Chapter 28 :

Beastkin Girl #4 P.O.V

When I woke up, the sunlight was lighting up the clearing. Nearby, the other girls were there as well.

(So it seems the weird monster didn’t eat us...but then again.)

Glaring at Beastin Girl #3, she thought back to the day before. Had that monster decide that it really didn’t like them.They would have all been at least killed, if not eaten by the monster.

No matter how cute it is...maybe?

Paw steps from the black bridge, which seemed rather beat up, echoed through the clearing.

Arriving at the end of the bridge, the adorable little kitty cat, cough, I mean the monster appeared.

It seemed, normal? She never really understood what it is doing, but to protect the others. She is even willing to kill it.

(I don't want to go back to becoming slaves for other people, but I also want to survive. And gain enough strength to protect those I care about.)

That resolve was found when a large group of humans butchered her entire village, no one was spared.

They said it was some kind of revenge, but her family had never hurt any of them! Though that didn’t stop them at all.

They killed her father as he protected her and her mother. Then forced the two into slavery with those hideous collars.

( I vowed then that one day, all humans will disappear from this world. No matter how I do it.)

Will P.O.V

Arriving back to the base, Will noticed one of the Beastkin girl was awake and sitting up. She seemed to be concentrating on something… well, it's probably not gonna affect him.

“MEW!” (Heso!)

The Beastkin girl turned around, well Will couldn't tell EXACTLY which one she was, as they all were ridiculously covered in different things, so their features couldn't be seen at all.

Then, suddenly remembering, Will was reminded that they still hadn't their bath yet… and he also didn't get his bath.

(I'll go first then! Maybe it might help them be less scared of the bath?)

Hoping that he is able to get their paw of approval in taking a bath, Will waited from his munchies next to the bath.

Then after some more thought, conclude that even waiting there for the rest of his adorable little life, he STILL wouldn’t be able to get his munchies. Unless of course Greeny and the others grew wings and flew to him. While holding on to his food…

Yeah, not gonna happen.

(Great. What a waste of my trip. Now I have to go outside again, then eat the munchies, then heat up bath...well I really could reduce the steps.)

Moving to the bath, Will walked onto the half-fixed ramp. Then begun his heating again, ignoring the hunger signals his little white body was giving to him.

Which might not be the best for his developing body, but then again who cares about that if there is MAGIC! And he was kinda lazy, that however is just a small reason...nope certainly not the main reason why he did it this way.

After a couple more deep breathes of “Flame Breathe”, Will had a screen pop in front of him.

Flame Breathe has level up.

(Nice! My skills are going up! Well some of them anyways...still need some things to do to level my other ones. Plus they all need food to power them up. Then again, I’ll guess I’ll just use them when I need to then.)

For Will, the future is something his future self worries about, his present self has nothing to do with it. Well, his future self, or to him currently anyways, hates his past or him presently very much later on. Since his past keeps pushing things for him to do presently.

Though that ideology will have a rather interesting impact later in the future, er past? Present?

After getting the level up for his “Flame Breathe” skill, Will noticed that the red flames he was spraying out grew hotter. That though had absolutely nothing to do with him. In other words, he had no idea how to change the output of his flames and stuff.

Want to bake the food? Charcoal. What to light a fire? Charcoal. What to hurt an enemy? Well depending on the resistance, they can range from very rare to - charcoal.

(Might wanna work on controlling the temperature...well first heat this thing up! These things can be dealt with in the future…)

Beastkin girl #4, after seeing that Will went back to the…?...thingy? Started trying to wake up the other girls.

While she had no idea what the thing was used for, they should still prepare to run just in case. Also as a side note, she made sure to stay near Beastkin girl #3 to knock her out. She still hearing buzzing sounds around her from the scream before.

Will blissfully unaware of their intentions, just continued to heat up the “water”. Once he thought the water was heated enough, to the Beastkin’s surprise, he casually jumped into the bath.

(PUUURRRRFECT! A toasty bathy for mew! MEW MEWMEW!)

Without noticing, Will was singing...mewing in the bath.

Though it surprising wasn’t that bad sounding actually, even though he’s a he.

Quick footsteps was heard by Will inside the bath, as the undistishedable faces of the Beastkins was seen leaning over to peer inside.

(I wonder if they are alright with it now? Maybe I can communicate with them...nah, it’s more amewsing like this.)

(Beastkin girl #5) “See? It wasn’t a bad monster! It’s the embodiment of CUTENESS! It can’t harm adorable things!”

(Beastkin girl #4) “I guess...at least this doesn’t seem to be a cooking pot or anything or that sort...unlike what a certain person said.”

Giving an intense look at the direction of Beastkin girl #3, who hid behind Beastkin girl #2 and poked her head over to stare back.

(Beastkin girl #2) “Guess I’m wrong then. At least I did think of the idea.”

Beastkin girl #2 looked rather pleased with herself for causing Beastkin girl #3 to start her banshee screams. Even when she was also heavily affected…

(Beastkin girl #1) “From what I can tell, I believe what we are looking at is a improvised bath of some sort.”

With her ability to analyze the bath that Will made, and who is currently swimming in with kitty paddles inside the water. It gave the overall image of a innocent harmless bath and little kittycat.

(Beastkin girl #3) “So the little kitty won’t hurt us? Or eat us?”

(Beastkin girl #1) “No, probably not. And even if it was, if you scream again I will take you out before it does.”

Beastkin girl #1 gave a menacing look at Beastkin girl #3, apparently Beastkin gir #1 seems to like quiet places, something that most certainly was NOT part of the place the day before.

Still hidden behind Beastkin girl #2, Beastkin girl #3 tried to look pitiful to gain some sympathy from the others. It wasn’t her fault that she just had naturally strong lungs and vocal cords, right?

Will wished he had some popcorn or munchies to watch the show (drama) as he was floating on the water with his little squishy tummy up.

(Well...they at least figured I wasn’t going to eat them. But then again if I feed you, then logically shouldn’t it mean that I am a good little kitty? People. How confusing.)

Though he did seem to have conveniently forgotten a sweet house and a witch fatting up 2 children, but that's irrelevant in this world anyways...or is it?

After washing away all of the dirtiness out of his fur, he now had fluffy looking sleek shiny white fur! If a picture was taken well enough, he could possibly pass for a CUTENESS God!

Then another problem reared its head. How do you clean the bath after using it?

Draining it? With what?

Just reusing it? Then it wouldn’t be a BATH, more like a...thing.

(Well...I really should get some kind of notepad or something, I feel like I keep forgetting important things like this...wait, wasn't I originally going to...um...melt it? Or was it to heat it hot enough so it would turn into water vapors…)

Somewhat recalling the idea he had before, Will looked at the amount of liquid inside the bath.

It was at least a few feet high, far more than he could convert into vapor easily…

Another idea came to mind as Will was pondering over it.

(What if I go the opposite direction? What if I turn it all into a solid and have my minions carry it out? That seems far more efficient...and might level up a skill I didn’t bother using...2 birds with one stone!)

Realizing what a genius he is...though the idea of adding a drainage system during the initial creation seemed to not have appeared…

Will activate his “Ice Mist” ability for the first time.

Concentrating on making a cold temperature around himself. Will saw mist come out into existence around his body and the heated water started to cool quickly.

The Beastkin girls above started commenting on what the little kitty was doing now.

(Beastkin girl #1) “That's new...what’s up with this monster? Don’t they usually eat people and kill things? This seems more like a intelligent creature than a brainless monster.”

(Beastkin girl #5) “I told you, this is the embodiment of the CUTENESS God! We should be honored he is showing his powers like this! Start worshiping him, you unbelievers!”

Hitting Beastkin girl #5 in the head, Beastkin girl #4 tried to rationally think and plan what to do next.

(Beastkin girl #4) “Don’t be ridiculous, this is definitely NOT a god. Though your point about it being rather intelligent does make sense.”

She gave Beastkin girl #1 a glance.

(Beastkin girl #4) “However, we still need to find a way out. Originally we were bait that was to lead the monsters away. Now that they can’t control us, we should focus on getting rid of these things.”

She pointed to the collar on her neck, which seemed to be the only part that was clean.

As Will was eavesdropping on their conversation while freezing the water around him, he took note of the collar that was being mentioned.

(Is that some sort of accessory? Do they not like it? Meh, I’ll figure that out later, for now it seems they want to leave this place...TAKE ME WITH YOU! I have no sense of direction...I’ll get lost FOREVER! Don’t let little kitties be lost! For CUTENESS!)

Trying to express his voice, what came out was.

(Will) “MEW NYA NYAN, NYA NYA! MEOW!”

Yeah, not very helpful…

The Beastkin girls hurriedly stepped back from the bath, well except Beastkin girl #5. She stayed and watched Will meowing.

(Beastkin girl #4) “Get back, you moron! Want to die? We might have somehow angered it! Do you WANT to be turned into a zombie?”

Grabbing Beastkin girl #5 by the tail, Beastkin girl #4 yanked her back.

(That hurts! I’m NOT a bad kitty! And what do you mean turn you into a zombie? That’s possible? Well...yeah….I really should stop being distracted when I do stuff…)

As Will was listening, he was also continuously creating a cold mist around himself. Without him noticing, he had managed to freeze a portion of his entire body inside the frozen water.

So now, his head and ends of his paws were out of the ice, but his wings and everything else was in the ice.

How he didn't feel anything as he was slowly being frozen is a mystery…

(....So burn my way out? Seems to be the only choice I have...I’m gonna need a better method to freeze and move the ice then I thought. Maybe I should use my minions for everything?)

Concocting another plot to remove the used water, Will was then forced to change gears, and sprayed out a wide but short “Flame Breathe” from his mouth to melt the ice.

After a while, the Beastkin girls checked up on what he was doing.

(Beastkin girl #2) “Anyone know why he’s freezing then melting what he froze? Is this normal behavior?”

(NO!)

(Beastkin girl #1) “Maybe it's some sort of ritual? A mating ritual or something?”

(I’m not even ONE!)

(Beastkin girl #5) “No, you’re all wrong! He’s communicating with the CUTENESS god! See? He has his little paws in worship and holding them upwards!”

(That could work actually…)

(Beastkin girl #4) “We should just stop with this nonsense! Let’s just see what it does afterwards, for now we should eat those fruits while we can! From what I can tell, that is the only food here, everything else can kill whoever eats it.”

(Beastkin girl #3) “But the kitty ate it!”

Beastkin girl #3 who seemed to be more happier, was now looking at Will as he was freeing himself from his own created ice, commented on Beastkin girl #4’s thought.

(Beastkin girl #4) “Well, WE aren’t that kitty. So I need you girls to eat a lot! This might be our last meal!”

(Bananas as a last meal? That would be TERRIBLE! I should at least give them...ice cream? Let’s see I need ice, check. Then milk...let’s make shaved ice instead. Yeah, just freeze fruit and turn it into tiny bits. Add the “Spiky Needle Ball” juice in, which I hope isn’t poisonous...hopefully. Then ta-da! Shaved Ice! Now I just need to get out of this before making it…)

After a bit more roasting, where for some reason even when the flames hit his unfrozen body, it didn’t burn it. Though that’s probably not important either. Just small details.

(I’m FREE!)

Walking back on the black ramp, Will went to see what the Beastkin girls were doing.

He found them busily eating the supply of “Purple Bananas” that was left.

Beastkin girl #5 noticed Will and spoke to the others.

(Beastkin girl #5) “Look! CUTENESS! It’s all fluffy!”

As she was talking, she stood up and started walking towards Will, dropping the unpeeled “Purple Banana” in her hands to the ground.

(What is she trying to do? Whatever, time to summon minions!)

(MEW MEW!“ (Create Undead!)

Between Will and the approaching Beastkin girl, the magic circle dropped off a group of 5 zombies.

Will checked his mana.

Mana : 3/20

(Doesn’t “Tame” also use mana? Didn’t it only use 1 that I naturally recovered or something? Guess the Tamer class don’t need much mana...I think.)

Seeing that him taming Greeny didn’t seemed to have used any mana, Will was rather relieved. Since now he didn’t have to include mana in his calculations, at least that's what he thought.

Beastkin girl #5 stopped a few feet away from the newly summoned undeads, though they were kitties they were also dead. So they could be quite dangerous for an unarmed person.

Ignoring her, Will had 2 of them go inside the bath, and sent the other 3 out to help Greeny.

(Will) [Greeny, where are you?]

(Greeny) [I am not far from the base master. Is something wrong?]

(Will) [Did you pick up fruits? Actually a more important question, can you eat the fruits?]

(Greeny) [I believe I can eat the ones with the swirls around it, but it doesn’t taste very good.]

(Will) [Really? Then what do you usually eat?]

(Greeny) [Other monster.]

His tone seemed rather happy when he said that.

(Will) [Well then get as many of those spiky balls and those edible swirls fruits as you can, I’m sending in help to you. They’ll help with carrying the goods.]

(Greeny) [As you wish master.]

(Well that's one thing I done! Next is to go and freeze the used water and make some new bathing water so I can finally see what they look like! Go MEW!)

Now assured that he would have the materials to work with, Will is able to concentrate on freezing and removing the used water inside the bath.

Returning back into the bath, he had the 2 zombies there line up so that they were in line with the ramp. That way when they were able to get the frozen water, they would be able to walk onto the ramp.

Then Will also dove into the water. He started freezing the areas around the two zombies making sure that this time he didn’t include himself in the AOE.

He froze everything around the zombies, but their legs. So they now look like blocks of frozen ice-water thingy that has 4 legs to move around.

(Success! Now move my loyal minions!)

Obeying, the two large blocks of ice walked up the ramp and then walked to the surface. They traveled to the bridge and crossed over the the forest side and then smashed themselves against the nearby trees.

(Well...that worked?)

Through his link with the zombies, he could tell that the ice was smashed well and that the tree did live. The problem was both zombies now had a broken neck after the collision. Good thing they’re zombies aye?

Will checked the water level again, the water had dropped by a good amount. He estimated that several more times of this, then the water would all be cleared out.

(Beastkin girl #2) “Did you just see 2 blocks or ice walk by or was that just me?”

(Beastkin girl #1) “From all that I’ve seen, this monster is the most oddest I have ever even READ about. It can use necromancy, and at the same time use fire and ice. Doesn’t seems to be stupid, and for some odd reason, I feel like it is intelligent enough to at least understand us.”

(Beastkin girl #4) “Then do you think that it has some sort of goal? What reason does it have for keeping us here?”

That question left the group in silence as they tried to understand the workings of Will’s head. Though that's rather impossible as even Will doesn’t completely understand it well.

-A hour later -

(Now time for the last one!)

Happily, Will frozen the last bit and attached it to the now SUPER beat up twin zombies. Each had all their upper body severally crushed with several bones showing through. Again, it’s a good thing they’re zombies aye?

Sending the 2 out for their last trip, Will breathed a sigh as he laid at the bottom of the now empty bath.

(Well...next is to recreate the water and resupply the food, feed my minions and the Beastkins...and sleep.)

Looking up at the fading light that went through the trees into the bath. Will walked up the newly repaired ramp, as he had time to rebuild it while emptying the water via zombies.

(Will) [Greeny, how is it going on your end?]

(Greeny) [We had gathered a large pile of these “Spiky Needle Balls” and “Purple Bananas” as you requested master. Right now, my pack and your 3...helpers are guarding the entrance to the base.]

Satisfied, Will mentally ordered the 3 zombies to start bring in the food into the base.

(Guess I need to make a temporally base for now then, otherwise Greeny and his 2 subordinates might get attacked at night….)

Standing up, Will walked out of the bath and then headed towards the bridge as his 3 zombies were bring in new food.

The Beastkin girls were now just sitting by the food pile as they watched the goings of the now busier base.

(Oh, I almost forgot.)

Will quickly used the effects of his “Undead Lord” to release his 2 beat up zombies.

Walking onto the black, somewhat cracked bridge, Will made a note to himself that he had to also fix this thing as well…

Arriving to the other side, Will saw Greeny and his 2 subordinates.

(I really should give them a name...I know! The one with the injuries on the left will be called “Lefty” and the right injured one will be called “Righty”!)

Once again, Will’s “superior” naming skills showed their power!

Speaking to Greeny, Will had him understand the 2 new names for the Wind Jaguars.

(Well, time for work!)

For the rest of the daylight period, Will had erected sharp pointed spikes everywhere in a circular fashion around the trio of monsters to protect them for the night. They stayed right in front of the entrance to the base, the black bridge so that Will could quickly get to them in case of emergencies.

Through, luckily another night passed without incident.

Or did it?