Gyff & Tsumomo #8

Tsumomo slipped through the few corridors with a simple fan colored with silver lines. Expecting to find whoever touch its illusion in the entry hall, since her trap created an energy bond.  However, she did not felt an movement. whoever entered was waiting at the lobby patiently, without even bothering with the illusion that just disappeared.

The dancer removed the energy bond and answered the person as she was the very recepcionist herself and had to leave for a brief moment. Shia was following her steps and showed up too, but she just stood and observed the scene.

- Hello, sir! I am sorry for your waiting. How may I help you? - The geisha said.
- Oh. Hello! Someisa definitely has nice eyes for her supporters. - The men was tall and used a blue pointy hat.
- How flattering are your words! - Tsumomo blushed lightly. - What kind of knowledge are you seeking in this academy? - Tsumomo covered her face with the kimono sleeve.
- I would like to know this place. And maybe, if possible, the head director. - He used formal vests which made no sense with his hat. It's colors were pale red.

Tsumomo signaled with her other hand, in such way that only Shia could notice, for her to walk around the academy.

- Unfortunately I cannot help you, sir. She is not around right now. - She said, while lowering her hand.

Meanwhile, someone entered the library dressing a lavender student uniform. It was a woman who picked up a book and started to walk around the library. She observed the young one that was looking curiously to the fan that was over the table. She closed the book and went to sit around that girl, taking the fan with her right hand.

Gyff was looking for a place to eat a little bit and stopped in one of the tea houses. There was a party there, but he was not very excited to stay. He simply entered the toilet to relief his stress and looked again to the bottle he was carrying. The bottle cork was missing. He left the flask over the metal surface expecting that something would sip over there, but nothing happened. So he decided to look directly inside the bottle, which was, as expected, empty.

"Bad day. Bad day. Bad day." - He thought. All that effort to grab that inside that maze was gone. Now he has to explain what happened to Cowboy, who was at the Taex district, in another point of the city. The problem is that he did not know what happened. Like he said himself when he arrived at Cowboy's tavern. Gyff sat in on the the chairs next to the bar.

- What's up, Gyff? How did it went? - Cowboy asked.
- See it for yourself. - Gyff handed the bottle. Cowboy looked it for a while and saw it was empty.
- How!? What happened?
- Someisa.
- And what is her role in this mess?
- She almost captured me, Cowboy.
- But you are here, right!?
- Man, something unexpected happened. A lot of flames and smoke. I used this mess to escape, but when I looked back...
- It was already open.
- Yes.

They both stood in silence for a while.

- Do you know what that bottle had? - Cowboy asked.
- I have no idea. I did not opened it before.
- That sucks, man.

More silence.

- Would you like some Whisky? - The bar owner offered.
- I still prefer your beer.

It was not Gyff's first flaw. Getting dangerous stuff has a price, and thanks to that, he was not receiving payment.

Gyff & Tsumomo #7

Gyff dove without his dagger ready. All he had in hands was the bottle, and people were able to see him falling over their heads for a brief instant, a little bit before magical rocks forms themselves in the space between the walls of the buildings where he leaped. It was a short span of time for people to spread and listen the man crash at the floor.

But nobody heard the noise. Just something like an athlete that knew how to roll to avoid a bigger impact. They heard something like someone kicking a wall and then two people were kicked in their torsos. The floor got wet while the crawler striked the people that could not even find where he was even in such a small space.

Someisa obviously did not gave up. She missed the light disk she threw before her prisoner escaped right in front of her. She walked to the edge of the building and looked down only to see the ceiling formed by Gyff. With a simple gesture she liquefied the rocks e undone the darkness, making the mud fall over his target and the other people, then she solidified the mud and snared him again, but the magic energies reacted unexpectedly and started to burn Black Cat and some other people by forming a green flame. A lot of smoke quickly emerged from this fire, unabling people to see what was going on but still able to hear steppings.

The archmage quickly extinguished the flames, but she was not quick enough to find her rival, who disappeared in the middle of the smoke created by that mess.

Gyff managed to reach the Hoot district. Fortunately it was not the entire town that was looking for him. Actually, not even the authorities were looking for him. He just needed to end what he had agreed with Cowboy.


Tsumomo followed her path, and Shia followed her. She was curious to see what Tsumomo would do, after all she never saw her away from the tea houses before. The geisha entered the academy and was greeted by the night shift recepcionist, which blushed lightly just by seeing her and started looking at the geisha of the geisha, sitting behind a desk. The dancer bended slowly and asked.

- What is wrong, miss?
- It... ...is that you are very pretty, and I... ...I am just...
- You have a noble duty to do. - Said Tsumomo. Interrupting the young. - Are you able to help me?
- It... would be a honor! - She kept looking down.
- Right. - Tsumomo took a fan out of the sleeve of her Kimono and gave to the young recepcionist who were using a black shirt, and a long black skirt. - Put this fan over any desk of the library. Remember the table over which you left it and meet me at the central court.

The firl bended slowly and took the fan from the hand of Tsumomo while still looking to the floor, and rand with clumsy footsteps to the library trying to make the smallest amount of noise possible with her sandals. Tsumomo put a second fan over the reception table and went to the central court. Shia followed her still trying to understand what was going on through her mind.

- What are you going to do, Tsumomo? Are you going to let the entrance open? - Asked the young with the green scarf.
- That is an invitation, miss Shia. Do you want to stay and watch?
- An invitation for me to stay and watch?
- No, silly. An invitation to an unwelcome guest. - The right sleeve from the Kimono started moving and she pulled a third fan from that curiosuly vibrating spot. - And it just arrived.

Gyff & Tsumomo #6

- We need you to help us, Katsuyo. - Tsumomo said. - You know that we can help you.
- I... I am sorry. I can not help you. You know that I need to keep silent about our clients and suppliers. - Said Katsuyo.
- It seems you prefer the hard way, right? - Konvaa said and started leaving the room.

"There he goes making a mess." - The geisha tought.

Konvaa went to the other room and simply dismissed the dwarf and the gnome from the estabilishment. He was tall, and his clothes, imponent, and even being defied, he did no had problems in using magic and putting that two out. He asked the lady in pink to leave the room. She did, even tough she did not wanted, and met Tsumomo outside.

- Is he always like that? - Shia asked.
- He usually plays the bad guy, but he is a nice detective.
- And what are you going to do now?
- What a good geisha does.
- Dance?
- That is right!

While Konvaa had troubles with Miss Katsuyo and Helena, Tsumomo left and went to look the Academy of Someisa. It was dark, and some other geishas walked going to a tea house or another. Tsumomo woudl usually stop and talk, but this time she did simple compliments saying she needed to hurry, even tough she was warding off the Hoot district, where the nightlife of the city happens, and going to the central square.


Meanwhile, at a rooftop, two people were talking.

- Drop your Sparklyns and Shineyns on the floor. They will not save you, Black Cat. - Said Someisa.
- You really told people that was my name!? - Gyff asked, annoyed.
- I got you in my clutches and this is what you have to tell me?
- No. Your nails seems well cut. They do not look like claws.
- Insolent! Give me back what you got from my library!
- Seriously that a page has more importance than the jewels they daily steal from your academy?
- Who cares about jewels?
- Was that page a love letter?
- Such insolence! - Someisa mae energy rings which constricted the body of Gyff.
- Aaaaargh! You are using violence now?
- Are you telling me where my stuff are? Or will I have to extract that information straight out from your head? - Someisa said that point the staff to his head.
- Try your luck. - Gyff lowered his head a bit and giggled. - Insolent.

He headbutted the blocking field Someisa made, and threw himself back from the alley he came, even with the enery rings wrapping his body. He shaked his legs and lots of Shineym stones let go and turned into wall stones, blocking the pale moonlight. Other exploded from the pockets in his black jacket, torning it apart and removing the constriction rings. Gyff dove over the people in the darkness, where he would clearly obtain advantage.

Gyff & Tsumomo #5

The caravan entered Amaquabá. Gyff took his flask, his dagger, and got down with the elves who started to carry products. He had a job to finish and he still had to deal with the owner of the stables due to losing a horse. At least it was not a very expensive horse. Honestly, it was a little slow. This did not had much importance, since a group of people was getting close to the gates of the city.

"Phew. It is good to know they are late." - He thought while the group was getting closer. Then he turned around in a little street between the warehouses next to the entrance of the city. It was not hard for the other people to see that he turned there. It did not took 15 seconds for them to have view of the alley, but he was not there anymore. They looked towards the sky and nothing. There was no clue that the young guy was there in that short spam of time. Part of the group moved forward, the others stopped to ask people of the caravan, whom confirmed his presence according to the description they gave.

At the rooftops, a man and a woman met. The man was surrounded by a cage of light. The woman was young, wearing a muffler, a tight shirt, tight pants, and boots. Her hair was long, it was purple, and she also had wide eyes. She carried a scepter in the right hand and she was point torwards Gyff. She was similing with triumph.

- So? You are not going to do anything? You are not trying to escape? - Said the woman.
- Why would I do such thing, Someisa? Who would be fool enough to defy your power?


While the two men argued, the geisha left the room. There was nobody on the hallways, neither the auxiliar of the owner. The transversal corridor by the entrance extended itself to the east of the room she was, and there were two more rooms by the same side, and other two at the opposite side. She went to the next room where Konvaa, mrs. Katsuyo, and her auxiliar Helena were. They all remained in silence by her presence. She slowly closed the door and kneeled graciously at the right of the detective who was standing. He immediately kneeled as the noble would do, while the other two sat at the opposite side of the entrance facing them both.

- So, Katsuyo. Why is this sir bothering you? - Tsumomo asked.
- Oh, Tsumomo, like I am giving him anything that he asks me. - Katsuyo said, while still tidying herself in her simple red kimono.
- You have a log of the people who enter here, and I need it. - Konvaa spoke incisively.
- Calm down! - Said Tsumomo, putting a hand in front of her mouth to block the sound, and another over his knee. - Now, Katsuyo, did you recently realized any event here?
- Yes. - She answered, correcting her long black hair. - Two filled events.
- Three. - Corrected Helena, who was using a orange colored Kimono. - Three. In two of them the organizer did not appeared. - Katsuyo looked her with reprovation and she silenced.
- I need to know who was there. - The investigator entered in action. - I need names, descriptions, and every information possible.
- Oh, Konvaa, do not demand too much from them. They are helping us as they can. - The geisha said.
- Is he always like that, Tsumomo? - Katsuyo asked.
- These days have been stressful, could you get a little bit of Frax for us, Helena, please? - Tsumomo asked, and Helena bowed and left imediately to pick up what was asked. - I noticed the reformings they did at Yue Liang, and I think that you are going to do some reformings here too, right?
- Yes, we got some extra money beyond the bills due to these parties. - Answered Katsuyo.
- But do you know why the organizer did not showed up in half of them? - Konvaa asked and Katsuyo made a surprised face. - We know that you are covering up for him due to the money.

Tsumomo thoughtfully looked to Konvaa. "So he knew about that already? Interesting..."

Pause and Questioning

Okz. For all readers of the Gyff & Tsumomo tales, I am taking a brief pause from the translations.
Why is that?

First of all, it is a little bit boring to pick up something that you already wrote and switch to another language without losing meaning. I try my best to do this translation but it is a really hard work. It is not like "Google Translating" everything.

So I will take this pause until I write more chapters in portuguese, pretty much like television shows that sometimes stops being translated from the other countries.

Meanwhile, I would like some response from the readers, specialy because I am the writer and the translator of my own tale. So I want to know if you guys are enjoying the tale, if I am writing too much, or if I am not writing enough in each post. I want to know what you guys think about the story and if you would like to suggest any point to be more explored, please tell me, but I will need some time to start taking that path.

And if you want me to get back on the tracks of posting a chapter/week, please tell me. Your words do give me strength to keep on with the job.

Thank you!

Gyff & Tsumomo #4

Tsumomo noticed the young woman's agitation and stopped to play. She slowly approached her, kneeled slowly, and looked the entire body of the youngster in a blink. She was wearing a pink dress, decorated with green lines, which formed gracious vines along the extension of the dress. She was also wearing a green scarf, had brown skin, and long black hair partially falling over her dress. The geisha looked into her eyes and softly said:

- boo.

A moment of silence took over, followed by the two women laughing.

- Hahaha! You are really amazing, Tsumomo!
- Me? Oh, do not be silly, Shia. I just do my homework.
- I am so used to see Kappe auras flowing around the room, while you do it in such a gracious way.
- Oh, Shia... - Tsumomo blushed a little bit and started serving her client something to drink. - ... How flaterring are your words. Is there someone returning you words as sweet as these? - After finished serving her, Tsumomo lifted herself and started serving drinks to the two other gentlemen in the room.

There was nothing suspect inside the room, but the geisha was interested in the teahouse owner, not in the clients. When she turned back to talk to the young in pink, she accidentally let a sip of drink fall over the dwarf, who showed his fist to the gnome. Dwarves never had the most friendly faces, and this one was using mining clothes that showed his muscles a lot.

- Are you kidding me, gnome!?

The gnome was not intimidated at all, even tough he had a smaller build than the dwarf. He used silver clothes decorated with golden strings and his black beard was a mark of his younghood. It was definitely a beard way smaller than the one the other guy had.

- Me!? That was an accident, man! You must have scared the lady with your stupid ways!

Shia laughed from the other side of the room. Tsumomo covered her face with the sleeves of the kimono like she was ashamed. The brown girl knew what was going on.


Meanwhile, in a caravan going to the city of Amaquabá, an elf was threatening a human with a knife. the very same they were using to cut the chicken they were eating.

- Hey. Hey. Someisa is powerful but she is a single person, pal. - Said the human, stading up and taking a step back.
- Yeah, Arthur, do not get yourself in a fight now! You are drunk, man! - Said the guy using earrings.
- Ah! He is a thief! Are you really standing by him!? - The guy holding the knife was not joking.
- Seriously, man!? - Said the tallest elf. - Are you really buying what this guy is saying?
- But it is true! - Gyff said. - It is because I did not brought a page from the grimoire! - He did it with a smile.

They started laughing and to sit down again, but before Arthur sat, he threw the knife at Gyff, who did a gesture with his hand and pierced the covering of the caravan by sending the knife upwards with incredible speed.

- You should calm down, lad. - And they saw Gyff with a serious expression for the first time.

The situation was tense, but the caravan did not stopped. The elves went to sleep and he was almost opening the bottle to know what was inside it. He had a single cup of beer because he always drink slowly. He was remembering his theft, his past, and how he was going to enter Amaquabá, since he was hunted down by Someisa through the entire land.

Gyff & Tsumomo #3

Tsumomo went back home. It was going to be a long and complicated night with detectives trying to solve a case that seems to bring such a small world like the Geisha`s. Arriving at her place, she stripped off her white dress, folded it, entered in a room with two wardrobes with three drawers each, and they were standing at opposite sides. The woman placed her dress in the middle drawer of the left wardrobe, where there is similar ones. She took off her underwear and carried to the next room which had a wooden bucket filled with water and a wooden mug.

There was also a crucible over a pile of wood, which she set fire by snapping her fingers. There was a line of four pots at the floor, she picked a little bit of dust that there was on the first pot and placed inside the crucible. Right after, she got water in the mug and dissolved the orange powder, that was heating while she poured water over her naked body. She snapped her fingers again to extinguish the fire and procceded to dress herself up. She opened the superior left drawer on the previous room and picked up a black kimono, decorated with a yellow butterfly in a starry night, paired up with a simple and bright white koshimaki, and a cooper colored obi. She also put on a cooper lipstick and finished everything by aromatizing herself citrically with a little bit of the crucible`s mixture.

All that procedure took long enough to the nightfall, moment in which she moved to the Gohan teahouse. It was a smaller place, in a much more reserved environment, even tough, one of her most often clients were there, in a room where they could not fit five people. A gnome and a dwarf were driking beer in the right corner of the squared room and stopped right after she crossed the room. she grabbed a guitar at the end of the room and started playing it. Some sort of calmness changed the mood of the room, even tough the woman there were looking all around, like she lost something.

Meanwhile, in a caravan going to Amaquabá, a young man, using a black jacket over a studded leather shirt, using some sort of pants and regular boots, holding a wooden flask was telling about his deeds to a group of elves.

- Then I threw myself out of the window towards the next building. It was my last chance to escape from the Academy of Someisa.
- So it is true that the great Someisa was robbed a long ago! - A taller elf using simple leather clothing said it. There was a curiously well drawn bird made with black ink on his shirt.
- Well... - Gyff took another sip of beer. - ... Nobody thought that something would happen at the class time. It was really easy.
- But what were you looking for, after all? - The same tall elf said.
- Oh, anything with her letter on it. I lost the count of how many books a paciently read and them put back to its place.
- That academy has eyes within its walls! You could not have escaped! I don`t believe you! - Said an elf with a slightly better shape than the others using an opened shirt.
- Yeah... - Gyff took another mug of beer in a single sip. - ... Maybe she captured me. You should ask her about that!

Then the very same elf drawn a knife and pointed it to Gyff.

- Do you really think that I will let a lost person like you, that offfered a single sparklyn, to climb up and insult Someisa?