Chapter 3 : Athena and the Agency Girls Pt 1

ExplodedPotato : Assuming slash ships are boy x boy or girl x girl, yes. I do write some of those; it's part and parcel of being in the Hetalia fandom. But if they're crack ships, I have no idea what are crack ships in this fandom so- By the way, if you want the boy x boy, it quite likely wouldn't be this one. I'm planning on writing a separate story for ships like WrightWorth and Klavier x Apollo.

The Generic Overlord : Done and done. Phoenix x Maya was planned from the start, but I had to consider about Edgeworth and Franziska. Since you and my sister both want that ship, I suppose I can try.

Min (Guest) / GemmaSkye : Gummy and Edgey will appear in the Investigations chapter for Phoenix's side of the story either next chapter or the one after. Franz is more debatable. Right now this one focuses on Athena and the Agency girls. They will appear or I'm not the real Sparrow Messenger. I'm kidding. I'll try updating it once every week or so.

I didn't read the reviews, so it's a chapter delayed. Sorry.

Back in the office, Apollo had just arrived. While on the way to the crime scene with Maya, Phoenix had called Apollo to tell him to go to the office.

"Apollo, I'm a little busy right now. I need you to go to the agency and stay there. Pearls and Trucy are going over later, you have to take care of the agency in case they plan on doing magic tricks. Remember to water Charley too. I don't want Maya to; she'll drown it."

"What- Why me? You could ask Athena to do so instead..." Apollo, wide awake due to his "Chords of Steel" workout, questioned.

"I don't want to wake Athena up. She'll be angry at me for a long time. Plus, she's barely older than Pearls, I don't trust her enough to take care of the agency on her own." Phoenix replied nonchalantly. "You're the only one who can since Maya decided to tag along in the investigation."

"Boss, they're teenagers. They can take care of- Hey, did you hang up on me?" Apollo was interrupted by the sound of beeps. Sighing, he changed into his formal outfit and left his house.

Outside, the sun had just rose. There were quite a number of people going to their workplaces, but the morning rush hadn't begun yet. Apollo got on his bicycle and began his everyday 15-minute ride to the Wright Anything Agency office, stopping for breakfast midway through.

Meanwhile, at Athena's house, the young girl had just begun to stir. She was greeted by the sound of Widget's voice. "Good morning, Thena! Or are you going back to sleep?" After lazing around on her bed for the next twenty minutes, she finally got up to check her phone. Trucy had called multiple times, and she, Pearl and Apollo had left a long stream of messages.

Trucy : why are you not up yet?

Pearl(s?) : Mystic Maya is out of the office, so we girls can do almost whatever later. Meet for breakfast or not?

Trucy : answer my calls please

Trucy : not awake then? see you at the office later.

Pearl(s?) : I'm with Trucy right now, we'll head to the office after breakfast. See you soon!

Polly : Boss claims hes busy and left me in charge. If you promise not to wreck the office i give you full permission to do whatever you want.

Polly : Also the other girls.

Trucy : hey remember to be on time for work today, Daddy may be out but he sent Polly to check on us in his place

Polly : You can do whatever, as long as its not a dangerous magic act or generally anything thats dangerous or illegal. Mr Wright will kill me if you guys do anything of that sort.

Polly : Athena, im serious. Dont. Also, tell the other girls for me.

After another 30 minutes well spent replying to their texts, text-arguing with Apollo for much of it for the sake of doing so, Athena eventually decided to change into her usual office outfit and merrily bounced out of her house, Widget around her neck and any information she may need within it.

Stopping at the cafe, she ate a simple breakfast of coffee and delicious chocolate cake. Meanwhile, Trucy and Pearl had been eating at Eldoon's Noodle store, at the park near the office. Apollo had just left the park when the two girls entered, and had walked right past them without noticing.

Another text was sent to Athena.

Trucy : change of plans, meet up with us at the park near the office after you're done with your meal

Athena : Sure, but why?

Trucy : Polly is heading towards the office, and he looks like he's busy, so i don't want to disturb him till noon

Athena : If you say so.

Athena continued enjoying her chocolate cake, watching the area surrounding the cafe begin to buzz with people as the working world began to awaken. After she was finally done slowly eating her breakfast, she got up and left the cafe. By then, Trucy and Pearl were waiting impatiently near the river that flowed through the park.

After ten minutes of walking, Athena eventually got to the park. Upon seeing her, Trucy ran up to her and said, "Do you know how long we've been waiting here? It's been almost an hour since we finished our bowl of noodles! It's already 10am!"

"S-Sorry, Trucy. I was taking my time like always. By the way, Apollo's permitted us to do whatever we want at the office later, so I'm allowed to go to the office later than usual."

"Still not excusing you for making us wait!"

So I have problems managing in-story times. So this will be split into two chapters. Sorry for the time at which this chapter was uploaded being late, I had too much to do during this week. Three tests on the same day and stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to finish the next chapter by next Sunday. Sorry it's a little shorter than the first chapter.

As always, tell me what I did wrong (or right) and ship suggestions are still fine by me.

~The Sparrow Messenger