Can't think of any announcements for this chapter/episode... 'cept that the future episodes/chapters will be waaaaay better in terms of plot twists and what not...
Oh yes here is one thing I want to say... thank you...
You guys have made as of morning of April 18th, 2013, the order of balance: Spartan of Zero, my number one most viewed fic... with most of my other fics in the ten thousands (or some at least), that is a great feat... but here's the thing... for you guys... it took... wait for it... less than five days... to reach where the rest of my fics have taken years to reach... so... for what it's worth... thank you guys. You guys are the best :D *trying not to cry... man up boy!* *fails* *cries* thanks guys so much :DDD you guys are awesome!
PS: this chapter might be a bit shorter than the other ones... might be...
PPS: Scratch that, I do have announcements ehehe... and anyways sorry for not uploading over the weekend but weekends are my "No update" days just "Work" so that I can make a barrier between work loads... so, there will be no updates (or less likely to be) on Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays and any days where school is not in session... for example it was a long weekend the one before I uploaded this. I'll be sure to announce any extended "Update free" days before hand from now on.
PPPS: Also, I haven't been feeling well lately, and when I don't feel well, I'm uncreative and I tend not to write, so I might not update at the next planned update-date (tomorrow or the day after)
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Me and Louise were in the palace standing before Princess Henrietta, Louise constantly stood slightly bowed while I on the other hand stood at attention the whole time.
"Congradulations and a job well done for capturing the thief who had the whole palace up in arms Louise Françoise!" said the princess...
"Your highness I do not deserve th title of chevalier"
"Didn't I just tell you what feat you accomplished? If you don't deserve to be a Chevalier, then I don't deserve to be princess..."
"Princess, that means so much..."
"And I give you my thanks as well, trustworthy familiar" The princess said to me, I grinned and left my stance, screw it, I didn't want to stand tall anyways...
"Oh, uh... ah... ahah..." I stuttered, she was very pretty... for royalty that is...
"I trust that you will continue to take good care of my friend Louise." She held out one of her dainty hands... what the hell was she doing? Wanting a dance? This wasn't the best of settings for sure... then Louise stepped in front of me.
"Your highness stop! You mustn't offer your hand to a familiar like him!" Louise exclaimed... I thought 'hand'? What, does she want to marry me? I didn't realize how much of an idiot I was being at that time... but... now that I look back at it...
"To protect you in my eyes is the same as it is to swear loyal to me, I must reward this loyalty somehow." Slowly Louise stood out of the way.
"Someone want to explain what it is I'm supposed to do now?" I said
Louise bent into my ear "You idiot, when the princess offers you her hand you're supposed to kiss her."
"W-w-what! B-but..." I lowered my voice "Well... I don't see anything wrong with it... so... I guess..."
Then I did the smartest thing I've ever done... I kissed royalty... after taking her hand... I kissed her... yeah but here is where it gets awkward... see I didn't understand what Louise meant when she said to kiss the princess... so... well... I ended up kissing her on the lips... to which she fainted... and Louise had a freak out... something along the lines like this.
"Y-y-y-you just... YOUR NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THAT TO ROYALTY! You... you DOG!"
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"You're highness, I'm really sorry about this, you dog! Apologize to her now!" Louise yelled at me while trying to beat me up... I'd gotten sick of her whipage so time to give her a taste of her own medicine...
"AH-ZAZAZZAZAZAZAZAZAZAZZZAZZZZZZ" *flump* Louise fell on the ground twitching after I scored a jab to her gut with my tazer.
"You know, if you that wouldn't have happened if you had been more specific... but for what it's worth I deeply apologize... ma'am..."
The princess who had just been watching our fight "I-it's not a big deal... I mean you deserved a reward... and well..." I could hear the hollowness in her voice... damned bitch... I mentally rolled my eyes... "Anyways I have a favor to ask of you..."
Louise who was just recovering from her... shock... (haha, I'm so funny) said "Yes, you highness anything! If you order us to die I will jump out this window!" was that answer... shocking...? No not really... ahahahaha...
"Suit yourself, have fun flailing your arms for a few seconds before SPLAT!" I said
"I'd like you guys to take some time to stay in the town here for a while."
"the town?" we asked
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Louise and I stepped out of a clothing store after she got some more... semi-peasant looking clothes... honestly I didn't notice any difference... me on the other hand was wearing a grey hoodie and blue jeans... probably not the most convincing peasant attire in this world but I almost never got to wear civilian casual wear... felt good...
"It's so dull..." said Louise when we came out of a clothing store.
"But Louise, your the one who said we needed to get new clothes so we could blend in with the common man..."
"I just don't understand why we can't get something more fashionable..." I was a bit miffed at the girl's stubbornness... she had a perfectly fine outfit... then again that's coming from me so my opinion probably didn't matter much.
"Do you even remember what we're supposed to be doing?"
"Of course I do!"
I remembered the princess giving us a permit, saying she wanted us to do some spy work, as some of the peasants had been rumored to have been getting treated poorly by the nobles... figured... but after the events of Count Mott, she no longer believed them as simply rumors...
However knowing her noble upbringing I doubted it would be as easy as I thought it was gonig to be... then I was proven right...
"First up is a horse..."
"A horse!?" I exclaimed "First off, is a horse necessary? No its not! Plus I could just warp my Mongoose over here its sitting at the academy!"
She even wanted to stay at en expensive inn, 200 Ecu a night was what the innkeeper had said...
"We don't have nearly enough money" said Louise...
"You know we could just stay at a cheaper inn... I saw one that only charged 50 earlier..."
"No I can't stay at a cheap inn! It-"
I cut her off "I figured... this job really isn't cut out for someone of noble birth..."
"Shut up! Then I'll just have to do this my way!" and she stormed off "Don't follow me!"
I wasn't worried so I didn't follow her, but at the same time... I was worried sick... thankfully I still had that sword that Kirche had given me earlier... after a bit of sales pitching... which I managed surprisingly well... I managed to sell the sword for a third its original price to some passing noble... at 1,000 Ecu... but I wasn't going to tell Louise that... I'd see how she'd used the money we currently had... if she used it poorly I wouldn't tell her... if she used it wisely... I still wouldn't tell her! What? This is the only money of this world I've got, I wanna make it last...
It became dusk and the sun was going down... I came to the town center and saw Louise sitting at a bench around the fountain...
"What!? You lost all the money at the casino!?" I exclaimed, and I only thought that kinda luck happened at New Vegas... what's more I wasn't aware she was even in the gambling age or they even had casinos here... "This is why I can't leave you along for more than an hour or two... Oh sister of mine"
"What are you talking about!?" she demanded
"Oh you and me... our relationship resembles that of the stereotypical brother-sister relationship... always fighting but looking out for each other... as you know... I... never had any family..."
Louise seemed to soften up a little, I was still mad at her though... but I could I be mad at that face... then I remembered what lay under that face and mentally scoffed.
"I'm trying to think of how we can get more money!"
"We don't really have a choice but to head back up and ask the princess for more money..."
"I will not do that! The princess is counting on us and asked this of us as a favor... and we can't just feed off her!"
"You seemed to be doing a fine enough job of that at the casino..."
"Shut up!" ah... there is the old bickering I'm used to... wow... it's kinda sad I'm already saying that at this point...
"You wanted to stay at an expensive inn, you wanted to get a horse... you knew the stakes and responsibilities yet you still blew it!"
"I needed those... you wouldn't understand!"
"Rrrrrriiiight... cuz finding a nice place to sleep beats food and drink any day right...?" I checked my Tacpad only to find it wasn't there... oh right... I'd left it with my armor back at the palace... yet I still had the Nanite-Transformer as an amulet around my neck... so close... yet so far away. "I'm so hungry..." I hadn't eaten since dinner last night...
"Trei-bein!" said a shrill voice... I looked over to see that most disturbing sight I've ever seen... some barrel chested man who wore what I swear was a leotard and short shorts with a shit load of lipstick on... if this... man... made me want to shrink away in terror... then either something about me was wrong at the moment... or this guy was a walking freak show... I honestly don't know which one is more likely.
"It sounds like you two are in a bit of a predicament and as you can see I am no one suspicious at all!" he/her/it said...
"Actually from the looks of it I'd say quite the opposite..." *Sweat*
"My name is Scarron and I run a delightful little tavern just down the road..."
"Tavern!?"
"yes would you like me to set you up with one of our quaint little rooms?"
"Scorch!" Louise yelped
"But then again, I'd have on little condition first..." said Scarron...
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I was stunned at what I saw... this place was a tavern sure, but it was also a borderline strip club... I had to raid one back during the Human-Covenant war and I'd seen posters that were up during the time the place had been opened... so I only could relate what I saw to those pictures...
There were girls everywhere... all wearing skimpy maid outfits... due to my re-ignited interest in girls... I was in heavaaaaan... or the atheist's equivalent... anyways... I mean, if you can ignore the burly cross-dresser who ran the place.
After Louise was introduced as the girl who ran away from her father because he was going to sell his daughter to pay off his gambling debts... which, in all honesty wasn't far from the truth... I snickered... then I heard someone call me from the kitchen.
"Hey new guy! Come over here and help, we're about to open the place up!"
"Coming..." I ran over and helped the girl who called for me with the dishes, she had a fairly typical (or more like stereotypical) tavern dress on and had long black hair and dark eyes...
"You have a very cute little sister..." she commented
"Yeah... thanks..." I said and rolled my sleeves up... which honestly was probably the most about of skin I'd shown off since I'd gotten to this world... even so it was enough to make the girl besides me quiver... whether it was in fear or admiration I don't know... it was only my forearms but even so, my whole body was ripped... I don't want to boast but that's just how we Spartans are built... and these weren't your average body builder muscles... no these were all built from training, augmentations, and beating aliens to a bloody pulp. Now back to the cheery inn...
"My name's Jessica" said the girl "What's yours?"
"Alexander..." I said "My sister nicknamed me Scorch after an incident with a match and some alcohol..." I wanted to explain why Louise might call me that at some points ahead of time.
"Alexander huh? Nice name..."
"Thanks."
"Just ask me if there is anything you want to know about this place ok?"
"Sure, thanks haha..."
After a while of cleaning, Scarron announced some sort of tip contest and the winner got to wear some special outfit... I wasn't really paying any attention... besides that was Louise's department...
Not much later...
Louise pulled a noble act... and no I don't mean heroic or anything like that... I mean she got up in someone's face even though we were supposed to keep our cover. She ended up getting sent up to grab a cloth... it was going to be an interesting night...
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"You've got to be kidding me!" Louise bellowed... "Why do I, the daughter of a duke, have to be forced to do suc-"
"Calm down..." I said "For the time being we've got food, shelter, water and to top it off we're making some money, so stop complaining! It's only for a while remember!"
"Food and water I understand, but shelter!? What this walk-in broom closet!?"
Ok, so maybe the attic was a little dusty... but seriously, like I said earlier on my first night in this magical fucked up world... I've had worse...
"Besides Scarron said that allot of his customers are nobles, so we'd be going in for a triple kill... just one more and I'd get an overkill..."
"Wha-?"
"nothing..."
"but that's easy for you to say, you get to stay in the back and have fun with that girl!"
"Girl? You mean Jessica? Not like it matters anyways, besides... can you see me... wearing one of those... maid outfits... I shudder at the thought..." the comment managed to get Louise to snicker a little bit. "So cheer up, we'll bust a noble for some shit and then be done with it!"
"But I don't get it, how can you adapt to things like this so quickly?"
"How could I not is the question, back where I came from, it was adapt or die... as you can see, the situation here at the moment isn't that serious, but the training of which drilled that ideology in my head kina helps in this situation..."
"That was deep..."
"Thank you..." and it was the weird conversational exchanges like this that made me think of Louise as an annoying little sister... "Besides... this isn't much different then how I'm normally treated..." then I zoned out and went to sleep... then was woken up by Louise screaming...
"Whhhaaaaat?!" I exclaimed and looked up to see some bats flying around her head... they went back up to the rafters and seemed to snicker at her while she shook... Damnit, they were just bats!
I sighed and pulled out my magnum (which was the only weapon I had on me at the time), stuck on a silencer. *Pew pew pew* three dead bats... I went, grabbed the corpses and chucked them out the window.
"Now shut up and go to sleep!" I sighed.
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Well... the next day went... well... erm... about as expected... involving a few broken bottles and spilled drinks... courtesy of Louise and a few customers who couldn't keep their mouths shut... I pity them... in the end however Scarron send Louise to the sidelines to observe, so with not much going on I started to talk to Jessica... turns out she was Scarron daughter... Scarron... daughter... not two words I would have thought I'd hear in the same sentence...
"Yeah, that's right, I'm in charge of everything that goes on around the tavern..." said Jessica... who went back to cleaning the dishes.
'to think someone like her... could be related to someone with... uuuugh... It's inconceivable!' I thought.
We started talking again about some other topic I'd rather not bring up... when...
*Wa-bam* *Flump*
"Owww..." I shook my head, waking up in a bed... a normal bed... "What happened?"
"Are you ok? You passed out cold when a flying bottle of wine hit you in the head..." said Jessica who was sitting at the foot of the bed...
"A bottle? Really? I'd assume that it was a drunk... but..." I sighed "Louise?"
"Louise" Jessica confirmed
"Figured..."
"Well, lemme guess... Louise isn't really your younger sister is she?" said Jessica.
"May as well be, the insufferable brat!" I muttered...
"Thought so... and it's not like your dating or anything..."
"Nope... pfft... me, her? Ha! Don't make me laugh..."
"Oh and another thing about Louise... she's a noble isn't she?"
I paled "I may have disclosed all said previous information but I will DENY THIS!" I said matter-of-factly
"So, if she's a noble, does that make you her... servant or something?"
"More like bodyguard... which is probably the closest thing I'm willing to admit... but seriously why does this matter to you?"
"Bodyguard? Why would she need a bodyguard... if anything those she served would need bodyguards and those bodyguards would need their own bodyguards! OOOHHHH! You're on a mission aren't you!"
"No, no, I'm afraid not" Apparently I suck at lying...
"Please please tell me, I love stories like that!" She got right in my face, smiled all pretty like and said "I promise I won't tell anyone..."
"Yeah, that's what they all say..." I said and tried to inch back away from her.
"In exchanged I'm sure there are all kinds of things I could teach you..." she took one of my hands and put it on one of the top exposed parts of her breasts.
"T-t-teach what could you possibly teach me...?" Damnit hormones... you see if Halsey had gotten the cloning procedure correct I would be able to resist her charms no problem... not that I minded being charmed at the moment...
"What do you think" She said slyly and moved her hand down my chest towards my pants...
"Hey!" the door to the room was kicked open "What do you think you're doing there!?" Yelled Louise, and I rolled out from under Jessica... saved by the brat... never thought that would happen.
"Gathering information!" I said
"Oh really! What kind of information? Her breast size!?"
"No nothing like that, did you know that Jessica here is Scarron's daughter!?"
"OH REALLY!? And what other information HAVE YOU GOTTEN!?" She tried to kick me in the nuts but failed when I grabbed her leg, put a foot behind her other leg and pushed, knocking her down.
"I sense that your aggression inhibitors have overloaded, so why not CALM THE FUCK DOWN!" I grabbed her legs and dragged her out of the room... "Gotta train this stupid master- I mean, sister of mine to talk rather than sock-it to 'em."
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I yawned as I looked out at the tavern patrons, today it was pretty full, I mean more full then usual, even yesterday... today was also the last day of the tip contest, and from the looks of it Louise wasn't doing so well in terms of her position...
The door to the tavern opened and the fattest noble I've ever seen walked in with a few guards.
"Oh Lord Chillan what a surprise!" said Scarron "I wasn't expecting you to drop by today."
"Harumph... looks like business is doing well today Scarron" said the fatass.
"No, it's not normally this busy... today is just a good day" I could tell that Scarron was nervous about this guy.
"Well lets cut the chit-chat, I'm here as a customer..."
"Erm, sorry sir but there don't seem to be any seats available..."
The fatass snapped his fingers and his guards all lined up in front of him and pointed staves at the people in the tavern... they quickly got the message and left... the prick...
The prick of a fatass went and sat down at a table "Your right Scarron there's hardly anyone here, I thought you said you were full..."
"Uh... of course sir..." I stopped listening and turned to Jessica.
"So, who's that asshole?" I asked
Jessica scoffed "That's Lord Chillan, the queen's tax collector... you cant risk pissing him off or he'll just put a big tax on you..." she sighed "He fondles you all night and then doesn't even leave any tip... no girl is foolish enough to serve him..."
"Um... then why is someone approaching him now?" Then I realised the situation "Oh shit that's Louise!" I knew this wasn't going to end well...
"Here sir, let me pour you a drink..." she said... ok... so far there was nothing going wrong... but of course the negative side of my brain just said; Oooooh, just you wait for it...
"Hey Scarron, I didn't realize you were hiring men now..." said the fatass... ah... there was the snag I was expecting.
"W-w-w-w-whaaaaaa" Louise started
"Oh I see, just small breasts! HAHA! Now then why don't you just-"
"You damned pig!" Louise yelled and kicked Chillan in the face... I sighed and made my way over there... checked my sweater pocket, good, my magnum was still there...
"How dare you! Scarron!" said the fatass who had just gotten up.
"P-please Sir Chillan Louise is a new girl and she doesn't quite know how to-"
"Silence! Guards!"
I ran towards Louise and stepped in front of her, in the path of the guards. "Don't touch her!"
"Who are you, a simple peasant, to get in the way of me! Lord Chillan!"
"I don't know..." I said and pulled out my magnum "care to find out?" I raised my pistol as the guards raised their staves... but before a shot could be fired all the guards were blasted back against the far wall.
I looked back "Louise!?"
"S-s-small breasts! A man!? How dare you insult me! You... you... FATTY!"
"Huh!? You can cast magic!? You... you're a fallen noble!"
I heard Louise growl and grit her teeth... she pulled out a scroll of paper... aaaaand there goes our cover if it wasn't already blown...
"Read this..." she let the paper unroll and the prick's jaw dropped and he paled. "What was that about a fallen noble?"
"Oh, from... from the palace... I- I'm so sorry please forgive me, none of this need to make it back to her highness! Take this, take this!" he freaked out and he and his guards ran out of the tavern... then to my surprise everyone cheered.
"You have no idea how long that bastard has had it coming!" said Jessica.
"Well, now our cover is definitely blown" I said
"Ah-ah-ah!" Said Scarron "We never question our employees or customers about their upbringing or background... we didn't see a thing..."
"We didn't see a thing!" chanted the rest of the girls.
"And speaking of which..." Jessica pointed to the huge sacks of coin that Chillan and his thugs left. "There's no need to even count it all... I think we know who won the tip contest... Louise..."
"That is right!" said Scarron "The winner of this year's annual tip contest is little Louise!"
"Yaaaaaaay!" cheered the girls.
"I... I won?!" asked Louise astonished
"Don't be so surprised" I said "Didn't you say you'd win?" I tried to appeal to her ego, as I felt I wasn't going to hear the end of this for a while, may as well try and get her to not go over bored with the bragging rights...
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That night up in the attic room I was laying on the bed, just relaxing, something I hadn't had much time to do before... I glanced up and saw Louise changing. "Hey what are you doing?" I asked
"EEK! Don't look!" she yelped
"You don't mind me looking before, yet now you've got a problem with it... sheesh..." I sighed. "Wait, is that the..." I noticed she was putting on the enchanted bustier...
"Well, it would be rude not to try it on after I won right? so I figured I might as well... what are you looking at..."
I shook my head... what was I thinking... I've already clearly stated I only like Louise as one might like their annoying little sister... but the outfit... was... enchanting! "It-it... it... I mean... Trei-bein!"
Louise sighed "Couldn't you have used another way to describe this?"
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There isn't going to be any Reach dream scenes for a bit... (if you know the episode after this one, you'll know why.) and I didn't feel like adding one here, I'm gonna save it for later...
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