Ever After

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear! Final

"And the Bear Girl is insanely powerful TOO?" Marina, the leader of the adventurers asked disbelievingly.

"Apparently," Elle the mage sighed.

Masrika the swordswoman added, "I'm really wondering how average adventurers like us will cope, going forward..."

That's when Lord Cliff blurted, "You don't want credit for this?!"

The strange bear clad adventurer, Yuna, said, "The adventurers here killed MOST of the monsters. I just finished it off."

"And the giant worm," Lord Gran added dryly.

"THAT WAS SO COOL," Lady Misa squealed.

"Are you SURE?" Cliff pressed.

"Very," Yuna agreed, "let these guys get the credit."

The four adventurers looked at each other. "Well, at least Lilith, Hazuki and Quill...," Marina said slowly.

Hazuki held up a hand, "Actually, don't mention us too."

"Huh?" Gran blinked.

Lilith pointed out, "We're leaving once we find Eve."

"Hatsumi," Hazuki pointed out.

"Whichever," Quill chuckled.

"I do NOT like us taking sole credit," Iria noted. "Could we say an unknown A rank adventurer helped, maybe?"

"Oh?" Elle asked.

"Do YOU want people expecting we can do this all the time?" Iria observed.

"Point," Marina agreed.

Gran and Cliff exchanged looks. "I think we can sell that," Cliff agreed.

Hazuki sighed, "Now can we PLEASE get to the Capital? We think Hatsumi is there."

(Of course it wasn't THAT simple. A detachment of adventurers arrived from the city, the Guidmaster Sanya, a pretty elf, took charge, and teams were ordered to gather the monster materials. It was several hours later before they arrived at the city.)

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On the trip back to town, Yuna and Hazuki compared notes.

"So you were grabbed from a video game?" Hazuki asked. From the description, FAR in the future from where she was, too.

"Yup," Yuna agreed, "no witches, disappearing sisters or magic libraries involved."

Yuna was rather stunned to hear Hazuki's story. Chasing after her lost sister across the multiverse, armed with a paper cutter transformed into a sword, with nothing else going for her but a unreliable witch? Holy crap. She felt vaguely guilty having her hugely OP bear gear.

"I see," Hazuki sighed.

"There WAS a woman involved, though," Yuna remembered the female voice of the 'God' who has sent her there.

"Not it," Lilith said, walking nearby. "And I don't think Eve would either."

"There's the capital!" Marina pointed.

Apparently news of the monster army being defeated had leaked, as they were greeted by cheering crowds.

"Ugh," Yuna groaned.

"Smile and wave," Hazuki ordered. "Remember, Marina and her people will take most of the credit. We just helped out."

"JUST HELPED," Marika yelped.

"There there," Elle patted her arm, the busty mage looking amused.

They dropped off Lord Gran to his home, along with Misa, and they both thanked them. "Good luck on your quest," Gran shook Hazuki's hand, then Lilith and Quill.

"Thank you." Hazuki smiled.

"I'm so glad we met you!" Misa beamed, hugging her suddenly.

"We'll be going to the Guild hall," Marina told Gran, as they got moving.

"I'll be adding a bonus as well," Gran added.

The group then headed to Cliff's as they talked, then reached the mansion...

"CLIFFFFFF!" the gorgeous woman rushed through the gate then glomped him.

"Please, Ellelaura," Cliff answered mildly, patting her on the shoulder.

"Daddy!" Noa called, hugging him too.

Ellelaura pulled back, then smiled at the adventurers, "Yuna, thank you." She looked at the others, "Thank you as well."

"It was mostly Yuna, Ms Quill and Hazuki," Elle admitted.

Ellelaura smiled at them all, "Either way, know that the Fochrose family owes you a debt."

Hazuki, Lilith and Quill Smiled wryly as the adventurers looked sheepish. "We should get going," Hazuki said to the others.

"Could you stay? We'd love to have you to a celebratory dinner," Cliff added.

"We have a quest we need to complete," Lilith smiled.

"Mind if I tag along? I sort of owe you," Yuna noted.

"Well, while we're here anyway," Hazuki agreed.

Quill used her Cadeus device to track Eve's energies. "The reading had decreased alot," Quill noted , "I think she's left."

"Well, let's go there at least," Lilith said with a sigh. They tracked down the street vendor, who's cart was splashed with Eve's energies.

"So Milly turned sixteen, then vanished," Hazuki sighed.

The old man nodding the food cart nodded, "She was a good cook though. Well, other than pancakes. Those were awful."

Hazuki unexpectedly burst into tears.

"Huh?" Yuna asked, tagging along with them.

"Eve is absolutely awful at cooking those," Lilith noted, "I guess it carries over to her in other worlds, too."

"Sorry," Hazuki sighed.

"So you'll follow her to the next world?" Yuna asked.

"That's the plan," Quill nodded.

"Why not stay here?" Yuna offered. "The King owes you, as do the Fochrose family. You could have a good life here."

Hazuki smiled a bit sadly, "Sorry."

As Lilith began to glow Yuna stepped back. "Good luck," she called.

And with that they were gone.

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Captain America watched in astonishment as the Japanese schoolgirl cut down a Ultron android with a SWORD.

""Lilith!" Thor cried, "It has been ages since we saw you in glorious Asgard!"

"You KNOW him?" the girl asked the blonde woman.

"Long story," Lilith replied sheepishly.

"Quill! Shields!" Hazuki ordered.

The gorgeous and bosomy black haired woman used her staff to block several Ultrons coming from the side.

"How..?" Iron man muttered. "That staff scans as tech, but also not."

Captain America ignored that. "We need to reach the center of town," he said, "ladies, can you assist us?"

"Hatsumi is that way too," the first girl noted.

"HULK SMASH," Hulk pulverized a Ultron before it could reach Lilith.

"Thank, big boy," Lilith flirted.

Black Widow leaped over a Ultron, firing her pistols into it's head. She then supported Hazuki as she muttered, "We've met. Budapest?"

"Huh?" Hazuki blinked. "Well, we time travel a bit."

"Ah," Black Widow accepted that.

Hawkeye ALSO recognized her, blinking, "This is Budapest all over again."

"Ha!" Black Widow smirked.

Captain America sighed as they fought on...

To Be Continued.

Notes: Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear ends, now Avengers Age Of Ultron. It's a running gag in Avengers fandom that SOMETHING happened with Nat and Clint in Budapest, but what exactly it was is never shown.