Short Stories

Untitled Duck Game

Summary: POV: It's a lovely morning in the VOID Headquarters, and you are a horrible duck.

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"Why the FUCK is it so hot in here!?" Nikei yelled as he exited his room, throwing his coat onto a nearby chair. "Isn't the goddamn AC working?!"

"For your information, no." Emma responded from where she lay on the couch with only a light long-sleeve shirt and shorts on. "Hajime and Mikado are working on it right now."

Nikei stared at her. "Are you fucking kidding me?" He threw his hands up in the air. "I have to suffer in this heat until Hajime gets the AC fixed?!"

Iroha looked up from her spot on the floor. "You missed Mikado..."

"I don't trust that blonde bastard to fetch me a coffee, much less fix an air conditioner." Nikei explained matter-of-factly. "Hajime actually knows stuff like that."

"You know I can hear you, right?" Mikado called out from the other room. "Do you really have that little faith in me?"

"Yes! Now fuck off and continue doing whatever useless shit you were doing before!" Nikei called back.

"You wound me, Mr. Yomiuri!"

"Like I give a fuck!"

"Alright, you two, settle down!" Hajime interrupted. "Do I have to get out the get-along shirt again?"

At that, Nikei joined Emma on the couch, grumbling unintelligibly, while both girls started laughing at the memory. "At least open a goddamn window or something." Nikei muttered.

"Wow, Nikei had a good idea...!" Iroha said from the couch.

Emma moved away from the resulting flung pillow and Iroha's squeak. "Regardless of Iroha being a moron with that comment, that is actually a good idea. Here." She said as she opened about two windows.

Nikei sank further into the couch as he felt wind blow into the room. "Much better."

"Mr. Yomiuriii! Ms. Magorobiii!! Ms. Nijiuee!" Mikado yelled out. "I made some lemonade! Come over here to get some!"

"I fucking KNEW you weren't helping with the AC!" Nikei responded triumphantly.

"I'm doing both! I made the lemonade with my magic!"

"You can't weasel your way out of this one! I'll just get Hajime to confirm that and-"

"Aaaannnnd we're going to get lemonade now." Emma said tiredly while grabbing Nikei by the arm. She already had Iroha in her grasp, and she dragged them both to the kitchen. "Cooling down first, arguments later."

As this was going on, a duck waddled up to the window.

A duck couldn't do much in this world, but one could discover new places. And this? This was most definitely a new place.

Hernando flapped his wings and flew up to the window, perching on the windowsill. No weird creatures were in the room. So far, so good.

Voices rang out from another room. They were very loud. Hernando ignored them.

Time to discover some new things.

"Oi, get the fuck away from me!" Nikei swatted Mikado as he put his hands around him, causing the wizard to back away.

"But you must be hot in that vest of yours!" Mikado whined. "I only want to help..."

"Help some other goddamn way! Not by taking my damn clothes off!" Nikei yelled. "And Iroha, if you take that out of context and draw some freaky porn thing in your sketchbook, I swear to all things holy I WILL disembowel you!"