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The stars flickered brightly in the night sky. Mostly everybody was asleep. Mostly...

Around nine, almost all the students on Tiger-Valley High school came to life, climbing out of windows, and sneaking out of houses.

Daryan silently got out of her bed, and sneaked toward her window, slid it silently open, and climbed down the wall. A car was waiting for her outside on the road, no lights.

"Hi Cody!" She whispered, as the car's engine rumbled. "Hiya" he replied, he didn't bother whispering, he knew her parents could not hear them, although he was silent while leaving.

***

"Well, here we are..." Cody said as he pulled up to the big gates of the crow mansion. The gravel crunching as the weight of the car bearded down on it.

He pressed a button on the intercom. A small green LED came to life as the camera clicked on.

Who is it? A teenage voice on the other side asked.

"I'm on the list" the fox replied. There was no real list; it was a code that all the people invited were given.

They heard the base thumping as they pulled onto the grass, the big building was as old as the town it found itself in. It was surprising that it had power in the first place... they no doubt jacked it somehow, there was no way the old building's power was still on...

Multicoloured lights could be seen through the dusty old windows, pulsing to the beat.

The music got infinitely louder as the doors creaked open, the dust erupting out of the rusty old hinges.

At least a hundred people could be seen dancing to the music... And the party was only starting...

There was a make shift mini bar made up of old wine crates they probably found in the attic. The party was mostly contained to the ballroom, but some people found their way to the various rooms around the mansion.

The party grew larger by the minute, and before they knew it, there were well over three hundred people...

Every one of them brought a six pack beer, they gave it to the guy behind the mini-bar. He was so drunk he could barely stand. Drinking every one else's alcohol.

But something was not quite right, something was out of place... or rather someone.

Lurking in the shadows in the darkest corner, a Siamese cat: Walter. He was the type everybody picked on, the school punching bag.

How he got in, I won't know... But he was smart, so if he got in, he probably plotted his way in...

He had this morbid look on his face, like he didn't want to be here... But considering his status at school, it came too no surprise....

Jonathan found him there in the corner, you could see the fear in his eye's as the wolf made his way to the cat.

"How did you get here?" Jonathan screamed above the noise of the crowd. "I- uh...." he stuttered, unable to come up with an excuse for his presence. "Hi Jonathan!" Samantha yelled, tail wagging. She was all too happy to see a familiar face. "Go find Brandon, we have an intruder" "Just leave him" she said partly out of sympathy, partly out of annoyance. "Fine! I'll go find him!" he said as he rushed off

*** After a while, Samantha got bored waiting for Jonathan to return, and went out looking for him...

She figured he would be in one of the rooms searching for Brandon, so that's where she started looking.

The hinges of a particularly old door creaked open, she clicked the light switch. What she saw was not what she expected...

***

Cody was having a ball, after all, he was with Daryan, how much happier can a fox get, being with the girl he loved... Daryan hanged around him, she didn't exactly have anywhere else to be, she didn't know anyone else...

As the DJ switched to the next song, a panicked scream could be heard above the crowd.

***

Samantha screamed on the top of her lounges as she ran down the halls, she never expected to find THAT. All that blood...

"What's wrong?" Cody asked, trying to sound sympathetic. "He's DEAD! "She screamed and started sobbing. The crowd went silent. Everybody looked to the crying wolf girl. "Wait, Who?" Cody asked. "Brandon!" She screamed again. This party was all but legal, if the police found out about it... Now with a dead host, that just made it worse... Nobody wanted to be the one who had to tell the police "Hey, I was at an illegal party, under drinking age, and the host got murdered..." Before they knew it, everybody was making a dash for the small gap that was the door. "Hey, wait, you can't just leave!?" Cody yelled after the panicked crowd.

The next thing Cody remembered was a soft cloth pressed against his snout; a sweet smell filling his sinuses, and robbing him of his consciousness.

As he drifted in and out of consciousness, noticed a few things. First he heard the music, it was still playing. Next, he felt himself being dragged by his legs over the old wooden floors of the mansion. He felt his legs thud against the hardwood as his legs was dropped. He was then lifted into a chair, some sort of belt was strapped to his chest.

He regained consciousness enough to look around, he still could not move his legs and arms. Partially because of the chloroform he was dosed with, partially because they were tied to the chair...

He saw Daryan tied to the chair Parallel to his, Jonathan to his left, Samantha opposite to him, To his right was Igor an athletic Lynx "Most likely to succeed" in the yearbook, opposite to him was Walter, the Siamese cat.

In the centre of the room they were in, was a crazy bunch of wiring and lights, flashing in a seemingly random array.

Daryan regained consciousness a few minutes later. "What the hell!?" She asked after looking around.

"You're awake!" Cody said. "I was getting a little worried" "Oh, would you two get a room?" Jonathan said as he regained consciousness. "Well gee, aint that a good idea, Daryan said, gesturing at her bounding. "These look electronic..." Walter said. "How long have you been awake?" Daryan asked. "Oh not much longer than me" Igor said. "Hey welcome to the party" Jonathan said. "What the HELL is happening" Samantha asked as she came by. "Well judging by THAT" Cody gestured to the board in the middle of the room "I'd say someone wants us to play a game." "What am I wearing?" Samantha asked. "It looks like a... BOMB!" Daryan said shocked. "Guys, is that clue??" Igor asked. "Looks like it..." Cody said.

A light lit up and the board beeped twice, and the electric shackles they were wearing clicked open. "Good day" a mechanical pre-recorded voice said, sent through various filters to disguise the person's identity.

"The host of your party has been murdered. You have been chosen to solve the murder, and catch the killer, but in order for me to reveal myself; you must first play a little game..."