"Are you sure this is okay?" a young looking angel asked as she followed the boy in front of her.
"You're quite the worry wart today," he chuckled, turning back to meet one of his blue eyes with her jade green ones. "Besides, I have you here in place of Lady Palutena which calms me a little."
The strawberry blonde one frowned at his comment as she crossed her arms together, tapping on the thin gold brace around her upper left arm. Of course she was going to worry a ton after what happened the other week when he asked her to take him to the land where humans did their business.
"Come on now, Irena, are you really still mad about that incident?" Pit asked with a chuckle, his soft laughter watering down into a nervous one.
"Hades found us and you nearly got hurt. Do you think I'm still mad, Sir Careless?" the angel named Irena asked, containing her anger in her body. For now that is.
Pit's smile widened a little to show her his apology as he scratched the back of his head, messing up his already messy brown hair. Her frown lightly softened from his reaction, knowing that she couldn't stay mad at him for very long.
"Forgiven for now, but please don't be reckless. Lady Palutena won't be happy with either of us," she sighed.
Pit was glad to hear that he was off the hook once again, giving a fist pump into the air as he loudly whispered, "Yes...!" She only chuckled in response as she slightly leaned over to the right and tilted her head, her short, layered hair and long, thin twin tails falling to the direction she was bending her neck to.
"Please, let's hurry and finish whatever errand you needed to run then head back to Sky World. These people are beginning to make me uncomfortable with their stares..." Irena said awkwardly, uncrossing her arms and brushing out her white, long caped yet bunched up thigh length tube top dress and fixed her clean, very light blue sash that rested on her right shoulder. It was the only thing she could do to keep her mind off the number of eyes focused on the two who stood in the middle of the streets like two lost lambs trying to get back onto their ranch.
"Sure, sure! This way!" the male angel clad in white and black exclaimed, dragging the girl with him.
"Whoa!"
"This is the place!" Pit announced proudly, his golden laurel crown drooping off his head and nearly covering his field of visions. "Haha, whoops."
Irena blew a puff of air into the misplaced strand of hair covering her face as she fixed up the slipping gold half laural headpiece resting on the left side of her head before she decided to see what her companion was talking about.
"Pit, what exactly is this place..?" she asked, looking around her surroundings. "Looks really... hmm.. breathtaking? Really extraordinaire..."
They were both now surrounded by green plants and colorful flowers with roaming animals just minding about their own businesses instead of the dusty streets where humans passed by and stared intriguingly. It felt... calming, peaceful. A perfect place to nap and forget all about the worries she had to deal with nearly everyday.
"I know right?" Pit suddenly exclaimed excitedly. "And guess what the best part of this place is..!"
This answer had to be obvious due to the tone of his voice or so Irena thought.
"Hot spring?" she asked caustiously.
"HOT SPRING!" he yelled joyfully as he threw his arms up in the air causing her to laugh.
'How did I know..?' she muttered. "I never noticed such a wonderful place as this while fighting the Underground Army... Huh.."
"Well fighting does usually mask the environment. Even sometimes I don't notice! This one just happened to be the lucky few."
"I see... Well, thank you for bringing me here, but now we need you to get back to the temple. Lady Palutena isn't going to be happy to find out that an angel took a flightless angel out for a detour..." Irena told the boy disappointingly as she spread her fairly large, white wings and secured her arms around his waist tightly. "Ready?"
Pit snickered at her question as if she was supposed to know his answer by now using muscle memory or so.
"Heck yeah I am! Born to always be ready!" he told her confidently. "I am sure that Lady Palutena won't get mad even if she found out about this."
"Sure?"
"Lady Palutena got mad at us for going out without her divine guidance," Pit sobbed once they were released from a not-so-serious scold from the Goddess of Light.
"I did tell you now, didn't I?" Irena pointed out, crossing her arms lightly together. "She doesn't want us both to get into trouble without her knowledge of us being gone at a random time."
"I'm sorry, Lady Palutena!" he continued to cry. "I won't do it again and roam around Sky World instead where you can watch me closely while knowing I'm there!"
Irena rose a brow as she gave the male a funny look, holding in a laugh as she did so.
"Pit, you're just being ridiculous now. Think of what if Pittoo was here to see this. It's PITIFUL! You get?" She asked, trying to crack a joke. "... That was terrible wasn't it..?"
Laughing loudly at the terribly made pun, Pit gave Irena a funny look as he pointed at her weakly. She then tilted her head and smiled softly when the boy burst out laughing.
"That was terribly good. Who knew you could crack a joke or a few despite being so serious all the time," chuckled the angel who now dropped his arm to clutch at his stomach.
"Just doing my best to stop you from embarrassing yourself, I guess..." she replied sheepishly. "Please don't speak of this or I'll get back at you with something far much worse than an Eggplant Wizard."
Pit then stopped laughing and paled at the mention of the wizards' name, one of his worst nightmares after the Clubber Skull and next to the Tempura Wizard.
"Egg-cellent! We both now have planty of blackmail for each other now," Irena laughed, making a fool of herself to calm the tensed up angel next to her.
In fact, it certainly worked when Pit slowly relaxed his stiff muscles and gradually began to laugh again.
"You know, we should've taken a dip in the hot spring..." he mentioned after calming down.
"Do you even know who set up that hot spring though?" Irena decided to ask.
"Nope, not at all," replied the young angel. "A hot spring is a hot spring after all. Am I right or am I right?"
"If it was Hades who set that thing up, I'm staying away from it," she shuddered.
That got Pit thinking a little more and caused him to cringe at the thought of what Hades could've done to the Goddess Hot Springs.
"On second thought, maybe you're right instead..." he corrected himself, rubbing the goosebumps on his arms to calm down.
"I kind of thought so.." she replied. "But it's just a guess so don't completely trust my words, Pit."
"Yeah, but your words destroyed my beautiful view on holy hot springs!" he lamented.
"Did I really? My mistake then.." she mumbled holding a hand up to her temples.
"Say, you two, did you see anything strange down there in the Overworld? Maybe like the Underground Army or even the Forces of Nature?" the goddess asked curiously as she sat down to rest herself from standing all day. Her throbbing feet were killing her!
"Uhhhhh... Not that I know of.." Pit replied, still trying to recall his surroundings.
"I didn't see at all actually.. I find that quite strange since Hades would attack on a daily basis without rest and Viridi... is.. Viridi... Well, let's just say that it's strange that they aren't doing anything at the moment," Irena stated. "Not that I'm complaining."
"I don't know, but I have a feeling that Hades may be planning something big. Maybe Viridi gave up hating on the humans," Pit stated nonchalantly.
"Unlikely," the two females simultaneously said.
"Of course..." he muttered.
I may have to ask you both to check on the Overworld again WITH my help," the goddess said, emphasizing 'with' to indicate that she didn't want the two going off alone again.
"We're sorry..." they apologized looking at the green haired woman clad in white clothes and gold, metal ornaments.
"You both aren't in trouble so quit pouting," the woman chuckled. "I want you to go take a quick look now to be sure that you didn't miss anything strange on the way down and back here."
"Got it. Let's roll!" Pit exclaimed, dashing off quickly as he grabbed Irena's wrist and dragged her off with him.
"Wait! I'm not ready!" she exclaimed as the two jump off the temple's ledge into the air. "PIT!"
The Goddess of Light chuckled at the two as she quickly activated Pit's Power of Flight to break his fall and guided him to the grounds below.
"Whoo hoo! A task we can take on together!" the boy exclaimed excitedly as he fell out the entrance and exit of the temple.
Irena held on tightly onto Pit as gravity quickly pulled the two down towards whatever could be below them until Pit's wings suddenly began to glow blue, allowing him to stop their fall and soar through the sky.
"Haaa...! Ha, haa..." the girl breathed, completely unaware that she was holding in her breath. "I thought I was going to die or something..."
Pit chuckled at her response to their sudden free fall and held her tightly until her breathing evened out again.
"At least your wings didn't burn up," he stated. "That'd be a terrible turn of events."
"You think? If I did try to break our fall, my wings might have not just burn up but snap off due to our weight and the momentum..." she sighed, letting go of Pit to fly on her own.
'Haha, alright, you two lovey doveys, but your focus is scouting for trouble,' the voice of Lady Palutena rang.
"Lovey doveys? Me? Us? Ahaha.. ha.. Th-that's a good one, Lady Palutena!" Pit laughed nervously.
'I'm hearing the rhythm of your heartbeat right now... You're just unaware of it...' she said jokingly.
"... R-really?" he asked anxiously.
'No, course not!'
"Quit scaring me, Lady Palutena!" whined the red faced angel.
Irena laughed inwardly to herself as she followed Pit to land, allowing herself to settle down on the ground.
"Shall we split up?" Irena asked as she pulled her staff out of thin air from her hands.
"I don't see why not," answered Pit. "But where should we meet up?"
'Hm... Here would be fine... Though I did settle you both in the middle of the open nowhere,' Palutena suggested.
Irena hummed as she looked around the area, noticing nothing that could help them pinpoint the place.
"I'll just fly around and look for you then. Unless it's something serious, we can send each other signals with our weapons into the air. I can communicate with you both anytime, but I won't have Lady Palutena guiding me," concluded the female angel. "It must be a hassle guiding two reckless angels in different paths."
'Troubling angels for certain, but this goddess can handle any jobs thrown at her way!' Palutena said confidently. 'Thank you for your concern however.'
"Sending signals, huh.. On a different note... where's my weapon?" the boy asked sheepishly, grinning like a monkey.
Irena blinked at Pit as Palutena sent down Palutena's Bow, the weapon the boy usually wielded, behind him through a beam of light.
"There it is," chuckled the female who pointed behind him.
"Thanks, Lady Palutena!"
'No problem at all!' she answered.
"Lady Palutena, if anything, please guide Pit to me or me to him. Either way is fine," the girl requested brightly as she walked off.
'You can count on me, Rina,' she said energetically. 'Got to put some "Oomf" to these things you do and don't forget it!'
"You got it!" the angels replied as they split apart.
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