Gonna slip right into the story now.
BTW, whoever has been following both stories thus far, check out my profile or bio. I have PFC Garland's characteristics down there. I give all my thanks to the individual that pointed out something very important.
Also, got Megadimension Neptunia V II on the 2nd and my own PS4 and T.V. I'm freaking loving it so far. Uzume, why you so adorbs!?
Hyperdimension Neptunia belongs to
Idea Factory and Compile Heart
Chapter 4: A Quest Abound, New Artifact Found!
Noire looks at me like I'm crazy "You are from another world Garland!? There's no way!"
"Well, I believe it" Neptune interjects "His attire screams it and I also witnessed his entrance"
"Wooow Garly. . . You're from another world. . .?" Plutia looks at me impressed "That is sooo cool. . ."
I scratched my head "I know it's quite the pill to swallow. But I'm telling you the truth"
Noire looks at me a bit longer then furrows her brow "Hrmm. . ." She shook her head after a minute of keeping that expression "I'll think about this later. Right now, we have some quests we need to do. Come on everyone" Noire says, turning around and leaving.
"Oh. . . Okaaay. . ." Plutia lazily follows after her best friend.
I started adjusting my rifle strap a bit so it could be more comfortable when I felt someone pull on my sleeve. I look behind me to see Neptune looking at me with a neutral expression "Neptune? What is it?"
She lets go of my sleeve and breathes in "Garly, I've noticed something about you when we've gotten here. . ."
"Eh, what is it that you noticed?" I ask, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, you've been acting really uptight and stuff once we got here" Neptune starts explaining "It seems that every time I do or say something, you retaliate with something in return. It's not the Garly I know" She looks up at me to notice that my expression changed.
"Y-You're right. . ." I said, lowering my gaze "I didn't mean anything like that at all. It's just that we're both somewhere unfamiliar and. . . I'm kinda worried about our well being. . ."
Neptune looks at me with raised eyebrows "Garly, worried? This is a first I've heard of that"
"Neptune. . ." I look at her "I'm just thinking that you're taking this too lightly. I hate that I have been treating you that way and not knowing it"
Neptune pats my back "I guess other than your little trip from your world into mine, this has probably got you acting like a frog out of water"
I let out a sigh "You could say that" I clear my throat "Neptune, I'm sorry for acting the way I did to you"
"Ah, it's alright Garly" She says with a grin "But, you have to buy me lots of pudding when we find a way back and eat it with me"
I blinked at her and let out a chuckle "Alright, I got it. I'll get you some pudding"
"Hooray! Garly is buying me pudding~" Neptune jumps in the air, cheering happily.
"Hey you two, let's go!" Noire calls to us "We don't have all day"
Neptune looks over to where Noire's voice came from then looks at me "Well, let's hurry on out of here!" She states, running out. I stretched a bit before following after everyone else.
At the Guild. . .
"Well, here we are" Noire says, walking into the Guild "This is where we'll be taking quests"
I look around the interior "It feels like nothing has really changed" I walk up to the counter, which Noire and Plutia take note as I bring out a badge "I'm PFC Garland, a mercenary for the Guild"
The receptionist looks at me confused "Garland? Mercenary? Hang on sir. . ." They instantly looked at their monitor, scanning whatever was on the screen "Umm, I'm sorry sir. But we have no mercenaries or your name in our database"
"Hmm, I see. Thank you" I turn back to everyone "Neptune. . ."
She looks at me confused "What is it Garly?"
I take a deep breath "I'm supposed to be in every Guild's database"
"Oh yeah, you do all that body guard and hunting stuff" Neptune says, matter of factually "Why, what is it?"
I look at her, depositing my badge "We're not in Gamindustri anymore"
"WHAAAAAA!? What do you mean by that Garly!?" Neptune looks shocked.
"Now just you hold on a second!" Noire speaks up, catching Mine and Neptune's attention "We are in Gamindustri! What has gotten into you Garland?"
"You won't understand Noire. I worked with the Guild with lots of quests, going from hunting monsters to being a body guard. What else would you want me to believe?" I asked her, looking a little aggravated.
We were all so busy bickering that we didn't keep our eyes on one certain individual "Aaaare you three. . . Fighting again. . .?" Plutia asks us, her voice sounding a bit darker and slower than usual.
"O-Oh crap!" Noire instantly straightens up "N-No, we're not! We're just wondering what quest to take, r-right?" She looks at us.
"Yeaaah, that's all Plutie. Nothing more, nothing less" Neptune remarks. I nod my head in agreement.
"Good. . ." Plutia smiles "Nooow. . . What are we going to choose. . .?"
Noire takes this little bit of time to look through the available quests then grabs one "This one should be easy. All we have to do is hunt down five Exhausted Jellies"
"Five Exhausted Jellies? Alright, let's get this done!" Neptune calls out, looking like she's ready to go. Noire was taken by surprise.
"You're unnervingly pumped for this. What did you do to Neptune?" Noire asks the purplette.
Neptune looks at Noire and smiles "Well Garly is going to be treating me to pudding so of course I would be hyped about it!"
"Huh, Garly is treating Neppy. . . To puuudding. . .?" Plutia looks at Neptune, tilting her head to the side "I wanna have pudding with Neppy and Garly too. . .~"
"Ugh. . . Will you all get back on track!" Noire yells, getting our attention "If we just stand here talking, we won't get this quest done!"
I rub the back of my neck "I think we should listen to her you two. Let's get this quest done"
"Okey dokey, hockey smokey~!" Neptune says, looking happy.
"Okaaay. . ." Plutia cheers lightly. (Typical Plutia things)
Otori Forest
The four of us made our way to Otori Forest, the place that housed the so called "Exhausted Jellies" we have to hunt. Once we made it inside, everyone got out their respective weapons. Noire had a rapier, Neptune with her trademark Wooden Sword, me with my rifle, and Plutia with a. . .
"Umm, Plutia. . ." I look at her with a questionable look "Why did you pull out a cat plushie?"
She looks over at me "Huh. . .? What dooo you mean. . .?"
"Yeah Plutie-poo, Garland is right. A plush toy won't do much damage to enemies, would probably stun them for a bit though" Neptune interjects.
Plutia hugs the plushie close to herself and sticks her tongue out "I like my dolls. . ." Why does that look adorable?
"Because Plutia does act adorable somethimes, so I decided to input that. Be happy it isn't puppy dog eyes"
"P-Puppy dog eyes, on Plutie!? Everyone run for cover, because you'll die from cuteness overload!" Neptune says, running around in circles.
Noire looks at the scene in front of her then looks up at the sky "Who was just talking right now?"
"Ah crap, why does this keep happening! Gotta fix the wall aga. . ."
"I don't think so, my dear YF! Get over here~!"
"Wh-What!? S-Sadie, knock it off! P-Please. . . Gyaaaaaah!"
After that, everything went silent. Everyone looked at each other, sharing confused looks.
"Umm, anyway. . ." Noire clears her throat "Lets get done with this quest"
"Ah, right" I said, prepping my weapon for battle. After we made sure everyone was ready, we walked further into the forest. It didn't take long for us to come across a group of fifteen slimes(?) that looked like a very lazy trapezoid with black hair and a goofy face on it "Uh. . . Is that the monster?"
Noire answers my question with a nod "Yes, these are the targets. Get ready everyone!"
"I'm gonna nep you all up!" Neptune calls out, spinning her sword in her grip, then running forward "Cross Combination!" She runs up on one of the Exhausted Jellies and successfully lands her seven-hit combo on it, killing it instantly "Gotcha! Who's next?" She asks.
"Neppy. . . Watch out. . .!" Plutia calls out to Neptune.
She looks at Plutia then swings around, killing a Jelly that was trying to attack her "Not today buster!" She looks over at Plutia "I could use a hand here Plutie" Neptune tells her, flipping backwards from an oncoming attack.
"Oookay. . .~" Plutia trots up to one and slams her doll into the Jelly with enough force to crack the freaking ground and insta-killing it! "Wham~!"
Neptune looks at Plutia with a shocked look on her face"Uh. . ."
"Come on Neppy. . . We have more to do. . ." Plutia tells her, trotting off to defeat another Jelly.
Meanwhile, Noire was fending off at least six of these guys while I was trying to kill off the rest so it'll be easier to deal with this situation.
I fired off a couple shot, nailing and killing an oncoming Jelly. I look behind myself to check on Noire "Hey Noire! Are you doing alright?"
"Hyaah!" I heard the sound of a rapier piercing something "I'm fine, how about you?"
I jabbed my rifle at another Jelly, sending it flying into another unfortunate Jelly that was in the way "Heh, never better!"
"Heeey. . . Let me help too. . .~" I heard Plutia's voice ring out. After a little bit, I heard something whiz past my head and kill the two stunned Jellies on impact. It's flight pattern made it look like a boomerang as it turned back and was caught by the sleepy looking girl. I looked at her hands to see the doll from earlier "Heeheehee. . ."
I just looked dumbfound at her "Uh. . . I don't even want to know. . ." I saw movement out of the corner of my eye and kicked out with my boot, slamming a Jelly in the face "I don't think so"
"Hey Garly, you holding up fine!?" I hear Neptune calling out to me, cutting down a couple more enemies.
"I'm fine and dandy!" I called back, looking over at Noire to see that the six Jellies have decreased by three, but the remaining have gotten more aggressive.
"Grr. . . Lace Ribbon Dance!" She yells, kicking one up in the air. She went for a flying kick when the Jelly contorted its body to where she misses "Wh-What!?" She looks at the thing shocked until it wrapped itself around her leg "H-Hey! Get off of me. . .Kyaaah!" Noire was in the process of landing when the Jelly moved itself to where it encased her footwear, making her slip "Why me!?"
"I got ya covered Noire!" Neptune throws her sword, impaling a Jelly that was ready to pounce.
My face contorted to that of annoyance "I see what it was trying to do. . ." I start running forward with Plutia following a bit behind "The perverted little bastards" I felt another plushie-rang whiz past me, smashing into the second to last Jelly. Leaving the final one on Noire.
"Get. Off. Of. Me!" She yells, trying to shake it off. The Jelly was slowly starting to expand when three shots went through it, exploding it into pixels. Noire looks over to see the barrel of my rifle smoking.
"That, was way too close for comfort" I let out a deep sigh then walk over to her, holding out a hand "You alright?"
"Uh. . . Yeah, I'm fine. . . It's not like I made that happen on accident. I could've taken care of it" Noire says looking away, but takes my hand.
"Noire. . . Are you okay. . .?" Plutia asks, walking up to us.
"Don't worry Plutia, she's just fine" I look over to Plutia "I think she's just a bit shaken up"
"I most certainly am not!" Noire yells at me.
"Heheheh. . ." I chuckle lightly then look around "Umm, has anyone seen Neptune?"
Noire takes in a breath and looks around "No, I haven't. Not since she threw her sword"
"Maaaybe. . . She went. . . To fetch her sword" Plutia says, placing a finger under her chin.
As this was all happening, we heard Neptune's voice ring out "Garly!" She sounded panicked, which made me go on high alert "Garly, over here!"
I look in the direction her voice came from and started running "Hang on Neptune!"
"I. . . I need your help!" I heard her call back, sounding closer now.
I quicken my pace, thinking about the worse possible thing "Did she. . . Get nabbed by those Jellies!? Damn it, why didn't she wait for us to come with her!" I saw big thing of foliage in front of me. I ran up, closing my eyes and crashed through it, rolling on the ground. I stopped rolling facing skyward and slowly opened my eyes to. . .
"Hello you pervert~" Neptune greets me with the sight of her blue-striped. . .
"WHAA!" I shot up instantly, jumping backwards away from her "M-My apologies!" I guess I must have slipped up because my face was decorated by a deep blush.
"Pffft, hahahahaha! You should've seen your face Garly!" Neptune laughs, holding her sides "Haaaah, don't sweat it Garly. Anyone who plays my games always angle the camera where they get the perfect flash when I jump"
"I. . . I think it would've been better if I didn't know that" I said sighing "Now, what is wrong with you? You sounded like you were in distress"
Neptune looks at me and puts on a teasing face "Aw, is Garly worried about little old me? Maybe if you get enough points, the author will turn this into a harem fic you sly dog you~"
"Sorry, but the author is. . . Currently occupied at the moment~"
"All. . . That. . . Nep nep is. . . Gooooo. . . ooold. . ."
It fell silent once more, with both of us looking rather worried.
"I don't know why Garly, but I feel like that person has it very rough" Neptune remarks. Oh gawd, I just cringed.
"N-Neptune, could you have at least chosen a better word for his current situation? That gave me the weirdest goosebumps. . " I say, rubbing my arms.
"Anyway, I wanted to show you something Garly" Neptune pulls on my sleeve to follow her. I went along with her to see an oddly-shaped indent in a tree "Look at that"
I walked up to the tree to find that the indent was in the shape of a. . . Power symbol? Upon closer inspection, this Power symbol had a green tint to it "This is. . . Peculiar" I reached out and pulled the symbol out from the tree. Neptune decides to walk up at this moment and see the item.
"Oooo, that's quite fancy! I wonder, if this is a CPU Memory. Hey Noire!" Neptune calls out.
"Over here" We both turn around to see Noire and Plutia walking up to us "What do you want Neptune?"
"I think Garly found a CPU Memory!" Neptune declares, nudging me "Well, show her!" I nodded and held it out.
For a second, I thought I saw a blissful look on Noire's face until she looked closely "Umm, that isn't a CPU Memory"
I look at the Power symbol and pocket it "Well, we'll check on it later" I felt my phone vibrate within my shoulder pocket "Why do I keep forgetting I have it!?" I unlocked the screen to find that our current quest was complete "Our quest is complete, let's return home for now"
"That sounds like an awesome idea!" Neptune said, looking happy at what I suggested.
Noire nods "Alright. Let's make sure we have everything and leave"
"Yaaay hooray. . ." Plutia cheers, hugging her doll. Once we made sure we had everything, we headed back to the Guild. A couple minutes later, a woman in a Gothic witch outfit emerges from the treeline.
"Hmm, it seems those brats found something quite useful" She says, walking up to the tree that once held the symbol.
"Ugh, can we leave now. You've been dragging me around this forest for hours, chu" A small rat remarks, earning a angry grunt from the woman.
"Shut up rat! Our work here is done anyway" She wears a grin that slowly turns into a scowl "I see that they have a formidable warrior among them. This could change things with our current plan" She turns around "Let's go, we're heading back"
"Yeah, yeah. No need to tell me, chu" The rat says, following after his partner.
Authors Notes
"Hiii. . . Everyone. . .~!" Plutia waves "Sorry. . . But AIYF is out at the moment. . . So, I'll be doing the ANs for now. . ."
AnimeWolf495: Thank you for reading. . . AIYF loves aaall the support he gets. . . He can't wait to see what you come up with next. . .~
Acallaris: Heeheehee. . . He thought that was fuuunny too. . .!
"Well. . . That is all for nooow. . ." Plutia waves again "See you all. . . Soooon. . .~"