Please... No... [Job with Mer]

Mer was having a lovely day and decided it would finally be time for her to join a job. As Mer looked at the boards she saw a job that seemed pretty simple. It was just a job that dealt with cooking. Mer had done plenty of cooking within the forest and thought it would be a nice time to test her skills in a job to impress the employer. It was in the Sea of Devils though, which was quite worrying. Mer went to the port to try and find a boat going straight to the island. Seemed like there was only one ship and it seemed pretty unusual. It was extremely dull unlike the shinier ships and it also had a weird old man looking out towards the people. Mer didn't care though since she wanted to just experience the world, and if that meant riding on a sketchy ship with a creepy old man it just meant there was more adventure.

As the ship docked Mer seemed unsatisfied by the little events that happened on the dull ship. The only other passenger had ignored her and made Mer feel sad. She found a pathway that looked very unusual with weird oil lamps. Mer could smell them burning from it and clearly could tell that something was strange about them. The whole place felt unusual until she saw something familiar. It had seemed to be Zephyr and he was flying right towards her. As she held out her arms she hugged him and let him rest in her cradling arms. As she kept him warm she asked him, "So Zephy, is your owner here?" As she said that she looked up to find a pretty awkwardly anxious blond girl. Mer then smiled at Poko as Mer said, "Wow, this is such a coincidence. I can't believe you picked the same job-"

Just then Mer had been cut off by a booming voice from their client that said, "Ah hah, I see that my job request has been sent out. Now you two lovely girls are here for me. Well, you pieces of dirt you have one hour. Cook me a 5 course or you will become my dinner. Impress me and maybe I'll let you go free with a nice reward. If not...I guess we'll just have to see."

With a loud bang, Iza kicked both Mer and Poko out of the yard of her house. When Mer fell to the ground, she said with a perky voice, "Welp I guess we just have to hurry up. The more threats just mean more adventure. So let's get onto this, shall we?" When she stood up she looked onto the ground and saw some sort of list. It seemed to have ingredients on them. They didn't seem to have any recipes, just ingredients. It seemed like the recipes would have to come from them. On the back of the list was a map that had a few islands surrounding the one they were on. They were X's on each one that had different colors that maybe symbolized what ingredient was on them.

With this information, Mer informed Poko about it and said, "Welp lets get to it. My parents didn't make me leave them in the mystical never-ending forest just to sit around. So chop-chop."

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Poko had seemed angry with Mer so she just frowned and walked away with Mer. Mer was saddened by the fact that she made her friend angry. Mer didn't know what was wrong with her. She wanted adventure and excitement, then she found Poko. The most beautiful girl she had ever met and now she was mad at her. Mer just pouted and kept walking, hoping to find some sort of ingredients. As she felt the nuzzle of Zephyr in her arms, she said, "Oh...you're still here. Aren't you going back to Poko."

With that question, he just seemed to shrug it off and continue in the arms of Mer. As Mer continued along the path she started to see that things were starting to get greener and things started to become more sparkly and aesthetic. The leaves of plants started to become bigger and greener as they glowed from the little ponds that laid behind them. They sparkled with the dewdrops of the rain as though this place was a rainforest itself. Mer then came to a complete stop as she heard giggles coming from in front of her. As she stomped down her foot, the giggles became more and more vibrant as they started to make Mer paranoid.

Looking around started to scare Mer as she wondered if the giggling ever stopped. As rustles in the tree were heard Mer looked around to see tiny sparkles in the sky. They seemed to be small woodland fairies. They glowed blue which was weird to Mer until they all came together and formed a wall with themselves. Once they were pointing their wands straight towards Mer, they unleashed a huge wave that went straight for Mer. As she ran she found a tree that she could hide behind. Then when she leaned back on it, it seemed to be an illusion that Mer was tricked into hiding behind.

They then surrounded Mer but she was not going to be pushed over like that. As they surrounded her the rune on her head glowed as she felt the pulsating light coming from her back. As a rune fell into her hands, 2 celestial shells of butterfly wings formed as she jumped up into the air. As she looked down at the fairies her wings started to vibrate as they glowed with a brilliant purple. As they fluttered a gust of wind came down as multiple gales of air came down towards the butterfly. In 1 hit a few of them lost their glow but Mer still could tell they were alive. Knowing there was many more Mer shot multiple shots of air towards them, knocking more and more down. They just seemed to keep multiplying which was an extreme problem. Mer did not know how to get past them without fighting even more and it made her worried about how many more were to come.

With so many thoughts in her head, Mer couldn't focus and she felt 3 stabs to the back as she saw 3 beams hit her from behind. As she started to plummet down she felt mass pain in her back as more beams hit her. When she looked up towards Zephyr she remembered how she only went out so she could live an actual life. If she died now she would've wasted all that pain and heartache for nothing. Using the air she got from plummeting straight first, allowed Mer to create a current with the winds that allowed her to propel in a circle. As she went into the circle many beams tried to hit her but yet they missed and went straight to the other fairies. Luckily for her, her wings were big enough to knock fairies away and into more fairies as they cleared a view for her. Looking around for the ingredients, she saw a huge basket of them in the middle of what seemed to be the hive of the fairies.

Although Mer didn't want to do this, she knew she had to so she pushed her feet off from a bunch of the little fairies and flew straight towards the basket. When she touched the handle of the basket she fluttered upwards and called to Zephyr. As he flew into her arms, she flew away as fast as she could to where she could see the other island in sight.

As she departed on the island, the other fairies from before seemed to back away as though there was an invisible force stopping them from getting to the island. With a loud breath of relief, Mer sighed as she saw a sign. Since Mer knew Poko wasn't on the island yet, she used the rune in her hands to carve out a message on the blank wooden sign. The message Mer carved out had said, "I will be at the outdoor kitchen cooking. If you want just leave the ingredients with me I can cook by myself. Trust me on this one."

After Mer had written the message, she moved to the outdoor kitchen. It was beautiful with so many cooking supplies, it amazed Mer with a bunch of awe. She had never seen so many cooking tools in her lifetime, but she had read about them. Being trapped in a forest all her life allowed her to read, which helped with things such as cooking, or human emotions. It was her time to shine and her time to impress Poko. As the butterfly rune in her hands disappeared she felt her head glow as the rune of the monkey slowly pulsed on her lower waist. As the rune fell into her hands, she felt a newly formed celestial tell shell form on her lower waist.

As her tail formed she popped them into 8 and sent them all to work. One of her tails went to go get water for the soup while her other tails chopped up some vegetables. These vegetables included carrots, green onions, onions, and more. Two of her tails were heating up the water as they found, luckily, some spices to put in it. Her other tails were working on some salads She, on the other hand, was working on some appetizers. She saw that there was a fryer and remembered a beautiful recipe made out of onions and batter that created a beautiful flower-like appetizer when cut right. Mer was lucky she had some other tails or she would've completely forgotten about the salad she was supposed to make for the meal. She decided to make it some sort of fruit salad just to lighten up the meal.

It had been 20 minutes and Poko had still not yet come back but yet Mer had been able to create a beautiful serving of 3 courses in her 5-course meal. For the first meal, was a french onion soup in a little cup that smelled delicious. She had somehow managed to create the magnificent cactus flower made out of fried onions as she topped it off with an actual flower at the top. With the final course, she made a fruit salad with many vibrant and rich fruits. As she looked at it she realized she forgot one thing on it. With one squeeze, she spread lemon juice over it, but didn't but too much to overtake the deliciousness.

Mer had finally been done with her stuff and only waited for the lovely Poko to come. Before she came Mer had taken a fruit and ate it as she snuggled up with Zephyr.

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As Mer was eating the strawberry in her mouth, she saw Poko come out with a basket of food. It had seemed to be filled with eggs and milk which was perfect. Mer had the best idea for both of those items that made her extremely happy. Before she went to thinking she asked Poko to try and memorize how everything was made in order for them to get on the good side of the client. Mer made sure to inform Poko of everything before she went into a deep thought. It had only taken her around 3 minutes for her to think up all the things she needed. As she grabbed the eggs she also grabbed a bunch of other vegetables and got her tails at the ready. Almost forgetting the milk she used one of her tails to move straight towards the milk and grab it for her. In almost an instant she had gotten the eggs mixed together along with vegetables to go straight into them. As she took out a container that seemed to be made for pies, she dumbed her mixture into there. She had remembered learning about this recipe for some sort of egg loaf thing that she was actually able to try due to the simple ingredients it needed. As she put the mixture in the oven she went straight to the desert and thought of making a Lemon Cream dessert that would look very aesthetic to the yellowish theme. As Mer got to work she used her celestial tail for a whisk(its clean don't worry) as it swirled around milk and butter to turn it into a heavy cream. As she did this her tails grated a few lemons while squeezing out lemon juice into a bowl next to it. As the solution mixed around, she dumped it into the cream as she began to fold it multiple times. As she did this the heavy cream turned into whipped cream as Mer was already ready with a frosting bag. She had the idea to put it on the fruit salad and make it a dish of its own by creating a swirl in a wine glass. When she was finished she went straight to the egg loaf which turned out beautiful. With all her tails she cut the loaf into squares as fast as she could. Once she had finished she took them out and started to create some sort of project. She took all the squares and stacked them on top of each other in order to create a skyscraper out of the pieces. As she put all the items on a tray she gave it to Poko and asked her to bring it inside and serve it to the client as well as talk about each meal.

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