Kronii: What time is it?
Calliope: Some time after the event from Suisei vs HoloX. I mean, Kobo already being adopted after all.
Brunei Darussalam : Borneo island
Moona Hoshinova
"So, as a joke. I went to my friend's house wearing Pekora's bunny costumes and wigs..."
Moona cleared her throat, swallowed her own nervousness as she is standing in front of orange hairs woman who staring at her with a formal smiles.
What is she supposed to do again? Telling the person in front of her whatever she wants?
Moona collecting her thought, remembering how Iofifeen suddenly blushed when seeing Moona in bunny girl outfit.
" At first it was funny in the ways she looked at me, but when I teasingly lifted some parts of the costume(scarf) off. Things get… complicated."
Moona closing her eyes and remembering how sticky and hot they were (since Iofi forget that she baked honey popcorns in the oven, which exploded as she
is drawing a picture of Moona rolling on her sofa.)
" It was very funny, especially when we cleaned up afterwards, but then Risu open the door, and then… it's going three ways."
Moona still can see pictures of Risu who's running away from house and laughing as if she just take a whole gallon of cannabis(but not before taking video of
Moona in wet bunny girl costume and Iofi who's wearing nothing but towel, since she is standing closer to the exploded oven than Moona.
Forcing Moona to decided between changing her clothes, helping Iofifeen cleaning up her damages house and take a bath, or killing magician with her beam.
" So, how can I looked at their face again after this?" Star people asked, looking inside the person in front of her for an answers.
" Ma'am. This is KFP." Takanashi Kiara, a person who supposed to be Moona's friend said, betrayed her feelings despite the fact that star people has opened
her heart in order to communicate with her.
" Not hospital's psychiatric wards. Will you ordered anything or not?
Other costumers are waiting." Kiara pointing at mobs of hungry and angry people whose waiting for their queue behinds Moona's back.
"… one chicken breast shake and two frying hips, please?"
…
" LMAO! She said what?" Iofi choking on her chicken as she is dying from laughter, Risu is chuckled too when Moona's telling a story with cracks hurtful
voices.
" Ma'am. This is KFP!" Moona repeats, sipping her chicken breast shake with a pout on her cheek. In fact, star people like Moona has no need to eat like
normal living beings anymore since she can produced energy from sun's radiation.
But Moona's also knows that the best tactic of living in society is the art of vibing, so she just copy whatever her friends do to assures them.
It wasn't hurt Moona a bit in doing so, at least.
Behind them, the public television informed something about a mysterious asteroid that is estimated to sized around 169 kilometers.
The thing seem to reaching the solar system with incredible speed.
Luckily for earth inhabitants, the asteroid seems to being pulled by sun gravity so the chance of it hitting the earth is very low.
Three girl barely listened to the news since they are busying in their own banter. What? Just because they are alien doesn't mean that they have to care
about everything from space. God knows how many thing happened out there at the same time while we haven't noticed.
" she can at least reassure me! Calli always talking highly of that Phoenix, just because there are other customers doesn't mean she have to be so cold!"
Star people complained.
Risu snorted. " You interrupted CEO of the company. In front of her customers and employees. How do you think she will react?"
" Well…" Moona is going to replies, but her phone suddenly rang as it tell her that there's new message. So, she take a look at it.
" Oh! It's Kiara. She said that she has to be professional in front of everyone so, please don't angry with her." Moona reports.
" Told ya!" Risu biting into her chicken again and exclaimed.
" Gosh! She make a real juicy chicken. I wonder how can she doing this in industrial scales?" Magician gasped.
" Not sure, but when I scanning her restaurant. I think there are her employee's body in the oven- Wait a sec!"
Moona's cellphone suddenly rang, so she opened it and checking the text from Kiara.
" What is it?" Iofifeen asked.
" Looks like Kiara is busying lately, she have to go and cooked for the meeting in royal courts of Brunei tomorrow.
So, she asked me to take care of her daughter Kobo-"
Risu frowned. " Wait? Daughter! Geez, I always warned her and Calli that they need a protection-"
" I am adopted!"
Someone suddenly shouting near their ears, making three girls flinching by surprised.
Moona looks up from her phone and watch the newcomer closely, she is a blue hair girl in plastic raincoat, a small umbrella hanging on her left shoulder,
while her eyes are being covered by sunglass.
" You must be Kobo then, nice to meet you!' Star people said after checking the picture that being sends by Kiara for a few times.
" And you must be Moo Moo, Mommy kiwawa said a lot of nice things about you!" Kobo eagerly shaking hands with Moona, who's still confusing with her new
nickname.
" Moo?"
Kobo quickly turning toward Risu, while Moona is looking at the mirror to make sure that her face doesn't look like cow that much.
" And you must be nuts magician! Mommy and Uncledad said that they probably couldn't beat space terminator( Aki Rosenthal) without your help!"
Moona loudly clear her throat. " Your mom and dad must've confused by their injuries. I am the one who beat Aki."
" Why don't you called us by our name, it's probably shorter." Risu asked, both decided to ignoring grumpy Moona for a moment.
Kobo beating her chest proudly. " It was a tradition for shaman from our island to not calling each other by their real name.
Name are sacred thing and will being speak out loud only two time.
When we're celebration of being born and in our funeral, in order to preventing evil spirits from trying to steal or put a curse on us."
" Sound convincing! What do you want to call me, sweetie?" Iofifeen asked.
" 15." Kobo said with a certain face, making Iofi blinks.
" Pardon?"
" This is your official name that being recorded in Holopro." Kobo opens the app that recorded information about all known aliens and other extraterrestrial
beings for Cover Corp employees to learn and working about how to find/interact with them.
The phone showing a picture of Iofifeen who is posing a victory pose in front of camera (picture taken not long after defeat of Aki Rosenthal in
'Tale of Moon Goddess' arc.)
Her name is being labels as Airani Iofifteen.
" What the…" painter alien wailed in disbelief, while Risu gently patting her friend's shoulder.
" Admits it, Iofi. Your name are too long for people to actually spells it correctly."
" Don't be sad, 15!" Kobo also reassured her.
" It is just one 'f'." Iofifteen admitted her fates of bearing a new names and changes the subjects.
" So, why are you being adopted by Reaper and Phoenix? It's something we don't see everyday."
Kobo dragging a chair from other table and sitting next to them.
" Long story short, it's all begins when I wanna ride a horse…"
…
An hour later, Iofifteen and her Co& finally understand that.
Kobo is one of the shaman family from some mysterious island in Indian Ocean. Their jobs are to guarding the stormy island and lit the lighthouse's fire when
humanity are under attacked by ' the great threat' from the stars, which being prophecy since the day they were settled on this island.
Since no one know exactly what ' the great threat' is, shaman family spends their life watching the stormy sea and scanning over the horizon,
looking for their possibly threat and catching some fish for their food, take turns sleeping and… aside from training their magic spells and fighting off some
sea monsters.
( Kobo described some fish man who stalks them at night and giant octopus that climbing in the pool of stone shore, snatching children who traveled to
collected clams and oysters.
Iofifteen thought it was some sort of boogeyman tales from parents to prevent their children from going near the sea when the weather is bad, until Kobo
lifting her rain coat and showing a scar of some massive beak that biting on her shoulder and everybody went " Holy sh*t!" )
They seems to living like an ordinary beings, eat, sleep and reproduces.
And that's make Kobo's teenager heart slowly dying inside…. Until the days that she saws army of sea people( Atlantean) leading by 'a girl who riding orca'
marching toward somewhere in Indian Ocean.
Kobo then decided that she has enough of living in the wet, dark island contain with nothing but her family members, sea foods
( 'Ye fond of me's lobster aren't ya?' Her big brother said. After they have eaten them for more than 100 times that month,
Kobo said that she want 'a faqing juicy steak.' that they saw in the American commercial which their father managed to hijack the signal from the floating
satellite above their head.
Kobo's brother said that she is a fool, and she said that at least a fool have some brain left ' Unlike ye damp lobster eater'
And then the dining table has turn into a brawling stage between sibling until their mother screams that if they won't stop fighting.
She will dumping the only television they have in the sea.)
Sand, gravel, rock and splashing waves that seems to make their clothes wet forever.
Second to none sunlight for most of the year and many uncomfortable things that will make you go mad, or learning how to cope with it.
One night, little shaman packing a week worth of food and water supplies on her canoe. Leaving some notes inside her room that she will
' Go look for some horse' before paddling herself out of the lonely island.
….
A journey took longer time than she expected, though Kobo could make some fresh water as much as her want from the rain.
Her food keeps dwindling day by day, and the open water is surprisingly lack of any fishes, unlike her island's shore.
In fact, if Kobo haven't met one cargo ship that happened to passing nearby, her first journey might as well as become her last.
…
" So, I sneaking out of their ship when they come ashore before traveling to the big city, playing magic tricks to feed myself while looking for horse.
Until one day that I fight with badger and being abducted in the white van by mommy and uncle dad!" Kobo concludes her story.
" Welp, that's kinda weird…" Iofifteen commented, while Moona and Risu are opening their mouths like a feeding basking shark.
" You already ride some horses, what do you want to rides next?" Risu asked.
Kobo opening her notebook and showing them a list of things she want to ride. " Well, there's still a lot I haven't ridden yet!
Star people, Council of fives or puffer fish etc. etc."
The rain shaman seems to not noticing Moona who's cringing a little after hearing her lists.
" I don't think you can ride those kinds of thing. But you might interest to see some of our friends! Since Kiara letting us to take care of you for days,
instead of just playing in this city. Let's go and checking on other girls around here too!
We haven't met those people for a while after all." Iofifteen suggested.
" What's kind of people?" Kobo asked.
" Welp, some kinds of bird woman, zombie and living sword. Interested?" Risu clarified.
Kobo already prepared her passport. " What are you guys waiting for? I want to ride a zombie!"
…
Papua New Guinea
Pavolia Reine
Reine sitting on the log and singing her song along with groups of male bird of paradises that surrounding the woods area.
This is the beautiful place and similar to her own home at another planet, though the air dwellers(Bird) here are not as evolved as her people back home.
But it is always feels good when there's someone answering your calls.
Of course, she is not stupid enough to thinks that the peace will lasts forever. There're villages not too far away from this,
where the tribesmen will comes and hunting the birds feathers for their ritualistic thingy.
At least those people has learned to hunting those birds in limited area and preserve some more for the future generations.
The deforestation from the city at the lower lands are another level of problems.
The more city grows, the less forests will be left for her to live here. And those newcomer won't stop with the rumors of 'spirit of forests' that make the
natives back away as soon as they finds Reine sitting and singing in the area.
In fact, there's even two documentarians come here and interviews with some of the tribesmen about Reine's legends. But she decided to hide and stop
contacting with some shamans from the village, at least until she knows there's no camera hiding anymore.
As the silver hair bird woman eating some of palm nuts she finds and washing her face at the small streams that running passed her place.
Reine wonders again where should she moved to next.
Iofifteen has marked some of the place where large forests ( Reine preferred in habitat)are still left. Congo and Amazon may be a good ideas,
but Reine don't want to live in Kenya or Tanzania since she hate open fields. Where the lions( something that disturbingly similar to her natural predators,
though less evolved.) are roaming around.
Maybe she will go to New Zealand next. The thought made bird woman smiled. There seems to be a lot of birds and not much of an carnivore there except
from some feral cat, which is certainly too small to be a threat for Reine. Maybe she could befriended with Kiwi and Kakapo too.
Reine smiles faded as she picked some small rock up from the stream and throwing it, watching the item bouncing on the water surfaces.
Those are plan for the futures. Right now she has to protected the last greenery on this island to live a little bit longer.
And then, when all the forests on New Guinea are gone. She will moving to another islands in the area. Maybe she could join Ollie too.
That mad lad zombie are doing a quest of swimming across Indian Ocean, perhaps Reine will asked her which islands in the area is suit for her living.
But right now, Reine has to doing her best with what left of her new home first. Echidnas ( hedgehog-like anteater.) tree kangaroos and cassowaries are still
around and need her. No need to talk about other kinds of birds that'll be gone along with the forests.
Borneo and Java already have too many developed land to suits Reine's preferences. So, she moving deeper to the other island and seek the place to live,
bird woman shuddered when remembering her time on Komodo island and group of giant lizards that trying to eat flock of birds which migrating along with
Reine.
Forcing her to stay on the treetop almost all night until Reine realizes that Komodo dragon can climb too and almost got her legs if one of her birds didn't
crying an alarm in time.
Luckily for bird woman and co&. New Guinea have no Komodo dragon, except for its cousin, crocodile lizard that, while big, not nearly aggressive as the
Komodo.
In fact, their tail actually rich with fat and tastes good when grilled over fire, though Reine will not tell everyone how can she knowing that.
Losing in her own thoughts, Reine didn't see the 5 meters salt water crocodile whose silently swimming along the stream towards her until it's almost too
late.
The croc attacking her by surprised and almost get Reine's head if she hasn't blocked its bite with her arms.
Growing her defensive feathers in order to protecting her bone from the croc's jaws, Reine quickly flying upward and dragging the reptile until both are flying
around 10 meters height from the running stream, before kicking the crocodile with her strong leg, knocking it out of her body and falling back into the water
again, before the creature will scurrying away with tail between its legs.
Reine honking her victory cries for a moment before flying downward again, ready to keeps on with her life, until she's noticing something and quickly flying
back into the dense forests.
The flying saucer suddenly cancelling its camouflage state and open the gate at the bottom of itself, Reine hiding in the bushes and and peering at the
newcomer, waiting for their intention, though the spaceship seems a bit familiar…
" Reine! Please come out, we are looking for you for a while." Iofifteen's energetic voices ticking the bird woman's brain at last, so she gingerly walking out to
an opening, not sure of what to do next.
…
" What's the problem? I haven't see you guys for like a years." Reine asked after entering her friend's flying saucer. It's looks pretty much the same as how
she remembered.
A messy room filled with art galleries and trophies from different times and places. A small living quarter that being dirty by multiple paints except from
where its owner eat and sleep.
And Ayunda Risu the squirrel magician, who seems to feeling as good as home here as she is sitting on the dining table and eating sunflower's seeds.
Reine having a toasted of nuts with her as their are greeting.
There's stranger too, a purple hair woman who's rocking on the chair as she is inspecting Reine. And the blue hair girl who crawling on Iofifteen's bed and
playing a model of 1950 Ford classic car.
"… Oh and those twos are-" Iofifteen who chitchatting nonstop since Reine getting inside her ship stopped, before pointing at those two.
" I am-" " I am demon lord and that lady is moo moo. Nice to meet you!" Moona introduction has been shattered as Kobo is shouting at top of her lung and
shaking hands with still confused Reine.
" O… okay?" Bird woman fumbled.
" Sorry for our kid's manner." Iofifteen smacked Kobo's head with rolling newspapers and reintroduced them.
" Purple lady over there is Moona Hoshinova, the star people. And this little girl is Kobo Kanaeru, a rain shaman.
Moona, Kobo. This lady is Pavolia Reine. She is a bird people from some planet at another Galaxy.
Hope you guys can be friends with each other!"
…
After an awkward conversation between those who aren't good at talking that much. Reine then turn her head toward Iofifteen and Risu.
" Why do you guys calling me again? To met these twos?" She asked.
" That, and the fact that I want to make sure that you guys are still alive and thrives. We haven't been keep in touch for a while after all." Painter alien
answers.
" Well, you now know that I am fine." Reine said, seemingly eager to leave.
" Come on! Don't act like one of those loner in the high school.
Don't you want to checking on Ollie and Anya too? They might be crying and missing you right now." Iofifteen dragged Reine back to her seat and start
lecturing. Reine look doubtful, but nodded anyway.
" Okay. But I couldn't go to human city while dressing like this." Bird woman pointing at her blue and white dresses that is resembles of bird wings and other
ornaments around her neck. While not completely alien, it will surely attract everyone eyes if she just walking around in the city with this costume.
" Don't worry!" Iofifteen open a bag of clothing she just bought and gave it to Reine. There are white denim pants and black blazer that is fit perfectly for bird
woman's body, along with an eye glasses that could covered her shiny eyes.
" Come prepared, aren't you?" Reine looks at herself in the mirror, almost forgetting that she is the same person after wearing all of that.
" Yeah… and you seem to already touching too much grasses, let's go and chat with someone else too! The forest weren't gone in couple of days after all!"
Risu joined the conversation after brushing some leaf off Reine's head and cutting her very long white hair, while Moona is gingerly combing her own hair.
Star people seems to surprised that everyone else could cut their hairs shorter that easily, while whenever Moona is trying to cut her own hair with scissors,
it always failed, since her body is tougher than earth puny metallic object after all.
Reminding Moona that everything around her is fragile and can be breaking that easily. So she has to be very careful around them.
" Okay! All of us all well dressed for the party. Let's go to see other two and decide where should we hangout together!" Iofifteen said enthusiastically,
all of the girls nodded as they start opening the flying saucer GPS and looking for their friends whereabouts.
…
Singapore
Anya Melfissa
Anya standing in front of the Merlion statue and mimicking its posture. Living swords open her mouth while she is staring blankly at the blue water that
located in front of her, enjoys the warm breeze that get into eyes and mouth.
This is the right time and place to live, peaceful from bloody and ritualistic war that covering the whole archipelago during Anya's first time on this planet
centuries ago.
Okay, there're always case of suicides, traffic accidents and overworking. But at least people here seems to be some what less bloodthirsty from the time
Anya remembered.
Which is why they start taking a picture of her and laughing at Anya who is mimicking Merlion expression at the bay, instead of start throwing spear or
swinging their clubs at her face.
Life here are kinda easily, but not that cheap. Since Anya looks young enough to be a runaway teenager, she always has to hide from those ' officers' that
patrolling around the alleyway she lives.
And no one willing to take her as an employee for their afraid of something called ' child labor'.
So, Anya always sleeping in the park and moving around all the time.
She can get her money from crafting soda can and other metallic junks from recycle bins, turning them into a flower or doll or whatever that might grab
tourist's attention.
It is a lot easier that what you may have thought, since Anya is the 'living blade' or the entity that being created from mother of all metal during the age of
IDOL, which is mean she could controlling other metallic objects and shaping them at her wills.
Parts of Anya pitying of herself who's living by crafting a rose that made by aluminum coffee can.
But at least it is hell a lot of better than making assload of bad quality swords for those human to bashing each other skulls which made her feeling
sad and unimaginative.
For example, a little girl whose get a free unsold sunflower wheel making from car bumper, seems to happy enough of just whirling it around and surely not
beating other children with it. Or at least that is what Anya's hoping for.
All money she get will being spend for lacquer, sulfuric acid and white lithium grease.
Since Anya is not a living being based on sun energy like those around her. So she doesn't need to consume other beings as food ( meat, vegetables. Etc.)
All living blades need is to cleaning outside and inside of her body.
Lacquer and lithium for protecting her skin, while a cup of sulfuric a day keep her cleaning duty at bay ( Oh! Don't forget a bit of chlorine for cleaning her
clothes!)
The rest of the money ( which is not that much, or none at all during the hard time) will go for her personal enjoyment, watching movie, playing in
amusement park, or go shopping in some big mall.
There are plenty of ways to losing your money in the city of capitalism like Singapore and Anya enthusiastically complied with whatever people here are
doing.
…
After enjoying herself and lucky tourists for a while, Anya tip toeing back to the alleyway where she can snatched a discarded aluminum can and other stuffs
from the bin that standing nearby.
Grabbing to much and the police will came after you. Using your power to summoning them from the junkyards and more polices along with those damn alien
hunter will following you like an angry wasps. So, Anya must be very careful here.
" Anya!" As she is picking up a dozen of cans, a familiar voices rushing in her ears and make the living blade looks up, she smiled when seeing Iofifteen and
Reine in short hair and black clothing walking unsurely towards her.
" How can you guys finding me?" Anya asked.
" You just gone viral." Iofifteen said, opening her phone and showing a video from social media. The 1st trending right now is a picture of Anya shooting water
from her mouth along with the Merlion.
The hashtag is: a strange kid and Merlion; Mental support for the overworking people?
" The hell." Anya staring at video of herself in disbelief.
" Let's get outta here first!" Reine said, looking at the people who walking around them with a little bit of paranoid.
It's been long since she has saw so many people gathered in one place. They are all making her nervous
…