Chapter 4 : Athena and the Agency Girls 2


I sincerely apologise for the previous chapter's boringness. Seriously, I didn't expect it myself. Also for the lateness of this one (I was busy).


"Fine, fine. But what are we even going to do in People Park anyway? There's really not much any of us hasn't yet seen," Athena asked the two girls.

Trucy hesitated, before answering, "I... have no idea. I guess I just didn't want to disturb Polly and decided on a random place."

"Wait, how would we be disturbing Apollo by just being there? ...Were you planning to do a dangerous trick?"

"N-No way! I can't break Daddy's rules! Otherwise I can't perform magic tricks for a long time!" Flustered, Trucy stammered out her words as Athena laughed.

"Anyway, since we won't be performing any dangerous acts, why don't we just head to the office?" Pearl questioned. Neither one replied.

"...Well, I'm sure we can think of something else to do, right?" Athena said, tapping the tip of her right moonstone earring.

"Anyone up for a round of storytelling?" Trucy said the first thing that came to mind.

"Sure! Do you want to hear about Mystic Maya and Mr Wright's adventures in the past?" Pearl asked. Not even letting them reply, she began.

"Well, when Mr. Wright first started out as an attorney, he worked at Mystic Maya's older sister's, Mia Fey's, office..."


The story continued for almost 30 minutes. However, neither Trucy nor Athena had heard about half of it before, so they were rather interested in what Pearl had been saying.

"...And so now we are here - Mystic Maya is the Master of the Fey clan, and Mr Wright is in charge of the Wright Anything Agency (with Trucy's help, of course!) But I'm still pretty sure they like each other - I mean, who would even do half those things Mr Wright did for Mystic Maya if they didn't?"

"Wow. I never even knew they had such a long history!" Trucy exclaimed. "I'm inclined to agreeing with you."

"And judging from how Mr Wright reacted to you and Ms Maya suddenly showing up at the courthouse, I have to say the same too. He was practically beaming with happiness!" Athena piped in.

"Oh! I know! We could try to pair them up together! That way, Daddy will be happy and I'll get a Mummy like I've been asking for since young!"

"And we can pair up others, too! But that's assuming we can find out who they like..."

The girls continued chatting animatedly about the topic at hand until it was finally lunchtime.

When the clock struck noon, the trio had already ran out of ideas. Well, not all of them; Trucy had one more, but she didn't want Athena to hear what she had to say. So when Athena got up from the park bench stretching, Trucy was happy for the welcome interruption.

"Hey, I'm hungry. Anyone wants to go for lunch now? I'll buy for you guys if you want," Athena offered. Pearl immediately jumped up and tagged along, while Trucy decided to follow as well.

After a delicious meal, the girls were about to head back to the agency. "Oh! Wait for me, okay? I'm pretty sure Apollo hasn't eaten yet and I might as well buy him a sandwich or something," Athena suddenly exclaimed before running off, leaving the two other teenagers behind.

Trucy and Pearl watched as Athena went to a shop nearby, before looking at each other with incredulous faces.

"...Um, is Athena sick or something? She's not her usual self, as far as I know," Pearl questioned.

"I'm pretty sure that's a no. But she's certainly acting weird..." Trucy trailed off mid-sentence. An idea came to her mind. "Hey, what if Athena-"

Just then, Athena showed up once more, surprising both girls. "What if I what?"

Trucy clammed up. "N-Nothing. How are you so fast?"

"Oh, there wasn't a queue and I was running. So, shall we head to the office now?"

Trucy immediately whispered something to Pearl, who then replied Athena. "Um, you go first. We'll join you later."

Athena looked at them for a short while, before bouncing off.

"Hey, Pearl, don't you think Athena and Polly make a cute couple...?"


Meanwhile at the Agency...

Apollo was silently at work, writing the report for the case. (It's not that we actually require to do this, but I like having a record for everything I've done. And anyway, even if I didn't, Mr. Wright would force me to write one...)

He hadn't noticed the sound of the door to the office opening. Athena entered, carrying the sandwich in her hands. Not too far behind, Tracy and Pearl were chatting incessantly. (However, Athena couldn't make heads or tails of their conversation.)

Athena, who was unused to the queerly silent office, walked in front of Apollo's desk. He had barely even noticed her standing in front of the table. "What is it?"

After a short conversation, which was mostly cut short by Apollo's silence, Athena decided to leave the attorney alone. Gently placing the sandwich on his desk, she walked away to do her own work.

A very long while later, Apollo finally noticed the sandwich left on his table. Picking it up, he noticed the small note attached to it.

"Hey, Apollo! I'm sure you haven't eaten yet, so I bought you a sandwich earlier. Relax a little; we have no fixed deadline for our reports, after all. Don't work until you faint. -Athena"

Upon reading the note, Apollo smiled. (I'll have to remember to say thanks to Athena later.)

Meanwhile, Trucy had been watching Apollo and Athena, and Pearl sat on the sofa that lay in the corner of the office, reading a book.

"Hehe... there's no way Polly doesn't like Thena!"


A/N : I know, literally weeks late. I couldn't really think of anything. After the Investigation chapter(s), we'll finally get them to go to court again! And afterwards the story will pick up pace again with more advancement in storyline. (I have so much planned. Also, for the court, I'm only going to include the first day. Things will get boring if I keep mentioning that particular case.)

Please tell me what I did wrong (other than the lateness of this chapter), and ship suggestions for any other character is fine!

~The Sparrow Messenger