"Gruh?!" went the transformed boy.
"Well, yes, 'pretty what?' is good question."
Shambling over to look at the reflection in the water, Mousse saw that the Guide really was telling the truth. Had she been bearing pale skin and dark hair, she would have looked rather attractive, with a small waist, slim limbs and a nicely sized chest. Instead, she had odd coloring that actually wasn't that bad, and the various... detriments that a zombie had going for her.
The Guide looked over the both of them and knew that he'd have to deal with this pair for a while. The pair were newly cursed, and they'd likely be pestering him about their curses, but he was all too aware of that fact. It happened every so often, and always to someone's detriment, as it seemed that whomever had set up the cursed pools had made them a draw for weird things to drown. After all, how did a zombie drown?
Still, there wasn't much he could do about it. This was his job, and he had to deal with it. He'd been at long enough to figure out ways to smooth out the work, and make it easier on both him and the 'customers'.
Unfortunately, his 'ever ready' kettle was not chosen for any ability to get a big dinosaur sufficiently wet. "Mister Customers stay here. Need heat more water for change back. Oh, and Mister Customer who now have zombie body? No eat other Mister Customer brain. Not think he be a good meal."
As the guide shuffled away, Ryoga slowly turned to face the other new victim of the springs with a wary look on his face.
"Guh?" asked the nearly blind boy turned zombie girl.
The Lost Boy thought about the Guide's parting words and really hoped that he'd been kidding.
Normally, the Amazons considered outsider girls to be coming in two forms. Occasionally, those females born in areas other than the Village would be warriors worthy of respect, but for the most part, they tended to think of those girls as rather weak. That might not mean that they couldn't like them, or have some sort of respect for their abilities, but they were reasonably assured by their exposure to outsiders that the girls would be coddled, soft, restricted and generally subservient.
One of the girls who had come in the latest outsider party had proven to be neither coddled or soft, and the younger Amazons liked that, a lot, something that they made clear to her when she and Minako were pulled away by a group of smiling girls.
"So... You're not mad that I got rid of that jerk?" Makoto asked.
Shampoo snorted. "Is good thing you do. Always jumping where not wanted. He more pest than friend, and he no friend."
"Oh?"
"You no need worry. Mousse too stupid to make anyone worry. He no get idea that Shampoo no like him, but he keep bothering anyway."
"And 'shampoo' is?"
"I is Shampoo. Is name," the lavander haired Amazon replied as she jerked a thumb at herself.
"Ah... Well, sorry about that..."
"Already say no need be sorry about idiot."
"Not that. He deserved it for attacking me," the emerald eyed girl replied, "I meant your name."
"That. Yes, well, no expect outside girl know names."
"Yeah, but I don't want to offend anyone."
"Is good idea. Wish more know it."
"True..."
"But is different for you group," Shampoo told her. "Even males understand it."
"Yeah, but Master's always been understanding..."
"He's real nice since I've come to be with him... Though it's weird..." Minako muttered.
"What is?"
"You'd think with two full use slaves who were pretty young girls, he'd take advantage of the situation..."
Makoto took in the other slave's meaning and blushed hard. "He's just always been that way. Even if we're his slaves, he'll treat us as nicely as he can, and make sure that he does right by us."
"Doesn't mean that he can't do the rest. Maybe we'll have to take the lead..."
"Oh my..."
Though Makoto was looking rather dazed, the Amazons tended to nod to themselves. If one had a male who was strong and respectful, that was one to definitely grab up while the grabbing was good, especially when he was this good looking. He would certainly be someone to keep an eye on, and many of the Chinese girls planned on doing just that, while:
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