I was Transported To Another World and Became a Yuri Heroine

Chapter Eight

"Can we stick around here a bit? The food is SO GOOD!" Gabrielle exclaimed, the group having visited the Bear Lounge for lunch.

"Did you notice both places are owned by the Bear Girl?" Sinon noted mildly.

"Yeah. Weird," Devas agreed.

Scribe shook her head ruefully. Before she could comment, they saw Helen from the Adventurer's Guild enter the common room, then head towards them.

"Trouble," Sinon muttered.

"Thank goodness you're still here!" Helen said, "There's been another demon sighting, towards the eastern end of the realm."

"Vacation's over, I guess," Gabrielle sighed. She addressed Helen, "Can we get a map?"

"Certainly!" Helen nodded.

"I'd like to buy some supplies before we go," Scribe added quickly.

"Sure," Gabrielle nodded, "meet you at the Adventurers' Guild?"

"Certainly," Scribe agreed as the young woman hurried off.

"Hopefully things will at least be interesting," Devas noted as the rest followed Helen.

It turned out it WAS one of Devas' former servants, a huge lizard man. They defeated it reasonably quickly, then moved on...

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"You BOUGHT this slave girl?" Gabrielle growled, fingering her sword.

"Uh...," the 'Shield Hero' backed away nervously.

"Actually, all Naofumi's companions are slaves," Melty noted.

"WHAT." the girls chorused.

The tanuki girl, Raphtalia, quickly jumped in to defend him, "It's a little more complicated than that! Really!"

The heroines listened rather dubiously as she explained the slave enchantments increased the girls' ability to level up.

"Naofumi helped us alot! Plus he grooms me!" the cute bird girl added.

All the girls looked at Naofumi. "Not THAT way!" he blurted. "Really!"

"I still think we should kick his ass," Devas growled. Gabrielle, Sinon and Scribe all nodded their heads grimly.

"PLEASE don't," Melty sighed as she added, "of the four Legendary Heroes we summoned to save our kingdom, he's the only competant one."

Naofumi winced, "That sounds awful."

Melty shrugged, "Truth is truth."

"All right," Gabrielle decided, "we won't kill or beat you."

Scribe, Sinon and even Devas looked unhappy.

"BUT," Gabrielle said, "you will release all of them once you complete the task you were summoned for." She added, "Or you'll answer to us."

"Yes ma'am!" the Shield Hero nodded vigorously.

"Nice meeting you," the tanuki girl waved as they left.

"I REALLY do not like just letting him go," Devas muttered.

"Coming from a former Demon Queen...," Sinon noted.

"Even demons don't keep slaves," Devas said flatly.

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And sometimes Gabrielle felt like a side character in someone else's story.

"WHERE IS HATSUMI?" the black haired girl growled, weilding an actual glowing katana.

"Eve," the extremely busty blonde in a witch outfit corrected.

"Whichever," the woman sighed.

There was a third woman with a staff, who was holding off Devas with glowing forcefields, oddly enough.

Gabrielle parried the glowing katana with her Hero's Sword, blinking as both flared magically.

"Hazuki! That's Yama Yama energy!" the blond witch noted.

Gabrielle had no idea what THAT meant, either.

"Where is my sister!" Hazuki swung at her again.

"UGH," the staff weilding mage grunted as Devas fought to reach her, "I can't hold her off much longer."

"Can you get their attention?" Scribe asked Sinon, nodding to the two swords women.

Sinon gracefully drew her bow, and sent arrowes whizzing by BOTH Gabrielle and the mystery woman's faces.

"Ack!" both women jerked back.

"WE DO NOT HAVE YOUR SISTER!" Scribe yelled. She paused and added more normally, "In fact we have no idea who that is."

The katana girl lowered her sword slightly, "Really?"

"No idea," Gabrielle agreed.

"But you all have Eve's energy on you," the busty witch noted.

"Lilith can track Eve by her energy," the staff mage noted.

"What does this Eve look like?" Scribe asked reasonably.

"She's Lilith's sister, blond haired too but long and straight," Hazuki said.

"Oh hell," Gabrielle realized.

"What?" Hazuki demanded.

"We encounted her a few days ago," Gabrielle admitted, "she just disappeared on us, and all four of us were kinda bathed in a weird green glow."

"Quill?" Hazuki asked the mage.

Quill waved her staff, then seemed to consult something. "Yes, they're registering the residual energies from Eve's passage between universes."

"oh, come on!" Lilith yelped, stomping her foot.

Hazuki sighed as she told Gabrielle, "Sorry for the whole attacking you, thing."

"If someone close to me vanished, I'd be attacking folks too," Gabrielle noted.

"Come on, let's go," Lilith pouted as Quill was apologizing to Devas.

"Good luck," Gabrielle called as the women disappeared.

"THAT was a waste of time," Devas sighed.

"Thank you for breaking up the fight, by the way," Gabrielle told Sinon. "I kind of lost my head a bit, there."

"I think you're a little TOO into it," Sinon noted.

"Heh heh heh," Gabrielle laughed uncomfortably.

"Come on, then," Devas sighed, "there's demons to hunt."

The four women found the small town not long after running into the four dimensional travellers. As the sun was setting, they decided to look for an inn.

"Welcome to the Dukedom of Claes," the gate guard smiled at them then asked, "you are Adventurers?"

"More or less," Gabrielle smiled warmly.

"Well, you'll probably be bored. The local knights watch over us," the guard noted, waving them in.

"Knights, huh?" Sinon murmured.

They soon found a reasonably nice inn, and the group chatted up the bartender. He poured them drinks as he explained, "Yes the daughter of our noble Duke is a Holy Paladin. She also has several heroic companions."

"Palasin? Urk," Devas muttered quietly.

"Problem?" Scribe asked quietly.

"Paladins and my kind don't get along well," Devas murmured. "Hopefully this won't be a problem..."

"If so, we'll protect you," Gabrielle promised.

Before anything else could be said, the tavern doors swung open, and a attractive brown haired woman in light armor entered. "Good evening, everyone!" she called out cheerfully.

"Good evening, Lady Claes," the crowd called back warmly.

"Paladin Katarine Claes," the bartender told them cheerfully.

"What," Devas blinked.

To be continued...

Notes: First bit is more Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear. Yes, that's Rising of the Shield Hero. Yeah, I have issues with that series... Third bit is my Yamibo crossover series, Ever After. Last bit is a AU of 'My Next Life as a Villainess, All Routes Lead to Doom.'