Playing his stubby arms sore from pushing buttons. Carbuncle and Arle pressed onward on this quest to retrieve the overdue book. Was it worth it at this point?
Whatever the case was, Suketoudara was having the time of his life. A meteor struck the ground right next to him. Suketoudara wasn't raised in a barnacle, he knew those things were radioactive. Which is why he knew not to clam up and fugu this opportunaty. He touched the rock and then, this is no fluke, he became Angel Suketoudara-fish, dancer supreme.
He became more snappery, improved reflexes, more suited for dances, he could hear the bass better, a better sense of porpoise, among other splashing things nobody ever sawfish. He basically became the most powerful dancing being in the whale world. Scratch that. THE WHOLE WORLD.
Too bad you won't get to sea anemone of it. Miles away from him Arle casually mentioned to Carbuncle she doesn't believe in angels. And Suketoudara lost his power on the spot, which didn't kelp him at all. They had their battle not too long after. And she scalloped him.
Fin.
Chapter 7: No Tricks
It certainly was a great morning to Silvana, no school, no training, no dream that woke her up. Wearing plaid pajamas. Just Silvana and her favorite breakfast: Curry! She couldn't wait to sink her teeth into it. Her mouth started watering. Killjoy in 3… 2… 1…
*Some knocking at the door* *Sigh* "Time to let it grow cold." The knocking continued. "I'm coming!" She put on her mask and dashed across from the kitchen to the hallway to her caravan's door.
To her surprise, there was a behemoth of a canine in front of her. It was red with what seemed to be winged and covered in armour. His face was covered thanks to his helmet, a pair of yellow eyes glowing in the shadow. Sitting on its hind legs it was really tall, he could topple the caravan over if he wanted to. He looked pretty neat.
"Hi there, need something?"
"Down here." Said an unamused voice. Sil looked down, it was a really short girl. Sil found her size kinda humorous, she looked about as old as Amitie, yet so small. She held in her laughter.
"Sorry, I didn't see you there." Blame the van's step. On further inspection. "I didn't order a maid. But go ahead, there's a ladder in the attic if you can't reach-"
"SILENCE!" The maid pulled a scary face, emitted an eerie aura, and pointed her dowsing sticks at Sil. Both Sil and the dog were surprised, Sil more than the dog. But that aura did not go with that height. "FOR YOUR INSOLENCE FOR ATTACKING LEMRES, I SHALL INFLICT A HEX UPON YOU IF YOU DO NOT REPENT!"
Sil, slightly frightened and unsure, figured out who this is based on conversations she had. "Fuh fuh… huh." She chuckled nervously. "I'm guessing you're that occulty girl, Feli?"
"A NAME YOU SHALL REMEMBER ONCE I CURSE YOU THAT'll AFFECT YOUR LOVED ONES IF YOU DON'T DO WHAT I SAY!" Still creepy faced Feli threatened, the sticks still pointing at Sil's head.
Sil stopped fearing Feli, she'd like a small child playing a robber. An overacted robber. "Jokes on you, I have no loved ones!" 'Besides Sig that is… OW! I gotta stop self-belittling myself.'
"What? I was sure you'd have some. I sensed you had many." Feli looked like she couldn't believe she was wrong.
"Whatever. What'dya want from me with your kind act of blackmail? Of which I'm sure Lemres wouldn't approve of."
She was trying tick Feli off now. "YOU DARE INS-"
"I'll listen, no curse needed." Sil told Feli as calmly as Sil wants her to be.
"Lemres is somewhere in town and my dog," Feli said with a slightly noticeable degree of annoyance.
*Whine…*
"Baldanders, followed me again. I want you to tell your ring leader to tell your tamer to take care of him and maybe teach him some manners."
"I'm the ringleader, and we have no tamers. But'll see what I can do." Sil shrugged. "Come'ere, boy." Sil gestured the dog to come to her with a smile.
*Whine* Baldanders solemnly obeyed, as he advanced towards the masked pajama woman.
He stared back at his beloved mistress with his adorable, puppy dog, demon eyes. Feli sighed "You know I'll be back Bal. I gotta take care of things first." The wicked goth turned around.
"Wait." Sil stopped her. "How do I take care of him?"
Feli answer was barely useful. "Bal will explain."
"You're lucky I slightly understand dog!" Sil yelled to the girl at the distance. Baldanders clawed his mistress bye. Who knows how harsh this masked creep will do?
Silvana looked up to the dog who's a bit down. She approached. *Hiss!* "Don't worry, I won't tame you if you don't want if you don't break anything, 'kay? I couldn't care less following Shorty's orders if you don't want to." Sil patted him on the back. "Woof…" The hellhound was relieved to hear that at least. "I'll get changed, then we'll figure something out." Sil pointed backwards into the hall. But she stood there for a few more seconds looking and thinking about some use she could get out of Baldanders.
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…Woof?" The hound tilted his head.
"Do you have fire breath?"
"Woof?"
"To reheat my curry."
"Yap."
"Sigh."
*Later*
"Fetch!" Sil threw the disc she dug out of the circus' storage. Baldanders ran after it. Sil continued their little conversation. "From a different world too, huh?" "Woof, woof?" "Through sheer determination!" Sil said with bravado. "And a lot of luck." The bravado deflated a bit. "Little luck." Thoughts of several no results and wrong worlds visited raced back to her mind. "Bad luck. I'm happy enough, for now, I guess, I don't have a reason to return to my world yet. How you get here?" She asked to suppress her annoyance. "Yap, yap, yap, yap!" "Whoa! Was it by complete accident?" *Hiss!* "Okay, okay sorry I asked."
Just about Sil was to throw the disc again something poked her back. It was Sig's ladybug, who occasionally accompanied the red-armed bug lover. The bug was a swell guy most of the time and usually kept out of conversations and fun time.
But that's a different story, for the bug carried a letter. "Shoot! How could I forget? Gimme a sec, Balders." Sil snatched the letter and the bug went home.
"hey sil oshion prince wants my help agaim so i gotta call it off sorry. i promise next time well spent som time togetter. Sig."
This was about the third time in a row. Sil flared up little. "Stupid shrimp!"
"Woof." Baldanders replied. Distracting from her anger and an incoming rant. And quite possibly more… "Woof? Woof."
"No, I'm not nuts for him! He's just my only friend!"
Baldanders didn't mean to tick her off. *Whine* "Yap, yap, yap."
"Sorry, your accent made a few words gibberish."
Baldanders repeated.
"'Sorry for being concerned. Mistress gets kinda scary obsessing over that no good, not enough, Lemres'? Is that what you said?"
"Yap!" The titan confirmed.
"Why?"
"Woof woof woof." And that explained everything.
"Ah."
*Lunch*
"She did what?" Silvana asked as flipped a few burgers on the barbeque.
*Whine*
"And it got stuck in your coat?"
"Yap."
"How I am supposed to react to that if I can't call Feli out on it?"
"Woof."
"Okay, I'll try: That's ruff."
*Hiss! Hiss!*
"Oh come on. You do know what I am, right? I know I'm not good at it but gotta joke sometimes." Sil looked down. Oh yeah, burgers! "Your's done." Baldanders' tongue stuck out in anticipation. "Here."
Baldanders munched it. He didn't have to chew long before it went down to the tube. The whole burger fit in his mouth. It didn't go unnoticed.
"Eh. I forgot you're bigger than me. Way bigger." Sil was kinda hungry for the burger below her, it was a really small grill, only has place for two burgers. But beastie here probably needs more. There's more where they came from, but still. She asked him about this dilemma.
His answer was an excited *Yapyapyayapyapyap!*. That roughly translates lates to: (Why yes, Madam. I do would like another burger if you don't mind.) Sil begrudgingly gave the second one to the dog.
It went down the hatch. "Woofwoof~" He thanked. "Woof. Yap yap yap, woof?"
"Didn't get that. 'Why I'm so nice?' Is that whatcha said?" Baldanders nodded. Sil didn't know how to answer this, maybe there was something lost in translation? "It's nothing special giving you that burger." Baldanders asked his question again. Sil decided to just directly answer him. She gave it some serious consideration. "Besides, admittedly, fearing your mistress' wrath?"
"Woof!" After a year of studying you'd come to the conclusion that it means 'Yes!'.
Definitely some translation issue at play. But it gave Sil something to think about. Giving some more food who needs more food is normal right? She's not some soulless creature, was she? She'd like to think despite her best attempts to differentiate herself, Sil liked to think she had her heart. Granted her own heart was clouded in darkness for the longest time through no fault but her own. But it's more of a see-through mist now. At least that's what she hoped.
"Woof?" The dog said to get Silvana out of her train of thought and remind her he'd had a question.
"My answer is: Iunno." She said with an academy award winning shrug.
*Later*
The rest of the day was kinda boring for Silvana. Doing mostly things the dog wanted. Thankfully she saw the dwarf queen Feli in the distance.
She spoke to Baldanders one more time one-to-one. "Looks like your mistress is back. Can you convince her to not to attack me in the future, Balders?" She requested that favor as sweet as possible.
*Whine* It disappointed Sil, but she got it.
"Fair enough, I can take you both on." She half-joked.
Author's Soapbox (Please try to read):
I apologize. I do that generally say for everything I do, but this time I mean it more than usual. I feel like I've written everyone slightly off-character so far (Besides Hohow Bird, that one's intentional), despite my best efforts. I even made notes of what the character are like, even ones that probably won't show their faces.
I really want to do Puyo fans justice with an acceptable fic, I'm sure you've noticed they're kinda lacking in quantity. But maybe I'm off myself, maybe you guys think it's passable? I wanna know your opinion on it because it kills me. The ones I'm especially concerned about are: Sig (I just never know when to make him speak), Klug, Raffine (I know she's a massive Jerk with a capital J, but am I overdoing it?), Lidelle (though I'm not entirely sure how I'm doing her wrong), Amitie (I feel like I'm making her too dumb or childish sometimes, I know she's not the brightest but I feel I'm over playing it), Feli (Perhaps fitting of her profession, I can't get into her head, or even process what makes this loony tick, ditto on how she speaks but that might just be my unfamiliarity with seances and divinations), even Sil to extent (trying to emulate jerk Arle from earlier games, but I barely count this one, they're easy enough to excuse away. She's also a borderline OC in my eyes, almost a different person. Still, never sure how much Arle, evil/slightly immoral or something new into it. I fail at the evil bit though) and many others.
Explain in a review if you actually have a review of this chapter or the fic in general so far to go along with it, or PM me. Feel free to complain is all I'm saying, just let me know when I do something wrong. I prefer the stress of knowing what's wrong to the stress of not being sure. The opposite is welcome too I guess.
Author's Notes:
Another one I didn't like. The intention was to show similarity between Feli and Sil. I didn't have the gut or writing chops to follow up on it. The next one should be fun to write at least. It contains something other chapters don't: a small ADVENTURE!
This chapter may prove to be useless in the long run, but that's good 'cause everything that happened so far is all according Xehanort's plan thanks to time travel. But seriously, the filler will cease around 13 or 14. Unless I can make them more relevant like I did with last chapter's ending.
One last thing: I'm playing Okage (on and off), Hyrule Warriors Legends 100% (On break), Bravely Second (on hold), Dragon Quest Heroes 100%, Disney's Alice in Wonderland on DS, 999, Blaster Master Zero (Shovel Knight) and Sonic Mania, and last but certainly not least: Kingdom Hearts. Most of it on PS4, because it dawned on me that KHIII is coming out next year, and I wanna get caught up on that dumb retcon filled swiss cheesy plot. Also I'm creeping ever so closer to getting a job.
So to compress the above for a FanFiction reading audience: Updates'll become more infrequent in the future. But I'll do my best to write when I can.
Deleted Scene: "I might have to cancel hanging out with Sig again." Sig cancels. "I wanted to cancel it!"
Next up: An assignment
