"The Goddess of Healing?" Dark Pit found himself speaking normally to the goddess Palutena as Pit, Palutena's faithful Captain, moved out of the way of an incoming blast from said male himself. As he spoke to Palutena, Pit tried his hardest to get him to remain in the area while she worked her magic.
"Yes, Pittoo. Being a goddess, her duty is very strict. She is the only goddess who can help humans and everything else become healthy! Sort of like a mother, caring for her children for instance, but even with such a great responsibility… she can sometimes be a bit naïve." Dark Pit dodged Pit's attacks and spoke with a chuckling following,
"Naive? You make it sound like she's a kid or something!" Palutena remained silent, Pit stopped moving as well, seeing this Dark Pit found himself at the end of something redundant, "She is isn't she?"
"Well not exactly," Palutena begin with a raised finger, "A teenager to be exact, I think about your and Pit's age actually." Dark Pit stopped,
"Tell me again what this has to do with me?"
"We want you to be friends with her!" Hearing that, Dark Pit scoffed almost as if on instinct,
"There's no way I'm doing that!" Pit's voice came from behind him as he approached Dark Pit.
"Common, that's the only reason we came here! She seems kinda lonely without people to talk to. Besides, you two are a lot alike!"
"Name one thing." Pit didn't have an answer, his face led that more than anything and Dark Pit rolled his eyes, "Well I can't name one right off the top of my head! Though I'm sure if you get to know her you'll be able to find something!"
"Look, I may not be able to fly anymore, but I still have better things to do then become friends with some emo Goddess." Palutena sigh was loud.
"Alright fine, I didn't want it to lead to this, but how about I tell you a secret about her, then will you at least meet with her?" Dark Pit wasn't one for gossip, but hearing a Goddess had a secret was interesting to say the least.
"I'm listening," She smiled and went on,
"Because she's the Goddess of Healing, in her possession is the most important thing to help you and your flying defect, you might even be able to fly completely on your own." Her words caught his interest, even more so at the thought of complete independence. Though his mind was still on bargaining; some pointless friendship for something he was doing well without? Was it really worth it? Dark Pit looked back to them both and found himself giving in,
"Fine, whatever-" Palutena giggled, Pit let out a loud cheer, "But, before I go… answer me this: Why couldn't you and Pit just be her friends?" Their mouths turned up into bright smiles.
"We're already her friends! She's like super cool to be around!" Pit exclaimed, "She makes some mean floor chicken!" Palutena grunts.
"More like just normal chicken but you add the 'floor' to it," Pit turned a shade of red turning to look up to Palutena.
"Hey!" As much as he was enjoying the ridicule of Pit, Dark Pit cut their conversation short cut,
"Moron… Just take me to wherever she's at." Palutena agreed and a pure light enveloped Dark Pit and took him to the Goddess Palace...
Upon his arrival, his thoughts told him he should have just backed out of it half-assed, but he'd never go back on his word…
"Oh, oh, a boy!"
"An evil, evil boy!"
"How evil?"
"Enough to destroy the world! I hear!" No matter how much he actually wanted to! He ignored the countless children, boys and girls alike, who all hid behind their over sized homes and spoke fear of the unknown to one another. But Dark Pit found it odd, most of them were wearing what looked like lab coats, though on most of them it barely fit and dragged behind them. On the streets, upon seeing him, they would run, hide and start their talks of nothing they knew all over again. This continued for quite sometime,
"Why didn't she put me closer to the entrance!" Seeing how far away it was, Dark Pit cursed Palutena's name as he continued his walk. It was more of a small town than a palace, the only structure he could see that resembled any kind of honoring was a large one at the back of the rather large island. He assumed this is where the Goddess was. He had made it to the entrance, seeing the large marble double doors, below that there was a small set of doors he assumed was meant for people to walk through. His walk was cut short when suddenly the sun disappeared, he looked up and saw something falling down in front of him.
"Give me a break!" Dark Pit had begun running and he just barely managed to avoid as well as slip by it before it fell completely and found himself inside the palace main floor. Now, there was an even bigger problem, the outside was pretty horrible in terms of caring for it, but the inside was much worse. Pinks, oranges, sky blues, and whatever other pastel color existed, you could find it here and all over the place! It was like a little girl's room with things all over the place, rather plain looking doors ran up and down the hall and in front of the doors were pedestals of… "Food?" Dark Pit spoke to himself, baffled completely by the sight of food on a pedestal. He felt something at his foot, he kicked up knocking whatever it was back a bit, that's when he noticed the animals in the room as well. Alive and kicking.
"Oh, someone's hurt?" A voice came inside the room and he was pushed out of the way, someone had dropped to the floor in front of him and touched the creature he had kicked. It was a girl, her brown hair fell barely on her shoulders as she leaned over to pick the creature up. "It's alright… there, that's better right!" She giggled before letting it run off. The girl let out a sigh before getting to her feet, her bare toes touched the floor and she turned to look at Dark Pit who had been staring at her the entire time. She blinked before getting a bit closer, Dark Pit felt a bit uncomfortable under her gaze, so he spoke up.
"W-what's with you?" Her look remained on him, she backed away and spoke.
"You're not Pit…" She paused, "But you look so much like him…" It was almost as if she were speaking to herself now,
"As if, I serve no one but myself!" She still seemed a bit confused, but she shrugged and gave him a smile.
"Well then, who are you? Also, what brings you here?" He didn't exactly know what to say, Hey I got coaxed into being your friend, just accept that and we'll move on? He sighed and just spoke off his head,
"The original Pit, a lot of people call me Dark Pit." He paused, "... I'm sure you're not really suppose to ask it… but I think it would be a good idea if we became f-friends." She stared at him, for the moment she didn't speak Dark Pit started to get annoyed, he was about to yell at her.
"Um, just randomly off my head, did Palutena put you up to this?" He was a bit surprised, but he nodded.
"How'd you know?" Her voice went soft as she turned looking at one of the dessert items contained by thick glass,
"Palutena, much like Pit, are a much too predictable." She paused looking back to him, "I told them I didn't need any friends… nor did I want any. I'm fine being alone! Plus, what she fails to see is I already have plenty of things to keep me busy. People are sick or hurt everyday! I'm always occupied and have no time for messy things like friendships," She giggled suddenly, "Expect for today, it's a Holiday down on Earth, so everyone is pretty okay, except for a few kids that is, I hope they stay good until it get's warmer." Naive? What part exactly? Dark Pit ignored the thought,
"Still, forget what Palutena and her slave boy have to say about it, this is coming straight from me." She stared at him, she walked a bit closer before her hand touched his shoulder, she gave him a smile before turning and walking off. "That didn't answer my question! It didn't do anything really!" She sighed as her back remained facing him,
"There are only two reasons why someone like you would be so concerned about being friends with someone like me…" She held up two fingers, "One; you owe Palutena something and you don't want her to hold it over you, or two; you want what Pit wanted the first time we had met." Her words were true, that was if 'what Pit wanted' was the Power of Flight, "To fly on your own," He chuckled a bit.
"Well you sure know your stuff," She sighed before facing him, her dress turned just as angrily as she did.
"And you are just about as stupid as Pit was!" She got closer and poked his chest with a frail (yet oddly sturdy) finger, "Go back to whatever it was you were doing, now I really won't give it to you." Dark Pit felt his mouth turn up into a smirk, he grabbed her hand stopping it from hitting him anymore.
"You're not so naive, now that I know you aren't there isn't any point to beating around the bush." He paused, "I have no reason to be your friend, I just want the power of flight and you have it." She rolled her eyes taking her hand back before distancing herself from him.
"Palutena really needs to just forget about me! I can't believe she even said that too. Look, go jump off the edge of this island and fall for all I really care, if Palutena got you here ask her to get you off too." Naive wasn't the word, Dark Pit couldn't quite finger exactly what she was but knowing this type of person, there was no way she'd ever give him anything after the reaction she had. Dark Pit turned to leave out but the door he had left open was dark, he went over and touched it feeling plush softness.
"Goddess!"
"What?" Her voice seethed irritability,
"I can't get out." She blinked and walked over,
"No, Mika, not now!" She sighed a bit,
"What's going on?" She looked to him,
"Mika, my pet rabbit, it was originally just a stuffed animal but it came to life after a few experiments and grew to that size, but, looks she decided to take her nap in front of the doors, she must have eaten a lot more. Great, now you can't get out!" Oh he was going to get out, it was just a stuffed animal after all. Dark Pit took his blade from his side,
"That's what you think! If it's just a stuffed animal I'll just cut my way through." Cassie saw this and gasped before running at him full force knocking the blade from his hands as well as them both onto the floor. "What's wrong with you!" She pushed the blade away ignoring it's sharpness.
"If you hurt her I will be sure you never do anything ever again." Her voice was low and serious, not the tone he had gotten used to. Whatever this was about, he knew just to listen to her now, she moved off of him and picked his blade back up. Seeing her, Dark Pit felt something strange when she walked back over, blade in hand,
"Look, I don't like this… probably more than you, but until Mika wakes up you're stuck here, okay?" He got up and reclaimed the blade,
"When exactly is nap time over?"
"With what I can tell, likely tomorrow morning,"
"No way, can't Palutena just get me out of here?"
"That all seeing eye of hers doesn't work on my beautiful little palace, I made sure it didn't." Dark Pit sighed finding himself agitated with the issue she had with Palutena. Her hands clapped getting his attention once more, "With that out of the way, I completely forgot to tell you my name!" She looked to him with a bright smile, "I'm Cassie, but don't wear my name out." Giving him a wink, Dark Pit looked at her seeing the name somewhat unfitting. But Cassie went on, "We've never had a guest be stuck here by fate! Now we won't need any tranquilizers." Dark Pit looked at her questioning the ethics of her palace, she giggled. "I have to give you the tour! It's the least I can do to waste sometime until Mika decides to move." He shrugged,
"Sure, not like I have much else to do." With that, she went behind him pushing him to one of the doors in the hallway.
"Good, then the grand tour for you! Let's go!"