Hello again! I actually didn't wait for more than a month to update! Amazing, right? Well, I am thankful for all the people who decided to follow this. Anyways, to the story!
Jacob woke up early in the morning, just like every other morning. He had taken the couch, and let Alice use the bed. He sat up, and looked at Alice. He was still very annoyed by her, and so, instead of waking her up, he let her sleep.
Jacob walked up to the front counter, where the owner of the Sutherland inn was. She gave him a strange look, and asked, "If you don't mind me asking, why do you have fox ears and a tail? You almost look like a kitsune, and I would think you were, if there were male monsters." Jacob shrugged, and responded, "I have no idea." The owner looked at him strangely, but then shrugged and went back to her work.
When he had gotten into the town, shops were just opening for the day. He bought enough food and supplies to last until the next town, and then he started to ask around. He normally looked for people who were not just the mundane silhouette, but he didn't see anyone with normal features. He sighed, and just walked up to a person who looked just younger than Jacob.
Jacob greeted the young man, but instantly regretted it, as the young man said, "I really thought I was going to die! 'Four heavenly knights' indeed… She was insanely powerful! She actually stared at me once… And I wet my pants."
Jacob stared at the youth for a second, and commented, "That was way too much information. Goodbye." He walked away, hoping he would never talk to a person that socially retarded ever again. He greeted a girl, and prayed that she would not be as weird as the youth.
She was not, but she was a prostitute who said she would give the hero who saved the city a special discount. Jacob quickly walked away from her, politely saying no thank you. He talked to many more people but all of the conversations went just as well as those. Very annoyed, Jacob stalked back to the Sutherland inn.
He walked back up to the front desk as he saw Alice coming down the stairs, thankfully still looking human, but also looking very tired.. The owner of the inn smiled at Jacob, but said, "If you would like to stay here again, you can still have the discount rate. However, I can't give you any more Ama-Ama Dangos, because I am out of happiness honey." This caught Alice's attention. "NO MORE AMA-AMA DANGOS?" Alice was outraged. She calmed down quickly, however, and asked, "How can we get you more happiness honey?" The owner sighed, and said, "We need a hero to go to happiness village and find out why we are not getting any more honey. If someone doesn't, I may never be able to make them again." Both the owner and Alice looked at Jacob, but one was more expectant and the other more demanding.
Jacob sighed, and looked up at the ceiling. "Sure, why not. I have nothing better to do." "Thank you," the owner said, "You are too kind."
Jacob left the inn. He immediately started to exit the town. However, right before he was able to make his exit, he heard a voice. It was a rather singsong voice, but it sounded somewhat like the person was trying to impersonate a snake while they were talking. "Fufufu, I found you. My only hero."
Jacob turned towards the voice, and his eyes widened. "What type of ugly crime against nature are you, you… you… abomination!" Appearing before him was a female in a thong. However, this female had the upper body of a snake, and was bent over, head between her legs. She got what seemed to be a pouty face on, though it was hard to tell with her face. "That is rude!" Jacob instantly felt sorry for her. It is not her fault she had a body not even a mother could love. "I apologise. But what, pray tell, are you?"
"My name is Amira," the unfortunate lamia said, "You stole my maiden heart!" This was met by an awkward pause, in which Jacob wondered why there was a monster in the city, and why nobody actually paid any mind to the fact that there was a monster in the city.
"You filled me with love and courage!" Amira continued, "Ah, my sweet heart... an unbreakable dream!" Jacob blinked, wondering if she had taken a poetry book and taken out random phrases to throw at him.
Jacob sighed, and said, "I am so done with this." He started to walk away, but the unfortunate lamia exclaimed, "No! Wait!" Alice decided to get into the conversation. "If you want to create a world of coexistence, as stupid as even the idea of such a world is, such a world would include that… thing… too." "But why the pose? Why is it not wearing pants?"
Amira sighed sadly. "I don't have a choice! The artists only gave me one picture!" Jacob looked confused. Artists? What artists? He shrugged, thinking that the thing in front of him was just insane. "Anyways, can you just disappear?" Amira looked agast. "Even my hero discriminates against me! Everyone else does too… People here throw stones at me. Nobody gets close to me. Not wanted by anyone. Such sadness!"
Jacob looked around. An old woman's silhouette started to walk by, and called to Amira "Hey Amira! I made too much miso soup for lunch! Come by later and you can have some!" Then an old man's silhouette walked by, and said, "Hey Amira! I have some rats in my house. Could you come by later and take care of them?"
Jacob looked at Amira with a tired expression on his face. "Yes, you are quite the pariah." "Well," Amira continued, with not even a hint of guilt, "putting my situations aside, I came to do more than profess my love for you. I have a , a band of monster thieves have been rampaging around. It pains my heart having fellow monsters do such a thing. Even though my appearance has quite the impact, my attacks do not. Could you take care of them in my stead?"
Jacob shrugged his shoulders. "I will do what I can, but is there any more information about these thieves?" "Well, there are supposed to be a vampire, a dragon, and a lamia there." At this, Alice raised an eyebrow. "Those are rather high level monsters to be this far south. Something should be done about that."
At this point, Amira did the best to look like she was swooning while staying in her strange position. "Thank you, my love! I can feel my heart beating in anticipation!" Jacob stared at Amira for a few seconds, and then walked away, blank faced. He would have done anything to get out of that conversation. "You can't beat such high level monsters as you are now." He turned to Alice. "Well, I can try. It is what a good person should do."
Jacob had an annoying time while travelling. He had run into the most disgusting thing in his life, an earthworm girl, and sealed it in the body of a tiny earthworm. He had gotten a long description of all of his swords new abilities, and found out that his swords could no longer kill anyone. What they did was seal their powers away. However, this means that the things he sealed could come back to attack him again, which made it kind of annoying. Eventually, they made it to the cave. Or, to be more precise, Jacob had made it to the cave. The great snake woman herself had left him.
Suddenly, a small figure jumped out at him. It was a girl. A rather cute girl. She carried a hammer that was way too big for her to handle well. She had red face paint, a horn, and a Viking helmet. She looked about fifteen.
"Give me your money!" She yelled, making Jacob blink. "YOU are one of the bandits?"
She gave Jacob an annoyed look. "Indeed! I am the goblin bandit of the four bandits. Anyways, give me your money!" "No." Jacob sounded very bored, but in actuality he was just underwhelmed. "I was actually sent to deal with the bandits." He didn't want to hurt her, just scare her. He took out his swords. The goblin girl looked disgusted. "Those swords look gross." Jacob sighed. "I agree. Anyways, can we start fighting?"
The goblin girl's face changed again. This time, to uncertainty. Her gaze continued to shift between Jacob's face and his swords. "His swords are gross, but I want to have some fun with him… What should I do." After a short while, she made up her mind. "Earth Crashing Goblin!" she yelled. The goblin girl then started to swing her hammer around, speeding up as she went in more and more circles. Jacob stood there, waiting. The goblin girl then brought her hammer down. Jacob stepped out of the way, and her hammer slammed into the ground. "If you have that much of a wind up, your attack will never hit."
"SHUT UP! I won't give up yet!" The goblin girl started swinging her hammer wildly, failing to hit him every singly time. Eventually, she tripped and slammed into the ground. Jacob walked over, and knelt by her. "You done?" "Y… Yes." The goblin girl said, starting to cry. "I… I'm done."
Jacob sighed. "I feel like a horrible person." He knelt by the goblin girl, and said, "Look, don't cry. You just need to be trained a small bit more. Anyways, could I speak to your friends? I need to ask them something."
The goblin girl led him to the cave that held the other monsters were in. Unsurprisingly, there was a lamia, a dragon, and a vampire, and they were even younger than the goblin girl. They stared at the goblin girl as if she was a failure, and then they looked at Jacob. The lamia started to slither forward, as if she was going to fight Jacob. Jacob rolled his eyes, and rushed forward, so quickly the Lamia could not react before his punch stopped inches away from the Lamia's face. She backed up quickly, obviously scared. "Now, if you guys don't attack me, I will not hurt you. You are horribly outmatched."
After the prompt surrenders of the bandits, Jacob heard someone behind him. It was Alice. "So, they have surrendered to you. What are you going to do with them? You can do whatever you want. Violate them, eat them, sell them, or kill them."
Everyone looked shocked, and then the girls started to cry. "No, don't cry." Jacob glared at Alice. "Look what you ," He turned to the monster girls, "I will not be making you do anything other than apologize to the townspeople. Then you can do what you please, as long as it isn't breaking the law. Please don't cry."
When the girls got quieted down, Jacob started to lead them back to the town. "What makes you think the villagers will not lynch them when we get to the village?" Alice, of course, thinking pessimistically. "Because," Jacob said, turning his head to look at Alice, "they haven't killed off Amira, and if they are fine with her, I think they are fine with anything living there."
Thank you again for reading my fanfic. I hopefully will be updating biweekly. I enjoy writing this trash, and I have noticed that some people like reading it, and that is all I could ask for. Anyways, see y'all next time!
