An Angelic Obsession

Chapter 2

Just as Ike had commanded, Pit was awake, dressed and munching on an apple as he ran down the hall toward one of the balconies. Running past Peach and Zelda he jumped up on the railing and was instantly in flight. He flew straight for the training field, zooming around trees as he came in for a landing. While he had some time to spare, he wanted to impress his new instructor and friend.

Ike was promptly on time to the training arena, Ragnell in hand. "I see you made it little soldier," the mercenary bellowed. "I'm impressed you're already here, makes for a good relationship already." Ike walked to one end of arena and left Pit on the other. "We will start with defense. I will make the blows and it is your job to block as many as I give. It builds strength and endurance." Ike crouched in a ready position, and without warning ran full speed at the boy, targeting his shoulder first.

While at first taken off guard by Ike's attack, Pit quickly reacted, waiting until the last second to send his twin blades into a spin, hoping to block the heavy blade barreling down on him.

The mercenary's attack was successfully blocked and the bluenette continued to unleash his merciless strength upon the youth, but with no intention of brutally injuring the boy. After several strikes, Pit fumbled his swords allowing Ike to land a hit to his right side.

Pit's body was thrown about ten feet by the force of the blow. He landed on his side and quickly got up. Pit put his pommels together and slowly rotated his swords awaiting another attack. Even though he was at the ready, Ike could see him shaking from pain and embarrassment, and Pit's expression was that of pure determination.

"You wish to keep going?" Ike addressed him, pulling Ragnell up for another attack.

Pit was panting. "Sure, if you think it best, you're the teacher" he said while breathing hard.

Ike rushed the boy another time, aiming for his torso, his strength not diminished one bit. He wanted the boy to persist, to come back at him so driven he would knock the mercenary on his ass.

Pit was tired of straight blocking. He wanted to fight more of his style. As Ike rushed him, he jumped over him, flipping in the air and landing right behind the rushing warrior. While in midair he had started his twin blades swinging so at the right moment, as he touched down, they would scissor Ike's boot. It went perfectly to plan. Ike's boot was caught, and thanks to his momentum, flew a few feet before landing on his face in the grass.

The bluenette was completely taken off guard. He hurriedly pushed himself off the ground and stood facing his defeater. "I have to say, I didn't see that one coming. Congratulations on your victory." The mercenary extended a hand to the boy.

"Thanks!" Pit said with a cheery smile, but something told him that he still needed to be on his guard. After all, Ike hadn't said that training was ended. He cautiously extended his hand to shake with Ike, but was ready to dash skyward if needed.

To his surprise, the mercenary didn't so anything to avenge himself, but instead switched up tactics. Ike proceeded to teach the cherub proper and improper fighting stances. At noon, Ike called their session over. "It's lunch and I'm hungry. Care to join me?" he asked the youth.

Pit's eyes lit up. "I'd love to! Thanks!" he exclaimed. "So do you think I am ready for Meta Knight?" he giggled as they walked together toward the mansion.

"Oh, don't get ahead of yourself," the bluenette advised. "Don't underestimate Meta Knight. He's a dirty player if you ask me, all his moves are fast and high priority. He's always usually able to land the first blow, although you might just be an even match for him."

Pit beamed at the compliment that Ike had just given him. He genuinely liked that Ike had offered to train him and help him get out of a bad roommate situation.

He followed Ike to the mansion and to the cafeteria. When they had their food he again followed Ike to a table where they sat together. "Hey Ike, I want to thank you for everything. Me being new here, I was worried that I wouldn't fit in. Then you showed up and man, everything is going great!"

"No problem Pit," the mercenary assured. "I'm not close to any of these buffoons here anyway. You're as decent as they come." The angel smiled at the boy's sincere words, he was finally feeling as if he belonged somewhere, and Ike was beginning to turn out to be a better guy than he thought, and particularly handsome in his own way.

While they ate, Pit went on to describe how he helped save Skyworld and was representing his goddess here at the mansion. "…and if I can use what you taught me today, I will be a lot better." Pit sat back. "That was good. Um, do you have anything planned for this afternoon?"

"No. Is there something you wanted to do?" Ike asked.

Pit shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe explore by the lake, or walk…anything, as long as I am with you. Oh, Is there a way that maybe we can talk the Master into letting us switch sooner?"

"I don't see any harm in that," Ike replied. "The lake sounds nice; I've never been down there." The mercenary picked up his tray, Pit following close behind him, like a shadow. Ike dumped his tray and walked out of the cafeteria with the angel. "I can try talking to Master Hand. We will need to fill out a form together. Why don't you come up to my room after the lake?"

"Sounds great!" Pit replied excitedly, wings twitching. They walked down to the lake where Pit started running up and down the shoreline with an odd determined look on his face.

"What are you doing?" Ike asked

"Just about…." And he jumped and landed with his fist raised above his head. "Caught one!" he yelled.

As Ike approached he saw that Pit had a dragonfly in safely tucked in his hand.

"These are the fastest insects in the world" Pit beamed. "Here you go…" he said as he opened his had to let the dragonfly loose. As he did this he stepped on a moss-covered rock and fell sideways into the lake.

"AH! Shit! Pit!" Ike cursed and yelled looking for the boy's head to pop up out of the murky water.

Pit surfaced and slowly stood up, the water was up to his waist. "Great!" he exclaimed as he looked down at his wet closed. He slowly and carefully walked out of the water and looked as though he might cry. "Just Great!" he exclaimed again. "Now everybody will think I'm a klutz!" Sure enough, the sound of Wario's laugher was soon heard from a boat that was nearby. Pit looked at Ike with a pleading look in his eye.

"C'mon, let's get you out, Ike said helping Pit onto flat land again. The bluenette looked towards the boat. "Hey fat bastard! Ike called to Wario. "Watch what you say, or my sword will be shoved up your ass into tomorrow!"

The mercenary turned his attention to the dampened angel. "Let's go get you some dry clothes." The two proceeded to walk back to the mansion, Ike giving Pit reassuring words that he was in fact, not a klutz, it was just a mere accident he had fallen into the lake.

Pit was still dripping wet and more than a little humiliated as they approached the mansion. Thankfully they didn't run into anyone on their way to Pit's room. Ike could easily tell which side of the room was Pit's as it was tidy and clean, compared to the disaster that was Yoshi's. It became even more evident that the roommate switch was a good idea. Pit walked over to his dresser and pulled out a fresh tunic and pair of shorts.

"Can you do me a favor and get me a towel from the bathroom?" he pointed. As Ike came back into the room Pit's back was too him and he was just slipping off his black shorts.

Ike's footsteps fell frozen as his gaze feel upon the youth's bare backside. "Um..." the older male started to say, and then cleared his throat loudly to catch the boy's attention.

"Thanks!" Pit said as he walked up to Ike, taking the towel. He proceeded to quickly dry himself off. Once he was dry enough, Pit grabbed a clean pair of shorts and pulled them on. "I sure hope nobody else saw me fall into the lake." he said as he was making sure his shorts were on correctly. Looking up at Ike, he noticed that he had an odd look on his face. "What's wrong?"

Ike looked at the boy. "Nothing, I just didn't expect you to dress in front of me. It took me by surprise is all."

Pit giggled. "Well, I guess that means I trust you Ike" he said, grabbing his tunic and putting it on. "Besides, aren't we going to be roommates?"

"Yeah we are," the mercenary stated. "We need to go to the housing administration and inform them of the change."

After Pit got a pair of dry sandals, they made their way to the mansion offices. There they met with the administrator of housing who thought it was a good idea to put Kirby and Yoshi together. Once they both signed some papers it was official. Pit smiled excitedly at Ike as they left the offices. "Want me to meet you in OUR room with my things?"

"Sounds good. I need to help Kirby get his things together and rearrange the room a bit to accommodate you," the mercenary responded.

"Okay, see you in a bit Ike," the angel chirped, his wings fluttering with happiness.