The Tiàowǔ Liánhuā restaurant was more crowded than usual, tonight. The words have spread that Aicha was performing a dance tonight alongside her new friends and it was a very rare ocassion happening at the Oasis, so no one wanted to miss that. And boy, were they right to go see.

Not only were their meal more delicious than usual, mainly thanks to Tanchi and her cooking skills along with some help from Viper before she had to go change, but the show was very entertaining. As soon as the lights turned dark and Aton and Sewu started playing instruments in the corner of the room and Aicha came out to dance into her beautiful costume, she automatically become the center of attention.

Doing exotic moves with her paws, shaking her hips with grace and moving her belly beautifully, she caught every man's fantasies and impressed the few girls that were present. She was having the time of her life.

Meanwhile, Suya and Viper watched her dancing from behind the kitchen's curtain as it was soon going to be their turn.

"Woah! Do you see how she dances?!" Viper said in a loud whisper. "She's absolutely gorgeous! I don't think I've ever did as good as this. Egyptian dances are really original, don't you think? Suya?"

It was only then that Viper noticed that Suya looked pretty nervous. She was trembling.

"W-We're gonna have to dance in front of all these people..." She mumbled. "H-How are we gonna do that?"

Viper raised her eye brow (she doesn't have any XD). "Why are you so nervous? We practiced all day long. Beside, I though you weren't nervous about showing your beauty to the world."

"I'm not but...what if things go wrong and we end up looking ridiculous to those people?"

Viper rolled her eyes. "Suya, seriously, stop worrying like that. If we work together, it can only go well. Beside, as far as I'm concerned, we're the prettiest girls in this Oasis. Nothing can go wrong."

Just as she said that, the song ended and a round of applause filled the restaurant as Aicha bowed to everyone and came back to the kitchen's side.

"It's your turn. Have fun, girls." She whispered to her friends as she passed by them.

After exchanging a nod, the two girls got out into the restaurant and the whole instantly turned their attention at them. Suya draped her snake friend over her shoulders. Her sinuous body drifted lazily around her; curling up against her legs, hugging her hips. The lights were making the golden jewels on her pink belly dancing dress shine along both girls' eyes and Viper's jade-colored skin.

Suya looked down at her petite curvy figure surrounded by the mass of coils for a second, and took a deep breath. Aton and Sewu started playing another song with their instruments.

"Oh, I love this song." The snake said with sliding his head around in front of her owl friend, a wicked smile on her face, behind her mask.

Suya gently passed her wing across her head feathers. Somehow, the music reached her through the haze of her nervosity, and she raised her wings. They wove throw the air ahead of her, her hips and stomach moving as fluidly as the serpent draped over her.

Even under stress's effect, every single movement was perfectly controlled, smooth and elegant. Viper smiled, her coils around the owl's hips rocking in time with her movements, dancing with her. She mirrored every movement of her head, following her jade eyes with her own, and as the pair twisted their way around the restaurant room, it quickly became unclear exactly who was leading who.

Her bare feet scraped against the wooden mat as she pivoted slowly, unconsciously winding herself right into the coils. Eventually, Viper found herself jumping away from the snowy owl and started swinging her pink ribbon at the rythm of the song which surprisingly went super well along it.

At this point, no one in the room was caring about his/her warm meal cooling off: they were all too hypnotized by the double dance. Soon, Sewu started tapping her drum really fast and Suya performed shimmies which made every part of her body vibrate while Viper span her ribbon as fast as a tornado, taking the opportunity to adress some winks at the audience.

As Aton and Sewu played the last notes, Suya and Viper took one last pose before bowing as everyone in the room cheered and applauded even stronger than with Aicha. They then got back to the kitchen room and were immediately greeted by their cheetah friend.

"GIRLS! YOU WERE AWESOME!" She exclaimed with putting them into almost a bear hug.

"Yup, that was really impressive." Tanchi nodded before getting in the restaurant to bring a plate to one of the customers.

"Thanks, I practice dancing ever since I was a kid." Viper said with removing her mask before turning toward a visibly happy Suya. "See? I told you everything would go fine."

"Yeah." The owl nodded. "Y-You think I should try to do this for Koji?"

"Of course. I'm sure he'll like it." Viper said with a giggle which Suya shared.

As expected, the special event of the night before was a success and Aicha made a lot of money out of it. There was so much coins in her treasure chest that she could buy all the dancing costumes of the Oasis, if she wanted to.

"Woah! That's not as much as we've seen in the temple, but that's still very much." Sewu remarked before closing the chest and turning to both her uncle and Aicha. "You think that'll be enough?"

"Yes, more than enough to be precise." Aton said with a nod. "With all that money, we can go recruit enough independant fighters to defend the Oasis and maybe some extra weapons or allies."

"We should go search them today." Aicha said. "Let's go wake Suya, Viper and Tanchi up and go."

BANG!

Suddenly, the entrance door of the restaurant shot open and a soldier from the Imperial Egyptian Army entered. It was an ox dressed in a traditional red and golden armour with a shield and a spear. He looked pretty pissed off.

We're gonna stop here! I sure hope you enjoyed the fan service dance ;)