PA100 Arc: Danger at the Inns!

Cody took out a blue key and turned it in the air as if he was opening a lock. In response a matching portal opened up. "All right everyone, let's go into the Water Realm," Cody said as he stepped through the portal. Junko, Riley, and Ashley followed shortly behind.

The other side of the portal was nearly covered with numerous large bodies of water. Of course there was still enough land to move around without having to resort to swimming or boats.

As the group was walking Junko turned to Cody, "So, what are we delivering anyway?"

"The PA100," Cody stated keeping his eyes focuses on the path ahead.

Junko raised his eyebrows, "What's the PA100?"

The Ovala King simply shook his head, "I don't know. The King said it was completely confidential."

"Man, what a cucumber seed," Riley remarked with his hand stretched behind his head.

"Cucumber seed...?" Cody asked with a puzzled look.

"Don't worry about that one too much," Junko laughed awkwardly. "So where is it?"

"I'm keeping it in my weapon pouch," Cody answered.

"It's that small?!"

Cody simply nodded and then noticed the sun was starting to set and in response said, "We should go find an inn. It'll be dangerous if we're not well rested."

"So small..." Junko muttered still stuck on the subject as he followed Cody.

Once the group made it to the inn, they sat down at a table and ordered some food. While they were waiting for their meal they made small talk. "I can't believe our first Quest is just delivering something that can fit in a weapon pouch," Riley complained.

"You are in D-Rank so you to simple D-Rank missions," Cody stated. "It's just how it is."

The pouting boy crossed his arms, "Well, that's stupid."

"Come on Riley, don't be like that," Junko said with an awkward smile. "I'm sure it'll still be fun."

"You mispronounced boring. I wanna fight not be a mailman!" Riley exclaimed with fiery eyes.

"You might get to fight as well," Cody said before taking a sip of his water. "If anyone gets in the way of our Quest that is."

"Or we could just go fight anyone in sight," Riley suggested while placing his feet on the table.

"It's against the rules for us to involve outsiders of the Quest!" Cody shouted furiously.

"Rules are meant to be broken," Riley proclaimed before the table suddenly collapsed. "Like that table..."

"Here is your food," A scowling waiter said as he walked up to the team. "Please do try not to break this."

Riley rolled his eyes, "I don't think anyone can break food."

"And I didn't think anyone could be dumb enough to not read what's right in front of them," The waiter said pointing to the multiple signs hanging around the inn, which read PLEASE KEEP YOUR FEET OFF OF THE TABLES. "Clearly, we are both learning something new." And with that the angered waiter walked away.

Later at night as Ashley was walking out of the shower with a white towel wrapped around her head, the boys had just finished playing a board game.

"I win again," Cody said with satisfaction.

"Were you keeping that?" The now squeaky clean girl asked.

"In my weapon pouch," The victor of the unidentified board game said with a smirk.

Ashley sighed, "You're not funny."

"I know I'm not funny. I'm Mentor Cody."

"You know that's not what I meant," The blonde girl groaned as she went to lay down on one of the two beds. "By the way, I hope you three are all sharing one bed. I need my space from all of you."

Cody coked an eyebrow, "Why? You want to see some guy on guy action?"

Ashley's face became bright red, "What?! Don't be ridiculous!" The blushing girl turned her head around before continuing, "I just don't want your guys' idiot germs on me is all!"

"You know, it's rather rude to call your mentor an idiot," Cody remarked. "But I was messing around with you anyway. Take a joke every now and then, hahaha!"

"I hate you all," Ashley grumbled as her blushing settled down.

"Anyway," The joking man began. "Ashley, you will be sleeping with Riley and Junko will be sleeping with me."

"Greatest of the three evils, yay me," Ashley said with a sarcastic edge to her voice.

"Yeah, I'm thrilled too," Riley said, mimicking Ashley's sarcasm.

In the middle of the night, Junko and Cody were having a peaceful sleep. The other side of the room however, was not as lucky. Riley pulled the blanket closer to himself every couple of minutes, only for Ashley to yank it closer to her afterwards. The two continued to pull the pitiful piece of fabric for hours and hours on end. And then the blanket said it's farewells as it was ripped into two.

"I hate you," Ashley mumbled in his sleep.

Riley mumbled in sleep as well, "Darn cucumber seed."

***

The next day at another inn not too far away from the one Junko and everyone was staying at, a woman with shiny black hair was feeding her baby. "Drink up, and you'll grow up to be a strong man," She said with a warm smile as she held the bottle in his mouth.

"Hey, mind if I sit here?" A man with dark brown hair asked as he suddenly appeared behind the woman.

The woman nodded, "Sure, I don't see why not."

"Thanks, you're a life saver," He said as he quickly took a seat in front of the woman.

"Life saver?" She asked as she finished feeding the baby.

"Oh, don't worry about it," The main grinned awkwardly.

And then suddenly the door busted open, its wooden pieces flying off in all direction. Everyone in the inn screamed and parents guarded their children as they kept their eyes focuses on the door.

No one came out of the door for a good five minutes but none of the inn goers relaxed at all either. So the inn keeper slowly but surely made his way over to the door space as the breeze blew his gray hair back.

The inn keepers legs were shaking more and more with every step, and then once he finally made it to his destination, he was suddenly sent flying back into the wall on the other side of the inn.

"Give me your money and I'll make this quick," A bald man with a lengthy pink beard demanded as he placed his previously lifted leg down.

"I'm not...giving you..shit..." The nearly unconscious inn keeper said as he fell out of the now smashed wall.

"I see, you're one of those stubborn types," The robber inquired rubbing his pink beard. "Guys, we'll have to do this the hard way."

The brown haired man suddenly stood up with one hand on his pants, "Listen buddy, how about you just leave? Unless, you want me to show you what a North Ovala Academy graduate can do!"

"Did he say he graduated from an Ovala Academy?!" The dark haired woman asked in shock. "Those places are horrible. They train kids into mindless child soldiers!" Everyone else in the inn aside from the two about to brawl silently nodded in agreement.

"Go ahead," The bald man said with a malevolent smirk.

"Okay, you asked for it," The brown haired man said with confidence. He pulled his fist back and shouted, "Water Punch!" His fist was immediately covered in water as it shot forward.

The robber simply caught the attack. All of a sudden he bursted into laughter while everyone else in the inn gasped. "Oh man, what a clown!"

"What are you talking about? Why is everyone staring at me?" The graduate asked perplexed as he looked around the inn.

"Your pants, Mr. Valentine."

The man's eyes slowly traveled to his pants already having an idea of what had happened. Sure enough his suspicion was confirmed when his eyes met his pants wrapped around his ankles, revealing his white underwear with pink hearts decorated all around it. "Damn it," The embarrassed man sighed. "And I was trying so hard to prevent this too..."

"Wait a minute, that was the only reason you wanted to sit with me, wasn't it?!" The mother realized. "I thought you were just trying to be friendly!"

"Listen, can we discuss this after the guy who's trying to rob us is gone?"

"Depends, can you learn what a belt is?"

"I just forgot to bring one with me okay!"

A kunai was then launched at the half naked man, slicing through his underwear causing it to fall off his body and to the floor. "There we go," The bearded man said with satisfaction. I couldn't take your seriously with that lousy excuse of fashion sense."

"Have you no decency?!" The dark haired woman criticized the now butt naked man as she covered her baby's eyes. "For shame!"

"That one wasn't my fault!" The brown haired man defended himself.

"All right, I'm getting sick of this," The bald man sighed as he pulled out a gun. He walked up to the mother and placed it on her baby's head. "So listen, either I can be given the money and be on my way without taking a single life. Or I can take the money after killing everyone here one by one.

"Please, Mr. Inn Keeper, just give him the money!" The mother begged with water welling up in her eyes.

The inn keeper grunted, "Fine, you can have the damn money. The key is in my pocket."

The robber grinned in joy as he returned the gun to its holster, "You're a smart man." He made his way over to the inn keeper, took the key out of his pocket, and went to go take the money from behind the counter. After a couple of minutes, he returned with four bags filled to the brim with cash. "Pleasure doing business with ya," The satisfied man said as he walked out the door space. "Should probably fix that door by the way..." And with that his back faded into the distance.