Chapter 1: A New Quest, More Headaches
It was an early, brisk, late summer day in the small village of Sharance, and within the giant tree, which was also a house, was our hero, just waking at 6:00 am. With a stretch of his young body, he climbed down the latter in his tree house, and tended to his crops. He watered the stretch of land that held the many cucumber plants that were spread around the many different color grass, branches, and stumps, which accumulated through that night's stormy weather. It was now 7:35 am, with plants watered, and the branches chopped and the wood placed into the wood shed he started his next task. His task was simple; to feed the two monsters that were in hid barn, his wooly, Yarny, and chipsqueek, Squeak. Funny thing is, many of the villagers often comment of his cute companions, and that he really should acquire some more manly ones, or else he'll never get a girlfriend.
Odd thing is, many, well; most of the female population were interested in him for a few reasons. A, he was too nice for his own good, b, he was just too cute and girly for most of them not to go fan girl on him, and c, he always seem to help them out in when they're in need. So, unlike Carlos's comment, he could get a girlfriend pretty easily, but there is a problem. Like many other males, he was a little too dense up top to notice how popular he was with the ladies. Though, that wasn't the most important thing in his mind at the moment, he was too fixated on work, but Shara thought that it was a good thing he was busy with work, and not flirting with all of the girls.
The boy, after feeding, and brushing his adorable monster friends, he went and started to organize his different color grass, but he rather not, but he didn't really have a choice in the matter. Daria, the eccentric, overly eccentric painter basically forced to collect of his color grass, and give it to her so she could continue her work. He didn't understand why he got stuck doing it, and the only she told, well, shouted, "It's your job as my assistant to help me prepare my ingredients for my paint, so just do it!"
After a good, long while of collecting grass, Micah, sighed, he was finally done! He'll give her the grass later, but for now, he had other things to do. He went back up the latter, and went out the front door and went to check his mailbox.
Inside, there was an array of letters asking for his assistance in tasks, like usual. One thing bothered him, just why did he never get any normal letters of someone saying hi, or something like that? The first one he grabbed was from Marian, asking if he was willing to become her guinea pig to try out her new medicine, that, or if he would kidnap a cretin clumsy blond, who has a black hole for a stomach.
"I rather not be used for some nutty experiment, and I doubt Collette would like be one either. If that would happen who knows what'll happen," spoke the young boy aloud.
The next letter was from Sofia, and the contents read, "Please do not come to see me, I don't wan t your help," and very typical of Sofia, talking in opposites again.
"*Sigh* why is it still so hard to understand what she means?" spoke the blond aloud.
The third letter was from Daria, and of course she was just trying to make her "assistant" make her some more dried sardines.
"I swear, she is just as obsessed with dried sardines as she is with rainbows…" sighed the boy, who pondered why weirdoes surrounded him.
"Rainbow!" shouted a voice, which caused him to jump, and the culprit was the eccentric painter who just ran by. While she was running by, she laughed, probably since she manage to scare her "assistant" by her random shouting, she did enjoy tormenting him.
"I knew it, she's nuts…"
The next letter in his red mailbox was from Carlos, and it read, "Hey bro, I'm trying to capture a legendary fish, and I need your help!"
"Well, that sounds reasonable, but I wonder what type of fish, and just why is he asking me?"
The final letter was from Evelyn, stating that his assistance was needed, and if he didn't come, he would be in trouble.
"Huh, what is that supposed to mean?" asked the boy, and then he noticed something scribbled on the bottom, "By the way, one of my outfits came to life and is trying to eat Sofia."
"Oh, just another normal day as- wait, her outfit is trying to eat Sofia?" shouted a surprised and worried boy, "I knew her outfits were crazy and all, but when did they start to come alive?" he thought internally, and decided this was the most important thing to do, and as he placed the rest of his letters into the mailbox, and rushed down the many steps and quickly turned right. While running, he passed Sakuya, who was trying to "Convince" people to stop by the Inn.
"Hey, would you like a nice warm bath? Are you interested in my souvenir shop? Do you want to see cute girls? Then, you should come in!" shouted Sakuya at her attempts of dragging our main lead inside, "And that means you Micah!" and with that she grabbed his arm with a firm grip.
"I'm sorry Sakuya, I don't have time for this today!" protested the blond boy Micah.
"Oh come on, just splurge a little bit today!" continued Sakuya, while giving him cute, little puppy eyes, though there was a glint of greed in them as well.
"Sorry, I have to save Sofia from being eaten by one of Evelyn's outfits," replied the boy, pulling his arm from the girl.
"Huh? One of her outfits came to life? Micah, make sure to capture it alive, okay?"
"Sakuya, why in the world would you want a man eating outfit for?" asked a quizzical Micah.
"Simple! I could make a lot of money if I sold this Marian! I could make a fortune out of her!" yelled the girl, whose eyes were filled with greed, for with more money, a much better life she would have! That, or she could go on more trips around the world.
"Hehe, Marian would probably buy it off of you," spoke the boy, while internally thinking, "Then, me, Collette, and any other person in the village would be saved from those nutty experiments."
"Yeah! So you better bring it back alive, or else I'll dress you up as a squid and feed you to Pia!" yelled Sakuya, who was definitely not lying about feeding him to the town's very own mermaid, who vowed to eat any and all squid.
"I rather not, I don't feel like being chased around by a crazy Pia, especially in a squid outfit."
"That would be interesting to see though," and now presenting a view into Sakuya's very own odd head. Today's entry on Inner Mind Theater (Don't forget to pay the entry fee!) shall be showing Micah, suffering at the hands of the mermaid! There was Micah, dressed head to toe in a squid costume, and her, dragging Pia out from the Inn, and she spots him. She screams with joy, while jumping up and down, and she has always wished to eat a giant squid. He panics, and starts to run, while Pia is following behind.
"That would be freaking hilarious!" laughed Sakuya, "So, you better bring it to me! And I'll still dress you up!" spoke / thought the girl, but during her inner mind theater, she didn't notice that Micah had already ran off, "Hey, where did he go?"
Now, back to Micah, he had left Sakuya to her inner thoughts, and he hoped to get going, but of course he didn't.
"Hey, Micah, don't you want to come in and have some of my Dad's fantastic cooking? Well, I know that I could go for some!" shouted the young blond with meatball hair, who has an obsession with eating, Collette.
"Sorry, I don't want anything at the moment, but I'll come back later though," replied Micah.
"Well, will you come in if I cook something yummy for you?" asked Collette, with an innocent look on her face, little puppy eyes (Do all the girls do this?) while a little pink color crossed her face.
"Sorry, but like I said, I'm busy right now, so I'll come back later, okay?" and with that, he ran off, leaving the meat ball head by herself.
"Gah, Micah is an idiot! Why must guys be so dense? How am I going to get better at cooking? Began the girl, while lowering her head, "And that would of have been the perfect opportunity to use those spices that Marian gave me," and with that, she gave off a long sigh.
Now, Micah was close to hid destination, and was about to enter the home, well, the large mansion, and save the day, and the girls…in till he ran into Marian.
"Hello Micah, will you join me on my quest on creating a new medicine?" asked the crazy blue haired witch / doctor in training.
"Not right now Marian, I have to help Sofia and Evelyn right now," began the young blond boy, rubbing the back of his head. Though he was wondering just why are all these girls contently interrupting him? Why does it seem they all want him to do things for them? Sure, he did enjoy helping them, but when he wants to help, not when they want him to help, especially when he's busy.
"Come on, it won't take that long! All you'll have to do is drink this potion," began Marian while pulling out a container filled with a strange, orange substance, "And after you drink, wait a few hours, and see what happens!" yelled the witch with a grin on her face, with a sly look in her devious eyes.
"Marian, I don't have a few hours to wait around, I have to defeat an evil monster outfit created by Evelyn!" yelled the blond, who had to get going to save the day.
"Huh, outfit that came to life? Cool, capture it for me so I can use it in my experiments!" hollered an excited Marian, who was basically jumping up and down from excitement of having a new test subject, well, test outfit that is.
"Well, I'll see if I can savage it," spoke Micah, while thinking, "I guess Sakuya was right about her wanting the outfit to us in an experiment," and then he began to speak again, "Well, I have to save them, so bye!" and with that, he ran off into the mansion.
When he entered, he was preparing for a battle, but what stood in front of him was something he wasn't expecting. What he expected was a floating piece of cloth with who knows what combined with it, and would be chasing someone around.
"What? Where's the man eating piece of clothing at?"
"Ah, Micah, I knew you'd come," spoke a familiar female voice.
So, Micah turned to face the voice and it was Evelyn, clocked in her usual odd attire, with the cat on her hat, and a monkey on her arm, with her long hair flowing down her back, "Thank you for coming, and I have an important job for you today."
"Huh? I thought you needed help with slaying a monster outfit that was trying to eat Sofia," began the confused blond.
"Oh, you silly thing, I've haven't created any man eating outfit (Yet) and of course their isn't anything trying to eat Sofia (At least not right now)" spoke the odd fashion designer.
"Why do I think you aren't telling me something," spoke Micah; with some sweat dripping down his neck from his entrance to the mansion, "Anyway, if their isn't any man eating outfit, then why did you tell me it in your letter?"
"You are just so gullible my dear boy, I just wanted a way for you to come over as soon as possible!"
"Soooooo," began Micah, while stretching out word, "There isn't any type of clothing monster?" he asked, while lowering his head.
Though there wasn't a response, Evelyn just nodded her head, while Micah's head dropped, and a long sigh emerged from his mouth, it was true he was gullible, although, you never know what Evelyn could create with her odd sense of fashion.
"Micah, you are a true genius," spoke another female voice, and when the boy turned around, it was none other than the opposite speaking girl, Sofia.
"Oh, thanks So- wait, if your talking in opposites, than that means you think I'm a moron!" stated Micah.
"That's incorrect," stated Sofia, with a broad expression on her face.
"Now, now Sofia, don't be so mean to him, he may be stupid, but theirs no need to confuse him," spoke Evelyn in a frank voice.
"I'm not being mean, I'm just saying the lies," continued Sofia in her opposite speak.
"Okay, I get it (I think) I'm an idiot for believing in a man eating outfit (Though anything is possible in this village) and just what do you need anyway?"
"I need you to catch a fish," replied Evelyn.
"That's it? If you needed me to catch a fish, couldn't you have just asked me?" questioned Micah, with an annoyed tone. Instead of running over here like a nut, and could have walked over calmly, like a sane person.
"Yup, that's it, but this is no normal fish," she began, crossing her arms around her chest, "It is a fish you can only capture in the end of summer. It is an ancient fish that is said to appear only once every fifty years, and this is the only opportunity to capture it!" shouted the fashion designer with fire in her eyes.
"So, you just want me capture this legendary fish for one of your designs (Couldn't you have just told me that?)"
"Yes, that's right (I wanted to see if your really so gullible) and it will be for my next best design!" shouted Evelyn.
"Okay, I got it, so what type of fish is it?" asked Micah, while turning his head to the left, and Sofia was just standing there, watching him and her older sister.
"It is called the red-fin halitosis fish! You can find it in the deep end of the lake!"
"Wait, I would need a boat to catch the fish! Just were am I suppose to find a boat at?" asked the young boy with a curious look on his face.
"Just borrow one from Carlos, he'll have one, so get going and catch that fish!"
"Alright, I'll get that fish (Hopefully) for you," replied Micah, while lowering his head, just why couldn't he tell her no! Probably because he's the good guy…
"Ahh, that's a good boy Micah!" shouted Evelyn, with a cheerful expersion on her face.
After that statement, Micah began to walk towards the large mansion doors, while passing Sofia who commented, "Hope you have some bad luck!" Micah sighed, that was one thing he did understand, for once, and he would need good luck to catch this fish. Just why did she need some type of "Legendary" fish for one of her wacky outfits? Couldn't she just use a normal fish that you can find easily? Like a squid, or a sardine, or may-, "I really need to stop working for those two," thought the now sulking Micah, who's feet were moving on their own, while his mind was occupied on why he works for those two from time to time, and then bang! The boy crashed into someone while he was lost in thought, and they both crashed to the ground.
"Gah, sorry about that," spoke Micah, while rubbing the back of his head, with his eyes closed. When he finally opened his eyes, in front of him laid a girl with long, crimson hair with a cold expression, like always. Her blue eyes showed little emotion, like always, and a red color appeared on her emotionless face.
"Oh, I'm sorry Raven, I wasn't paying attention to were I was going," apologized Micah while getting up from his resting spot on the floor, and put his hand out to help the girl up, though she didn't accept his assistance, and got up without saying a word.
"You need to pay attention to where your going Micah," spoke another female voice, which was also emotional, coming from behind Raven.
"Huh?" that statement caught him off guard, and turned his head to the left to see who had just spoken. Behind the shy redhead, whose name didn't match with her, stood a light blue haired girl.
"Oh, you're here too Karina?" asked a surprised Micah.
"Yeah (Why wouldn't I be here?)" replied the girl, who didn't seem to care much about what was going on.
"Oh, so you two came here to visit Sofia?" asked the boy.
"Pretty much (Though it is a pain to walk here)"
"Oh, I…see," spoke Micah, who pondered just how the three of them could get along so well? Raven, the anti-social character of the village barely speaks a word. Karina, the queen of laziness, who claims everything's a pain. Sofia, the odd girl who speaks in opposites and can hardly be understood.
"I guess weirdoes get along with other weirdoes," thought Micah.
"That's not very nice Micah, calling my sister and her friends weirdoes," commented Evelyn, with a sly look on her face, and was leaning against her little stand that stood as her own little fashion shop.
"H-how did you know that I thought that?" asked a surprised Micah, with a little bit of red on his face, who was pondering how she knew exactly what he had thought moments before. Could it be possible that she could read minds! That's impossible, Evelyn isn't a fortuneteller…was she?
"Hehe," laughed Evelyn with a sly grin on her young face, with one eye closed, "I didn't know in till now."
So, she just fooled him so easily, and in a matter of seconds, an evil aura began to emit from the girls. Though, their features looked normal, they all gave off an aura of malice, though, Raven seemed the most calm out of the three. So, the semi-calm redhead walked to towards where Evelyn, trying not to get caught up in the up coming events. While Karina, appeared like she usually did, calm and lazy, while mentally, she was ticked off, and Sofia, with parasol in hand, looked like an evil demon, who was prepared to strike the boy.
"So you think were normal, huh?" asked Sofia, with a scorned voice, with malice filling her eyes to it's brim.
"Is that true Micah? (How is lazy being weird? That jerk! I swear if I-)" before she could continue that thought, a crimson blush as dark as Raven's hair appeared on the lazy girl's face, "Micah, (No, no, no! What I'm I thinking?)"
"Oh, Micah," spoke Sofia in a sing song voice, despite the fact she was slamming her parasol looking like she was about to beat a cretin blond to death.
"Y-y-yes Sofia?" asked a panicking Micah, who was fearing what exactly she was plotting to do towards him.
"It's time for some fun!" spoke the girl who began to walk towards him.
"What did you me-" and before he could continue, fear filled within his soul, "Wait, what are you do-"
* Bang, boom, crash, caboom! *
A lolita, with a parasol, is currently beating up our main lead while she was in a dress. Evelyn was just watching her younger sister beating the boy senseless, while enjoying it, to a high level, for an unknown reason. Raven stood their, watching the abused boy, though, she didn't do anything, and she seemed a little upset. While at the other side of the room, Karina was having a decisive battle within her own head, switching from lazy to annoyed to somewhat fangirl. And Sofia, was having a detestable time beating Micah, and all he could do is take it one blow after another, since he couldn't attack a girl, but he did want to run far, very far away, and never look back. He wanted to lock himself in his home, barricade his home, and never, ever, ever leave! Well, only to take care of his monster pets.
Ten minutes later….
"Ahh," spoke a cheerful Sofia, "That was very boring and detestable!"
On the ground laid an unconscious Micah, who just faced the wrath of a lolita in a dress, with a parasol, poor boy.
"Oh, did I go to easy?" asked Sofia as she turned her head towards her older sister.
"Yes, I do believe that was one major over kill Sofia," spoke Evelyn in a casual voice.
"Oh well, I do care," replied Sofia in a happy tone.
"Well, what do we do now?" asked Evelyn, staring at Micah's unconscious body.
"Take him to see Marian," spoke Raven in her non-emotional voice, with eyes clouded with a veil of ice.
"That's a great idea! You shouldn't leave him here for dead," spoke Sofia in an angry tone.
"That's enough, I think you should get your head examined," explained Evelyn, who began to worry about her younger sister. It is true her sister had always been an oddball, and she did take after their father. Though, she was never this violent before, well, she was somewhat, but not fully. As her older sister, Evelyn had a duty to make sure her little sister was right in the head.
"I would love to go!" spoke Sofia with a worried look in her eyes and ran towards the mansion's doors and shouted, "I won't see you all later!" and ran off as fast as her feet could carry her.
"I should have seen that coming," thought Evelyn, "I guess she's still afraid of Marian after that little needle incident."
The purple haired girl sighed and looked down; she is always being dragged into odd situations like these, then she noticed something. The body of Micah was no longer there, and then she turned her head to the left, she noticed that the redhead was no longer there. She then looked towards the door, and saw Raven dragging the unconscious Micah's body.
"Hey, Raven, what are you doing?" asked the designer, looking at the non-emotional girl.
"I'm taking him to see Marian," she spoke with little emotion, like usual.
"Is that a good idea? You know how she gets."
"I know, that's way I'm taking him to see her."
"I…see. Well, good luck…with that."
Now, the redhead continued to drag the body, leaving Evelyn to watch the scene. While during this, Karina was still lost within her own internal debate, in till she noticed Raven heading out of the mansion's large doors and mumbled, "Hey, wait for me," and she followed after her.
"Gah…," mumbled a voice, a male voice, the was laying on a bed, looking at the ceiling, and then turned his head towards the window, and the late summer sun was falling behind the horizon. He sighed and got up, and made a mental note: "Never tick off Sofia."
He placed his feet on the wooden floor, and began to walk towards the open doorway, wanting to get home, but before he stepped threw, he heard voices.
"So, prepare the table! We have work to do!" shouted a female voice, belonging to the blue haired witch.
"What! Your going to use Micah as a guinea pig? Shouted another female voice, Collette.
"Shh! Do you want to wake him up? If you do, who knows how long it will be in till Sofia beats him again! This is the absolute perfect chance for me to test out my new experiment!"
"So, everyone knows about that…" though Micah as he backed into the room. Marian was going to experiment on him, what joy! Maybe, since he's awake, he may be saved, but on the other hand. It is Marian after all, and she does have that giant syringe, it would be hard to try to escape without her knowing. He sighed, for yet again that day, it's better to take it on, then wait around.
So, he walked foreword into the main room, gaining Collette's attention, while Marian was still thinking about what type of experiments she would perform on him.
"Thank goodness," began Collette as she ran up to Micah and grabbed his hands, it's a good thing for you to have woken up! If you didn't, Marian would have done who knows what on you!"
"Yeah, I kinda figured she was going to do something like that…" began Micah, but before he could go on, there was a shriek in the room.
"W-what are you doing up? I thought the sedative's a I gave you was going to last twelve hours!'
"No wonder why I was out so long," spoke Micah, while thinking, "And here I though Sofia was super human."
"This isn't fair, and here I thought I finally got a guinea pig!" complained Marian, with her head lowered, "But next time I'll make sure to use the twenty four hour sedative on him, so I can do whatever I want to do on him!"
"Hehe, I better get going," said the boy as he headed towards the door, but before he could get anywhere near the door, Marian grabbed the back of his shirt, and pulled him backwards with surprising strength.
"Oh no you don't! You're staying here! Collette, prep the examination table!" shouted the crazy girl who was determined to work on the boy.
Luckily, for Micah, Marian's grandmother, Marjorie, just happened to come through the front doors. If there's anyone that can stop this psychopath, it was her.
"Marian, what are you doing to Micah?" asked the old women, with her normal facial expression.
"Ahh…" began Marian, who was trying to find a way to explain, if there was one thing that girl was afraid of, it was her grandmother, and so she let go of his shirt and pushed him forward and said in a hurry, "I was trying to convince him stay in till you got back home! I-I mean he was out for so long…"
"Well, that's good, and here I thought you were trying to experiment on him, and use Collette as your assistant."
Those words shocked the young witch, just how did her grandmother know what she was up too! Sure, she was always trying to experiment on people, and mainly Micah since he was new around here, but it didn't explain how she always new what she was planning. She began to panic, and then an idea came to her mind. She quickly ran over to Collette and began to push her towards the door while yelling quickly, "L-look at the time! It's time to go the bathhouse, come on Collette!"
"H-hey, stop pushing me!" shouted the blond as she was half way out the door, and as Marian was pushing her; she lost her footing and fell on her face, with a loud thud.
"Hey, Marian! That hurt!" shouted the cook-in-training, as she lifted her head, but before she could get up, she was quickly grabbed by Marian, and off they went towards the bathhouse.
"Haha, she's really afraid of you," stated Micah, with a hint of surprise in his voice, it was amazing how well she could control Marian and how much fear she could put into her.
"Well, of course she is, I to, am a witch after all, so I know how to control her," spoke the old women, "Anyway, do you think I should give you a check up?"
"No, no, I'm fine now," replied Micah.
"Well, that's good, and then you can get to work!"
"W-what do you mean?" asked a surprised Micah, pondering what she meant by that.
"You'll see, hehehe," spoke the witch, whose tone of voice sounded like a mouse.
So, the old women began to walk away, towards the back room with the caldron, leaving the boy to his thoughts
After some time, Micah returned home after a visit to the bathhouse, and watching Sakuya and Pia's comedy routine, and being smacked on the head by Sakuya for lying about the clothing monster and getting her hopes up of making a lot of cash. When he returned to his home and went to check his fields, which he worked on that morning, was now covered in twigs, stumps, rocks, weeds, and more colored grass. Even some of his crops were ruined! There must have been a storm while he was knocked out, curse the village and it's unpredictable weather patterns. He sighed, tonight, was to be a very long night, and tomorrow would also be a long, long day.
Preview of next chapter:
What shall become of out main lead? Will he be able to catch this legendary fish! Or will his quest get more difficult? What will happen when Micah gets dragged into helping Carols and Carmen catch the very same fish, and just what will happen if Pia learns of the plans?
To be continued….
Well, that was certainly long for chapter 1, which couldn't be a bad thing. Anway, I hoped you enjoy the first chapter of my new story, and please review, and tell me what you think!