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Introduction: I wrote this because if I continued on my other story, then things will get a lot less action-y. Everything is different, well, almost everything. Erm. History changed because some weird dude messed with a time machine. Yeah.
"Hmm, someone must've left it here," Peppy picked up the tunic and examined it. Turning it upside down, some money fell onto the ground. Peppy curiously picked up the gold and silver coins.
"That's cool. Suppose we can buy some stuff from the village before we get the loot?" Fox asked, taking a coin from Peppy. Peppy shoved all the coins in Fox's paws and picked up the staff.
"Loot? Big vocabulary for such a small brain," Peppy said, waving the stick around. Suddenly, it expanded and Peppy jumped back.
"Nah, big vocabulary for a small ego. I wouldn't say the same about you, though," Fox smiled, dropping the coins in his pocket and tucking the tunic into a backpack he brought along.
***
"Loot? They must be space pirates," Krystal whispered to herself. Noticing through the waterfall there were two figures. An orange fox, quite uncommon, since Cerinia only had blue ones, and a rabbit. Krystal stared as the fox took her tunic, "What the. HEY!"
"Uh-oh," the rabbit said, seeing Krystal jump out of the waterfall, still unclothed.
"Gimme back my tunic!" Krystal shouted, concealed neck down in the water. The orange fox got the tunic from his pack with no great hurry as the rabbit stared at her. The fox threw the tunic at her and she caught it, slipping it on quickly.
"Then, I would suppose this is yours, too?" The fox took the staff from the rabbit and handed it to Krystal.
***
"Whoa, hey!" Fox choked as the blue vixen tackled him to the ground with the sharp staff pointed as hit neck. Peppy drew his blaster.
"Hey, no movements, or your buddy here gets it!" The vixen hissed. Peppy stopped.
"What do you want?"
"For you to get back on your ship and leave this planet immediately!"
"I guess they don't like guests," Fox chuckled, apparently unconcerned that an animal was about to slice his throat. The vixen gave him a glare.
"I like guests, but I hate looters."
"What are you. Oh, that. We meant the fuel cells," Fox, without warning, grabbed the staff and tripped the vixen over. He put her in a gentle headlock and signaled Peppy to put away his gun.
"Let me go, or else you'll regret it," the vixen growled. Fox clicked his tongue.
"I don't want to hurt you, but you want to hurt us. Now, get it through your thick skull that we are not here to plunder people. We just want either hydrogen or methane fuel cells to get home," Fox handed her staff back and let her go, "Now do you trust us?"
"A bit more," the vixen shrugged, "Your names and home planets, please."
"Fox McCloud, Corneria."
"Lieutenant Peppy Hare, Corneria."
"Lieutenant? Impressive, but not very believable. I've never heard of Corneria," the blue fox crossed her arms.
"Here," Peppy pointed at his jacket, where the symbols were, "Peppy Hare, Cornerian Army Reserve." The vixen nodded.
"I'm Krystal."
"So?" Fox grinned.
"Queen Krystal," Krystal glared. Fox's smirk was wiped off in a millisecond. Peppy extended his hand and shook hers.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Peppy said. Fox rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, naked, you mean," Fox whispered. Peppy elbowed him in the stomach. Krystal raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"Oh, nothing. I was just pointing out how much natural beauty you have for a rich, snooty royal."
"You can get hanged for that," Krystal fumed. Peppy also glared at Fox. Fox smirked again. He nodded his head in the direction of the bushes. Krystal looked hard.
"KOHAN!"
"Whoops. Retreat!" Kohan jumped out of the brush with two other fellow guards and ran off in the direction of the village. Fox double up in laughter.
"Do you have a mental disability or something?" Krystal asked Fox. He shook his head.
"No, I just think he was in there for the entire duration of you being naked."
"So? That's no big deal. The people of Cerinia have nothing to hide, ever."
"Well, Cerinia is pretty messed up," Fox muttered under his breath.
"I swear, another word out of you."
"It's bad to swear."
"What is WRONG with you?"
**
"Mmm, tuna!" Fox impaled the fish with a fork and ate furiously. Krystal did the same with her salmon. Kohan scowled and the two, manner- less foxes.
"Mashed carrots?" Peppy looked at the plate of orange goo, "Yum! Erm, can I have a straw?" A butler handed him a wooden reed. Peppy frowned but slurped anyway.
"Uh, so tell, me, Lieutenant Hare, what's life like on your home planet?" Kohan cleared his throat, still scowling at Queen Krystal. Peppy gulped down his carrot slush and thought for a moment.
"Um, we have boxes were we can receive messages. They're made of plastic, a synthetic material. We don't have much more except for the fact that we have lots of new technology. Life is strange; marriages don't really last long," Peppy shrugged and went on with his platter.
"I was really expecting a life story, Mr. Hare."
"Well, don't. I hate storytelling."
"Mmm, good food," Fox said, waving a piece of tuna around. Krystal, who had taken to sit beside him, nodded.
"Yeah. It's good to live near the sea when you're addicted to fish," Krystal chewed slowly, "Maybe I should show you around the royal kingdom."
"Oh, we don't plan on staying that long," Fox shook his head politely. Krystal bared her teeth.
"Do you dare disobey me?"
"Uh, no, not really, since you control my fate now."
"That's better."
"Do you usually threaten visitors from another planet?"
"You got lucky. If I didn't like you, you'd be hanging from a noose fifty feet high," Krystal smiled. Fox shuddered involuntarily. Krystal chuckled her musical laugh, "Not really. More like eight or nine feet, but still. Hey, what's in the bag?" Fox gulped down his food and picked up his pack, which was under his chair. He opened the zipper and took out the contents. Kohan watched, wide eyed, as Fox dropped the items one by one on the table carelessly.
"Hmm, lets see. Emergency food packets, first aid kit, blaster gun, ammunition, grenades, a rope, and a spool of yarn for some reason," Fox picked up the last item and look over the table at Peppy, "I think your knitting supplies are in my pack."
"Uh, I don't know what you're talking about," Peppy blushed.
**
"Wanna go for a dip?" Krystal asked. Fox nodded.
The ocean was wide and clean, with small waves rippling the surface. The sun was right in the middle of the sky, and three dots were on the beach, chattering calmly: Krystal, in her tunic, Fox, in his jumpsuit, and Peppy, in his jumpsuit. Not much of a fashion group.
"Er, on second thought, no," Fox said quickly as Krystal motioned to take off her tunic.
"Why?"
"Well, aren't you embarrassed that two strangers are going to watch you strip down?"
"A bit, yeah, but so?"
"Ugh, seriously, you people have issues." Fox shook his head, "Don't you have some kind of swimsuit?"
"Yeah, I do: My skin and fur."
"Oh, never mind. I just go swimming in my underwear," Fox took off his vest and jumpsuit, revealing white boxers, which Peppy snickered at, and jumped into the water. Krystal shook her head, took off her tunic (Peppy stared at her back until she was in the water) and jumped in after him.
Fox wasn't much of a strong swimmer, so he just floated around the surface. Krystal, however, was seen diving deep into the water and re- surfacing a few minutes later.
"Here, eat this," Krystal handed Fox some black seaweed. Fox pretended to retch. While his mouth was open, Krystal forced the slime into his mouth and she squeezed his snout shut relentlessly until he swallowed it. Fox really retched this time.
"Blah! If you weren't royalty I'd smack you in the face," Fox muttered. Krystal giggled and pulled him under the waves with such strength Fox was sure she worked out at least five hours a day, "Bloop?"
"Relax, sound carries well in water, so speak, and that seaweed I made you eat is full of oxygen in condensed solid form. Just burp and you'll be able to breathe," Krystal smiled, her voice distorted, but audible.
"Um, are you naked again?" Fox asked, his eyes shut, "What are we doing?" Fox burped.
"We're going to kill a tuna fish!" Krystal smiled, swimming faster into the blackness of the ocean, "Open your eyes, fool. I don't think you'll be able to protect yourself when you can't see."
"Erm, how big is this fish?" Fox asked, opening his eyes. Krystal took a look back at him as she touched down on the muddy ground under the sea. It was hard to walk, since the friction and the viscosity of the water didn't quite allow it, and the seaweed and the rocks provided impossible obstacles to get over.
"Eh, about, say, a ton or two. I've been wanting to pole this guy for weeks now," Krystal said, raising her staff. Fox gulped, then burped again.
Almost out of nowhere, a large, slivery fish with cold gray eyes, five times the size of Fox streamed out of the inky waters. Krystal sliced its stomach as it swam by, spurting blood and staining the salty ocean. Fox screamed and ran, stupid as it is, from the fish as it charged again, now aggravated. Krystal didn't seem concerned; she just impaled the fish in the eye and the fish itself flopped on its belly and floated to the surface slowly, the blood and fluid brain matter of fish making the dark sea more inky than it's supposed to be.
"I feel the seaweed dissipating now, lets go up and get Kohan to bring the fish to shore," Krystal pulled on Fox's ear and led him up. Fox broke through the water sputtering.
"Are you crazy? That thing could've eaten us!"
"Mmm-hmm. What's fun without a challenge?" Krystal smiled, but she rolled her eyes as Fox fainted.
**
"Are you awake now?" Krystal chuckled, pinching Fox in the cheek.
"Ow! You have strong fingers," Fox groaned and coughed as he got up from the bed. He saw himself in Krystal's room, "How long have I been asleep?" Krystal shrugged and sat down beside him.
"About three days."
"What? Are you serious? I've been in this bed for three days?"
"Yeah," Krystal grinned deviously, "You talk and mumble in your sleep, you know."
"What?" Fox swung his legs to the side of the bed and sat next to Krystal, "You visited me? How nice." Krystal frowned.
"What are you talking about? I sleep in this room, too," Krystal grinned again, seeing the expression on Fox's face, "What? Is sleeping with a female illegal in your home planet?"
"No, just abnormal."
"Are you calling me abnormal?"
"No. You can get so spoiled sometimes," Fox smirked.
"I know, but I'm just having some fun with you," Krystal smirked, too, pinching Fox in the cheek again playfully before dragging him, literally, to the dining hall.
**
A/N: I think this is about to get bloodier than I was to think. I need some ideas for monsters that they might encounter on their journey to the other three parts of the kingdom. Eh, scratch that. Sorry that I'm not updating as soon as I'd like to, but the midterm exams are really stressing me out.
Introduction: I wrote this because if I continued on my other story, then things will get a lot less action-y. Everything is different, well, almost everything. Erm. History changed because some weird dude messed with a time machine. Yeah.
"Hmm, someone must've left it here," Peppy picked up the tunic and examined it. Turning it upside down, some money fell onto the ground. Peppy curiously picked up the gold and silver coins.
"That's cool. Suppose we can buy some stuff from the village before we get the loot?" Fox asked, taking a coin from Peppy. Peppy shoved all the coins in Fox's paws and picked up the staff.
"Loot? Big vocabulary for such a small brain," Peppy said, waving the stick around. Suddenly, it expanded and Peppy jumped back.
"Nah, big vocabulary for a small ego. I wouldn't say the same about you, though," Fox smiled, dropping the coins in his pocket and tucking the tunic into a backpack he brought along.
***
"Loot? They must be space pirates," Krystal whispered to herself. Noticing through the waterfall there were two figures. An orange fox, quite uncommon, since Cerinia only had blue ones, and a rabbit. Krystal stared as the fox took her tunic, "What the. HEY!"
"Uh-oh," the rabbit said, seeing Krystal jump out of the waterfall, still unclothed.
"Gimme back my tunic!" Krystal shouted, concealed neck down in the water. The orange fox got the tunic from his pack with no great hurry as the rabbit stared at her. The fox threw the tunic at her and she caught it, slipping it on quickly.
"Then, I would suppose this is yours, too?" The fox took the staff from the rabbit and handed it to Krystal.
***
"Whoa, hey!" Fox choked as the blue vixen tackled him to the ground with the sharp staff pointed as hit neck. Peppy drew his blaster.
"Hey, no movements, or your buddy here gets it!" The vixen hissed. Peppy stopped.
"What do you want?"
"For you to get back on your ship and leave this planet immediately!"
"I guess they don't like guests," Fox chuckled, apparently unconcerned that an animal was about to slice his throat. The vixen gave him a glare.
"I like guests, but I hate looters."
"What are you. Oh, that. We meant the fuel cells," Fox, without warning, grabbed the staff and tripped the vixen over. He put her in a gentle headlock and signaled Peppy to put away his gun.
"Let me go, or else you'll regret it," the vixen growled. Fox clicked his tongue.
"I don't want to hurt you, but you want to hurt us. Now, get it through your thick skull that we are not here to plunder people. We just want either hydrogen or methane fuel cells to get home," Fox handed her staff back and let her go, "Now do you trust us?"
"A bit more," the vixen shrugged, "Your names and home planets, please."
"Fox McCloud, Corneria."
"Lieutenant Peppy Hare, Corneria."
"Lieutenant? Impressive, but not very believable. I've never heard of Corneria," the blue fox crossed her arms.
"Here," Peppy pointed at his jacket, where the symbols were, "Peppy Hare, Cornerian Army Reserve." The vixen nodded.
"I'm Krystal."
"So?" Fox grinned.
"Queen Krystal," Krystal glared. Fox's smirk was wiped off in a millisecond. Peppy extended his hand and shook hers.
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Peppy said. Fox rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, naked, you mean," Fox whispered. Peppy elbowed him in the stomach. Krystal raised an eyebrow.
"What?"
"Oh, nothing. I was just pointing out how much natural beauty you have for a rich, snooty royal."
"You can get hanged for that," Krystal fumed. Peppy also glared at Fox. Fox smirked again. He nodded his head in the direction of the bushes. Krystal looked hard.
"KOHAN!"
"Whoops. Retreat!" Kohan jumped out of the brush with two other fellow guards and ran off in the direction of the village. Fox double up in laughter.
"Do you have a mental disability or something?" Krystal asked Fox. He shook his head.
"No, I just think he was in there for the entire duration of you being naked."
"So? That's no big deal. The people of Cerinia have nothing to hide, ever."
"Well, Cerinia is pretty messed up," Fox muttered under his breath.
"I swear, another word out of you."
"It's bad to swear."
"What is WRONG with you?"
**
"Mmm, tuna!" Fox impaled the fish with a fork and ate furiously. Krystal did the same with her salmon. Kohan scowled and the two, manner- less foxes.
"Mashed carrots?" Peppy looked at the plate of orange goo, "Yum! Erm, can I have a straw?" A butler handed him a wooden reed. Peppy frowned but slurped anyway.
"Uh, so tell, me, Lieutenant Hare, what's life like on your home planet?" Kohan cleared his throat, still scowling at Queen Krystal. Peppy gulped down his carrot slush and thought for a moment.
"Um, we have boxes were we can receive messages. They're made of plastic, a synthetic material. We don't have much more except for the fact that we have lots of new technology. Life is strange; marriages don't really last long," Peppy shrugged and went on with his platter.
"I was really expecting a life story, Mr. Hare."
"Well, don't. I hate storytelling."
"Mmm, good food," Fox said, waving a piece of tuna around. Krystal, who had taken to sit beside him, nodded.
"Yeah. It's good to live near the sea when you're addicted to fish," Krystal chewed slowly, "Maybe I should show you around the royal kingdom."
"Oh, we don't plan on staying that long," Fox shook his head politely. Krystal bared her teeth.
"Do you dare disobey me?"
"Uh, no, not really, since you control my fate now."
"That's better."
"Do you usually threaten visitors from another planet?"
"You got lucky. If I didn't like you, you'd be hanging from a noose fifty feet high," Krystal smiled. Fox shuddered involuntarily. Krystal chuckled her musical laugh, "Not really. More like eight or nine feet, but still. Hey, what's in the bag?" Fox gulped down his food and picked up his pack, which was under his chair. He opened the zipper and took out the contents. Kohan watched, wide eyed, as Fox dropped the items one by one on the table carelessly.
"Hmm, lets see. Emergency food packets, first aid kit, blaster gun, ammunition, grenades, a rope, and a spool of yarn for some reason," Fox picked up the last item and look over the table at Peppy, "I think your knitting supplies are in my pack."
"Uh, I don't know what you're talking about," Peppy blushed.
**
"Wanna go for a dip?" Krystal asked. Fox nodded.
The ocean was wide and clean, with small waves rippling the surface. The sun was right in the middle of the sky, and three dots were on the beach, chattering calmly: Krystal, in her tunic, Fox, in his jumpsuit, and Peppy, in his jumpsuit. Not much of a fashion group.
"Er, on second thought, no," Fox said quickly as Krystal motioned to take off her tunic.
"Why?"
"Well, aren't you embarrassed that two strangers are going to watch you strip down?"
"A bit, yeah, but so?"
"Ugh, seriously, you people have issues." Fox shook his head, "Don't you have some kind of swimsuit?"
"Yeah, I do: My skin and fur."
"Oh, never mind. I just go swimming in my underwear," Fox took off his vest and jumpsuit, revealing white boxers, which Peppy snickered at, and jumped into the water. Krystal shook her head, took off her tunic (Peppy stared at her back until she was in the water) and jumped in after him.
Fox wasn't much of a strong swimmer, so he just floated around the surface. Krystal, however, was seen diving deep into the water and re- surfacing a few minutes later.
"Here, eat this," Krystal handed Fox some black seaweed. Fox pretended to retch. While his mouth was open, Krystal forced the slime into his mouth and she squeezed his snout shut relentlessly until he swallowed it. Fox really retched this time.
"Blah! If you weren't royalty I'd smack you in the face," Fox muttered. Krystal giggled and pulled him under the waves with such strength Fox was sure she worked out at least five hours a day, "Bloop?"
"Relax, sound carries well in water, so speak, and that seaweed I made you eat is full of oxygen in condensed solid form. Just burp and you'll be able to breathe," Krystal smiled, her voice distorted, but audible.
"Um, are you naked again?" Fox asked, his eyes shut, "What are we doing?" Fox burped.
"We're going to kill a tuna fish!" Krystal smiled, swimming faster into the blackness of the ocean, "Open your eyes, fool. I don't think you'll be able to protect yourself when you can't see."
"Erm, how big is this fish?" Fox asked, opening his eyes. Krystal took a look back at him as she touched down on the muddy ground under the sea. It was hard to walk, since the friction and the viscosity of the water didn't quite allow it, and the seaweed and the rocks provided impossible obstacles to get over.
"Eh, about, say, a ton or two. I've been wanting to pole this guy for weeks now," Krystal said, raising her staff. Fox gulped, then burped again.
Almost out of nowhere, a large, slivery fish with cold gray eyes, five times the size of Fox streamed out of the inky waters. Krystal sliced its stomach as it swam by, spurting blood and staining the salty ocean. Fox screamed and ran, stupid as it is, from the fish as it charged again, now aggravated. Krystal didn't seem concerned; she just impaled the fish in the eye and the fish itself flopped on its belly and floated to the surface slowly, the blood and fluid brain matter of fish making the dark sea more inky than it's supposed to be.
"I feel the seaweed dissipating now, lets go up and get Kohan to bring the fish to shore," Krystal pulled on Fox's ear and led him up. Fox broke through the water sputtering.
"Are you crazy? That thing could've eaten us!"
"Mmm-hmm. What's fun without a challenge?" Krystal smiled, but she rolled her eyes as Fox fainted.
**
"Are you awake now?" Krystal chuckled, pinching Fox in the cheek.
"Ow! You have strong fingers," Fox groaned and coughed as he got up from the bed. He saw himself in Krystal's room, "How long have I been asleep?" Krystal shrugged and sat down beside him.
"About three days."
"What? Are you serious? I've been in this bed for three days?"
"Yeah," Krystal grinned deviously, "You talk and mumble in your sleep, you know."
"What?" Fox swung his legs to the side of the bed and sat next to Krystal, "You visited me? How nice." Krystal frowned.
"What are you talking about? I sleep in this room, too," Krystal grinned again, seeing the expression on Fox's face, "What? Is sleeping with a female illegal in your home planet?"
"No, just abnormal."
"Are you calling me abnormal?"
"No. You can get so spoiled sometimes," Fox smirked.
"I know, but I'm just having some fun with you," Krystal smirked, too, pinching Fox in the cheek again playfully before dragging him, literally, to the dining hall.
**
A/N: I think this is about to get bloodier than I was to think. I need some ideas for monsters that they might encounter on their journey to the other three parts of the kingdom. Eh, scratch that. Sorry that I'm not updating as soon as I'd like to, but the midterm exams are really stressing me out.