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The beeping of the alarm clock filled the empty room, awaking Ryuji from her comfortable slumber.
‘My head hurts..’ She thought as she stretched her legs and arms across the small bed, she didn't live with anyone else so there was no point in getting a larger bed. ‘I drank too much..’ She pulled the covers off while pushing away the hair stuck to her face, as she moved to stand she retracted her legs ‘cold!’
She rubbed her eyes before pulling her slippers close and finally getting out of bed to get ready, washing her face with water and changing into her work uniform. As she pushed her glasses on and pulled her hair into a bun she moved through the small, dark, and cold apartment, over to the connected and tiny kitchen where she grabbed a small bottle of medicine that she downed ‘my back hurts..’
She threw the tiny bottle away, grabbed her bag and pulled on her shoes before opening the door. For when she opened it a huff of hot air was blown onto her entire body, a dragon..
“Hhhhaaaaaaa!!!” She slammed the door closed and backed up, hand over her chest as she breathed heavily.
‘Dragons, the most powerful creatures’
She slowly opened the door in hopes it was just her imagination but nope. It was still there.
She gulped while a red circle with unknown symbols made the dragon glow white and shrink into what was a girl with ankle length blue hair in a maid outfit “tadaaa!” She sang in a twirl, her hands spawned out with a huge smile.
‘Or so I thought’
“Good morning miss suguro!”
(Horns. Tails. Illusion? Where from? Dragon. Cosplay. Real?
Lack of Sleep? Delusion? Stranger. Girl. Maid.
Will she eat me? Who? Greeting me? Speaking.
I'll be eaten. Too tired?)
(. . . Dream)
“...good morning..”
“Would it be alright to come in?”
“oh, sure, come inside..”
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“So you say we met yesterday and I offered to let you stay at my apartment?” The two were sitting at the table, the fat yet fluffy dragon tail swaying behind rin. “And you're for sure positive thats what I said?”
“Indeed!” Rin nodded, a sweet smile on her face.
‘This is weird, why am I not waking up from this dream?..unless it's not a dream, there's no way’
“So um, remind me where we met..”
“The mountains! We met in the mountains!” Ryuji placed a hand on her chin “the mountains..its coming back to me..” She mumbled, the drunk induced memories of her walking up the mountains filling her mind ‘a dragon?’ One with a sword deep in its back ‘apparently an hilarious dragon’
The color in her face drained as she remembered telling the dragon “wanna stay with me?” Her hands came to her head as she lowered her head onto the table, rin though looked quite happy not minding the obvious regret from Ryuji “I'll never forget those wonderful words! I can start working as your personal maid immediately if you want!”
“Oh that's a big negative..I'm not a dragon racist or anything, I'm just not in the market right now to hire a maid..” Rin watched her raise her head while a blue shade of fear covered her face “but, you wouldn't have to pay me!”
“Yeah no..that's not really the issue here..” Rin placed her hands onto the table as she stood up “look i can be super helpful! I can turn this area into a sea of fire or curse people to death!”
“No! No! No! But why maid instead of that?”
“Because you said a maid would work better for you!”
“I did huh..” She groaned, turning her eyes to the wall behind rin where there was art of traditional maids on the wall. “Yeah..does make sense..” she rubbed her head with another groan “I'm sorry rin, I'll shouldn't have made that promise, its not personal” She turned her head away from rin and rin lowered her head.
“Are you certain..? Its impossible..?”
“Mhm..sorry..”
Rin slowly lifted her head and gave her a small untrue smile “I understand..my apologies as well for dropping in so suddenly” She bowed before moving from the seat and to walk around ryuji, making her way to the door, ryuji watched her with a different type of regret raising.
‘Why won't this guilt go away..? Maybe this dream isn't really a dream..’ rin was reaching for the door knob, pushing the door open, ryuji looked up and pushed herself out of the seat “i’m late?! Rin!” She ran over to her, a pleading look as she grabbed her hand “can you fly?!”
Rin gasped and her face began to lift in expression and joy before she nodded.
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“uuahhhhhhh!!!” Ryuji screamed, she was sitting on the back of the pure white dragon, holding her scales as she screamed. They were above the city, above the clouds and they were going way too fast!
“Dragons are so fast!” She yelled, hoping Rin could hear her and maybe slow down,”sorry what did you say?” Rin asked her telepathically.
“You're Hella fasttt!” She shouted back but this time it was silence from rin “..I could keep her”
“Are you serious?!” Rin's head turned to face her quickly, mouth opened to show she was smiling “so now you can hear me..”
‘I guess it wouldn't be the end of the world to have someone around the house and if she's there-’ Her thoughts were cut off as a shock of pain went up her back, ‘this is murdering my lower back!’
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“Okay, first let's take a look at what you've decided as the proper outfit for a maid and why that is totally wrong..” It was night time now and the two were standing in the living room, Ryuji had her arms crossed as she looked rin up and down.
“Great idea!” Rin pulled a folded up poster and handed it to ryuji ‘maid Cafe cozy’ “here you go! It says maid cafe cozy!”
“What is this..?”
“I discovered some real life maids while on my way here!”
“Meaning we'll have to start from scratch. First thing as a house maid, you clean.”
“Oh i'm good at that!” he said before inhaling and from the outside of the windows the apartment became as bright as the sun, now everything was gone but the sparkling floors and walls “how about that?”
“What?! No! Everything is gone!”
“Oops- one second” She pulled her hands up, the same circle symbol from earlier started to reform everything “you can bring it back?!”
“Next laundry maid, do laundry.”
“I can do that easy peasy!” Rin moved to grab one of ryujis shirts before putting it in her mouth “wha?! Ew! No rin! Take that out of your mouth right now!”
“But my saliva can get rid of stains..”
“I don't care! Take it out!” She sighed and crossed her arms before showing rin how to properly wash and hang them, now they were standing in the living room again “Next..parlour maid, greet people”
“Easy!” She smiled as the doorbell rang, quickly she went over but when she opened the door she stared the guy down “the foolish and inferior human is not welcomed at this home!”
“Hey.”
“Oh not you miss suguro, you're an exception of course!”
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“Last one, kitchen maid, this one should be easy. You only need to cook.”
“Cooking is my speciality!”
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Ryuji was pushed to sit on the chair as rin dropped the plate in front of her “try my very own roasted tail!”
“Ew..no thanks..”
“Would you prefer it well done instead?”
“Thats not the problem..”
“Then I know you will enjoy it immensely!”
“I am not gonna eat dragon tail.”
“Seems you're just a picky eater miss suguro” She shrugged with a smile before pulling the pate close and tearing at the meat, once it was gone her tail dropped back in place “it can grow back?!”
“Yep! It just took longer this time than it normally does”
“..this is gonna take forever..”