After his fam left the party things got very very hectic for Micky. For starters, Pepperoni would let things through and cause him to get into melee. This was both because she couldn’t tank everything and also because and because she was a little mischievous.

But Micky enjoyed it though. This was because he was leveling. And also because with this he could increase his level gain so much faster. There were a few close calls when he was scratched by a ROUS but after that Pepperoni got much more serious and much more vicious. Micky almost felt sorry for the monsters after that.

At the end his stats looked something like this:

Name:

‘Micky’ Anderson

Class:

Pink Mage

LVL 4

EXP:

10000/375010

Body:

Weak

Mind:

Lesser

Soul:

Moderate

Physiology:

Human

Pale, Green eye, Red Hair

Face: Angular

Build: Light, Ganguly

State: Tired [Light]

Height 1.51m

Waist .6

BMI 18.4

Stats

STR 7

INT 14

WIS 17

DEX 8

PER 10

END 8

WIL 10

AGL 9

Spell and Ability:

Charm

Enrage

Proficiency:

Class Weapon: 1.07

Improvised Spell: 3.57

Spell Cast: 1.60

Cooking: 5.71

Fishing: 4.17

Exploration: .75

Survival: .15

Chores [House]: 2.48

Hunting: 3.91

Repair: 1.12

Whittling: 2.43

Dual Channeling: .56

Dual Casting: .12

Vitality:

94%

Energy:

Mana: 42/100

Stam: 73%

And he looked at the added page from his achievements:

Achievements:

Title: Spell Student

Deeds:

Pep’s Dungeon

He even read through his new title:

Title: Spell Researcher: As a spell researcher you are always at the forefront of pushing spells and skills in general forward. This Title is awarded to those that try new things with spells they never have before. This is a series Title. Gain a lesser bonus to spell research and development. Gain a low bonus to spell improvisation. Gain a lesser bonus to spell modification. Gain a least bonus to new spell creation.

Micky was ecstatic. Even though it seemed to have several bonuses, they were all just part of the same thing. This was actually a cut up and shoddy version of what he would receive down the line if he were to continue down this series. But it was still freaking awesome. [Title]s weren’t awarded willy nilly. So Micky knew he did something awesome.

Micky and Pepperoni spent most of the night leveling. It was the first all nighter that Micky had had in a while. So he was exhausted when he finished. Pepperoni the usually sleepy kitten was unusually active. She seemed to be still exhilarated from the hunt and couldn’t stop craving more.

“I’m tired Pep, and I have a headache, not tonight, or well today, whatever.” Said Micky.

Pepperoni was not satisfied with his answer and would not take a ‘No’. She demanded satisfaction and he would give it to her until she was satisfied.

“No means no Pep, you can’t just expect a man to give you what you want every time you ask.” Said Micky.

But Pepperoni was a woman that was used to her will being carried out! When she said she would not accept no, she meant she would not accept NO!

But luckily for Micky he had another more important excuse. He had to take her to Tim to show off. Pepperoni found this acceptable and would allow this Tim to bask in her presence. On one condition, he had to pamper her after this. She had not gotten a good scritching session in a long time and she needed the itches scratched.

After traveling for a time and with not as many looks as he thought he was going to get, Micky made it to Tim’s place. Mostly they probably thought he was walking his strangely shaped dog.

Tim was sitting in his usual spot, watching the empty of his store. “I did it!” Yelled Micky. Tim winced at the sudden loud screech that was a teen yelling. “Good job.” Tim said… Then Pepperoni was introduced to Silver… when Tim and Micky finally got Pepperoni off of the roof of the store and Silver to stop his incessant barking that got a lot of looky-loos, it was already midday. Tim kinda felt bad and decided to give Micky some training in [Bonded] [Monster]s even though it was past their usual time. It was mostly the care and maintenance of [Monster]s with a little bit of things to look out for in a bond. Mostly the monster [Token] took care of that though.

“You know I took this job not for the favor I owed but because they owed me a favor?” Tim said.

“My wife is going to be having a baby soon, see? And Silver don’t do so well with children. Adults know not to get near a [Monster], their scared, and Silver likes scared. You can put the [Dog] into the [Monster] but you can’t take the [Monster] out of the [Dog], see? You know the reason why I came here is because Silver bit a kid, right?

He didn’t mean nothing he was just getting defensive because his hair was pulled. But that would mean my wife or Silver. That’s not a choice I can make. So I wanted to help Silver with kids.” Tim looked at Silver. He and Pepperoni were ‘Playing’ now that she knew that Silver wasn’t going to eat her. Of course that meant she was hissing and Silver was yipping and onlookers were thinking there was a monster wave inside of Tim’s store.

“You’ve helped him a lot. You’ve helped ME a lot. If you need anything kid, anything.” Tim looked Micky straight in the eyes. “You just ask me. You saved me a life, I’ll use it to repay you if you need it.”

“I hope I don’t have to take you up on that, sir.” Said Micky.

“Don’t sir me, you call me Tim, you hear!” Said Tim

“Yes sir! Tim, sir...” Micky said. Tim just rubbed Micky’s head.

Micky left Pepperoni and Silver to ‘play’ and get used to each other some more. It seemed that Silver was letting Pepperoni bully him a little bit in order for her to get used to him. Silver just seemed to be happy to have another [Monster] around. It made sense, he was a pack [Monster] after all.

“Welp, you’ve got one more lesson tomorrow, so let’s make it count. I’m going to drill you on basic monster biology and the arch types of monsters.”

Micky gave Tim a nod, and then left with Pepperoni in tow. By then the onlookers had already left to do their own thing. [Tamed] monsters might not be a big thing in their village but the two were pretty, not exciting. Besides, none of the villagers hadn’t seen a monster before.

Micky brought Pepperoni back home to sleep, She purposefully avoided the ‘Kitty Palace’ and slept in the pantry like she used too. Meanwhile Micky went to the creak. Even if he hadn’t been disturbed by the villagers in a while he wasn’t about to start throwing parties and rubbing elbows with them.

After Micky got there Jimmy showed back up. He seemed a little worse for the wear. He had bags under his eyes and was a little under the weather. After Micky asked “What’s wrong?” he replied “Nothing.” like usual and that was the end of it. Micky still hadn’t gotten much about his personal life out of him and doubted he ever would. Oh well, it wasn’t like it would affect him.

Pinky ran towards Micky as fast as he could. He was out of breath and panicking. “What’s wrong?” Micky asked. “It’s Pepperoni, I mean Bob, I mean Bob is attacking Pepperoni!” Pinky said. Micky ran back to the house as quick as he could. He had to push his way through the crowd when he got there.

They heard the howling first, Then there was a crash. Micky was still shoving through the crowd when he saw it.

Bob was there and he had wrecked a part of the house. He and his two goons were standing there plus Littlefoot. They had Pepperoni encircled and she couldn’t get out. Bob’s arm was bleeding and he was keeping it protectively to the side.

“Looky here we got a little monster don’t we?” Said Bob.

“I told you, I told you I did! That’s a [Monster] there!” Goon 1

“That’s not just any [Monster] That’s a [Boss]! We could get stuff. We could get [Loot]!” Goon A

Littlefoot was off the side, she didn’t say anything but her eyes had changed colors, metaphorically of course. Well they almost seemed to change colors physically but that was probably a trick of the light.

Micky cast [Enrage] on Pepperoni, logically probably not the best choice, but Micky wasn’t going to let them hurt Pepperoni without a fight. “Get away from Pepperoni you ass!” Micky yelled. He was already charging past. Trevor was bowled over not being prepared for somebody to come from that side. And especially not somebody to come to the rescue of a [Monster].

Micky stood next to Pepperoni, she was unharmed but she was not alright. They had been disturbed in the middle of the most wonderful nap. Silver was there and he was the size of a mouse. Pepperoni was just playing around with him as much as she wanted and any way she wanted. But all naps must come to an end, and this one came to an abrupt violent one.

Jimmy pushed through the crowd and into the circle as well. Then Susan pushed in too. They faced off against Bob and his crew but Bob yelled. “Can’t you see? He’s protecting that [Monster]! We need to attack them and kill it. I told you I would make you pay. Who knew your pet cat became a [Monster]? This is going to be so fun. I’m going to make a leather coat out of it and there is nothing you can do!” *Smash*

That’s when Bob’s uncle Mathew the [Guard] smashed his face into the ground so hard it bounced. Bob looked up at his hated uncle with bleary eyes. This man didn’t let him do anything fun. Why did he stop him now? Did he know that Bob was about to have fun? Did he know that Bob was going to enjoy breaking that [Pink Mage] while he slowly skinned his cat alive for him to watch?

“That monsters [Tamed] you little bastard! Don’t you see that token he has? Do you know what that means?” Mathew said.

“That means that it is considered his property, and as a citizen Micky is entitled to compensation for all damages.” Said Littlefoot, she had always been so smart. Had been being the operative words.

“Yes, that means that she is protected, and I have to protect her, from you!” Mathew said. There were two other guards behind him. “You owe us for this.” One said “You know what this means right?” said the other.

Mathew closed his eyes “Yeah, I know. Go ahead and let them right me up a reprimand. This ones on me guys.” The other two guards left, say what you will Mathew wasn’t about to let his nephew get tossed into jail, he would never come out. Mathew picked up Bob by the back of his neck. “I told you to apologize, I told you to get your punishment before I had to take action. Did you listen? No! You were supposed to become a knight, who would take a knight like you?”

“That’s because you won’t listen! That’s because you won’t let me take care of my problems!” Bob said.

Mathew calmed down at that. Oh he was still angry. He was just beyond normal anger. This little shit just wasn’t worth it. “You know I told you if you didn’t get punished I would [Break] your ass?” He said. And Mathew did. With one fist Mathew snapped Bobs butt. He rammed it in and broke the bones. Bob was in tears. “All Of You. With me.” He said, the voice not loud but a solid thing. It wasn’t a command, it was iron chains clapped around there limbs. Bob’s crew followed Mathew, with Bob being towed since he could no longer walk.

Micky sighed, It was finally over.