Hoshi no Guu (Star Piece Quest) (M)

[Guu]

“Welp, that was a bust.” Said Bani with a heavy sigh. “I’m guessing that astronomer was behind this?”

The path that Chuck choose towards the bog was on fire. Said fire was guarded by five drunk and partying hellhounds, all of them wearing vegan related shirts and buttons while listening to Green Day’s “American Idiot.” One of the hounds in a “Vegies are my Life” shirt turns towards the group and does a “I’m watching you” gesture with its paw.

“Yep, pretty sure.” Replied Guu

Chuck is furiously looking over the map. Melani pats the back of his calf for comfort. It didn’t help.

“Goddamn, this path would have lead us directly there!” Yelled out the demon.

“Wait,” spoke up Pitchen, who was sticking to the back this whole time, “aren’t there other paths? There’s got to be more than one way there.”

“Ugh, that bog is in a valley surrounded by large mountains. There’s only two paths that cut through the peaks and our astronomer friend took out the closest one. We’ll have to take the long way around.”

“Wow, the Star Piece is in a very secluded region.” Pitchen blurted out.

“Well, think about it, if it was easy to reach, we would have heard of its discovery already.” Added the princess. It did make sense. “Also, would have made for a very sucky read. Speaking of which...”

Guu stepped in front of the group and faced them.

“Hey, here’s a thought. Wouldn’t it be faster if I just fly there?” She took off into the sky. “I mean, wouldn’t have to go on a perilous journey.”

“Guu, no!” Cried out Chuck as he finally peered up from his map.

She didn’t get more than 100 feet in the air before a pterodactyl swooped in, locking its beak around the pink one’s head. The other four yell helplessly from the ground as she was being whisked away by a giant flying lizard.

She slithered her arm into the creature’s mouth and stuck it down its throat. She made her arm expand until it was completely blocking the air passage. Quickly, the bird was struggling to breath. It unlatched its jaw, allowing her to drop out of its mouth. She floated effortlessly back to the ground with only pinch marks on her neck as consequence.

“Well, that’s not an option.” Stated Guu, casually.

The others were stunned by the crazy display they just witnessed.

“Don’t do that again!” Yelled out Chuck, nearly in tears with concern.

“Calm down Chuck, she had this.” Reassured Bani, joining Melani in comforting him by patting his back.

“Let’s get going group, we’ve got a long walk ahead of us.” Stated Guu, leading the way down a split in the path, avoiding the strange chaos that befell the other way.

It was clear the astronomer wanted them to go this way, and it was obvious they were walking right into a trap, but what options are there at this point.

However, Pitchen, waddling on his robotic legs beside the princess, had one last question on his mind.

“Guu? I was wondering, you’ve lived in the Tangled Green for a long time, how did you not know that pterodactyl was going to happen?” He inquired.

“Oh I did. But the audience didn’t so it was important to establish.” She said casually. “Plus anyways, it was good to show off that choking move, then if I happen to use it at a more dramatically tense moment, it won’t feel like it came out of nowhere.”

“But most of the powers you have feel like they come out of nowhere.” Said Pitchen, far from the only thing on his mind, but worth stating. Guu didn’t bother giving that a response. To her, he was kind of stating the obvious.