Awakening

"Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhh, where am I?" inquired a very groggy Lina. She had awoke in a small room on the top bunk of a bed. On the bunk below, Gourry was still snoring and dreaming about having a huge feast to himself-if his mumbling was any hint to what was going on. Her cape had been lied in another part of the room. A little cactus with a face on it sat in a pot on the other side of the room. For some strange reason there was a leaf that read Cactus Diaries tacked onto a pole near the stairs.

Lina decided to see what was downstairs. She walked down and found a small room with a table and four chairs as well as a wood burning stove. Another room was over to her left. When she took a look, the young sorceress found a library filled with books on battle, history, farming, golems, and different types of monsters that she'd never seen before.

Lina then went upstairs to check on Gourry and pick up her cape - - with all the treasure hidden inside. She found him still sleeping, so she went for her cape. But suddenly, the sorceress had the biggest scare of her life.

"All of my treasure's gone!" she screamed, waking Gourry in the process.

"Lina, what's wrong?" he asked, "And what are you wearing?"

Lina looked down at her clothes. Indeed they had changed. She was now in a purple dress with an Amazoness cut at the bottom. Around her neck was a leather cloth that came down to make a bra-like piece at the top of her dress. Long leather gloves without fingers were on her hands, and brown soled white shoes and long tan socks with a rope topping them covered her feet.

She then took a peek at Gourry. "Hey! You should talk, skirt boy." For Gourry was now in a green skirt with some kind of red squiggly line on the bottom. Some red armor went from the area of his swordbelt, and traveled nearly down to his knees. The top of his torso was covered with red armor with an eye symbol in gold. Red fingerless gauntlets with gold buttons were on his arms. He had a shirt on, but only under his armor and the short sleeves, leaving some of his muscular chest exposed.

Gourry blushed. Then he looked at Leena and commented, "Dang, that leather thing you're wearing around your neck sure accents your flat chest."

"Fireball!" screamed Lina. Instantly, the swordsman was torched. "That'll learn you - - like it ever has before."

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Downstairs, they found a chest with 100 coins called Lucre in it. Figuring it to be some kind of currency, Lina kept them. Then they went outside to search the parameters of the house. It turned out that the building was actually a hollowed out tree.

North of their current position was a stone building filled with shops. The first one was for forging and tempering weapons. The second made golems and Golem AIs (called Logic Blocks) out of old weapons and armor. Finally, the last one was for creating instruments out of metals and elemental coins from the eight spirits.

Lina and Gourry were lucky to find a heaping pile of different metals, old weapons and armor, and coins lying inside. Instantly, they made themselves each a suit of Ishe Platinum armor, as well as a magic pendant and mantel from the same metal. Although the armor and accessories disappeared when they put them on, the defensive power could still be felt.

East of the shops was a corral with five monsters inside. There was a yellow bird called a Chocobo named Moon GS, a black creature with a bull dog face, goat horns and a lion's body called a Chimera beast named Liger 0, a big red seal/fish hybrid called a Big Baby named War Shark, a blue Flying Dragon named Storm Sword, and a small green caterpillar called a Silkspitter named Molga. War Shark, Liger 0, and Storm Sword were sent out into the yard to graze, while Moon GS came with Lina and Gourry on their inspection.

Finally, south of the house, was an orchard. If they gave the giant tree named Trent some seeds - - up to four - - he'd produce two pieces of fruit or veggies per seed. Finding they had a trove of seeds available, Lina gave some to Trent-hoping for some good results.

With that out of the way, they decided to see what lied beyond the area. So they left the parameter of the house. On the way out, they passed a small green creature that was completely made of leaves. He called himself a Sproutling and warned them of the dangers that were in the outside world. Lina, as usual, didn't quite care and Gourry didn't quite understand.

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About a day later, the two came upon a small village called Dominia. It was quite a beautiful and pastel looking. They first noticed a bar, a weapons shop, the shop owner's house, an inn, and what appeared to be a vacant house.

Shortly after entering, they witnessed a boy with an onion for a head asking the name of a young man with brown hair and blue eyes. He had on a dark green hat with a golden belt and two feathery golden side ornaments, light green pants, a dark blue tunic, leather gloves and boots, a golden belt, a sand colored cape, and a yellowish stone breastplate. On the breastplate was a light blue jewel. The man turned to the onion kid, and said, "It's Rooks." Then he went inside.

Curious, Gourry and Lina went inside. But at the door, they collided with a humanoid fish with orange scales. He had on a green shirt with red borders at the bottom and ends of the sleeves that went far down his short legs. A yellow scarf was around his neck. "Please let me through," he demanded of them, "It is nice to share."

Gourry and Lina let him pass. Then, the sorceress turned to her companion and whispered, "I'll ask the fish man where we are. You go for the swordsman in the bar."

Gourry nodded his head. Then, Lina walked away towards the market on the tail of the fish man. He watched her walk away, and entered the bar.

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Well, here's the beginning of our adventure. Originally, the Sproutling gave you the Colorblocks that were used to create Dominia, but I don't want to deal with the artifacts in this parody. We'll just be traversing an already built world using an order of quests that I designed. I really couldn't describe the monsters very well, so just bear with me. They're all named after Zoids from the anime of the same name. And the outfits were designed based on the little black and white drawings in the game book. So they're not exactly as the characters each is playing. Little note for Lina's, by Amazoness, I mean that the bottom part of the skirt has triangles cut out of it, so it looks like a skirt made of a bunch of triangles. You can look at a screen shot for Legend of Mana, or even one for the prequel Sieken Densetsu 3 (never released in America), since each has examples of such a skirt (girl hero in LOM, and Lise/Ries in SD3).