So the morning was definitely an interesting one.
With the guest rooms being finally fixed by Nepgear, Uni and Linda I did have a place to stay. Only problem being; flying so fast seems to have completely drained Neptune. And a tired Neptune usually just does stuff and thinks about it when she has woken up.
So she decided to spend the night in my room with me and I had no say in the matter.
So when I woke up in the morning to be greeted by Neptune's sleeping face a couple inches away from mine it was a bit of a shock. Apparently the pillow wall I made to keep her on one side of the bed had been defeated and she had snuggled up to me how Plutia probably snuggles up to her plushies.
Then I heard the door open and in walked Nepgear. Apparently she had been looking for Neptune but found her. Just not in the place she thought.
There was a momentary pause as I looked at her, trying to send her a silent plea for help but instead she pulled out her phone and took a picture before leaving silently. A big grin on her face. Apparently she took after her sister.
And now we have reached the present. Me still stuck in bed with Neptune holding me prisoner.
"Neptune" I whispered in her ear, causing her to mumble something and hug me tighter "we have to get up"
"Why?" She replied looking up at me with half asleep eyes.
"Because Nepgear just took a picture of us and probably has already told the other girls to come over now to see us like this" I replied.
There was a brief pause before her eyes widened in shock and she pushed me out of bed. Landing with a heavy thud! I looked up at her angrily. "What was that for!?"
"I needed to get up and you were holding me down" she replied defensively jumping up onto her feet and looking at me as I got up.
"This is the last time I'm going to hug you till you sleep" I replied salty picking my jacket off the back of a chair I had threw it on last night as we entered.
"That's not fair!" She whined before jumping on me "Take it back!"
"Get off!"
"No take it back!"
In our little argument I had unwillingly walked backwards into the door and we had managed to pull the handle down with our scuffle. Resulting in the both of us falling out onto the floor but instead of the usual pain of falling on the floor it was soft and someone else cried out in pain.
"Was that Noire?" I asked Neptune.
"Yup. Sounds like Blanc and Vert were there too" Neptune replied finally stopping her assault on my head.
"Morning you two" I heard Vert say from under us. "Could you get off? You are pinning us down here"
"What do you think Neppy?" I looked up and could just see her face and she looked deep in thought before a grin split across her face.
"No this is punishment for listening into our room" Neptune replied and so I knew we weren't going to be getting up for a while.
"Oh look it's a dog pile on sis!" I heard a very young voice call out. I'm pretty sure that was Ram. "let's join in Rom!"
"Yeah!" Came another young reply. Apparently the two of them had come round too along with Blanc. I managed to get a glimpse of them before they threw themselves on us resulting in a couple pained groans from the girls beneath us.
"Should we join in Gear?" I heard Uni ask.
"Probably" I heard the reply before some of the weight was lifted off us then it and more jumped on us.
"My ribs are going to give way here!" I managed to groan. "Get off!"
"No!" Ram replied "We just got on after Gear moved us onto the top!"
I have the worst mornings... Time skip please...
-10 minuets later-
"Now can we get on with the day without someone else crushing us?" Blanc almost growled.
In the end Blanc lost it and threw us all off. And then proceeded to lecture all the girls who joined in then me and Neptune for starting this all even though it technically wasn't our fault the other girls jumped on us.
"It would be appreciated" I replied rubbing my damaged ribs. I know I won't take any permanent damage now but it still really hurts when you have four girls piled on you. I can only image the pain Blanc, Noire and Vert felt.
"So what is the plan for today?" Neptune spoke up, she was currently laying on a beanbag.
"We could play games" Vert suggested.
"I so knew you would say that" I spoke up "Though it is a good plan"
"Anyway petty comments aside we couldn't really" Blanc, the voice of reason and logic, spoke up "we wouldn't have enough controllers for everyone to join in with"
"I should probably practice making more weapons so it doesn't take as long next time" I spoke up "So I'm going to go do it in the training arena"
"Alright maybe we'll join you later" Noire replied
"Up to you girls. Later" with a short wave good bye I left the room and entered the elevator and just as I was about to press the button someone pushed in after me. "Hey careful!"
"Excuse me? You should be glad my big sister told us to go train too" I heard a very annoyed Ram shout out.
"We are very sorry for barging in but we didn't want to take the stairs" Rom spoke up. She was like a still lake compared to Ram. Calm and composed. Not aggresive and firey.
"Looks like I'm on baby sitting duty" I thought pressing the button to go down to the ground floor.
After a brief moment we reached the floor and I walked out deciding there was no point rushing to the training arena when Ram flew past.
"Last one there is a rotten egg!" She half shouted over her shoulder.
"Ram come back we have to stay by Mr Thomas!" Rom called after her before chasing after Ram.
Mr Thomas? What am I? A fucking character from Narnia? Deciding it was best to follow after them unless I wanted to get in trouble with Blanc I set off at a jog, just so I can keep them both in view. Didn't want to look too worried.
"Ha! You're a rotten egg!" Ram shouted pointing at me and laughing as I entered the arena.
"Yeah whatever Ram just you do your training over there and I'm going to do my thing over here" I walked over to my self assigned area, closed my eyes and started concentrating on the twin blades again when I felt someone nudge me.
"Um Mr Thomas?" I heard Rom speak up so I opened my eyes and looked down at her.
"What's up Rom?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Big sister always watches us train as it helps us concentrate when someone is watching" she replied nervously.
"Fine I'll watch but I'll be practising my own thing at the same time" I sighed now knowing exactly why Blanc sent those two with me.
"Thank you! Okay we can start now Ram!" Rom quickly ran back to her sister, beaming with joy.
Ram on the other hand didn't look too pleased.
"Ugh why him? He's not even paying full attention!" She complained and it was true. I was currently trying to master forming the twin blades first before either combining them both into one katana similar in look to Neptune's only with the purple edge staying purple and the rest being white. Or just forming the katana from scratch.
"He has to practice too if he wants to be of help" Rom replied defensively. At this point I was actually getting the hang of imagining the twin blades (I gotta think of a name for those soon) so I was able to concentrate a bit more on what Rom and Ram were doing.
"Whatever let's just do it" Ram replied before she quickly transformed followed by Rom.
Soon they began flying around the place and casting what I could only assume were various spells. While some of those spells took a few tries to actually cars they were able to do them eventually.
"So what are you girls practising? Beside casting spells" I asked brining my dual blades out to again, quicker than I did last time and then dispelling them to start again.
"None of your business!" Ram shouted at me.
"Big sister told us to practise casting spells on the move as we both usually stand still and do it. Apparently it leaves us as a bigger target" Rom explained helpfully.
"Rom!" Ram exclaimed in annoyance.
"So casting spells while under pressure huh?" I muttered.
"You couldn't help us anyway" Ram growled "You are swinging chunks of metal around just fine"
"Ouch, show some respect to the people who take the hits so you girls don't have to take them" I replied, feeling my pride damaged slightly at that remark.
"Spell casters are always better than people who use hand to had combat anyway" Ram continued on regardless if she heard me "We can stop you in so many ways before you even reach us. Only our sister and her friends are better as they are the CPU's and we are only candidates"
Ah it was this age old argument. Between melee fighters and magic users. I'm pretty sure this argument has started wars by now and I'm not just talking flame wars in forums.
"Is that your problem with me?" I crossed my arms. "Because I swing swords and you cast spells? If so, that is really petty"
"My problem" Ram growled flying over and hovering of the floor so she didn't have to look up at me. "Is that while you were in that coma staying all snuggled up and happy with people fussing over you my sister has been worried sick about you and if you died how Neptune and Nore would take it"
"So you are blaming me for being in a coma even though it wasn't my fault?" I replied arching an eyebrow. Whenever I played Neptunia I never really liked this girl. She was way too aggresive towards everyone if they did not listen to her. "News flash kiddo I didn't ask to be put in a coma and it sure as hell wasn't fun being put into that coma"
"You were roughened up a bit so what? You're now permanently linked to Planeptune and Lastation" she spat back, in the background I could hear Rom was trying to calm us both down but I have had enough with Ram's tone and how she thinks she was always in the right.
"I was hit by a dragon which broke a load of my bones and also set on fire by the same dragon" I growled glaring back at her "Unlike now I wasn't going to be perfectly fine after that. I would of died if Noire and Neptune didn't do what they did; if I survived I would of probably been left paralysed. Probably in a state where I could not of even taken care of myself. If I could of healed fully I would be left in that hospital for a very long time"
This slowly sank in as she was silent for a while and Rom quietened down as she could tell the argument was over.
"As for your practise you need to have real pressure for what you girls are doing. I'd advise one of you chased the other to simulate a monster that could keep up with you. That might help" Turning away I walked over to the other side of the arena to fume in private while still practising creating weapons.
It was a long time before someone spoke up, I wasn't keeping track of time but the sun was high in the sky when someone finally spoke up and I was already trying to make the katana now.
"Um... Mr Thomas?" Rom asked from behind me. "Big sister is here and she wants to speak with you"
"Oh for fu-" Catching myself I took a deep breath and turned patting Rom on the head gently. "Thank you Rom I'll go see her now"
Walking across the arena Ram was surprisingly quiet as I passed by and up the steps to stand in front of the waiting Blanc.
"So." She said as I came to a stop.
"So?" I replied feigning confusing.
"What was that all about?" She crossed her arms looking up at me
"I have no idea what you're on about" I tried to say but Blanc wasn't buying it.
"We all saw what happened from up in the Basilacom. Tell me what that was about or you'll be training with me from now on" She threatened and I could guess that she wasn't the type to go easy on people even in training.
"Just a little disagreement" I replied leaning against a pole "she said a few things I replied with other things"
"Care to go into detail?"
"Nope"
"No?"
"No. I think snitching on her isn't the best way to make up for this"
"I'll ask her too you know"
"Go for it. You can tell her that I am not going to spill the beans on what happened"
"You know, you're awefully cocky after what happened while speaking to their big sister"
"It's my personal charm. Also I don't think you are as pissed as you are acting. If you were I would still be pulling myself out of the wall on the border of Lastation"
With a chuckle she nodded "True enough. I'll leave it to you two to sort this out but Thomas?"
"Yeah?" I asked but I could already guess what she was going to say next as the air turned to ice.
"If you hurt my sisters in going to put you in another coma got it?" She growled.
"Ouch, too soon. But yeah I get it" I shivered before walking past her.
"Where are you going?" She asked watching me go.
"Back upstairs. Now that you are down here you can look after your sisters" After pressing the button on the elevator to take me to the top floor I watched as Blanc's face turned to one of pure horror but before she could do anything the doors had closed and the elevator shot upwards to the top of the Basilacom.
"I have a feeling I've just made a terrible mistake" I muttered.
'Probably' The Author snickered
"So about this "supply drop" you mentioned" I leaned against the wall as we kept going up. "When will it arrive?"
"Couple chapters from now. By the way the doors are opening now" The Author replied as the doors opened before I could brace myself.
So to set the scene all the girls were in various poses and... In various states of undressing.
Yeah... This was happening.
Apparently they thought I would be practising for longer so they must of decided to try on clothing I would presume. Or they were having an underwear party.
If you know elevators they let out a lovely ding! When you have reached your floor it's usually really nice listening too. Currently I was hating that ding! With every fibre of my being as it just gave away I was in the elevator and they all turned to face me with smiles at first, thinking it was Blanc, but then noticed me standing there with my face slowly turning redder by the second.
There was an awkward pause that only lasted for a moment but felt like eternity.
"Wrong floor! Later bye!" Slamming the button to close the door I just saw them all kick off towards me as the doors fully closed but soon after a spear pierced through the door like it was nothing.
"I think they may be mad" I shuddered as the spear pulled back.
I saw an eye peer through the hole the spear had left and in that eye I could see the end of my life and I was not ready for deaths sweet embrace.
Pressing the button to go down to the ground floor I managed to take a few unsteady breaths.
"You are not about to get away!" I heard someone shout before a sword broke through the ceiling of the box.
Looking up in fear I could see the furious face of Purple Heart with Green Heart and Black Heart right behind her. Thankfully Nepgear and Uni weren't in the room so they weren't out to kill me too.
Pressing a button to open the doors the elevator came to a shuddering stop on one of the floors and just as Purple Hearts arm reached in to grab me I squeezed past the opening doors and kicked off.
Next chapter is going to be very painful. Especially if they manage to catch me before I can either lose them or outrun them.