Hey everyone, it's Casino Nights here. Sorry for not updating this fic sooner, but we've both had a ton of exams and more are coming our way... and Says Emily insisted that I concentrated on that, but I guess she was right. Anyway, on with the fic!
Disclaimer: All characters mentioned here belong to Arc System Works, as well as the entire Guilty Gear franchise.
Chapter 3- GRAND OPENING
Two hours later...
The workers at Holy Orders were completely tired out. After spending the entire morning preparing, (Mostly consisting of Ky telling Chipp to take some of the Grand Opening posters down, because he'd run out of room and began putting them on the ceiling, the floor, the doors and the counters, obscuring the food prices, and Millia and Baiken preparing a lot more food than they thought they were going to because of the unexpected party arrangements) the moment had finally come for the restaurant to open.
Surprisingly, a rather large crowd of people turned up for this event, all curious about what the new restaurant would have to offer. At the front of the teeming mass of people were none other than all 13 of the Jellyfish Air Pirates (including Johnny, who stood beside them, being practically squished up against the door by the crowd). They all had huge grins on their faces, looking like they were about to explode with happiness, and their eyes were all plastered onto their watches as they waited for the seconds to count down. There were just a couple of minutes to go now...
One of them, sporting a rather large orange pirate hat and a huge anchor strapped to her back, spoke to the captain-as-such, "Thank you, Johnny, for getting us all a table at this place! I've heard so much about it..." She sighed dreamily, her mind drifting off into a land of delicious burgers and fries.
Johnny was quick to answer, "It's nothing, May! You could ask for anything for your birthday, and I would surely try to get it for you." He smiled at her before continuing on, "I knew how excited you were to come here after seeing it on TV last week, so I just had to make reservations for all of us."
They'd all seen the TV advert for it- that Ky had rather unprofessionally put together- and were practically bouncing off of the walls with excitement. Oh, what a disaster that was...
FLASHBACK
May, as well as all of the other Pirates, were crowded around a very small TV set that looked quite old. This was strange, considering that they already had a rather futuristic-looking home, but Johnny, rather stupidly, had make lots of 'deals' with various loan sharks in order to pay for all of it. They were strapped for cash at the moment, as they were finally biting him back, but he didn't dare mention anything to the girls. He just kept his false smile as he watched his crewmembers watch the TV, all trying to get a better view of it by violently shoving the other Pirates out of the way. Anyway, their eyes lit up with joy as an advert came on that they were very familiar with, advertising the brand new fast-food outlet, Holy Orders, as if it was the best thing since sliced bread. They all cheered as it started, wanting to go there so badly...
Chipp was sitting alone at a table in an empty restaurant, seemingly furious at something. On the table was a plate of high-class, top-quality food. "Aw, man... I HATE eating here! There's never anything GOOD to eat!" He banged the table with his fork, accidentally embedding it in the wood.
Sitting opposite him was a girl with extremely long hair, unmistakably Millia. She had previously been cut off of the screen due to a really wobbly camera shot, and said morosely with a saddened look on her face, "Tell me about it... I wish there was somewhere else we could go..." She put her elbow on the table and slumped forward dramatically, her head resting on her hand.
Suddenly, Ky walked onto the screen and proudly stated, putting both of his hands on the two people's shoulders, "Don't worry, my children, there IS a better place we can go! And it's opening in just a week's time!"
Chipp and Millia both rose their heads up off of the table, as Chipp's had slipped into his food, and said in scarily precise unison, "Oh, boy! Where is this place? I can't wait to go there!"
"You want to know what it is?" The 'father' put on a rather noticeably forced laugh. "It's called Holy Orders, where you can get whatever you want!" He then got very serious in tone as all the lights in the room turned off, save for one below his chin, and slowly turned to look directly into the camera, "As long as it's fries, burgers, chicken, fish fingers, chicken, burgers, or fries. NOTHING ELSE."
Immediately after he said this, everything went back to normal as if nothing had happened. The seemingly possessed pair below him chanted, "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!", as they rose out of their seats and ran off of the camera's field of view, with Ky laughing behind them, "Children..."
If you looked really closely at the back of the dark restaurant room they were 'dining' in at this point in the advert, you could see a tall figure with long black hair walk in through the kitchen and stare at them, absolutely furious and shouting, "KY KISKE, IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF MY RESTAURANT NOW, YOUR HEAD IS GOING UP YOUR OWN-" Although, you could barely hear him over the overly-cheesy music playing that was drowning his voice out intentionally.
It then cut badly to a video of them outside the Holy Orders restaurant that looked like it had been filmed with a home video camera. They were all standing with their backs to the screen, looking up to the huge sign, and all said out loud, reading it, "HOLY ORDERS- WE TAKE THEM... FOR YOU!"
Present Day
May was suddenly taken out of her daydreaming phase by Johnny, who said to her, "May! There's only fifteen seconds left until it opens! Get ready to grab a seat as this could get hectic."
Her smile seemed to get even bigger, the corners of her mouth practically reaching her ears, as she said happily, "Let's do a countdown to celebrate! Come on, everyone!" She raised her hands in the air at the crowd behind her as the other Pirates caught on, hoping the majority of the crowd would too. Soon, they were all shouting the numbers and rattling the bars on the doors of the restaurant with glee.
"TEN! NINE! EIGHT!"
Baiken, suddenly becoming aware of what was going on, sighed and said, "They better not do anything stupid..." She was sitting down at one of the tables in the restaurant, fully prepared to run back into the kitchen if needs be to avoid the crushing force of the crowd that she was sure would kill her if she didn't.
"Don't worry, Baiken! This is exciting! I can't wait to meet the Pirates again, I haven't seen them in a while..." Millia said back to her, ecstatic and completely oblivious to what Baiken just said.
"SEVEN! SIX! FIVE!"
Chipp was standing near the door, twitching and unable to keep still. He was going to run the cash machines at the restaurant, however Ky insisted that he had to be there to greet the new customers alongside him when it opened. He looked out of the huge front windows at the crowd and gulped. "Ky, if I get flattened, you're coming down with me!" He called out to the man standing on the other side of the door.
"FOUR! THREE! TWO! ONE!"
Ky opened his arms out wide and said to the crowd outside, "Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to my grand restaurant, Holy O-" He was unable to finish his sentence as the lock on the door, originally intended to be opened by him when it opened, was ripped apart by the sheer amount of people pushing on the door, letting the crowd pour in in their hundreds...