[At The Old Town]
The group arrive to find a heap of low levelled monsters spread across the land. "Woah. There's so many~!" Neptune says, shocked. Noire stands next to Neptune, looking at the old village, "I guess since its abandoned no one was around to report them, which let them build up in numbers." she says, placing a hand on her hip. "That makes sense.." Neptune answers. A large pack of Dogoos appear from behind a couple of trees. "Hmmph. Too easy." Noire huffs. "There are only low-levelled monsters.. wheres the challenge?!" Neptune sighs before continuing, "well at least our sisters can train without us worrying too much." she finishes, giving Nepgear a smile. "I guess" Noire agrees. "Let's work together and clear this village!" Ram yells out, smiling bravely. "Yeah!" Rom chimes in. "Hold it! We have to clear the fields first.." Blanc says, looking out at a field to the left. The group averts there attention to the field. A large pack of Hyenas prowl around a field that sits just on the outskirts of the town, near an old, white church. "Alright~! Lets clear this field!" Ram calls out, marching towards the field. Rom joins her and Blanc follows closely behind. "Hmm, well then, I guess I'll join them. See you guys later." Vert says, walking to catch up to Blanc. "Righty'o! Have fun, we'll catch ya' later!" Neptune calls out, waving to them.
"Hey, check that out.." Nepgear says, pointing to what appears to be an old farm. The others avert their attention to the farm as well. A wooden fence surrounds a large paddock which is full of dogoos. An old looking, wooden barn sits just to the right of the paddock, with huge windows and doors. It's red paint scratched and faded.
"Ewe~ It's so old looking.." Neptune says.
"I think It's cool, sis." Nepgear retorts.
"..Yeah, you would.."
"I can handle them." Uni says, pulling out her gun.
"I'll join you!" Nepgear states.
"S-sure.. I guess I can let you help. Just don't get in my way~!" Uni says, winking.
"You got it."
"Then let's go."
They take off running down the hill to the abandoned farm. "Alright, take care!" Neptune calls out, waving. "Yeah, we'll catch up to you guys later!" Nepgear calls back, returning the wave.
Neptune looks around a little before spotting another pack of hyenas near a cave. "Hey, Noire, let's take those hyenas out~!" She says making a fist and confidently smiling. Noire looks over at the pack too and her lips curve into a smirk. "Alright, lets do it!" She says, walking over to Neptune. Neptune winks at her before taking off running towards the hyenas, "If you don't hurry though, I'll end up killing them all on you!" She calls back, laughing. Noire takes off running after her, "oh yeah? I bet I kill the most!" She says, catching up to Neptune. "Ha, we'll see!" Neptune retorts, now running at the same pace as Noire.
[At The Church Grounds]
Vert, Blanc, Rom and Ram all stop as they reach the field. The hyenas prowl around before one notices the girls. "Well, this is quite an easy job. I don't even think we need our HDD forms" Vert says as her spear appears. She whirls it around to her side before charging at the pack of wild animals. "I've got your back, Ram!" Rom says as she readies her weapon. "Thanks, Rom!" Ram replies, getting into position. Blanc gives them a nod before charging at the pack, slashing at the creatures with her hammer.
Vert hits a hyena onto its side, making it tumble across the ground. Another hyena jumps at her and she raises her spear in time to block. She uses the end of the spear to hold the hyena back as she slips out of the way, moving her spear to the side, causing the hyena to fall onto the ground. She looks over at the other hyena to find it's back on its feet. The hyena starts coming towards her as she notices the other hyena is now on its feet as well. They both head towards her. She spins the spear around before stabbing it into one of the hyenas, turning it into nothing but data. Quickly, she readies herself before the next hyena launches itself at her once more. The monster turns to data as her spear is driven through it. Panting, she turns to check on the others. Blanc brings her hammer down onto a hyena, killing it instantly. Another hyena runs around to her side before leaping at her. She spins around with her hammer as it collides with the creature. The force of the hammer sends the hyena flying a few meters before hitting the ground and bursting into pieces of data. Blanc looks up and notices Vert smirking at her. "What?" She says, flatly. "Oh, its nothing. Your just so small it's hard to imagine you swinging that hammer around like its nothing." Vert replies with a giggle. Blanc rolls her eyes and looks over at Rom and Ram. The girls take turns in shielding each other while the other fights off a hyena. Ram finishes killing a hyena before another one runs over, catching her off guard. Before it can reach her Rom smashes her weapon into its side, causing it to roll onto the ground. The girls then take turns beating it before it can get up, eventually the monster bursts into data.
"Perhaps we have something to learn from them.." Vert says, looking over at Blanc for a reaction to which Blanc returns with a small nod. "We did it!" Rom and Ram shout together. Blanc smiles at them before looking up at the sky. "That doesn't look too good.." she states. The group look up to see dark clouds forming in the sky. "We should start heading towards the others." Vert suggests. The others exchange looks before agreeing with a simple nod.
[At The Barn]
A beam of light hits a dogoo, turning it into specs of data that flutter to the ground. More beams of light shoot out from Uni's gun, killing three more dogoos. "Wow, Uni. You've really gotten good." Nepgear states as she slices a dogoo in half. Uni's face flushes with a light shade of red, "Huh? W-what do you mean?" She asks as she reloads her gun. "Well, you never miss a shot.. The last time we fought together, you only hit the target about half of the time." Nepgear answers as she slashes at another dogoo. Uni shoots a couple more dogoos, "W-well, of course it's a natural skill for the likes of me.. but um.. I have been practising a lot.. Especially since Noire started letting me join her on quests..." Uni trails off as she finds herself watching Nepgear slice apart three dogoos at once. Nepgear takes a deep breath before turning to face Uni. "U-u-uh.." Uni stutters as her face turns bright red, "t-that was r-really cool, Nepgear" she says. Nepgears cheeks turn red and she smiles, "Thanks, Uni!" She says, brightly. They both turn to see that all the dogoos have been taken care of. "Hey, Uni.." Nepgear says as she turns back to face her, "would it be alright for us to hang out more.? I'd love to be able to train with you like we used to.!" She says. Uni's whole body goes numb as she struggles to find her words. It was true that since their sisters had returned they hadn't gotten to spend as much time together. During that time apart, Uni had become really good. Though, she did miss training with Nepgear. Even though she could never admit it.
"Uhm.. Uni?" Nepgear calls out, "You okay there.?".
Uni snaps free of her thoughts before answering, "A-a-ah... Sorry, I was just thinking about when I'm free to hang next.. how about next week sometime? I'll have to talk to Noire first, of course, but um.. whenever you're free too.. I guess.. ha ha.." She answers, nervously.
"Oh of course, I'll talk to Histoire about it, I'm sure she'll let me!" Nepgear says as she smiles, brightly. Uni shakes her head trying to focus on anything except Nepgears smile.
Nepgear looks up at the large, dark clouds that now completely cover the sky. "Uh.. we should get back to the group.." she says, worriedly. Uni looks up at the dark sky, too. "Y-yeah.. let's go." she says. They both start walking back towards the hill when a loud and strong gust of winds comes from nowhere, almost knocking them over. They both stop and raise their hands to try block the wind, with no such luck. "..The hell?!" Uni retorts. Wind forcefully throws snow in every direction, making it impossible to see.