~ 2 terrible troublesome weeks later~
Outside of Stonegard, Olberic was beating the shit of Acrayran and everyone else. No one was safe from his makeshift sword getting shoved up their ass. Well not like an enema but they were sore as hell. "What was that Acrayran? Didn't you say you were a Ranger, why can't you hold your own in battle?" asked the Warrior before blocking a strike from H'annit's Armads replica.
"Yeah well, I'm a lover not a fighter as a Ranger. I guide you guys to your destination, not fighting the scary monsters." The Ranger begs while Therion cha cha real smooths out of the way of Ophelia's pity attempt at a staff swing. "She probably never played on any sort of softball team, how is H'annit so good!?"
Olberic blew into his whistle for a time out, just like Dukes sorry ass despite winning. He moved his arms with a wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tubeman to get his team to stop. "Okay good work guys, Therion you can actually try to hit us with actual attacks. H'annit stop cheating with those "summons", whatever the hell those are. " The big Daddy explained while patting Acrayran and Ophilia on the heads.
This made his other children jealous as fuck, because this was H'annit's chapter 2 not these useless saps. Therion smiled in hidden as Olberic was teaching the Ranger how to use Swords Dance with the Monado. And by Swords Dance he meant "Go crazy, Aaahhh! Go stupid, AAAHHH! Go crazy!" It wasn't going well for Acrayran, they were gaining all the aggro.
After both of them stopped to rest the Warrior started walking over to Ophilia as she was sewing a core cyrstal into her staff to increase it's shitty accuracy.
H'annit tapped on the cleric's shoulder and teased "Looketh, I ken Olberic Olberic likes thou." The cleric's face went red and she just went silent.
"What?" asked the mentioned older man, holding his arm that was bruised up pretty bad. "I want to heal up everyone at the inn then set out to find out more clues about your Master Z'annta. Don't you wish to do the same?" Being questioned the Hunter shifted the blame to Acrayran for shits and giggles.
That poor kid was in worst shape, hair whack, clothes whack, the way they never smiled whack, their stance whack so they were a sitting duck. "Therion, thou sayeth that young Acrayran never partakes in hunting of enemies?"
The Thief held back his laugh as Ophilia was not surprised to the bluff. "Yeah, they'll stay being weak and scared all the time after we do all the dirty work." The man stabbed, knowing the Ranger was merciless to his words. "Acrayran would rather let our hardworking and selfless Cleric get battered and hurt along with us, only taking responsibility when we all faint like that one time at bandcamp."
Their little Ranger picked up their own makeshift sword and staff with a pout. "I'll guess I'll be the little red hen, er chicken in this case." They bowed to H'annit and then she nerfed them over the head with her bow. "Owww, take me to the forest with you but may I have one question you ass?" Acrayran really felt like shit for not joining their team in level grinding.
"Sureth, ask away thee pupil, just remember thou have to steel thine body, lest you end up piddling thine trousers." Acrayran had the Red and Blue anime Pikachu shocked face and bit back.
Well more like sucker punched back."Why the hell do you hate me so much!? I've done everything I can to help you and you treat me like crap despite it working out everytime!"
H'annit put the much younger traveler into a snare and tripped them. "Simply cause fucketh thou, thou hast stolen Olberic!" Even more pissed off Acrayran took her down, by the shoulder and held onto to her like Linde to a helpless townsperson.
Therion was plenty frustrated that his Daddy wouldn't give him any extra attention so he decided it would be best to set the young Ranger on fire with Charizard after using armor corrosive on them. "Burn baby burn, I said burn baby burn!" He was cosplaying as Red after all.
Anyone could these siblings weren't getting along and Ophilia had to break them up with an icepick, well an Icewind."Alright, Alright since you are a such a knowledgeable and mystic Ranger from another world, lead us to the beast of the forest. I'd wish to see how you handle the stress"
Now the 5 five guys started their trip to sell as many burgers and fries to the community, but they needed substitution meat. "Aaaahhh holy shit, how do I fight this fucking thing!?" Screamed Acrayran as the level 20 monster of the week slammed into Olberic and everyone else with a rampage.
The Big, Chunky, Plumpy, round with something something of a Man had used Incite, Stout Wall and Defend to minimize the damage he was taking. "Harrgh, I can't take this Gaiden boy by myself!" In response Acrayran used a mend staff on the Jaegan Unit of Octopath. Luckily it had 20 more uses on it, just like Olberic's dick.
Ophilia was simply off in the corner with the bags of equipment on her lap in deep concentration. When her fellow O traveler passed a glance she hit behind her staff, she was guilt tripping hard as balls. Not as hard as Walmart golf balls but softer than their basketballs. Of course none could compare to the size of absolute unit which is Daddy Big O.
H'annit used Take Aim a round earlier so when she activated her Tenta missile special at full boost that shit was going to make Hiroshima look like a joke. "Thou, just hast to go Super Saiyan, liken Therion, Ranger!" The Thief finished the ratkin furry loser with a SP STEEEEAAALUUUU! All the other kids with the pumped up kicks 1 - better run better faster than my bullet 0.
About 15 long ass minutes later the Huntress found her prey. "It is a killer single buck what could go wrong?" Pondered Therion, pointing his thumb toward Acrayran. "Think you can handle it, 'there'll be a red chest to the left and then a book for us to write out information in' wonderful Ranger."
"If you ever need me I'll be back here practicing reading Scholar tomes" mentioned The Cleric as H'annit instigated the Monster into a Unique Battle. There was a look of stress and shame on Ophilia's face as she knew her team relied on her skills but was acting like total cunts to their Ranger in basically hazing. As they got their asses handed to them it unlocked some sort of boredom in the young woman.
Yeah it was bad kind, the 'We gotta go down to electric avenue and then we take it higher!' type of boredom. Olberic had done the same as before but this deer was acting like Xerneas instead of Sawsbuck which which meant alot of fuckery with Geomancy ploy. It unleashed some big dick energy and the whole team fell besides him. Well and the useless Acrayran cause they somehow managed to dodge.
The Warrior knew that demon was gonna cream his ass so he looked back for some moral support and got artistically furious . "RRRRRAAA, I'm tired of these games! You should be beating VILLAINS not your Meat! Yare Yare Daze, Ophilia get up fill in this stop for Acrayran! They say we'll have another chance at this battle!" This mentioned blonde watched as her teammates were destroyed with something like the power of the Aegis, she might have been reading but she never did anything.
The Ranger heard the voice of someone whispering "Yeah, she must have some kind of Guilt kink when it comes to older men having hope in her". Maybe, the Family Feud survey in the sky says X. Acrayran was seeing and hearing some weird ass crap when they fainted. And that was a lot while they were in Gormott. "Cocaine is one hell of a drug."
Ophilia in the meantime was messed up. Her face was burning with the intensity of any Fire element Blade and shook, this man really had her life like that. It really be like that sometimes, H'annit's and Therion's negative peer pressure ruining their slim chance of victory.
"What the heck does that even mean, beating your meat? Ahh, guess I'll die then." The team respawned back at the savepoint and Acrayran took one look at Ophilia then punched her in the face full cowl style. "What was that for? I didn't say or do anything to you!" she cried after only taking like 15 damage.
The Ranger scoffed like some shounen protagonist's jerkass rival and crossed their arms. "See how weak that shit was? Do 1000 Percent more or I'll never…. I'll tell you what happens in your path or anyone else's. And I know how much you are a sucker for things from my world, you're my bit-." That was the last bit of ballsy comments coming from the teen before H'annit knocked them unconscious with one of her Pokemon. It was an illegal shiny level 69 Mew with all illegal moves.
"Thee apologizen about thine cadet, thou are fine Ophilia? Yea, thou arth hardy plenty." The Huntress took off her bags and placed them in Acrayran's lap before moonwalking into the boss. "Was it so difficult to have the hunt begineth, Thine was getting bored too Linde?" But Linde didn't respond, she never does.
