Meet Shi and Melody!
The Crazy and The Tactical?
"Let's see…" said a young girl as she looked over the large wall with soon-to-be Kishins littering the walls. Her pale hands fingered her pale face as she intently studied every single inch of the wall for a good job. Her long white hair tied up into a tight tail with a red ribbon, but it still stretched all the way down to the small of her back. She wore a knee-length black skirt and a white button-up shirt. The white stockings she wore greatly contrasted her black shoes. "Which one do you think we should do Shi?"
Another kid wandered up next to her. The kid had long purple hair down about mid-waist in length. Spiky bangs covered up the kid's brown eyes. The kid appeared to be androgynous. It flipped its ushanka hat onto the top of its head and studied the board itself. It wore a white sarashi that covered its entire upper body except the mid-drift. It wore a black jacket over it with blue and red flames on it. It also had on blue jeans with chains hanging off of it. It pulled its hand, which was encased in a fingerless leather glove, out of its pocket and picked one of the papers up.
"How about this one? Oh, and this one!" it said as it pulled another paper off of the wall and flung it over to its partner, "But this one has a nicer background…then of course number of souls we get is important, too…we should get one that is easy, too…then again this one looks good…oh, look this one is in Paris…oh, Rome…and this one is good, too…I know how about this one. Hmmm? I can't decide…how about all of them, Melody! Melody? Melody?" Shi looked around frantic, but the only thing close to it was a large pile of paper.
A hand emerged from the pile of paper and started to move about frantically. Shi jumped off of the ground startled. "Melody? Is that you? Please tell me that's you…because I don't think I could handle it if some random hand tried to get my attention again…the last time it happened it didn't turn out so great…"
The hand came across and slapped Shi across the face sending it to the ground.
"Okay," said Shi, "I'll let you out of the paper pile." It started to dig through the paper pile only to see its partner's face lying there. Shi panicked and started to dig through the load of paper at a quicker pace. "Please be alive! Please be alive!"
Melody sat up and started to breathe heavily, "I saw my entire life flash before my eyes…"
"It was really boring, wasn't it?" replied Shi with a goofy smile. Melody slapped Shi hard across the face once more.
"No," said Melody shoving the rest of the paper mountain off of her body before standing up. "We still need to figure out which one of these we are going to do."
"Ooh! Ooh!" shouted Shi raising its hand like a fifth grader, "how about all of them? Yeah, lets do all of them in one hour!" Shi rocketed up onto its feet and was about to take off when Melody tightened her grip on its collar.
"WE CAN'T DO ALL OF THEM!" Melody sighed as Shi calmed down. She turned her back to it and scrunched down onto the ground and started to finger through them once more muttering something that Shi couldn't make out.
Shi was about to bend down and start helping when it caught something out of the corner of its eye. A sly smile spread across its face. "I think I found the perfect mission for me." Shi's hand went straight onto Melody's butt and started to pat it.
Melody's face turned a bright crimson as she spun around and launched a punch straight into Shi's face sending it flying. "Stop being such a pervert!" Her face still a bright red color.
"I wasn't being a pervert!" shouted Shi, "I was flirting."
"You were groping!" shouted Melody.
"I was just picking out a mission," said Shi still trying to act coy and innocent.
"YOU WERE GROPING MY BUTT!" shouted Melody in the loudest voice possible. Her face became even redder as all of the students surrounding them turned to look at the spectacle. "Its not like that!"
Shi stuck out its bottom lip and said, "you have mission stuck to your butt."
Melody turned around and looked at her own rear end. Sure enough a single mission was attached there. Melody glared at Shi, who only responded with a confident smile and a thumbs up.
Melody sighed. "I guess this means we picked out our mission."
"Praise your glorious behind and its insight!" shouted Shi. Melody slapped Shi's face once more.
"Stop talking about me like that!"
(-In Venice-)
Melody settled down into between two shipping crates. Shi stood besides her. A normal man was wandering around the complex in the open doing some routine check-ups and making sure everything was still in place. The complex was a big oil holding company. They gather oil from all over the world and stored it here and then shipped it out when necessary.
"The Kishin should be on the prowl soon," said Melody as her entire body tensed up, "our report shows most of his killings occurred during the 9 o'clock and the 11 o'clock time span in this area. We wait for him to show his face and then we take him down." Melody unwrapped a piece of gum and put into her mouth and began chewing.
"Do you got any chocolate?" asked Shi ignoring the dangerous location they were in and focusing more on the fact that its mouth was empty.
"I told you bring whatever you wanted," said Melody, half-moaning. "You could've brought your own chocolate…or anything else, but you decided to pack light. I got gum and that's it." She blew bubble with her gum and then quickly sucked it back in to make sure it didn't make a loud pop.
"Give me a piece of gum then," commanded Shi.
"No," said Melody, "I only have one piece left and that's for the trip back."
"Fine," said Shi as it stood up, "I'll just go buy me some chocolate." Shi was yanked back down to the ground by Melody.
"Are you insane?" asked Melody, "A Kishin is on the loose and could show up here at any minute! You are not to go buy chocolate right now!"
Shi shrugged and sat down, "how do we even know when this thing shows up? Its not going to be wearing a big sign that says 'Hey, ya'll I'm a Kishin. Come beat the crap out of me'."
Melody was about to reply when a blood-curdling scream rang through the air. Melody jumped up and looked around. There was the Kishin…there was a big Kishin. Its body was human-like enough…probably 10 feet tall at the least…it wore a cartoon-like mask with a big red nose on the front. One of its legs were shorter then the other, its left hand was large and held a mace while its right hand was skinny with a sword in it.
Shi pouted, "I was really hoping for something prettier."
"IT'S A MONSTER! BEING PRETTY ISN'T ON ITS TO DO LIST!" shouted Melody. She sighed and let out a deep breath, "just transform where we can take it down and leave."
Shi shrugged once more and his body lit up into a fierce crimson glow. His body shrank until it was a small hand-sized cylinder. Melody quickly grabbed onto him. When the light vanished, Shi's weapon form was revealed. It was a small red yo-yo with green and blue alternating spikes pointing towards the middle. The loop that held it to Melody's finger was a bright crimson.
Melody flicked the yo-yo off at the Kishin. It pounded into the Kishin, but due to the huge difference in size it only managed to attract the Kishin's attention. It turned its face over towards the duo with Melody spinning Shi in a sleeper-like fashion. The Kishin roared.
"Congrats, you ticked him off," said Shi with a chuckle. "I say we celebrate with chocolate."
"We didn't do anything!" shouted Melody at her partner, "when we defeat him I'll buy you some chocolate until then no chocolate for you!" She blew a bubble once more with her gum, this time letting it pop.
"WHAT!" shouted Shi in its yo-yo as it began to rock back and forth from Melody's fingertips, "No chocolate! YOU ARE A MEANIE! A big gum chewing meanie…with a cute butt."
"What did I say about mentioning my butt!" shouted Melody once more.
The Kishin ignored the fact that the two were arguing and brought its mace down and into the ground. Melody barely managed to back off in time, but the debris from the attack still nicked her face. Melody skidded back a bit and into a large barrel directly behind her.
"Crap," said Melody as she stood back using the barrel for balance, "I was almost crushed by that attack…" her eyes trailed onto the barrel. She smiled. She flung Shi out and around the barrel. His thin black wire wrapped around the barrel and quickly tightened up around it. She brought her entire body around and flung the barrel up and into the Kishin's head. Again, with no real effect, asides from having the black gooey contents spill out all over the Kishin's head.
"It looks better this way," said Shi with a smirk, "much less uglier."
The Kishin roared once more, this time bringing its sword down and into the pavement leaving a large scar in the ground. Melody whipped Shi around once more. This time eight curved blades protruded out of Shi's body. The razor sharp blades all dug into the Kishin's chest causing it to stumble back from shock. The Kishin returned its attention to Melody. It brought is mace around and smashed it into the nearby wall, with Melody agilely jumping above the swing. Melody landed on the ground once more and began to run around it.
Melody flicked Shi out into the complex had him dig his sharp blades into another barrel. She yanked and brought both Shi and the barrel careening into the monster's side. The monster stumbled onto one knee, but recovered quickly bringing its mace back down into the ground besides Melody. Melody let out a sharp and short curse as she was thrown backwards from the momentum.
Melody collided with the ground, but quickly got back up, just in time to avoid another devastating swing of the Kishin's sword. Melody scrambled around for awhile before she got back onto her feet. She flung Shi into the air and have him wrap around one of the highest support beams in the complex. As the Kishin turned around and swung his sword at her, Shi's entire body tensed up and the string came sliding back into the yo-yo lifting Melody off of the ground and above the Kishin's sword.
The Kishin growled. He leapt from his location and into the air and made another swing at Melody. Melody let go of the yo-yo and fell back to the ground allowing the sword to graze over her head, but underneath Shi's body. Melody landed onto the ground and began to sprint away.
"Hey!" shouted Shi from its location around the beam, "aren't you forgetting someone? I'm still up here you meanie!"
"I didn't forget about you," said Melody as she continued her jog around the complex with the Kishin making numerous maneuvers and powerful swings after her. "I just didn't want to get cut up!"
"If you get cut up can I have your…" started Shi before Melody cut it off.
"NO! YOU DO NOT GET MY BUTT!" she shouted.
"I was going to say gum!" shouted Shi back, "I'm not a pervert you know!"
"Oh, shut it," said Melody as she slid back behind some boxes and hid from the Kishin. The Kishin smiled and its snake-like tongue slithered out of its mouth as it approached the boxes. It lifted its mace into the air threatening to bring it down and crush the boxes that Melody hid behind. In one fell motion, the Kishin brought its mace down and into the boxes splattering its contents all over its own body. It roared back and checked its surroundings. One flattened human was missing from the mess. It scanned the area intently trying to figure out where it could've gone.
"Looking for someone," said Melody as she undid the last of Shi's loops around beams and freed him. She landed confidently on the ground. "Now I know a monster of your size must have tiny brain, but I figure you did notice one thing about this building, didn't you?"
The Kishin looked up at the ceiling, lost.
Melody spun Shi around on the ground, his blades fully extended. The contact the blades made with the ceiling started a couple of sparks. Soon those sparks caught the entire yo-yo on fire. Melody chuckled as she left the building her flaming yo-yo extended a few feet behind her. "This complex that I'm leaving is a oil storage center and everyone knows one thing…oil is highly flammable." Melody took her final step outside of the complex and Shi's yo-yo form zoomed through the air, still on fire.
The Kishin was unaware of the fact that whenever Melody or it busted open a barrel or a couple of boxes, oil splattered all over its body. When Shi's flaming body came in contact with the oil covered Kishin, the Kishin lit up like a candle. However, an accidental side effect was that entire building blew up into flames. This burning building sent out one large rock that crashed straight into Melody's back. She was alright, just knocked out and had a few major burns, but nothing that time wouldn't heal. She was sent to the infirmary as soon as she and Shi returned to the academy.
Here is Chapter 2 for you all readers. Yes, Shi is androgynous and bisexual. I had no idea on whether or not to call Shi a 'he', 'she', or 'it'. So I went with 'it', I apologize to all of those I have offended. Shi is the work of Full On 124 and Melody is made by Redcap55.
I still have not selected the last character pair for this story. You may still submit and try to get your character accepted for this story as the final duo. However, I do plan to have the next chapter up by next Sunday so you have to send him/her in by next Friday at the latest.