AzuDisgaea Chapter 1 - A Roar in the Night
Just for the record I do not own, have never owned and never will own Azumanga Daioh or Disgaea
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Not all Netherworlds have their respective overlords, in many cases the overlord has left or died, leaving his or her domain in a state of total anarchy, and this is where our tale begins. More specifically in a camp set up by a well organized all female team of mercenaries.
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"Looks like I'm not getting any sleep tonight" Kagura thought to herself, as two rather large dragons had wandered into their camp. She awoke to the sound of the deep roar most of the larger monsters made. She began to pick up her spear when she realized she wasn't the only one awake.
"Dammit! Who's making all that noise!?" Yukari had stepped out of her tent, and she was furious. Rule number one when travelling was to never wake a sleeping Yukari. Upon realizing where the noise was coming from, she called for backup, "Everyone get up! Call it a late night training session. If I'm not getting sleep no one is!"
Of course, the sound of two massive dragons tearing into their food supply and terrorizing their campground had already woken everyone up…well almost everyone. "Osaka-san! You need to wake up! We're in serious danger!" Chiyo was frantically trying to wake Osaka who was in some kind of deep trance. She seemed to be mumbling to herself "What's with humans and their tiny ears…? Can't they hear anything…? And why are they round anyway…?" Suddenly Chiyo shouted Osaka's name as loud as she could, causing her to bolt upright, "What's wrong Chiyo-chan?"
"Dragons! Two of them! Attacking the camp!" Osaka Stared at Chiyo for a moment and spoke up "I always wondered how dragons fly when their so big…" Chiyo stopped her there and got her out of their tent. "Now isn't the time for that! Let's go!" For the most part, Chiyo was there to rally the troops so to speak. She had deadly aim, but she rarely fought.
Nyamo was, to say the least, annoyed, "You know, the two of us are fully capable of handling a couple of dragons, you really should stop being so selfish and let the students sleep."
"Oh Nyamo, I would have said that too, but take a closer look at our enemies." At that point Nyamo realized the problem, traditionally Dragon class monsters had green scales, while these were red scaled Nidhoggs, which were a few tiers above the standard dragon class. "Hmm, I guess you're right, at least they're only wild monsters, we'd be in trouble otherwise."
The girls had moved into formation and Yomi was carefully observing the enemy, she had the uncanny ability to pinpoint an enemy's strengths and weaknesses, this was due to a mechanism built into her glasses, however only she could decipher the information. "Alright, it's two Nidhogg class dragons, both weak to ice, if I had to give a number to their level, I'd say about fifty." Suddenly Tomo chimed in, "Really? Ice? Not fire?"
"Dragons are immune to fire, even if it shows otherwise."
"Not even a little?"
"No Tomo…" Tomo's stronger skills were fire based, and for the most part, she wanted any excuse to use them.
The teams finally mobilized beginning with Osaka boosting Nyamo and Yukari's power, Osaka was a Beast Tamer, monster classes were here specialty, these being her teachers, who were of the Empusa (essentially a succubus) and Nekomata (essentially a catgirl) classes.
The initial assault was made by the two assault teams, the primary assault team, consisting of only Nyamo and Kagura, and the Secondary Assault Team, consisting of Sakaki, Osaka, and Tomo. Nyamo made one quick final announcement, "Alright, we try to scare them off first, no need for unnecessary casualties, even if they're just beasts. If we can't scare them of we may have to kill them."
Kagura readied her spear, as part of the plan she could only attack non-vital areas, or attack with the blunt end of her weapon. Nyamo retracted her claws and began attacking with her fists. Tomo had been darting around to see if they carried any valuables, but this was rare on wild beasts. For the time being, Sakaki focused on casting Elemental Charge spells on her teammates to boost their resistance.
Osaka was taking on the second opponent alone, and actually put her abilities to good use, despite not being the most focused individual, she was a master beast tamer, and actually somehow managed to command the dragon away from the camp.
The other, however was not responding well to force, and by now he was beyond reasoning from Osaka, "What do we do now?!" Tomo shouted. "He's not just going to walk away!" Nyamo thought for a moment, "I could knock him away." She was speaking of course of the Cat Kick ability, also known to some as Delta Kick, a three piece combo that sent an enemy flying. Nyamo readied herself, sent the dragon high into the air, and sent it crashing into the ground several meters away. The dragon stood back up and wandered away into the night. The ordeal was over, for the most part, as a considerable amount of their food had been eaten. Nyamo tried to keep a positive attitude, "Well, it looks like we'll have a light breakfast tomorrow." Yukari was not amused, "Oh yes, ever the optimist! We have two whole days before we reach another town! Not to mention our latest mark was a bust, meaning we are completely broke!" Yukari was right, for some time they had been chasing after a man many came to know as the Dark Knight, not a very imaginative name, but the point remains, he was rumored to be planning to assassinate the Overlord, this plan had succeeded, after which point, the knight destroyed himself, leaving the netherworld in total disarray.
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The rest of the night went on with no interruption. However, they all awoke in a daze the next morning. Tomo was the first to speak up during breakfast, "So how does one go about becoming Overlord?" The rest of the girls stared blankly back at her, this was looking to be an interesting morning.
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A.N.-So, this was originally posted on my deviantart page, and now has been also placed here as well. To any new readers who may pick this up, some of the stuff may come off as confusing, most likely because I explained it in one of my dA drawings and totally forgot to add an explanation in the story.