The entire town of Cloveshore had been on edge for a while now. Ever since the disappearances had started to become more frequent, people had been worrying. Now, with the very noticeable drop in population, the citizens were in an outright panic. Eventually, the people of the town got together and decided that something must be done. All suspicions were directed toward the strange family that never seemed to leave the mansion just outside of town. Everyone knew the rumors; they were often the subject of stories told to the younger children to keep them from staying out too late or getting into trouble. However, the stories of how they were really vicious beasts were something that even most of the adults believed wholeheartedly. And besides, it perfectly explained why so many people went missing.

In the end, it was decided that perhaps an offering would be best to try to appease the beasts in the mansion. After some discussion, four girls were chosen to be sacrifices for the sake of the rest of the town. They might not have been thrilled about it, but off they were sent anyway, each of them chosen for one reason or another. Of course, since none of them were expected to be seen again, some may have taken advantage of this decision...

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Up at the mansion, four boys had received word from one of the servants that they would be having visitors that day. They would be arriving before lunch, supposedly, so the Tier family had only some time to prepare. Of course, it had been quite some time since they had last had visitors, and they had mostly been left with just each other and the various servants since the passing of the late head of the family. How would things go this time? Who could say?

Lee stood in front of the steamy bathroom mirror a nervous wreck. Earlier in the morning one of the servants gave him news of a group of sacrifices coming from town to the manor, specifically a group of woman. Lee could not complain, he loved woman, who didn't, but Lee had not talked to any other female besides the maid servants inside the house, and unfortunately for him, they were not always willing to make conversation. Lee raked his hand through his wet blonde hair as thousands of scenarios played out in his head, making him even more nervous. He decided to deal with that later and think about something else while he fixed his hair. Why would the town just up and send there precious daughters to a bunch of monsters? Lee mentally slapped himself for not thinking, they were obviously afraid of there numbers falling more that it already had from him and his younger brothers shenanigans. He hoped that the town had the right idea because if this plan failed, and he lost control, he could not guarantee the lady's would make it out alive.

Lee walked out of the shower and into his large spacious room. On his bed was the clothes that the head maid had picked out for him. It was a simple gray pinstripe vest and pant topped of with black leather shoes and a white shirt. After putting on his clothes he made his way down stairs and into the dining room. It would not be long before the rest of his brothers come down and waited for the woman to arrive all dressed up just like him. Lee took a seat at the head of the table and waited for his brother to arrive.

Griffin was informed by his maid that he was expected to dress up because they were having guests. He rolled his eyes. Why on Earth were they getting guests today? Why were they getting guest period. He didn't want to have to deal with people. He hated people, except his brothers. Sometimes he was undecided about them. With a sign he put on the old fashion suit. Once he was dressed he made his way down the stairs.

Alex sat in his room and the maids tended this his hands and feet. He had look perfect after all. He wondered about the guest and if the would be worthy of his time and his good looks. Alex spoke to one of the maids, "Make sure my favorite suit is ready, but take your time. It has to be perfect, like me, and I want to arrive after my brothers." He always wanted to show up last and be dramatic about it.

Xavier looked into his bedrooms mirror fixing his glasses and tie."This is stupid." He whispered to himself as he left his room and grabbed a book to read before the guest arrived. Xavier walked downstairs and entered the dinning room siting to the left of Lee. "Good evening Lee." Xavier says not looking up from his book.

Lee was getting bored waiting for the ladies, and lunch. He leaned back in his seat and fiddled with the silverware. He thought about just eating lunch immediately, but he shook he head at the idea, it would be disrespectful to eat the food without the women, although he assumed the woman would not mind, they probably were not very hungry knowing that they would probably have to live with beasts for some time against there will. But it was to late for them to change there mind now, but that was not what was bugging Lee at the moment. It was his brothers, some of them could be a little, how could he put it, difficult, even more difficult due to the fact that they were monsters also. Speaking of brothers, one of them walked down the stairs and into the dining room, he sat next to Lee.

"Good evening Lee." Xavier said politely.

Lee looked at Xavier, he was dressed in a simple shirt, tie and glasses, he also brought his book with him, Xavier loved books.

"Evening Xavier, how do you feel about our incoming guests." Lee asked as he fiddled with his fork. Lee noticed that another one of his younger brothers was on there way down, he would wait for him to arrive before getting his opinion on the woman also.

Griffin grumbled under his breath as he entered the dinning room. He really didn't want to deal with strangers. Ampnd to be expected to live with four of them for an unknown amount of time was pushing his tolerance. He glared at his brothers one older and one the same age. Which left the baby of the family to arrive. Alex liked to make a dramatic entrance. "This is a stupid idea."

Why do you even ask me anything anymore? It's not like you really want to hear what I have to say!

It's none of your business! You were never asked, so why are you saying anything about it?

Fine! I get it! So you hate me that much. I'm sorry that I ruined your dreams of being an only child!


Vivi sighed as she walked. So they had gotten on her nerves again, so what? That sort of stuff was normal among siblings, wasn't it? It certainly wasn't the first time, and it was definitely not going to be the last.

Oh wait. It actually was now, wasn't it? All because she had been just a little too hotheaded. Sure, she kinda got pushed around a bit often by her older siblings, and sure, they had really jumped on the chance to mock her for the way she acted normally lately, but perhaps she had been a bit hasty in her desire to prove them wrong.

She hadn't even told her mother. Not until that morning. She knew that she would try to stop her, and then she'd never show them.
...but in hindsight, wasn't this actually the kind of behavior she was probably mocked for?

Either way, it was too late now. She could regret it all she liked, but she was already almost at the meeting point at the edge of town. They'd be sending off four girls today, and she was going to be one of them.

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Lee was getting bored waiting for the ladies, and lunch. He leaned back in his seat and fiddled with the silverware. He thought about just eating lunch immediately, but he shook he head at the idea, it would be disrespectful to eat the food without the women, although he assumed the woman would not mind, they probably were not very hungry knowing that they would probably have to live with beasts for some time against there will. But it was to late for them to change there mind now, but that was not what was bugging Lee at the moment. It was his brothers, some of them could be a little, how could he put it, difficult, even more difficult due to the fact that they were monsters also. Speaking of brothers, one of them walked down the stairs and into the dining room, he sat next to Lee."Good evening Lee." Xavier said politely.Lee looked at Xavier, he was dressed in a simple shirt, tie and glasses, he also brought his book with him, Xavier loved books."Evening Xavier, how do you feel about our incoming guests." Lee asked as he fiddled with his fork. Lee noticed that another one of his younger brothers was on there way down, he would wait for him to arrive before getting his opinion on the woman also.

"I agree with Griffin." Xavier continued reading his book. Personally he felt that it was dumb because he never talked to girl around his age before. The maids barely spoke to them let alone hold a full conversation." Where is Alex?" Xavier asked still exploring his thoughts towards the situation.

Alison sighed and fallowed along the path leading up to the meeting point. she would probably be drawing the whole way, anyway. She was doing that at the moment, she had her sketch book and a pencil in her hands as she wandered her way there. sent off early to get eaten first.
Of corse this had put her in another one of her depressed moods. She knew why she was here.

Ali looked around she had just gotten there a few seconds ago and was looking for something to sit on that wasn't the ground. It wasn't like she was wearing a dress but some black tights that went down to her ankles, over that was a black, short skirt and a black, tight styled blouse that was ruffly only on the shoulders. Finding mall rock she sat down and began to draw the bird that was hopping around.

A black car pulled up to the meeting place and Mira slid out of the backseat with a bag of her things. Messy brown hair, long and tangled that she pushed away from her face, reflective aviators to hide the sun from her reddened eyes, tan skin dotted with small freckles, and an off the shoulder shirt barely hanging on for dear life with very hole filled jeans and boots. She wasn't exactly the image of someone headed to a castle. As the car drove off, she flipped it off, not caring if her mom could see it or not but doing so anyway. Coughing a bit, she rubbed her temple, bright white teeth emerging as she snarled a bit from a slight headache and waited.

Lee chuckled at the responses of his younger brothers, stupid was what they thought if the idea. Lee though it was ironic that they would rather kidnap woman rather than them just be giving the woman. Unfortunately Lee could not blame them, when it came to woman they were all unskilled, it also did not help that they were uncontrollable beasts that could turn at any moment.

"You guys were not complaining when we were kidnapping woman, and now that the townspeople are just giving us there daughters, you guys thinks it's stupid." Lee laughed.

"Where is Alex?" Xavier asked

"Probably getting ready on for the guests, you know how he likes to look perfect."

Alex watched as the maids finished with his suit. "I know you want to see me and my beautiful body, but you must leave." After the maids left, he check his suit making sure each crease was perfect. Alex smiled and then got dressed.

He grabbed his fedora before exiting his room. He followed the corridor the the dinning area. He paused just outside for a moment then heard Xavier ask where he was and Lee telling him that Alex had to be perfect.

The moment Lee finished that statement, Alex walked it. "Of course I have to be perfect. You there got the ugly side of the gene pool." He took a look at the table and found himself a seat.

Ali sighed and looked up from her doodles. "..." she really didn't need to say anything or at least she didn't think she did. Of corse why would she it wasn't like she had any reason too. Ali was depressed and anyone could see that, her mind cloudier than usual. Maybe it was the fact that she was offered up like that. Or maybe it was the fact that nobody in the right mind cared. She started to draw a figure but the face was missing. She drew the body and the nicely styled suit but the figure lacked the one thing that would make it less creepy. So she drew in a face but she left the eyes, as blank holes through the figure.

Vivi checked her clothes and bag again. They never said that she couldn't bring anything, so she had rounded up a couple of items before leaving into a small rucksack. There was a water bottle, a few personal items, her toothbrush and such, and perhaps there was a knife in there. She didn't know if she'd actually be able to use it should the need arise, nor was she even certain that it was actually in there since she had been in such a hurry, but even the thought gave her a slight sense of security. It made her situation somewhat more reminiscent of a fairy tale that she had read once, only the person from that story was actually competent.

...Was there even a knife in there? She couldn't seem to find it with everything else after all. Darn it.

Sighing in slight frustration and defeat, she checked her clothes again; black undershirt and pants with a dark blue T-shirt covered by a bright red hoodie. With the boots on her feet completing the outfit, she felt comfortable, at least. Especially with the hoodie, since that was why she brought it in the first place. It had a slightly calming effect just by being on her person, somehow. Perhaps it was the smell.

As she looked up the path again, she noticed that two other people were already at the meeting point. The other two girls, it would appear, two of the others being sent to the mansion. Pretty much as she had expected, they looked less than thrilled from what she could tell, but there was still one more to arrive, wasn't there? She looked around with a mostly blank expression to make sure that she hadn't missed anyone, but nothing changed.

Mira turned around while rubbing her temples, and saw another chick just sitting there drawing. Jumping slightly and taking a step back she mumbled ”Oh, didn’t see you,” and shifted the bag on her shoulder. She walked over to the girl and looked at the drawing, snarling her lip up slightly. ”Creepy,” she said flatly, turning to look as another girl approached. ”Hey. Wait, aren’t there supposed to be 4 of us pigs for slaughter?” she said, running her hands over the top of her head and frowning as she looked around, peering through her shades and wondering if they’d be taken to the castle or not. She was not a patient girl, after all.

Vivi wasn't sure what to think about the somewhat irritable seeming girl in the shades, so she decided not to form any opinion about her yet. She nodded in response to her question, though. "The last one must still be on her way. I'm sure that she'll get here soon." Her voice remained fairly quiet, though that was a normal enough thing for her. She was surprised that it wasn't louder, actually, since she was still feeling a bit nervous. Taking a deep breath, she attempted to calm down, deciding that it wouldn't do her any good to become more stressed at this point. The comment about the other girl's drawing made her curious, but she didn't want to go over and look without permission. She figured that it would be like somebody walking in on her practice, and she personally didn't like to show off unfinished products. They needed time for perfection.

Ali looked at the doodle and wrote something down, it was nonsense but it made sense for her and that was all that mattered. she flipped the page showing off a withered rose on the opposite side. she looked up saw another girl she shook her head mumbled something and started to doodle again. She started to draw a cloud, with soon turned into a storm cloud that was hovering above a rose. She made a mumble that was kid of understandable.
" One day... I will meet... The person to talk me away from this.."
This showed that she was kind of not depressed anymore. Or this is another crazy mumble that got her here.

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"You guys were not complaining when we were kidnapping woman, and now that the townspeople are just giving us there daughters, you guys thinks it's stupid." Lee laughed.

When we kidnap them they don't expect us to be nice to them." Griffin explained gruffly. He didnt like pretending to be something he wasnt. But with the girls 'visiting' he was going to be expected to atleast pretend to be social. "I'm not a social person. I would rather be our in my workshop." His brothers often teased him about his hobby but he didnt let that diminish the joy he got out of wood carving. Even if it was an odd hobby for someone that was more beast than man.

Lillian wiped the single tear away. She didn't want to go, she was happy where she was at, but it was either going to be herself, or her younger sister, and she decided to go. She had gave her young sister a gentle huge before saying good-bye to her tearful family before clutching her brown bag closer to her and heading to the edge of the forest, where she was to meet three other women her age. The village had chosen four ladies from the village to go to some castle, and at first they choose Lillith, Lilly's younger sister, but Lillian took her place.

It wasn't long before she was approaching three other women, each different in their own way. She had on a black skirt that reached her knees and flowed out and a pretty white blouse, her blond hair pulled into a side braid. "Hello, I'm Lillian." She said to the other three girls a little nervous they'd turn and beat her down.