Hoshi no Guu (Star Piece Quest) (M)

[Guu]

Immediately, Guu’s senses were triggered. Five guys ran into the edge of her sight within seconds and were closing in fast. She wasted so much energy on that stunt, she wasn’t sure if she could take all five of them in a fight. While she had an easy escape as the sanctuary was open air and she could just fly out of there without trouble, she knew her moogle friend was still out there, probably in trouble.

Typical Guu, sacrifice practicality for aesthetics. She gave herself a quick facepalm in regret.

She needed to work fast. She hoped none of them could sense her, her insight was telling her nothing which was not promising in the slightest. She knew she needed to get the element of surprise on them.

But before she could formulate a plan, she had to leap out of the way as Luke swung forward with his sword. Guu wound up crashing into the wall where a “Karl Jak” pin-up was knocked to the floor on impact. The princess fell onto the desk, shaking the nearby shelves, throwing the Amiibos out of place.

She dizzily came back to her senses when the sword came down again. She had to roll out of the way, hitting the side of a cabinet, tossing amiibos to the floor.

“Give back my research you little brat!” He yelled, raising his limited edition, Aragorn autographed, short-sword into the air for another strike.

Thinking fast, she grabbed his still lit cigar and tossed it onto the carpet below, then she was forced to leap again, Luke’s sword bashing against the metal of the desk. Guu collided into the next wall, knocking down a Samus pin-up.

This tiny trailer was not friendly to speed fighters.

“Stop wrecking my priceless forgeries and give me back my documents!” He yelled, furious at the pink one.

The princess landed on her side. A foot or so away from her face, the cigar was sitting, slowly causing the carpet to smoke. The astronomer slowly stepped towards her, his sword drawn, ready for her blood. Thinking quickly, she filled her cheeks with air and blew towards the cigar. The extra boost fed into the smoke and grew into a flame. Luke jumped at the sight of a fire going off in his trailer and immediately moved to stomp on it.

Guu took this moment to launch herself towards the door, She managed to stop herself mid-air before colliding with another wall. She burst through the door only to be greeted by the five guards, waiting just outside the door.

She was weak. Her vanity had caught her in a bad place. As the men closed in fast, she thought quickly on the best way out of this. Just as she began to settle on various plans that involved running, her attention was pulled towards a nearby statue. She didn’t see it before, it didn’t even show up in her senses, but now it felt like the incense smoke cleared just for her line of sight, as if something was willing her to see it. She immediately knew who it was; a man she thought she escaped when she came to the Omniverse, a man even someone like her has grown to fear.

“Dad.” She said quietly under her breath.

Suddenly, purple tentacles slithered from her back like snakes and then wiggle into the air. Her skin started turning into a shade of black, but also slightly translucent, exposing her innards for all to see. But most distinctive was her eyes were now glowing red, piercing through the incense clouds like a high-powered laser.

The men were now frozen. Their legs refused to move despite the obvious threat. Finally, after a second or so, one of the men freed themselves, running the opposite direction from the abomination. A tentacle swiftly shot out into the smoke and wrapped itself around the man’s ankle, causing him to fall flat on his face.

The tentacle lifted him into the air. He began to scream in terror, but he was quicklly silenced when he was suddenly flung hard into the ground. The other guards, witnessing this, immediately booked it in random directions. However, her tentacles were faster and quickly grabbed each guard by different parts of their bodies. One man was grasped by the neck who began gasping for air, another was grabbed by two tentacles which began to pull on each leg in separate directions like some cthuluoid version of the King Solomon tale. Another was lifted up by the waist where she began violently shaking him. And finally the last one… You don’t want to know.

But as she was subjecting them to these horrors, a sword impaled her from the back. Luke has put out the fire and took a moment of distraction to strike. The surprise strike prevented her from preparing her powers in time, so she felt the full force of the sword going through her body. The jolt of pain was enough for her senses to return. Her tentacles dropped the remaining four men as they retreated into her back. Her skin and eyes changed back into their normal colors as she turned to the man that struck her, sword still through her body like a kabob.

“Monster! You are a monste!.” He said, shocked and terrorified at what he just saw.

Guu couldn’t believe what just happened. She hadn’t taken that form in ages, and the last time she did convinced her it was never worth using. Did that statue have that great of an effect on her?

“Guards! Take this… thing away!!” Luke yelled. After a second of no response, he looked around in disbelief. “Guards?”

She tried not to inspect the guards with her senses, she didn’t want to. It was best she didn’t know how many of them died while she wasn’t in control. All she needed to know was none of them were getting up. Assured Luke was the last threat, she raised her fist up in the air and aimed it for his face.

“You’re a little far to punch m-”

He was interrupted by a stretched focused punch to the face. He was automatically knocked unconscious, flying a few feet into the air before falling hard flat on the ground.

With no one impeding her, Guu pulled the sword from her chest, spurting blood on the dirt below. She dropped the bladed weapon on the ground and walked towards where she could sense her moogle friend.

Sure enough, he was on the ground, unconscious but breathing, and inconspicuously tied up. He was probably going to be a hostage or something. She lifted him up from the ground and slowly flew up into the sky, above the Hidden Temple. She wasn’t going to miss this place.

When she felt like she was far enough from Luke and his cronies, she moved into the jungle for a landing. With what little strength she had left, she dug a little hole in the dirt and curled up inside it, cradling the tied up moogle close. She was staining his white fur with her blood, but she was too weary to notice. The warmth of his body was encouragement enough for her to drift into a deep sleep.