Hi everyone! Its the first chapter, thus I have pretty much nothing to talk about just yet...if not, enjoy! ^^"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Mystic Maya...where are we going again?
It was a cool and cloudy day in the middle of February. Two girls in costume, and they were walking down a sidewalk as they continued to converse with each other.
"Oh Pearls!" Maya laughed to the younger girl. "Why do you think I got you all in that cute Doraemon costume? We're going to an anime festival!"
Pearl frowned. She wasn't sure what to make of all of it since it WAS her first time ever attending a festival this kind. Glancing towards the sky for a brief moment before she turned back to face Maya.
"I don't want to get lost though! You even said there was going to be a lot of people!!" Pearl stated.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure you wont get lost! The Steal Samurai wont allow it!" Maya smiled with a good load of "oomph". "Man, I've been looking forward to this all year! And I finally have a worthy buddy to take with me!"
"Worthy?" Pearl questioned.
" I used to take Nick with me, but he never was too too into it...he doesn't know anything about cartoons, and he was recognized too easily. Thats why I cosplay! So random people wont recognize me! Ah, its hard being famous." Maya giggled as she was swinging around her convention badge.
" He he! I wonder if I'll be famous like you when I'm older!" Pearl joked in return.
They both neared the huge convention center of the city. There was many people including a rainbow of cosplayers lined up and gathered outside.
"Woooooow!!! Some of the costumes are amazing!" Pearl said in awe.
Maya reaches through her bag, then takes out a thin, sliver camera.
"That's what I have this baby for!" Maya said. "To keep the memory of the really good ones alive!"
Pearl was reading the label on the camera. "Sony CyberShot DSC-W120." She read out loud.
Maya started to laugh. "And you said your not good at reading, yea right!"
Pearl ignoring the comment, ran ahead through to the doors of the convention center.
"And I was pretty sure she said something about being scared to get lost too, right?" Maya though to her self smiling lightly.
Maya then ran ahead to catch up with her younger cousin who was standing on the inside right next to the doors. She then opened the double doors with both hands, with a blast of air conditioning blowing in her face. It was oddly refreshing despite the fact of the gloomy weather outside. Inside the building filled with loud otaku, Pearl was standing against a wall to the left of the entrance.
"I found a guide!" Pearl exclaimed holding up a thin and colorful booklet.
"Thanks!" Maya said as she took the booklet out of Pearl's hands. " Maybe we should go sit down in that corner over there really quickly to see what we want to do first." She said pointing to their next destination.
They both walked over to where Maya was indicating and sat down right next to a Crayon Shin-Chan cosplayer. They opened the booklet to the "Map" page and started searching for something that might pique there interest.
"Oh! Duh! This is where we should hit first!" Maya pounded her finger onto a a shaded area of the map. "THE DEALERS ROOM!" She announced. "Good thing I went to the store and loaded up on Pocky, instant ramen, Ramune and ice coffee to bring here for us to eat. Its too expensive over here, plus, you need a good amount of cash to make it out of the dealers room alive."
Pearl gulped. "Alive?" She said slightly frightened.
Maya smiled. "Its a figure of speech...but you do need a lot of money, cause you a lot of stuff you want to get even though you really don't need it!"
"Yay! I can finally get some Sailor Moon dolls for my collection!!"
"And I can get my hands on some new special edition DVD's, 'The squeal of the Trilogy of the Return of the Steal Samurai Directors Cut Platinum edition, IN SPACE!' "
"How much does that cost?"
"Just sixty percent of the money I brought along with me today!"
"Wow, that's a lot for just a DVD."
"Oh, its not JUST a DVD, its THE DVD."
Pearl stared at her still confused at what she just said.
"Well, lets go then! Sailor Moon dolls, here I come!" Pearl chanted as she got up and started marching towards the Dealers Room.
"Wait for me Pearls!" Maya said as she got up to follow the nine year old.
They made it up to the door of the dealers room and entered after showing their badges to the doorman. As from what they were expecting, the space was fill top to bottom with anything that any convention goer could possibly want. Pearl stopped to examine the first booth to the left of the door.
"Wow! Its a backpack with the cast of Akazukin Chacha on it!" Pearl said pointing to the backpack displayed on a rack.
"Be careful, certain murderers have a liking of that particular series..." Maya said in a serious tone.
"Mister! Can I have that backpack please?" Pearl said pointing to the backpack, not hearing Maya's advisory.
"2500 yen." The man said with a Chinese accent.
Pearl took out a small plush coin pouch in the shape of a cat head to dig out her change.
"2500 yens!" She said with a huge smile on her face while handing the man her money and receiving the backpack in exchange.
"Thank you, come again!" The man waved as the two cousins headed over to another stand.
" OH MY GOSH! THERE IT IS!" Maya pointed to a shining DVD box that was in a fiberglass case. It was, of course, none other then 'The squeal of the Trilogy of the Return of the Steal Samurai Directors Cut Platinum edition, IN SPACE!'
"Excuse me sir, how much is that DVD in the box up there?" She asked.
"12,000 ye-"
"SOLD!" Maya said cutting off the young man and handing him the money she owed him.
"Uh...c-coming right up ma'am..." The man stuttered as he got up to get the DVD out if its clear box.
"And also the Sailor Jupiter plush toy please." Pearl said handing the man more money.
The man got the DVD from its box and then the plush from its rack before returning to the table that the two girls were standing behind.
"Here you go." He said as he handed Maya the DVD in a bag.
"Thank you!" Maya said smiling and bowed to him quickly before leaving with her DVD.
Pearl smiled awkwardly at him and then followed Maya heading towards the next row of stands.
"Oh... I cant wait to watch this when I get home!" Maya exclaimed.
"Ha ha! I bet it will be very cool Mystic Maya!" Pearl agreed.
They both continued to walk down the row looking at various merchandise, but meanwhile, there was a group observing them from afar.
"C-can it be? It is!" A man said. " Its 'Legendary Girl B'!! " He exclaimed eying Maya.
"Uh sir, whatever happened to 'Legendary Girl A'?" The other man sitting next him said obviously referring to their more usual target going by the name of Konata Izumi.
"She hasn't come yet, she probably will later...but for now, 'Legendary Girl B' is our focus! Anything place she buys seems to instantly get some popularity! Almost as much as when 'Legendary Girl A' comes by." The man lectured. "Lin! What is the newest comic that's we have in stock?"
"Some of volume 19 of Gintama, got about 50 copies from mail order 3 days ago." The girl replied.
"Display them all!" The man commanded. "Rin and Jin! Make sure that 'Legendary Girl B' is obliged to turn down our aisle."
"Yes sir!" Both girls replied. They both split up and ran around the rows of stands right next to the center one. They end up one coming from the right, and the other from the left.
"Excuse me!" The girl from the left said to Maya while carrying several boxes.
"I'm so sorry!" The girl from the right said as she bumped into Maya also with some boxes.
Maya and Pearl then turned into the center aisle towards the groups stand.
"Hey! Lets see if they came out with some new comics!" Maya said pointing to the group's stand completely unaware of their plan.
"Yes yes! She's coming this way!" The man said with glee.
Maya came to the table and started digging though the piles doujins and manga alike. She picked up one, flips through a couple pages and her jaw drops.
"S-sir...how much i-is this?" Maya said quietly.
"YES! First try!" The man thought. " Um, that is 500 yens." He said out loud.
"Here..." Maya said giving the man the money but still reading the book.
"T-thank you." The man said as she and Pearl was leaving.
"WE DID IT!!" CONGRATS EVERYONE!!" The man said crying tears of joy.
"Yay!" Everyone cried to their leader.
"Now to get Legendary Girl A now." The man said in a calmer voice and went back to observing the crowd of people navigating the dealers room.
As the people back from the stand were busy celebrating, Maya's eyes fixed on that book, and lead Pearl and herself out of the dealers room and sat down in the same corner that they were before. The Crayon Shin-Chan cosplayer was still there.
"I-is something wrong Mystic Maya?" Pearl said worried.
"I had my suspicions... I-I guess I'm not the only one out there who thinks that..." Maya said close to being completely flabbergasted. "Wha!!" She yelled after she turned the page.
"Whats wrong?" Pearl said even more worried then she was before. She looked to see what Maya was reading. " OH MY GOSH!!" Pearl screamed.
Maya was apparently on the make-out scene of a yaoi doujinshi, but what shocked Pearl the most was not the fact that it was two men, but the fact that Phoenix and Edgeworth were those two men in the picture!
" H-H-HOW COULD MR. NICK DO SUCH A THING??" Pearl screamed enraged."HOW?" She continued as she started to cry.
"Don't worry Pearls, I'll be ok." Maya said reassuringly to Pearl. "He, he."
Pearl just kept staring at her, Maya could tell that she was really upset.
"I-I thought you both loved each other..." Pearl said crying.
"I do, but not in that way..." Maya said a bit more seriously to her cousin.
"I'm going to slap Mr. Nick SO hard when we get back to his office..." Pearl started.
"No need to Pearls." Maya said with a smile of confidence, which lead to a somewhat maniacal laugh on her part.
"Mystic Maya!" Pearl yelled.
" I was always pretty sure that they had something for each other, but I never knew that someone else thinks..." She trailed off "But now this is where the real fun begins..." Maya grinned. "This is just a comic, so neither of them would ever admit to it if I show them this. Even if they did, there'd be no fun in it. The author of this apparently is getting the same vibe from both of them that I get. They might need a push in the right direction, but I'll get them to admit it. And I'm going to witness it all for myself."
"Mystic Maya..." Pearl said somewhat disturbed at her older cousins master plan.
Maya took out her camera again. "To keep the memory of the really good ones alive!" Maya smiled. "I'll get my very own proof with this. I have to keep hidden about this though, so could you not tell Nick or Mr. Edgeworth about this?"
"Will it make you happy Mystic Maya?" Pearl still sobbing a little.
Maya nodded. "It'd be a great help. But think about it, this'll be really funny just to see, cause I, kinda like those types of comics, yea." Maya said sheepishly.
"He he, I think I caught you reading one of those one time...I didn't know what to make of it.I wouldn't think that Mystic Mia would be one to approve of you reading those." Pearl giggled.
"Shh! She never found out!" Maya said."I might have to take you along on some of my future missions. Teach ya some of my tricks of the trade!" Maya said grinning again.
"...If it will make you happy Mystic Maya." Pearl said with a small smile.
"Now gimme a hug!!" Maya said as she hugged her little cousin.
"Ha! I'm going to come up with my first plan! Its like a doujin, but its much better and LIVE!" Maya exclaimed.
"Right now?" Pearl said surprised.
" Nah, that cant wait till after we're done at the CHIBI RAVE tonight!" Maya shouted as she stood up.
"Yay! I love glow sticks!" Pearl said while getting up also.
"To the Full Metal Alchemist panel next?" Maya asked.
"Lead the way Mystic Maya!" Pearl replied with glee.
They continued off into the crowd of people, and onto their next stop at the convention.
" And so, this is where my journey of maybe not noble, but very funny cause I say is true. I do love Phoenix. But don't get me wrong, I want to see both of them to kiss and make up for myself. I'm probably a little crazy for actually saying this, but that's what I'm going to do until that special day comes when they come admit it. So starts my adventure as not your ordinary otaku, but Fangirl Extraordinaire: Maya Fey!"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Authors note/rant- Wow, its 2009 already? Wow XD Hope you have a great start to the New Year everyone! ^-^
R.I.P. 2008
(2008-2008)
