The Great Reisen Labyrinth
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Reisen Gorge

The party is taking a small break as Hajime is looking at a map. Ruby stands behind a sitting Blake, combing through Blake's hair with her claws. 

Blake's tentacles don't have the scythes at the end of them, she learned how to hide them. She also has a weapon in a scabbard on her back.

"'The entrance to the labyrinth is somewhere in Reisen Gorge.' Well, that's specific." Hajime says.

Shea stands up, stepping side to side a little. "Y-Yeah, huh..."

"What's up? You feeling all right?"

"W-Well, I just need to go powder my nose."

"You won't find any powder like that down in this gorge." Hajime says and Yue waves off the bunny.

"Sheesh!" Shea whines and she runs off.

Ruby glares at the running rabbit. "Has she always been this annoying?" She pulls a couple knots out of Blake's hair.

"Unfortunately so, Mistress." Blake responds.

"Well, it is on the way to the Gryuen, so might as well hit it if we find it." Hajime speaks up.

"Hajime-san, Ruby-san, Yue-san, Blake-kun, I found something!" Shea yells as she waves from around a corner. "Come over here!"

Blake huffs. "She dare call me kun."

The four walk over to her and she leads them to a pink plaque on a wall. "Look, right here!" She says.

"Hi there, welcome!" A high pitched cheerful voice rings out. "Welcome to Mildei Reisen's Super Duper Exciting Labyrinth!"

The four look around in confusion, while Shea looks at the Plaque on the wall in awe.

"Wh-Where's that voice coming from?" Hajime questions.

"And can we eat who ever is speaking?" Ruby questions.

"Oh, I'm quite hungry." Blake says.

"Who cares!" Shea says. "We finally found the entrance to the labyrinth!" She walks off.

"Think it's real, Yue? Reuben?" Hajime asks.

"Mm-hmm." Yue nods.

"Better be, I want to have some fun." Ruby crosses her arms.

"Your reasoning?" Hajime asks Yue.

"I read it in Oscar's notes." Yue informs.

Shea begins to pat on a wall. "Okay, how do we get in?"

Hajime looks back at the rabbit. "Come on, it wouldn't..."

Suddenly the wall opens up in front of Shea and she falls in. Then the wall closes right back up, leaving her trapped in.

The four left in the room just blink. "No way..." They say.

...

...

The four enter the room and are immediately attacked by spikes coming out of the wall. Ruby swiftly takes her scythe out and twirls it around, deflecting all the spikes.

"Where'd she go?" Hajime questions as Ruby puts her scythe on her back.

Ruby sniffs the air and smells fear and... urine. Ruby's nose scrunches up along with Blake's. Ruby looks to the side to see Shea being held up by spikes and there's also a puddle under her.

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"She wet herself." Yue informs.

Shea blushes in embarrassment. "Please, don't look!" She uses her ears to cover he eyes.

After Shea gets down, with Ruby and Blake glaring at the Rabbit, the five go over to a stone grave in the ground and texts appears on it.

The high pitched cheerful voice rings out again. "Did that scare ya? Give you a scare, huh?"

Shea turns to Hajime and holds her hand out. "Looks like it's time for me to bring out that thing you made me, Hajime-san!"

Hajime gives Shea a large hammer, which she uses to destroy the stone grave.

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Shea takes a few breathes as she glares at the stone rubble on the ground.

"Aww, sorry!" Mildei's high pitched and cheerful voice rings out. "These stone tablets automatically regenerate after a while!"

"I'm betting Miledi Reisen wasn't related to the Liberators at all." Hajime says. "She's just a scourge on humanity."

"I wholeheartedly agree." Yue says.

"Me too." Ruby nods, Blake nodding with her.

The five head further in and they walk down a hallway. There are a few doors that lead up some stairs.

"Wasn't sure if this would be much of a labyrinth, but I guess it is." Hajime says.

"This definitely isn't like the Ocrus labyrinth." Ruby says.

Hajime suddenly steps on a pressure plate and all the doors leading up close.

Ruby and Hajime get into a stance and look forward, Yue covers the right, Shea the left and Blake the back.

"How did you not notice the pressure plate?" Ruby asks.

"I wasn't thinking about traps at the time!" Hajime states.

"You're so stupid!"

"That's rich coming from you!"

They hear a rumbling and everyone looks forward to see a large stone boulder rolling down some stairs and straight towards them.

Yue holds her hand out. "Crimson Javelin!" She casts but the spell doesn't work. "Just as I thought, we can't use projectile magic in here."

Hajime pulls his revolver out and aims it forward. "Well, that's annoying." He fires, blowing the boulder up, but several more roll towards them.

Hajime goes to fire, but Shea gets in his way. "Wha?!"

"Let me handle this!" Shea yells and she swings her hammer into the boulders, knocking them back and they crash into the walls.

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Shea turns around and gives everyone a peace symbol.

They keep moving on and a couple saw blades come out of the wall in another hallway they enter. The saw blades slides towards the party, but Shea runs forward and uses her hammer to hold them in place. 

"Now's your chance!" Shea yells.

"G-Got it." Hajime and Yue duck under the blades as they move.

Ruby grabs Blake and uses her Petal Burst to move the two over and past the blades.

Another time Hajime is swinging by a rope as Yue and Shea hold onto him. Ruby is hanging by her scythe on the side of a wall, with Blake on her back.

Hajime swings forward and Shea slams her hammer into a wall, smashing it down. "Made it through!" She smiles.

Then Hajime is holding Yue as he runs down a hallway, with Ruby and Blake just behind them. Shea is in the back, getting hit in the head with pans.

"How're ya doing?" Miledi asks. "This helping you clear your head?"

In another hallway the four jump over a goo trap but Shea gets caught and has to trudge through it.

"Wow, look at how ooey-gooey she is!" Miledi laughs.

Then in another hallway the five find a hole in the wall and they wall in it, Shea pears around the corner and gets hit in the face with some white goo.

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"Hey, how're you feeling right now, huh?" Miledi asks.

"She looks like one of those girls from the videos I caught Yang watching." Ruby mutters. "Filth! Such filth!"

Then as they move on a wall opens up as Shea growls in annoyance. "Miledi, that witch!" Shea grumbles. "Stop making fun of me!"

The five stop as they notices they've come back to where they began.

"I feel like we've seen this room before. Don't you?" Hajime asks.

"Definitely. Especially that thing." Yue points to the puddle of Shea's urine and the stone grave.

"And it still smells of Shea's fear." Blake states.

"And pee." Ruby adds.

Shea starts to grunt in anger.

"Is this the first room we were in?" Hajime asks.

"Hey, how're you feeling right now?" Miledi asks. "What're you feeling?"

The party moves on and after a while they walk down a hallway and a bunch of monsters start running at them.

Shea, Yue and Blake get ready to fight, but Ruby and Hajime narrow their eyes at the approaching monsters.

"Wait." Ruby calls out and the three other girls look to her. "It's an illusion."

"Huh?" Shea questions.

"Yeah, these aren't real." Hajime says.

"How do you know?" Blake asks.

"Because sister Ruby is such a good person." Yue states.

Ruby smiles. "Thanks Yue." The vampire nods. "But not just that." She throws her right bones hand to the side and latches onto something.

Suddenly the world around them shatters like glass and reveals that Ruby is holding up a small demon by the neck. 

"It was a succubus." Ruby states as she looks at the small girl.

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"Such a weak succubus aren't yeah?" Ruby asks as she brings the girl closer to her face.

The pink and brown haired demon grunts as she claws at Ruby's hand, but stops as Ruby tightens her grip round her neck. She looks at Ruby and her Pink and brown eyes shine for a second.

"A charm spell?" Ruby questions and then laughs. "Your spells are very weak and laughable." She tightens her grip and the demon's face starts to turn blue. "I don't much like being tricked."

"What are you going to do with her?" Hajime asks.

Ruby just hums then tosses the small demon girl into the wall. The demon slides down the wall, leaving a little blood trail.

"Nothing, isn't worth killing." Ruby walks off and everyone begins to follow her. "If I see you again little demon, I will kill and eat you."

The succubus watches the party wall off as she rubs her neck.

"Why did you leave her alive, Mistress?" Blake asks. "She tried to kill you."

"...I don't particularity know why." Ruby responds. "I just really didn't feel like killing her, maybe her charm spell did work."

After a while of walking the party enters a large room with many large knights in the walls. Hajime had to use Transmute to open the door.

Hajime slightly bends over and takes a few heavy breaths. Then he stands up straight. "Well, that's an impressive door. Think we've found Miledi's lair?"

"Mm." Yue hums.

"Well, shit, then, let's celebrate."

"Where's the food then?" Ruby asks. "I'm quite hungry."

"I would say let's eat, but I've got a real bad feeling about these suits of armor." Hajime informs.

"It's okay." Yue says. "This will play out to our expectations."

"Does that mean... We're getting attacked?" Shea asks.

"I'll be able to test out this new body then." Blake smiles under her mask.

"Hey, Bedwetter Bunny." Hajime calls out, making Ruby snicker. 

Shea turns to Hajime. "Y-Yes, what is it?"

"You're tough. We'll vouch for that. So get in there and have fun. We'll save you if it gets hairy."

"I take care of my pupils." Yue states.

"Yeah, I guess I need someone to act as bait for later." Ruby mutters and Blake nods.

Shea starts to tear up. "Yue-san, Hajime-san, Ruby-san..." She swings her hammer around. "I'm going to beat the heck out of Miledi Reisen!"

Ruby turns to Blake. "If you get in a bind, I'll come for you." She readies her scythe.

"Thank you, Mistress." Blake takes the weapon out of the scabbard on her back. She's named it Grambol Shroud. Her tentacle wrapping around the handle and going through the trigger.

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Blake readies her sword.

Hajime pulls out two revolvers with a smirk.

The suits of armor in the walls start to march out and turn to the party as they all run forward.

Ruby laughs as she moves between the legs of a massive suit of armor and cuts them in half. "HAHA! There's no blood so it's less satisfying!"

Blake runs forward and a knight swings its sword down onto her, but shes propelled back as a shadow-clone takes her place. The knights weapon goes through the clone, but it turns to ice, making the blade gets stuck.

Blake changes her sword into her pistol and fires onto the knight, destroying it.

Ruby uses Petal Burst and flies above to knights and she leans back and sucks up some air, before leaning forward and firing down some Acid Spit.

Her Acid Spit lands on the two knights below her and it begins to melt them. She lands on the ground and a knight raises its sword behind her, but Grambol Shroud flies through the air and gets lodges into it's head.

Blake comes flying in with a ribbon in hand that's attached to the knight and she drop kicks it away from Ruby. Ruby gives Blake a thumbs up which makes the cat Grimm's eyes light up.

Ruby swiftly changes her Grimm Scythe into Crescent rose through Metamorphosis. She puts it into rifle mode and aims it forward and fires, the force sending her into the back of a knight that was about to attack Shea.

Ruby the aims the gun at the head of the knight she slammed into and fires, blowing up the metal head and sending her into the air.

Ruby laughs as she flies up. "This is the best!" She flips her gun up and changes it into Scythe mode and pulls the trigger firing her gun and sending her down towards the ground. 

Ruby flips through the air as she falls down and cuts another knight in half, then switches her Scythe into War mode, making it a War Scythe, and she blocks a sword.

Ruby pushes the sword back and cuts the arm of the knight off and then cuts its head off.

Blake runs over to Ruby as she fires her gun. The two then follow Hajime and Yue up some stairs as they fire thier weapons at the knights.

"Nothing like beating a 20mm round to the face!" Ruby laughs as she reloads her sniper.

She and Blake reach the top of the stairs and Ruby notices Yue holding some weird looking water cannons.

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"There's no end to them" Hajime mutters as he keeps firing his revolvers at the approaching knights. 

Shea flips through the air and lands behind the four and she uses her hammer to open the door leading to the next room.

Everyone turns around and runs towards the door, and they find that it a vast void with not floors, only floating cubes.

"Everyone, jump!" Hajime yells.

Everyone jumps into the room and onto a floating cube. The cube moves up to a platform where a massive suit of armor is standing. White eyes shine through the helmet's eye ports hand a smiley face is drawn on the front of the helmet.

"You've gotta be shitting me." Ruby mutters.

"Hey there!" Miledi's voice rings out from the armor. "Nice to meet you!"

"Okay, hold on, you can't be serious." Hajime says.

"It's huge..." Yue says.

Ruby coughs. "That'swhatshesaid."

"I-It definitely feels like the boss..." Shea sweats.

"This is gonna be a tough fight." Blake says as she reloads her gun.

"It's everyone's beloved Miledi Reisen-chan!" She shouts.

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"Who are you?" Hajime questions. "Miledi Reisen is human and long dead, isn't she? I read that in Oscar's notes."

"Ooh, oh my gosh, are you the ones who made it through O-chan's labyrinth?" Miledi asks.

"I'm asking the questions here. If you don't feel like answering then I'll just have to fight you. We're only here to get our hands on ancient magic."

"I'm telling the truth! I'm the real Miledi Reisen! If you wanna know more, you'd better answer my questions." Hajime glares up at her. "What's your end goal? What do you want this ancient magic for?"

"My goal is to home." Hajime answers. "This insane god of yours forced me and my friend over here, after all."

"I see. That must have been tough."

"We're looking for a form of ancient magic that allows you to jump between worlds. I'm not the least interested in putting my life on the line for this world. That's my answer. So, is the ancient magic in this labyrinth rift-crossing magic?"

"Hmmmm...." Miledi waves a finger. "I'm not telling!"

Hajime then pulls out a six barreled rocket launcher. "Then die!" he fires, and the rockets and they travel through the air. "Destroy the core! It's basically her heart!"

Shea launches up towards the massive suit of armor.

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The rockets slams into Miledi and she takes a step back. Shea brings her hammer down, but the suit raises its arms to block her attack.

The forces behind Shea's attack cracks the arms armor.

"Wow, you're pretty good, huh?" Miledi compliments.

"You think so?" Hajime asks as he appears on the chest of her, Rose Petals fall around him and they lead up above him.

"Wh-When'd you get there?!"

"Take this!" Hajime fires both his revolvers into the suits chest and he flies back as the suit falls down.

Hajime lands next to Yue and Blake as Ruby drops next to him. Rose Petals fall around her.

"Did it work?" Yue asks as Shea lands back with them.

"Feel like it did, but..." Hajime says.

"I really hope that was the end of it!" Shea says.

"Nah, that just gave me a little shiver!" Miledi stands back up. "If your artifact could manifest its true power..." 

Hajime looks at the armor suit's chest and notices how it's only scrapped the paint off. "Azantium! Goddammit!"

"Get too ahead of yourself and you'll regret it!"

Shea looks up. "Dodge! Something's coming from above!"

Everyone looks up to see many cubes gathering together above them.

Miledi giggles. "Here's what you get! Now show me if you can survive this!"

The cubes start to rain down onto the party, Hajime fires his rocket launcher up, but hardly does anything. "Dammit!" He sweats.

"Time to move!" Ruby grabs onto Blake.

"Grab onto me!" Hajime orders and Yue and Shea grab onto him.

Hajime uses quick step to move off the cube and onto another, while Ruby uses Petal Burst to fly from cube to cube to avoid the falling ones.

A large smoke screen covers the area, blocking Miledi's view of the party. "Guess they couldn't handle it." She mutters. "But I suppose if they couldn't handle this, then they wouldn't be able to beat those bastards."

Hajime's voice then rings out. "I told you I've got no interest in those bastards!"

Mildei looks to the side to see Hajime standing on a cube, by himself. "H-How?"

"I could tell you, but... You sure you should be staring at me?"

Yue stands on a cube behind Miledi. "Force Rupture!" Her cannons fire beams of high pressured water onto the suits back at the suits shoulders.

"No matter how many times you try, it won't work!" Miledi informs and she holds up her hands. "Both my arms can regenerate and fix themselves!"

"I won't give you time to do that!" Ruby smiles sadistically from a cube to the right of Miledi. She changes Crescent Rose into rifle form and pulls the bolt back, cambering a round.

Ruby laughs as she a round and it slams into the suit's chest, sending it to the ground. Blake throws Grambol Shroud into a cube above Hajime and she swings it and grabs it, then sets him down near Miledi.

Yue jumps over to Miledi. "Freeze. Crystal Coffin!" Ice forms around Miledi's suit, trapping her to the ground.

Hajime jumps onto Miledi's chest, with a spike driver in his hands. "Nice!"

Hajime puts the spike driver onto Miledi's chest and it attaches itself to her. It starts to charge up and magnetize. "Eat this and die!" He yells and he fire the spike driver, only embedding the tip of the large spike into the suit's chest. 

Miledi laughs. "Looks like you didn't have enough force! Down here, your magic won't be as strong."

Hajime lets out a chuckle. "Shea!" He yells. "Finish her!"

Shea flies down from above and slams her hammer into the top of the spike. Sending it through the suit's chest and destroying the core. Miledi lets out a scream. 

Ruby uses Petal Burst and flies down to Blake, who's standing next to the massive suit of armor. 

The light in Miledi's eyes goes dark. The other three move over to Ruby and Blake and they all look at the large suit of armor.

"So much easier than the Hydra fight." Ruby sighs in relief. 

"You fought a Hydra?!" Blake asks with wide eyes and Ruby nods, making Blake's eyes shine in awe.

"Nice going." Hajime looks at Shea.

Yue looks at Shea. "Shea, bend down for me." The rabbit girl obeys and the Vampire begins to pat her head. "Hajime won't pet you head, but I thought that'd make you sad. You did good."

.Shea starts to tear uo.

Ruby rolls her eyes at the scene and looks to Blake, only to notice a small blush on the cats face as she touches the tips of her tentacles together. 

Ruby sighs "You did good too." She begins to pat Blake's head, causing the cat girl to shake her waist in happiness and she starts to purr. 

'This is not the weirdest thing to happen, but it's up there.' Ruby says in thought as she pats Blake's head.

Shea begins to cry in the background and complain about how she thought she was going to die.

She then stands up and she looks between Hajime and Yue."Wait! You finally called me by my actual name!"

Suddenly Miledi speaks. "Hey, sorry to ruin this nice mood you got going here..." Her eyes flash.

Ruby stops patting Blake's head, much to the cats dismay, and turns to the suit of armor.

"I thought we destroyed the core!" Hajime says.

"I used the last of my power to buy me a little time to talk to you." Miledi informs. 

"I don't wanna hear anything about these bastards you keep talking about."

"It's less of a talk and more of a warning. As you said, you were going to get all the Liberator's ancient magic, to achieve your end goal. "

"Alright." Hajime agrees to listen.

"Good luck." Miledi says.

"Well, isn't that sweet of you."

"Sorry, those bastards are really bad guys... So I just want you to get a little bit used to it."

"Whoa, hey. Why're you acting like we're going to fight them?" Ruby asks. "I may like fighting, but I'm not gonna fight every last one of them!"

Miledi starts to glow as particles float off of her. "Because you two will. because you are who you are, one day, you both will become God-Killers."

"You're not making sense." Hajime states. "If they're gonna get in my way, then sure, I might fight them, but..."

Miledi lets out a giggle. "That's fine. Live your life the way you want. The decisions you make will surely be for the better of this world..." A golden glow floats away from her body and the suit stops glowing.

"It's over." Yue informs. "Good work."

The golden glow flies off into the void. "Thanks." Miledi replies. "I hope you are able to live your lives as freely as you choose to."

A cube floats over to the platform the party is standing on and they walk over to it and get it. The cube then begins to move and it takes them across the void and to a strange building with a skill as an entrance. 

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The party enters a room. Hajime and Ruby stare in shock, Yue has no emotions, while Shea looks in annoyance. Blake doesn't show much emotion since half her face is covered. 

In front of the party is a short being wearing a yellow cloak.

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"Hi there, short time no see!" It's Miledi. "It's me, Miledi-chan!" The party is quiet. "Wasn't that a nice speech back there? D'aww, please, I'm not that talented of an actor! I'm no terrifying girl!"

The five people in front of her gain dark looks and Miledi panics. "Huh?" She takes a few steps back and sweats. "Huh whaaa?" She then does a cute pose.

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Yue motions with her fingers and Shea moves in front of the party with her hammer at the ready. She isn't happy.

Miledi falls back. "W-Wait, this body's really delicate!" She scoots back. "I'll be in a real bad spot if it dies on me!" Shea walks over to Miledi. "Calm down, please! I-I'm sorry, okay?"

Shea raises her hammer and brings it down onto Miledi.

A few minutes later a magic circle dies down.

"So it was gravity magic, huh?" Hajime says.

A bump is on Miledi's head. "Please use it well. But none of you other than the blonde girl, have an affinity for it. You've gotta be a way higher level."

"Lame." Ruby whines. "I'm a pretty damn high level right now!"

Hajime puts his hands on his hips and glares at Miledi. "Oh, come on. You're just assuming that!"

"The blondie here's perfect for it." Miledi informs. "If you train real hard, you should be able to learn how to use it."

"Mn." Yue hums.

Miledi hands Hajime a ring and he grabs it. "There are other things you've got to prove I got down here, right?" He grabs Mildei. "Like some useful artifacts or rare materials? Give 'em here!" He lifts up the sort girl and shakes her around, gems and jewels fall out of her.

"Y-Your lines and actions make you sound like a plain ol' thief, you know that?!" Miledi says and after a couple minutes pass Hajime sets her down. "To think that the very first people down here would be this intense..."

The party begins to dig through the treasure. Ruby finds a large vial of black liquid. "One of these again?" She questions and breaks open the vial, and the liquid sinks below her sink. Ruby shivers a little. "Another weird feeling."

"Ah, Neo-chan!" Miledi calls out.

Ruby looks up to see Miledi standing in front of the succubus the party encounter a couple hours ago. "It's her."

Neo slightly hides behind Miledi as she waves to Ruby.

"How did a succubus end up down here?" Ruby asks Miledi.

"Well, a very long time ago her parents sealed her here, because she was a very weak individual. Weak Illusion magic, weak charm magic and she was even born mute." Miledi informs. "So her parents, who were disgusted by their weak daughter, sealed her here. But we became friends and not wanting to see her die during my time here, I put her in a magic coma, one where she wouldn't age or die of hunger or thirst. But I woke her up an hour before you meet her."

Neo nods through out the whole explanation. 

"Tch." Ruby crosses her arms. "Shitty parents."

Miledi scratches her cheek. "Though, if you don't mind, I do have one request."

"What is it?" Hajime questions.

"Please take her with you! I want Neo to see the world and not be stuck down here for the rest of her life." Neo looks at Miledi in surprise.

"I hardly see the reasons as why we should take a demon with us." Shea says.

Ruby then speaks. "I have no use for someone as weak as-" She gets cut off as Blake taps her shoulder.

"Mistress, you can make her a Grimm and that'll help her become stronger and be of use to you Mistress."

Ruby then puts a hand on her chin and hums. "... I see your point. Good job."

Blake smiles under her mask.

Ruby stands up and walks over to the very short succubus, standing at 4'10'' (124.9 cm.)

Ruby holds her hand out to Neo. "If you come with me you will be forced to become like me. To be reborn as something much better, much stronger. And along the way you will become very strong, but also face very strong opponents. So knowing this, will you acpet coming with me?"

Neo looks to Ruby's hand then to Miledi, who nods to her. Neo looks back at Ruby and grabs her hand with a nod. Ruby smirks as she leads Neo away from everyone and a Grimm Pool spawns below her.

"You will serve me and my Goddess for the rest of your life." Ruby says as she starts to lay Neo into the water and slowly sinks her. "etaf ylno reh eb llahs lleh ni noitanmad neht ,yarteb dluohs ehs fI .ssentaerg ot kcab eman ruoy gnirb dna dlrow siht fo thgil eht yortsed ot em dna uoy wollof llahs ehS .mmirG eht htiw eno eb ot luos tsol siht wolla ,melaS sseddoG"

Ruby finishes the chant in a dark voice and Neo sinks below the water, down into the depths of the pool.

Everyone watches out of curiosity. Ruby watches with a smile as the pool stills for a few seconds before it starts to ripple. Then a figure emerges from the water.

Neo's pink hair turned white and her brown turned black. Her pink eye turns black and red and her brown eye turned pink. Most her her mouth is covered by a zipper and she holds a large umbrella.

She's also grown taller, now being 5'1'' (155.7 cm)

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Neo looks at Ruby and curtsy.

"Now you're very pretty and much stronger." Ruby says to her new Grimm follower. "Well come to being a Grimm."

"So that's how she did it." Hajime mutters.

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Ruby gained a Waifu! 2 of 4 collected. Half way there!

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Miledi stands near a rope hanging from the ceiling. "Well, it's time for you all to leave!" She pulls the rope and water fills the room and flushes everyone down a drain.

"Fuuuuuuck!" Ruby screams as she flows down the drain.

"Bye, then!" Miledi calls out. "Good luck in the other labyrinths and take good care of Neo-chan for me!"

The party is pushes into a river and they swim up towards the surface. Shea stops as she encounters a fish with a face.

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"What're you looking at?" The fish asks.

Shea yells in shock, but since she's under water she lets out the air she was using and she passes out. She then floats to the surface.

The party is shot out of the water and into the air. Ruby lands on the ground with a thud and she turns to her side and vomits water.

Blake hisses as she shakes her body and flicks water everywhere, Neo is nearby and she moves her umbrella to avid getting more wet than she already is.

"I'm definitely going to break her apart one day." Hajime mutters as he takes deep breaths.

"Oh, I don't feel so good." Ruby mutters as she stands up, holding her stomach. And she ends up vomiting more water and Neo walks over and pats her back.

"Yea, Shea, Reuben, Blake, you okay?" Hajime calls out.

Yue coughs. "I'm okay."

Hajime looks to the side and sees Ruby laying on the ground with her head in Neo's lap. Blake is still shaking her body to get the water out, she's growling like a cat the whole time.

Shea slams back into the water.

"Shea?" Hajime questions as he looks to see her floating face down in the water. He rescues her and she's still passed out. "Hey, Shea?!"

Hajime sets her the rabbit on the ground and starts to perform CPR. He then blows air into her mouth, which makes Yue a little unhappy.

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Hajime pushes down onto Shea's chest. "C'mon, wake up, hey!" He blows air into her mouth again.

Shea wakes up and notices whats happening, so she wraps her arms and legs around Hajime and starts to make out with him.

The three Grimm Girls watch in shock as Hajime struggles to get out of Shea's grip.

Hajime grabs Shea's head and pulls her back. "You little---" He throws her into the sky. "Go drown again, you lust-crazed rabbit! Didn't think she'd go for tongue right after she got revived."

Shea screams as she slams into the river.

"Filth!" Ruby yells. "Filth!"

"Shut-up you dumb Grimm!" Hajime yells.

"Call me dumb again and I'll kill you!"

The six head into the nearby town and head inside an inn. The Grimm girls are in their human disguises. 

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In their human forms Blake is 5'6 and Neo is back to 4'10. Ruby is 5'5''.

"Welcome!" The receptionist greets, with a sweat drop. The six are still dripping wet. "W-Welcome to the Masaka Inn."

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"I need rooms." Hajime says. "Add on a meal and a bath. We'll take two rooms, three in each room."

"Yeah, that'll work." Ruby agrees.

"Three of you in each room?" The receptionist asks. "No, we'll get three doubles."

"I'll take one room with Hajime, Shea can be by herself and Ruby, Blake and Neo can be in one." Yue says to Hajime.

"What?!" Shea shouts. "I don't want you to exclude me from the group. Two rooms if fine!"

"I'll get distracted if you're there."

Ruby closes her silver eyes and starts to rub her temples.

"Distracted?" Shea questions and her face turns bright red. "What are you going to do?!"

"What do you mean, what?" Yue asks.

"They're so loud." Blake whispers to the disguise Grimms and the nod in agree meant.

"Well, then you should go have your own room!" Shea says to Yue. "I'm going to share a room with Hajime!" She leans forward.

Yue leans into Shea's face. "Oh, and then what?"

"A-And then..." Shea does a pose and loudly says. "I'm going to ask Hajime to take my virginity!" She gives a thumbs up.

The whole Inn goes quiet and someone drops a fork. They all stare at the party in shock.

The Grimms just stare at Shea in shock with wide eyes.

The receptionist girl blushes and covers her eyes.

"Huh?" Shea questions. "Huh whaaa?"

Hajime holds up a revolver and he gains a smile as his eye glows purple. A gunshot rings out.

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