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>Go Naked/Only a shirt or Skirt
Nooooo! That’d just be like wearing a big “you lost” sign around my neck. And I just want some clothes, okay?! Mom’s just being tough like she usually is...
>You know, you could cheat, somewhat. Just phase though the wall or the furniture or floor or something, so your naked bits are blocked by solid objects. Although that might be tricky or impractical.
I don’t think my phasing powers work like that! I think I need to have enough speed to go right through something, or I’ll just get spit back out.
>Ask the restaurant if maybe they could lend you a spare tablecloth to wear as a toga? Just promise to clean it and return it later.
They don't have any tablecloths here...
>If miss lots-o-tits hadn't been trying to cover her breasts she would have beaten you. Easily.
I dunno... she only looked like she was covering up when she had a hand free for it.
>Take Abbey’s
ARIA: Thanks, Mommy, but I just can’t...
She looks like she’s worried about me, but she decides not to push it anymore.
Abbey takes off her shirt and skirt and gives them to me. Abbey’s got a thick black bra and those torn-up boxers from this morning on under them.
I throw on her clothes as fast as I can! Whew, that’s little better. Shirt’s really tight, and the skirt’s really short, but I can deal until if I don’t bend over or anything.
Maurine comes up to me.
MAURINE: ...Aria, I’ve got some things you left behind back there. I think you were too distracted to pick them up, so I did. Oh, and you forgot to take this earlier... but that’s okay, because I think you would have forgotten to take it off before the fight and it would have been destroyed. I would be really sad if it did because I made it just for you...
Maurine hands me my cell, my sword, my new mark, my teleport stone, and that Satchel she made for me earlier.
ARIA: Thanks, Maurine! You’re the sweetest!
She blushes.
MAURINE: ...Thanks, Aria.
My moms lead us to one of the bigger tables, they don’t say it but I guess it’s so Delia doesn’t take up all the space. I pull out the mark and stick it on my skin. It tingles a little and glows for a second, then shows up on my left wing. Huh.
We make small talk for a couple minutes, and the waiter comes with our food. Mine looks like they took the bacon and braided it and maybe dipped it in some kind of sauce?
Oh King I didn’t realize how hungry I was until I smelled that. Sweet greasy bacony goodness! Everybody else doesn’t look too happy with their food but that’s okay. You win some you lose some.
Delia scurries back with all of her clothes on and a wide smile, slams her arms down on the table.
DELIA: Okay, Let’s start with contact info. Be sure to enter it into your League Network app, that way we’ll know if we’re close enough to meet. You can use it to search for other battlers in the area that want favors or challengers, or send out bulletins asking for help or challenges yourself. It’ll also highlight places that might be interesting or useful to battlers in the town you’re in. It’ll also tell you which Arena Leaders you’re eligible to challenge based on your profile. You should perhaps register at the a Battle Center if you haven’t already.
She beams at me. I knew all that already! Ugh, know-it-all.
ARIA: Um, I’ll open the App...
I open up my LeagueNet app’s contact list, and we bump phones to exchange contacts. She accepts.
DELIA
Description: League Champ in the making!
Current location: Kingstown, Bacon Beard
- Likes: Battling, Training, cute clothes, Bacon Beard
- Dislikes: Stupidity, Cabbage, Coffee
She like Bacon Beard too! Sweet! I think she might be the only other one in the world that does...
Too bad she’s such a know-it-all.
Delia turns to my moms.
ARIA: Mom, Mommy? How’d we do?
DELIA: They’re your moms? Oh, that explains a lot, you must have been getting lessons right from champions!
ARIA: Um... yeah...
MOMMY: You both did great. Nice block in the beginning, dear... Taking up a defensive position in the start of a fight is good if you don’t know what your opponent is capable of.
MOM: But, it’ll leave you vulnerable if your opponent has an attack that those defenses can’t stand up to. That didn’t happen here, but it could have. And, Delia, don’t commit to a defensive strategy that you can’t back out of, before you know what your opponent can do. You put yourself at a major disadvantage by rooting yourself to one spot like that. Aria, you could have taken advantage of that if you’d just stuck to hit-and-run tactics instead just charging into all of her arms like that. Nice grabs, by the way. If it wasn’t my daughter you were up against, that grab-curl would’ve sunk’em.
MOMMY: Dear, you made a good escape. And taking your chance to knock her off-balance like that... it was good. Just watch out for anything an opponent might be able to use against you. You saw her tail coming way too late.
MOM: Your save afterwards was smart, though. Too bad it didn’t work. With some practice, you might be able to make that intangibility attack into a catapult. Delia, nice shot by the way, being able to hit someone moving that fast shows that you’ve got great marksmanship. You must’ve practiced a lot. Aria, those rocket-feet or whatever they were, were a good save. You weren't expecting that, were you snakey?
DELIA: No. Nor was I expecting the explosion.
MOM: Your reaction times were good though. You didn’t get hit by the worst of it because you used your yellow goo to counteract it. Since you held on, you almost won. But...
MOMMY: Aria, nipple-biting, really? I thought we raised you better than that...
MOM: That was fine! All’s Fair in Love and Clothing Battles after all! And it was hilarious, too. Don’t be afraid to fight a little dirty, now and then, both of you!
MOMMY: It was such a dirty trick! How can you defend that?
Mom takes a bite of her pancakes.
MOM: It was a great move.
Mommy grunts and shoots daggers at mom. I hate it when they fight.
MOM: Anyway, nice reaction times spinning around like that. You manage to pull a tie out of losertown! Good job!
DELIA: Thanks you two. I will look forward to fighting you two when I get enough badges. I’ve only got two right now, and I just got the other yesterday. Autographs?
Delia pulls out a pen and a picture of my moms. Mom groans.
MOM: Okay, fine.
They both sign the photo. Delia looks really happy.
DELIA: Well, I think I will be going now. It was nice meeting all of you. Until we meet again.
Delia turns and leaves.
It looks like everybody’s finishing up their food.
MOM: Okay, where to now?
ABBEY: Shopping! Me and Maurine are treating Aria, remember? We should start with clothes.
I think shopping sounds good, but you guys said something about maybe going home first, and maybe the battle center? What do you guys think?
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