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Well Merry Christmas and happy holidays. I eventually got done working my real job and decided to return to this job before writing becomes my real job. Thank you CuddlyChristina.
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She would then take off, with the others serving as backup, so that they could locate their actual belongings and such.
She used her werewolf nose to smell her shoes since she hasn't washed her feet.
Her nose picking up her dirty shoes actually worked. Soon, she was in a room with all the confiscated items. Quickly getting her hands on all the clothes, she signaled everyone else into the room.
After reverting back to her human form, Etoile then handed each of them their particular garb, including Hardy's prized hat. They took their time changing back in their outfits, and once they were all done, they were ready to go.
Charlotte and her nakama would then travel towards the rooftop, and they'd discover a few Marines dealing with a familiar creature. The creature happened to be Penoria, who would give the signal to attack the enemies.
Charlotte rushed towards her cousin, grabbed her by her hindlegs, and spun around to surprise the Marines before landing her foot in their faces.
The first kick was easy. Kicking the next Marine was simple raising her long leg up before he could unsheathe his cutlass.
A third Marine noticed his ally down, before he attempted to attack Charlotte and Penoria.
Suddenly, a small speck exploded making the Marine flinch. It wasn't one of Charlotte's crew members doing that. She turned to the exit and saw the boss.
"That beast, make it roar, girl." He said.
She smirked, before she said, "Don't mind if I do."
Charlotte talked in gibberish to Penoria. What she said didn't mean anything, but Penoria roared like the Marine wanted. All of the Marines fell for the farce that Charlotte tamed her.
She would then charge right after the boss, Donna. Penoria thrust her fists into her, hoping to score a beating on her.
Too bad for her though the firefly guy swarmed her with fireflies. This time they made irritating noises.
"Wrong command. I just wanted this thing to roar. I want to see if I heard its roar before or not."
"Whoops, sorry." Jose replied, shrugging his shoulders.
Charlotte sighed. She once again talked to Penoria in gibberish. This time Penoria roared like the Marines wanted her to. This time...the Marines were quiet.
"I suppose she doesn't want us to be harming the girl accompanying this thing?" a marine asked Donna.
Penoria huffed out her nostrils before lowering her long neck into Charlotte's reach.
Charlotte carefully got on top of her, and Penoria would then swat at a few marines with one of her fairly large hands.
Jose planned this. He put exploding fireflies on his Marines. These blasts nearly knocked Penoria and Charlotte down to the ground.
A Marine tried grabbing Charlotte by her shoulder, but out of her shirt sleeve a set of fangs on a slithering ally sneered at him.
She blinked in surprise upon notice, wondering as to who swooped in to help her and Penoria.
Turns out it wasn't a someone but a something. It was the snake that could inject fatal venom with its fangs.
As the Amethyst Snake slithered from her shirt, it went towards one of the remaining Marines. It would sink its fangs right into him, causing him to fall to the ground and find death at his door.
Charlotte didn't think this fight would end in death.
She watched as the snake returned to her, coiling itself around her neck. Penoria was even bewildered as to how it showed up in combat with them.
Charlotte's instincts told her to jump to the left. She sprung like the ground was on fire. The ground soon was lit on fire by an exploding insect.
It was Jose's fireflies that caught them by surprise, as he simply grinned by saying, "Let's see how you can handle playing with fire."
Charlotte felt her eyes moving fast and her palms sweating. If she had some of her mother's abilities, she and Penoria could possibly outsmart them.
"That's it! Abilities!" Charlotte shouted. She just remembered her seastone weapons.
Taking them out, she was ready to attack her enemies alongside her cousin.
Jose backed up a little when Charlotte revealed she had seastone onhand. It wouldn't take long for it to come into contact with the fire, cooling the area to his shock.
He knew his fireflies didn't have any chance of hurting her now.
Seastone sword in hand, Charlotte jumped off of Penoria, and watched as Jose took out his sabre. However, it seemed possible that the seastone would be enough to subdue him instantly.
His swings were slow and not very intense, maybe due to seastone weakening him.
"You're not so tough now that I've neutralized the hell out of you." Charlotte said with a grin. She would swing at him, giving him precise strikes, and allowing him to nearly sink to the ground in defeat.
Jose felt less like a boss and more like a bug who fell off his perch spot.
"Hmph. I've expected a lot better from you." Donna said, angrily crossing her arms.
"Good, I beat the guy who blackmailed me into a race-not saying I wouldn't have been excited racing. I just I don't do things because someone makes me do it." Charlotte sheathed her weapon. She made eye contact with the smug woman named Donna. "Now who are you and where the hell did you come from?"
"Oh, I just happen to work as a fellow Marine." Donna replied. "Not to mention, I've heard a bit about how you and your friends have betrayed us."
"Don't look at me, my mother was the one who betrayed the Marines, I'm just her stepdaughter. And before Henry betrayed you he helped save a town from cult monster summoners, which is your job to deal with so...your welcome." Charlotte replied.
Donna scoffed. "Is that so?" she asked with a snarl.
Charlotte had her sharp claws out while Donna ordered her men and women with her hands to back away. It was a big boss versus captain fight.
Taking out what appeared to be a whip-sword hybrid, Donna noticed as to how Charlotte had morphed into her wolf form. Charlotte made the first move, charging for her and clawing her on one of her thighs.
Donna looked at it, pursed her lips together, and then didn't react when a red light came out. That light vanished after she swung her blade Flinch would use if he was still alive.
Charlotte was hit by the whip-blade, earning a mark on one of her shoulders. Donna stood there after inflicting the hit and rolled up her weapon.
However, she was ready to attack again when Charlotte narrowly dodged her strike, and clawed at her a few more times.
Donna felt what felt like three wasp stings in her wrists.
"How dare you...?!" she muttered, before attempting to attack Charlotte again.
Charlotte felt like her opponent's jabs were too slow because she had good training with Hesoi.
Though she got a hit, Charlotte fought back, even going so far as to sinking her fangs into one of her shoulders. That prompted Donna to grit her teeth in pain.
That didn't faze Donna too much as she soon grabbed Charlotte's fangs and squeezed. Charlotte growled at Donna's attempt at yanking them out.
But Donna still was bleeding blood from her shoulder. She wound up clutching her wound, which was enough for Charlotte for to mercilessly claw her in the face.
Donna used this pain to grab Charlotte by the foot and flip her over.
Donna hardly had enough to time to see what the transformed wolf girl would do to her. Charlotte then took out her seastone sword, and jammed it into the middle of her throat.
'She should be dead after that. No one could survive a seastone sword to the throat.'
Charlotte morphed back to her human form, and saw that Donna was now dead. She also noticed Penoria coming over towards, giving Charlotte a smile.
All her other nakama were stun and speechless. Surrounding them were Marines thirsty for blood.
"Get that wench and that beast!" one of the Marines exclaimed. Before Charlotte and Penoria could do anything, though, their nakama soon became alert.
Hardy slowly morphed into a plushie looking human size pink bubblegum before bouncing in front of his captain and her cousin.
"What the hell is this? Some kind of blob?" one Marine asked in confusion.
Frisk also helped out using his powers to create blinding exploding dust particles in the Marines eyes.
Most, if not all of them, had their vision temporarily blinded by the particles. Etoile also began to use her blood manipulations skills, as well.
She used her claws when a Marine fired a bullet. Stray it was, accurate to her cheek it wasn't.
She would then charge at him, her claws slashing right through his torso.
Last was Henry, the weakest of the crew, unsheathing his own saber against another Marine.
His opponent also drew his own sword, and the duo would often parry, trying to see who would finally make the hit. After several tries, Henry slashed and stabbed at one of his numerous former associates.
Henry flinched with regret hurting the Marines just following orders.
"I'm sorry..." he said with genuine remorse. "Why...are you helping them?" the wounded Marine asked.
"Because I'm tired of all this bloodshed." Henry replied.
"You fucking idiot. She's killed five of us on this roof." Those were the Marines last words before collapsing dead on the ground.
Henry felt his teeth chatter as he stepped away from him, heading towards Charlotte and the others.
Charlotte pulled him in even though her eyes were fixated on the stairs because below the floors were rumbling.
"Follow me!" she exclaimed, and with that, Henry and the others followed her lead downstairs. It was unclear if Penoria would follow them down, though.
She didn't. Instead, she followed the sound of a whistle blow clearly her father Hesoi.
Temporarily splitting from Charlotte and the others, Penoria headed out to locate where Hesoi and his whistle-blowing was.
Not far from the base, there was a man who created a two wheel metal machine that could move faster than a horse.
He briefly spotted Penoria, before bringing his attention to the mutiny on the Marines's base.
And while distracted by that mutiny, Charlotte hopped on his bike and put her feet on the pedals. Her feet were actually making the machine move.
"Hey, who are you? And what are you and your friends doing here?" the man asked. "We just needed a ride out of here. We've detected one of my nakama heading towards a familiar face of mine." she replied.
The machine finally moved, but Charlotte abruptly stopped it. She didn't know why but her conscience was telling her to try communicating with this man-conscience's didn't deviate or make sense, they explain right from wrong.
"Dammit, this thing won't work!" she exclaimed out of annoyance.
"It does work. Although, that's mine and I don't know why your driving it."
"Well it basically starting moving and I suddenly stopped it from out of nowhere." Charlotte replied.
"That's because you put your foot on the gas then took your foot off of it. What your on is a two wheeled horse with the power to move and not move, no reigns and no will of its own. Now get off my machine and lea-"
Charlotte disobeyed him putting her foot down and letting the machine zoom out of his shop.
"Hey! Come back!" he exclaimed. "I haven't even finished yet!"
Charlotte would soon catch up with Hardy and the others, and she suggested that they'd find Penoria and Hesoi.
"Didn't Hesoi say he was only there to protect his daughter not join his nieces crew?" Hardy asked.
"Well...I guess only Penoria. Considering she's already waiting for us." Etoile replied, prompting the others to nod in agreement.
The crew would soon be able to find Penoria, who had briefly encountered Hesoi.
There she was in her beast form, trying to smile in an unpleasant looking way.