[Gamora's Point of View]
The music was blaring all around me. I've already lost sight on all four of the boys now. People screamed with excitement and danced to their full content. Creatures from other planets were here to either party, celebrate, or to drink until their can no longer feel their sorrows anymore. And as for me. . . .
I came here with four guys and each one with a stupid objective on to have fun here. So I'm on my own here until one of them finds me or I find them.
Walking over to the bar, I sat down at a stool and stared at the holographic menu that popped up in front of me. My fingers drummed lightly on the table, as I read the name of each food and drink that was listed on the menu. Finally, I gave up on trying to decide with my mind and used my finger to help me decide. My finger gently glided down on the holograms and I stopped it a few moments later.
"I'll have the Red-Blood Mandrake Nova. Make it a tall glass at that too."
The bartender just nodded his head at me and started to work on my drink. I didn't pay attention to the ingredients that was using to make my drink, since I saw Groot drinking out of a fountain and Rocket scolding him for it. I shook my head a small bit and let out a small moan.
Please let this night out end soon so I can be in bed and get some sleep.
My drink was set down in front of me, and I placed some money on the table for it. Grabbing the drink, I walked away from the bar and tried my best to have some fun here in the club.
Turning around and walking backwards for a few minutes, I accidentally bumped into someone. I twirled around to see who I bumped into by accident and saw that is was Peter.
"Fancy to bump into you Gamora."
"Wasn't my intention Peter, so you can get that grin off of your face."
"Come on Gamora, we're suppose to have fun here! So stop having a stick up your but and relax a small bit. Come on, I know you can."
He grabbed my wrist and led me up a staircase that led up to the second floor here at the club. He shoved us through a small crowd of people to get to a table that people were playing at, and he beckoned me to give it a go.
"Okay, so what is going on here, Peter?"
"This is called Roulette, Gamora. You choose either a single number or a range of numbers on the color black or red, whether the number is odd or even, you place a bet. The person in charge will spin the wheel in one direction and spin a ball in the opposite direction. If the ball lands on the number that you betted on, you get to keep your bet and the person pays you the amount that you betted on. Seems simple enough?"
"Okay, one try. After that I am not doing it again."
"What if you want to you do it again?"
"We'll have to wait and see, Peter. Here, hold my drink for me."
I pulled out at least forty-dollar chip and placed it on the table. Looking at the wheel of black and red, I tapped the red 25 spot. The man in charge just nodded his head at me, and spun the wheel and I soon saw the ball going in the opposite direction. For almost half a minute, we saw the ball slowing down and it landed on the black 13 spot. I just shrugged it off easily, and Peter soon placed a chip down on the table.
"Red 7 please."
The wheel was spun again. The ball was moving in the wrong direction once more. I could see it losing speed now, just like it did when I played my first round. I could feel the excitement building up inside me, and the ball soon landed on Red 7. Peter's number.
"Yeah, baby!"
I could feel a grin stretch on my face, and I looked over at Peter. The man in charge gave Peter the amount that he betted back and soon gave him the same amount back for his winnings.
"Come on Gamora, I'll buy you a dessert."
He handed me back my drink, and this time he grabbed my hand not my wrist. I could hear him laughing a small bit, and we sat down at a table that was on the other side of the second floor.
"So you played that game before?"
"Yeah, a dozen times. Pretty good at it if you ask me, even Yondu admits it too. We went against each other twelve times and he lost nine out of the twelve. I had a pretty good winning streak going on there, while I was with him."
"My sister Nebula and I, we never played games like these before. We were both tortured and trained to be assassins, never meant to have fun and be ordinary citizens in this universe here. It was pretty fun, I could feel the excitement growing inside me when your played a round over at the spinning table there."
"It's call a Roulette table, Gamora, and you are suppose to get excited. Excitement is a good thing. Come on, what would you like for a dessert?"
A hologram menu appeared before the two of us and we both stared at the menus for a few minutes.
"How about we split a dessert, Peter? But we need to find an item that we both can agree on first."
"How about the Double Chocolate Rocky Sundae? Does that sound interesting to you?"
"I never had chocolate before, but I'll give it a shot. So is this what we both want?"
"If you want to give it a shot, then I'm cool for it. It's been a few months since I last had chocolate, so lets order it."
He tapped for the Double Chocolate Rocky Sundae and hit the large button when a screen came up asking how big he wanted it to be. He also added the note that he was sharing it with a friend of his. Our menus soon vanished, and we kind of relaxed for a small bit. I could hear Peter's fingers drum to the sound of the music, and saw him moving a small bit in his chair. I laughed a small bit at his moves that he calls dancing, and he kept on dancing on and on.
A waitress brought the Double Chocolate Rocky Sundae out to us a few minutes later, and soon left us alone. The two of us dine quietly for a while, and I could feel my taste buds on my tongue jumping to the taste of chocolate for the first time. It was an interesting taste as it melted in my mouth.
"So how does it taste, Gamora?"
"Its like there is an explosion of warships happening on my tongue."
"See, now that is a good dessert. But it's better to enjoy it than gobble it all up at once."
I laughed at his words, and he soon joined in along with me. His hand touched mine, and our eyes directly met. There was a pounding in my chest, and it got harder and harder to where I just wanted to burst open and have all of my blood pool out onto the floor.
There was the small sound of a thud, and we both looked at the window that we were sitting next to, and I saw a small flashing red light.
"Run."
We both took off at high speed, only for the explosion to happen when we were only a foot away from the table. Peter and I were thrown over the railing and we crashed onto the dance floor that was on the below us. I could hear him groan a small bit, and I stared at him.
"Okay, never leave home without a weapon on you."
Sitting up slowly, Peter managed to get onto his own two feet and he assisted me with getting up. Looking at him in his eyes, I could tell that he was going to agree with the words that I was going to say.
"And to even think that we would have a fun night out, huh?"
"Got that right Gamora. Now who in the bloody hell on Xandar would attack us here?"
"About every bad guy in the universe, Peter."
"Especially your sister, Nebula."
We saw my sister jump down and land right inn front of us, her weapons ready to attack us. Out of everyone that wanted to harm us, it had to be my sister.
"Can this night get any worse, Gamora?"
"It will if we all die by her hands, Peter. Now get ready to defend for your life."