Moonlight Addict
Tenth Movement: 1, 2, 3, Hanashi
"Hey! What took you all so long? I've been waiting out here for-" Snake began before Marth cut him off.
"Inside the lobby Snake, we said we were meeting inside the lobby."
"No way! I asked Link and he said we were meeting outside."
"Snake I was saying I thought we should meet outside, not that we actually were." The Hylian sighed, shaking his head. "Weren't you some special forces something or something?"
"Well maybe if we ever sat down and actually made our plans." The brunette grumbled.
"One of these days we will Snake, promise." Ike laughed, ruffling Pit's hair as he walked alongside the boy. Assimilating himself into the group, Snake started walking and chatting with Marth and Roy while Link started chatting with Ike. Looking up at Mythieus curiously, the small angel spoke up a bit.
"Um…hello. Are you one of Ike's friends?" The copper haired boy asked, to no avail. The purple haired stranger just kept walking along, humming to himself.
"Um…hello, mister…" Pit murmured, a bit nervously. "Are you um…are you a friend…of Ike's?"
"Don't play innocent with me!" Mythieus barked suddenly, flashing the tiny cherub a toothy grin before returning to humming. Shocked the boy immediately shied away and pressed himself against Ike, looking away.
"Hey bud, what's up?" The blunette questioned, looking down at Pit and ruffling his hair.
Glancing worriedly over at Mythieus then back at the large mercenary, the boy shook his head and then smiled, putting the stranger's bizarre behavior behind him.
"Nothing is up Ike." The angel cooed, bury his face in the man's side. "Nothing is up."
Hiking through the woods that surrounded Smash Mansion, the group took in the sights and the crisp scent of the spring air. Enjoying the silence of the endless forest and one another's company, the group trekked happily for a few hours.
"I still don't get how a twinky thing like you is top Marth." Link teased, being the instigator as usual.
"Who…told you that?" The bluenette stammered, aghast.
"Roy may have said a few things."
"Nothing you didn't ask about!" The redhead yelled, chiming in to defend himself.
"Well I didn't exactly push."
"Oh wow Roy! You told him stuff like that!" The prince whimpered, shrinking a bit.
"Oh what's the harm Marth?" Roy teased, actually enjoying himself for the first time since he'd been 'dead'. "If anything I should be embarrassed."
"Yeah, I guess…still though."
"Alright you three, enough! Where are we stopping to eat lunch?" Snake interrupted, patting his growling stomach and surveying the woods.
"Yeah I agree, it's almost one, and some of us haven't even had breakfast." Ike echoed.
"Alright well what about here?" Marth offered.
"What are you kidding? We can't just eat here, we need to find a clearing." Link argued.
"Of course we do, and why do we need to find a clearing?" Marth shot back, grumbling at the blonde's predictability. If I told him the sky was blue, he'd say it was pink with orange polka dots…
"There are bugs and animals here in the shade, especially on a hot day like this."
"Oh yeah and there wouldn't be any bugs in the clearing."
"Less of them. And especially less of the bad ones like hornets."
"Okay children, let's break it up. We'll go find a clearing like Link said, besides, it'd be nice to get some sun."
"Here Pit, you wanted the turkey right?" Ike asks me, scavenging his pack for my meal. I haven't the heart to tell him- but angels don't eat.
"Um yeah Ike, that was the one I wanted." I agree.
"Alright well here, this is yours then." The he replies, gently placing a cellophane wrapped sandwich in my palm. "There's some chips and water bottles in here too if you want any."
"No I think I'll just have the sandwich." I assure him, tenderly unwrapping my meal from its plastic wrap prison.
As he carefully watches me unwrap my sandwich, Ike set to freeing his own ham and cheese. Callously tearing at the plastic he eventually shreds the cellophane and triumphantly pulls his meal out.
Ravenously sinking his teeth into the sandwich Ike rips a mouthful off and greedily scarfs it down.
"Mmmm, oh man! Should have eaten breakfast."
Finally freeing my own sandwich, I lean down and take a tiny bite from it, chewing quietly before swallowing. It's not that it tastes bad, but just eating it makes me sort of sleepy, and I haven't had so much energy lately as is.
"It's really…really good Ike. Thank you." I giggle, taking another minuscule bite and pretending to be content.
"Yeah don't- mff." He grumbles, choking down another bite. "Don't mention it."
"Ike what's hunger like?"
"What's hunger like? What do you mean?"
"Well angels don't…we don't eat food." I explain, blushing a little. "So an angel could never hungry."
"If you can't eat then…but what about that sandwich, aren't you eating that?"
"Not exactly, I'm just chewing it until my essence dissolves it."
"Then what happens after that?" Ike asks, cocking his head to the side curiously.
"It just becomes more stray essence, I suppose."
"Then you absorb the essence?"
"Well an angel can absorb any essence, we don't have to eat to do it. Palutena forbids us to do it from living things however."
"Good, I don't want you absorbing me or anything." He chuckles, biting into his sandwich.
"Don't worry Ike, there's never been a single angel who ever absorbed a living essence."
"So then if you don't need to eat to absorb essence…why have you been eating since you got here?"
"Well because I thought you would all find it weird if I wasn't eating, and besides, it's not that hard to eat."
"Not that hard? Its work?"
"Well yeah, that's why angels usually absorb stray essence." I try to explain, I guess this would only be common sense to an angel.
"Pit! If you'd have told me eating was taxing you, I wouldn't have kept giving you food!" Ike exclaims, a guilty look on his face.
"Its fine Ike, really, I don't mind eating." My face must be an even deeper shade of red by now, I can just feel it.
"No, no, you don't have to eat unless you want to." He's so nice to me.
"Okay."
"Really Pit, don't force yourself." I should tell him how I feel! Now, I don't want to wait any longer! That's what I tell myself anyways, actually doing it is proving to be much harder however.
"Ike I…"
"Yeah, what is it?"
"I just wanted to tell you…" I stammer. "That you can…have my sandwich!" Curses…
"Oh well…you aren't going to eat it?" He questions, slightly confused.
"Y-yeah, I mean no! I'm not going to, so you should."
"Alright Pit." Ike chuckles, taking my sandwich from me.
"And Ike just…thanks, thank you for taking me today."
"Oh well yeah, don't mention it Pit."
"Hey guys, I'm not interrupting anything, am I?" Mythieus chimes in, sitting down next to us.
"Not at…all." Ike answers awkwardly, turning to look at the violette.
"Yeah, Mythieus, its fine." I agree, my voice a little shaky. Remembering the interaction me and Mythieus had earlier, I can't help but feel more than a little uncomfortable.
"I was actually wondering if I could borrow Pit from you for just a few minutes. It's our first time meeting and I'm afraid we got off on the wrong foot."
"Wrong foot…" Ike starts, turning back to me. I hope he can't tell I'm shaking ever so slightly.
"See look at him, he's so nervous he's shaking."
"I'm not nervous!"
"Here c'mon, just walk with me for a bit, let me make a proper introduction." Mythieus begs, flashing his usual, charming, smile.
"Well…" I look over at Ike and then smile. "Sure! I'd like that." Standing up I shake out my wings quickly.
"Sure I can have this sandwich?" Ike asks, smiling at us and gesturing to my sandwich.
"Of course Ike, I'll be right back."
"So um, I guess I'll reintroduce myself. I am Pit and-"
"Have you guys kissed?" The violette cut in, walking slowly in front of Pit through the woods.
"Kissed! What- um…what do you mean?"
"Have you completely forgotten why you're here? You haven't kissed him, slept with him- have you even told him anything?" Mythieus barked, leering over his shoulder.
"But I…I don't know what you're talking about." The angel mumbled, blushing with embarrassment as his heart fluttered with unease.
"And now you're pretending like you don't know me? You've gone completely off the rails! We had a deal Pit! We had a plan!"
"I think you have me confused with someone else…"
"No Pit, you're confused." The man grumbled, walking over to a tree in the middle of the clearing they had walked into. "Roy's dead, do you remember that?"
"Roy isn't dead! He's one of Ike's friends and he's here with us! He's on the picnic!"
"Beaten to a bloody pulp and stabbed to death, nasty way to go."
"He isn't dead!" The boy yelled loud enough to stir a few birds, which hurriedly fluttered out of the tree's surrounding the clearing.
"Of course he's not dead. He's about as alive…how can I explain this?" The violette thought aloud, gripping one of the low branches of the tree and proceeding to climb up it. "I think I have an idea."
"Wh-what are you doing?" The angel asked, anxiously walking closer to the tree.
"Roy's about as alive as I'll be after I plummet from the very top of this tree."
"Mythieus you…you can't, you'll die."
"Don't be so negative! A person can do anything the put their mind to!"
Climbing higher and higher into the towering oak, the violette had already reached over twenty feet up, a dangerous height. Steadily and recklessly fighting his way up, the man grinned and looked down, savoring the feeling of vertigo the height gave him.
"Mythieus you'll never survive a fall like that! Climb down!"
"Never say never Pit! It'll kill you!" The man yelled down as he reached forty feet up.
"How's this look? Do you think this would kill me?" The violette asked, a stupid smile on his face.
"Mythieus! Get down! Please!"
Getting a secure footing on two branches Mythieus vaulted out of the foliage, his arms out in front of him, palms pressed together. Doing his best imitation of a swimmer attempting a high dive the violette plummeted towards the ground at a dizzying speed.
Slamming into the ground Pit could hear the sickening crunch of the man's arms snapping like twigs as they impacted first. His face making contact with the yellowing grass of the clearing next, the man's entire spine made a wet cracking sound as his body accordion folded.
"M-Mythieus…" The brunette whispered towards Mythieus' bleeding, contorted body, the same stupidly sick grin frozen on his dead face.
Falling backwards weakly, Pit stared in horror at the dead body in the middle of the field, his whole body frozen and shaking.
"Guys! What's going on!" Snake called, crashing through the brush into the field just behind a very petrified Pit. "We can hear you yelling all the way from the other field Pit!"
"S-s-s" The boy whimpered, unable to form his friend's name properly.
"Look how high I am Snake!" Mythieus called from the top of the tree, waving enthusiastically at the man from up above.
"Oh that's why he was yelling! Get down Mythieus! You'll break your neck!"
"Aww! Fine, I'm on my way down now! These branches are starting to feel a little unsafe…"
Climbing his way down it was only a matter of minutes before the violette's feet were safely on the ground. Strolling over towards Pit the man ran his hands through the cherub's hair, smiling to Snake and acknowledging him with a nod.
"Glad we could have this talk sport."
Movement 10- Done