La Lion City: Planet RTX 4000: Pinwheel Galaxy

" It is bigger than I'll ever imagined!" Lamy exclaimed as they are walking through the city's stone gate.

" Well, there used to be millions of us here." Botan chuckled.

However, there aren't much of original building left in the city that much, except from the lion statue and some kind of temple at the middle of the city.

Most of them are already turning back to this planet natural state. Giant plants and vines growing like a skyscraper as the small bird and animal moving freely between them.

This is because Hunter civilizations always believes in natural building materials. Most of their household are making from wood and animal hides that can be decomposed in a

few decades, except from spaceship and such high tech things that build by metal works.

So, not long after abandoning of their city. Hunter race returned this area back to its natural state again.

The illusion of virgin states is already gone as soon as Botan and her friends turning their head at the right side of the city.

Where multiples spaceship from many civilizations are parking there, preparing for the intergalactic meeting that will occur in a few days.

White rabbit spaceship from snow dwellers clan parking near the spider spaceship of Arachnian people. There are even jellyfish spaceship from Atlantean colony too.

All of these people are busying cutting down the trees in the area and making their own camps and temporary buildings for the meeting.

Botan and her friends walking among them and listening at what one man from snow dwellers clan is talking with lemon shark lady from Atlantean race.

"This planet has so much land. If we cut down all of those trees.

We can grows our roots vegetables very successfully. Looks at this specimen Pekora brought from planet earth! I thought it is being called 'carrot' or something-"

Shark woman smiles. " We are here to collect DNA samples from the natives species in order to make our species became stronger under prime minister Sakamata's

commanded. I think our goal has no conflicts here."

" Yeah, hopefully this is not the end of our business partnership." Rabbit man laughed.

Shark lady suddenly frowned. " But who invites them?" She looks up at the sky and see the black spaceship that slowly parking beside theirs and rising a scythe and skull

flags. The signs of undead clan.

" We did." The girl in black gothic dresses with bandages covering half of her face smiles as she is approaching them.

" Undead are very good at finding the hidden natural resources, since they are kinda living underground themselves.

So, I hope you guy can let go the past conflicts and let them join this meeting. There's enough profits for everyone anyway!" She laughed.

Rabbit man chuckled as he is shaking the girl's hand, ignoring the black spider leg that piercing through her porcelain skin.

" Black Widow! And people said that you are already gone long ago.

You ways of dealing with Usaken's business rival is became our legends right now."

"Not a big deal! My children are always hungry." Gothic girl laughed.

" How can you control multiple spiders like that? Is it a hives minds thing? If we could learn from you-" Atlantean woman stopped her blabbering after seeing the looks on

Black Widow face.

" Sorry, my lady. But my children are not some science experiment subjects." Gothic girl said softly as the shark woman shutting her mouth.

" When thinking about it. Wasn't there should be a dragonian fleets too? Kiryu something." Rabbit man changes the subject.

Black Widow smiled. " She will send inspector here not long before her fleet arrival. Am I right, Ms. Tokoyami?"

She suddenly turning her head toward Towa who is listening the conversation closely. Demon girl quickly cleared her throat.

" Yes, and how can you know it was me? I thought my traveling here is being kept secret."

Black widow smiles. " Spider are everywhere, Ms. Tokoyami. since we are so being hates and looks down on. A little information will help us determined about our equality in

the business position. So, I hope you can excuse our rude behaviors and not thinking too much of it."

She then glances at Botan and Lamy who shuffled in the crowd and trying to look as unimportant as possible.

Blue hair elf trying to hide her long ear under the big hat on her head.

" Isn't that woman is a silver lion! I thought you guys were extinct long ago. I mean, there's stuffed body in the museum-" lemon shark lady stopped when seeing the looks

on Botan's face.

" They are my assistant." Towa blocking those two from other's eyes with her own body.

" Kiryu's fleet will come in time for the meeting. Are there anything else you guy want me to discuss?" Demon girl asked.

" I mean. You guy seems to didn't bring any spaceship here. Want to join my camp? There will be bed for everyone." Rabbit man offered, avoid looking at Botan's eyes as he

speaks, knowing the blood feud between their races.

" Thank you, but I thinks we will camping near the woods area. Inspecting natural resources is important works after all." Towa said apologetically.

" If there's nothing else. Then I must excused myself and go greeting with our undead guest. Hope you guys have a good night." Gothic girl bow a little, before leaving them.

And after a few conversations, Towa nodded at Botan and Lamy to follows her.

…

" You scared the sh*t out of that rabbit man!" Lamy whispered.

" Well, we used to eat those like him after all." Botan laughed.

"Hopefully no one noticed that you are elf. I don't want to be involved with sentient being trafficking organization after all." Towa said tiredly and looking at the fire again.

Now they are sitting next to the campfire in the woods area of the city, where no one has cut the trees out yet. Having dinner and light conversation before sleeping tonight.

Pieces of la llorona's meat is being grilled over fire by Botan and releasing an incredible delicious smell to disturb their stomachs.

Towa trying not to look at them as she is opening her can of sausage and bean. " You can join us, you know?" Lamy said after stuffing the fish meat inside her mouth for a

while and sipping her booze.

" I am fine." Demon girl said angrily, slowly eating bean.

" Come on, it won't bites!" Botan waving the aromatic white meat around Towa nose, taunting her friend.

" I said I won't eat it!" Towa gets up and walking away from them, carrying shotgun and can of food in hands.

" Hey! Don't get angry all of sudden!" Lamy yelled.

" I'm not angy!" Towa shouts back, mispronounced by her rage.

Loud enough to make flock of bird running away as she is walking into the dark forest.

" Don't get out of the walls area! We don't know what is hiding out there." Botan warned.

" Will she be fine?" Lamy asked worryingly.

" Most animal won't hunting around the city area, especially after being filled with people and spaceship like this. Most creatures that still living here are probably scavengers

or plants eater. So no worry." Botan assured her friend.

" I think I will sleep early tonight, didn't walk like this for centuries after all." Elf yawned after she is drawing magic alarming circle around their tent.

It will screaming a very loud sound if someone that is not three of them walking passed the circles.

While not looking like it. Lamy is someone who lives as a mercenary for many years as well as Botan.

" Go ahead, I will wait for Towa. And then we will talk about taking a turn to sleep. I will awake you near the morning." Lioness smiled at her friend and her weary looks.

…

" Seriously, I am the leader of this expedition! Why they have no respect for me at all?" Towa complaining at the six's legs monkey with four big eyes that is watching her

silently on the ruins of city walls.

" I said I don't want to eat it! That fish almost eating me today.

How can I… you understand, right?" Demon girl looks at the monkey's face.

The animal nodded, not sure how should it reacts.

" That's it! I know you would understand!" Towa feel delighted enough to giving her half empty can of sausage and bean toward the monkey.

" Please here me out. I always told Coco that-" Towa is going to said something more, but the money who already got it's prizes running away and disappears in the trees

lines. It will not sleep with empty stomach tonight after all.

" Hey! I am not done with you-"

…

After some time has passed. Botan remembered that they should brought Towa back before she would get lost in the forests and start crying in distress.

" Lamy, I will looking for Towa. Sleep with open eyes, okay?" She mumbled to the tent that Lamy is sleeping inside.

"…Kay." Elf answered. So, Botan quickly jumping inside the dark woods, sniffing the air in order to looking for her friend.

…

The camp went silenced again after three of them separated. Lamy is laying in her tent and snored softly. Today is a hard day for everyone after all.

That's the reason why she hasn't noticed intruders that surrounding their camp.

Group of people that being led by white hair fox girl is going to enter the camp area when purple hair cat girl stopped them.

" Wait a minute, Shirakami. My scouter can detect the magic barrier. It will cry an alarm if we rush in."

" What then? You know that we don't have much time, Nekomata!" White hair fox said with irritation.

" Koro-san, please use your 'yubi' over here. It will destroying the magic structure." Cat girl nodded toward brown hair dog girl who quickly come and grabbing one of her

underlings, biting his fingers off and impaling them on the ground like some kind of pillars.

After some time has passed, the magic spells around the campfire finally break. Cat girl nodded at Shirakami as she is charging along with their henchman.

…

Lamy woke up as someone cutting her tent open. Elf girl quickly charging her quick spelled and shooting ice spears at the intruder.

However, the spears suddenly dissolved in the air as soon as it is flying toward target. Lamy jumps up at the same time as cold blade is touching her neck.

" No need to fight. I need you to come with me." Fox girl said, dropping the glasses that she used as a shield on the floor as she quickly wrapping Lamy's arm with something

that reminds her of spider web.

" You are from the Arachnian-" Lamy going to says something, but then the purple hair cat girl is there and shoving a piece of rice ball inside her mouth.

" Don't guess, Ms. Just do as we told." She smiled.

Lamy nodded and stomping fox girl foot with her boots before slapping the cat girl with her booze bottle, knocking both of them down with her drunkard strength.

" Bo-!" Elf girl going to shouts, but the brown hair dog girl suddenly punching her stomachs with boxing gloves, knocking Lamy out in one attacking.

The sound that coming from Lamy's mouth is not louder than a normal conversation in the jungles that fills with animals' voices.

But it is loud enough for her friend, Shishiro Botan to hear it and knowing something is happening.

…

Botan jumping on all four from the treetops as silently as possible.

Slamming one man down as she is sinking her fangs deep inside his neck and cutting the man's windpipe in one movement.

She then quickly running zigzags inside the bushes and knocking two man who aiming their gun at her down.

She wrapping her legs around one of the enemy's neck and twisting it, killing him by neck snapped while her hands is clawing at the other man's chest, gutting him alive.

Lioness then quickly jumping at the campfire, seeing that the groups of strangers is still gathering around Lamy. There's still a chance!

An invisible string that being stretched between trees in front of Botan slamming at her neck, knocking the lioness down with her own jumping force.

Lioness quickly get up, trying to ignore the pain in her throat as her windpipe is being hit.

The white fox girl jumping from the tree branches and swinging her shot sword, aiming to cut Botan's head off. But lioness grabbing the blades with her hands, ignoring the

pain as she is spinning kick the enemy's body down.

Botan grabbing the sword and going to throw it at the struggling white fox. But then the black fox that appears out of nowhere kicking her chin, knocking Botan down.

"Shirakami Fubuki." The white fox girl declared, finally gets up.

" Kurokami." The black fox said, dissolving in the dark night.

Botan roared as she is jumping at them, but fist in boxing gloves suddenly punching her face hard enough for lioness to seeing stars.

Botan looks in astonishment as the brown hair dog girl already punching her stomach for a dozen of time, quicker than anything she ever face.

" Inugami Korone." Dog girl said, before uppercutting Botan's chin.

As lioness is stumbling around. Purple hair cat girl rushing in and throwing a piece of rice balls at Botan's face. Knocking her out at last. " Nekomata Okayu." Cat girl

introduced herself as lioness is falling on the wet ground, unconscious.

…

" What a shows! It was the right idea to hired you guys after all." Black widow smiles as she is walking out of the dark woods.

Nodding at her hyena mercenaries to wrapping Botan's body with the spider webs she gave them.

" Don't get the wrong idea. We are here to proved that we 'Gamer' are better than old Hunter like her. A lioness? Something this old should be kept in zoo or museum.

I doubt that she could even use 'shadow dancer' movement like Fubuki." Okayu snorted, making Korone nodded.

(' Gamer' are the new name for Hunter group. Since their society grows softer with time and starting to feel that the word 'Hunter' is too offensive. Making some of them

cancelling the name and use the word 'Gamer' instead.

Stupid, but so did every society that being looked by hindsight.)

" And ' Elite Shrine Maiden of White Mountain.' Asked me to follow their order. I'm just helping them, there's no honor in what we're doing here." Fubuki declared with stone

face.

" Whatever, as long as we can get rid of her. That's enough.

Waiting for Ms. Tokoyami to come back here and finish her!" Black widow ordered six of her henchmen. Before looking at unconscious Botan.

" She knows too much to be kept alive. But someone might want to buy her DNA and probably her skin and skull too. Every part of silver lion is money, slits her throat.

Don't used bullet or poison, the meat will go bad." She gave them more ordered before looking at her Hunters.

" Three of you. Join me transporting this elf to our camp.

I want to know what prizes they would sum up for the last remaining iced elf." Black widow laughed while Fubuki, Korone and Okayu looking at each other eyes, a little bit

uncomfortable.

After all, elves are normal thing in their home at Hololand.

Even if they are just here to proved themselves as a warrior. Seeing one of familiar face being abduct and sell like this is kinda…

Fubuki shook her head, they are grows up warriors, not whimpering children.

Some blood and loss are normal during war after all. Nothing to feel bad about.

Other two seems to be agreed with her as they are following black widow back toward the Arachnian's camp without a word.

…

Five mercenaries from the Hyena's clan look at each other eyes, not sure what should they do with the lioness inside a cocoon of spider web.

" You cut the web open. I'll cut her neck." One soldier offered.

" What if she awake?" Another asks shakily.

" Then we will put a bullet or two in her face. Our life first, money later." The leader raising his gun to reassuring his man.

" Okay then." The hyena man gingerly cutting the silks with his knife that being covered by special chemical in order to go through the sticky things and completed this work.

When he finally opens the cocoon, it is showing Botan face, her eyes is closing.

" Look like we are lucky- AHHH!" The man turning his head toward coworker at the same time as Botan start biting into his arm.

Lioness pulling soldier down in front of her in order to used him as a hostage.

" Help!" poor hyena man yelled as Botan is wrapping her arms around his neck.

"Sorry, dude. Money over someone else's life." His boss chuckled, aiming the gun in order to shooting both of them at the same time.

The gunshot happened, but it was the leader's headless body who is falling on the ground, his soldier looking around as Towa suddenly appear and pumping her magic

shotgun shells at them.

Demon girl using wind bullets to cutting two of them head off, before using earth magic bullet and creating a car-sized stone that crushing the third and fourth enemy in a few

seconds.

The last man dodging Towa's bullet by pure luck, but demon girl then throwing her Remington 870 at him like it was a spear, hitting his face and knocking the hyena man

down.

Botan snapping the neck of hyena man in her arms and throwing the body away at the same time as Towa quickly running at the struggling mercenaries and stomping his

back, picked her gun up and reloading water bullet before blasting his head off.

…

" Easier than I ever thought!" Towa said cheerfully after cutting Botan free from the cocoon.

" We don't have much time! Lamy is-" Botan quickly said.

" I know. I know. But they are already get inside the camp. Two of us couldn't beat all of them at the same time. I mean, look at you right now!" Demon girl clarified, pointing

at Botan battered body.

" Aren't you are friend with the leader of dragon's fleet or something? Asking her to help us!" Lioness shouts.

" Listen here. Even if my friend agrees to help you, she won't reach this planet for at least a couple of days. Right now, there's only two of us." Towa explained.

" Can't we settled this in courts? They have abducted a sentient being after all! And that's against the interstellar laws."Botan demanded.

Towa actually laughed. " We have to sending a signal to report the case back to the nearest space station. Waiting for the nonprofit interstellar federation judges to read and

decide, probably in a month or two. By that time. Your friends probably already being sold to the black market at other galaxies!"

" Beside, everybody thinks that elf is already extinct. Perhaps nobody will ever believe you in the first place. This probably the reason why they suddenly decided to assault us

like this." Demon girl concluded.

" I will go to talk with them!" Botan said, walking toward the direction of the Arachnian camp.

" Are you crazy!? They will shoot you and said that it was a mistake. And the rest of the camp probably agrees. You guys are just couple of strangers after all.

But those business can make a ton of money. No one is care about individual rights right now!" Towa yelled to making Botan snaps back to reality.

" We can broadcasted the evidence." Botan said after silence for a moment.

Towa snorted. " About what? Groups of bandits attacks and abducted your friend? That's the reason why they were using mercenaries in the first place.

No trace to track back to them."

" They used spider webs!" Lioness insisted.

" Commercial version. They can buy this from almost every planet in this galaxy right now. Trust me, I have been living in those areas longer than you!" Demon girl

explained.

" Then what the hell am I supposed to do!" Botan snarled, kicking the tree in frustration.

Towa thinking for a moment. " We couldn't go back to our camp now. Too risky. But perhaps I can tell Coco to buying blue hair elf with whatever cost she has.

Not the best ways, but…"

" If someone else buy her? Or if they are planning to sales her organ instead?" Botan demanded.

" Then she's doomed." Towa said flatly.

" There must be another way!" Lioness clutching her head in frustration as she is summoning every one of her brain cells to give any ideas.

" I have an idea!" Botan suddenly looked up, her face brightens.

" We will attack before the selling will be start. Helping her out."

" With what? You and me?" Towa chuckled.

" No. Me, you and my own people!" Botan sounds more confident than how she actually felt.