It was yet another average Wednesday in Daten High for Briefers Rock, Ghost Hunter extraodinaire! Though when this dull, average school day ended, he knew that he would be off to better, much more eventful things for the upcoming weekend. He would be leaving tonight with some of the Black Suits his father personally assigned to him as his bodyguards, would arrive to the hotel he personally picked to stay in by Thursday night, and would be easily ready to deal with the horde of people he would be seeing and attenting his destination with for the next few days. And then, if he was lucky, he would be able to see her...
"Oi, Earth to Geek Boy!" The ginger shook his head, shaking his thoughts for the weekend away, and focused back on his second, yet just as important as the first, crush, Panty Anarchy. Panty was a fairly tall woman whose blonde hair was partially spiked at the front, similarly to a banana, but the rest of her hair flowed like a raging river, exploding at the bottom of her bangs with personality. Coupled with her red dress, which she managed to change out of her school uniform in a matter of seconds, made it next to impossible to ignore the woman.
It also didn't help that the blonde was also one of the two Angels of Daten City, whose very purpose was to purify Ghosts. Ghosts that, might he add, normally try to destroy, poison, or cause chaos for the city as a whole... Plus, as if to make matters worse, the duo added their own course of destruction to the city while purifying said Ghosts. So, yea, she and her younger sister, Stocking Anarchy, were quite well-known to the citizens of Daten City.
"Yes Panty?" The blonde bent down to his eye level, showing off quite the bit of her breasts to him without a care in the world. As much as he wanted to take in the sight of her breasts, which were covered quite horribly by a loose bra, he wanted his mind pure for the weekend, where he would be able to meet her for the first time. He hoped that, when they finally met, as well as spent time with each other at the event, maybe their friendship will change...
"So, I am in need of someone to help me with my homework while I sample some of the men for my one thousand checklist, and I was wondering if you would be kind enough to do it for me?" Since he wasn't looking at her breasts, Brief was looking straight into her eyes, allowing him to see that she was being honest with her most perverted, unfair request, and shook his head. Instances like these were the reason he realized oh so long ago that his instant crush on the blonde was just that, a crush, rather than any true feelings.
"I'm sorry Panty, but I can't." The blonde shook her head, slamming one of her hands on his desk. He was happy that it was the end of their fifth period, meaning that everyone was heading off to lunch, or else he would have known that people would be spying on them for gossip. 'Here it comes...'
"Why the fuck not Geek Boy!" The blonde shouted, slamming both of her hands on his desk. He didn't waver his sight, possibly adding more fuel to Panty's fire of anger. "You don't have much of a life, or else you'd be telling me about it all the time!" She actually paid attention to what he said? Wow, that was certainly a surprise, considering she never showed interest in him. In that instance she turned away, her left hand scratching at her face for no reason. Was she embarrassed? "Just because I don't respond to you when you talk about nerd shit doesn't mean that I'm NOT listening to you Geek Boy." Oh, so he was right. She was embarrassed about having to admit something she most likely didn't want anyone to know about, which was understandable considering who she was to everyone.
'Well, I guess it wouldn't hurt to tell her the truth, right?' Brief let out a tired sigh before standing up. As he collected his things, he turned to the Angel he could call his friend and smiled. "If you must know, I'll be leaving tonight to go to an anime convention for the weekend, and won't be back until Monday morning." The look on Panty's face revealed several things that he expected, such as confusion and possible dislike, yet the interest was there, hidden behind everything else he noticed first.
"Anime, like those Japanese cartoons some of the video games are based on, or like the stuff TV stations like Cartoon Network show all the time? I mean, Aang is kinda cute..." He couldn't help but to chuckle at her opinion of anime, considering not that many people considered Avatar, the Last Airbender to really be a true anime, but it was a start of what to work with. She is the stereotype of anti-anime after all, in the eyes of most of his classmates, and the ones who don't agree with it just find her to be a slut.
"Its kinda like that, but you got an idea as to what anime is. Its more cultural at times, but mostly perverted, humorous, and packed with better action scenes than most American cartoons. Hell, one could say that anime, and its perverted counterpart hentai, are worse than you when it comes to how far you're willing to go for pleasure." Thanks to his time watching so many anime, plus reading manga, Brief picked up a rather bad habit of closing his eyes when he explained things to someone when they were alone. he felt as if nothing bad would happen around a single individual, so he felt as if the habit never had to be conditioned. In this circumstance, on the other hand, he wished that he kept his eyes open, for he released the Pandora's box of Panty Anarchy, who now had the look of determination and, dare he say, jealousy?
"You mean to tell me...me, that there, at that convention, are things that would make the shit that I do with people look like child's play?!" Brief sighed, knowing better than to say anything in detail. He should have predicted this type of response, but did he? Nope, not at all. Now, to show thanks to his oh so smart mouth, he now had an enraged Panty to deal with. Great, just great! "There are cartoons that do worse things than I?"
"Yes Panty, there are, but they're just cartoons. It isn't as if they're real or anything-"
"But they could be, seeing as it honestly doesn't take much to control a Ghost, or at least tame the more beast-like Ghosts to obey you, and make them do crazy shit to you." Panty turned away, shaking her head before taking a few steps towards the door without saying a word. What she said about taming and controlling Ghosts did catch his interest, especially since it was the first time she spoke about it, but he knew that now wasn't the time to ask for more details. Then, at the last moment, she turned to him with an eye focused on him, and let out a small smile. "I'll see you later Brief."
Brief, he would later realize at the end of the day, didn't see Panty for the rest of his time during school that day.
PawkyFan01: You're really coming to Yattacon Brief?
GhstHuntr: Yea! I'm so excited to be going there!
PawkyFan01: :) I'm glad to hear that! My friends and I are going too! Will you be there Friday?
GhstHuntr: I'll be arriving to my hotel Thursday night, so I'll be able to get in line early and explore before anyone else!
PawkyFan01: :p You're so lucky! I wish I had the extra cash to get those premium badges :(
GhstHuntr: ...Ahhh, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to make you sad Christie. You could have asked me for some extra cash for the special preorder premium badge if you wanted it.
PawkyFan01: I know I could have asked, but that wouldn't be right of me. I mean, you even helped me find two Cosplays that I really like, and eventually fell in love with the series they're based behind! You're such a great guy Brief.
It was at this moment that Brief felt his face heat up with joy at Christie's praise. They happened to meet a few years ago on an anime forum that has long since been dead in terms of internet popularity, but their friendship has not wilted away. If anything, it has grown over the years, allowing them to influence each other in terms of their likes and dislikes, and their hourly chats, may it be by cell phone calls, text messages, or emails, the happiness he felt just by talking to her never changed. Sure, their hourly talks decreased to about two hours upon calling, and the overall call schedule went to around night time than the sporadic ratio that they once used to be, but that didn't bother him one bit.
He knew that Christie was completely dedicated to the manga she was writing for, especially since Yattacon would be its first public debut, so their overall talk-time would decrease, hence it didn't bother him. The fact that, since the beginning of his final year in High School, he has been busy helping the Anarchy sisters hunt Ghosts on a more professional level, much more than he was doing by himself, has also kept him quite busy with trying to survive everything that was thrown at him. It wasn't as if he kept his little "adventures" secret from her, but he did censor what happened during them, for he didn't want her to worry about him, such as the first time he helped the Anarchy sisters take care of Barby, bless her soul, but the two cracked ribs he had were painful to deal with...
GhstHuntr: Th-Thank you for the kind words! I-
"Master Brief," One of the Black Suits spoke from the opposite side of his door, interrupting his typing, "You have a visitor here that you've been seen with many times. May I let her in?" Now that was just as surprising as it was suspicious, considering no one in Daten High should know where he lived, and the few "royals", as most of the rich heirs preferred to refer to themselves as at times, didn't meet at night, so who could have been?
"Yes. You may let her in." He was expecting the door to be silently open, as what was custom to such a situation; however, when the door was suddenly slammed without a care in the world, he turned away from the computer screen and, much to his horror, found himself making eye contact with Panty Anarchy, who looked as if the world was going to pay her just for standing in front of him. The pair of bright red suitcases she had in front of her legs showed a rather obvious sign that she was expecting to leave at any moment, which didn't confused him at all. 'She wouldn't...'
"Hey Geek Boy!" The blonde carelessly dropped one of her suit cases, revealing that she was holding a thick bundle of cash in her hand, and walked over to him, flipping out what looked to be about sixty dollars in the form of twenties, and pressed them to his face. Okay, now he knew that they were twenties, but that didn't mean that- "How much do I have to pay you in order to have me covered to buy a pass to this anime cartoon con you're going to? I just got my fucking vacation time approved, and I'm more than ready to spend it in a very erotic, shit-fucked style man!" A small 'ping' caught his attention in a bad way, and, faster than he most likely ever moved before, spun away from Panty, unknowingly forcing her to fall to the floor, and looked at the computer with his eyes widened in shock.
PawkyFan01: I'm sorry Brief, but I gtg. Ttyl, can't wait to see you!
PawkyFan01 has signed off.
"N-N-Noooooo..." Brief slammed his head on his keyboard, uncaring for the sudden scream his desktop made, and wanted to forget all about Christie signing off the way that she did. Maybe it was the current situation, but it felt, how should he put it...colder. As if something was wrong.
"Oi, fuck-face! Aren't you going to apologize for what you just did to me? Knocking me down just to see if your porn download was successful. I can't believe you Geek Boy!" At this point, as much as he normally wouldn't do such a thing, he wasn't in Daten High at the moment, so he stood up, turned around to stare at Panty without a hint of positive emotion in his eyes, and spoke. If she was going to come with him, then he might as well get some amusement from her joining him, shouldn't he?
"I'll take you with me, but on one condition..."
-Author's Note-
Hello readers, reviewers, and followers! I welcome you to one of two ideas that I've been writing on the side, and this one is quite personal to me due to the main setting of this crossover! Dramacon, though only a three-volume manga series, was one of the first manga that I sought after with such determination that I thought I would actually cry when the series finally met its end. Luckily for me, no tears escaped my eyes after I purchased the third volume; however, years later, I found myself obtaining the two-thirds of the series, after I gave my first set to a friend who was just finding themselves in the wonders of anime and manga, so I began reading it with joy.
At first, I thought I was just going to make a short, little tribute to the Dramacon series by simply making a one-shot for the small, tiny section that exists on here, but I rarely create one-shots, and the times that I do end up being simply for holidays or based on some sort of event. With time and some various reading, I found myself thinking "Why not do what I'm best at, yet at the same time take a leap of faith for an entirely new adventure in terms of plot and story?" With that thought in mind, as well as sticking with Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, being the one series I pride myself with knowing quite the bit about, this was born.
As some of you may have noticed, Panty has been acting a bit differently in terms of the lack of swears, yet knows a little about anime, Brief is a bit more serious, and Stocking has yet to be seriously mentioned in this story. Well, other than this being the first chapter and I didn't wish to overload it, there is a reason for it. The reason? I'm trying my hand at a more sensible Panty, but that isn't the only thing. In this story, if you must try to place it in some form of time-line, this is occurring right after The Phantom of Daten City and Inner Brief, yet before Help! We are Angels music video. This means that, though Stocking was shown to be quite happy tormenting/injuring Brief in Inner Brief, there is still a high possibility that she is still grieving for her recently departed lover, which is key for Panty.
Shifting gears for a second, the pairing for this story is still up in the air at the moment, so please don't ask me serious questions about it. Also, before I go on and explain, don't ask about harems either. At most, MOST, there would be a main pairing plus a mistress. No more, no less. Anyway, as you've seen in this chapter, Brief is much more interested in Christie than Panty, yet he has noticed Christie has been acting a bit differently to him. On top of that, Panty is forcing herself to join him to Yattacon, but that doesn't exactly mean that she will be the end result for this pairing. He might end up with Panty, Christie, or might walk away alone, yet emotionally stronger for the sequel.
Yes, just like with Dramacon having three volumes, I plan on there being three parts for this story. That doesn't mean that each sequel, or this story, will follow the book scene for scene; and yet, don't be surprised if (for those who have read Dramacon) scenes are practically the same. Certain scenes are, in my eyes, critical parts for the series, so don't be surprised when the Point of View for this story changes between characters.
As with all of my other stories, I do not own Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, nor do I own any other references, series, or anything that is shown in this story. So, with that in mind, there will be little to no alternate names for any anime, manga, food joints, or games that find their way in here. I know it is mostly done in all anime and manga, Dramacon swapping Tokyopop with Mangapop, for example, but for simplicity sake, lets all be okay with me using the original names, okay?
All in all, this is but one of three ideas that I have been working on today, and I hope you will enjoy this, as well as the other two, whenever they're put out for everyone to read. These stories are members of a personal goal of mine, which is to expand my genre of writing in terms of series, and be able to create more for them. Every series, no matter how small or large, deserves some sort of tribute in my opinion. So, until next time, stay golden everyone, and please review!
