-=Plush POV=-

After I start getting the hang on this whole form changing thing I continue making pizza, every so often I go back into the fridge room to get new toppings to try out, and after I’m satisfied with the number of them I put them all inside of the cooler room.

I don’t know exactly why, I think something’s up with the ingredients, but it only took a couple of minutes for the dough to rise rather than the usual hour it took back home, otherwise it would’ve taken longer than a day to make all of these pizzas.

I wipe my hands of the flour on a towel and walk into the living room, once there a just plop down into the sofa and almost fall asleep immediately.

“Hey.”

Though I was kept awake by a certain someone.

“Give me more pizza.”

“No. Wait for lunch.”

“If you don’t give me pizza I will pester you about that form.”

“If you pester me about that then I’ll pester you about your past.”

Lizz starts grinding her teeth and then looks away while pouting and murmuring about pizza.

“Just let me rest for a bit a and I’ll go outside and prepare for lunch okay?”

“Then undo your transformation!”

“...”

“...”

“... Oh. Right.”

I hadn’t even been thinking about that whole thing while I was cooking and completely forgot about it.

I follow Lizz’s advice and just stop thinking about my old self, I then quickly turn back into the stuffed toy, fast enough for me to be called a ninja had there been a small cloud of smoke.

The moment I do return to, err, normal, I immediately feel rested again, when I look to my side I see Lizz looking at me.

“Well?” She asks.

‘... I feel rested…’

“Then it’s lunch time!”

After she shouts that she flies off to somewhere and I soon hear her talking from the outside.

‘Err, Cy?’

‘Is it fine if I come back out? Or are you doing something important?’

‘Ehm, sure, just grab one from inside the cooling room when you’re here.’

My vision then flashes black before I find myself sitting on the table inside of the carriage.

“Aww…” I hear all the elves sound out their disappointment as Fallis goes and sits back down at the controls, Rosh goes to the bathroom and Shro grabs a bottle of alcohol.

“Welcome back Plush.” Says Shiona.

“Thanks, here you go.” I say and have the book take out a pizza, and almost instantly the two elves still in the room turn to me with glimmering eyes, a few seconds later I hear the toilet get flushed and Rosh runs back outside and they all stare at the pizza.

I look at them for a second before taking out the pizza slicer from inside the book and cut the pizza into six slices, I then han one slice to Shiona, one to Lizz, one the table next to me and-

“!”

-Put the last three slices back in the book, causing the three elves eyes to tear up as they stare at the book in disbelief.

“I would’ve given you guys some if you hadn’t been so rude when I came back.”

When I say that Shro takes out two more glasses and pours some alcohol for Rosh and Fallis, they then take the glasses they were given and down it in one go, fallis then begrudgingly sits back down and continues driving.

“Should she really be driving after just having downed a third of a bottle?” Asks Shiona worriedly.

“She’ll be fine.” Tries one of the Shro to reassure her, however the effect is weakened by Shro then proceeding to fall over fainted.

“Uhm, Fallis, if you let one of us drive I’ll give you some pizza.”

Fallis literally jumps out of her chair and bows to me.

“But first you’ll have to teach me to drive.”

“No me!” Shouts shiona

“No. You never got your driver's license so no.”

“That doesn-” “It does matter!”

Shiona starts sulking while eating the rest of her pizza as I walk to the seat Fallis was sitting on.

* * *

A while later we’re speeding along the road, sometimes I slow down to take out another pizza or to use a blue jelly and every so often I speed up even more while receiving tips from Cy on ho to more efficiently use my energy to control the magic that these machine horses use.

“You’re really good at this Plush, better than us at least.” Says one of the male elves, I don’t want to turn around while I’m driving so I don’t know which one it is.

“Cy is giving me tips.”

“Oh.” I hear him reply, his voice dripping with envy, however he soon responds with a voice filled with admiration instead after I hand Him a slice of pizza and he sits back at the table.

“... Which way am I even supposed to be going?”

“*munch* Just go *chew* straight ahead. *swallow* I’ll tell you when we’re there.”

“Alright.”

We then pass the time in silence, again with me taking out some pizza or jellies every now and then.

*SLAM*

*CLANG CLANG CLANG*

“OOOOUUUUHHHH!!!!”

Until we hear a tons of metallic clanging followed a very loud cacophony of spirited yells.

“Now I dunt kno what kine of beasts these ‘ere are buh I reggon we can take em! Wadyal say!?”

*CLANG CLANG CLANG*

“OOOOUUUUHHHH!!!!”

People starts walking out in front of the carriage while clanging their shields.

At this all of the elves sigh, put down their pizza.

“Plush, I’ll need to take over here for a bit.” Says Fallis while the other two fold out panels from the sides of the carriage, the walls then turn see through, letting us see that they’re not just in front of us but also surrounding us on all sides.

“Shiona I heard Lizz say you weren’t that good with blood so I recommend you go into on of the side rooms and close the door.

Shiona nods her head and enters the bathroom, the people surrounding us then step close while their apparent leader keeps talking about killing the mechanical horses and selling the pieces for high prices while plundering everything we have.

The two elves on the sides start pushing buttons on the panels they folded out and when they do-

*fwuit* *schunk* “Gah!”

Every time they push one of the buttons one of the spikes on the outside are shot out at the people, piercing them and killing them too fast for them to react and within seconds each of the people surrounding us are laying down on the ground, dead.

the two elves the push another bigger button, causing each of the spikes to get reeled back in on a wire, carrying the corpses with them.

Fallis then pushes one final button, this one causing the spikes to start spinning rapidly, clearing our view of the corpses by throwing them away to the sides.

“Say, these guys wouldn’t have anything important right?”

“Nah, these kinds of bandits usually keep all their loot in their base, but feel free to go outside and look if you want.”

I look outside ad see a mess of flesh and blood.

“I… I think I’m fine.”

Fallis shrugs her shoulders and goes to knock on the bathroom door.

“All the bandits are dead but you shouldn’t come out until we get away from here.”

I then sit down at the main drivers seat and start driving us forwards again.

* * *

“Hey Plush.” Shouts Fallis from behind me.

“Yeah?”

“I was expecting it to take at least another day for us to arrive at the edge of the country but we’ll soon be there, us three are going to be staying at the edge for tonight so if you want you can sleep here before leaving in the morning.”

“What do you think Shiona?”

“I think that sounds good, if you’re fine with taking a bit of extra time that is.”

“Well there you have it Fallis. By the way, how soon do you mean by ‘soon there’?”

“A minute or so.”

“And you said soon a minute ago, so do you mean a minute from now or from then?” I start slowing down the carriage.

“From then.”

“So then we’re here?”

“Yup.”

I sigh and stop the carriage fully, creating lines in the ground from the mechanical horses’ hoofs.

“It will be a bit longer until it gets dark so feel free to do whatever.” Says Shro and brings out another bottle of alcohol and the others sit down with him as Lizz goes back in the book while yawning.

“Any plans Shiona?”

“I was thinking of heading outside to see what i can do, you have that fancy book of yours but so you already know your stuff but I’ve no such thing.”

“I’m coming with, nothing better to do.”

“No you don’t.”

“Yes I do, I’m not going to let you get killed by a goblin just because you couldn’t bear to hurt them.”

Shiona looks half angry and half embarrassed as we walk out of the carriage.