the little foursome to stay in contact with one another.

Jiniret blinked, “Clothes?”

Wolf Chan nodded, bending to pick the ferret up, “Yep. I think my old ratty t-shirts aren’t doing anything good for you in the slightest and if you’re going to be here for a little longer, might as well make sure we have things that fit you right.”

The ferret blushed a little, “Can I choose?”

“Yep!” Innie yelled, still sitting on top of Wolf Chan’s head, “Daddy always lets me choose! So you can to!”

Muppy blinked as he looked up, “No more sharing?”

Wolf Chan smiled as he shook his head, “Yeah, no more sharing clothes…No! Muppy, you need to stay dressed for now sweetie. We need to go buy you clothes first and then you can get changed.”

Lixie toddled up to latch onto Wolf Chan’s leg, he was dressed in a pretty pink princess outfit for who knew what reason but Wolf Chan learnt to just go with the flow for these three cuties. His large round eyes sparkled, “Can we get uniforms for school? Lixie never had one.”

That made Wolf Chan pause, he had actually forgotten about school as Innie wasn’t yet old enough to go but thinking about it, Jiniret and Lixie should have been attending. Muppy not quite yet but it was another thing to look into, should the tiny little cubs be staying of course. He smiled towards the chick, “We shall see but I don’t think it starts for a while yet and if we find your Mummy and Daddy then they’ll still have everything you left behind.”

The chick and the ferret shared a sad look before looking away, confusing Innie who clambered down to comfort the pair whilst Muppy decided that he’d rather try and play with a green ball that took his fancy right at that moment in time. Wolf Chan felt his heart break, desperate to know what was plaguing these tiny little beasts that had come into his life but not wanting to cause tears with asking too many questions. That had been a mistake he made on the first night and he didn’t want to repeat it anytime soon.

Shaking his head, Wolf Chan smiled instead, and said as enthusiastically as possible, “No worries though, let’s grab our things and then we can go to the Able Sisters!”

“Yay! Able Sisters!” Innie chanted immediately, bouncing up and down and immediately blabbering to everyone who would list about how kind Mabel and Sable were and how they’d adore getting to dress up new cubbies which broke the sour mood quite quickly. Wolf Chan felt his heart beaming just a little more with pride, because his little fox was such a sweet soul that wanted to care for everyone and it just gave him really good vibes for the future.

It didn’t take long for the four youngsters to be ready and Wolf Chan set off towards the shop with Jiniret and Lixie holding onto his paws, whilst Muppy took his shoulder spot as Innie was having an attack of the zoomies and was running around like a wild thing. Wolf Chan didn’t reprimand him, knowing that it would probably be a good thing that he tired himself out before they got to the shop because that would make it easier to distract him with something. Sable was usually pretty prepared with some little project to keep the pup entertained if he wasn’t trying on lots of clothes but Wolf Chan had some things stored in his back pack just in case. He had also brought drinks for everyone, some little snack bags in case anyone got hungry, a colouring book for Jiniret, a story book for Muppy and a plastic baking set for Lixie because that’s what the three of them liked. Innie had his usual ball and doll in the backpack but Wolf Chan didn’t think he’d need them today.

Vaguely he wondered if this would how it would be in the future, caring for four youngsters and making sure that they all had something to entertain but sadly pushed that thought aside. He was getting way too attached and the three new ones could be leaving him soon, which was not a nice thought in the slightest but he kept a bright smile on his face so that none of the youngsters knew.

Mabel greeted them at the door, as Innie had rushed ahead and was pulling excitedly at her skirt, though being very careful at the same time because he had accidentally caught himself on her spikes before, babbling away to her. She smiled, “Ah, these are the Islands new little treasures then? Oh my, they are so small but I’m sure we’ll have plenty of things for them to fit into.”

“Can I go say hi to Sable?” Innie asked, jumping around madly and Mable smiled sweetly towards the pup.

“Of course you can, tell her to take a break, she’s been working all morning and won’t listen to me,” Mabel replied, patting his head and giggling as the little fox let out an loud “Yay!” before rushing into the shop with a happy cry.

Wolf Chan shook his head, “I remember when that used to scare poor Sable.”

Mabel chuckled, stepping aside to let them in, “She secretly loved it I think, but there again, it’s so hard not to fall in love with Innie. You guys are lucky to get him as a little brother.”

The three other youngsters blinked at her in confusion and Wolf Chan made frantic signals to stop that conversation right there which was met with a slightly odd look but Mabel knew when to change the subject. “But never mind, I can see what Wolf Chan meant by you guys needing some clothes. Let’s see what you like and if we have anything that might fit you.”

In the shop directly there wasn’t a lot of choice of children’s clothes, most of the animals on the island were fully grown and virtually none had plans for kids as of yet, so Innie was the only one that was really catered for. However Sable seemed to be also thinking ahead of time and was designing clothes and patterns for older children on the pure instinct that Innie was growing. He’d already outgrown quite a number of the clothes that Wolf Chan had originally bought him and it was a fact of life that he would keep on growing until he was an adult.

But there was also the Fashion Portal which allowed for access to a variety of patterns and styles that could be ordered in for delivery or the sisters could easily make. Jiniret was directed to this area as he was the oldest of the four as well as the tallest and would not fit into the pieces that were in stock. Though Mabel was able to find a very small adult size t-shirt that was primarily black but then splattered with colours in a crazy style that did fit the little ferret and some grey shorts that went down to the little ones feet but with just a few stitches on the hems and a nice belt, everything fit. It would do for the time being. From the portal, Jiniret chose several pairs of dungaree’s in different colours, a few t-shirts and a cap which he really liked. He seemed to be fascinated with the dresses but declined them even though Wolf Chan said he could have them if he wanted. The ferret however said, very sweetly, that he wasn’t going to take advantage of Wolf Chan’s kindness and Wolf Chan felt himself melt.

If he grabbed the little ferret and hugged him tightly to his chest for five minutes, no one noticed or happened to take photographs which were then shared to a secret group chat of the Island’s residents who were all very keen to share their love of the protective wolf with his cubbies.

Muppy and Lixie were both able to get a few items from the store, as they were only a little bigger than Innie and Wolf Chan was glad that they reflected their own styles. Muppy opted for a Falcons sports shirt and matching shorts, along with a pair of long brown trousers and a white t-shirt with a cartoon character on the front. He also got a couple of polo shirts and a selection of shorts and trousers as well as a pair of glasses (with no lenses in them) which Wolf Chan said made him look very smart and sophisticated. Which resulted in him not wanting to ever take them off again. Lixie was very similar to Innie in terms of style, taking a blue dress with rainbow sleeves, matching pockets and unicorns on it, a pair of blue trousers with a long sleeved chequered shirt and pair of dungarees that had lots of cartoon versions of all sorts of animals and nature trees on with a white t-shirt to go underneath.

Innie had mainly stayed with Sable, getting himself all sorts of tangled up in the offshoots of materials that the hedgehog had left over but he came across to coo at his new found brothers. As well as brought over pyjamas for each of the boys, including himself, because everyone very nearly forgot about them.

For Jiniret he choose a purple pair with lots of little hearts on them, for Lixie he choose a pink and white set that had a fairy on the front and for Muppy he choose a dark blue set with stars and planets on. For himself he had picked out a dinosaur set, which Wolf Chan had actually requested last week because Innie seemed to be getting very much into Dinosaurs at the moment and it worked.

With everything packed and paid for, the boys wore their favourite new outfits and Wolf Chan decided that it’d be a nice treat to go visit Brewster for some drinks. Though naturally he was not getting any of them coffee because he did not need them up all night, bouncing off the walls. Brewster was happy to see them all, serving them his specialist milk drinks which were perfect for growing cubs whilst Wolf Chan got coffee that was probably enough to send anyone into a huge rush if they weren’t careful.

But the wolf could always handle it and he let himself dwell on happy thoughts as he watched the little critters and silently wished that he would be able to keep them as his own because he really did not think his heart could bare to send them away. Brewster petted his paw with a long feather and a coo of understanding and Wolf Chan just smiled back at him. He would just have to wait a little longer to find out, because rightfully the three belonged with their parents, though what type of parents would leave their sons stuck in a hole on a deserted island was beyond Wolf Chan and he vowed if he caught up with them, that he was going to give them a good talking to if they didn’t have a reasonable explanation for what they had done to his babies.

So it came as a surprise, much later that night, when he had finally managed to get all four safely into bed and asleep that there came a knock on the door. Tom Nook smiled, “Good evening, Wolf Chan, are the little ones up?”

“No, I just got them to sleep,” Wolf Chan said, inviting the Racoon in who stepped in and then accepted a cup of tea. “Is everything all right?”

“Well that depends,” Tom Nook replied, “We tracked down the trio’s parents.”

Wolf Chan’s stomach sank, “And?”

“Well,” Tom Nook paused, pursing his lips for a second before sighing, “They were caught up in some bad things and ran away, but they got caught by the police and all of them are pretty much looking a very long jail terms. From what I’ve heard, they pretty much left the kids on the island that you found them on in some vain hope that they’d either starve or be found by someone willing to take them in.”

Wolf Chan blinked, “Why not just give them up for adoption?”

“I don’t know, the world away from us works in strange ways,” Tom Nook shrugged, “But if you want…”

“Where’s the paperwork?” Wolf Chan cut in, not needing to hear the rest of the conversation, “I’ll take them, I’ll keep them and love them with all my heart and more.”
Tom Nook smiled, “I knew you would say that. Swing by Residential Services tomorrow morning, Isabelle will have the documents ready. I’ll speak to the Police Chief Badger and let him know.”

Before Wolf Chan could speak, there came the patter of tiny paws and Jiniret had thrown himself around the wolf with a wail of, “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!”

Wolf Chan held on, not able to scold his now eldest child for being out of bed or eaves dropping because he couldn’t find fault in this situation. He kissed the top of the ferrets head, hugging him tightly and felt his heart grow even bigger at the prospect of having four precious little lives to look after now. It was going to be chaotic but he couldn’t wait.

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Wolf Chan was never really a big bad wolf, he did not blow anyone houses down (though he did huff when he couldn’t get something he wanted right) and he had certainly never eaten anyone either. But upon first meeting, most people took him for being a big, bad wolf because well…he was muscular and had big broad shoulders and gave off an intimidating vibes.

At least that’s what Dwaekki thought when he first laid eyes on the wolf, before he arrived on the Island Stayville with his suitcases. He had decided to leave his home island in search of some adventure and a chance to prove that he wasn’t a squishy little pig-bunny that had to be teased by everyone at home because he really was a big old softy at heart, and had done a mysterious flight ticket to get to see where he ended up.

The first two islands had been fun filled adventures with large pools to jump into, hillsides to conquer and plenty of forests to explore but after a while they both had become repetitive and a bit dull. Plus there were virtually no visitors to those Islands and Dwaekki wanted to have friends to hang out with. So he had used another lot of Nook Miles to hop to another Island.

Then within an hour had practically ran screaming onto the plane because it had been infested with tarantula’s and the pig-bunny was utterly terrified of them.

His next trip had taken him to a holiday resort and he’d stayed there for a while, finding himself a little job of making peoples vacation homes and he found so much joy in it that he could not complain in the slightest. Sure there were some picky customers and even worse those who demanded that everything had to be completely and totally perfect with no room for compromise or the subtle hint that just maybe there wasn’t anything that could be done to get that signature piece of furniture because it was out of stock or else completely out of everyone’s price league.

It was at the resort that he had first run into the blue grey wolf, well correction, it was actually his sons he had run into first. There was a small school on the vacation resort and after a little help in renovating it, Dwaekki was very happy to see all the little creatures who ran around it on a daily basis. The school ran as a mixture between day school and a boarding school where some would just be dropped off in the morning and then picked up in the evenings whilst others stayed in little dormitories and were picked up at a later date.

Dwaekki had just been heading away from work, when he happened to pass the school and saw that two little creatures were sitting on a bench as if waiting for someone. Though it was well after pick up time because it was getting near to six o’clock and that was not a good sign in the pig-bunny’s book. “Hey, what are you two doing out? Shouldn’t you be home or in the dorm having tea?”

The little chick and ferret turned to look at the pig-bunny in question, the former leaning into the latter’s side as if he were a little bit scared. The ferret however simply shrugged, “Dad’s running a bit late, he let school know and Mrs. Mims has just gone to get us some milk. Muppy’s not been well and Dad’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with him.”
Dwaekki blinked, “Oh, well, did he say what time he was going to be picking you up?”

“Shortly,” the ferret replied, “he let Mrs. Mims know that he was on his way, he said sorry and everything but I don’t blame him for worrying over Muppy. He’s very sick.”

“Good evening, Dwaekki,” Mrs. Mims, an old deer with glasses and an old fashioned governess dress called as she appeared with two bottles of milk for the youngsters. “How goes the designing work?”

“Very well, thank you, Mrs. Mims,” Dwaekki replied, “I was just wondering about these two cause normally they would have been picked up by now.”

Mrs. Mims smiled, “Don’t worry, their Daddy is on the way to collect them. His second youngest is ill and he’s terribly worried about him so he had him at the hospital today. Unfortunately it took longer than anticipated but he let us know.”

Nodding, Dwaekki went to say something else but his mind was blanked by the smell of something fast approaching. He turned, instinct flaring up to warning him of uttermost danger as the boys father ran into sight. He was a wolf, a big, huge wolf with matted fur and what the pig-bunny took to be an nasty expression on his face (though he came to learn later that it was a mixture of fear, frustration and stress because at that time, things were not going well at all). Dwaekki stepped back, shaking in complete terror and had to stop himself from blocking the kids from the rampaging monster that was surely going to eat them.

But found himself dumbfounded when both the ferret and chick let out joint cries of joy and ran towards the wolf, throwing their paws and feathers around him with a constant chatter of questions that the pig-bunny couldn’t even follow coherently. However the wolf smiled towards the two, with such a kind expression that it floored the watcher and he sighed as he answered all the questions one after the other as if it were nothing out of the ordinary. “Yes, Muppy is going to be okay. His chicken pox has gotten worse and appears to be developing into Shingles which is something that could become very bad but you did a good job in telling me that he was getting worse so he’s fine. No he’s not going to die. He’s staying overnight in the hospital just under observation and if you’re good, we can go home, get changed and go visit him and get tea from Quackies cause I promised him a Happy Ducky Meal anyway. Innie is with Isabelle playing scrabble badly as he didn’t want to miss you guys coming home.”

The voice the wolf was so gentle and tender that it was almost too unreal to be real in Dwaekki’s eye but at the same time it was happening right in front of him. Wolf Chan picked the chick from the floor and offered his paw to the ferret with a fond gentleness before looking up at Mrs. Mims, “Thank you so much for keeping them back an extra bit. I really hoped it wouldn’t take as long as it did but there was other patients in front of us who took longer than I thought they would.”

Mrs. Mims shook her head, “It’s fine, Wolf Chan, I know how much you care for your boys and they have been perfect as always. If you need a few days of them being at home, then just let us know because both are well enough ahead in their studies so they can afford to take a few days off.”

“Lixie has his homework book too!” the chick said, his feathers expanding in a fun way, “I can do big sums now, Daddy.”

The ferret smiled, holding up the two back packs that he was carrying. One was black but had a painting of a cat on the front in rainbow colours and a boarder of fading holographic butterflies and the second was a pleasant shade of pink with purple and white stars and had holographic fairy wings attached to it. “We both got our homework,” the ferret smiled, “I also picked up some books for Muppy and Innie so they can start on their letters and numbers, Ms. Chochoo helped me pick them out.”

Dwaekki blinked once again at the soft smile that crossed the wolfs face as he pet the ferret with affection, “Thank you, Jiniret, that will make them both happy. Say goodnight to Mrs. Mims now boys, as we have to be going.”

“Goodnight Mrs. Mims,” the two boys chorused together in perfect synch, “Thank you so much for looking after us.”

“The pleasure was all mine boys,” Mrs. Mims said, “Do let me know when Muppy is better so we can arrange a visit to get him registered.”

“And Innie for his reception classes or else I’ll never hear the end of it,” Wolf Chan grimaced playfully, “But we really should be going. Thank you so much again.” He gave a nod towards Mrs. Mims, as his paws were rather full and sent a bright, kind smile towards the still dumbstruck Dwaekki before setting off. The pig-bunny’s ears twitched as he heard the wolf continue on the various conversations that the two little ones had with him without seeming to become flustered despite being so very worried.

Mrs. Mims smiled sweetly, “Don’t worry, everyone has that reaction to Wolf Chan the first time they meet him. He looks a bit on the scary side but he’s the nicest person ever.”

Dwaekki nodded, and asked a question which even in his head sounded a bit on the strange side, “Where does he live?”

“Stayville,” Mrs. Mims replied with a smile, “It’s a nice little friendly island. You may rather like it there.”

Giving a none sort of committal movement to his head, Dwaekki headed back to his temporary little home and tried to make sense of everything that he had just witnessed. Yes he was well aware that no two animals were ever alike in the world and most of the time the usual stereotypes did not fit the person in question at all but he still couldn’t quite wrap his head around it. A wolf being a father to a Ferret and a Chick? With two others as well? It seemed so strange.

Granted he was being a bit on the majorly biased side because virtually all the wolves that he had met growing up were mean to him and chased him around, calling him piggy when he wasn’t a one, he was a pig-rabbit which is very different and the few adult ones were just as dismissive of him. Shaking his head, he pushed it out of his mind and focused on making his supper before turning in for the night.

Though he did dream about a different island in his sleep, where he had his own little house with a thatched roof and he had finally started setting up his little pillow business that he’d had the idea of forever but never actually done.

Upon awakening the next morning, he checked his schedule, confirming that he had several days off and packed up a small overnight bag before making his way down to the airport to buy a visiting ticket to Stayville. He received a happy smile from the dodo behind the counter when he said that, but did not read too much into it as he was positive that the Dodo’s of Dodo Airline were just about happy to fly anyone, anywhere without so much as a question.

That was until he was on the flight and peering out over the Island of Stayville with a smile on his face. It looked so cosy and perfect from up here, not too squished together or spread apart. There was a little orchard with plenty of fruits, a big pound in the middle that appeared to be teaming with fishes, a rather whimsical playground that looked as though the residents had bound together in order to make it and a million other things that intrigued the pig-rabbit so much.

Excitement coursed through his veins as he stepped off the plane with several other visitors and let his feet guide him in any direction that they wanted to go in. For no real reason that he could discern, he found himself right in the playground he had seen from his flight but it was next to impossible to hide his smile upon getting there.

Sitting in the middle of a sandpit, buried in wet sand up to his waist, was the wolf that he had seen the other day at the school. The little chick and a small puppy were using brightly coloured pales to add more sand to the wolf’s legs, gently patting it down with opposite coloured shovels. The wolf had a smile on his face, as he casually leaned back and let the younglings do exactly what they wanted without, completely content with his lot. The ferret from the other day was busy pushing a baby fox cub on the swings nearby, who was giggling loudly and calling, “Higher, Jinnie, Innie wanna go higher.”

Even though he did not really know any of them, other than a passing meeting, Dwaekki felt as though he were truly in the right place at the right time and he shook off his usual nerves to approach the rather odd looking family. “Hi,” he said with a friendly smile and a wave.

Lixie looked up, “Oh! Hello! You’re the mister from the other day!”

Wolf Chan blinked, having zoned out a bit seeing as he was being buried in the sandpit, “Oh, hi, welcome to our island.”

Muppy rolled his eyes and muttered something unintelligible before going back to his burying of his adoptive father. Lixie looked at him strangely but rushed up to Dwaekki with a smile, “Did you come to visit?”

“Yeah, I heard good things about this place,” the pig-rabbit smiled, enamoured by the chick who nodded enthusiastically.

“This is the BESTEST place in the whole world!” Lixie literally yelled the fourth word in the sentence, “We can show you around and prove it too.”

Wolf Chan chuckled, “You don’t have to give everyone the tour yourself, Lixie.”

“But Lixie the best at it!” the chick replied, barely seeming to realise that Jiniret and Innie were approaching, “Everyone says so.”

“You are so adorable,” Dwaekki said out loud, blushing once he clicked to it but Wolf Chan just waved him off as he stood up. Muppy immediately pouting at all his hard work going to waste but was scooped up by the wolf in a hold that was gentle but the pup would not be able to get away easily. Though there was a warm smile on the wolf’s face.

“If you want, we can all show you around the island,” Wolf Chan said, chuckling a little at the big glossy eyes that Lixie was using on his brothers even though he really did not need to as Jiniret would practically give the chick anything that he wanted without question and Innie liked to make his older brothers happy. Wolf Chan did worry a little that the boys may become spoilt on one another but somehow they all seemed to have level heads and helped out with everyone that they could.

The pig-rabbit smiled and nodded, “I think I would like that very much.”

The next couple of hours were spent exploring the island, the cubs mainly doing the telling about everything they knew about – Innie sometimes correcting as he had been the first one there and knew more about the Island – and Wolf Chan would update for the more adult stuff that the cubs really didn’t need to know about just yet. Dwaekki couldn’t stop himself from smiling the whole time and as they finished a tour of the residential area, the pig-rabbit stopped.

There was a plot of land for sale, practically the perfect size for his house and it had room for a garden gym which he had wanted forever and the view was great. Wolf Chan tilted his head towards him, “You okay there, Dwaekki?”

“Yes, just imagining how my house would be here,” Dwaekki said, turning back to the wolf, “You said that there was going to be a little shopping area soon as well?”

Wolf Chan nodded, “Yep. We’re getting quite a few visitors so Tom Nook says that we can set up some shops of our own to bring in more bells to the island and keep the economy going.”

Muppy grumbled, “Or line his pockets more you mean.”

Wolf Chan jostled the pup, “Don’t be mean, PuppyM, I know you’re a little entrepreneur but you’re still far to young to own a shop so you’ll just have to be patient until you’re big enough to own your own.”

Dwaekki chuckled, “Aww, he can always come and help out at my place once I get it sorted.”

Wolf Chan blinked, “Your place?”

“Yep, I think I’m definitely going to move here,” Dwaekki said, “It already feels like home.”

“Good,” Wolf Chan grinned, “Well I guess we shall be seeing a lot more of you then.”

Dwaekki nodded, “Yep. I’m going to run to Residential Services now and get everything started. It was great to meet you properly this time and you’re not a big bad wolf at all.”
The cubs looked at each other after seeing their shocked fathers face before bursting into gales of laughter. They rolled on the floor whilst Dwaekki waved and raced off, knowing that he was in the right place now and that everything would be all right.

Wolf Chan would never let the pig-bunny that became his best friend live it down that he had thought that he was a big, bad wolf who would eat his own sons but sometimes its those little moments that create the strongest bounds in friendship.

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Innie was already bouncing around the house before Wolf Chan had even finished the sentence that the quadruplet of little creatures were going on a trip to the Museum, mainly because the little fox had woken up with the zoomies that morning and also because Wolf Chan had happened to desperately need to sneeze. It seemed that there was a cold going around the island and unfortunately Wolf Chan had fallen victim to it.

So in an attempt to try and stop his little babies from catching it, he had phoned up Dwaekki and asked if the pig-rabbit could take them out for the day to the museum so that the wolf could take a long, undisturbed hot bath, drink a very grown up hot drink and sleep the better part of the day away as that normally helped to get rid of any colds that could linger around. Dwaekki had jumped at the chance to spend any time with the boys, as he had become extremely attached to them in the short amount of time he had been resident on the island.

There again, everyone was attached to the little quadruplet and would ensure that they had anything that they needed, any time of the day.

So when they heard they were going to the museum with their favourite uncle, as Dwaekki had been dubbed, all four were over the moon. Just with Innie doing zoomies all around the house in order to get ready which probably suggested that the little fox had had way too much sugar the night before. Wolf Chan was glad that they were happy and made his way into the kitchen to start sorting breakfast only to be pulled down into a chair by Jiniret.

“You sit down, Daddy,” the little ferret said, putting on an bright pink apron, “Jinnie will get the babies brekkie sorted.”

“I can still help,” Wolf Chan spoke weakly, trying his best not to cough but received a glare from the young ferret that spoke volumes on his opinion. The wolf sighed, shaking his head, “You’re too young to be responsible.”

“I’m the Big Brother so I’m supposed to be responsible,” Jiniret smiled as he started to make up bowls of cereal after putting the toaster on the bench and fetching his little stool. “Plus if you don’t want any of us sick, then coughing all over the food is not going to help.”

About to argue, Wolf Chan was distracted once again by a series of sneezes but this time a blanket was thrown over his shoulders by Felix literally leaping over him whilst Muppy held onto the other end. Innie zoomed his way straight up to the wolf’s head, plonking a big kiss on top of it before gently placing a warmed up thermal pillow on top and then scurrying down with cry of, “Washing time!”

“Come eat your cereal first,” Jiniret called, “Cause we can’t use the shower without an adult present in case we burn.”

Wolf Chan gurgled a happy sound and pulled the ferret into a hug, which earned him a whack on the face with a spoon. Jiniret really did not want to get sick in the slightest and would stop at nothing to ensure that it did not happen.

When Dwaekki arrived five minutes later, he was immediately tackle-hugged by a still pyjama clad Innie who squished him tightly, “Uncle Dwaekki is taking everyone to the museum today!”

Dwaekki nuzzled back at the fox, “Yes, I am. Though first he wants to check in on your Daddy and then get you and your brothers sorted cause I’m not taking you in your jammies.”

“Jiniret wouldn’t let us go in case we burn ourselves in the shower,” Muppy replied as he toddled up, looking like he had worn the wrong sleep suit last night because it was trailing all over the place. The pattern of bright dots gave it away as one of Jiniret’s but the little ones swapped clothes so often that it really made no difference. Plus it did make the puppy look even sweeter so Dwaekki could not complain in the slightest.

“That’s a very good thing to think of,” Dwaekki said as he picked up Muppy and headed towards the kitchen to see Jiniret feeding Felix as he was going through a bit of a picky mode and wanted to be hand fed all of the time. It was a phase, according to the teachers, for all bird types to go through and it would stop shortly. Besides it was just too cute and the pig-rabbit caught a couple of quick snaps before turning to look at his friend. Instantly he grimaced and took a step back, “Yowch, you really look like a sad pile of goo, hyung.”

“Thanks,” Wolf Chan deadpanned back towards the other, “Really what I needed to hear.”

Dwaekki chuckled, “Figured as much. I’ve brought some soup in my bag that my mother always used to make. It sorted me out no problem so after you’ve had a long bath and a nap, you should take some of it and it’ll really help you out.”

Wolf Chan smiled tiredly, “Thanks for doing this…achoo.”

“Dude, you help out with everyone and everything, so you deserve a little rest,” Dwaekki replied, shaking his head and setting the two youngsters on the floor, “Plus these guys are next to no hassle to look after in the slightest so it’ll be a…Innie!”

The second his paws had touched the floor, Innie had gone rushing off to the opposite side of the kitchen table in order to help Jiniret but since he was zooming things were going to go wrong. The little fox slipped on some split milk and firmly clonked his head off the chair that his elder brother was sitting on, but in typical Innie fashion merely stood up, rubbed his head and nearly went charging off in another direction before Dwaekki caught hold of him.

“Right, Innie and Muppy are coming to have a shower with me right now,” the pig-rabbit stated clearly, “Jinnie, you finish helping Lixie with his breakfast and then come shower. Wolf Chan, you eat what you can and rest until I take these little terrors out and then you can have your bath, okay?”

Wolf Chan did not respond, having fallen into an impromptu nap on the kitchen table where he was seated with the thermal pillow on his head and blanket still falling off his shoulders. Dwaekki snapped a quick pic of the scene before carrying the two littlest animals to the bathroom in order to get ready.

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Blathers hooted happily at spotting the three young animals with their adult companion as they made their way up the path towards the museum. “Good morning, Innie, Jinnie and PuppyM."

PuppyM gave the owl the biggest smile in the world as he hugged the feathers, "You remembered my name!"

"Of course, I did," hooted Blathers with a smile, petting the young pup. "I always remember the names of visitors and patrons."

Innie blinked from where he was perched on Jiniret’s back, before asking in a little voice, "Muppy no like being called Muppy?"

PuppyM turned sharply, looking somewhat horrified that he may have just upset the youngest, "It's not like that."

"Should Innie not call you Muppy?" The fox asked with an expression of sadness. PuppyM raced forward, shaking his head,

"No. Innie can call me Muppy for as long as he wants. It’s just big grownups that I want to call me by my name."

"Why?" Innie asked, sounding a little confused.

Lixie thankfully was there to chirp at the youngest, "It's big kid stuff, Innie. You no need to understand yet."

Innie pouted, he was at that stage where sometimes he wanted to be a big kid but mostly he was happiest being the baby and being pampered for it. His elder brothers, despite only having been with him for less than six months at this point, already knew how exactly to deal with the cub and what to say when to keep him on an even keel. Innie was due to start school in a few weeks and they were all equally looking forward to it but also worried. Innie was their baby brother, and school meant that they would have to share. Which they knew was coming as it had to but still, Innie was theirs and they didn't want him to change.

Dwaekki watched this with an fond but amused expression before gently shaking his head and turning to Blathers, "One adult and four kids please."

Blathers blinked in surprise towards the pig-rabbit before chuckling, "Ah, you're the new resident on the Island?"

Dwaekki nodded, "Yeah, moved here recently but haven't had a full chance to do everything yet. But with Wolf Chan being sick, I said I'd take the kids out from under his paws for a bit."

"Hooo that makes sense," Blathers continued, "There's no admission fee, you're free to explore the museum as much as you like. We do take donations of paintings, dinosaur bones, fossils, fish and bugs though if you have any to spare."

Dwaekki blinked in surprise, "Oh, I thought all museum’s charged entry."

Blathers shook his head, "Some do but I personally do not. Though Brewster does sell coffee in the cafe..."

"Coffee?" Jiniret immediately perked up.

Dwaekki quickly caught the back of the ferret’s neck, "Nope. No way. You're too young for coffee."

"He's weird and likes it," Lixie replied, pulling a face as he finished helping Innie into his dinosaur backpack that thankfully had a strap on it that acted like a baby reign. Dwaekki had been a little surprised to see it but Wolf Chan explained at it made Innie a bit more independent to explore as he tended to be a bit clingy when out. Excluding when he got the zoomies which was to be expected.

"Yeah, that may be but I’m not going to have you bouncing off the walls," Dwaekki said with a chuckle as he accepted the lead off the chick who raced off after Muppy, "I'm already going to be needing eyes in the back of my head already enough...Lixie! Muppy! What are you doing?" The pair had managed to climb up onto the front statue which was of a group of young men who had risen up to protect the kingdom on Levanter many hundreds of years ago.

Muppy was cradled in the hands of one that did have a distinctive puppy aura around him whilst Lixie had perched on the broad shoulders of another who was tightly hugging a smaller male figure with freckles on his face. Jiniret was just in the process of helping Innie up to where there was a cheeky smiley boy sitting on the floor and seemed intent on possibly climbing up himself. It was the ferret who answered them, "Takin photos with the awesome strays! Daddy always lets us."

Blathers chuckled, "They do. Don't worry, the most breakable things are behind protective glass, and all of our exhibits are interactive because how can you learn by just looking at things? That's the way I look at it."

Blowing out a sigh of relief, Dwaekki nodded and accepted the camera off Jiniret to take the little one’s photographs. He got the feeling that there were going to be plenty things that were going to give him a heart attack today. He just hoped he could cope.

~*~

“Raw!” went Innie towards the bones that made up a triceratops, making himself look as big and fierce as possible despite being no larger than a bean bag chair.

Dwaekki had to literally hold in his heavy laughter at such a sight because he was livestreaming onto Wolf Chan’s channel right now and didn’t want to disturb the viewers too much. He wasn’t like the Wolf in the slightest and would rather stay out of the limelight thank you very much. The pig-rabbit was not to know that he had already caused a massive stir with Wolf Chan receiving at least ten calls from his various friends to ask who he was and one had even cheekily asked if he were single.
Innie turned around to Dwaekki and grinned toothily before going, “Raw” towards him.

Which caused Dwaekki to chuckle and say, “Raw,” back.

The fox smiled in triumph before attempting to zoom off in the direction of Jiniret and Muppy who were examining the fossils section with interest. He of course forgot that he was attached to the bag reigns so reached the end quickly and then flopped down onto his bottom with a loud smack.

“Innie?!!” Dwaekki panicked, turning the stream off, pocketing his phone and rushing towards the fennec fox, “Are you okay?”

Blinking repeatedly a couple of times, Innie seemed to consider his response for a moment as it almost appeared like he couldn’t quite figure out what had happened to him and then he pouted for a second before crossing his arms in a huff. “Huh?” Dwaekki asked aloud, not understanding in the slightest.

“He’s in a huff with the floor,” Lixie replied, gently petting the fox with his feathers which earned him a playful scowl and the slight gnashing of teeth but just in stubborn behaviour. “Cause it hurt him, he thinks backwards sometimes.”

“Do not!” Innie huffed and turned away to sulk.

Lixie just laughed and shook his head, “He’ll be fine in a moment Uncle Dwaekki. Come and look at the pretty fossils with the rest of us.”

Letting out a sound of relief, Dwaekki stood up and followed the chick to the display case of fossils that were definitely interesting. Jiniret was marvelling at the patterns on them, running his claw delicately along as if he could somehow copy them from memory. There was a bright glimmer in the young ferret’s eyes that made the pig-rabbit want to keep it there forever and he smiled towards the youngster, “Enjoying the patterns Jinnie?”

“So pretty,” Jiniret said, “Swirly and yet syme…symmetry…laid out neatly.”

It was so nice to hear the bigger words that the youngster was trying to use as he progressed through school and got interested in his own hobbies. Wolf Chan had told him how the little ferret had barely been interested in anything when he first got taken in by the friendly wolf and would shy away and it made the pig rabbits blood boil unconditionally. Who could make their cub so scared that they’d rather not do anything than attempt to have some fun. There was still no trace or explanation for what had happened to the elder three and despite being the eldest, Jiniret was still very reluctant to talk about anything before.

Digging into his own back pack, Dwaekki found what he was looking for after a few seconds and gently nudged the ferret with it, “Here, so you can copy and then add your own designs to later.” It was just a simple blank note book and a pencil but anyone would have thought that Jiniret had been given the stars from the sky. He shakily accepted the gift, before throwing a hug around Dwaekki and then turned to start copying the fossils.

Muppy gave an unimpressed look towards his brother, despite the clear glee in his eyes at seeing the other so happy before turning to rush and find something else more fun, waving rapidly. Lixie cooed happily but knew not to disturb Jiniret once he started drawing something so instead waddled across to Dwaekki and held up his arms towards the other, “Up!”

Letting out a playful groan, Dwaekki lifted the chick up into his arms and grinned into his feathers, so he’d not see, “You’re getting heavy for this.”

“No I’m not Uncle Dwaekki!” Lixie said playfully, fluttering his feathers in the pig-rabbits nose, “I’m the lightest ever!”

Chuckling, Dwaekki was about to reply when Muppy called out, “Where’s Innie?”

Turning to look at the puppy, fully expecting him to just be playing hide and seek with the fox as they tended to do randomly, Dwaekki instead saw only the Dino backpack and no sign of the fox cub anywhere. “Oh no,” Dwaekki said, desperately searching around with his eyes as he moved to pick up the bag and catch hold of Muppy, so he didn’t run away. “Innie?” Dwaekki called frantically, looking for any signs of the fox and praying that he hadn’t gone far or else he would just pop up somewhere else with a cheeky little grin.

There wasn’t any response and Dwaekki’s heart sped up fifty paces as he took a couple of faltering steps forward not knowing where he wanted to go first to check. There were many hiding places here and all sorts of trouble that Innie could get in and the last thing he wanted was for the pup to be hurt on his watch.
“Uncle, it’s okay,” Jiniret pulled at Dwaekki’s jumper, having looked up from his drawing to see what the commotion was about, “He’s just up there.”

Up there happened to be the top of a huge Tyrannosaurus structure which dominated the display. Innie was indeed right on top of it, waving madly and grinned down towards the others, “Looky! Innie is the biggest Dino-Fox ever!”

“Innie!” Dwaekki half yelled in fright, plonking Lixie down onto the ground, “Don’t move! I’ll come and get you!”

“Raw!” replied Innie, seemingly completely oblivious to any danger that he might be in and even doing a happy little dance. Dwaekki didn’t even manage to get a foot off the floor before the little dance caused the fox to slip on the smooth surface of the head and he slid right down the long face. Only to be caught by the teeth of the fossil as thankfully he was wearing a bright yellow jumper.

“Huh? Wha happen?” Innie asked before making the mistake of looking down and suddenly let out a loud, high pitched terrified scream.

Dwaekki felt his entire insides contract at the noise and he went to climb the fossil only to be pushed back by Muppy. Only for Blathers to appear with a pair of step ladders that allowed Dwaekki to climb up safely to reach the now sobbing, hysterical cub with ease and safety. “There, there,” Dwaekki said, in leu of scolding the cub because it was clear that he was to upset and terrified to process anything right now, “It’s okay, Uncle Dwaekki got you.”

“Mammie Dino no like Innie!” the fox replied, “Make Innie scared.”

“I know baby,” Dwaekki replied, attempting to shush to frightened cub as best as he could as he descended. “Don’t worry, Uncle Dwaekki will scare her off for you.”
Innie sniffled, “Really? How?”

Dwaekki smiled and glanced up to the fossil before letting out the deepest sounding growl that he could manage to down that turned into a roar that echoed all around them. All four little cubs stared in amazement towards the pig-rabbit once he had finished before Innie buried his head into the crook of the others neck and sobbed loudly, “UNCLE DWAEKKI THE BEST DINO EVER!”

Dwaekki sighed, shook his head and placed a little kiss on the side of Innie’s head, “Let’s go to a quieter place hmm? Look at some relaxing fishes for a bit, and no more excitement for the day.”

The others nodded and then promptly started chasing after one another to see the prettiest fish first whilst Innie still clung to Dwaekki like his life depended on it. Blathers hooted happily and let them go, seeming unphased by the whole situation whilst Dwaekki was sure that his heart was going to explode out of his chest.

“At least he didn’t end up with a skull stuck to his head like last time,” Blathers commented offhandedly as he headed back to the entrance hall to greet another visitor who seemed to be either lost in thought or had no idea where to go.

Dwaekki blinked, thought better to ask that question and quickly headed off after the others. He didn’t know that Jiniret had captured the whole incident and sent it to his Daddy, but it only made Wolf Chan smile a little as he snuggled further into his nest of blankets.

~*~

Letting out a sigh of relief as he finally got to sit down on a bench in front of a very pretty looking glass wall that had hundreds of different fishes all swimming about behind it in a huge tank, Dwaekki smiled as he watched the little ones run around.

All the exhibits here were held behind very thick panes of glass so the probability that anyone would be climbing on top of anything and falling from it was very low indeed. Innie was still being a little clingy but the pig-rabbit accepted that as just being a thing whilst the youngster recovered. Plus he did seem enamoured by the growling ability of his uncle, though Dwaekki firmly kept it away as he didn’t want to startle anyone else.

Plus he could easily tell that the brightly coloured fish were capturing the young fox’s attention as his sentences kept getting cut off or else he would ask something about a dinosaur but then change it to a random fish. Dwaekki smiled, nuzzling the young fox, “Why don’t you go and join your brothers? Go see the fish.”

“But…” Innie started in a tone that really suggested that he was caught between two options and did not know which one he wanted to do first.

Thankfully setting him down on the floor just as Felix cried, “Look, it’s a fairy fish!” had the fennec fox rushing over to the tank to take a look as well.

Leaning back on his paws, Dwaekki smiled to himself and mentally patted himself on the back for making sure to reduce the scares now because everything was fine. There were colourful fish to look at, the occasional squid or jellyfish to attack attention and nothing that could go wrong.

He took a moment to close his eyes, taking in a cleansing breath that everything was fine and it was all following along as it was supposed to do so.

Only to be nearly knocked off the bench as a ball of fur and feathers landed on his lap at the same time. “What the?” Dwaekki startled, somehow managing not onto to grab onto the two jittering small creatures with one arm but also brace himself so that he didn’t fall back from the other.

“Wah! Too many teeths!” yelped Muppy whilst Lixie tried to literally burrow into Dwaekki’s jacket with a series of whimpers and snuffles. “No likey,” the chick whimpered pathetically.

What could have possibly gone wrong? He had literally closed his eyes for a moment and something had scared these two.

A sniggering snort came from the other two little animals in the room and Dwaekki looked up to see Innie grinning from ear to ear before he pointed a claw at the inside of the tank, “Big Fish Friend.”

For a few seconds Dwaekki was completely confused and then out of the depths came a huge shark that swam around in a long circle as if it were checking on his presence before looping back to continue surveying it’s territory. It was big, it did indeed have big teeth as Muppy was squirming over and even Dwaekki felt really unsettled now.

So he stood up, making sure to keep the two smaller ones in his arms and said, “Shall we go and get drinks at Brewster’s?”

“Yes!” virtually everyone chorused together before Innie charged to Dwaekki in order to clamber up his back and nestle on his head whilst Jiniret waved goodbye to all the fish and the shark before joining them.

Though a glimmer of mischief came into his eyes suddenly, as was want to do with any small animals, and without warning Jiniret raised his paws up in a threatening manner and gnashed his little teeth towards the others, “Raw! I am Fish!”

Dwaekki desperately tried to hold in his laughter whilst Innie complained that Jiniret was not a big scary fish, which caused Muppy to peer out of the jacket with a disapproving look towards the elder. Oh that was one that was going to go down forever in the embarrassment files that was for sure.

Now just to survive the coffee shop and hopefully find no more scary things.

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Dwaekki had never believed his sisters stories about what coffee did to little cubs, his elder sister had literally banned him from drinking it until he was old enough to understand the consequences but he had always thought that she was just being an overdramatic pig-rabbit who wanted to spoil his fun.

Now he knew why it wasn’t a good idea to give coffee to anyone under the age of sixteen.

Innie was having an zoomies attack all around the tables, bustling back and forth like a crazy fox with his arms outstretched behind him. Jiniret was insistently babbling on about something that Dwaekki had lost track of long ago because Muppy was quite literally using him as a climbing frame for no other reason that it was fun to do so and every time the pig-rabbit tried to talk to get some sense into one of them, there would either be a paw in his mouth, his lips being pulled or s tiny puppy bite to some other part of his body.

Lixie was thankfully the quietest but at one moment, when Dwaekki had managed to grab the shrill little puppy and hold him at arms length, he had glanced towards the chick to see him vibrating on the spot. That couldn’t be good in the slightest. But for now, the chick was happy to sit there, vibrating so the pig-rabbit thought that it best just to focus on getting the other three sorted out.

“Innie, baby,” he called out to the fox, after having managed to get Muppy seated on the chair with a cookie to occupy his attention whilst Jiniret had been given one of his numerous colouring books and was busy decorating it with all the vigour of a usual child who was not fussy about the art that he created. Innie was still running around, arms spread out making aeroplane noises but was thankfully slowing down a little so Dwaekki swooped in to grab the little fox. “Ha, got you.”

Innie blinked, smiled and smacked a loud, wet kiss onto his cheek before giggling and flopping towards the others neck with a happy sound.

Brewster chuckled at the lost expression on Dwaekki’s face, “Coo, it’ll soon be nap time for the little fellas.”

“No nap!” Muppy tried to say but also yawned his entire way through the sentence so huffily went back to the remains of his cookie with very heavy eyes.

The Pig-rabbit blinked, “Ah, I did not think about that. Shoot, what to do?”

Waddling out from behind his counter, Brewster flicked a switch on a panel which lowered to reveal several small beds. “Coo, they are such frequent visitors that we installed this a while ago. Plus it makes long, rainy days so much nicer to sleep away.”

Smiling, Dwaekki looked down towards Innie and Muppy, “What do you guys think? A little sleep before we go check the rest of this place out?”

The two youngest blinked and then quickly clambered into one of the beds, snoring before their little heads had even hit the tiny pillows provided. Turning to look at the young ferret, Dwaekki smiled as the little one passed him, a story book in his paws which suggested that he was just going to find a spot to read in quietly though he may fall asleep at any time.

Lixie was still vibrating in his spot and then all of a sudden did a couple of big surprise jumps with squarks and then flopped down onto the couch cushions to start sleeping. Very gingerly, Dwaekki picked up the chick and moved him next to his sleeping brothers before sitting down and taking a gulp of his own coffee. He was going to need it for the next couple of hours.

But would he trade it? Of course not.

~*~

“Oh come on!” Muppy cried as a brightly coloured butterfly that was disappearing away from him, “I just wanna be friends!”

The nap had ended after only half an hour but all three of the youngsters were definitely no longer on their caffeine highs and seemed to be happy just getting to enjoy doing something again. Dwaekki had asked where they wanted to go to next and it had been decided it would be best to go to the Bug House.

Which meant that Lixie was now hiding in Dwaekki’s hoody hood whilst Innie was staying close as he had a personal hatred of the big bad spiders that tried to eat his toes. Dwaekki had easily taken this to mean the creepy tarantula’s that would have him fleeing rapidly if he ever saw one of the bloody things near his house, because even though they were a great haul item in the exchange marts, there was no way in hell that Dwaekki was any good at catching them in the slightest.

So yes, avoiding things that could bite toes was definitely something he agreed with after having too many trips to the hospital for spider bites. They were not fun.
However Jiniret seemed to be fascinated by all the bugs and was taking little sketches and then as soon as they had gotten into the butterfly room, Muppy had become mesmerised. He had been chasing the butterflies around like he was back on his coffee rush but not in a mean way. The puppy just wanted to make friends with the beautiful bugs but the butterflies were having none of it.

It was cute to watch the puppy running around, trying to get one to go onto his paw when he wouldn’t stay still for more than a few seconds and had not got anything on his paw that the butterflies wanted. Lixie and Innie were more interested in the butterflies, but were still firmly sticking to Dwaekki which was perfectly fine whilst Jiniret was being the photographer again and taking slow exaggerated steps to approach the butterflies that he wanted to take a photo of before snapping quite a few.
Hopefully he had a big enough memory card in the camera but Dwaekki was sure that it wouldn’t be to big a deal otherwise.

“Ohhh!” went Muppy which caused all eyes to fall on him. On the end of his nose, slowly flapping it’s wings back and forth was a Emperor Butterfly that seemed to be staring intently at the puppy as if to gauge if he really were a threat or not to them. Jiniret clicked his camera rapidly and Dwaekki did the exact same thing with his own phone, until the butterfly flew off to join the others.

Muppy did a happy little dance before rushing over to the others and pouncing onto Dwaekki’s knee, “Did you see, Uncie! Did you see!”

Dwaekki couldn’t help but pet the youngster, “Yes I did, you did so good.”

“Can we go see something else now?” Innie asked, trying not to sound like his was whining but Dwaekki could tell that he was getting a little on the bored side now.
He nodded, “Only one place left to visit kiddos.”

Jiniret’s eyes lit up, “Art!”

~*~

Staring at the many paintings on the walls, Dwaekki had to say that most of them were pretty but that was about as far as it went. There were some nice landscapes and some others that were nice but generally speaking he was in agreement with most of the youngsters that this was not something that he would ever really spend time doing.

Except Jiniret clearly was in love.

The little ferret was having the best time looking at all the pictures, one by one, picking out his favourite bits and listening to the audio information about how each one was created. Chan had said that he was his little artist and Dwaekki didn’t doubt it for a second. He just wished he’d had the foresight to let the eldest of the babies go around the art zone in his own time whilst he took the youngsters off to do what they wanted to do.

Because whilst the paintings and sculptures were interesting, they were not going to keep anyone entertained for long unless they were into them.

Thankfully the three youngsters didn’t cause too much fuss and were mainly occupied by simply playing little hand games with one another or else using Dwaekki as a climbing frame once again. He had thought there would be more mutiny but Lixie had explained, adorably, that this was Jiniret’s favourite and none of them would take it away from him.

So Dwaekki just had to wait for the ferret to be done and put up with being either a Pat-a-Cake or a climbing frame.

“Done!” Jiniret called after half an hour, toddling back over to all of them and pulling Innie into his arms, which caused the fox cub to desperately try to wriggle out of them.

Dwaekki blinked, “You sure?”

“Yep,” Jiniret smiled, “These three will start biting you soon if we don’t get them out of here and to the park to blow off the last of their steam.”

“But we still have time,” Dwaekki prompted as he didn’t want to steal from Jiniret’s time.

Still the ferret smiled brightly, “It’s fine, Uncle Dwaekki. Usually when we come here with Daddy I only spend a little time cause there’s so much to learn about all the pictures, that I can’t do it all in one sitting.” He smushed his faced into Innie’s to give his littlest brother a big kiss. “Plus, I can’t resist these little mites and they’re more fun when they’re not whining.”

“Muppy don’t whine,” said Muppy in the most whiny voice going, whilst adding a pout onto it.

“You do,” Jiniret said, pulling Muppy’s ear playfully.

“Lemme go!” Innie complained, stilling fruitlessly wriggling.

“Nope,” Jiniret replied, giving more kissed to the fox, “I’m going to hug you, squish you and keep you forever!”

Which prompted a lot of whining from Innie and Dwaekki had to chuckle but stood up to take hold of the paw and feathers of Muppy and Lixie. “I’m not sure you can do that Jinnie but I think it’s about time we headed back home anyway.”

“Yay!” Lixie called, “I can make Daddy some chicken noodle soup to make him all the more better!”

Dwaekki smiled softly at the chick, loving how kind and caring he was before heading out of the museum after a long, eventful but utterly cute day. They said goodbye to Brewster and Blathers and headed home.

Wolf Chan was up and about, looking better than he had done this morning and more than grateful for the extra bit of help. Dwaekki stayed the night, as cooking for four kids and a sick wolf required a lot more than what Lixie thought and shortly after that moved himself in because this little chaos home was definitely better than his tent and nothing would ever change that fact.

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The sun was shining, but the temperature was more than enough to make Wolf Chan ensure that his little collection of babies were wrapped up in warm sweaters, coats and proper shoes as they made their way to the store. It wasn’t quite yet the time to bundle them up in scarves and gloves but it was getting closer. Still the wolf did not mind in the slightest, as getting the little terraways all bundled up was still something that he adored because they all looked so cute and fluffy.

“Daddy!” Lixie chirped, clinging onto his arm briefly, “Can we keep the insides to make pumpkin pie?”

“Of course,” Wolf Chan smiled, knowing fine well that Lixie loved cooking and baking in all it’s forms and would never pass up the opportunity to do some. “Though lets make sure that the two babies don’t get smeared in it.”

That made Lixie laugh as he recalled the last time they had tried to make brownies and somehow both Muppy and Innie had ended up covered from head to foot in left over chocolate sauce. Quite how was a mystery, as only Innie had been found in the mixing bowl curled up and half asleep but that was a story for another day.
Muppy was currently clinging to Wolf Chan’s back, going through a random phase of not wanting to walk anywhere whilst Jiniret was chasing Innie around in ever decreasing circles because the ferret had woken up today with all the energy. Thankfully having an energetic younger brother definitely helped with that and the pair had been rushing around all morning. Wolf Chan kept half an eye on them, just in case of booboos or bangs but knew that they would generally stay out of trouble. Plus would go down for their nap later without question, even though Jiniret was probably past the age of actually napping but he did like to lay down with his baby brothers and watch over them, or read or doodle in one of his many notebooks.

Nooks Cranny came into view and the little family made their way inside, Wolf Chan heading to the counter with Muppy, Lixie going to explore the expensive stuff whilst Innie and Jinnie ran around the shop a total of once before heading back out with a call of, “Going to play out here, Dad!”

Tommy laughed, “Such good kiddies.”

“Indeed, so well behaved,” went Timmy in perfect alignment with his twin, “Don’t even have to tell them.”

Wolf Chan smiled, “They’re good boys, all of them.”

“What you after today, Wolf Chan?” Tommy asked with a welcoming smile on his face.

“Six pumpkins, two carving sets, several bags of sweets and a Spooky Late and Howlin Spice tea recipe please,” Wolf Chan rattled off his list with the usual precision that both the shop keepers approved of.

It did not take long to get all of the items together and Wolf Chan handed over the coin without too much fuss. Muppy did make his presence known by lightly nibbling on Wolf Chan’s larger ear and pointing to something on the discount shelf, which was a ghost chew toy and the kind hearted wolf got it without question. The pup was very happy and snuggled against his Daddy’s back, happily chewing on the ghost.

“Oh, teefs!” Lixie said as he appeared to help carry the shopping, Jiniret normally did it but was having a zoomies competition with Innie outside still. “That makes sense.”

Wolf Chan blinked, “Ah, of course, I forgot about that. You’re big teeths hurting baby?” he asked Muppy who sort of grumbled in return which was probably the most coherent answer that he was going to get out of the pup for now. Not that he was worried, Muppy was starting to grow up and his baby teeth were giving way to the young adult teeth that he’d have until he was nearly an adult and then have to grow in that set of teeth. Wolf Chan had hated his so much, especially considering he had to walk around with a cold compress attached to each cheek with a tartan scarf wrapped around his head to keep it in place. He had been playfully teased by all his friends for the entire time that he had to wear it.

Jackson, his Samoyed friend who had also gone through the same thing, still sent Wolf Chan tartan scarves at Christmas which made him think about needing to get started on presents and all that.

But he had to focus on Halloween first and now he had his supplies, they could head over to the Able Sisters to get costumes sorted. But Lixie pulled on his paw again, “Daddy, come meet twinny!”

“Twinny?” Wolf Chan asked as he was half dragged to the opposite side of the store, where two creatures stood.

One a bunny with a slightly mean looking stare, who’d he guess was about the same age as him accompanied by a small, brown, lump of fluff. Wolf Chan just wanted to pick the little brown thing up and give it a cuddle because it looked totally adorable, especially when bundled up in a coat three sizes too big so only it’s head poked out of the top with bright eyes, a little button nose and a singular protruding tooth.

“Twinny, this is my Daddy!” Lixie cut in, waving his feathers at Wolf Chan.

“Hello,” came a tiny voice from inside the coat, as the little creature ducked down a bit more, clearly intimidated by the large wolf it was suddenly facing.

“You’re Lixie’s Dad?” the bunny asked carefully, clearly able to see that there was something heavily amiss with that statement but not wanting to appear rude.

Wolf Chan nodded, petting Lixie immediately to show he was safe and also give the chick a little bit of protection, a wolf habit that he had never really lost. “Yep, it’s a bit of a long story but he’s one of mine.”

“There’s more?” the rabbit asked.

Lixie nodded, “Yep! There’s big brother Jinnie whose running outside with Innie, our youngest, then there’s me and Muppy whose going through his teefs so isn’t in the mood for talking and then there’s Uncle Dwaekki too!”

Wolf Chan let out an embarrassed little noise, “We’re an odd bunch. My name is Wolf Chan.”

“Leebit,” the rabbit replied with a smirk, “And this little burrito here is Han, he’s a Quokka.”

“Oh, hello Han, good to meet you,” Wolf Chan said.

“He’s also my Twinny Dad, so you need to adopt him as well!” Lixie went, going over to the still shy quokka to give him a hug.

“I think he already had a Daddy, Lixie, but I’m sure we have some play dates soon,” Wolf Chan said softly.

Lixie’s eyes brightened, “Can he play with us for Howl-o-ween?”

Han shifted out of his coat for a second, “Wots How-o-ween?”

“Hal-o-ween, Lixie,” Wolf Chan tried to correct the chick but found it fell on deaf ears as it was clear the chick and the quokka was engaged in a deep discussion about the holiday.

Rubbing the back of his head, hearing only a mild complaint from Muppy who shifted to the opposite side to chew on his ghost toy but remain clung to the wolf’s back, Wolf Chan smiled apologetically towards Leebit, “Sorry, Lixie tends to get very talkative easily.”

Leebit shook his head, “I don’t mind, it’s nice to see Hannie open up to someone and he seems like a little ray of sunshine who I just want to eat.”

Wolf Chan glared at the rabbit who held up his paws, “It was a joke, I don’t go eating other peoples kids.”

“Good,” Wolf Chan deadpanned back before smiling brightly, “Guessing you’re new to the Island?”

Leebit nodded, “Arrived yesterday and came to get some groceries. Seems I came at a good time.”

Wolf Chan nodded, “Yeah, Halloween is fun, especially for the kids. Want to be shown round with my little critters? Hannie will surely get on well with all of mine and it’ll be good for when he starts school.”

“Sure, just let me get this lot purchased,” Leebit grinned back and headed towards the counter.

Wolf Chan pulled out his phone, and texted Dwaekki that there were going to be two more for tea tonight to which he received an thumbs up and a gym emoji. No surprise there then.

~*~

Innie was staring up at the costumes on display with a face that was a mixture of wonder and worry all in one. The little fox was clearly eager to choose something, as he was going to be trick-o-treating with his big brothers but even though he put on a show for them, he was mostly scared of the strange costumes that wandered around.

Last year Wolf Chan had to literally carry Innie around the whole time because the tiny fox got so scared. He just couldn’t grasp how the costumes just changed the outer appearance of a person and didn’t do anything to them. Wolf Chan should have figured that the cub was not quite ready for Halloween when he had had an break down about the wolf wearing a large white sheet for a ghost. But it was also an adorably funny story which had been shared on the podcast with all of his friends too so it worked out.

But Innie was determined to select an costume for himself, so he could be big and brave and show his brothers off all around the island. Because he was a big, strong boy who could do this and no he didn’t want to run away from the creatures in front of him (even if he secretly did).

Leebit happened to be passing by the cub as he was carrying a selection of clothes across from the changing rooms where Han had checked that they fitted with enough room to allow a little bit of growth, and he noticed the little fox standing there virtually vibrating in place with terror. The rabbit turned to see where Wolf Chan was, smirking when he saw that the wolf was currently trying to wrangle both Jiniret and Lixie as the pair were in a playful teasing mood whilst Muppy was constantly banging his ghost chew toy off the back of the wolf’s head in a mood. It was quite impressive how the wolf was remaining so calm with it all so Leebit thought it best to help out at least a little.

“Hey, little one,” Leebit directed towards Innie, “What you doing there?”

For a few seconds Innie did not respond before muttering, “Trying to choose.”

“Oh you want a costume do you?” Leebit placed the clothes down on the counter and then stood next to the tiny little fox, aware that Hannie was wandering across to them, “Which one you thinking? The Green Monster?”

“No,” Innie whispered, wringing his paws together in an nervous fashion, “Scary.”

Leebit nodded, “Okay, how about the one with the long claws?”

Innie shook his head rapidly, stepping back and looking ready to bolt. However he happened to bump gently into Han who let out a startled squeak which in turn made Innie let out his own startled sound and go running to hide behind Leebit. The rabbit blinked in confusion, and half turned to glance at the fox, “What’s wrong?”
“Scary,” Innie repeated, clinging to the back of Leebit’s pink jumper with all the might that his little paws could manage right now.

Hannie blinked and looked at the costumes in question before letting out his own little squeal and rushing to join the fox behind Leebit. “Very scary!”

Leebit found himself struck dumb with what he was supposed to do in this situation because he now had two little creatures quivering in fear behind his back because a bunch of Halloween costumes were scary. “Guys, it’s okay, they’re not real.”

“Gonna chase Innie and steal his nose though,” Innie replied, clearly on the verge of tears now.

“Yikes! Hannie no want that!” replied the quokka.

Leebit blinked, “Where did you even get that idea from?”

“They chased last year and stole Innie’s nose,” replied the fox, nearly wailing, “It scary!”

Before the rabbit could even think of a way to respond to that statement, because how was one really meant to do, Wolf Chan was over to scope Innie and Hannie up into his arms (the latter was probably an accident but it worked out anyway) with a gentle nuzzle to the fox’s head. “Innie, I explained this all last year. It was Tom Nook in the costume and he really did not steal your nose, you still have it.”

“But it still scary!” Innie sniffled, nuzzling into Wolf Chan, “But Innie need to show big brothers how to trick o treat cause they don’t know how!”

Wolf Chan smiled softly, “I know, baby, why don’t we try over the other side of the shop where there’s different costumes huh?”

Innie pouted, “Not scary ones?”

“Nope, no more scary ones,” Wolf Chan assured, grinning towards Leebit before feeling a caughious little pat on his fur on his opposite cheek. He turned, blinking in surprise to find Han there as well but smiled regardless, “Yes, little one?”

Hannie looked very shy all of a sudden, looking down with a slight blush to his cheeks, and mumbled something under his breath. Wolf Chan looked to Leebit for advice and the rabbit was stumped for a few seconds before getting an lightbulb moment.

“He wants you to nuzzle him,” Leebit grinned, “Looks like you’ve made a real impression on him already.”

“You don’t mind?” Wolf Chan asked.

“As long as he’s comfortable, I’m fine with it,” Leebit shrugged.

The wolf nodded and then nuzzled softly against the quokka, with enough room to give him an out should he want it. Instead the pout he got from the quokka made the wolf instantly give him a more thorough nuzzling to take away the fear from the scary things in front of them.

Leebit looked amused but not offended and glanced towards the other side of the shop, “Take it the cute costumes are that way?”

Jiniret was currently parading around in what appeared to be a wizarding school uniform in green, whilst Lixie was spinning prettily in a blue dress with way too many sparkles.

Leebit lead the way for Wolf Chan and once the pair were placed on the floor it did not take them long to get involved in the fun of their brothers as there were no scary costumes here. Eventually the pair had chosen costumes and were running around as a purple witch for Innie and a cat for Han.

The purchases were made and the group headed off to go and get more acquainted over some food and drinks at Wolf Chan’s house. There were going to be more renovations required, the Wolf was sure of that but he was going to keep that to himself for the time being.

~*~

“Trick-o-treat!” the little quartet spoke in unison at the second to last house on their route for the evening.

Unsurprisingly everything had gone according to plan as the locals were all more than happy to have some little ones rocking up to their doors in their costumes to get candy and had bucket loads prepared for them. Wolf Chan could already feel the headache coming through at the mere thought of trying to deal with all the sugar that was surely going to be in the treats but he had also grabbed way too many cute photos of the little ones so he could not complain.

As well as had a good laugh when Dwaekki had turned up in a vampire costume to scare the kids and chase after them. Which had freaked out both Jiniret and Lixie whilst Hannie had ran straight to hide with Muppy on Wolf Chan’s back – as the puppy was still in his fowl little mood and refused to partake but that was fine, there would be plenty of other times they could all trick-o-treat together – and caused Innie to step up to be the big strong hero. By bonking Dwaekki right on the head with his bucket of sweets.

Leebit and Wolf Chan had found this completely and totally hilarious, whereas Dwaekki complained about having a sore head for the rest of the walk – even if he was just trying to get sympathy from Innie who wasn’t giving him any because he had defeated the big scary monster who was trying to hurt his brothers.

Then promptly screamed and ran away from an inflatable ghost decoration that had made a funny growling sound towards him.

Leebit smiled as he nudged the wolf, “What’s the plans for when we get back to yours?”

“Food, watch a scary movie,” Wolf Chan dropped his voice lowly, “Though not a real scary movie as I’m not dealing with traumatized cubs all night,” before raising his voice, “Then it’ll be bath time and bed for my lot. I usually start bedtime around eight for Innie and go up to half nine for Jinnie.”

“That’s a good little routine you’ve got there,” Leebit smiled, tilting his head as Hannie ran to him to show his newest collections, “We’ll stay for tea and the movie and then head off. Hannie will need an good sleep.”

“Bleh, no sleepies,” Hannie replied with a grin before catching hold of Wolf Chan’s hand, “Innie picked up a potato!”

“A what?” Wolf Chan asked, watching as his youngest marched proudly towards him with an great big potato in his bucket, “Innie?”

“Bea had all the cool stuffs!” the fox replied with the biggest grin on his face and Wolf Chan opted not to question it.

Dwaekki giggled, “She decided to give out healthy snacks. So potatoes, carrots and turnips.”

“I got all the turnips!” Jiniret proclaimed, holding up the precious commodity, “And when I sell them on Sunday, I’ll put the money into my money box for Christmas!”
The three adults shared a smile between themselves as Jiniret had been saving up his money for the last couple of months for Christmas, determined to spoil his adopted brothers. It was commendable and so cute.

Wolf Chan offered his paw to the eldest and the youngest, checked on Muppy who was still chewing on his ghost with a pout on his features and guided them to the last house on their little trip. They got their last lot of candy and then headed home.

~*~

The movie did not happen as planned in the slightest, because as soon as the quartet had gotten home, they had sat in a circle to dump out all their treasures and equally share them out amongst themselves. Which gave Wolf Chan the opportunity to check on the food they had prepped earlier and get everyone wrangled around the table.

They shared a nice little feast together, had a few drinks and then settled down to watch the movie ‘Hocus Pocus’ only for Innie to be snoring his little head off within five minutes, Lixie and Hannie making it about ten minutes further before nodding off all curled up around each other whilst Jiniret managed till just about the bit with the song before letting out a sigh and flopping against Wolf Chan.

“Sleepy baby?” Wolf Chan asked gentle, receiving an nod in reply. “Okay, want to help getting all the littles to bed?”

Leebit grinned and gently untangled Hannie from Lixie, trying not to wake the chick up, “I think they had plenty of fun and excitement today.”

“Me too,” Wolf Chan grinned before glancing to Dwaekki, “How’s our little chew monster?”

“Still chewing,” the big bunny replied, holding up Muppy who was indeed still awake, chewing his ghost. The poor toy looked like it was on the verge of collapse but it was keeping Muppy occupied so no one was going to complain about that in the slightest.

That made Leebit laugh, “Well that’s certainly one determined puppy. Anyways, I’ll see you tomorrow yeah?”

Wolf Chan nodded, “Yeah, I think it’ll be good.”

“Nanight Uncle Leebit!” Jiniret softly called which clearly melted the rabbit but he just awkwardly waved back as he carried a now bubble blowing Hannie out of the door with him.

The rest of the night was easy, as the youngsters were changed for bed, Jiniret had a bath on his own, Muppy finally stopped chewing the ghost toy but still wanted cuddles though fell asleep pretty quickly and within the hour all of the youngsters were in their beds and softly snoring their little heads off.

“Halloween successfully navigated,” Dwaekki said towards Wolf Chan with a grin who nodded. “Now, shall we watch a real scary movie as adults?”

“Sure,” Wolf Chan shrugged.

He regretted it much later when neither of them could sleep and the pig bunny ended up in his room, quivering under the blankets. If anyone ever suggested watching a horror movie to them again, there was never going to be a chance of it.

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A series of happy squeals caused Jiniret to wake up with a confused noise as he stuck his nose out of his large duvet that was covered in teddy bear pictures. Immediately he threw his nose back under at the horrid sensation of cold tickled him and for a moment it was extremely tempting just to re-shut his eyes and go back to sleep.

But then his brain clicked to the fact that it was December now, and the change in temperature could only mean one thing.

Leaping upright, the young ferret tumbled out of his bed and ran straight to his window, where he was met with an endless spread of pure white snow. It lay heavily on the branches, covered the pathways and gardens in a single sheet and sat atop the fence posts and the post box at the end of their little drive.

“Snow!” he yelped, doing a happy little jig and then turned in the general direction of the noises that had woken him up to see Lixie and Muppy already merrily tumbling about in the back garden in their pyjamas. They had half a snowman build and were rolling another ball around with gleeful shouts.

Jiniret felt put out that they hadn’t awoken him, but then remembered that it was impossible to wake him once he was actually asleep so instead, he hurried to his wardrobe to dress in some warm clothes. He pulled on a bright yellow jumper over his pyjamas, grabbed his red bobble hat and mittens and wrapped a multicoloured scarf around his neck.

The ferret then ran straight to his little brothers’ rooms, grabbing hats, scarfs’ and gloves as well as jumpers because even though they were having the time of their lives, they would undoubtably be cold. He did pop his head into Innie’s room to see if the little Fennec Fox was up but spotted that all the winter clothes were missing from his wardrobe so that was something to not worry about. He did vaguely wonder where Innie was as normally quite noticeable but maybe he was just in a different part of the garden.

Shrugging, he rushed down the stairs, skidded through the kitchen and paused to pull on his yellow wellington boots before taking off into the snow to catch up with his brothers.

“Building a snow man,” Lixie sang as he trundled around, rolling the ball bigger with each second.

“Burr, these carrots aren’t going to work,” Muppy complained, holding up something that was long and green but not a carrot, “They’re too tiny.”

Jiniret laughed, “That’s cause it’s a pepper, where did you even get it from?” He grabbed the puppy before he could run off, as Muppy was at that age where he would run away if he had half the opportunity to do so. It was a bit of a struggle to get the pup into his blue Pochacco onesie but once it was zipped up, the pup contemplated the fact that he was now warm and able to just bounce around without getting his paws anymore cold and he smiled. Shyly he gave Jiniret a hug before going back to digging around for a carrot in the fruit box which had clearly been taken out of the kitchen. “Thank you, Hyung,” Muppy said quietly.

The ferret beamed and turned to Lixie, hurrying to help him raise the second ball up onto the first one before grinning, “Looking good, Lixie, want to warm up now?”
“Yes please!” the chick cried happily, still bouncing around as he was want to do and was happy to accept the bright pink coat with a pompom on the top of the hood, matching wellington boots and a pair of white earmuffs and gloves that slotted nicely over everything. “Thank you hyungie, you’re the best.”

Jiniret smiled, “I try. Anyways, lets get this Snow Skzoo all decorated up.”

The trio spent another ten minutes decorating the Snow Skzoo, adding coal for eyes and a face, sticks for warms, an old battered cap that came from the dressing up box and an actual carrot for the nose which Jiniret had to go into the kitchen for.

They happily stared at their creation all together, feeling proud of their work.

A click of the camera, followed by a yawn announced the arrive of Wolf Chan and Dwaekki, both of whom had enjoyed a pleasant hour of peace and quiet because the kids had been entertained with building a snowman. Dwaekki was ensuring to capture the moment from all sides whilst Wolf Chan just smiled tiredly and petted each of his sons heads, “You all did so well.”

“Thank you Daddy,” “Isn’t the Snow Skzoo the best,” “Can I have a sip of your coffee?” came from all three of them at the same time and Wolf Chan just smiled tiredly once again before indicating the kitchen with his paw.

“There’s hot milk waiting for you three,” Wolf Chan said softly, “Though do make sure to take your shoes off when you…whoa, easy there buddy,” Muppy had trotted forward with such determination that it was almost comical to see but had misjudged his step and tumbled forward. Thankfully Wolf Chan had caught hold of him so nothing too horrendous had occurred.

“Bet Innie’s already onto his third cup,” Jiniret smiled towards the wolf who was his father.

“Ha, he’s not had a single drop cause he’s been playing with you guys,” Wolf Chan said, rolling his eyes towards Dwaekki who had just fallen over himself.
Jiniret blinked, “No, he hasn’t.”

“What?” Wolf Chan asked.

“Innie wasn’t playing with us,” Jiniret said, only now realising that the foxes winter clothes were in an sort of pile by the door. Not a neat pile but a pile none the less. “It was only Lixie and Muppy who were building snow Skzoo and I joined them.”

Both Dwaekki and Wolf Chan stared at one another in horror, before immediately covering the whole of the garden in search of the little fox. But there was no sign of him anywhere and immediately panic started to rise in the two adults. The three youngsters realised their mistake in not checking where their baby brother was and started instantly helping with the search. Muppy went and checked every room in the house, Lixie joined in with the hunt around the garden whilst Jiniret ran around to the front of the house to check that he hadn’t gone playing.

He stopped short at seeing paw prints in the snow and called for Wolf Chan who came rushing. Dwaekki opted to stay with Muppy and Lixie just in case Innie turned up at the house whilst Wolf Chan and Jiniret followed the paw prints. Thankfully it was still quite early in the morning so the tracks were easy to follow and they headed straight to the playpark.

Where Leebit and Quokka were, sitting on the benches in near stitches. “Oh hello, finally come to claim the little cutie have you?” Leebit asked as Wolf Chan reached his bench.

The wolf was wheezing with worry and startled when Jiniret let out a laugh, before pointing with a cry of, “Look at him go!”

Wolf Chan blinked and followed the outstretched paw, quickly finding Innie not too far away which immediately brought relief to his whole being. Then the next second he too was laughing, shaking his head, “Oh I forgot that he likes to do this.”

Innie, completely deprived of all his clothes, was charging about the playpark which was several feet deep. Every few seconds, he would leap up into the air, and disappear into a snow drift, digging through it with his paws only to pop out of a new hole with the happiest sounding noise. Then a series of high pitched, happy chirps would come out of him as he ran in some other direction and then leapt into another snow pile to dig his way through that one and pop out on the other side.
Jiniret blinked up at his father, “I’ve never seen him do this before.”

“It’s been a while for me to,” Wolf Chan said, finishing a quick message to Dwaekki to confirm that the cub was indeed alright and just playing. “Making the snowman must have disturbed the snow piles at home so he came here.”

“He’s going to have a cold botty,” Quokka said, sitting wrapped up from head to foot in the largest coat in a brown to match his fur, a hat in bright white with the biggest ear muffs and his boots so tightly laced it was possible to see the leather straining.

Wolf Chan nodded, “That he is but he’s usually not too affected by the cold. Innie, come on, it’s time for hot milk.”

There was a pause, before Innie popped his head out the nearest snow drift, a perfect cone of snow on in between his ears, a slight pout on his lips, “Aww, but Innie was having fun.”

“And giving everyone at home heart attacks,” Wolf Chan chided gently, but offered his paw, “Come on, little one, let’s get you home, warmed up and dry,”

“And clothed!” Jiniret put in

“Yes and clothed and then we came all play in the snow drifts together,” Wolf Chan finished, though he was fighting his own laughing instincts, “Does that sound good.”

Innie seemed to ponder things for a few seconds, but opted to be good and crawled out of the snow drift and rolled towards Wolf Chan who scooped him up easily. The wolf turned towards Leebit and Quokka, “Want to come back to mine for some hot milk to warm yourselves up with.”

“Yes please!” Quokka said, hopping down and shivering, “It’s too cold.”

“You were the one who woke me up at five am to scream about there being snow this morning,” Leebit chuckled, smiling towards the wolf as he took hold of the youngsters paw, “Looks like we’ve got a right pair here, doesn’t it?”

“Indeed,” Wolf Chan smiled as they started the trudge back towards the house.

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Deciding that it’d be a nice idea to just keep everyone indoors for a bit after the initial excitement of the snow over the last few days, the little ones were constantly happy playing in it for hours but Wolf Chan was getting angsty that they would freeze their noses off if they didn’t have at least one day off from playing in the snow.
It had taken Dwaekki precisely one hour to work out where this fear had come from, as it seemed a little bit irrational for the wolf to be concerned about such things. Especially seeing as he was a wolf who was designed to survive out in the snow. Turned out, that one winter when it had snowed for weeks on end, a little Wolf Chan had booped his snoot onto an ice pole and frozen himself there. It had taken only half an hour to get him help and off but ever since he was wary about spending too much time in the snow.

Leebit took the immediate opportunity to tease Wolf Chan relentlessly about the incident, which was adorable to watch.

But he did agree that maybe the youngsters could do with a day of not being in the snow. Quokkie would certainly not mind in the slightest and it would save on them having to have baths that night to warm them up. So it was agreed that they would stay in and do something else, which had lead to the pig rabbit suggesting that they do some Christmas Crafts.

Because they would be cute, and who did not like having home made ornaments on the tree? He had clearly been planning this for a while because just after he suggested it, Dwaekki had disappeared into his room and come out with a huge box that had the words ‘Christmas Craft Box Delux Edition’ which had many bright pictures all over it of various items and projects that were contained within.

“You’ve been planning this a while, huh?” teased Wolf Chan, taking a long sip out of his hot chocolate, though he was grinning.

Dwaekki looked a little bit bashful, “Maybe.”

“Ha, you’re going to be picking glitter out of your carpet for the next year,” said Leebit with a cheeky little grin.

The kids were still in the bathroom getting ready for the day, they had decided last night to have a sleepover which no one really minded as these days Leebit and Quokka were virtually part of the furniture if they were honestly truthful. Wolf Chan had thought about asking them to just move in and save the hassle but he’d probably have to renovate the house again to make it larger so that they weren’t tripping over each other. As well as get a basement installed so the kiddies could have an indoor play area.

It was an pretty easy fix and he had considered renovating regardless because the boys were going to grow up one day and they all needed their own space. It was just the asking of Leebit to move in which was causing him some concerns. Not because he did not like the rabbit, not at all.

It was the exact opposite, Wolf Chan liked Leebit. Maybe a little more than he should and he had no idea how to deal with this.

Not that he had told anyone, as was his usual routine, but he was aware through his still regular ‘Island Life Updates’ stream – which had been dubbed ‘Wolf Chan’s Room’ by a majority of his followers – was picking up that there was something going on in his little head. Or leastways Jackson and Bambam had picked it up and were demanding to know answers which he wasn’t going to give them if he could avoid it.

Which was going to be pain next week when they turned up for the annual get together. That was something he should actually tell the others about right now. “Oh, did I mention that next week I have a bunch of friends coming over to stay?” he asked out loud, hoping his inner turmoil hadn’t knocked him into missing something.

Dwaekki blinked, “You have friends outside of us?”

“And you invite them over here?” Leebit finished that thought.

“Uncles coming to see Innie and party again, Daddy?” Innie cried happily as he climbed directly up Wolf Chan’s back to perch on his head, in between his ears with a soft good morning kiss placed there.

Wolf Chan smiled, “Yes, Innie, they are. Of course I have friends from my old Island, I used to travel a lot before I decided to settle down here. There on the big mainland and have full time jobs so they don’t get a chance to come over. But I keep them updated.”

“Oh, that’s what the stream is for?” Leebit said, catching Quokka to give him a squeeze before dropping him on the floor so he could attempt to beat Muppy to the cereal that they would play fight over this morning. “Or at least originally?”

Wolf Chan nodded, glanced over to the cubs to make sure that they were doing fine and took another sip out of his hot chocolate, “Yeah. Innie was a big surprise to all of us but they love him to pieces.”

“OH, Daddy,” Jiniret appeared at Wolf Chan’s hip, looking at the table where Dwaekki had set his box of Christmas crafts. “Crafts? Art?” there were already little love hearts in his eyes because everyone knew that Jiniret loved doing anything arty or crafty so a big box of a whole lot of projects was going to keep him entertained for hours. If not the full day.

Wolf Chan petted the ferret, “Eat your breakfast and help your brothers with the chores and then we’ll do crafts and stuff.”

“Make sure Quokkie doesn’t try to get out of his, he’s been bribing both Muppy and Innie of late and I’m not having it,” Leebit said, with a tone of a disapproving parent.

Dwaekki giggled, “You’re sounding more like you live here every day.”

“Well I mean…” Leebit caught himself and looked a little nervous, “Anyways it’s not like…”

The pig rabbit tilted his head to the side, “Oh?”

“Daddy! There’s a leak in the sink!” Muppy called in a panicked voice which had Wolf Chan rushing to the kitchen in a panic. Only to find that there was a leak in the sink, a literal vegetable leak. Wolf Chan had playfully growled at his sons and then chased them around the kitchen and dining room twice before finally scooping all of them up into his arms to land on the sofa in a big happy squishy pile so he could smother them all to death with cuteness and love. This got playful complaints from all five of the youngsters but it was clear that they loved it.

Dwaekki turned with a well knowing smirk towards Leebit, but the rabbit just put his paw in the others pink face and gave him a firm shove out of the way. No way was he falling for the big, silly softy wolf, and even if he was he was never going to admit it. Not out loud anyways.

After a couple of minutes to calm everyone down, Wolf Chan set everyone down on the table and they all set about opening the rather large box of Christmas Crafts. There were indeed lots of crafts to be done to keep little paws all entertained and both the wolf and the rabbit had to agree that it was a very good idea for Dwaekki to have gotten the surprised.

Though he was firmly going to be put on the cleaning up the glitter afterwards, as there was no doubts that someone was going to get completely covered in it. Wolf Chan bet Lixie, whereas Leebit went firmly with Muppy, whilst Dwaekki chose Innie cause the little fennec fox was practically bursting with excitement.

“Right, have you all selected something you want to do?” Dwaekki asked the cubs after a few minutes of them looking through everything.

“Yes!” they all chorused together which was just adorable to the pig-rabbits ears and he smiled, “Okay then, lets get on with them, hmm?”

There were a general chorus of cheers before there came the sounds of packages opening and items being shared out. It took a good couple of minutes to sort out all the things that people were doing, because there were instructions and extra bits to be gotten but it all came together in the end.

Innie went with some quite simple lollipop crafts, as he had a range of colouring pens that he could use to follow the patterns and there were multiple ones that he could make so the little fox was not going to become bored or distracted by finishing too quickly. Plus the effort he was putting in to matching the designs, his little tongue sticking out in a perfect side blep was just too adorable to.

Lixie had found the sheets of glittery paper and a series of instructions of how to fold them into stars. Wolf Chan provided him with several sheets of plain paper to practice with first, as it seemed silly to ruin all the nice brightly coloured pieces and after two complete failures, the little chickie got the star made perfectly. He practiced a further two times to make sure that he had gotten it and then started turning the whole pile of colourful, glitter paper into loads of stars (the tree was probably going to be covered in them but no one really minded).

Quokka had gone with the gingerbread sticker figures because there were loads of different little faces and expressions and outfits so he was having a great time matching up everything. It took Leebit a little to notice that he kept on holding different items up and getting the others to look at him so he could line them up every so often. It seemed strange and first to the rabbit, until he figured out that the little quokka was actually making gingerbread versions of his friends which brought about a momentary smile but it was quickly hidden as he did not want the younger to know that he already knew what he was doing.

Muppy had been a little picky, seeming to not really know what he had wanted to do until he had spotted a mosaic kit which had lots of brightly coloured foam pieces to stick onto a pre-determined pattern and the pup was instantly enamoured. He liked doing puzzles and colouring by numbers, Wolf Chan hadn’t quite let him loose with the paints as of yet, in fear that he’d either use them to change the colour of Jiniret’s fur or try to eat them. Muppy was an curious pup, one both very mature but also a little rascal when he got going so it was almost impossible to tell what he would do. But he was happy placing the pieces down to make up the image in full so no one complained. Even if he did stick a few extra pieces to the fur of the others in places that they wouldn’t easily spot.

It came as no surprise that Jiniret had grabbed one of the painting projects, moving to the opposite side of the table so he could spread the little wooden sections of a series of different lanterns out so he could see all the patterns. He complained a little about the quality of the provided paint, until Wolf Chan did his favourite little paint hack trick of adding baking soda to it, but then was completely fine. Of course he was quicker than the others, due to his age, but every time he finished one of the little lanterns, would set it aside to allow it to dry and then go help one of the others and check on their progress.

The afternoon was spent this way, with Wolf Chan easily able to make food in peace, whilst Leebit sorted out the living room and got the laundry well underway. Dwaekki spent his time mainly with the kids, keeping them occupied and sorted but found time to sort out the hallway with it’s shoes and coats all over the place as well as nip around the rooms to make up beds.

By the time it was nearly time for tea, everyone had completed their crafts and the kids ran to the living room to put it all up. Dwaekki cleaned up the left overs, but as he was putting the box back up on top of the dresser where he had gotten it from, the tub of glitter had rolled out straight on top of his head. He turned from being a pink pig-rabbit, to being an very glittery pink rabbit in a matter of seconds and no amount of running and hiding would escape him from the photographs.
Or the hour or so that was spent trying to clean up all the glitter afterwards.

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Wolf Chan was happily dreaming about playing in the ocean when he was jumped on by his four sons, plus the adopted Quokka at nearly five thirty in the morning. “Merry Christmas Daddy!” they all yelled in his ears which would have been irritating if not for their cute little faces all squished up against him in a version of the big hugs that he usually gave everyone.

Thankfully Wolf Chan had anticipated this, even if he got a little bit of a shock from in and had a plan in place. Letting out a big yawn, he rolled over, making sure to capture all five of the smaller animals in his embrace and locked himself onto his side. He kept his eyes closed and hummed, “It’s too early, Father Christmas hasn’t been yet.”

“How do you know?” whined Muppy, trying to wriggle out of the hold but it was next to impossible to do.

“Innie what’s the rule for Christmas Morning?” Wolf Chan asked, adjusting so his now youngest pup could settle against him without getting too squished by his elder brothers. He was aware of Dwaekki and Leebit peering around the edges of the doorframe but he kept his eyes to pretend to be asleep for the time being.
The fox thought for a few seconds and wagged his tail cutely as he remembered, “We cannot get up until the sun has risen just in case Santa hasn’t delivered and we scare him off.”

“That’s a good boy,” Wolf Chan said, giving him a kiss on the top of his head.

“But that’s hours away,” complained Muppy only to be bonked on the head by Jiniret who gave the puppy a little scowl which just earned him a pout in reply.
“But what if Santa hasn’t delivered anything as of yet?” asked Lixie earnestly, “If we go down too early, then we might scare him away and there’ll be no pressies under the tree.”

Wolf Chan tried to keep a straight face because it was important for his sons to enjoy Christmas as much as possible. Especially after everything that they had been through before coming into his care. He wanted Christmas to be magical and fun for as long as possible, because it was just how things were supposed to be. They could grow up in a few years time, right now they needed to be adorable little toe beans excited for Christmas.

Muppy seemed to consider that thought and pouted a little bit more before brightening, “Does that mean more sleepies?”

“Yes, all the sleepies,” Leebit said, landing on the bed behind Wolf Chan with a single bounce and spooning the wolf automatically.

“Which includes Daddies too,” Dwaekki said, hopping onto the opposite side of the bed to snuggle into the little ones from behind. “Cause we all need to…is Muppy already asleep?”

Jiniret giggled, “As is Innie and Quokkie, though I think he was already asleep to begin with.”

Lixie giggled, hugging the Quokka, “He was falling asleep on his feet. I don’t think he even knows what today is.”

Leebit dug a paw into Wolf Chan’s side to get him to shut up before he even spoke a word even though the wolf had no intention on doing such a thing. Wolf Chan knew little of Quokka, but it was something he intended to learn about come the new year. There were clearly a whole bunch of things but he’d ask when the time was right and go from there.

Instead Wolf Chan just smiled and pushed the chick’s head down with a gentle pat, “Then we’ll make him know what it is when we all wake up in a few hours. For now, let us rest.”

The chick went down easily and Wolf Chan peaked open an eye to see a smiling Jiniret looking so happily towards him. The little ferret always seemed to be more aware of the world than he ever let on, a subject that the wolf never really pushed but would inevitably have to have a talk with him about it all. However in that moment, the wolf knew that Jiniret was the happiest he could be, his little eyes were sending out all the hearts towards Wolf Chan and the wolf felt his heart almost explode with joy and happiness that he was bringing those very precious emotions to all of the animals on his bed right now.

If he had been told this was what it would be like one day, he would have denied it to the ends of the earth.

With a contented little sigh, Wolf Chan properly settled himself down and breathed easily into a happy sleep that filled him with joy and wonder for what was going to happen in the next few hours. It was so nice to spend Christmas with those you cared about and he couldn’t wait to get the day fully in motion.

At 8.30am, Innie wriggled about in a desperate fashion because he desperately needed to go to the toilet which woke everyone up. But it was now light, so Father Christmas would have been and all five of the cubs were bouncing with glee. And wee, as Wolf Chan ensured that everyone went to the toilet prior to going downstairs, including the adults because was he going to have to deal with another wrapping paper incident which he did not elaborate on very much.

(It was Innie’s first Christmas and the fox had been really bad with a little water infection, constantly needing to got to the toilet and had, accidentally, taken wrapping paper instead of toilet paper to clean up the mess whilst Wolf Chan had been cooking Dinner. The toilet had overflown and nearly flooded the whole of the downstairs. Wolf Chan did not get mad though, because Innie was practically a baby at that point and had tried his best and it made for a fun story to torment the fox with forever and a day)

Once that was all sorted, they all headed down the stairs together and there came many gasps of surprise.

The large Christmas Tree stood proudly in the corner, the fire was already lit with the safety grate over it to keep wandering paws away from the flames and there were presents in so many different brightly coloured wrapping papers neatly stacked up on the sofas and chairs with clear labels as to who they were for. Innie was immediately running around the place, zooming happily with his arms outstretched but never actually touching any of the presents whilst Jiniret, Lixie and Muppy stared in awe at the presents.

Quokka was being carried by Leebit because he was still half asleep though seemed fascinated by the twinkling baubles on the tree.

Lixie turned and looked up to Wolf Chan, “Santa really brought all of these for us?”

“Yes,” Wolf Chan spoke, picking the chick up just so he could plonk him down on a large, circular carpet which was mega soft and fluffy. “Three gifts for each of you.”
Innie appeared right in front of the chick, carrying four presents in his paws. He passed a blue wrapped present to Lixie, “Tis one for you!” he said brightly. Then hopped to Muppy to give him a green wrapped present, “Tis one for you!”.

Quokka was next with a bright red present, “Tis one for Quokkie” and another hop had him rushing to Jiniret with a bright pink one, “And this one for Jinnie!”
Wolf Chan caught the adorable little fox and plonked him down in his own spot, placing an purple wrapped present in his paws. “And this one for Innie.”
“Yay! Innie cried, shaking the present but then paused, “Oh, Daddy! Order?”

Dwaekki blinked, “Order?”

Wolf Chan blushed a little, “Oh, me and Innie had an order to open presents, usually starting with the youngest first then oldest…for obvious reasons.”

“Well that sounds just swell,” Leebit grinned, chucking Dwaekki an present wrapped in brightly spotted white and pink paper before passing an silver wrapped one to Wolf Chan who in return gave him an orange coloured present. “So it’ll go, Innie, Muppy, Lixie, Hannie, Jinnie, Dwaekki, Me and finally Wolf Chan.”

Wolf Chan blinked, “How did you…?”

“I know things, shush,” Leebit said in response.

Dwaekki arched his eyebrows and got a kick to his swirly tail.

The cubs blinked innocently up at the adults, even if Jiniret had a little more of a knowing gleam in his eye but they were quick to start with the present opening.
Innie was delighted to receive an unicorn plushi that was almost as big as himself, with pink hoofs and inner ears, as well as a rainbow mane and tale. He also got a set of dinosaur figures with the strict instruction that he was not to get his head stuck in them (which resulted in the cub trying desperately to get the t-rex to stay on his ear even though it would not). His final present was a brand new strap bag from his brothers seeing as he was starting big school in the spring time and he was so happy with it.

Muppy received an science experiment kit with a load of tubes and bottles as well as packets of different things that would create all sorts of experiments. He wanted to immediately start reading through all the experiments to choose which one he wanted but the others nudged the two remaining presents towards him. A happy little squeak escaped him when he opened up a baseball shirt that was clearly far too big for him (he would eventually grow into it) and a baseball mitten complete with a ball. There was a proposed game of catch but only after all the presents had been opened.

Lixie fluffed up in glee at receiving his own kitchenette with proper working stove and microwave as it came with a bunch of cooking supplies all designed for smaller paws and feathers to handle and he just couldn’t wait. He also received the official recipe book for the Island and everyone knew that he would go on an constant collecting spree now. The chick’s final present was a dance mat game which could be connected to the TV and had all sorts of different songs on it. Lixie was bouncing around cawing loudly.

Han had finally woken up and had to be coaxed to even touch the presents in front of him but eventually got the idea that they were for him and yes he could open them. Wolf Chan’s heart broke but Leebit said it was better than what it had been before. Inside the presents were a chocolate tart which looked so scrummy and a cozy apron that Han could use whenever he was tottering around with chores or the likes. He was most surprised to receive an SCNH Nintendo Switch, he started to cry but hugged tightly onto the device and refused to let go.

Jiniret opened his once Han was settled down, ecstatic to receive an art set that had all the brushes, paints and papers that an young ferret could want. A artistic beret was his next present, which he immediately put on and looked fabulous in (even if it was just a little big for his head and kept on sliding down to cover his eyes). The last present was rolls of ‘cool wallpaper’ which just seemed to be a plain white that was confusing at first. Wolf Chan smiled sheepishly, “Thought that you would want to decorate your own walls, Jiniret, once the house upgrades go through.” The little ferret had taken two seconds to understand that he was getting his own room and promptly flung himself at the wolf with a gleeful sound.

The house renovations weren’t taking place till next year but it was a nice little start to get everyone excited.

Dwaekki was next on the gift lift and he received a package of dumb bells in a variety of colours and a envelope which held a letter that said ‘head to the back yard’. They all followed the pig-rabbit to find that a section of the back garden had been turned into a little outdoor gym with an treadmill and a punching bag. There was room for other items as well and the pink ball of fluff just happily danced around, giving everyone hugs to show just how happy he was.

Leebit got everyone back inside before they all froze their tails off and everyone settled down once again. Now it was the rabbits turn to receive gifts.

He received an camping stove and cooking set that would work better than the old little pot boiler that he had back at his tent (even though he practically lived here with everyone as of now). He also received a huge warm blanket in many different patchwork pieces that looked so comfortable that everyone wanted a go with it and if was definitely big enough to cover everyone. His final present was a cat tree, and for reasons unknown to everyone, he immediately started batting at the ball on the end of the string. The two adults shared a grin together but did not voice their thoughts out loud.

Finally it was Wolf Chan’s turn and he just smiled warmly towards them all, “You didn’t really…”

“Don’t even start, open your presents and be happy,” Leebit threated with narrowed eyes though no real heat in his voice.

Wolf Chan meekly started opening his presents and it lit up immediately. He received a huge sandcastle and a kangaroo plushi that was big enough to box. He wrapped around both of them with the biggest smile on his face and then remembered that he had one more present to go which he picked up with curiosity as it was a flat plain card. Opening it up, he discovered that it was an pass to an exclusive spar resort with a reservation for himself to get utterly and totally pampered and looked after.

He blinked, completely lost but everyone chose that moment to surge forward to give Wolf Chan the biggest and warmest hug he had ever received in his entire life. They all wanted him to feel the love that he gave them, the love that he deserved and to ensure that he understood that he was going to go and have a lovely time in the spar with no questions asked.

Wolf Chan hiccupped and hugged them all back tightly, returning their love ten fold because this was what Christmas was about at the end of the day. He didn’t need the presents or the tree, just the love that this rat-tag family of his could provide. He would love them forever, that much he knew and he’d never let go.

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If there was one thing that Christmas brought usually to Wolf Chan, without fail every single year – that wasn’t just the lovely feeling of getting to spend the most precious time with the family that he loved and adored of course – was mess. Lots of mess.

There were cardboard boxes everywhere, wrapping paper in piles that needed to be sorted out, dishes stacked crazily high, new and old toys scattered about in an almost careless manner that he secretly knew was just the excitement of getting new things and working out where they would all go in the grand scheme of life and just a general craziness that only came from trying to sort out everything.

He never really minded on the day, because it was all part of the territory and something that should be experienced without any real questions in the slightest so he was very happy to see it. The kids were happy, his friends were happy so that meant that he was happy as well.

The day after Christmas however, Wolf Chan always liked to rise early to clean up the mess from the day before and start to get the house back in order. He said it just kept him and everyone else organised in such a way as to not cause issues in the week leading up to New Year and it saved a big panic clean later. Plus it was his sort of tradition too and he would keep on doing it regardless of what anyone else said to him about it.

So on Boxing Day, Wolf Chan woke up early, stretched, pulled on a pair of bright pink slippers and trotted down the stairs to start his clean up routine. He’s start with the dishes, then put all the paper into the recycling bin and then tackle the toys and new items that everyone had received, putting them into little piles that was then the responsibility of the person to put away properly. The little ones could ask for help. After that it was sorting all the boxes, flattening them down to then put next to the recycle bin so that they could go in once it had been cleared. If he got lucky one of the workers would be kind enough to pick them up early but he never really held to that.

Then it was just a good old dust down, sweep the floors, clean the kitchen and bathroom and that was everything done. Which meant flopping down onto his favourite chair and watching whatever movie was on without moving for hours at a time.

He couldn’t quite remember why he had started it, but he had and boy was he going to uphold it. Especially with so many in the house right now. He couldn’t let things get too out of hand.

Padding downstairs in his jammies, Wolf Chan blinked slightly in shock when he found Leebit in the kitchen. Which recently wasn’t that crazy a development as the rabbit seemed to find complete contentment in being in the space, cooking up a storm, but it was strange to see him doing the dishes. Wolf Chan shook his head, “I was going to do those.”

“Oh morning, sleepy head,” Leebit grinned back, “Don’t worry, I’ve got this bit. Dwaekki may need a hand in the living room though.”

Wolf Chan let out a sound of confusion and turned to find the pig rabbit in the process of breaking down the boxes. There were already several neat piles of toys and new items all arranged and the wrapping paper was tidied away already as well. Tilting his head to the side, Wolf Chan found himself almost at a loss for words, “But I usually do all this?”

“We know, Innie told us,” Dwaekki said, using his brute strength to easily rip a box into two pieces to make flattening everything down so much easier. “The kiddies are going to get up in a little bit in order to start helping their bits of tidying up too.”

“But…” Wolf Chan started.

Only to be wacked on top of the head, gently, by a wooden spoon from Leebit, “Idiot, we’re a family now so we all help with the cleaning and the sorting out. You can taken those boxes to the recycle bin, then help me put all the dishes away cause otherwise I’m going to rearrange the cupboards completely as you are so disorganised its unreal and then you can dust and hoover in the living room to your hearts content whilst the kids put their things away, Dwaekki will clean the bathroom and I’ll make a huge brunch for everyone.”

Wolf Chan stood there for a second, feeling his heart expand at least three times more than it had done over the last few weeks and went to give a big hug to the rabbit. Leebit intercepted him with the wooden spoon straight to his chest which pushed him back a few steps, followed by another bonk on the head and a playful kick up the arse with his hind foot. “Go on, get on with it, cause if you start being all mushy with me I swear I’ll…”

“Come on Daddy,” Jiniret said, pulling on the wolf’s paw, “Let’s not anger the rabbit this early in the morning.”

The wolf pouted for a few seconds but knew that it was more than the truth so he just nodded and went to start helping the cubs out.

(Author-nim looks around her room in real life and decides that maybe doing a spot of her own cleaning may be a good idea as well. Continued the next day after organising her room properly)

With them all working together, it barely took any time for all the tasks to be completed and Wolf Chan couldn’t help but smile with glee that everything was mostly cleaned away. They would keep the Decorations up for a little bit longer, but no later than Twelfth night of course but for now it was done.

Catching hold of an zooming Innie, Wolf Chan did a quick head count as everyone started to assemble into the living room to watch a movie – it was a debate between Shrek and Night at the Museum as neither would scare the youngest or Quokkie as they were both at that rather silly age where they could get scared quite easily – and found himself coming up slightly short.

Jiniret and Leebit were bringing in a selection of snacks, Dwaekki was ensuring that everything was connected and good to go, Innie was in his arms and Quokkie was busy dragging a pile of blankets towards the sofa to make things extra comfy. Muppy was ‘helping’ by lying down on the furthest parts and being dragged along, clearly having dropped into a nap in the process.

Which left Lixie unaccounted for.

Wolf Chan sighed for a moment, placed Innie down on the sofa just as Quokkie started throwing blankets on, picked up Muppy to place him on the arm of the big chair – where he flopped cutely and continued to snore – before setting off to find the little chickie.

It was on his second round of the house when he finally heard a shuffling of carboard and turned to see that there were several large boxes that had been set to one side in an unclaimed room. It appeared that they had been set out in a certain way, and there were colouring supplies on the floor. “Lixie?” Wolf Chan called out softly, spotting some feathers moving about.

Lixie popped his head out of the one of the boxes, comically covered in splotches of felt tip pens, “Hi Daddy!”

“What’s this?” Wolf Chan asked, waving his paw.

“Jiniret said that he was missing being able to play in the big tree house cause of the snow making it difficult to climb the tree so I thought I’d surprise him and the others with a carboard house,” Lixie said with all the smiles in the world, “We used to do it when we were tiny in…the other place…and it was very fun.”

Wolf Chan smiled, seeing the nervous look on the chicks face. “I think he’s going to love it. Though you’ll definitely need a bath tonight, you’re covered in colours.”
Lixie chirped happily at that and did a happy little bouncy dance as well. “Yay, thankies.”

“Now come on, we’ve got a film to watch,” Wolf Chan said, holding out his paw towards the chick.

Lixie hurried out, after quickly tidying up the felt tip pens and they joined in the general fun of the living room to watch Shrek as it had been agreed upon. The cardboard house would sit alone for a few hours but once it was shown to the others, it soon became a favourite play place throughout the whole of winter.

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“Oh no,” groaned Wolf Chan as he started looking around with that all too familiar look on his face, “Lixie! Where have you gone now?”

Muppy paused in his walking to turn and look in disbelief towards his wolf dad. He could not be serious right now, could he? Though the pup did do a quick check on his brothers. Jiniret was walking right by Wolf Chan’s side, humming happily to a song that had him entertained on his music player, whilst Innie was snoring heavily with an large bubble coming out of his nose all safely strapped to his Daddy’s back.

Hannie and Leebit were off doing their own thing today, so that wasn’t a worry and Uncle Dwaekki had stayed back home to finish his gym set as he was really in the zone today apparently.

So Wolf Chan had taken Innie, Lixie, Muppy and Jinnie across the islands to an big shopping one called MetroCentre to go and get school supplies ahead of the new term starting. Everyone needed uniforms, as Jiniret was about too start middle school, Lixie needed a new dance uniform whereas Hannie needed an new sports one given the respective afterschool clubs that they were attending whereas Innie would be finally attending First School and needed his own uniform. The rest Wolf Chan was hoping would work out to be good hand me downs once they got a little more settled in. There was also the need for school supplies and a few extra bits that the Wolf wanted to make sure they had so they had the best chance at success.

But Lixie had recently gotten into a habit of wandering off, not naughtily as he wasn’t that way inclined but the little ball of sunshine chick could easily get distracted and disappear without any of them noticing. He had done it when they went to the park, when they went food shopping, when Leebit had taken them on a walk to get them out from under Wolf Chan’s paws for a little and that one time when they had just been walking to Tom Nook’s place. Of course he was always found, he’d never gone that far but it was a clear stressor regardless.

Plus most of the island knew the chick by sight and would keep him with them until they spotted either Wolf Chan, Dwaekki or Leebit rushing about in a panic to let them know where he was. It had become a sort of running joke amongst the residents and it was generally received in quite a funny way.

But they weren’t on Stayville right now, they were in a completely different place and Wolf Chan had told them all to stay within constant sight as it was a busy place and it would be easy for one of them to get lost.

Muppy peered around Wolf Chan’s legs, scanning behind them for a tuff of yellow fluffy feathers that usually gave the game away as to where the chick was but could see nothing. Looking up at a worried Wolf Chan, Muppy decided that he would take matters into his own paws and quickly nudged Jiniret, “Lixie’s wandered off again.”

“Oh no,” Jiniret said in response, pocketing his music player and turning around but keeping his paw in his daddy’s hand, “He won’t be too far, he never is.”

“Still,” Wolf Chan whined.

Muppy narrowed his eyes in thought, tapping his paw against his head whilst he discreetly sucked on a toe bean as he pieced together where they could have possibly lost sight of the yellow chick. Then he remembered, “The pretty flowers! He really liked them.”

Innie stirred on Wolf Chan’s back but remained asleep as the group headed back the way they had came towards the flower display. To their dismay there was no sign of the little yellow chick and the wolf started shaking in panic and worry.

“Let’s try the café, he may have gone there to put the rubbish back in the bin,” Jiniret suggested remembering that Lixie liked to keep things organised and clean and they had left a little bit of rubbish on the side which was very possible for the good little chick to have gone back to put the rubbish away.

The café was still busy and their rubbish was gone, but there was still no sign of Lixie anyway.

“Wait, hang on,” Wolf Chan said, dislodging Innie from his back which got a very disgruntled not ready to be woken up noise from the little fennec fox, “Lixie detector.”

Innie looked positively murderous for a second or two, then seemed to half shake himself into some form of awareness before standing still, smacking his lips together. Then he started randomly walking off back the way they had come, away from the café and past the flower display to virtually the point where they had noticed that Lixie had wandered off only to head off slightly to the left where there was a boba tea shop. He marched straight in, clambered onto one of the nearest benches where a certain yellow chickie was sitting with five cups of boba. The fox took hold of a bright blue boba, stabbed the straw in, took one long slurp and then leant directly onto his elder brother with a sigh and immediately fell back asleep.

Wolf Chan broke out of his stupor to rush up to the chick and give him a hug, “There you are, I thought I had lost you again.”

“Sorry Daddy,” Lixie replied in a soft and gentle voice, “Lixie thought that you were following him but remembered the rule to stay put and be found. Plus I got everyone boba tea.”

There wasn’t anything really to be mad about at this point, because Lixie had done everything that he had been told to do when he got lost, minus going to find a security person to help but that was usually after a certain time and only if no one had come and found him in the first place.

Plus they all did have boba tea which was perfect as well as that made things a whole lot easier.

But Muppy got to thinking as he sat there, swinging his little paws back and forth for a few minutes, slurping on his boba tea. There had to be a way that would ensure they couldn’t loose Lixie if he did go wandering off accidentally. It was becoming an habit and it would probably only get worse if they didn’t do something about it.

His little eyes fell on the still sleeping Innie, who would occasionally wake up purely to take a sip of his boba and then go straight back to sleep, how he did such things was a complete mystery but Wolf Chan had always said that the cub had done this since he was tiny so it was nothing to really worry about too much. The fox cub was adorable when he was like this, all small and cuddly and Muppy suddenly sat up a little straighter.

Innie was wearing a little back pack that had a front clasp and a little leash that would attach to Wolf Chan. Not so much due to Innie wandering off, but more because getting the fox to not start digging into things but it gave him an idea. Hopping down, he rushed to Innie’s side, saw that he still had the dino back pack on but no sign of the leash as it was attached to Wolf Chan’s belt.

Eyes lighting up, Muppy ran forward to grab the leash and the little wrist band that came with it before running around to Lixie.

Wolf Chan blinked, “Muppy? What are you doing?”

“Making sure that Lixie can’t get lost again,” Muppy declared proudly, catching hold of Lixie’s left wing and clipping the bracelet in place before heading back to Wolf Chan and clipping the other end back to his belt. The leash was made of a stretchy piece of rubber spring that allowed the walker to move about but only a certain distance. The pup looked so happy in his work, whilst the chick looked mildly offended but decided to indulge the other just a little bit.

It was no surprise that for the rest of the day, Lixie was unable to wander off and become lost. Muppy was smug about it for a really long time, until the day he had to have the leash attached to him after he wandered off somewhere without telling anyone about it.

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“Achoo!” Hannie sneezed extremely loudly, before complaining extra loudly, “Ahhhh Bitty, it hurts!”

Leebit did not even grimace as he picked up the little quokka, sighing gently as he tapped him on the back. He would have to give the youngster a bath and some more Calpol in order to settle him down but first he had to deal with an over protective wolf who was anxious on the other end of the phone. “Yeah, so as you can hear, Hannie has a massive cold and is not doing well at the moment so they play date is off.”

“Noooooooo!” whined Hannie, kicking his little feet stubbornly.

“Are you sure you don’t want a helpful paw?” Wolf Chan asked, sounding already distressed as if it were one of his own that was ill and all he wanted to do was coddle them until they were back to full health.

Which was not making Leebit melt inside, nope, not in the slightest. He had to put on his strictest, no nonsense face as he shook his head, “I’m sorry Hannie, but you’re too sick and achy right now and no I don’t need any help, thank you Wolf Chan, the last thing you need is to take whatever this is back to your lot of babies and have three of the buggers sick at the same time.”

Wolf Chan chuckled, “I was going to send Dwaekki around as he’s pretty damn resistant to everything.” Which was comically spoilt in perfect timing by the pig-rabbit letting out an massive sneeze that shocked everyone. Leebit could imagine Wolf Chan’s ears drooping so easily, it was offensive. “Well, okay, maybe not Dwaek’s at the moment…Ewww, go get a cloth and clean up the snot!”

Leebit pulled a face, “Go take care of the big baby and I’ll look after my baby until he’s better then we can reschedule everything. Now sicky baby, say goodbye to the huffy wolfie so he knows your alive and doesn’t start making sneaky plans to come over just to get himself sick.”

If Leebit heard the wolf grumbling on the other side of the line as he handed the phone over to Hannie whilst he placed him down as it would give him five minutes to get a few things sorted, the rabbit pretended that he did not hear. Wolf Chan was a sucker for talking to Hannie, as the little quokka just never knew when to shut up and the wolf was too polite to tell someone to stop unless he was at the point of literal collapse so it worked out brilliantly for the rabbit.

Plus he needed to do something with his paws so that he himself wasn’t tempted to go back and chat on with the wolf for a little while longer as there was just something so soothing about him. Maybe he could play back some older episodes of Wolf Chans Room to appease the pouty sick boy and keep himself from being too frazzled over everything.

He checked on the tea that was currently brewing and re-read the label on the medicine for the hundredth time that morning as he wanted to make sure he was absolute correct on the timing and then made sure that the requested breakfast of porridge with Nutella sauce was just the right temperature for dealing with the sicky baby.

He headed back to check on Hannie, and found him wriggling his toes back and forth whilst the youngster chatted sleepily to Wolf Chan. It was too cute a sight to behold but Leebit managed to stop himself from crumbling completely and gently caught the baby’s attention.

“Ohhh, Bitty bwought porridge!” Hannie managed to sniffle out in the most pathetic way, “Gotta go now Wolfie, but wil get betta!”

Leebit took the phone back, “I swear if you’re doing anything like an emergency sick care package right now I’ll kick your tail to the middle of Stayville and back,”
Wolf Chan hummed, “Why would you think that I was doing anything like that?”

“Cause I know you Wolf Chan,” Leebit said, checking that Hannie was enjoying his breakfast, pausing occasionally to blow his nose, before stepping a little further away, “You do know this means the other thing is off right?”

“I’d thought you’d want at least some help with that?” Wolf Chan answered gently.

Leebit pulled at his ears, “No, you insufferable twit, what I want is none of you to get sick by coming over here and…” the doorbell rang just at that moment, which caused the rabbit to glare, “I hate you.”

“It’s a delivery, I’m still at home cause I’ve got to pick up Muppy and Lixie at 2pm from school and then Hyunjin from dance class at 3.30pm before getting Innie up to the Able Sisters for the uniform fitting at 4pm,” Wolf Chan replied softly, “Maybe we see how he is on Thursday and make a decision from there?”

“If Dwaekki hasn’t infected you by that point,” Leebit replied, hearing an familiar sneeze in the background, “Seriously you need to keep him away from the cubs.”
Wolf Chan chuckled, “He’s already doing so. Enjoy the box and hopefully Hannie will be better soon.”

Leebit smiled secretly to himself and then grumbled, “I can hear you starting up the car, you idiot!”

Unsurprisingly, Wolf Chan did show up at the house and helped with Hannie’s cold and Leebit’s temper until the rabbit was almost but not quite snuggled in to the wolf as they watched a silly film together.

Though surprisingly, on the Thursday Wolf Chan picked up an very sick Leebit to take home for a warm bath, Calpol and plenty of rest after he contracted the cold that Hannie had. The cubs did not, Dwaekki started up several rumours at the local café without realising he did it and Innie turned to the rabbit on the second day of his sick stay over to ask, “When are you moving in full time, Bitty?”

Leebit blushed, hiding his face away in the blankets and it was left at that. For the time being anyway.

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Opening his eyes, Innie let out a great big yawn, stretching as far as his little limbs would allow him to do before settling back on his pillow. The little fox loved mornings like this, when everything was just calm and peaceful, as it meant he had the perfect excuse to get up and go zooming around all the other rooms to get everyone else up for playtime. He giggled to himself and turned to his calendar, blinking in surprise when instead of the usual Dino greeting him there was instead a large cupcake with white and pink frosting and hundreds of sprinkles on the table. A card was in front of the cake, saying proudly, “Happy Birthday Innie, eat up and come downstairs whenever you’re ready” in large, friendly letters.

Innie’s ears perked up as the little fox remembered that it was indeed his birthday today and he started bouncing with so much energy that he was practically vibrating. The cupcake was a delicious strawberry mint and it was devoured in two seconds, leaving large smears of white frosting all around his face but the cubby did not care.

He hopped out of bed, ran to the bathroom to quickly get sorted out in that department before zooming straight down the stairs before leaping into the already prepared arms of Wolf Chan. “Innie birthday?” Innie asked, even though he was wriggling like a worm in his excitement.

Wolf Chan still snuggled the young cub dutifully, “Yes, it’s Innie’s birthday. He’s now officially 6 years old.”

The second that Innie’s paws hit the floor he was off on his zoomies routine with far more energy than he would normally have but the elders were fine with this. Muppy and Lixie tried to keep up with Innie, whereas Hannie tripped over his own paws and fell flat on his face though thankfully he picked himself up and continued the chase.

Jiniret giggled as he watched over the trio, being the more responsible elder brother until Dwaekki gave the ferret a little kick to go and play because it was just part of the fun of the day. The ferret looked concerned for a minute, but a passing Lixie grabbed his paw and the chase to capture the birthday boy was on. The squeals were intoxicating and Leebit shook his head from the stove where he was cooking up the birthday boys favourite ever breakfast, fresh pancakes with strawberries and ice cream. It wasn’t the best breakfast the rabbit had to admit, and it was going to be very clear that everyone was going to be so hyped up on sugar but when else could you get away with being hyped up on sugar other than your birthday?

Eventually the cubs tired themselves out and headed automatically to the kitchen table, where Innie proved himself to be a big boy by getting onto his chair by himself even if he had an emergency Jiniret on standby to make sure he didn’t fall. The cub was still small for his age, but the doctors had said this was normal and he’d probably hit a growth spurt or two along the way. Grabbing his knife and fork in one paw each, Innie sat proudly as the first lot of pancakes, ice cream and strawberries were served to him, along with a kiss on the head from Leebit that had him wriggling happily though he would forever deny it (even if there was video proof cause Wolf Chan was a sucker for any cute interactions he could capture). As soon as the fox started devouring his plate, everyone else got served and they went like that for a long while with everyone getting seconds, thirds and fourths.

Innie finally relented that he was not going to be able to eat the fifth serving and pouted a little but Leebit told him that it could always be saved for later.
“Now pressies?” Innie asked, his voice filled with so much hope that it was impossible not to melt.

Six brightly coloured presents, wrapped in stunning paper with big bows on the top appeared on the table as if by magic and Innie’s eyes opened so widely as if he didn’t quite believe it.

“Happy Birthday Innie,” everyone chorused together before Muppy was clambering up next to the fox to smush his face.

“Open mine first! You’ll love it!” Muppy said, a little too excitedly.

Dwaekki picked up the puppy and put him in his lap, “It’s Innie’s birthday, he gets to choose which present he opens first.”

Muppy pouted but Innie did not pay attention as he had grabbed the nearest present to him, which just happened to be the puppy’s and tore off the paper. Inside was a Take-apart dinosaur kit which allowed several dinosaurs to be built, taken apart and rebuilt as many times as the animal playing wanted to do so. Innie squealed and hugged the box, before hugging Muppy, “Thank you, I love it!”

The next box was slightly longer and more flat, but turned out to be a ‘Where’s Wallie’ book from Lixie as the chick had gotten interested in the series at school and borrowed a couple from the library which Innie had then found and been utterly fascinated with. The chick beamed, “You’ve got our own now and we can play where’s Wallie anytime!”

Innie grinned and hugged Lixie tightly, “Thank you! I wanna find Wallie now!”

“You’ve got other presents to open first sweetie,” Wolf Chan gently reminded the youngest, as he put the book down but placed another present straight into the fox’s eager paws as it was the best way to distract him. Not that Innie needed much distracting today of course. Plus this one rattled a bit and turned out to contain an ‘Dino Egg Smash’ kit where a skeleton could be smashed out of the eggs and then built up afterwards.

Wolf Chan slightly feared for the mess of his table was going to end up in but Innie was happily hugging Hannie anyway so it wasn’t that bad. Plus the table already had enough scratch marks, paint stains and coffee rings on it so it wasn’t as if it wasn’t already wrecked.

“Heehee, hope you like this one Innie,” Jiniret said as he handed over his present and the fox practically vibrated out of his fur as he took it. Then promptly sat on the ferret’s knee to open the gift. Inside was an very bright and colourful LCD writing tablet which allowed the fox to draw hundreds of designs and restart over as many times as he liked. Innie was practically purring into the elders fur because it was something that he wanted, seeing as he had tried copying Jiniret’s art but kept using too much paper as he’d make a mistake a start over no matter how many times he was shown that he could eraze the mistake and redo it.

The last two presents on the table were from Dwaekki and Leebit respectively and held a football and a science kit as it was clear the cub was starting to explore what he liked and wanted to do. Innie was happy regardless and gave the pair their own separate hugs. Though suddenly he blinked in realising and he looked towards Wolf Chan confused, “Daddy?”

The wolf chuckled, “You’re present is far too big for me to wrap and we have to go outside for it, agipan. Come this way.”

Innie took hold of the outstretched paw and followed Wolf Chan out into the back garden where they all liked to play. Only to suddenly see that instead of an wide open play space, there was now an small Innie sized Wendy House towards the back. The fox cub ran to it, letting out a squeal of joy. It was only a two room affair, with a lower section that could be filled with toys and books and a ladder that led up to a first floor that could be used for sleeping or games or whatever the little fox wanted. Innie practically danced for joy and zoomed twice around the garden before throwing himself at Wolf Chan to hug and kiss him in delight. “Thank you Daddy! I love you!”

“Love you too, babybread,” Wolf Chan grinned back, hugging his first cub to his chest, and hoped that he’d be able to make all his cubs this happy. “Now before you start getting all hyped up to play in this, we need you to be washed and dressed before the others arrive for your party in about an hour. That goes for the rest of you as well.”

Very soon the house was filled with little animals all running around, having a good time and the table was groaning with birthday presents which Innie loved and was hugging and thanking everyone for. They played games, danced about and then everyone sang Happy Birthday very loudly whilst Innie was presented with a Kirby Cake that made him smile just as brightly as ever.

He scrunched his little eyes up, made a wish, blew out the candles and then took a great big bite out of the cake before anyone else could get near it. The video evidence was captured to be used in embarrassing stories for years to come and everyone went home with big smiles on their faces afterwards.

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Wolf Chan tried his best to supress the grin that desperately wanted to cross his face as he walked up towards the little house that Leebit owned on the island under the pretext that the rabbit needed help with sorting out some complicated legal stuff regarding the confirmation of adoption for Hannie. The whole story was pretty plausible, as the wolf knew that getting anyone adopted was a massive pain without being aware of any parents as he had gone through that situation four times for his pretty little babies who meant the world to him.

Of course Dwaekki had complained that he didn’t get adopted, to which he had received several swift bonks to the head for being a silly sausage.

But the one factor that Leebit forgot about in his extensive planning, was the fact that Hannie could not keep anything a secret for more than five minutes without combusting. He was horrendous at doing so, even Leebit said he was and had probably tried to keep the little quokka out of his plans so as not to spoil anything. But Hannie lived with Leebit, so keeping anything from him was next to impossible as well. Though Wolf Chan knew that this time Hannie hadn’t meant to tell him anything about the rabbits plans for the adoption talk, as the quokka had merely been asking questions to Lixie on the way home the other day about what a certain meal tasted like, or why adults would have pink balloons everywhere and cards that they’d write to people that they liked but hide their name so no one knew which just seemed silly because how was anyone supposed to know who liked them if they didn’t write their name on the card.

Wolf Chan had immediately imagined the pair in high school, completely bewildered by the amount of cards, gifts and chocolate that they would receive around Valentines Day because neither of them would have a clue. It was too funny to think of and he had had to go and find a quiet corner so that he wouldn’t have to explain endlessly what was so funny. Though he had eventually told Dwaekki and Leebit about the mental image when he laughed out loud at some goofy drama that all three had opted to sit and watch together with Jiniret once the younger ones were all tucked up in bed. (The little ferret had recently gotten into dramas but liked watching them with his Daddy and Hyungs cause sometimes things weren’t age appropriate but they knew how to use the fast forward buttons without messing up the episode. He couldn’t yet tell the difference between all the buttons and frequently pressed skip instead of fast forward)

It had taken a minute for the pair to process the thought but then they had laughed aloud with him before turning the whole scenario around into the pair of them being lady-killers who had the girls and boys fawning all over them just to wind the wolf up because his reactions were far too funny.

Wolf Chan was too fondly annoyed to divulge quite what had sparked the initial imagery as well as dealing with a very sleepy Jiniret who was really too tired to continue the episode but was desperate to know what happened and fell asleep before the last five minutes and the big reveal. (Wolf Chan had let him re-watch it over his breakfast crispies the next morning because he was too big a softy not to).

So really, Hannie hadn’t spoilt anything but it wasn’t hard to see what the rabbit was doing even if he was putting it under different circumstances to hide what it was that he was doing. In the short time that the wolf had known the rabbit, he had quickly come to learn that Leebit didn’t like doing things the way other people thought that things should be done, he wanted to do them his way because that made it more special. It had been the day after Valentines when the card had arrived, along with a gift basket that was filled with home made chocolate carrots and flowers that held alcohol within and were not for the kiddies (Leebit had handwritten the card and forgot to disguise his writing) and then three days later a fresh bunch of lavender, red chrysanthemums and daisy’s had appeared which Wolf Chan had to look up the meanings of but had to laugh at the remarkable acting that Leebit put up as if he were annoyed that someone had dared to send his wolf flowers when it could have only been him.

Things had gone quiet for a day or two after Wolf Chan had secretly sent the rabbit three cat plushi’s only for Dwaekki to come back with a hundred photographs of the other literally placing them all around his house as if they were real and told him the names that they had been given with the biggest devil grin on his face. Wolf Chan had taken the photos, told Dwaekki if he spoke a word then the kids would learn where his chocolate stash was kept and gone about his day.

This continued for a few weeks, gifts going back and forth between them in this not so secret manner and cards changing to notes that changed to letters that neither one would mention when in company but would always know to look out for when over visiting. It was almost sickening how it all happened but Wolf Chan was more than content and even made a little spot in his weekly broadcast to talk about the mysterious admirer which had his other island friends clamouring for more information whilst the others who had started to follow him were supporting him to the uttermost and wanted to know all the details they could. Of course he didn’t reveal all the details or even give the merest hint of who he knew it to be because he was sure that Leebit would find a way to come and stab him in his sleep or something should he reveal all of this, but it was still cutely amusing to watch play out in all it’s different variations.

Finally, nearly a month after Valentines day, but not exactly because that would just be too obvious, Leebit had asked for help with the adoption of Hannie (even though that had been finalised months ago and the rabbit was just waiting on the paperwork coming through even though there had been a digital copy sent and received) so Wolf Chan knew that this was it. He was so excited that he couldn’t keep the silly smile off his face but he wanted to do his best by Leebit because that was just the kind of fellow that he was.

Plus he got the feeling that Leebit already knew that he knew but wanted to act as if everything was a surprise just to save the rabbits feelings. Even if he was going to end up smooching him to pieces by the end of the night. (Maybe a kiss or three too but he’d have to play that game a little more sensibly)

Schooling his face as best as he could, Wolf Chan raised his paw to politely knock on the door but before it could even connect there was a call of, “If you so much as dare to knock, Wolf Chan, I swear I’ll come out there and kick your tail all across the island.”

Wolf Chan grimanced for a moment before grinning as he opened the door, slowly to just peak his head around. Sometimes it was best to check exactly what Leebit was armed with as it had been known for him to produce a knife out of no where and wave it threateningly towards whoever was annoying him. Thankfully it was a kids plastic play knife but it was still something that was not to be trifled with on any days that you wanted to keep yourself alive.

Initially there was no sign of the rabbit so the wolf was happy to step into the neat living room that had a very cozy feel towards it with all the cozy furniture and even a little plant growing on the windowsill. In the far corner was a little area entirely dedicated to Hannie, with a cute desk, study materials, crayons and whatever else the little quokka deemed he needed at that time. Wolf Chan thought he saw the top of an dolls house for a second but did not pry much further as the sweet smell of food caught his nose.

Of course Leebit was in the kitchen, pulling what looked like a huge fish pie out of the oven and setting it on the side. The rabbit was decked out nicely in an pair of faux leather trousers and a light blue shirt, with his usual pink apron covering everything and Wolf Chan was glad that he had put on his most smartest of casual clothes. His favourite pair of jeans that he knew Leebit checked him out in every time he wore them, a long sleeved black and white checked shirt and a snazzy cream knitted vest over the top. His tail was wagging uncontrollably when he spotted the table, set only for two with the nice places, cutlery and a light pink table cloth.
There was a candle, but it was once of those novelty ones in the shape of a koi fish and Dori sat on a shelf nearby with an slightly judging expression on his plushi face.

Leebit glared towards the too happy looking wolf, “This is not a valentines thing.”

“I know,” Wolf Chan responded, rocking back and forth on his heels happily.

The fish pie was plonked down on the table, “And just because this happens, it doesn’t mean you can go and brag about it to anyone.”

“I know,” Wolf Chan responded once again.

Leebit glared for more than was necessary, almost as if he didn’t trust Wolf Chan’s intentions, “And it also means that if you hurt me, I will…”

“Leebit,” Wolf Chan cut in, knowing that it wasn’t always the best idea but right now he needed to get his point across, “We do this on your terms, yeah? If you don’t like something, you tell me and I can tell you the same. But we don’t have to rush anything…”

He took a deep breath, to steady his nerves, though couldn’t quite stop his foot from moving back and forth in awkward little circles, “I already like you, Leebit, so…whatever you want this to be, it will be.”

For a few long seconds, Leebit was quiet, his ears drooping a little as if he was thinking everything over before he whispered shyly in return, “You already like me?”

“Have done for a while,” Wolf Chan blushed as he mumbled out the words and ducked his head down.

There was a long pause between the two of them before Leebit shuffled closer and nudged softly at the wolf. It took a few too long seconds to fully understand what it was that Leebit wanted and carefully he pulled him into a warming, big hug. Leebit was stiff for a few seconds before deflating with a happy sigh and snuggling deep into the wolf’s scent gland.

“Hyung,” he whispered cutely.

“Hmmm?” Wolf Chan hummed a response.

“I really like you too,” Leebit whispered back, snuggling against the wolf in his own embarrassment but not wanting to let go in the slightest.

Wolf Chan beamed happily and they remained together like that for a little while before settling down to have their first, of many, non-valentines meals together.

(Both of them pretended that they did not hear the clamour from outside as Dwaekki and the boys fell over themselves trying to escape from being caught at eaves dropping on everything that had transpired, because they would have found out anyway so it did not matter.)

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“How many can I get again?” Jiniret asked as he bounced up and down on his feet as they waited for the lift to arrive.

Wolf Chan smiled warmly towards his eldest son, knowing that the ferret was just being a little extra cheeky today because he was allowed to get away with it. It was his birthday after all and the cubs had all decided to get him a very fun present all together. They had saved up their pocket money for the better part of two months – even though they could have just asked for help but according to Muppy that wasn’t the prince of the thing (he couldn’t quite manage the word principle yet, so it was the prince for now) – and gotten their big brother something that he had wanted forever but never actually told any of the adults.

They were going to Build a Bear so that Jiniret could make and dress his own teddy bear.

Leebit had practically demanded that the others also get a bear each, but the kids wouldn’t have it and said that the rabbit should spend the money on Jiniret as the ferret had been there for them forever and he needed to be spoilt a little too.

Wolf Chan had calmed down Leebit whilst Dwaekki had not to secretly set them all up as a party so that all the kids would get a bear made as well, but Jiniret would get an exclusive one which normally wasn’t stocked.

Not that anyone was worried of course, Jiniret always shared so well with the others, even if him and Quokka did have a little bit of an bickering contest with one another once in a while, but it was going to be a very fun day for them all.

Still Wolf Chan ruffled the ferrets fur, “You only have a voucher for one, Jinnie.”

There was a big beaming smile from the ferret, “And I can choose whichever one I want?”

“Yes,” Wolf Chan smiled, wanting desperately to bundle the little guy up into his arms because even though all of his boys had a bunch of soft toys at home, they all shared them out equally so this would be the first time that Jiniret had his own. It still made him angry to think what the boys real parents had done before dumping the trio on the island where Wolf Chan and Innie had eventually found them but he was going to set things right and ensure that nothing bad happened to them ever again.

Jiniret bounced even more happily at that notion and Wolf Chan just melted all over again.

Dwaekki nudged him, “Save all the cute aww’s until we get there and then take a million photographs of everything.”

“Muppy stop trying to eat Innie’s tail, it’ll only get you bitten!” Leebit scolded gently, already having Lixie sitting on top of his shoulders, with Quokka holding his hand. Muppy had woken up in terror mode and was therefore being restricted with the baby reigns whilst Innie was walking with Jiniret. Dwaekki had offered to help but had been shot down by a glare which spoke of how he would get stabbed shortly if he didn’t stop fussing.

Wolf Chan laughed and just herded everyone into the lift and within the next couple of minutes they were outside of the store. Jiniret’s eyes were sparkling so much just as he looked at the window display and all of the adults knew that they had definitely made the right choice in letting the cubs get what they wanted.

Even if Muppy was straining at the leash because he had spotted an Pochacho and wanted to claim it for his own.

Thankfully the Birthday Assistant seemed to know exactly how to deal with this scenario and gave the pup an sensory, squishy ball that distracted him immediately into sitting down. “Good morning everyone, I heard that there’s a birthday boy here?”

Jiniret turned, blushing a little but then Han grabbed his paw to hold it up whilst pointing towards him. The woman giggled, “Ah a little shy are we? Well then, let’s see if we can find you something special whilst your friends pick out the rest.”

The ferret looked confused for a second, before beaming up a smile towards his caregivers who each gave him a hug before unleashing the little ones into the store to allow them to build their bear and dress them up how they liked. There were many silly moments, including Muppy being dressed up as one of the bears by Innie and Lixie, Hannie having a crisis over which bear he wanted but best of all was Jinnie getting to choose the heart to go inside his chosen bear of Giant Happy Hugs (which was only just a little bit smaller than himself).

There were many hearts to choose from, so many colours and patterns but the one that Jiniret finally settled on was a simple at first glance red one. However when turning it over, there were eight sequined flowers on it. “This one!” he had declared happily, handing it to the lady, “Cause it’s got eight and there’s one for each of us! Cause I love all my family!”

Dwaekki was the first to go at that statement and the others never let him live it down after that.

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The sun was bright and clear in the sky, when Wolf Chan awoke with Leebit in his arms and the bunny snoring softly. He grinned to himself before snuggling in further to the soft fur and hugged his partner just a little tighter to himself. Leebit let out a grumble but merely sniffled loudly and promptly went back to his snoring habits. Wolf Chan wasn’t going to complain, as the bunny had been up half the night dealing with an terrified Lixie and Jisung as a thunderstorm had raged across the island of Stayville and would probably need a whole lot of tidying up.

Jiniret and Innie had miraculously slept through the entire ordeal snuggled up in their blankets whilst Muppy had decided that the safest place for him to be was in the bath playing with bubbles and rubber duckies. Every time the thunder boomed, the pup would just make the ducks squeak and he was content so there was no need to really do much else. Except top of the hot water from time to time so that they didn’t get a sneezy pup in the morning.

Wolf Chan had gotten the glorious duty of trying to get Dwaekki out of his little not quite yet finished single room house which he was building in the back of the garden. Whilst he did not mind sharing with the couple, he had said that he needed to give the pair some privacy and it’d give the chance for the kids to escape too should the wolf and the rabbit want some alone time. There was more than enough room and Dwaekki planned on building no bigger than an house with three or four rooms, but of course he had to save up enough bells in the first place to afford that.

However, the pig-bunny did not like thunderstorms in the slightest and would try to hide under something. In his new house, the closest thing he had to that were several blankets as he had not furnished the room properly yet seeing as he wanted to make each room a different designated place. Which meant that Wolf Chan had to brave the weather to get to the little house, get inside and then attempt to drag Dwaekki back to the main house so that they could get him to hide under the bed in his old room. In the end it was easier for Wolf Chan to pick up the shivering pig-rabbit and carry him to the space as he just would not move in any other capacity.
So after a night of storms, to see the sun shining brightly over island was an wonderful experience indeed.

Wolf Chan gentle kissed Leebit on the cheek, before he wriggled his way up and went to check on the others. Muppy was still in the bathroom but had decided to open the airing cupboard to pull out all of the towels that were stored in there to make himself a little bed and pillow before wrapping himself up in several layers to stave off the coldness. The water from the bath was empties and all the ducks were lined up neatly in size order down the side and the bubble machine was cleaned too. All the bubble baths were back as well, with the tops on and it appeared that the puppy had gone around to do a little tidy up as well. Wolf Chan felt his heart melt just a little more for the puppy as he carefully picked him up in his little cocoon of blankets, after of course taking the adorable photos and headed to check on the others.

He found Dwaekki in Jisung and Felix’s room, laying right under the bunk bed with the two little ones wrapped securely in his big strong arms. At some point in the night the pair had gotten into their turtle costumes and were tucked up completely towards the pig-rabbit. Wolf Chan had no issue in sliding Muppy straight towards them to snap more pictures as Uncle Dwaekki immediately shifted and pulled the pup towards him as clearly some protective instinct was raging inside his heart. Wolf Chan grabbed more photos and left the four of them where they were for now.

They still had a little time before anyone had to get up, the joys of it being the school holidays.

Still Wolf Chan opened the main curtains in the upstairs hallway and then went to check on Jiniret and Innie. Only to find the pair already up, with their curtains open and day clothes on whilst the whole of Jiniret’s floor was covered with a variety of brightly coloured brick buildings. Wolf Chan did not dare step over the threshold as he watched the scene, his phone memory practically straining as he recorded the pair playing.

“See, if you put this block here and follow it with that one it stays up better,” Jiniret was explaining with an infinite amount of patience towards Innie who was building something tall.

Innie looked intrigued and tried what had been suggested to him and managed to succeed perfectly. He let out a happy sound and jumped towards Jiniret, giving him a hug, “Yay, hyungie, it’s perfect!”

He didn’t notice that he knocked over another one of his buildings but Wolf Chan knew it was easy enough to build back up so wasn’t that worried about it in the slightest.

“They’re too cute for their own good,” drawled Leebit as he slumped against Wolf Chan’s back, dressed in a fluffy pink dressing gown and slippers over a pair of blue pyjama bottoms.

Wolf Chan grinned, “Of course they are, better than them fighting all the time though.”

Leebit made a face, “I demand coffee!”

Letting out a playful sigh, Wolf Chan hoisted Leebit up onto his shoulders and set off down the corridor making some silly noise which undoubtedly caught the attention of some of the kids but they were used to the silly antics of their care givers.

Reaching the kitchen, Wolf Chan deposited a very scowling Leebit into the nearest chair and then set about putting all the bits together to make a coffee for his rabbit. Whilst the kettle boiled, the wolf trotted around with his morning routine, opening all the curtains, setting the cushions straight and checking off the calendar to see if there were any important items that required anyone’s attention but of course there weren’t so instead he just headed back to the kitchen to wrap his arms around Leebit.

Who didn’t protest too much, but that was due to the rabbit being highly focused on making an start of breakfast whilst drinking his coffee slowly. Plus he was way too used to Wolf Chan hanging off him like some kind of needy puppy, so it wasn’t difficult to move around. He’d never admit out loud that he liked the sensation, as Wolf Chan’s hugs were second to none, but it was fun to keep up the act. Not that it ever really worked of course, cause anyone with half an brain could tell that the pair were besotted with one another so it was just funny.

Pretty soon the kitchen was filled kids and adults, though there was still a debate going on if Dwaekki counted as an adult these days, and there was food being devoured in droves.

“Daddy, can we go to the beach today?” Quokka asked, as he badly attempted to used a spoon to eat his pancakes. Thankfully Bbokari was nearby to give him a little bit of a hand. Though Muppy was pouting a bit more as it meant that he lost the chance to steal more bits of pancake from the others plate.

Both Dwaekki and Wolf Chan snuck pieces of theirs onto the pups plate, whereas Leebit just added a couple of freshly made blueberry ones as he passed by with a pan full of seconds.

“Sure, it’s been a while hasn’t it?” Wolf Chan grinned, already making a mental little plan of what they would need. “We can take a picnic with us too.”

“Seaside sandwiches!” Jeongin immediately cried, hopping up onto his chair, “We can have Seaside sandwiches right?”

“What does that consist of?” Leebit asked, sounding just a little bit on the suspicious side as this was the first he was hearing of this food stuff and he had opinions on what the wolf would sometimes feed his youngest. Though if truth be told, Jeongin was growing every day and was very healthy so there had been a lot of good stuff there so it was no big issues.

“Bread, egg, tomatoes and mayonnaise!” Jeongin bounced on his chair again.

Jiniret blinked, “That sounds…”

“Icky!” cut in Muppy and Quokka at the same time.

“They’re the best!” Jeongin half shouted back, before remembering that he was meant to use his indoor voice, “You just haven’t tried them yet.”

Wolf Chan grinned, “I’ll make some up for everyone to have a try of but we’ll take a selection of other things just in case.”

“Will silly bird be there?” Muppy asked, as he very carefully poured out some syrup onto his pancakes, attempting to spell out his name in the sauce to claim the plate as his.

Dwaekki laughed, nursing his own mug of coffee, “Gulliver? Maybe, it’s a little random when he turns up.”

“Did he get a new ship?” asked Bbokari, as the chick was sitting by the window in order to stretch his wings out and not catch anyone.

“Not to my knowledge,” replied Wolf Chan, feeding a piece of pancake to Hannie in order to get him to cheer up over the idea of the icky sandwiches. “Why?”

Bbokari took a long sip of his juice before answering, “There’s a really big, pretty boat in the ocean but it doesn’t look like Gulliver’s.”

Frowning, Wolf Chan got up to go and check on what it was that the chick was seeing, making sure to give him some loving little pats so he would do his happy little attention dance afterwards. It was freaking adorable to the wolf, and the others agreed. Looking out of the window, the wolf did indeed see a huge ship, with three large masts that had huge white sails on them, a large ship deck with a long post sticking out of the front though no noticeable figure head upon it. Faintly he could see a name painted on the side but he couldn’t read it from this far out. Though he did think that he recognised it, causing him to tilt his head to the side, “No way, it can’t be.”

“Hmm?” came several unspoken questions.

“May just be imagining but it looks like a ship of an old friend of mine,” replied Wolf Chan, “Though I doubt it since it’s been a long time since I’ve seen him.”
Leebit came to the window as well, narrowing his dark eyes and then double blinked in surprised, “Huh, that looks like the one my friend left on a while back.”
Dwaekki popped up behind the pair, startling them both, “Yoh! I just got a message from my old friend, says he’s arrived on an mysterious island. Think it could be this one?”

Wolf Chan blinked, “Right, let’s get packed and head to the beach.”

~*~

The sun was shining off the sand and there was a fresh smell in the air which made Jjoongrami happy as it meant that they hadn’t walked straight into some fresh nightmare as had occurred with several of the other landings. Granted he should have remembered that someone had to keep an eye on the waves when he had called the meeting but they were nearing some promising looking islands that were bound to have bundles of treasure so that had side tracked his mind. But the place looked nice and was inhabited so the squirrel wasn’t too worried.

“Ohhh, may be able to get some supplies at long last,” came Bbyongming’s voice as the chick looked over the edge, “We’ve been running low on some stuff for a little while now.”

Nodding Jjoongrami had to agree, “I was going to say that if we had to eat tuna fish again I was going to throw hands.”

“Tuna is the best,” Sandeoki yelled from where he was already clambering over the side of the ship, followed by Wooyongyang and Jjongbear which did not surprise the squirrel in the slightest. The two cats were always eager to go and explore, and the little bear would follow people whenever he felt like he was going to miss out on some fun.

Most people got confused with the two kittens, as generally it was the puppies who were the more explorative types but both Tyudeongi and Hetmongi were currently clinging to Ddeongbyeoli as if they were two tiny little things who were out of their depth. Sometimes Jjoongrami wondered quite how he had amassed such an oddity of an crew but knew to stop the arguments and any shenanigans quickly otherwise there was just going to be none stop chaos for the next hour or so and he really couldn’t be bothered to deal with all of that right now. “Hoi, slow down guys. We should really do some recognisance first…”

“Ohhh look it the pretty shell!” came Sandeoki’s voice, “There’s tons here.”

“I smell sandwiches!” called Wooyongyang, already running up the hill whereas Jjongbear was already half way up an tree to get the coconuts even though he could probably shake them down.

The pink rabbit gave a laugh towards the flustered looking squirrel, and urged the two clinging puppies on with his arms, “C’mon Captain, lets go and round them up before we have an incident on our paws.”

The squirrel nodded, letting out a huge sigh when there came an startled ‘Ahhh’, the sound of something crunching and then the joint cries of, ‘Captain!’, “Hyung!” and “Wahhhhhh!”

Bbyongming laughed and clapped the squirrel on the back, “looks like Ddeongbyeoli jinxed it already.”

It barely took the squirrel two minutes to get to the source of all the commotion. There were a bunch of other animals standing next to an large red and white picnic blanket that held a huge basket of sandwiches and drinks, as well as some other snacks which just looked delectable.

Wooyonyang was hugging a bright pink pig-rabbit who was bouncing around just as excitedly with him whilst Ddeongbyeoli was butting heads – playfully – with a white coloured rabbit that had a similar sort of glint in his eyes. There were several smaller animals who were clustering around his youngest, the puppies clearly enamoured immediately whilst the kitten and bear were generally looking confused and chuckling off to the side was a wolf.

A very familiar looking wolf, with a small fennec fox perched on top of his head.

“Wolf Chan?” Jjoongrami asked surprised, his ears raising up.

Wolf Chan nodded, “Hi Captain, long time no see.”

The noise that escaped the squirrel captain was not to be believed but when the others turned to find the pair embraced together they figured that they were old friends.

Wolf Chan laughed, “Great to see you finally brought yourself and your crew across to Stayville.”

“Haha, it wasn’t actually planned, just took our eyes off the skies for a bit,” Jjoongrami said with a grin, “but it appears that we’ve landed here so it’s as good a time as now to call a visit, eh?”

“Hyungie!” Jjongbear appeared with a sandwich in his hand, “You’ve gotta try these, they’re so yummy!” The egg, tomato and mayonnaise sandwich was stuck straight into Jjoongrami’s face but the squirrel captain was rather used to this and just grinned towards Wolf Chan.

“Lunch?”

“Made extra when I clocked the ship,” Leebit called, “Good thing I did, wasn’t it?”

“Food!” came the delighted cry from most of the younglings and very soon everyone was settled down together to eat their sandwiches and catch up with long missed friends. As well as making new ones.

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If there was one thing that Leebit knew how to do successfully, it was how to make Wolf Chan very happy.

And no, it did not involve anything in the bedroom though both rabbit and wolf could wholeheartedly agree that they were very happy in the that department thank you very much. There were some things that were definitely not for sharing.

He grinned proudly to himself as the boxes arrived, glad that he had the house to himself for the first time in a little bit as it gave him plenty of time to get everything set up and organised. There had been a delay in the order, as the items in question were constantly sold out which did mean that he had missed the planned celebrations for Fathers Day, but they’d still had a fantastic day and the kiddies had come up trumps with their gifts and outing idea so Leebit had just vibed and enjoyed.

Plus the rabbit did not need any greeting card reason to make his wolf happy, he could do it anytime.

A quick check of the schedules confirmed that Wolf Chan would be the last one home tonight, as he had gone off to the mainland in order to meet with the K.K.Slider to record one of his songs! It was one of the highest honours ever and the wolf had been beside himself ever since the first email reach out and Leebit couldn’t be prouder. Wolf Chan was talented, deserved to have his words and voice out in the general public and for the fans to start pouring in.

Of course, to keep his family safe, Wolf Chan was going by the acronym CB97 so he wasn’t as easy to find and Leebit just had fun teasing him for it.

The plan was that Dwaekki was going to pick Wolf Chan up from the Airport at 5.30pm after his shift at the gym. Leebit was picking the kids up from school at 3 through 4pm, as Innie got out earlier than Muppy and Lixie and Hannie, whilst Jinnie would be walking home by himself at 4.30 as he was going to big school now and felt confident enough to do such things. Especially now that he had friends as he had joined an couple of extra curricular classes and he liked to walk home with them. Leebit was thrilled to see the ferret growing up, remaining as responsible as ever but also being a happy little child himself still so it all worked out perfectly.
Leebit had opted to work from home today, so it was even better. Checking the time he had plenty to do so, he merrily went back to his work to ensure that all the emails and orders were done for the day and closed up the shop so that he could reorder more stock. Then he did a quick house clean, checked over the packages that he had received were all as they were supposed to be, had his own little happy squeal fest over then, made up several healthy light afterschool bento boxes as they wouldn’t be eating until much later than normal and Leebit didn’t want to have to constantly deal with complaining hungry kids. Not that his complained that much, but they could act up a little bit when they were hungry and it was much better than snacking.

Checking the time, Leebit grabbed his coat and keys and set off at 2.30 to get across to the school to pick up Innie first. He chatted onto a couple of the other parents and had to laugh when the little fox came bounding out of the door first, looking extremely colourful. “What happened to you, little fox?” Leebit asked.

“Painting!” Innie exclaimed happily, “Innie gets first bath tonight!”

The rabbit chuckled, noting that there were so many splotches of colour all over Innie and it was clear that he would indeed be the first in the bath tonight. “It’s not itching you, is it? Just you won’t be able to have a bath till much later tonight.”

“Cause Daddy’s coming home?” Innie bounced around excitedly, his tail wagging as he had taken to copying Muppy whenever the puppy was happy. “I don’t mind, I’ve had it on since this morning and it’s not affected me.”

“What even were you painting?” Leebit had to ask, noting a few other little ones were also covered in splotches of pain.

“The classroom walls! We could paint whatever we wanted on them,” Innie replied, grinning happily, “When we go back on Monday, Daddy can come in and see the masterpiece.”

Leebit nodded, “I’m sure that we’ll all love that. Let’s go around the corner and get Muppy, shall we?”

“Yes, lets!” Innie said, grabbing hold of Leebit’s paw and setting off around the corner to the bigger school. Shortly he would be going there himself, and he was mega excited for it.

Seungmin was at the gate, looking very high and mighty as he had been put on Gate Duty to ensure that everyone got out perfectly fine with the correct parents or adult who was picking them up. Of course there was a teacher present to double check everything but the puppy was taking everything very, very seriously and it was adorable to watch. Lixie and Quokkie had opted to just remain on the playground swings until Leebit showed up and they waved and ran across. “Hii Leebit!”
“Hi, sunshine twins,” Leebit smiled, “Ready to go home?”

“Yep!” replied Quokka with a series of jittery little jumps.

“We get to greet Daddy tonight,” replied Lixie, running around in a happy little circle before joining paws with Innie to jump around in happy excited circles together. “It’s going to be great! He’s been gone too long.”

Leebit nodded happily, “Indeed it has. You coming Muppy?”

For a few more seconds the puppy was scrutinizing one of the adults who was picking up a friend but then seemed to satisfy himself that everything was fine and turned to Leebit with a smile before dashing over. “Daddy?” he asked, clinging to the rabbits leg.

“Not yet sweetie,” Leebit replied, petting Muppy who had been the one to take the separation the hardest strangely but it also made a lot of sense. Whilst Muppy could be a little terror, sassy as anything and had a big attitude, he was still just a little clingy puppy at heart who did not want to be left behind. “But soon. You’re all going to help me with a surprise for him when we get home.”

That got all the kiddies attention with a chorus of oohhs, before they set off to home. Leebit ensured to text Jiniret to say remind him to come straight home, to receive a message back that the ferret was brimming with excitement and had to brew the special tea anyway so he would not forget. Leebit grinned and lead the others home, hoping that the surprise would be worth it.

~*~

The flight landed exactly at 5.30pm and Dwaekki was there to catch the big hug that Wolf Chan threw around the pig rabbit. He grinned and squeezed him back,
“There you are, all home safe and sound.”

“It’s good to be back,” Wolf Chan smiled happily.

“Didn’t you enjoy it?” Dwaekki asked a little worriedly.

The wolf nodded, “I did very much, but it’s nice to come home to the peace and quiet.”

“Good,” Dwaekki grinned, took Wolf Chan’s suitcase and lead him out of the airport, “How was working with the K.K?”

“Amazing,” Wolf Chan blushed, “I knew he was good before but to actually work with him…I still can’t believe it.”

“When’s the release?” Dwaekki asked cheekily.

Wolf Chan stuck his tongue out towards the pig-rabbit, “Me to know and you to find out when it happens.”

“Aww but hyung!” Dwaekki pouted but then laughed. “I bet you’re looking forward to Leebit’s cooking, hmmm?”

“Yes I am,” Wolf Chan replied, either ignoring or completely missing the insinuation of those words. “I’m so hungry I could eat my weight in food.”

The pair continued on their way back to the house and Wolf Chan couldn’t help but smile just a little more as he realised that soon he would be home and able to hug his partner and kids as much as he wanted. It did not take them long to get there, or at least it didn’t feel like that long of a walk and Wolf Chan merrily opened the door.

To let out an squeal as he spotted his five kids all dressed in Pokémon onesies. Jiniret was Sprigatito, Hannie was Squirtle, Lixie was Bulbasaur, Muppy was a Charmander and Innie was an Eevee.

Leebit caught the whole exchange on video and even had an adult Munchlax hoody for Dwaekki, whilst he got himself an Mimikyu and of course for Wolf Chan, there was a Shiny Charizard hoody. He earnt himself lots of hugs, kisses and a ton of cute pictures of everyone to embarrass them all with on their eighteenth birthdays he was sure but Leebit did not care as he would do anything a thousand times over to just make Wolf Chan happy.

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When Jinnie found the rather old book in the attic, he thought that it was pretty and would definitely be something to display on an nice high shelf away from any teeny-tiny paws that may not understand the importance of the book. For Jiniret was a good, reliable and solid hyung to his little brothers – even if at times he could be completely dramatic – and he knew a magic spell book when he saw one. So he did put it on a nice high shelf where no one should have been able to get anywhere near it.

Bar he forgot that his three younger brothers were going through that phase where they liked to climb up all the things that they shouldn’t to find treasures.
Jiniret returned home on an rather chilly Tuesday evening after his art class, to discover an absolute ruckus in the house with Hannie and Lixie hiding on the top of the sofa, whilst Innie was bundled up in his blankets on the table top. The fox turned at the sound of the door and whined, “Make him stooooop!” over the loud noise of wailing.

Rightfully Jiniret blinked and looked around to find the source of the noise, wondering what had happened to Muppy this time.

But Muppy wasn’t the one crying, he was currently sat in the middle of the living room, trying to give what looked like a piece of celery towards a much smaller creature. One that was grey with a white face, tummy and paws and pointy ears that were drooped down in sadness. It was crying loudly and Jiniret stepped closer with curiosity and confusion adorning his face, “Who’s this?” he asked aloud.

For a moment the little wolf paused in its crying to look towards the speaker, eyes scrunched up but a happy little smile crossed its face and paws made a grabby motion towards the ferret. “Ret Ret!” it went.

Jiniret righted himself, “Dad?”

A happy little clap was his response, before the little wolf started crying again as clearly there were far too many big emotions to deal with. The ferret quickly shot forward, pulling the little fur ball into his arms, to shush and smooth the little creature down. Wolf Chan was so small right now, literally only like ten centimetres or something so he would barely come up to Jiniret’s knee and was probably about the size that Muppy had been when he was born.

The elder brother looked around the others, “What happened?”

Innie was the first to point a paw, “Muppy read out of the book that we found, even though I told him not to.”

“Tattle-tale!” Muppy half yelled back towards his younger brother, wincing slightly.

“But you did,” Lixie piped up, hopping down, “You said that you could read it and started reading it aloud and there was all this cool glittery stuff and we told you to stop but you didn’t.”

“Then the cool glittery stuff seemed to take an mind of it’s own and went and hit Dad,” Hannie finished off.

Jiniret sighed, “Where’s Uncle Dwaekki?”

“At the gym till 8pm,” Muppy informed, slightly pulling at his ears, “We already thought of that.”

“And Mama?” Jiniret had to asked, even though he already knew the rabbit was no where in the house because there would have been so many controlled yells about this situation right now. The little ones had started called Leebit Mama because it was clear what was going on there and it just made the most logical sense in the world.

Lixie was the one to raise an wing in response, “He went to the Mainland for something and he’s either left his phone here or it’s on silent because he’s not responding.”

Jiniret wanted to groan and stamp his feet but knew that wasn’t an sensible course of action right now. He was the eldest in the household right now, the grown ups were out and he had a teeny Daddy to deal with and keep alive until someone could come and help him. Plus he had to watch his younger brothers, sort them out and make sure that they didn’t get into any form of trouble as well as get them something to eat and drink before settling down to do their homework.

Making up his mind, Jiniret settled himself with a deep breath and then glanced down at Wolf Chan. The baby wolf was watching him with star filled eyes and quietly sucking at his paw. There was definitely the need for a camera picture for this, that much Jiniret knew but only once he had gotten things settled and organised. “Right, here’s what we’re going to do,” Jiniret said, his tone recognisable to Lixie and Muppy straight away, causing both little animals to sit up just a little straighter.
“Lixie you’re going to make everyone some sandwiches and a large glass of milk each, Innie you’re going to set the table after you fetch the high chair from the shed in the garden and Hannie you’re going to clean up all the cushions and close the book carefully with a bookmark, and then put it on the office table so that no one else can touch it until the adults get back.”

Muppy pouted, “I could find the counter spell.”

“Not a chance,” Jiniret said a little snappily before pulling himself back, “Sorry, I just don’t want anymore accidents to happen until we get an adult here to help out. Daddy you do not count as you’re smaller than Innie right now,” the ferret directed towards the babbling cutie in his arms, “Muppy, you’re going to have a very special job of helping me to make sure that Wolf Chan here is sorted and as happy as can be. Which first means a bath, then a bottle of warm milk, followed by cuddles and then a cozy nap I think.”

Muppy blinked, his ears twitching, “That’s what you used to do to me.”

“And Lixie, yeah,” Jiniret replied with a soft smile that held just a little bit of sadness.

Checking that the others were pro-occupied with their tasks, Muppy launched an deep hug around Jiniret for a few seconds and squeezed him tight before pulling back with a wrinkling of his nose. “Ugh, Daddy stinky!”

Wolf Chan bubbled up with laughter at that, and Jiniret could not hold in his disgusted face as he realised what had happened. “Ewww.”

~*~

Checking his phone after he got back to Stayville, as there had been an major network outage for the past eight hours, Leebit blinked at the number of notifications and only thought of the most sensible thing to do. Which was to run as fast as he could possibly do to get home as soon as was feasible. Though he did call Dwaekki at the same time, “Have you heard anything from the house?”

“No…why?” Dwaekki replied, sounding as if he had just walked out of one of the many classes that he hosted, “Wait there’s a message at the front desk, hang on.”
“Somethings happened!” Leebit half yelled, hissed and panicked, “The kids are frantic. Where’s Wolf Chan?”

There was no response for a few seconds as Dwaekki was clearly picking up the message but when he came back he sounded just as frantic, “We need to get home now.”

“Already there,” Leebit replied, rapidly opening the door and stepping inside expecting to find a horror movie scene of blood, dead bodies and police officers wanting to ask questions.

Instead the phone clattered to the floor as he uttered aloud, “What in the actual hell?”

“Bitty bit!” a tiny Wolf Chan, wearing something green as a bib that had not saved the milk from splashing all down his front, was merrily wriggling in an age old high chair which they had yet to get rid of, at the table. His little paws were dancing back and forth, in a clear grabby motion towards the rabbit.

“Wolf Chan?” Leebit asked, stepping forward and noting that everything was in one piece. In fact, Lixie and Hannie were quietly sitting in the living room doing their homework whilst Muppy had a bunch of way too advanced books all propped up on his desk, a pair of glasses on his face and a bunch of hand written notes next to him.

Jiniret appeared, wearing an Larma themed pink apron and carrying an extra cloth. He looked as though he had just finished drying himself off from being attacked with milk himself but hummed happily as he started to clean the milk off Wolf Chan who chortled a bit and continued making grabby hands towards Leebit. “Bitty Bit!”
Jiniret turned, jumped a little in surprise before flinging himself towards Leebit, “Mama!”

“What happened?” Leebit asked, still staring at the baby wolf who was wiggling in his seat even more now.

“Muppy turned Daddy into a baby,” Innie helpfully threw Muppy under the bus once again, as he finished coming down the stairs with several towels and blankets, “With a spell! He didn’t mean to though, it just sort of went woosh and hit Daddy on accident. He’s also trying to find how to undo it but he hasn’t been able to yet.”
Just at that moment, Dwaekki piled in, took one look at the situation at hand and went, “Yoooh, I thought someone was dead.”

“Dwae!” came the happy call from the high chair.

Leebit put a hand in Dwaekki’s face before he could say another word and let out a deep sigh. He glanced down at Jiniret, “You kept them all safe and fed yes?”
Jiniret nodded, “We couldn’t find a bottle for Daddy so we started spoon feeding him the milk but it kind of went wrong.”

Feeling proud of the fact that the little ferret had managed so much, Leebit placed a kiss on the boys head before moving to grab the little Wolf Chan and hoist him up. “Right, bath time for you squirt. Dwaekki go help Muppy with….actually no, take the little ones out to tea, here’s my wallet and I’m going to go visit Katrina.”
“Can I come?” Muppy immediately asked, perking up.

Leebit glared at the puppy who looked a little upset for a second but then got stubbornly determined, “I want to know how to undo magic so if it ever accidentally happens again then we can sort it out before there’s a big mess everywhere. I’m taking res…respond…ible.”

Leebit folded, “You’re such a good boy, Muppy. Right let’s get this show on the road.”

“Asdfwefwegw,” went Wolf Chan, batting happily at Leebit’s face with the biggest, gummiest and dimpliest smile on his lips ever.

Several thousand photographs were taken on the way to Katrina’s, as Leebit couldn’t help but call in to several spots along the way as this was just too cute an opportunity to miss and when they got to the mystic cat she simply giggled at the cuteness and said that it was a temporary spell that would wear off within twelve to twenty-four hours.

Which it did.

Not before several thousand more photographs were taken of course, as baby Wolf Chan was just too adorable and several days after, when Wolf Chan was back to his normal big self, there was even more hilarity as Leebit received a Baby Box from Residential Services with a note to say ‘Just in case you’ve got plans.’

Leebit nearly died, Wolf Chan was rightfully confused and Dwaekki laughed his arse off for the rest of the day.

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“Mama, can we go to town today?” Hannie asked, hopping about around Leebit as the rabbit was currently engaged with trying to wrestle Innie into a jumper as the weather had turned a little cold as of late. But the little fox was in the mood to run around practically naked as the day he was born. Something which Wolf Chan was getting blamed for firmly as he had been working out way too much as of late and therefore wandering back and forth in only his gym shorts.

Not that the rabbit was complaining, because the view was very nice of course, but there were some things that should not be done around children and that definitely classed as one of them.

Leebit blinked, looking down at Hannie, “You want to go to town today?”

The quokka blinked and nodded, though looked a little nervous, “Yes.”

“Why?”

“Cause it’s nearly Halloween and we want to go get the best costumes in advance,” Lixie chimed in, leaping up and down way to excitedly for the time of day.
Blinking again, Leebit glanced towards the calendar and saw that it wasn’t even the month of October yet but figured that the kids may just want to get a little bit ahead of the game. Last year they had left it a little too late so maybe starting early would be the best sort of thing. Plus there were a couple of things that they did need to get in anyway and it had been a while since they had been to town anyway so it was actually a good idea.

“Okay, go and rustle up your Daddy and Uncle then, may was well make this an full family event,” Leebit said with a grin, then turned to grab Innie by the tail, “But you sir are going to be wearing clothes whether you like it or not because I am not having you catch a cold and complaining about it for the next week.”

“But!” started Innie with a whine, trying to still wriggle his way out of Leebit’s paws even if he was fighting a loosing battle, “Daddy walks around with nothing on.”
“Only when he’s working out,” Leebit argued back.

“You like it when he walks around nakey though!” Innie chimed immediately back, “You get a funny smile on your face and chase him to the bedroom!”

A blush crossed Leebit’s face, “Why you little!”

Innie laughed and batted at Leebit’s nose, “I’m only speaking the truth Mama.”

“Stop turning into a mini me!” Leebit snapped playfully towards the fox, “You’re supposed to be the cute one, Muppy is the menace of the family not you.”

“Aww, no fun,” Innie pouted and started wriggling again only to realise that he was wearing one of his favourite jumpers in the world, it was the Eevee one with the bright red patterns all around it, so instead he just grinned and demanded hugs from the rabbit who gave in all too easily to his pouty little face.

“Wolf Chan!” Leebit called, seeing that the kids were pretty much ready to go, “Dwaekki! Butts up here now.”

There came a clamouring from the pair though they appeared in different ways. Dwaekki was clearly working out once again, as he always did, whilst Wolf Chan was in more casual dress which meant that he had been working on his songs. This made Leebit smile cause the current one he was working on was really good in the rabbits opinion and he couldn’t wait for it to be finished so that he had the bragging rights of being the muse of it. Because yes it was a love song and Leebit couldn’t be more proud.

“What’s going on?” Dwaekki asked.

“Family day out,” Leebit stated, hoisting Jeongin up a little further on his hip as the fennec fox played with the necklace the other was wearing, “The kids want to see if there’s advance Halloween stuff out as of yet and we haven’t all been out together in a while so lets go.”

Wolf Chan smiled and nodded, grabbing his coat and wallet, “That sounds like a good plan, oh hello Hannie, do you want an uppie as well?”

“Pwease!” the quokka whined, giggling delightfully when he was up.

Lixie chuckled and flew himself up to land on Wolf Chan’s shoulders whilst Jiniret claimed to be to big and grown up to want uppies anymore but eventually gave in to allow Dwaekki to give him a piggy-back ride as that was still allowed. None of the adults could quite understand it all but they weren’t going to complain.

Especially as it meant that they all set off together, without any big dramas and everything was good. Until Jeongin spotted the huge piles of leaves that there being dutifully tided up by some of the other residents. “Ohhh! Leaf pile!” he cried, pointing and wrigglingly so much that Leebit was forced to let him go.

Wolf Chan and Dwaekki let their charges go without so much of a question and Lixie flew off and reached the pile first. Within seconds the four of them were running around, screaming their lungs out and seemingly having the best time ever. Wolf Chan did a quick head count, frowned, re-countered and then turned back towards the house with a concerned look, “Where’s Muppy?”

“Huh?” Leebit went, before realising that the puppy wasn’t actually with them as he was supposed to be.

“I’ll go check the house,” Dwaekki said, “The little rascal likes sleeping in these days.”

Leebit groaned, “How did we miss that sassy little toerag?”

“Cause he’s either being a quiet, little studious pup or harassing everyone within sight and earshot and there’s no in-between,” Wolf Chan replied, chuckling warmly before taking the opportunity to throw his arms around Leebit’s shoulders in a hug with a contented sigh.

Leebit playfully tried to pull away, as he always did but never with any full intention behind it until he just had to give in to the hug from the other because there was no escaping. He was aware of the complete idiocy that he was doing with it, but Wolf Chan loved it all the same and it made him happy so there was no real need to complain.

The pair stayed hugged up until Dwaekki appeared, carrying a pouting Muppy and his book. “Got him, studying magic once again,” Dwaekki said proudly.
Leebit took the book off Muppy, “Where did you even get this? I banned all magic books from the house.”

Muppy complained, “But it’s a good one! I won’t use any of them on my brothers.”

“Like any of us believe that,” Dwaekki said, “Now go and play in the leaves with the others and then I may buy you a pumpkin spice americano if you behave.”
“AMERICANO!” came a shriek from several of the others who were still running through the piles of leaves.

“Now you’ve done it,” Wolf Chan said, smacking his forehead with a sigh, “They’ll be up all night again.”

“You’re buying them all, Dwaekki,” Leebit stated, curiously glancing through the book as the kids were still merrily playing about in the leaves with the same yells of the drink order. Muppy was dive bombing his brothers so all was good.

Dwaekki pouted but sighed, “Yeah, I kind of figured anyway.”

The rest of the afternoon was spent watching the kids tire themselves out chasing leaves around, buying them Americano’s with pumpkin spice and then watching them run around in circles for the remainder of the evening until they all passed out in various places. Wolf Chan carried them all up to bed, tucked them in and then cuddled up with Leebit who promptly fell asleep whilst Dwaekki did one more round at the gym before falling asleep on the equipment.

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“Right, one more and then we’re done,” Dwaekki said as he raised his spade up once again and dug it into the earth.

“Yay!” called Lixie, who was splattered with mud, “the wheelbarrow won’t be so hard to push this time.”

The pig-rabbit grinned and nodded, “It will be. Though we’ve done very well on the pumpkin harvest this year.”

“Good good,” chirped the little chick happily, “Will we have enough to make Jackos?”

For some reason, unknown to everyone on the island, the kids had taken to calling Jack-o-Lanterns, Jackos but with no actual explanation as to why. Thankfully Dwaekki had heard the term enough to not be scratching his head every time he heard it now so he nodded, “Oh for sure. We’ll get a bunch of pretty bells as well which will be handy come the winter.”

“Get all stocked up on everything so we can play in the snow!” Lixie grinned happily, already excited for running around in the white fluffy stuff when it inevitably fell in a few months.

Dwaekki couldn’t help but smile proudly at the little chick as he recalled when he first met him and had still be a little on the wary side, even though those who didn’t know him that well would have never noticed it. Focusing back on the task at hand, he hauled the last pumpkin into the wheel barrow and passed the spade to Lixie. “Lets get autumn done with first, we’ll stop by the tool shed on the way back and then go select the best pumpkins from the harvest before trotting off to the Nook to sell the rest.”

There was a very distant rumble of thunder but neither the pig-rabbit or the chick noticed as they chattered on together happily as they trundled along. Lixie put the shovel away and they headed back to the house which had turned into a huge pumpkin itself. Well not entirely, but with the number of pumpkins that were stacked around in various piles, it was easy to mistake the house turning into one.

Heading inside, Dwaekki grinned as he saw Leebit already sorting through the piles whilst Wolf Chan was going through to pick the very best of the best for their own works. Jiniret was helping out, though occasionally keeping an eye on Hannie, Muppy and Innie to ensure that they were doing their assigned task of drawing out the templates that they were going to use to carve the pumpkins into Jackos.

This was an extremely important task that required a lot of effort and concentration apparently but the pig-rabbit wasn’t too worried about it all.

“This is the last load,” he said helpfully, watching as Lixie ran to hug Jiniret and then go assist his brothers, “We got a majorly great haul this year.”

“The Nook isn’t going to know what to do with all these,” Leebit said, pausing and stretching a little from his task. He glanced over to Wolf Chan with a small frown, “Why are you making two piles?”

“Oh sorry,” Wolf Chan replied, grinning a little sheepishly, “I got struck by a sudden thought and just had to go through with it.”

“What thought?” the rabbit asked, his eyes narrowing.

Wolf Chan grinned, “The first year I had Innie for Halloween, he was too little for a full costume so I dug out an pumpkin, cut out little holes for his paws and popped a little hat on his head. I got the cutest photos from it and thought it may be fun to recreate it this year.”

Leebit looked appalled, “How come I’ve never seen these pictures?”

“Cause they’re in a folder upstairs, hang on I can go and fetch them,” Wolf Chan said, ignoring the outcry as he knew was it was for. He’d been surprised that he had kept those photos from the other two, seeing as they had definitely seen most of Innie’s baby photos (to be frank though, the wolf had a collection of photo albums that could rival the local library and that was before he added in the rest of his babies. In fact they’d need to expand the storage space soon if they were to add more to the collection).

A couple of minutes later he was down and it was Dwaekki that let out the first shrill noise at seeing the adorable little fox in his little pumpkin with a little orange bobble hat looking somewhat bewildered in the first couple of shots but then quite getting into the spirit of things by attempting to eat the side of the pumpkin he was in.

Leebit beamed, “These are perfect! And yes, we need to do these again.”

“I’m worried that Jiniret may be a bit big,” Wolf Chan stated.

“We’ve got some whopper ones, I’m sure there’ll be one that fits him!” Dwaekki said, hurrying to look through the massive collection of pumpkins for the biggest ones in order to create the photoshoot.

Jiniret was a bit confused at first, especially as he kept on being lined up next to pumpkins and then asked to sit on them but eventually he clicked and found it to be a highly amusing game.

Plus once the pumpkins had been selected, the ones not needed shipped off and the ones to be carved set aside, things really got going at a nice pace. The pumpkins were scouped out, the holes being carved by Wolf Chan and Dwaekki whilst the boys tipped the insides into various containers under the watchful eye of Leebit so that everything could be set in place to make various pies and other treats.

It took them all afternoon to get it all set up but once it was done, the photographs turned out cute and silly and they were treated as the very precious little items that they were. Though in later life, Muppy would dread their appearance and claim that he did not look cute in the slightest and it had been one of the most horrible experiences of his life. Even if in the photograph, the pup had the biggest grin on his face the entire time and then had a series of photographs afterwards where he was running around merrily chasing an rolling pumpkin.

((there was also a thunderstorm later but it was when the kids were all tucked up safely in bed, so Wolf Chan only had to deal with a scared Dwaekki and Leebit))

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There was an rattle of tracks as the cart came around the corner and then stopped in place. “Muppy gets on first!” the puppy shrieked, practically leaping over an slightly worried looking Han to scramble into the first set of seats. “Come on, come on! Let’s go! I’ll bite all the nasty ghosts and go boo right back at the other things.”

Wolf Chan blinked, glancing at the other kiddies, “Are you really sure about this?”

On the lead up to Halloween, an travelling fair had come to Stayville and there were a bunch of really cute, spooky and fun attractions to keep the kids entertained.
There had been the pumpkin dodgems, in which the kids had teamed up with one another to chase around the adults and bump into them as many times as they could possibly manage which had led to a lot of laughter and glee from Leebit who had been recording the whole thing and was secretly uploading to the not quite forgotten Wolf Chan’s room just to see peoples reactions.

Next had been the Ghoul-A-Bout, with was a Merry-Go-Round that had replaced some of it’s usual horses with ghosts, a witches broom which Muppy immediately claimed, several more pumpkins and some creatures that no one could identify. Wolf Chan had to steady Innie on his chosen ride of a snake as he was just a little wriggly and kept on falling before the ride started.

Dwaekki and Jiniret had gone on the waltzes, and both had ended up wobbly and slightly unwell after getting off.

Lixie had gotten stuck in the Mirror Maze and Quokka had gone in to try and help him out of it but had gotten himself lost as well so Leebit had to go in to fetch the pair of them out but had promptly got all three of them stuck when he tried to get out with them. Wolf Chan tried to direct, Dwaekki and Jiniret cheering and eventually Innie had gone in, caught up to the trio and gotten them all out with no issues what so ever. The fair ground worker had laughed, remembering the year when the tiny fox cub had wandered in, around and out without any issues by himself whilst Wolf Chan had ran around in a panic and bumped his nose several times.
It was decided that they would get some food and have a rest before taking on the rest of the fairground and the family got some burgers, chips with coffee or tea for the adults and hot chocolates or warm milk for the youngsters. After that they had taken a moment away from the rides to play on some of the amusements which had also been cutely adapted for the season.

The was Hook-A-Boo, where the kids just had to reach across with big hooks to pick up floating funny ghosts, Boo Can Alley where everyone attempted to knock tins off an platform but firmly missed. Dwaekki got lucky with the dart board game, which didn’t have much of an funny spooky name, and managed to win four times in a row so all the kids got plushi’s that were bigger than them of Halloween themed ducks that they all loved.

Leebit tried to win a prize from a claw machine and didn’t get very far with it at all.

Jiniret won at Spooklar – a variation on Hoopla where a round disc had to be thrown over a tower in order to win a prize. Jiniret had thrown his with no real regard, as he was getting bored waiting on the others actually finishing and had landed himself an nice little art set. His little brothers had clamoured for him to win them something, but another set of turns later resulted in nothing so it was decided that everyone would go back on a few rides and then head home for the night.
So they had gone as a family on the Scream Loom, where Leebit insisted that everyone wear the ponchos he had brought with him to ensure that no fur got wet and the photograph from the ride was so funny that they had all agreed to getting it.

Then had been the Big Wheel, which had been enjoyable to everyone excluding Leebit who ended up wrapped up tightly in Wolf Chan’s arms the entire time because he was terrified of the height. Wolf Chan had offered to let him wait it out, but the rabbit was stubborn and refused to be left out. He regretted it of course, but also secretly loved the fact that he got to cling like an limpet to his partner with no one calling them out because he was scared of heights. Dwaekki sneaked several cute photos and uploaded them to the Wolf Chan’s Room server as well.

Which he got a little shouted at for, before Leebit saved them anyway because they were undeniably cute. Not that he would state this out loud ever of course.
The kids had a merry time clamouring over the Fun House, chasing one another around the silly stairs, spinning daftly on the circles and getting caught out with the air machines. Along with a hundred other silly shenanigans whilst the adults happily caught their breath and photos of the server of course.

Then there was the Ghost Train.

Lixie had taken one look at it, promptly gone as white as a sheet and had ran to Leebit with a series of cries that said there was not a chance that he was going to go on it. Chan couldn’t really blame the chick, as there was a rather disturbing looking Frankenstein monster looming and creepy looking bats and things that just put a chill straight down his spine. The wolf would have done anything not to go on the ride, but the owner had said that since there were two small ones, then two adults were needed to ride. Jiniret didn’t count as a adult, but didn’t need to be accompanied at all which was confusing but it was the rules.

Dwaekki was fine with it, Leebit was trying to settle Lixie down and clearly was going to be occupied for a little while so that left Wolf Chan to go on the ride with the others.

Jiniret grinned up at the wolf, grabbing his hand, “Come on, Daddy! It’ll be so fun.”

Hannie had clambered into the front of the cart with several promises that he was going to be fine and that Muppy was going to bite the scary ghosts. Wolf Chan gulped and got into the back seat, along with Dwaekki who was making obnoxious boo noises to give little jump scares and really prayed that his nerves didn’t show. He had never really told anyone that he didn’t actually get along well with things like these, he was a little bit of a scaredy cat when it came to ghosts, ghouls and other nasty things that went bump in the night.

He thought it would be best to at least inform Dwaekki about what he was going to be let in for, but as he opened his mouth to speak, the cart jolted forward and they headed up the twisting path towards the first door that held an neon green and red sign that said ‘Enter if you dare’.

Wolf Chan survived about five seconds in the dark before a pop out ghoul had him screaming loudly like a girl which shocked the others more than anything that was in front of them. The wolf was literally gripping tightly onto the hand rail in front of him, his eyes screwed shut tightly in the hopes that if he kept them closed then it would all go away quicker but he also instinctively found that each time one of the kids let out a cry of delighted surprise, that he would open his eyes to check on the kid only to see something else that would make him scream and go back to hiding.

Dwaekki was half laughing, half shrieking with this new knowledge as he shook the wolfs shoulders, “You’re the one getting scared?”

“I don’t do well with these things!” Wolf Chan wailed, as they went around another corner where a ghost caused Innie to yelp in surprise and Muppy to growl in the most puppy aggressive style he could manage.

“You work out! You can...?” Dwaekki started as Wolf Chan suddenly started babbling in a lot of nonsense words and then they suddenly came out into the fresh air only to drop down a little rollercoaster section which caused Wolf Chan to latch onto as they both momentarily yelled in fright before going through another door. Dwaekki yelped, “You’re going to break my arm!” towards Wolf Chan, as he tried to wrestle free but then yelped when an fake bat flew at his face and some scary lights happened.

Then they clattered out of the final door and came to a stop. “Yay!” cried the three kids in the front, “Can we ride again?”

“No, absolutely not!” Wolf Chan said, hurriedly getting out of the cart whilst Dwaekki was laughing his head off.

Leebit was waiting with Lixie, with an knowing smirk on his face, “Have fun?”

“No,” Wolf Chan lamented, shaking his head and trying to get the spooky thoughts out of it.

“Aww, my big bad wolf is afraid of ghosts?” Leebit teased, leaving close before passing Lixie off to Dwaekki so he could give the slightly distraught wolf an hug.
Suddenly Dwaekki burst out laughing, “We’re so getting this photo!”

There was a photograph from inside the ride, with the three kids cheering, Wolf Chan wailing and Dwaekki looking like he was going to explode because his arm was being crushed. Leebit literally handed his credit card over without question and then went back to comforting Wolf Chan. That was a memory that would be preserved, even if their big bad wolf grimaced every time he saw it.

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The rain had come down in the middle of the day, just when the four youngest had been planning on going out to play in the back garden for the afternoon. Lixie had pouted at the rain, “Aww, no going out to play in that.”

“We could jump in puddles though,” Innie tried to argue but got cheekily bitten on the ear by Muppy who then shook his head.

“Daddy would make us all have a deep hot bath and an early bed if we did that,” Muppy said all matter of factly, “And that would mean we wouldn’t get our favourite TV show either.”

“Nooo! I need to know what happens next on Space Buddies!” Hannie cried a little loud which had all of the others rushing to shush him. Jiniret was currently upstairs having an extra long sleep as he had been studying really hard in school for exams as well as taking extra dance classes so that he could hopefully get into a really great high school on the main land but had accidentally over done things and burnt himself out.

Wolf Chan had gone to pick the boy up from school after the final exam with the intention of taking him out for a special treat. Instead he had brought the elder home for a big snuggle pile, a very long, hot special bath and then into jammies and up to bed. He hadn’t emerged since yesterday afternoon but the adults were checking in on him once in a while. Wolf Chan had opted to work from home, Dwaekki was on an run to the village store and Leebit was currently preparing an huge congratulatory feast for the ferret as they had been emailed his results and he was one of the top five students.

His younger brothers were looking forward to the food, but it they went out in the rain and had to go to bed early they would miss their favourite TV show and probably all the wonderful food. They had tried to help, but just kept getting in the way so Leebit had kindly asked them to go and entertain themselves for a couple of hours.

The garden had been the best shot, but now that it was raining, the four of them were at a bit of a loss as to what to do.

“Boardgames?” suggested Muppy.

“No, you always win at them,” Hannie pouted.

“Hide and seek?” Lixie suggested, flapping his wings.

“Might wake Jinnie up,” replied Innie.

“Maybe we can play video games?” Hannie responded next.

“Too loud and could wake up Jinnie which wouldn’t be fair,” replied Seungmin.

“See what’s in the art box and make some autumn or spooky crafts?” Lixie said, remembering that they had just gotten an new selection of really cool things for the art box so they could have some fun with that.

The others pondered this for a second, before all agreeing at the same time and rushing off towards the art zone. Jiniret had his own separate area where he kept his more advanced things, but enjoyed playing art with his younger brothers so shared the bits and pieces that he was not longer going to use. With it nearly being Halloween, they had gotten a bunch of cute, easy craft boxes at the local supermarket and decided to have a play with them.

There was an colour your own trick or treat bag, which Hannie grabbed because he rather liked colouring in. Innie took the diamond art light as his current night light wasn’t spoopy enough (he didn’t quite fully like scary things, but ghosties were just cute in his opinion, which no one argued with as the logic just wasn’t worth the headache). Lixie got to drawing funny faces on several different sizes of plastic pumpkins with pens and Muppy took on the 3d Haunted House puzzle that had a few little tricky bits.

They spent an happy hour or so doing this, until Lixie decided that he wanted to add some extra bling to his pumpkins and went searching through the decoration box for some stick on gems. During his rummaging, he came across a large tube of googly eyes in various sizes and he held it aloft like a grand prize. Ohhh Look what I found!”

Muppy blinked, annoyed for a second that he was getting distracted only to yelp with excitement when he saw what the other was holding, “Googly Eyes!”

“Ohhh can we go and stick them on things to make Jiniret laugh when he wakes up?” piped up Hannie straight away, practically bristling with excitement.

“But Daddy said not to stick them permanently to stuff,” Innie pouted, remembering why they hadn’t already done the sticking the eyes on everything.

The others deflated until Muppy did another happy little yip and ran out of the room. The other three looked at one another in confusion before Muppy was back, carrying a thin, rectangular box. “We use Blue Tact on the eyes so that they’re not permanently stuck to things, it’ll give Jinnie a laugh and then we can tidy them up afterwards so no one gets in trouble!”

That immediately cheered the other three up and they poured the eyes out onto the table before separating them all out and then rushing off around the house to place as many eyes as they could on as many different things that they could find.

Dwaekki walked in to find the banister had googly eyes and burst out laughing, which drew the attention of the other adults as it wasn’t completely normal for the pig rabbit to start laughing that loud when he came home. That was until Leebit saw the lampshade with a pair of big googly eyes and Wolf Chan found the phone had two sets of eyes. They all burst into laughter, after checking that the eyes weren’t permanently stuck in place and all agreed that it was pretty much perfect once the kiddies explained.

They only had to wait an hour or two more for Jiniret to wake up, toddle to the bathroom and let out a yell when he found googly eyes on the mirror in place of his own. Once he got over the shock of it all, as his was still just a little too much out of it to really focus, the ferret found it all extremely funny and wandered the house with his younger siblings in order to find them all.

“Thank you, I needed that laugh,” he grinned happily, pulling all three into an big cuddle at the end of it.

The Googly Eyes remained up until just after Halloween, except the ones that fell off of their own accord but it was still fun to find them around the house in places that were forgotten about.

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“Say Boo!” Wolf Chan grinned as he lined up the perfect shot with his camera.

“BOOBIES!” shrieked all four of the kids, before they fell over laughing together as was the want of any youngster who upon learning that work would find it hilarious for the next few years. Though if he were truthful, to Wolf Chan it still sounded like Innie was saying Boo Bees instead of the other ones.

Leebit glared, his arms crossed over his chest but Wolf Chan waved him off, “It’s fine.”

“It’s stupid,” the rabbit sighed.

“Like you didn’t go around saying it a hundred times a day when you first heard the word,” Dwaekki giggled, jabbing at the rabbit, “I’m pretty sure everyone does it until they realise what it actually means.”

“Still think some of them think its Boo Bees, as in the buzzing insects,” Wolf Chan chimed in with a grin which reduced Leebit’s scowl a little but mainly because now the kids had stopped shrieking about their new favourite word of the week, he got the chance to apricate them all a little more in their costumes.

Innie had decided that he wanted to be a bat, because then he’d have cool wings like Lixie but could be dark and mysterious. Which had resulted in the cub wearing an black onesie and covering his fur with black makeup but in that childishly cute way of him missing half of his fur leaving him with a bunch of streaks of black and an perfect pawprint over one eye and the rest of him still the usual tan colour that he always had. He was very proud though and was certain that his plastic pumpkin bucket was going to be filled to the brim. (And not just because all the Islanders and visitors were going to spoil the Island baby to pieces as they always did anyway).
For reasons know only to himself and maybe Leebit, Muppy had decided that he wanted to trick-o-treat as a piece of broccoli. When asked why, he said it was icky and that was that. Leebit was a touch concerned but was quite proud of the green afro wig that he’d been able to cobble together out of wool and other bits and pieces to make the top part whilst the cub had a bright green tube of carboard around his middle which he had helped to paint himself. He wore a green jumper and some broccoli themed slippers that had been found in the charity shop by pure chance. He looked good, if odd but it worked.

Hannie and Lixie had decided to team up and wear Deadpool and Wolverine costumes, which had been easy to get. Wolf Chan had laughed when he first heard the pair’s idea, because they had asked for it at the same time. Lixie was Deadpool, with fake swords on his back and his feathers all neatly tucked in and Hannie was running around trying to claw people with his plastic claws that was delightfully funny and silly to watch happen. Mainly because Hannie had speed but the grace of a drunk duck and was therefore constantly tripping over things or falling onto his behind without anyone prompting him in the slightest.

Finally there was Jiniret, who had decided that he wanted to be Aerial from the Little Mermaid as he adored the prettiness. But he didn’t want the ball gown, oh no, he had wanted to be the actual mermaid so therefore was wearing an mermaid tail skirt, a t-shirt with a shell bra pattern on it and a long red wig that had taken an hour to style properly as it had arrived all messed up in the post. He even had a flounder bag which he was using as his sweet collector and was so happy. He looked really pretty as well which made everyone happy.

Leebit had opted to don an old cape that Wolf Chan had and did his makeup to do a classic vampire look. Dwaekki was half wrapped in toilet paper to be an mummy and Wolf Chan had been slightly cheap by the fact that he wore a t-shirt which said ‘I’m a zombie, I eat brains’ on it because he had completely forgotten to get himself a costume until the point when everyone else had put theirs on. How anyone had missed that fact was something of a mystery but one that they would work on later. At least it was something but Leebit decided that next year there would be couples costumes or else.

“Right, everyone ready to go?” Wolf Chan asked, glancing around quickly to make sure that everyone was ready, with their sweet bags and that he had all the necessary supplies to make sure that no hiccups happened during the walk around town. Because even though they all knew the village well, when Halloween happened there were definitely plenty of opportunities for trips, spillages, booboos and more.

Taking hold of Muppy’s paw, Wolf Chan set out whilst Jiniret danced next to Leebit and Innie decided to climb up on top of Dweakki’s head to do his best bat impression from there. The pig-rabbit had a firm grip on their little one though so it was all good. Lixie and Hannie were running around in crazy circles but were having fun so they didn’t really need to reprimand everyone which was nice.

The whole of Stayville had been decorated in the proper style, with pumpkins all over the place, black and orange streamers between houses and skeletons propped up on lampposts. There were a couple of little stalls going around with hot chocolates, coffees and teas, and a few of the other islanders had clubbed together to make an bobbing for apples cauldron – in which Muppy nearly lost his broccoli head but Leebit’s quick thinking saved the day – and an series of magical drinks cauldrons with mocktails for the kiddies and alcoholic varieties for the adults.

Tom Nook had decided that the Trick-o-Treat would take place before an main central fireworks event, so everyone could start and finish at the same time and Wolf Chan couldn’t help but grin when he spotted clusters of his friends with their own little ones joining the queue to start trick-o-treating.

Jjoongrami was in the process of trying to carry Jjongbear who was desperately trying to wriggle free as Bbyongming and Wooyongyang were chasing each other around the squirrels feet in ever decreasing circles dressed in witch costumes whilst Jjongbear appeared to be trying to be a wolf. Ddeongbyeoli had an easier time with Tyudeongi and Sandeoki as they were both dressed as fairies whilst Hetmongi just had a paper bag over his head. Wolf Chan would ask later about that but for the time being he waved from where he stood.

Mainly because he had just spotted Jackson and Bambam rushing towards him with gleeful expressions on their faces. Well behind the clown makeup which was slightly off-putting. “Wolfie!” Jackson cried, hugging the wolf tightly, “It’s been so long!”

“Wah! Look at all the babies!” Bambam screeched, kneeling in front of the younger ones. Half pulled back in surprise and or terror before Innie stepped up to bonk Bambam on the nose with an huffy look on his little face.

“Naughty uncle, scaring my big brothers!” he chided but then squeaked as he was picked up and squished by Bambam who continued to squeal.

“Sorry Wolf Chan,” JB called, catching up with the others and shaking his head, “Couldn’t stop those two.”

“It’s fine,” Wolf Chan smiled, looking very content. “It’s good to see you all again.”

Leebit nudged him in the side with a look causing the wolf to giggle, “Oh, Leebit, these are my friends from the mainland. They’re usually the Chatters on the Wolf Chan’s room.”

“Ah the rabbit that has caught our wolf’s heart, eh?” Jinyoung grinned towards the rabbit, his own large ears flicking back and forth.

“Behave,” Wolf Chan chided gently, mainly because his group were about to reach the front of the line for the trick-o-treating event. “We can catch up later over coffee.”

“Adult coffee,” said Yugyeom with an knowing grin that got him several smacks.

Leebit chuckled and shoved Wolf Chan forward as their turn came up, “Yeah sure, though rightfully behave until we get back.”

The walk around was cute and sweet, even if Muppy ended up chasing after one of the ghosts who scared Jiniret and Han which was quite the comical sight indeed. The kids got plenty of sweeties to eat and the fireworks were bright and colourful. So all in all it was a good Halloween night.

The adult coffee drinks did happen later, once an babysitter had been found and settled in and things ended up a little bit spicy but all in a good way.

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Because there were five kids, the easiest way to get everyone sorted for a bath was to allocate one to every weekday night. If it wasn’t an allocated bath night, then everyone else would use the shower and for the most part it all worked out really well. Each kid had their own preference, ways of bathing and the products/toys they wanted to have.

Monday night was for Innie, as he was the youngest and therefore got to go first. Plus he had stepped up when his first three elder brothers had arrived to show them that bath time could be extraordinary fun and completely safe. Wolf Chan still had some night tremors about what had happened to his three eldest, even if he had never got the full story out of them and Leebit had never quite given up the ‘go hunting down the mean parents squad’ idea once he had learnt about it all.

For Innie, the little fennec fox liked to have only one adult to help him bathe – mainly it was Wolf Chan because he had been there first – and the pair had the routine fully down to pat by now. Innie would get out of his clothes from the day, wrap himself up in his large towel which was getting smaller with each year he grew, and then put his dirty clothes in the basket to be washed. In the meantime, Wolf Chan would have run the bath to a warm temperature with lots of bubbles, so many bubbles in fact that at times it was impossible to even see the water. Which would always make Innie squeal happily before ditching his towel and climbing into the bath – with a little assistance from Wolf Chan as Innie was still just a little too small to manage it. From there the fox would merrily play about in his bubbles, chasing them back and forth, digging through them like he would with piles of leaves, sand or snow and just generally getting utterly covered in them.

Of course they would run out but at that point, Wolf Chan would take the little yellow bucket from the side and gently use it to tip the warm water over the fox in order to get the soap suds off him before helping to scrub him clean with an honey and macadamia shampoo which the fox adored the smell of. Then it was a similarly smelling conditioner before getting rinsed off with the shower head that sometimes turned into a chase game, but not always before Innie would clamber out and roll himself up in his large towel to end up looking like a loaf of very contented foxy bread. From there, Wolf Chan would empty the bath, rub Innie dry and then carry him to his room to get his jammies on ready for a bedtime story with the rest of his brothers.

Tuesday nights were Muppy’s designated bath night and the puppy made sure that everyone knew fine well that this was his night and no one would ever take it away from him. Not meanly, but he liked order and routine and if things went out of it, sometimes it would throw him for a little bit of a pout but he could understand when someone was sick and ill or if something horrendous happened but otherwise, Tuesday was his bath night.

He had a full bathtime schedule too, which the adults found hilariously adorable and there were so many photos and scans of everything the puppy did because it was sure to be perfect for teasing him with in the future. As all parents had every last right to remind their kids of all the silly things that they used to do, because that was just the way of the world.

At 6pm sharp, Muppy would go to his room, get into his dressing gown and slippers and then meet the adult at the door of the bathroom. Whilst the bath would be filled with an agreeable temperature, which varied every Tuesday depending on the weather, Muppy would do his fur routine and then carefully select the two bubble baths out of a little science experiment kit that he had gotten at some point and exactly three drops from each had to be added to the bath. Then the adult would be sent off, so that the puppy could climb into bath unsupervised in order to relax and clear his head.

None of the adults ever pointed out the fact that they could hear the little terror merrily playing with his collection of bath time boats and spent more of his time out of the water than actually in it but where was the fun in that. Plus normally by 6.30pm Muppy would actually be in the water and cleaning himself with a bubble bar and then would put away his toys to make it appear like he hadn’t been playing with them before getting help with being rinsed off after emptying the bath as he couldn’t yet reach the shower head. Once that was done, he could be towel dried and then back into his dressing gown and slippers in order to head to the bedroom so he could be dried off by the hairdryer. Which normally turned into a game of trying to get the puppy to stay still long enough to actually be dried, rather than attacking and eating the hairdryer.

Wednesday nights were Lixie’s bath night and the chick loved them all so much. He’d hop upstairs as soon as he could, giving the others plenty of time to shower and then he would grab his supplies of speciality feather products that were scented beautifully or else sparkly or on some nights he’d decide to be a little more wicked and go for the villainous colours, sparkles and scents which were pretty much the same but instead of being baby pink and blue, they were purple and a dark green with a splash of red. Once he had decided what mood he was in, the chick would help fill the bath up and add the exact amounts of everything he wanted in before jumping in excitedly and splashing about merrily for a short amount of time.

Then would come the very specific feather cleaning brush, because unlike fur, there had a be a selection of brushes, combs and spikey things in order to get into all the deeper feathers and remove any soap which could irritate the skin of the chick. It had been an early mistake made when Lixie had first joined them and had resulted in a very upset chicken for them to deal with for a week whilst they ran a special but rather smelly oil through his feathers. Now they had everything, Felix was meticulously in getting through everything and all the adults would ensure to do a full check to ensure that there was no pesky soap suds left behind.

He too was dried with a hair dryer after a gentle towel pat down, but Lixie typically would just flop and curl up into a happy, fluffy little ball and would remain in said ball as a happy, contented little thing until the point of bed where he would poof up, get rid of any stray feathers, jump into his jammies and promptly pass out on his pillow without a single word to anyone.

Thursday night was Hannie’s night and the Quokka was surprisingly the easiest of the lot when it came to bath time. He only want one specific bubble bath that was more like an oil that would make the water very silky and sweetly fragnaced. The water was at a hot temperature that was nice and relaxing to the quokka and he’d toddle in with his special bath floatie and his extended neck holder for his phone.

He'd lay back in the water, quiet and still, watching an anime show and not moving for the next hour as he could usually watch two episodes in perfect peace and quiet. He liked to be alone during this time but had to have the door opened enough so that the steam could escape and if he needed anything then it was easy to call out. Once he was done, he’d get out and want to be cuddled for a few minutes before being tackled with the towel to bring some energy back into him before he would run off to his room to get jammies on and be fast asleep within five minutes.

If, of course, he didn’t get a random bout of his pre-bath zoomies where he would ditch the towel and go charging around the whole house fully naked and laughing his head off at whoever had the misfortune of trying to catch him. Because if someone didn’t catch him, it would take the better part of two hours for his brain and body to decide that he was actually over tired and he’d just randomly collapse at some point and promptly fall fast asleep. Leebit had warned Dwaekki of it happening when the pig-rabbit was left in charge of the kids whilst the two parents went out on a date and the resulting video had been pretty damn hilarious. Now everyone knew to be in on the catch a quokka game else they would all be awake well past their bedtimes and for the younger ones it made them rather grumpy the next morning. Hannie was usually fine as he would just bounce back and no one knew how.

Friday night was Jiniret’s bath night and the general rule of thumb was to leave the ferret alone as he was old enough to do everything himself. He’d start later than his younger brothers, ensuring that they were settled with whatever it was that they were doing like a good big brother before heading off. He’d choose a book off his shelf, get changed into his white dressing gown and fluffy slippers and then head downstairs to check that his favourite hot chocolate was ready to go. Leebit always got it but would pet Jiniret to reassure him every time he turned up in the kitchen on a Friday night.

Then the ferret would head up to the bathroom and lock the door, as he was allowed to do so. Then he’d spend a good fifteen or twenty minutes actually going through an proper fur care routine, a pink hairband keeping his ears out of the way as they were a little sensitive. He’d preen and use the special brushes and sponges to make sure that everything was done just to total perfection. Once he was happy with that, he would then run the bath and fill it with creams and bubble bath that had taken his fancy for the smells and then he would get in and merrily read his book until the water got too cold.

He would take little breaks every now and then, in order to give himself a proper scrub from head to toe – sometimes with a little shower cap to protect his ears if he had previously washed behind them in the shower but he’d pick and chose between the times that he did this but it was fine because he did keep a good check on his fur behind his ears. Once the water was cold enough, the ferret would hop out of the bath, rinse himself off in the shower and then dry himself off with a warmed up towel. He’d then put on his jammies, slippers and dressing gown and then give the bath a little rinse out to ensure no soap bubbles were left before heading downstairs to get his hot chocolate and stay up with the adults a little later because there were a couple of dramas that they all liked to watch together.

The ferret loved getting to spend time with the adults like this, feeling like he really was growing up and maturing but still being loved and protected enough that he could take the steps when he felt like it. After his drama he’d normally head upstairs in order to read more of his book, or chase the kiddies back into bed or deal with nightmares or whatever it was before going to sleep himself. Whilst he still could be childish at times, he was enjoying growing up with the right people to guide him through it all.

The weekend were adult bath times, unless one of the kiddos ended up an complete mess as could happen when dealing with a bunch of hyper little creatures who just loved exploring everything on their island even if they had explored it an hundred times before. There was no fixed time to the baths or any real routines, as the three adults would just choose whenever they wanted. Occasionally there was playful squabbling but only if two of them wanted a bath at the same time, which rarely happened.

Though Dwaekki did note that Wolf Chan and Leebit were spending more ‘bath time’ together as of late but would never dare to call them out on it. Unless to tease them for their obvious behaviour of course, because that was more than well allowed.

When the pig-rabbit did get a chance to have a bath, he was pretty simple. Normally it would be after an late night work out session, when the kids were firmly passed out and he could just get into the bathroom without any issues. Mostly he’d have a shower, put on his waterproof radio and sing along with the songs that were playing but there were some nights where he just craved a bath. So he’d nab the bathroom, lock the door and switch his radio over to the Bluetooth connection so that he could put on one of his smooth jazz playlist and run an deep, warm bath.

He'd ditch his sweaty gym clothes and slip in before the bath was half full, cause that way the water would rise more naturally and he’d use his favourite bath oil that smelt of truffles. Then he would lay, half submerged under it for the longest time and just allow his mind to empty of all thoughts. It was pleasant, quiet and just everything that he needed in that moment. Once he was done, he would hope out, give himself a full rinse off in the shower unit as his fur could be really sticky and then he’d clean things up before wrapping an towel around his middle and heading back to his room. Normally Leebit would end up shouting at him for walking around half naked, to which Dwaekki would reply back that the rabbit sure as hell didn’t mind Wolf Chan walking around the same just to hear the splutters that would inevitably come his way before the bedroom door would close and all he would hear would be laughter.

Wolf Chan rarely took baths, always saying that he preferred showers and Leebit was confused as wolves normally adored bathing. It took a long while, a lot of pestering and offers to discover that the wolf did indeed like baths, but someone had been very nasty to him in the past when it came to a bath and it left him a little fearful of it. Leebit slowly worked on getting Wolf Chan to have a bath, going through a variety of different bubble baths to find a scent that the wolf really liked, which turned out to be the simplest combination of milk and honey which would tell the wolf that the was safe and sound.

Then it was getting the large lump into the bath, which proved to be harder than imagined but slowly, after many failed attempts and aborted ones, was finally successful. Wolf Chan clearly didn’t know quite what to do with himself, so Leebit had used a sponge and soap to clean the tense creature. The only way that the rabbit found that he could relax the wolf had come about rather accidentally when one night, he had knocked a bunch of bath toys off the shelf and into the water. When picking them back up, Leebit had picked up an duck which did not look to be like any of the ones that the kiddies played with and something had made him press down on it. The duck had immediately squeaked which had woken Wolf Chan out of his stupor to reach for the toy with a smile.

Accompanied by a silly song and a total relaxation that Leebit would forever hold precious in his heart.

These days, if the rabbit wanted Wolf Chan to take a bath, or join him in one, all he had to do was squeak the rubber duck and Wolf Chan would be there. (It did slightly spoil the romantic aspect of it but Leebit was far happier with his wolf being calm, relaxed and happy so he never really minded).

Leebit liked to be spoiled in the bath, always demanding that Wolf Chan draw him up the perfect one with warm water, a bunch of bath pearls and then lots of kisses as the wolf was to stay in the room with him to talk, feed him whatever snack had been demanded and of course give him all the kisses that he wanted. Typically this behaviour would occur during Leebit’s heat and around the time of Wolf Chan’s rut but neither of them really minded in the slightest. It helped them to figure out a lot of things and share in good times.

By the time the water was cool enough, Leebit would get out of the water, dry himself off and then silently demand to be carried like a princess or manhandled depending on both their moods. Then the pair would slip into their room, where the door would be locked and no one was to enter. Dwaekki usually took the kiddies on a little break when this occurred, because they did not need to be involved in this sort of madness just yet.

((and author-nim wants to keep this fic rated as G))

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Dear Jingles!
Merry Christmas! I hope you are well and I’ve asked Daddy to make sure that he prepares your favourite snack for Christmas Eve!
For Christmas this year, Innie would like the following please:
1) A new book bag for school (as I’m going up to big school and my old one won’t hold all my homework in it)
2) Some new pencils and grown up stationary
3) A football
4) A huge blanket that’s big enough to fit all my brothers, and Daddy, Mammy and Uncie under it so we can snuggle up all warm together when it’s snowing
Thank you in advance,
Lots of love and hugs
Innie (Foxiny)

Dear Jingles,
The time of year has come around again where Daddy asks me to write to you, so here I am doing so. (though I have noticed that he peeks over my shoulder to see what I write down which is a bit suspicious but I’ll be good and continue writing my letter as if I haven’t noticed)
For this year, could I please request the following:
1) The Children’s Encyclopaedia collection (Mammie says the adult one is too advanced for me, bet I could read it if I really try)
2) A smart notebook and pen set
3) The biggest pile of plushi’s for my silly brothers (so that they’ll stop steeling all of mine)
4) The slime set that I saw the other day (I promise that I won’t put any in Uncles fur or try to slip it into someone’s sandwiches, cause I know it’s not that tasty)
I hope that meets with your satisfaction, and I look forward to catching you in the act (I’ll leave out extra cookies for you, as I know where the Christmas ones are hidden)
Signed
Muppy

Dear Jingles
Merry Christmas from everyone here at Stayville!
I’m making some brownies tonight with Mammy and Daddy for you and I’ve got a place to hide them away so no eager paws can get at them. I’ll especially make sure that Uncle Dwaekki doesn’t manage to get anywhere near them cause he always eats all of my brownies if I don’t ensure that they’re secured away somewhere first. He’s a very silly and naughty hyung cause each time he does that he ends up with a bad stomach but says that he’ll happily die for my brownies.
Sometimes I wonder if he was dropped on his head as a baby because he doesn’t half come out with some funny statements sometimes.
But anyways, sorry about my little rant Jingles! I hope it made you laugh at least.
For this year, could I please ask for:
1) A fully working stand mixer to make more brownies and cakes and sweets
2) The new recipe book from Dusty, so I can start making healthy meals for everyone
3) A new boombox with a selection of CDs so I can practice my dancing
4) Brand new cups, saucers and a full tea set for the whole family so we can have plenty of warm drinks in nicely matching cups (the first lot are individual ones cause I know how funny some of my brothers can get for having their own cups, but we need new ones anyways)
I hope that’s all doable but even if it’s not, it’s all okay cause I have my family with me and that’s what makes Christmas so special for me.
Lots of love
Lixie

((Wolf Chan cried for an good hour after seeing that bit and had to go and give all of his family the biggest and longest big hugs that he had ever given out because it was just a little too much for his heart to handle. There again, Wolf Chan always got especially emotional around Christmas because he just wanted to provide for his babies so much because they deserved it after all the terrible things that had happened to them before they came into his care. Leebit had kicked him off but then hugged him tightly from behind and still kicked him, which was odd but the wolf didn’t really pay much attention to this at the moment in time))

Dear Jingles
Merry Christmas from Hannie
Could I get the following:
1) A screen protector for my tablet so I don’t accidentally break it
2) A big pile of sweeties to share with my brothers, Daddy, Mammy and Uncie
3) New Jammies
4) Microphone.
Thank you

Dear Jingles
Merry Christmas, thank you once again for bringing me all the cheer throughout the year like I ask for every year. I wish that it continues for all my brothers and especially for Uncle Dwaekki, Mamma Leebit and Daddy Wolf Chan as they have always been so bright and lovely with all of us that I cannot help but feel very blessed to have them in my life.
(I can already hear Daddy sobbing, but it’s fine because he has a big heart and therefore big emotions which is what I want for all of us).
I still feel a little silly asking for things from you, but I promised that I’d write down something for myself (Mamma explained that it was my letter and whilst it was sweet that I would always pick things for my brothers, there are times when I’m allowed to pick for myself and this is one of them. I’m getting better at it, but still want to spoil them all so much.)
So this year, could I please have:
1) A pass to the dance studio at the gym so I can go and practice on my own, I love my dance classes but sometimes it’s fun to just let myself go and fail without being noticed
2) Books on art and dance
3) A new water bottle for practice
4) Jumpers for everyone to keep us warm and safe throughout the winter
I hope this is good and not too selfish, I’ll stop now before I put myself into silly thoughts.
Merry Christmas and Best Wishes
Jiniret
p.s. Can you also bring some baby things for Mamma and Daddy? I think they’re going to need it soon.

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Several hours later, once all the babies were tucked up in bed and fast asleep, the three adults of the house gathered in the living room in order to go through the letters.

Wolf Chan was a bawling mess within two seconds of reading his first letter and by the time he was finished, he was bundled up in an weighted blanket and Leebit was allowing himself to be used as a plushi because it was just easier. Dwaekki wandered in with some freshly warmed up cookies and milk and sat down next to the pair, dunking an richly smelling cookie into the milk before bringing it towards the wolf’s lips. “Come on, you need some sugar in you hyung.”

Wolf Chan’s lower lip wobbled, “But my babies.”

“Are cute, lovely and disgustingly wonderful towards each other and us,” Leebit answered, grabbing the cookie and half shoving it into the wolf’s mouth, “Now do yourself an favour and munch before I forcibly make you.”

“That would be a sight to see,” Dwaekki laughed loudly.

“Don’t give me ideas,” Leebit glared back towards the pig rabbit, “Or else I’ll make you eat them too.”

Dwaekki grinned, dipped another cookie into the milk and passed it up to Leebit, “Nah, I’ll do that myself mate don’t worry. Though this one is going to be a soppy mess for at least the next hour.”

“Don’t I know it,” Leebit sighed dramatically, rolling his eyes as if he were annoyed by the development but couldn’t quite hide the overly affectionate tone towards the soppy wolf. He chewed his cookie gently though and ensured to feed Wolf Chan three more, giving him occasional head pats and nuzzles when the pig-rabbit was distracted by his phone.

Wolf Chan sniffled, “What did Jiniret mean?”

Leebit blinked, “Huh?”

“In his p.s. he said that we’ll be needing baby stuffs soon,” Wolf Chan replied, sniffling a little more as he shifted to lay more comfortably on the rabbit he loved so much.

There came a shrug of his shoulder, “No idea. Maybe he’s just projecting that he wants another baby sibling to coddle.”

Dwaekki laughed at that, “He’s already got four, why would he want more?”

“I don’t know, he’s a kid with silly thoughts and dreams,” Leebit answered, then swatted at Wolf Chan’s paw which was gently prodding at his stomach. “Get off. I am not pregnant.”

“But we…” started Wolf Chan only to be bonked on the head and glared at by the rabbit.

Dwaekki laughed, “I don’t mind you two talking about that sort of stuff…”

“I rather do,” Leebit attempted to interrupt.

“Considering the amount I’ve heard you…” a pillow landed in the pig-rabbits face accompanied by a yell from Leebit as the rabbit went to attack his long term friend without an care in the world.

Wolf Chan watched with bemused detachment and cradled his own mug of warm milk with a pile of cookies as the pair continued on in their silly little antics. He did vaguely wonder if Leebit smelt different because he was pregnant but brushed it off as maybe a new perfume or something. He sighed wistfully, looking back at his son’s Christmas letters and feeling that beautiful sense of pride filling him up again because they were all just so good and precious to the world and he was so thankful to have them all in his life.

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“It’s snowing!” screamed Hannie, who was standing at the window peering out in only his pyjama bottoms.

Both Lixie and Muppy blinked in confusion towards the quokka as they all knew it was snowing because school had been called off which had led to some grumbling from Leebit about what they were going to do even though they had half expected the school to get closed for most of the winter.

Lixie shook his feathered little head and chuckled, “Yes, we know, Hannie, it’s why we’re getting all dressed up in winter stuff to go and play in the snow.”

The quokka turned and blinked multiple times, “Oh really? I thought that I had dreamed all of that.”

Muppy glared, “No, you didn’t. Man you’re worse than Jinnie in the morning and that’s saying something.”

“Where is Jiniret?” Lixie asked, glancing around as he hadn’t barely heard of the ferret since the very loud happy shout of “SNOW DAY!” before the big blurry white noodle had disappeared.

“Either gone back to bed or wrestling with Innie to ensure that he at least puts one some clothes before heading out into the snow drifts,” Muppy replied, “Don’t want a repeat of last year.”

That made Lixie chuckle, “Indeed not, Oh I know, lets put on my lead so that way he won’t wander off from us.”

“But what do we do if you get lost again?” Hannie enquired, hopping down from the window ledge to accept a jumper which he began to pull on over his head.

The chick glared, “I have not gotten lost since that incident.”

“Because we haven’t allowed you to,” Muppy sassed back, shaking his head, “Once was enough.”

The trio continued to squabble playfully as they headed towards Innie’s room, only to be bowled over by the fox as he charged out of the door. He was decked out in a bright pink shawl with white trimmings and a sandy coloured snow suit which made him look extra puffy and cute. “Snow, snow, snow, snow, snow!” he chanted merrily as he charged straight towards the door.

Jiniret huffed out an exhausted laugh, appearing in the doorway wearing an very pale blue small suit with an matching pink shawl. “I forgot how much he loves snow.”
“We all love snow,” replied Muppy with a laugh, then eyed a basket that appeared to contain some other bits of winter clothes. “What’s all that?”

“Your new winter warmers,” Dwaekki spoke as he appeared behind the little ones, catching all three in his arms to secure them and place kisses on their heads. “Cause no one is going to get a cold this year at all and you’re all going to look freaking adorable in the photographs later, you won’t be able to get away no matter how hard you try.”

Muppy and Hannie both immediately tried to wriggle their way out of the pig-rabbits grasp but it was of no use.

Lixie just snuggled in closer to his uncle without any fuss or issues, happy to be receiving a bunch of love as he was always so receptive to it.

Leebit chuckled, “You’re supposed to be getting them dressed.” He teased the other but with far too much fondness in his tone and expression because really they were all just a big adorable mess and it was enchanting to see.

Dwaekki turned towards Leebit with an confused expression on his face, “Aren’t you supposed to be being mushy with Wolf Chan?”

The rabbit glared at his friend and stole Lixie from his arms, “You are the worst.”

“I am not,” Dwaekki grinned back but set the other two kiddies down in order to help with getting them all dressed up. Everyone ended up in an pale coloured snow suit that roughly matched their fur or feather colour. Lixie got a blue hat with a pompom and pink earmuffs, whilst Hannie and Muppy both got little reindeer hoods that they both instantly fell in love with. Leebit himself had a bright orange jumper with matching hat and purple earmuffs that didn’t quite reach his ears properly but no one was going to ever complain about that. Dwaekki had a blue hat and scarf combination but swapped Lixie for his pink scarf as it was just two adorable.

Though the pig-rabbit did have to jibe towards Leebit, “I swear if Wolf Chan matches you…”

“You’ll be put on babysitting duty alone if you keep on winding him up,” Wolf Chan replied for Leebit instead, appearing in a black snow suit with an bright orange hat and scarf combo that definitely matched with Leebit.

Dwaekki wisely zipped his mouth closed, though couldn’t help the grin on his face.

“Right, we ready for some snow time?” Wolf Chan asked the kiddies, only to hear an very loud yell from roughly the front door.

“DADDY!!!! YOU PROMISED! LET INNIE OUT IN THE SNOW!” the fox half shrieked.

Jiniret popped his head around the corner, “Erm, the lead won’t work, he’s already got out of it twice.”

Leebit sighed, “We’ll keep an eye out of him, lets go before he ends up breaking the door down or something worse.”

Wolf Chan nodded, grinned and went to capture the way too hyper fox so the Dwaekki could open the front door and Leebit could herd the others out. Not that they needed much encouragement as everywhere was covered in snow and the kids were immediately rushing off to play in it.

Wolf Chan set Innie down, with an firm instruction that he could go diving through the snow but he had to stay in sight of at least one adult at any one time. Innie let out some form of odd semi-feral growl before diving headfirst into the nearest snow pile and tunning his way through with several thousand happy chitters and shrieks.

Hannie, Muppy, Jiniret and Lixie were content with building the worlds biggest snowman for the time being and had already convinced Dwaekki into the challenge since he was muscles and could lift the snowballs the highest.

It was a cute sight to behold and Wolf Chan found himself smiling contently as he watched his family play. Occasionally Innie would pop out of an snowdrift, take a quick look around to check he was in the right place and then do a screaming, running yell towards another one. He did attempt to go through the snowman once, but Muppy bit into his tail and the pair had a mini snowball fight for all of five seconds before the fox was off running through one of his tunnels.

Every so often, if one of the kids got too cold, Dwaekki would send them off on an chasing game after Innie with an promise of a prize if anyone could catch the running fox cub. Knowing fine well that no one really could manage something like this as Innie was very fast when he wanted to be. Plus running through the snow was just one of his favourite things to do so it made it even more silly and fun.

After a while, Wolf Chan noticed that Leebit was leaning on him and very tentatively he moved his arm to rest on the rabbits shoulders. Only for Leebit to huff and immediately arrange him exactly as he wanted, which happened to be in a backwards hug with the wolf’s paws holding onto the rabbits front. Wolf Chan couldn’t help but chuckle fondly as he placed a couple of little kisses to the back of his mates head. “What’s this all about?”

“Don’t get used to it,” Leebit shot back playfully, “Just shut up and enjoy it whilst I’m in the mood.”

Wolf Chan nodded but grinned ear to ear, his dimples showing so much as he watched the kids and their uncle play in the snow whilst he got to back hug Leebit for the better part of an hour without any complaints. It was sheer heaven.

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The doorway to Lilidorei was exactly what Dwaekki had imagined it would be when he booked it for the cubs as a distraction from the madness of homelife at the moment. Leebit had taken an rather odd turn as he was suddenly obsessed with getting everywhere clean and tidy, but then claiming one of the spare rooms as his own and nicking a bunch of soft blankets, pillows and other similar furnishings to put into that room. No one was allowed in it, in fact he got quite defensive over it but never in an harmful way towards the kiddies. He’d kicked Dwaekki away from the door and tried to bite Wolf Chan when he came too close but quite frankly that was normal behaviour so it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary.

Wolf Chan had decided that he needed to try and talk to Leebit, or get him to a doctor as this was all very concerning behaviour, especially when the rabbit had started pulling out his own fur as well to go into the now secret room.

Dwaekki had quickly searched online for something to do with the kiddies and up on one of the other islands there was a light trail which promised dazzling displays, immersive experiences and a huge play structure which would keep the kiddies entertained for hours. So he had booked it, gotten everything sent across and bundled the kids up in their nice clothes and then set off just a little after tea with an tray left out for Wolf Chan as he was trying to talk to Leebit through the closed spare room door.

The ride over was pleasant and he grinned at finding his friend Wooyongyang out with Bbyongming and Jjongbear.

“Yooooh!” he called out to them.

“Yoh back to you,” grinned Wooyongyang, “Didn’t know you were coming to this?”

“Needed something to entertain the kiddies with as Leebit’s being a little bit…strange of late,” Dwaekki replied, grinning as he watched the kiddies interact sweetly with one another. “Wolf Chan’s trying to get him to see the doctor but none of us know how well that’s going to go so thought it would be best for everyone to be out of the way.”

Wooyongyang his black fur glistening, “Sounds like a good plan. What time you scheduled in?”

“Right about now,” Dwaekki said, checking his tickets.

“Sweet, same time as these two little blighters,” replied Wooyongyang, “They can run around together and have a great time.”

The pink pig-rabbit nodded and they entered into a long tunnel with wooden slats crisscrossing with the sound of bells jingling and little curiosities. Both chicks jumped when an deep, but not threatening voice said, “Oh do come on it, you’re lucky that I’m awake this time of year cause normally I keep my doors firmly locked.”
Of course it was a recording of the Big Baba Bear who looked after this little mythical light kingdom and Dwaekki couldn’t help but smile and feel immediately like he was walking into an fairytale.

“Ohhh, look, they’re so pretty!” called Hannie, who had rushed up to the front followed closely by Jjongbear who began jumping up and down wildly. “Wooyongy! There’s so many lit up trees.”

The path ahead of them was covered in brightly decorated Christmas trees with hundred of sparkling lights and the occasional bits of tinsel and glowing baubles. The path wound around in a long, steady pattern that was made for little paws to trundle along and just stare in wonderment.

The two chicks were doing just that, feather to feather, stepping in time with one another whilst Hannie and Jjongbear were rushing back and forth in complete surprise and delight. Jiniret was taking artful photographs whilst Innie had managed to climb up onto Dwaekki’s head without him noticing and Muppy looked as though he was debating if he wanted uppies as well or if he wanted to charge after the two crazy ones up ahead.

Wooyongyang gave the pup a little gentle push, “Go play, I think I spotted a ball up ahead.”

Muppy blinked, looked incredulous for a second but then took off with a happy yipping bark as he ran after the other two. The winding path went on like this for quite some time, the lights twinkling brightly and creating an nice relaxing atmosphere before the path rounded the corner to what appeared to be the largest cupcake building in the entire world. A sign next to it proclaimed it as ‘”The Magic Muffin” and there was a board with a list of drinks and special treats that could be gotten.
Innie climbed down from Dwaekki’s back, took an good long look at the menu, and then trotted towards the serving window which was just a little above his height. But an handy steeping stool was just next to it and he used that. There was a happy looking rottweiler inside who smiled, “Hello little one, welcome to The Magic Muffin, what can I get for you?” Her name badge said Ahra.

Innie grinned, “Can I get two cups of tea, three hot milks, three hot chocolates and two of each cupcake please.”

Dwaekki shot forward, “Innie!”

“Don’t panic Uncle,” Innie said, producing his own little purse from the small bag that he was carrying, “Innie brought money and wants to treat everyone!”

Jiniret gasped, “But that’s they money you’ve been saving up for all year.”

“I know, but Innie wants to buy drinks and cupcakes,” Innie insisted, the tone of his voice saying that no one was going to convince him otherwise. “Plus I left some money for Daddy and Mammy so they can get something too and I have more saved up in my piggy-bank so I’m all good to treat you.”

The black cat blinked repeatedly, as the fox turned back to look at the barista who was beaming as she made up the order, “He’s so precious.”

“Don’t we know it,” Dwaekki grinned, taking an immediate video to send to Wolf Chan to show just how good he had raised his little fox. Not that there wasn’t already enough of that to show off of course but still.

The drinks and the cupcakes arrived and everyone headed to the benches to sit down so they weren’t running everywhere. Which was when the huge play structure came into view and caused all the kids to freeze in place.

Their eyes went completely wide. The structure was almost like a castle in of itself, with huge turrets that had tons of slides, loads of climbing places, mushrooms to bounce upon, climbing ropes, swings and walkways that just made everyone want to immediately ditch everything and go play.

“Let’s just take a moment to eat the cupcakes, have the drinks and then we can explore the little village around here to let that all settle before we all go running around the play place huh?” said Wooyongyang, with a smile on his features.

“That sounds like a very good plan indeed,” smiled Dwaekki, taking an bite out of the huge cupcake that was definitely half the size of his face but was lovely.
The youngsters agreed and started munching through their own cupcakes, getting crumbs and frosting all over the place but they were merrily happy with them. Jjongbear and Hannie were the worst, as they ended up somehow completely covered in the snow icing all around their faces and creating a sticky mess in their fur. Hannie had immediately attempted to run away when Dwaekki had got the wash cloth out – as he had learnt from experience that bringing an wash cloth and spray bottle was essential when going out with all the kiddies – but Bbyongming was easily able to catch up to him and hold the quokka down.

Once cleaned up, the group set off at a nice pace towards the village which held a variety of houses that were designed to house elves, goblins, trolls, hobgoblins, sprites, dwarves, fairies, and pixies. There was also a jail, which the kids spent a good five minutes trying to get each other into which was a giggle and a huge story telling area with the biggest seat that any of them had seen. The story teller wasn’t out when they were there, but none of them really minded in the slightest.
Coming back onto the main path, Muppy was the first to start jumping up and down, “Can we please go and play now?”

Dwaekki laughed, “Sure, just don’t get hurt or lost please!”

Jiniret let out a whoop and started running straight for the structure, followed by the others who were complaining that he wasn’t being fair as he had a head start. The youngsters ran all over the place, climbed up the ropes, found the little cages where they could yell down and wave at Dwaekki and Wooyongyang who were happily conversing.

There were so many places to explore, different levels to find and they all managed to get to the top of the big slide before zooming down it so quickly with happy cheers and cries.

After a good half hour, Dwaekki called them down and they all headed off with happy chatter about the various bits and pieces that they had done and many questions about when they could come back. Dwaekki smiled to himself, happy to have kept the kiddies entertained and looking forward to bringing them back time and time again because it was just perfect.

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Christmas had been an complete whirlwind of wrapping paper, presents, fun and mayhem that was enjoyed by all in the house. The kids had remembered to stay in bed till after it was light, though they hadn’t stayed in their beds of course, they had clambered up onto Wolf Chan and Leebit’s but neither was complaining till Dwaekki launched himself at them all with an familiar war cry.

Then they had all gone downstairs, and there had been a flurry of excitement as paper was torn off presents and squeals of excitement and the good natured jibing between one another but thankfully no tears. The kids had spent a merry morning playing with their new things, whilst the adults mainly prepared the late breakfast and dinner for later on, then there had been games and lots of festive fun. Food had been devoured, plates cleaned and put away and then they had all snuggled down onto the sofa to watch the newest Wallace and Gromit film Vengeance Most Fowl.

Which resulted in lots of laughs, Jiniret hiding behind the sofa at one point because he was scared of the penguin and Muppy growling at the screen to scare the figure off. Of course this was all captured on recording devices and they were merrily put into the special folder to be used as forever embarrassment because there was always a perfect time to bring those memories out even if all of them would die of uttermost embarrassment.

After there had been a series of yawns but protests that none of them were tired, but half way through another Christmas movie, the three youngest were practically off to the land of nod and Jiniret had the pleasure of helping to put all of them to bed. He was always the best big brother but now that he was really starting to grow up it was nice to see him figuring out some bits on his own. Especially when he told Leebit to just sit and relax, the smile he gave the rabbit telling the elder that he knew more than what he was letting on.

Which definitely irked the rabbit somewhat, but only a little as he was more proud that Jiniret had worked it out but kept things a secret when he wasn’t known to do that. There again, given the life they had had before, maybe it made sense that the little ferret wasn’t immediately spilling the beans about this whole situation. He’d sneak an extra treat to him later when Wolf Chan wasn’t watching, he decided and took an deep breath.

He had about an hour before all the kids would be in bed and Dwaekki would be liable to wander off to do whatever it was that he wanted and then he would be free to let the wolf know. Outwardly he was calm and composed about this because it really wasn’t that big of a deal…internally he was a total wreck because how the hell was he going to break this gently and not have the wolf go completely berserk because he knew that the wolf was going to go berserk but in all the good right ways and it was just exhausting but it could also go the opposite way because it wasn’t usual for an rabbit and a wolf to mate and there would be all the stress and the hassle and they may not even make it to term…

An heavy, weighted blanket with a cute star patter on it landed on his shoulders just before Wolf Chan turned up with a smile on his face and a cup of peppermint tea for Leebit. As well as his lovely, big, chucky, warm welcoming arms to snuggle up into. Leebit sighed and relaxed against his wolf, not feeling any shame in the outright claiming notion of the statement and decided that he’d say something in a little while because he was just going to enjoy this moment completely.

He was snoring five minutes later and Wolf Chan just stayed there contentedly, placing occasional kisses on top of his head whenever he felt like doing so.

The next morning was Boxing Day and everyone was woken up by an holler of, “Ladies and Gentlemen! Annual Battle Box Day Starts Now!” from Hannie.

Turned out that the little quokka had gotten up early, along with Muppy to set up an Battle Box event where all the boxes and bits from the day before had been arranged into heaps with several tablecloths out to make an ring and the object was to hit one another with the inner rolls of the wrapping paper in order to wreck the others carboard. As well as indulge in the ‘Donk’ noise that it made which always had everyone laughing. Quite where this whole thing had come from, no one knew, and it certainly wasn’t an annual thing (at this point in time but apparently it was going to be from now on) but it was certainly very fun.

Well it was for the kiddies at any rate, as Wolf Chan did worry a little overly much about how much they could get hurt, until Dwaekki challenged him in an suit made out of cardboard that not only looked completely ridiculous but also ready to fall apart within the next two seconds. Wolf Chan could not resist as his friend looked so stupid so he got ready to teach him an lesson. The end result was the pair sitting on the floor, rolling back and forth like they were the cubs whilst Leebit sat with an unamused expression on his face recording the whole thing.

Only to then decide that he wanted to get involved and promptly walloped the pair and then fled faster than neither of them could think straight.

The continued this all morning, the kids making alliances and breaking them, adults getting ganged up on by all the kids or other adults and it was just general hilarity all around. Accompanied by the happy sounds of ‘Bonk’.

Eventually a truce was called and everyone spent a good ten minutes just laying on their backs, staring at the ceiling as they caught their breaths before ‘tidy up time’ was called by Innie even through a cute little yawn. Thankfully it did not take long with everyone pitching in.

The kiddies clambered onto the sofa to watch a movie all together whilst the adults got on with sorting out the leftovers and it was no surprise that they ended up falling asleep.

Wolf Chan grinned when he noticed Leebit watching the happy pile and sneakily placing an hand over his stomach to rub it. The wolf gently moved forward and nudged the rabbit, “Go take a sleepy cuddle pile with them, love, we’ve got everything sorted.”

Leebit gave him a look, but after looking around the kitchen he had to begrudgingly admit that everything was perfectly ready and there wasn’t much of a chance that they’d be able to do something horrendous to the place so he nodded and went to snuggle up with the babies. Five minutes later he was curled up around them protectively looking so precious that both Wolf Chan and Dwaekki couldn’t help but simply sit and stare at the cozy looking pile.

“When are you going to spill the beans?” Dwaekki asked in a whisper, so as not to disturb anyone.

Wolf Chan grinned, “When he’s ready, cause it’s just too cute.”

The pig-rabbit shook his head, sighing affectionately but knew not to push the pair as they would do their own thing in their own time and there was nothing that could be done about it.

The next few days were peaceful in that chaotic way of everything being in between Christmas and New Year. Primarily because Leebit’s family chose that moment to come and visit without much warning and they had to do a drastic re-arrange of the house but they were thankfully only coming for a few days so it wasn’t too big an issue. Plus Leebit’s Mam and Dad adored and spoilt the kiddies no end, were happy to read books out loud and go on runs in the snow which was nice. It was lovely to see everyone and there was so much extra food that Leebit didn’t have to worry about going shopping for the next week or so which was brilliant.

Till randomly one dark, quiet morning, he woke up and refused to go back to sleep but couldn’t figure out why. He was angrily stomping around the kitchen, when Wolf Chan wandered in with a confused look in his eyes. “Why you up at this time?” the wolf asked, as normally it was him up at stupid o’clock in the morning in the kitchen cause he rarely slept through the night. He had gotten better at it, practically because Leebit would sit on him to make sure he got at least some sleep but at this moment in time, it didn’t seem to be a good idea.

The rabbit huffed, “I don’t know! I’m hungry but nothing is appealing!”

Wolf Chan glanced around their overstocked cupboards, fridge and pantry and for a second wondered just what on earth was upsetting Leebit that much when suddenly he felt a lightbulb go off in it his head. “Ah, how about you take a seat, my frustrated little cabbit and I’ll make you something.”

Leebit pouted, “You’ll burn it.”

“I have very good 4am cooking skills, I’ll have you know,” Wolf Chan replied, lightly guiding Leebit down onto an high backed chair and immediately fetching him a crocheted blanket that was a particular favourite at the moment. He set an mug of peppermint tea in front of the rabbit, along with an book that he knew the other was wanting to read but hadn’t had the silence in order to do so and set about the kitchen.

Half an hour later, he produced a plate full of delicious looking tofu and vegetable stir fry which the smell of immediately relaxed Leebit down. The rabbit devoured two plateful’s and once he was done, hopped straight onto Wolf Chan’s lap to kiss him senseless. “I do love you, you know that, you big dolt?”

Wolf Chan smirked back, “Of course.”

“Good, now take me back to bed and smother me in kisses till I pass out,” demanded the rabbit which gave Wolf Chan a good laugh before he did as commanded. Leebit was out before they even made the top of the stairs but the wolf was not bothered by that in the slightest and instead just focused merrily on looking after his rabbit as he would always do but especially over the next few months.

The whole family saw the new year in together, from the paving outside of the town hall where they shared in some left over mulled wine – or mulled orange juice for the kiddies and Leebit though Wolf Chan pretended that he didn’t notice the rabbit taking the non-alcoholic version – and there were cheers, more kisses and good will spread around everyone.

They had all piled back home, played a game of monopoly which Muppy won outright as he controlled half of the board and they all had to pay him double the rent on everything.

The day after, they all had a lazy, quiet day with Innie colouring in his colouring books, Muppy reading up on the fundamentals of scientific fact, Lixie playing an video game with a guide in front of him to help him get through it all. Quokka was building one of his new Lego sets that took up half of the playroom floor, Jiniret was in his room painting on a canvas, Dwaekki did his work out and then started sorting out a bunch of pots for the garden. Leebit retired to the bedroom where he was reading a book with the wrong dust jacket cover on to hide the true purpose but no one was going to call him out on it.

Wolf Chan spent his day out in the shed, building some light green, soft yellow and white furniture which he was very proud about once he was done with it all. He was getting impatient for Leebit to tell him but knew that the surprise was going to be worth it regardless so he couldn’t complain too much.

A few days later, it was decided that the Christmas decorations needed to come down so everyone helped out.

As the tree was moved around however, there was a small, think still wrapped present discovered and Hannie picked it up. “Daddy?” he called after a few seconds.
“Yep?” Wolf Chan called back from where he was busy getting the attic door and steps down in order to move things.

“You missed a present?” Hannie replied, sounding a little bit confused as he was sure that all the presents had been given out over the last few weeks.

Blinking in confusion, Wolf Chan headed over and took the present from Hannie, noting that it looked to be similar to one of those boxes that you got the fancy pens in. A smile crossed his face, barely able to contain his excitement as he called out, “Who left a present under the tree for me?”

Several confused faces turned his way, except for Leebit who had stood up suddenly, turning his head in shock as if he had forgotten that he had done thing. Wolf Chan decided that he couldn’t wait anymore and virtually tore the present open.

The rabbit charged across, letting out a series of sounds that mainly were a version of the word, “Wait!”

Of course he was a little too late as Wolf Chan had the long white stick with the two red lines on it and he immediately picked up the rabbit into a great big squishy hug. With kisses, nuzzles and his tail wagging at a million miles per hour.

“What’s going on?” asked Innie, sounding completely confused.

Dwaekki chuckled, “Your Mammy has finally told your Daddy about the new cubby who’ll be arriving at some point.”

“Oh? A little baby?” Lixie cried, hopping about.

Jiniret grinned, “Called it!”

Hannie blinked and then joined in with Lixie’s dancing with a bunch of happy sounds.

Innie started doing zoomies around the room once it was explained that he would no longer be the youngest when the baby came around (though he was forever going to be their baby).

Muppy took a look of seriousness, which worried Dwaekki for a second, “Muppy?”

“Just calculating the space I can claim in the room as mine,” Muppy responded in a the most grown up voice going, “Because we’re going to have to share in order to fit everyone in now aren’t we?”

Dwaekki blinked, then picked up the puppy to squish him, “Our little practical genius.”

“Put me down!” Leebit complained, having still been held up by Wolf Chan this whole time and being slightly shocked that he was listened to immediately. “What?”

“You’re pregnant!” Wolf Chan beamed, “I’ll do anything to make you comfortable and happy and well looked after.”

Leebit blinked, seeming to click to something, “That’s why you’ve been extra looking after me for the past few weeks?”

“A little,” Wolf Chan grinned, “but mainly because I love you regardless and love taking care of you.”

“Stop being a sap,” Leebit bit back but couldn’t help the smile that crossed his face, “You’re such an idiot you know.”

“Your idiot,” Wolf Chan replied.

“Why didn’t you just say you knew?” Leebit asked, then frowned, “How did you know anyway?”

“You’re scent changed,” Wolf Chan grinned back, “And I wanted you to tell me because I couldn’t wait to see how you would spring it on me.”

The rabbit blinked, staring at the wolf like he was an total moron before laughing, shaking his head and hugging close to the wolf, “I should have known, shouldn’t I?”
Wolf Chan hummed a response and nuzzled the top of the rabbits head, “Surprised you didn’t come snooping on the workroom yesterday as I was building baby furniture all day.”

Leebit sighed, opted not to respond to that and just enjoy the moment. He knew his wolf would look after him and their whole family but it was still something very special and lovely to see.

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The school bell had run and Innie sighed a little as he began packing up his school supplies for the day. It had been a long day for the fox cub, and he wanted nothing more than to just curl up and go to sleep when he got in but he knew that he had his homework to do, as well as some little chores that were part of his daily routine and that there would be a least an hour spent with his big brothers playing something after tea. It was a routine they had established when the first three had turned up and once Quokka became part of the family he was added in as well.

Innie wondered very much how the new baby was going to fit in with that routine, or if they would have to change it up.

He had been initially excited over the prospect of being an big brother, but now he was having second thoughts about it. Because he had realised quickly that he had no real idea about how to be a big brother in the slightest, he had always been the youngest, the cutest and the one they babied. Would that change when he got a new sibling? Part of him loved the idea that he would be seen as older and more responsible and had a bunch of really cute stories to embarrass with, but there was also a tiny part of him that was afraid that he could no longer be the little cute one cause he would no longer be in that position.

“Hey Innie,” Jiniret’s voice broke him out of his musings, the cub barely realising that he had exited his class and made it across the playground in his state of thought. “Thought you were going to walk right past me there.”

Innie couldn’t help but blink, “Jinnie-hyung? What are you doing here?”

“Some silly sausage pulled the fire alarm at my school, then put a cherry bomb into the toilet and had us all run outside where there were a bunch of pitfalls set so we spent half an hour getting everyone out but there were more of them about so it was chaotic,” Jiniret replied, putting his phone back into his bag and offering his paw towards the younger, “So the principle decided to end the school day early so I said I’d come and pick you up as Dwaekki is getting the others and Daddy’s taking Mummy to an clinic update.”

Innie smiled, taking the offered hand, “That sounds like a fun time.”

“It wasn’t trust me,” Jiniret stated back, though he was giggling. “But enough about me, how’s your day been?”

The fox looked a little gloomy at that question, “I dunno.”

“Oh?” Jiniret said as they started walking, after waving to the teachers who immediately recognised him. “Want to talk about it? I need to head to the shops anyway to pick up a couple of bits, so we can take our time.”

For a little while Innie was quiet, which Jiniret expected as sometimes the little fox got himself into knots with his thoughts and had learnt that the best way was to think through what he was about to say if he was unsure or uncertain on something. He had done his best to teach the others about this when they had first arrived and Jiniret thought it was adorably cute as it was so grown up and sensible. But he had also learned that there was no point in rushing Innie when he was like this, you just had to have a bit of patience and the cub would speak up. Either to just say what was on his mind, or else change the subject entirely if he wasn’t quite ready to talk about the issue yet.

Which was frustrating but it was a coping mechanism for the cub and everyone knew to just go with the flow. Plus Innie was at the age where he was starting to make sense of the world and his place in it so it was fine for him to choose the moments when he wanted to talk about things or take a little longer time to think them over. As long as it wasn’t anything that would put him in danger of course but that probably wasn’t going to be an issue for a long while yet.

Hopefully anyway.

The pair wandered through the shops, Jiniret knowing exactly where he wanted to go and headed to a little art shop to pick up the supplies that he had ordered the other day and had received the notification that they were ready for him to pick up. He greeted the shop owner, got everything sorted and headed out of the shop without Innie still saying nothing.

Letting out a sigh, Jiniret looked at the dejected looking fox and then looked up and around the street, spotting a little pop up café of Space Buddies with a bunch of cute little character themed cups, treats and even merchandise. Jiniret knew that Innie loved to watch Space Buddies whenever he could so knew that this was an opportunity that could not be missed.

Giggling to himself, he dragged his little brother across the street to look at the menu and went, “What would you like Innie? Big brothers treat?” Jiniret smiled towards the youngster, waiting to see the happy reaction.

The fox did smile so brightly for a few seconds, nodding rapidly but then seemed to slump back down a little bit as well which worried Jiniret just a little more. Still he knew that one of the best ways to get Innie to talk was to feed him ice cream so he focused on that. There were plenty of options to go through as well and for a few minutes both brothers got completely absorbed in just trying to choose. There were so many flavours ranging from vanilla, to lemon, to strawberry and chocolate, to candyfloss and raspberry ripples and so many more.

Eventually Innie chose to get a classic vanilla, strawberry and chocolate three scoup cup with extra honeycomb sprinkles whilst Jiniret got an green tea sundae. They both ordered strawberry milk shakes however and went to sit at the bench. Innie had been given an activity book with some crayons and was delighted to find that there were a few colouring pages, automatically moving to sit next to Hyunjin so that they could share an large spread together.

Jiniret made sure to get photos for the family group chat as this was just one of those moments that needed to be preserved for the rest of eternity.

After a minute or two of quiet colouring, Innie suddenly paused and then turned to look up at the elder, “Jinnie?”

“Yeah?” Jiniret asked as he carefully coloured in the moon in a bright yellow, desperate to get some shading going on but knew that they were kind of limited and he didn’t want to use his new supplies on the activity book.

“How do you be a big brother?” Innie asked, in a bit of a rush as if he were worried to ask such a question. His ears had drooped down but his feet were swinging back and forth gently under the table.

Jiniret blinked, “What?”

Innie sighed, “I’m going to be a big brother soon, but I don’t know how to be one. You, Quokkie, Lixie and Muppy all just seemed to know what to do but I’ve got no idea and I’m worried I’ll be a bad big brother and baby will hate me.”

The ferret literally let his heart do a million rapid beats because if that wasn’t the most adorable question that he had ever heard from the fennec fox then he didn’t know what would ever top that. Instead of answering initially, Jiniret just let out a sound of incompressible adoring gibberish before grabbing hold of Innie’s face and squishing his cheeks together whilst continuing to make the happy, love filled noises towards the youngster. “You. Are. Just. So. Freaking. Adorable.”

“Hyung,” Innie whined, wriggling out of the hold and batting at the others hands when he went back in for another go. He had to playfully snap his teeth towards the elder to get him to stop. “You’re not answering my question!”

Jiniret couldn’t help but chuckle at the youngster and just squish him a little bit more before finally relenting when he received an death glare from the young fennec fox but did not loose his love filled grin towards the youngster. “There is no reason on this planet that the new baby will ever hate you, Innie,” Jiniret replied responsibly.”

“But,” Innie started.

Jiniret was quick to interrupt, keeping his tone neutral even though he was about to bring up some really horrible memories, “When Daddy found us all on the Island, what was the first thing you did for us when we got home?”

For a second Innie had to pause and think back to that day because it had been a very long time indeed. Though his ears flicked as he remembered, “We got you three out of the hole, took you home and Daddy gave you all a bath whilst I found all the spare bedding I could and the really big soft towels before I raided the wardrobes for clothes for you to wear whilst yours were in the washing machine.” A giggle came from the fox, “Muppy ended up with one of Daddy’s shirts and refused to give it back, Lixie had the hooded towel for the rest of the night and you were parading around in one of Daddy’s t-shirts that looked more like a dress on you.”

The ferret couldn’t even deny that fact because it had been the first piece of clean clothing that he had had in a long time at that moment and he had waltz around in the t-shirt very happily because it had just been a fun thing to do. Of course he had tripped over it multiple times but he had not cared about that in the slightest. On some quiet nights when he couldn’t sleep, the ferret would still dress up in that t-shirt and twirl about but these days it wasn’t quite as long and fitted him a tiny bit better than it had been before.

Smiling harder, Jiniret took a sip of his drink before asking, “Did anyone tell you to do that?”

“No?” Innie questioned in response, furrowing his eyebrows very similarly to how Wolf Chan would do when he was being called out for something adorable. “There was only me and Daddy at that point and he was giving the baths whilst trying to speak to the services on the phone but that wasn’t working well cause the signal was bad on their end.”

Jiniret nodded, “Do you remember what you said to us that night?”

The sandy coloured pup tilted his head this way and that several times before shaking his head, “No.”

“Good thing I do,” Jiniret replied, “You said, and I quote, don’t worry, daddy will take care of you and Innie will be the best big brother to.”

Innie blinked, “I said that?”

“Yep,” Jiniret replied, “And you were. When we got more comfortable we started helping you back and now we’re just like a family but we all know that our youngest rules the roost to coin a phrase from Lixie and you’ll always be our maknae on top. You’ll be the best big brother around for baby and we’ll be there to be the best big brothers to you Innie because you were the best little big brother during those first few days and we’ll forever be thankful for that.”

For a second things were quiet and then Innie burst into the happiest set of wailing tears that Jiniret had ever seen and the ferret was quick to pull the fox into his chest to give him the best cuddles in the entire world. He was so thankful for the other for being there when they needed him the most and was more than overjoyed to be his big brother for the rest of his life because Innie was just too precious to them all.

He did send off an message to the family group chat to confirm that they were both fine and that they’d be home soon.

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Sitting on the big chair in the living room, Lixie sat and pouted at the TV screen which was showing his favourite cartoon show but he had no further wish to watch it. For three days he had only been able to really sit and watch the TV and whilst that had been novel and fun at first, he was now very bored of it. He wanted to go and play with his brothers, chase Hannie around, paint with Jiniret, throw a ball for Muppy who would claim he had no interest in it but would constantly play fetch with that hidden smile on his face. Even playing pretend with Innie sounded like so much fun right now but he wasn’t allowed to.

Because his wing was bandaged up and the doctor had said that he needed to rest in order to be back to full health.

Which was fine in principle but so boring in reality.

It wasn’t even that bad of a break, the little chick had been bouncing along the path as usual when they had gone to do the weekly food shop and he had been chattering away to Leebit about something before going around the corner and being bumped into by someone pushing a trolley. Lixie had stumbled to the side, hit the wall and that had caused an old injury to rebreak even though it was a light impact. Lixie hadn’t even cried that much, it had been the way that he held the wing that had alerted the elders to what was going on and they had promptly taken him to the hospital in order to get sorted out.

He had been checked over, had the wing reset and then bandaged up to help it heal faster before being told to take at least a week off school to rest up properly. They’d check him over at the end of the week and make decisions about what would happen after that.

This was day three of the week and Lixie just didn’t know what to do with himself. The young chick let out a long and loud sigh.

“Oh dear, someone feeling bored?” Leebit asked as he appeared with a tray of food for his baby chick who was pouting ever so slightly. “Good thing I’ve got some lunch for you.”

“Yay lunch,” Lixie replied, going to reach forward with his broken wing but stopping and settling back to happily accept a bowl of grapes to begin with. “Thank you Mummy.”

Leebit blanched at the title, before chuckling, “Still not used to that.”

“You’re soon going to hear it all the time,” Lixie replied, pointing at Leebit’s stomach which was just starting to show a little bit now.

The rabbit made a face but didn’t push the subject much further as he opted to join Lixie on the couch to continue watching cartoons until everyone else got back.

When the door opened, it was Quokkie who ran straight to his feathered friend, to yell, “Daddy can help you fly!”

“What?” asked Leebit, blinking up towards Wolf Chan who was busy carrying the shopping, Jiniret and Muppy on his back. Though to be fair to the pup, he was playfully biting at the wolf’s shoulder to show that he was displeased with the situation. Though not really as the other wasn’t even flinching.

Wolf Chan let out a sigh, “Uncle Dwaekki will have to do that, I’ve been carrying this lot.”

Dwaekki sighed dramatically, “How do I…”

“Please, it’ll make Lixie so happy,” Quokkie said, practically bouncing around whilst Innie took the opportunity to zoom straight upstairs, his ears twitching in that way which showed he was annoyed with all the noise that was going on around him and needed some decompression time.

Leebit made a mental note to check on what was going on with the youngster before turning his attention back to the situation at hand, “Quokkie, please stop shouting so much and tell me what you mean?”

“We saw a video today,” Quokkie stated, still hopping around, “About an old bat in a special care home who can’t fly really so the staff help him by holding him up and running around the whole space so he can flap his wings and fly and Daddy or Uncie can do that for Lixie!”

Dwaekki was already picking up the excited chick, “Now you can’t move your injured wing too much…”

“Lixie flying again!” the chick screeched happily, even though he was just on Dwaekki’s hip.

The pig-rabbit shrugged and then hoisted Lixie up high, to about shoulder height and held him flat so that he could spread out his wings as much as possible to be guided around the house for his flight. The chick screeched happily, with the elder three chasing after him. Innie was sat on the top of the stairs, poking his paws through the banister recording the whole thing.

Leebit blinked and turned to look at his partner who just grinned and shrugged, “They’re happy.”

“They are,” the rabbit smiled, turning back, “I hope they continue to make each other this happy forever.”

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It was nearly midnight before Wolf Chan even managed to find himself walking back towards his house, and already the guilt was sitting heavily on his chest at the thought that he had left his family all alone again. Sure he knew that he needed to secure this deal, that it would mean security in terms of finances for everyone and that they could extend the house to accommodate the new baby without any worries but there was just so much work to do and the panda in question was tough to work with. But rumoured to be excellent once firmly into his good books, but given that he ran one of the most successful entertainment industries in the world it was understandable why he was a bit stubborn and stuck in his ways.

J.Y. Panda on paper was intimidating as hell, with a vast knowledge and understanding. In reality, he had appeared to be very stuck in the past and doing things his way, at first, but the more meetings that occurred, the more he opened up and became a bit of a goofball. It was jarring and Wolf Chan wasn’t one hundred per cent sure of his sanity at times but he was following his gut instincts and knew that the panda meant well. He was also pushing Wolf Chan in a lot of ways that could come off as rude, until looked at properly and it began to make sense as to what he was doing.

Still didn’t make it that easy to stay out all night, especially with Leebit pregnant but he was doing this for his family so it was going to work out for the best he was sure of it. Plus the ring in his pocket had finally arrived so he could do what he had planned to do for a little while. He just had to hope that Leebit wouldn’t punch him in the face, as his love language could be quite abrupt at some points which made everything just a bit more interesting.

There were a couple of messages on his phone, mostly good nights from the kids, a note that food was in the fridge when he ordained to come home from Leebit (with an private message from Dwaekki to let him know that the other was staying up on the couch to make sure that he was actually coming home and that he would check up on the rabbit every so often.) Dwaekki’s main posts in the group chat were just silly little things from the kids days, much to everyone’s embarrassment at times and it was nice to see.

The wolf smiled towards the phone, “Soon I’ll stop doing this, it’s all going to be signed tomorrow, I promise.”

Quietly opening the door, Wolf Chan flicked his ears around to get an idea of where everyone was before ensuring to lock the door and put his shoes and coat in the proper place. There was a general sense of peace in the house, which meant that practically everyone was asleep in some fashion which made the wolf smile. He headed upstairs first, as he wanted to check on his babies first and ensure that they were okay. It was an unspoken rule between Wolf Chan and Leebit that the kiddies did come first as they had been through so much so it made sense for where he started.

Jiniret was asleep in his bed, snoring away with no issues and his desk all neat and tidy for the weekend. He’d clearly been doing some school work and had a little timetable set for how he was going to break up his time off so that he could do his homework, fit in his dance class and still have fun. It made Wolf Chan smile as he crossed over to the little ferret to give him a kiss on his head and ensure that he was snuggled up correctly. Happy that everything was just as it was meant to be, Wolf Chan set off out of the room, quietly closing the door behind him as he did so.

He took a moment or two in the corridor, trying to decided which room to go into next, before seeing the fact that the one of the left had just a tiny bit of a crack in in. Heading in, he found both of the twins happily snuggled up together in Lixie’s bed, the chick’s wing had healed nicely and he was now out of the cast so he was very happy about that fact and taking all the advantage to catch up on hugs and play that he had missed out on the last few weeks. There was a little bit of mess, clearly the pair had been playing until the point that they had decided to fall asleep but Wolf Chan knew that in the morning they would pick it up and put it away, as they were good boys who didn’t like to leave things laying around.

Wolf Chan made sure that both had enough blankets to keep them warm, checked on the charge of the night light and the little white noise machine to help Hannie to sleep before they both received their own kisses. Wolf Chan gently moved the toys to the side, so that if either of them had to get up in the middle of the night then they wouldn’t trip and hurt themselves in any way. He still left the door open just a little bit, knowing that neither liked to have it fully closed and did a quick check of Hannie’s room to ensure that was all in order before going to find his youngest two.

Muppy was in the middle of a nest of blankets, something he had randomly taken too recently and was very happily snuggled up in them all. His head poked out of the pile, making him look a little like an adorable snow cone but he was slumbering happily away so Wolf Chan didn’t dare attempt to move him in any shape or form. He did carefully lean across to place a kiss on the pups nose, just to see him wriggle it in irritation though his tail did wag happily. The room was as neat and orderly as an small puppy could make it which made the wolf giggle before he set off out of the room. The door clicked shut nicely.

“Oh, good timing,” a voice said, startling Wolf Chan slightly and he turned to find Dwaekki in the hallway with what could only be an very cranky, tired Innie in his paws. Well hanging off one as the fennec fox was currently chomping down on the end of one of Dwaekki’s hands and dangling down. “Hey, Innie, look whose back.”

The fox cub glanced to the side, growled and grumbled a bit and then let go of Dwaekki to land on the floor with a thump before whimpering slightly. “What happened baby?” Wolf Chan asked, kneeling down to scoop the youngster up into his arms. He knew that he should be reprimanding the other for biting the elder but it was extremely rare that Innie ever bit anyone and a quick look at the pig-rabbit confirmed that he wasn’t in any type of pain so that was a good sign.

“Daddy!” Innie half wailed, latching onto Wolf Chan like he was the most important reason in his life right at this second in time, “The monsters are going to eat me!”
Wolf Chan blinked, glanced around to ensure that none of the others had been disturbed by this wailing and decided that the best thing to do was to take Innie downstairs for some warm milk and some bunny snuggles. Sure Leebit was going to be a bit grumpy at being woken up but he was always more than happy to deal with odd nights like this because there was nothing worse than having an upset cubby on your paws. “Aww baby, there are no monsters,” Wolf Chan spoke gently, hugging the little cub to his chest, “You’re perfectly safe.”

“But they going to eat Innie’s tail and make him the laughing stock at school!” Innie whined, snuggling into the wolf’s thick fur with more sobs.

“What on earth have they been watching now?” Wolf Chan asked Dwaekki, figuring that this little incident had to be from something that the kiddies had been watching because Innie never really made monsters up. When he was tiny he had been afraid of shadows until he realised what they were, and there was a very cute video of him trying to run away from his shadow on the beach stored away in the vaults for other times, but monsters were never a big thing. The other parents at school had been amazed that the little fox didn’t have too many nightmares, but that was mainly because he could bit the things that were scaring him so it wasn’t an issue.

Dwaekki shook his head, “Nothing out of the ordinary at home, unless it’s something from school.”

“Innie, what monster is going to eat your tail?” Wolf Chan asked as the trio made their way down the stairs.

There was no response from the fox, who just shook his head and continued to sob loudly. They had just gotten to the bottom of the stairs when Leebit popped up, slightly grumpy but clearly more in the know, “I told him already that Vicious Knids are not real but he’s got them stuck into his head. Come here, baby, Mama has some warm milk ready for you.”

Innie stubbornly refused to let go of Wolf Chan, saying tiredly, “Dada! Will bite the vicious knids for Innie.”

Wolf Chan grimaced towards Leebit who merely rolled his eyes, taking zero offence at that statement because in the natural order of things it would be the wolf who would do the biting. Not that Leebit would just stand there and get eaten himself, he had a mean kick too but being several months pregnant he was more than liable to hide behind the other without a question.

The milk was already set up in a sippy cup, because the cub was far too tired to be trusted with an actual glass and Wolf Chan settled Innie down, though he couldn’t help but grin when he realised that the youngster was wearing an slightly bigger version of his old green sleep suit with the little yellow bees on it. “Now this brings back memories, half expecting the chat to explode with cute comments about you.”

Leebit looked confused but the it was Dwaekki who responded, “Oh, of course, Wolf Chan’s room. Man I forgot about that.”

“You used to watch it?” Wolf Chan asked, sounding confused.

Dwaekki nodded, “When I first got here a few people recommended it in order to learn about the island and it was very cute. You should go back to doing it again and giving out your big hugs too.”

Leebit chuckled, “Why am I not surprised by that?”

The wolf blushed, “It was a way for me to keep my friends back home updated, I didn’t know it had become known on the island too.”

The rabbit shook his head, “You’re so loving and adorable, you know that right?”

“Naur, I’m not,” Wolf Chan said, looking just as cute and adorable as ever and Leebit reached across to bonk him firmly on the head with a murderous glare.

“Don’t you are say that you are not,” Leebit stated harshly, “you are loveable, you are loved and I will murder hug you until the day that you believe it.”

“Do I want to know what an murder hug is?” Dwaekki asked, blinking heavily.

“No,” was the response from the pair at the exact same time before Leebit did indeed get up and wrap an hug around Wolf Chan’s shoulders, snuggling into him and placing a little kiss on his neck. “You are mine, Wolf Cham, and I love you remember that. Once this one is settled, meet me upstairs, alone, and bring that bulge in your pocket…not the front one just yet though.”

There was a long pause as the rabbit left the wolf in a state of uttermost shock, almost as if he couldn’t decide if he should be melting right now, dying of embarrassment or racing up the stairs as fast as possible. Dwaekki merely blinked, saw that Innie was asleep now, as he had been on the verge of it anyway and moved quickly. “Go get your bunny, before I really discover what an murder hug is,” the pig-bunny said hurriedly, “I’ve got this one. Go.”

The wolf nodded and disappeared up the stairs as fast as possible. Dwaekki shook his head, “Well, looks like I’m going to need my noise cancelling headphones tonight, huh, Innie? Lets get you to bed and then I’ll be hiding away in the garage.”

Though before he had made it to the top of the stairs, Dwaekki heard the squeal of joy and knew that Wolf Chan had proposed to Leebit so there would be a wedding before their baby was born. He smiled and then hurried on past the door, wanting to escape the sounds. Though all the couple actually did was snuggle, exchange a bunch of kisses and talk all night about the plans that they had for the future.

JYP Panda was not too surprised to receive an request to delay the meeting the next day, and was glad that the other had put some much needed family time ahead of his work. He just hoped that he’d get an invite to the wedding.

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Leebit had decided that everyone needed a little holiday away together as Wedding planning was stressful, the kids were getting restless and if one more person requested to touch his growing baby bump he was going to bite someone. He didn’t really have any issue with it, as he knew everyone on the island and everyone was excited to meet the baby that was growing there but he was getting to the stage of pregnancy where he was getting an bit cranky and just wanted time alone with his family. No one seemed to mind this in the slightest and even encouraged it, as Tom Nook had to do some upgrades to the house anyway so it would be better for everyone to be away from the racoon whilst the work was done.

They’d opted to go to the Paradice Falls, as it wasn’t too far and there were a number of little homes to rent which had been an much better option. It would mean an flight but the kids were excited about the prospect and everyone was looking forward to the trip.

“Right, everyone has their suitcase and backpack, right?” Wolf Chan asked, checking down the list of everything that they needed.

“Yes!” came the general chorus from everyone who was already by the door with their suitcase and matching backpack so that no one got confused and took the wrong thing.

“Water bottles, tickets, passports and all other bits, check,” Wolf Chan double checked his cross body pouch anyway and confirmed that this was the case and then glanced towards his mate who was already out of the door. “You need anything extra?” he called, concerned.

Leebit turned and glared at him, an roller suitcase behind him and an much lighter back pack on his shoulders because the rabbit would be damned if he was allowing the wolf to carry every last thing. Sure he was pregnant and Wolf Chan’s protective instincts were through the roof, which was on one hand very lovely and hot but on the other slightly obnoxious at times, but he wasn’t completely incapable of carrying stuff. “I’m fine, Wolf Chan, let’s get going before I start biting your ears again.”

“Yooooh,” Dwaekki called from the gate, “Can you two keep your PDA to yourselves for this holiday, I know you’re more affectionate as of late but….ow ow ow owwiee, that’s my ear!”

Wolf Chan did not even look up from his checks, knowing what he would see and then shouldered the family backpack with ease before throwing Dwaekki his own one, “You deserved that. Now come on, let’s get going, our flight is shortly.”

“The flight doesn’t leave until we get there,” Leebit sassed back, though was grinning from ear to ear as he couldn’t wait to have an little time in the sun.
The flight was indeed waiting for them and once everyone was seated, strapped in all secure, they were off on their little weekend holiday to the sunshine and fun.

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“Sand!” Innie shrieked the moment they were let out of the hotel into the scorching heat, “Look, Muppy! Dig! Dig! Dig!”

“Pwah!” Muppy complained as he got a face full of sand as Innie did his most favourite activity in the world which was to dig in sand. “You’re getting it all over my fur,” he mock yelled but was ignored by the fennec fox cub.

Lixie was also rushing towards the sand, though he had several brightly coloured buckets and spades in his feathers, “Sand castles!” he chirped happily and loudly. “I’m going to build the biggest ones ever!”

Jiniret was rushing towards the rock pools and piles, “I’m going to find all the pretty shells and make artwork with them.”

“Don’t get nipped by a crab!” Dwaekki called, shaking his head as he laid out an large picnic blanket and then stretched. “I’ll go for a run and then come back to help with food stuffs.”

“Sounds good to me,” Leebit said, plonking carefully down onto the blanket with an sigh, “Baby is enjoying the sun but being an heavy sod today.”

Wolf Chan grinned and smiled, in the process of setting up an large parasol to keep those who wanted to be cool. “Take it you won’t be swimming today then?”

The rabbit gave him a long look, “No.”

“Aww,” Wolf Chan pouted but before he could get into the fact that he brought an lovely inflatable for Leebit, he clocked Quokkie and immediately burst into laughter.
For some unknown reason, the little quokka was dressed in an raincoat, wellies and rain hat.

“Quokkie,” Wolf Chan started, slowly and carefully, “We’re at the beach, baby.”

The quokka just pouted, “But rock pools!”

Leebit turned and stared, completely confused by this turn of events and had to bite his lip to not burst out laughing. “You don’t need an rain coat for rock pools, little one, wellies I can get…”

“Don’t want to get wet!” Quokkie stated, smiling brightly, “If I wear this, then I can explore all day and won’t get wet at all!” Without pausing, the quokka waved and set off at record speed across the beach to go and look in his rock pools.

“I’ll go and collect his stuff in about five minutes once he realises it’s a bit too hot,” Wolf Chan stated, shaking his head. “Sometimes I wonder about our kids, I really do.”

Leebit smirked, “You had them first, not me.”

“Err, Quokkie was yours, I hate to point it out,” Wolf Chan stated back.

For a second the rabbit wanted to argue but then remembered that he did in fact walk into Wolf Chan’s life with Quokkie in tow. He sighed and swatted at the other, but received an kiss anyway and settled back onto his lounger with an book and some health drink that didn’t taste too vile at the moment.

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The final school bell had rung for the day and Jiniret was waiting at the gate for his younger bothers because their parents were out getting an check up on their new baby sibling – they were hopefully going to know if it was an baby brother or an sister soon which was going to be awesome. Jiniret really wanted there to be a girl in the family, so he could dress her up all pretty and take her to dance classes and the likes but if it was a boy he’d still be the best big brother that he could be. He loved all his siblings and wanted nothing but the best for them always.

“Jini!” Lixie called as he appeared, feathers proofed out adorably, “No Uncle Dwaekki today?”

“He got called in to cover an emergency shift at work,” Jiniret replied, ruffling the others feathers, “But I was going to swing by anyway on my way home so it works out.”

“Yay, can we go to Maccies then?” Muppy asked next as he appeared, looking ever so studious with his bag filled with books and a big one in his paws.

Jiniret shook his head, “Nope, not today, but we are going to do something really fun.”

“Like the play park?” Quokkie asked, appearing and linking arms with Lixie. His large boba eyes sparkled with hope.

The ferret chuckled, “Better than the play park.”

Innie latched onto Jiniret’s back and climbed up to get an piggy-back ride before lightly nipping at the ferret’s ears, “Don’t you have art club, hyungie?”

Jiniret smiled, “Yeah, but today we can bring our younger siblings to help make some spooky decorations for Halloween.”

“Yay! Spooky decorations!” all four younger ones chorused as they did indeed love making things for Halloween. Even if Quokkie would run away screaming from the bigger scarier things with Lixie whilst Muppy would try to fight it off and Innie would try to make friends it whatever it was.

“They’re not going to be the screamy kind, right?” Quokkie asked, taking Jiniret’s left paw whilst Lixie took the right.

Muppy was content walking along with his books and had been growing up a lot faster than the other two for a while now and wanted to be more independent. He still had his cute moments, and childlike ones too but he was taking his role as the studios big brother who’d be able to answer any question very seriously. Jiniret thought it was adorable and had videos of Muppy practicing how he was going to teach their new sibling all the facts of the world.

“Nope, no screamy things,” Jiniret confirmed as he directed his siblings to the building where he took art classes. Of course there wasn’t quite an bring your sibling day but he’d been in contact with the teacher just a little bit before hand to make sure he could bring them along to sit in the corner and do their crafts. There were no problems, because everyone loved it when there were new faces and Jiniret’s siblings were always welcomed. Plus there would always be a few extra people around as that’s what happened most of the time anyway.

The room that the art classes took place in was an huge space with different tables set up for various different types of art and once they were all in, bags and coats hung up all together and settled down, the teacher, Mrs. Sprot who was an Hedgehog, smiled warmly. “Today we’re going to be making family Halloween groupings, which means Halloween representations of all your family members.”

Everyone smiled brightly at that idea because it was certainly something that no one had expected and it sounded extremely cute indeed. Mrs. Sprot advised that there were many different stations with many different mediums on it so there would be plenty of activities of everyone to try, regardless of skills and abilities. The only rules were to be safe, not spoil other people’s work and have fun. Mrs. Sprot would be around to help advise and show beginners what they needed to do and allowed her attendees to go around the stations before deciding what it was that they were going to do.

Jiniret already knew what he had planned, so was able to help guide his brothers around and explain what each craft was before sending them off to do the one that had captured their imagination the best. Mrs. Sprot gave the ferret an smile, along with an head pat and a boiled sweet for being such an good, attentive big brother. The ferret smiled, a little embarrassed but happy and made his way to his own station in order to get started on his craft.

Innie had found the table where they were making trick-o-treat bags and knew that they would be perfect. There were two kinds, one where you had to cut out felt shapes and then stick them onto an sheet before putting them into an clear window bag or otherwise there were some fabric bags with pre-printed designs that could be coloured in with special pairs. As the fox had done the latter before, he took the first option and set himself the task of designing an bag for each of his family members. He started with Chan and Leebit, designed one for Dwaekki, then went down his brothers in age order until he got to himself. He did take another and after a little bit of thought, made an ghost with an dummy and a teddy bear. He smiled, proud of his work indeed and practically jumping with joy at his creation.

Muppy had taken a little while to decide but then found that there were a selection of bottles and a variety of fun bits to add to them and decided that he would make individual potions for each of his family. He put in coloured gels, slimes and little charms and wrote detailed instructions onto them. Thankfully he was a very diligent puppy and did not get any sticky stuff onto his fur or the table, much, and those bits that he did he simply went around and cleaned up. Once all the bottles were done, he took his time writing out the purpose before sticking on the labels for everyone to read. For the last bottle, he wrote “Baby, take this when you’re old enough so that you grow big and strong, can run around and play with us and always have the best of memories with you. We are all looking forward to being your big brothers and cannot wait to finally meet you.”

Lixie had immediately known what it was that he wanted to do, and had practically run to the table where there was needles, thread and a variety of different mediums. The chick had learnt to knit and crochet earlier in the year, but knew that it would take him too long to do anything along those lines, especially when he had eight to make. Instead he found the wooden cross stitch figures that were simple but effective and could be hung up all around the house. He worked quickly, selecting monsters and silly things for all his family and for the new baby he chose an cute little cat with an witches hat. He hugged the little plaque to his chest afterwards, chirping happily at the idea that there would soon be a new little one running around for them all.

Hannie was a little at a loss but once he found the supplies to make bunting, he was completely in his element without so much as a question about it. He used bright orange, black and purple crate paper that had been cut into strips and looped them together with glue. Most of the glue ended up on his fur but he honestly did not mind in the slightest. Instead he focused on getting the chain long enough to hold all the flags that were needed and set about merrily designing them to. Though he simply cut out the letters of everyone’s name and added them to the flags in the traditional Halloween colours – though he did give his twin the sparkly ones for fun – and when he got too the last one, he got an little grave and wrote ‘arriving soon’ on it as he had no idea what name his parents were going for.

In the actual class, Jiniret was happily learning the art of sculpting and had been working on his project for a few weeks now. The main part were done, as he was making some pumpkins with faces that matched them all. He was finishing up today by adding ears and ensuring that they stuck well together before they were cured in place with an heat gun which he was allowed to use under supervision even though the teacher was really not worried about him in the slightest. Once the pumpkins were fully cured and sorted, Jiniret painted them and glazed them. The smallest pumpkin he wrapped up in an cloth like he was swaddling it and stuck an miniature dummy end onto the pumpkin with an promise that once the baby was born, then it would be turned into them.

Class came to an end, and everyone gathered up all of their precious hand made decorations before Jiniret walked them home, meeting Dwaekki half way and getting into the house just as Leebit and Wolf Chan arrived. Who both promptly cooed over all the things that had been made and put them to good use around the house. Halloween was just around the corner and was sure to be very fun for them all indeed.

Leebit couldn’t be more proud of his babies, they were going to look after their new sibling so well, he was sure of it.

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Muppy let out an squark as he was captured, wriggling desperately about. “Oh no you don’t,” Wolf Chan chided gently, “We are not having an repeat of last year when you complained about being cold the entire time.”

Muppy still tried to wriggle out but ended up with an woolly bobble hat upon his head that was a bright red, with matching gloves and scarf that practically wrapped around him seven times before he was also bundled up into an big coat that was black and lined with faux fur. The puppy pouted a little bit towards Wolf Chan who merely rolled his eyes and booped him on the nose, “You’ll thank me later for it.”

Leebit couldn’t help but chuckle when he came around the corner, “Well he’s going to be a warm potato.”

“After last year,” Wolf Chan started but grinned when he saw the rabbit sending him the same look.

“I don’t need to be this wrapped up,” Muppy complained, even though he looked a little too happily snuggled up inside the warm bundle.

Quokkie poked him in the side, and loudly exclaimed, “You’re a puprito!”

Which immediately caused yelling followed swiftly by a chase but the adults decided that they weren’t going to get involved in this one because it would just be too much of an headache.

Leebit shook his head, “For being the one who likes to be warm, he doesn’t half complain about it.”

“I still think it’s an attention thing,” Dwaekki replied, appearing with his own warm coat, hat and gloves and a back pack that would be filled with a variety of treats. “But I bet that once baby is here, he’ll be the one ensuring that they’re warm as can be.”

Leebit smiled, hand immediately going over his bump which was showing so much more now. “Indeed, not long now and I can be finally rid of this gremlin.”

“Aww, baby is not a gremlin,” Wolf Chan teased back, also rubbing the bump with that soppy love struck look that he always got.

“You’re child has been an gremlin in constantly laying on my bladder at all hours,” Leebit stated back, biting towards the wolf’s nose, “and they’ll be an clingy gremlin exactly like another big ass….don’t you dare…Wolf Chan!”

The wolf was grinning and tightly hugging onto Leebit in his excited little happy way that was far too cute for any grown up to be doing and the rabbit knew that he would have to put up with it for a little while because there was going to be no stopping him. He glared at Dwaekki who was grinning that grin and went to kick him in the shin but missed for a number of reasons.

Lixie bounded up all excited, “Can we go for fireworks now?”

Soon everyone was out of the house, all bundled up nice and warm and made their way towards the top of the hill where they would get the best view along with some more of the regulars who had arrived in the mean time.

There was a big bonfire already going, with an guy set in an bucket to go on later and an roped off area where several the event organisers were carefully sorting out the fireworks.

Dwaekki handed out sparklers to all the kids, lit them carefully and they had fun making pretty pictures in the sky. Then had to laugh when Leebit demanded that the big kids got to play with the sparklers as well which led to many funny shots.

Some music started to play and the fireworks went up into the sky, shooting out in many different colours and in time to the music which changed. There was an drone light show with a bunch of different characters and it entertained everyone no end as it was so bright and colourful in the darkness of the night.
“Remember, remember, the 5th of November. Gunpowder, Treason and Plot. I see no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.”

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Wolf Chan guessed that something was up when he noticed that Leebit was grabbing all the blankets from the house and arranging them into what could only be described as a burrow. He was being quite particular about it as well, having started with making the bottom section as comfortable but easily cleanable as possible and was now building up the walls with everyone’s blankets stolen straight off their beds.

If he hadn’t have known that his mate was pregnant and wanting to build the most safest place to give birth in the world, it would have been concerning but the wolf couldn’t help but be very pleased to see that the rabbit was taking everyone’s scent into the nest where their baby was going to arrive.

He must have made an sound because Leebit turned to him with an glare as he approached, “Don’t you say a word.”

Wolf Chan just grinned, “Wasn’t going to,” and instead held out an bundle of more blankets that had been quite heavily scented by the little ones, Dwaekki and himself as they had been using them to play parachutes for the last few days in the garden. They thankfully weren’t wet as the rains seemed determined to keep on appearing but he knew that the rabbit would apricate them.

Leebit glared in that loving way of his, almost pouting before he flung himself into the wolf’s arms, who thankfully anticipated this and caught him with ease. “I hate to love you so much, you sappy dork!” the rabbit complained, though it was said with so much affection that it was the closest to being mushy that had come out of Leebit’s mouth for a while.

“Love you too,” replied Wolf Chan, nuzzling into the side of his mate’s neck, “Now do you want help, or would you prefer me to go far out and take the kids out for a bit when they get back?”

For a moment or two Leebit considered it, before headbutting the wolf, “Sit on the chair over there and look pretty, until the kids get back and then you can take them out for a bit and I’ll get the midwife to call you when things start.”

“You sure you want me there?” Wolf Chan prompted, even though he was pleased as punch with that idea.

“I need someone to kick and beat up for putting this little rascal in me, so you better be there, you big narna!” Leebit scolded, before kissing the wolf’s lips. “Plus, I know Daddy wants to meet baby just as much as me, so may was well make sure you don’t have a break down about not being right next to my side, huh?”

“Love you,” Wolf Chan giddily replied.

“Love you too,” Leebit echoed, just as happy before grabbing at his partners very nice behind to give it a good squeeze. “Now go over there, sit and be pretty! I’m going to need something to keep me focused through this and you work for some reason I don’t know.”

Wolf Chan smiled brightly, clearly enjoying the moment and settled himself down happily without an complaint. Though he did shoot a couple of quick messages off to various peoples to let them know what was abut to start happening and ensuring that the right people were on the way. Leebit had called the midwife and she called Wolf Chan to let him know that she would be over in about ten minutes.

Dwaekki called of course, buzzing with excitement and the wolf had to calm him down a little because they had a plan and they needed to stick with it. Especially seeing as there was no real manual on how an wolf-rabbit cross baby was going to arrive in the slightest. It was sort of in the middle between uncommon and rare so they were going to have to go into this a little blind but that was half the fun.

Wolf Chan was just excited to become an Dad for the sixth time, he couldn’t wait.

A hour passed by in a flash of seconds it felt, and the midwife arrived, a burley hedgehog with plenty of supplies and years of experience behind her. She was brightly named Harriet and always had a smile on her face that was accompanied by an can do attitude which was needed in this scenario. Leebit was fine, still in the process of building his nest though pausing every once in a while because the contractions would kick in but they weren’t too bad at the moment so he wasn’t going to complain too much.

The wolf did try to move a little closer a couple of times, especially when he could hear that Leebit was in pain, but the rabbit would just hold out his finger in warning towards him and say, “Sit, stay, good boy,” towards him.

Eventually Dwaekki arrived too, having picked up the kids from school and popped in only to check on plans, to which Leebit told him to take Daddy down to the store to spend more money and treat the kiddies too before bringing Daddy back once things really kicked in. The pig-rabbit nodded his approval, grinned broadly and grabbed his best friend, “Right, you heard the rabbit, let’s go.”

Wolf Chan pouted, not wanting to be separated from his mate in this moment but relented when Leebit sent him air kisses, “I promise you’ll be here, just go and work off some of your energy for a little first, yeah?”

Wolf Chan sent them back, even when Dwaekki was dragging him out of the door.

The next hour was spent entertaining the kiddies in the store, taking them for an meal out and then deciding between playing mini golf, having an go on the dodgems or trying to win toys from the crane game machines. They had all agreed on mini golf, followed by bowling when Wolf Chan got the call to head on back home. He grabbed each of his cubs tightly, giving them all the biggest of big hugs that he could manage, along with an heavy but quick scenting just so that all of them knew that they were just as loved and cherished as before. There were playful digs and complains about all of this of course, but the little ones were just as excited for the arrival of their new sibling too so it was all going to be fine.

Though in the taxi ride home, Wolf Chan was a bundle of nerves and couldn’t quite decide what to do with himself. The driver gave him an smile, giggling a little bit but understanding and bits of conversation to keep the eager daddy for the fifth time to be.

Of course Dwaekki had gotten his own hug goodbye but the wolf had been pushed in the face before he could give a scenting as the pig-rabbit did not need that reassurance as no way that they were going to become an thropple in the slightest. He did laugh lightly at the idea though and made sure to let Wolf Chan know that there were still the best of friends so there were no hard feelings but it was easy to imagine that nothing would get through to the wolf until he had his knew cub in his arms and an mate to comfort and cuddle for the better part of the night.

He paid more than what he meant to as he got out of the taxi, but the driver did not make too much of a fuss out of it and Wolf Chan raced into his home where he could smell all sorts of things. The midwife was settled next to the nest, her medical supplies on standby and Leebit was laying on his back, wrapped up in one of Wolf Chan’s hoodies looking half mediative and half miserable.

Wolf Chan dropped to his knees, “I’m here, honey, how are things going?”

“Bloody painful,” Leebit breathed though through his clenched teeth but did cutely rub his nose against the wolf’s in form of greeting. “Contractions are painful.”
“They’ll be going on for a while yet,” Harriet said, “I’ll go and get that hot water bottle for you and some more tea.”

“Thank you Harriet,” Leebit replied, shifting his legs a little, “Why couldn’t you be a rabbit, then this would go so much more easily.”

Wolf Chan giggled, “Would you prefer me to be a rabbit?”

“No, cause you’d be like all the other dopes I tried to date before you landed in my life,” Leebit smiled back, “I hope our baby ends up looking more like you, that’d be nice.”

Wolf Chan went to say that he’d prefer it the other way around, but was firmly bopped on the nose by Leebit with a clear look of, “Shut up right now, this is a free pass to me being mushy that you won’t get for a while” before he gripped the wolf’s paw in his own and squeezed hard.

So very hard that Wolf Chan thought his paw was going to break but he did not care in the slightest as he was there for his mate, who was in the process of giving birth, and that was all that matter.

They were there for a long time, as it appeared that baby didn’t want to come out for a little while but Harriet assured that this was normal.

Then, just after midnight, Leebit let out an odd little squeak, shifted and the next thing Wolf Chan knew, there was a tiny little cry in the air. Harriet moved quickly, picking up the tiny child and giving it a few quick check overs whilst Wolf Chan nuzzled his mate with all the affection that he felt for the wild rabbit.

“Here you go,” Harriet appeared back into the couples space, the baby in an open blanket to allow wild instincts to take over, “Congratulations, you have a little girl.”
Leebit instantly took the tiny creature into his arms and started cleaning it, nipping at Wolf Chan’s nose when he tried to help initially before relenting as the wolf’s tongue was bigger and they could get things sorted a whole lot quicker. Their little girl looked, for the most part, like a wolf but with brilliant white fur. Her ears were far more rounded and she had a little pompom of a tail but she was perfect and cute and Leebit wailed because he couldn’t be happier. Wolf Chan hugged the pair of them, rumbling happily as he was so proud of them both.

He did chuckle, “The boys are going to treat her like a princess.”

“You’re going to spoil her like one,” Leebit remarked with a grin, “But she’s going to deserve it indeed.”

Harriet smiled, a pen in her paw as she was filling out some paperwork, “What’s going to be her name?”

The parents stared at one another before Leebit smiled, “I always liked your choice, I think we should go with it cause it fits our precious little wolf so perfectly, don’t you think?”

Wolf Chan blushed, “Are you sure?”

Leebit playfully rolled his eyes, “Yes, otherwise I would be demanding the ones I picked and to be honest, Lupita fits her perfectly.”

Wolf Chan chuckled, “Then she’s our Lupita then, welcome to the world, little one.”

Lupita blinked momentarily, let out a tiny little yawn and closed her soft eyes to fall asleep. Coming into the world was a big adventure indeed and she had many more to come.

The next day her big brothers came to visit, with Dwaekki there to coo the loudest over her but it was easy to tell that they were all enamoured and Innie turned to Jiniret to go, “You were right to paint all the butterflies purple in her room!”

Leebit blinked, “You painted butterflies in her room?”

“And caterpillars,” spoke up Lixie happily.

“I drew some flowers for her,” Innie stated as proudly as possible.

“Whilst I put in some fairy’s and little magical creatures,” Muppy stated back, not knowing that he still had paint on the tips of his ears.

“I drew her an spaceship with a friendly alien,” was Quokka’s contribution and he sounded so proud of it, even though all the others gave him an huge bombastic side eye for that statement, that the new parents couldn’t help but laugh.

Dwaekki giggled, “They wanted to do something special for the arrival of their sister, don’t ask me how they knew.”

Wolf Chan just smiled and hauled all of his sons into his arms to give them an big squishy hug which had them all wriggling and complaining because they couldn’t see Lupita but it was all in show. All of them were over the moon with their new sister, it was clear and Lupita had sparkly eyes upon seeing them before drifting back off to sleep as content as could be. It was clear that she was surrounded by an huge loving family and that was exactly what the little wobbit needed at this point in her life.

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Leebit sat in the window seat, gently nursing his beautiful daughter Lupita with an dreamy smile on his face. It was Christmas eve and the first that he would be spending with her and she was so tiny, precious and had zero clue as to what was going on. But that didn’t matter, she was here in the world with them and just looked cute and adorable and he was going to cry again cause gosh darn his hormones were playing up like mad.

They were not helped by an blanket being lovingly draped around his shoulders and an gently nuzzle coming from his adorable, silly wolf partner, “I can take her for a minute, so you can have some tea and carrot biscuits.”

Leebit blinked his watery eyes, “Watercress?” he asked, his heart doing things that were embarrassing and annoying but also perfectly right at the same time.
“Of course,” Wolf Chan smiled, “Added a little bit of honey and some pumpkin spice too for you.”

Leebit hiccupped, gently passing his daughter to the many muscled wolf and then curled himself close for a cuddle as well. The wolf’s chest was so large that he could easily accommodate the pair of them and let out a series of very happy rumbles from it. Leebit knew that the wolf dad was preening with the fact that he had provided for his mate, made him extremely happy and now had the rabbit and their wobbit in his arms where he could protect them both. The rabbit could smell all the rest of the kids on him, their scents mainly muted and milk filled, though Jiniret’s was starting to take on stronger notes as he was getting slowly older, which meant he’d been with them before and that made the rabbit beam.

It would be an idiot that would think that Wolf Chan or Leebit would forget their first kids in favour of the new addition, they split their time and attention as much as they could do but thankfully the boys were just as in love with their baby sister as she was with them. Well she didn’t cry when they appeared, she just stared at them in wide eyed wonder and would smile brightly whenever they did something funny. But she was still only an month old, so it wasn’t like the world would make too much sense to her now.

The rabbit settled quickly and easily, happily drinking the tea whilst Wolf Chan gazed at his daughter and gently hummed a song. The boys would be back from whatever fun Dwaekki had dragged them off to shortly and then they could get them all fed, bathed and into bed to await the arrival of Jingle. Lupita drifted off to sleep in her fathers arms, happy with her full stomach and content to just be there for the time being.

Next Christmas was sure to be fun indeed but for now, it was just quiet and lovely.

Leebit’s ear twitched around fifteen minutes later as he heard the usual clatter that meant their cubs were coming home so he set down his cup and gave Wolf Chan an kiss on the cheek. “Keep our little princess for a bit,” he whispered gently, “I’ve got some mothering to go and do.”

Wolf Chan chuckled happily, “That sounds good. Don’t be too harsh on them.”

“Me, never,” Leebit responded back and hopped down. He’d rested a lot today and felt very much in the mood to run around with his elder cubs for whatever madness that they had been through today. Of course he realised that he was still in his pyjamas and dressing gown with fluffy slippers but knew that none of the kids would mind.

Lixie was the first through the door and the chick chirped happily before rushing towards Leebit with a cry of, “Mama!”

“Hey fluffy,” Leebit responded, pulling the chick in for a brief hug, “What have you been up to with uncle Dwaekki?”

“Sledging!” cried Hannie, rushing in to get his own hug, “We went all the way up to the top of the big hill and down so many times.”

“Hannie fell over on his butt a million times,” Muppy said sarcastically as he gave his mama an hug and dutifully started taking off all his outer layers without needing to be asked to.

Jiniret was the last through the door, carrying Innie on his back who looked frozen to the bone, Leebit got momentarily worried and hurried across, “What happened?”
The ferret grinned, “Innie decided that he wanted to did holes in the snow.”

Dwaekki appeared, “He was tunnelling again and by the time we got him out, he was on the other side of the park and fell into the pond. I’ve warmed him up as best I can but the video is very funny.”

“Aww, Innie you silly baby,” Leebit said, helping Jiniret lower Innie to an standing position, “Let’s get you warmed up, huh? You too Jiniret.”

The elder blinked, went to argue and then grinned when he saw the look that his rabbit mama gave him. “Yes, Mama.”

“Where’s Lupita?” asked Muppy, as the Lixie and Quokkie had decided that they wanted to go get their blankets down for their little fox brother.

“With you Dad,” Leebit replied, “In the front room, on the main bay window but she’s asleep so be quiet.”

Muppy nodded seriously at that and tiptoed in the direction of father and daughter. Leebit frowned for a second, shook his head and then turned back to the other two, “Come on, we’ll get you by the fire and Dwaekki can get you some soup going.”

The pig-rabbit grinned, “No problems. I did message but figured you two would be enamoured with our little princess.”

Innie was promptly sat in front of the fire after he was taken out of his wet, cold things and vigorously rubbed dry with towels whilst Jiniret fetched his warmest pyjamas and a dressing down with fluffy slippers and an extra warm hat to plonk on top of his head. Leebit took a moment to fuss over Jiniret as well, because the ferret was such a good big brother to them all and he deserved the fussing.

Of course there were times when he would not stop to take care of his own needs but Wolf Chan had found the perfect solution to that. The wolf had gotten up, made Jiniret sit down and then handed over Lupita to him. Jiniret beamed, holding onto the baby so perfectly and cooing at her, which caused little gurgles and noises to come out of her mouth. Her other brothers grouped around her as well, all hugging up to Jiniret to coo and play with their new baby sister who they were all definitely enamoured with.

Except for Muppy who had been fussing over his sister for a bit with Wolf Chan and was now in the process of fussing over Innie who appeared to be too tired to really care what the puppy was doing to him. Which was mainly styling his fur into silly little spikes and saying he was going to turn into an punk rocker.

Shortly after Dwaekki called that the soup was ready and Leebit took his daughter back into his arms, whilst the others ate. Though Wolf Chan was feeding him as well, because Lupita had decided that she wanted to be fed. Leebit had playfully bitten at Wolf Chan’s fingers but only because it was just a typical cute thing for the wolf to be doing at a time like this. As he was alternating between feeding himself, Leebit and Innie so he was being a very good boy. Normally Leebit would reward him for doing so, but got the feeling that tonight was not going to be a good time.

Plus his body was still recovering and he’d been advised against having anything intimate for a little while and that was something that Leebit could agree with.
The soup helped Innie to perk up a lot and he started blowing raspberries towards Lupita to make the baby laugh a little. Though it was clear that the little wobbit was about to fall asleep again, as she had had two feeds, a lot of fuss and attention and been made to giggle. Muppy had been worried that she was sleeping far too much, but Lixie and Jiniret assured him that this was normal for babies as they had so much to process and their brains weren’t quite big enough yet to do so.

Which had set the pup to attempt to start reading up facts about the brain and development in books that were far too old for him but no one really minded. He liked to learn about things and Wolf Chan said that when they went to the library next he’d guide the little tyke to the science section more appropriate for his age.

Leebit got up, “I’m going to put this one to bed, as she’s sleepy.”

“Okay, I’ll get these ones in the bath and into his jammies then,” Wolf Chan replied, turning to the others, “You know the routine after right?”

“Yes Daddy,” they all echoed back on command, even Dwaekki playfully from the kitchen.

Wolf Chan rolled his eyes and scooped up Innie, heading upstairs to the bathroom and sent his now second youngest to go get his pyjamas. The routine followed perfectly and the boys came up one after another, though of course Jiniret was old enough to look after himself now and sorted out the bathroom himself afterwards so Wolf Chan could go check on the others. He could hear Leebit and Dwaekki playfully bickering in the kitchen so knew that they were all right.

The boys clambered down the stairs once they were all dressed and set up the cushions and drinks and snacks before they all curled up around one another to await their parents. Leebit had helped with the dishes and insisted that the pig-rabbit go take a wash and get his own pyjamas on before him.

Jiniret was last to come down, though he was holding a very familiar story book in his arms with a blush. “It’s Christmas,” he defended, even though no one was complaining at him in the slightest.

Wolf Chan just scooped the ferret up to hug him soundly, “I’ll torment you with this book even when you’re all grown up and have cubs of your own.”

“Gah, let me go!” the ferret complained, trying to wriggle out of the hug but it was all for show as they all knew he adored hugs. But he was trying to be a more grown up boy now, but even Leebit said that he was just a soft, fluffy boy inside.

The two rabbits appeared, Lupita safely tucked into Leebit’s arms though her bright eyes were glistening as she had napped only for a short while before waking up to giggle at her mother and uncle squabbling. Leebit shook his head, “If that book did not come out I think it would be the biggest shame in the world, especially seeing as Lupita has never heard it before.”

That got an big beaming smile out of Jiniret and the others who had made a perfect little baby spot in the middle of them all, using an play mat with some dangling mobiles to create a safe place. Muppy had gotten a pillow, Lixie a blanket, Quokka a cuddly toy and Innie had brought over the baby bag which had bottles, nappies and anything that they could need. Leebit felt his heart swell as he placed Lupita down on the map and watched his big babies gently fuss over the little girl.

He later blamed the tears that fell silently down his cheeks on hormones but it did not stop him from hugging up to Wolf Chan with Dwaekki who wanted to be able to hug someone as well as the wolf read aloud the Christmas Story, which was a book filled with many cute Christmas stories that the boys loved. Lupita wasn’t really reacting, as she was less than an month old and was still learning about everything but it was clear that she enjoyed being around her family, her pack and felt safe and loved.

She fell asleep fast, which caused all the boys to coo at her before drifting off to sleep next to her in an almost protective little huddle.

Dwaekki fell asleep as well, snoring contentedly, which eventually caused Leebit to drift off as well.

Wolf Chan lay where he was, wolfish grumbles of glee in his chest as his family were all around him, protected, safe and so much loved.

When Jingle arrived shortly after midnight, he gave a merry and bright wave, before laying the presents down under the tree before hopping over to stare at the newest addition. “Aww, she’s so precious. Congratulations.”

“Thank you,” Wolf Chan grinned, “She’ll be writing to you in no time.”

“That I look forward to,” Jingle replied, “But all her brothers asked for a gift for her each so here they are, I’ll set them just over here.”

Wolf Chan was speechless and had to hold back his own tears of joy. Jingle smiled, waved and tapped the side of his nose before disappearing to continue the delivery. Wolf Chan was so proud of his family and couldn’t wait to share the morning with him. Though a tiny bit of fairy dust did come down the chimney to waft softly upon his nose and actually give him a good nights sleep for the first time in a long time.

The family were all snuggled together happily, perfectly content and they dreamed of a bright, happy future together.