CH5: Lunch At the Hip Hog

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They stared at each other with annoyance for the next few minutes as the ship flew out of the building and to south town's port. They gave up eventually, and by the time they did, they were already there anyways. Jinx parked the ship next to the door, and they all got out and headed inside. The entire place was empty except for the waitress who was standing at the bar.

"What 'ya gonna get?" Jinx asked
"I'll have a Hip Burger, no mustard this time, and a lemonade." Grim said.

"And you, Ashelin?"

"I'm not really hungry, so I'll just grab a shake."

"Okay then, I'll pay for it this time." Jinx said. "Go grab us a seat."

Jinx walked up to the waitress at the bar. She was tall, and had long wavy black hair, and mole on her left (Jinx's right) cheek. She was smoking a cigarette and had kind of a deep voice with a serious accent.

"Watcha' gonna get, hon?" She put the cigarette back in her mouth and puffed out some more smoke.

"I'm just gonna have a Hip Burger, a vanilla shake, and a lemonade. Oh and a Hog Dog." Jinx responded.

"Already prepared." The waitress said and handed him the food on the tray.

"Thanks uh," He squinted and read her nametag quickly, "uh- Gloria. He he."

Gloria looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"Shut up and go sit down." She shooed him away to where Ashelin and Grim were sitting.

"I'm going, I'm going!" Jinx said, agitated. He set the food down on the table and Grim dug into his burger right away. He finished it quickly in just under three minutes, then finished his lemonade quickly and burped.

"'Scuse me." He said

"No kidding?" Jinx said with a mouth full of hot dog. He swallowed it and asked Ashelin, who was sipping on her shake slowly, a question. "Did you make it to class on time yesterday?"

"Nope. I even took a shortcut…"

"That sucks… didn't you get in trouble?"

"Yes. Except Erol made a threat that if I'm late for class one more time, he'll have to refuse me from training." She responded. "He told me to clean the experimentation room and cells. I didn't finish by the time he came in the morning, so I hid on top of the pipes the whole time."

"Anything else?"

"Yes. You know that blonde kid you saw yesterday? Erol brought him in and tortured him with some dark eco… poor guy. He has to stay there until he ends up like me, or he dies. I highly doubt he'll die if he hangs in there, but he probably won't be there for long. Shouldn't be any longer than a day or so."

"Too bad for that guy. Ah, but he'll be outta there in no time." Jinx said.

"Probably." Grim said.

"And more bad news," Ashelin started," Erol has a hair sample of mine, only he doesn't know it's mine… well not yet anyways. It fell off in the Fortress and floated down infront of him, then he grabbed it. When he saw it, it was a dark gray color, but right before he turned away and put it in his pocket, it turned back to red, so point being: this could be a problem."
"We'll get it from him." Grim said enthusiastically.

"Thanks guys." She said.

There was a silence for a while until Ashelin broke it again.

"You guys want to hang out tonight?" Ashelin asked the two of them, feeling a little better.
"Tonight? Ah, um… we have guard duty. RIGHT, Grim? Grim?"

Grim was looking in the complete other direction at the few metal head trophies decorating most of the place, and didn't even hear a thing that Jinx or Ashelin said.
"Oh, sorry. Nice trophies, huh?"
"Yeah they're alright, but we have guard duty tonight, DON'T WE." Jinx asked as he eyed Grim.
"No w- OUCH!" Jinx kicked him hard in the leg. "-We don't, uh, not have guard duty. But…uh, tonight we get to guard… uh, THE PALACE CORRIDORS… yeah there." He looked at Jinx, who just put his hand on his face and wiped it down in disbelief of such a poor excuse.

"Sorry, man." Grim said with a bit of fear and mistakenness.
"You guys are afraid of me still, aren't you?" Ashelin asked with a bit of frustration.
"Well, no… not actually, but um you see, we… uh-" Jinx said then gave up as soon as Grim interrupted,

"Yeah." He said.

"Well I can understand if-" Ashelin started, but was interrupted by Jinx.
"No, no, no, it's not that! We're still your friends we're just-" He was re-interrupted by Ashelin.
"-Chicken?!?" She yelled angrily and got up. "Fine. I'll just be by MYSELF! You're not welcome in any vicinity near me anymore. I'll just leave now."

"But-"
"GOOD DAY TO YOU!" Ashelin grabbed her coat and walked out of the door.

It was pouring rain out side when she stepped out. She clutched her coat tightly and put the hood up over her head and walked along the street. There were many flashes of lightning and it was dark and gloomy. The whole street was one giant puddle. Ashelin's feet made large splashes as she walked to the east side of the port, and some areas were even flooding and cordoned off. Ashelin thought to herself, What was their problem? Why are they afraid? What would I do to them?