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With the power of line breaks the chapter just barely hits my two thousand words minimum. Hooray!
Uhh, pretty slow chapter. But we have some Giroro? Yeah.
"You attacked them." Dororo erupted from the floor, and simply stated to Kululu. "Even though I warned you not to."
"Yeah? So?" Kululu asked. Dororo was becoming an annoying thorn in his side. Of course he attacked them. Why wouldn't he?
"You disobeyed my warnings." Dororo hissed. He bared his arms like blades. "I'm sorry Kululu, I can not allow this to remain."
Kululu paused his work for a moment. "How about I make you a deal?" He asked finally, seeing that at the moment he didn't have enough inventions to take Dororo out. "I'm going to become the ruler of this pitiful planet, make myself a city dedicated in my honor, rule this dead mud ball." Kululu confided, "If you don't mess up my plans or bother me, I'll consider not killing them."
"Not interacting with them!" Dororo corrected, "I don't want them to die or mutate like us. Koyuki shouldn't have to go through the pain we went through." He hissed.
Kululu glanced up. Koyuki? He wondered. She must have been the girl with the shuriken on her shirt. She must have been Dororo's ally.
Darn. Now he really wanted to kill her.
"Fine, I won't interact with them." Kululu agreed, "And in return you'll let me roam free and do my plans of world domination?"
Dororo thought for a moment, biting his lip. He didn't like this. Not at all. He didn't want the planet to be given to Kululu, but at the same time it was the only way to ensure that at least Kululu didn't bother his friends.
"Deal." He told him.
"Ku, ku, ku." Kululu smiled. Making a deal with him was like making a deal with the devil. When it suited him he would toss it aside.
They did not shake hands due to Dororo's claws.
Dororo did not get too close to Natsumi's group. He didn't want to break his vow and radiate them himself.
He did however leave presents for them like canned food so that they could survive out there.
Natsumi smiled, finding the package of canned food.
"I found something!" She yelled to them, taking the credit for herself. She didn't mention that it was left out there, as if waiting for her.
She didn't want to share what she believed were Giroro's presents for her.
Dororo frowned. He didn't really want her suspecting him, but she seemed a little too happy, like she was too hopeful.
Was she thinking the gifts were from Giroro? That would do no good. She didn't need to be hoping that she'd see Giroro.
If she saw Giroro it was very likely they'd get in a fight after all. And if they interacted and touched too much what if Giroro's radiation seeped off onto her.
So Dororo made up his mind to stop leaving presents for Natsumi. He'd have to focus on a different person.
Despite Dororo's pledge to remain unbiased and do what was right, he instantly drifted to Koyuki. It was extremely easy for him to find good food thanks to his nose. And leaving them out for where she was exploring was rather easy.
He tried to make it look non-obvious that he was leaving out gifts, but his willpower eventually broke after the third gift.
Koyuki hadn't picked up that she wasn't finding this food and that it had been laid out for her. She didn't suspect him at all.
But he hated not being able to communicate with her. He couldn't see her, couldn't hear her voice. He couldn't even smell her because he continued to be far away.
But he wanted to communicate with her. So he left a note for her just like he had for Natsumi the first time he had left gifts out.
Stay safe. The note was quick and short, and it was written in the dirt hastily, but he wrote it anyway. He knew it was wrong to show Koyuki that someone was there but he wanted to be there for her, to communicate for her. To ease her heart and sorrows.
Koyuki smiled when she saw the note. You too whoever you are! She wrote back. Dororo however could not see very well, so he was not able to read it.
Koyuki hummed at the food she had been gaining. Her friends and her had started a food reserve and had been searching for a more permanent shelter to make their home.
She wondered if she should tell anyone about the friendly spirit that had been helping her with her food gathering or if she should keep it a secret.
She eventually confided in Saburo, opposed to Natsumi. Natsumi had enough on her plate and might suspect that whatever was being left out for her was a trap.
"I think somebody's following us." Koyuki confessed to Saburo, "Somebody's been leaving food out for me, and letters."
Saburo frowned. "Letters?"
"Telling me to stay safe, things like that." Koyuki answered.
Saburo rubbed his chin. "And...Do you think it's one of the frogs? Maybe Kululu trying to trick us."
Koyuki thought for a moment. "I want it to be Dororo. I'd like to imagine the letters are from him. But...If it was Dororo, he'd see me. I wouldn't care how mutated he was. His soul would still be the same." She told Saburo. "He wouldn't not approach me."
"Then...You should stop taking the food. It might be harmful." He told her.
"I checked it, it's not poisoned." Koyuki told him proudly, "It's safe."
Saburo thought for a moment, "All right. Take the food. But don't...Don't tell Fuyuki about this. We don't want to get his hopes up falsely about Keroro. I heard from Natsumi that Keroro's worse than Kululu."
Koyuki nodded.
"So...The Keronians are alive..." Fuyuki murmured. "Did...Did you encounter any of them besides Kululu?" His eyes glowed excitedly. Keroro...His best friend could be alive!
He didn't want to hope. He didn't want to be harmed when his expectations broke, but if one of them had survived, perhaps Keroro had too.
"Uhh..." Natsumi munched on a twinkie. "I'm sorry." She told him. She couldn't let Fuyuki know of how evil Keroro had become. "I only encountered Tamama too. I don't know if the stupid frog is alive. From what I heard from Kululu, he's probably dead."
Fuyuki didn't need to see him. She would protect him.
She unknowingly told him a similar lie as to what she had been told about Giroro.
Fuyuki frowned but he had expected as much.
Giroro tried to stay away from the Pekoponians as Dororo had told him. Dororo was strong, he knew that he was about his level of strength. It would be a tough fight if Dororo tried to kill him.
Still, there was an unfathomable hatred towards the Pekoponians that he couldn't control. He wanted to destroy them. To rule them.
His invader spirit burned in his soul. He needed to prove himself as an invader.
The only memories he had were the ones of him as a soldier fighting for Keron. Keron had ordered him to invade the planet, and he would do as they commanded.
"I'll take down those Pekoponians. And I'll keep Dororo away." He knew sadly he couldn't do it on his own though. Dororo was an equal to him and if Dororo came in to protect the Pekoponians he wouldn't be able to fight against them.
He needed help. And help was a thing Giroro desperately didn't like.
Kululu was much too egotistical now to become an ally, so the answer was clear who he would have to seek out.
Giroro headed to Keroro and Tamama's territory. At the same time though it felt like there was a screw lose out of his personality. Like something was missing.
He shook his head, waving the feeling off.
Keroro and Tamama were kissing in a cozy little house they had made for themselves with various splotches of bad decoration.
"Ew. Gross." Giroro spat, seeing them kiss. He didn't want to see that. He wanted to plan an attack for a war, not see his old platoon mates kiss.
"Why do you interrupt us?" Tamama hissed.
"Are you here to take our water?" Keroro asked suspiciously.
"No. I'm here to help our mutual goal." Giroro explained, "I have a proposition for you."
"Um...Sorry, your gross and ugly. I'm not into that." Tamama rejected him.
"I'm loyal to Tamama." Keroro took his proposition as something entirely different too. Giroro looked baffled.
"I was talking about a war proposition!" Giroro told them. "For the invasion."
"I thought we agreed to work separately on that." Keroro reminded him, "You're an unneeded member of my platoon. I only need a platoon of me and Tamama. Or at least that's what Tamama says."
Tamama grinned widely at Keroro's praise. "Good boy." He told him, kissing him.
"There's four Pekoponians roaming around though. And I would attack them alone but Dororo is being a thorn in my side. He wants me to keep away from them because he remembers them or something. But I want to invade. I want to trample whoever thinks they'll protect this planet." Giroro hissed, "But I can't do it alone. Dororo and I are evenly matched."
"Four of them? I thought there was only two!" Keroro cried.
"They multiplied!" Tamama shivered, fearfully.
Giroro knew smacking both their heads wouldn't work out in his favor. He waited for them to process the information that there were more Pekoponians than believed.
"We'll discuss who gets the glory of invading this planet after defeating them. It'll be a temporary alliance. And then we'll fight." Giroro told them. He knew they didn't particularly like him, and that was fine by him. After all he didn't like them either.
"So you in? I know I can't do this alone and I know you want to invade. I also know you'll probably be bothered by Dororo about this too." Giroro told them.
Keroro and Tamama thought for a moment.
"I want to invade." Keroro confessed, "I am a Sergeant after all. But...It's Tamama's choice. I do what he want."
"I just want Mr. Sergeant. And this doesn't have much to do with him." Tamama hissed, "But I'm not cruel. If Mr. Sergeant wants to fight I'll fight with him. But after we're done, we're taking you down!"
Giroro grinned. "Deal." He smiled. They might have outnumbered him, but he was more skilled. He could easily beat them.
Keroro, Tamama and Giroro all cackled and resonated with each other, forming their surprise attack plan.
When Giroro went out to get some sleep before the mission, he felt a small burning sensation on his cheek. Like he had been hit there...Or at least a memory had.
It wasn't a real feeling, just a sort of memory. But he didn't know of what.
What was he forgetting?
Whatever it is, I'll face it soon enough. He realized.
He'd destroy some Pekoponians, Invade the planet, and beat the hidden protector of Pekopon, Dororo.
And he would succeed.
"Nothing will stop me." He smiled to himself
Please review! Sorry it's very short. I didn't have much time before bedtime. I wanted to go to bed on time because tomorrow is my first day of college. Horray!
Well, by the time I post this, it won't be my first day of college anymore. So I guess this is a note to myself in the future. Cool. Myself at this present time will get spoilers. Nice.