TRIVIA
A Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney fanfiction by PowerZone
Here contains a little collection of useless bits of trivia, and babbled about by two or more "incompetent" people in the stupidest situations possible.
2: Child's Game
Phoenix Wright was fast asleep in the bedroom. Sundown just finished its task and the city was springing into life. The streets were crawling with people and vehicles like ants on the ground. The glimmering of lights from tall buildings in the metropolis brought some ease and appreciation to the two girls on the window of the Wright Talent Agency.
Trucy was busy fiddling with her deck of cards. Pearl Fey did not seem interested as she was much focused on the glimmering lights of the buildings, which she called as funny.
"Hey, hey," Trucy nudged Pearl, "look at this trick I learned a while ago."
Pearl obviously seemed tired, but she did not want to upset her friend. "Okay."
Trucy spread the cards and held them on the palm of her hand. "Pick a card," she said.
Pearl picked a random card and looked at it.
"Done?" Trucy asked.
Pearl nodded.
"Okay, put the card on top of the deck," Trucy said. Pearl did so. As the card was placed on the deck, with the card face-down so that Trucy wouldn't see the face of the card Pearl picked, Trucy then started to 'cut' the deck in swift dexterous motions. When she was done, she picked up the case of the deck and placed the entire deck inside it.
"Let me ask you," Trucy said to Pearl. "Was the color of your card a red or black?"
Pearl recalled, "It was a, um, black."
Trucy paused for a while. "Was it a letter or a number?"
"A letter."
Trucy nodded. "Okay, was it a male or a female?"
"I'm pretty sure it's a female," Pearl answered.
Judging from what she said, it should be a queen of spades or a queen of clubs. "Was it a spade or a club?"
Pearl seemed dumbfounded. "Huh? How can you tell a spade from a club?"
Trucy frowned. She spotted a piece of paper and pen near Pearl and began drawing the two symbols of the spade and club. Pearl looked at the drawing and pointed her finger at the spade.
"So, it must be a queen of spades," Trucy said. "Okay, I only know now that your card contained the queen of spades, judging from what you've told me. Your chosen card is in one of the cards inside this case." Trucy then opened the case and pulled out the deck of cards. They were all placed face-down on the table in front of Trucy. Trucy then spread the cards on the table.
"Pick the card that is different from the others," Trucy instructed Pearl. Pearl spotted it and picked it up.
"It's... it's... the q-q-queen of spades!" Pearl said shakily as she looked hard into the card and examined every perimeter of the card. No tricks, no glitches, just plain magic. "H-How did you do that?"
"I guess practice makes perfect," Trucy replied proudly.
Trucy rearranged the deck and placed it back on the casing.
"I admit that magic is impressive," Pearl said, "but when it comes to the real deal... it must be spirits!"
"Spirits don't exist!" Trucy pouted.
"Yes, they do!" Pearl retorted. "All kinds of spirits exist – big ones, small ones..."
"I don't believe in spirits," Trucy said, "magic is the real deal – and you don't need spirits to perform magic."
Pearl looked away. "I guess you're dumb enough to believe what is real and what is not."
Trucy flared up. "You probably don't know that an entire deck of cards is a representation of a year!"
"Is that so?" Pearl said haughtily. "I may not have known that... but you probably don't know that the two syllables in 'ouija' both mean yes. 'Oui' is French, while 'ja' is German!"
Trucy fired an icy glare. "I learned in school that Napoleon Bonaparte is a French-sounding name of his real name, which was named after his uncle."
"Napoleon Bonaparte met his last arm of revolution at the Battle of Waterloo and surrendered on... July 15, 1815!" Pearl taunted her much to her amaze with Napoleon Bonaparte. "He was exiled to St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean."
"Helen in Greek Mythology is the wife of Menelaus, the king of Sparta."
"Menelaus became king of Sparta because the other male heirs, Castor and Pollux, died!" Pearl said. "And it was Helen's abduction by Paris that started the ten-year long Trojan War!"
Trucy tossed her silk hat aside. "Paris is the capital of France!"
"And Ouagadougou is the capital of Burikina Faso!" Talk about, whoa!
"What the heck are you saying?"
Pearl stuck her tongue out.
Trucy was getting pissed. "That does it! I'll tell you what's real: David Copperfield, born David Seth Kotkin, was the youngest person ever admitted to the Society of American Magicians. He was only 12 years old!"
"This is the real deal," Pearl returned the dare. "Franz Anton Mesmer derived the word 'mesmerism' which was later used as 'hypnotism'. And hypnosis also mirrors the Egyptian god, Hypnos, the Egyptian god of sleep!"
"You think you're so smart," Trucy taunted. "Sleepwalking is also called somnambulism or noctambulism!"
"Big deal," Pearl scoffed. "I've seen Mr. Nick do somniloquy." Somniloquy is popularly called sleep-talking.
"Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's drama, Macbeth, delivered a somniloquy, as she makes mentions of the horrific images from her past!"
Just as Pearl was about to continue, the bedroom door burst open and Phoenix came out. He was awfully messy in his white shirt and short pants. As he stepped out of the bedroom, he slowly approached where Trucy and Pearl were arguing. Phoenix grabbed the deck of cards in the casing from the table.
When Trucy looked into her father's eyes, she noticed that they were unfocused. "He's sleepwalking," she mouthed at Trucy.
And with all his strength, Phoenix ripped apart the whole deck into two – all without realizing that he did so. And both girls' mouths were hung open as they saw the remains of the cards neatly torn up. Phoenix just went back to the bedroom and slammed the door. No person was ever pissed off for that one night alone.
"I'm so gonna let Harry Houdini haunt you in your sleep!" Trucy hissed.
"You want me to channel him?" Pearl asked.
Kinda short and corny, I admit... Anyway, next up is Ema vs. Gumshoe – the detective's showdown!
PowerZone
