Hoshi no Guu (Star Piece Quest) (M)

[Guu]

The group wandered down the path. Chuck kept looking over the map, fuming at the most recent detour, Bani was taking the extended walk to practice some of her ballet, and Melani practiced her punches, knocking down the occasional tree. In the back of the group was Pitchen and Guu.

The princess had her face in her dataverse device. While she had snuck in a bit of time while at the Quest Buy, she was glad to get along Dataverse session for once. Every now-and-then, she would take her attention away from the screen to sense the surrounding area for threats. It appeared that travelling in such a large group was helping considerably as a number of predators seemed to have decided they weren’t worth the trouble. One pack of velociraptor seemed to take extended interest, but upon seeing the group, they just stood around with their mouths ajar. Some would say the true sign of intelligence is knowing when what you’re seeing makes absolutely no sense.

What did concern Guu was her moogle friend. While the others kept busy, Pitchen appeared to be in deep thought the entire time. She thought about asking about it, but she kind of hoped he would come forward himself.

After hours of walking though, the group looked much more worse for ware. Bani’s graceful leaps have turned into a weary occasional stumble. Even Melani was visibly tired. As the group came across a bunch of conveniently placed logs, Chuck’s voice called out from the front.

“Okay, maybe we should take an extended break now.”

The group take their places on the logs, Bani tries to get some stretches in, but even she preferred to stay stationary. Instead what happens is everyone pulls out their dataverse devices and starts tapping furiously at their screens.

Just as Chuck challenged Bani to a competitive game of Ninja Golf, Guu received a 
surprise text.


Melani said:
We haven't had a chance to talk


Guu looked up from her phone. She scanned over the party until they rested on the watermelon girl, who was returning the look. She dipped back down and typed away.


Guu said:
Well, I haven’t had that chance with any of you guys yet… Well, outside Chuck, but that was a while ago.


Melani said:
Ah! Kind of figured the other day was your first time meeting all of us. When did you meet Chuck?


Guu said:
It was like my first month in the Omniverse, he was working undercover under some creepy scientist guy and I was his target. But he recognize me from the dataverse and we hit it off.


Melani said:
That sounds nice!


Guu said:
It was quite a while, that was before Ambrosia even.


Melani said:
Sounds like you’ve had quite a history here Ms. Guu. Glad that fate has brought you and Chuck together again, Steven bless!


Guu said:
Steven bless?


Melani said:
My god, Steven Universe.


Guu said:
Oh yeah. I remember someone mentioning you had a god, what is that about?


Melani said:
The creator birthed us from normal watermelon seeds, he grew us and sent us to his people. However, we became violent, a threat.


Melani said:
To cut our wrath, a savior allowed himself to take our rage on him. We split him and left him nothing but rinds.


Melani said:
Grief filled and raged, god sent us away, commanded us to not return to the lands of his people until we’ve learned the price the savior paid for us.


Guu said:
That’s quite.a history, were you there for it?


Melani said:
No, I was born after, but all of us learn the tale when we are young.


Melani said:
We may need to continue this sometime later, I sense something coming.


Guu poked her head out from the screen and opened her senses. To her surprise, she could sense something, five people, quickly encroaching their camp from all angles.

“Guys we have trouble.” Guu said.

Bani and Chuck look up from their screens baffled. Suddenly, five people jump out from the brush, each one color coded in either red, blue, yellow, black, or pink. The each had helmets, the tops of their craniums molded into the shapes of various barnyard animals. Electric guitar suddenly starts playing as explosions happen behind them.

“Ninja Mega Rangers are go!” They call out.