Madame Frou Frou's crazily painted face looms over him. People nearby turn and stare. He/She suddenly pulls Eggs away, "Come. Such a naughty boy! We have so much to discuss."
She then changes her voice into a familiar maniac ones, "Alone."
Eggs' eyes go wide as he realizes who it is.
"You're Snatc—"
SMACK!
Madame Frou Frou covers his mouth, and hugs him close, lifting him off the ground.
"Come to snitch on old Snatcher did you?" Snatcher says with Madame Frou Frou's appearance,
As Madame Frou Frou carries him away, he waves to people in the crowd as if nothing untoward was happening.
Sir Broderick greeted, "Hello, Frou Frou!"
"Nice to see you, too!" She greeted back,
He/She then shoves Eggs through a curtain into the dark corner of a closet. Madame Frou Frou advances on, "You really think Portley-Rind will help a nobody like YOU? In this town, you want help, you've got to help yourself! That's what a man does!"
Snatcher adjusts his dress.
"You're a liar! When I tell (N/N)'s father the truth, he'll-- OOF!"
Eggs' tries to run out of the closet. Snatcher shoves him to the floor.
"He'll THANK ME! Because all your little boxtroll friends are going to die tonight." He/She evily says,
"What?!"
"That will make me the most respected man in this town." Snatcher talks to himself as he rifles through the coats searching for something. "They'll have no choice but to give me a white hat."
Snatcher finds what he's looking for a long scarf, "They'll parade me into the tasting room on their shoulders!"
He winds the ends around each fist and snaps it tight as he stalks toward Eggs. "And I'm not going to let that be ruined by some little boxtroll sewer rat."
Snatcher is about to strangle Eggs when the curtain is suddenly pulled aside and light fills the closet.
"There you are, Madame Frou Frou!.. Sorry to interrupt, but you promised Lord Langsdale a dance?" A familiar voice saved Eggs,
"I did?" He/She asks in Snatcher's voice, he then changes to Frou Frou, "I did! Ha! Of course!"
Sir Langsdale, who was waiting, pulls Madame Frou Frou out of the closet and walks her out onto the dance floor. He gooses her. "Oooh! Vatch your hands, monsieur!"
This made Sir Langsdale laugh lasciviously.
On Eggs, as he was grabbed by the wrist and slowly exit the closet. He awkwardly adjusts his collar,
"Thank yo— (N/N)?!" Eggs shockingly says at the different look of the girl, she turns back to look at him with a small smile,
"Heh, you just noticed?.." (Y/N) says, patting her neat hair, Eggs nodded,
"Yeah, you look–"
"Like a lady..." (Y/N) cuts him off and sighed, "I know, people are used to say that to me..."
Eggs was confused, "No, no... You look different, b-but! I-In a good way, y-you know like.. Uhh, from rusty to s-shiny! Or something.. I uh.."
(Y/N) let out a laugh, this made Eggs stopped rambling and watches her, she wiped a tear off her eyes, "Thanks Eggs, that's sweet of you.."
Eggs let out a small smile too, but as he takes in his surroundings. Couples are joined together in a waltz, filling the entrance hall with activity.
Eggs looks up at Portley-Rind at the top of the stairs, then at the impenetrable wall of dancers. He tries to walk through the crowd and is nearly trampled. There is no way to get to Portley-Rind without causing a scene.
(Y/N) runs up to him, "What do you think you're doing?"
"We have to get to your father!" He urgently says,
"Yeah, but you can't just cut through the dance" The young girl sizes up the situation: Portley-Rind across the room, the dance floor between them. Suddenly her face brightens.
"Dance.... That's it! We'll dance then"
"We'll WHAT?"
(Y/N) grabs Eggs, putting to where his hands should be and pulls him onto the dance floor, joining the swirling lines of waltzing couples.
"Okay, okay, observe. One two three... one two three."
(Y/N) continues counting the steps as she guides Eggs to the center of the dance.
"Just make a box." She instructed,
"You made me get out of my box!" Eggs cluelessly answers,
"Sure but what I meant is with your feet, silly!"
Eggs looks down, concentrating very hard. He gradually catches on. (Y/N) notices as she gasped,
"That's it, Eggs. You're dancing!"
She laughs. Eggs lets down his guard and joins in laughing.
For a moment they forget why they are at the party. He lifted up the girl and spins her around crazily around the room, (Y/N) was surprised and laughed at his sudden yet sweet move, looking back and forth at each other with blushes on their faces,
Until Eggs looks past (Y/N) and sees Snatcher/Frou Frou glaring at him.
"Snatcher is here."
"Frou Frou?.. Oh gosh, where?
She sees Madame Frou Frou waltzing with Sir Langsdale. Frou Frou breaks from Langsdale as partners change, lunging toward Eggs. Broderick catches her hand and pulls her back into the waltz.
"My turn, Madame." Lord Broderick says,
Eggs and (Y/N) try waltzing across the floor toward Portley-Rind, but before they can reach the stairs, the dance forces them apart. New partners whirl them in opposite directions.
"(N/N)!"
Eggs ends dancing with a female, the lady he licked.
The girl cringes at the partner that he swap with, then a fancy accent of a young boy interrupted, "(Y/N)?"
Her eyes widen as she turned to the partner she landed to, her expression changing quickly at the time she looked up to him, "Well, well, if it isn't the famous, heir to the next White Hat, over-dashing and charming William Broderick?" She huffed in unsatisfied tone,
William scoffed at her nickname for him, "Ha ha, hilarious.. It's an honor to see you again after.... afar 3 years?"
(Y/N) deadpanned, scrunching her nose in an irked look, "We just saw each other at the recent ball at your residence.. so apparently, it's been 3 weeks." William laughed at her enthusiasm while twirling her around along with the music,
"You really are a perfectionist at everything, correcting me like that, m'lady." He chuckled, "But that three weeks really is long, even if its only 3hours or 3 seconds apart from you," He lets go of the girl, setting her falling backwards and swiftly catches her in his arms, dipping her,
"Woah!"
Eyes set on them with awes and chatter, "I immediately imagine that dazzling (e/c) of yours as the stars in a dark night sky." He soothingly flirts, but as for the girl, she just rolled her eyes.
While her view was upside down from the position she was stuck into, (Y/N) saw Madame Frou Frou heading for Eggs again as their partners swap but Sir Langsdale, her biggest fan, leaves Lady Cynthia and grabs her instead.
Frou Frou/Snatcher grabs Sir Broderick by the face and shoves him away.
She grabs Lady Cynthia, who was startled and confused as she pulled her close with a hand wrapped around her face, dancing directly toward Eggs.
"Uhm, lovely... uh words of yours, I am flattered, but please pull your head out of the clouds, excuse me!" She pulls away from William's grasp, running towards Eggs.
"EGGS LOOK OUT!" She called out,
Eggs turns in time to see Frou Frou/Snatcher racing toward him. He ducks under ladies' gowns, crawling across the dance floor. As he passes under each lady, their dresses shoot up, making her scream.
Frou Frou/Snatcher whips up ladies' dresses looking for Eggs, until she/he gets slapped across the face while peeking under a skirt. Frou Frou/Snatcher sees Eggs crawl out from under a dress, toward the stairs and Lord Portley-Rind, making (Y/N) lose sight of him,
"Ugh, gosh, I lost him.."
"(N/N), what's wrong?!" Winnie's voice appeared beside her,
"Snatcher is aiming for Eggs, we need to find him!"
Portley-Rind stands sniffing and caressing his giant cheese, oblivious to the chase happening right below him..
Eggs races up the stairs on all fours, his feral side coming through. Frou Frou/Snatcher grabs his leg with a snarl.
Portley-Rind turns in time to see Eggs go totally feral and bite Madame Frou Frou's hand,
"What is going on here?"
"OWWW!"
Snatcher shoves Eggs and sends him flying right into the giant cheese wheel. The wheel rocks off its pedestal, and rolls down the stairs!
"NO NO NO NO NOOOO!" Lord Portley-Rind cried,
Lord Portley-Rind chases after the cheese, trying to stop it. Everyone stops dancing and watches as the cheese wheel rolls through the foyer.
The butler opens the door and it rolls out the front door...down the Guild steps... through the Market Square... down the streets... lower and lower, until it's out of view. They hear a SPLASH as it reaches the river.
Portley-Rind stands frozen in shock at the foot of the
stairs, "What have you done!?"
Both (Y/N) and Winnie cringes behind the crowd as they found Eggs at the staircase, "Oh cruds.."