Oh where! Oh where, did my runaway student go? Oh where, oh where, could she be?" A ninja tonelessly played on a kazoo, knowing fully well where her student went as she observed from her shady corner of shrubbery. She was just beneath the cliff, hauling a naked twerp via stolen domestic golems. A shameful sight to be sure, but a sight the human ninja didn't feel any particular need to stop unless there was some seriously messed up stuff going on. Perhaps she would have done something if she didn't know the goose boy was naked to begin with. However, if her student would wanted to somehow exploit that, well she had no patience for creeps.
Well, at least creeps of that nature. Hopefully things would stay innocent enough and her runaway pupil would simply make even more a of a delicious fool of herself. "Trickstarra, you delightful fool, you! If only I had myself some popcorn! Hahaha! If Sword Art Online taught me anything, besides how to quickly lower your IQ, it's that absolutely nothing good comes from screwing with an OP Japanese protagonist!"
She slyly winked the brown eye behind her glasses, leaving the blue one open. Almost acting like somebody was watching over her shoulder. After a quick stretch, she picked up her binoculars. Which was another pointless action, since the distance wasn't that far off. She just liked overkill for overkill's sake. That's why she put twigs into her scarlet-dyed pony-tail as a disguise, even though the obnoxiously bright shade made it the next best thing to absolutely pointless. "Oooh! He's doing something!" A sinister smile crept up on her tanned face.
"Honk?" The goose tried to pull out of the trance but it was so incredibly...easy. Pathetically easy actually.
The fox girl panicked as she saw the focus return to his scarlet eyes. Turns out the spell wore out quickly on fully sentient creatures if the caster was a lower level. She knew she didn't stand a chance to hypnotize the elf girl but...SURELY IT WOULD LAST LONGER ON SOMEBODY LEVEL ONE!? Never mind, she just had to play it confidently. The last thing she wanted to do was go back to that stupid mentor, with her fluffy tail between her dainty porcelain legs! That was too shameful! she'd rather embrace the life of a legendary, stunningly gorgeous criminal than put up with a common human who talked to herself. How could a summoned hero be such a nutcase? With a deep breath, she readied herself to set the scene.
"Ahaha! Just as expected, you knew how to resist my psychic mind manipulation tactics! Most magnificent, you really are all I hoped for and more! Now that we are finally alone, I would like to discuss business. How would you feel about teaming up and letting me take you under my wing darling? Together we can become the best outlaws in the world!" The fox girl had no idea that the very nuisance she was running from, was watching her make a fool of herself. To add salt to the wound she didn't know existed, the psycho mentor was laughing her head off every last moment of it.
"HHAAAAAWNK?" The goose hasn't really taken a moment to think what he wanted to do with his new life, well besides fidgeting with those weird fingers some more. Being an outlaw wasn't too far off from his old life, but he didn't want to be the kind of person who picked on others the ways she did with the elf girl. He shook his head. "Honk..." He wrinkled his nose and turned his head upward, the way somebody would react when they saw he left something on the ground.
The fox girl flattened her ears from shock, her tail nervously turned straight like a pencil. What was she going to do now? This becoming an outlaw thing was super hard, maybe her mentor was right? No...no, she had to prove herself! "Oh well that's too bad, I suppose I just have to..." She bit her lip, not knowing what to say next. Kill him? Hold him for ransom? "...torture...you?" Dammit why did she have to go saying that out-loud? Now she was going to have to commit.
Meanwhile the Ninja was laying down, still watching with her face in her left palm while her legs were kicking idly. "That sounds like this is going to be super funny, or super time-for-me-to-step-in-ish."
"Hold him...tighter dears!" She commanded the golems, and they did as she said. The goose faintly struggled as the stone fists felt like they were cutting off his circulation. He was surprised with how little the golems fought back when he struggled. Maybe this level forty-thing wasn't as big as deal as he thought?
"Yes torture you until you scream! Muhahaha!" She approached him slowly, almost seductively. "Th-That's right I am going to tickle your feet with my tail!"
The mentor took a deep breath and looked aside again with an annoyed expression. "I've been on Deviant Art enough to know this ain't it chief! Imma stop this now, and you creeps better not complain about it again!" She pointed her finger at three fedora wearing rocks with faces and...neckbeards painted onto them. "Now if you excuse me, I am going to drop by and have a word with my lovely apprentice!" She just casually walked to the edge of the cliff and fell down a story or two with no issue.
Which was just in time as the fur on the tip Trickstarra's silky tail just made contact with his big toe. Before the goose and vixen knew what hit them, a shrunken flew between them and cut of a few millimeters of tail fur. "Yo, Trickstarra!" The apprentice's amber eyes narrowed in shock as she spotted a familiar gray, hooded, camouflage body-suit wearing ninja approached her very confidently. "Well, well, I knew morality wasn't exactly either of our strong suits, but this was just embarrassing! Last time I checked this wasn't supposed to be an ecchi! Personally, I'd like to keep it that way!"
The apprentice sighed, not knowing what her master was going on about. "Seriously? What are you even saying? Are you speaking in some kind of tongues or something?" Trickstarra practically growled that phrase, still not wanting to put up with this lady's nonsense.
"HONK?"
"Well my, my! If this isn't fortuitous! I am Canada, and you are goose!" Laughed the weird woman as she tightened the black sash around her head.
Trickstarra glared with her arms crossed. "Yet you wonder why I don't want anything to do with the likes of you!? You are hardly lady-like, and I've made more sense from feline demibeasts high on catnip! All you do is sneak around, saying strange things and talking to your pathetic rocks! At least these fellows I acquired do something other than require me to carry them around while you chatter about nonsense endlessly!"
The human rubbed her chin thoughtfully. "Oh you sure about those fine stone fellows of yours sis?" The ninja carefully leaned against the rock with a grin that could put a Cheshire Cat to shame. The fox lady looked around to see the golems had fled. She lost concentration enough for them to break out of their trance and flee!
"WHY YOU COWARDLY PILES OF GRAVEL! OBEY ME OR I WILL USE YOUR STONE BUTTS TO PAVE A ROAD!" Her pale face was flushed with anger, and she barred her sharp fangs. The ninja, meanwhile, simply laughed from the depths of her gut.
"Bravo, bravo!" She clapped, and then gave a chief's kiss. "I might not have anime anymore but this does it just fine!" Both the goose and apprentice just blankly stared at her in shock. Not only at what she was saying, but the two people behind her.
"Unhand the waterfowl exhibitionist and nobody gets the axe!" There stood the mean girl with the horns, and the one called an elf. The former's expression was dark and threatening, while the later's was almost asking nicely. "Wait," the larger girl stopped and looked at the newcomer, "who the hell are ya?"
The human laughed with wink, and vanished into thin air before appearing between the two girls. She wrapped her arms around their shoulders, and they exchanged uncomfortable glances as she invaded their personal space. "Well if it isn't the orc and elf, I was wondering when you two would show up! Sorry about Trickstarra here, she's not the trickiest fox in the burrow. No wonder why her parents begged me to take her on! Right sweetie?" The human winked, and the demibeast gave her the could shoulder. "I am sure, all can be forgiven! Here, a little something for your troubles!"
Bulka wanted to question what that was, until she felt a gold coin miraculously pop into her hand. The same was done for Falla. "Anyway, it's best we get going now! Have fun with your goose boy and hopefully we'll see each other again!" The human winked as she pushed her apprentice, who was now in front, of her away from the cliff. Trickstarra had dug her heals into the ground, but that didn't deter the human as she merrily whistled on her way out. A trail of sparkling energy followed them until they faded into thin air.
"Oh phooey! The coin turned into a twig!" Falla whimpered as she saw the illusion fade away. As scummy as that was, it was the last thing on Bulka's mind. Something didn't smell right about those two, even if the more powerful one wasn't aggressive. It sent her mind racing in all sorts of weird directions. There was only one reaction that seemed proper given this turn of events...
"What. The. Hell?"