A/N: Here we go, it's Chapter 2. It may be either short or long, depending on how you look at it. I hope it's good all the same.
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"There's gotta be something in here." Pit says as he looks through a kitchen cabinet. He and Dark Pit are in Lady Palutena's kitchen. Pit is rummaging through the cabinets to look for something to snack on and Dark Pit is sitting at the kitchen counter, watching Pit with his hand propping up his face.
"I hope the Centurions didn't find my secret stash..." Pit worries.
"Pit, how did we end up in the kitchen?" Dark Pit asks, looking up at the ceiling.
"I told you, I was getting a snack." Pit tosses out an assortment of items that come from the cabinet he's looking in. Dark Pit rolls his eyes.
"Are you getting something too?"
"I'm not hungry." Dark Pit replies.
"Alright, we'll do something after I can be sure I won't die of starvation." Pit tosses out more objects that get added to the disarray of items on the floor.
"You're making a mess." Dark Pit says, watching cooking utensils bounce around on the floor. Pit tosses out something that rolls in front of Dark Pit's foot.
"I'll clean it up."
The dark angel inspects the food item and picks it up. Orange, leathery, and brightly green stemmed. A carrot had rolled to Dark Pit. Shrugging, he holds up the carrot and decides that it's the only possible food the palace would have until dinnertime. Pit probably wouldn't eat it, but it was better than nothing.
"Hey, look. I found a carrot."
Pit stops ransacking the cabinet and looks behind him.
"No! GET DOWN!"
The angel football tackles his twin from where he's seated and sends him to the floor. Pit uprights himself on his knees, grabs Dark Pit's wrist, then slaps the carrot out his hand. It rolls across the room in a slow mannerism.
"What the—"
"Shh, shh! It might hear you." Pit indicates, placing his pointer finger in front of his mouth. He peers around the corner of the counter and observes the carrot from a safe distance.
"One time, Lady Palutena told me she was making veggie surprise, and then vegetables wanted to throw the biggest war yet." Pit whispers.
Dark Pit gives him the hardest stare that hints how irrevocably stupid Pit sounds right now. But Pit pays no mind since he keeps an eye on the carrot.
"She had thought washing off the potion she put on them with water would take away their powers, but it didn't work on all the veggies...so some of them ended up staying really huge." Pit now looks at Dark Pit who is still on his back. "That's why we have to be reeaaallly careful."
Dark Pit blinks slow at his counterpart. Sometimes he wondered if Palutena was teaching him the wrong kinds of things.
"...Pit. It's a carrot." Dark Pit establishes flatly.
"Carrots are evil! All vegetables are evil! They're all a huge group of evil foods!" Pit proclaims wildly.
Dark Pit, having enough of it, gets up, walks to where the carrot stopped, and picks it up. Pit cringes in fear from behind the kitchen island, hands brought up over his mouth as if he's about to bite his nails.
The dark angel then walks to the step lid trash can, steps on the lever, and holds the carrot over it. Pit's eyes widen as he sinks down lower behind the counter. Only his eyes are visible.
Dark Pit turns his head to Pit (or at least Pit's eyes anyway) and releases his hold on the vegetable. It makes muffled clanks as it hits the walls of the trash can. The twin then dusts his hands off.
Pit slowly rises and stands up straight behind the kitchen island.
"...I guess it wasn't an evil carrot, heh heh..." Pit says sheepishly.
"You're right. It could've been a machine gun robot girlfriend." Dark Pit says in his all too familiar sarcasm, putting his hands on his sides.
"I've always wanted one of those!" Pit exclaims. "We would fight side by side, dominating enemies in the sky and on land...she would be so amazing..." Pit looks up at the ceiling dreamily with half lidded eyes.
"Yeah, yeah. Now let's hurry up and do something so I can go back to having free time." Dark Pit says. He notices Pit doesn't respond.
"Pit." Dark Pit waves his hand in front of the daydreaming angel. "Come on, snap out of it." The clone snaps his fingers.
"You're drooling, man." Pit still shows he's in daydreaming mode.
"I have cookies."
That seems to do the trick. Pit becomes alert as his eyes dart around in search of the cookies. "Where, where?"
"There's no cookies. I lied about them." Dark Pit confesses, deviously smiling.
"Why would you do that?" Pit whimpers. "I've been hungry this whole afternoon and you mention cookies in front of hey what's that over there?" The angel points to a blue and gold accented treasure box that catches his eye. Dark Pit turns to look at the box.
"...I'm pretty sure that's a treasure box." Dark Pit says, eyeing it suspiciously.
"I gotta go open that." Pit says on impulse as he walks over to the chest.
"No wait!" Dark Pit warns. "That could be a—"
As soon as Pit steps in front of the treasure box, it sprouts long and slender legs and dances to intimidate its victim. Pit gulps apprehensively.
"Oh no..." Dark Pit says, taking steps away from the creature.
"MIMICUTIIIIIEE!" Pit yells out and breaks into a run. Dark Pit does the same as the treasure chest starts to follow after them.
The angels flee from the kitchen and make their way into the palace halls. The chest is hot on their trail as its legs work to keep up.
"You just had to go and try to open the box!" Dark Pit says in between huffs.
"I'm sorry! If there's a treasure box, I open it! I can't help it!" Pit defends.
"Could it ever occur to you that treasure boxes can be a trap?"
"Yes...but I just HAVE to open a box when I see one!"
"Gah..." Dark Pit would have pinched the bridge of his nose if he was able to. "Just keep running so we don't end up like soccer balls!"
The twins continue running for the sake of their good looks when Pit is struck with an idea.
"Hey Pittoo!" Pit calls to the dark angel. Dark Pit death glares at the use of the name he's addressed with.
"I'm gonna ask Lady Palutena to grant us the Power of Flight so we can get out of this situation!"
"Then do it!" Dark Pit says, looking behind himself. The Mimicutie is still going strong, as possessing long legs had its advantages.
Pit looks straight ahead as he gets into contact with the goddess of light.
"Lady Palutena! I need you!"
x.x.X.x.x.
Lady Palutena is waiting in line behind two people at the market. She has food in a basket that is tucked under one arm, and her other hand is pushing up her green hair above her forehead, as she is stressed out. Her circle-lens spectacles that she wears disguises her well, as to not draw unwanted attention. The humans were deemed easy to trick since just wearing glasses helped Palutena blend in. She sighs tiredly at the scene unfolding in front of her.
"Lady Palutena!"
"Huh?" Lady Palutena hears her angel's voice echoing in her head. She moves her free hand in front of her ear as if talking through a headset. "Yes? What is it, Pit?"
"Can I ask you something?"
"You just did." Palutena hints the teasing in her voice and chuckles. "What do you need?"
"It's kinda an emergency."
"Did you forget the password to your Club Nintendo account?"
"No!...Yes...but it's not that!"
"You need my credit card to renew your Nintendo Power subscription? It's in the head of the second stone statue."
"That's where it is?"
"Mmm-hmm."
"Oh...well, thank you for telling me, but that's also not the emergency."
"You want to adds funds to your 3DS, don't you? I can't get you a prepaid card now, I'm already in line."
"No, Lady Palutena—" Pit stops talking to her. "...I can't interrupt her when she's speaking to me!"
"Pit? Who are you talking to?"
"Nobody. I mean it's someone but...listen. Can you grant me the Power of Flight please?"
"Oh, I can't do that right now."
"WHAT?!" Palutena winces at the loud exposure. "Are you serious?"
"Pit, I can't grant you the Power of Flight because then I wouldn't be able to see your flight path. I'm not at the reflecting pool."
"You don't have to be at the reflecting pool! I could just fly on my own!"
"...Sorry, but no. You're unsupervised. Along with Pittoo. And I can't just summon my staff out of thin air. People are already looking at me funny since I'm having this conversation..." The goddess turns her head to the side away from the onlookers.
"The humans don't know you're the almighty goddess of light?"
"I'm in glasses mode."
"I didn't see you have those on before you left."
"I put them on before I got to the store. Why do you sound like you're in a rush?" Palutena asks.
"Oh, um, I'm not rushing! Just exercising a little, heh heh! Ahh!" Pit almost trips while running. Palutena is sure that something's fishy, but she decides to not press any further.
"Well, I might be coming back behind schedule. There's a situation here." Palutena gravely mentions the current conflict. The cashier is discussing matters with an accused shoplifter as two security guards hold the suspect by his arms.
"You STOLE sugar from here!" The cashier says.
"No I didn't! The sugar was free! On the label of the bottle of wine I purchased, it said 'sugar free'. So I bought the wine and took the free sugar!" The man explains.
"That's not how it works!"
"Advertisement never lies!"
"I hope you're not stuck there too long. Can you pleeeaaaseee grant the Power of Flight to me, Lady Palutena? Please?" Pit pleads desperately.
"Are you in a life or death situation?"
"That depends..."
"Is Hades forcing you against your will to play a round of checkers, and the ground rules are that if the opponent wins or loses, they get a death sentence?"
"No..."
"Den angel get no fwying power fwom goddess lady." Palutena baby-talks to Pit with broken English.
"But—"
Lady Palutena takes an apple from the basket and drops it on the ground. "Oh no. Pit, I have unfortunately dropped an apple. I do hope it is not bruised in any way." Palutena's glasses do the anime thing as light glimmers across the lenses.
"Did you really drop an apple?"
"Yes, I'll show you the marks when I get back. Bye Pit."
"Lady Palutena? Lady Palutena! Come on!" Pit calls one last time. After that, Palutena doesn't hear the angel's voice in her mind.
"Now if only this line would move." The goddess of light crouches to pick up the fruit when her glasses slide right off her nose and bounce on the floor.
"Oops..." Lady Palutena reaches for the spectacles when a loud gasp is elicited from someone.
"It's the goddess of light, Palutena!" the woman freezes in place and looks at the pairs of eyes staring her down.
"Oh goodness!"
"Is she alright?"
"Bow to her majesty!" The humans around her quickly drop everything and bow graciously to Lady Palutena. She grins nervously, picks up the items off the ground, and places them in the basket under her arm. Palutena stands up and notices the cashier, the shoplifter, and the two guards bowing to her as well.
"O powerful Palutena, I plead of thee to let me off of my wrongdoings and forgive me. I will confess and make a positive change for my lady!" The shoplifter says to Palutena while bowing. "Please forgive me, my goddess of light!"
"Hmm..." Lady Palutena looks around the market. "I have an idea."
She smiles.
.x.x.X.x.x.
"What did she say?" Dark Pit asks Pit as they're still running through the palace halls. The Mimicutie has gained ground and is now much closer to the twins, still running at a dangerous pace.
"...The flying is not happening."
"Please tell me you're joking."
"I wish I was joking." Pit says. The angel flaps his wings to attempt flying, but they hadn't grown enough to administer flight. It always seemed like they would take forever to fully grow.
"If I can't fly, you can't fly either!" Dark Pit says.
"You have any other ideas at this point?!" Pit retorts. Dark Pit stares ahead and notices something.
"What is that up there?"
Pit squints at the path in front of them and sees the obstruction.
"It's a wall." Dark Pit's eyes widen and his irises shrink in size. "That means—"
"It's a dead end." The angels look at each other in realization. Pit closes his eyes and inhales through his nose.
"Phooo..." He exhales anxiously. "We gotta accept what's coming to us and take it like angels."
Dark Pit narrows his eyes at his counterpart. "This is your fault."
Pit wants to defend himself. "I—"
The Mimicutie sees an opening for an attack and begins to spin towards the twins at full speed. They're all getting closer and closer to the wall.
"It's spinning towards us. Dear Zeus, IT'S SPINNING TOWARDS US!" Pit yells out, looking behind him.
"This will not end well." Dark Pit says. The Mimicutie extends one leg while spinning and approaches the teen angels.
.x.x.X.x.x.
In a bird's eye view, two boys can be seen walking unenthusiastically through a courtyard, filled with blooms of flowers and plants alike. Their wings, the feathers tattered and in disarray of their normal uniform pattern, have the tips trailing across the ground as they painfully tread through the grass. A few scuffs and bruises can be spotted anywhere on their skin, and their clothes are just as badly destroyed. One of them even has their laurel crown in hand that they were reduced to using to fend off the threat.
"That...was ridiculous." Dark Pit says, glaring ahead at the path in the courtyard. If glaring is appropriate, since one of his eyes are almost swollen shut.
"The kicks..." Pit voices to particularly nothing and hugs himself while trembling, "There were...so many...kicks..." Pit feels the pulsing pain of the anime cranial eruption atop his head.
"Oh, now you know the consequences of getting close to a skeptically placed treasure box. Congratulations." Dark Pit comments, starting to walk up a set of stone stairs.
"Hey, I told you that if there's a treasure box, I just open it!" Pit says, lagging behind his counterpart, and now also walking up the stairs as Dark Pit does. "It's an instinct I can't ignore!"
"Having an instinct doesn't mean it's a good one. That's like acting on your emotions. It shouldn't be your priority to always open a box."
"Emotions, instincts, and priorities are all classified as different stuff!"
"Then classify them, smart guy."
Pit takes in a slow, exhausted breath so he can prove his point to Dark Pit.
"Acting on your emotions...is like attacking someone because they ate your favorite dessert in the whole world, and you're angry about it."
"Of course you use that metaphor..."
"Acting on instinct is like knowing deeply that you have to do something, because it's just that gut feeling you have to absolutely do it. No matter what."
Dark Pit gets to the top of the stairs and stands in front of a steaming pool filled with golden water. The reflection of the water moves and shifts into different shapes on the ceiling of the stone overpass. This is a hidden hot spring that was found by Dark Pit not too long ago, and he was only allowing Pit to use it just this one time.
"And acting on priority...well that's like doing a job that you're supposed to be dedicated and fulfilled to doing. My priority to Lady Palutena is to serve and protect her, and be the leader of her army of Centurions."
Pit reaches the top of the stairs as well and stands next to Dark Pit. He glances at the water, then averts his cobalt blue eyes to Dark Pit.
"Hmm...you're smarter than I thought." The dark angel mocks.
"Hey!" Pit playfully punches Dark Pit on the arm. "I may be attractive, but that doesn't mean I don't have some brain in here." He points to his head.
"Ah, my mistake." Dark Pit bows his head and puts back on his laurel crown that he's holding.
"Thank you."
"Some brain is better than no brain, I understand."
"Pittoo!" Pit stomps his foot on the stone floors. Dark Pit looks up feeling pretty content with himself.
"...I guess you're treasuring this moment. Huh?" Pit flexes his eyebrows and elbows his twin. "High five, man. Don't leave me hanging." He raises his gloved hand in the air.
Dark Pit looks at it and slowly raises his hand as well. He hesitates to press his hand onto Pit's.
Then he raises both hands and pushes the servant angel into the hot spring.
"Gyah!" Pit falls backwards into the water as steam billows up from the disturbed tension. When he submerges he can already start to feel the healing effects of the water on his skin. Pit bobs back up to the surface and shakes the water out of his soaked hair.
"I told you not to call me Pittoo." Dark Pit says, smiling and batting his eyelashes.
"Heh heh heh, it must've slipped..." Pit says, turning up his palms apologetically, "...like you."
"What?" Dark Pit raises his eyebrows in confusion. Before he knows it, Pit tactfully grabs Dark Pit's arm and pulls him into the hot spring. Water splashes up as Pit shields himself while laughing. The dark angel comes to the surface and spits out water that went in his mouth.
"Okay wise guy, let's see if you can still laugh when there's water up your nose!" Dark Pit splashes water in Pit's face. Pit splashes water back, then Dark Pit splashes again with more water. The angels engage in a water war as they splash each other silly and laugh uncontrollably.
After a while, the twins cease the splashing and just stand in the pool. Their laughter fades out and gradually becomes ragged breathing, from trying to catch their breath and recover from laughing.
"Hah...hey...we're all...healed now..." Pit drags out, noticing the healed injuries and mended clothes.
"Yeah..." Dark Pit says, resting his arms on the edge of the pool.
An awkward silence manages to creep its way in between the young angels. Steam floats and weaves around wherever it can, making a thick and foggy atmosphere of humid air. Pit looks around at his surroundings while Dark Pit involuntarily stares emotionless at the water. It isn't tense in between the two, but it isn't exactly comfortable either. Though it is nice to sit in a hot bath for a while and not really say or think about anything.
Pit creates gentle sloshing sounds as he shifts in the pool.
"So, um...you wanna go see what the Centurions are doing?" Pit asks after a moment. Dark Pit's eyes focus on the angel when he hears him speak.
"Sure, whatever."
A/N: Moral of the story: don't open treasure boxes that randomly appear in your kitchen. They could have really long legs that will hurt you. Badly. :(
Yeah...so I lied about this only being 2 chapters. I'm probably gonna make another one when I have more creativity. XD
Thank you for reading. :D