It's the end of this story. Originally this chapter was going to be more epic, but then it became a little humorous cuz I had a kind of bad day.
"Natsumi!" Giroro managed to pull Natsumi down to help her avoid the bullet. He then jumped on top of the boat.
"I see your using normal guns, brother. You must have killed the human you contracted with on this plane." Giroro summoned his guns around him. "Natsumi head back home, you've got to warn everyone about my brother showing up."
"I...I think they already know..." Natsumi told him, reading a text message from Keroro begging for her to come home because he was getting his butt kicked.
"Heh. Although it would be with our beliefs to kill the human I contracted with, instead our platoon locked them up so we could keep our power." Garuru threw his gun to the ground. "I also got some sort of gun like power." He pointed to Giroro and made a finger gun. "Shoot." He ordered. Bullets appeared in his fingertips and shot towards Giroro.
Giroro dodged as Natsumi jumped into the water. They had to get back to their home. Maybe they could take Garuru, but Fuyuki was a weakling, he wouldn't be able to stand a chance against anyone in his platoon.
They ran as fast as they could.
Once they got back to the Hinata house, they saw Fuyuki, Tamama, Keroro, Koyuki, Dororo, Mois, Saburo and Kululu surrounded. Oddly enough the Garuru platoon hadn't targeted Momoka, who was possibly the person who had the most political power in the human world and would be the ones they would need to take their complaints too.
Maybe it hadn't occurred to them. They probably took one look at her shrine to Fuyuki and became confused and unsettled and left the poor girl alone.
Either way, the Garuru platoon wasn't her problem.
"I'm sorry it has to be this way, Keroro, Giroro, and Dororo." Pururu, a pink-ish keronian with a heart insignia apologized. She looked like she was their friend. "We thought you were dead. But if you come peacefully we're sure we can make it look like you were war prisoners instead of just slacking off with the report."
"You did what, Keroro? You never reported back?" Giroro looked super annoyed with his leader.
"Got distracted. You see the human world has these cool toys on it -they're called Gundam! They have no magical properties whatsoever, but man...Garuru have you seen them? They're cool!" Keroro smiled.
Garuru pulled his finger gun and Keroro fell to the ground injured.
"I can not believe this idiocy." He groaned, "We will start the war with humanity even if you were unable to." He hissed.
"I would suggest running." Pururu whispered to Giroro and Dororo, "Most of our members besides me have a personal vendetta against each of you. If you intend to help the humans-"
"Which I do!" Dororo stated proudly. "I'm a traitor!"
"Told you Zeroro would be the one who would ruin it for all of us." Zoruru hissed to his leader, "He's a hippie!"
"You can't even say that with a straight face, cuz you've got no face!" Taruru teased. Zoruru punched him in his face.
Fuyuki ran up to Keroro, his friend. "Why are you doing this?" He cried to Garuru, "If you're problem is an unequal treatment between humans and familiars there really isn't one! There is a symbiotic relationship after all. It could be your choice to just stop making contracts. But you want magic, and your help with us benefits both of us."
Garuru didn't listen to the boy. He didn't believe anything a human would say. "Deal with each of them. I'll take the pink haired girl, my brother and that demon standing there." He pointed to Mois.
"Good luck." Pururu told him, "I'll deal with Keroro and Fuyuki."
And they all dispersed to attack.
The goal was to capture the Keroro platoon, but Tororo had no intention of capturing Kululu. Instead he wanted to kill, or maybe humiliate. It was his first time on the human world and he believed he was strong.
Kululu didn't seem very interested in his opponent in front of him. Instead he seemed to be trying to track Saburo and Mois on the field, make sure they were all right. But they were moving farther and farther away from him to keep tabs on them.
"I, am Tororo, your eternal rival. Pu, pu, pu." The tadpole declared.
Kululu didn't even listen.
"And I will humiliate you and beat you. Hey wait! Are you listening to me!" Tororo cried.
"No. Got better things to do than deal with a brat." Kululu said honestly.
Tororo stomped his feet on the ground annoyed. "This is why I hate you!"
"Excuse me? Do I even know you?" Kululu asked. To his knowledge he had never met this brat before. But he seemed to have quite a vendetta against him. Not like he could keep track of everybody he had been a jerk to!
"Pu, pu, pu. That cocky attitude, you think you'll win against me, don't you? Well, I'm different than I was on Keron. I now have magical power of my own..." Tororo laughed.
Kululu sat down and took out his laptop. This whole thing was pointless, might as talk some sense into these idiots and pull up his files on why the relationship between their two worlds was actually symbiotic. Maybe some of them would see the science on it.
"Stop ignoring me!" Tororo stomped his feet, "Fine, I'll use my magical power!"
Suddenly Kululu heard a voice in his head, "Pu, pu, pu! It's so strong isn't it! Now you won't be able to ignore me! My voice will always be in your head~."
"You got to be kidding me? Your super strong power is telepathy? Ku, ku, ku. That's pathetic. It does nothing offensive!" Kululu laughed.
"I'll show you offensive!" Tororo said in his head and started swearing up a storm and using middle school humor to just annoy Kululu.
Kululu sighed. He raised his left hand with his ring and dark magic circled around Tororo.
"EEK!" Tororo was almost instantly beaten as he fell to the ground, surrounded by the dark magic. "Noo...This can not be.."
"Better believe it. Now I've got better things to do then deal with you." Kululu shrugged and walked away with his computer as Tororo shivered.
Saburo decided that his opponent would be the metal cyborg. He looked the toughest after all.
"You're years too young to take me on." Zoruru hissed, "My opponent will forever be Zeroro." Steel blades raised from the ground.
Saburo tried to conjure up something to defend himself, but it didn't work. After all Zoruru's power was to control metal itself. Saburo tried to leap back, but was cut up by the steel blades.
He fell to the ground, injured. Zoruru didn't offer a passing glance to him and instead ran off. He had a target to kill.
Kululu rushed up to his 'wave-buddy' "Geez, you're looking a little bit worse for wear. You think you can rest here while I stop all this?" Kululu asked.
Saburo nodded, "You get 'em." He gave a thumbs up.
Pururu, who had just left Fuyuki and Keroro, approached the two. "Why are you helping him?" She was curious. Saburo was a human so why should Kululu be helping. Could one be friends with the people who enslaved them?
"Because I've been trying to tell you all that there's nothing wrong with our relationship!" Kululu complained, "Here." He threw her some files, "Maybe you're smart enough to see the evidence in front of you. Tell me after reading that, is our relationship not symbiotic?"
Pururu read things carefully and looked shocked. If this was the case Garuru was completely wrong. And she was a big enough person to acknowledge her mistakes. She was kind enough. "I understand. I will try to get my platoon to realize the truth immediately. It will take some work getting the rest of the planet on board, but perhaps if someone more charismatic than you is preaching the message...I don't want us to make a grave mistake." Pururu realized.
She needed to talk to Garuru. Kululu nodded as he tended Saburo's wounds.
"So it's a fight between organic material and inorganic?" Dororo realized as he looked at Zoruru. Zoruru was trying to kill him and Koyuki, and his magic was primarily metal based. Dororo's was plant based.
"You made me this way! Don't you remember?" Zoruru cried, "It was thanks to you and your last master, my master was his target, that awful assassin. The battle you initiated left me like this. A monster...I've hunted you all these years for my revenge!"
"I can't say I remember that." Dororo rubbed his chin. Zoruru groaned.
"I'm going to kill you!" He charged at Dororo, ignoring the human by his side. Koyuki wasn't as important to him as his real target.
"Hey! Don't hurt my friend." Koyuki tried to parry his blows. "Dororo is a kind person, he sacrificed so much for me. He's helped me with so much!"
Dororo summoned plants to try to grab Zoruru before Zoruru ended up poking someone's eye out. But Zoruru just sliced through the thick weeds.
"Oh? He's sacrificed so much, huh! I don't have a body for goodness sake! I don't have a mouth!" Zoruru cried.
"Are you sure I'm the person you hate? Because I really don't remember you..." Dororo trailed off.
Zoruru's anger made him weak and not very good at aiming. As he charged at Dororo, Koyuki put her hands on the ground to use her natural connection with the earth.
"Metals, plants, minerals and all that good stuff. Please stop him from hurting anyone." She begged. An earth prison appeared around Zoruru as he screamed.
He could hurt nobody. The earth itself had willed it.
"Don't worry Natsumi, I'll protect you." Mois promised her friend.
That was my line! Giroro grit his teeth.
His brother was steadily approaching. "I'd worry more about yourself demon." He hissed, "After all your our key to stopping the relationship we have between us and the humans. You've been a parasite to us far too long. It's time for you to start giving back and grant us familiar's your powers. If we use demons to grant us magic there will be no need to ally ourselves with humans." Garuru reminded.
"Brother, you know that's dangerous!" Giroro cried. "How would you be able to control demons? Ask nicely?"
Garuru laughed for a moment. "The human I targeted to make a contract with was a light mage. They gave me an artifact to imprison demons. If we exploit the humans and take these artifacts we should get the power we need." he threw a crystal on the ground. It light up things brightly.
Mois screamed as the crystal imprisoned her. Imprisoned again! This was the worst.
Demons are always preyed upon by both worlds. They say we're the parasites but they're the ones who keep summoning us to get our powers. Maybe it would be for the best if the humans and familiars destroyed each other. Mois had a dark thought as she was absorbed.
Garuru smiled. At least the demon was out of the way. He then turned to Natsumi. "Perhaps my brother will see the light once I kill you."
"Mois!" Natsumi seemed very worried for her friend. "You won't kill me. I won't let you. You're just a stupid frog like thing."
Garuru tried to shoot at Natsumi with his finger gun. Giroro pushed her out of the way, knowing her heartbreak at seeing her friend in trouble probably didn't help her think very much on the battlefield.
"I won't let you harm a single hair on Natsumi's head. She's my witch!" Giroro proclaimed. He didn't know if he could take on his brother, but his guns circled him.
It was a battle between two very different kinds of guns as Giroro tried to rush towards his brother and put all his magical energy into shooting.
Garuru didn't really understand why he was the enemy! His brother was supposed to idolize him. He had come to this world for him after all. Giroro would see the light once the human was dead.
"I don't want to harm you, but if I have to beat some sense into you I will." Garuru vowed.
Natsumi didn't want her friend to be hurt. "Giroro! Don't get injured just for me. I can fight my own battles."
Giroro turned to her, "Of course I'll risk my life to protect you! Don't you understand I care about you? I know he can and will kill you so I have to fight." Giroro made an anguished scream as Garuru hit him again with a bullet.
"But you'll go down in flames. You obviously can't beat your own brother." Natsumi told him.
"Thanks for believing in me." Giroro sarcastically rolled his eyes.
"I do believe in you! But I know if I had to fight Fuyuki I couldn't do it. Siblings were meant to try to kill each other." Natsumi told him, "So don't hurt your brother just for me. We might be friends, but I will fire you if I have to. You aren't my slave. I believe that this is a symbiotic relationship. You are your own person. You don't exist for me."
"I know that! I'm not doing this because I'm your familiar! I'm doing it because I love you! I don't want to see you harmed!" Giroro realized what he had yelled.
Natsumi covered her mouth, shocked. Giroro loved her?
Garuru hit his brother over the head and Giroro fell to the ground. "He is merely confused. He doesn't love a human." He insisted.
But Natsumi knew the truth now. Giroro was in love with her. Maybe he had always been, she didn't know. It had never occurred to her that a familiar could be in love with a human.
He had always supported her. Telling her the truth of what to embrace, complimenting her warrior spirit when nobody else had. Giving her advice. He was her friend. But was he something more?
Giroro...Don't die for me. Natsumi realized he was. It had always been Giroro at her side, and Giroro who she could be her honest self with, who she could laugh with.
She loved him, she realized. Was it to late to acknowledge that?
She would embrace her warrior spirit for him and take out his jerk of a brother. Garuru was going down.
Tamama looked in front of him at his old student, the boy who had idolized him in a similar fashion to he did with Keroro, except (at least Tamama hoped) it was less gay.
"So the student tries to usurp the master?" Tamama asked, "But I don't understand! Aren't the humans your enemies? So why didn't you get Momocchi and fight her?"
"Momocchi?" Taruru realized his fatal flaw. The answer was he was just dumb. He had forgotten to invite her. He laughed awkwardly. "It doesn't matter!" He tried to cover up his mistakes. "What matters is that I have the chance to fight you! I have a similar power to you- eye beams. Let's see who's energy blasts are stronger."
"Fine. But if I win I want you to leave the human world alone." Tamama told him, "This is my turf!"
"Deal." Taruru nodded. His eyes glowed with a laser vision. "HERO BEAM!"
"TAMAMA IMPACT MISSION HERO STYLE!" Tamama yelled.
"Well oh yeah? TARURU LASER!" Taruru screeched.
Saburo, who couldn't move, stared in the background. There wasn't any magic going on! They were just competing over who could yell cooler names! This was just pathetic.
"You get 'em Tamama. I believe in you! You can come up with the cooler name!" Keroro was super supportive from the background, also pretty injured.
"SUPER MAIN CHARACTER BEAM!" Tamama yelled.
"Crap, I can't compete with that! I'm such an extra!" Taruru realized, falling to the ground crying.
Tamama snorted in glee.
Giroro was on the ground, but he and Natsumi were still connected. Natsumi focused on his strength, channeling it into her own. They were familiar and witch, and it was finally time to get more controlled and more powerful from his power.
She smiled. His love, she could feel it. Glowing with fire, her entire body was inflamed. And she charged at Garuru.
Garuru tried to expertly dodge, but whenever he shot at Natsumi Giroro's magical energy managed to shield her body. Their connection was strong.
"I will kill you, Garuru. Nobody hurts my friend uhh slash kind of person I have a thing with?" Natsumi had lost her mojo. "It doesn't matter though. I'll kill you!"
Garuru slumped to his knees. Natsumi was so much stronger than him and there was no way to beat her. He was going to die here, on the human world.
"Do it. You win. I can see why he fell in love with you. You're strong." Garuru complimented, "I can respect that."
"You just can't respect us humans, can you?" Natsumi glared, "Maybe it's because we have more love in our hearts than you." Fire was on her hand and she reached down to plunge it into Garuru's chest.
"STOP!" Pururu jumped in front of Garuru, "Don't hurt him! He has love in his heart too! I'm sure he'll abandon this when he listens to me."
"Umm..Listen I have a fight happening here..." Natsumi tried to talk to Pururu.
Pururu handed Garuru the files, "The relationship with the human world truly is symbiotic. Please listen to me, I don't want our race making a mistake that we'll regret for generations." She begged.
Garuru read the detailed report. His eyes widened. "I see...And if Pururu says it, I have to believe her."
Pururu nodded, taking credit for Kululu's work.
"Please let me heal Giroro and all the people we injured." Pururu begged, "That might quell your anger, right?"
Natsumi listened to Pururu. After all she was pretty nice. She nodded as Pururu went over to Giroro to heal him.
"And Mois?" She looked at the crystal the demon was caught in.
Reluctantly groaning, Garuru freed her too.
"Even if what Pururu says is true, and I'm sorry for trying to kill you then if you're my brother's love..." Garuru trailed off, "The undeniable fact is that familiars are unhappy with our conditions. That doesn't change even if it is a symbiotic relationship."
"I don't know what to do with that. I'm just a witch learning magic." Natsumi helped Giroro up, "I'd suggest renegotiating terms with Momoka, the Nishizawa heir. My brother can help too. He likes being nice to jerks. Always wants to make friends."
"And I suppose I can look into helping you find a way to contract with demons..." Mois wasn't happy about being trapped, "I understand being unhappy with the conditions presented to you. If you manage to allow me to have a voice and negotiate with you, I'll come back to your world and see if I can figure something out."
"You'd do that?" Garuru asked.
"Yes. But I expect like a billion apologies for trapping me! I do not like being imprisoned." Mois frowned. "You better make me actually like you, or I might change my mind."
Garuru gulped and nodded.
"But I would like things to be better between all three of our races." Mois concluded.
Garuru smiled. So this was the best possible outcome, right?
"Garuru...Next time you come here, don't threaten Natsumi's life." Giroro rubbed his head, "I won't ever hold back if you threaten her."
"I understand." Garuru nodded. "I will take my platoon and go back home then. I'll look up this Momoka and try to figure out how to bring up the subject of negotiating with a demon."
"Just mention that I've already given power to one of you! My boyfriend is a familiar! That's why I want your world to be okay." Mois smiled.
"Boyfriend?" Garuru looked around...Who?
"Kululu!" Mois smiled.
Garuru paled. That made sense. Kululu would date a demon. What a little jerk.
"I'm...I'm going to go..." He leaned over, "Let's run, Pururu."
Pururu nodded. The two of them gathered up the remains of their platoon and left.
And the humans and the familiars were left in a weird sort of peace, despite the fact that most of them had almost died.
"I'm glad that ended rather well." Giroro hadn't expected that ending, but he was happy.
"Didn't know you loved me." Natsumi smiled, "I guess that's your reason for staying on this world, huh?"
Giroro blushed. He had forgotten he had confessed that. "Um...Well, I meant love in the sort of sense with a familiar and a witch..." He tried to make an excuse.
Natsumi smiled and kissed him on the cheek. "It's all right. I understand. You're lucky I like you a bit too."
Giroro was speechless. "...Really?"
"A little bit. I suppose a relationship between us because of our differences is going to take a lot of work though. But I'm willing if you are..." Natsumi was almost shy.
"Always. I'm always willing." Giroro smiled, "This is one thing that magic shouldn't tamper with."
Natsumi nodded. And the two of them embraced.
A few months later
The threat of a war with familiars was no longer an issue. The rebel forces and Momoka had managed to wrangle up an agreement and work to stop the familiars worries.
Although most people still thought demons were parasites, specifically since most of them weren't like Angol Mois, the familiars had allowed Mois to negotiate with them and given her a spot to talk to them. They had welcomed her as one of them and she was helping trying to bring the sickly children of their world and the weaklings into more of a symbiotic relationship with the demons. In return for their energy the children would get power.
The demons didn't much like this, but they wouldn't complain. Mois frightened even them after all, she had managed to actually bring humans back to their world which was the easiest place to absorb their power. And because of that she was powerful even by their standards. So they'd do what she said so they could keep their life.
The Keroro platoon remained with their human companions, trying to help their witch or wizard with their magic. Some of them grew into a comfortable friendship like Tamama and Momoka and some of them sometimes still tried to cause trouble, just so they could feel special. Like Keroro did.
Saburo never told anyone else that he was the wizard Mutsumi, but Natsumi kept his secret because she didn't want him arrested. She didn't forgive him for conning people though.
Dororo and Koyuki stayed as the best of friends. Dororo began to embrace the human world and the culture there, deciding to live there for the rest of his days and never return to the familiar world.
Kululu tried to maintain a long distance relationship with Mois. Although she was still a little bit mad at him for imprisoning her and banishing her at one point, she mostly took her anger out on Garuru, who had done a similar thing and now was in charge of maintaining relations with the demons. He was at her mercy.
Despite his wishes to stay by Saburo's side to look after him until Saburo no longer wished it, Kululu still kept a steady relationship with Mois, figuring out to connect the two worlds through the internet so familiars could choose their witches and wizards before contracting. Just like a bad dating website.
Most importantly, Natsumi transferred her class to the warrior class, charged with protecting society from threats she learned how to properly fight. Giroro supported her through all her expeditions and classes and they learned to actually work together as familiar and witch, along with working on the romantic aspect of their relationship.
It was a long process to get through their arguing, but Giroro truly loved Natsumi and Natsumi was becoming fond of Giroro herself, so they both became quite happy.
And the magic in the world enriched everybody's lives.
The epilogue was kind of vague, but at least the message is clear -relationships take work and can't be fixed or created by magic.
Also Natsumi and Giroro are happy together.
It's all resolved.
The end!
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