12th Taunt | Action

[misterbrief]

Hey! Get me out of here! What are you doing?!!!

[Are the words floating inside of your head. Something is yelling at you, but who knows where's it's coming from? Maybe it's from inside your cupboard. Or you're crushing it underneath your butt as you sit down on your couch, or you roll over on it when you turn in your bed.

Maybe it's been dropped into your pot of water that you're thinking about heating up soon for your dinner, and you are now threatening to boil it alive.

Or maybe something less dangerous, like in your pocket or backpack. Either way, it's found its way into your life somehow, and boy is that thing angry. Real angry. Upon inspection, or finding said thing, you'll find a frog. A mean, nasty, angry frog who's suffered from a shift occurring inside the village. Seems the only power he's retained is his telepathy, thankfully. Sort of. Depends if you want to hear the guy or not.]

Find a way to fix this immediately!

[Find him anywhere you want. Being a frog sucks, but the prince doesn't really have a choice in the matter. If you happen to be the kind of person who would kiss a frog, just like the children's tale, maybe he'll turn back into a prince.]

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[swordprincess]

[More blinking. She doesn't know anything about frogs either.]

So...you want to stay here then?

[misterbrief]

I want to be returned to normal, that's what!

[He wants to sleep in his own bed tonight, too bad that's not happening.]

[swordprincess]

Normal? What do you mean "return to normal?"

[misterbrief]

I'm not a frog! I'm a just as much as a person as you are!

[He hates thissss]

[swordprincess]

[Her fingers twitch a bit, and her hand trembles.]

Then...why are you a frog?

[misterbrief]

How am I supposed to know that??!!! Perhaps if we figure that one out, we can find out how I got into your cupboard too!

[He figures it's a shift. It's just annoying, that's all.]

[swordprincess]

Hmm...

[She ponders for a moment.]

Well, strange things always happen in Luceti, but they always return to normal eventually.

[misterbrief]

[He sort of shakes like a madtoad for a second.]

I don't have time to waste waiting for the effects to wear off!

[swordprincess]

...But what can we do? I've never seen anyone fixing these effects...

[misterbrief]

[That's something he doesn't have an answer to. Because he hasn't either. It's not a death penalty, so he's sort of screwed.]

[OR MAYBE...]

Get those idiot scientists to change me back!

[swordprincess]

...Will they do it?

[Walking over to her desk, she sets the frog down on top of it, then sits down and opens her journal.]

[misterbrief]

[They won't, and he knows they won't. He knows it and it makes him even MORE ANGRY.]

Of course they won't, heaven forbid they lift a finger around here. Not much has changed.

[But now that she's set him down, he's going to stretch his froggie legs, hopping about the table as if he were pacing with his saiyan body. Hopping angrily.]

[swordprincess]

...Well, there's no point in trying to call them then...

[She closes the journal, then gets up and begins to pace back and forth herself.]

[misterbrief]

Listen, my home cannot be too far from here. Deliver me there, so we can be done with this.

[Then, at least, Karla won't have to babysit a grumpy rude saiyan prince.]

[swordprincess]

[That sounds like a perfectly reasonable request. She smiles as she holds her palm out for him again.]

All right. Just tell me which way to go.

[misterbrief]

[He hops right into her palm. Alright. He can at least go home.]

Do you know where House 29 is?

[swordprincess]

[She slips her journal open once more to look at the map of the village. She traces her finger along the path from her home to Vegeta's.]

I can see it. I should be able to find it if I go this way.

[misterbrief]

[He looks down at the journal, and yeah. She's got it. He gives a froggie sigh of relief that she's at least competent enough to find his house, unlike some other people he knows.]

Well, what are we waiting for? Let's get on with it already!

[swordprincess]

There's no need to rush.

[She says simply as she closes and book and packs it on her person. On the way out, she also picks up her sheathed sword, only to realize that it would be hard to fasten it around her waist with just one hand. She really should have done that before she picked up the frog. Oh well, she'll just carry it in her other hand then. Finally, she exits the building, heading down the path towards House 29.]

[misterbrief]

[He little frog shakes in fury, of course there's a rush! But the minute she gets outside, he stops shaking in fury and starts shaking from how cold he is. Cue little froggy sneeze. Good thing he didn't get dropped out in the woods for this one...]

Why must it be so cold out here.

[swordprincess]

The winter is coming soon.

[She walks down the path to House 29, eventually finding the place. Now, should she walk in, or knock on the door?]

Hmm...is there anyone else in the house?

[misterbrief]

Just g-g-go in. [Says the shaking frog.]

If anyone's inside, I'll take care of it.

[swordprincess]

All right...

[She tucks her sword sheath under one arm to free one of her hands and carefully opens the door to slip inside.]

Hello...? [She calls out softly.]

[misterbrief]

[No one will answer, because no one is home. Around the house, if Karla explores, she'll find pictures of the family. All of them are smiling in them except Vegeta, though there might be a picture of just Bulma and Vegeta where he's actually smiling.]

Great. No one's here. Just leave me on the table.

[Probably the best place for a family member to find him.]

[swordprincess]

Ah...good.

[She lets out a relieved sigh as she moves deeper into the house now. She doesn't pay much attention to the pictures as she sets the frog down on the table. There's probably not much more she can do, but she's a bit wary about leaving him like this.]

Are you sure you'll be okay by yourself?