Chapter 2
The Masabe Flower Shoppe
The two sisters followed Koga's directions and just as they reached The Moonlit Oasis as it started to rain. Normally a Fire Sprite might die when getting doused in water, but rain was no problem since it came from nature itself and not a magic summoning. The girls had forgotten about magic at the time and ran screaming into the café, but they were already soaked to the bone.
"Would you two like a table?" one of the waiters asked.
"No, we're just going wait for the rain to stop," April explained.
"Ok then," the waiter replied while he went to attend to another table.
The girls looked around the café; it was a pretty nice nightclub. The bar was off to the side and there were many retro posters hanging on the wall and band posters covered the walls near the kitchen and dance floor. The walls were a lovely shade of cerulean that faded to a deep crimson near the bottom. A white wave curved its way through the middle of the red and blue. In the center of the dance floor was a large red rose painted directly onto the black floor tiles. There was even a compartment in the ceiling where a disco ball could be stored when not in use. Just outside the hall that led to the bathrooms there were palm trees painted on the wall that looked so real it was as if someone had embedded them into the wall itself! The whole café was breathtaking and the sisters just stood there dumbfounded as they took it all in.
"Oh, it stopped raining" April said as her gaze finally came back to window.
"Yea, now we can find the flower shop!" Amber said excitedly.
"Sure thing," April said as they walked out of the café and turned towards the flower shop.
They soon found it, nestled in-between the other shops and cafes. It didn't stand out very much so they almost walked past it. There was a large red-orange flower on the overhang of the shop next to the red cursive letters that read "Masabe Flower Shoppe." The sister walked into the small shop and walked to the desk in the back passing many beautiful bouquets on the way.
"Can I help you?" the woman behind the desk asked. She couldn't have been more than 20 years old and had short blonde hair with blue tips that spiked out in every direction.
April spoke out in the language of the Sprites, "We are here to meet Aqua Major, we have a message from the Pyro Major." She felt safe speaking her native tongue in the store since there were no other customers.
"Aqua Major isn't in right now," the blonde replied in Sprite.
"Tell her the Pyro Representatives stopped by. These are our cell phone numbers," April said as she handed the girl a small slip of paper and she grabbed Amber's hand and led her out of the shop.
Once out side April sighed with relief.
"That was tense," she thought out loud.
"I thought you handled it pretty well," Amber told her. "We'll have to come back again tomorrow to try again."
"You're right. Now that we've found the shop we need to find our apartment."
"Do you think Koga and Sesshomaru would help us?" Amber asked innocently.
April looked at her in disbelief, "I doubt it; it's been over and hour since we left them at the café, they probably went home."
"True," was Amber's only reply.
"Now to find that hotel," April mumbled as the sisters started to walk out the alleyway and onto the main street.
The girls followed the map the Alchemist had given them, and in three hours found the hotel on the map.
"Finally," the sister panted in unison.
They checked into their room and collapsed onto the huge double bed they would be sharing.
"I'll take a shower while you unpack your bag," April suggested.
"Kay," Amber said into the bed mattress.
She slowly lifted herself from the comfortable spot to open her bag and start unloading everything and putting into the drawers and closet leaving enough space for April's items as well. Amber had just finished getting all of her stuff out of her bag and in different places when April walked out of the bathroom fully refreshed and changed into her pajamas, which were a white cami and red boxers as sleep shorts.
"You done un-packing?" she asked.
"Yep," Amber answered.
"You can take your shower now," April offered.
"Thanks," Amber said as she walked into the bathroom with her shampoo and soaps she brought from home.
April began to unpack her bags when her cell phone rang. She picked up her sleek black Kyocera K132 and looked at the number: 568-7232. The caller ID didn't show a name, but she answered it anyway.
"Yo, this is April."
"Hello, are you enjoying your first day in the human territory?" Alchemist's voice said.
"Alchemist! I didn't recognize your number! We're doing fine, thanks. But that map of yours was terrible, we got lost so many times! Could you be clearer next time you give us directions?" April asked.
"Sorry about that," the Alchemist apologized. "But I've only been to the human territory once and my memory is a bit foggy so you're probably lucky remembered to even give you hints."
"Oh," was all April said.
"Anyways, did you get to talk to Aqua Major?" he asked with anxiety in his voice.
"Unfortunately not," April reported. "We left our number and sounded as urgent as possible. You're gonna stop by tomorrow too."
"Very well, report back when you've made contact and delivered the message. Remember: if you girls complete this mission successfully the Sprites will be one step closer to mingling in society without worry."
"We're working on it as hard as we can. I really want to shed this disguise and just be myself. We'll report as soon as anything happens." April replied.
"We'll await your reply," Alchemist stated.
Click
"Who was that?" Amber asked as she walked out of the bathroom still damp from her shower and dressed in her pajamas, which also consisted of a pair of boxers as sleep shorts and a cami, but her cami was pink and her shorts were camouflage.
"It was the Alchemist asking if we were able to give the message to Aqua Major. I told not yet and that we'd call as soon as we did," April said still staring at the screen on her phone.
"Oh, well we're going back to that Masabe Flower Shoppe tomorrow, right?" Amber inquired.
"Right," April answered her.
She looked at the clock. 8:23 PM. She switched on the television set and began to flip through the channels. She found an anime channel and decided on that one.
"You're still addicted to that anime stuff?" Amber asked. She preferred her cute boy obsessions to be 'real'.
"Yup, and don't even think that I'm gonna grow out of it anytime soon," April said as she sported a huge grin.
The two girls giggled and watched anime until the clock truck 10:30 PM.
"Do you think we should go to bed now?" April asked.
"Sure, I'm exhausted," Amber said with a yawn.
"Me too."
The two girls rolled back the covers and snuggled into the bed. They each lay facing the outside of the bed and hugging a smaller pillow that they had each brought with them. Amber had a pair of earphones in so she could fall asleep to music, April was so tired that she fell asleep the moment her head touched the pillow.
"Aaahhhhhh!!" April screamed at 6:24 in the morning. She bolted straight upright throwing the pillow over the side of the bed and covers onto the other side of the bed. The jolt of sudden energy immediately woke Amber.
"What's the matter?" Amber asked with concern.
"Just a nightmare," April said as she had a hand covering half of her face. She thanked the night god it was dark out so that Amber couldn't see her crying since Amber had rolled over and gone back to sleep.
April stayed sitting up for at least a half hour before laying down again, contemplating her dream. 'How could anything so horrible happen?' she thought. 'I never want that to happen in real life, the dream was enough to take ten years off someone's life.' (Luckily Sprites live much longer than humans so she doesn't really have to worry about that)
April rolled over and looked at the clock. 6:45 AM. 'May as well get up,' April thought as she got out of bed and changed into some clothes. She came out of the bathroom wearing denim Capri's and a T-shirt that read: "Be Different" and showed four ducks and one had glasses on with the attached nose and mustache.
She walked into the small kitchen area of their hotel room and started to read a book as she sat that table.
She opened the refrigerator and found that there wasn't much to be found. April wrote a note to Amber that told her that she would be at the grocery store. She grabbed her purse and locked the door behind her.
It was around 8:00 AM when she got to the store. Amber would probably still be sleeping. Amber could sleep through World War II.
As April turned the corners of the grocery store she came to the dairy aisle. She started to pick out some yogurts to eat for breakfast when suddenly a hand reached for the same container of yogurt. She looked over at the other person who also had their hand outstretched and realized it was Koga, the wolf demon.
"Koga!" April said excitedly. "I never thought I'd meet you here. How are you?"
"Surprised at the moment," Koga answered her. "But otherwise I'm fine. I bunked at Sesshomaru's place last night and we stayed up late watching movies. Since I slept over he said I had to do the shopping."
"That sounds fair. Amber and I are sharing a hotel room while we're in town so we split the shopping," April explained.
"Cool. Oh! I forgot to give you something yesterday," Koga said.
"What?" April asked.
"Here," he said and handed her a slip of paper. "It's my cell phone number."
"Thank you!" April said and she immediately imputed it into her cell phone. She took a pen out of her purse and wrote her number on the slip of paper and handed it back to Koga. "Here's mine."
"Thanks," Koga said with a smile. "Now we can keep in touch incase you girls want to get together sometime to something fun. How long are you in town?"
"Just for a couple of days, but we'd love to do something together with you and Sesshomaru. I'll talk it over with Amber and call you later," April said.
"Kay," Koga said with a smile.
The two actually had to get most of the same items: yogurt, soda, snack bars, instant coffee, and each of them picked out a candy bag. April chose Skittles and Koga chose Reese's. They checked out and walk together for most of the way chatting about random things like what movies and music they liked.
When they got to the street that led to the hotel April and Amber were staying at she turned to Koga and said, "Thanks for walking with me this far, the hotels just around this corner. Bye!"
"Later!" Koga called out as she took off in the other direction.
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