Michelangelo the Artist

**Michelangelo the Artist** is a One-Shot Story.

## Characters

* Michelangelo
* Jill
* Sir Gourmandise
* Jill's Father
* Boil

## Description

The story begins in a commoner's village A following a young woman named *Jill*, who works at her family's bakery. She is standing outside handing out free samples, when she hears someone screaming incredibly loud. She turns to find a strange young man screaming about the inspiring aura of a muddy puddle. She tries to not pay attention to him, but finds she just can't ignore his screaming, and throws a bread roll into his mouth to shut him up. This causes the young man to turn his attention to Jill, causing her to regret her decision. He literally crawls over to her creepily, much to her fright and... politely asks how much the bread in the shop is.

One minute later, the young man, his name revealed to be *Michelangelo*, is chowing down on bread rolls, both the ones he bought and the free samples, explains to Jill that he is a traveling artist, searching for inspiration. Jill doesn't believe him, so he shows his skill by using him magic to create a ball of clay, and quickly molds a beautiful pot. Jill is amazed and asks what could inspire such an amazing work of art, and he tells her it was from a worm he saw in a previous town, much to Jill's confusion. Suddenly a rather flashy horse carriage stops in front of the bakery. From it, a fat man with fancy and expensive clothes steps out from it. He introduces himself as *Sir Gourmandise*, a food critic and noble. Jill is frightened at his appearance, much to Michelangelo's confusion. He slaps her out of the way, and enters the bakery, followed by a frightening man. Michelangelo goes to check on Jill and shows great anger to see her bruised cheek. He is about to confront Sir Gourmandise, only for Jill to grab his arm, telling him to stop.

She explains that Sir Gourmandise is a famous food critic, and that his words heavily effect the success of a restaurant. After her mother passed away, the Bakery is all her family has, and that Sir Gourmandise's word might make the bakery successful. However, the conversation is interrupted by a loud "Bleech".

Sir Gourmandise is shown destroying all the bread in the shop. Michelangelo and Jill see Jill's father lying on the floor in pain. Jill runs over to her father in concern, and he explains that Sir Gourmandise had the intimidating man attack him, and he just started destroying the bread. Sir Gourmandise explains that he could tell without tasting the bread that it was bad, simply because it was made by "Filthy Commoners". Jill is angered, and punches him in the face, and calls him an "Arrogant Jerk". Sourmandise orders the intimidating man, calling him *Boil*, to attack Jill for hitting him. Boil uses his Fire Magic to shoot a fireball at Jill, only for Michelangelo to use his *Clay Magic: Hard Wall* to protect her. Boil then uses a spell, *Fire Creation Magic: Burning Bastard Sword*, to create a sword made entirely of fire. He attempts cut Michelangelo in half, but the artist counters with *Clay Magic: Clay Cannonball*, shattering the villainous mage's ribs and knocking him out.

Gourmandise is outraged, and tells Michelangelo that he will make sure his family suffers for defending his attackers, but Michelangelo reveals his Grimore, which doesn't have a symbol from the Clover Kingdom, let alone any symbol at all, much to everyone's shock. He threatens Gourmandise to leave the bakery and never come back, or he will "turn {you} into a sculpture of pain". Gourmandise surrenders, and leaves with Boil. Michelangelo smiles at Jill and her father, deciding that it's probably time for him to leave as well. As he exits the bakery, Jill tells him to wait, and asks why he helped them. He explains that he could tell all the love and hard work she and her father put into the bakery and it's bread was proof of their passion, and felt it would be a waste for such beautiful "Art" to be ruined by one selfish man. Jill is touched, and tells him to come again, to which he agrees to do so. As Michelangelo leave Ari, Jill's father questions why the artist's grimore has no symbol, or if he is even a member of the Clover Kingdom, but Jill decides it doesn't matter, because he is an incredibly kind artist.

In another village Michelangelo is exploring, he is causing another uproar, finding inspiration in a chicken eating a bug, much to the confusion of the townspeople.