Pit rushed into the room where Palutena was calling his name. "What's wrong, Palutena?! Did Hades and Medusa come back?!"
"No, no, Pit." Palutena laughed her charming laugh. "I just wanted to tell you we have a guest who is going to be staying with us for a while."
"Really?! Who is it?! Is it Pittoo?!" 'Pittoo' was the nickname Pit had given Pit's dark side, Dark Pit. He absolutely hated that name, and came to visit Skyworld sometimes. He was supposed to be evil, but came out neutral when Pit broke the Mirror of Truth. Pandora was really mad about that.
"No, it's not Pittoo. It's a human girl named Angel. I found her lying unconscious on our steps and decided to bring her in. She's awake now and can't remember anything. I'd like you to meet her, maybe even show her the ropes around here." Palutena said, turning around and started to walk to Angel's room, motioning for Pit to follow her.
"Alright!" Pit said, fist bumping the air and running after Palutena.
Palutena pushed open the door to Angel's room, poking her head inside. "Angel? You awake?"
Angel nodded, staring at Palutena when she entered the room with an angel by her side. Angel stared at the male angel, who seemed excited to see her,
"Hiya Angel! I'm Pit!" He said, trotting lightly to the side of her bed and sitting on the end of it.
Angel cracked a small smile for this Pit and whispered out a small 'hi'. She looked down at her sheets then, stretching against the backboard she was leaning against, smile dropping.
"I'll leave you two alone now. Pit, get to know her a little more. She hasn't been speaking much." Palutena said as she left the room.
Pit nodded excitedly at the closed door then looked back at the girl, a huge smile on his face. "So you got here today?" He asked, which resulted in a small nod from Angel. "Do you like it here so far?" Another nod. "Well that's good." Pit looked down at the floor, not knowing what to say or do next. "Oh! I have an idea! Do you want me to show you around Skyworld?" A shake. "Huh. Uh, are you hungry?" Another shake. "Well, what do you want to do?" A shrug. For some strange reason, Pit felt an odd connection to this girl, almost as if he knew her from somewhere before.
The door cracked open a bit and Palutena stuck her head in. "Hey, Pit? Can I talk to you for a moment?" The goddess asked, motioning for Pit to come outside of the room for a moment.
"Sure, Lady Palutena!" Pit replied, hopping off the bed and walking outside of the room. When the door was closed, Angel crept out of her bed and walked to the door, pressing her ear against it to see what they were talking about.
"How's Angel doing? Did you get to speak yet?" Palutena whispered.
"Not yet." Pit sighed. "She's just been shrugging and nodding at my questions." He said, looking down at the ground.
"Did you offer to show her around Skyworld?"
"Yeah I did, but she didn't want to."
"Go in and try again."
"Alright." Pit smiled at Palutena as she walked away. He turned to open the door and caught Angel as she tripped. "Hey, be careful!" He said, standing her upright again. "Here, now that you're up, let me show you around." Pit said, taking her hand and leading her around.
Pit brought Angel outside to start off the tour. He led her down the path leading to the courtyard, where little gold men - some on chariots, some standing - practiced their battle moves. Angel stared at them curiously, not knowing what they were.
Pit caught Angel looking at them. "Those are Palutena's centurions. You met Lady Palutena, right?" Angel nodded, following along to what Pit was saying, drawing closer to him since the centurion creatures were scaring her. "Haha, don't worry, they won't harm you. They're just practicing for battle. We need to keep our strength up, just in case." Pit said, leading Angel away from the centurions and back up the path.
Bringing her back inside, Pit brought Angel to the weapons room, one of the first doors when they entered that was locked. Unlocking it, he started talking. "This is the weapons room. Obviously we keep all of our weapons in here. Usually I'm the one who uses these weapons, seeing as I'm the head of Palutena's army." Pit said, opening the door and motioning Angel inside.
Angel walked in, looking around at all the weapons. There were different arms, blades, cannons, claws, clubs, palms, bows, staffs, and even some round spheres that didn't look like weapons. Angel walked over to the spheres and stared at them, wondering what they were. Pit was close behind her.
"These are our orbiters. They hover right above my shoulders and shoot different types of lasers, depending on which pair I choose to use in battle." Pit explained, taking Angel's hand once again and leading her back out of the weapons room and across the hall.
Angel felt as though she knew Pit from somewhere before, but since she didn't have her memory, she couldn't remember where. She didn't think much of it, so she didn't mention it to him.
The room across the hall had a gold plate on it. Staring up at the gold plate, Angel could just make out the words 'Dark Pit.' "Dark Pit is my dark side," Pit explained, sighing and frowning. "He doesn't come and visit much. He makes up these stupid, random excuses of why he doesn't visit." Angel looked at Pit and squeezed his hand, feeling pity for him. Pit smiled down at her, as Angel was a few inches shorter than him. "Let's move on, Dark Pit doesn't like me going into his room."
Pit brought Angel farther down the hallway. "The rest of this hallway is just rooms. We have a lot of rooms for the centurions and a few guest rooms just in case we have someone like you." Pit pointed to a room with a silver door, rather than a green door, like the others. "That's my room." He then pointed to another door that was golden, on the right of his own. "And that's Lady Palutena's room. Your room is on the left of mine." Pit stated, motioning to the green door that was on the left of the silver one.
Pit led Angel up some steps and opened giant double doors. Angel went to walk out and almost fell, Pit luckily grabbing onto her shirt and pulling her back up. "This is where I go when I need to rush out into battle really quickly. I keep a bow in my room just in case I don't have time to grab another weapon from the weapon room. Palutena gave me a bow when I first started working for her, and that's the one I keep in my room. It's very powerful and has amazing light arrows." Pit explained as he put his arm around Angel's waist to help steady her. Angel looked over the edge and saw that it was nothing but white, puffy clouds that she could have almost easily fallen through if Pit hadn't caught her.
Guiding her away from the double doors, he dragged Angel over to the room right next to them. "This is the practice room." Pit said, opening the door to show a nearly empty room, apart from a dummy in the center on the room and some centurions practicing on it. Again, Angel drew near to Pit, even though he promised that they wouldn't hurt her. "Still scared?" Pit asked her. She nodded. Pit chuckled and brought her outside of the room, closing the door behind him.
Angel noticed that there was one last room with a bunch of tables and chairs in that Pit still hadn't showed her. She tugged on his arm and pointed to that room when she had his attention. "That's the dining hall. We eat there breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The centurions we have as cooks are really good at making each meal for us. Each and every centurion is loyal to Lady Palutena, and me, of course." He said, laughing. Angel gave him a small smile. She was also curious as to why sometimes Pit referred to Palutena as Lady Palutena and other times just as Palutena. So, she spoke her first full sentence since she got here.
"Why do you call Palutena 'Lady Palutena' sometimes and just 'Palutena' other times?" She asked Pit, her voice a bit hoarse from not speaking for a while.
Pit looked at her, extreme surprise on his face. "You spoke!"
Angel nodded, blushing from suddenly speaking. She guessed it wasn't such a good idea to speak right then.
Pit continued to freak out by jumping up and down on the spot. "You spoke! Oh my gods, you spoke!" Angel looked down at the floor at this statement, smiling slightly. It was strange, but it also made her feel good inside. "We have to tell Palutena!" Pit squealed like a small child. Finally, he calmed down enough to answer her question. "Well, I guess I call her both because I know her well enough to call her Palutena, but I still respect her so much that I also still call her Lady Palutena." Pit explained, taking Angel's hand and dragging her off to the courtyard.
"Why are we going back to the courtyard?" She asked the highly energetic angel.
"Because Palutena likes to hang out there sometimes and watch her centurions practice. I guess when I showed you the courtyard earlier, she had gone for a walk. She should be back there now." He said. That was the first time Angel noticed that when Pit spoke of Palutena, there was such respect in his voice for the goddess who wore a green dress.
"What kind of goddess is Palutena?"
"She's the goddess of light. The silver staff she usually holds in her right hand lets her harness the powers of light."
"She has beautiful hair."
"Yeah, she does. It's the perfect shade of light green." Pit sighed, obvious love in his voice.
"You like her, don't you?" Angel teased.
"Well of course I do! I work for her!" Pit suddenly got extremely defensive.
"No!" Angel laughed. "Like, you like-like her!" She smiled at Pit.
"So what if I do?" Pit stopped and crossed his arms in front of his chest, his white toga scrunching up underneath them.
"It's cute!" Angel said, skipping off towards the courtyard. Pit sighed, shook his head, and ran after her.