Hoshi no Guu (Star Piece Quest) (M)

[Guu]

Guu had felt the presence of the mage approaching within the edge of her senses. Deciding what to say, she did a full insight diagnostic on him just to see what’s changed. She was genuinely impressed by the number of things he added since she last met him back in Camelot. Super Speed, Survival, he’s really grown as a prime. In the real world, it would take an act of god for a mere human to change so much over such a short amount of time, though admittedly, that’s literally true here, too.


She wondered what the Malefactor thing was in his inventory, but she decided to take that while it comes. Got to leave some secrets.


She couldn’t decide if she should straighten herself out or intentionally make her clothes more raggedy just to play up the danger she has been, as the last twenty-four hours has already allowed her to fully heal, this was even down to her wardrobe apparently. The choice was basically made for her as the wizard noticed her and started running up. Honesty it was then.


“Guu! I’m glad to see you alright!” He yelled out relieved


“Yeah, you just caught me when I finished healing up.” She starts swinging her formally bitten off arm around in an attempt to look like she’s doing stretches. “I liked the old arm better, but I guess I just have to break it in.”


“So you are all fine?”


“Yeah, thanks to Omnilium. Unfortunate I can’t say the same for secondaries.” She looked over to her companions, the girl in a playboy bunny still had bruises on every inch of her body, the cybernetic moogle was no where near having his arm untwisted into a knot. “We took on an army, then a zombie t-rex, and we even lost someone along the way, but the treasure wound up being a bust.”


Is this really the Guu you were seeking? Spoke out Malefactor with a mischievous chuckle. She’s just a little girl! You were in just as bad a position as you were with the cat!


‘Oh, I see you have a stow away there, Gildarts.’ Guu thought, which rang in the mage’s head. Malefactor’s cackling halted.


Wait, she can hear me? Continued the slime, a mix of alarm, disbelief, and jubilation in her voice.


‘Telepath trolling is a tad intense. It’s an insult to the art to even call it trolling. I’d suggest you halt your attack now, you wouldn’t want to know what I could do to you.’


You have no idea what you’re messing with child.


“Neither do you.” Guu said out loud, making it uncertain who she’s actually talking too.


To the rest of the group, the two were just standing there glaring at each other for several minutes. If they hadn’t had to tolerate the Princess for the last hours, they’d be actually reacting, but instead, they kept their head down, hoping the new stranger was here to take her somewhere else.


Gildarts however was horrified. His guild leader had already discovered his greatest secret within minutes into their reunion! He couldn’t help but feel a twinge of of uncertainty, his brow pushing further up towards his scalp than usual


And this was all Malefactor needed. Noticing his host’s weakened defenses, she immediately moved in to invade Gildart’s mind.


You’re secrets, they are finally mine! She said, laughing maniacally.


Gildarts winced, he knew he had screwed up. All his work to keep the beast out was all for naught because of his momentary expression of emotion. He quickly tried to shield himself mentally from the oncoming attack, but all he could do was brace himself for the inevitable.


However, the attack didn’t come. All there was in his head was silence.


“Sounded like she was doing something damaging, so I psychically sent her an image of cthulhu's face and now she’s unconscious. Enjoy the reprieve, it’ll only be brief.”


The slime’s frustrated voice rang out in the hollowed corners of the red-head’s mind.


“Oh, too late, she’ back.”


She attempted her attack again, but that moment was all the mage needed to get his defenses back up. She growled in fury.


I see you’re going to be a thorn in my side, how annoying!


‘You’re not really in the position to criticize people for that.’


Don’t worry, little girl, I know your game now, it’ll only be a matter of time. I’ll be watching.


Malefactor went silent. The pair was silent for the longest time, 


“So anyways,” continued the princess, pretending the last few minutes never happened, “the fake artifact that I discovered has the logo of a local casino printed on it. In honor of my Injured friends, I’m going to at least look into it. You can come if you like, but only if you want to.”


Guu started to walk away, but then she twisted around and stretched her legs until her torso was level with the mage’s chest, she gives him a hug which held rather precariously around the back of his neck.


“It’s good to see you again. Thank you for coming...”