Maya Fey- Fangirl Extraordinaire: Chapter 4
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"Hey Mia, I need you to do me a favor..."
Maya was sat criss-crossed on the floor in a candle lit room. She was writing a letter to her deceased elder sister on a piece of plain, printer paper.
"Alright, all done!" She said, holding the letter and getting into a focusing position. "Hope this works!"
She continued to focus all of her energy and aura into channeling her, until Maya took on the form of her older sister.
"Huh...back at the manor. So Maya, what do you have to say?" Mia said to her self, reading the letter that was in her hand.
'Hey Mia,
I need to ask you a favor...could you go down to the store and get a bottle of rum and some beer with your ID? I was throwing a party tomorrow and I wanted to get a little something for Nick, since I DID miss his birthday. I promise on the urn I won't drink any! I left your ID on the shelf in your old room. Please and thank you!
Love,
Maya
P.S.- If I get back and my mouth tastes like coffee again...'
Mia chuckled at the letter, put it down and went to where Maya said she put her ID. Picking it up, she headed out the side sliding door out of the house. She also found a flashlight outside since it was about ten at night and walked to the convenience store outside of the Fey Manor. Mia went into the store and picked up a 12 pack of Miller and a bottle of Captain Morgan's Rum before heading to the front of the store to pay for it. She headed out and was back at the village about five minutes later. Mia came back in by the front sliding door to put the bottle of rum on the kitchen counter and the beer in the refrigerator while taking one bottle out for herself. Finally, she found a piece of paper and a pen, and answered Maya's letter.
"Done..." Mia said as she finished the bottle of beer she drank. Her spirit left, leaving Maya to gain her consciousness back again. Maya took a look around and saw the bottle of rum on the counter.
"Yay! She actually did something for once!" Maya smiled, picking up the letter that Mia had wrote.
'Maya,
Nick's birthday was about seven months ago...but I got the drinks for you. (I stole one if you don't mind) Please don't kill him; Mystic Ami knows that boy can't drink for his life...its pretty funny though. Hope you all have a good time. Make sure to say hi to Nick, Pearl and everyone else for me. Special telegram to 'Mr. Armando' if you please.
Love you,
Mia'
"Alright!" Maya cheered. She looked at the clock. "10: 32." She said, yawning deeply. "Better go to bed, need to prepare everything for tomorrow..."
She made her way down the hallway into her room and made quick change into her pajamas. Maya quietly climbed up into her bed, and quickly fell asleep, wondering what would happen in the day that lies ahead of her tomorrow.
"Hey...Mystic Maya? Are you awake?"
"Wh-what!?" Maya yelped as she flipped out of bed. "Oh, it's just you Pearls. You scared me."
"I'm sorry for waking you Mystic Maya," Pearl looked down, afraid that she had upset Maya. "It's already about seven in the evening, and-"
"SEVEN!?" Maya exclaimed. "The party starts in an hour and a half!! I still need to clean the house, rent the movie and MAKE CHURROS! I need to get some ingredients for that! Oh my gosh... this is what I get for staying up and training for two, three days straight. Pearl! Could you vacuum the house? I need to go get the movie and stuff to make churros with!" Maya said, scrambling everything from her words, to putting on her shoes at about a thousand miles an hour. She then made a break for the side sliding exit, ignoring her need for a coat. "See you in a little bit Pearls!"
Pearl stood there, her wide eyes staring at the open door from Maya's room into the hallway. After taking a minute or two to snap out of her temporary daze, she went to get the vacuum from the closet right next to Maya's room. She rolled it down to the den, and plugged it in a near by out electrical outlet. Pearl started up the old contraption, and started to sweep it over the wooden floor.
"The couch should have some blankets; it's pretty drafty in here." Pearl spoke to herself making the last rounds of the room with the vacuum. She turned it off and returned to the closet to exchange the vacuum for two large, purple and blue knitted blankets. Also out of the closet, she took out some dusty couch pillows from the top rack. She went back to the living room, placed the blankets neatly on the sofa, and taking the pillows outside to beat before putting them next to the blankets.
There arose a noise from the front of the house suddenly. "I'm back!" Maya chanted, holding a bag with 300 and ingredients to make churros with. "Hey! The living room actually looks inviting now! Thanks! Saved me a lot of grief there Pearls." Maya complemented.
Pearl smiled sweetly in response. "No problem! I put the oven to pre-heat also for the churros." She added.
"And you dropped the cinnamon on your way in Maya!" A voice said. "Actually a seventy-five percent dry ground cinnamon plant, and twenty-five percent sucrose mixture to be exact."
"Hello Ms. Ema!" Pearl greeted.
"Hi Pearly!" Ema waved back. "Here's the cinnamon sugar." She handed the container of spice to Maya.
"Hi!" Maya said, brushing off a small flake of snow on the container and putting it on the counter next to the stove.
Ema was raiding the plastic bags that Maya brought home her purchases in. "300? You honestly couldn't think of a better movie?" Ema frowned.
"Can you think of anything better?" Maya said glaring at Ema in a good spirited way. She was putting churro dough though an extruder for them to take their shape before being baked.
There was a momentary silence. "Meet the Spartans?" Ema said timidly.
Maya rolled her eyes with smirk on her face. "Seriously?"
"Hey! How can anybody resist kicking Sanjaya into the Pit of Death? It's scientifically IMPOSSIBLE!" Ema exclaimed.
"Darn, you got me." Maya pouted.
Ema smiled at the sound of her victory. "I wish we had a Spartan Pit of Death! That would be so awesome!"
"Hey, we have the Kurain Pit of Death!" Maya said happily. "We could have someone we don't like and go, 'THIS! IS! KU-RAIN!' Then kick them down it!"
"Mystic Maya, the only thing that goes more then a couple centimeters into the ground is the well on the west side of the manor." Pearl said.
"One meter well, Pit of Death, same thing!" Maya covered for her previous statement.
"Riiiiight...." Ema smirked.
"That's me!" Phoenix announced as he entered the Fey abode.
"Hey Nick!" Maya greeted.
"Hi Mr. Wright!" Ema followed.
"Ema? Is that you? Wow, it's been maybe three years! You got taller." Phoenix said contently.
Ema nodded. "I know! Its great to see you so, uh, unchanged from last time!" She finished.
"What? I don't get a hi back? I feel so unloved." Maya whined.
"No. No you don't." Phoenix replied.
"Why?" Maya said, surprised at Phoenix's somewhat mean response.
"You didn't say please." Phoenix said coolly, as he took a seat on the nearby recliner chair.
"I kill you." Maya moped.
There was a series of knocks on the door.
"Come on in!" Maya shouted from the kitchen.
Edgeworth comes in and it was apparent he was having a hard time opening the sliding door. He dawned a heavy jacket and he placed it on a nearby coat rack.
"It's almost as freezing in here then it was outside." Edgeworth complained.
"Uh, a 'hi' would have been nice before complaining. Sheesh, NO ONE feels like saying hi today!" Maya grumbled to herself.
"Hi Mr. Edgeworth!" Ema greeted gleefully.
"Hello Ms. Skye, hello Wright..." Edgeworth said almost involuntarily. "Um..." He was looking at Pearl.
"Her name is Pearl." Phoenix noted.
"Oh yes." Edgeworth remembered. "You we're Maya's cousin from two weeks ago if I'm not mistaking?"
"Yep! Good to see you again Mr. Edgeworth!" Pearl nodded. "I can put in a space heater if you want, because there isn't much insulation in these older houses on this manor."
"Eh-"
"No problem!" Pearl chanted as she started to run to another part of the house to search for what she was trying to find.
"Hey Nick! I have your birthday present!" Maya said. She walked up to him giving him a wrapped gift.
"My birthday was seven months ago." Phoenix said with a blank tone. He started to open the gift and pulled out the bottle of rum that Maya bought posing as Mia.
"Sweet, my favorite rum! Thank you Maya!" Phoenix said, gladly accepting his gift.
Maya nodded. "I knew you'd like it!"
"It's not very hard to go wrong with liqueur I suppose." Edgeworth added.
"He he, you say liquor funny!" Giggled Maya.
"It sounds British!" Ema pointed out.
Edgeworth frowned. "So what if I'm English?"
"Your suit looks kind of like one of those things a British solder would wear during the American Revolution!" Phoenix laughed.
Ema shushed Phoenix after that. "Remember, he's British, so what he means to you is the 'Prebestrian Revolt' " Ema grinned.
Everyone bursted out laughing except for Edgeworth, who was glowing red with anger.
"May we get this stupid movie started so CERTIAN people would be quiet?" Edgeworth complained through his teeth, glaring at Ema and Phoenix.
"Aww, can't you take a joke?" Maya said, almost like she felt bad. She took out the DVD case from the plastic bag and headed over to the TV to put it in the DVD player.
"It's 300, isn't it?" Phoenix said, opening his bottle of rum and taking a swig of it.
Maya nodded much to Edgeworth's dismay.
"Not THAT movie..." Edgeworth muttered to himself.
Ema sat down on the couch with her arms crossed. "Meet the Spartans was better!" She said holding out the 'R'.
"Although that movie was an atrocity to modern day cinema, at least Sanjaya died in that version." Edgeworth agreed, taking a seat to the far left side of the couch.
"Thank you!" Ema said, glad that finally someone understood her opinion on the movie.
Pearl then entered the room with a fan like device in her hands and also had a case of some sort that she placed next to herself. "I found the heater!"
"Thank you, err..." Edgeworth paused.
"Pearl. Pearl Fey." Pearl said short and straight.
"Is it me, or was that the first time EVER that someone willingly gave Edgeworth their full name?" Maya thought to her self. She then picked up the remote and took a seat next to Ema.
Pearl plugged in the heater into a nearby outlet and then picked up the case that was aside her. "Mystic Maya?" She asked politely. "May I play a song for the guests? I've never had this many people over here at once!"
Maya, with the remote still at hand, shook her head yes with a small smile on her face.
"Thank you very much!" Pearl cheered, jumping. She picked up the straight black case, opened it, and pulled out a small, off-white recorder.
"You play recorder?" Ema asked.
Pearl looked at Ema with her big, glistening eyes. "Uh-huh!"
"I play the flute, although I haven't gotten around to perfecting my technique in a long while." Edgeworth sighed.
"So, what song are you gonna play?" asked Maya excitedly.
"You Are My Sunshine!" Pearl announced as if she was the president of the world. She got into playing position and started to blow into her interment.
"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy, when skies are gray. You'll never know dear, how much I love you, so please don't take my sunshine away." Maya sung along in a peppy tone.
The crowd of three gave a light applause as the duet bowed.
"Thank you! I've been trying to practice a lot, so I can get really good!" Pearl said, putting her interment back where it belonged.
"Good job Pearls! I never had much patience for an interment..." Phoenix praised, then taking another drink from his bottle of rum.
"Now, onto the movie!" Maya directed everyone's attention the television. Maya pressed the button on the remote, and the movie commenced with its opening sequence on screen.
Some time passes and its almost time for the scene that put the movie 300 on the map and nearly 30 million views strong on YouTube. Phoenix now has two empty bottles on Miller Lite and a quarter full bottle of rum on top of the stand next to the recliner he was sitting in.
"Ahh! At least this is the goooood part of this movie..." Phoenix yelled. He was eating one of Maya's fresh made churros.
"This is madness!" Shouted the TV.
"Do we HAVE to watch this?" Edgeworth begged.
"This is SPARTA!" Leonidus declared as he kicked the messenger from Persia into the Pit of Death. Phoenix chanted this at the same time as the TV as well.
"You have to yell?" Ema said quietly but with assertion.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-" Phoenix continued to yell. He jumped out of the recliner, and started to run towards the door as the recliner tipped over onto its side. He stumbled on his way, but managed to make it out of the house, still yelling his head off.
"Nick!! You broke the recliner! Oooh, I should have listened to Mia..." Maya said worried as she got up and ran after him. "Come on!" She yelled to everyone. "Its really cold out there and the manor is really big! We have to find him before he gets hurt!"
"Well, it's your fault you let him take in that much alcohol." Edgeworth said coldly. "But I'd rather not go to the hospital tonight..."
"Let's go everyone!" Ema directed. She went out the door, followed by Maya who was holding Pearl by the hand, and Edgeworth.
"I-i-i-its really c-c-cold Myst-t-tic May-ya..." Pearl shivered, grabbing her arms in trying to conserve he own body heat.
Maya then took off her long violet vest, leaving herself in only her lavender colored kimono underneath and handed it to Pearl.
"N-no! D-d-don't go to that trou-b-b-le-"
"I'm used to it; I had to train under freezing waterfalls, so you don't have to worry." Maya smiled.
Pearl put on the oversized article of clothing on herself and kept following Maya.
"I found some tracks in the snow over here guys!" Ema signaled to everyone. "According to my foot print record, these are the marks from his normal work shoes."
"Ms. Lana always said you we're very interested in forensics..." Edgeworth noted.
"Forensics are my heart and soul sir!" Ema proclaimed proudly. "I'll become a forensic scientist one day, I know it!"
"Yes yes, but we should find out where these footprints lead to..." Edgeworth said, trying to re-focus the topic on where the footprints lead to.
"T-they keep going there M-mystic Maya!" Pearl pointed to a curve in the path of prints.
Maya and everyone else trailed behind her to find that the footprints had hit a dead end at some steps that lead to a meditation room.
"Alright, Pearl, lead Ema to all the wings of this place to the right, Mr. Edgeworth, you can follow me and we'll go to the left." Maya said, arranging everyone to search where it was necessary.
"Yes Mystic Maya!" Pearl replied. "This way Ms. Ema!" Pearl ran ahead as Ema tagged along behind her.
"Come on! We're going to look around here!" Maya said quickly, she started to run around the corner. Edgeworth, standing still, took a second to realize that Maya was already gone.
Edgeworth sighed. "Might as run also. Something in my head tells me that I'll be running a lot more in the near-by future." He thought. Starting to run, he caught up to Maya who was trying to examine a garden.
"Look everywhere! Any nook or cranny too!" Maya said frantically.
"Oh, right..." Edgeworth jumped at how antsy her tone of voice was.
As they both continued to search, Pearl and Ema were looking inside the meditation room.
"At least we know that he's not in the rooms that have those gigantic locks on them!" Ema laughed. "I have this black light here, it can make any fingerprints or foot prints show up under it." Ema pulled out a horizontal contraption with a black lightbulb in it from her labcoat. She turned it on, and started to scan the floor for any match of prints. She kept scanning around, but she had a consistent frown on her face. After a few minutes, she turned off the device. That frown was still on her face.
"He didn't go through here." Ema said with much disappointment in her voice.
"You did good Ms. Ema, you don't have to feel sorry for yourself..." Pearl comforted her. "I think we have to meet up with Mystic Maya and Mr. Edgeworth again."
"Right."
They run out of the room and find Edgeworth and Maya scanning the garden.
"He's not in there." Ema said glumly.
"Not here either." Maya responded with equal anguish.
Ema looks a small watch that she has with her.
"Ten!! Oh no! My curfew!! Sis is going to kill me!! I'm SO sorry, but I have to go home before I get skinned alive by my sister!!" Ema said urgently.
"Bye Ema!" Maya said "Thanks for coming even if this party was a real screw up!"
"No problem! See you later!" Ema yelled since she was running the other way.
Pearl gave out a big, long yawn.
"I have to get you to bed too, school..." Maya said.
"I have a math test." Pearl replied in between two yawns.
"I'm going to take her to bed. I'll be back outside in a little bit." Maya advised Edgeworth.
Edgeworth nodded and headed in another direction as Maya took Pearl back to the main house.
Edgeworth followed the perimeter of the mediation room and found a path laden with small pebbles.
"A well?" He thought to himself.
He walked the path to approach the well and looked down into it. He sighed.
"Wright, you idiot..."
Edgeworth climbed over the edge (No pun intended) of the well and landed next to Phoenix, who was unconscious. Edgeworth grabbed his wrist to check his pulse.
"Still alive..." He mumbled. Upon examining him further, he had a small, but noticeable cut on his head. Not too deep to be fatal, but painful anyways. "But, how to get him out of here...good thing this well isn't too deep."
Pondering how to get him out of there, Edgeworth lifted (Rather threw) Phoenix over to ground level. Edgeworth climbed out next, takes Phoenix, and slings him over his shoulder to carry him back to the main manor.
"Heavy..." Edgeworth grunted, though he was soon advancing forward at a steady pace. "Why did I come here?" He though to himself, taking a deep and exasperating sigh.
'You... are my sunshine...my only...sunshine...'
Edgeworth stopped dead in his tracks. "W-who's there?" He managed to stutter out. "H-humming, what or who was that humming coming from??" He demanded, taking a few cautious steps forward.
'You...make me happy...when skies are grey...'
"WHO'S THERE?!" Edgeworth barked. "SHOW YOURSELF!"
'You'll never know dear…...how much I love you...'
Noticing this for the first time, Edgeworth listened to find that the humming was coming from very close. Almost too close to be behind him.
'Please don't...take my sunshine...away.'
Then the realization of what was going on hit him. He could feel a shiver climb up and down his spine.
"Wright?"
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A couple minutes pass and Edgeworth finally made it back to the main house on the manor. Opening the sliding door with his foot, he then walked in to first put a still unconscious Phoenix on the couch. He went into the kitchen and scoured the small cabinet to find a long, white cloth he could use as a bandage for Phoenix's gash. Edgeworth went back to tie the cloth on Phoenix's head over the cut that he got. He lastly tried to find the remote to the television.
Around the corner, Maya was walking down the hallway but before turning the corner, she caught a glimpse of where Edgeworth was standing and where Phoenix lie asleep. She gasped almost silently. She quietly turned around, crept back into her own room, and turned on her laptop.
"Now let's see where this takes us..." Maya whispered to herself. Clicking around on screen, it eventually took her to a live video feed of the main hall.
Edgeworth was looking at where the broken recliner was still tipped, took out a black remote, and sat down where he was before, now towards where Phoenix's feet were.
He pushed the on button for the TV and started to watch an episode of Robot Chicken.
"Missed Steal Samurai....maybe it reruns later." Edgeworth thought, scrolling through an onscreen guide. " Late Show, Today's One Life to Life, Dexter, Doraemo- !"
Edgeworth looked down to see that Phoenix had turned himself around, and softly plopped his head onto Edgeworth's lap. Edgeworth tried to move him back gently, but again, Phoenix proved to be quite heavy and Edgeworth was already well worn out. Needless to say, he was pretty much stuck where he was. Phoenix's face was pointing straight to the ceiling and his arms were dangling to the side off the sofa.
Edgeworth looked down at Phoenix's face again with a dull, almost hypnotized expression. "Fierce in court, yet...he seems so peaceful just lying there..."
Swiftly turning his head to the side, Edgeworth tried to break himself out of his own daze. "What was THAT?" He thought in disgust. "I should get some sleep, too hectic of a day..."
He went back to facing the other side of the couch, and picked up the knitted blanket that Pearl had put out a few hours ago. He unfolded it a little and turned back around and was about to put it on himself. Phoenix's face caught his eye again. Still the same as about a minute ago. Edgeworth let out a small sigh and threw the quilt over Phoenix instead. He faced front and didn't bother to notice that there was another quilt next to where the other one was originally. He was staring up into space for a moment or two before looking back down, this time with a somewhat sad look on his face.
Edgeworth took in a deep breath. "I just hope you're too much in a drunken sleep to remember..." He said quietly.
Edgeworth bended over him in order not to disturb Phoenix's slumber, froze up for a second out of hesitation, and kissed lightly on his forehead.
"Good night...Wright." Edgeworth whispered.
He then leaned back to where the sofa would support his back, closed his eyes, and eventually drift off to sleep.
We then find Maya in her room, her eyes wide as dinner plates. She silently slips out of her room out the sliding side door, and then closes it. Lastly, she takes a few steps away from the house in which everyone was asleep.
"NYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Maya squealed, releasing her huge bundle of self-excitement. She ran back into the house and went back into her room. She takes out her cellphone, goes to contacts, and presses send when the name "Ema" was highlighted.
Back in Ema's room, she heard her cellphone vibrate, so she put down some liquid ammonia she was holding, and picked it up.
"Hello?" Ema questioned.
"It's Maya!" Maya answered.
Ema frowned. "I don't have much time to talk, I'm grounded for a good week or so..."
"This is important though!"
"What is it?"
"Um...I don't know how to actually say this...but Edgeworth kinda... just kissed a sleeping Phoenix..."
"NO KIDDING!?" Ema yelled.
"I heard that. You're supposed to be asleep!" Lana shouted from somewhere else in the house.
"Err, really?" Ema said in the same tone of voice, but much, much quieter now.
"I have it on tape! Just because we don't have insulation in our old home doesn't mean we don't have any technology!" Maya explained. "Actually ever since the murder that happened on the manor about a year ago, the police installed cameras for us."
"Oh my gosh! You have to send me it NOW. " Ema demanded.
"Will do!" Maya sung.
"Ema! Off the phone!" Lana warned.
Ema sighed. "Gotta go, Lana's coming to eat me..."
"Alright, see ya! Bye!" Maya said as she pressed the end button on her cellphone. She put her laptop down, and fell asleep. She wouldn't have to sleep much since she did sleep for about 18 hours the previous day. That and she had to take Pearl to school, so she would have to wake up anyways.
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THUD!!
"Ouch! Owww..."
It was about six-thirty in the morning, and Phoenix fell from the couch onto the wooden floor. This woke Maya and Edgeworth up also.
"What's with the racket? It's too early." He said yawning and obvious that he was cranky.
"I don't know... I don't remember much from last night...my head hurts..." Phoenix said softly, putting his had to where he had his head bandage.
Maya came into the room along with a pair of poofy, purple slippers. "You pretty much drank too much, and you fell in a well chanting "SPARTA" at the top of your lungs." Maya smiled.
Phoenix frowned. "Oww, I knew I shouldn't have had all that rum..." He gave a small smile.
"Shame, Wright..." Edgeworth smirked.
"Ehh...shut up." Phoenix replied meekly.
Pearl comes out of the hallway, dressed and with her backpack. "I'm ready Mystic Maya! The sound woke me up..."
"Oh, sorry about that guys..." Phoenix apologized.
"No problem, she's going to school anyway!" Maya responded. "Though it's still early, school starts at eight for you...hey! We can all go get some pancakes for breakfast! I'll buy it!"
"Yay! I love pancakes!" Pearl cheered.
"I'm not paying for once! It'll be a nice change!" Phoenix said joyfully.
They all start heading out the sliding front door outside to a fresh layer of snow. Maya opens it to let Pearl and Phoenix through.
"You coming Edgeworth?" Maya asked.
"Oh, I didn't know I was invited..." Edgeworth trailed off.
Maya giggled. "Of course you are! Come on!"
Edgeworth nodded. "Ok."
'That's one small step for those two, and one giant leap for Maya! (Sorry mankind, you don't really benefit from this!) I'm glad that I have at least Ema to share it with too. I want to see her face when she see's the video. Now that at least Edgeworth is making a move, now I can try something a little more interesting...dinner for two anybody?'
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*No Sanjaya's where harmed in the making of this chapter :3 *
Authors Note/ Rant- HURRAY! All my state tests are done!! *Dances* Sorry this took long (AGAIN) But expect this to be updated at very random times...(School, my non-existent life, internet problems, laziness...I blame YOOOU.) So until next time, I must go watch all Hetalia episodes again :D