V: The New Mission

Julian woke up when he felt something poking his behind. He stirred to his position and groaned at the pointy object. He was thinking of what could it be and his eyes open wide when he suddenly thought of his big brother's dong.

"What the fuck?!"

The young racer jumped out of his bed to see if what he thought was true, but he only saw the alien duck with his knife at the position where he felt the poking pointy object.

[Julian: Stop that! I thought it was my brother's dong!]

The alien duck looked at him before chuckling down at his muse's reaction.

[It's too early for that thought, young master. Also, how was your sleep? I've been trying to wake you up earlier. You sleep like a log!]

[Julian: Shut up! Let me breathe for a moment. Jesus, that thought scared me!]

The alien duck stopped from talking as he sat properly on the bed and put the knife away.

[Why were you even thinking about it, though? You know, your brother's dong?]

Julian looked at him with a red face and put his forefinger in between his lips to shut the duck up.

[Julian: Don't utter another word or I will castrate you and go to hell together.]

The duck chuckled at his reaction and shut up. He waited for Julian to calm down before he could tell him his next mission. The duck woke up early for the next mission. He already prepared everything and was only waiting for Julian to wake up.

[Are you calm now, young master?]

Julian looked at him before heaving a heavy sigh and nodded. The young man sat on a chair so he could face the duck in front of him, making sure that the duck won't draw his knife and poked at him again.

[Julian: Okay, I am calm and ready. So, why did you wake me up for?]

The duck showed a light blue screen in front of Julian and clicked the new notification by the screen.

[As you could see, young master. This would be your second mission to accomplish.]

"How to do Drag Make up properly?"

Julian froze up after reading the title of the mission. He looked at the other contents of the message as he scrolled down and found a video sample and the things that he needed to practice.

"No! You've got to be kidding me! Can't I just go to a salon and make them do my makeup?"

Duckie shook his head as he placed a small tablet in Julian's hand and spoke.

[Young master, the salon ladies don't do drag make up. You are not going to a pageant. You will work as a drag queen. Plus, you are penniless. What kind of bribery would you give to the salon lady?]

Julian's shoulder drooped down to the ground as he groaned and looked at the materials on his desk. He had never done drag make up in his entire life, nor done drag. He looked at himself in front of the mirror and sighed.

"Fine. Just for the sake of getting some greens and could help this family. God, I hate my life."

The duckie smiled at his muse and asked him to sit down in front of the mirror to prepare. The instructions were written on the screen in front of him and he just need them to follow.

So, what could go wrong?

x-x-x-x

Everything. Everything was wrong. Julian followed everything that was written on the screen but couldn't pinpoint the proper materials to use. Julian laid back to his chair and groaned to the heavens as he thought of another way to learn this make up mission.

He grabbed his phone and went to his favorite video app and search on "how to drag queen makeup". One click away and he already had a lot of tutorials to choose from. One video caught his eyes and clicked on it immediately.

He placed his phone in front of him and waited for the video to load. He washed his face and put primer in to make the makeup stick throughout the process and as the host introduce himself and what they would do, Julian was all ready for the tutorial.

"So, we are going to do the brows on a very thin brush."

Julian looked around the kit for a very thin brush and when he found it, he felt giddy to finally understood what he was doing. The young drag racer paused the video first and glued on his brows before putting foundation on.

He learned this technique from Lucas' sister on last year's Halloween party. He had to get dressed up like the Grinch because of his height and his "gay-ish" attitude compared to the Grinch. He was not happy with that event. But he learned a few hoops and loops for girl's makeup.

After gluing his brow, Julian went back to the video and played it as he watched the host on how he drew on his fake eyebrows towards the sky. The young man knew how over-the-top drag makeup was, but he never thought that he would do it one day.

But here he was.

Julian followed what the host was doing with his invisible brows as he drew a line to the sky and a downward line to Satan and another one above the other. The same goes for the other invisible brow line.

The next step was to draw little brow hairs inside of the brow lines, and Julian did just that. His arm started to ache as soon as he tried to concentrate, making them in a perfect diagonal line. If this is what it took many women to get that beauty standard, Julian would give them a huge respect.

This shit was hard.

The third step after the brow hairs was a concealer. Julian squinted his eyes to look for the perfect concealer because, apparently, this drag queen he was playing had three different shades of concealer.

He needed to draw a sample on his left arm to check whether it was the right tone for his eyelids. He didn't want to look like someone who just got ran over by a flying car. When he found the right concealer, Julian immediately jabbed them gently to his eyelids and followed the next step.

"Okay, next step was to get your soft fluffy brush to just jabbed it gently all over the eyes."

Julian followed through the process and jabbed the brush towards the concealer and spread it all over his eyes. He was squinting the other eye while trying to open the other, and it was a struggle. He looked extremely ugly at this point but as women say, "Beauty is pain."

"Jesus, how do women do this shit? Argh!"

The duckie was just sitting in the corner, watching Julian struggle with his mission. The latter was known as a fighter, but Duckie knew that this would be one of the major struggle of Julian and he was here to watch it all.

"Okay next, get your shadow palette and look for that deep neutral colored brown eye shadow and line it up like this."

Julian followed what it instructed him and drew a thick line to the sky as he made a huge eyeliner on the crest of his eyelid and spread it with a fluffy brush to make sure it was smoothen out. And after that, he moved on to the next color that would stress and make his eyes popped before putting that silver eyes contact lens on.

The young drag racer followed through the steps by-steps process for a whole thirty minutes and when it was done, he put on his wig and looked into the mirror. At this point, duckie was the one who got amazed at how intricate and spot on the makeup.

In just a day, Julian already accomplished his given missions, making the duckie proud and filled with pride. He had never seen a muse as talented as Julian, even if the latter kept on complaining how things were. But in the end, he still managed to finish the whole look.

[Ding! Congratulations on completing your second mission, young master! A new feature was added to your screen and will be activated when you meet the person who will make your world upside and down! Good luck!]

[Ding! I will post the next mission in a few hours. Good luck, young master!]

"Looks like I need to wait for a few hours for the next one then. What should I do now? I kinda like this makeup and don't want to remove it after struggling for a whole thirty minutes."

Duckie shrugged his shoulder as he watched Julian looked around the room until he spotted his closet and opened it wide.

"I don't have work today. But that doesn't mean that I won't ready whatever clothes I will wear tomorrow, right? I shall find something that is sophisticated and alluring. The one will make all boys popped out their eyes and drool when they see me."

Duckie just shook his head and thought that maybe his muse was a closeted gay back in his real world with the words that he just spouted.

[You know, sometimes… I think to myself that you are gay in your previous life.]

Julian stopped from what he was doing and looked at the system.

"Maybe I am. Maybe I am not. Whichever I was, it was all in the past. I shall now embrace this new me and get those three wishes that you bribed me to."

Duckie should've thought that already. Of course, Julian would never care about anything in this world as long as he could achieve the missions and accomplished it all and get those bribed wishes. The alien duck looked at the new feature on the screen that was still locked and sighed.

[I hope this feature would teach him a lesson and take this world seriously.]