~Always~
A Brigadoon Fanfic
=Chapter 11=
"Ugh..."
The soft groan that escaped Pyon's lips covered how he was feeling the moment he came back into the world of the living quite well.
His entire body throbbed horribly, and still couldn't open his eyes. He attempted to move, but a sharp jab in his ribs told him that wouldn't be smart. Pyon paused and tried to remember how to breathe, fighting back tears of pain.
A soft breeze blew of his overheated body, and it took him a moment to realize that he had felt it on his skin.
His bare skin.
The thought of being completely naked in the middle of no where as a human sent him lunging to his feet, and he staggered when inertia hit him with the force of a sledgehammer swung by a drunk Kushatohn.
Pyon swayed helpless for a moment, arms out spread, then suddenly, the pain and dizziness faded away. Blinking for second, he tried to collect his thoughts.
He was Pyon Silver. He was a Gunswordsman turned human on a mission, and... he was naked?
Pyon glanced down at himself hesitantly.
Yup, he was naked. Completely, utterly, bare ass naked.
He frowned mentally as a thought crossed his mind. If he was naked... then maybe... He turned to the tree where he had laid Erin down. To his relief, Erin was still there, albeit unconscious.
And she was as nude as a new born baby.
Pyon nearly swallowed his tongue.
Flushing furiously, he turned sharply away from her, nearly tripping over his own bare feet in the process. He stood there for a good whole minute, trying to get his mind to focus on anything other than the lovely Erin that lay only a few feet away from him.
Just a few... feet... away...
Coughing violently, he shook his head and pressed the collar around his neck. He needed answers.
NOW.
Lolo hummed happily in the transmission room, waiting for the call that would undoubtedly come.
-beep!- -beep!-
And there he is.
Lolo picked up the transmitter with a naughty grin. "Hello~ this your operator. Dial one if you have a complaint. Dial two if you wish to speak with-"
"Lolo. Why. Am. I. NAKED?"
"Oh? You're the only one naked? And here I was sure that Erin would be too~."
"LOLO!"
The Chairman of the Committee cackled at Pyon's scandalized tone. "What's wrong? Never seen a naked woman before? Well, you should admire the view while it lasts, god knows that it won't, if Erin has anything to say about it. Speaking of which, how she reacting to this?"
"..."
Lolo raised an eyebrow at Pyon's silence. "Well?" He prompted.
"She's... still unconscious from the transformation."
Lolo promptly burst into snickers.
"Shut up! Now tell me, why are we naked? And don't tell me it's a by product of the transformation; our technology is plenty advanced enough to give us clothes!"
"Oh, shucks, there goes that excuse. Whelp, I guess you can say that I got tired of watching you make goo-goo eyes at Erin when you thought no one was looking, so I snuck into Lala's laboratory and... edited the Collars. Just a bit."
"I... whut?...D-did you just say GOO-GOO eyes? And a-at Erin?"
"Yup!" Lolo chirped, sniggering quietly at Pyon's shell-shocked tone. He had no doubt that he was the first person ever to get the solemn Gunswordsman so worked up. Heck, he had made it were Pyon was stuttering!
"...bwuh." And with that eloquent statement, Lolo heard a loud thump, and the line became full of static as it was cut off. For a moment, Lolo was concerned for his victim, and then realization washed over him and he burst into wild laughter.
He had made the famed Pyon Silver faint.
It was the soft chirping of sparrows and the bright rays of the sun against her eyelids that woke Erin up. It was a slow awakening, like one has after a long working day and a long peaceful night of sleep. It was quite the opposite of her usual early and quick mornings.
The Gunswordswoman groaned as her head throbbed from the recent trauma it had gone through, and rubbed at her eyes blearily.
Then she did a double take at the fact that she had hands. She flexed each and every finger, suddenly fascinated by simple limbs. She turned around to share her new found discovery with her comrade.
"Hey Pyon-"
She broke herself off, realizing that she was all alone, carefully wrapped in a blanket underneath the tree from last night. Looking around, she squirmed slightly when a blade of grass tickled her back. Startled by the feeling, she peeked underneath the blanket and gave a soft noise of surprise.
After taking in her new body for a moment, not thinking much of her nakedness, and gave a noncommittal shrug. "It'll do."
She carefully stood up, and wrapped the blanket several times around her before tying the ends behind her neck, creating a make shift dress. Erin grunted in annoyance when a strand of her long hair got caught in the knot at the base of her neck, and she pulled it out with a harsh tug.
It was at this moment when she noticed a note flutter out of the bottom of the blanket, and she bent over to retrieve it. The sticky Post-It note was a bright forget-me-not blue, which stood out against the black cloth of her blanket. Erin flipped it open cautiously, only to brighten considerably at the words upon it.
Erin, once you wake up, wrap yourself up with the blanket. Follow the trail I left and head west. You'll come across a cottage within thirty minutes. I'll be there. See you soon.
~Pyon Silver
Erin sighed and stuffed the note in her chest. It was obviously his handwriting, though it was unusually curt. And why had he left her all alone with nothing but a blanket? She ignored the fact that she didn't even know how he had gotten the blanket and grinned.
Had he... freaked out over the fact that she had been naked? That would have been just like the noble prude that Pyon was.
Erin's grin suddenly grew naughty.
Oh, she was going to have so much fun messing with him.
o-O-o
Authors Note: One of my favorite chapters yet. XD
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