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- >NOW…
- >You (Anonymous), your stand「GREENSLEEVES」 and Lily Longsocks are frozen in place on the grass, darting glances between each other and the bee hovering a few inches from your face
- >As you lay there, more bees start to float into view, some of them passing over you and moving towards Lily
- >And despite the fear you feel, you force yourself to observe the bee and take in as much detail about it as you can
- >The bees are oddly colored, but they otherwise look just like any other honeybee you’ve seen. Although, they don’t seem to have an-
- >"ORA!"
- >A metallic hand rockets into the bees by your face, sending them spinning off into the grass
- >「GREENSLEEVES」 croaks with terror and surprise and disappears, but not before causing a torrent of spaghetti to flood out of your pants pockets
- >"Anon, move!” Lily shouts, biting the cuff of your pants as she pulls you away from the incoming swarm of bees
- >The insects hover over the spot you were lying in, and a strange fluid drips from their bodies and onto the pasta below
- >As the enemy stand begins to hum once more, you and Lily run deeper into the park
- 1/
- >You lean back against a tree, your lungs burning from the sprint
- >Lily and 「BANISHED」 stand nearby, her ears pricked and listening for the tell-tale humming of the stand
- >"Bees.”
- Yup.
- >"A stand made of bees.”
- I told you, Stands are weird.
- >Lily turns towards you, keeping her stand on the lookout for the enemy
- >"So, what? We sprint to your house and grab some flyswatters?”
- >You slide down the trunk of the tree to the ground, resting your arms on your knees
- Good idea, but I’m not sure that’ll work. These kinds of stands are usually less…connected to its user than ours are. They could be anyone, anywhere in the town.
- >"So, we’re doomed, and we don’t even know who wants us dead. Great.”
- Well, no. Not necessarily. We just need to figure out who we pissed off in the last few days, and odds are they’ll be our guy. But who? I don’t even go out that much…
- >You rest your hand on your chin, thinking deeply
- >Maybe Twilight? Nah, she forgives way too easily.
- >Lily closes her eyes to think, using her bandaged hoof to rub at her mane
- >"Wait a second….didn’t those bees go after your pasta on the ground?”
- Yeah. And my shoe, come to think of it.
- You both continue to think in silence
- >After a moment, her eyes snap open
- >"The stallion who runs the toilet store! I broke his toilet and now he wants to kill us.”
- >Lily starts laughing, colored by a blend of humor, relief, and realization
- >"And! And you left pasta on the broken toilet box too! And he's using that to have his stand follow us!”
- >She’s right. You did leave a heaping portion of sauced noodles right on top of the box
- >But something about this just isn't adding up for you
- >"Good going, Anon! He’ll definitely get a great story out of this, huh!?”
- 2/
- >Wait a second...that's it!
- I know who's attacking us!
- >"So do I, it's the toilet seller!" Lily manages to speak through her desperate laughter
- >But you shake your head
- No, it's-Okay maybe I don't know who it is exactly, but I do know it isn't him.
- >"And how do you know that?"
- Because he works in retail.
- >Lily's laugh dies in her throat as she glares at you
- >「BANISHED」 turns around to glare at you as well
- >"Is this a joke?"
- Have you ever worked in retail?
- >"I've never worked at all. I'm twelve."
- "Well, I have worked in retail," you respond, doing your best to nod sagely, "And I can tell you he's dealt with much worse. Now!"
- >You place your hands back onto your knees, pushing yourself off the ground
- I don't know about you, but I noticed something mighty interesting about those bees.
- >You listen for the sound of a swarm of bees appearing coincidentally as you say the word "bee"
- >Silence
- >The user has probably lost track of you two for the time being
- >*CLAP "Hey!"
- Gah!
- >"Stop spacing out! What's interesting about the bees?"
- Ah, well, I noticed that they didn't have any eyes.
- >Lily freezes, her hooves still held together in a clapping motion
- >"That's what you found interesting? Not, I don't know, razor-blades for wings or tiny swords for stingers?"
- Well yeah. I mean, it means the bees are using either sound or smell to find us.
- 3/
- >The last word drools out of your mouth as you focus on the leaves on the ground by Lily
- >Lily catches your glance and follows your eyes to the small pile of leaves
- >The topmost leaf, a crunchy dying brown, is folding inwards on itself
- >You place a finger over your lips, quietly telling Lily to be silent
- >She nods, holding her distance away from the leaf as it continues to fold and deform
- >The stem flattens out before filling up into a rounded shape
- >The veins of the leaf snap free and wrap around each other into six small cords
- >The tip of the leaf folds lightly, before expanding like the stem and settling to its new shape:
- >A bee, just like the ones that were chasing you before, and part of the mysterious user's stand
- >The stand hovers for a moment, as if testing its new wings against its weight, before slowly flying towards you
- >Aimed directly at your face
- 4/
- >The bee continues towards you, still alone, still slowly
- >「BANISHED」 begins to move towards you as well, but you raise your hand, telling Lily to wait
- >The stand continues on its slow flight
- >As it nears your face, it makes a sharp turn upwards, and you turn your head to follow it
- "What the hell", you mutter, breaking the silence
- >Embedded in the tree, roughly a foot above your head, is a pebble
- >The leaf-bee lands on the surface of the stone, prodding at it with its antennae
- >You and Lily exchange looks with each other, then back at the bee, buzzing slightly as it walks about the pebble
- >It halts for a moment, turning its antennae upwards, moving them around wildly as if trying to catch a scent
- >And then snapping them still, it points them towards Lily
- >And then, much quicker than when it approached, it flies back down to the pile of leaves
- >As the bee lands on the pile, the rest of the leaves begin to crease and fold
- >And dipping your hands into your pockets, you smother them in a family-sized portion of noodles
- That should buy us a little bit of time.
- >You turn around and examine the pebble carefully
- >The lack of strange carvings or symbols tell you that it's not a stand arrow, but a strong feeling in your gut is telling you that this pebble is connected to the enemy's stand....somehow
- >Checking back on the bees, you can see a honey-like fluid start to ooze out from between the noodles
- Alright Lily here's the plan. I'm gonna yank this pebble out of the tree, and you make sure the bees stay away from us.
- >"You sure that's a good idea?"
- Nope. But there's something odd about this rock and I'm gonna find out what.
- >With Lily on guard, you grab the rock between your fingers, pulling it out...
- 5/
- >...Pulling it OUT
- HRRRGGGHH!
- >A slight buzzing behind you starts to fill your ears
- >"Would you mind not having a stroke right now?!" Lily barks at you
- I'm not having a stroke! It's just this rRROCK is really lodged in here.
- >You tug against the rock with all your might, and it still refuses to budge
- >The buzzing of the enemy stand grows louder, but you focus on the rock instead
- How the hell did a rock even get in a tree in the first place?
- >"MOVE!"
- >You feel something heavy and hard catch you in your side and send you flying away from the tree and the bumblebee stand
- >While also knocking the wind out of you so forcefully that you're surprised your lungs didn't fire out of your throat like airbags
- >Thankfully, the grass and dirt was there to break your fall after your brief trip through the air
- >You prop yourself up, bruised and wheezing, to see your spaghetti explode from about fifty feet away
- >"How many abilities does this stand have?", you think to yourself
- >But before you can ponder further, your question is answered by a small horse to the face
- >"This hurt a lot less in my head." Lily groans as she falls to the floor
- Funny, it hurts a lot in mine.
- >You help Lily stand up, using her as a brace to bring yourself up as well
- >The enemy stand swarms around the tree you were in front of, crawling and flying over every inch of its trunk
- >"So what do we do now?"
- Well, it seems to locate things based on scent. And we can distract it with strong scents like my spaghetti.
- >"And your shoes."
- ...right.
- >You make a mental note to start washing your feet more, assuming you don't get blown up
- But I don't get why they're so interested in that tree though. I don't remember ever touching a rock.
- >"And that boulder I threw was WAY larger than that."
- >Wait...
- 6/
- >Before you had Lily test her strength on the large rock, she had kicked a pebble into the distance
- >Was that pebble the same one that was stuck in the tree?
- >It certainly would explain the bees' interest in both the two of you and the pebble
- >But how would Lily react to knowing that? She's been rather testy today
- >Well, testy for the full two days you've known her
- >And she didn't exactly seem tickled when she thought the hardware store guy was after you
- Okay Lily, I'm going to level with you.
- >You take a knee and place a hand on her shoulder, which 「BANISHED」 forcefully sweeps away
- Right. I don't know this stand's range, so there's a good chance that if we run, it will be able to follow and kill us.
- >Peering past Lily's mane, you can see the stormcloud of bees making their way towards you
- But something is telling me that the stone in that tree has got something to do with this stand, and I'm too weak to pull it out on my own.
- >The flapping of millions of tiny wings grows steadily louder as the stand gets closer
- So we're going to rush our way back to that tree, and while I drown them in pasta, you yank the rock out of that tree.
- >Lily turns to look at the encroaching apiary of destruction, then back towards you
- >The look on her face is a mix of fear, anger, and anxiety
- >"And you're sure this will get whoever it is to leave us alone?"
- >Nope
- Absolutely.
- 7/
- >"Fine."
- >「BANISHED」 reappears, scooping you and Lily up in its good arm before breaking out in a sprint
- >The buzzing gets louder as the gap between you and the enemy stand closes
- Okay! Now, if you circle around the stand I can drop a few piles of spaghetti to distrACK-
- >Your neck whips forward as 「BANISHED」 leaps through the air, heading directly towards the enemy stand
- >Numerous bees smack into the back of your neck as the two of you cut a direct path through the swarm
- >"THE BEES! ONE HIT MY EYE! MY EYE! AAAA!"
- >Lily mashes her hooves into her eyes to deflect the attack
- >Causing her to hit the ground off balance, and sending the both of you rolling into the small grove of trees
- >You will a torrent of spaghetti to roar out of your pockets, which gives you some cushion as you crash into one of the trees
- >Though not enough to keep it from hurting
- >You roll over, clutching at your stomach, to see where the enemy stand is
- >And, to your pleasant surprise, it's flying at a comfortable distance away
- >Not as far as you would have liked, but at least you still have a comfortable margin to-
- >"ORA!"
- >*PFINK
- >Ignoring the pain in...all over your body, you spring up and rush over to the tree with the stone in it
- >Lily is standing in front of it, stock still, with 「BANISHED」 standing at her side
- >And the stone in the tree is broken
- >Where there once was a good sized portion of rock sticking out to grab, you see instead a small sliver of stone could barely be grabbed with two fingers
- Why'd you d-
- >"I TRIED, OKAY?!" Her voice is harsh and wavering, and you can see a tear stream down her cheek
- >You go to put your arm on her shoulder, but she tenses up as you get closer
- >Almost like she's bracing herself for something
- >You pull your hand back and sigh
- >The buzzing of the enemy stand is much louder. It's likely closed the gap by now
- Hey, hey. It's fine.
- 8/
- >No it isn't
- >You are about to get exploded by a swarm of papier-mache bees because you thought it would be a fun idea to train a plucky young kid who broke your house
- >One could say this situation was far from fine, in fact
- >You frantically wrack your brain, trying to think of something, anything, from the manga that even remotely matches the situation you're in now
- >"Morioh", you mumble to yourself
- >Taking a deep breath, you push off your knees and stand up again
- >Another deep breath
- >Thoughts of Yohikage Kira fill your mind
- >And like his composure during his brief fight against Shigechi's Harvest, you find yourself feeling calm and assured
- >The buzzing reaches a peak as you walk towards the stand
- >The bees surround and wash over you, all their attention focused on Lily
- >You will 「GREENSLEEVES」 to appear by your side
- You rea-
- >Almost instantly, your stand sprints off and away from the park, croaking and shrieking in terror
- -dy...welp. Can't blame him, I guess.
- >The air whistles around your fingers as your hands race deep into your pockets
- >You want to run away as well, but you have something stronger than your fear
- >The squelch of sauce and noodles in your palms strengthens your resolve
- >You have a borderline autistic obsession with Japanese comic book
- KILLER QUEEEEEEEEEEN!, you roar out at the top of your lungs
- >Gripping tightly, you rip your arms up from the depths of your pants, unleashing a torrent of spaghetti upon the grass
- >The noodles gush outwards, piling up to your shins and filling the air with the pungent scents of basil and garlic
- >The bumblebee stand continues on, nearing the edge of the grove of trees
- Oh no you don't!
- >Bending down, you grab and fling a handful of pasta towards the bees
- 9/
- >It lands smack in the middle of the swarm, halting their movements
- >A few scouts flit down, attracted to the strong scent of your stand ability
- >As they float back upwards to rejoin the main group, you feel a nervous twinge in your gut
- >This stand has been after Lily the entire morning, and now she's sitting within arms reach
- >So what if it doesn't take the bait?
- >The bees twirl and dance around each other, thin strands of their explosive honey dripping onto the grass
- >You hurl another handful of spaghetti, which agitates them further
- >And sends them buzzing towards you
- >The honey is warm as it falls over you, soaking into your clothes and filling the spaces between the fabric and your skin
- >If you weren't about to be exploded, it would actually feel kinda nice
- >None of the warmth is lost as it hardens, trapping you in a surprisingly comfortable honey maiden
- >If Lily's smart, she'll have left by now
- >Every stand has a range, and this stand doesn't feel like it could travel much farther than Ponyville
- >As long as she stays out of town, she should be fine
- >You heave a sigh of relief as you hear the bees start to buzz, making your body shake ever so slightly
- >It feels almost like a massage chair
- >If a massage chair killed you at the end
- >The vibrations grow in intensity, and the pleasant warmth begins creeping up to a sharp heat
- >If your nerves were sensitive enough, you could even feel as some of your cells began to separate from one another
- >Who'd've thought that you'd go out like this? You certainly didn-
- >"ORA!"
- 10/
- >The buzzing stops
- >You can feel the honey as it washes away from your body, leaving your clothes slightly damp and sticky
- >The honey isn't quite as keen to leave your eyes, so you blink a few times to force it out
- >As the amber fluid drips away, your vision clears and you are treated to a welcome sight:
- >A countless number of leaves falling slowly to the ground
- >The stand is gone
- >A wave of exhaustion washes over you, forcing you to sit down
- Ok-okay. Lily's smart, she'll know to keep moving. I should be able to get to Twilight's before the stand catches up to her, and then-
- >"'And then', what?"
- >You try shrugging, but can only manage a half-hearted movement of your arms
- Maybe she could use magic on wait.
- >You turn toward the voice and find a small mauve filly
- Lily!
- >A surge of energy beats back your exhaustion, like the sun itself was burning you into overdrive, and you spin around to hug her
- >Only for her to sidestep
- >At least the ground feels nice to hug
- Thifh iph fine.
- >"I don't do hugs, Anon. And you're welcome."
- >You pull your face off of the dirt
- For wh-wait why are you still here? Go! The stand is after you!
- >Instead of fleeing, Lily shifts her front hoof, kicking something towards you
- >You brace for impact, not that it'd do much against her strength
- 11/
- >Only to feel a slight tap
- ...
- >"Really?"
- >A small stone, missing a chunk
- >"I took a moment and breathed, and I just kind of…pulled it out of the tree.”
- >She’s not showing it, but you can hear a small bit of pride in her voice
- >Palming the rock, you peel yourself off of the grass
- “Well, good shit man. I knew you could do it.”
- >On your feet again, you give her a playful punch on the shoulder
- >Which 「BANISHED」 returns with a much harder hit to your stomach
- KOPHT!
- >"Thanks”, she mumbles
- S-HACH-sure. L-let’s head back now, it’s almost nighttime.
- >”Can we have spaghetti?”
- >The memory of trouser spätzle makes you gag
- >Especially since you had planned to go grocery shopping today to avoid eating more of it
- Well lucky for you, we don’t have much of a choice otherwise.
- >"Sweet.”
- >After a bit of strained, sluggish walking, you and Lily make it back to your house
- >Your home is lit up a flaming orange by the glow of the setting sun
- I’ve never been more glad to see this crap heap. You go wash up and I’ll get the -hey!
- >Lily stuck her hoof out in front of you, nearly causing you to trip over it
- >"Somepony’s inside. Look.”
- >She points at the kitchen door, cracked open just barely an inch
- >A light breeze rolls by, making the door creak and sway slightly
- 12/
- Stay behind me.
- >You make your way up and push the door open, you and Lily cautiously make your way inside
- >The kitchen is quiet
- >The cabinet door slowly creaks open
- >You grab a knife from the countertop, grasping it firmly within your hand
- >The noises within the cabinet intensify as you get closer
- >Readying the knife, you rip the door open
- >Only for a green, lightly slimy hand to reach out and close it again
- The hell?
- >You open the door again and peer inside, and see a light grey hoodie
- >Connected to two green hands that lunge forward and begin wildly flailing at your face
- >"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
- OWOWOWOWOWOSTOP FOR A SECOND YOU AMPHIBIAN FUCK!
- >「GREENSLEEVES」 stops, pulling its hood up over its eyes
- >On seeing you, face red from slapping, it croaks contentedly and fades back into your body
- >"snrkt.”
- One giggle out of you and we’re having oatmeal and stale crackers.
- >"You know I could always not fix your stuff.”
- I could hire a professional contractor.
- >"Point taken.”
- Uhuh. Now go wash up while I get the table set.
- >Lily makes her way towards the bathroom, and you slump down into one of the kitchen chairs
- >You will 「GREENSLEEVES」 to appear, and it retrieves a pot from the cabinet it was cowering inside of a few moments before
- >In the span of a few days, you’ve almost died twice, taken on an apprentice/semi-legal laborer, and gained a stand that only seems to be good at domestic work
- “What a bizarre week it’s been,” you wonder alound to your stand
- >Well, it could be worse
- >At least there are no serial killers in Ponyville
- >Or vampires
- TO BE CONTINUED…
- 13/13
- Stands:
- Honey Bee https://youtu.be/XhAcIuj3o1E
- User: The Trees of Ponyville Park
- Power: B
- Speed: B
- Range: B
- Durability: B
- Precision: B
- Potential: B
- Banished https://youtu.be/xFgdIBW180k
- User: Lily Longsocks
- Power: S
- Speed: A
- Range: D
- Durability: D
- Precision: B
- Potential: C
- Greensleeves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgha9S39Y6M
- Anonymous
- Power: D
- Range: A
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