Fairy Road
Chapter 3- One for the Price of Two.
Deck rubbed his forehead as Vultra smirked at him. "I'm still confused about why I understand you."
While Deck was trying to wrap his head around the situation, Bahz pulled a Dusk ball off his belt, and tossed it open. "Come out, Dayla!"
The dusk ball released a red light that formed into a black bipedal fox-like creature the hight of a full-grown man.
The Shiny Zoroark turned it's wistful gaze on Bahz. "You called, master~?"
Bahz Jumped in excitement. "Fascinating! You can talk! How can you talk, when Did you learn?"
Dayla shook her head. "I've always been able to talk, you just couldn't understand me until now." she said dryly.
"This is Fascinating! Intriguing! Unbelievable! This is better than that Talking Cat!"
Max reached for a white ball on a black-lace choker. "I've got a better Talking cat than the one you saw. Come out, Alex!"
She tossed the premier ball in the air, and it hadn't even gone two inches, before a stream of red light burst out and formed into a Rather adorable slender pink cat with a very long tail, floating in the air.
"HI MAX!" the Mew greeted cheerfully, before teleporting to behind Deck, who was staring at the spot Alex was floating before.
"A MEW?! I thought you had a skitty! How come I've never seen the Mew before? AUGH!"
Deck shrieked in surprise as Alex dipped his tail down the back of Deck's shirt. Deck looked back at the pink kitten with a glare, but Alex just giggled and floated over to max, before laying down on her head and resting his tail on her shoulders.
Meanwhile, Bahz was playing twenty questions with Dayla.
Lucy looked between the six other occupants of the compartment. "I'm confused. They don't normally talk?"
Max smirked. "Maybe for those two, I've always been able to talk to them."
Bahz snapped his fingers. "I've Got it! It must be the ambient magic of this New world!"
Lucy looked at Bahz pointedly. "I thought you were from another continent. Were you Lying?"
Bahz started sweating profusely. "I, I mean..."
"Shut up Bahz, I'll explain." Deck cut in with a glare at Bahz.
Deck turned to Lucy, pulling a large notepad out of his pack. He started drawing on the pad. "Okay, so we technically ARE from another continent, but it's actually three different continents in a separate world. This is Not a parallel world, like the world within a mirror. This is a completely separate universe. Pokemon are everywhere in that world. We were sent here by the God of our world to collect lost artifacts to save our own world. Does that explain enough?"
Lucy looked horrified. "There are... Other Worlds...?"
Unbridled Truth was supereffective! Lucy fainted.
A few minutes later, the train pulled into the station.
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Lucy woke up to a warm, fuzzy bed, that smelled slightly of mint. Not wanting to get up, she snuggled further into the folds of fuzz, only to stop when she heard a thunderous heartbeat.
Lucy bolted upright, to see herself sitting on what seemed to be a massive orange, black and white Husky.
Lucy blinked. "I was sleeping on a... Giant dog?"
"What's a Dog?"
Lucy screamed and fell off the arcanine... And onto Deck.
Bahz looked at the compromising position the two were in, with Deck's face lodged firmly between Lucy's generous bust, all the while struggling for air. "Well, Lucy's up."
Max looked up from her pokedex, and smirked as she saw Lucy push herself up, Deck gasping for air.
Lucy looked around, they were on a luxuriously paved walkway leading up to a tacky mansion. "Where are we?"
Max smirked. "Rutaber town. Where everyone is rich, and there are no homeless people. Because they got sent away."
"On gilded carts." Came Deck's voice from below Lucy.
Lucy paled and looked down to see herself straddling Deck.
"SORRY!" She squeaked as she leaped off of Deck onto the ground beside him.
Deck stood up and dusted himself off. "Well, I can't say it was that bad, it was rather pleasant... Up until I started to lose air. Which was rather quick."
Max laughed as Bahz helped Lucy up, who was currently glaring at Deck.
Deck walked up to the door of the mansion, a Pink and Gold monstrosity.
Lucy looked at the mansion in Horror. "So Tacky!"
"We've seen worse." Bahz deadpanned.
Deck smiled as he rang the doorbell." "Wisteria would love it."
Max giggled. "Naw, I think she'd add to it. Definitely frills, and bows."
Lucy stared at them with a puzzled look. "Who's Wisteria?"
But before her question was answered, the door flung open to reveal a posh little boy dressed in a frilly outfit with a tight, stiff collar.
The boy looked up at them and furled his brow in disgust.
"MOM! THERE ARE HOMELESS PEOPLE AT THE DOOR!"
Lucy looked affronted at this, but Deck laughed. "Kid, we're the mages your dad sent for."
The kid sniffed. "Oh. Dad's not home, and mommy doesn't talk to commoners."
He scratched his head. "Oh, but... Uhh... You can talk to the maid! She's always here."
He led them down the hall, which seemed to be filled with a large number of lavatories, each a different color, and each more gaudy than the last.
Deck rubbed his eyes and looked at the floor. "I was wrong, even Wisteria would hate this."
The floor was a caramel brown. The group looked back at the lavatories.
Bahz sighed. "Apparently this town is colorblind."
The little boy showed them to a room that was smaller than all the lavatories they passed. Inside the room was a homely woman with a very pretty face sitting at a loom.
"Carla! The mages dad sent for are here."
The woman looked up from the loom. "Young Master Manfred! Um... Yes, I believe the request was to find the duck?"
"I have no rebuttal for that." Bahz stated. "We are indeed here to find the Duck."
Deck scratched his ear. "Can we see a picture of the duck?"
The maid showed a picture of a duck on a golden throne-bed, with silk sheets, and a sardine dispenser at his side.
Max gawked. "What the..? That duck lives better than I do!"
Bahz held his beard in puzzlement. "How do you make a sardine dispenser?"
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After hours of fruitless endeavors of trying to catch the incredibly big and fast water fowl, the team regroups to discuss plans to catch the duck.
"Okay, I can't understand how we can't catch a three-foot literally golden duck." Deck ranted.
Bahz sighed. "I'm afraid we will need to call in some reinforcements."
Deck nodded and pulled a couple poke-balls off his belt, Bahz and Max doing the same.
"Lucy, you may want to step back a bit." Deck said as the three tossed their poke-balls into the air.
A flash of light, and the clearing was filled with six varied creatures. One creature, a dragon that resembled a dragonfly, flew over to Bahz and wrapped him in a hug, complete with bite. Another creature, a blue monkey with dreadlocks, ran to the fountain and jumped in.
The flygon turned to look at Lucy, and tightened her grip on Bahz as if to say 'Mine'.
Lucy shakes her head and looks towards Max, who now had a blue mer-dog-creature lying on her head, and a large silver nine-tailed fox running around her.
In Deck's area a large bipedal blue frog with it tongue wrapped around like a scarf stood in a ready stance like a Ninja, While Vultra glares sleepily grumbling to herself.
Bahz begin to direct his pokemon "OK heres the plan Jasmine fly up and proceed to circle the skies search for a golden duck," The green dragon took off into the air "Simon get out of the fountain and search the northeast corridor." The blue monkey gave a thumbs up and went back to swimming.
"Max, get your pokemon the check the pond and south west area, Deck get your pokemon to check the maze and the garden in the north."
Max and Deck nodded and let their pokemon go. Simipour was still swimming in the golden fountain. Bahz sighed and continued to bark orders.
"Okay, Max and Lucy you take the west side, Me and Deck will search the east side. If we do this right we can catch the creature and be done by nightfall. All right everyone know what their job is?" Everyone nodded and was about to set off when the maid came running up.
"Misters and Misses." she said out of breath. "The duck has returned home and so your services are no longer needed." They stared at the Maid with exasperated shock.
"WHAT!" all of them cried.
"We went though all that trouble and the duck just returns home!" Deck cried fuming
"All that work for nothing?" Lucy cried dropping to the floor and sighing in exhaustion
"but my plan, my well thought out plan!." Bahz cried, as all of a sudden a green blur dropped out of the sky and tackled him into the ground rubbing and hugging him.
"Its ok Friend Bahz, Jasmine is here for you." The green dragon rubbed and nuzzled Bahz who was crying out in discomfort. Max just shrugged her shoulders and whistled bright and clear into the darkened sky, as her pokemon ran back to her.
"You win some you lose some." she said to Lucy who was crying in frustration over failing her first mission.
"I'm sure we'll complete the next one." she said putting a comforting hand on Lucy's shoulder.
"Yeah your right, Ok everyone return!" Bahz and the gang called back the pokemon and began to walk back to the mansion. As they approached the doorway the kid sat there throwing a golden plate up and down.
"You guys are still here? To bad you failed or you would have gotten this cool plate." He said waving the plate in front of their faces. The kid snaps his finger and two burly men come out of nowhere, pick them up and began to carry them to a gold, sliver, and blue, carriage with jewels encrusted in the body and diamonds rims on the wheels.
"Little brat! I'll make you pay." Max snaps grabbing the plate and throwing against the wall where it bounced back and hits Deck in the face.
"MAX! Be careful and aim next time!" Deck yelled as the kid shrieked in laughter.
"Enjoy your trip, and don't come back!" the kid laughed as they where chucked into a rather plush cabin with a minibar
"Wow this is the Goodbye carriage? I wonder what the welcome carriage looks like?" Bahz said grabbing a soda from the bar.
As the morning sun broke over the horizon our gang awoke to the sounds of waves crashing against a shore.
"Whats going on?" Lucy said sleepily rubbing her eyes as Bahz and Deck woke as well stretching and groaning Max was still fast asleep with Alexander curled around her snoring away.
"Is that a beach?" Deck asked looking out the window to see pristine blue waves crashing upon golden sand. Cozy little Cottages were lined up along the shore with kids playing in the surf and the adults fishing in the sea.
"They deport homeless people to the beach?" Deck said stepping out of the carriage as a well groomed man with dark tan skin wearing beach comber clothes and harpoon in one hand came up to them.
"Welcome to Hobo Bay! Paradise from the homeless and destitute" He said laughing as Max groggily steps out of the cabin yawning.
"We're not homeless, We're Mages from Fairy Tail" She said scratching her head.
"Oh Fairy Tail wizards! We tend to see them every once in a while, the family must be at it again. Hey Everyone we got some Guild Mages again!" The man cried to the people who began to laugh.
"Don't fret too much think of it has a mini-vacation." The man laughed and clapped Deck on the back.
"Young sir?" The carriage driver tapped Bahz on the shoulder. Bahz turned around.
"Yes?"
The carriage driver handed him a bag of money. "Here is partial payment for your troubles, the rest has been sent to the guild." He tipped his hat and drove off.
After they had distributed the money, a rather generous sum, Deck looked around and smiled. "One job for the Price of Two... Not as bad as I thought."
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