Baby Steps

[Guu]

Guu awoke to a strange feeling in her chest, her breathing erratic. She launched herself to her feet gripping her chest. The feeling slowly dissipated with every breath.

Then it slowly donned. The feeling she felt, she remembers it from when she read the minds of the humans back home. The feeling of pain. But why was she feeling it in her lungs…

Since when did she have lungs...

"I need to breath?" She said sounding bored and surprised at the same time.

She plunged her hand into her mouth and felt around. Sure enough, she had working lungs. But that's not all. She also felt the distinct rhythm of a heart beat. She quivers at the thought of having to live with that incessant drumming all the time.

But the shocking part is her stomach. It felt empty and much smaller than it was before, she had never had her stomach feel like this. It was very uncomfortable.

It was at this point that she noticed that she was sitting around in an empty dark void. She knew from experience that this wasn't good news.

She thought short and mild about how she got in this situation, but when the answers wouldn't pop into her head immediately, she started to panic.

So instead, she thought long and hard. She remembered saying good bye to Hare, sending him back home, erasing everybody's memory of her existence, and now she's depressed again.

Just as she was going to wind up in a spiral of self-deprecation, a human figure in bright white light appeared before Guu.

"My name is Omni. This is not the world you know. This is the Omniverse. You interest me, so I have made you part of it. The Omniverse is a place that reflects the wishes of those who are part of it."

"In that case, can you stop my heartbeat? It's giving me a headache." she blurted out.

The figure hands her a glimmering orb.

"This is Omnilium. It’s what ties the Omniverse together. Without it, you are nothing. With it, anything you desire can be..."

Guu is having a difficult time processing all of this while sorting her feelings out. Is she human now? What does this mean for her powers? Can she go back?

Oh yeah, left them forever and they don't remember her. She's depressed again.

...not fear death. For as long as you interest me, you will be reborn. That’s all you need to know right now. You’ll figure out the rest soon enough. I’ll be watching … and waiting.”

And just like that, the man and the world of darkness faded into endless whiteness. The only thing she can see is a fountain up ahead. She just kind of stood there, not used to thinking and moving at the same time.

Until she noticed that she was surrounded by humanoids. She was so used to being able to sense them… Not wanting to deal with random strangers, she darted passed them and found a secluded area where she can check herself out.

She felt around her stomach again. It didn't feel like a human stomach, or at least what she guessed a human stomach would feel like. While it was empty, she could still feel grass under the tip of her fingerless arm. At least that power still exists.

She went through each of her powers. reality warping: Nope. Teleportation: Nada. Time Travel: nothing. She even tried to brain wash a few people, no result. The only thing else that seemed intact was her ability shape her body any way she wanted, but after the weight of everything going on, she couldn't bring herself to celebrate this minor victory. She rests her body down on the clean white ground, and focuses all her energy on thinking how screwed she is.

[Guu]

After lying around motionless for about an hour, she picked herself up, and promptly falls flat on her face. She knew Hare would be laughing his butt off if he were here. Climbing to her feet again, she takes a big breath. She still feels a twinge of pain when she breaths. No wonder they hurt, this is the first time she's ever used them.

Clearing her head, she takes a moment to think rationally. She remembers vaguely of that white guy saying she can grow in power by doing... something. So obviously, he wants her to earn her powers back by some harder human-y way. But what could he want from her?

She thinks long and hard about what the man said.

"You interest me, so I have made you part of it."

No... It couldn't be that... Could it? Though if he was so powerful, anything he would do directly to her would probably destroy her the state she's in. If he really wanted that, he would have left her in her powered state. She continues to think.

For as long as you interest me, you will be reborn.

She didn't know what the reborn part meant. However, the interest part... Maybe he's one of those gods who wants to be entertained? They appear all the time on TV shows and stuff. Just another bored deity with nothing better to do, looking for someone to put on a show.

Well, if he wanted to be entertained, then she might as well go through with it.

She begins to dance. Moving around precariously on tippy toes waggling her noodle like stumps of arms around in an unnatural but wave-like fashion, all off beat to a tune that clearly exists only in her head.

However, little did she know that her little dance off could end in tragedy. Motor skills in her old body didn't work the same way in her new body, hence why she was having trouble thinking and moving at the same time earlier. Now she is doing a motion as complex as dance, she stops thinking altogether, including the thought that allows her to stop.

Seconds turn into minutes. Minutes turn into hours, all doing the same dance over and over.

In retrospect, she should have picked a cooler dance.

[Guu]

Hours have passed and Guu was still dancing that same dance. However, that all changed when she was randomly pelted with a rotten tomato, launched by a passing by merchant heading towards the east. Upon impact, Guu topples over and lands flat on the ground. After a few seconds against the bright white floor, she began to regain her thoughts.

How long had she been out? She climbed to a sitting position. Lifting her arm up, she shifted the shape of the limb to fit the exact curvature of her face then with one swift motion wiped her face clean of the tomato. Then she shifted the stumps of her hands into a comb, and ran it through her hair to get anything remaining out.

Feeling a bit more confidence, she climbed to her feet. She began to think hard on random thoughts. She thought about meeting Omni, she thought about life in the Jungle, she thought about Hare, and as these thoughts passed through her head, she took a step forward. The little leg of hers originally didn't want to move, and for the first few steps she couldn't help but stop thinking for a second to let the movement process.

Her thoughts turned to the time she left. Saying goodbye to Hare one last time, how being here pretty much ensured she was never going to see him again, the thought saddened her. But before she could beat herself up about it, she noticed she took 5 steps without even having to think about it. She tried to recreate the freak accident, but once again, her legs wouldn't budge.

Well, some sign of progress at least.

[Prinny]

As the young girl was hit by the tomato, a blue penguin happened to be passing by at the time, and saw the strange dance she was performing. This blue penguin called a Prinny, which also happened to be his name, strangely enough. He saw the young girl get pelted by the tomato, and dance being one of the main things a Prinny can do, in fact it's an attack Prinnies could learn, he ran up to the young girl, concerned. "You okay dood?" He was concerned, and the girl appeared to be in her own world, and as he watched her morph her hand, he was concerned, but that was pretty cool. She seemed, bored, and he couldn't help but watch this strange girl.

[Guu]

After a little while, Guu managed get in 5 steps while in deep thought. Wanting to take is a step further, she makes a running start and does a flying spinning leap while thinking hard about the contents of Hare's closet. She doesn't stick the landing as she crashes to the ground on her side. It's at this point, she noticed she had an audience.

She sat up, her eyes fixed on the penguin.

"When did you get out?" she asked. She plunges her hand down her throat and feels around her stomach. But then she remembered there wasn't anything actually down there anymore. After a second, she figured this penguin was unrelated.

She stands up, scanning Prinny with her eyes, trying to decide what to make of it. She's hoping the Morgan Freeman narration will kick in at any moment to explain this turn of events.

[Prinny]

Prinny watched her actions, perplexed. That's when he saw her attempt the jump. He ran up to her, not many people could take a landing like that too well! "You allright dood?! You gotta be more careful when doing stuff like that!" Her strange question got to him, "When did you get out." Get out? Then her next action shocked him, she literally just stuck her hand down her gullet! "What the heck?! That's freaky dood!" He shouted, throwing his flipper, arm things up into the air, and leaning backwards on his peg legs.

[Guu]

Somehow, it didn't process up to this point that this thing was talking the whole time. Was she that out of it?
It was completely flipping out right in front of her.
Suddenly, her body shifts. Her stumps of arms grow some hands, her eye color changes to crimson becoming wide and expressive, and she gains an amazingly cute smile.

"Please calm down, sir." She said in a sweet and soothing voice. "I'm not dangerous! Why don't you straighten up and tell me your name? Hehe!"

[Prinny]

Prinny was put off by the girls sudden change as he sweat dropped. "Um, I'm Prinny, Dood. And you are?" He couldn't help but ask, this girl was confusing and intriguing at the same time. Who was she? And why was she so, strange? Even a Prinny would be put off by a girl like her, and this much was obvious.

[Guu]

"Prinny? That's a funny name!" She exclaimed happily. She gave off an adorable little chuckle that would melt the hearts of even the most stone cold men. Then, she gained a shy composure.
"My name's Guu. I'm glad I met you. It's not every day I get to meet a talking Penguin!"

[Prinny]

Prinny noticed the chuckle, she seemed normal now, maybe that fall put something in its right place? He thought, listening. A talking penguin huh? He did look like on he'd give her that, but he had to burst her bubble.
"Actually, Prinny isn't just my name, it's also what my type is called dood, we're souls of the damned put into these weak bodies to repent for the sins we committed while we were humans dood, you must not have seen one before."

[Guu]

"Oh!" Guu said disappointingly.
She suddenly shifts back, her arms returning to noodles, her face looking more bored than before.
"Spirit world junk." she said with a heavy sigh. She begins carefully walking in circles.
"Talk to me, I need the practice." She said, in a dull voice.

[Prinny]

Prinny saw the look on her face, she said talk to her, as if she wanted to know, but not only did her face say otherwise, (which he probably didn't pick up on anyway, Prinnies are morons) but that was all anybody knew. There wasn't any more to it. "Sorry dood. We don't know any more than that. Do you know where we are?" He asked this, hoping it wasn't a stupid question, which with his streak, it probably was.

[Guu]

She flips over and starts walking in circles on her arm stubs. Amazingly, her pink skirt seems to hold despite the change in gravity.
"Don't you know? We're all in heaven." she said sarcastically, "You finally made it. hurrah for you."
She flips back on to her feet, and moves in to pat Prinny on the head.
"As your guardian angel and conscience, I congratulate you."

[Prinny]

"Well, since you don't know what's going on, I'll be on my way dood!" With this the Prinny spun for a moment I a ballet fashion, then took off in a horrible direction, right into the verse that was the realm of Dracula.

[Guu]

"Tch!" she scoffed at the bailing penguin. Would have been fun if he actually believed her. She flips back over and goes back to walking on her hands while thinking heavily.

She'd slowly get more involved with her actions. After walking on hands, she'd start running while thinking, then moved on to doing cartwheels and flips, jumps and kicks. It was time for the grand finale.

Standing still in place, she thought long and hard about a song she heard in the past. Sleepy-sensei once played it while teaching her class about the American custom of Halloween. (He wound up playing the whole soundtrack because he conked out.) She remembered seeing the music video months later, the movements the people would do. She remembered Weda saying the man in the red jacket was a famous musician, was considered cool in his day. The moves were complexed, complexed enough she would be required to think about them. Not to mention, if she did wind up getting stuck again, at least she'd be stuck doing something conventionally cool.

She thought long and hard to remember the song clearly. She thought again about that stereo playing that song in class. She tried so hard to remember the rhythm that it was playing. Then suddenly, the music starts playing in her head. She heard the serious and creepy music slowly build up as the sound of wolves howling in the distance accompanied

With it firmly implanted in her head, she remembered the moves the people on TV would do. As soon as the beat started up, she would walk in place, arms to the side, occasionally tilting her head. Then as the lyrics kick in, she would step forward and the dance proper would begin.

For 5 minutes she would dance. She would get in creepy ghoulish poses as the song sang about horrific monsters. Clearly she was making the moves up half the time considering the music video doesn't match the song entirely. She finished the dance in a big voila pose. The small audience that developed around her didn't seem all too impressed and went about their day. Not that it mattered much to Guu. She had done it, she had defeated the motor skills dragon!

However, her sense of accomplishment was interrupted by another song starting up. She jerked around looking where the sound was coming from and right next to her, was a small stereo by her feet. She turned off the song, picked up the stereo, and inspected it.

It looked just like the one from Lazy-Sensei's class! She swallows the stereo whole and takes a seat on the pure white floor to take a minute to think.

Did she summon that stereo? Was that still within her ability? In retrospect, she was shocked she didn't try just summoning things before. She thought long and hard.

A brush, give her a brush.

Opening her eyes, a brush had magically appeared in her arm. Giving her hair a few run throughs, she goes on to swallow the brush as well. She decided to think bigger.

A motorcycle, give her a motorcycle.

It took a few tries, but sure enough, a motorcycle had appeared before her. It was a pale shade of pink with a large cat insignia on the front. She gets on, revs the engines a few times. It's working condition! Getting off the bike, she stretches her head wide and swallows the vehicle whole.

She had to have fun with this! She looked around, same old boring white void as normal… except… The fountain!

She summons a small box, each side being 4'5" by 4'5", and she encases herself in. Then she summons her old swimsuit. it's composed of a seashell bra and a teal skirt that's reminiscent of her normal skirt. Changing into her swim clothing, she swallows her normal clothes and the box and then makes a mad dash towards the fountain.

"Cannonball." she exclaimed dully, hitting the water in a ball.

Stomach of Holding Queue:
1. Box; sides measure 4'5" by 4'5".
2. Default Guu outfit
3. Guucycle
4. Brush
5. Stereo w/Michael Jackson album cassette

[Guu]

Took a while for Guu to get used to the water. She couldn't walk along the bottom anymore like she used to, and was once again reminded that she needs to breath in this form. However, she's fit well enough that she takes to swimming quite well. Darting across the water at abnormal speeds.

She takes a short break, sitting along side the fountain's edge.

Gaming device, give her a gaming device!

However, when she opened her eyes again, the thing in her hand looked like much more than a gaming device. She booted it up, registered her name and took her photo for an avatar.

She posted a few times in the Oniverse's equivalent to twitter, before giving up. She swallowed the device and went back to swimming.

Stomach of Holding Queue (update):
1. Mobile Dataverse Device
2. Box; sides measure 4'5" by 4'5".
3. Default Guu outfit
4. Guucycle
5. Hair Brush
6. Stereo w/Michael Jackson album cassette

[Schwi Dola]

Desco retreated away from the nearby battle area around the Fountain's Edge. She had tears in her eyes from the fear she had felt, from the weakness she had where power used to be. Fear wasn't new for Desco, but it didn't feel quite as fine before. She was once scared of Fear the Great, the powerful thing that was an embodiment of all of the evilness of humanity. It was a powerful boss and had that guy Nemo controlling it with all sorts of creepy dark versions of demons showing up as further embodiment's of Nemo's Fears. But Desco with her friends and Big Sis had defeated the fear demons and sent Nemo to Hades to pay for his sins as a Prinny. She deeply felt worry about her Sister forgetting her sister Desco. That selfish fear to not lose her sister had been such that it caused her body to split in two. But Desco slowly learned that her feelings were greedy and she defeated Torn Desco. Through all of this, Desco had her power, the power of the Final Weapon. Without that inner power, Desco felt weak.

She calmed down as she suddenly noticed something really, really strange in this dangerous white void. A little girl was swimming in the fountain. It was so normal as to be strange in this strange place, completely out of place with what was happening and catching Desco off guard. Desco, the little girl with light and dark purple clothing, yellow eyes all over her body, red eyes, and a tentacled demonic thing behind her colored and eyed the same way with a red belly, got closer and looked at the normal little girl. Perhaps the pink hair and pink dress with a yellow scarf on her torso wouldn't be normal to some. Most would find the fingerless shaped noodle arms strange. But for a Demon as unusual as Desco, it was as normal as it gets. "Who are you?"

[Guu]

Guu was really pro at this "thinking while moving" thing as her thoughts were delving deeper and deeper into a river of rich thought. All questions all philosophies, once accessible to her in an instants notice, came flowing through her in one wave. Questions like: "Why are we here?" "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" and "What's the deal with socks anyways?" These thoughts passed through her like the water surrounding her as she swam, making one pretty blunt metaphor to real life thing.

However, it was the question "Who is the girl right next to me right now?" that really surprised her. Flipping over so she was on her feet, she scanned the girl up and down. The large demon thing on her back made her reminiscent of some beings she used run into before her days with Hare, but she was surprised by the cute girl attached to it.

"Who are you?" the girl asked.

Guu, now intrigued, swam closer to the edge of the fountain and stood up closer.

"Hi, my name is Guuuuu," she said in an incredibly bored voice, flapping her arms in the air. "Love the demonspawn attached to you."

[Schwi Dola]

The little girl came over to Desco and spoke of some demon thing attached to Desco. Desco turned around, with Yogsothoth keeping pace and always at her back unseen by Desco directly. She turned a couple times more, and in doing so it was obvious that the large tentacle on the bottom was attached to Desco under her dress as a tail rather than a part of Yogsothoth, and looked down at her arms, legs, and tail. "Desco doesn't see a Demon! Did it go away?"

[Guu]

Is she messing with her? She no longer has the omnipotence to tell. She decided to laugh along.
Her laugh sounds more like an alarm composed of laughter instead of a real laugh. She stops herself by shifting a fake snooze button on to her forehead and hitting it.

After a moment of silence. She speaks again.

"Who are you?"