The Girl of Flames

Its a sea of flames caused by a cry of outrage and anger coming from a little girl.

It burned all the men that dared to come, plunder and enslave.

Strangely, while some beautiful, furry rabbit-eared women are in the way, they weren't burned at all. Just the men.

The plains smelled of burning grass and flesh.

It took the women quite a while to calm the little girl down...but victory was seized through flames of rage as to why they were attacked when they hadn't done anything wrong.

The warriors had to teach her how cruel the world was beyond her innocent beliefs, and on that same day, her innocence was shattered.

Her name is Tsunami. Sawada Tsunami.

People keep calling her by family name which was fine because its how it works in Japan. But she had to tell her minders and teachers that her real name was Tsunami and Sawada was in fact, her family name. So the bunnies began calling her Tsunami so the misconception has been cleared.

She became a skilled warrior though she's not as strong as the bunnies. She was however, at the very peak of her physical condition her age can afford her, mastered skills a young warrior must know. Skilled in swords, archery and combat.

But since discovering her powers at age ten, she had to figure out how to work her powers...and became a skilled Flamemaster, providing heat and warmth without hurting anybody when she wants, and burning things she wants gone or dead. Her instincts also sharpened since...that she found a lot of wells in the plains, making Queen Tyuule want a rapid population expansion to increase territory so all the wells Tsunami found are theirs, not that of a rival tribe's. With that much water, their life would be more comfortable!

She even found an iron mine into the mountains, burning rock away for iron, and the bunnies came in masses to bring the loot home to forge as weapons and armor incase the stupid empire came back for round two.

The Warrior Bunnies are a type of beastmen, humanoid rabbit women.

There's rarely any males as all births are always girls. Thus, if any male bunny was born, he was treated preciously, for his child shall become a Purebred Bunny who will become Queen of the Tribe. Due to this, he's only allowed to have one daughter with his mate. Extra litters have to be killed to avoid rivalry and splitting their tribe in half over which queen to favor.

They all live in straw-roofed dwellings similar to a Bure. Thus cooking and washing had to be done outside. But for the Queen of the Tribe, she lives in a much bigger house, tended to by servants.

Diet was simple. Meat. Always meat.

Bunnies don't farm.

Their homeland, the Northeastern Plains have endless prairies of grass. No river for irrigation. Impractical. So instead, they raise livestock, hunt, or sneak into villages and steal their harvests as sneakily as possible if they want variety in diet. But that can only be possible every harvest season so until then, meat, meat, meat all the way!

Boiled, or roasted, it doesn't matter.

Sometimes, Tsunami misses actual cooked food but she cannot be picky. The bunnies only knew how to boil and roast. That's it.

But when they steal harvests, Tsunami lets her instincts work, and try to make something sembling a hotpot or stew. While homecooked meals are normal for her, for the bunnies, she ahem, 'invented new tastes'. She thus studied how to cook.

She discovered on her own how to stew, simmer, steam and bake, and exploit stolen condiments.

Thus they had a variety in diet now after teaching the bunnies how to cook. Diet now was more delicious.

For clothing, they wear woven fabric with fur sewn into it or skins of enemy bunnies. Bunnies have no need for shoes...but Tsunami does. Thus she goes into town by herself, and buy shoes that fit her...after stealing money of course.

As far as Education went, its knowing how to read, write, architecture-math and money-math. That's it. After that, they learn how to spin, how to weave, how to sew...things needed to keep a village running and providing everyone's needs. Impractical things weren't worth learning. But when they reach a certain age...

They were taught how to pleasure a man, and themselves.

Because male bunny births are extremely rare, families are a strange concept as well as romance to them. For them, pleasuring a man is merely for the sake of child-making. And children are raised as women of the tribe. Regardless of race, they'll be that man's partner until they get pregnant, then leave him once his usefulness is done.

Well, this was one thing Tsunami can relate to. Her father is hardly ever home thus its her mother who mostly raised her. If he was EVER home, he was drunk on his boxers on the couch, and loads of laundry hung out to dry in their backyard. When he was around, mother tends to forget she existed unless its mealtimes and her father hardly pays her any attention. Or was he really her father? If he was, he'd have cared for her more so sometimes, her mutinous mind would think, he's her mother's boyfriend bumming off meals, making her do his laundry and probably get money from her in exchange for a 'fantasy romance' she can't have as a single mother.

She hated him.

Tsunami, now a warrior of the tribe even if she was human, was an honorary kin thanks to the Apostle who brought her to them, Rory Mercury. She was the Apostle of Emroy, an immortal demigoddess granted divine powers by her lord.

Speaking of divinity, due to their way of life, the bunnies worshiped two gods, Emroy, the God of Death, Madness, War, Violence and Crime and Hardy, the Goddess of the Underworld and Afterlife.

The bunnies live a life of violence. A life she is not allowed to partake as she was entrusted to them by Rory and she can't fight off a bunny in combat even if she pushed herself hard in training. Their bodies were that different. At least Tsunami is the strongest human female. She would make a wonderful warrior indeed.

Her job in the village was seeking Water, and Resources. Then being human, infiltrate villages for news.

But the news she brought back, were shocking one day.

'Your majesty, the Empire hired many Sages to open a Gate in Alnus to invade and plunder the other world, only to be slaughtered effortlessly by the very world they wanted to plunder.' Tsunami reported. 'The otherworlders seem to be called 'men-in-green' by almost everybody, specializing in explosion magic that made short work of 60000 men from a Coalition Army Force!'

'Hmmph, it benefits us either way.' said Tyuule with a scoff, resting her head on the back of her hand. 'Their stupidity will lead them to be killed by themselves and less irritants to annoy us in the future.' she smiled at the news. Before her was the girl who burned off an army out of anger and hatred due to being attacked simply for plunder and slavery, and awakened the power Rory knew she had sleeping within her. Tsunami was too kind and a shy girl yet that day three years ago shattered her pure, innocent view of the world after about a year of peace with them, and awakened her warrior's spirit with a grudge against the Imperial Empire. She became a Flamemaster and somehow gained an uncanny ability to locate resources and improved their sustenance.

Her value was very high as a result as an informant. She can blend in anywhere and nobody would suspect a young girl of being a warrior and spy.

But this second news got the bunnies horrified.

'They said the Flame Dragon is awake!' Tsunami gasped out in fear, 'It attacked Coda Village near Alnus but the Men-In-Green managed to lop an arm off but didn't kill it! It could be anywhere!'

'And we're sitting ducks out here in the plains!' Tyuule fumed while horrified at the idea as considering the layout of their village, its a giant plate full of snacks! 'We'll evacuate to the woods immediately! Tsunami, your task is to go to Alnus for information! We will arrange for a network of spies to make reaching information easier.'

'Yes, your majesty!'

That was how she left with a group of bunnies.

There were seven with her but her company is getting less and less the more they pass towns.

Until finally, she's all alone in traveling to Alnus by herself.

'...its lonely by myself here but I got my duties...' she muttered.

Using her instincts, she reached the hilltop but...

Her jaws dropped.

The familiar structures of temporary housing.

The flagpole of pure white cloth and a red circle in the middle.

The familiar features of Japanese.

'N-no way...the men-in-green are...Japan?!' she squeaked, wide-eyed in disbelief.

'Excuse us miss...' a soldier approached to her in awkward local tongue and she screamed, 'Watashi wa nihonjin desu!'

Cue disbelieving looks thrown at her.

'Haaaaai?!' nearby soldiers yelped incredulously.

She was taken to General Hazama Soichiro's office.

'So ojousan, are you really Japanese?' he asked her skeptically but hopefully because when the Gate in Ginza opened, captive citizens are a possibility he feared she's one, but she was armored and armed with swords made for her making it unlikely.

'Yes but I lived here for four years now I'm starting to forget even hiragana and katakana but I can still speak...I'm Sawada Tsunami.' said Tsunami. 'I was Grade 3 when I ended up here.'

'8-9 years old?!'

'...8.' Tsunami squeaked. 'It happened when I'm chased by my bullies as usual.' she moped. 'Because I was clumsy in school and had trouble learning, everyone made fun of me and started bullying me...I always had to run.' she said softly. 'Nobody stood up for me and I had no one. Not even the so-called responsible adults in school.' she said bitterly. 'It got so bad I begged my mother to always pick me up but one day she couldn't make it because she got called over by some friends...I turned left in Takagi street and next thing I know, I'm on this very hill that long ago.'

'My god, a Gate appeared where you lived?!' even worse, it can appear at random without warning...! General Hazama and nearby soldiers did not like that notion one bit as anything's possible.

'Hai. My town is Namimori.' said Tsunami. 'I live with a single mother, Sawada Nana.'

What followed was a video-recorded interview about her life in Earth and at the Special Region in order to study her mentality by Psychologists before they can give a full-report to their superiors and the Government. Tsunami was a horribly-bullied girl with a festering resentment to her hometown and her own family situation, then life with a tribe of amazons...yup, they need to work on this girl before sending her back to Japan, and making Japanese authorities in concern and her mother watch this video and a long talk involved.

A scramble ensued to confirm Tsunami's claims. It took a whole day to get details from a Missing Person's Report, her profile and address...and three days of getting people to come to watch. One, a young girl wanted justice. Two, she has issues and three, she's a trained amazon capable of fighting AND killing, and very loyal to her adoptive community who were 'more human than Namimori'. There's even the fact that her upbringing combined with amazon lifestyle, Tsunami has no concept of family and love(due to a selectively-oblivious mother and bunny life). Friendship, loyalty and comradeship yes, much to her mother's horror when she heard how Tsunami really felt about their family. The DepEd and Social Services then got on the Namimori Mayor's case, about paying a personal visit to Tsunami's old elementary school and talking to 'the adults who did nothing' and possibly, get their license suspended or revoked as they can't even discipline and protect children under their care as per their duty as teachers.

In another video to demonstrate her skills against their strongest guy, her ability was that of a berserker assassin but unlike real berserkers, she clearly has tactical ability, but no actual fighting experience but even then, it took their guy quite the long while to pin her down! And that was in an all-out fight in a twenty-minute match! Sure she's armed with sticks, but she occasionally used her flames.

Then another problem rose.

'Iemitsu is really her father!' Nana sobbed. 'He's working overseas and barely has time to visit! B-but I can't believe he doesn't even pay her attention when he's actually here...no wonder she thought he's my freeloading boyfriend and her 'real father' long ago dead! But he told me to tell her he became a star!'

'Er, we'll have to confirm that with a blood test to really convince her ma'am.' said a Social Service Worker wryly, shaking her head. 'Your husband's questionable behavior towards your daughter and within your home cemented this belief of him.' she said to Nana's mortified horror. 'At this point we have no idea who to believe, her or you unless we get a blood test.' she told the dismayed mother.

'If it matches, its a tough road to reconciliation. If it doesn't, you and Tsunami-chan are in dire need of counseling real bad, and you should perhaps, find a real husband who would love the both of you and be a good husband and father, and move to a new home as Namimori...well, your daughter learned Fire Magic she might commit arson as revenge we really wouldn't want her in a Juvie Center.' Nana's legs felt like jelly and sank on her knees. 'Please think and consider. She who was once a weak, helpless tormented girl now gained power to strike back. Anyone will tell you her revenge will be through arson or worse, burn her tormentors to death or kill them with a lethal strike and to Tsunami-chan, murder is normal as she grew up with amazons while to us Earthlings, its a severe crime. She'll be our toughest customer yet.'

With that, Nana was taken by another counselor assigned to her.

The Case of Sawada Tsunami was indeed, a big problem.

She was an Earthling who learned Fire Magic out of desperation or be murdered/enslaved by the Imperial Empire and female slaves usually end up as Sex Slaves. She burned thousands of men to death to save her village thus became a valued member of the community and gained privileges, especially when she was a trained warrior but not allowed to participate in Tribal Wars as she's no match against a Bunny. But she definitely assassinates and thieves! If she returns to Earth the way she was, what's stopping her from having her revenge in the worst way possible after years of getting bullied? She was also proof that those who went 'Kamikakushi' and never found end up in other worlds, if not kidnapped. Kidnapped victims are usually found after some years and murder victims are found within days but Tsunami was a Kamikakushi.

They had to ask Sage Cato to 'teach her properly' as her magic manifested as Fire its possible she could learn other magic.

Thus Tsunami lives with her Counselor in the Military Base, learning magic for six hours a day, and counseling and tutoring for the rest of the day as she was starting to forget even hiragana and katakana, grammar included! She also has to teach the language. Letters, phrases, words, terminology and grammar often used, as well as math. It was also scary that for clothes, she and her adoptive tribe wear skins of their killed enemies so she's actually wearing Warrior Bunny pelt under her armor!

Due to getting creeped out, she was outfitted with proper underwear and a cute dress with matching footwear.

That, and she has to report to their Spy Ring every week, thus she would travel to Italica where her contact was, a great opportunity to talk to a Warrior Bunny.

They met a sassy bunny with brown and cream coloring named Delilah, posing as a waitress. She was beautiful and...incredibly busty on her shapely body. Their meeting and conversation is to be recorded by a video camera.

'Whoa, the men-in-green are actually your countrymen?! Wow!' Delilah exclaimed, wide-eyed, her ears twitching.

Through translation, Delilah understood that in a few weeks or months from now once Tsunami re-masters Japanese and catches up on lessons, she would go back to Earth as mandatory because she has a worried mother on the other side, but Tsunami worries how Tyuule might react since she was a valuable asset to their village.

'Come on, don't be such a downer, you did a lot for us already.' Delilah reassured her. 'You found us thirty wells that can keep us happy for more than a thousand years, and several mines we'd need in life! She'll surely let you go once word reaches her. I better go contact Griine next town over.'

With that promise, Delilah left Italica in a hurry after obtaining scrolls from Tsunami in a plastic bag she claimed, was waterproof but can be easily torn-apart to get to the scrolls as the plastic bag was tied up real tight.

'Wow...first was Captain's taste in girls and now we meet an actual monster girl...' Kurata Takeo, Sergeant squealed in delight. 'Are there other girls?!' he asked Tsunami excitedly.

'Well, you're in luck because Italica has many Beastman Tribes here because the late Count Colt Formal likes them like you do they're very welcome in his domain.' Tsunami deadpanned. 'You'll see a lot of them here had we stayed longer but for now we're only here for a short time. If you were assigned here you'd see a lot.'

Kurata squealed like a fanboy, much to the sweatdrops of his team and her counselor Mrs. Takahashi.