The wave approaches, and though Don Quixote and her Compatriots are nervous, they've proven they can handle just about anything that comes their way… So how will our very own Don Quixote handle her very first Wave Of Calamity?

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Chapter 5: OF WHICH IS RECOUNTED THE BEGINNING OF THE TRUE ADVENTURE, DON QUIXOTE RIDES ON TO FIGHT THE WAVE OF CALAMITY.

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Don Quixote watched as the Clock in the top of her vision was now larger, and was counting down as the Waves Of Calamity brought themselves upon the world. A travesty. A woeful tide of terrible things. But she was prepared. They had long since prepared for this! They'd reached Level 20, a plethora of new spells unlocked for the rest of the party, and most importantly, Don Quixote had gotten a couple new Skills as well!
Meteor Spear, and Airstrike Javelin being the two most prominent on her list of unlockable Skills at the current moment… Well that but also her most powerful technique Joust! She also still had that locked skill "Le Sangre De Sancho" on her menu, but she had 5 more levels before she could rightfully use such an ability.

But she wouldn't let that discourage her as she used her new Joust ability to knock a Lizardman off of the Horse it was currently riding. It disappeared in a puff of black and purple smoke as she twirled her lance around and planted the base into the ground with a flourish, a sign of their victory! Though she wasn't alone as she saw Lesty Elena and Rino joining in the festivities as well!

As they set down in preparation for the Wave, Don Quixote couldn't help but be curious as she turned to her compatriots. They seemed a bit nervous. And in fact, Rino seemed a bit scared... Don sat down as she smiled at them, looking between them all and curiously pondering her head.

"What troubles thou? Might I offer mine shoulder if thou wishes?"

Elena just shook her head, as Lesty and Rino shuddered, earning a small glance from Don Quixote. Rino was the first to answer as she gripped her Magic Staff a bit closer.

"I-it's... well, my first time fighting in a Wave. I've heard stories of where it first manifested, and I... uh, I'm a bit nervous if I'm honest."

It was a truthful answer from Rino, and Lesty just shook her head. She also seemed nervous at the prospect of fighting in the Wave... Did they doubt the other's abilities? Did they not believe fervently in the ideals of the Fixers that had come before them? Perhaps they would need a fresh reminder. Don Quixote cleared her throat as she stood before her comrades and stepped her foot onto a log.

"Mine compatriots, thou need not fret! Forsooth, though great and terrible this wave might be, it shall not fall past us!"

She pointed her fingers out towards the Horizon and the Sky falling forwards, as she grinned with that ever enthusiastic grin and a sparkle to her eyes.

"We art Fixers! We art those that slay those that would bring about the Darkness and Suffocation of Night! I have told thou before the tales of Fixers before us, and just like they that have come before us, thou need not fear death! For if we fight truly, justly, and with the dreams of our Hearts, we shall overcome even the most powerful Stars Of The City!"

Elena and the others seemed confused when Don Quixote mentioned a "Star Of The City" but Don Quixote smiled with a sparkle once more, turning to her compatriots as she raised her spear once more.

"In the words of the great Liu Association, even the brightest of Stars cannot hope to outshine the light of day! If we fight justly and accordingly, there is nothing that we cannot overcome!"

She paused in her speech when there was clapping, as Myne walked over a sweet smile on her face as she clapped for Don Quixote.

"Bravo, bravo! Such a brave and wonderful speech, I feel more confident already! You all have definitely gotten stronger, and I feel like we should let Miss Quixote handle the main fighting, don't you guys agree?"

There was a bit of muttering but ultimately there wasn't a complaint as Myne smiled and faced Don Quixote with that sweet grin yet again.

"Great! I'm sure you'll protect us against those evil-doers and monsters, won't you Miss Quixote?"

Don Quixote nodded with a vigorous smile, as the timer slowly started to count down a bit more.

Don checked her statuses again, her weapons, and her pins, adjusting each one and adjusting the pins on her compatriots as well, before the timer hit zero. With a flash of light, a large circle opened up underneath Don Quixote. That strange sensation and feeling entered her body as if she were about to enter a WARP train, before they all were gone, Don Quixote entering the fray with a confident smile.

With the disappearance of the Circle under her feet, It was strange as Don Quixote appeared next to the rest of the other heroes. Of course there were the Sword and Bow Hero parties, but there was also the Shield? She had thought the craven would have died by now, and judging by the hateful glance he was shooting the other Heroes, the Shield felt the same sentiment... But Don Quixote's expression changed as she saw that the Shield had a compatriot at his side... Had he changed his ways? Was he following in the steps of a Fixer just like herself, truly? The other Heroes immediately charged ahead through the forest fighting those strange things and creatures... Whatever was their purpose? And these things felt familiar... to the point that it was starting to weird Don Quixote out.

The Shield simply looked out to a village at his Compatriots request, and wasted no time in heading that way. Don Quixote looked out that way as well, seeing that some fires were starting to ignite around that area, and with a valorous leap to her step, raised her lance and followed after.

"Dame Myne! We must reinforce the village! Notify the Knights we must aide them in this desperate time of need! Otherwise by Zwei Contract stay here where it is safe! They will not target you up here! Elena, Lesty, Rino, To arms mine comrades! Today we shall vanquish these foul evils!"

Elena, Lesty, and Rino followed after Don Quixote with small gusts of wind magic as Don quickly jumped down the cliffside, as Myne quickly tried to protest fumbling with a Crystal Ball, but by the time she mustered the Magic Power to get a message to the Knights and her Father, Don Quixote was already gone, her steps quickly guiding her to the Burning Village.

She pouted, but otherwise did as she was "recommended" by Don Quixote, asking for aide and simply following after where they went, following the road down towards the Village...

By the time Don Quixote had arrived at the Village, the Shield Hero was busy drawing the enemies away from the Villagers, and so now was the perfect time to strike.

"We shan't ever give up, no matter the peril! Their assault pales before our burning passion! Prepared I am to take on such responsibilities! Dame Rino! Another fireball, we shall strike truly where it shall hurt them hardest!"

With a flourish of her lance, she impaled one of these "Otherworldly Zombies" with her lance, earning her a hefty exp gain as she skewered the Zombie and threw it off. A fireball soared over her head nailing the large swarm of "Dimensional Hornets" with a swath of fire and sending them careening down to the floor. There was a call from off to the side as the Shield Hero looked at her, and scoffed.

"Don't think this changes anything you dumb Chuuni"

Don Quixote shook her head, waving her hands as she stood up to Naofumi with a pout, oblivious to the obvious dangers around her.

"Thou art one to speak! Though thou art truly on the way to redeeming oneself if thou has found your newest Party Member with just values, thou still hath to answer to the crimes of thine King Esquire!"

Naofumi's expression darkened as he looked at Don Quixote and he stepped into her face.

"Oh yeah, and why should I go to that farce of Justice that he believes in?! His daughter framed me, and now I'm left to fight over Scraps! What's just about that?!"

Don Quixote didn't know what to say, but was interrupted by both a sword strike from the Raccoon girl as she sliced a Zombie into bits, and another magical blast from Rino as she blasted a swarm of Hornets to protect Lesty and Elena who looked disgusted with just looking at Naofumi, as she looked between the two of them.

"Miss Quixote, we can't be spending time on petty arguements if we're going to save this Village! Remember the Fixer Code!"

"Naofumi-sama, please, we need to focus on saving the Village! Don't worry about the Spear Hero...ine?"

Both Naofumi and Don Quixote scowled, but reluctantly nodded with a hesitant handshake as they prepared to defend the Village. According to Raphtalia, as she told her name to the rest of her compatriots, the Villagers were safely in an Abandoned Mineshaft up towards the Mountains... With that, they could focus solely on defending the Village... Both parties all took off on their respective attacks to defend the village as Don Quixote's Magic focused on the Skies, and Naofumi focused more on the Ground with Raphtalia.

Don Quixote smiled a bit at the successful defense of the Village. They were killing these haggard Zombies and Insects left and right, and she couldn't help but smile as they kept up the fight... But despite it all, it did feel like something was off though with this Wave, as the tears in Reality seemed to warp and bend around the skies above...

That feeling wouldn't be left unsolved though, as the Sky started to fizzle and pop with the sounds of what sounded like glass breaking.

And suddenly, they could hear... buzzing. Loud, loud buzzing that was getting worse and worse by the second. The sound was intensifying, threatening, and it was almost ear-piercingly loud, as Don tried to cover her ears to make out what the hell was going on. This wasn't being caused by the Hornets, or anything else of that matter... So what was causing that infernal noise?!

Her compatriots and even the Shield seemed confused with the Noise as well, and everyone seemed off guard as the rip in Reality above them deposited something way too familiar. Even if Don Quixote wasn't at all familiar with what was before her at all.

As in that massive Village, fell men. But these weren't Men as they knew it, these Men were different. Their arms twisted and bent in ways that were unnatural and uncanny. A giant flag tattered and beaten was held above them as they landed outside the Village Walls, and simply marched. Their clothes were tattered and in rags, telling of the many battles and the war they had to fight. Their limbs, now that Don Quixote could see them more clearly, were made of insects. Like a horrible fusion of the Zombies and various Dimensional Insects they were fighting right now.

She recognized parts of the Uniform, but that was about it... She couldn't make out anything otherwise. Because emblazoned proudly on their uniforms, was a G made out of Cockroach Arms and stylized to be as elegant, yet disgusting as possible.

G Corp.

Naofumi himself looked on confusedly at the ranks of Soldiers that shambled and approached the Village with eyes of red, filled with hunger. Above their heads, there seemed to be the healthbars, but not much else.

Otherworldly… Dragonfly? Otherwordly Cockroach? What were these things?

Don Quixote didn't even bother as she raised her lance, and aimed it at the approaching Soldiers.

"Halt! Who are thou, and why dost thou approach this village?!"

The mutters from the Soldiers was tense, before their "Captain" approached, large mandibles formed above their head, and with massive mandibles...

"...Food... you... have food here... I can smell it... give it to us... Please..."

"We need... food... to keep fighting... this endless war..."

The Captain raised his hand, as he looked at the small entourage.

"...I'm simply Samson. Manager of this Regiment of Soldiers... In the name of G Corp, give us your food, and we might spare your lives in this War."

How inconsolably cruel! To simply take without asking! To take without giving back! All in the name of their Wing?! Or were they so greedy that they didn't care about their morals and the righteous ideas of Fixers! Naofumi was also disgusted, not just because of their Bug-Like appendages, but also due to how non-chalant they simply just claimed the food here... They didn't work for it, they couldn't just take it without paying. And what the hell were they talking about a War? Both of them though, realized the same thing. They were from the Wave... so of course, they needed to kill these monsters, no matter how meek and feeble they were looking. Don Quixote didn't back down, nor did Naofumi as they made their defiance clear. With a simple gesture of brandishing their weapons, they made their intent clear. The Manager, sighed, as he opened his arms.

"So be it."

He opened his mouth.

And the most ear curdling, blood letting scream emerged from his mouth as he uttered three simple words. The sound that emerged from his mouth could only be described as ear grating, as it resounded far, far far past everyone in that vicinity.

"CONSUME THEM ALL!"

Even the Sword and Bow heroes could hear it... And with it, so too did the Chimera they fought. The Chimera, empowered by those words, snarled and jumped past them, heading into the Forest after the source of the Noise to follow it's Commands more. Ren and Itsuki gave chase, but they both feared the same thing. This was definitely Hard Mode of the Games they'd played, because that was only a Hard Mode exclusive command for the Boss!

Back to our Heroes at hand, Don could swear her ears were bleeding as she heard those words shouted at such a high volume, and everyone around her was still reeling from the auditory blast, except Naofumi who simply was a bit dazed, before he declared a skill and a giant green shield appeared in front of him blocking a good number of them from advancing. With just one attack, he'd staggered them all except Naofumi?! How powerful was this bug?! Though so many of the soldiers ahead of them seemed reluctant and unwitting, they couldn't disobey their orders, and of course Don Quixote wasted no time, as soon as she had recovered, she called for her allies to come to her aide and thrust her lance forwards.

Before long, the soldiers ahead of them were coughing weezing, but still fighting as their limbs twisted and folded to form unnatural shapes. Bludgeons and Spears made directly from their Arms and some of them even their Legs. Massive Dragonfly like wings fluttering from their bodies, and grotesque mandible like structures sometimes coming from their faces and mouths... sometimes even worms coming from their very eyes and orfices. It was entirely disgusting, but a challenge Don Quixote was willing to fight head on as she speared another one with her "Joust" skill, smashing it's head to bits.

"CRUSH THEM!"

The sounds emanating from the Crier sounded again, as Don Quixote shielded her ears once more, trying her best not to succumb to the overwhelming pressure of the decible yield of this challenge. She had to take him out first and foremost, so that the others might have a chance to actually strike back! Rino was doing her best to protect the others, but like Don Quixote, her ears were ringing, close to even bleeding as the Crier let out those intense and driving noises.

Don Quixote smashed another head into a fine pulp with the tip of her lance, as she drove her lance into another with an impassioned shout, and started making a beeline straight for the Crier. She was almost there when she was tackled by another Soldier. The Soldier was grimacing and shaking all the way, as his broken glasses shuddered and quivered. He aimed a claw down as Don Quixote narrowly dodged the strike.

The soldier looked at her with a melancholic expression as he looked at her. The child's eyes, ones which once shone with a vigorous gleam, have now been drained of any was going through the motions now... When at one point, he may have been a Sinner, just like our very own Don Quixote... but now, he simply stifled his emotions as he attacked Don Quixote again.

Another soldier fell near the Child, and he shuddered as he unmotioningly muttered.

"I'll work harder to make up for it…"

Don Quixote would have none of it, as she parried his strike with her lance, and twisted out of the way.

"Thou leaves me no choice!"

She prepared her lance, as she thrust it forwards, hitting his shoulder.

"Ngh!"

He was staggered backwards. He didn't even hesitate as he grabbed the limbs of another fallen comrade, and hastily smashed it into his own mouth eating it greedily. He healed back a bit of health, before going on to attack Don Quixote again. Don herself staggered back a little bit, but was saved with a timely wind blast from Rino as the Bug ahead of her was sent backwards into the Crier. With the Crier dazed, Don Quixote rose again, and started to rush forwards.

"DON'T GIVE UP NOW! KEEP FIGHTING!"

Don covered her ears once more, dulling the sound a bit, but was unprepared as she saw the bug man ahead of her aim his pincers and slash straight at her.

Don felt her own blood trickle down her stomach as she stared down dumbfounded... She'd... been struck?!

There was no hesitance either as he prepared himself to attack her as she sat there staggered, but a Green Shield flew out and parried the blow. He was sent backwards yet again, falling to his Knees as Naofumi kicked his face. While it only dealt one damage, it was enough to send him backwards as Naofumi simply gave Don Quixote a small nod, and the two got back to it yet again.

The waves of Bug soldiers slowly started to wear down as Don Quixote and Naofumi dueled the two seemingly elite in charge soldiers of the current Regiment. Naofumi hitting the Crier with different shields in an attempt to keep him occupied and not yelling at them, and Don Quixote fighting the Soldier ahead of her.

And with one final strike, Don Quixote found an opportunity, as she yelled, thrusting her spear into the Bug's Heart. He twitched, his bug appendages reaching to try and attack Don Quixote once more, but finally, it seemed the limbs gave up as the Child's head lowered.

With a sad expression, the child closed his eyes.

"This… is what a war really is huh... I was wholly unqualified..."

And with that last utterance of words, her spear detached itself from his chest as Don Quixote kicked him off. All that was left was the Crier, as he scowled... if it could even be called that. There was no hesitance as he opened his mouth, before Don Quixote chanted the words, and sent a red javelin straight at his mouth.

"Airstrike Javelin!"

She repeated the phrase a couple times, sending javelin after javelin after

The javelin struck true, hitting the Crier's mouth, as the Crier fell backwards into the corpses of his own men as Raphtalia and Rino finished off the rest of the Bug Men, and Elena and Lesty finished healing Don Quixote's wounds from afar as Don Quixote slowly stood up... They had proven themselves as Fixers today, and defended this Village from evil doers, verily so! Don Quixote felt a bit more accomplished as the Bug bodies around them slowly started to disintegrate leaving behind their Body Parts and various Loot items, as their energy slowly started rising back into the Wave. The Wave was getting weaker and weaker, all that was left... was that Stupid Chimera as Ren and Itsuki cornered the Beast to attempt attacking it once more.

Though a few monsters were left to roam about the Village, they could easily be cleaned up...
Don Quixote smiled as she came to her compatriots and they all shared a smile as they celebrated their first true wave Boss finally defeated... Lesty had at least finally recovered her hearing now after the Crier's attacks, and things were looking good.

"Naofumi-Sama look out!"

And all of the parties were interrupted from their celebrations when a massive Fireball started to head their way.

Author's Note: And so begins our first true wave! Hope you liked it! Sorry not sorry for the cliffhanger! Anyways take care and have a good one~