(Whelp, I'm rewriting this a second time, since the document of this chapter decided to mysteriously erase itself…*sighs* oh well, hope this doesn't take that long)
Heya everyone, Acallaris here bringing you all the first chapter of the Recreational Arc!
This Arc will be focusing on increasing everyone's Lily Ranks with one another (Mostly the Candidates and Aspirant), what will our cast go through?
Also, I've just noticed that I haven't been including Lily Ranks ever since the end of the Lowee Arc (And that was like…two months ago?), so at the end of every chapter, for all the characters who are included, I will be showing their Lily Ranks
Anyways, it's time to start Nepgear and Alex's Chapter in this new Arc! Let's begin!
Disclaimer: Hyperdimension Neptunia rightfully belongs to Idea Factory and Compile Heart
The Recreation Arc Chapter 1: A New Companion!
Alex's Perspective
(Planeptune's Basilicom, 1: 57 PM)
"Tam?" I called out to him, "Tam? Where are you?"
I walked around the whole Basilicom in search of my brother, but to my surprise, I found no trace of him anywhere, if Tam was going somewhere, he would've at least left a note
I walked past Neptune and Nepgear's room; the door was closed, but I could hear someone humming from the other side, I knocked on the door and waited
"Come in!" Nepgear answered
I slid open the door to the room the first thing I saw was Nepgear lying down across the floor, she was reading one of those "Young Adult" Magazines that she subscribed to
"Hey Gear?" I say, "Have you seen Tam? The two of us were suppose to go out and do some request at the Guild today"
"Tamazaki and Neptune, along with the other CPUs, went to go voice act for an anime" Nepgear said, "They won't be coming back until around dinner time"
"Voice acting for an anime?" I was surprised by this, "I didn't expect to hear that, do you know what the anime is called?"
"I think it was called "Date a Goddess?" Nepgear said, "It's supposed to air next month, it's something that I've been really excited for"
"Date a Goddess…that sounds way too familiar to me" I scratch my head, "I think I might've read the manga somewhere"
"Most likely" Nepgear said, "The Characters' Personalities in the Manga resemble Neptune and everyone else pretty well, it would only be right if they were the voice actors!"
Well, I'm happy that my brother is finally getting a chance to be a voice actor, but now, I've got nothing to do for the rest o the day, my laptop sort of froze on me, so I can't really use that right now, and Luth and Taem are still recovering from their mental breakdowns last week
"Well, thanks for telling me" I say as I began to head towards the door
"Oh wait! Alex?" Nepgear stopped me, "Are you doing anything right now?"
"My Schedule has just cleared up, so no" I shook my head, "You need something?"
"Well…I wanted to go visit a nature preserve that's just on the outskirts of Planeptune" Nepgear said, "It's a really special place to me, that's why I want to go with you"
"Well…alright, why don't we go?" I say to her, "Let me just change my clothes, then we can head off"
"Okay!" Nepgear ran up to me and kissed me on the cheek, leaving my face in a deeper shade of red than my hair
[Alex's changes from his first outfit (Description in"Back to Gameindustri Part 1") to his second outfit (Description in "The Lowee Arc Chapter 1")]
(Nature's Preserve, 2:34 PM)
"Wow! It's all so beautiful!" Nepgear looked around in amazement, "I've never been here during this time of the year!"
"I've got to admit, the scenery is breathtaking" I said, "I've never seen so many Cherry Blossom Trees all in one place before"
After the first few minutes of arriving in this Forest, I was already speechless because of how amazing this place really was. Every second was something memorable, there was no way in missing out of all this
Nepgear and I walked over to a nearby bench, in front of said bench, there was a stream, the water was completely clear, the only thing that was in the water was just a couple of fish
"This is really relaxing" Nepgear said as we both sat down on the bench, "It's been a long time since we've been able to do something like this"
"Yeah, last time that happened, I was on the verge of dying" I said, "but…it's a good thing that we can really do this without having to worry about anything…"
By this time, Nepgear had already scooted over to me, she was resting her head onto my shoulder, I placed my hand on top of her head
"I wish…we could be like this forever" Nepgear said
"Yeah..me too" I replied
(A few hours later…)
"Arf!"
The sudden sound of whatever that was woke me up, I seriously didn't think that whatever that was, would cause me to fall off the bench and onto the floor, face first
Fortunately, Nepgear had woken up a little bit before I took my fall, and was sitting on the bench, rubbing her eyes while looking around at the same time
"Alex? Did you hear something?" Nepgear asked me while yawning
"I..think so" I said in a unsure tone, "Maybe it could've just been us, but I thought I heard a dog just now"
"Arf Arf!" We heard the same thing
Okay, now we know that it isn't just our imaginations, we clearly both heard that when we were "somewhat" awake. Nepgear helped me up onto my feet, we both then proceeded to look around in case we found anything strange
"Alex, look!" Nepgear said
Nepgear pointed to something across the stream, I looked in the direction she was pointing and saw the same thing she was pointing to. Across the stream, we saw a small wolf being corner by a….what is that thing?
"Heya uh Nepgear?" I asked, "What the Hex Decimals, is that thing?!"
"That's a Deus ex Machina!" Nepgear said, "How did it get into the Preserve, no monsters the size of its kind are allowed in here!"
"Well if it's against the rules for it to be here, then I guess were doing the owners of this place a favor by destroying it" I said as I summoned my Bo Staff
[Vs. Deus ex Machina]
[Luth's Scouter: Level 253, Moves are Dark Wave, Dark Slash, and Sting]
[Silver's Advice: The key to winning against him is strategy, wait for when he's about to attack and then strike!]
[Play Vim and Vigor – Kingdom Hearts 2.5]
Nepgear and I ran up to the Deus ex Machina, immediately as we did, it spotted the both of us (it wasn't even turned around!), it stopped pestering the small wolf and turned its attention to the two of us
"How about you pick on someone who's half your size!" I say
The Deus ex Machina swung it's axe at Nepgear and I, I ducked under the axe while Nepgear jumped onto it. Nepgear ran up the the monster's Axe, while I ran towards it on the ground, when I was close, I swung at it with all my force
"GRAWWRR!" The monster roared
The monster flung Nepgear up into the air when It roared, however, Nepgear had already knew what she was going to do the moment she jumped onto its axe.
The Deus ex Machina suddenly unleashed a wave of powerful energy, this threw me into the stream of water, however, I quickly recovered from this, ignoring the damage I had taken
Nepgear dove into the Deus ex Machina, taking out almost all of its HP, I finished off the Deus Ex Machina by preforming "Fury Buster" on it, the monster disintegrated into Pixels shortly after
[Battle Won!]
[Rewards: 0 Credits, Royal Knight (Nepgear Costume), Royal Prince (Alex Costume)]
[Music Stops]
I'm kind of weirded out by the fact that the monster had just dropped clothing, but then I remembered that this world is based off of Video Games, so I shouldn't really be too surprised…
"That was easier than I expected" I said to Nepgear, "That Monster was at least 20 Levels high than us"
"It's must've been a newly spawned one" Nepgear said, "That's probably why it died so easily…"
Nepgear and I then remembered the wolf that the Deus Ex Machina had been attacking earlier, right when we were about to go look for it, we heard some rustling from one of the nearby bushes
Nepgear and I looked at each other before walking over to the bush, it continued to shake faster as we got closer to it, as I was about to look into the bush, something jumped out of the bush and ran away from the two of us
"W-wait come back!" Nepgear called out to the creature, "We're not going to hurt you!"
The creature we soon Identified as a Fenrir, stopped in its tracks and looked back at the both of us, I then noticed that we still had our weapons out, so Nepgear and I put them away
"See? We're not going to get you" Nepgear got down on her knees, "we want to be your friends, that's all!"
The Fenrir slowly made it's way over to Nepgear, it then sniffed her, before suddenly jumping on Nepgear and licking her face, leaving her laughing
"Hey, that tickles!" Nepgear giggled
I got to admit, this is pretty adorable, I didn't think this little Fenrir would be so fond of Nepgear so quickly…I'm also surprised that hasn't bit me yet
"I wonder how this little Fenrir got chased by that monster" I kneeled down to pet it
"It might've wandered off from its parents" Nepgear said, Do you think we can take him home with us?"
"Whoa Gear, let's take this one step at a time" I say, "How do you think the others are going to react when they find out that we brought a Fenrir home?"
"It's only Histoire and Hinato who would has a problem with it" Nepgear said, "but I'm sure if we persuade them, they'll let us keep him, at least until we find his parents"
"How do you know that the Fenrir's a male?" I asked her
"It's eyes are Red" Nepgear made hold the Fenrir, which began to lick me as well, "If it were female, they would've been blue"
I wasn't too fond of the idea of keeping the little thing, it's parents could be out looking for it right now for all we know, but at the same time, it was starting to get late, and I didn't want the little thing to be out on its own
"Alright fine" I said, "We'll keep him until we find his parents, okay?"
"Okay!" Nepgear smiled
"Arf!" The Fenrir barked happily
(Planeptune's Basilicom, 7:20 PM)
Nepgear and I rode the elevator back to the top floor of the Basilicom, Nepgear didn't even bother hiding the Fenrir, she just held in her arms and cradled it as if it were a baby
The elevator doors open and the two of us stepped out, we were going to go to my room hide the Fenrir there until we thought of something to tell Histoire and Hinato, right as we were slowly making our way there, someone coughed behind us
"So? Where have you two been?" I heard someone say
I slowly turned around, but Nepgear only turned her head to prevent whoever was talking to us to see the Fenrir, we both saw Tam and Neptune lying down on the couch, with Neptune using my brother's chest as a pillow
"We were uhh… Doing request at the guild!" I said quickly, "Nepgear was helping me because the person who WAS suppose to come with me, left to go voice act"
"Well geez sorry about that, you don't have to be so harsh about it you know" Tam said, "It sort of just came up, you can waste an opportunity like this"
"Tamazaki, when did you and Neptune get back?"'Nepgear asked
"About an hour ago!" Neptune suddenly speaking scared both Nepgear and I, "but that's not important right now, what cha holding Sis?"
"Gah! Were you awake this whole time" I asked Neptune
"Yeppers! Just wanted to make the scene a bit more "Realistic" Neptune said, "But that ain't important right now, you've got something that your hiding from us Jr?"
"Um…well.." Nepgear looked at me, all I did was nod, "Promise that you two won't tell Histoire"
"Keeping secrets from Histy? Pfft! That ain't gonna be a problem!" Neptune said
"As long as it isn't something illegal or dangerous, otherwise, sure we'll keep your secret" Tam said
Nepgear slowly turned around, right when she was about to completely turn, the Fenrir jumped out of Nepgear's arms and landed on Neptune's lap
"Huh?" Neptune tilted her head before finally realizing, "Well look what we got here, we've got a little cutie amongst us!"
"You brought a Fenrir home?" Tam said, "But more importantly, it's a baby Fenrir!"
"Nepgear and I found it getting attacked by a monster at the Nature Preserve" I said, "It was getting late and we didn't have time to look for its parents; so we're keeping him until we do"
"Well I have no objections for keeping this little guy in here!" Neptune said, "I just wanna hug him till he chokes out a bone!"
"That's Compa status Neptune, you're not supposed to do that" Tam laughed nervously, "But if you're keeping him until you find his parents, then I guess I don't have a problem with that either"
"I knew that the both of you would understand, thank you" Nepgear said, "now, we just had to tell Histoi-"
"What is it that you would like to tell me Nepgear?" Another voice popped up behind us
The fact that Neptune and Tam's faces had turn into faces of shock, which was followed by Neptune hiding the Fenrir inside her hoodie, meant that there was more trouble
Nepgear and I turned around and saw Histoire, she looked to be in a normal mood though, so maybe telling her now would be the best time to do so
"Histoire! You scared us!" I say, "don't sneak up on me and Gear like that, Neptune already came close to giving us heart failure a few minutes ago!"
"My apologies for scaring the both of you" Histoire then noticed something moving around in Neptune's "chest" area, "Um…Neptune, are you feeling well?"
"Yarp!" The Fenrir's cries were muffled by Neptune
"It's just some Voice acting fever Histy!" Neptune said, "It's no big deal, I'll be better in a few days!"
"There isn't a fever or sickness like that Neptune" Histoire said, "I feel as if the four of you are hiding something from me"
"Hiding something from you? That's ridiculous Histoire!" Tam said, "We'd never stoop down to such levels, you know that"
"You and Alex may not, but Neptune and Nepgear certainly have" Histoire said, "And usually, it ends with Nepgear confessing"
Oh Hex Decimals! I forgot that Nepgear will crack under pressure! If Histoire keeps questioning her, then it isn't going to end well for either of us
Suddenly, The Fenrir literally bursted out of Neptune's hoodie and ran over to me, it was whimpering and looked like it wanted me to pick it up, I did so and looked back at Histoire, who just stared
"…" Everyone was silent
"…so uh…guess I forgot to tell you guys that the baby T and I were having came out sooner than expected" Neptune broke the silence
"May I ask, why is there a Fenrir inside the Basilicom?" Histoire was starting to get angry
"Histoire wait!" Nepgear stopped her from blowing a fuse, "Before you get mad, we need to tell you that we found this baby Fenrir all alone and being attacked, we didn't want to leave it out in the wilderness for the same thing to happen"
"We just want to keep it here until we're able to find its parents!" I said, "Please Histoire, don't put this poor defenseless baby out in the cruel world we live in, he won't make it far without being supervised"
Histoire looked at Nepgear and I, she then looked at the Fenrir, who was giving her the puppy dog eyes, as if it knew what was going to happen, Histoire then looked at Tamazaki and Neptune, who were both giving her the "Don't be the bad guy" look
"…If it's until you find it's parents, then so be it" Histoire sighed, "Please make sure that it doesn't get out of control"
"Thank you Histoire!" Nepgear practically jumped whisk the Fenrir started to lick Histoire's face
"Oh dear, please stop licking me!" Histoire motioned me to pull the Fenrir away from her face
"By the way, have the two of you name it?" Tam asked, "We can't just refer to it as "it"
"A name?" Nepgear said, "It's a male, so there should be some good names we could call it"
"How about Rult?" I suggested
"Alex, isn't that what you named your Arcan-"
"Shut up Tam, we don't talk about that, and plus, I was only 7" I told him
"Rawrf!" Rult wagged his tail
"I think he likes the name" Nepgear said, "Although the name sounds random, I kind of like it as well"
"Well it's settled!" Neptune said, "We've got ourselves a temporary family pet named Rult, hopefully no one does terrible things to him while we're away"
"Let's not get into category…ever" Tamazaki said
"You got a pet?" Caem asked me
Nepgear and I decided to call the other CPU Candidates and APL Aspirants, basically everyone except for Luth and Taem picked up the Video chat request
"Mhm! He's right here" Nepgear held up Rult for everyone to see
"Aww, he's so cute!" Ram squealed, "next time you come over, can you bring Rult, we want to play with him!"
"We really want to play with him" Rom said
"Of course, we'll definitely bring him over" Nepgear said
"By the way Uni, didn't you say you had a pet Bandicoot?" I asked her, "Maybe you can have him play with Rom and Ram sometime"
"I don't think that would be a good idea" Uni said, "He's kind of…"hyper", so he might get lost if I let him out of the Basilicom"
"Well that stinks, but at least we'll be able to play with Rult!" Ram said
"By the way, how are Luth and Taem holding up?" I asked, "Are they doing any better from last week?"
"Well, Luth isn't really locking himself in his room anymore…but at the same time he still is…" Uni said, "He only comes out to eat or use the washroom, other than that, he's doesn't say a word to anyone and he stays In his room all day, sometimes at night, I hear him talking in his sleep"
"What does he say?" Caem asked
"I was only able to make out some of the things since its muffled most of the time" Uni said, "He said something about "Making him pay" and "I'll be there soon", which got me a bit worried"
"And Taem only sleeps during the day, he doesn't even come out of our room at all" Caem said, "But for some reason, at night he completely disappears and doesn't come back until early in the morning"
"Both of them really have it hard, huh?" I said, "Hopefully, we're able to get them back to their normal selves soon…"
"Actually, I was thinking about doing something to get Luth back to his normal self" Uni said, "And…um…I might need your…h-help"
"You don't have to hesitate Uni, we'll all help!" Nepgear said, "Just tell us what we need to do!"
"Alright…" Uni sighed, "Here's what we're going to do…."
Acallaris: And so ends the chapter,I hope you all enjoyed- (Phone Alarm goes off) oh geez!
Alex: Uhh Acallaris? Why do you have Nepgear's voice as your alarm?
Acallaris: It was….uhh….the App's fault
Alex: The Neptunia App?
Acallaris: Yeah! Now let's not get into anymore details about the APL okay? –sighs- Luckily Nepgear wasn't here to-
Nepgear: Umm, I might've heard everything from the other room…
Acallaris: F***!
(Skit Idea suggested by wperry713)
Everyone's Lily Ranks with each other
Alex: 8
Nepgear: 8
Tamazaki: 8
Neptune: 8
Histoire: 8
REVIEW TIME!
To Geod Pony: Reading that like again actually made me laugh, mostly because Noire is the one saying it
To You never knows: What was the warping for?
To AIYF Productions: Good job Nep, you've successfully enraged the guy
Neptune: It's one of my "many" charms
Acallaris: That wasn't suppose to be a compliment, but whatever –ahem- I'll try my hardest to prevent Garland from ripping Terra's Heart out, it'll be difficult though…
To Moonbunny: Well, even if Compa taught me how to do math problems, it take longer than two day for me to actually learn something
I know it's a bit early since we're not even halfway through 2016, but I'm wondering what IF has planned for Neptunia next year…
Alex: -inhales deeply- this is going to suck…really bad
Nepgear: Neptune, please don't do this!
Neptune: Sorry baby sis, when a button with words appears in my reach I've just got to press it!
Luth: Remember my name when I go on a killing spree…never doing that again….
Taem: Nah, I've got my own binoculars *looks through* I don't see any- *Le Nosebleed*
Caem: *face turns red* Uhh! I need an Adult! I feel really dirty for looking at that!
Taem: She was doing autographs, and I just so happen to be small enough to squeeze through the crowds of people, I'm pretty sure the color was either black or navy blue
Ram: As much sweets as my tummy can handle!
Rom: Aww he's really cute
Dogoo Caem: Goo! Dogoo! (Translation: No! Not like this!)
Hinato: No…nothing is wrong at all, I just have some "Suggestive" words I would love to say to your AI…
Tamazaki: Maybe the fact that the author is causing me to stay in this bathtub, probably cause he's PERVERTED!
Neptune: Quit Complaining T! Now, it's time for the real fun to begin!
(Neptune transforms into Purple Heart)
Purple Heart: Now then, I feel as if I'm going to be a bit more "active" in this form
Tamazaki: This is going to a direction that I didn't think would it would go in
Zest: Alright then! *puts on the watch* I'll be right back!
(30 Minutes Later…)
[Breaking News! At Leanbox's Local Manga Shop, all of the Erotic, Ecchi, and Yuri types to Manga have suddenly disappeared, no one knows who stole them, but police are trying their best to catch the thief]
Nepgear: What the Goodness?!
Luth: Zest? What the actual F***?!
Uni: It was…39 – 38, it would've been a tie if the Machine hadn't broken down
Neptune: About 1000 Credits week *sighs* Histy doesn't know that Games don't cost 1000 Credits these days!
Noire: Umm…*looks around* Maybe the Four Goddess Online one?
Blanc: If you're trying to get early access then no, I'm not allowing anyone to get any type of peek at it
Vert: Oh, they are sold in Planeptune's Merchandise shops often, so they shouldn't be hard to find
Acallaris:…excuse me, I'll be right back
Nepgear: Please no! Not the tentacles!
Uni: Can you guys stop standing around and help us?!
Alex: Right…oh right! *summons Bo Staff*
Luth: This isn't "Malan" or whatever you guys call it in your Dimension *summons revolvers*
Caem: I don't want to get that image into my head…ever! *summons claws*
To Dimensional master Nick: You see…the bath is still going on as we speak…it's going great from the sounds I hear!
To PersonManZX: Only Blanc and Vert Drink Tea I believe
Blanc: I myself drink black tea
Vert: As for me, I drink green tea
Luth: My Favorite type of Gun (if I couldn't choose revolvers) would be the flintlock pistol
Tamazaki: About 5-6 packs…I don't have a problem, I swear
Taem and Zest: *drowns in a pool of their own blood* Great…
Alex: Besides the CPU and the Candidates, we honestly don't know, I'm pretty sure that only us Aspirants have theme songs while the APLs are still left to get a theme
Tamazaki:…Sacred Meteor?