GUILTY GEAR
The Wedding Night
The Series
Conceived and Written by: Sheo Darren
Once more: Sheo needs more sleep. Somehow sleeping in bed with half a dozen Kirika, Tessa and Rei plush toys isn't the same as the real girls tangled up in your arms. Awwww.
Rated PG for some violence, inanity, confusion, multiple anime crossovers, commentary, author's self-inserts, dragging the good names and stories of other unsuspecting writers into the mess, advertisement of author's other stories, etc, etc.
Coupling: Ky Kiske and Dizzy.
Sheo Darren does not own Guilty Gear and all the stuff he's ripping off. He is, however, open to the idea of using his name and person and even his created characters in other stories, so long as 1) they portrayed accurately and within character, 2) the max rating is PG and 3) they doesn't participate or is connected to anything concerning hentai or ecchi or perversion. He's even open to getting ZERO punched. Just pair him up with Kirika, Tessa and/or Rei and he'll be very happy to soak up all the abuse.
Wait a minute. Lone Wolf SIX had done it already. Aw.
The Wedding Night Series
Arc One
Loveshorn Knight and Angel Wings
Episode 2: Staying Alive, Staying Alive…
Johnny did not like the idea of keeping Ky on the Mayship for a while. In fact, he objected to Ky being kept on the Mayship for any while; he objected to the idea of keeping Ky on the Mayship, and he objected to Ky himself.
"Dizzy, he's a cop. Cops and pirates are enemies… well, actually, navy and pirates are enemy, but we're 'buccaneers' too who 'liberate' wealth from the rich to give to the poor –ourselves– and cops chase after us, too. He'd arrest us if he can."
All the Jellyfish girls were nodding in agreement. After all, Johnny was the captain.
The only exception –and a very odd one it was– was May, who was being very affectionate to Bridget at the moment and the latter returning her advances in kind.
"Besides, Dizzy: He's a boy. If he were a puppy, I guess you can keep him–" a vicious hiss from the Pirates' cat, a temperamental little fiend it was; "–okay, maybe not. As a rule I never take in boys; they're too sneaky, stinky, smelly, naughty and definitely not cute and sexy."
More nods to that effect. None of the girls ever thought to think over the last four words.
"So, for the last time, no, we can't keep him, and you'd better not give me those 'Bambi Eyes' of yours because my decision is–"
Johnny cut off his speech when he saw Dizzy staring at him with big, droopy doe eyes which seemed on the brink of a major waterfall of tears: The infamously effectively irresistible 'Bambi Eyes' effect.
Mentally the pirate lord was trying very hard not to succumb: No, must be firm, must present a strong image to the girls, I can't let Bambi Eyes defeat me…
Dizzy's eyes grew even more droopy and sad (if that were possible). The Jellyfish girls were turning into envious little green monsters.
Sighing deeply and acknowledging defeat, Johnny shrugged his shoulders handsomely. "Okay, fine, I'll make an exception. You take care of him and make sure he doesn't get into trouble, okay?"
"Yay! Thanks, Johnny!" The very happy Dizzy threw her arms around Johnny for a big hug.
Johnny didn't think the hug was half-bad –please see Chobits Episode 1, Hideki's thoughts on Chii hugging him, especially concerning a certain part of hers in contact with him–…
…until he saw all the jealous and angry looks on the Jellyfish girls, who were totally envious that Dizzy got to hug him and get her way done.
"Uh, oh."
All the while, May and Quatre didn't notice, they being so busy making out with each other–
Bridget stopped necking May long enough to glare at the sky. "You never stop hammering at that point of mine, do you?"
The deafening music of the second opening theme of Gundam Wing –Rhythm Emotion– made everyone jump.
"You're drunk."
The voice from above laughed. "No, but I didn't get enough sleep again! Beware!"
"Never mind…"
During his convalescence and stay at the Mayship, Ky went through quite a number of incidents, all of which added to his experience of the utterly odd and inane.
First off was a general strike by the Jellyfish girls. Led by April, this faction (which had every girl on the ship except for Dizzy and May) demanded that Ky be expelled from the ship at once– or else. Badly outnumbered, Johnny managed to stabilize the situation by convincing Quatre–
"Will you stop that?"
"Just making sure if you were paying attention…"
–anyway, Johnny convinced Bridget to bring his brother Jack over for a while. April instantly dropped everything she was doing to, stomped over to Jack, and–
"Hey, April's fool! How're you doing, old loser?"
"KISAMAAAAAA!!! OMAE WO KOROSU!!!"
In a matter of moments Jack and April were fighting in the air above the Mayship, Jack's Daitarn 3 against April in The Big Fau. With two almighty Super Robots slugging it out in the sky, all the airborne traffic was hastily getting out of the way while sky sheriffs were screaming for back-up– the Mazinkaiser kind.
Big sweat drops were on May, Bridget and Johnny, who were watching the impromptu battle.
"Maybe bringing my brother along wasn't a good idea…"
"Wow. I wish I had one of those."
"Where did they get those things?"
"DAITARN HAMMER!"
"Wondering what that was all about?" the voice of Sheo Darren interjected all of a sudden. "That story will have a chapter of its own later in this same series."
Deprived of their leader, the still formidable but unorganized girls were forced to accept Ky's presence on the Mayship. Any hard feelings were assuaged by a marked increase of their allowances, a painful compromise by Johnny.
"Damn you," the last muttered under his breath at the sky.
"I heard that."
Having failed to get Ky booted off the ship through people power, next came a wave of ill-meant and even more ill-prepared attempts to eliminate him: Namely, by assassination.
The first inkling Ky had that all was not well was when Dizzy gave him a dinner June –one of the pirate girls– made for him. The smell alone told the Frenchman that the 'meal' was laced with extremely generous servings of spicy stuff. After thanking Dizzy immensely and telling her to convey his appreciation to June, Ky secretly dumped the dish out the window… as the ship passed over Lake Baikal in Russia…
The next day, everyone was watching the news about the mysterious circumstances that turned Lake Baikal into a virtual Saharan desert.
"…And the only evidence of unnatural work here is a plate found in the middle of what was once the lake's deepest portion." The reporter held up the said plate.
"That looks like one of our plates, Johnny," Dizzy said.
"How on earth did it end up there?"
Aside, June aimed a poisonous glare at Ky.
"The next time…"
For the next week, Ky had to dodge ever increasing and brazen 'assassination' attempts. After he began to dump all the food he received out the porthole or flushed them, the girls changed their tactics. They would set accidents to happen just as Ky passed by –an old grandfather clock would fall on him, or a mechanical cuckoo bird would dive-bomb him, or how on earth did I drop that pitcher of hot chocolate on–
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Meanwhile, April and Jack were engaged in a hotly contested duel over the PC console: Eternal Fighters Zero (Dark Moon Sequel).
"This time… you'll lose!"
"Says you!"
"Oh, yeah? Take this: Reppuken!"
"Roman Cancel, then Volcanic Viper!"
"Recovery, then Super Heat… God Finger!"
"Summon my Striker, the scooter girl from hell!"
Don't ask. Don't tell.
Due his self-imposed fast, Ky was gradually growing thinner and weaker. Kind soul that she was, Dizzy took it upon herself to cook him some food that wasn't poisoned or anything.
Unfortunately, the well-meaning girl was not adept at cooking. In fact, 'not adept' was too kind a phrase. Disastrously calamitous would be better apt.
After twice burning the kitchen –and nearly setting fire to the entire ship itself–, numerous failures and quite a number of frustrated attempts by the cook to get rid of her, Dizzy managed to conjure a meal that wasn't burnt or mutilated.
Unfortunately again, she had gotten the recipe from a certain aspiring blue-haired martial artist girl who lived in Furinken and who also happened to be, at best, an unintentionally expert poisoner.
"Thank you for the recipe, Tendou-kun. It helped a lot. But I wonder why Mister Ky got very sick afterwards… what do you think, Akane?"
"Don't worry too much. I'm sure it's not life threatening."
"Okay…"
While recovering from that near-fatal bout of food poisoning, Ky was wondering what was worse: Jam's Chinese cuisine, or Dizzy's preparations.
"Oh, brother…"
To add to his misery, Necro had never liked Ky.
Of course Necro had never liked anyone save Dizzy and Testament and Zio –the last for reasons that are so obvious. But setting aside the fact that the ethereal succubus was undeniably a very sexy and well-endowed vixen (or at least in her human mode and so suggested in Do It And Die), Necro had never exactly gotten along well with anyone else outside the previously mentioned trio.
Psychotic, prone to overkill and the kind of paranoid the Russians would recognize as one of their own, Necro was dangerous. Being a System Wing accounting for much of Dizzy's firepower –Gamma Ray, anyone?– made him even more menacing.
Now how was Necro prevented from incinerating Ky in the many times they met? After all, Ky did go after Dizzy once. And Necro is not one to forget people like that. See how long he kept a grudge on Sol?
"Mister Hakkai, are you sure this is really necessary?"
"Listen, doll: Either we slap all these warding artifacts on your rabid old wing here and keep him behaved, or we let him be and he fries your boyfriend."
Dizzy blushed. "Ky's not my boyfriend. He's a boy and he's a friend, but he's not my boyfriend."
"At least you get mostly straight pairings. Me, I'm stuck with my threesome buddies. Damn yaoi-loving fan girls and the people who make fortunes on those damn drives of theirs. Why can't someone do a straight one with me once in a while?"
"You mean you aren't gay?" This was posed by May, who looked very much the doubting Thomas.
Cho Hakkai glared at the pirate girl. He so wanted to say, Stupid brat, but the thought of getting hit by May's impressive menagerie of chi animal summons and that oversized anchor of hers gave him pause.
Aside, Bridget was trying to stifle his laughter: "This from the guy who killed off a lot of demons and most of Heaven's army."
"Shut up, Quatre."
"…Forget it. Waste of energy."
"Now you know."
And there was Undine.
No, she was not as violently inclined as her brethren wing. More open to the idea of peaceful coexistence with other intelligent beings, Undine was pretty laid-back and friendly compared to Necro. She was suspicious of Ky, but all guardians are like that: Never trust the boy your daughter is going out with.
Yes, the author made a mistake with The Wedding Night. Undine should not have been so mindlessly violent like that. Sheo Darren was really such a nut, going off like that in the wee hours of the new day, scared stiff of Filipino undead, when like PLAPLAMAN said he was really a–
Sheo Darren cleared his throat diplomatically and tapped his foot thrice in impatience. "Are you finished?"
From where she sat typing at her creator's recently-restored P4 computer, Yuuki tipped her glasses as she grinned unrepentantly. "Hai, Shishou; I'm just adding accurate historical context to the script so people would know the truth. Plus, I didn't know you had so many pictures of Rei Ayanami in your old shared files…"
"How would you like to be grounded?"
"You wouldn't do that, would you?"
"Out. Get out."
Having done irreparable damage, Yuuki scurried out of the room, leaving behind the tease, "And that picture of Rei in her birthday suit was real cute, too!"
"Don't come back here again, ingrate! And I don't have a picture of Rei in her birthday suit, sukebe! I have two of her in a bikini and four in a swimsuit and three dozen in different costumes and a hundred or so in her fuku uniform!"
Grumbling under his breath for giving his creations free will –especially an annoying little twit of a joke on That Man that he was beginning to sharply regret creating–, Sheo wondered if he should offer to exchange Yuuki for another author's created character. Blackheart ZERO's creation Jack seemed okay, but Sheo already had one Jack, and two Jacks is one Jack too much. Hikki (Lone Wolf SIX's creation) looked like Jam, unfortunately, and Sheo didn't like Jam a whole lot so slash that, too.
And Sheo definitely was not interested in any of the super-powered Ranma versions overrunning the multiverse by the hundreds. Shou Tsuzuku's creation was bad enough with Shadow Skill and Open Skill and souma and Yin Skill and the works; God Ranma from Just Won't Die was out of the question!
"Looks like I'll have to put up with that pest for a while." Sheo set his glasses properly upon his nose before typing again…
Undine. Yes. Her.
No problem with hostility here, except where Johnny was involved. The Pirate Lord was the only person she regularly attacked.
"Undine, why did you attack Johnny? He wasn't doing anything…"
"He was ogling me! He just wouldn't stop staring at my chest!"
A long pause on Dizzy's part: "Is that bad?"
"Yes!"
"Why?"
"Why? Um, because… because… because it's bad?"
"Why?"
"Err, it's…. bad because… it's just like that…"
"Why?"
"…"
"Chii!"
Aside, tons of hentai fan fiction writers were planning to take advantage of Dizzy's naiveté and pairing her up with Chii and Black Chii. But then Kaiser Ryouga II shows up for his two cents worth of cameo exposure, shooting Force lightning bolts from his hands and electrocuting the evil writers to dust.
"Hah! Die, lower-level misbegotten second-rate writers! Only I can write stories like that with impunity and skill!"
"What took you so long?" Sheo's impatient voice chided over from the sky.
"I got lost," Kaiser Ryouga said off-handedly as way of explanation.
"Oh. And one last thing…"
"Yeah, yeah: Spare May, please."
"Thank you."
Chisaii404 looks up from where she's comfortably seated on a divan reading a book and eating grapes.
"This is a very, very silly story."
Meanwhile, April and Johnny had an interesting conversation.
"Johnny, Undine is Dizzy's wing! She's not human; she doesn't even have a lower half! Why on earth would you try to pick her up?"
"Why would Johnny try to pick you up?" jeered Jack from the side.
"That's it!" April takes out her sacred silver whip and crucifix and attacks Jack, who's now wearing a black cape and Boris Karloff nightdress. The two face off in a dramatic scene.
"Die, loser twin brother to a bishie cross-dresser!" April was in a vampire hunter mood a la Richter. "You do not belong on the Mayship!"
Jack smiled his fanged Dracula smile. "It was not by my will that I came here. I was called forth by Sheo, who wished to make you look silly."
"Silly? You steal precious server bandwidth, and take it for yourself!"
"Perhaps the same can be said for all fan fiction."
"Your words are as empty as your appearances in the game. The Wedding Night 2 ill needs a side character like you! (who's never shown in the game and whose existence is only given token allusion to in the story, anyway, unlike me who gets to appear once in a while in my buddy's victory sequence)"
"What is The Wedding Night 2?" Suddenly Jack is seated on a throne made up of papier-mâché skulls, holding a glass of wine which he throws to the ground with a CLINK! "Nothing but a miserable pile of puns, jokes, quotes, rip-offs, cameos, crossovers, insane twists and turns, malefactions against fellow authors…"
He goes on for about an hour of this rant while April waits, annoyed and impatient and getting angrier by the second, for his spiel to end.
"…Not to mention the appearance of a side character like you, who's actually lesbian and digs the lead bishie girl of this current arc and your bishie best friend and the captain of the ship and my bishie cross-dresser brother but hates me, a normal guy who's quite nice to people but since you're not a person–"
"I'm not lesbian. So, are we going to fight, or not?"
"–But enough talk! HAVE AT YOU!"
Johnny looked at the two kids ripping off Castlevania like crazy, shakes his head, and wonders if Millia's free for tonight. "I need to get laid…"
The long-suffering Ky had locked himself up in his room to get a semblance of peace and quiet. As the poor Frenchman was trying to console himself that he only had a few days more of this to endure, a noise in the room caught his attention. Thunderseal in hand, a weakened but battle-ready Ky spun around to face this new menace–
Yumi Omura, Takako Shimizu and Chitose Hibiya all smiled at him. "Hello, Ky-chan."
"What? Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Then Ky noticed that the girls were all dressed in lingerie. The really hot and racy type people only dreamed of. He immediately suffered the reaction of any fan boy confronted with such a dreamed-off scene: A nosebleed.
Ky couldn't get out; he'd locked the door. The girls surrounded him and, in a manner exactly like the way Unit-01 tried to convince the equally spineless Shinji Ikari to merge with it and forever have Misato and Asuka and a third girl (the last girl in question being a favorite of the author, her good name will therefore not be dragged into this part).
Yumi leaned on his back and whispered in his ear the most delectable words all guys with manly inhibitions and healthy libidos in the world just want to hear:
"Do me."
Ky fainted.
…And woke up to find himself in his bed, having just suffered a 'you-know-what'.
"Damn," Ky growled as he checked under his bed sheets just to make sure. Yes, it had happened to him. He cursed in French (the language is very fun when it comes to bad words): "Why now, of all times!"
"What 'why', Mister Ky?"
Ky rocketed off his bed and came crashing down. He stared wildly at Dizzy, who looked back at him in worry and puzzlement.
"Is something wrong?"
Blushing badly, Ky began to go into panic mode a la Hideki. "No, no, no, no! Nothing's wrong! I'm okay, fine, whatever…"
"Are you sure you're okay, Mister Ky?"
"Yes!"
"You were moaning and twisting in your sleep. Is that normal?"
"Oh, yes, yes!" Ky was blushing madly, cursing Sheo for having come up with the idea to rip off Chobits. "But I got to sleep well: I'm full of energy now!"
Dizzy pointed to Ky's pants. There was just so much naïve Chii-ness in the way the half Gear girl innocently asked:
"Even there, full of energy?"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The spectacularly loud explosion managed to wake the two people sleeping in the king-sized bed in the neighboring room.
Grumbling to himself, a drowsy Bridget sat up out from underneath the bed sheets and rubbed at his still-sleepy eyes. "Bloody hell, what is it now?"
Beside him, the equally irritated May turned over in bed, trying to wage a losing battle to stay asleep. The next explosion defeated her efforts and woke her up completely.
"April, for the last time, stop it! If you're going to kill Jack, then kill him, fine! Just don't disturb the people who want so sleep or sink the whole damn ship with him!"
"May, Johnny sent April and Jack off the Mayship, remember? They're off killing each other somewhere far away and safe enough."
"Then who the bloody hell is making that entire racket, Quatre?"
"Don't call me Quatre!"
"I'll call Quatre anyone I want to call Quatre, Quatre!"
"Oh, yeah, brat?"
"Yeah, Quatre!"
The two began tussling underneath the covers of their bed, whacking each other with pillows which degenerated into the usual lover's quarrel which degenerated into kissing and stuff that the author will no longer describe as he's too bored and the entire story being PG and all, him being too sleepy…
"You mean to say no one's going to check those noises?"
Tessa Testarossa looked askance at her closest and most adored male 'friend'. "Sheo, you can't just leave the story hanging like that!"
Beside her, Rei Ayanami and Kirika Yuumura were quietly supporting their silver-haired colleague. Before them was a noticeably sleep-deprived Sheo, who was bone-tired from chasing Yuuki away from the computer he was using, only to find out that the modifications That Girl had made were irreversible. He had never been really good at tech maintenance.
"I want to sleep. My dad woke me up in the middle of the night, and now I can't sleep regularly again. Please, girls, just give me this?"
The three girls all looked at Sheo. Bambi-Eyes were not needed. Their combined charms worked well enough when they didn't force it, even more so when they did.
"Okay, okay… I'll see who I can lift…"
Lone Wolf SIX, Hibiki Takane, Blackheart ZERO, Athena Asamiya, TRUE Unknown, Kaiser Ryouga II and Chisaii404 were not surprised to find themselves in the same corridor of the Mayship all of a sudden, walking towards the room where all the explosions were coming from.
"So, Athena, what do you think about this entire premise?"
"Well, if you ask me, Blackheart, it's arguably very silly…"
"I hope he doesn't misspell my name again…"
"I wonder how I'll portray I-Nou in the next chapter…"
"Lone Wolf-san, I thought we were going to the hospital?" (see Chapter 16: Guilty Gear v.s. SNK)
"Yeah, but Sheo healed all your injuries just now, so you're okay now."
"Arigatou, Darren-sama."
"You're welcome."
"You sure there's no real danger here?" That was True Unknown, who was apprehensive and for a good reason.
"Well, technically, it is dangerous…"
Everyone looked worried all of a sudden.
"…but don't worry. Nothing bad will ever happen."
"And what are your assurances about that?"
Sheo appeared in front of them briefly, leaning against the wall and grimacing as he blushed a bit. "Well, Tessa got Kirika and Rei to agree not giving me that massage they promised me the last time if I mess up. Is that assurance enough?"
Everyone stared at Sheo, who blushed some more and began to fidget with his glasses.
"Well, how could I resist? I'm a guy, they're three cute girls I like, they massage pretty well, and I deserve some relaxation! I'm beat up and all from the exams. I need fun! I need them!"
"Right," everyone said disapprovingly.
Insane laughter echoes across the corridors as Ebs (a.k.a. the PLAPLAMAN) races to them, points at Sheo, cackles, "Expressing your hentai tendencies again, Sheo?", laughs some more, yells, "Fear the Box!" and runs away.
Everyone paused to stare at the escaping PLAPLAMAN, then look at Sheo who fidgets some more.
"Sheo, you need a better choice in friends."
"What was that all about?"
"Weird."
"Box? What box?"
"Darren-sama, are you really a–"
"S-Shigau! That's ridiculous, Hibiki!"
"He's blushing."
"Guilty as charged."
"Augh! Help! (various French words calling for help)!"
Dodge! Duck! Roman Cancel! Burst! Fortress Block!
"Yamete! Dame, Necro! Onegai, Undine, St. Tale, yamete! Yamete, yamete!"
Plead! Beg! Beseech! Implore! Entreat! Appeal! Supplicate!
"DIE, SCUM!"
Necro Hammer! Spinning Scythe! Necro's Anger!
"Pervert!"
Razor! Arctic Impaler! Bubble!
"St. Tale don't like you. St. Tale eat you."
Chomp! Snap! Bite!
The six authors and single Last Blade 2 character stared in disbelief at the carnage. Necro was practically frothing at the mouth, one hand launching his energy arrows while the other kept summoning weapons. Undine was not as psycho but was just a close second in launching ice attacks. St. Tale, the normally placid tail, was lunging around for all it was worth, chomping away at Ky Kiske who was dodging like crazy. Poor Dizzy was trying to get her Systems to stop attacking, but as always she failed miserably.
"I take it you downplayed the 'danger'," TRUE Unknown mumbled.
"Thank you very much," Sheo grumbled back.
Hibiki made a move to help Ky but Lone Wolf held her back.
"But, Lone Wolf-san!"
"Don't be rash, Hibiki! The tail alone can wipe you all over the ground! I won't let you endanger yourself for nothing!"
Blackheart wiped away a tear and sniffed. "Such romantic lovers… scenes like this always made me cry…"
Athena patted him comfortingly on the shoulder.
"What we need," said Chisaii404, Kaiser Ryouga agreeing with her, "Is a plan."
A cute girl suddenly appeared out of nowhere: Fellow GG writer Michiku. "I have an idea, guys!"
She looks at Sheo meaningfully, who shrugs and says, "Yes, yes," before using the 'Will and the Word' and summoning…
Zio the succubus.
If you'd ever read Do It And Die, you know why Necro suddenly halted in mid-attack and gaped at the lusciously cute succubus. Undine noticed the sudden decrease in projectiles being flung at Ky and became very annoyed with her fellow System wing, actually thwacking him very soundly over the head.
"Pervert!"
"OW! That was uncalled for!"
"Quit staring at Zio like that!"
"B-B-But… But I like her!"
"Because she's half-naked?" Another thwack resounds.
"OOWWW! Look who's talking!" Necro then blushed when he realized Zio was giggling at him. "Waaaahhh! It's your fault, Undine! She's laughing at me because of you!"
"She's laughing at you because of you, moron! And I'm not half-naked, you pervert!"
Aside, Zio giggles some more.
"Stop that!" Undine tried to whack Zio but missed and hit St. Tale instead. The poor tail –not really that vicious, though her bite certainly is worse than her bark– immediately began to cry.
"Mommy, they're making me cry."
"Aw, poor St. Tale." Touched, Dizzy coddled the poor System as best as she could, considering St. Tale was her tail. "Stop fighting, you two," she scolded Necro and Undine.
The two promptly shut up, though Necro every now and then aimed a cursory glimpse at the giggling Zio.
Ky stared at the blue-haired half Gear girl before him, who despite all bad things that seem to happen to such nice people always managed to be such an angel in the end. Suddenly that cold and arrogant little heart of his began to become bigger, and bigger, and bigger (in literal and figurative senses), and he realized that there was much more to life than chasing after Sol Badguy and Fuenken and that crazy redhead girl, more to life than Ky Kiske ever thought.
And he had found it here.
He found it in her.
Dizzy.
She was surprised when Ky hugged her warmly.
"This is the –what, the latest pairing of Ky and Dizzy?" Blackheart was asking Athena.
"Yes, as of December 7, 2003."
"How cute!" Chisaii404 and Michiku held hands in happiness. "Kawaii!"
"I'm envious," Lone Wolf said.
Hibiki looked at him, looked left and right and around, made sure no one was looking at her except Sheo –who winked and pretended to be smiling at his latest work– and then gave Lone Wolf a quick peck on the cheek. The latter stared at his friend being suddenly comfortable with him –out of character, especially– then grinned.
"I STILL WANT BRIDGET-DIZZY PAIRING!" TRUE Unknown yelled, startling everyone.
The door to the room burst open.
There, furiously radiating a burning aura, long brown hair in tangles and brown eyes ablaze and bed sheet wrapped around her petite frame and the insanely humongous anchor in her hand was a very unhappy May. Behind her was Bridget, blushing in embarrassment at having to get up and out of the bed in the middle of the night.
"That's it! Everyone, get OUT!
"So there will be a wedding?" everyone was asking Yuuki.
"Hai. Next chapter will be the wedding ceremony itself. Sheo's already planning it with help from his buddies."
"I wonder if it's as insane as the first The Wedding Night…"
"Probably, and especially so, if that Ebs guy appears again. And what was that about a box?"
"Not a box. It's 'The Box'."
"Hey, Michiku, can you pass me some hot chocolate?"
"Here you go, Lone Wolf-san."
"Thanks, Hibiki."
TRUE Unknown sat in reserved formality. He was not in any way injured or hurt; he just got the life scared out of him when Burning May (the local version of Burning Batsu) went berserk and tried to Anchor Whirlwind them all. Luckily Sheo had immediately teleported the furious girl, her rather disheveled husband –Bridget in just boxers was a very silly sight–, the couple's bed and some odds and ends to somewhere distant and safe.
Naru Narusegawa was enjoying her bath in the Hinata Inn's hot spring when, of all things, a king-sized bed crashed into the pool.
Sputtering, his newly cut-short blonde hair being damply limp from the water and breaking the surface like a surfacing submarine, Bridget gasped for needed air, cursing a definitely crazy and somewhat twisted sukebe of a writer–
–And then came to stare at Naru, who was in her birthday suit and staring back at this boy who just popped out of nowhere in her bath and–
"EEEEEKKKKKK! PERVERT!"
Thwack!
In orbit around the Earth, Bridget realized something he hadn't thought of before: There were girls in the anime and gaming universes that made May look like the very soul of gentility.
"That girl punches pretty hard..."
Below, frustrated and watching her boyfriend/husband floating the sky, May could only howl: "SHEO!"
"So," TRUE Unknown queried Yuuki, the latter bright-eyed and bushy-tailed from having nagged at her master's frayed nerves all week long, "Where is Sheo?"
Smiling foxily as a pair of pointed cat ears popped out on her head out of nowhere, Yuuki nudged her glasses into place and said: "Where else?"
"Ah, Tessa, that feels so good, thank you… a little lower, Rei; slightly below and left of the small of my back… ooh, pleasant, the feeling… stupid Yuuki… under the base of my neck, please, Kirika… I should get massaged a lot more often…"
Again, in the darkness, a box awaits, glaring at the shadow that surrounds it, muttering like Dick Dastardly's dog Muttley.
No. It is not just a box.
It is The Box.
"Shiatsu massage? Hmm, I wonder…"