14th Invasion

[moemoetentacles]

[Today after school lets out, Squid Girl can be found on the front lawn of 452 Stone Street doing some combat practice - or rather, that's what she thinks she's doing.  To the casual observer, it looks more like she's dangerously flailing ten kitchen knives all over the place with her tentacles while yelling various things.]

"Hah!  Take that!  Feel the power of my Ten Bladed Whirlwind technique!"

[She alternates through a couple of different routines: stabbing wildly at thin air, hurling the knives into a nearby tree before reaching out with her tentacles to draw them back out again, and just spinning them around in a dangerous circle all around her body.  Someone might want to stop her before she hurts herself or somebody else.]

Comments

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

So how the heck do I compete with that?

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

Hmph. This king can show you.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

But if I get your help to train to beat you, it defeats the whole purpose of training in the first place!

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you should not be training to defeat me but training simply to become more powerful. It is foolish to strive for things you cannot achieve.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

But I thought we were going to have a rematch when I was strong enough!

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

Banish that thought unless you wish for a premature death.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

So what the heck am I training for, anyway? If I can't even beat one person, how am I going to enslave all the humans in the name of oceankind?

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

[putting a hand on her head]

Show me you have the heart to kill and I will be sure to grant you such power.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

What? I don't want to kill the humans. Then who would serve me when I take over the surface?

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

You will never get any to serve you unless you make an example. You must never be hesitant to kill. That is why this is your test.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Kill, huh...

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

Do not act like you have not killed. You eat the bounty of the sea, do you not? What makes these mongrels here any different?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

It just... feels different.

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

You are a greater life form than humans, are you not?

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

Of course I am!

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

Then you are hesitating for no reason.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[And hesitating some more! This is a difficult thing she's being asked to consider here, and there are emotions swirling around inside her that run counter to what she spouts from her mouth a good deal of the time.]

"But some of the humans are nice to me."

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

They are only nice so they can stab you in the back. Humans do not have the pride and honor that benefits anyone greater than them.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

So they really are just waiting for a chance to cook and eat me!

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

That, they are. Admittedly, you do taste rather exquisite.

1/2

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[This face, at least until she realizes he's talking about her ink.]

2/2

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[And then this face instead.]

"Th-thanks..."

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

Regardless, show to me that you can do what I have said and this king will show you how to properly obtain power.

[moemoetentacles.livejournal.com]

[This is a pretty big moral dilemma for her, so she still doesn't look entirely convinced, but she nods anyway.]

"O-okay..."

[kinpika.livejournal.com]

[Putting a hand under her chin and turning her head up to look at him.]

Hmph.