Zero to Hero

Chapter 4: The Mylee Festival

Recap: Conrad, a knight from Ronliearth, ventured to Ohfern to reclaim his fiancé Melissa. Though he challenges Louie to a duel after discovering that Louie was Melissa's champion. After a much-anticipated battle, Louie is victorious and proves the knight to be a fraud.

After dealing with many adventures with his companions, Louie found his consequences waiting for him inside his room in the academy. Mounds and mounds of homework assignments were past due and Master Faultess only gave Louie five days to complete them all. Including another assignment he added on at the last minute.

Ila helped Louie for the first night, though he was on his own with the few assignments remaining as well as the project he just received. Louie worked day and night in his studies attempting to make up for lost time. Upon the fifth day, master Faultess discovered that Louie had completed all of his assignments as well as the project, which was a mechanical orb. Louie raced from the room quickly leaving Faultess amazed. He burst through Ila's room shouting incomplete sentences, "Ila, you…me…festival!"

"Ew Louie, could you at least wash up or something?" Ila yelped seeing his gruff appearance from her door.

After a moment of cleansing, Ila hung to Louie's arm as they walked the streets of Ohfern where vendors lined the area. The festival had begun and Louie explained it all happily to Ila. Soon they found Melissa at her stand along with her three cleric pupils. "Hey, Melissa!" Louie yelped as she turned toward him embarrassed.

There he socialized with her as the pupils plotted with each other. "Look at him acting so casual with Miss Melissa." The blue haired pupil said.

"She's just too nice, I bet he forced his way onto them and Miss Melissa was too nice to say no." Spoke the blonde haired pupil.

"That dumb porter doesn't know his place, and it's time somebody put him in it! Looks like it's up to us girls. If he messes up big time in front of Miss Melissa, he'll think twice before ever coming around!" Spoke the red haired pupil.

As Louie was almost off to roam the neighborhood once more, the red haired cleric approached him with a bag of cookies. "Hi Mr. Porter, try some of these. They're Mylee's cookies."

"Wow, thanks!" Louie said taking the bag. "Free cookies…"

Suddenly Merrill spotted Louie calling him over. Louie greeted her and waved Melissa bye as he walked over to Merrill's stand. "What are you selling over here Merrill?"

"Bear meat!" She replied, "They're really good but no one seems to want to buy them from me."

Louie noticed the price of each, "Um…Merrill, don't you think the prices too high?"

"Of course not! So you just gonna leave me on my own knowing I'm struggling to get back on my feet? Buy one already would ya?"

"I'm not really that hungry Merrill, besides…" he showed her the bag of cookies. "I got these for free!" Merrill looked at his bag and snatched it from his hands and shoved them all in her mouth. "Fine Merrill…" Louie purchased her bear meat for both him and Ila as the continued on their way.

"Thanks Louie!" Merrill said with a sly snicker across her face. Soon her stomach grew extremely queasy as she held onto it with an awkward expression on her face. Soon gas escaped from her behind as she held onto her butt racing for the bathroom. The three pupils were saddened their plan had back-fired, though they didn't seem willing to give up.

Louie came across Genie sipping from her mug as she sat by a table. He decided to socialize with as well while Ila was by another stand getting something. Soon in the midst of their conversation, he fell asleep as his head made its way comfortable between Genie's breasts. She looked down amazed then side kicked him extremely hard as Louie fell upon the floor.

The three pupils had pan of green liquid of some sort ready to fall upon Louie's head though when they dropped it, it hit Genie upon the head instead. Ila returned to Louie on the ground, "Aw…sleeping already?"

"No time for sleep!" Louie shouted as he continued forward with Ila. Louie then found himself approaching his Aunt Jennie and spoke to her as well as she gave him insight that they received some help from the magician's guild for the Palace of Ordeals.

Jennie spotted Melissa and grabbed her for Louie as she asked Melissa to escort Louie inside. Melissa couldn't refuse since she was the tour guide for the Palace of Ordeals. She lead Louie and Ila toward the temple.

Melissa approached the stand as Isabella, Melissa's rival, allowed them entrance. Isabella stared at Louie up and down as they passed through. Soon she spotted the three pupils trailing along and looked at them in confusion.

Melissa told them about the past of Jennie and Carlwes as they were a part of an historic event. She approached another statue as the man with a sword leapt out at them frightening the two girls, then returned to where he jumped from. Louie smiled, "Now that's entertainment!" He said and received stern looks from both girls.

Louie continued forth as Ila was snagged by a rope and taken into the air. Melissa fell through a hole just as one of her pupils tried to warn her not to stand there. After fixing their problems the three girls kneeled before Melissa as she scolded them. "Aw don't be so hard on them. This is the Palace of Ordeals, it's suppose to be about hardships." He interfered as Melissa walked away.

They came upon a dragon in the exhibit as they watched the dragon suddenly come to life. The dragon fell over and shot fire all over, burning the temple. Others from outside could see the smoke coming from the temple as the others inside ran out. Louie commanded the girls to run as he stood in front of the dragon. "Louie come on!" Ila shouted to him.

"No way, I can't leave things like this!" He said. From his words Melissa seemed enthralled by him but followed the others out. Louie, no longer noticing them, leapt forth upon the dragon's limbs and making his way to its head. Louie leapt into the air and came down upon the dragon's head smashing his fist into it and bringing the dragon down. He backed away knowing now he needed to put the fire out as is wand shimmered blue though he activated the wrong spell and blew the dragon to bits as well as the top off of the temple.

When the others returned inside they saw Louie passed out but the dragon and fire was clear. Melissa smiled as she finally confessed to everyone that Louie was her champion. Isabella looked at her stunned as she felt a bit of jealousy within her. Her pupils looked amazed as well as they were embarrassed that the porter they knew was actually Melissa's valiant champion.

Soon master Faultess jumped from the platform waking Louie up and showing him that it was Louie's fault for the dragon's malfunction in the first place. He held the mechanical orb in his face as Louie was once again known as the screw up, but now Melissa was angered that everyone knew he was her champion and stormed off being ridiculed by her rival.

All ended back to normal though Merrill seemed to be not able to separate herself from the toilet the entire time!