Chapter 4: Priestess, Kuniochis and Class Presidents!

L'Arc went into the village elder's home. He then spoke to a elderly old man.

"I'm L'Arc Bright Lagoon, legionnaire of the Meridian Imperial Army." L'Arc introduced himself to the elder. "I'm just on my way back from hunting Feldragons up north. Have they been causing you any trouble?" He asked.

"You're from the army? Well, you must be exhausted!" The elder smiled. "Luckily, our village has magic to repel the Feldragons. You can relax safely here." He reassured him.

"That's good to hear!" L'Arc closed his eyes and smiled. "Has anything out of the ordinary been happening? Like… Uh… strange people who wear odd clothing or fall out of the sky?" L'Arc asked, he was trying to figure out how his otherworldly friends appear in his world.

"Come to think of it… I've heard rumors of a wrecked Turemilian ship on the east coast. And there are sightings of women and girls who wore strange clothes and revealing clothes." The elder told him.

"A Republic ship? I'll report that once I get to Royal City." L'Arc told him. Then he asked "By the way, is there a doctor in this village?" "Yes, there is…" The elder nodded.

"Can you send him to the inn for me? One of my companions may be sick." L'Arc asked. "Yes, of course." The elder nodded.

L'Arc exited the elder's house. 'What a relief! Women and girls who wore strange clothes and revealing clothes… Could they be from other worlds too? I better tell Zoey, Jean, Maron, Alice and Lili about this when I get to the inn.' L'Arc thought to himself as he walked back to the inn.

When he was almost there, he saw Alf talking to an Imperial soldier. "Can we really leave you by yourself, my Prince?" The soldier gasped. "I'm sorry to be so selfish with you. My brother, Weiss will probably be upset." Alf calmly smiled.

"Very well. Best of luck, sir." The Imperial soldier saluted as he left. L'Arc walked up to Alf and with a sly grin, said "You're a very selfish prince."

"Apparently, I chose the wrong friends." Alf laughed. "Well, if your Highness says so, it must be true." L'Arc grinned. Suddenly, a doctor walked up to the two. "Ah, are you the doctor the village elder sent?" L'Arc asked.

The doctor noticed them and replied "Indeed I am. And you are?" "Thanks for coming. Follow me." L'Arc motioned him to follow him into the inn with Alf following behind.

10 minutes later

The doctor finished his checkup of Ryfia. "There's nothing wrong with her. She's just very tired." The doctor reported. "That's good." Alf smiled. "Yeah, if it was serious, then you need to do some healing on her." Jean nodded.

"However, there's a Dragon Gem stuck to her skin, and I can't remove it… Strange, this is!" The doctor added. "Huh?" Maron gawked as her eyes and helmet turned dotted white eyed. "Dragon Gem? You mean the gems found on Feldragons?" L'Arc gasped.

Ryfia looked at them in confusion. "Doesn't everyone have one?" She asked. "That might be normal in your country, but it's definitely not normal here!" L'Arc told her. "Really? How weird!" Ryfia tilted her head in confusion. Zoey and Corina sighed in annoyance.

"So says the weirdo!" L'Arc smirked. "L'Arc! You shouldn't talk like that!" Alf scolded. "Idiot…" Renee muttered. Alf turned to the doctor. "Thank you very much, doctor. Here is your fee." Alf paid him his Rico.

"Take care." The doctor smiled as he left. "Do you have enough money to pay?" L'Arc asked Alf. "Yes." Alf nodded. "I brought at least enough money to get us back to Royal City. You can have the remainder." Alf gave L'Arc 2000 Rico.

L'Arc stared at Ryfia. "Those Turemilians sure have some strange custom. Why would you attach Dragon Gems to your body?" He asked. "I don't think I've actually heard of that custom before…" Alf scratched his chin in thought.

"Ah, well. At least you didn't have some mysterious illness. So, what's your plan, all of you?" L'Arc asked his female companions and Jean.

"Well, we need to find someway to return to our worlds." Zoey told him. "Same here." Maron nodded. "Ditto." Alice added. "Well, I still need to find someone in this world, someone I know." Jean pressed his fingers nervously.

"I also need to find a way back to my world." Lili simply stated. "To follow my mother's dying wish to go to Jada in the Meridian Empire." Ryfia stated.

"Jada? Do you know someone there?" Alf arched an eyebrow. "No." Ryfia shook her head no. "I just need to go there."

"Jada is home to one of the Empire's critical energy sources." L'Arc explained with a frown. "No way am I taking someone from the Republic there…"

"Oh, don't worry about me. I'll go there by myself." Ryfia assured with a cute smile. "It's not about your safety, Ryfia…" L'Arc said with a annoyed mark near him.

"It'll be fine, L'Arc. Just as long as she and the others doesn't go near the Ray supply in Dragon Prison." Alf assured him. "Ray? What's that?" Kikki asked in curiousity.

"Ray is the source of power in our world. They helped power machines and let us use magic." Alf explained. "Oh! Like electricity, right?" Alice figured it out. "Electricity? What's that?" Ryfia looked at Alice in confusion.

"Never mind…" Alice face faulted. "Besides, Jada is on the way back to Royal City. Let's just take her with us." Alf smiled.

L'Arc sighed and replied "You really are too nice. Have I mentioned that lately? Well, that's all fine and dandy. Is that okay with you, Ryfia, Zoey and friends?" He asked them.

"Sure." Zoey nodded. "Okay." Maron agreed. "Whatever." Alice shrugged. "S-Sure…" Jean gulped.

"Will you really take me to Jada?" Ryfia asked L'Arc. "Hmph!" L'Arc sneered. "I'm sure Mr. Nice Guy Sir Alf will…" He joked.

"Oh, but you're nice too, L'Arc!" Ryfia smiled. L'Arc snorted. 'This guy so rude! I don't feel safe traveling with him…' Zoey thought uneasily.

"Hah! You've seen right through him, Ryfia. He may put on a tough guy act, but he's really a gentlemen at heart!" Alf smiled. "…Shut up! Let's just get them to Jada for now." L'Arc growled. "Thank you both so much!" Ryfia and Maron bowed gratefully.

As the party were walking out of Topazion Village, Alf strike up a conversation.

"I came looking for you because I was worried, but I didn't expect you to be with such lovely ladies." Alf smirked. "That's what this is, you idiot!" L'Arc snapped, an anger vein on his forehead.

"Oh?" Lili smirked. "Then you must really liked Ryfia if you met her to begin with." She teased. "Shut up!" L'Arc snapped at her. "What's an idiot?" Ryfia asked.

"Huh?" Alf blinked. "This is what I have to put up with!" L'Arc raised his arms in frustration. "I like being with you, L'Arc. I learned so many words!" Ryfia closed her eyes and smiled. Alf said nothing and smiled.

While walking down the road, Alf goes on a explaintion to L'Arc's teammates about Arm Force, a power residing within a weapon. After that, they resumed walking.

While walking, Alf decided to strike up a conversation with Jean. "So, Jean… who is this person you're looking for?" Alf asked.

"W-Well… She's a client I'm hired to protect during the Queen's Blade. She's the same age as me." Jean explained. "I see… So, what's her name?" Alf asked him. "Her name is…" Before Jean can finish, L'Arc noticed something up ahead.

"What's that?" L'Arc and his party saw a woman with black hair, wore priestess clothes, has a katana, a dark red bandana with a symbol on it and has a bust that may outranks Lili's. She is tied up to a tree.

"T-Tomoe-chan!" Jean gasped in shock. "You know her, Jean?" Renee asked him. "Yeah… She's a beautiful priestess from a land in our world. She's also pretty sexy." Jean drooled. Suddenly, spider like human girl monsters appeared, surrounding Tomoe.

"Sounds like those monsters won't let us save her. Let's go everyone!" Alf unsheathed his sword and pointed it at the monsters. "Right!" Everyone except for the Mew Mews nodded as L'Arc, Alf, Ryfia, Jean, Maron, Alice and Lili charged at the monsters.

Arc Rise Fantasia Battle Theme 1 plays

"Piece of cake!" L'Arc grinned as he swung his sword at three spider monsters, killing them, they disappear in sparkles.

Alf charged at two spider girl monsters and slashed them with his sword, killing them.

Maron jumped into the air and lashed her claws at three more spider girl monsters, slaughtering them immediately.

Ryfia bashed a spider girl monster three times before it died, disappearing.

Alice whipped out her guns and fired at two more spider girl monsters, killing them.

Jean stared at the spider girl monsters and thought they were someone he knew, but he concluded they are not the one he knew. Lili rushed from behind him and gave a spider girl monster a devastating kick in the stomach, killing it.

"L'Arc! We need to rescue Tomoe!" Alf shouted. "Got it!" L'Arc nodded as he saw more spider girls approaching him. "Out of my way!" L'Arc charged at the spider girl monsters and slashed them to death. Eventually, he got to Tomoe.

"Hey! You alright?" He shouted. "Wha…What?" Tomoe slowly opened her eyes and noticed L'Arc. "Who are you?" She asked. "I'm L'Arc Bright Lagoon. Jean asked us to rescue you." L'Arc smiled. "Jean?" Tomoe gasped.

Before L'Arc can untie her, he heard a whizzing sound and dodged it to see a small shuriken next to him. Suddenly, leaped out of the trees is a 20 year old woman who has perhaps a well developed body, wore revealing red kuinochi clothes, brown hair and she has brown long hair in a fashion he has never seen before. L'Arc thought 'How can she fight in those clothes?'

"I'm afraid you can't do that…" The girl said in a hypnotized tone. Jean drooled at the newcomer which caused Alice to whack him in the head for being a pervert. "Who are you?" L'Arc gripped his sword ready.

"My name is Mai Shimauri, the Red Kuniochi…" Mai extended her fan and pointed it at L'Arc. "There will be no rescue today…" "We'll see about that!" L'Arc glared at her as he charged.

Arc Rise Fantasia Boss Theme Number 1 plays

Boss 1: Red Ninja: Mai Shimamuri

"Do or die!" L'Arc shouted as he slashed at Mai, but she disappeared in a puff of smoke. "What the heck?" L'Arc's eyes widen in shock at what he saw. Suddenly, Mai leaped from the air and engulfed her fan in flames and made more of them and flung them at L'Arc.

"L'Arc! Look out!" Alf gasped in shock. L'Arc had a hard time dodging them cause some of them hit him for small damage. Mai then landed on the ground and rushed at him and punched him in the gut three times.

"Ugh!" L'Arc groaned, he spat out small blood as he held his stomach in pain. Thinking quickly, he dodged Mai's 4th punch and got out a small potion, he chucked it down and was healed in a instance.

"Why you!" L'Arc growled as he charged at Mai and swung his sword at her 10 times, but she dodged every swipe and kicked L'Arc in the face, making him tumble down a bit. He got up and rubbed his sore chin.

'Man! She's good! I don't know if I can beat her alone… If only Master Zammuel taught me something in cases like this!' L'Arc thought virgosly to himself. Suddenly, an energy blast from behind hit Mai. Mai groaned a bit before glaring at who her attacker was.

It was a 18 year old woman who has blue hair with a pink lined accessory at the tip of her hair, wore a white school girl uniform with a red ribbon and black skirt, has black high heeled socks and black shoes. She has a katana and a black sheath.

"How dare you attack an innocent man and kidnapping a helpless woman, vile evildoer!" The girl growled. "Who the hell are you?" Mai glared at her foe. The girl grinned as she got into a battle stance. "The name's Junko Hattori, Class 2-A President! And I'm gonna help this man whoop your ass!" Junko called out to L'Arc. "Need some help?"

"Yeah! Thanks!" L'Arc nodded with a smile as he recovered and got into a battle stance as well. "Let's double team on her!"

Demon King Daimo Opening Song plays

Junko charged at Mai and slashed, like with L'Arc she used the smoke decoy trick, but Junko was quick and spins around and slashed Mai three times with her katana.

Mai gritted her teeth as L'Arc came up from behind her and slashed Mai three times with his sword. Mai punched L'Arc, but he blocked it this time and did a leg sweep on her, making her fall to the ground.

Junko leaped into the air and slams her foot into Mai, but she dodged roll out of the way. Mai flung shurikens at the two combatants, but they dodged it and ran circles around her, slashing her at every step.

Mai charged at Junko and clashed weapons with her for about 2 minutes till Junko got the upper hand and slashed her three times before adding a spirit energy attack at her, knocking her back a few feet.

L'Arc spins his Balmung like a pro and slashed Mai three times with it, pieces of Mai's clothing somewhat came off and a little bit of blood was seen in Mai's leg.

"Damn it!" Mai growled as she did some hand symbols, turning her fan into a giant fan blade and adding a doppelganger, they charged at the two warriors.

"When they attack, that's where we strike!" Junko told L'Arc. "Got it! Hope your plan works!" L'Arc nodded as he and Junko got ready.

When the two Mais got close and ready to strike, "Now!" Junko shouted as she and L'Arc team up and slashed the two Mais 20 times in lightning fast speed, making the fake Mai disappear and the real Mai flung high into the sky.

"Time to finish this!" L'Arc shouted as he leaped into the air with amazing skill and when he got above Mai, he punches Mai in the chest, Mai scream in agony as she was falling really fast into the ground, slamming into it resulting in a small dust cloud. Mai struggled to get up, but she was knocked out.

L'Arc landed beside Junko and glared at his foe.

To be continued…

Next episode

L'Arc: After we free Tomoe, we learned Mai was brainwashed and the two of them joined our team, eventually, we made it to Jada where we meet that coward, Niko and Commander Clyde, then suddenly a mysterious Deathchanter attacks the city! Who is this villain and who is the mysterious swordsman who comes to our aid? Find out on the next chapter: The Child of Eesa: Part 1 of 2: The Coward Gunner and the Deathchanter. We hope to see you there!

A/N: Well, how was that? Longer than the other three I hope. Anyway, next up is part one of the Child of Eesa two parter. I hope to see you there!