Author's note: As always, my thanks to all those who reviewed and to the wonderful cuenta for being my beta-reader (must remember to worship her more later). Any suggestions for a technique are desperately needed as the author has a very limited imagination and needs the help.
Disclaimer: Tsubasa does not belong to me. If it did, it would be much shorter and would, most likely, be much more about Fai or Mokona. Now for the fic!
Technique #1: The
Super-Sneaky Entry! *before the series*
"Oh my head...Why is there no eki-kyabe in the storeroom...WHY?!"
Yuko moaned as another tidal-wave of the 'Hangover-from-Hell' pounded through her skull. The Mokonas both winced in sympathy.
Hangovers were just plain awful!
Soel glanced at Yuko and sighed.
Poor Yuko. She had only drunk about 30 bottles of sake and a few
carts of draft-beers, yet she was suffering so much!
Soel found
herself scowling.
It wasn't fair! Yuko didn't deserve a
hangover! And she wouldn't have to deal with it for very long if
Soel had anything to do with it!
Soel pinched Larg's ear in her
tiny paw.
"Larg! Yuko needs our help! We should go into town
and look for medicine for her hangover. Maybe if we get her some,
she'll feel better." The white manju quickly jumped off the chair
and raced towards the door.
Larg watched in surprise. It was rare for Soel to be so forceful. Normally Soel was the more reserved and gentle of the two, always (admittedly very noisily) waiting for Larg to take the lead on their adventures.
Maybe this was a good thing.
"Hurry up Larg! Yuko needs medicine now!" Soel shouted excitedly, much to Yuko's distress. Larg winced; evidently Soel did not know what loud voices did to the minds of those suffering from hangovers.
"Alright, Larg is coming." Larg shouted as softly as he could and bounced after the white Mokona as fast as he could.
On second thought, maybe it was a turn for the worse...
........................................
The Mokonas happily marched down the
streets of the city.
The big, wide beautiful moon shone down on
them brightly as Soel glanced around excitedly. In truth, this was
only the 2nd or 3rd time Soel had ever been
outside the shop and the idea of being on a mission to save Yuko made
Soel feel like one of the super heroes in Yuko's old comics.
It
was kind of creepy, though, how all the humans they had met along the
way had stared at them. But that was humans for you. Weird.
A sudden sign made Soel turn. "Larg, look! Over there! That store might sell Yuko's favourite eki-kyabe!" Larg's ears twitched upwards. "Really?"
The Mokonas quickly raced over to the store and stared at the sign.
"Hey look, this place is called Green Drug! Larg thinks this is the place that Yuko goes to all the time."
"It's the same place? The one with the all new S-type eki-kyabe!?!"
"Larg is sure of it!" Larg
pondered for a moment then glanced up at the window, his ears
dropping instantly. "Oh no..."
Soel followed his gaze. "It's
closed after we came so far?!"
Larg glanced at a clock on the other side of the street. "Well it is almost 8PM. Most people do their shopping during the day, not the night. Looks like Soel and Larg will just have to find a new drug-store that opens during the night."
Larg sighed sadly, glanced over to Soel and immediately backed away in terror.
"Soel came out here to save Yuko
from her hangover..." Soel's face was illuminated by an eerie
smile as she whispered in a low, dangerous voice.
"Yuko needs
eki-kyabe...and Soel doesn't know where else to get some..."
Soel pulled a screwdriver out from behind her back (I have no idea where she got it from either) and began to shout determinedly at the top of her lungs.
"SOEL IS A MOKONA OF HONOR! SOEL WILL USE ONE OF SOEL'S 108 SECRET TECHNIQUES AND WILL GET YUKO HER EKI-KYABE EVEN IF SOEL NEEDS TO BREAK DOWN THE DOOR!!!"
Larg pressed himself against the
wall.
All of a sudden Soel seemed a lot taller than she had a few
minutes ago...
"YOU!" Larg stared into the face of his enraged fellow Mokona, who was now staring at him intently.
"Umm...what is it, Soel?" Larg wanted to cry; Soel was scarier than Yuko!
Soel suddenly beamed at him warmly.
"Soel needs a lift up to reach the window on the door. Will Larg
help Soel up?"
Larg nodded instantly. Anything to avoid her
getting angry at him...
Soel smiled as she stood on Larg's
head.
"Thank you. Soel isn't sure she could break the window
while jumping."
Larg's eyes widened as Soel held the screwdriver up towards the window in a menacing way.
"Soel isn't really going to smash the window, is she?"
Soel glanced at Larg, who for some reason had gone very pale (well as pale as you can, when you're covered in thick black fur).
"Soel would prefer to go through the door if it were open. Maybe Soel could sneak into the store though a window or something. It might be easier than having to break the door down..." With that Soel jumped off Larg and raced around to the back of the building.
Larg sighed in relief.
Now Yuko
wouldn't make them repair the window later.
"Larg needs to move back about two feet!"
Larg jumped out of his thoughts and glanced around. Was that Soel? But where was she? From what it sounded, it seemed her voice was coming from behind the other side of the-
BAMM!
"Soel did it! Soel found a way though the back window! It's Soel's first 108th secret technique!" Soel squealed loudly, as she jumped around in excitement. Suddenly she paused and looked around. "Larg, where are you? Soel found her first secret technique, and wants to show Larg how amazing she is!"
Soel's flattened ears suddenly rose as she spied what looked like a rather flatted black blob a few feet away.
"Larg! There you are! Larg is so silly falling asleep in the middle of the road like that." Soel giggled as she rushed to Larg's side.
Larg sat up groggily. What had happened? He vaguely remembered hearing Soel's voice before being slammed in the face by something big and heavy...
"Larg! Larg! You have to listen! Soel just found Soel's very first secret technique all by herself!!" Soel hopped with barely contained joy as she helped a very confused black Mokona to his feet.
Larg, now on his feet, smiled and raised his ears in interest.
"Really?! What is it called? Larg wants to see it!"
Soel grinned madly and leapt to her feet."Wait here and Soel will show Larg!" She then turned and bolted around the store. Larg watched in anticipation. What was it that Soel had managed to do?
He glanced back at the store's door and blinked in surprise as Soel raced out. Suddenly there was a loud bang from above and confetti fell at Soel's feet.
"See, see?! It's Soel's very first secret technique! The Super Sneaky Entry!"
Soel's tail wagged furiously, her eyes large as Larg stood absolutely stunned.
Yep. It was official. Soel was the nutcase of the family.
"It was great...yeah. Umm, Soel and Larg should probably go in and get Yuko's eki-kyabe now."
"Oh right! Soel was so happy, Soel forgot."
Sighing, Larg followed the ecstatic manju-bun as she raced inside.
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The next day, as Yuko happily drank a few hundred bottles of sake to yet another episode of 'The Cat's Eye', in a certain drug-store on the other side of town, two 17 years-olds stared in confusion at the large and incredibly empty shelf in the middle of the store.
"Hey Rikuo, wasn't this shelf full yesterday?"
"Yeah..."
"Wonder what happened..."
Yay! I finished! So dear
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Note: Remember that ideas for
Mokona's secret techniques are greatly appreciated. Any suggestions
used, will have the inventers' name next to the page's title.
Please! It can be ANYTHING you can think of!
So, thanks for reading.
By the way, the two boys at the drug-store are Rikuo and Kazahaya, who are the main characters of Legal Drug and appear for about three pages in chapter 5 of xxxholic, just in case you wanted to know.
