Ribbun Week: Day seven (Snow Day)
Link to Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61210300
“Come on slowpokes!” Jax said as he rushed out of the tent.
The constant spring of the digital world was now replaced with a winter wonderland. The digital lake was frozen solid and the grass was covered in a thick layer of fluffy snow.
“Hold up!” Ragatha rushed out, her dress replaced with a full-length winter coat.
Pomni soon followed her outfit now being a winter jacket and fur trapper hat. She was hesitant as she walked out and looked around.
“Does it normally snow here?” She asked.
“Not usually,” Zooble says standing next to her, “but Caine upset Moon so Sun went off to comfort her so…”
“Oh,” Pomni said looking at the bright, empty sky, “That’s not jarring at all.”
“It’s not too bad, Caine even made [THE CIRCUS WINTER SPECIAL] today’s adventure so it’ll at least be a relaxing day,” Zooble explained.
Pomni remembered when it was announced but it felt more like Caine just picked the first thing he could think of before disappearing in a hurry.
As fast as everyone could get their winter attire on they were out and about to play in the snow. Even Zooble was getting into it as she helped Kinger build his igloo, though it might be because Jax was gathering an impressive pile of snowballs.
Pomni, not wanting to be left out, found an undisturbed section of snow to plop down in. The snow was soft and fluffy and cold, not quite what she half-remembered but close. The small Jester let her mind wander as her arms and legs moved side to side.
“Hey there Angel,” Ragatha said, giggling a little, “Having fun?”
Pomni opened her eyes to see the redhead casting a shadow over her. Ragatha didn’t stay still for long and lay down on the clean snow beside her to make her own snow angel.
“Oh! Uh, yeah. I’ve never really played in the snow like this before.” She finally caught up with herself to answer.
They spent a few more moments there before getting up to admire their work, a pair of angels inches from each other.
“This is actually pretty ni-” Pomni was cut off by a snowball to the back of her head, making her fall face-first into her angel.
“Jax!” Ragatha started to scold as she helped Pomni back up.
“What~? I’m just having a little fun, I even made the little angel more accurate,” Jax snickered as he pointed to the shockingly accurate mold of Pomni’s startled face on her angel’s head.
“You wanna be like that, huh?” Pomni asked picking up a pile of snow.
“That’s more like it!” Jax jumped behind his pile of ammo for the coming snowball fight.
Pomni’s joining the fight caused it to quickly spread until everyone either joined willingly or took cover to not get pelted. This led to the unfortunate situation of Gangle being forced to join Jax since the igloo was too far.
“Better hurry up and start throwing Ribbons, I’m not keeping deadweight!” Jax excitedly shoved a snowball into her hands before standing back up to keep throwing.
“Uh, I don’t… ok!” She squeaked out before rising, quicker than her nerves could tell her to stay down, and tossed the ball.
Even with her noodle arms she still tries to throw, expecting to miss everyone by a good amount. What nobody saw coming was for her to hit Zooble, who was tunnel-visioned on Jax, to see it coming. The hit knocked her off balance and into the other girls bringing them all down.
Jax seeing this perfect chance gives his pile a good kick and lets the circus physics do the rest of the work as the hundreds of snowballs roll down at the others as it pools into one enormous ball. They aren’t far enough to move and are rolled over and stuck to the snow as it rolls right into the circus and out of sight.
Gangle winced a little at the large crash
“Are you guys ok?” She yelled over to the tent.
“Yeah, though Zooble will need to get put back together,” Ragatha called back.
“Sorry..”
“Nice one Gangle!” Jax laughed as he clapped her shoulder.
Getting a little praise helped her feel better and luckily it seems Jax got the excitement he wanted today. Gangle went back to her half-finished snowman which Jax saw as an open invitation to join, putting some unique details on it.
In loo of some of the more common items to decorate with such as coal and carrots Jax used an assortment of, probably stolen, goods. Buttons from Ragatha’s room as eyes and a smile, one of Zooble’s horns as a nose, and finally a jester’s hat on top. While they did have an odd harmony, Gangle just looked at the pocket on Jax’s chest wondering how it could fit all of that.
“Whatcha spacing out for?” Jax asked poking her forehead.
“Oh, nothing,” Gangle said with a smile.
