Chapter 2: Forest Financing
BGM: ~Freelancer OST: Epic Battle~
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Stellar Graveyard, During the Great EDF invasion of '03
The rag-tag defenders of the Disgaea Guild Adventure Fleet, moved into formation, as their starfighters screamed through the black void of the cosmos, their thrusters a bright light like a beacon over the surface of the Netherworld below. The dastardly Humans of the Earth Defense Force were invading, and while the Overlord Heir of Krichevskoy led his army in the battle on the ground, the demon star fleet had assembled its forces and did their best to prevent the EDF's space marines from landing.
In the lead of the squadron, was Major Sally, cocooned into the comfy cockpit of her Hellfury MkV assault battle fighter, with her hot mug of space cocoa (presumably originating from a rather infamous outpost in Proxima Centauri) to ward off space's cold. Hanging from the top of her canopy, a pair of fuzzy dice. And her co-pilot? A stuffed teddy bear wearing a miniature pilot's helmet.
"Major Mage to Commander Momoko! Major Mage to Commander Momoko, we've, uhmm… got the whole enemy fleet in sight! Woaaah, it's such a giant Battleship! So long and thick and hard and… uhm… metal!" Sally radioed in the report, to her squadron mate, the dashing space pirate thief Captain Momoko!
"Roger jojger, loud and clear! It's the Space Battleship Gargantua! Flagship of the EDF! We've only got this one chance to take it out, Over." Momoko brushed off the poor attempt at innuendo on the part of the Mage and slid into formation beside Sally's fighter. "Deploying hardpoints and spooling up multi-cannons! Sally! Are your Plasma Accelerators charged?"
"Mhm! High Energy Plasma Launchers and Super Flamer Burner Beams are ready to fire!" The Mage pilot announced, looking over the displays as all of her high-tech holo-gauges read in the green. She was go for combat!
"Good! This is going to be the battle of the century. We only have one shot at this. If we fail, the EDF will win and the whole Netherworld is doomed." Momoko exclaimed. The stakes could not be higher! The Battleship Gargantua loomed in the distance. Behind it, hundreds of thousands of landing ships and destroyers, waiting to drop swarms of humans onto the outnumbered Demon army!
They had to win this.
On Sally's radar display, dozens of red dots lit up the screen. "Bogeys bearing twelve o-clock!" She exclaimed, checking her branded prism ranger watch to see what time it was. It was actually like 10 A.M. but that was close enough!
A huge formation of EDF fighters was bearing down on them. Hundreds of them. Adopting a series of claw formations as they menacingly approached. In a flash, a barrage of beams and bullets lit up the sky, as Sally and Momoko, and the other pilots of the Disgaea Guild starfighter corps broke formation.
"Try spinning! That's a good trick! Or… uhh… Do a barrel roll!" Momoko called out, as she broke right while Sally broke left. EDF fighters wheeling around in hot pursuit. Momoko was quick to use her reflexes honed from years of using her Top Shot skill to spin around and roll out of the line of fire, before catching a passing EDF fighter on it's 12 o clock. She let rip with her cannons, and watched as the human ship erupted in a ball of flames and debris. Momoko's ship left whispy trails as it plowed through the resulting cloud.
"Coming around for another pass! Starting the trench run! Initiating Death Blossom ability! Pew! Pew pew pew!" Sally proclaimed, exiting her evasive barrel roll and kicking her lateral thrusters in, causing her to powerslide around like a tetherball as she fired at an EDF interceptor, her ship's computer leading the target, resulting in an easy kill! The EDF pilot barely had time to shake his fist in mild discontent at the Mage before being obliterated.
Sally quickly saddled up on the next target, which was in pursuit of one of her fellow wingmates. Just as she lined up her shot, she was briefly blinded by a flash from Momoko's engine vents as she rolled in and fired, sending a plasma bolt straight up the EDF fighter's tailpipe and destroying it. "H..hey! You, like, totally stole my Kill!" Sally huffed. Momoko grinned, waving back. "Grab your gun and bring in the Cat!"
"Uhm… what cat? Huh?" Sally had no idea where any of these references were coming from, but she felt deja-vu from like every sci-fi thing she watched on TV ever. But now wasn't the time for that! Another EDF Fighter was lining up. It was painted with vibrant purple flames. Surely this was no ordinary EDF pilot, oh no, but none other than the top, and most infamous ace in the entire fleet. "That ship! It's… it's… it's the legendary Violet Viscount!" Sally recognized him immediately. Oh man, they were in for a fight!
"Turn flight assist off and go evasive! He'll try to roll the gun and pull a crazy ivan!" Momoko could only watch the scene as Sally struggled to outmaneuver the EDF pilot. She quickly thrusted in to help, but the Ace quickly did a newtonian flip and pointed his nose opposite his direction of travel, unleashing a sputter of cannon rounds which forced Momoko to thrust perpendicular to him and try to outrange him.
Sally then did a flip of her own and charged in, guns blazing. "Momokooooo! I'll save yoooooou!" The Magician proclaimed, unleashing her payload of hellfire missiles from her ship's bays. The circus of rocket trails lashed out, before a flurry of orange explosions obscured the Viscount's ship. Did she get him? Was he really dead?
Another flurry of beams and bullets coming through the flaming cloud gave her an answer. The Violet Viscount had used his countermeasures to detonate the missiles prematurely, he fired a barrage at Sally as she flew past, then before she got to him, began to flip, leaving him a perfect shot at the Magician's ship's ample rump!
Machinegun rounds tore into the aft end of Sally's ship. Oxygen and fuel tanks burst, causing the ship to be thrown all over the place as her thrusters and stabilizers began to fail. "Leaking Plasma out here! Breach in starboard fusion chamber! I'm in a galactic spin! Uwaaaahhhhhh! Getting dizzy…"
"Quick! Sally! Activate your nanobots! Charge up your cruise engines! Get outta there!" Momoko could only watch in stark horror as Sally's ship spun out of control, alarms blaring, lights flashing, trailing smoke as it spiraled directly toward the Bridge of the Gargantua, seconds to impact! And…
*bonk*
"Hawwww!" The Mage hit her head on a tree.
BGM: ~Disgaea 5 OST: Who are you?~
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As it turns out, the epic space battle was merely a figment of the duo's overactive imaginations. The Magician and Thief were, in fact, hanging out beneath their newly minted Guild HQ in Sally's yard, the Mage with her midsection through the retread truck tire that was her swing, while Momoko lazed about on an exercise ball next to her, playing with a few model spaceships and action figures, going along with the Magician's whimsy for lack of anything better to do.
"Wellp! You're dead. I guess that means the EDF win this round." Momoko teased, as she held the 'Violet Viscount's' toy spaceship in a cat-gloved paw. It's coming home with her as are most of Sally's toys, as soon as she isn't watching.
"N…nuh uh! My, like, super awesome heroic sacrifice totally destroyed the EDF flagship and caused a chain reaction that made a big nuclear explosion that won the battle!" Sally huffed. After all, she'd always wanted to die in a massive ball of fire and take hundreds of other people with her.
"Anyway, I'm bored nyao. Got anything better to do?" She asked, stretching out as a cat properly would, arms up in the air, accompanied by a wide yawn, before hopping to her feet and leaning her upper body forward, down to eye level with her spell-slinging companion.
"Nnnhh…" Sally ran her fingers through her hair to remove some bits of tree bark, before sliding out of the tire and shrugging, sighing audibly. She ran a few alternate options through her head, pondering potential options to kill time on a sunny afternoon such as this. "…well… we could play jumprope instead? Or hangman?"
"Jumprope doesn't have the tensile strength for hangman. You need, like, hauling straps or hemp mooring line for that, nyao." Momoko speaks with the diction of experience in her voice. "Sally, we should do adventure squad stuff. I mean, playing spaceships all day is fun, but imagination and dolls and cardboard boxes are only gonna get us so far, nyao. We have the clubhouse, but we need people to be in it, and items to equip them with."
"Yeah but we gotta get, like, money for that. So we can buy people and items and hemp and stuff! Hey you're a thief, let's steal it!" The Magician, envious of Momoko's 99% steal chance, saw great opportunity in expanding the adventure squad's coffers by forcibly redistributing the wealth of the townsfolk.
"Ooh, stealing? Now you're talkin' my language, nyao! Got any good marks. Most of the peeps around this town are poor as dirt. Like you!" Momoko hopped up, pessimistic that Sally knew anyone with anything worth stealing. But ehh, it was worth a shot.
"Mhm, mhm! I know someone with, like, a ton of money. We're gonna go steal from… that place!" Sally exclaimed, leaning her body and pointing dramatically and with intent toward… Kimberley's house.
This can only end well.
"Heh, had a feeling about that place. You can tell just from looking at the siding that the owner's loaded. Alright, I'm in! We split the haul 50/50. I get 50% of whatever you find!" Momoko grinned her trademark cheshire cat grin, conveniently leaving out the caveat of keeping 100% of whatever she finds too. Spoils of war.
And with that terrible plan in mind, the two marched across the street into Kimberley's driveway. The Prinnies had apparently done a good job of restoring the yard, and an equally good job of heading out of sight when they saw the Mage playing outside. Delightful, that meant there were no witnesses.
Quick on the draw, Momoko rattled off her scheme for the heist. It had everything. Multiple layers of redundancy. Fool-proof concept. And was backed by both Science and Legend. "Alright. Here's my plan. You go in posing as a utility worker and distract the homeowner while I go to the electric meter and disconnect the power. That should shut down any security systems, nyao. Then I'll sneak in the back way while you do an interpretive dance routine to create another diversion from the downed power, and…"
Of course, Sally saw through it this was all an unnecessarily long-winded, and instead went with the much more straightforward scheme of launching a fireball at her feet, rocket jumping into the air as smoke trailed from her cute shoes, and crashing headfirst through Kimberley's bedroom window.
"…or that. Uhhh… I'm just gonna take the stairs, nyao."
Inside Kimberley's House
BGM: ~Prinny 2 OST: Nobody Knows~
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The calming warmth of the bathwater and bubbles which surrounded her washed over Kimberley's body, as she laid back and enjoyed the brief respite from the stress and stipulations of the day. No dark assembly backstabbing, no mooks to shake down, no ultimatums to mail to the franchisees of her Tea Plantation business, nope. It's time to put the idle in 'idle rich'.
She sat surrounded by a room of lavish fittings of gold and silver. Fine hardwood paneling on the walls sourced from only the highest quality wood golems, elegant marble tile floors with subtle iridescent patterns from the tears of its enslaved quarriers, and expensive aromatic candles perfumed from the delicately refined ambergris which could only be carefully extracted from hundreds of tons of whale vomit. It was the perfect ambiance to settle in with a good book: In this case, a trashy dime romance novel. A guilty pleasure, as most were in the Netherworld.
She barely has time to read the about-the-author inset and get into Chapter 1 when the peace and tranquility of her afternoon are abruptly shattered along with the glass of the window in the other room. A muffled thump and a smell not unlike burning saltwater taffy immediately identifies the intruder. "Sally." She grumbles, setting her book down on the side of the tub and pressing her fingers firmly onto her temples, rubbing them in a circular motion.
"Let's see, Tea set. Tea set. China Dish. Tea set… jeez what's with all the Tea Paraphernalia? nyao?" Momoko couldn't say she was impressed, as she eyed the various cabinets and display cases. Sure it was fancy and all, but how many cups and saucers did one person need? Somehow it gave off a familiar vibe though...
More than you'd think, actually.
"Oh, uhh. The girl that lives here is, like, some kind of bigwig Tea Plantation owner!" Sally points out. She's almost never seen the Archer without a cup of the stuff in her hand or near presence. And she'd gladly talk for hours and hours about rare cultivars and growing conditions. How volcanic ash in the soil gives a more robust flavor, and how third-nether-world children are far better tea pickers than prinnies due to their nimble fingered dexterity…
Sally can take about twenty seconds of that before her mind starts drifting off to staring at clouds or something.
"Yeah well, if she's a rich Tea plantation owner, she's bound to have some profits from it around here. Start looking around for a safe or a vault or something. Behind portraits or in the back of closets, nyao." Momoko knew all the hidey holes people tended to use, and so began rummaging. 'If I were a safe, where would I be?' she thought.
The duo searched high and low. In the dresser drawers. Under the bed. Behind the paintings. Checked for a secret bookshelf door. Nada, zilch, nothing. Save for the Archer's unmentionables (which Momoko gleefully helped herself to) and some top secret mutated Tea leaves intended to be kept for industrial espionage purposes or something.
But there was one door that was left un-kicked-down. "Hmm… we've checked everywhere else. So that only means that the Safe Room must be… IN THERE!" Sally proclaimed, and, with a quick fireball to the lock, the master bathroom door flew open. "We're here to take the treasure! Like, hand it over!"
Sally's bluster was met with a fearsome retaliation, as Kimberley, with a dour grimace on her face, drew her hand from the bathwater and did the little drop flicky finger thing directly at the Mage's face. "No. Sally. Bad." She spoke, as if scolding a mischievous puppy.
Now, being a Red Mage, Sally was gifted with miraculous +50% fire resistance, and therefore having roughly the combustibility factor of wet sand. This made lava flow surfing and burning building urban exploration quite fun pastimes for the girl. The flipside to this, however, was that she had about the same water RES of cotton candy. Each drop caused a critical hit message to display as the Mage dropped to the floor and proceeded to whine loudly.
"Nooo! Not water! Anything but water! Waaah I'm melting! Meeeeeltiiiiiiing! Sssssss. Oooooh! It's horrible!" The Magician whined, making the 'ssss' noise with her tongue as she doubled over on the floor and began to spasm and convulse. "Sssss…. Aaaaah! Look what you've done! Oh what a world, what a woooooorld!"
Despite her insistence otherwise, Sally remained conspicuously solid and was just making a scene to make Kimberley feel sorry for her. The Archer just frowned, as she stepped out of the tub, quickly wrapped herself in a towel, and stood over the Mage, crossing her arms and tapping her foot. "What have I told you about breaking and entering? I believe we've had this discussion before?"
Many times, in fact.
As the Mage continued to feign a seizure on the floor of the impressively gilded master bathroom, Momoko arrived, greeted by the humid steam and scent of fancy aromatics. She frowned as she laid eyes on Sally, who appeared to be having a mild stroke. "Wow, you messed that Mage up, nyao. Is she gonna be okay- Kimberley!?"
"Oh my evilness? Momoko? You're part of this scheme too?" Kimberley blinked twice, as she recognized that catlike tread. She didn't expect her to be involved!
"Wait, you two know each other?" Sally asked, as she abruptly stopped her spasming and stood upright, looking between the barely decent Archer and the Thief who was still quietly wondering how easy it would be to pry the trim off the walls and make off with it.
"Of course. Didn't I tell you? I work at the Dark Assembly. In addition to being a Classy Cat Burglar, I'm gaming the system too. Politics is basically thievery writ large, nyao!" Momoko spoke with pride.
"Ahh… yes. That is the truth. Momoko is one of my co-workers. Together we've passed much of the binding legislation that governs this Netherworld… which raises the question of your job security considering you've broken into my abode so blatantly." Kimberley narrowed her eyes at Momoko now. Both of them knew better than to cross the Archer.
A chill went up the catgirl's spine. "N…nya! I… I can explain. I didn't know this was your house. It… it was all the Mage's idea. I swear!" And that was why Momoko was so happy to have a partner in crime. When in doubt, testify against the stooge.
The funny thing about that story, to Kimberley at least, was that it checked out.
"H…hey! Why do you two get to be, like, super rich and influential politicians? I think I should start a Mage party! Then we can, like, work together! And I can have an office and a secretary and a pencil sharpener and make deals for people's souls and…" Sally continued to rattle off random ideas, quickly getting to 'pillow forts' and 'shag carpeting' in short order.
Kimberley's pupils dilated to the size of specks. This idea was terrifying. Sally's antics were silly enough that, knowing the inherent weak will of the dark assembly staff, she could probably get that party approved. And then there's no ending to the chaos she could legally unleash.
She had to think of something fast, before that idea took root. Fortunately, that short attention span of the Mage works both ways.
"Oh, uhh… but being in the Dark Assembly is a lot of work, you know. Lots of legal books to read and paperwork to file. Besides, didn't you want to be an adventurer? Ooh. That reminds me of something I almost forgot!" Kimberley spoke, in a patently exaggerated tone of voice.
The Archer quickly rushed out of the bathroom and into her study, found a ten year out-of-date road atlas, and tore out a page. She then quickly set to work with some brightly colored markers to make something that'd buy her enough time for Sally to forget all about the Dark Assembly…
"I know you broke in looking for loot, but the real treasure is on this… a Treasure Map!" Kimberley presented the 'map' with much pomp and ceremony. "I've been holding onto this for many years now! But I've been too busy… being rich and drinking tea to explore it. Maybe you two could?"
"Treasure map? Really? Yeah Right. And I'm the King of the Thieves Guil…" Momoko spoke, skeptically, before a brisk elbow to the ribs gave her the message that she'd better play along. "I mean… OOOOooooh! The Treasure Map! I think I heard about the treasure map. At.. uhh… the thing! That Dark…Assembly…treasure…symposium! Mhm, mhm!" Momoko nodded rapidly in agreement.
"H…hey. Do you two think I'm, like, really that dumb? My INT stat is, like, in the thousands! If you really think I'm gonna fall for that treasure map scheme… then you're totally right! Treasure!" Sally's dainty hand quickly swiped the 'treasure map' from Kimberley, her little heart racing at the prospects. Since Kimberley did the sensible thing investing all her money in offshore tax havens or numbered Swiss bank accounts, there isn't much to steal from here anyway.
A quick look at the map, showed a large header with the words 'CAPTAIN ZACH SWALLOW'S PRIVATE STASH' written in bold red letters at the top of the page, which was a map of the Hell's Half Acre metropolitan area, with a dashed line starting at the Mage and Kimberley's house, and heading off into the Dark Forest, with a big red X marking the spot. Little doodles of pirate ships, palm trees, and treasure chests were the final selling points.
"Alright! This is the find of a lifetime, thanks Kimberley! We'll, like, totally plunder that treasure. Then we'll be rich too! RICH I TELL YOU! Mwahahahah~ " Sally cackled, as her already overactive imagination kicked into nitro boost at the prospect of all that money.
It seems her boundless enthusiasm was infectious, as Momoko, even though it was obvious this whole thing was a big fib, seemed perfectly happy to go along with it. "Alright, I guess I'll play along. Let's head back to base and pack up a picnic basket. Who knows, maybe we'll find something valuable in that forest, nyao~"
"Ahh, indeed you will. Your job depends on it." Kimberley spoke, with a cheerful twang of cruelty in her voice. Anything that got the two of them far away from her for a few hours was a welcome diversion.
"S…sugoi!" Momoko saluted the Archer. While she was indeed a senator in the Thief Party, Kimberley outranked her substantially, so it was best to just roll with it and not antagonize her further. "C'mon Red, that treasure isn't gonna hunt itself. We've pretty much pilfered this joint for all it's worth, nyao~" Momoko spoke with a wink, as she grabbed Sally's arm and dragged her out of the room and down the stairs and out the door.
Kimberley just sighed, hanging her head in mental exhaustion. "I suppose it can't be helped. Hopefully the two of them can find someone in the forest to bother with." She spoke, as she watched the thief drag the mage across the street, and feeling the draft from the busted window blowing into her room. Another thing to make the Prinnies fix later.
It was at that moment she noticed her towel had been stolen.
BGM: ~Pokemon Mystery Dungeon OST: Tiny Woods~
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The Dark Woods - Later that day
In the rolling hills and thick broadleaf trees behind Hell's Half Acre lay a vast tract of woodland. Largely undeveloped by the locals, as it contained a great many demons. Older, and more vile and sinister than those who live today. Before there were Mothmen, there were Winged Beasts. Before there were Petite Orcs, there were Faerys. Before there were Marionettes, there were Pumpkinheads. These old types of demons have largely been displaced by the newer residents, but they thrived in untrodden lands such as this, waiting to stalk and ambush those unfortunate enough to not be aware of them.
A lone Treant emerged from the undergrowth, its bark contorting into a horrifying grimace, as it prepared to unleash it's march of paranoia upon the approaching party. Its many rings symbolized its ancient wisdom, and it has likely taken thousands if victims before, rent to ribbons by its jagged, bark-like maw or sliver-like hands.
Unfortunately, Treants burn really good. A single fireball flew down the path and incinerated the poor creature.
"Ahaha~ " Sally cooed in delight as she strode past the pile of ash that was the Treant. Her typical greeting to the local residents of the forest was, as it always had been, to cook them on sight while cackling maniacally. Most of them had the misfortune of being made of material that burned rather vigorously. "Okay so… uhm… I think we're supposed to turn right… up there!"
"That's what you said three rights ago. I think you're reading that thing wrong, nyao." Momoko spoke, as she lazily strides up behind the flame-slinging arcanist, carrying a basket full of snacks along with her, and an empty backpack on the off chance they found any loot. So far, after an hour or two of hiking, they hadn't found anything at all except some hazbin demons and a whole lot of trees.
The duo's footfalls continued to crunch along the forest pathway, amid the sea of trees, all of which appeared to have gnarled knothole monster faces or limbs which looked as though they would reach down and grab them at any moment, as all trees in the Netherworld did. Coming to a fork in the road, Sally stopped, and squinted at her treasure map.
"Okay so, uhm… we should be here by this ink smudge, and I think the treasure is, like, over by the big coffee stain! So we gotta go… that way!" Sally, reading off the map, pointed right again.
Momoko grabbed her arm and shifted it to the left. "You're holding it upside down, nyao."
"Oh, uhm…" Apparently Kimberley had just scribbled on the page with haste without paying attention to its orientation. "…ooooh! So that means we should have gone north this whole time! Ehehehe~ So, uhm… uhh… where the HL are we?" Sally looked around curiously. They were lost.
"Your guess is as good as mine, nyao. Anyway, let's stop and take a break. My feet are getting tired." Thieves like Momoko may have an impressive SPD stat, but without Mage-level sugar highs they can't move that fast forever.
The conspicuous catgirl strode over to a nearby clearing. A small hill covered in grassy meadow, surrounded by trees, with an overview of the southern mountains. A nice place to hang out for an afternoon. She unfolded a plaid colored blanket and set the basket down atop it, and proceeded to rummage through it, pulling out a cellophane-wrapped tuna sandwich… made from Sea Dragon.
Sally sat down alongside, withdrawing a Meatopia chocolate bar from the basket and delightfully nomming upon it. The duo was back to square one. Bored, with not much to do but stuff their faces and stare at the clouds.
"So I never did ask, what's your story with Kimberley? She never spoke about a Mage, nyao." Momoko asked, idly staring up at the sky. It's odd that someone with Sally's… boundless enthusiasm would have escaped being mentioned in the Dark Assembly halls after hours.
"Oh, uhm! Me and Kimberley have known each other for, like, ever!" Sally exclaimed, reaching through the deepest recesses of her cutie brain to recall fond memories. "We went to the Evil Academy together."
"Ooh, same here. Class of '666! Graduated with Dishonors." Momoko was always keen on meeting a fellow Maritsu laureate.
"Mhm, I remember it like it was just yesterday!" Sally recounted…
[fb]Flashback Sequence initiated[/fb]
And so there she was, standing at the character creation screen. "What name will you pick?" Read the title. The nameless, and newly minted Magician rubbed her chin, looking over her evilities, but waffling at the many possible ideas.
"Again, please state your name." The Heavy Knight manning the recruitment table stood, imposingly, tapping his metal-clad foot as he looked down on the lowly arcanist as she proceeded to wiggle uncomfortably in the throes of indecision. "My name is! Uhmm.. uhmm…"
"This week." Demanded the Heavy Knight.
Realizing a scolding was fast approaching, the Mage quickly slapped her dainty hand down on the F5 key. The name display spun like a slot machine. Was this her big break? Was she going to get a name which spoke of beauty, grace, or girlish charm?
The name 'Sky Cat' came up. The Mage frowned, and slapped the button again.
The name '236+P' came up. The Mage groaned and resumed her displeasured wiggling. She hated math so she slapped that button again.
The name 'Lolita' popped up. Which, while accurate, was a lil' too on the nose. She slapped the button again. And again. All three times, 'Lolita' popped up. Seems like the universe was trying to tell her something.
"STATE. YOUR NAME." The Armor knight angrily demanded.
"Uhmm, uhmm… Sally! Let's go with Sally!" The Magician nodded rapidly. Nodnodnodnod.
Sally has been created!
And with that, the Magician was violently disgorged from the character creation chute and fell clumsily down through a large metal duct, before emerging and crash-landing onto a pair of voluminous hair curls which, through their combined spring energy, cushioned her fall. "Oof!"
"Ack!" Spoke the Archer, who had barely recovered from her own character creation ordeal. "P…please be careful where you land, ma'am." She spoke, already with an air of debonair and class to her at this early stage.
"Awaaahh… that name thingy is haaaard." Sally frowned, shaking her head. The Archer sighed and hung her head low in agreement. "I know, I almost ended up with the name 'Crouton'. But it is fortunate that there are a few names in there with some elegance and grace."
"Pffff… Crouton! Mwahahaha… that's silly! What name did you choooooose?" Sally asked, getting to her feet and swaying side to side oh so delicately in the manner to which Mages tended to do.
"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Kimberley. Kimberley the Archer. Soon to be the most regal and elegant maiden of all the Netherworlds!" She bowed theatrically, or as regally as she could with the starchy flat-chest-board thingy in the way. That'd take some getting used to.
"Ehehehe! My name is Sally! Thankfully." The Magician smiled, cheering herself on. "Let's become best friends and take over the Netherworld together!"
"Ahh, I suppose that is a good way of doing it. I'll need a dorm-mate for my term at the assembly. Better you, I suppose, than some vain, perverted, pyromaniacal lunatic! Let's go to the cafeteria and discuss the terms over some Tea…" The Archer placed her hand on Sally's shoulder and led her away… right on cue too, as a random Gunner fell headfirst out of the chute and probably would have appreciated the two standing there to break his faceplant onto hard concrete.
The rest, as they say, is history…
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"Wow, that long ago, huh?" Momoko was impressed. Seems Kimberley has her reasons for putting up with Sally's nonsense after all. "Surely you two have done all kinds of stuff since then, right?"
"Yep! After the Evil Academy I wanted to join the Lost! But they were already defeated, so I had to go to work in the Overlord's Castle. I was the Item World station attendant!" The Magician proclaimed, proudly.
"Wow, swanky job. Cushy posting too. Why aren't you still working there?" Momoko, who was familiar with the inner workings of the Item World industry, asked.
"Oh, uhm… I don't really like to talk about it…" Sally frowned, as painful memories began to resurface. While she's done her best to try and forget the details, it involved something about a 'Horse Weiner Item World'. She handed in her resignation letter the next day.
"Oh, uhh… what about you? Why are you, like, stealing my stuff when you work in the Dark Assembly? You must be, like, super duper rich!" Sally asked.
"Well you see… I used to be a Prinny, nyao~" Momoko grinned mischievously. It wasn't clear if she was fibbing or telling the truth.
"Pffff! A Prinny! Ehehehe… do you still explode when thrown?" Sally asked, getting some ideas.
"Nope! I reincarnated into a thief first chance I got, nyao. Then I stole everyone's hearts and ran away. True story!" It probably wasn't actually true. "Who would want to stay a Prinny anyway?"
"….Yeah. I guess that makes sense." Sally sighed, and having finished her candy bar, flopped onto her back, arms and legs sprawled out, staring at the clouds. "Dark Assembly stuff really sounds kinda boring. Adventuring is, like, way more fun… I guess…"
So far, despite having a friend now, her 'adventure squad' hadn't really proven as fun or exciting as she had hoped. Then again, it had only existed for a grand total of like 18 hours so only time will tell.
Momoko let out a drawn-out, catlike yawn. "Yeah. Gets you outside more, nyao. This fresh forest air is always nice. I think I'ma take a cat nap though, nyao. Then we'll find our way out of this forest and go home and find something else to do."
Admittedly the thief thought Sally was nice, and amusing to hang out with, but couldn't see this adventure squad going anywhere. Not without some contrived set of unforeseeable circumstances which would bring together a crack team of demons and mortals to execute a life changing quest where the stakes couldn't be any higher.
But what were the chances of that?
Momoko's dreams of treasure and riches filled her mind as she rolled onto her side and curled up in her thievish way. Drawing her knees, clad in those striped stockings up to her chest and snoozing obnoxiously.
Sally meanwhile couldn't sleep, so she just put her hands behind her head and stared upward, with a slight frown on her face. This whole treasure map thing had just gotten the two of them worn out, and aside from a heartfelt exchange of life stories, hadn't achieved the end result of recruiting them new people or making them any money. She had barely gotten any EXP out of the deal from any of the demons she had torched on the way over here.
But a Mage is nothing if not enthusiastic, always thinking of new ways to make entertainment from nothing. Imagination is key to any sort of magic after all, and Sally's is nothing but not overactive. The shapes of clouds reminded her of various demon classes. A Dragon here, an Iifrit there, an Entei. And the forest scenery was always vibrant this time of year. And, ominously enough, that got her thinking…
All these trees. They have to be worth at least some EXP, right?
Some time later
Momoko was enjoying her pleasant dream during the course of her cat-nap. Having dreamt that she was pulling off the heist of a lifetime! Using a re-purposed drill tank and one of those giant mining dump trucks, she drilled into the side of a giant bin of money, owned by a notable venture capitalist and professional in the field of being a talking duck.
"You scrooge, you lose, boss! nyao~ " Spoke the thief, as she hopped into the drivers' seat of her truck, the dumper bed full to the rim with gold coins and other treasure. And then she was off, piloting the mammoth vehicle through the highways and byways of the city, an armada of police cars in hot pursuit!
She was sure if she could reach the county line, she'd be home free! But alas, all good things must come to an end, as she looked at her gauges. Oh no, her engine was overheating. She smelled smoke, and it felt hot in the cab. She must have blown a turbo or something. Turning the A/C on did nothing, but make her feel hotter. Hot hot hot! Okay wait a minute something's not right. Momoko had to put the dream on hold to wake up and check it out, only to see…
BGM: ~Team Fortress 2 OST: Dreams of Cruelty~
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As she awoke, her eyes were filled with an ominous orange haze, replacing the pleasant blue sky and green foliage. She urgently rubbed the sleepies from her eyes, only to reveal the forest was completely ablaze. Every breath of air singed her lungs and caused her to cough uncontrollably, as she pulled one of her stealing hand gloves from her inventory and used it as a makeshift mask.
"Ack…ack… what the HL is going on here?! Sally? SALLY?!"
The Mage was just a little ways away, humming a pleased and happy tune as she took out a gas can and sprinkled its contents all over the local flora, like a deranged gardener. She then opened her mouth and breathed a gout of flame onto the bushes and flowers, elegantly lighting them ablaze.
"SALLY! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?" Momoko's urgent voice caused Sally's ears to flick. She turned 180 degrees, snapped to her cutie pose, with her arms held behind her back to conceal the gas can. "Oh, uhm… nuuuuuthin!" She fluttered her eyes a bit, as the flames of the inferno reflected in them.
"Good job! GOOD JOB! A Forest Fire. Yeah that's really something smart to do while we're in the forest, right? That INT stat is really workin' out for ya!" Momoko, understandably cross with the duo's imminent doom, scolded angerly.
"H…hey! Nuh uh! I'll be, like, totally fine. Mages don't burn, silly~ " She stuck her tongue out at poor Momoko, for not investing in proper fire RES like a sensible person.
Indeed, it's true that, even engulfed in flame, Sally, with her +50% fire RES and robes woven from pure asbestos fiber would be completely fine up to temperatures of 1300 degrees Kelvin. However, what Sally had failed to plan for, and this is a big one, is that a forest is full of trees. And trees tend to fall down when burned. A fact whose revelation careens down from the sky, in the form of a large flaming branch which lands directly between Momoko and Sally, causing both to leap back in panic.
"WAAAAAH! This was a bad idea! We're, like, bad people! We're totally gonna diiiiieeeee!" Sally panicked, flailing her robe-clad arms around and running in circles, as bits of burning tree began to rain down around them. A mighty oak crashed down right behind Momoko, blocking the path to the relative safety of the clearing. The two were trapped!
"Great of you to realize this nyao!" The thief grabbed the panicky Witch's shoulders and shook her around. "Get it together, Sally! We gotta look for a way outta here!"
"Okay! The Map! Uhmm.. uhmm…" Sally pulled the treasure map from her inventory, figuring they could just backtrack their steps and get home, but she barely had time to look at it before an errant ember touched the map and lit it ablaze.
"Oh… forget it, just run!" Momoko grabbed the collar of Sally's robes and dragged her along at her top speed of 6mv/turn! Just in time to avoid being crushed by another falling tree! Sally's heels dragged little ruts in the dirt as she was dragged along due to her much lower SPD.
The forest was engulfed in utter pandemonium! Demons which lived among the now-flaming woods were desperately trying to escape or run in whatever random direction seemed to prove the most promising for survival. A pack of Cu-siths was running this way and that, using their wind skills to blow flames aside to create a pathway for their pups to rush through. Sally and Momoko followed in their wake, only to be blocked when yet another tree fell before them.
To the right, a geo symbol, overheated by the flames, burst, causing the line of panels it was sitting on to erupt in turn, blowing aside some rocks and thorn brambles and giving another avenue for the duo to dart through into a small clearing.
In the center of the clearing, a lone Flora Beast sat, seemingly blissfully unaware of the surrounding turmoil, doing a flower dance and spreading it's petals far and wide.
"Hey! Flower power? Don'tcha know the world's ending? You better run away before the fire gets here!" Momoko warned, as she approached the Alraune.
"Oh goodness no, and pass this opportunity up? This is prime dating time for us, you know~" The plant spoke, making bedroom eyes at the Mage and Thief, who just stared back for a moment awkwardly. That's right! Some plants such as pine trees reproduce as a result of forest fires, so apparently the Alraune felt the burning foliage encroaching all around really set a certain romantic ambiance. "Mmmh… so, maybe you two would like to join me for some Inferno-time flower gazing? Maybe a little cross-pollenation? Uhuhuhu~ "
"Eugh… no! No thanks, nyao! We're trying to not die. Say, do you know which way goes back to town?" Momoko asked, unmoved by the plant's advances.
"*tsk tsk tsk* Too bad, all this fire really sets the mood. You two are missing out!" The Alrune clucked her tongue and shook her head. It WAS a her, right? Never easy to tell with them.
"Mhm, it, like, totally does!" Sally agreed with the Alraune's sentiment, but sadly the fiery passion wasn't mutually applicable in this case, especially as the rain of smoldering branches and falling embers only intensified.
"Well, if you insist, I believe it's… that way!" The Alraune pointed the two in a southerly direction, honestly having no idea where humanoid classes lived. Buildings were just big tree graveyards to her, so she tended to avoid them. Momoko and Sally briefly looked at each other and nodded. Quickly scurrying off toward the presumed safety.
"Thanks for the directions! Have fun burning to death!" Sally was quite sincere about that sentiment, as she scuttled off after the thief down the apparent footpath the plant had pointed them toward.
"You too, darlings! Ohohohoho~ " The plant girl(?) took that remark waaaay out of context as she observed the duo making a break for safety.
The trail mercifully widened, and it appeared that they were on a road to somewhere! It was hard to make out if this was the pathway they had followed into the woods due to the canyon of fire on either side of them. The duo was hacking and coughing, staying low and struggling to see through the acrid smoke and ash raining before them. As the two stumbled forward, they came back to a familiar fork in the path. Yes, they must be going the right way!
Up ahead, in the middle of the path, a small fluttering figure was spotted. Wearing a blue dress and flitting about, trying desperately (and futilely) to blow out the flames on the shrubs and twigs, was a Fairy. Mhm, just a Fairy.
"N…no! Mister Dandelion! D…don't give up! You have to fight it! You two Miss Sapling! You grew up together, you gotta stand strong!" The fairy chirped. As a creature innately connected to nature, such a disaster was absolutely heart-breaking to the little sprite. "Ch…cheer up! It'll all be okay! Just… smile like you always do and have some fairy dust!"
Fairy dust was a bad idea. Fine particulate and open flame can produce a fuel-air explosion. It happens in sugar mills and grain silos occasionally, and it is exactly what happened when the fairy spread out her arms, conjured a cloud of the stuff, which immediately flashed over into a concussive blast and sent her flying backwards, squarely into Sally's chest, knocking the wind out of the Mage and putting her flat on the ground on her back.
"Uwaaahhhhh… noooo… my fairy dust failed…" The Fae groaned, eyes all swirly as she stared to the sky in a daze.
"Hawwwww… those were, like, my favorite ribs you just shattered… ack!" Sally coughed, as she splayed out in the middle of the ash-covered ground.
"Sally?! You got beaned by a Fairy. Bet that's embarrassing, nyao." Momoko, even in a life threatening situation like this, was always ready to snark at the Mage when the opportunity presented itself. She tried to help the Fairy and Mage to their feet, as the flames encroached.
"Waah! You're, like, really small!" Sally proclaimed, her short attention span kicking in blinding her to the inferno in the air as she just smiled at the fluttering fae. "My name is Sally and this is Momoko. We're adventurers!"
"Hihi! I'm Robin! I'm a forest fae! And these are my best friends! Mr. Dandelion and Mrs Sap… NOOOOO! Mrs. Sapling! Mr. Dandelion!" Robin panicked, on the verge of tears as she rushed over to the charred remains of Mr. Dandelion and Mrs. Sapling.
They… they hadn't made it.
Momoko placed her paw glove on Robin's tiny shoulder as the fairy cried and rubbed her eyes as tiny little tears poured out. "It's okay, nyao. Mr. Dandelion and Mrs. Sapling sacrificed themselves so you can live. Come with us, we're getting outta here."
"Yeah! They're gonna get, like a Viking Funeral! That's super duper metal and awesome!" Sally exclaimed, trying in her own twisted way to cheer the bereaved fae up by flashing horns and doing an air guitar pose, shaking her hair around wildly.
It worked. "*sniff* it… it really is? Ooh, then I want one too!"
"Oh no you don't." Momoko interjected. "Now c'mon! We gotta keep moving. These are Eucalyptus trees, nyao. And if they get too hot they're gonna…"
A loud *BANG* and the sound of creaking and splintering wood was heard, and another, and another! Eucalyptus trees, as it turns out, explode when under direct flame, showering the area with high-velocity splinter shards. Momoko began to run down the path, with Sally grabbing Robin with her robe-clad arms and carrying her along after her. "You're with us now! We, like, gotta go fast!"
With flames all around and trees bursting left and right behind them, the trio rushed on down the path. Salvation was almost in sight, a wide river that they had crossed on the way in, which would prove to be a perfect firebreak, if they could get to it, but it seemed so far away, through a burning tunnel of trees. As fast as the trio of demons could run, it wasn't fast enough. The ground started shaking. A tall and giant oak, engulfed in flames and a curtain of cinders fell in front of them, blocking their path. Another crashed down behind. All around them was nothing but fire, smoke, and splinters. Truly it was hell on Earth… in hell.
"We're, like, totally trapped!" Sally, stating the obvious, tried to curl around Robin to shield her from the flames with her fireproof robes.
"No! Don't give up! There's always a way! Be positive and do your best!" Robin cheered, looking to Momoko for insight.
"Okay… okay! I'm working on it, hang on!" The thief rummaged through her inventory. Let's see, chaos orb, packet of sandwich cookies, aha! Water gun! She drew her primary weapon, pumped it up a few times, and sprayed it all over the burning tree trunk blocking their way.
It… wasn't very effective. The tiny stream of water just flashed to steam on impact, with a little sizzle noise. Should have known that wouldn't work. "Welp, we're boned, nyao."
However, salvation soon appeared, from a most unexpected source. Another great forest denizen burst through the foliage. A wood golem, engulfed in flames and desperately trying to put itself out, stumbled its way through the stand of trees all around, flailing in its death throes, before finally crashing down in front of the guild.
Momoko saw an opportunity. Call it a thief's instinct. With the stealing hand glove she had been using as a mask, she began rummaging through the burning golem's inventory. A bag of fertilizer, woodpecker repellant, a 'salad is murder, eat more people' protest sign, and… a Mr. Gencey's Exit!
"JACKPOT! We're saved!" Momoko cheered, as she pulled the palm-sized packet containing the exit from the fallen giant's inventory.
"Huh? That's one of those escape the item world getter outer thingies! Hey I remember those! Do they, uhm… even work when you're not in the item world?" Sally asked, being familiar with them from her old job, but having never tried to use one in person.
"Only one way to find out! Oh jeez I hope this works!" Momoko exclaimed, ripping the packet open. It read 'just add water', and so she used the very last drops in her squirt gun to fill the packet.
Immediately a big red door and frame appeared in front of the trio. And just in time too. The eucalyptus explosions were right behind them, bursting toward them in a chain reaction. Momoko leaned against the pushbar with all her might to open the door. "Quick! Let's get outta here!"
"Mhm! Time to gooooooo! Waaaaah!" Sally grabbed Robin and tackled the door handle as well, in the hope that it would lead them to someplace not about to become a mulch shooting gallery!
Back in Hell's Half Acre
BGM: ~Disgaea 4 OST: Puppet Smile~
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It worked. The mildly melted mage, charred cat burglar, and flambe'd fairy all fell from the door in a clumsy heap, landing in the mercifully non-on-fire dirt and gravel on the far edge of town. The Gencey Exit closed behind them, before poofing out of existence.
The trio just lay there in a charred heap for a few minutes, as the adrenaline faded and the three tried to empty their lungs of the soot and smoke which they had been fighting through. The smoke from the inferno could clearly be seen rising in the air from the village. The fire alarm had been raised and the department was already on the way.
The fire chief, a Sea Angel dressed in a turnout coat and fire helmet, floated over. Eying the suspiciously soot-covered trio curiously.
"Excuse me. There's been a fire in the dark woods. Apparently, it was a case of Arson. Did either of you see anything suspicious lately?" The chief asked.
Sally quickly shot to her feet, waving her hands and smiling awkwardly in a conspicuous 'I didn't do it!' gesture. "Uhm… nope! Nope… we didn't see nuthin! We, like, weren't even in the forest. We spent all day today, uhh… grilling!"
"Grilling? You don't smell like food. The scent on you is tree resin." The Sea Angel, ever the connoisseur of fine meat, was skeptical of the two. "Exactly what were you trying to cook?"
"Uhh…" A bead of sweat appeared on the Magician's forehead. "We were gonna cook… uhh... This!" She held Robin up by her by her midsection toward the fire chief. The fairy waved politely. "But we ran out of charcoal!"
"Oh okay. Well if you hear about anything let us know. The perpetrator will need to be punished. Harshly." And with that, the Sea Angel floated away toward the source of the flames. Phew. That was a close one.
"Hmmfp!" Robin pouted adorably. "I can't believe someone burned my home down. And all my forest friends! When I find out who did it, I'll… I'll!" She wrung her tiny fists menacingly, but it wasn't exactly the most imposing coming from someone half the Mage's size.
"Gee, wonder who the culprit could be, hmm. Maybe the fire-breathing magician who nearly got us all killed to death, nyao." Momoko was still a bit sore about the near-death experience after all.
Sally quickly began to wiggle, all incriminating like, sweating bullets as both Momoko and Robin stared at her. "Say, what were you two doing in the forest anyway?" The fairy asked.
"It started out as us looking for treasure and ended with Sally deciding to inciner…*mmmph!*" The Mage quickly darted over and covered Momoko's maw with her hand.
"We were investigating the arson attack! We're, like.. uhh… uhh.. the Disgaea Guild Detective Squad! Mhm, mhm! We were looking for stolen treasure and the culprit who set the forest on fire to cover up the evidence!" Sally hoped that sounded convincing enough.
Robin seemed to buy it. "Owaaahhh! You're detectives? There's treasure?" The fairy's eyes lit up. All of that sounded so cool!
"Well if there was treasure, it's all up in smoke now, though." Momoko pushed Sally's arm away and grumbled. She decided she didn't quite have the energy after all that to incriminate her friend. She'd bring it up with the dark assembly another day.
"Hey maybe Robin has some treasure we can steal?" Sally asked.
"Hey yeah, that's right. Don't fairies have those big lanterns they carry their fathers around in, nyao?" Momoko recalled. She hadn't dealt with fairies that much in the dark assembly, but their fathers were wraiths and were usually carried along with them.
"Oh? Where did they all get theirs? I don't have one! All I have is this shiny stone." She pulled a pendant, worn on a necklace out of her dress. Momoko quickly darted over and attempted to swipe. "Nice, nice… gotta be worth something, nyao."
"Nooo! Don't take it! I'll die without it! Giveitbackgiveitbackgiveitbackgiveitbaaaaack!" The fairy whined, fluttering backwards with her hands on the necklace strand, in a fearsome tug of war! Unfortunately, due to the size difference, Momoko just carries her along with the pendant. "Alright, let's go stick this in my treasure vault, nyao!"
She wasn't going to go through a forest fire and near-death experience for no reward, after all.
With her stockings and jacket scorched black, and the ears of her cat hat singed, she marched right back to her home on the far side of the village. Compared to the Mage's cottage, her own house was an even more ramshackle building made of wood and cobblestone, with two stories, a high fence around it, and lots of crates, barrels, and random item world props stacked around the outside.
"I don't usually like showing other people this, but since it's you, you've got, like, a terrible steal chance, nyao." She spoke, pulling out her Skeleton key (it was literally made of bones) to open the door, and walked inside.
Both Robin and Sally's eyes went wide as they took a good look at all the treasure! Cursed swords, pots, pans, lanwmowers, record players, anything a budding kleptomaniac would love to lay their hands on, it's in here. Stuff is piled to the ceiling. Seems Momoko has quite the hoard.
"Waaah! You got, like, all this stuff! We should, like, totally sell it or use it for the Adventure Squad! Let's take it to the Pawn Shop!" Sally exclaimed, as she picked up a car battery and began to heft it toward the backdoor.
Immediately Momoko slapped it out of her hand.
"Ooooh no! We're not touching My treasure, nyao. This is all near and dear to my heart!" She exclaims, taking her battery and lovingly placing it atop its pedestal of stacked up newspapers and phonebooks.
"Why noooot! You got, like, all this loot! You said you'd help us get some money!" Sally pouted, puffing her cheeks up.
"Yeah well this stuff is off limits. I mean, how'd you feel if someone stole your toys or stuffed animals and tried to sell them!" Momoko held one finger up to wag at the mage. Visible clearly over her shoulder was one of Sally's stuffed teddy bears.
"Hey! That's my rain umbrella!" Robin chirped, picking up a tiny lil' umbrella-toothpick like the ones that you put in a tropical drink.
"Yeah and that's my evil rangers box set! I was wondering where that went!" Sally pouted.
Now Momoko was frowning. "Okay okay uhm… I can explain that…" Sally and Robin just looked at her crossly. Seems the tables had turned.
"I really need my umbrella back to stay dry cuz… I don't have a home anymore…" Robin spoke, hanging her head low, on the verge of tiny fairy-sized tears. A sad fairy is just a heart-wrenching thing to behold.
Even Sally and Momoko couldn't help but feel sympathy. A very anti-demonic sentiment!
"Ooh! Oooh! How about… you come live with me! You can, like, be our official Adventure Squad team pet!" Sally proclaims. Robin is small and adorable and would probably get along with the rest of her stuffed animals beautifully.
The fairy went wide-eyed. She'd never lived in a house before! It certainly beats the hollow logs and flowers she used to live inside. "Woah, you really mean it?"
"Mhm, mhm! I mean, you're a fairy so you must have, like, a whole bunch of super cool powers!" Sally cheered.
"Aaaaah~ Thankyouthankyouthankyou!" The fairy chirped delightedly, before buzzing over to the Mage and hugging her as tight as her tiny arms possibly could.
"Ehh, I can't see any problem with it, nyao. I vote her in. At least then we can say we got something out of that fire. I certainly did." Momoko twirled the swiped pendant around on her finger.
"Alright! Welcome to the Adventure Squaaaaad! Let's head home and start your training!" Sally exclaimed, as she ran out the door, carrying her newfound fairy friend in her arms.
"Alright, catch ya later. I'm gonna stay here for a while, nyao." She waved the two off, then shut and locked the door behind them once the Magician was well clear. After all, she's gotta make sure that gem in Robin's pendant was worth something. She headed over to her bench with her jeweler's assaying kit…
…only to discover the Pendant had apparently transformed into a pinecone with a string made of grass.
"Ack… really?! Damn fairy pranks, guess I got bamboozled again, nyao…"
Chapter 2 - End
NEXT EPISODE:
BGM: ~Touhou Great Fairy Wars OST: Three Fairies Theme #2~
watch?v=qZkJDJO8f8cSally: The Disgaea Guild Fairy Squad is on the case! Playing pranks and causing mischief!
Robin: Descending from our tree clubhouse, to spread our pranks to Miss Kimberley's Tea shrine!
Kimberley: "Excuse me? Shrine? Although an eastern-style Tea House would be most lovely."
Sally Milk! The brash and bold leader with the energy and drive to lead! Her power to bend fire around herself to conceal their mischief from view!
Momoko: "Who made you the leader, nyao?"
Robin Child! The forest fae with the ability to make sounds. In order to… uhm… blow raspberries at inopportune times!
Robin: "I think you can make sound too though…"
And Momoko Sapphire! The fairy with the power to detect steal-able things!
Momoko: "Yep. Sounds about right. But there's a big difference between stealing and copyright infringement, nyao."
Next time! On Disgaea Sangetsusei. The Adventure Squad Fairy Brigade pranks the shrine! Tune in next week!
Hakurei Reimu: *grouchily prepares amulets* "Get out of my freakin' game."