Chapter 16:

16-Chaos Fountain!

Chimera-chan Can’t Be Tamed!

[Scene: The Antiquities Shop - Morning]

Rinka stood in front of the mirror, adjusting her favorite sleek black dress. She held a golden ticket.
Rinka: "I am going to the 'Hotel Granvia Premium Sweets Buffet.' All-you-can-eat cake, macarons, and the legendary Chocolate Fountain. Do not burn the house down while I am gone."

Chi-chan: (Drooling) "Chocolate... Fountain?"

Poko: "Rinka! Take us! Take us!"

Rinka: "The ticket costs 10,000 yen. They invited me as owner buys antique items from my shop, i won't buy tickets for you."
(Rinka leaves and locks the door).

Chi-chan: "THAT WITCH! She’s going to paradise without us! This is class warfare!"

Poko: "What do we do? We can't sneak in neither we have money!"

Chi-chan: "We don't need to sneak. We just need to fit in. Poko... I have a brilliant, awful idea."

[Scene: Hotel Granvia - The Buffet Entrance]

The Maître D' stood by the door, checking tickets.
A Lumpy Woman walked up. She was 6 feet tall. She was wearing a massive, puffy pink ballgown that looked... shady?

Maître D': "Uhh... Welcome, Madame? Ticket?"

Madame (Chi-chan’s Voice): "HOHOHO! I am the Countess of... uh... Flavor Town! My ticket is digital!"

The Truth:
Chi-chan was sitting on Baku-chan’s shoulders.
Poko had used Transformation Magic to turn herself into The Pink Dress.
So, Chi-chan was wearing Poko. And Baku-chan was carrying both of them.

Poko (Dress Form): (Whispering) "Chi-chan... Baku-chan’s head is digging into my stomach lining..."

Baku-chan (Legs): (Muffled) "Heavy... sleepy... legs shaking..."

Chi-chan: "Shut up! We are in! Look at the cakes!"

They wobbled past the confused staff. They looked like a drunk giraffe wearing a parachute.

[The Buffet Line]

The table was filled with cakes.
Chi-chan grabbed a plate. But her arms were short. She couldn't reach the strawberry shortcake.

Chi-chan: "Curse this short upper body! Baku-chan! Lean forward!"

Baku-chan (Legs): "Leaning..."

Baku-chan leaned. The entire "Madame" tilted at a dangerous 45-degree angle.
Chi-chan grabbed the cake.
But then, a waiter walked by with a tray of hot coffee.
He brushed against the side of the dress.

Poko (Dress Form): "EEP!"

Poko was ticklish.
Because the dress was Poko, the dress flinched. The skirt suddenly jerked sideways, slapping the waiter.

CRASH.
The waiter dropped the coffee.

Waiter: "My apologies, Madame! Your dress... it moved?!"

Chi-chan: "It’s... uh... static electricity! Keep moving, legs! To the chocolate!"

[The Chocolate Fountain Incident]

They arrived at the Holy Grail: The Tower of Flowing Chocolate.
It was glorious.

Chi-chan: "I’m going to stick my whole face in it!"

Poko (Dress Form): "I want some too! Chi-chan, drop a marshmallow down your collar for me!"

Chi-chan: "No! You’re just clothes! Clothes don't eat!"

Poko (Dress Form): "I’m starving! If you don't feed me, I’ll shrink!"

Chi-chan: "Don't you dare shrink! If you shrink, we’ll be caught!"

Baku-chan (Legs): "Can I sleep now...?"
Baku-chan’s knees buckled.

WOBBLE.

The "Madame" lurched forward.
Chi-chan slammed her hands onto the table to steady herself.
Unfortunately, Poko (The Dress) saw a plate of pineapple cake on the table. Poko’s instincts took over.

Poko (Dress Form): "PINEAPPLE CAKE!!!"

A Mouth suddenly opened in the middle of the dress (right where Chi-chan’s stomach would be). A giant tongue shot out of the fabric.

Lady Guest: "KYAAAA! THE LADY’S BELLY HAS A TONGUE!"

Chi-chan: "POKO! PUT THE TONGUE AWAY! WE ARE EXPOSED!"

It was too late. Chaos erupted.
Baku-chan fell asleep standing up. The "Madame" fell forward like a felled tree.

TIMBER!

They fell directly onto the Chocolate Fountain.

SPLOOOOOSH.

The fountain exploded.
The nozzle broke.
Instead of a gentle flow, the chocolate sprayed out like a high-pressure fire hose.

Chi-chan: "BLRGLRGLRGL! I’M DROWNING IN LUXURY!"

The chocolate blast hit Poko (The Dress).
Poko lost concentration.
POOF.

The dress vanished.
Suddenly, inside the fancy hotel restaurant, there was a pile of three girls:
Chi-chan (Covered in brown sludge).
Poko (Naked, covered in brown sludge).
Baku-chan (Sleeping face-down on floor).

Crowd: "SCREAMS!"
Waiter: "CALL THE POLICE! IT’S THE CHOCOLATE MONSTERS!"

Chi-chan: (Wiping chocolate from her eyes) "Run! Retreat!"

They tried to run. But the floor was covered in chocolate. It was slippery.
SLIP. SLIDE.
Chi-chan slid across the floor on her belly like a penguin.
She stopped right in front of a table.

Rinka was sitting there. She had a pristine piece of cheesecake on her fork. She was completely clean.
She looked down at the chocolate-covered Chimera sliding past her feet.

Chi-chan: "Oh. Hi Rinka. Fancy meeting you here."

Rinka: "..."

Chi-chan: "Save us? Please? The waiter has a taser."

Rinka: (Turning to the waiter) "I have never seen this creature before. I think it’s a giant sewage rat."

Chi-chan: "YOU TRAITOR! I WILL DRAG YOU DOWN WITH ME!"

Chi-chan lunged at Rinka.
She hugged Rinka’s legs with her chocolate-covered arms.

Rinka: "MY VINTAGE DRESS!"

Chi-chan: "IF I GO TO JAIL, WE GO TOGETHER! GROUP HUG!"

Poko: "I’m helping!"
Poko (still naked and covered in chocolate) jumped on Rinka from behind.

Rinka: "GET OFF! YOU ARE RUINING THE SILK! DEATH! DEATH TO ALL OF YOU!"

Scene: The Shop - Evening.

The girls were sitting on the floor.
They were clean (Rinka had hosed them down in the backyard with cold water).
They were bruised.