Chapter 2

Robotic experiment part

"Well, isn't that a load of shit."

The current Grand maestro scratched her head, as she read a letter from her perfectly polished desk.

An event had such recently transpired that would cause much alarm through the cathedral would be bad press over all, especially a ransom note with such high demands. Of course only two people knew about such a thing.

One, being the genius Shan, and the other being her beautiful familiar Nebilim. (Who is in no way related to that other Nebilim.)

"Ah, we really can't let Ion figure this out." Shan rubbed her head, figuring out ways to avoid such a confrontation. Knowing the Fon Master, he would most likely force her to pay for repairs in such an event.

"This is your entire fault you know." The white haired woman pointed out the obvious as Shan merely twitched.

Never before had an experiment gone so wild before, sure one of them blew up a town. But no one cared about such a thing.

"Instead of playing the blaming game like a bunch of half brained protagonists. Let's actually look for solutions to the problem." The woman's long hair flow through with the nonexistent wind as her red eyes slowly gazed towards the ceiling.

"So...who do we have left?" Shan asked a simply question as the Nebilim sighed.

"Only those four pest."

Shan eye gave a rather so slight twitch.

"Welp, we're screwed."

Three figures sat at a table just outside the cathedral, enjoying food that was bought. Which made sense, none of them knew how to cook well at all.

"Thank you again Hibana for treating us out." The small pinked haired girl smiled at her friend.

Once again it was a day for relaxing; nothing seemed to go wrong at all. One may even call it boring, though what kind of idiot would want to get into near death experiences would be left unknown.

"Don't thank me Arietta; thank Sync for leaving his money lying around." The brown haired demon girl cheerfully stated at Sync eyes sharpened.

"What...did you just say?" With a cocked eye Sync question his friend's current statement.

It was true, he had been missing gald from his room, to be honest Sync never expected anyone to enter his room without permission certainly not Hibana since she was staying with Arietta and everything.

"I didn't say anything; if you thought her heard something then it's simply your crazed mind playing tricks on you." Hibana pointed out this falsified fact as she took another bite of her mysterious food; one would call it a salad.

The pink haired God-general tilted her head at such a sight, she didn't think Hibana was necessarily large, even if her breast of a decent size. So why was she eating a salad?

"Hibana, why would you eat something like that?"

The brown haired girl simply blinked at her smaller companion and gave a large deep sigh, it was obvious her pride was in pain.

"Tear only weighs 116 pounds, yet her chest is huge! I want to see how such a thing is possible." Hibana smiled, as Sync gave a rather irritated scoff.

"Meh, I have no idea why she is trying to lose weight, she would look weird of she got any thinner."

"Sync, were you thinking about something really rude?!" Hibana snapped, as Sync rolled his eyes.

He didn't really think what he thought was rude, just a simple fact, but at the same time he couldn't help but look at his plate and notice how bland his food selection was.

A sandwich, a plain ham and cheese sandwich. What was the point of eating out if you didn't get anything expensive?

Sync eyes wandered towards Arietta plate, and noted a rather large steak. It was to be expected however, it would be odd seeing Arietta eating vegetables when she was raised by monsters...that were feed apples.

And so a list of insults flooded Sync's mind. Would he call the small fat, that would be pretty funny, or would he call her a little monster. Decisions, decisions, alas he would not be able to make such a choice as another annoying girl joined the conversation.

"Hi Hibana." The girl with the pig tails smiled at Hibana, completely ignoring Arietta and Sync while doing such a thing.

"Ah! Anise don't pretend you didn't see us!" Arietta glared as Anise blinked oh so innocently.

"No one was talking to you Arietta, so just shush!" The black haired girl snapped as the pink haired girl gave a harsh glare.

That is when lunch got really awkward.

"Do you mind if I sit here?" Anise asked such a simple thing as Arietta eye's narrowed.

"I am sorry Anise, but that seat is taken." Arietta replied to the request as Anise pouted.

There was no one sitting in the fourth and final seat, so it was obviously not taken. Arietta Liger friends weren't even in the area.

"Don't mess with me! I know for a fact that there is no one sitting here!"

"Nice job eagle eye." Sync whispered under his breath, trying his hardest to ignore the two girls constant bickering.

Arietta then held her doll tightly before placing it on the free seat. The doll was always a grotesque kind of cute that young children may adore. In all honesty it looked like someone just sew a large amount of stuffed animal's together.

"Doll is sitting here." Arietta pointed this fact out as Hibana simply blinked.

Looking back on it, Arietta's doll doesn't even have a name; Anise's did, but not Arietta's. I all honesty Hibana didn't even know what the doll did, all she knew that it did something.

Before a spring cat fight follow, A familiar white haired woman appeared before the group. It was pointless to call her by her name, but everyone did it anyway.

"Ah Not Nebilim." Arietta smiled as the woman looked away. It was rather obvious that she didn't want her full name to be stated.

"You know this oddly familiar woman Arietta?" Hibana pointed out as the small pink haired girl nodded.

She was the new librarian, but it seemed that she also acted as Shan's messenger. No matter how much she hated such a job.

Anise smiled at the woman, trying to use her natural charm to sway the woman. The twin tailed girl opened her mouth. She was no doubt about to introduce herself.

"My name i-"

"I don't care about your worthless name. Shan needs you fools, and I have to be the worthless delivery woman."

It seems the more attractive one is, the ruder they are. As Anise eye's narrowed. It seemed like she was about to say something rude, before the red eyed girl sitting on the table intervene.

"That's nice and everything, but we are in the middle of lunch." Hibana pointed out as Arietta nodded.

"Yes, so we can go later. Can we please finish lunch?"

Arietta asked as nicely as possible as Nebilim nodded slowly.

"...When lunch is over..."

The white haired woman then grabbed the edge of the white table, a light touch only someone of her age could have.

And with a slight movement of the hand, she flipped their table. Alas Hibana's Salad was scattered about, Arietta's steak fell on the floor. Sync's sandwich was surprisingly still in his hand.

Everyone simply looked at the red eyed woman as she smiled.

"Lunch is over."

"Okay assholes, you are the best four. And by the best I mean the only four we have." The Grand maestro sat back in her chair as the woman known as Nebilim stood next to her.

"I'm hungry." Hibana held her stomach, most likely complaining about the small and worthless salad she had, or rather the half that didn't end up on the ground.

Sync crossed his arms, as he glared at Shan, obviously annoyed with being dragged into something that would most likely be weird as hell.

"What the hell do you want?"

"Why am I here?" Anise asked a rather good question as Arietta nodded.

"Yeah, why is Anise here?"

It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that Arietta and Anise did not enjoy each other's company, no doubt making the answer to all of their questions rather difficult.

Shan gave a short cough, before giving a noble woman's laugh.

"Well something happened...let's just say all the oracle knights are currently locked away in the deepest part of the cathedral. By no fault of my own, but if it was my fault I would prefer you not telling the Fon master."

Sync eye's narrowed as he looked at his friends older sister. Before this they really didn't have a lot of contact with one another. Maybe it would be a good idea to get to understand her. Moh's was rather easier to figure out, Shan not so much.

"If that's the case, why not get them out yourself. You're supposed to be rather strong right?" Sync pointed out this fact as Shan simply scoffed as she ran her fingers through her brown hair.

"I am a very busy woman, so I can't hang around and do worthless things like saving the oracle knights." Shan said such a thing not realizing those people serve her.

At the same time however, Shan probably wouldn't need any protection. At least none the Oracle knights could provide.

"Really...it just sounds like you're lazy." Anise lifted one of her fingers as the Grand maestro shrugged.

"I am, but that is the reason I have losers like you to do work for me, now you'll need disguises."

Shan snapped her fingers as Nebilim gave a small groan, she entered one of the doors scattered about the demons room. After a short while of sounds exiting such a place, the white haired woman reentered the group. She was holding four boxes of varying sizes, each one having a different name on them.

"What in the hell." Sync cocked an eye as Shan laughed.

"These are your disguises, aren't they awesome. I had a five gald limit so be grateful." Shan said such a thing as if spending five gald was a big deal. But considering how cheap she was...

As the four looked closer at the boxes, they noted that each one had a name on it. It seemed four holes were cut out, one for their head, two for their arms and one for their lower body.

There were also three varying sizes; the largest one was no doubt for Hibana and the size right under that was probably for the Tempest. The final two shared the same size, no doubt for Anise and Arietta.

"I'm going to be blunt with you Shan, these look pretty shitty." Hibana pointed out as her older sister eye twitched.

How could she say something like that, after she spends five gald on those boxes? But this was no time to burst with anger.

"Um...Grand Maestro, my name is spelled wrong." Arietta pointed to her name that was directly under the word Mecha. Instead of Arietta, it was spelled "Arrieta." Not only there was an added r, but also a removed t.

"...I'm not wearing anything that would refer to me as Mecha Sync." The Tempest glared at the Grand Maestro as the others simply slumped their shoulders.

It was obvious that they had to be bribed with something, the four were far to cruel to do something out of the kindness of their hearts. But just as it seemed all hope was lost for her career as a Grand maestro, the woman thought of something amazing.

"Well, it's a shame. I guess I'll have to pay this 200,000 gald to someone else." Shan gave a sad sigh as she looked away from the group.

Hibana, Sync and Arietta simply blinked. Unmoved by money they didn't need. After all, Hibana was rich, so if they really needed anything they would simply have Hibana sell some of her gold for gald. Anise however...

"We're on the case!" Gems seemed to flicker in the ex-guardians eyes as everyone else shrugged. It seemed the other three were about to leave the room.

"Good luck with that." Hibana wave as Sync followed.

"Hope you don't die or anything." Sync added as Arietta gave a short pout.

"Best of luck Anise." Was that sarcasm or was she being sincere. It was probably impossible to tell what the pink haired girl meant by those words.

"H-hold it! You're just going to let a pretty young thing like me, go into a scary place filled with unknown terror!" Anise eyes watered, everyone knew they were fake tears, but...

They didn't have anything better to do with their time, no matter what Sync said. Plus a large portion of Hibana's entertainment came from the Oracle knights; it would be annoying if they all died.

"Meh, sure why not." Hibana shrugged as Arietta frowned.

The pink haired girl wasn't too keen about helping Anise. Especially all the jokes that were made at her expense, most of them having to do with the word gloom.

"Hibana, you shouldn't go with someone like her." Arietta said rather bluntly, as Anise cut her eyes at the older girl.

"You don't have to go Arietta. You'll just get in the way, and no one expects you to contribute to helping the order or Ion." One would expect that Anise was trying to trick the pink haired girl in the room. But it seemed that Anise actually believed what she was saying.

"...Actually, I think I might go." Arietta changed her mind rather quickly, as the three girls looked upon the final person they had to convince.

Sync looked at them, and they looked at Sync.

"So Sy-"

"No."

It was a blunt short response. It seemed like Sync simply was that kind of person, an ass some would put it.

"Oh, come on Sync, it's not like you can go anywhere else. Plus your room is in the headquarters anyway right? You can at least check it out." Anise said such an obvious thing as the Tempest sighed.

There was no use arguing the point, plus the problem would probably spread if they didn't take care of it soon, getting it over with would be the best bet.

"Fine, just don't do anything stupid."

"Okay." Shan smiled, as she pointed out the door.

"Go my God-generals, go and save your underlings."

And so, they went to the lower floors of the cathedral, it was truly amazing how large a single building could be. To be honest, it's probably larger than most towns.

So the four traveled down the stairs, going deeper into the unknown abyss, though to be fair, that may be a little dramatic for what they were about to do. As the final step ended and they came upon the door leading into the oracle knights training center, they noticed a single piece of paper attached to it.

"What does it say Mecha Sync." Hibana asked, sporting her new outfit of cardboard.

"First, don't call me that. Second, let me finish." Sync glared as both Arietta and Anise looked over his shoulder.

Sync then cocked his eye.

"It says."

"Please turn back here, the Oracle knights are not in trouble at all. An army of robots have not taken control of the lower levels of the cathedral. Something like that would be silly. We are throwing a party, and you aren't invited so go away!"

"...Seems legit." Hibana said such a thing as Arietta nodded.

"Yeah, it would be rude to barge in a party we weren't invited to."

Sync and Anise could help but look at the two girls as if they were idiots, which wasn't too far from the truth. The letter was obviously a distraction; it didn't even look like it was written with human hands.

"In any case, we should bust down the door." Anise smiled taking out Tokunaga.

As soon as she placed the doll on the ground, it grew to at least three times its normal size, but that wasn't what amazed Arietta. After all she had seen that many times before. What surprised Arietta was Anise blatant disrespect of other's property, but then again, the pink had no place to talk.

"Anise, we can't just burst into a party like that!" Arietta pouted, still not knowing that the letter on the door was merely a trick.

"We aren't bursting in, we merely crashing the party!" Anise smiled, Tokunaga reeled its fist back as Sync sighed.

"Isn't that the same thing?"

And with one blow, the door came crashing down.

Author notes.

A two parter, yeah. Read and review