Random thoughts: Wonder what the other three were doing in the meantime...
Bella, Kali, and Mei were eating breakfast at the dining table while Calice was cooking some for himself and Issia. All of a sudden, they heard the sound of glass being punched, a thud, and crying. Calice looked at them, then went upstairs to check. Bella got up after. "We should probably go girls. Give them a little privacy." Mei grabbed Kali and dragged her out the door, all while she was whining about not getting to finish her breakfast. Bella followed, closing the door behind them. "So now what Bella?" Mei says, letting go of the food-denied Kali. "I don't know exactly. Let's just walk I guess."
So they did, for hours in the forests surrounding the village. They looked at everything and anything until sitting down on a hill a considerable distance from the town. "Well, I'm out of ideas. Do you have anything Mei?" Mei simply shook her head and looked at Kali, who just turned to face away from both of them. "Hmph."
"Come, Kali, you have an idea right?" Bella prodded, but to no avail. "We'll promise not to not let you finish your food anymore." Kali slightly turned her head at the deal. "Promise?"
"Pinky promise."
The sword girl finally turned back around. "Ok, my idea is that we can talk about our pasts before we met each other. Like an origin story or some kind." A black harpy suddenly landed beside them right after Kali. "Then do I have the story for you!" She said, plopping down right beside Bella. Bella recognized her instantly. "Hey, you're the harpy that sold us those heart necklaces! Why are you so far away from the mountain?" Bella said. "Because! Calice's workshop finally opened up again. Also, my name is Melisa. I knew him way before you three came along," she boasts pridefully, puffing her chest out for emphasis. Bella simply rolled her eye. "Ok, prove it, Melisa."
"With pleasure! Now everyone sit down before I start..."
"We are already sitting down," the Bicorn, Cursed Sword, and Cape said to Melisa.
"Oh. My bad. Anyways..."
The raven woke up in cave hideout, high on the mountain. The looks of a normal bird, but the size of a human, she looked around. To her right, a pile of coins enough to fill a few large treasure chests. That's right! She was going to go searching for more treasure today. Like she did every day. She had a real fondness for shiny things and treasure. Speaking of which, she looked to her right, seeing her pile of random shiny things she found in the forest. It's amazing what people drop there. She squeaked happily at her hard work, pleased with both piles. Yes, not said words, squeaked. She's still just a large bird...for now.
Now feeling awake enough, the bird stepped to the ledge and flapped her wings. Now she was flying, the gliding slowly down. looking for more cool treasure to take back to her hideout. She saw two people taking a cart of coal somewhere. Wait...she has seen those two people before many times. Somehow, they always have more and more treasure. Normally she would forget details like this, but she has seen this happen so many times that it has stuck in her brain. Making a loud happy screech, she started diving down faster and faster excited.
Wait! That would only scare them. and if the ran, they won't somehow come back with more shiny things. She slowed down to a glide, landing from tree to tree silently as she followed them from a safe distance. They were saying weird words about a bla...black...blacksmith? What's a blacksmith? Maybe the blacksmith-thing was the treasure. She continued following for the better part of an hour until the two men reached a village. the went inside a store. She stopped at the nearest high tree, waiting for time to come out. She waited and waited...until she saw the door open. Out came the men, with Diamonds! How did the coal turn into Diamonds!? Her eyes went wide as they placed the bags of diamonds and started walking back down the path. Once they were far enough from the village. She screeched loudly and landed in front of the two men, she yelled and ran away from the cart. She now had a cart full of diamonds for herself. using her claws to lift the cart, She carefully flew back to her hideout and added them to her pile of treasure, admiring the shininess. She fell asleep, planning to go back tomorrow...
She woke. Another beautiful day to get the shiny treasure! Except now she had a destination. She flew as fast as she could back to the village, and found the building where the men came out with the sweet, sweet diamonds. She landed, screeching loudly as she opened the door with her beak and looked in. There was no treasure, but only the sound of ding ding in the back. Wait, that was the sound of shiny stuff! She walked in the back, seeing a man making a silver hammer. She pecked the man lightly to get his attention. The man slightly jumped back, then backed away to the farthest wall scared. No, she didn't want to scare him! Not yet at least. Not knowing how to talk to him, she just looked around, seeing the coal from yesterday. Remembering how the coal somehow turned into diamonds, she picked the coal lump and placed it in front of the man, who had a confused but still mostly scared look on his face. He didn't get the message it seems. Starting to worry, she looked around for something that could help. That's when she saw another diamond. Getting an idea, she picked up the diamond and placed it beside the coal, then screeched softly at him. He looked at both of them before looking at the raven.
"You want me to make diamonds from the coal?" he inquired. He seemed to have gotten the idea. She nodded as the man picked up the coal and took it to a weird machine. She followed after wondering what he was doing. He put the coal through a slot, hearing the coal land with a small thud. He then went pulled a cord, which a second later a large ching was heard, louder than the sounds from before. He then bent down and took a tray out from below the slot. The bird peered over his shoulder, seeing the diamond bits she found yesterday in the cart. Excited, she chirped and flapped her wings around the room, stopping when she accidentally bumped a set of tools. The man chuckled and poured the diamond bits into a bag, then gave it the large raven. She held it in her beak and flapped happily, flying back to her cave to add the diamonds to her stash.
After a while, it became routine for her to stop by the man's store, watching him make stuff and getting a bag of diamonds at the end of the day. She brought her own of the black lumps she found in caves, eager to see him turn it into diamonds every time. Then she realized that she could bring more stuff and watch him turn it into something else. She brought the treasures she found, from shiny battle axes to a bracelet, and watched him make it better.
One day, however, she woke up to a weird feeling. When she chipped or screeched like she usually did, she yawned instead. "Why did I make that sound?" she said to herself then covering her mouth with her wings. Why did she talk that noise she hears the man say? She then looked around until finding something shiny enough to see her reflection. "A mirror.," she muttered to herself as she picked it up and looked at herself, wondering where she learned that word from. She still had her normal bird feet and had her wings. However, she now had a human face and torso, her hair matching the color of her wings. "What am I?" She asked, noting that she now looked more like the man that makes her diamonds.
That man...maybe he knew! After figuring out how to fly now, she took off from the cave, going straight to him to get help.
"And that's how I became a harpy," Melisa finished, Kail and Mei somehow eating popcorn now. "So what happened next?" Bella asked, eating popcorn from her own bag. "Well, we talked for a while. Found out I was now a Harpy, learned his name, the usual stuff," she shrugged. "So who's going next? I pick Bella," she said, pointing her wing the Bicorn. The Bella handed Melisa her bag of popcorn, Melisa clumsily taking one at a time while getting comfortable. Bella started her story. "So, at first I was just a regular mythological Unicorn, prancing around and enjoying myself. But then, just like Melisa..."
The unicorn also woke up to that same feeling. She still had her hoves and lower body, but now she had the upper part of a human, the horse part forming at the waist. She was also wearing a white silk dress, looking to have been made with the same quality as a wedding one. She looked around, still in the part of the forest she was sleeping in, but no one around to do anything quite like this to her. She started to wander around like usual. She felt drawn somewhere suddenly, as someone was expecting her. She decided to follow this draw, leading her to a peculiar lake, covered with heart-shaped flowers and bright red roses. A pink lake laid there too, with two people sitting at the edge of the lake, on a wooden bench. A houri and cupid, the confused horse girl's mind told it's self as she trotted toward the two. The houri saw the unicorn first and tugged the cupid's shoulder, the cupid then turning around to see too.
"Well hello. What would bring you here?" the cupid asked curiously. The Houri simply waved smiling. "Well, I don't know exactly. All I know is that I woke up like this, then I found this strange place...do you know what happened?" She responded. "We believe it was because of the new demon lord that we all changed in a way. In your case, you seem to be a unicorn, seeing you have a horn. So...what's your name?"
The unicorn thought about it, then spoke again. "I don't think I have a name..." she trailed off, now feeling sad at the lack of something to call herself. The cupid got up and patted her head, comforting her. "Well then come with us. I don't think Eros would mind having another follower of our faith." With that, the Unicorn was taken to the realm of the goddess of love to be taught in her ways. She learned surprisingly fast, learning to love and praise as if she was one of their own. She also adopted the name "Bella", thinking that it sounded cute. Now a devoted member, she embarked on the world, wishing to spread her longing of love to others. That was when she had encountered her...
Bella was trotting down the beach path when she saw a mindflyer laying in the shade of a tree, a man sleeping on her like a pillow as the mindflyer twirled his hair. The unicorn walked up to her, admiring how she was already in a relationship too. The mindflyer looked up at her, smiling. "You know my little unicorn, this blacksmith isn't taken. I am simply just the messenger," she said extending a tentacle to Bella's hand. Bella took it as it pulled her closer, pulling until she sitting down, her face only a foot away from the blacksmith's now. The mindflyer watched her stare at him, slowly starting to build up a red color on her cheeks. "Suddenly, I have some business in Maki I would have to attend after the underwater visit. If you don't mind, can you meet the human at a certain spot to continue his journey?" The slime said.
Bella rapidly nodding, feeling the urge to kiss him suddenly and make him hers. Just one peck wouldn't hurt, right? Right? "Go on, kiss him and making him your stallion," The mindflyer continued to prod, using her tendrils to move their faces together. Bella slowly closed her eyes and puckered her lips as she went in for the kiss of a lifetime...
"What happened!?" Kail shouted suddenly, interrupting the story. All three of them glared at her, as she quickly looked down apologetically. "Sorry, got excited about the kiss part..." Bella sighed and continued on. "Well when he surfaced, that was when we started traveling together, sight-seeing and other frivolous but fun things. If you're wondering how I ended up as a Bicorn, just think of the image of a group of dominatrix dark performing Bondage acts with demonic energy laced whips and you have a pretty clear picture," she finished, shuddering at the thought of the sounds of the whips against her flank. Shaking her head vigorously to forget, she then started eating her own bag of popcorn.
"So, who would be next? Kali, would you like to go since you stopped the story anyway?" Bella said to Kali, shrugging. "I am not as good at telling stories. Mei, can you do ours for me?" Kali said, looking at the Ittan-momen. She sighed and started telling their story, from the very beginning...
Before the reign of the new demon lord, they were just your average cloak and sword from legend. named Escalius and Meisteria, they were previously separate legends with separate stories of their becoming. Escalius the demon-slayer was created by someone unknown to not just counter, but slay the demons that crept and killed in the night. Meisteria was the cloak of protection, claimed to grand impunity and the best guard that not even the best knightly shield could ever hope to match. For centuries they have been sought after, the sword stuck into the wall of a cavern hidden in the grass of the plains, and the cloak hidden away among the jews of an ancient crypt in the desert.
...At least until someone became Chad enough to fight their way through the cavern with their bare hands and take the sword out with ease, then fight their way back out using the blade as the handle and using the handle to hit everything that stood in his way. He had blood on his palm for a while, but according to local record he thought it was worth it.
A few years later, a different Chad marched straight through the desert wearing nothing but his pants and slippers. He found the crypt by accident by his stomps accidentally breaking through the then ground covered with sand and falling in. It was there where he found a scroll talking about the cloak, deciding to get it to burn for a fire in case the coldness of the desert night had the low chance of slightly damaging his chadness. Took him only an hour to fight through the Mummies and Anubi of the crypt, and put the cape on. After, he forced one of the Anubi to levitate him out.
The two became legends, revered and feared by most. Whoever didn't fear them was promptly killed upon their attempt to steal the sword or cloak. Eventually, chance played a hand and the two met on the forest path, accidentally bumping into each other. Rather than fighting out to the death, they decided to combine their Chadness, working together to fight their way through the Demon Lord in the time they weren't spending relaxing and talking like friends. Unfortunately, the succubus beat them to it, then found the 3rd Chad of an Orderite, married him, and took the brawl to the Chief God herself.
Envious of the flex, the first two chads met with the new Demon Lord and Husband, eager for a fight. Knowing that this fight could possibly end the world if all four of their full power was reached, she instead offered a deal. In exchange for not going all out on what is basically a god now, she promised them that all four of them would rule together, an unstoppable force that became one of the sole reasons the castle and the 500-meter radius around it have never been even stepped in by one in an Orderite army. Eventually, the cape and sword once made to combat demons became corrupted with the demonic energy in the realm, and turned sentient. They immediately turned to the two Chads who wore and used them, but they shook their heads, saying their big dicc energy would destroy them if the cursed sword and cape even tried. The magic sentient objects nodded and left Maki, hiding themselves in a random mountain cave, for a new master to find and used them.
It took two days for the Mist knight who wielded them next to find them, instantly taking to the sword and cape, and mutually vise-versa. Spending their days cuddling, killing, then cuddling again, they were happy and powerful, leading their group of knights to decisive victories in the continent. That was until the vampire saw him as an excellent and powerful human to turn incubus then marry, and set her sights on him in the one fight they saw each other. She won in the end and dragged the knight away, bitting his neck for blood and knocking out the cape and sword before doing so. Most of her fellow mamono weren't so lucky, as they got captured or killed, along with the knights on the other side.
Mei and Kail layed knocked out for two days until Calice saw what looked like a totally normal sword and cape on the floor, deciding that it was interesting and could come in handy if he ever had to defend himself again from another Arachne.
"And that is how we met Calice," Mei finished yawning and looking at Kali. The sword girl was sleep, cuddling her sword part like a body pillow. Melisa was also asleep, resting on Bella's soft flank. "That was a nice story Mei," Bella commented, looking at the sky, seeing that it was sundown. She placed Melisa on her back and Carried Kali on her arms, starting on the walk back to Calice's house. Mei followed, wanting to also rest on Bella but holding off. They went inside the house, Bella placing Melisa beside her then falling asleep on the rug in the family room. Kali was now on her back, nuzzling the Bicorn fur. Mei smiled at the sight, then fell asleep on Melisa's soft harpy wings, All four of them now in a wholesome sleepy cuddle, not stirring even as Calice and Issia came home and went upstairs to sleep themselves.