Chapter 3: Fourth Wall Breaking

Stepping out out of the elevator, Brian walked down the corridor while Hisotire kept at a steady pace on her floating tome. The walls were a creamy white and purple mixture. Suddenly voices could be heard coming from a room not far down the corridor, Brian knew two of the voices but couldn't distinguish the other.

"Down there in that room," said Brian while pointing. "Is that where your goddess is?"

Histoire nodded. "She barely leaves that room unless she's out of pudding."

Brian glanced at her with a confused expression. "Seriously, pudding of all things?"

Histoire only sighed in response. "She may be just … a little bit addicted to it."

At that moment the two of them appeared in the doorway and before them was a fairly large room that encompassed a small kitchen in a corner, a large TV with what seemed to be game discs lying all over the floor near the purple couch that was positioned right in front of the screen. On the couch there was a smallish girl with purple hair with two d-pad accessories strapped to it, she wore a white and purple hoodie dress and also wore white and purple stripped stockings. She appeared to be playing a game that was distracting her from IF, who was attempting to get her attention while Compa was in the kitchen, rummaging through the fridge.

"Come on Neptune, you can't do this all day," explained IF. "You do realise that you've been plating this for most of the day you know?"

"Ah so what?" replied the purple haired girl. "Besides, I'm sure the author will set up an event flag sometime soon anyway."

Brian raised an eyebrow at that remark as he heard her say those words.

Did she just break the fourth wall? Never in my life has someone attempted to do that.

"I'm guessing that you're wondering about Neptune breaking the fourth wall?" asked Histoire.

"Um, yea. Is that normal for her?"

Histoire sighed and nodded. Brian took a glance at her once more, this time Compa had given her a cup of pudding and it looked as if she paused her game to eat her treat while IF shook her head.

"Are you sure that she's the goddess of Planeptune?" Brian asked Histoire.

"Yes, she is the goddess."

Brian shook his head in disbelief. Back at the couch, IF looked up and noticed the two figures standing in the doorway.

"Hey there Histoire, Blue," she commented.

Compa looked up and smiled as they both approached them. "Good to see you two again."

Brian nodded to them both as his attention was caught by Neptune.

"Hey there fella, I haven't seen you around these parts before," remarked Neptune. "See Iffy, I told you that the author would raise some sort of event flag."

Brian looked at the small, chirpy fourth wall breaker in front of him with a surprised look upon his face. "Seriously? Since when was I classified as an event flag?"

"Well since you're the only male NPC with an actual face to appear in this room I'd say that would be an event flag."

IF put her hand on her face and sighed while Histoire looked at Neptune with a forceful expression on her face.

"Neptune, this is not something that you can compare your game references to it, the situation may be more serious than I would have thought."

Neptune sat up straight with a shocked look. "Hey there Histy calm down, you don't want to explode or anything do you?"

Histoire grumbled and frowned at Neptune. "Do you even remember when I told you about the comet sightings?"

"Um, that may have slipped my pure, fragile mind," she replied while scratching the back of her head.

Histoire shook her head and sighed yet again. "Very well then, I explain it all over again to you."

After Histoire explained it to Neptune she then had to introduce Brian/Blue to the pudding obsessed goddess and explain what happened to him and why he was here, Neptune beamed at Brian Histoire finished her explaination.

"Well hello there traveller, as you may have guessed I'm Neptune, the great protagonist of this fanfic."

"Is that what you usually do everyday? Break the fourth wall?" he asked her.

"Yepperoni! It's what I do, after all I am the main character."

"I doubt that I'll ever understand you," sighed Brian.

"Ah don't worry 'bout it, besides, I'm sure that the author will give you something cool to do in the future."

Feeling that he was getting nowhere with this strange goddess, he decided to make a cue for his exit, mainly because he wasn't sure about how to deal with what he considered strange antics but also he wanted to walk around the city without interruptions. Turning to Histoire he decided to make his intentions clear.

"If I'm not needed here right now then I'm going down town to take a look around the place." As soon as he said that and walked towards the door he heard Histoire's voice.

"Blue, if you're going to walk around Planeptune I would suggest taking a guide with you, just in case you get lost."

"If you insist," sighed Brian.

"I'll take you around the city if you want," offered a voice from the couch.

Brian looked over at the couch and saw IF with a smile on her face. "After all, you barely know the place, so I can take you on a guide before you're able to wander safely on your own."

Brian nodded. "Very well then, I'll accept your offer."

Neptune looked at IF with a smirk. "Oooo Iffy, already getting on with the shipping it seems. Don't worry about it Iffy, but it is an early chapter so I would wait for a while before attempting anything."

Compa giggled at the remark while Histoire sighed and shook her head, IF was utterly red in the face and, to what Brian would describe it as, flustered.

"T-The hell d-d-d-do you think you're trying to p-p-pull, Neptune?!" IF asked her goddess friend in an angry tone.

Neptune waved her hands in front of her as an act of defence while attempting to calm her friend down. "Nepu! Hold your horses Iffy, I meant nothing by it."

IF shook her head and walked out into the corridor, Brian waved goodbye to everyone else and followed IF towards the elevator. When they got down onto the ground level IF sighed and glanced at Brian.

"Sorry about that, Neptune is usually like that all the time," she explained.

"Don't worry about it, it just means that there's something else for me to get used to now," responded Brian. "Although, I am suspicious about these so-called 'comets that have been sighted."

"Yea, we should stop by the Guild and see if there is any information about it, and if not then I'll introduce you to your first quest. How's that?"

"Sounds like a treat."

-Around the same time-

"He's an interesting guy," said Neptune as she ate her eighth pudding of the hour. "I never thought that I would meet some random guy from another dimension. I wonder if he likes pudding?"

"Well next time he's here you can ask him that, Nep-Nep," replied Compa.

Meanwhile, Histoire was frowning at Neptune, and with each passing minute she was getting even more annoyed than before. It wasn't long until her bubble burst. "Neptune, how long to you intend to stuff yourself silly with pudding for?"

"For as long as I can, I'm sure the author will allow me at least that."

Histoire grumbled and left the room, she clearly intended to return to Neptune and give her an earful at some point, but first she had to follow up on the 'comet' reports, and she had a few calls to make to her fellow oracles.

We have to keep an eye on Blue, I'm sure his coming has to do with the recent activities, but how he fits into it doesn't make sense to me. I hope that this mystery can be solved. For now I have a few calls to make with the other oracles concerning this issue, I hope that they have some insight to all this.

*Author: About time the story introduced good ol' Nep, now then ... wait? What the ... (SMASH)

Neptune: Hello folks, it's your main protagonist Neptune here! I knocked the author out cause he didn't give me a lot of lines in this chapter, but I'm sure that can be fixed in future chapters, so I might let this one slide ... maybe. Seeya guys next time!

Author: Damn it Nep! That was my favourite plate you smashed on my head!

Neptune: Uh, he looks kinda pissed so I really gotta go, bye bye.*