The Pilgrimage:
I haven't seen you in a long time!
By XcortPilgrim
Disclaimer: Bryan Lee O'Malley has the rights to Scott Pilgrim and all that stuff!
Philip, my second ex. After Matthew, I wanted something simple, someone who I could just talk to.
The breakup was harder on me than I thought it would be, so I just needed someone to tell me everything was going to be okay. A couple of weeks later he dumped me and I was completely devastated...
"Well Ramona, I haven't seen you in a long time..." Phillip stated, rolling to face Ramona, who was in complete and utter shock. Phillip's blue, sparkling eyes persuaded Ramona to forgive him, but she knew that behind those eyes was a diabolical mind, one that could easily hurt her again. Ramona felt this apprehensive feeling throughout her body, making her tense up and her heart beat faster,
What's this feeling? she asked, it soon dawned on her, it was fear. As it registered on Ramona's face, Phillip slowly made his way to Ramona, who summoned the courage to look at her ex and saw that he was dressed quite casually in baggy, brown pants and a blue shirt that had the initials PS on it,
Oh, right Ramona reminisced, closing her eyes as Phillip plodded over to her, THUMP THUMP,
Ramona woke up and saw that she was in a car, which was a complete dump, the windows were smashed and the inside looked like it was mauled by a cougar. She was naked, but somehow warm,
Huh... What I am I doing here? she thought, flicking back through her memories, Let's see... I dumped Matthew, and I was a little distracted by it. (NOTE: she was completely distracted by it.) Then I met this guy... she searched through her memories for his name, but couldn't remember it, Ughh... It doesn't matter, after that I... she trailed off to find that she couldn't recall anything after that.
Her thoughts were interrupted by the voice of a man,
"Well Ramona, I haven't seen you in a long time..." stated the voice, then Ramona's memory came back to her, Oh, right. At the end of school Phillip asked me out, I needed a distraction so I said yes, so for the next few weeks we had fun then...
Ramona drew a blank, all she remembered was she burrowed her dad's car... Ramona snapped out of her memory and saw that she was tied up on her bed, with a grinning Philip holding a hammer above her head, she vaguely remembered something like this happening nearly a year before,
"This is so stupid." she remarked, as the hammer was raised up...
In the mysterious land of Toronto, Canada
Scott, his new katana around his waist, walked down the street to Ramona's house,
I wonder how Ramona is? I haven't been able to talk to her for a while. he reflected, Mnnnnnn... Why don't I have a cell phone? Scott was interrupted by a sigh, from a familiar voice,
"Knives?" he called out, footsteps rang out, coming closer, KLAK KLAK,
"Scott?" Knives replied, as she walked over to Scott, he was about to answer when he saw Knives' face, she had red eyes and line of water down her face, left from shed tears,
"Why are you crying?" he asked bravely,
"I'm not crying." Knives answered, keeping a facade happiness and trying to force a smile,
"Knives, believe me, you don't want a nega version of yourself running around, so what is the problem?" Scott rephrased, Knives sighed and thought hard about how to phrase the inevitable answer,
"I think..." she started, Scott looked at her, completely attentive to her, "I think..." she couldn't force herself to say it, Scott waited for her.
And waited.
And waited.
Then Knives finally got the courage to say it,
"I think I like Doug." she admitted.
Anyway...
The stone on the hammer above Ramona's head glistened, death was certain. Ramona closed her eyes and waited to die,
"You idiot!" a menacing voice insulted, Ramona opened her eyes and saw two robed figures, whose face were unidentifiable one holding the hammer, with one hand and the other directing it's glare to Ramona,
"You aren't meant to do this!" the voice informed, Ramona couldn't figure out who's voice it was,
"But I thought that was the whole point of the league?" Phillip questioned,
Wait... Didn't the league disband after the whole Gideon dying thing? Ramona recalled.
It was the afternoon before Ramona had her day off, Scott was cooking a meal and Ramona was fine by that. She walked up to him and hugged him,
"Don't you wish this moment would last forever?" Ramona happily asked,
"Uhh... Not really..." Scott hesitantly answered, Ramona opened her eyes and started to protest when she saw that Scott had burnt the food and smoke was filling the room at a rapid pace, she looked over at Scott's hoping for a reasonable answer as to why this happened, but only received a shy smile,
"Scott! Get a bucket of water or something." Ramona commanded, the door bell rang, Ding Dong, and Ramona walked to the door and opened it. She was greeted by the face of Lucas Lee holding a bottle of champagne,
"Ramona, haven't seen you in while!" he stated as if they were on good terms,
"Lucas? How are you here? Didn't Scott kill you?" she asked, as she summoned the Power of Love and held it ready to strike
"Ramona, relax. Gideon made us sign something when we joined that said after he was finished with his plan, or died, we'd all be able to live our lives again." Lucas explained, Ramona put her sword away,
"Oh... well, as you can see we're not exactly ready for a guest..." she explained she pointed the kitchen, which was covered by a wall of black smoke. A robot poked it's head through and squeezed passed Ramona to barge into the kitchen. Soon the smoke subsided and Ramona clearly saw Scott with a fan, pointed at the stove,
"Scott, what are you doing with hat fan?" Ramona asked already half knowing the answer,
"I thought the fire needed to cool down..." Scott answered, confirming Ramona's guess, Ramona didn't reply, instead she just stood to the side of the door, letting the guests in...
At Pizza Pizza
"Knives, how did you fall in love with Doug, you haven't even meet him!" he exclaimed, grabbing a slice of pizza,
"Well... After the show that you performed at I went backstage to see how Stephen was doing and he introduced me to Doug." Knives explained,
"Oh. But don't you still love Roxie? You were kissing Roxie when we were talking." Scott asked,
"I was trying to see if she loved me! And she does, but..." she answered uncertainly,
"Then why not break up with her?I mean you don't like her and you don't want to string someone along, a league of evil exes is annoying." Scott advised,
"But... I kind of like Roxie, so I don't want to hurt her feelings." Knives told, Scott thought through this,
If I tell Knives to date Doug then I'll have to kill Knives' boyfriend, but if I tell her to stay with Roxie, then... Well , let's not think about that. he deliberated, Scott opened his mouth after a few minutes,
"But you love someone else." Scott said straight-faced, "Look I did the same thing to you, I kind of liked you, but then I met Ramona and my feelings for you changed, I know it's hard and it's going to suck when you tell Roxie, but she'll understand." Scott saw that Knives still wasn't confident, so he thought of something to comfort her,
"If she doesn't then let me fight her, I've won once before." he added, Knives sighed,
"But..." she started, but Scott wasn't going to stop,
"Knives, do you care about Roxie?" Scott asked, Knives unhesitatingly nodded, "Then this is the right thing to do." He told as he slid out of his seat, "I'm going to Ramona. See you Knives!" he told her as he ran out the door...
MEANWHILE...
"You are meant to kill her when they are around" the voice vaguely answered the robed figure holding the hammer released his hold and Phillip lowered his hammer. Scott appeared in door at the very moment and the robed figures noticed him without looking, running out the window. Phillip however was left to the mercy of Scott's twin blades, Phillip hesitated as he raised his hammer and Scott saw this, so he decided to end it quick, he disappeared from sight, although Ramona, with her ninja training was able to keep up with made a clean cut decapitating Phillip in half. Scott reappeared and a dazed Phillip saw Scott behind him and raised him hammer to strike. Scott calmly re-sheathed his sword, ching and Phillip was cried out in pain, his hammer and himself being reduced to little microscopic pieces.
Scott rushed over to Ramona's side, cutting each of the four ropes that suspended her,
"Ramona! Are you alright?" he asked as he lay her down on her bed, Ramona was shocked and started crying. Scott tried to comfort her, but she pushed him off, sobbing in an uncontrolled manner, she just remembered one of the more bitter memories of her life...
Phillip walked up to Ramona, it was the day after she had burrowed her dad's car. Phillip walked up with a smug smile, something that was completely unlike Phillip,
"Ramona!" he shouted, "We're through!" Ramona's face had a confused expression,
"What do you mean by that?" she asked,
"I'm dumping you." Phillip told Ramona in a matter of the fact tone, Ramona was shocked and ran away from Phillip...
Sorry for the late chapter, I've been crushed under schoolwork, even though it's the holidays now. Don't expect much in updating terms. Anyway, who are the robed figures? Who are they? What's Knives' choice going to be? And how long will it be before we see Pattel get killed again? All these awesome questions answered and more in The Pilgrimage!
