Chapter 18: Harpy and Panotty: The birdbrain by kirbymanx/huskynator
F3 - Changing/Shower Rooms
"Yes!" Panotty whisper yelled at the other end of the phone. "She's coming just as planned, Harp!" He snickered. "Ready?"
"Ready~" She said in a mildly sing-songy way to her forest elven friend hidden in the spare room close by.
F3 - South Hallway
A purple-haired, winged, devil girl hummed her way to the shower room. She was in need of giving her hair some shine again. "We all danced through fire,~" She sung, her body danced along to the rhythm that's not there.
Peruvis
Hot, Irritable, Talented, Keytarist
F3 - Changing/Shower Rooms
"Okay, Harp. 3. 2 1GO!"
Peruvis opened the door while whistling. She was greeted by a poster of a super sexy swimsuit model in an attractive pose, held up by Harpy with a super doofy smile.
The devil looked at the angel. Well, alternated between the poster and the angel. Harpy giggled.
"Thank you kindly for the eye-candy, ya screecher." The Junior devil addressed Harpy. "Trying to apologize for trying to make us deaf with your singing, because what the bleedi- oof!" By trying to ignore that her wings got erect so as not to put attention onto them, Peruvis forgot about her erect wings. They barred her from entering the changing/shower room hallway as her wings bumped against the wall and the heavy double door.
"Hehehehehe!~" Harpy laughed, dropping the poster to cover her mouth.
"You think this is funny, girly!" The purple-haired girl pulled her hands out of her vest to show off her shaking clenched fist.
"Heehee~ Yeah~" Harpy answered honestly.
"I'll get you for tha-! Oomph!" Peruvis's blood boiled! Her wings bumped against the wall and door. Again.
"Hey, Peruvis!" The devil girl, with fury in her eyes and clenched teeth, turned her head down the hallway. Panotty was standing there, physically taunting her. Stretching his arms out, mimicking Peruvis' wing problems against the Spare Classroom's doors.
"You!"
Panotty made like a lightning rod, "I made her do it! Blame me!" And directed Peruvis' wrath away from Harpy.
"I'll strangle you, you little prat!" The devil used her wings to give chase to the forest elf.
"See you after school, Harp!" Harpy barely heard.
"Looking forward to it, 'Notty. Stay safe from the angry horn lady!~" Harpy said with a smile on her face. Panotty definitely heard that.
F0 - Outside(/Entrance)
Some time passed and the two reunited after school hours. "'Notty!" Harpy exclaimed at his state. "What happened to your eye?" Harpy landed and crouched to get a good look at it.
"Heh. Heh." The elf laughed it off. "Um… Freak accident? Don't worry about it." It refers to the bag of ice strapped to his head covering his eye. "Nothin' that won't be healed after a good night in the forest." Where his house is.
"I hope so. It must've hurt." Harpy tried to reach out to touch the ice bag but Panotty stopped her.
"It did." It does. "I'll be fine." He will. "And it was worth it." He grinned it off.
Harpy started giggling again too. "It was a pretty funny joke," She giggled harder. "Even funnier the second time."
"Haha! Yeah."
"I told Jaan about it."
"Nice." Panotty nodded. "What did she think?"
"She laughed."
Panotty fist pumped. "She's impressed. I took her advice to make this prank work. Paid off pretty well if I do so myself." Panotty said while confidently waddling with his hands behind his head. 'Except for this stupid black-eye.' He thought as he felt it again.
"La-la-la-laaa-lla-la~" Harpy began singing quietly to herself while flying. She wasn't loud, but it was still a horrid sound to most on the street. Panotty kinda liked it though. It wasn't good, but with his Harpy resistant, supernatural ears, it wasn't that awful.
He did have to remind her to follow him so she didn't drift off and away from the park they were going to for their usual jam session. "Oh…" Panotty realized something. "Say Harp. Don't feel sorry for me, or angry, but my eye hurts just enough to not wanna play in the park." The elf said with a disappointed tone.
"Oh." The angel lifted up her elf friend and carried the lightweight in her arms. Harpy too is a little disappointed, but that wasn't important, as much as she wanted to sing in the park as usual. "Want me to carry you to the tram?"
"I'm not tired, just, I think I shouldn't do something exciting. Bleh. Like something as fun as playing music…" He's afraid he'll get too into it.
Harpy has no idea what to do with that information. "So… What do you wanna do?" The angel and elf tried thinking of something to fill their usual mutual after-school time. Harpy slammed the bottom of her fist against her palm. She had an idea. "Still having trouble with Mr. Otomo's lessons? I could help you, biology is easy once you understand it."
"I got a passing grade on the last test. Thanks though, you're a big help. Can I help you with the upcoming contest?" The singing one.
"No, I'm doing amazing on that one." The girl swayed left to right in the air thinking how she'll absolutely kill it with her performance that night. She got lost in the thought. "Hm?" Panotty got her attention by tugging twice at her dress.
"Hey. Didn't you wanna show off all the birds you saw over vacat-"
"Oh! That's right! Birdies!~ Come on, 'Notty, let's go to show off my birdie photo album!~"
The angel lifted the elf up and she made a dash towards her home. The nature lovers were gonna look at pictures of birds.
Primp City Outskirts - Harpy's Home: Harpy's room
"Woah." Panotty was in awe of what his one good eye could see. "Nice remodeling." He gave the verbal thumbs up.
Harpy's room was themed after a bird's nest. The flooring was styled after a tree branch with grass and more trees below it. A bird's nest themed carpet. The corner of a wall was the tree, the rest of the walls were skies, clouds, birds, and the rest of the forest as far the eyes can see. As a nice touch, the windows looked over the garden outside. The ceiling was just more leaves. The rest of the room was furnished like a normal room for its size.
Harpy giggled happily, showing off her room. "Like it? Heehee~" She glided in circles around her room.
"I do. Y'know, for an imitation forest."
"Oh, of course~" Harpy said in a vertical twirl ending in a pose. "It's like a vacation spot at home~~" She sang. The windows rumbled a barely unnoticeable amount. She skipped using her feet for once.
If Harpy can get away with it, she'd rather stay in the air. She doesn't land unless she needs to. Her wings are well exercised. She sat on her winged person-friendly couch and invited Panotty to sit next to her, which he did.
"On vacation, I photographed so many birdies all over the world, from Tikhal, to Chun-Nan, to even Mazuri~"
"You sent a lot of these already to me on the phone."
Harpy giggled some more. "Silly 'Notty~ That wasn't the half of them."
"Oh. Wow. Please show." At his request, the angel opened the book…
…
"…Struthios were some of my favorite birdies. One of the funniest ones." Harpy laughed as she imitated with her arms what the ostrich was known for.
"Always wanted to see one." Panotty mused. "But Zoo tickets are expensive." And his allowance sucks.
"Let's go some time, Panotty~" Harpy smiled as she hugged him with her wing. "Well, if the Zoo's open any way. I always get bad luck with that."
The girl let the book rest on her lap and picked up her phone and pointed at it.
"Their site says it's open, but every time I go there to sing with the birdies they say they're closed." She picked the book back up. "I don't get it."
"Aha…" 'Poor Harp.'
And from then on, Harpy kept gushing about the birds she photographed from a distance all over the world.
The Cassowary.
The Golden Pheasant.
Another Ostrich.
Somewhere in between, Panotty mumbled at Harpy's knowledge: "I should know some of this as an elf."
The Long-wattled Umbrellabird.
The Shoebill.
The Flamingo.
The Mazurian Swallow.
The Swan.
Ducks.
And even the common Empire City Pigeon. "They're cute, like our pigeons. In fact, I think they're the same as ours, actually. Not sure about that though. I should know this." Even a simple bird like that was far away from the camera. Some of them seemed to be flying away from her. And Harpy definitely would've brought the birds seeds to lure them in for a pat or a photo.
"You don't have some kinda zoom function for your camera?"
"My uncle forgot to pack them. And we were having so much fun watching birdies' to care~~"
"During the whole vacation?!"
Harpy's head was too filled with air to have heard that.
As they continued flipping through the book they came across a photo where a bird did get close to Harpy. To the elf, this really stood out.
The photo was of an old-looking vulture perching on Harpy's gloved arm.
The angel had the happiest AND doofiest smile on her face.
'Oh, Harp…'
Authors' Notes:
HUSK: Sorrynotsorry for the Peruvis joke. Follow me on Twitter PuyoPreserver, ModMamono, and maybe someday my actual Twitter I barely use.