Chapter 3
Two Down
Where were they to look first? The city was fairly big and they were so small that finding them would take some real effort, but they could do it if they worked together. The number of people on the streets though did not help their cause though. Hopefully they didn't find any pink or black puddles on the ground, that would be sad. For the time though they decided to stick around the shopping distance since that's the direction they saw them run in.
"So what's the plan?" asked Destra.
"No clue, but if we look around we will probably find them somewhere around here. They couldn't have gone far with those stubby little legs."
She was probably right. Their legs were so small that there was no way they could have gotten far. Still as they walked through the crowd Destra seemed a bit down. She didn't even have a smile on her face, just a worried look.
"Sorry if this is a bit personal but how did you fall for him? Ryo I mean."
"Huh, fallen for him? What do you mean?" she asked as her cheeks began to heat up.
"Come on its obvious you like him. How do you fall for someone like that though, someone like that?"
Well she couldn't hide it so it was for the best for her to just come out with it.
"I guess it's because of his heart. Yeah he can act a bit goofy at times, but he's also smart, funny, cute, and his blood tastes so good." she replied as she began to drool.
It must have been a a day or two since she had tasted his blood but the taste always seemed to linger on her tongue.
"I see..."
Now she understood. Those questions and what had happened only moments before at the stand. She was having love distress.
"This is about Magi isn't it? You don't like him?"
"Oh no don't get me wrong he seems alright, but he seems so weird when he's..."
"Himself? Yeah I can see why you might be a bit skeptical about that but you should give him a chance. You never know, you two might have something in common. Plus he's not a bad fighter."
"But he's just so..."
"When it comes to love you can't just judge them by how they act. You have to look inside of them and find what their truly like. The outside is only the cover, on the inside is the real story."
It was all fine and good that they were getting along fine but now they had a bigger problem, they were lost. Through the twists and turns of the city streets they had lost their way and were now standing in what looked like the children's district with lots of souvenir and toy shops. Well the best thing to do was to stop and ask for a map of the city or at least ask to be pointed in the direction of the festival grounds. They would continue searching for the little friends, but they needed some help.
"Oh hey there's the guys." said Minami.
Inside one of the toy shops they saw Naomi, Diataro, and Gino all helping out with repairing whatever needed to be repaired in time for the kids. While Gino used his claws to cut up pieces of wood to make new shelves for the toys Diataro repaired whatever chairs he could find. They stopped for a moment to watch as Diataro sat down the bucket of glue.
"Alright all fixed." he said as he placed the final chair down.
"Are you sure? Sit in it and let's just see how well you did." Naomi said as she leaned against one of the new shelves.
If she asked him to do so he had to do it. He didn't want a hammer upside his head. As soon as he stretched he planted his butt down onto the surface.
"See nice and...uh oh."
When he tried to get up though the chair chair just pulled him back down.
"Oh you've got to be kidding." Naomi laughed as she watched him try and pull himself from the chair.
"Just don't stand there help me." he said as he tried to break the chair apart.
With a roll of her eyes she grabbed his hand and began pulling as hard as she could. Since he was a werewolf though his body was pretty damn heavy and pulling on his arm only wore out her own until she fell back into a chair behind her. Now she too was stuck as she tried to wiggle from the glues grasp.
"Heh its solid isn't it?"
As soon as she saw her eyes light up he knew he was in some deep crap.
"Come here..."
"No."
"No come here I'm not going to hurt you." she said as her hand began to glow.
"That's what you always say before you hurt me." he said worryingly as he pulled the chair up with him and began running out the door.
"You get back here!" she yelled as she followed.
Oh them and their little fights. It kind of reminded her of last year when she froze all of them. Once they left though small footsteps could be heard coming from behind one of the shelves.
"What's up?" Gino asked as he raised a new shelf.
"Oh you know, just looking around." replied Minami as Destra began looking around each shelf.
"Around an empty store?"
"We're just you know, stretching our legs."
Suddenly her partners loud footsteps began echoing through the building as she chased after the two chibis.
"Sorry gotta go!"
Through the back door they both went as Destra used the shadows from all around to trap the two little children. Apparently they weren't as smart as their bigger originals for they didn't even try to get out of the way when the shadows rose around them. In a matter of second both were trapped within a small cage.
"Whew, we got em." she said as she picked up her cage.
For children they sure were fierce. With their little hands and feet they tried to kick and punch the bars loose but even for mini Minami that seemed to be impossible even with her vampire strength. Even mini Destra could break free as she tried to chop the bars down with a little axe.
"Awe, their kind of cute when you get a good look at them."
"Yeah, real cute. Now could we get back please?" asked Destra.
But when they were about to leave she felt something land on top of her head, something with sharp little nails and wings.
"Minami, tell me there isn't a bat on my head..." she said as Destra's body trembled.
"Awe hey there little guy." she said as she walked over to the small winged beast.
"Get it off my head please...get it off my head..."
From the amount of trembling that seemed to be going through her body it looked as if Destra wasn't completely fearless.
"Your afraid of this little cutie?" she asked as she fed it a bit of her cookie she had in her pocket.
"Ooooo it's moving..." she said as she closed her eyes.
"Oh alright, come on little guy. Time for you to go home, shoo."
With a slight flick of her wrist the bat kicked off her head leaving her with a few small scratches.
"Heh so it looks like your not so fearless after all." said Minami.
"Hah hah very funny, let's just get back before more show up." she said as she looked around worryingly.
