Chapter ??? – The Wish 2

The Wish – Part II

Cat wasn’t sure what was going on, and frankly, it was starting to bother her a whole lot.

Currently, it was raining mangoes. She was pretty sure they were mangoes at any rate. The fruit were coming down from somewhere above and splattering at high-speeds against the shield that was pouring out of the station she’d bought from Myalis with her seemingly endless number of points.

She’s seen mangoes before, in like, commercials and shit. They were one of those exotic nearly extinct fruits that fancy people had growing in vats somewhere so that they could show off to their fancy friends by eating a ten-thousand credit fruit.

They smelled nice, at least.

“Okay,” Cat said. “This doesn’t make sense.”

“First time?” one of the others asked. It was the cute brunette in the weird Roman-ish armor. She had a mango in both hands, one had a noticeable bite mark on its side. It didn’t help any that she looked a bit guilty and shifty-eyed about everything. Her wings were pretty, at least. Big butterfly wings that would have had Lucy all excited.

“Yeah, first time,” Cat said. Something niggled at her, but she pushed it aside. “Okay, introductions. I’m Cat, I do bombs and stealth.”

“Those don’t sound like they go together,” the chick with the big pauldrons and the face that kept snapping back to a skeleton said.

“I think it makes sense,” Edmund said. Cat remembered his name. He was a bit weird, but probably the most normal looking one in the bunch. “Stealth to place the bombs, then you leave and let them do what they do. Perfectly logical.”

“Thanks, Ed,” Cat said.

“It’s Edmund.”

“Uh-huh,” Cat said.

There was a loud clap. The tall lady in the dress stood with her hands together, back straight, and the kind of look that said she wasn’t going to take shit from anyone. The bit of blood staining her lower lip certainly helped her look just that much more intimidating. “I believe introductions are in order. And perhaps an explanation, dear Elaine?”

“Yeah, my bad,” the brunette said. She paused to think, took a bit from the yellow flesh of one of her mangoes, then her eyes rolled back for a moment before she collected herself and replied. “So, I was walking back home when I met a lamb.”

“A lamb?” skeleton-girl asked.

“A golden lamb,” Elaine confirmed.

“A rare mob, maybe,” Edmund suggested.

Elaine shrugged. “A genie came out of it, and then it asked me to make some wishes. Now you’re all here and it’s raining mangoes.” She gestured above them, where mangoes were still coming down in torrents. The huge… mango-golems that the skeleton-chick had summoned were protecting them a bit, which was nice, and the shields from Cat’s CAT station were redirecting the juice to the sides.

Cat glanced around, took everything in as best she could, then nodded. “Yep, I’m tripping.”

Cat noticed that they’d skipped right past introductions again. She decided to just presume that everyone here was like a samurai. They all had that… main-protagonist energy about them that the average samurai wore like a cloak.

“I think we have a wish each left,” Elaine said.

“That’s right!”

The growing pile of mangoes next to their little area of safety burst apart and the semi-transparent genie ran onto the scene, arms spread wide and a huge grin on his face. Behind him, a golden goat stumbled through the fruit, dripping golden juice from its fleece.

Cat pulled her hand away from the gun holstered on her thigh when no one else acted against the genie.

“One wish each! That’s what you’ve got!” The genie snapped his fingers and made finger-guns at them all while winking one eye. It did not inspire confidence.

“We could wish for everyone everywhere to be turned into trees,” Skelegirl said. The grin on her fleshy face matched the one on her skull as she transitioned back and forth between the two.

“Or for enough power to destroy entire dungeons with ease,” Edmund added.

“Asking for power outright seems like it would make things dull,” the vampire lady said. Her smile had a lot of fang to it. Cat thought it was a bit hot, but wasn’t going to comment since she liked her blood where it was. “Perhaps Elaine had the right idea. An unending source of luxury. Maybe an unending font of delicious dragon blood?”

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You could ask for the death of all Antithesis, Myalis’ familiar voice asked right in Cat’s ear.

“Alright, wait,” Elaine said. She raised a hand, which seemed like enough to grab everyone’s attention. “I think I need to put down some ground rules.”

“Ground rules?” Skeleton-girl asked.

“Yes. Like… no turning people into trees.”

“I could go last. That way you’ll all get your wishes before being turned into a tree.”