Playing Poker

Finally...

  Meanwhile, a big cluster of turquoise sparks was seen flashing in front of an old wooden door in the Paws household. Then, all the
  sudden, no one other than Storm Justice Paws had been visible right in the middle of the storm of sparks and sputters before it
  all disappeared in the blink of an eye. The revealed sire who no longer had his respirator blinked twice, looking to be aghast by
  his home as his pupils briefly scanned around. 'Wow...i'm actually home...' he thought to himself as though he was a soldier
  coming back from some sort of war. However, his rather over dramatic moment was haltered as he was suddenly tackled into a
  hug right on the ground by his little brother. "I MISSED YOU SO MUCH, STORM!!!!" he cried quite literally as tears were in the
  corners of his tightly closed eyes while his big, fluffy tail wagged behind him happily and a wobbly smile was laced on his
  multi-colored snout. Storm blinked twice with wide, scared eyes, but as he realized that it was his brother...he smiled with curved
  brows. "I missed you too, Sniper" he replied with a relieved voice before hugging his brother back lovingly. "Are you okay?! Did you
  win?!" Sniper asked frantically as he now had his teary eyes opened which revealed brown and yellow iris'. Storm quickly
  nodded "yeah, yeah. Everything went uh...alright" he glanced to the side briefly as Sniper grinned happily now. "YAY!!!!" he
  exclaimed before leaping off of Storm and landing right in front of the couch where Anastasia and Cookies were sitting. Of course,
  Cookies was sleeping on the couch while Anastasia kept a close eye on Storm in a protective manner. "We have to tell Daydream
  about this right now!!!" he belted happily with a big old smile as Cookies' lids were slightly opened drowsily while sleepy little
  bubbles floated off him and popped. Storm blinked twice, suddenly remembering that he had a...guest that hadn't come over
  yet. "Uh- actually Sniper I need to-" just then, he'd get interrupted by the door exploding in a million pieces by a large, loud laser
  beam that was pure white in shade and caused a huge gust of cold wind to rustle everything around. After this, we see that all
  the animals now looked comically horrified and were frozen in place as all their eyes were cartoonishly wide. Even Cookies was
  now fully awake. However, before anyone could even say anything, they'd suddenly hear a thud and an audible "ow- fuck"
  from a deep, chainsmoker voice. Now Storm looked even more horrified from hearing that, especially as everyone, including
  himself, would quickly dart their pupils over to see who it was.

But of course, it was just Tony who was rubbing his head in pain
  with his large mit that had lifted his ear slightly and revealed some bit of an inked on soul...or something while he had his black
  eye closed tightly and a scowl on his face. He also still had his lit cigar in his mouth. Which was just distasteful to Storm honestly.
  "Uhm-...hello...?" Sniper asked a little sheepishly, which caught Tony off guard and made him look alarmed at the tiny voice that
  he'd stare right down at. "Shhhoot.....ie......" he pulled a fake grin that showed his sharp jaws with one golden tooth as he sweat a
  little and had his cigar cartoonishly float in front of his teeth. Crickets were heard through the awkward silence as they all
  stared up at the anxious brute. Cookies looked...mildly intrigued, but mostly tired while Sniper actually had a little smile on and
  Storm was...very uncomfortable. However, Anastasia would unexpectedly have the sharp, slick tip of her glowing amber
  scythe right under his bulky muzzle threateningly. Instinctively, this made him quickly pull his head back which caused his neck
  to look even fatter than it already did as he'd give the queen a fearful, sweaty look. Especially as he saw her broken, glowing
  clock eyes that had an echoey, slow tick. "Wherefour has't thee cometh in our home?! I hest an explaination!" she asked in a
  louder, more authoritative tone than usual to get her point across while the two brothers in the background looked horrified.
  Cookies though...he was eating popcorn and had some light-up sunglasses on that were in the colors of pink, purple and blue in
  that order. "Uhhh-" "he'swithme,Time!!!" Storm interrupted hastily before Tony would end up having Anastasia kill him or
  something. And thankfully, this worked for the historical figure as she'd instantly pause and look down at Storm while Tony let
  out a sigh of relief...and some smoke from his cigar. Anastasia blinked twice with a blank expression "I beg your pardon" she
  stated while Cookies looked pretty confused in the background as well. As surprising as it was...he didn't even have any props
  with him either. Sniper and Tony were just very relieved that no murder would be happening though. "Uh-" Storm cleared his
  throat a little "well...long story short, I completed Daydream's mission with Tony's help and uh...I asked him if he wanted to
  crash on our couch because..." he glanced to the side nervously, quickly trying to think up of a lie. "He helped me! So I thought I'd
  do him a favor, you know?" he smiled and sweat nervously while Cookies nodded casually in the background and took a swig of
  some chocolate milk. Anastasia still didn't seem so convinced as she blinked twice slowly, but Sniper...well he looked absolutely
  delighted! But then: