"Desmond, you'll never beat me if you don't focus more on my sword to increase your reaction time toward it and with that your own speed." A voice called out to Desmond.

Desmond with his hands on his knees slowly looked up to see his older brother. Both were covered in sweat after a long fight. "Ya, ya. It's been a few days since my last fight so I need a warm up session. I'll win the next match." He replied with a smirk.

"Ha, I love your tenacity Desmond, it always insures a great fight. And the snarky little comments you bring as well." Desmond's brother retorted as he tossed a water bottle to Desmond.

"Ya, our fights are always fun aren't they." He said as he caught the bottle and gave his brother a large grin.

"!" Desmond sat up and looked around. "It was a dream." He sighed and looked at his clock, it was three in the morning. 'Ugh, I better get back to sleep.' He thought as he laid back down but couldn't fall asleep for about another hour.


"Wake up! Wake up!" Desmond groaned as he waved off the noise near him. Only to feel a sharp pain hitting his gut, as he opened his eyes he sees the perpetrator. It was the short purple haired CPU standing on his gut. "WAKE UP!" Her screaming causes the boy to flinch in pain.

As he shakes his head after the yelling he looks at the girls jumping off of him seeing that he is now awake. "What are you doing?!" he snapped at her "Jumping on me like that, you could have just pushed my shoulder till I woke up. It would have been less painful, and the yelling. Please not right into the ear I feel like it's going to be ringing all day."

"Well it's already 9:40 and we're supposed to be leaving in twenty minutes, so, GET UP!" Neptune yelled as she proceeded to stick her tongue at him.

"Oh crap, I did oversleep. Ok, get out so I can get ready." Dez said as he pushed Neptune out the door.

"Hey! There's no reason to push me! Fine just hurry up, we need to leave." Nep called out while going out of the room.

After Desmond emerged from his room ready to go. He headed over to the kitchen and quickly grabbed a bowl of cereal. After he finished eating he washed his bowl and quickly walked toward the door. He found Neptune waiting with her arms crossed.

"What took you so long, we're going to be late. If it ends up making Blanc mad then you're taking the hit." She said with a partly pouty face.

"I'm sure it'll be… wait Blanc will be waiting for us?" He replied with a questioned look on his face.

"Ya, she wanted to show you around since it'll be your first time in Lowee. Also it's always snowing in Lowee so we might need to get you a coat." Nep says as she walks toward the door.

"Ok, well we better hurry, we don't want her to wait for long." He replied as he follows the purple haired CPU out the door.


"Wow, there's snow absolutely everywhere." Desmond said with a happy cheer in his voice.

"Ya. Do you like the snow?" She asked Dez.

"I do, back in my world I lived in the northern part of my country, so during the winter the land was left covered in snow. I love the snow it's great and I like the cold so that's why I only got a jacket instead of a full blown coat." He said while looking around the nearby area.

"In that case." Nep whispered to herself with a sly smile. "HEY DEZ!" she called out.

When he turned around all he could see was a white ball in midflight only about a foot away from his face. "Oww, how tight did you pack the snow, or did you put ice in that thing, crap." He said while rubbing the side of his face "But, if it's a war you want it's a war you'll get." He called out as he picked up a snowball of his own and with a malicious grin the battle started.

About seven minutes later both were covered with snow, the battle was drawing to an end but there wasn't a clear winner. During the fight a stray snowball that Nep threw ends up not hitting Dez but someone in the background as they were walking up to the two of them. "Arghh" a voice called out and with it a deathly aura began to engulf the area, Nep noticed it almost immediately.

"Oh no, Dez we should stop now." Nep said with worry behind her voice.

"Why, are you afraid that you're going to lose." He said grinning.

"No, because of who's behind you." She replied.

That's when Desmond realized the aura and slowly turned around and saw Blanc with snow on her hat. Her bangs covered her most of her face so he couldn't really see her expression, but he could tell that the dangerous aura was coming from her. 'Oh crap' he thought 'A snowball must have hit her during the fight.'

"NEPTUNE!" Blanc yelled with fury. "What the hell are you two doing you're supposed to meet up with me downtown not here playing in the snow." She then materialized her hammer and proceeded to hit the ground to cause a mountainous amount of snow to bury the other two. The only noises the two could muster were a few grunts as they were encased by the snow.


About forty-five minutes later the three had finished the main tour of the place, Blanc started to take them to her basilicom. As Blanc walks through the door she warns "Watch out for the book."

"What book?" Desmond said with a confused look on his face. Then all of a sudden he sees a book flying toward him, thankfully for him he saw just in time for him to sidestep it. 'Oh that book.' He thought. But someone was not so lucky. A big thud and slight girly scream came from behind them. Desmond turned around to see Neptune laying on the ground and a book about a foot away from her. He walked over to her "Hey, you ok Neptune?"

"Ya, sure, just trying not to have a concussion here. It'd be nice if you could help me up here pal." Nep replied as Desmond grabbed her arm to pull her up. She stumbled from still being dazed "Hey, I demand to know who threw that!" Nep pouted as she shouted.

"Hahaha, I might have missed Blanc but at least I nailed Neptune right in the face. Hahaha." A girl in pink said while barely being able to stand from all the laughing.

"Ya, that was funny Ram." A girl in blue said while laughing a little.

After a couple of moments Ram noticed a person she had not seen before and marched over to Blanc. "Blanc, who's this?" she asked with a slightly annoyed tone.

"This is Desmond, he's from another world apparently and is now staying with Neptune in Planeptune. I was showing him around Lowee for today." Blanc said to her sisters. She then turned to Desmond "These two are my sisters, Rom and Ram." She pointed to the two respectively.

"Hello Rom, Ram. It's nice to meet you." Dez said as he walked up with a warm smile.

"H-hello Mr. Desmond." Rom replied quietly while slightly hiding behind Ram.

"Hmmm… Blanc are you sure we can trust him? He might be with those bad guy dummies." Ram said accusingly while staring at the boy.

"Yes, he somehow was transported to our world and Neptune found him. He has told me some stories from his world while showing him around Lowee so I know he's telling the truth." Blanc answered her sister in her usual tone.

"Ok, hi then Desmond, I hope we can be friends." Ram chimed.

"Yes friends." Rom seconded.

"Sure thing. I had a sister back in my world, so I know some games we could play." He said to the two candidates.

"You have a sister Dez, why didn't you tell me? Is she cute, how old is she…" Neptune jumped into the conversation.

"Wait, you said you had a sister what do you mean by that." Blanc asked with a slightly worried tone, the others stopped talking and looked at him.

He then looked at the ground with a saddened expression after realizing what he said earlier. "I-I'd rather not talk about it."

"Ok" Blanc decided not to push the question any further since she didn't know him too well.

"Hey can we stop with the serious talk, we're only a few chapters in and I wanna get back to playing something." Neptune said breaking the short silence. The others sweat dropped at the girl's words.

"Are you back Blanc?" a voice rang out as its owner came around the corner. "Hello, oh you are here too Neptune? I thought I heard another voice."

"Hi ho Mina, how ya doing?" Neptune shouted out while waving her hand.

Blanc ignored Neptune as she replied to Mina "Yes, I was gone for a short time. I would like you to meet someone Mina." She then pointed to the boy in the room "This is Desmond. he is new to this world so I was showing him around being his first time in Lowee." She then turned toward Dez "This is Mina. She is the oracle of Lowee."

The boy then turned to look at the lady and greeted her with a smile "Hi, nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you as well. I hope the twins haven't caused you any trouble, I know they can go overboard with their pranks." Mina replied.

"No, they're no trouble. I've been staying with Neptune so I'm used to the crazy antics." He said with a laugh as he looked over to the purple haired girl.

"Hey there buster! I'm not as bad as Ram here, she threw a book at me. I don't do that." Nep cried out with her hands on her hips and cheeks puffed out.

Desmond couldn't help but chuckle at the sight of the girl trying to put on a mad front as he walked toward her and put his hand on her head. "I didn't say that you're bad or anything. I enjoy spending time with you it's fun." He said to Nep with a warm smile as he took away his hand.

Nep looked up at him and smiled "Ok, I'll forgive ya this time." She stuck her tongue out then turned around.

Ram took this chance to jump back into the conversation "Hey, can we play something now? It's boring just standing here talking."

Dez looked over at the candidates and replied to the one in pink "Sure, why don't we play… oh tag. We should head outside so we don't run into anything."

"Ya, that sounds fun. Let's go Rom." Ram said with a happy cheer.

"O-ok." Rom chimed with a smile.

As the three of them ran off Blanc turned to look at the other two in the room. "So you didn't know he had a sister Neptune?" she asked with slight concern in her voice.

"No. In fact he hasn't said anything about his family at all." Neptune answered with a hand on her chin. "Why do you ask?"

"It's because of the way he mentioned his sister. He said he had a sister instead of has a sister. I can only wonder if something happened." Blanc said with her face that looked like it was in deep thought.

"At least he seems to get along with Rom and Ram. Even if something happened in his past all we can do now is to help him enjoy his time in our world." Mina suggested.

"I guess you're right about that Mina, that sounds like the best way to go." Blanc replied as she smiled.

"Blanc! Let's go play some games or get some pudding. Anything besides just standing here." Neptune shouted out while flailing her arms.

Blanc could only look at the other CPU with a sweat drop. "You're just as bad as Ram." She said quietly as she shook her head. "Ok"


About an hour and a half later the two candidates and the boy went back inside for lunch. Afterwards Blanc gave Desmond a tour of the basilicom while Rom and Ram pulled Neptune away to play. The two finally got to Blanc's room as the tour was at its end, when they walked in he immediately noticed the mountains amounts of books on shelves all over the room.

"W-well, you like to read don't you?" Desmond asked with a sweat drop as he overlooked the mass of books.

"Yes, reading is good for the mind. It also is a great activity to do in a quiet space." Blanc replied as she walked toward one of the shelves. "Would you like to read something?"

"Sure, I like quiet time myself, it's peaceful." He answered

"Just choose something you think might be interesting." She told him with her usual monotone voice.

The boy walked over to a shelf and looked across the large amount of books. He finally picked one up and after reading the back cover all he could do was sweat drop, the title of it was "Space Wars". 'If this was in my world the writer probably would've been sued' he thought as he put the book back. Then he picked up a mystery novel and sat down in a chair across the room from Blanc who was already reading her book.

About two hours later the two were still reading. Blanc was on her second book while Desmond was still on his first. Blanc lowered her book and looked at the other sole person in the room. "How are you adjusting to our world?" she asked with a curious tone.

He put down his book and looked to the small CPU "I've been adjusting pretty well. Surprisingly this world works kind of like rpg games in my world. Histoire and IF have taught me a lot about the ins and outs of this place. But I will say that staying with Neptune causes a lot of noise, so this quiet is a nice change of pace." He admitted while he looked at her.

"That's good to hear. If you need some time away from the craziness that Neptune brings your welcome here. It'd be nice to have someone around who knows how to be quiet." She told him with a small but warm smile.

"I have a feeling that I'll probably take you up on that offer." He replied as he smiled back.

"Hey guys! What's up?" Neptune burst through the door as the twins followed suit.

"Blanc! Let's play something, or at least read to us." Ram shouted out as she came through the door.

"If you can't… can you read to us Mr. Desmond?" Rom asked shyly.

"Sorry gals, but we gotta go and get back to Planeptune before it gets too late." Nep jumped in before anyone else could say anything.

"What?! Come on we want him to read to us, why does you both have to leave now?" Ram cries out with an annoyed look.

"Yes… we want him to stay." Rom says quietly with puppy dog eyes at Neptune.

"Sorry you two, but we gotta get back so we can get ready to Lastation tomorrow." Neptune says aloud.

Desmond turns to look at Blanc who was getting close to her limit from all the noise as if imaginary tick marks appeared above her head. Realizing what would happen if the other three, well two, girls didn't quiet down got up and rushed toward the door as he grabbed Neptune "Ya, we're gonna go. See you girls some other time."

"Hey, you don't need to grab me." Nep started yelling while flailing her arms around.

"Be quiet, Blanc is about to blow." He whispered to her as Neptune looked behind to Blanc. She then turned back around and quickened her pace from being pushed to pulling the boy.

As the two got close to the door they could hear Blanc shouting at the twins to shut up. "Looks like we got out of there just in time. Nice job." Neptune looked at the boy behind her and gave him a thumbs up.

"Ya, Blanc can be pretty scary if pushed far enough. I'm just glad I noticed." He said with a sigh "Shall we head back?"

"Let's a go." Neptune said with her goofy grin. The two then made their way back to Planeptune.


The duo was walking through the streets of Planeptune. During their walk Neptune noticed a sweets shop "Ooo, let's get some pudding before we head in." she exclaimed while poking Desmond in the arm.

"No, we'll have dinner soon. You don't need to ruin your appetite." He told her knowing that she most likely wouldn't stop at just one.

"Come on, no it won't. I'll just have one, anyways I'm sure Compa expects me to get some pudding before I get back home." She rebutted.

"No, It's rude to Compa if you eat something right before you go to eat her food." He said back standing his ground.

"Just one please. I'll even share it with you." She said while giving him puppy dog eyes.

Felling his resolve dissolve while he felt her eyes pierce through him, he sighed "Fine just one."

"Yay!" she shouted as she jumped and clung to his arm.

"Hey! Don't jump on me so suddenly." He cried out while shaking his arm around that Neptune was on without making her budge in the slightest.

"Ok, next time I'll try not to jump on you like that. But I'm not letting go right now." She admitted while looking at him with a toothy grin.

All Desmond could do was sigh, knowing his struggle was fruitless he stopped. "Fine, but like I said only one pudding."

As the two walked into the store Neptune let go of Desmond, grabbed her pudding and paid for it. Dez was standing by the door as he waited for the purple haired CPU. When she was done she walked toward the boy and the two walked out.

"Here." Neptune called out as she handed the boy a spoon.

"You don't have too…" Dez said

"I said that I was going to share. Anyways pudding tastes better with other people." Neptune retorted with a cheerful look on her face.

"Ok" he took the spoon from Nep and proceeded to take a bite of pudding.

"Hey Dez." Neptune called out to the boy next to her with a serious look on her face.

"What?" he asked.

"I was wondering how you are doing. You know, in a new world. Away from your friends and family. I hope we haven't been too much of a bother to you." Neptune answered with a half questioned and half worried expression.

"I'm doing surprisingly fine. It was a shock at first, but having evidence all around me I got used to it rather fast. I do miss some of my friends, but we don't know how I could go back if I wanted to and I been making friends here at too. Also don't think you've been any bother at all, I was worried about imposing too much upon you and your sister." Desmond responded with a warm smile as he put his hand on top of her head.

She looked back at him with her usual grin "Thanks Dez, I was a little worried. But like I said eating pudding with someone else tastes better don't." She gave him a side hug while holding the rest of the pudding in her other hand.

He slightly sweat dropped at the latter half of her last statement, but couldn't deny them either. "Ya, why don't we get back home before it gets any latter."

Neptune shook her head as the two walked back.

About ten minutes later the duo was back at the basilicom, as they walked through the door the two were greeted by Histoire.

"Hello Neptune, Desmond. I hope you had a good time in Lowee." The small floating girl stated as she focused her look toward the sole male in the room "I hope Neptune didn't make things difficult on your trip. I know how Blanc can be sometimes with her around."

"No, everything was fine. Well except getting buried by snow when we first got there by Blanc, but it wasn't too bad." He said as he waved his hand to try to get rid of any concern the little tome might have.

"Good. I understand that you two will go to Lastation tomorrow right?" The oracle asked.

"Yep that's right. We're going to see how miss lonely heart is doing." Neptune responded with her usual bright grin. Histoire just sighed at Neptune's comment as she floated away.

Nepgear walked into the room from the kitchen and bore a smile on her face "Hey you two. Welcome back. Dinner will be ready soon." She then walked back to the kitchen.

"Let's go see what's for dinner." Neptune said while look at the boy.

He shook his head "Ya, I'm starving. That pudding wasn't much."

The two walked into the kitchen to see Compa cooking and Nepgear setting up the table. Compa made fried chicken and corn on the cob for dinner. Which was much to Desmond's delight as he scarfed down his meal. Afterwards he wished everyone good night and headed to his room for the night as he looked forward to seeing another new land the next day.


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