Disclaimer: I own nothing. This is a fanfic written for entertainment only.
A/N: Here's another chapter. An early warning though; characters might go OOC. Settings will still evolve around HM and since I'm using the term 'different dimensions', expect some things to be…uhm, nuts? XD
Italic words – Thoughts/thinking
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SUPER DRIVE
Chapter 4: The Divine Rules Of Witch Princess
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"Ouch!"
"Ugh!"
"Oh, my!"
"Kyaaa!"
"Hau...," Witchkin let out a sigh. "That was one rough teleportation. Stupid aunty," she said angrily. "We're lucky that we're not hurt along the process."
"The heck?" a gruff voice was heard below her. "Not hurt? Why don't you look below you before you say something like that?"
Witchkin did exactly what the voice told her to do and looked below her, on the 'ground' she was sitting. She was surprised when she saw that Chelsea was below her, Will was below Chelsea, Vaughn is below Will and Mark, with his face facing the ground is below Vaughn.
Ouch at Mark. "So...sorry!" Witchkin apologized and quickly stand up. "I didn't notice you there. No wonder the ground felt so soft."
"Of course," Chelsea said, dusting the dust off her clothes. "You're sitting on my chest," she added, looking at the young girl with a 'duh!' look.
Witchkin's stare immediately travelled down to the rancher's chest, examining it. "I didn't notice you have a really nice asset there, Chelsea," she commented.
Chelsea grinned. "You think so? People kept saying to me that it's too b-"
"Ekhhm!" Vaughn purposely cleared his throat with a very loud sound, making everyone turned to face him and cuts whatever thing Chelsea is about to say about her chest. "What are you looking at?" he said coldly, pulling down the tip of his hat and turned around; avoid making contact with any of the people in the group.
Chelsea looked at the silver with a confused expression. Will who was standing beside him chuckled a little and Witchkin smirked when she saw how red the blonde's face is and how hard he try not to blush-even though he already did-on the comment Chelsea just made.
"Bah. Enough with the jokes," Witchkin broke the silence after a while. "Let's see," she said and examined her surroundings. "Oh, great. Mountains," she sighed, not happy with the fact that they soon will be climbing the so-called mountains down.
Vaughn, Will, Mark and Chelsea looked around them. Chelsea noticed that the view is the same as the mountains back in Sunshine Islands.
"Wait," Chelsea said, eyes still scanning her surroundings. "This place looks awfully familiar..."
"No shit, Sherlock," Vaughn cuts in, crossing his arms. "The mountains back in Sunshine Islands. You," he added, turning to the youngest member in the group. "Are you sure that this is the right place? That witch didn't screw up, did she?"
"Hey! What do you take us witch for?" Witchkin pouted. "My aunt knows what she's doing. I can assure you that we're in the right place. If you're not satisfied with it, you can always ask my aunt," she said and pulled something out from her little frog-shaped pouch.
"Isn't that...a mirror?" Mark asked, examining the item Witchkin showed them. "The design looks really familiar."
"Oh, you noticed?" the little girl grinned. "I got this from a girl with green hair wearing some kind of green-blue sailor suit. The suit's skirt is very short though. "
Mark stared blankly at the younger girl in front of him while the others looked confused. "You wouldn't say...," he gulped. "I thought that mirror is important to her. You didn't steal it, didn't you?"
"What? Are you accusing me of being a thief, Mark?" Witchkin retorted. "She dropped this while fighting some awful looking monsters. I happened to be near her when she did and when I looked below me, I saw the mirror. I thought it was pretty so I took it."
Now how did she meet Sailor Neptune? Wait. "You what?" Mark said, shocked when the younger said that she took the mirror Sailor Neptune use to battle from her. "You can't do that! That mirror is important to her!"
Witchkin blinked at Mark. "Why not? She has her friends with that cool sword and staff anyway. I actually wanted the pretty chains used by a blonde girl in her group but she never did drop it. Not even once! Can you believe it? Also, it's my first time using teleportation magic and I am so not going back home without a souvenir," she said, adding a 'hmph' before turning away from the older man.
Mark sweatdropped. "Still, you really, really shouldn't do that, Witchkin," he said to her, scratching the back of his head. I hope they wouldn't lose whatever battle they're in when she stole the mirror.
"I don't get what you're talking about, Mark," Will make his remarks, staring at the other blonde's face.
Will's obviously not a Sailormoon fan. "Oh, it's nothing. Go on, Witchkin. Ask Witch Princess our whereabouts now."
Witchkin nodded. "Okay! I've modified the mirror's function so it's going to be very easy," she said and started chanting.
"You better not screw this up, again," Vaughn who was already tired watching the previous conversation between Mark and Witchkin growled. Remember to resist the urge to choke her, Vaughn. She's necessary in this journey.
"The mirror is really pretty, don't you think, Vaughn?" Chelsea asked the man beside her.
"Che," the silver-haired man replied the rancher, pulling his hat down when the rancher giggled at his answer.
"It's working!" Witchkin shouted after some seconds. "Look!"
Everyone gathered around Witchkin. They jumped backwards from shock when the mirror gives out a light and Witch Princess's image emerged from the mirror.
"Hologram? Oh, wow. You don't see something like this unless you're in the Mainland back in Sunshine Islands," Will commented , staring in awe the hologram image of Witch Princess in front of him.
"I told you I modified the mirror's function, didn't I?" Witchkin grinned.
Poor Sailor Neptune. Mark shook his head in defeat."Witch Princess, can you hear us?" Mark called out to the older woman.
"Of course! Do you think I'm deaf?" Witch Princess snorted. "You've called me on a wrong time, mister. I'm eating my lunch now," she said, wiping her mouth with a piece of white tissue. She looked around the search party's surroundings. "Oh? It seems that you've arrived at your first destination."
"That's why we called you, Witch Princess," Chelsea asked. "The view is familiar, just like the mountains in Sunshine Islands. Do you think we're in the right place?"
Witch Princess nodded. "Of course. My magic will always work, you know," she said, sneering at her niece. "Not like that brat."
"Hey!" Witchkin retorted.
"Anyway," the older woman continued before the young girl can make any protest to her previous comment. "I've told you before that you're going to travel to different dimensions, right? It doesn't mean that you're going to arrive in different places. You might stumble upon Sunshine Islands-like you did now-but keep in mind that it's not the same Sunshine Islands you're all living in. Things might be different there."
"What do you mean by different?" Chelsea asked again.
"You might find people you know there but they might have different personality and how they act will be completely different. Here's an example: Vaughn in the island you're in now might be less grumpy and always smiling."
"Hmphed," Vaughn grunted. "Mind your own business."
"And he will never act that cold," Witch Princess added, giving the silver-haired a sharp glare. "Also, don't be surprise when you saw yourself there. They're you, but at the same time they're not you. Understand that?"
The search party-excluding Witchkin and Vaughn-nodded their head at the older woman explanation. "Very good," Witch Princess said, satisfied that she didn't have to repeat the same things over again. "I'm going to send the instructions to Witchkin later. Have fun there, guys," she continued, smirked and disappeared.
"She's gone," Witchkin said, placing back the mirror into her pouch that Mark started to wonder if it has the same function as his and Chelsea's backpack.
"That was informative," Will said. "Now that she warned us earlier, we wouldn't spook out when we saw ourselves walking in front of us."
Mark nodded. "Yup. True," he said, turning to Witchkin. "Witch Princess said about sending instruction to you. Did you get it?"
"Oh, yes!" Witchkin replied, rummaging through her pouch. "Let's see...oh! Here. It just arrived," she said and took out a paper. "Umm...," she started reading the paper. "Here are the things that were written on it..."
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Things that you brats should know in your journey:
1. You somehow will stumble upon yourself or some people you know during your journey. Do not freak out. Don't worry. They're not ghost and you're not going to die if you meet one. They only possessed the same looks but they're completely different people. Don't go shouting around like you're crazy if you saw one. Especially you, M...ekhm. Move on.
2. You might not agree of the things happens there in the places you're in. This is important; do not try to change it. You are strictly prohibited to do something that might change something in the places you're in. Strictly prohibited. If you did, I'll have no choice but to summon my giant Teddy Bear-I called him Honeypoo-and stomp on you until you're dead because you're giving me a lot of trouble by doing so.
3. Do not go and explain who you really is to other people you met. Divine punishment awaits you if you dare to do that. Why? Because I said so.
4. Besides the animal you're responsible for, do not touch others' animal. Doing so will resulted in you kissing goodbye to Chelsea's memories. No touching, no petting, blah blah, etc, etc. You got the point. You're not stupid anyway...or are you? Well, if you are, ask someone with a better brain to explain this to you.
5. Make sure that my bratty niece remembers to change your appearance before you set out on your search for the animals. Things will get pretty ugly if you didn't. I highly doubt that she will always remember it. That's why you have to remind her about it every time you arrived in a new location.
P/S: I'm recording your every move with my new recorder. How did I do that? Mind your own business. I might upload it in my YouTube account later on if I recorded anything funny so you can be the laughing stock of the entire world. Haw haw haw...
Have fun, brats.
Witch Princess
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The group was in awkward silence after reading the paper. Chelsea blinked her eyes in confusion, Will is trying his hardest not to laugh aloud, Mark is frowning over the first statement Witch Princess wrote, Vaughn is annoyed and Witchkin pouted over the last statement.
"Did aunty think I'm stupid?" she made her remarks and put the paper back in her pouch.
"Apparently, you are," Vaughn replied, crossing his arms and stared at the young girl. "Tell me again who in the first place lead us to this?"
Witchkin glared at the silver-haired man. "I told you, it was an accident!"
"Maa…maa…Calm down, you two," Will sweatdropped and tried to calm the two bickering people.
Chelsea turned to Mark. "Mark, are you okay? You've been frowning ever since we finished reading the first statement."
"Huh?" Mark replied, shocked from the sudden question from the brown-haired woman. "I'm…I'm fine. I'm okay…," he answered, grinning towards her.
Chelsea blinked at him. She smiled. "If you say so," she said to him. She turned to Witchkin and sweatdropped-just like Will-when she saw her bickering with someone older than her. "Vaughn, Witchkin, please," she said, standing beside Will. "Can't we call it a truce? We have to go and find the animals you guys are missing."
Vaughn looked at the rancher. Actually, it's your animals. "Che. Fine," he said, turning away.
"Hmph," Witchkin snarled. "I'll forgive you this time because Chelsea told me to," she said, avoiding the 'WTF you say?' look from the older silver-haired man. "Okay. I'm going to change your appearance before we set out to search for the animals. Ready?"
"Uh, I didn't mean to be rude," Will asked, hesitant about his question. "It…it will work, right?"
Witchkin rolled her eyes, sighing in defeat. "I know I screwed up once," she said. "But that doesn't mean I screwed up every spell that I cast! Gimme a break! Jezz!"
Will gave a nervous laugh. "Oh yes. Of course. I apologize for being rude. Please, go ahead, Witchkin."
Witchkin nodded. She took out a wand with a frog-shaped head attached to the tip of the wand. "Don't move, everyone," she told them. "Popi-po-pipo-pi-po~!"
Smokes appeared from nowhere and surrounded the party. Coughs can be heard from Chelsea, Mark and Will while Vaughn can be heard cursing about the smokes. The smokes dissolved seconds later and the party stare at each others' faces.
"I don't see anything change about you," Mark said to Vaughn.
"Neither do I. You still have that stupid face of yours," the other man replied.
Mark grunted and once again, Will calmed him down. Chelsea scanned her body from toe to hair and turned to Witchkin.
"You have fail?" she asked her.
"Of course not!" Witchkin defended herself. She took out the same mirror as before. "Look for yourself!" she said, handing the mirror to Chelsea.
Chelsea took the mirror and gaped when she saw her image on it. "T…this is…"
"See? You can't see the changes among yourselves but other people will," the young girl said..
"Oh, wow…," Chelsea replied, tracing her face with her free hand and touched her hair. "Look everyone!" she said excitedly, handing the mirror to the three men.
"What is…Oh, my," Will was the first to see his reflection in the mirror and like Chelsea, gasped when he saw it. "I still have the same blonde hair but my clothes…It looks really grand," he smiled and passed the mirror to Mark. "Take a look at it yourself, Mark."
Mark took the mirror passed by the other blonde. "Wow. Is this me?" he asked himself, grinning into the mirror. "I look totally different…hahaha! Here, Vaughn."
"Let me see it," Vaughn snatched the mirror from Mark. "What the-What's with this appearance?" he asked, somewhat annoyed when he saw his own-new-face in the mirror.
Witchkin snatched the mirror back from Vaughn and the older man gave her a sharp glare which in returned she stuck her tongue to him. "That," she said. "Is your all new faces for this journey. Also, you're going to use a new name. You," she pointed to Mark. "Your name will be Kyle. You," she pointed to Will. "Max. Chelsea will be called Yue and yours is Barret," she said to Chelsea and Vaughn.
Vaughn is obviously not happy with his new appearance. "Can you change me to something else? Something other than this appearance?"
"A frog? Sure," Witchkin replied, grinning and Vaughn looked pissed at her replied. "Be grateful, you. And no, I can't change it. So yah, you'll just have to accept it."
Damn it. "Che," Vaughn replied back, turning away from Witchkin.
Chelsea chuckled a little. "This is going to be fun," she commented. "Well then, Witchkin. I'm sure we're done with all Witch Princess's orders. Now what are we going to do?"
As it on cue, a paper come flying down to them out of nowhere. Mark catches it, seeing that he is the closer one to the falling paper and read it aloud so that everyone know what's written on it.
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Hello brat, princess and her knights in shining armors.
I see that you're done with changing your appearance. I applaud you for doing it right, Witchkin. Now you're ready for the search. Your first task is; find the horse. Remember about the rules.
The mightiest witch ever,
Witch Princess
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"There. That's our first task," Witchkin said, feeling somewhat good with the note, although she wondered where it came from. "Let's go down the mountains and to the town, people."
Vaughn, Chelsea, Mark and Will nodded their heads and joined Witchkin who started to walked away from them.
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A/N: I'm in 'I lost my sanity' mood whenever I'm writing this fic so yah. A lot of stupid stuff...hehe... XD For those who didn't know, Sailor Neptune is a character from Sailor Moon series and their new appearance and name are taken from Rune Factory 2. If you've played the game before, you will know how the said characters look like. :D Here's the link to the pages that can help you understand more about Sailor Neptune(if you're not a fan of Sailor Moon series) and see how actually the RF characters look like. :)
Sailor Neptune info - http:/en[dot]wikipedia[dot]org/wiki/Sailor_Neptune
Rune Factory 2 characters - http:/www[dot]fogu[dot]com/hm/rune_factory2/characters[dot]php