I've played a nice game called Ni No Kuni, fairly new, and is really interesting...A lot like a mixture of Mother and Pokemon, along with aspects of Legend of Zelda and Dark Cloud, all some of my favorite series'. So why not write a story about it? Also, this will take place in mid-spring. And Yang's gonna be with them on this adventure too...Pretty much will be seeing the littlie from now on. (Prepping for Drippy already)
Also, this is basically the intermission before receiving Yang's book
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"Well this is interesting..." Link said as they walked out of the tree and into a forest with bright yellow leaves.
"And now you're going to go all crazy about exploring right?" Cirno asked looking at the surroundings.
"Are you kidding?! Forests are AWESOME! I love them! It's amazing already! It's so cool, all the leaves look golden!" Link's eyes widened looking at the canopy.
"I guess we'll spend most of our time here." Cirno said rolling her eyes.
"Not really, unless you want to."
"There's tons of forests back home! You can go see more there..."
"Not these kind of trees...It's not even Autumn and they're such a beautiful hue of gold..." Link climbed up to one and picked a leaf.
"Did we have to bring the pipsqueak with us too?" Cirno pointed towards Yang.
"I wouldn't have left him home. Think of him as another traveling companion with us." Link stuck the leaf into his pocket and jumped down.
"I'm not too small!" Yang looked over at Cirno.
"He's small, but he's pretty talented. I can't even give life to those little golems you have with you." They looked down at the little ice creature that was hopping up and down.
"They're pretty cool, but can you do anything else?"
"I dunno. I only have the one little ice golem now, I just get tired from it, I guess it takes tons of energy." Yang looked at the ice golem and tilted his head.
"Anyways, the main reason we're here is that Patchoulli said in return for a book that can help Yang with his spells and summoning I need to trade her some random ingredients..."
"That's why we're here?! For an errand?!" Cirno glared.
"We can go on an adventure while we do this, we'll just need to stop if you see anything interesting." Link took a few smaller leaves from a sapling and put them in a pouch.
"I hope you brought more food then last time."
"I did! Sheesh, I've got 3 meals for everyone, we just had breakfast too!" Link rolled his eyes and listened to the wind pick up some debris on the ground and moved them a few inches.
"I wonder what's going to be in here though, monsters? Rare animals? Anything!" Yang smiled in excitement.
"I swear he's a smaller version of you." Cirno whispered to Link.
Yang looked over to a bush that was rustling. "If there were monsters...would we have to fight them?"
"Probably, this seems like a place where some would be hanging around." A Pom Pom came out of the bush and growled.
"What?! That's it?" Cirno looked at the puny floating green blob in disgust. "It's tiny!"
"Still counts as something." Link threw his boomerang at it and it fell to the ground.
"I've got this." Yang's ice golem went over and jumped onto the Pom Pom piercing it with it's ice body.
"Too easy." Link looked around for more monsters.
"What are these little coins?" Cirno looked over at where the monster was defeated and saw it had faded away.
"I guess it's a currency. Monsters must take a liking to shiny things like crows I guess." Link shrugged and put it in a burlap sack.
"Whatever, these things are weak." Yang shrugged and they went through the forest.
"Has anyone else noticed all the weird trees? They seem like they move...and they have weird fruits." Link struck the tree and some fruits came down.
"Apples? But they feel like peaches..." Yang picked one up.
"It's another world, I don't suggest eating them but I'll take them back."
"Ok, this place is weird, can we go home now?"
"We just got here! We'll stay for a while, don't worry you will be ok."
"Fine..." He sighed and sat on a rock.
"Flippin' heck mun! Get offa me!" The rock moved under Yang and he quickly got up.
"S-Sorry!" He looked at the strange thing move.
"Geez mun, you don't go sittin' on people now!" He got up and brushed himself off.
"Who are you?" Link poked the humanoid lightly in the stomach with his sword.
"Hey hey hey, no need to threaten me! I'm Drippy, lord high lord of the fairies!"
"Hah! Cirno you should bow." Link chuckled.
"I'm not. This guy doesn't even look like a fairy." She moved her head close to Drippy and inspected him.
"Who're you sayin' doesn't look like a fairy?! You must be one of them newa models." Drippy crossed his arms and nodded. "Aye, that's it."
"'Newer model'? What are you talking about?!" Cirno gritted her teeth.
"Anyways, I'll be seein you lata, right now I need to find that crybaby bunting." Drippy walked away.
"Hmm, we may as well help." Link said.
"Crimeny I don't need youer help! I'm fine on my own see?"
"Weird accent..." Yang picked up Drippy and tossed him into the air.
"Ay let me down you hear me!"
"Quit playing with your food Yang." Link said.
"I'm not going to eat him! I think his accent is funny! He also looks like a stuffed toy..." Yang's tail swished on the forest floor.
"Let's help the poor guy. So who are you looking for?" Link placed Drippy on robotic hand.
"Well, ya see I'm lookin' for a boy around youer kid's age and-"
"He's not our son. I'm just taking care of him. Plus Yang's in his 70's."
"Whateva mun! Anyways, he has a dark brown of a hairdo and he's wearing clothes kinda like youer's but he has a red cape. I'm also lookin' for a blond girlie dressed up like a genie and a thief with a bit a stubble on 'is chin."
"So those three...Huh, where did you see them last?" Link asked the fairy and his lantern shook.
"I dunno mun, we were all walkin' in another forest with Old Father Oak and somehow we all ended up separated! And all the beasties seem to be acting up again too! Crickey, what a calamity." Drippy sighed.
"Well, let's get searching!" Yang exclaimed.
"Wait! Before we go I have some questions of my own see?" Drippy halted them.
"Alright. Lay them on us." The three sat on the hand.
"First of all, how did you lot get here? Are you able to use a Gateway spell?"
"No, we got here from a portal in a tree. And we don't have wands, we use our minds and bodies." Link explained.
"That answers that. And if youer all able to use magic, where's youer familiars? I see kitty boy there has one."
"Hey! I have a name you know!" Yang growled.
"Familiars? You mean summoning right? I dunno, Cirno and I are strong enough to fight without them, I guess Yang can just do that."
"Ah, so youer going around bashing all of them beasties youer selves I see. Ah one last one, what are you all? Species wise."
"Excellent question! I'm Kokiri, a type of elf you see, Cirno's an ice fairy, while Yang is a mixture of nekomata and kitsune."
"Tidy! Now, let's go find bunting and the others!" Drippy ran towards the end of the forest.
"Hey wait for us!" Cirno and the others caught up to him.
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"Now, we should go to Ding Dong Dell and see if any of them are their. Luckily I've got a map of the world." Drippy unraveled a scroll and he pointed to Golden Grove.
"See, here we are here, and waaaaay over there is Ding Dong Dell. We should go check there first." He rolled it back up and held onto it.
"So you said something about...'Beasties'?" Yang asked.
"Ya mun, they're pretty small but they'll still attack ya." Drippy said and they walked.
"It's a very nice plain..." Link smiled at the flat lands.
"Ya, she's a beaut idn't she? My world it is."
A few minutes later...
"Does Ding Dong Dell have a giant castle in the back?" Yang asked squinting.
"Ya mun, we're almost there!" Drippy exclaimed and they ran to Ding Dong Dell.
"Fish!" Yang ran to the wall and clung to the wall. "I love this town already!" He smiled.
"Uh...Sir, can you refrain from that? If you want to go inside then you could have asked." One of the guards stared at Yang awkwardly.
"Yang stop that." Link picked up Yang and took him off the wall.
"Ok..." He groaned and jumped down.
"Can we go in?" Link looked to one of the guards.
"Go ahead!" They twisted a wench and the gate opened.
"Thanks." Link said and they walked inside the town.
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"So, this is a town in your world? Seems rather strange..." Yang looked around.
"Strange? This is pretty normal for a town! You must be flippin' bonkers!" Drippy blurted out.
"Is that...?" Yang looked over to the left and ran off. "Alice?" Yang hugged someone from behind.
"What on Earth...?" She turned around and looked at Yang. "My name's not Alice, it's-" Drippy jumped up in joy.
"Esther!"
"Yeah, what he said." Esther walked towards them.
"So I'm guessing we found the blonde girl you said you were looking for." Link pulled off Yang.
"Aye mun, that was some storm eh?"
"Yeah, I guess so." Esther sighed.
"Yang, what has gotten into you?" Link asked.
"S-Sorry...I thought she was someone who took care of me..." He whimpered and hid behind Link.
"Have the memories have gotten hold of you again haven't they?"
"Uh huh...I'm alright though, I still have you and Cirno taking care of me." Yang smiled.
"So we still don't know where Oliver and Swaine are..." Esther said.
"Aye." Drippy nodded.
"We'll still look for them." Link announced.
"Why don't you three go onto youer own darn business."
"Don't you need help? I don't think you and Esther can handle yourselves so well. Plus we can do what we need to during the search." Link bent down to Drippy.
"Hey!" Esther put her hands on her hips.
"Plus, you never know when you'll get defeated."
"You do have a point...Ok, you can come with us!"
"So where shall we check next?" Yang asked.
"Al Mamoon, it's in a desert." Drippy checked the map and Cirno and Yang groaned.
"A desert? Are you kidding me?" Cirno hit her forehead.
"Is that a problem?" Esther asked.
"These two don't take kindly to hot weather, is there any other way we can go?"
"None at all! It's the desert or bust!" Drippy pointed out the route.
"I guess we'd better stock up on water for their sake."
"And some other items. So how much do you have money wise?" Drippy asked and Link pulled out the smaller pouch with the Guilders. "One, two, three...6..." Link sighed.
"Wow, you can hardly afford a flippin' rubber band!"
"You don't need to rub it in."
"Oh well, we can always find some around town."
"Find some? Where?" Yang looked down the streets.
"Check that pot! You can see it glowing 'little and go ova thayer and see what it 'as!" Drippy stated and Link went over to it and found a few guilders near the bottom.
"Aye, that's betta lad, but still not enough!" Drippy said and Link sighed placing the coins in the pouch.
"Didn't we find some after destroying those monsters? We can just defeat them and get them that way." Yang said closing his eyes and remembering the birds and plants.
"I guess we did. Well let's go and get some things we can find in the wild too! I remember a pond and I have plenty of vials we can carry them in." Link said smiling.
-A few minutes later-
"So, about those familiars...Don't you have any extra we can borrow for now?" Link asked Esther.
"Yes, there's the Familiar Retreat where we send some extras. I think we have a few you can choose from." Esther said and the lid flipped up and it said 'Hello!' and gave them a list of what they had.
"Ah, those would do." She nodded and checked off two familiars and gave it back, the lid fell and popped up with a Puss in Boats and a Snowhawk.
"Wow." Link said looking at the Puss in Boats and it looked at it, waving it's dagger at him. "Ha, a good fighting spirit, I think we'll get along great. Hey Cirno, how's your's?" He looked at Cirno staring at it.
"Huh...is it a bird?" She asked and it did a flip fluttering it's wings.
"Yes it is. It can do some of the same things you can do." Esther said watching it jump and pecked at Cirno's head.
"Ow!" She rubbed it and watched the Snow hawk squawk in laughter.
"Do you name them?"
"These were some of our more recent ones we found."
"Hmm...I like Purrcy." Link gave a chuckle at the name and his temporary companion gave a meow and stood next to him.
"That's kinda insulting to me." Yang said.
"Sorry about that. Hey! Get outta my pocket!" Link said and noticed Purrcy was pawing through the hole and took out a chocolate bar and ate it. "Uh...isn't candy bad for cats?"
"Aye, normally, but these are familia's! They get stronger with sweeties like those! Everything has a different effect on them! Don't stuff 'em full of the goodies though, they can't get stronger that'away." Drippy said watching Purrcy smile.
"Oh ok. No more for now I guess. I'd better store the rest of my snacks somewhere else."
"Get back here you crazy thing!" Cirno said chasing the bird and it laughed running away.
"Like chasing a chicken." Yang said.
The Snow Hawk squawked at Cirno and bobbed it's head. "Name it Zero, for absolute zero, the coldest temperature." Link said.
"Huh...Zero?" Cirno thought and the bird cooed, jumping into her arms.
"I guess it's settled! Let's get what we need and get the 'eck outta here." Drippy said and they went to the stores.
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"So to Al Mamoon? What will we need there?" Link asked placing everything in a bag.
"My father's a Great Sage, maybe he can tell us where the others are." Esther said as they left Ding Dong Dell.
"Great Sage you say? Probably this worlds variant of them from where I come from. We have six Great Sages in my world." Link said following after.
"I wonder if they could be soul mates..."
"Soul mates? You mean like the perfect match for someone?"
"Not at all mun! She doesn't mean love! She's talking about the person, animal, 'eck even tree that's the same world to world!" Drippy said hopping along.
"So that's why I thought Esther was someone else..." Yang sighed.
"So, there's another one of us in every world? That'd be cool having another me run around." Cirno chuckled.
"Huh? Somethin's not right 'ere...Where are all the other beasties?"
"Probably ran off, we're really intimidating as a large group." Link said noticing they were going back to the Golden Grove. "Finally! So this is the only way to Al Mamoon?"
"Yes, take a look." Esther handed him a map and Link studied it, then handed it back.
"Let's just go, probably best if we do." Yang said looking at the trees.
"Everything's growing so big..." Link said looking at a mushroom.
"Yup! Forest of Plenty they call it 'cause everything grows larger then normal." Drippy looked up at it.
"Cool I guess." Cirno rolled her eyes.
"You just aren't amazed." Link said taking some more leaves from the trees.
"Still gathering them I see."
"Ssshh! I'm trying to keep them unaware of it." He whispered.
"Just a bit longer and we'll be at the desert." Esther said jumping on the mushrooms onto an elevated area and the others followed into a large clearing.
The ground started shaking and they heard a roar. "Uh...Y-You said there was a guardian right?" Link asked looking at Drippy.
"I did! This kinda stuff always 'appens!" He said wobbling as the ground shook, and out came the Gladiatour.
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The guardian roared and stomped it's feet, brandishing it's sword in the air.
"I guess we're taking this thing down! Come on Purrcy!" Link said and the familiar came out of him, charging in, Cirno hovered above the ground and flew towards the Gladiatour and it knocked her onto the ground with the shield. Yang sent his ice idol in and it sent an icicle falling into the guardian and it shook it's head as it hit, edging over to the thing, puny compared to it's massive size.
"Uh-oh..." Yang called it back and Esther put out Gogo, hitting the Gladiatour with a ripple of water. Purrcy came up and slashed it from behind and jabbed at it every so often and started running back taunting it, the Gladiatour charged and smashed into the rock behind Purrcy as he moved out of the way and the Gladiatour gave a roar charging up an attack.
"Just defend it guys!" Link said and everyone did so, the Gladiatour swung it's blade and didn't seem to do much against the full team's parry. Link then took the place of Purrcy, going in and facing the Gladuatour head on, shooting blades of ice at it, Cirno sent out Zero and it swung it's head attacking the Gladiatour, who then stomped around them and charged but stopped at the end of the clearing. Yang jumped in and a gust came through, barely phasing the Gladiatour. Gogo swung it's staff and another water bomb fired out, missing. Then, the Gladiatour threw it's blade at Link and pierced his shield. Link held onto the blade still stuck in the shield at the Gladiatour, dazing it as it hit it's head.
"Now's youer chance everyone!" Drippy said cheering them on. Everyone went in with everything they had and the Gladiatour collapsed with a thud, and ran off into the forest.
"We won..." Yang said panting.
"Why did it attack us? We weren't doing anything wrong!" Esther exclaimed.
"Uh yeah..." Link smiled faintly. "If you count taking leaves bad, then what's wrong with the thing?"
"Ah whateva! The forest is a forest! Soon we'll be to Al Mamoon!" Drippy said and they all walked out.
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"Ugh...How can people live here?!" Cirno asked as they walked into Al Mamoon.
"Oh it's quite easy, the heat and sand is really nice after a while." Esther said to her.
"As long as we don't have to stay here too long." Yang rolled his eyes and looked at the various stalls.
"So Ding Dong Dell has King Tom, but who is the royalty here?" Link asked watching the sun nearing dusk.
"The Great Cowlipha. She has a giant palace in the back of the city." Esther said clenching her fists in remembrance of the painting.
"It's getting late...Is there an inn or something?"
"Wow it is gettin' flippin' dark! We should retire for the night at the Cat's Cradle! It's just up ahead!" Drippy said and they walked in.
Yang looked at the painting of the Cowlipha. "She looks weird..."
"The artist said she looks just like me." Esther glared straight at the eyes of the image.
"It doesn't." Yang said and Esther smiled.
"It's nice to have someone that agrees with me once in a while."
"Alright, everyone has there own room except some of us. Some of them were taken up and there's only two of them." Link said holding keys.
"I'll just take a drawer if I need to. It's just the right size for youer's truly." Drippy said.
"Obviously Cirno and I will share a room..."
"You mean I have to sleep in Esther's room?!" Yang asked.
"Yeah, Drippy said he'd take a drawer in ours."
"Great. Just great." Yang said snatching the key.
"Uh..." Esther kept quiet and followed Yang.
"Goodnight." Cirno said and she and drippy followed Link to the room.
-Yang's room, a half hour later-
"So you're not going to sleep?" Esther asked going under the covers.
"Not in the bed." Yang yawned and hopped onto the foot of it.
"W-What are you doing?"
"I can't lay down at the end of it? It's comfy." Yang said laying like a cat.
"You can, it's just strange..."
"Don't worry, I sleep like this sometimes." Yang rolled a bit. "I'll just go to sleep."
-Link's room, same time-
"You think he's going to be all right?" Cirno asked going into bed with Link.
"Yeah, he'll be fine. He always is." Link yawned and layed his head on the pillow.
"So you two always sleep like a married couple or what?" Drippy asked hopping into a pulled out drawer with a pillow and blanket.
"Sometimes. She says she wants to keep me safe from something a lot."
"It's what I do...You can sleep through a lot." Cirno hugged Link.
"I do?"
"Yeah, I dropped a rock on the floor and you just kept snoring."
"Be careful next time, seriously it's like you want to ann-" Drippy interrupted the two.
"Crikey can you two pipe down! People are trying to fall asleep 'ere!" He yelled and looked up at them.
"Uh...Ok? Goodnight to you too?" Link shrugged and turned off the light.
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"Good morning! You two sleep well?" Link asked Esther and Yang and the two looked at each other.
"Uh...Yeah." Yang said.
"I'm guessing he slept at the end of the bed?"
"Yes he did...He snores..." Esther said.
"You were asleep forever, we asked 'round town and no signs of Swaine and Ollie boy." Drippy said shaking his lantern.
"Any other towns we can check?" Link asked.
"Sure, there's Castaway Cove, and Hamelin." Esther said as they all looked at the map.
"Castaway Cove is at the end of the desert? Great!" Link said.
"Did you say dessert?" Cirno asked and everyone laughed and left the inn. "Really! Did anyone say that?"
-At Castaway Cove-
"One thing before we enter..." Esther interrupted the group.
"Yes?" Link asked.
"They have a rule where you have to be wearing a swimsuit to be in this town."
"Uh...What?" Yang asked.
"Bathing suits, swim trunks, anything like that...So, we have to wear them? Great..." Link said.
"I'm kind of looking forward to seeing you in one, Link." Cirno laughed.
"Well why don't we get to changin'!" Drippy said to the group.
"Ugh, why?" Yang sighed.
"What's wrong with him?" Esther asked.
"He can't swim." Link said and Drippy laughed. "Can it or we'll see if you can function as a floatation device!"
"Ah, no need for violence now mun!" Drippy kept laughing.
"Let's just get this over with." Yang sighed, embarrassed.
-A few minutes later, outside the Hootique-
"Huh, these are really comfy." Link said in a pair of green trunks with a yellow outline that reached to the bottoms of his knees.
"At least I won't drown..." Yang said with a blue inner tube and a teal pair of trunks that had a white flower design on one side.
Cirno walked out in a blue one piece with a sunflower at the top. "So, how do I look?" She asked twirling.
"You look beautiful as usual!" Link smiled and Cirno blushed.
"Come on mun! She's not that gorgeous! You're going 'ead over heels for her!" Drippy said walking out of the store.
"I will kick you into the water." He glared at him.
"Don't even try, it's a waste of youer time."
The argument lasted for a few minutes until Drippy was thrown onto an awning by Link. Soon he slid off and followed the group all around town.
"This is so booooring! When will we find this guy?" Cirno asked.
"Sheesh, it'll take more then a few minutes to find him. Besides, we're looking for two others." Link rolled his eyes. "I didn't agree to walking all over this world. Oh well, at least I can get some great alchemy supplies for Patchoulli."
"We can cover more ground if we split up." Esther said halting the group.
"Alright. Let's go then." Drippy followed Esther while Cirno, Link and Yang walked the other way down the platforms.
Yang looked at a crab crawling in front of them and raced after it, soon capturing the crustacean and pounded it on the docks. "Open up!" He growled trying to pry the shell open. The crab then latched onto Yang's hand. "Ow ow ow ow!"
"Crabs will do that..." Link said poking the crab and it snapped at him. "Oh, feisty little one are ya? Just let go of him..." He massaged the crab's claw and it side-stepped away. They then heard the sound of a man laughing.
"That's one of the funniest things I've ever seen!" Swaine laughed, approaching the group. "How you catch one of those and make sure you don't get cut is easy!" He pulled out his pistol and fired the hooks onto one of the several crabs walking around. "See? Easy as pie."
"Do you have to show off? Come on, we need to find those other two and tell them we found neither of the two." Link said. "Besides, Esther and Drippy didn't have much ground to search."
Swaine stared at the three. "Did you say 'Esther and Drippy'? Why didn't you say that earlier?!"
"Huh, guessing you're Swaine. Interesting, a thief I believe as well." Link looked at his rugged clothes.
"I am. Where are they exactly? Are they still in town?"
"Yeah, just- Where'd Cirno go?" Link looked across the boardwalk and saw her gazing at an ice cream stand. "Of course she's there." He sighed walking over to her and pinched her ear. "Come on..."
"Does this usually happen?" Swaine looked at Yang.
"Sometimes." He snickered and they followed the two.
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WELL! Long first chapter or what? Chapter two shall be up soon.
