Both - Trick Them

Ochaco pressed her hands together, fingers straight up as she slowly thought about what to do. Something was clearly wrong here but just the what and how escaped her. Her nostrils flared as she took large breaths to calm down and focus, her eyes drifting over the two 'imps' as they called themselves. And over to the book on her desk. If she could summon them, maybe she could put them back in. It was worth a try at least.

"I .... have been working a lot recently. So my eating habits have been rather poor." Ochaco started, taking slow and deliberate steps towards her desk as she picked her words carefully. "So if you want to prove that you are... helpful, then yes. I'll take both the tea and whatever food you can make up... WITHIN reason." she held up her hands as Sae stated to get ready to dash out of the room. "You must have something you can cook for me in your... home right? No stealing or pillaging!"

"AW MAN." Sae pouted as she trudged back to the book. Rinia had a smirk on her face as she followed, waving the vine to follow with the tea. The blue imp bent down, gave her bump a little shake, and jumped onto the desk, disappearing into the book. Rinia just made herself comfy on the edge of the desk as Ochaco took a seat. The plant imp reached into the book, moved her arm around and brought out another cup and a tea pot. White in color very.... flora in decals. Rinia poured out another cup and handed it towards the hero while she took a small sip from the older now cooled tea.

"So.... what is she doing... in there?" Ochaco asked as she made a motion to drink but didn't. Wasn't easy but she could use her powers to make small minute volumes of the liquid float away. Just enough to make the depth of the drink slowly lower so it looked like she was drinking.

"If I had to guess...., killing and gutting a mouse." Ochaco's eyes widened and jaw dropped, but Rinia chuckled. "I kid I kid. Maybe in a previous life she'd do that ah..., barbarian warrior. I mean that by the way, frozen northern warrior, that's what Sae is." Rinia leaned closer to get the point across and leaned back when Ochaco nodded. "No our little home can store and produce food but.... well it's not GOOD food. At best it tastes like water just... nothing. Bland and tasteless. I know how to make it better thanks to well.... spices."

Rinia snapped a finger and the vine beside her burst with new leaves of different sizes colors and shapes. Even a few berries and nuts were growing from it now. "It's rather easy for me but..., well Sae is very protective about being in charge of 'victory feasts'. Oh and competing with me so..., I ask you to just go along with how it tastes." Rinia whispered hand off to the side of her mouth to try and cut down on the volume of her words.

"Ah... well... it is appreciated." Ochaco said with a weak smile. At the very least, the two creatures seemed to know each other well enough and got along in a way that reminded her of her former classmates. She was wondering what to ask Momo tomorrow about the tome when the smell reached her nose. The odor of thoroughly smoked meat. She leaned forward to get a better whiff of the smell but had to quickly lean back as a large plate burst out of the tome. Sae slammed the plate down on the table, taking about half the space. Sizzling ribs were stacked on the silver plate, more than enough for any BBQ outing and WAY more than what Ochaco could eat.

"Sae really, you made WAY too much and..., did you get out the GOOD meat?" Rinia flustered her hands brought up in a near **** hold. Sae huffed and turned her head upward, eyes closed.

"Well well well, did you WANT me to use the tasteless stuff for the new Mistress? I expected better from you Rinia. We need to impress our new Mistress and you just want to serve her the second half stuff. For shame." Sae mockingly fussed. Rinia gave a long sigh as she put the tea pot off to the side and got in Sae's face. This put her just above the book's open pages that Sae was sticking out of.

As the two traded barbs and argued, Ochaco slowly moved her arms to just under the book making sure she had a good grip on both sides before she cleared her throat. Both imps looked at her, Rinia a curious look while Sae continued to have that big grin on her face. "See Mistress? Tell her, I did the better job!"

"Do you really want to earn my praise?" Ochaco sweetly asked, with both Imp giving a nod, Sae again being way too enthusiastic, "Well then, here's the next command. Let me wake up!" the hero quickly slammed the Tome closed, catching both imps in it's pages. It was her hope it would work but it was a tad surprising that both bodies just disappeared bakc into the pages. Well... most of them. Sae had an arm poking out of the tightly held sheets, shaking a fist at the hero.

"Not Coooooooool....." came the cry as the arm slowly turned into a bluish smoke with Sae's voice faded away. Ochaco sighed, hoping it was over as she waved her hand to make the smoke dissipate. She sat in her chair, eyes closed and taking deep breathes, hoping to wake up. But the only thing she got was more whiffs of the smokey smell of meat.

The tea pot and meat were still there when she opened her eyes. "...this is real." Ochaco muttered as she flipped the book open again. No imps appeared, no weird glow; but the images where different. The little picture for Sae looked like an angry doodle while Rinia's just gave a toodles like wave. She put the book to the side and leaned back into her chair, thinking about what to do. Only to be answered by her stomach growling. "...well, it would be rude to just let this go to waste." she though as she got a rib out and gave it an experimental nibble.

It was good... like REALLY good... but very very smokey. A sort of primal taste that you couldn't get with cleaner cooking methods these days. She'd devoured two more by the time she realized what she was doing, and took a sip of the left behind tea to help her throat. It was warm taste but also soothing, lavender probably. The uncontroled might of the BBQ and the calming nature of the tea worked so well together Ochaco lost track of how much she ate before falling to sleep in her bed. Making sure she saved what she could though of course.

She didn't notice the faint glow from the tome..., or the fact one of her books was missing from the desk.

"Well.... that went well." the blue imp grumbled loud enough for her roomie to hear.

Rinia rolled her eyes as she flipped the page in the book she was reading. She was sitting on a wooden chair with plenty of plush cushions that threatened to swallow her figure, sitting rather lady like. Sae however was smashing away at an iron block shaped like a body. Both of them had their own ways of venting from what just happened. "To be expected of course, the lass had a lot to take in." Rinia thought as she slowly worked out how to respond to Sae's claim.

"It's not like she tried to pitch the book just yet or destroy it, so we're doing better than expected." She paused to take a sip from her tea before going back to her book. A moment later she summoned vines that shoved her chair off to the side to avoid tossed metal dummy. "Must you be so reckless?" She asked looking up her reading.

"How can you be this calm, it's so annoying!" Sae cried as she shot a chain of ice to drag the dummy back to her before beating down on it again, "Just another one that's gonna ignore us and leave us here."

"Sae sae sae; so long as she's already uttered our names, the book is going to start working it's magic on her. At the very least she'll be drawn to call on us again so long as the book is near her. So calm down and just wait. Time is on our side after all." Rinia explained, taking another long sip. Poor Sae, she never had patience for this kinda stuff.

"Ugh I'm just.... GAH tired of having the same thing to beat on." Sae complained as she summoned a mallet to send the dummy flying one more, landing with a crash that dented the wall of their room. It was a fairly large place, semi study off to one side, lounge set up in the center and of course a little training area in the remaining space. Of course this meant Rinia had to duck from time to time. They had to live with it, as they didn't have a Tome Mistress that could effect how the place was set up. The Tome hadn't promoted either of them to the spot so perhaps it wanted some sort of test from them..., or someone else in this world.

"We've been stuck in this one room place for HOW LONG?!?! Come on you stupid book, promote me already!" Sae huffed as she jumped up and down, sending waves of cracks into the floor. Rinia sighed as she put a hand to a horn.

"Perhaps you aren't promoted because of your hotheadedness." She proclaimed. Sae just huffed more and folded her arms, grumbling about how Rinia hadn't been chosen either. That was true but if their new owner was going to drag feet, perhaps now would be the time to make a move. Thus her reading material she had, borrowed.

"What are you reading anyway?" Sae muttered as she put the dummy back upgright in it's spot letting the magic of the room fix it's dings and gashes.

"Oh this.... nothing you'd enjoy but perhaps something that could be of benifit to us." Rinia head up the book so Sae could read the cover. 'A history of Quirks; a time line of heroes' - was the title of the work. Sae just strached the side of her head as Rinia continued, "Oh it seems to be a history piece of this world we find ourselves in. Perhaps if we're.... more in line with how people operate in this world, our new mistress won't be so put off by us." She said with a growing grin.

"I'm not putting on no tights though." Sae muttered. Rinia just rolled her eyes and started reading again. Tomorrow would be interesting.