Chapter CCXLIX: Super Happy Fun Time with a Cherry on Top! ~Kentaro

With nowhere else to go, Kentaro decided to tag along with the unfortunate souls now stuck with him. After only twenty minutes or so of walking, he finally decided he might as well try to make some conversation with these...people.

Eh...the chick in the dress seems a bit to uptight...got a stick shoved too far up her arse. An' she talks funny. So she'd be no fun...And that green guy's just creepy...something doesn't smell right about him somehow...so it looks like it's the other dude...Fulsta I think he said...or was it-nah, I'm pretty sure that's what he said. He smells weird too, but not as much.

Kentaro walked closer to the strange man, conveniently ignoring his broody, almost gothic attitude. "Soo-oo-ooo..." he said, opening his mouth before he had thought of anything to say, making himself look more the fool.

Fulsta glanced upwards at the boy and simply asked, "Yes?"

At a lack for words, Kentaro said the first thing that came to mind. "Just what ARE you anyway...I've never smelt anyone like you before..."

Fulsta paused a moment, trying to make sense of the boy. "What do you mean, what am I? I am what I am."

"No, I mean like I'm an Edo, and she's a...whatever she is, and he's a...whatever he is!" he said, gesturing with his hands at Lady North and Tehx as he spoke in a desperate attempt to be coherent.

"Which reminds me, you never told me what in the hells an Edo is, anyway."

"What do you mean what's an Edo? It's what I am...you know, what people from my planet are called. None of you guys are Edo, that's for sure. I can't place what planet any of you're from though...unfamiliar scent, not really like anyplace I know of."

"Ah, so you were being literal before. As for me, it's very much none of your business," Fulsta said, seeming slightly amused at either his own cunning or the boy's foolishness.

"Awwwww, come on, I told you what I am...pleeease?" Kentaro asked, hoping maybe he could either make the man pity him or simply annoy him enough so he gave in.

Little did he know.

"No."

"PLEEEASE?"

"No."

"PLEEEASE?"

"No."

"PLEEEASE?"

"No."

"PLEEEASE?"

"No."

"PLEEEASE?"

"No."

"P-ERMPH!" Kentaro was stopped in his tracks as a sudden gust of wind knocked him and Fulsta face-first into the ground. "Hey, whacha do THAT for..?" he complained to the chick in the dress who was casually walking on as if nothing happened.

"For disturbing the peaceful vibrations around you," she said simply, continuing on without looking back. Fulsta had already gotten back up, dusted himself off, and began walking again, though not before sending a poisonous glare at Kentaro.

Kentaro mumbled a few choice words under his breath as he got up and pulled buts of soil out of his hair, paying no attention to the fact that everyone had kept going as he did so. "Jeez. See how you guys are...guys? Guys? DAMNIT!" he cursed at his own stupidity, running ahead to catch back up with everyone else.

Yes, this trip would be a 'fun' one indeed...