Dogventures! (Seika, Althea)

Althea wasn’t one to pick her jobs with any sort of scrutiny, all she desired was something to burn time on.  There was a wide variety of tasks to choose from, and she typically just chose the one that caught her eye first.  Once upon a time, she even picked out something with her eyes closed, but we don’t talk about that anymore.  Either way, with Fairy Tail’s guildhall being devoid of any issues, the youth decided it was about time for her to head out of Magnolia.  She was bored, so it was about time for her next venture out into the world.  The period of her absence from the guildhall always varied, but the moment he left Althea was always ready to spend months or years away from the guild.  Of course, that wasn’t the favored occurrence, but she had a reputation to uphold.  Never once had the blonde ever canceled a job… well, at least she doesn’t remember any times that she did.  But that didn’t change the fact that when Althea was committed to something, she was committed.  Sure, she’d prefer to go on a combat-oriented job, but no matter what, she’d retain her 100% satisfaction rating.

I mean, it was “100%” after omitting some instances, like that time she leveled part of a forest or that time she had to kill her employer… but that was beside the point.

“Um, let’s see… another job in Deistro?  I’ve been there too many times already…”  The blonde scanned the job board, her gaze quickly traveling across the array of papers.  However, it soon stopped on one that seemed relatively new to the job board. “Oh, this one needs a super strong mage?” She murmured, a small grin emerging from her visage.  Not to brag, but she was pretty darn strong, even when put on a global scale.  Sure, Althea was far from being the strongest in Fairy Tail, but the youth was fairly high up on that list.  Realistically speaking, there was no doubt that she was “super stronk”, therefore qualifying her for the job.  Or maybe that was just her hubris speaking… if she was proud of anything, then it’d be about how far her abilities have grown.  “So I have to go to… Clover Town for this?  Alright then!”  The young girl ripped the paper off the board, heading towards a guild clerk to inform them that she’d be leaving Magnolia.

The trip to Clover Town was neither pleasant nor unpleasant.  Althea simply got there by running really fast -- as she usually did.  After all, public transportation was highly overrated, and going on foot was faster anyways.  But more importantly, she was psyched for whatever the job entailed.  Something that required a stronk mage, a super stronk one at that, must be incredibly fun!  The blonde could barely contain her excitement as she headed towards the location specified on the job request: a park within a pleasant part of town.  But there was no doubt in Althea’s mind that something truly heinous must be going on behind the scenes, so she kept her guard up at all times.  It didn’t take long to arrive, and the first thing the slayer spotted was a rather distraught looking little girl.  But it wasn’t any of her business, so she decided to ignore the child.  Additionally, Althea was bad around miniature humans, so she might as well just save herself the bother.

Instead, she chose to approach the other person present, a girl who seemed to be around the same age as herself.  “Hey, you were the one who put this job up, right?” The youth asked lightly while holding out the job paper. “I’m Althea!  Hello!  Just Thea’s good too-- but what do you want me to do?  I wanted to save the surprise, so I didn’t read anything on the paper!”  The blonde rapidly spoke, not waiting for a reply to her initial question before introducing herself.

Althea was pleased to find that the first person she approached was indeed the same person who put up the job request.  Having to go on a scavenger hunt right before a job was never fun, so it was good that finding this Seika person was so simple.  “Yep, nice to meet you, Seika.  I like all of those things too… except for the last one.  That one’s kinda weird, not gonna lie.”  She replied brightly despite her rather harsh words.  However, that wasn’t important because Althea was finally learning the details of the job!  On the surface, finding a little girl’s dog was kinda mundane, but the slayer was completely sure that some kind of sinister plot was underway.  Small things often led to unearthing plans to bring about the end of the world… or something like that.  Thankfully, the little girl who lost the dog didn’t reply to Seika’s beckoning.  Social Disaster: averted.

But the more pressing issue was how exactly to find this dog.  “Don’t worry, Seika, I'm a professional!”  Althea exclaimed cheerfully.  At times like this, you’d usually look for clues… but who likes doing that?  Staring at the ground for hours was seriously boring, and that wasn’t what the slayer signed up for!  “I got it!”  The youth exclaimed, “To find a dog we must become the dog!” This was clearly the most optimal path to finding the last canine!  The blonde quickly got on her hands and knees, attempting to get into character. “Yeah… it’s coming to me… I’m really hungry-- wait, that’s not it…” She murmured, her eyes closed as she focused with all her might.

No good, being a dog was way harder than Althea thought.  All she could think of was how hungry she was.  After all, she’d forgotten to eat before running over to Clover Town, and stuffing oneself right after exercise was really important.  What did dogs even do in their free time?  She wouldn’t know, the only previous interaction she’d had with them was when she beat up some for a job.  Wait, did chupacabras even count as dogs?  They looked basically the same with their eyes, teeth, and… y’know what?  Dogs are all really different in the first place.  It’d be unfair to disclude chupacabras solely because they were chupacabras.  However, Althea soon realized that she’d completely strayed from her goal of becoming a dog, so she opened her eyes to check on Seika’s progress.  Surprisingly, the other teen soon announced they had a tail, how did they get so deep into the dog psyche?  And even more surprisingly, she literally had a magical tail now.  How did that even happen?  Was it Seika’s magic or was that just something that… happens?  Althea was hesitant to ask, but couldn’t help but to be glad she failed to gain a tail of her own.

“Oh, yeah, dog park!”  The young girl chirped as she got back onto two feet.  “That is a place dogs would be!”  Sadly, it seemed like Seika’s magical tail hadn’t come with directions to the closest dog park.  But that was okay!  Professional mage Althea was present, finding a location was no sweat for her!  “Hey Seika, have you ever wanted to fly?”  The youth chirped, “I’m gonna toss you into the air to give you a better view of the town, ‘kay?  It’s going to be pretty far up, but don’t worry!  I’m a professional!”  Without waiting for any form of consent, Althea scooped up her employer, “On three… onetwothree-GO!”  She rapidly before throwing Seika as hard as possible into the sky.

Great, Seika went flying nicely!  The arc was almost picturesque, Althea couldn’t help but be proud of herself.  In fact, she took a moment to admire it before she was brought back to reality by Seika’s screams.  At that point, the other girl had been quite far away, but that didn’t stop the youth from hearing her!  “Oh, yeah.  Don’t worry, you won’t die.  I’ll definitely catch you.”  The blonde uttered leisurely, confidently placing both her hands on her hips.  It was true that no money would find it’s way to Althea’s pockets if her employer ended up dead.  Well, if Seika became jam, that would be the least of the mage’s problems.

However, it seemed that she was still in a state of panic despite Althea’s assuring words.  Maybe the other youth hadn’t heard her?  She better pump up the volume.  “STOP FREAKING OUT, I-- oh, did you drop something?  Better go grab that.”  There we go, the message has been sent clearly.  Sure, the blonde had been distracted part-way through by the glint falling towards the ground, but she was sure Seika got the idea.  And since the shiny thing was falling from so high up, Althea had plenty of time to sprint and leap across rooftops to catch it in time.  Good thing too, they ended up being glasses of all things!  Those things were seriously expensive, so the slayer took care to stash them in her pocket.

“YEAH, I’LL BE RIGHT THERE, SEIKA…”  The Fairy Tail mage was just about to start working on getting her employer out of the sky, but when she looked up there was no teenage girl insight.  Somehow, she was able to disappear without a trace the moment Althea took her eyes off her.  But what the heck, where was her voice even coming from?? Perhaps there was just a building in the way?  After all, Althea had changed her position when going off to retrieve Seika’s glasses, so getting to a better vantage point might be the right answer.  The slayer hastily leaped into the sky, creating footholds with air to climb higher and higher upwards.  Hopefully, she wouldn’t find any… y’know… jam anywhere.  “Um, Seika?  Seiikkkaaaa?  Where arreeee youuuu?”

At this point, Althea was getting a bit panicked.  No matter where she looked, there wasn’t a single trace of Seika!  Perhaps she teleported into another dimension along with the dogs?  She did sprout a tail, after all, maybe finding her would unearth where that pups were?  Standing on the air, the youth continued to ponder as she kept working on surveying the ground.  As far as she could see, there were no Seika mashed potatoes anywhere… but she sure was using a lot of food analogies, wasn’t she?  First, it was jam, now it was mashed potatoes -- Seika was making Althea hungry with all the pavement smearing she’s been doing.  Well, as far as she could tell nothing too M-rated had occurred quite yet.  Still, looking around with her eyes didn’t seem to be super helpful, so she might as well try a few other things.

The blonde had already started spreading her awareness to try detecting some signs of life when a light show suddenly began out of nowhere.  “Ughhh, my eyes,”  Althea murmured as she let her eyes adjust to looking at the radiant flames.  She could’ve sworn that those flames were just some bubbles only a moment ago, were her instincts getting dull?  But the more pressing matter was what the flaming shining sparkling thingies were doing.  “...Is it doing a dance or something?  That’s weird.”  It seemed to have some sort of autonomy, but all the flames were doing was twisting themselves into weird shapes.  If Althea had to describe it, she’d say it was almost as if it was spelling out the words “swimming pooooool” in all caps.  “Magic sure is random.”  The teen remarked to herself lightly until she suddenly remembered she had still been looking for Seika.  Those dastardly shiny things!  It must’ve been a ploy to distract her from her true objective!

But somehow, those shiny things ended up turning into… Seika??  Althea’s brain needed a moment to catch up as she blankly watched the other teen descend towards the ground.  Wait, she seemed to not be headed for some cement, but instead some water!  The blonde could help but nod to herself as she pieced together what her employer’s intentions were.  But… wouldn’t Seika still go splat on the water??  Surface tension was nothing to scoff at, so skydiving into a pool usually wasn’t the best idea.  Lucky for her, Seika had a professional at her disposal!  Althea dispersed her footholds, teleporting her way towards the ground faster than the rate her employer was falling.  Catapulting into the ground, she ignored any pool-goers and immediately stuck her hand into the chlorinated water.  All she had to do was this and that, and BAM!  Water ideal for an extreme cannonball was complete!  Now she would just wait for Seika to fall, not even bothering to inquire about safety before asking the really important questions.  “Hey, did you spot a dog park?  If not, we might have to go flying again...”

Phew!  Good thing Althea made sure Seika didn’t go all splat!  In fact, the splash that resulted from her employer falling out of the sky was rather impressive.  If a panel of judges had been watching, Althea was sure that it would’ve receded a 10/10.  But she couldn’t help but pat herself on the back for her excellent foresight.  Since she was on a job, ensuring the safety of the person paying her was pretty important.  Well, she was a veteran mage, so such skills came naturally to her.  A bright smile emerged onto the youth’s visage as she compared her past self to her present self.

...but wasn’t Seika taking a while to resurface?  Althea felt as if she had given her employer ample time to swim out of the pool.  But upon further investigation, she began to panic a bit.  Seika was just floating there!  Wouldn’t a drowning person, y’know, thrash around a bit?  Was she dead??  Maybe she should ask-- no, wait, the mage should probably bring the teen to safety before confirming her safety.  “Seikapleasedon’tbedead, pleasedon’tbedead--”  The slayer mumbled as if she were chanting some kind of spell.  Well, no magic was required to fish someone out of the water, Althea just dived in, grabbed Seika, and dragged her out of the pool.  The blonde just kind of laid her down on the ground, not entirely sure what to do to help a half-drowned person.  Should she… just cast healing magic?  That would work, right?  Whatever, Seika could probably sort it out on her own.  There were many more pressing matters to address. “Can you not swim?  You should know how to swim.  Oh, I can teach you how to swim!  Don’t worry, I’m a professional.”

Althea was… concerned too say the least about Seika’s prolonged silence.  It seemed like she was alive, and there wasn’t any reason not to move for so long.  Then again, there was the possibility that she had a close brush with death.  That was always pretty unnerving!  Personally, Althea couldn’t think of a time she had almost drowned, her magic always prevented her from doing so.  But from the looks of some of her old adversaries’ corpses, it wasn’t too pleasant.  The lack of blood flow made them turn blue, but Seika wasn’t blue yet!  That meant that she only kinda almost died, a completely different phenomenon than just plain almost dying.  And yet, she had been lying there for such a long time that passersby were starting to give them weird glances.  Well, they might’ve been staring the moment two teenage girls fell from the sky, but Althea hadn’t been paying attention back then.

Anyways, the slayer was tempted to repeat her statement once more when her employer finally spoke.  “Huh?  Sometimes?  Even if you can swim 90% of the time, that means you just die the other 10%.”  The youth chirped with a carefree voice.  The blonde wasn’t a fan of betting her life on chance, and she was already prepared to take extreme measures to give Seika a swimming lesson.

However, all thoughts of water were momentarily abandoned the moment Althea was reminded what she was being paid to do.  “Yeah, that sounds like a great idea!  If we make our own dog park, we’ll lure the dognapper in and bam!  Dogs!”  The water mage’s eyes shone with anticipation the more she spoke about the idea, “I’m pretty sure I have a lot of money, so we can buy a super big plot of land!  We can even get a pond for you to practice swimming in!  It’s perfect!”  Barely containing her excitement, the blonde used a few violent gusts of wind to dry both she and Seika.  “Lead the way, Seika!  Use your dog senses to find the optimal spot for a dog park!” Althea was glad that her employer had so many great ideas!  And now her weird dog transformation was coming in handy- things were progressing smoothly.

It was great that Seika seemed so on board for the whole dog park idea!  Althea’s never held any particular feelings towards the creatures.  In fact, she couldn’t understand the appeal of having a pet in the first place.  They didn’t seem to do anything interesting, so why use precious resources on sustaining them?  Was their visual appeal actually worth all the sacrifice?  Or perhaps the blonde simply wasn’t the kind of person who’d appreciate an animal companion.  Once upon a time, she tried keeping a pet pig she randomly picked up from a forest but… well, let’s just say that Althea was feeling rather peckish at the time.  It had been a long day, the pig was being fussy, and her patience was wearing thin.  And there sure were a lot of ways to eat pork, but that's beside the point.  The current course of action was to find exactly where this new dog park would be located!

Althea trusted that Seika, someone who possessed a magical dog tail, had some idea what areas dogs would enjoy.  And after a few moments, it was clear her employer would live up to her expectations.  “Whoa, divine will??  Is that some kind of magic?”  The slayer uttered, her eyes wide in amazement.  Seika could get herself a tail, transform into weird flame-y sparks, and even locate the optimal dog park location!  But what could her slayer magic do?  That’s right, nothing.  Althea wanted a refund.  “Oooh, I see!  Dogs would like a field!  And we’d have plenty of space to terraform too!”  After all, they enjoyed running around or whatever, right?  If they wanted to have the number one dog park in town, they’d have to give their customers plenty of space for frolicking.  Additionally, even if there wasn’t a body of water nearby, Althea could just make one manually!  It was perfect!  “I’m shocked at how many good ideas you have, Seika.”

Althea followed her employer out of the pool, not forgetting to bad the fellow pool-goers goodbye as she did so.  But as she ran down the town’s streets, the blonde quickly noticed something: there wasn’t much space for a dog park.  Perhaps it was the effect of capitalism or whatever, but she always found that developed areas tended to not have open plots of land ready for a dog park.  That is, unless…  “Miss Employer Seika!  I just got an idea.”  Althea chirped, still running alongside the other teen.  “What if we just take over someone else’s park?  Then we could take advantage of their expert park placement and I could just, y’know, clean things out!”

It seemed like Althea’s idea went over well with Seika!  Great!  But it seemed like her employer’s ultra-super divine senses weren’t working any longer.  Not so great.  “Hmm, I don’t know much about the layout of this place, but I think I’ll be able to find an actual park.” Althea murmured, holding her chin with her bandaged hand.  “If there really isn’t one, maybe I could negotiate with some homeowners?” The young girl had never actually been in Clover Town before.  There was that time with the over-sized lizard, but that stuff was taken care of away from actual buildings.  However, Althea had some not-so-divine senses of her own to locate a suitable location for a dog park.  She could just find a place with a bunch of people and head there.  Maybe it’d be a park, maybe it wouldn’t, but they’d find one eventually if they kept looking!  “I’m pretty sure you can do anything as long as you throw enough money around!  Trust me, I have experience.”  Althea announced with a grin.  Despite all the property damage she caused, everything always turned out fine!  She’s paid for things way more expensive than a dog park before.

But as the slayer began scanning the area for large gatherings of lifeforms, Seika asked a question that she hadn’t anticipated. “How old am I?  That’s a random thing to ask…”  Althea murmured.  Her gaze was clouded by confusion as she tried to discern some kind of hidden intention behind such a query.  To be honest, not many bothered to inquire about her age, so much so that the blonde occasionally forgot it.  But her employer asked in the middle of a job for no apparent reason.  Dog parks had nothing to do with age, right?  Perhaps this was like one of those survey-things she’s heard so much about?  It was a pretty abstract time for one, but Seika seemed weird enough to do something like that.  After all, Seika had definitely tried asking for the water mage’s name despite already knowing it, right?  That sounded like a pretty standard question for a survey, not that Althea had ever done one herself.  But since there was still a dog park to find, she decided it’d be most time-efficient to anticipate any and all questions Seika might ask right away.  Pretty smart, right?

The youth cleared her throat, “My name is Althea Eventide, age 15.  I work as a mage for Fairy Tail.  The product I purchase most often is food.  My favorite jobs are ones where I get to hit stuff.  I became a mage because I was bored.  I find you- my current employer- to be satisfactory.  However, I wish that this job had more… erm… I dunno.” The blonde had run out of things to say.  Perhaps she should’ve tried gaining more experience doing questionnaires beforehand?  Welp, it was already too late. “I answered all the questions, right?  I’m picking up signs of a dog park in this direction!”  The youth energetically pointed towards the largest closeby cluster of lifeforce. “But is this supposed to be a two-way thing?  Do I get to ask my own survey??  Man, I’ve never done something like that before…!  Miss Employer, are you satisfied with the product?  Do you wish we stocked any other commodities?”  Althea chirped, finding herself getting more and more excited the more she spoke.  She usually disliked excessive dialogue when she was trying to work, but it was pretty hard to get into her professional mindset when there wasn't anything to fight.

Althea was about to clear up the homeowner-related misunderstanding but quickly decided against it.  The more she thought about it, the more troublesome her last-ditch plan seemed.  She was just going to, y’know, bulldoze a house or two to create the space they needed.  However, even if the homeowners were satisfied with the compensation, wouldn’t their neighbors be annoyed?  Personally, Althea could find no problems in placing a public area within a residential area, but others might.  Dogs weren’t known for being the quietest animals out there.  And if the value of the property dropped, only poor people would move into the area!  It’s a well-known fact that poor people couldn’t afford to support such things as a pet, so that’d harm the dog park business.  The blonde was relieved to have dodged such a fatal bullet before things were too late!  If she and Seika couldn’t find a good spot in Clover Town, they could always just go somewhere else.

But that was completely beside the point, the youth was way too busy with questionnaires to worry about other stuff.  “Yep!  I really like my name!  I like Fairy Tail too!”  Althea replied with a wide smile, “I’m glad we have a relationship of mutual satisfaction, Miss Employer Seika!  People who hire me usually just give orders before leaving me to my own devices, but it’s nice that you’re sticking around!  Man, we’re basically the bestest friends at this point!”  With all the midair bonding and survey’s they’d completed, Althea would say they more than qualified for friendship. “Oh, speaking of commodities, dog parks are like businesses, right?  So the name is really important, but, um, well… You come up with the name!”  The youth didn’t have much experience with naming things.  Usually, she just used whatever she came up with first without putting an ounce of effort into it.  But seeing as the dog park’s name was vital to the completion of the job, she couldn’t afford to flub it up!

“Oh, speaking of the dog park, the place I detected is right over there… I think?”  Althea said, pointing towards a run-down building that seemed to be abandoned.  However, from all the signs of life she was picking up from its interior, that obviously wasn’t the case.  But putting that aside, if the slayer simply removed the tattered building, it would be the perfect size for a dog park!  She could see it now: the pond, trees, and the satisfied expressions of the pet owners.  Oh, and there’d be ducks too!  And lots of plants!  And food!  The only problem were the lifeforms in the basement-- it’d look pretty bad on Fairy Tail if one of their members demolished a building with people still inside. “Hey, Seika,”  The blonde turned towards her employer, “We could do the thing-y here, or go somewhere else!  Who knows, maybe someone around here knows where an actual park is!  Importing trees is pretty hard.”

Althea wasn’t one-hundred percent positive what badges had to do with friendship, but Seika brought them up the moment they became #confirmed best friends.  “Um, erm, favorite?  I think it was… um…”  She murmured, racking her brain for what her color preferences were.  To be honest, the youth couldn’t care less about the aesthetic value of things.  Heck, she didn’t even pick out her own clothes.  A dragon sent things her way that looked “cute” and that’s what she put on.  However, she had previously been told that a color suited her by some random stranger.  After that, she had decided to adopt that as her favorite color.  But no matter how much she tried, Althea couldn’t seem to recall what it was.  It was during the time she destroyed a bit of the forest in Clover Town… there was a big lizard… she’d gotten lost… nope!  She couldn’t remember.

But there was no way she wouldn’t give Seika an answer, so the blonde improvised.  “Yeah, um, my favorite color is… bread.  And my favorite pattern is peanut butter and jelly!  Wait, scratch that, it’s BLT.  Actually, grilled cheese.  No, for real this time, it’s paninis.”  Man, Althea could really go for a sandwich at the moment.  Perhaps Seika knew how to operate a panini machine?  The last time she tried, she ended up breaking it.

But bonding over paninis would wait for another day-- there were dogs to save!  And of course, to save said dogs they needed to make a dog park first… wait, what relation did those two things have?  The blonde had already lost her train of logic with this.  Well, whatever, it probably made sense if they had gone through so much trouble to find the right spot for a dog park.  Seika seemed to have the entire creative vision laid out, so it’d be fine!  “Yeah, DPPO’s a great name!  The fact there’s no meaning for the last two letters is super ultra-mysterious!”  Depriving a name of any meaning had never occurred to Althea, but the more she mulled it over the more genius she saw in it!  Wasn’t it a reflection of the futility of life or whatever?

Anyways, the much more concerning matter was the plot of land the future of DPPO rested on.  “Oh, yeah, I just went to the place with the most people!  I reckoned it’d be too bothersome to track down dog odors~”  The youth chirped in response to her employer’s query.  Still, perhaps they’d be a need for her to resort to such a method.  At least, that's what Althea thought until she heard what Seika casually said.  “Wait, you can grow trees?!  That’s amazing!”  Althea exclaimed, doing her best to prevent herself from imploding due to high excitement levels.  Who knew that Miss Employer Seika would have such a hidden talent?  She could turn into a dog, become sparkles, and even grow trees!  “Man, the only thing I can grow with magic are… um… nothing!  Let’s go ask the people in the basement to evacuate before I clear the old building out!”  She chirped cheerfully.  Hopefully, they’d be willing to leave without the slayer needing to exert any force.

Althea could barely restrain her shock over Seika’s lack of knowledge in paninis.  It was truly a shame, living in the world yet being unaware of the wondrous amazingness and super awesomeness of paninis.  She couldn’t help but gaze at her employer with a look of grief and pity, lamenting just how much she was missing out on.  Well, to be fair, she kinda sorta made the pattern up… or was it supposed to be a texture?  Althea couldn’t keep track of if bread was her favorite color or what.  Actually, no, scratch that, paninis weren’t just a color or pattern or whatever the universe decided, it was a feeling.  However, that meant that the blonde had no comprehensive response to her employer, unable to fully express “panini” with words.  The slayer just hoped that one day, her new friend Seika would also say that paninis were her favorite color/pattern.

However, at the news that the mysterious “PO” in DPPO actually stood for “bread”, her sorrowful expression was immediately replaced by her usual bright smile.  Where did Seika get all of her ideas?  It was like she was a limitless abyss of amazing stuff, her naming sense was flawless.  Perhaps it was more so a problem on Althea’s side?  She had never felt like she was lacking in the creativity department, but comparing herself to Seika made her double guess herself… oh well!  It wasn’t like you needed to use that much brainpower to do what the youth liked the most: fight things!  But her thoughts were put on hold as, without uttering a single word, Seika saluted before charging straight into a wall.  “...”  It was so abrupt that the water mage had barely processed that it even happened before her employer simply entered the building through a door.  Was there supposed to be some sort of hidden message behind her actions?  Or perhaps Seika just hadn’t noticed the door.  The blonde often had difficulties locating the proper entrances to place, so it was a completely reasonable mistake to make.  Either way, the salute was pretty cool, Althea was going to steal it for later.

Anyways, the Fairy Tail mage was more than happy to follow Seika into the house and descend into the basement.  However, those already occupying the area seemed less than pleased.  Althea had assumed that it’d be a group of, I dunno, actual people in the abandoned house, but no.  Instead, she was greeted with an astronomical amount of geese.  While the slayer was able to detect signs of life, she had no way to distinguish birdlife from people-life.  Wait, actually it’d be way weirder if it had turned out being a bunch of people stuffed into a basement, right?  But unfortunately, the geese were all very quick to notice the presence of the two youths.  Althea couldn’t help but frown as she saw all of the creatures hissing at her, spreading out their wings to seem more imposing.  Frankly, she didn’t appreciate how they were trying to intimidate her.  They were clearly trying to pick a fight with her, right?!  But first things first, she had to ensure the safety of her employer.

“EXECUTING EVASIVE MANVEUVERSSS!”  The blonde shouted, slinging Seika over her shoulders if she hadn’t already started their tactical retreat from the basement.  And once they were in a more secure position, she’d place Seika down if necessary before saluting, a carefree simple on her visage.  “Sergeant Miss Employer General Seika, I propose that we declare war on the geese and terminate their existence from the basement.  May I have the green light for the operation?”  Man, Althea nailed the delivery, didn’t she?  Not only did she get in that salute she wanted, but all of her words were also appropriate for their dire circumstances!