Welcome to Ambrosia!

[Guu]

“Because your reaction was destined to be priceless.” The princess responded, but was quickly disappointed to find that Molly was too busy fangirling to react to Guu’s trolling. Minnie, eventually gave her an appreciative pat on the head, which was a little awkward considering the little girl had a good two feet on her.

“Always nice to meet an appreciative subject!” Minnie said, smiling.

“This is Molly. She lives here at the palace. She’s pretty much the adopted daughter of one of our prized members.” Guu explained. Minnie gave her a respectful curtsy.

“Nice to meet you Molly.” She said politely. The little girl attempted to return the courtesy, but was a little distracted by Guu’s bluntness in the introduction.

Before much awkwardness could proceed, Sylvia pops into the room, finally back into her normal gothic attire that kind of threw Minnie for a loop.

“Everything’s in order, Guu!” She said, uncharacteristically gleeful now that she was out of stuffy formal wear.

“Good.” The princess responded. She turned to Minnie. “Glad you went more casual in your attire.”

Suddenly, in a flash of light, her princess attire turned into her standard pink skirt and yellow scarf. Why she usually wouldn’t care, it was nice to feel the bottom of her bare feet against the carpet again. She shifted some toes just to make some fists with them.

“The locals like royalty that can cut loose a bit.” She said, her toes molding back into her blob feet. She does a few stretches, bending her arms in ways that shouldn’t be humanly possible, which was a little weird for the onlookers in this situation. “Anyways, time to go on a tour. Both Minnie and Molly.”

Guu lead them outfront where an immaculate carriage awaits them with two chocobos at the reigns. Minnie’s eyes widen with recognition.

“Chocobos? You have Chocobos here?” She said, surprised.

“Ah, you’ve heard of them? We have a ranch that breeds them.”

“Well,” the queen continued, reaching out to touch one of the birds, which pays her no mind. “I’ve encountered one or two on my travels.”

Guu, Minnie, Molly, and Sylvia climb into the carriage and they take off for town.


As they rode by, the citizens would bow and curtsy, once for Guu and another for Minnie. Turns out word had traveled far of the Queen’s presence. The Princess wastes no time pointing out some of the businesses. The group passed by the Sty and Fry, the gun shop that was still unloading (the princess noted the presence of Adam with her senses, but decided to hold off on that for now,) a market place where unusual plants of many kinds were on display and being sold. Eventually, she stopped the cart and drew the groups attention to one of the strange green colored fruits.

“This is Dame fruit. It’s our top-grossing product. It’s so bland to the taste, it makes anything you eat after taste five or ten times better.”

Suddenly, a strange man in a long overcoat with belts and pouches in unusual places confronted the cart. He was wearing a red top hat that was also covered in belts and pouches. He lifted up his sword, aiming it at Minnie mouse.

“Saw your tweets, Queen. I’m here for the bounty.” He said menacingly.

Minnie withdrew in terror. She had been found already!

“Come quietly or I will have to take you by-”

A hand grabbing onto his face suddenly interrupted him. Guu had taken her adult form and moved in to look at him directly. She lifted him up with that one hand and she tossed him up into the air. With one lightning fast punch, he was launched into the horizon, disappearing from sight.

Guu shifted back into her child form and turned back to the group.

“Shall we continue with the tour?”


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Max held the rifle in his wings, aiming carefully at a target dummy. He fired the gun, which sent the dummy up into the air and slammed hard against the ground.

“Suplex bullets.” He said placing the gun back on the rack. “The bullet, upon contact with the victim lifts ‘em up into the air in a loop de loop. Good for knocking enemies prone.”

Adam couldn’t believe what he just frikkin’ saw, but the penguin was hardly finished.

“Always working on the next big thing. Been working on a gun that headshots every time. Not going to fire that one off though, still working out the kinks with that one. Gets a little confused when more than one head is around.” He said. He brought a wing up to his beak and whispered out the next few words. “The misses doesn’t quite like that one.”

“But anyways, compatible for our standard magic round rifles and gats, you have all the basic elements. We’ve got hurricane force wind rounds, either one really strong gust for the rifle or thousands of little small gusts for the gats. We’ve got high pressure water rounds, ice rounds, lightning rounds, fire rounds… Though, that last one I doubt will be legal in Ambrosia for long so enjoy it while it lasts. Ooh, one of my personal favorites.”

He picked up one of the gatling guns and loads up a long line of color coded rounds. He lifts up, aims at the end of the hallway, and fires.

Fireworks suddenly fill the other end of the room, exploding continuously with every shot. After a few seconds of a light show, he eases up on the trigger. He turns to Adam and grins, or at least as much as you can grin with a beak.

“Fireless Fireworks. You could set this off indoors and nothing would burn.” He said, changing out the rounds. “Originally made it for weddings, but we’ve lost more friends because of it after actually using it in practice. However, I find it great for temporarily blinding enemies. Saved me in a pinch a few times.”

He moves over to one of the strange machines and yanks a cord. The motors inside whir to life.

“We have healing bullets, but that only works if you have a healing power to draw off of. We have a generator for that if you want to try it. But I have something that might be more up your alley.”

He called out his wife who stood at the other end of the range. Max pulls the trigger, the gats spinning to life. But as soon as the bullets started coming out, time suddenly slows to a craw. Alex was reminded of something out of the Matrix as the female penguin slowly motioned out of the way of each shot. He released the trigger and the last bullet slowly finishes it course before time moves normal again.

“Time function. Just makes a bubble of time and slows everything down. You may or may not have noticed that you yourself were slowed down as well. It’s good for being more accurate with the gats, but your opponent might be skilled enough to dodge ‘em. They’re mostly for show I guess. I also include light bullets in case you just want to have fun with friends. That’s what I used here. Not that eager to kill my wife yet. Haha.”

He places it back into it’s holder and turns to Adam.

“So which ones would you like to try out?”