Christmas Island: Australian Indian Ocean Territories
Amelia, Gura and Ina'nis
" Man, being me is sucks!" Amelia Watson exclaimed as she is sitting on the beach lounge chair. Watson's eyes are being covered by the sunglasses while her hand is holding
a glass of margarita.
Right now, Watson and her friends are enjoying their vacation on this tropical island, she is hoping to get tanned to scaring her university's friends and preparing lol of sun
cream, buying new two pieces swimsuit that she is wearing right now just for this occasion.
" Agreed!" Gawr Gura said from where she is laying on the beach bed and sipping another big glass of pina colada. She is wearing one piece swimsuit that showing no trace of
water since she is not planning to get near the sea at any moment.
Amelia lowering her sunglasses to look at her friend's face.
" I mean, who knows I need to protect the world and have a good grade at the same time! Subaru said that she will lower her funds if I can't pass the final exams.
That is so mean! How can I live without 100,000 $ per month!"
Gura looks at her friend with contempt. " You probably couldn't remember yourself when you make a living by picking up dog poops!"
Ame shrugged. " Well, like everything else. Life is always changing. We just need to keep rolling with it."
" Where is Ina, though?" Atlantean changes the subjects.
" She wanted to sketching a picture of tropical ocean. So, I guessed that she must be swimming around the shore over there."
Amelia points at the movement in the sea that is not too far away.
" Hopefully she won't bumped into shark or jelly fish." Gura muttered, but shark girl is too lazy to have a proper look.
So, she just took Watson's word and laying on the warm beach again, readying to sleep.
Before shark girl could properly close her eyes, Watson voice suddenly rushes into her ears.
" Look! There are news about destruction near the Middle East area. Rumors said that its involved aliens too!" Amelia showing picture of the glimpse of strange aircraft that's
looks like fish or reptiles disappearing behind the clouds, and a blurred picture of blue hair woman that flying out of earth's atmosphere.
Gura chuckled. " Well, suck to be them. Because right now we're on."
"" Vacation!"" Gura and Ame let their glass touches for a moment before gulping the booze down inside their throat.
…
" Maybe we should be staying here for a month. Doing nothing but eating and chilling!" Gura declared after she ordered another ten beef barbecues.
Amelia also ordered three menus of soft- shell crabs including salad, steam and deep fired dishes.
Because, they are not the one who paid for all this after all.
Like everything else, budget for Myths vacation and living are coming from Akukin pocket. As long as Subaru didn't complain, anything should be fine.
" Wait a sec. I will put some flavors in our cocktails." Ame reaching her hands toward piles of coconut under her chair, before quickly yanked her arm back as she is touching
the rough, wriggling thing instead of the slippery shells of tropical fruit.
Watson looks at the newcomer beside her chair, it is something that's look like a mixing between spider and crab. The thing's claw is now crushing coconut shell as if it was
made from newspapers.
In order to have a taste of its sweet juice and white soft tissue inside.
Did Ame mention that the thing sizes is as big as football, or even more?
Anyway, it was bigger than she would be comfortable with.
" Hey, Goob! I think one of your friend from Atlantis may want to have a word with you!" Amelia's voice is shaken as she is calling Gura to looks at the creature.
" What?" Gura yawned and stumbles from her bed to looks at where her friend is pointing at.
" I mean, assuming that he didn't come from planet Jupiter and sh*t!" Detective added.
Gura looks at the animal and yawned.
" No worry, Watson. This thing is this island's native species. It is being called coconut crab. Just think of it as a giant hermit crab, if it makes you feel uncomfortable."
She watches with a little bit of interested as the crabs' pincer is crushing the coconut and torn it open while the animal is still looking at her eyes.
" Couldn't you told him to go away? I don't want this creepy crawler to walking around while I take a nap here. I mean, aren't you could talk with fishes and such!" Ame
complained.
" What parts of this thing look like fish?" Gura snorted.
" But since I can talking in shrimp's language, let's see if they can understand it or not." Shark girl quickly clear her throat before reaching her face toward the still-eating
animal.
" Goobgooboobo ogoob? Goooobaaaa!- Ouch!?" Gura cries as the crab's pincer suddenly snapping on her nose.
" What the heck? I just trying to help!" Gura yelled at the arthropod as Amelia quickly standing on her chair.
Coconut crab waving his arm around and making a nose from its mouth.
" Wait? You can understand shark language? Good!" Gura nodded at what the animal said while Watson watch uncomfortably as they are talking with each other.
" Why is it hitting you, though?" Amelia yelled from where she is standing.
" He said that my accent is an insulting for Crustacean language!
He also claimed that you are racist for calling him creepy crawler!" Gura yelled back, seeing that Watson will not get out of her chair.
" Hey! I am all for equal rights, but he shouldn't steal my coconut either!" Amelia shouts.
After a few mutterings with the animal, Gura turning her head back to Watson.
" He said that he is sorry. His friends will brought some back as a payment!" Gura yelled.
" That's so kind of you, but wait a minute, friends?" Ame voices disappearing inside her throat.
Gura also looking around too, and then they suddenly realized that there are at least three dozens of coconut crabs walking around the beach, some even climbing on the
coconut trees above their heads and cutting the fruit down on the soft sand beneath them.
""Sh*t!"" Gura and Ame quickly jumping on their dining table, shakily hugging each other.
" Aren't you are king of Atlantis? Why are you afraid of crabs!" Ame shouts.
" They just… took me… by surprise…!" Gura didn't look as the group of coconut crabs start circling on them.
Ame open her seabag and pulling her Glock 40 (Customizes with red- dot sights and capabilities to shoot underwater.) out.
" Let's me teach them what we did in Texas!"
She is going to aims her pistol at those crabs, but Gura stopped her first.
" Wait! Wait! I will be talking with them first! There must be a reason why they are gathering around here."
Gura picked one steamed soft-shell crab on her plate and tear it in half, before giving it to one of the coconut crabs whose quickly putting it inside his mouth.
(Coconut crabs eating almost everything from… you know? Coconut, rotten fruit or living bird and sometimes, other crabs as well.)
"Looks like there's a problem back in Atlantis." Gura explained after talking with those crabs for a while.
" Crustacean's king nephew, Scylla. Using the chances when I am not living in Atlantis to rebellion against us.
She claimed that the increasing carbon dioxide in the sea is making its became acidic, and his people's shell will being melt if human won't stop what they're doing.
Looks like some of the lessor lords and kings seems to be agree with him too! His attack methods are to sending the signal for every crabs around the world to start
increasing their population. These hermit crabs are here to sends me the news, though." Gura explained.
" So, these guys are friends or foes?" Watson lowering her pistol.
"Friends, they are still loyal to the Crustacean king, but he is asking for my help, since his army couldn't defeat Scylla alone.
But I thought I gave order for everyone who don't want to live here to moving back to our home planet!" Gura scratching her head as she is listening to what the biggest
coconut crab is saying, his size is almost 1 meter length.
" What is it?" Amelia asked.
" Looks like Scylla don't want to leave, she claims that they have been here before human would even dare setting their feet underwater, and have no plan of leaving without
fights." Gura nodded at what the arthropod is saying.
"So, what's nexts?" Amelia asked, walking gingerly toward her friend after realizing that all of coconut crabs in the area seemed to not interest in eating her.
One even rolling a coconut fruit toward her as a gift.
" Thanks, bro." Ame nodded as the animal waving its arms around before leaving. She cutting it open with machete, drinking half of the liquid that contain inside before
tossing the fruit back to the group of crabs whose fighting over a rotten fish carcass.
" I am full." Detective added.
" Looks like we have to go to Atlantis right now. Wanna join?" Gura asked, making Amelia snorted.
" swimming with my friends towards the underwater kingdom? Can't wait!" She picked up her snorkeling masks from the seabag before looking around herself.
" When I thinks about it. Where's Ina?" She asked.
" WAAAHHH!" The shouting from the sea making both Ame and Gura looking at the way, they watched in silence as Ninomae Ina'nis is swimming towards the shore with the
speed that will make Olympic swimmers proud.
Looks like ancient one priestess has forgot that she has ability to fly with jet propulsion from her tentacles.
" What's up, Inya? You looks like someone who being chased by great white shark!" Amelia yelling toward her friend.
The water behinds Ina'nis exploded, as the giant mud crab that's as big as ice cream truck coming above the surface.
The animal then quickly swimming after priestess with an incredible speed.
"… Or crab, for that matter." Watson muttering with herself.
" That's must be Atlantean's genetic engineering weapons! Look like we have to be hurry." Gura summoning the water to swirling around her body, and in a few seconds,
she is standing in her shark hoodie with trident of Atlantis is hand.
" Let's go! To the Kingdom of Crustacean!" Gura pointing her trident at the sea over the horizon.
" Wait, I didn't bring any clothes!" Amelia trying to wrapping towel around her bikinis-wearing body and putting a snorkeling mask with one hand, Glock 40 in another's.
" Can somebody help me first!" Ina'nis yelling as the crab's pincer is trying to cut her body in half. The tentacles that she is summoning to help her fights make him even
more furious for some reason.
…
Vatican City: Europe
HoloX
"- and then. We dissolve Satan's headless body with Asakoyo, here's the footage." Laplus giving her phone to the cardinal in red uniform, urging him to look at.
The priest smiled instead of looking at the video.
" I will take your word for it. Everybody must be relief to heard that our most fearsome enemy is gone for good. As to show our appreciation, please having a dinner here with
us." He then leading all of them toward the big dining room that filled with foods and drinks.
Except from many chairs and tables, the room is empty.
" Why do you so friendly with her, though? I thought you guys are enemy of demons." Lui asked.
Cardinal smiled. " We believe that everyone can be both good and bad. What's the point of confession if there's no forgiveness?
The thing that matter is what you choose to do right now, not what kind of person you used to be.
Like everything else, religion can be adapted. We already gone so far from the day of burning those poor man and woman on the stage after all."
The high priest then looking at the bright sky through the room's windows, as if to remind them that they weren't alone after all.
Humanity already knows that alien exists, as well as everything else in this universe. They just have to keep rolling with it.
…
After eating in silence for a while, the cardinal gets up.
" I afraid I have to leaves, please enjoy your time here. Stay as long as you guys want." He then leaves without elaborate any further.
" See? I promised to treat you guys a nice meal as a celebration. And didn't lie!" Laplus said smugly, pointing at the luxurious foods around them.
" Without paying for anything. Besides, where is the salary you promised?" Iroha shrugged as she is trying to eat risotto with her personal chopsticks.
" You sound like someone who never live with our master, Iroha!" Lui chuckled as she is eating stuff raviolis with cream stew.
" At least it is delicious!" Chloe shoving a piece of Italian ham inside her mouth.
" Wait a sec. I think there's a pizza over here." Koyori walking to the oven at the center of the room, where the delicious smells are flying out.
Laplus moving her chair beside Iroha's. " Are your injuries gone?"
Demon girl asked, eating a spaghetti like she didn't really care if the samurai will answer or not.
" I am good, m'lord. Koyori's bone attaching liquid really help after all. And the mollusks Chloe found in the Mediterranean Sea did give back my losing blood." Iroha giving
her master a slight smiled.
" Good-" Laplus going to say something else, but Koyori screaming as she is crawling away from the opening oven grabbed their attention.
"Th- There is a pineapple on the pizza!" Coyote girl cries.
" Wait, aren't you okay with it when we order Hawaiian from the Burger king?" Laplus asked.
" But we are in Europe! I thought we would at least have a glimpse of traditional food at least once!" Koyori yelled.
" Well, this is not Italy after all." Lui shrugged and eating a salmon steak without caring so much about what's happening.
" Wait a minute, why did I see a piece of pine apple missing from the dessert's plate! There's imposter among us who putting it in the oven!" Koyori yelled after seeing that
the pineapple in the oven is not as dry as other parts of the pizza, as if someone just putting it inside.
" Don't get hysterical over food. I will ask cardinal to bring the new one." Iroha standing up, but Laplus seems to be amused by situations and pushing samurai's shoulder
down before she could get up.
Koyori sniffing air around her like a dog, before looking at everyone's eyes.
" Nobody has touched the fruit section of our food yet! That's mean the imposter's hand must be soaking with juice from the pineapple. Since there's no water here to clean
our hands with." She analyzed the situation with intense expression.
" So?" Lui cutting Panettone bread with knife and fork.
" I couldn't smell anything from you guy's hands. So, the culprit of this crime is!" Koyori pointing her finger at Sakamata Chloe who's still shoving a beef sausage inside her
mouth.
"Wha-" Orca girl choked.
" Other person's hand doesn't have any smell and they are eating with spoon or chopsticks. The only person who didn't do that is you! Trying to destroy evidence by mixing
the pineapple smell with other foods in your hands. But do you think you can trick my superb nose? Not in a million years!" Coyote girl snarled at her archenemy.
" Wah ha ha!" Chloe laughed at the ceiling in dramatic manner before quickly jumps on the dining table, making some plate falling on the floor.
" It's too late now, Koyori! I have the high ground!" Orac girl shouting at her friend who still standing on all four near the oven.
" I missed the part where that's my problem!" Coyote girl throwing the whole pizza at Orca girl's face, making her stumbles on Lui who trying to eat her gelatos in silence.
" Hey! Don't playing with your food!" Bird woman complained, moving aside as Koyori jumping on all four at Chloe and start brawling on the dining table.
"… As I told you, Iroha. Living is better than death after all.
Nobody's going to believes this sh*t until I upload the video on our money-making channel!" Laplus laughs as she is taking a video of Koyori shoving tomato inside Chloe's
mouth.
Iroha closing her eyes as she is picturing herself many years ago.
Sitting at the edge of her burning village and wanting a swift, honoring death as the end of everything.
She then opens her eyes and see what she is trading honorable death with. Takane Lui who is adding a more pepper on her Pesto, ruining the traditional ways of eating it just
because it is too cold for her.
While Chloe is shoving pineapple pizza inside Koyori's mouth, ruining her friend's day just because she can.
Chaos and madness, this is what life has given to her instead of honor and order death, like what warriors supposed to have. But…
Iroha's lip moving in the widest and most genuine smiles Laplus ever see her samurai did.
" Yes, Laplus sama, living is better after all."
" Told ya!" Demon girl grinned.
…
While Iroha is still smiling, Laplus suddenly swinging a bowl of mousses chocolate at samurai's face.
" You smiles looks cuter this ways!" Demon girl laughing as the brown thingy is slowly dripping from Iroha's face. She then turning her phone to capture the picture of
samurai's surprise face.
" I'm gonna put some lasagna in yours eyes." Iroha said, before moving with supersonic speed and slapping lasagna plate on Laplus's face.
" You are getting crazier around us, Iroha!" Lui chuckled as she is sipping espresso from her cup… until Koyori slamming the whole table down and smashing a pack of cheese
on Chloe's face. Knocking Lui's cup in the progress.
" Enough!" Lui gets up and pinching both Koyori and Chloe's ear stopped their fight at last.
" We're sorry!" Orca and koyote girl cries at the same time.
" Wants forgiveness? Gets religion!" Lui slamming both of their face inside the stew pots, knocking both of them out.
After wiping sweat off her forehead, Lui then turning her head toward Iroha. " Looks like we cause a mess here-"
Bird woman's word stopped as samurai suddenly slamming the whole piece of meat pie at her face, making Lui stumble and gawk by this betrayal.
" Living is hell a lot of fun!" Iroha said after squeezing lime and lemon juice on Laplus's face. Demon girl's phone is now laying on the ground, record nothing but ceiling.
Both woman ignored Laplus twitching body as their gaze lock.
" They are already corrupted you, it's seem. And I thought you would be the only sane woman among us." Lui said, stomping on Chloe as she is trying to get her head out of
the pot.
" They're just open my eyes." Iroha picking one of the long French bread and wielding it like a katana, hitting Koyori's head before she could successfully get out.
Lui picked up two avocados from the coolers.
" We never test who is actually faster before. How about now?" Bird woman asked.
" With pleasure." Samurai licks her lips before lowering her body, ready to strike.
" Guy, this is not funny at all. You guy need to stop!"
"" We will stop when you've give our DAMN salary!"" Iroha and Lui yelling at the same time as they jumping at each other with supersonic speed, swinging their food at
each other's face.
…
Cardinal who coming back in an hour later shook his head as he is looking at the mess that happened across the room.
Laplus Darkness is crying in distress on the floor, her face is being covered with many kinds of sauce.
Hakui Koyori and Sakamata Chloe is laying on the table, their face is stuck in the pots.
Kazama Iroha is laying prone on the ground, her hair is being covered with avocados.
While Takane Lui is laying and turning her face up, or he guessed that she is, because her head is filled with broken French bread.
After investigating for a while, cardinal then walking out of the dining room and ordering for cleaning tomorrow, when the girls is waking up and leave.
"Those people are good folks. They must've into some kind of stress lately." He explained to the other cardinal about the situation.