Urban Oddballs: 02

"Well girls, come on. The big bad is right through these doors!" Gaxi said, her chest full of pride as she pushed open the wooden door in front of her.

Outside the stronghold, the guard grunted as he finished a second time, before stepping back and sitting on the sidewalk with Zeba. The music had stopped long ago, and he was no longer entranced by her music.

"Fuck girl, this is the fifth time, you're a strong one!" He exclaimed, wiping sweat from his forehead.

"You're not so bad yourself, big blue," Zeba smiled.

"Haha, well, ya know, I've got a lot of practice. So you're an amputee huh?" The blue guard asked, leaning in to lick his little lover's face. Zeba winced as his dog-like tongue touched her cheek.

"Well uh, yeah," she replied.

"So, little lamb girl, ready to go again?" The guard asked, getting up and teasing Zeba by tapping her face with the tip of his girth.

"Bring it on!" Zeba laughed, full of playful vigor.

Meanwhile inside the boss room, the group stood before a fat frog-like being in a hot tub. The man flicked away with his tongue, snickering to himself.

"Hah, all those chumps must've dropped out of the race when they saw how hard I was kicking their asses," he grinned, adjusting his black glasses. He was interrupted as the door flew open, revealing the three girls.

"Outters? Hmm, so I guess you're here to stop big bad me from running my business?" He asked, looking them over.

"Yes, we're here to stop you and all of this drug dealing you've been doing, you, you...drug peddler!"

The dragon looked at Gaxi with little concern, but as his eyes scanned the three women who opposed him, they landed on Annry.

"Oh, okay so is this a squash mission or something?"

"A squash mission?" Gaxi asked, confused.

"Yeah, I mean "Annry the Anti-member" is with you, so I assume you're both first-timers she's trying to squash," the man replied, looking at the mouse girl.

"What are you croaking about, froggie?" Gaxi sneered.

"You're a dumbass Miblin, of course you wouldn't know. Annry is a party crusher, meaning she infiltrates parties and abuses their weaknesses to sell them off into slavery," The dragon laughed. "Judging from the makeup of your group I'd say she's hit the jackpot, chubby Miblins and pregnant humans are always a hot commodity!"

He laughed at his comment, filling the room with his voice. An arrow flew through the air right at his face but he dodged it, ducking down into the water.

"He's just talking shit, come on girls!" Annry said, stepping forward.

"Yeah, right, squash mission or not you don't fire arrow at me. I'm Don Brine!" The fat dragon roared, jumping out of the tub to confront the party.

"Ah, yeah didn't think, I, whew, could jump out like that, did ya?" He asked, out of breath from his sudden feat of athleticism. The three girls shared a look.

"Now, whew, take this!" The dragon cried, sending a burst of flame out passed his frog-like lips. The party dodged it with slight difficulty, Gaxi falling over herself in the process. Shawky gained her footing enough to grab her belly and fling her head back, sending six will-o-wisps shooting out of her nether region.

"What...what the hell?" Don Brine burbled as six skeletal wolves materialized before him and latched onto his flabby arms.

"Ahh, get them off get them off!" He yelled as the ravenous undead hounds munched at his flesh.

"Now to finish him off!" Annry said, readying her bow.

"Green Missile!" Gaxi yelled, interrupting Annry as she slammed into Don Brine. The fat dragon fell back into his tub, defeated.

"Woo hoo, I did it, I did it! Take that stupid Minotaur guy, I beat my first! Woo!" Gaxi hooted and hollered, jumping around as the aforementioned boss lay unconscious in his tub.

"Well I guess it's time for us to take the group picture. Um, wait maybe we should go get Zeba first, she shouldn't miss this," Annry suggested as they all remembered the sheep satyr who took one for the team outside.

"I'll go get Zeba Girl," Shawky jiggled.

"Yeah, yeah go get Zeba, no one should miss this!" Gaxi cheered, still high on excitement.

Annry looked over Don Brine, his unconscious body floating in the hot tub.

"Well, it seems unkind to keep this hot tub going," She said, unplugging the bath from the wall. She then looked over at Gaxi and smiled.

'It's nice to see someone so happy about completing their first mission, even though that fat lizard almost blew my cover...I've gotta be more careful.'

"Oh...um, Zeba Girl, you're not looking too well," Shawky said rather bewildered by the sight she approached.

Zeba was being held like a teddy bear by the blue guard as the two slept together in the middle of the street. Hearing Shawky, she awoke.

"I'm fine, just a little stuck at the moment. Could you help me get my legs and arms?" She whispered to her friend.

"Haha of course!" Shawky giggled.

Once Zeba was assembled the group came together to take a picture in front of the unconscious dragon.

"Cheese!" Annry said as she snapped the picture. "How does it look everyone?"

"It looks great!" The others said, clapping and laughing as Annry held up the picture for them.

"Well then I'll upload it to "Quest Me". We'll take pictures of all the goons as we leave, they won't be worth as much as the boss but a few more bytes won't hurt, right?" She asked, putting away her phone.

"Um, can we not take a picture of Steven?" Zeba peeped. Annry looked back at her, confused.

"Who's that?"

"Oh, he's the blue guy with the curved horn sticking out of his forehead. He's not so bad, just misunderstood."

"Wait, the dude that was like a foot deep into you back at the entrance?" Annry questioned, still confused.

"Yeah, I mean he and his friend were a bit rough but at least he was nice, even though my music put him in a sexual frenzy," Zeba said, thinking back to the confrontation outside and how much it excited her.

"Ooh Zeba's got a boyfriend, Zeba's got a boyfriend!" Gaxi howled and clapped. Zeba blushed.

"I just hope he won't be too mad that we pinched his boss, he did ask me out to dinner..."

"You can't be serious. Okay, fine, we won't take a picture of him, but let's get going, I'd kind of like to get out of here," Annry said, shaking her head and crossing her arms.

Later, back at Shawky's house, the party was having a celebration. Everyone was seated around the birch dining table drinking champagne.

"Woah Annry you were right! Instead of 900 bytes, tagging the guard guys got us like, 50 bytes more!" Gaxi gasped, very excited as she gulped down champagne.

"Well yeah, that's always the case. You can even get a little bit for pets and beasts, compensation bytes are the best!" Annry agreed.

"You were so cool by the way, when you butt bombed that don dragon guy Gaxi Girl," Shawky giggled, twirling the liquid around in her glass.

"You weren't so bad yourself, I didn't know you could summon cool bone wolves!" Gaxi cheered.

"Well I'm glad it worked Gaxi Girl!" Shawky responded.

"So it's pretty late girls, I have to go home to my babies. But I'll be free again tomorrow!" Zeba said, downing her champagne and preparing to leave. Everyone said their goodbyes as their friend left.

"Perhaps I should get going as well, it's getting pretty late," Annry thought out loud as she began to get up from her chair.

"Wait up Annry Girl, I have some questions for you," Shawky said, her chin resting on her wrist.

"Uh, okay, what's up?" Annry asked, sitting back down and crossing her legs.

"What's with this whole 'Anti-member' business?" Shawky asked, her red eyes peering deep into Annry's brown ones.

"Okay, well things haven't always been entirely 'nice' for me..." Annry replied, keeping her tough demeanor and looking at Shawky with intense seriousness.

"Well, elaborate. We've all shared our weaknesses with you but all you did was show off your skills," Shawky said, arms folded. Gaxi nodded in agreement, her eyes darting back and forth between the two women.

'I hope they don't get too upset with each other,' she thought, taking a large sip of her drink.

"Okay, maybe I don't feel comfortable telling you two anything..." Annry glared.

"What do you mean you don't feel comfortable, we gave you the keys to our most inner most secrets because we trust you," Shawky glared back, challenging her.

"Look, just because you all spilled your guts to a stranger doesn't mean I should do the same," Annry retorted, rolling her eyes.

"You know what, that's fine. Something hurt you and you're still recovering from that hurt, but when you do feel ready to talk about it, Gaxi and Zeba Girl will be there to hear you out," Shawky offered. Annry rolled her eyes again and made her way to the door.

"Is she super mad?" Gaxi asked, shaken by the argument.

"No Gaxi Girl, she'll be alright, she's just a complicated soul, that's all," Shawky said, thinking about the confrontation.