Disclaimer: FFTA owned be me? Heck no! But I really want to own Ritz...
(Guess what? RW is back and he's got the MIBP story back! Woohoo! Man, seems like forever since I've updated a story! Wait no more, viewers! For those of you who are anticipating this story, this chapter is basically the same thing. Just fixed some things and yeah, nothing new really. So just skim down to the bottom of the chapter to reveal your next mission! RW out!)
1) The Mission Posted
Summary: It's been two months since a mission has been posted to a pub. Clans are starting to lose its reputation as a result to lack of adventures waiting for them. Suddenly, there was one...
Clan Ritz enters the Cyril Pub only to see the usual people sitting in tables and doing nothing but talk. The clan leader, Ritz, is desperate for a mission because she's starting to lose herself from time to time. Her friend, Shara, enters with the same expression as her clan leader. She's always the smart one and always helps Ritz in times of peril. But she hasn't done anything worthwhile for two months.
Her other friends, Nina and Catrine, enters as well. Nina is just as optimistic as Shara, while Catrine is the exact opposite. A laid-back viera, Catrine likes to spend time making Nina mad, since they're childhood friends.
Ritz approaches the pubmaster. He had the same grim look for two months now.
"Greetings, Ritz." says the pubmaster.
"Hi, any new missions today?" asked Ritz.
"Nope, no missions." he replied.
"Oh, okay, thanks."
She walks away from the counter and meets her friends sitting down on a table. They can tell nothing has changed by the sad look on her face.
"Anything new, girl?" Shara asked.
Ritz sits next to Nina and scoffs, "No."
"We haven't been in a mission for two months now!" Catrine pouts.
"There's nothing to do in pubs now." added Nina.
Shara puts both elbows on the table, "Well, what do you suggest we do now, Ritz?"
"I...don't know."
While Clan Ritz glooms over with everyone else, a Templar enters the pub with a scroll. Since everyone is doing the same thing as Clan Ritz was doing, no one paid attention to him.
"By the order of Queen Remedi." the Templar said.
Astonished, the pubmaster grabs the scroll. "Well, well, it's about time."
As soon as the Templar leaves, the pubmaster suddenly yells out, "NEW MISSION!"
The countless heads swings toward the pubmasters direction and they started to crowd all over, all except for Clan Ritz.
Shara leans back on her chair, "Well, that won't get us anywhere."
Ritz puts her head down, "Ugh, I don't care anymore."
The crowd of excitement soon turned to crowd of disbelief and clan members, one by one, started to walk away from the pubmaster.
"Hm, that's odd."
Listening to Shara's remark, Ritz puts her head up, everyone is leaving the front counter. She puts her head back down, "It's probably a repeat mission."
Then out of nowhere, Catrine blurts out, "I like Battle Tourney!"
"Yeah, sure you do." Nina said.
"No, really! I do!"
A nu mou and a moogle suddenly pops out of nowhere.
"Pounce him!"
"Kupo!"
The pub just fell silent.
Marche barges in and grabs the nu mou and the moogle away from the pub.
"Sorry, please don't mind them!"
The moogle screams in agony.
"Noooo! Kupooooooo..."
Clan Ritz exchanges glances.
Although it would probably be a total waste of time, Ritz decided to walk to the pubmaster.
"Better not, Ritz." Shara advised.
She ignores Shara and approaches the pubmaster again.
"May I see the new mission?"
Normally, the pubmaster would give it to her, but all he did was study her.
"Excuse me, pubmaster?"
"Well, well, you seem perfect." he pointed out.
"Huh?"
"Are you ready for the challenge?"
"What are you talking about?'
The pubmaster grins and gives Ritz the mission briefing. She had that "I can't believe this!" face.
"What? You want me to be what?"
"Take it or leave it."
She knew this wouldn't do.
"I don't want this mission! But we haven't been in a mission for such a long time! What am I going to do?"
The pubmaster crosses his arms, keeping that grin, "Well?"
Ritz clenches the paper, "Fine." She hands over 1500 gil, already willing to pay up with something, but never for this!
"Thanks." the pubmaster said.
"Yeah, yeah..." Ritz walks away, feeling an inch of embarrassment all around her. She goes back to Clan Ritz.
"Hurray Ritz! You got a mission!" Shara exclaimed, "What is it?"
Ritz just sits down and stares at her clan.
"Ritz? What's wrong? What's the mission?" Nina asked. "Is it Battle Tourney?"
"Is it? Is it?" Catrine said with enthusiasm.
The nu mou and the moogle appears again.
"Pounce him!"
"Kupo!"
Silence fills the pub again. Then Judgemaster Cid, of all people, barges in with that sinister look, and spots the nu mou and the moogle.
"Aha! Mondo and Hastings! I'm here in behalf of Marche!"
The nu mou and the moogle claiming to be Mondo and Hastings exchanged glances. Cid then pulls out two yellow cards and slaps it on their foreheads.
"YELLOW CARD!"
"Wha-what the?" Mondo tries to grab the yellow card.
"Kupo, kupo!" Hastings dances around with his yellow card.
Cid walks away, "Go before I "red"-neck you guys."
Mondo walks away, "Stupid laws..."
"Kupo!"
Clan Ritz exchanged glances again.
"So where were we?" Nina asked.
"Urr..." Ritz attempts to walk away.
"The mission!" Shara's voice made Ritz jump.
"Yeah! What's the mission?" Catrine said.
Ritz blushes, "Well, uh, it's kind of hard to explain-"
"Give me that paper!" Shara takes the mission briefing from Ritz.
"Hey! Shara! Give me that!" Ritz tries to take it back, but Shara's hand is obstructing her vision. Shara reads and widens her eyes, looking at her and then the paper.
"Not bad, Ritz! Not bad at all!"
"Shara!"
"Ooo, lemme see!" Nina and Catrine tramples all over Ritz and fights over the mission briefing. They, too, look at Ritz. Yeah, who would of thought that three vieras be fighting over something in a HUMAN pub? Sounds suspicious, I'd say.
"Shara's right, you're not bad for this mission." Nina said.
"You're going to be that? Wow, I can't believe this!" Catrine shouted.
Ritz turns red, "Catrine! Stop it!"
Catrine climbs up on the table and yells out, "Hey, everybody! Listen up!"
Everyone is minding their own business.
"Get down from there!" Ritz tries to pull Catrine down.
"Hello? I need your attention, peoples!" Catrine yelled.
No one is listening to her.
Catrine sighed and shrugged, "Do I have to do this myself?" She takes off her blouse, revealing her lingerie. Countless heads swung towards Clan Ritz.
"Hey! Look at that viera chick!" a human soldier said.
"Whoa! Is that a new attraction?" a human blue mage said.
Everyone crowds around Clan Ritz, the leader is just devastated.
"No..."
"Great, I got me some people." Catrine dresses back, causing everyone to pout.
"Hey! I want some more!"
"Where did you buy that?"
"Shut up!" Catrine's voice just made them stop.
"Dammit Catrine, stop it!" Ritz can't take any of this!
"Listen up everyone! My clan leader, Ritz, is a contestant for the Miss Ivalice Beauty Pageant!"
Shara and Nina presents the flustering Ritz. The humans starts to agree and applauses. A human blue mage appears with a bag of gil, "Where do I pay the stripper?"
A sword is airborne and the butt hits the head of the blue mage.
"Owowowowowowowowow..."
Shara puts an arm on her blushing clan leader, "I'm so proud of you, Ritz!"
"Shara!"
"Go, Ritz! Go, Ritz!" Shara chanted.
"Go, Ritz! Go, Ritz!" Nina and Catrine chanted.
"GO, RITZ! GO, RITZ!" the humans chanted.
"Go who?" said a random human.
"This is a nightmare!" Ritz screams of agony and runs away from the pub. The pub fell silent.
The blue mage gets up, "Hey, where's the stripper?"
A human soldier knocks him unconscious, "Shut up."
Ritz runs out of the pub filled with fear and shame. She needed to hide, somewhere so no one can see her. What does that point out? Are they really applauding because she was beautiful? "I'm not meant to be beautiful! I'm not!" Why is she making a fool of herself? Why is she running away from her triumph? "Wait, my triumph? I want to be famous for my clan, not for my looks!" She passes by many people and they look at her in confusion, of course they wouldn't know why she was running away from. She wanted to hide; she needed to hide.
Ritz finds an alleyway and hides behind a wall. She hides her face, "Why? Why me?"
"Why you?"
The sound of an intelligent male voice made her jump, "Eek!"
"Kupo!"
Ritz looks around, "Who's there?"
"Over here."
Ritz looks down and sees a nu mou and a moogle right next to her.
"Ahhh!"
"Hey! Don't scream!" the nu mou tries to hush Ritz. "They're going to hear you!"
Ritz tries her best to refrain from screaming, "Wha-what do you want? What are you doing here?"
"It seems that we're on the run." the nu mou said.
"Kupo!" the moogle said.
Ritz recognizes the yellow cards on their foreheads. It's that nu mou and the moogle from the pub! Knowing this, she feels safe at least, no human is around. So she calmed down and sat. "My name is Ritz."
"Hm?" Mondo looks at the girl claiming to be Ritz. "Why are you so calm all of a sudden?"
"My name is Hastings, kupo!" Hastings blurted out.
"You idiot!" Mondo kicks Hastings, "Don't be a gullible little fool!"
"What's your name?" Ritz asked.
"I'm Mondo." said he. Having saying that, he finally realized his mistake, "Crap! ...Oh well."
"Aren't you going to take those off?" Ritz points to the yellow cards planted on their foreheads.
Mondo suddenly changed gears, "What? Just because we're currently on the run? Just because we keep on saying that stupid line all the time? Just because Hastings has no sign of intelligence?"
"Kupo! I heard that!"
"Just because we're the only ones that thinks differently that we have to leave? Just because I spend my time healing! Just because Hastings spends his time throwing stuff at people? Do you think taking off this measly yellow card on our foreheads justifies the meaning of truth?"
Maybe talking to them wasn't a good idea after all, "Well, uh, what do you think?"
Mondo suddenly gets a straight face, "No, because I'm a nice nu mou."
"Kupo!"
"Wait! Time out!" The whole scene freezes except for Ritz and looks at me. (?) "Why are they in the story in the first place, RW?"
Why are you asking me?
"Because I'm asking you!"
Yeah! And...hey! ...huh?
"I'm waiting!"
(Sigh) They're your coaches in the Miss Ivalice Beauty Pageant.
"What?"
I still don't have your phone number!
"I will! Just wait until this chapter is done!"
...Really?
"Yeah!"
Hehehehehehehe, oh ahem! Ritz turns to Mondo and Hastings, they're arguing.
"Uh, excuse me, guys?"
They both stop.
"Are you guys my coaches in this Miss Ivalice thing?" Ritz shows them the paper showing the mission briefing.
"Hey! Thought you never asked!" said Mondo.
Hastings goes on Mondo's shoulders, "Yeah, kupo! We're the best kupos on fashion!"
Mondo glares at the happy Hastings and shrugs him off.
"Owie, kupo!"
Ritz sighs of disbelief, "I wish I were a Judge..."
(End of chappie 1! Okay, now that you're at the bottom of the chapter, I want to continue my so-called "Search for the Ivalice Beauty" campaign. For those of you who are already contributing, I can't thank you enough. But I need more "eligible" contestants! I really want this story to be a success because I've been planning this for so damn long, and I need all the help I can get! That's you! Wanna contribute? Just go to my profile for details... Until then, R & R and enjoy the story!)
(...I still hate this format...)