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Session 21
Oh, The places you'll go
For Elena and company, things were starting to looking up.
They currently sat at the edge of the desert, with their former camp just a tiny speck in the distance. The coast was just a short distance away, ferrying everyone towards a distant island.
"Stupid rabbit." Lily remarked and pointed her yumi towards Cutemon. "For the last time, stop glaring at me!"
Cutemon didn't answer. Instead, he was more focused on the path ahead than the pissed off succubus plush.
"For the last time, Lily." Elena remarked and stopped herself in front of her partner. "Cutemon is not staring at you."
"He totally is!" Lily shouted and fired her bow off, watching the arrow make its way toward the pink rabbit...
Only for the projectile to be snatched out of the sky by what appeared to be a large avian creature with the head of a human female. A streak of rainbow colored feathers went all the way down its back and into a short tail plume.
"Uh... hi?" Elena greeted and sat down, holding her hand out in the process. "I'm Elena Yuliana. What's your name?"
"SQUAWK!" the bird answered and let forth a near ear-shattering scream for some reason, knocking most of the group back into the desert. It also threw in a sense of deja vu and clarity. As if they could remember stuff that had been long buried in their minds.
"Did that bird have to do that?" Joey remarked and pulled his staff out. He then decided that the best option in this situation was to charge right at the creature. But all this really caused was the shadow scientist getting launched back. "Ow."
He closed his eyes, only to be overloaded by a variety of exotic sounds and smells. A couple of them seemed familiar to the shadow scientist, such as the heavy scents of gasoline and oil, complementing the banging of metal against metal. Yet, there was some sort of mechanical sound mixed in. But as quickly as it had sounded off, it had disappeared.
"Dad?" the shadow scientist whispered and closed his eyes. He then concentrated, attempting to remember what the man even looked like.
Once Joey had done his part, Aegiochusmon got up and slowly approached the creature.
"Grr..." the bird growled and went for the harem mage's fingers.
Terra Archens (Blazing Earth)!
A stream of lava then shot out of his hands and knocked the bird back.
"SQUAWK!"
Once more, another scream was brought forth and knocked the harem mage to the rest of his teammates.
"Mahora. Mahora." Aegiochusmon whispered and closed his eyes. Gone was the warm sands of the desert, having been replaced by a scattered cluster of red brick buildings. Yet, his gaze focused on a small shed. It was probably being used to store a variety of gardener tools. "Why are you showing me this? There is only death and regrets here."
But all he got was a faint mechanical 'whirring' sound.
"Chacha?" the harem mage whispered and watched his vision begin to twist and contort, bringing him back to the sandy desert. "Wonderful."
His teammates gave him a confused glance, but he didn't care at the moment. He and Polly would have to go back and face their demons, for better or for worse.
"My turn." Aaron whispered as he casually threw a potion vial up into the air, watching the contents explode upon him. Once that was done, the detective slowly made his way over to the bird. Unlike Aegiochusmon though, Aaron decided that violence wouldn't really help them at this particular moment. "Is there something we can help you with?"
The bird gave him a confused glance and focused in on Elena.
"You want her?"
All he got was a low squawk.
"Fine then." the detective whispered and walked over to the group. "You're up, Elena."
Elena took a deep breath, turning her attention to the bird. While she wasn't quite sure what this creature wanted with her, she was up for anything.
"Hello again." the gale corsair whispered as she shifted to her infusion form. "Have we met before?"
"Squawk." the bird responded and screeched at Elena, only to find she hadn't budged. "Squawk... chirp squawk caw?"
"Daughter?" Elena asked as she gave the bird a confused stare. "While I don't exactly know who my parents are, could you care to elaborate?"
The bird let out a low caw, but gave a nod afterwards...
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Our story begins a couple of months ago in Tokyo.
More specifically, a small park near Tokyo Tower. There a whole bunch of people gathered together in order to team up. But not this particular group of people. They were a ragtag group of people, with a different mission in mind. In this case, it was gathering up those people.
"Let's get this over with." the bird's master, some asshole of a boy announced as he turned his attention to his reanimated girlfriend. "Alkonost, come forth from the void!"
And with that, the large bird appeared.
"Squawk." she had chirped, ready for whatever stupid request her master would assign today.
"We might need your help with carrying some of the bodies." her master explained as he gazed down at the bird. "Do you think you're up for that."
She gave a squawk, which the boy had taken as a 'yes' for some reason. She never was quite how or why they had been partnered up to each other in the first place. Not that it mattered in her book.
What followed next was a bit of blur. The bird clearly remembered flying off in search of people, but had ignored any that might have been 'sleeping' at the time. No, her attention had been focused on something else.
That something else turned out to be a large rubber bird just laying in the shade. When their gazes met, it was love at first sight. Of course, with love sometimes comes questionable decisions that one makes in the moment.
In this particular instance, a heartfelt talk about the weather and their respective life stories had given way to bird sex somehow. Looking back, it hadn't been the best choice the bird had made. Well, outside of getting bound to a magical book and being forced to be some asshole's summon.
"Uh... I think Alkonost found something." the asshole's girlfriend announced as the two approached them.
"Squawk." she had whispered and got a low growl, which the asshole had interpreted as a sign of a struggle that needed his involvement.
"I'm sorry." he whispered, with not a hint of sorrow or regrets. They only watched as the tome in his hands turned into a long spear. If she had wanted too, she could have chosen to betray her master for the sake of their children. Yet, all that would've have resulted from that was a quick but painful death. So the bird watched on as her partner was repeatedly stabbed with a sword on a long stick. As that all went on, the bird chose to return to the book as asshole's girlfriend found the egg. "We'll leave the egg."
"No!" the girlfriend responded and grabbed hold of the asshole. "We'll take the egg with us."
"Fine."
Reluctantly, the asshole scooped the egg and the two made their way towards the bus. There, they dropped their 'bundle of joy' off and got back to work. Which somehow led to them getting their asses kicked and a troll in a police uniform having a hand get put down his throat in pursuit of a pudding cup. Which was an actual thing that happened that neither party could get out of their memories for quite some time...
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"So let me get this straight..." Elena whispered and took a deep breath. While she didn't want to her offend her potential mother, the gale corsair wasn't quite convinced. "So you're saying that your my mom and that my birth is a result of a fling you had with a large bird... Who my stepdad then killed for some reason."
After saying that, one of those congratulatory buzzers you hear on afternoon game shows rang as Jestery appeared.
"You win, Elena!" the jester announced as Elena gave her a cautious glance. "Not that there was any prize to be given out in the first place."
"Then how did the egg come out?" Elena asked, only for Jestery to give her a confused glance.
"It just does."
With that, Jestery teleported away and the gale corsair gave her possible mother a wave. Seconds later, she faded away and left her to her own devices.
"Let's get this show on the road." she remarked and motioned for her teammates to follow.
Notes:
This rewrite took far longer than it should've. But, I think I prefer this over the original. If nothing else, it's already covered nearly everything that Rantha and Hilda had done.
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Next Time: A showdown on the sands.