As Minerva enters, David, as "Itsuki", turns his head and whistled a bit. He had to admit that she pulled off being a kitsune better than he had.
Then, all of a sudden, a pit opened up beneath him, and he fell downwards. "AAAAH!!!" he screamed, as he landed into a dark pit, hearing the snarling sounds of wild beasts in the shadows around him.
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As the SOS Brigade began to disperse into the crowd, "Haruhi" and "Kyon" were approached by a large, tentacled, green THING. It drew up to it's full height and waved a gun of some sort around. "Puny humans! I am Zorg, from a distant solar system. Divulge immediately to me the reason you wish to encounter alien life!"
There was a moment of silence between the three figures. Eventually, "Kyon", who stood over to the side, turned his head towards "Haruhi" and spoke. "Well? What do you think?"
"Haruhi" sighed and drew up to her full height, just a head shorter than "Kyon." She looked up at Zorg, and took a deep breath. "I don't have time to waste on ordinary Mad Scientists!" She turned and took several steps away.
Zorg blanched, his tentacles billowing. How DARE people keep comparing him to these fleshy earthlings?!? He pointed a tentacle over at her, poking her in the back. "Now see here, female, I am-"
"Haruhi" reached over and grabbed his tentacle, which broke off with a distinct snapping sound. "-wearing a costume." She scowled at him, and tossed the oddly juicy, still wriggling tentacle piece on the ground as Zorg stared at her in disbelief. "To be Brigade Chief one must possess a superior mind, capable of seeing through the most elaborate disguises. And you're just a fake-o who can't even put together a convincing Alien outfit!" She frowned and crossed her arms, turning away and walking off, leading "Kyon" along with her. After a moment's thought, she turned around. "And you should know how inappropriate it is to approach a schoolgirl from Japan while having that many tentacles!"
As they walked away, Richard, as "Kyon" leaned over and whispered into his fiancee's ear. "But you're not exactly from Japan... nor are you a schoolgirl..."
Lady Drezebel, as "Haruhi" whispered back. "But Haruhi is both...and I'm method acting tonight. You'd better too, 'Kyon.' Be patient, this is the only day of the year I get to do this. Now let's go find 'Mikuru' and 'Yuki' and make them wear funny outfits." The two lovers walked off into the crowd to search for other members of the Brigade.
As they passed just by Jane Narbon, a girl with long blue hair watched the three of them and smiled. Just watching and waiting had gotten so boring... She cut off a slice of a cake shaped like a werewolf with an abnormally large knife she had brought in with her, keeping an eye on her target...
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-David in the Tiger's Den-
David was understandibly a bit nervous, as a number of tigers circled him, licking their lips. He didn't have any of his traditional hero-ing equipment with him, all the space in his backpack had been taken up by his costume! And there wasn't any sort of technology or infrastructure he could work with down here, at least that HE could see...
Why the frig had that pit just suddenly opened up beneath him?
One of the Tigers, a large, graying male, stepped forward, snarled at him, and then leaned down to lock eyes with the collapsed human, his breath smelling faintly of raw meat.
"I say, good sir, would you fancy a saucer of tea?"
David blinked. "Err... I'm not the most knowledgeable about anything at all, but isn't Tea served in cups?" His mind caught up with his mouth. "Wait, aren't you going to try and eat me?"
"No hands, old chap. We much prefer saucers for tea. And we haven't garishly consumed a Hero in years, how brutish! We just allow the Club staff to continue believing we do. That way they leave us alone."
One of the other tigers, a younger female, nudged a saucer filled with warmed Earl Grey toward the young hero, who, after a moment o coming to terms with his situation, picked it up and took a gentle sip.
He'd say this was one of the stranger situations he'd been involved in, but it STILL didn't entirely compare with the time one of Professor Tinker's baby Gazebos had asked him to explain bi-partisan politics.
_________________ We've learned a lot, but this still isn't going to be easy. But I don't think the elder star's confidence in us was misplaced. I know we can do this! We'll set things right! ...somehow.
"There is a fine line between a good King and a Despot. A King is best when His subjects barely realize that He exists. When His work is done and His will is fulfilled, they will say, 'We did it ourselves.'" -Xin Yun
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