Chapter 21
The next day after the incident at the village...
Noxious's POV
*knock knock*
"Come on! come out already!" Noire yelled as I was in the changing room.
"I'm coming just hold on." I replied then came out of the changing room and looked at Noire, she had a girls school uniform and skirt on.
"Finally and you look nice in that." She said fixing the boys school jacket I was wearing. "Alright are you ready to take some pictures?" Noire said as we walked in front of a camera and then the room changed into a scene that was a school yard and we stood in front of the camera under a blossom tree, we both smiled and the camera took a picture, I walked over to the camera to take a look at the photo.
"That school uniform looks great on you." I said as Noire walked over to me, she smiled.
"Well let's get the next outfits on!" Noire said in excitement then we both went into our changing rooms and put on the next outfits which Noire's showed a lot of cleavage, it showed a lot of skin around her stomach, her twin tails were held up but two red ribbons and she wore a red and black checkered blouse on. She also had a black and white checkered short skirt. I wore a short sleeve shirt and a pair of jeans that had holes in them which were both black and I had a pair of headphones around my neck that were black and red.
"This one is supposed to be rock I guess?" I asked then Noire nodded, she had this whole day planned out for the both of us. We both walked in front of the camera again, this time the room changed into a concert scene we both grabbed a mic and looked like we sung together, then the camera took a picture.
"Alright onto the last one." Noire said while we both walked into the changing room, this time my outfit was a black suit with a dark blue dress shirt, then I walked out to see Noire wearing a dark blue and black wedding dress. "This one was the one I was waiting for~" Noire whispered in my ear then we both walked into the room for the last picture which the scene was a wedding ceremony that looked to be inside then Noire turned to me with her lips puckered and her eyes closed, I did the same then we kissed as the camera took the last picture. The scene went away and we both looked at the picture. "Now this is the moment I'll never forget."
I was smiling "I won't forget it either." I said as we walked into the changing rooms…
Assassin's POV
"Here is your reward." The guild receptionist told me after handing me a bunch of credits.
"Thank you." I replied as I took the credits and started to walk towards the exit, the first thing I did when I woke up was go to the guild and do a quest. I need to get some money after the whole pudding buying Nep and I had.
I walked out of the guild and looked up into the sky and saw something I wasn't expecting.
"Uni?" I called out, in the sky I saw Uni in her CPU form flying towards The Basilicom, she had a serious look on her face, guessing she wants to see Nepgear. But she's not there at the moment.
*Ching!*
"Guess I'll have to intercept her." I said as I shined a purple glow and flew into the sky and sped towards Uni, she looked back and saw me as I caught up with her,
"Assassin? What are you doing?" She asked me as I looked over at her,
"I just got done doing a quest and saw you, what do you need in Planeptune?" I asked back and she averted her gaze.
"None of your business." She replied and I chuckled a little bit, guess she gets her Tsun disease from Noire.
"You want to see Nepgear don't you?"
"Well-"
"She's not at the Basilicom at the moment, but I'll let her know what's going on." I told her as we approached the Basilicom.
We landed and reverted back into our regular forms and walked in, For once the Basilicom was quiet, except you could hear Neptune up in her room, but other Than that. Quiet.
"Nepgear is out doing a quest and she'll be back soon."
"..."
"Uni?"
"Huh?! Oh yeah. Thanks Assassin." she seems edgy about something.
"Alright, what's going in."
"What do you mean?"
"I can tell just by looking at you. You're nervous and edgy. What's going on." I repeated and sat down on the couch, Uni shook her head.
"Nothing's wrong." She replied again and I sighed, she makes this too easy..
"Nepgear was worried about you before we went to the hot springs, she said you were nervous over something." I told her, she blushed and looked at me with a shocked face,
"What! S-S-She told you that…" She muttered and i nodded,
"A friend of Nepgears is a friend of mine. You can trust me." I told her and Uni looked at the ground,
"Noire never spends time with me anymore… She's always with Noxious now and not me…" She muttered and I listened to her story, "I just want to spend time with my sister." She said as I saw a tear go down her cheek, I hate it when girls cry.
"Alright, that's enough." I said as I stood up and walked over to her, I placed my hands on her shoulders, "you're lonely and upset that Noire doesn't spend as much time with you, I'll talk to Nox." I said and she looked up at me with tear stained eyes. Then hugged me and began to cry again, I returned her hug and patted her head.
After a couple minutes, Uni was feeling better and we were sitting on the couch when Nepgear came back.
"I'm back!" Nepgear called out and I looked back,
"Welcome home Gear." I welcomed and she came around the corner and saw Uni and I.
"Uni? Why are you here?" Nepgear asked her and she blushed a little,
"T-There's something I want to show you in Lastation… But don't think I came all this way just to tell you!" Uni said and I started to laugh under my breath and Nepgear smiled,
"Really? What did you want to show me?" Nepgear asked again and I stood up,
"I'll let you girls talk for a bit, I'll be right back." I said as I walked towards the stairs and went up to my room.
I took a quick shower and while I was showering, I took a look at my arm. I looked at my wound and watched as it circled it's way up my arm and towards my shoulder. "What the hell..." I muttered…
Flashback
I was flying towards the area where the quest location was designated, while going I checked the surroundings, a small village a little distance away, it'll be trouble if the monsters go anywhere near there.
I landed in a forest and looked around and smelt the air, nothing in sight and the air smelled fine, is there really something wrong?
"...!" I quickly rolled out of the way of a spike that threw itself towards me, so much for false alarm, "Alright, show yourself before you get in more trouble." I said as I materialized one of my swords.
I heard a branch crack from the bushes behind me as I quickly grabbed my handgun on my side and shot behind me, whatever was there quickly moved out of the way and I ran towards whoever what or who it was and jumped over the bush and kicked the bush out of the way, uprooting it and knocking it over, no one was there.
"Kibo taught you well." A male voice said as I looked around the area, who said that?
"What does Kibo have to do with this? And how do you know him? Show yourself immediately!" I yelled and looked around again,
"I'm afraid I can't do that." the voice said and I tightened my grip on my weapons,
"What's wrong? Can't fight me fairly?" I taunted and then I heard another branch crack and I turned around again, only to have my arm get caught in some vine, "The hell?" I said as I tried to pull my arm out, but that only made the vines tighten on my arm and a sharp pain went through, "Gh!".
"Pathetic, you get distracted too easily." the voice said as the vines tightened again,
"Gh! AAAARGH!" I pulled my arm as hard as I could and the vines broke off, I pulled off the remaining vines to reveal my bleeding arm, the damn things had thorns or something sharp, "How about you stop hiding and fight me one on one you coward!"
"Gladly."
"...Shit!" I barely had anytime to dodge the slash behind me, I rolled and looked for my attacker, but saw no one, then another slash was swung. I held my sword up and blocked the strike then shot in front of me, blood flew out and then I felt a hand grab my neck and lift me off the ground, whoever this was is invisible…
"You're weak." the voice said and threw me to a tree, I collided and slid down and looked around me, the person was gone for the most part. I reverted back to my normal form and looked at my arm, which was still bloody…
I tried to clean it the best I could and rolled down my sleeve. Dammit… just who was that?
End of Flashback
I got out of the shower and looked in the mirror, then grabbed my jacket and put it on, then put on the rest of my clothes and walked out of my room to hear something, sounds like Neptune and Peashy were up. Neptune was focused on playing one of her video games and Peashy was practically demanding attention.
"I'm bored! Play with me Neptuna!" Peashy yelled as I came around the corner,
"How many times do I have to tell you P-ko? My name is Neptune. Not Neptuna." Neptune said back while focused on her game.
"Neptuna! Neptuna!" Peashy repeated, but Neptune just focused on her game, eventually Peashy unplugged the game console and the screen went black.
"Hey! Don't just yank out the plug like that." Neptune said, but there we no plugs pulled out, instead Peashy had ripped the cable out of the game console.
"Play with me Neptuna!" Peashy yelled and tackled Neptune, they both fell back as I stared at the both of them,
Compa, IF, and Histoire were sitting at a table drinking tea when they noticed me staring at the two,
"Hey! Assassin!" IF called over as I walked over to them, "Did Kibo mention anything about Peashy's parents?" she asked me and I shook my head,
"No. he said that he never met Peashy's parents at all." I replied getting louder and louder as Peashy and Neptune ran all around the place.
"Gotcha!" Neptune said while picking up Peashy, but Peashy turned around and pulled her fist back.
"P-Punch!" she yelled as she uppercutted Neptune, causing her to fall back,
"She's out!" I yelled as I looked at the both of them, then IF looked at my sleeve,
"Hey Assassin, what's with your get up?" IF asked me as she looked at my clothes, I had only one sleeve while the other side of my clothes had a tank top look to it,
"I usually wear stuff like this." I lied, I don't want to worry them with my wound… "Oh yeah, where's Nepgear?" I also asked and IF sighed then pointed up, uh oh…
I walked up the stairs and saw two individuals outside, along with a huge couch looking seat, I opened the door and saw Vert and Nepgear sitting on the couch, and Nepgear was snuggling Verts… bazongas…
"How's this, Nepgear? Nice and soft, right?" Vert asked and Nepgear snuggled more close to her…
"Yes, Vert."
"You can call me Sis if you like, you know."
"But, my sis is- Oh forget it. I think I could get used to you being my sis!"
"...You've got to be kidding me…" I called out as I heard footsteps approaching behind me,
"Uh, and… I see things have gotten crazy out here too." IF commented as she stood behind me.
"Vert! Whaddaya think yer doin' to my kid sister?!" Neptune yelled as she stomped outside. She even broke her speech pattern…
"Sis!" Nepgear yelled as she poked her head up, but then it fell right back into Vert's chest…
"What's the problem with getting a little closer to each other now and then?" Vert asked and Neptune clenched her fist,
"Every now and then? More like every day!" she yelled as I stood at the door and sighed as they continued arguing,
"Geez, Planeptune gets more crazy by the day…" I muttered and IF gave me an awkward smirk,
"It's because you're living with Nep…" she replied and I shrugged, she may be right…
"That's right, I almost forgot!" I said as I walked up to Neptune in the middle of arguing with Vert, "Nep, we're supposed to go to Lastation remember? Blanc contacted us and we need to go over there." I said and Neptune looked up at me,
"She did?" she replied and I almost lost my balance, she forgot already?!
"Yes, she contacted all of us." Vert agreed and I stretched, time to go to Lastation again.
Noxious's POV
I was changing into clothes for when the others get here because of what happened earlier…
flashback
Blanc and her candidates Rom and Ram are here to talk to Noire about something I guess I'll just lay down on the couch until they leave.
*smash!*
"You've got to be kidding me." I said as I lifted a frying pan off my face with a pissed look.
"Hahaha! you got hit by my frying pan magic!" Ram laughed historically. I got off the couch and ran after her, she ran through a door and closed it a little then I ran through it and my eye glowed, I immediately looked up at a bucket of water falling from the door and got water poured all over my clothes. "Pfft." Ram laughed as I sat there in a puddle of water. I then got up and walked away from the room because that was a room with a certain someone who doesn't like jokes… Noroi's room.
"What the hell is with the water on the floor!" I heard Noroi yell hopefully Ram makes it out of there alive. As I walked through the hall I saw Noire and Blanc talking, Noire looked frustrated as well.
"Come on why does this have to happen now!" Noire said in a pissed tone I went over to them.
"What's wrong Noire?" I asked then Blanc and Noire looked at me.
"Someone hack into Lastations servers- what happened to you?" Noire replied, I looked down to see my shirt was soaked I started to scratch the back of my head.
"Well you see Ram did a little prank on me but she's cleaning up the mess right now." I explained.
"Well no worries but the other goddesses are going to be coming to help us out so get new clothes on also I got you some new ones to where besides the ones you always do" Noire said then I nodded my head and went to my room to change…
flashback end
I put on a long trench coat that was black on the outside and dark blue on the inside, I put on a pair of black boots and my eyepatch and sat on the edge balcony waiting for the others to show.
"YOU'RE SO RELAXED…" The voice said then I looked up in the sky.
"Yeah you could say that." I replied, whatever happens I can't tell the voice about Rika but why would the voice have anything to do with Rika?
"MAN IT REALLY SUCKS WHEN THE ONLY REASON WHY YOU'RE STILL HERE IS TO PROTECT HER."
"Hey voice, I know that this isn't a good question for you but did you ever want to protect anything important to you?" I asked in a quiet tone.
"NO YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE I'VE BEEN WITH."
"Are they here yet Noxious?" Noire asked while her and Blanc walked out onto the balcony, I looked back and got off the edge of the balcony.
"No not yet, but they should've been here by now. Where are they-"
"AHHHHH WATCH OUT, MOVE, MOVE, MOVE, MOVE, MOOOOVE!" I heard someone yell in the air I looked up to see Neptune falling from the sky towards Noire, she was looking up in shock at her as Neptune collided with Noire I quickly ran over.
"Are you alright Noire? I asked.
"Ouch WHY THE HELL WERE YOU FALLING FROM THE SKY!" Noire yelled as they both got up.
"Well you see I accidentally transformed out of my CPU form in mid air." Neptune replied then I face palmed, and she's a CPU. Assassin, Vert, Nepgear, and Uni came flying down to the balcony.
"Hey Assassin I knew you would be here speaking Neptune came." I said as he reverted back to his original form.
"Yeah so i'm guessing you know what happened here?" Assassin replied then I nodded.
"Well since you two know what's going on, you two are coming with us!" Noire instantly said then me and Assassin looked over at her like we were tired.
"Do we really have too…" me and Assassin groaned.
"Stop complaining, you're coming with us whether you like it or not!" Noire said in a pissed tone. I heard footsteps coming from the door leading to the balcony it was Noroi with Ram in front of the door, Ram looked terrified.
"I'm done cleaning miss Noroi's room." Ram said in a polite tone, me and everyone else had a shocked expression on our faces.
"What happened to Ram?" Both Assassin and Blanc asked, Noroi sat down on a bench.
"I just taught her some manners just like I did with Kusari when I first met her." Noroi replied, no wonder why Kusari acts so Kuudere. Assassin tapped on my shoulder,
"Remind me not to pull any pranks…" Assassin whispered,
"Speaking of Kusari where is she?" I asked then Noroi looked at me.
"She's with Rom, they've been reading lots of books together." Noroi replied. " now, that that's been cleared up you all will be staying with me while they're out." Noroi said holding onto Nepgear and Uni's shoulders, both of them turned around in fear while Ram just stood in the middle of them.
"Then let's be on our way to the location that Blanc tracked down and show this bastard not to mess with me." Noire said then everyone transformed into their CPU forms except the CPU candidates. As we flew off the candidates were waving us off but they still looked terrified…
Noroi's POV
We all waved them off, I know they'll come back I mean they do have him there with. them. The other girls and I walked back in the Basilicom just to get ran into by a little girl with yellow hair.
*bump*
We both fell to the floor, who the hell just ran into me?!
"Hahaha, tag you're it!" The little girl said I got up.
"Who are you?" I asked then I heard footsteps, it was Kibo.
"Her name is Peashy." Kibo said then I walked up to him.
"Where did she come from and why is she here?" I asked in a whisper.
"She's an old friend of mine, also you have to watch her." Kibo whispered to me then I cross my arms.
"I ain't watching no more kids, it's bad that I'm watching Ram, I don't need another one." I said in a pissed tone, then I walked over to Nepgear and Uni, they looked like they were doing something. "What are you two doing?" I asked then Nepgear looked back at me.
"We found a hidden camera on the bookshelf, we don't know who placed it here so we're tracking it down and it leads to a abandoned building here in Lastation." Uni said this does sound interesting, I mean if there's a camera here that could only mean one thing. Someone is watching us, I turned around.
"Alright I'm convinced you two, let's go find the bastard!" I said in excitement, hehe I guess I'll have to leave Kibo here to watch Peashy…
A/N:
Assassin: I have a feeling that i'm not gonna like writing the next few chapters… meh maybe it's just me. We hope you liked reading this chapter and we hope to see you all later!
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