Redemption of Prinnies (Open)

[fatima]

Fatima had decided to take the lone swordsman route. She was tomboyish enough to pull it off, and she had a plan. Her cape was made out of Prinny suits with the eyes at the shoulders, and her armor had a breastplate which made it hard to tell if she was a pretty boy or a woman. The cape hid her wings well, though if she needed to fly, her identity would be revealed.

Since lying was against her nature, she took her last name as what she called herself... Grotto, the Redeemer of Prinnies. To free human souls from bondage was a noble act, indeed. Her hair was slicked back into a ponytail, a pair of stray purple hairs acting as bangs. Her sword slung on her back, she practiced with the Stooge Squad, prinnies with a Moon, Star, and Cross on their belt pouches.

"Go for broke, dood!"
"Dat's it, Bra!"
"Lettem have it!"

So Grotto was shadow boxing... it was graceful to watch as "he" practiced fighting on ice and gliding across the ground. Grotto had trouble performing the basic techniques on odd terrain, so the best way to do it was against his training buddies. Spike braced for impact, but Grotto skid against on the ground before his sword hit.

"Bah!"

"No worries, dood! You'll get it!"

[Crez Horoto]

(Okay, since this says "open" I am gonna post here, hope you don't mind. By the way I am gonna go with the assumption that you are on the ice from the previous post)

Somewhere nearby on the same frozen lake, Crez was ice skating. He was wearing his normal attire but decided to wear some black earmuffs and a black scarf wrapped loosely around his neck. He had his eyes closed with his hands behind his back skating merrily while humming a joyful toon.

He then opened his eyes "Okay, I am gonna try that thing where those people jump in the air and spin three times on the count of three, one....two....THREE!" Crez jumped in the air and began to spin, one spin.....two spins....BAAM! Crez fell on his face and skidded across the ice for about five feet.He painfully arose and dug around in his pocket. He pulled out a band-aid which he carefully placed on his nose. When he was about to try again he noticed what seemed to be a boy and some prinnies.

"Cool, more people to ice-skate with!"

But as he approached them he noticed the boy was wielding a sword. Crez fearfully jumped back and tripped on the ice, he was about to fall on his bottom but then suddenly wen the opposite direction and fell on his face. "I have the worst luck...." he muttered. He got up and had to crack his back into place. "Hey! Why are you playing with swords? It is very dangerous where other people are!" Crez cried out to them.

[fatima]

"Huh?"

Fatima looked over to the boy around here. He certainly didn't look like most of the demons she had heard of. She almost forgot she was playing a 'he' for this mission and looked really sheepish before sheathing 'his' sword.

"Sorry! Didn't see you over there! I'm just trying to train for different environments. The name's Grotto, The Prinny Knight!"

Taking a flourished bow to the newcomer, Fatima decided to be courteous to this new arrival. Sliding over to his direction, "he" offered him a hand up with a smile.

"Saw you skating over there! Nice air, but lousy landing... I'm sure you'll get it eventually."

"Bra? Ain't he demon? We spos'ed to bust up?"

The two other Prinnies slapped their fins over the bigger one's beak with anime sweat drops over their head.

"Dunno what're talking about dood!"

"Y... Yeah! We're here to save the others, dood! Remember, dood?"

[Crez Horoto]

Crez looked over Grotto's shoulder and looked at the prinnies then looked back at Grotto.

"I see, you are a prinny knight. But if you are a prinny knight, why are you not a prinny like them?" he pointed at the three prinnies "I see, you are training. Well you picked an awful good place to ice skate! If you look over there you will see a mother and her child ice fishing!" Crez pointed behind him and when he looked he noticed a manticore lying on it's back with a smile. It burped up two skulls. Crez's eyes widened and he laughed sheepishly. "Well since they were the only two people there besides me then I guess this is the perfect place to train..."

Crez took off his skates and walked over to the prinnies. He knelt down to their level and examined them. He grabbed one by the top of the head and lifted it up. "What is with these weird symbols? I never see prinnies with symbols on their pouches..."

[fatima]

"I protect the Prinnies and earn money to give to them in order to get them back to the human world. "

She noticed the Manticore and visibly twitched. The Prinny's all stared at the Manticore with bugged out looks on all three of them.

"Doooooood!"

The one with the moon was the smallest, and easily picked up by the brawler.

"D... Dood! Put me down! I'm worried if it's s...still hungry!" the Prinny with the moon squeaked.

Grotto still looked at little pale at the Manticore as "he" turned over to Crez who was lifting Tike by the head.

"Those marks are to tell my Prinnies from others. It really helps in the heat of things if there are other Prinnies around."

"Uhm... Your knightness? Are we avenging that family, dood?" the Prinny with the Star asked.

"We... we at least need to bury those two" Grotto stammered, still a little shaken. "But I don't think that thing will even let us close enough to the bones."

"M... Maybe we can wait until it walks away, dood?" Tike whined, still grabbed by Crez.

Grotto looked over to Crez with an arched brow.

"Uhm... you're awfully calm about this."

[Crez Horoto]

-Actually, I am a Tera Majin, check the updates section, and I am gonna go with the assumption that the manticore has most of it's bones residing in it's stomach-

"Well of course I am, manticores are sissies compared to me!" he chucked the prinny over his shoulder and it landed a few feet behind him with a thud. Crez grew an evil grin and laughed maniacally. "Okay enough of that." He cracked his knuckles and charged at the Manticore.

Punch! Bam! Crush! Snap!

After the brief beat down, Crez was still punching the Manticore even though it was dead. He casually jumped off of it and walked to it's side. He kicked it over so it's belly was exposed and raised both fists. He slammed them down into the gut and the dead beast vomited out all the bones along with it's internal organs, and a few bones of it's own like a tube of toothpaste. "Not to worry! I got it all under...eew! Is that it's brain?! How is that even possible?!" Crez winced at the sight.

"Well, at least we got the bones it had eaten, Hey I could use these for some awesome cooking ingredients!" Crez took out a crumpled up plastic bag he had conveniently stowed in his left pocket and stuffed some of the organs in there. He then picked up the bladder. "Mmm....the candy of a beast's body!" he said as he stuffed it in.

He then ran back over to Grotto and the prinnies. "Okay we can bury them now! But not on the ice of course. Oh, and hopefully you guys are not traumatized by that experience."

[fatima]

The four of them just stood dumbfounded as Fatima wanted to throw up. Visably twitching at the demon, Grotto and "his" gang knew that demons did what they did... but... not so nonchalantly.

"Doooooood... I don't think you can handle another Majin... I think we better just run!" The Prinny with the Star croaked (Mike).

"Cooking ingredients?!" Grotto replied with a nauseous tone. "Uhm... no... I'm just gonna bury them for now."

"Iiiii'm gonna peeeee myself doooooood!" Tike whined, getting up slowly.

"Dood, how are ya gonna pee yourself when you don't have a bladder?!"

"I... I dunno, dood!"

"I can't really chicken out of this one... I hold my honor strong. It was the manticore who ate those people, sooo... I'm gonna bury them."

"Dooood! Don't tell us we gotta touch that gunk?!" Mike whined.

"Prinnies also pay their way for doing acts of kindness for free..." Grotto pointed out. "Chalk it up as one of your big ones... I'll... help..."

Grotto really didn't want to touch the leftover parts, but it was the thing to do if they were ice fishing. Besides... in the cold like this, it would smell like crap. Holding "his" nose, he reached down with one of the ends of "his" cloak and tried to pick the skull and bones away into a pile of the sides away from the Manticore remains.

"Danks, by dhe way!" Grotto replied to Crez.

[Crez Horoto]

"Ok glad to be of assistance!" Crez replied happily, not detecting the sarcasm in Grotto's words. So Crez decided to stand back and watch them go through the gunk.

"Maybe I should help.....nah!" so Crez walked over to where they were and picked up the manticore skull. "Wow, that seems to be pretty much impossible, to punch the stomach and even the skull and brain flying out. Hey! Hey! Look at this!" he tried to get their attention and played with the skull as it was a puppet. He thought of himself as a skilled ventriloquist, but you could plainly see his mouth moving.

After a while he sighed. "Meh, I am bored with it..." he chucked it over his head sat on the pile of fur that used to be the manticore; but after what he did, all that was left was fur.

[fatima]

Grotto turned around long enough to look at Crez with a slight twitch on "his" face.

"Uhm... After the burial, I think I'll be going..."

The Stooge Squad rummaged through the goo to find both the skulls of the human and her child and started a small funeral pyre for the bones and remains. The knight looked saddened by the turn of events, and did a small prayer over the burial spot.

"Oh God, grant these souls rest."

"Amen, dood!" The Stooge Squad replied.

Starting the pyre, it didn't take long for the thing to start engulfing the humanoid bones. Turning to Crez with a look of slight distain, Grotto looked at the Manticore parts lying around and sighed.

"Do what you want with the Manticore... bits... the smell is really getting to me, so I think I'll be on my way."

[Crez Horoto]

"Ok have fun with your leave, I gotta say you are a weird knight." Crez grabbed the manticore skin and rolled it up. After successfully rolling it Crez took out a piece of string he left in his pocket and wrapped it around, making it a secure bundle. "Alright! I have always wanted some manticore fur! it didn't take long for Crez to get lost in his imagination again.

"Ooooh.....a nice manticore fur rug, or maybe a blanket. Maybe even a parka!" Crez would of been standing there for hours if not a strong gust of icy wind knocked him over. "Okay, have fun with your journey thing but before you go I have a question. What kind of demon prays to God?"

-Yeah sorry it is getting kinda short, but with really nothing to type besides saying farewell, so I had to think of something-