Kronii: What time is it?
Calliope: The main event happened not long after event of ' HoloID, Think Space and CHAOS RISE.
But Kiara's story happened somewhere during the 20th century. Even before event from the first book. ' The Last Star' itself.
Venice : Italy
Gawr Gura
The afternoon light that shone on the San Polo island is not too strong. But the place seems to lack of tourists for some reason.
In fact, there is almost no one in the area, both canal and town is almost deserted except for a couple of people who walking around aimlessly,
their eyes focuses only on something in their cellphone as they are crossing the bridge that lead them towards another island.
In the dessert shop name Aquacrew ( A franchise that has been part of Akukin investment for more than 200 years. Selling ice cream, cakes, cookies and
other things that can make your tooth goes decay easily.)
Gura in maid uniform is standing patiently behinds the counter, selling coconut flavored ice cream to the weary porter who nodded tiredly at her before
fumbling for the money inside his pocket.
The door suddenly burst open as the pink hair woman who is wearing black cap and sunglasses suddenly barked in and sitting on the stool that standing near
the counter for those takeout costumer to wait while their orders are not yet finished.
Resting her leg on the counter and lowering her sunglasses.
Mori Calliope raised her eyebrows as she is looking at Gura who is staring at her in disdain.
" Here's the money. Bring me one of those chicken." Reaper slamming her hands on the wooden counter, spreading the coins all over the place.
Other customers sense the trouble and walking out of the store while Gura is forcing a polite smile on her lips.
" Sorry, Sir. But Aquacrew has been selling only desserts and bakery for more than a century. If you are looking for chicken.
I thought there are KFP branches in Rome and Milan, but not a single one in Venice. You might want to checking the map before scaring our customers away,
but we are still selling Ina' cookies at 50% discount. So-"
Calliope open a stainless flask from her jacket pocket before opens it, gulping down the Irish whiskey inside and then talking with Gura again.
" You are a talker, listening to a talker make me hungry. I think I will have two chickens."
" Sir, you seem to not understanding a situation here. Pulling Game of Throne meme won't magically filled our store with chickens.
Okay, there are some egg here. But you will have to wait very long before it will grow up enough to suit your desire.
In the meantime, you could easily buy the whole course of chicken at KFP. So, why don't you just f**k off and leave my store alone?"
Gura demanded.
Calliope nodded. " I understand very well. If there is anymore words coming out of your stinky mouth. Then I will have to eat every f** king chicken in this
room!"
Gura gestures at the empty store around them.
" Which there were none here, sir. What is your point?"
Calliope lowered her cap. " Very funny!"
She then quickly gets up and axe kicking Gura, who dodged under the counter and then quickly jumping up, using double kicks that knocking Mori out of the
counter area.
Calli gets up and throwing the stool at Gura, who punches it aside and jumping towards Calli, punching her face and using high kicks,
trying to knocking her enemy down with consistent attacking.
Calli kicking one of the table down and using it like shield, but Gura fist is strong enough to bursting through it like a cannon ball.
However, the fact that her arm has stuck make shark girl vulnerable for a moments, long enough for Calliope to lifted the table up and kicking shark girl
stomach, sends her to crashing at the glass wall and breaking through it easily. Toward the street outside of the shop where reaper is quickly follows her
enemy.
Calliope summoning scythe out of the shadow and swinging it at Gura, who spinning her body aside to dodged the attack, Atlantean then punching the
pipeline in the area and summoning her blue trident out of the splashing water.
Pointing the blade at Reaper's face, Gura snarled.
" Sorry, sir. But our place has the rules against fighting with the customer!"
" I ain't getting any of your chicken! So I am not your customer!" Calliope swinging her scythe like it was an axe, aiming at Gura laying body,
but shark girl twisting her waist to dodged the attack before thrusting her trident at the enemy, creating a force that pushing both woman until they are flying
towards the building with a red roof that stands nearby, breaking multiple tiles as Calliope is using her scythe to blocking the trident's blades.
Calliope twisted her arms to making the trident changes it direction before she will swings the scythe handle at Gura's head,
knocking shark girl down to the roof.
Gura jumps up and kicking with both legs, sending Calli fly across the canal and hitting one of the sandstone walls of the nearby plaza.
Reaper shaking her head before start running horizontally on the walls, ignoring the gravity as some tourists start taking a phone to capturing the footages of
bizarre thing, but they must disappoint since their camera could record nothing except from the footsteps sound while the reaper is running passed them with
incredible speed.
Gura holding the trident between her teeth as she start running on all four from roof to roof.
Glancing at Calli to make sure that she is not going to the wrong direction before she will leaping in the air, crashing into Calliope and sends both of them
towards the complex canals under the building.
Calli and Gura falling on one of the gondola boat that rowing under them, makes poor boat rower bouncing into the water as the boat is wobbling by their
weighs. The scythe and trident are falling uselessly into the water, out of their reach for now.
Mori getting up first and punching Gawr's face, knocking Atlantean down before she could properly gets up. But the momentum changes with Gura collapsing
body and Calli has to holding herself as the boat rocking back and forth.
Gura jumps back and perform a spinning kick, knocking Calliope back as their role switches, since the Boat almost capsized by the weight that throwing at
them from the one side.
Gura jumps backwards to restore the balance of the rowing boat.
Which finally shaking lightly enough for both girls to jumping at each other again in their full speeds.
Calli's elbow hitting Gura face hard enough for people that standing from both sides of the canal to heard the impact sound.
But shark girl also strikes back with her knee at the same time, hitting reaper's ribs with enough force for everyone to heard the bone cracking sounds as
both are being knocked in the opposite direction and falling from the boat at last, towards the deep water of Venice grand canal.
The water splashes as Calliope is sinking like a rock. Reaper quickly swim upwards for the above sunlight. While she could swim pretty well,
Calliope knows that water is Atlantean home and there are no way she would fighting them in this dark- turbid water.
But she is quite too late, Gawr Gura who is swimming with the elegance and speed of fighter jet is coming after her with the superior movement.
Atlantean eyes growing bright red in the water as she is striking her prey like a great white shark hunting for seal.
Gura biting into Calliope's thigh, dragging reaper downward as the sunlight starting to fade around them, bubbles burst from Calli's mouth as she trying to
get free from the attacker, using her fists and fingernails to hitting Gura's eyes like the instructions she once heard while watch shark documentaries with
Kobo.
Gura letting Calliope's leg go as she is searching for another good place to bite, but reaper is already counterattack by wrapping her invisible chain around
Gura's neck and pulling it, trying to choked Atlantean underwater in order to get rid of her.
Gura snarls and trying to choked Calli's neck with her hands, but the reaper using both legs to kicking Atlantean away, still holding her chain that wraps
around Gura's neck like how cowboy using lasso to controlled his cattle as she is swimming away for more distance.
Gura shook irritably before having another idea. Shark girl putting her finger between her neck and the chain to reduced the tightness before she will start
swimming with incredible speed, dragging Calliope downward with her, towards the muddy floors of Venice canals.
Shark girl using her super sense to finding a way as they start moving faster and faster, dodging one of the cement pillar that being used to hold the weight
of one villa and let clueless Calli hitting into it with full speed, breaking the pillar as Gura start dragging Calliope towards the rollercoaster of hell.
Crashing and slamming reaper into every object she finds, including the bricks and stone walls of the building that stands around them.
Reaching the muddy and turbid floor of the canals, Gura testing her luck again as she is seeing one rusty car that probably being dropped here during the
floods decades ago.
Shark girl swimming upward and swinging the chain, throwing Calli to crushed her against the drowned vehicles, hard enough to make the mud floating
around for almost 3 meters height.
Gura attacking again, slamming herself into the stunning Calli before she could regain her balanced, breaking the vehicles into pieces by the impact from both
of them.
Gura open her mouth and ready to bite into reaper's face. But Calli picked up one of the broken car doors and shoving it inside Gura mouth,
making her choked and forcing Atlantean to retreat at last as they are readying for the next round that is surely to come.
…
Calliope crawling out of the water with Gura arms wrapping around her neck. Reaper quickly gets up and running toward the nearest brick wall,
slamming Gura against it, hard enough to shattered the walls and make shark girl grips somewhat loosen.
Calliope flipping herself and throwing Gura down in jujitsu style, knocking Atlantean on the ground and it is Calli turn to wrapping her legs around shark girl's
neck, trying to crushed Gura with her thighs.
" STOP!" A familiar voice suddenly shouting into Gura and Calliope ears as they are struggling to murders each other.
Both girls stop whatever they are doing and glanced up at the orange hair woman in chef uniform. Her face is being blurry by the sunlight that shining behind
her body.
" Hold your anger, Monsieur. You are not yourself when you were hungry." Takanashi Kiara said with a stern voice, nodded at Kobo who is dressing in barista
uniform and wearing black sunglasses to approaching them with the metal case in her hands.
With the dramatic music playing in the background. Kobo slowly open the case, revealing a smoke of dry ice and the treasure that hiding behinds.
" This!" " Impossible!" Calli and Gura moaned as they are desperately crawling towards the opened case, staring at it until their eyes almost pop out.
Inside the the box. There is an ice cream that looks perfectly like a crispy fried chicken, laying beside a grilled goose and fowl that being decorated with
colorful feathers until it looked like rainbow ice cream.
" That's right, Monsieur! This is the first collaboration between Aquacrew shop and KFP restaurants. Containing with more than 30 new menus!
In every branches. Repeat! Every branch including here. This collab will last until the next July. So please go and checking us out.
Now that we have fried chicken in the bakery and ice cream in the fast food restaurants. What can you wish more for this life!"
Kiara talking enthusiastically with camera as Calliope and Gura are wolfing down on the chicken and ice cream behind her.
Kobo also reaching the camera and opening the colorful brochure for everyone to see. " Especially for those who coming for both restaurants before the end
of this month! You can take this cat and chicken sticker to receiving free Iofi's cake and Risu mommy nuts from both restaurants.
Wait, can I read this? Looks like there is Reine's armpit sweat and fermented Ollie's feet too."
" Kobo, that isn't in the script!"
" Cut!" Subaru shouting with her loudspeaker. Telling more than three dozens of camera around the Venice, both above and under water to stop recording.
A crowd that actually are staffs from Akukin and Cover Corp sighed in relief as their long work finally finished at last.
" Edit the last part out! I must know if it was Ollie who messing with our script again. Can somebody calling her… 10 minutes after this, okay?"
The staffs nodded as they are quickly checking the equipment status and hearing the sound recorder.
Subaru sighed before walking towards Calli and Gura whose making a light jokes and pushing each other shoulder as they start eating their meals.
Water still dripping from both girls clothes even after it's been a while since they have been getting out of the canal.
" Does the equipment working alright?" Calliope asked, still chewing her chicken and ignored Kiara that wiping dirty mud off her and Gura's cheek.
" Yes, the motion capture device is doing quite well. So, we can see your movement inside the camera, thought it couldn't directly captured your body.
But it isn't a problem. We will have to edit 3D polygon models to stand in as every one of you anyway. Your guys private is our first priority."
" Not the money?" Gura grinned with ice cream inside her cheek. Before she and Calliope will being smacked their heads by the script in Subaru's hands.
" Ouch! What's that for?" Calli clutching her head in pain while Gura looks like she is about to cry.
" During the fighting part. I said that ' There's no exact script, acting on your own preferences.' Not ' Wrecking Venice and randomly destroyed properties
that are not our.' !" Subaru yelling in frustration and pointing at the wreckage behind them.
" We have to paid for all that. And you almost hurting one underwater camera man during the brawling, pieces of car cutting his oxygen line and if it is not for
his diving buddy's helps. We might have a serious injuries here!
And you should apologize the rowing guy too! We paid for him to rowing around as a background character. Not swimming away as the reaper and Atlantean
are having a fistfight on his rental boat!" Subaru lectured.
" Sorry…" Gura and Calliope looking at their own feet.
" We just want to challenge each other a little. But it's seem going too far. You can take our salaries as some of the payment.
Me and Calliope aren't much of a spender anyway."
Subaru groaned. " Okay. Okay. Just being more careful next time. We will put bad graphic on each of the damaged you guys caused.
So, the audience will not finding it 'Too real.'
The real damages can be easily fixed during the time we rent this place. But what about you guys? Do you need to visit hospital?" Subaru asked, looking at
Calliope and Gura who is still sitting in damp and dirty clothes.
" We are fine here!" Calliope chuckled. Lifting her pants to showing that there aren't even a shallow bite mark on her thigh.
"Gura didn't even bite through my skin. Her power controlling is quite insane."
" I just nibble at Calli a little. No need to be worried about." Gura beams.
" You guys almost giving us heart attacks when both of you are crashing into that house roof! Don't ever do something like that again!" Kiara demanded,
while Kobo seemed to just watching at them excitedly.
" Sorry about that Wawa. We will do it better next time." Calliope admits.
" All right, if there's no more problem. We will closing the show here. Let's celebrate in the local high end restaurant before we will casually go to hotel
tonight. Any objection?" Subaru concluded.
""""""""""""" No!"""""""""""" Both the girls and staffs yelled as they are becoming cheerful again, hopefully that the commercial will increase both Akukin
funds and their salaries at the same time.
Even if Subaru goal is to spreading the good reputation of ' Myths' and other 'Holo' members that becomes well known since the (cancelled) destruction of
Jakarta a few months ago.
…
Private Dining Room : Venice Venice Hotel
" Two rooms! What do you mean two rooms?" Calliope demanded after hearing that there will be only two rooms available for their group of six people
consist of Mori Calliope, Takanashi Kiara, Kobo Kanaeru, Gawr Gura, Amelia Watson and Ninomae Ina'nis.
" Well, our budgets are dwindled dramatically after reaper and Atlantean decided that destroy parts of Venice properties is a good idea. Besides,
they are suite with king sized bed, 24 hours turn down service, gym, home theater and minibar.
Every staff members are sleeping in normal room. So, you guys shouldn't complain about it that much." Subaru explained.
" We can share two room between six person. Kobo and her parents take one while the rest take the other.
Goob can sleep in the bathtub while I will camp on sofa area. Inya could take the whole bed for herself." Ame suggested.
Gura snorted, cutting Italian steak with her knife.
" I aren't fond of water that much."
Ina'nis playing on pasta with her fork. " You guy could take the bed.
I preferred floor over mattress any time in my life."
" Don't act like a poor man there. It's suite. If am sure hotel's staff can find everyone a rollaway beds." Subaru frowned.
" We will arrange that later then." Ame concluded at last after seeing that nobody seems to agree on anything another person said.
…
After a little bit of light conversation, it was Kobo who finally break the rhythm of eating in silence.
" Mommy Kiwawa. Why do you name your restaurant KFP ? It's sound catchy but somewhat hard to remember at the same time."
" Yeah, I wanna know too!" Watson said, eating a spoonful of gelato.
" Right now. The KFP mean ' Kiara Fried Phoenix' but there used to be a little more than that in the past." Kiara wiping sauce off Kobo cheek as she is
speaking.
Before Phoenix could said anything else, Subaru suddenly gets up and looking at her phone.
" Emergency situation! There's one Austrian exchange art student gone mad because everybody reject her painting. She start summoning the great old one
to mixing pineapple in every Italian menu in this country-"
Subaru's voice suddenly being interrupted as the television start reveals the breaking news from Florence. Showing the footage of giant pineapple monster
with the size of tyrannosaurus roaring rampage of revenge as it start shooting yellow beam out of its tentacles, turning everything into a slice of pineapples.
" That's war crime! We gotta stop them!" Amelia shouted, stands up fast enough to make Gura choking on her Lasagna.
" I will go too! If it has something to do with ancient gods. I might be able to help." Ina'nis quickly drinking her soda and gets up from the table too.
" Wait for me too! We're team after all." Calliope looking at her empty glass of wine before making a decision.
" No, Calli. You and Gura are already working too much today. Now your duty is to hang out with your son and wife." Subaru forbade.
" I am not her wife!" " Woohoo! I am uncledad's son after all!"
Kobo and Kiara having different reaction upon hearing Subaru's words.
" Don't worry! Me and Ina will take care of them in no time! Don't underestimate our power!" Ame beating her chest to proved the points.
" If you guys insists." Mori sighed before sitting back on her seat again.
" You will need a car to go there." Subaru throwing her car key at Amelia, who stopped time and placing the key back on the dining table.
" No need for that I already got a new vehicle after all."
Subaru frowned. " Wait, is that why you said that you want to know my credit card numbers? What have you-"
" A car driving!? I am in!" Gura jumping from the wet pizza and landing beside Watson before anybody could realized what's happening.
" I think you need a bit of rest too, Goomba." Ame protested, but shark girl refused to listening her friend's words.
" I don't need rest. I need car right now!"
" Welp, me and wawa will bring Kobo to having fun around here then. Just called me if it is too much." Mori ordered another bottle of wine and focusing on
her food again after seeing that her friends are serious.
" Don't worry! I will come back before breakfast." Amelia reassured her friend before she, Ina'nis and Gura will quickly running out of the hotel.
…
" Why do you refused Subaru's car, though?" Ina'nis asked after they are reaching the parking area at last.
" You knows nothing, Ninomae Ina'nis." Ame shook her head sadly as she is slapping the trunk of black Porsche Panamera that is belongs to Ozora Subaru. "
This! Is brilliant."
Detective then proceed to walking pass it and then opening the shade that covered the newest generation of red Lamborghini out.
" But this, is my life's choice!"
Watson opens the door for Ina to get into the front seat first before she will sitting on the driver seat.
" Wait, where's Gura gonna sit?" Ancient one priestess asks after realizing that there's only two seats on this luxury car.
" She can hide in the luggage carrying area, I think?"
" No way! I am comfortable up here." Shark girl yelled after she has climbing on top of the Lamborghini roof.
" That settled it then." Amelia start the car engine before looking at her friend. " Ina, navigated our location!"
" You mean that you want me to open the portal that will teleported us to that place, right?" Ina'nis said, already moving her hands in octagonal shaped and
opening the octagon gate that leading them towards the Florence city.
" This is Sparta!" Ame yelled and stomping on Lamborghini's accelerator. Driving the car toward the portal in full speed. While Gura is whooping like a rabid
chimpanzee on top of them.
" Those are Greek, not Italian!" Ina'nis protested, but her voices has been muffled when the portal finally closing behind their back.
…
A Few Hours Later
" And then they f**k. The End." Calliope closing the storybook about a plumber who saving Princess from the green turtle dragon and concluded its story at
the same time.
" Seggg." Kobo declared after the story is finally over, while Kiara is looking at them with sour expression on her face.
" You shouldn't read something like that as a child tale, you know?" Kiara groaned.
Right now, three of them are resting on the king sized bed at the center of hotel room. Both taking turn telling Kobo a story before they will go to bed and
call it a day. Kobo is sitting on Calli's lap while Kiara is sitting at the edge of the bed, looking at father and son relationship engagement.
" Tonight is still early, wawa. Why don't you telling her some more story while I having a chit chat with minibar over there?" Calliope pointing at the table and
small refrigerator that filled with Italian wine and other kinds of liquors, holding her waters mouth.
" Geez, sometimes I wonders if you can be a good parent or not!" Kiara pouted, dragging Kobo near her before she could smelling the booze as Calliope are
having her time on the minibar.
" Mommy Kiwawa, can you tell me about how you and uncledad met?" Kobo asked eagerly.
Kiara resting her chin on rain shaman's shoulder, using her thought for a moment before finally shook her head.
" No, that story is too long for tonight. Another night it is, Kobo."
" Then can you tell me why you name your restaurants KFP? You haven't say it in this evening yet!" Kobo begged, using puppy eyes and whiny voices to gain
her mommy sympathy.
"Okay, but you will have to sleep immediately after the story has end, okay?"
" Yes, mommy Kiwawa!"
" You will spoiled our child rotten one days, Kiara." Calliope chuckled as she is sipping another glass of fine wine.
" At least that will happen after your liver has gone putrid by alcohol!" Kiara puff her cheeks, making Calliope choking on her wine as she is struggling for an
answer.
" Okay, Kobo. Hold your seat tight. I will tell you the story of how I have found and make KFP. It's quite long and boring. So, please don't disappointed!"
" I won't, let's go!" Kobo yelling as he sitting beside Kiara on their bed. While Calliope is drinking her booze and watching at them carefully.
" Like every story. It's start in one peaceful day…"
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