It's A Taken World
Chapter Three: Years Gone By.
Special Key for This Chapter
"English/Japanese" - Basic speech.
"?" – Special Language
All four of the children had been affected in a way by Naruko's gifts, and as years passed the differences showed.
Iris... well you already know about her, but through the years some special things happened to her. Let's check one of them out.
*Two years after Vernon's arrest*
Iris was growing well, along with her Aunt and cousin Daisy
She no longer had the stringy body she got after the transformation, and Petunia no longer looked like a horse, which seemed to have happened because of the wards.
When Daisy went to school, it seemed everyone had forgotten about Dudley, and that she had quite a few friends still.
Right now Daisy and Iris were sitting in class, waiting for everyone else to file in.
When everyone arrived, the teacher got the class' attention.
"Children, we have... someone rather special coming into class today. Now I want all of you to stay calm when she arrives, because she is... rather interesting."
And interesting she was.
She was actually more fish than person
"Hey there, squirts! I'm Undyne!" She called, her grin showing a row of shark-like teeth.
One child fainted in the corner of the room.
"Anyway, I'm here to answer your questions about my kind, the monsters! Don't let that name fool you though, we have very much in common with humans, like families and other things like that!" Undyne said simply.
This seemed to be a rehearsed set of lines.
After a while many of the children calmed down and began asking questions.
"Umm... what do you do, I mean like as a job?" A shy girl named Suzy asked from the back of the classroom.
"Simple, kid! I'm the leader of the Royal Guard! We protect our King Asgore." She answered.
And Undyne kept answering questions, from her favourite drink("Tea is my favourite, it's a classic!"),to her favourite show on the TV("I don't really like watching TV much, but anime is awesome!")
After a while of asking an answering it was time for lunch. Undyne went outside and showed off her impressive strength, holding ten children in her arms as if she were a bench, the children of thee playground clapping while she had her shark grin plastered on her face.
After that event, lunch was still on. With most children going back into their groups after Undyne was finished. The monster decided to eat her own lunch too, only for it to get swooped away by a white dog. Undyne growled slightly as she watched the dog run away.
'We got out of the underground and you still come in to mess with us!' She thought, almost prepared to throw a spear at the retreating thief.
Iris walked towards Undyne and sat next to her on the bench she resided on. She shoved her hand into her sleeve and pulled out a sandwich, then passed it to Undyne.
Undyne just looked at the sandwich, then back to Iris.
"Kid... what is this?" Undyne asked slowly.
"It's a sandwich; you seemed to be really upset when you lost your food, so I gave you it." Iris replied, before pulling a chocolate bar out of her sleeve.
"Thanks... I guess." Undyne said, and then started to eat.
School went by really quickly after that, with Undyne visiting some of the older classes and conversing with teachers.
When it was time to leave, Undyne was sent off with positive reviews, and the children of the school accepted the idea of Monsters from the underground into their life.
*Switch to overview.*
There was other things too, including the changes that happened to the other children and the meetings they had together.
Tsunami, through her bond with the Taken Fire Rabbit, unknowingly got her Flame's unsealed and changed with its energy. Her hair went from spiky to a rather silky smooth texture, with some very strange strands that looked a lot like rabbit ears, which lopped to the side of her head. While still classed as an idiot from the bullies of her school, she was actually one of the smartest in her class.
Ranma was still very much the same, but found comfort in many aqua related things. His main change would come later, in a very key event in his life.
(He was told about something that would happen to him by Naruko, who had a different dimension's Ranma tell her about their life.)
He was also a rather secret genius, sneaking into libraries when his father was sleeping off his drunken nights out.
Issei, sadly still had to dress up as a boy, and act like one. She found herself looking into all things fire, spending nights staring at the eternal flame held by a small chain around her neck. This may have caused some damage to her eyes, as she started to wear glasses.
Naruko had worked herself into the world, having made minor companies in many places, including the magic world(She just invested gold into varied places), Hell (Hey, with her wings very similar to Oryx's she could disguise herself as a devil simply enough, that was sort of how she found out about it, some fallen angels tried to class her as a "stray" when she was just setting up bases. After a while of being in hell she even found a way to absorb their energy, thus she was a Devil... sorta.), and some Mafia related things (Assassination stuff really, it was rather easy when you could warp into the targets bases and swoop them away.)
In her spare time she worked on other experiments, mixing the world's strange things together.
She was also still stumped about the Pink hair she got from that forest in another dimension, so she tried some things out.
It was only when some of the children were visiting when something... weird happened.
*Naruko's house/lab/secret base*
Iris, Issei and Tsunami were enjoying some time together in Naruko's house, the place they could all get to rather easily, making it the perfect hang-out for the children.
"What is Naruko doing anyway? She usually chills out with us when we come over." Issei asked, eating a bar of chocolate Iris had given her.
"She is working on some DNA she found while travelling to this dimension." Iris replied.
"How did you know... oh... right." Tsunami said, her hand stroking the Rabbit she had chosen to call Fribble.
"Shall we go and see how she is doing?" Tsunami said after a while of silence.
The others agreed as they left the room and walked into the lab, where Naruko seemed to be making a rather strange pink concoction.
Naruko placed the concoction rather precariously on the table, before greeting the children.
"Isn't that rather dangerous, leaving that stuff like that on the table?" Tsunami asked gently.
"Not to worry, that's just some extracted DNA mass, nothing should happen if it fell, I made a lot of it so if the container did break I would have more." Naruko said, shaking off the question.
"Anyway, how are you guys?"
The rest of the day went on normally, and with it being the weekend and agreement from all parental figures about it, a sleepover did happen.
It was pretty much all a great time.
As the others slept peacefully, inside the lab events were happening silently.
*In the lab*
"Why did you get me to do this?" A dark voice grumbled in a primal language.
"Because, you Silly Matter Manipulator, my Forest Fairy Friend From The Future has said that I must do this, and you must help me! Apparently it leads to a much better journey for the chosen one, and it will bring a lot more fun to the hall!" A child-like voice replied in the same primal language, but with its own vocal cords changing it. This voice belonged to a pink creature, which floated gently around the lab playfully, before it picked up the beaker containing the fluid similar to its own colouring. It picked it up by its small, stubby paws and floated over to some other container.
"She said that I would put this in a container filled with some black goo..." The creature uttered as it looked around; taking peeks until it found a jar of medium size marked "Taken Goo".
"Darkest spice, all of me nice! These were the ingredients to make the perfect creature in the world!" The pink one giggled as it poured the pink fluid into the now open jar.
The goo turned the same colour as the liquid, before it started moving; the pink one quickly closed the jar.
"You stay in there, strange goo! You can do your job in a moment." Giggled the creature.
"Don't waste time! Do you know how annoyed Father will be if he finds out we spent too much time in this dimension! He locked me in mine for getting you your video games from those other ones!" The dark voice replied from inside the shadow portal.
"Alright, you spoil sport!" It called back, before it teleported through the wall and floated silently to the room the four females were sleeping in.
When it reached the room, it opened up the jar and placed it onto the floor, letting the pink goo slowly slip out.
The pink creature giggled once more, before it ran back towards the shadow portal, looking back into the bedroom as familiar childish sounds seemed to come from within.
"Phooey," The little one frowned, "I have to miss this? It sounds awesome though!"
It giggled once more, before flying quickly into the portal as it closed.
*Hours later*
Naruko was the first to come to, lazily clambering to her feet and giving a yawn.
'I am strangely in the mood for a lot of pancakes.' She thought to herself, giggling in a kitten-like undertone at the thought of a sweet breakfast.
Ten minutes later a large stack of syrupy pancakes were piled high on the table, their smell waking up the girls, as they copied Naruko's past movements, lazily taking a seat at the table.
After they seemed to wake up from a sugar trance, everyone gasped in unison.
"You have pink hair!"
"How'd it happen?" Issei gasped out, staring at her short hair in a mirror.
"Well it seems a cat creature messed with the lab, and combined that DNA you were messing with and some other things then let it loose on us." Iris said after recalling it.
"Well... other than us eating a lot of pancakes, and the pink highlights, we don't really have anything else to worry about. So keep an eye out for any other effects, I would like to keep notes on this." Naruko said to them, and received nods of agreement in reply.
*A month later*
"Soo... any changes?" Naruko asked, though she knew the answer.
She herself felt her mind expanding, while getting a lot more childish as the month had went on. The pink highlights spread quickly as her old hair colour seemed like the highlights now.
All the others had the same events happening and a few more. Tsunami had used some sort of telekinesis to grab an object from her bedrooms desk, Iris at one point felt the comforting mind of her Aunt and suddenly blanked out, and when she came to she was on Petunia's lap, purring.
Issei blushed slightly as she told them about what was going on with her. During the night she kept waking up with a larger pile of toys, pillows and packets of sweets, she had been sleep stealing all of them. Luckily her parents didn't really go in her room, as it was the only girly decorated thing she was allowed, as long as they didn't see it.
"Well, I feel as if we should stay together this next month, I got some letters sent to your relatives, so they think you are on a 'Private funded trip around the world' that you have won in a contest, If nothing happens, we shall actually do it." Naruko explained.
"So we just wait a little bit more?" Iris asked, watching her sleeve shuffle around as Harleen wiggled herself out with a bar of caramel chocolate she wrapped herself around as she slowly ate away at it.
"I suppose we do." Naruko finished.
Yay, a new chapter.
... How you guys doing?
I'm just gonna call Iris reading the past "Recalling"
Most of you should be able to work out what the "Pink Creature" Was.
Anyway... Orbit n' stuff.
Cya.