Alright guys, I have decided to take the story a little slower, so if you previously read Chapter two, and it ended in fear, please reread the chapter, as the story has been edited. Also, if you have read the old Chapter 3, please disregard it completely. Awright, lets try this again! Also, If you have any request for my custom page breaks, send me a PM!
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Phoenix and Maya stepped out of the courtroom, another victory under their belt. "Big Wins" Kitaki was a mob boss, but he did not commit the murder he was accused of. It turned out, his partner, Fransisco Rivales was responsible for the murder, and was taken into custody after Phoenix exposed him to the court.
There was only one thing that bugged Phoenix. After Hazakura, he thought that Franziska had at least thought of him as an acquaintance, but Franziska prosecuted the trial with more vicious remarks and whippings than ever, and he was on the receiving end of all of them.
Not the defendant, not the judge, not Maya, not the witnesses, not even Gumshoe was whipped or verbally abused during the trial. Just him. He had to get the bottom of this, he finally thought that she had calmed down, but this display of ferocity had proved him utterly wrong.
As he and Maya walked out of the courthouse, he told her to wait by the entrance, he'd be back to treat them to burgers in a little while, he had some business to take care of.
He reentered the building, and immediately found Franziska stomping towards her office.
"Ummm, Miss von Karma?" he asked quietly.
"You...YOU DID THIS TO ME!" she shriekd.
Before Phoenix could react, Franziska's whip connected cleanly with Phoenix's face. The strike packed so much power, that Phoenix was left with a gash four inches down his cheek. Fearing for his life, Phoenix ran like hell out of the courthouse, to a patiently waiting Maya Fey.
"Holy crap Nick! What happened?" Maya asked?
"Franziska's not to happy with me for some reason. She just screamed 'You did this to me!' and whipped me across the face!"
"I can tell, lemmie go get some bandages." Maya replied.
"Nah, it's alright, I'll just let it air out, lets just go get those burgers and forget about it. I should let her cool down before I talk to her again.."
"No," Maya said adamantly," I think that I'm going to have a little chat with Miss von Karma."
Before he could stop her, she was already racing into the Justice Building. He just hoped she didn't get hurt.
Maya flew up the stairs towards Franziska's office. Franzy was about to get the ass-whooping of a lifetime. But as she reached the door, she heard sobbing from inside. This wasn't Franziska's office, was it? It was unfathomable, Franziska von Karma crying? No way.
"Franziska?" Maya quietly asked.
"What is it now?" Franziska wailed.
Maya had never heard her like this.
"Can I come in?"
"No," Franziska sobbed, "I will not allow you to see me like this."
"Nonsense," Maya replied sternly, as she slowly opened the office door, "I just want to help out."
Maya seated herself opposite from Franziska, who's eyes were puffy with tears. Maya had never seen her like this, something serious must have happened to have driven the great Franziska von Karma to tears.
"What happened between you and Nick, and why does he have a large gash across his face?" Maya asked softly.
"That fool, ruined my perfect record, that's what happened!" Franziska sobbed.
Maya didn't need her magatama to tell that there was more to Franziska's story.
"And what else?"
"Why should I tell you? You're just going to run off to him and report that he succeeded."
"Succeeded, in what?"
"He had the audacity to best me in court, and then taunted me with that look he gave me when I was teaching him how to investigate properly at Hazakura. He broke me, he made me suffer just now, that vile defense attorney."
"Nick isn't evil! Please, just calm down. You said something about a look?"
Franziska had to take a couple seconds to calm herself down, it was the first time in a while that she was in a state of hysteria.
"Yes, the fool stared deep into my eyes, his mouth opened a small amount and he just continued like that for a couple minutes, all that just to taunt me that I had yet to best him, that he destroyed the perfect record that I have striven for all of my life."
The way she just described him, it sounded nothing like a taunting look. Nick wouldn't do that, would he?
"I'll go talk to Nick for you, Franziska. Leave it all to me, I think I know what's going on here."
"Do not bring him here." Franziska said sternly. "He must not be able to see me like this, and you shouldn't have either."
"Don't worry," Maya chirped, "your secret is safe with me."
Franziska was silent as Maya exited the office. If what she thought was right, then Nick had some explaining to do.
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The part about Big Wins being the defendant was just my way to set up the Kitaki/Rivales rivalry that appears in AJ, it'll have no effect on the story.
Alright, I think this is progressing nicely, defiantly better written that the previous Chapter 3. Hopefully the reviewers will agree with me.
See you all in Chapter 4!
