Otaku's Note: I know, I'm on ANOTHER fucking roll. Anyway, I'm seriously obsessed with AA. It's my favourite DS game, and Feenie's my favourite character/uke for this series. Here's a contribution to Lang X Phoenix... since there aren't any stories of them at all, actually, so I thought I'd ship this pairing.
Hope you guys like it!
Disclaimer: I don't even need to say it.
Warning(s): Yaoi/Shounen-ai/BL, fluff, slight MilesXPhoenix, DRAMA!
Phoenix's Predator
A story by Otakusama Rengette
Febuary 14, 10:00am
District Court
Defendant Lobby 3
Phoenix Wright sighed in content as he closed his case file, ready for it to be submitted to the case secretary later on. He'd just won a custody case with a landslide victory- the prosecutor being Prosecutor Payne, of course. Not to be mean or anything, but when it came to Prosecutor Payne, any decent defence attorney would be able to pull off beating him.
Then, Phoenix heard a knock on his door.
"C-come in..." Phoenix said softly. He didn't expect the person on the other end to hear him, but to his surprise, the doors opened anyway.
"Mr. Wright! You have to evacuate the building now! There has just been an announcement at the front desk for everyone to evacuate by the back entrance immediately!" Ms Conners said. She was the receptionist at the main desk who he handed his papers to after every court case.
"An announcement? What about?"
"I'm not too sure either, but it was a direct order from an Interpool agent! Everyone is leaving through the back exit now, and I was instructed to call you and your cilents," Ms Conners pointed to Jayme and Lisa Williams, the cilents he had helped in court just a few minutes ago. Jayme waved at him and gave him a toothy grin.
"Let's go, Mr. Wright! There's no time to waste!"
Four of them made their way towards the hallway leading towards the back exit. Other people were also starting to move towards the back of the building, including the Judge. It was a little odd to see him off his post, especially in that black robe. And he was shorter than Phoenix had expected.
"My bear! I left it in the lobby!" Jayme cried. Lisa sighed. "We'll just have to get you a new one, honey. Now let's go-"
"No! It was a gift from Daddy! It's not the same! And I won't be seeing him again; we're moving to Germany, remember?" Jayme said, her voice becoming more hysterical.
Ms Conners furrowed her eyebrows. "It's not safe to go back now, little girl! This is an emergency."
Jayme's eyes welled up with tears.
"... You know what, I'll get it. You guys go on ahead, I'll meet you at the back of the building!" Phoenix said. Ms Conners' eyes widened.
"B-but, Mr. Wright! It was an order-"
"I'll be quick! Now go!" Phoenix said, making shoo-ing motions. Exchanging worried glances, Lisa grabbed Jayme and hoisted her up, while Ms Conners nodded uncertainly.
Phoenix watched them disappear down the hallway, then started to briskwalk towards Defendant Lobby 3, grumbling about the emergency evacuation.
Reaching the doors to the third defendant lobby, Phoenix pushed the doors open. The room was empty. There, on the brown leather couch, he saw a big, brown, stuffed teddy bear, complete with a red ribbon on it's left ear.
"This must be it... I'll just go now-" Phoenix was cut off as he felt someone grab him from around the waist, and then something made of metal being pressed to his head.
"Don't move... unless you want to die." A chilling voice whispered in his ear.
The bear dropped onto the floor, slipping from Phoenix's fingers.
Thundering footsteps could be heard, and several men entered the room... including one familiar face the Phoenix recognised.
"PHOENIX WRIGHT? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE THE BUILDING WITH THE REST OF THEM! FOOL!" Franziska yelled, her whip brandished and ready to strike. But she didn't- because of the man pointed a gun at Phoenix's head.
"Make way, von Karma. Or Mr. Wright here gets a one-way ticket to hell." The man sneered.
Franziska shut her mouth, and grit her teeth in frustration as she began to make way for the convict to leave- when she was stopped. By a man with beige blonde hair, and fangs that reminded Phoenix of...
... A wolf?
"Woah, woah, woah. Have you forgotten how we handle these things, von Karma? Like Lang Zi says: He who gives way will be pushed over." The man said, a wolfish grunt sounding from his throat.
"..." The man who held Phoenix remained silent. "So you'd be willing to risk me killing this man?" The convict said, and Phoenix could almost hear the smirk in his voice.
"Go ahead, see if I care." The man said, smirking. Phoenix's eyes widened in disbelief. That jerk!
"... G-Get out of my way now!" The convict yelled, and Phoenix felt him tremble a little. It seemed as though his plan to take someone hostage wouldn't work... since that Interpool Agent (jerk) wasn't budging at all to allow the convict through. "It's best if you surrender now, Joka. You've been running for far too long now. I've got you where I want you... and you're going to pay for all the things you did." The wolfish-man said with a smile.
"I... d-didn't... ARGHhhHHhhHHhhHHH!" The man screamed in frustration. Phoenix heard the gun being cocked, and the wolfish-man lunged forwards, grabbing his arm to jerk him out of the way...
BANG!
Phoenix felt a searing pain in his right shoulder, and the shock of the sudden pain caused him to collapse. Franziska had lashed out at the convict with her whip, delivering a direct blow to the base of the neck, rendering him unconscious.
"Hey! Stay awake! Don't fall asleep!" The Interpool agent barked, gingerly holding Phoenix in his arms. The defence attorney could only blink hazily as he felt his own warm blood soaking up his blue suit.
And he had just ironed it this morning, too...
"Call the ambulance, fools! NOW! WHAT ARE YOU ALL STANDING AROUND FOR?"
Phoenix heard was Franziska screaming frantically at the lower ranking officers, and those hazelnut coloured eyes staring at him with frustration and slight concern.
"Stay... awake..."
And he blacked out.
Time: ?
Location: ?
Groaning slightly, Phoenix cracked open an eye, blinded by the white light from the ceiling. Wincing, he snapped them shut again, and slowly tried to adjust to the harsh glow of white.
It looked like a hospital ward. There was an IV drip attached to his left hand... oh, right. The shooting. Franziska had been there, as well as that wolfish-like Interpool Agent.
Oh! Did he have Jayme's bear with him? But before he could think anymore into it, the doors opened. Franziska stepped in, her eyes furious,
followed by the wolfish-like man.
"YOU STUPID FOOL! ARE YOU THAT FOOLISH AS TO NOT OBEY THE INSTUCTIONS THAT WERE ISSUED?" Franziska said, whipping a nearby chair. At least she had the sense not to whip him while he was down.
"... Where's the bear?" Phoenix squeaked, not knowing what else to say.
"What bear?" The German snapped, furrowing her eyebrows- she did that whenever she didn't understand something, or when she was irritated with someone, on the first degree.
"I went back to... uh... help Jayme find her... s-stuffed bear... Do you have it? The... er... bear, I mean." Phoenix said, slowly and cautiously, knowing that Franziska wouldn't like the answer.
And boy was he right.
"YOU STUPID IMBECILE! YOU RISKED YOUR LIFE FOR A FOOLISHLY PATHETIC BEAR OF A FOOLISHLY FOOLISH MORON OF THIS FOOLISH COUNTRY?" She shrieked, practically rattling the windows.
Phoenix frowned. "Hey, don't drag Jayme into this! She's just a little girl!"
Franziska stopped in mid-rant, her eyes wide. Then, she made a grunting noise. "Expected from the noble Phoenix Wright. Always putting his life before others. Pathetic."
And then she turned and left.
Sighing, Phoenix was about to slip back into the comfortable matteress and duvet the hospital had provided before he remembered that there was another individual in the room.
"... Can I help you?" Phoenix said uncertainly. The Interpool Agent smirked. "You're Phoenix Wright, huh. The famous defence attorney who beat Edgeworth everytime you've crossed paths."
"... Er, yeah."
"Impressive. My name's Shi-Long Lang. But you can call me Lang. I like you... the way you humiliated that stupid prosecutor again and again." Lang's voice held a childish glee to it, but Phoenix wasn't amused.
"For your information, Edgeworth happens to be a good friend of mine!" Phoenix huffed. Lang raised an amused eyebrow. "Really? Then how come he complains about you so much to that Gumshoe fellow?"
Phoenix's heart sank. Edgeworth... complained about him? To Gumshoe?
"... Anyway, just wanted to remind you; next time you receive an order from Interpool, follow it. Don't do anything foolish, like today."
"Yeah."
"... Did you hear me?"
"Yeah."
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"... Are you a woman?"
"Yeah."
"... I just ate a live horse!"
"Mhm."
Growling, Lang snapped his fingers in front of the dazed attorney's face. Phoenix jumped, startled.
"HEY! Listen to me when I'm talking to you, Wright!" Lang barked... more like hollered, actually, considering the impressive volume capacity Lang possessed. The defense attorney grinned sheepishly.
"Sorry about that. And uh... thanks for earlier. I thought you were gonna let the guy take me out, but-"
"Feh! I would never put an innocent person's life in danger. Like Lang Zi says: The innocent cannot be judged by the wrongdoings of the evil." Lang said, reciting one of his father's sayings without Shi-Na's help.
Good, he didn't need her around as much as he thought.
"... That's an interesting phrase." Phoenix said, smiling softly. Lang shrugged. "Well, I'd better get back to my duties. You'll be discharged from the hospital in about two days. I'll be back tomorrow to check on you."
Phoenix nodded. "Thank you. Please tell Maya and Pearls of my location!"
The defense attorney got a simple wave as he watched Shi-Long Lang leave the hospital ward. It was a private one, too. Hm, nice of Franziska and Lang to go through the trouble.
For the rest of the day, Phoenix laid back in the comfortable fort of pillows and thought about the visit he would be expecting from Lang the next day...
... Wait, what?
FIN.