"Never again."
"Agreed."
The girls then looked at me, "!You aren't allowed to navigate anymore.!"
"What why?" I knew why, the swamp did not want us there. The girls all were unhappy in various levels. All of Mai's clothes were destroyed. Ty Lee was freaked out and Azula had a vision quest. I Thought it was a experience, but they did not share my idea of interesting.
"You guys look like shit. What happened?"
June was leaning against a tree on the side of the road. She was smirking, "Told you that swamp was terrible."
I shrugged, "i thought it was fun."
Azula punched me in the side. "Let's just go."
June raised a bag, "don't you want a change of clothes? You did pay me for it."
I smiled, "You guys can change, my clothes are fundamental plain for this exact reason."
Each of them grabbed something from June. "As much as I would love to stay, I'd prefer to go."
"You can join me! While they change of coruse."
"Wait I'll just change here!" My jaw nearly dropped as Ty Lee literally changed right there. Watching her strip nude and put on the outfit June got her.
Ty Lee looked around at all of us. She just shrugged, "What? Most of us are girls."
"I liked it."
Ty Lee giggled and June just walked off. Mai was clearly irked and Azula, well to be honest I'm not sure what that look was. I waved at Mai and Azula, "Catch up later."
I went off following June, she was a useful asset so i wanted to get her into my hands. Ty Lee ran with us. As we walked into town. it was silent for a little while until Ty lee spoke. "Where's that animal you were riding?"
June looked at Ty Lee, "Nyla is being treated at the groomers. I'd clean her myself, but Nyla gets cranky and lashes out."
I looked at June, "So you spent the money to have someone else be paralyzed while she is groomed?"
"Yeah pretty much. If you don't mind me asking, what exactly are you four?"
Ty lee nearly answered before I covered her mouth. "You decide. After all you are just fishing."
"Mghmm?"
I rolled my eyes and let go of Ty Lee. "She's a bounty hunter, she's trying to weasel more money."
June smirked, "You got me! After all who doesn't love money?"
I snapped my hand out and grabbed June by the neck and pulled her into Nyla. "Argh! How?"
I looked at June and raised an eyebrow. "I mean I expected it mostly? I can't just share my full plans."
Ty lee had her back to me. While Nyla circled us, Whistling Lime came out of the trees and grabbed Nyla by the mouth and pinned her down. I let go of June and she dropped, I tapped Ty Lee. She nodded and ran back to Azula and Mai. They should've dealt with the earth benders by now.
June struggled slightly and I rolled her over. I stared at her and smiled. "So I guess you want an explanation?"
"I would."
I nodded, "Well June, using my huge brain. I figured you would use a few connections to learn that Azula is the fire nation's princess. Not that hard to get a image of her obviously. Don't get me wrong if you didn't backstab us I was actually planning on everything I told you. though you are a bounty hunter not a kidnapper. So telling the Beifong family about how their little girl is gonna be captured. It was a good bait." I looked up and saw the girls coming over.
"Let me speed this up for you, using our huge brains! Me and Azula figured depending on where we actually meet you would depend on whether you betrayed us or not. After all Lime there..." I pointed to the third genius of the group.
"He made some friends in the swamp. Those friends saw a woman and a large blind monster in the swamp. They wanted to eat the monster like you do, but woman and her beast paralyzed them. Now if we recall you did say you wanted to avoid the swamp didn't you?"
June gritted her teeth. I shoved her face into the dirt before she could signal Nyla. "I mean seriously? Just rude, from that bit of information well you can gather what we thought about it. If you had been in the city I gave the benefit of the doubt and said you were with us. Unfortunately Azula is better at spotting betrayal then I. Though not like it was hidden, I just looked on the optimistic side."
June struggled against me, but failed I just continued. "The hard part was planning out the sequence of this part. I mean beating some random earth benders the Beifong family employs. That's easy, not looking suspicious? Well that was solved by Ty Lee."
I mean honestly she was just supposed to distract somehow. While I used my Status abilities to track everything. I certainly was thrown off slightly by her willingness to strip. I would need to check her status more thoroughly later.
"Rgm..."
I let her lift her head and she spat dirt from her mouth. "Oh why don't you give yourself a congratulatory handjob?"
I smiled, "Eh, very funny. Something I'd say really." Azula walked up and smirked at me. "I believe you owe me."
I sighed, "I never actually agreed to betting, but I'll honor it."
Azula pulled on my collar, "*Tell all of us what you are.*"
She let go and walked away. I checked her status and saw that she was nervous. I thought about that slightly. I then turned back to June, "Welp time to go collect some debts."
"I am gonna stab you while you sleep."
I dropped her and she hit the ground hard. Picking her back up, I smiled. "Are you done?"
"Tch."
Mai pointed at Lime and Nyla. "What about them?"
I stared at Lime and 4 of his eyes stared back. I nodded, "he had her handled. They will beocme best friends."
"Like hell Nyla will get along with that thing."
I was pretty sure they would. I could check Nyla's status and it was interesting. It had no status bars, but instead had a list of hierarchy. June was at the top of the list while Nyla was below her. Lime just had to enter and rank above Nyla on her own hierarchy. Had to question how intelligent Nyla was though.
"You have a problem."
"I do not have a problem."
Ty Lee agreed with Mai. "You do seem to focus off into space."
Azula nodded, "I have noticed you have been less focused."
Oh, Have I? "Let's just find a tavern."
-----Last few chapters people have been saying it was not as explained. Was this better? I also updated the past chapters slightly. However focusing on this chapter was it clear? I think i have been a little off on my writing since I have been busy irl and wrote the past chapters in portions throughout the day instead of writing the full chapter all at once. ------