Chapter 263 - 216 - RVU-Tube
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
Shouri's eyes cracked open at the assault on their door. Pacifica and Rebecca grunted in frustration at the rude awakening while Taika blissfully remained in the realm of dreams.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
"Shouri!" Colette's voice penetrated the thin barrier, which earned more ire from the trio nestled in bed.
"Well at least I know who's going on the shit list," grumbled Shouri as he motioned to be freed from the cocoon of maidens.
Begrudgingly, Rebecca and Pacifica got out of bed, allowing Shouri to rise. He grabbed Pacifica's tuner off the nightstand before he made his way to the door. He threw it open right as Colette went to knock again.
"Shouri!" Colette chirped, stepping back.
"Colette Severine. We were up until 6AM, there better be a damn good reason why you're waking me up at-" he shot a glance at the tuner, which displayed 9 AM, "-too damn early."
"You're famous!" she shouted uselessly.
Pacifica trudged up behind her Maestro and wrapped her arms around him, equal part possessiveness and equal part stopping him from doing something he'd regret.
"Elaborate, now," he demanded.
Colette turned her tuner around and began to play a video.
If Shouri wasn't awake before, he certainly would be when he heard his own voice playing from the device.
"Famiglio Incendio, Moderato!"
The healing foxes appeared just as they had last night in the video.
SLAM
"Hey!" Colette's screams of protest over being shut out of the room were but a tinnitic ring in comparison to the thoughts that rushed through his mind.
Sure, Rose said they should spread it.
He wasn't ready yet.
There wasn't any way.
How the fuck was he supposed to explain it?
The world wasn't ready to be told "yeah just etude idiots".
What if they came here?
They still had a resident to worry about.
What if someone tried to take advantage of their situation?
What if-
"Sho!"
His racing thoughts ground to a halt by Pacifica's warm embrace. "Shhh shhh…" Her rhythm was sweet like honey, brought to the perfect temperature by the warmth of her form against his. Even his pounding heart was arrested by the gentle blanket of rhythm provided by Pacifica as it wrapped him up, hopelessly entangling, hopelessly enrapturing.
Her lips against his was the final touch to bring him back to reality. The sense of calm returning to the Maestro.
She stepped back, a satisfied smile plastered across her face at a job well done.
Shouri took a deep breath and gathered his thoughts. The first thing was to figure out what the heck happened.
"It looked like a RVU video," Pacifica noted.
"E che cos'e…?" Taika said through a yawn.
Pacifica and Shouri turned back to the bed. Rebecca was sitting at the edge, content to watch, while Taika had risen, rubbing the sleep from her eyes.
Shouri took his loyal otter's hand and led her back to bed.
"It's a video sharing site, the biggest one in the world," Shouri said as he sat down with Pacifica right behind him.
"What does RVU stand for?" wondered Taika before she failed to suppress another yawn.
"Don't think it stands for anything," Shouri shrugged.
"ACTUALLY!" Pacifica began. "RVU-Tube used to be called Raw Videos Underground, and it was actually a porn site," the otter boasted proudly.
Her trio of friends just stared, but she was not deterred and continued.
"Its uploader and video controls were so top of the line and user friendly that people started uploading non-explicit videos to the point where regular videos quickly took over the site. The original company sold out to a bigger company who took the branding and backend and rebranded it to RVU-Tube. To this day they're still trying to distance themselves from their embarrassing (in their opinion) beginnings and host a family friendly video sharing site even going so far as to scrub all of the original content from their servers."
There was another moment of awkward silence as Pacifica continued to bask in the glory of her own fun facts.
"Anyway, did you find our video, Sho?" asked Rebecca.
"Yeah, here it is," Shouri flipped the tuner around and the quartet watched as they cast the healing element foxes. It was a smaller part of the storm chasing video Gabriel uploaded that morning.
And the comment section was going berserk.