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Cookies
"Now Genis, look what I made!" Raine smiled sweetly as she presented a plate of cookies in front of Genis, "Don't be shy. Help yourself. You'll be the first to taste my delicious cookies!"
"More like the last…" Genis mumbled. He kept his mouth clamped shut.
Team Symphonia and Team Phantasia were sitting in the break room as Arche and Raine came waltzing in with their plate of cookies.
"Come on Cless," Arche said warmly, singling out the only person on her team that is always just too nice to refuse.
"Try some," Arche insisted, "Raine just taught me some new techniques! I'm sure my cookies will be delicious this time."
"Arche I don't—," Cless began, but Arche didn't bother to hear him out. Instead she picked up a cookie and stuffed it forcefully into Cless's mouth.
"Genis! I tried a completely new approach to cooking!" Raine said, exasperated, egging Genis to take a bite.
"Really?!" Genis sounded hopeful.
"Yes!" Raine replied enthusiastically, "This will be a new break through! A new discovery!"
"And that's what I'm afraid of…" Genis shoulder sagged once again, but Raine was losing her temper.
"Look Genis!" she threatened, smiling tensely, "If you don't want your bottom spanked until its iron red hot, you better eat this cookie and SAY THAT IT'S DELICIOUS!" She looked so dangerous with a maniacal grin on her face that Genis reluctantly took a cookie.
"Lloyd, Colette, Regal?" Raine smiled, offering the plate to the three people beside Genis, who could only accept with grim faces. Facing them were Mint, Klarth, and Suzu, who didn't really seem to know what to do as they stared from the cookies in their hands to Cless's gagging green face.
"Chester," Arche approached the archer, determined to block Cless out of his view, "Have a cookie."
"No."
"Why?" Arche was indignant
"Because I want to live, thank you," Chester replied nonchalantly.
"I tried a new recipe," Arche said, ignoring Chester's previous comment.
"Anything you make is horrible…" Chester grumbled.
"How would you know?!" Arche seethed angrily, "You didn't even taste it!"
"Just look at the shape…" Chester replied staring disgustedly at the amorphous cookies on the platter.
"Appearance's not everything!" Arche argued, holding a cookie beside Chester's mouth "It's the taste that counts."
"Whatever, I'm not eating it!" Chester said defiantly.
"Yes you will!"
"No I won't!"
"Oh, then I'll make you!" with that, Arche lunged at Chester and persisted in holding him down while stuffing the entire cookie into his mouth.
"Get away from me!" Chester squirmed free and began to distance himself from Arche, "You mad witch…"
"YOU JERK!" Arche shouted after the now running Chester, "Get back here! Lightning!"
A single bolt of lightning shot straight down on Chester, who stumbled upon impact.
"Fire Ball!" Arche didn't let up as she cast again (these rudimentary spell allow her to spend little time casting).
"Ice Fang!" Chester countered with an icy arrow, "Stop that! You idiot!"
But that only got Arch even angrier as she began charging up a stronger spell.
"Eruption!" She cried as the ground under Chester began turning into lava.
"Hahaha!" she laughed, "Eat my cookies or else!"
"Not a chance!" Chester was uncooperative, "Your cooking will kill me anyways."
"Go boil to death, jerk!" Arche shouted, "Fire Storm!"
"Tidal wave!" Genis suddenly cried out as he dispelled all of Arche's fire magic.
"I'll help you Chester," Genis said, "I don't want to eat my sister's cooking either…"
"Genis! You are in so much trouble when this is all over!" Raine said, stepping into the fray, "Arche, let's team up!"
"Gladly!" the witch replied, as she began mounting her broom.
"Sonic Bash!" Chester cried, shooting an arrow into the ground and causing rocks and dirt to fly high into the air, bashing the two chefs.
"Photon!" Raine shouted, catching Genis in a cage of blinding light.
"Giga Fang!" Chester announced, releasing a gigantic arrow at Raine, who had to call of the spell to run away.
"Indignation!" Arche screamed as bright blue electric ball circled above Genis and Chester.
"Two can play that game! Indignation!" Genis cried as the ground beneath Arche and Raine glowed dangerously white.
The sky darkened, as two bolts of lightning erupted forth and struck everyone in the fray.
"Gah! Hell Pyre!" Chester panted, the first to recover as he notched an arrow.
"Field Barrier!" Raine cast. Crystal-like blue aura surrounded the two chefs, rendering Chester's fiery attack useless.
"Thunder Blade!" Arche cried, being the second to recover. However, in her haste, she missed entirely.
"Aim first, then attack!" Raine instructed Arche, "Healing Circle!" The ground beneath the two girls turned sparkling blue.
"Ahhh~," Arche heaved a sighed; "This feel sooo good!"
"Hey! No fair! We can't heal!" Chester complained.
"Well too bad! Should have thought of that earlier before taking us on huh?" Arche huffed proudly.
"Ground Dasher!" Genis cried, taking advantage while Arche is still on the ground.
"Ahh!" Both Raine and Arche cried out as one took to the air and the other ran off to the side, leaving their healing zone.
"Ahahaha!" Chester laughed uncontrollably at the sight of Arche and Raine's frantic faces.
"Eat this!" Arche shrieked. She was high in the air, her arms high, casting, "Judgment!" She brought her hands down as pounding air descended onto Chester and Genis
"Give up!" Raine cried, "RAY!"
"EAT MY COOKIES! RAY!" Arche joined in as numerous beams of light went pelting in all directions around Genis and Chester.
"Force Field!" Genis cried to protect himself. Chester however, wasn't so lucky. Not knowing any defensive techniques, he took the attacks full on.
"Why you ditz!" Chester seethed, losing his temper completely, "Take this! Wild Rain!"
He shot several arrows high up into the air.
"You missed idiot!" Arche laughed.
"Acuteness!" Raine cried, to increase hers and Arche's attack, "Ready for more pain?"
But just then, the arrows from Chester's Wild Rain, aided by gravity, came pelting down on Arche and Raine.
"Ahahaha! Who's the idiot now huh?" Chester taunted, and then turning to Genis he said, "Now!"
"Gravity Well!" Genis cried, furthering increasing the force of the gravity, not only causing Arche and Raine to fall onto the ground, but to accelerate the falling arrows.
"Hahaha! This is it! Dragon Slayer!" Chester released a single arrow, surrounded by bright pink aura.
"Sorry sis, but this is for revenge on Arche…Meteor Storm!" Genis announced as gigantic rocks from outer space crashed onto the two chefs.
Dust rose from the barrages of Genis's Meteor Storm. For a moment, nothing can be seen. But as the dust cleared away, the battered bodies of the two chefs appeared. They were knocked out.
"YES! WE WON!" Genis and Chester cheered, patting each other on the back.
"No more cookies!" Chester cheered, pumping one arm into the air.
"AHA! In your face, witch! Who's the better mage now? Huh?" Genis taunted, all jumpy with excitement.
The rest of Team Symphonia and Phantasia watched silently dumbstruck. Nobody said anything until Mint opened her mouth.
"Well…we should start by healing the two," Mint replied, point at Raine and Arche.
"What? Are you kidding me?" Sheena interrupted, "It's best to just leave them like this. With them knocked out, we don't have to eat these disgusting cookies anymore."