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Chapter 8: Enjoy your Day
The girls are in Lori and Leni's room. The girls discuss about what plans to get Lincoln's love again. Lincoln's favorite places is a little expensive due to having nine girls to go to, especially in Dairy Land and the arcade. The only place is best for all of them is...the mall!
"Okay, we got enough money to get something for Lincoln in the mall." Lori said with a smile. "Leni, can you get him?"
Leni nodded her head as she got up and walked out of the room. Leni goes to Lincoln's room, while make a smile to get Lincoln a normal look at her instead of a silent treatment. The girl made it to the door, she take a breath and open it.
"Hi Linky!" Leni shouted as she opened the door but realized he's not in his room. "You just turn invisible?!"
Leni then look at the desk seeing a folded paper laying there, so she picks it up. She reads it and then turn sad after reading it. She walked back slowly to her and Lori's room. Once she get back, all of the girls look at her.
"Where's Lincoln?" Lori asks Leni giving her the letter, she read it. "He left this early...for early time."
"Dude, must really need the cash." Luna stated.
"Ick. He always coming home so dirty." Lola said in disgust.
"He's growing up so fast." Lana said with a tearful smile.
"Sigh, we had a perfect plan." Lucy replied in sadden.
"We can still do it girls. We're just gonna buy anything that can get Lincoln happy, even if he's not here." Lori said.
"Yeah!" the girls shout happily.
"16...17...18...1~19...20!
We see Lincoln doing pull ups on a tree branch, until he drops to the ground out of exhaustion. He begin to lift himself by using the tree branch, powering through some pain on his chest.
As he takes his time to recover from the exercise, Lincoln talks to the fourth wall. "Phew. Hey guys, you're probably wondering what I'm doing. I'm secretly training myself every morning for a full hour. Such as pulls ups from the branches, push ups, sit ups, and see those two over there?." He pointed to a big log and a monster truck tire. "Those are for my legs, making sure all of my body is sweating."
Charles appears out of the leaves and spoke. "Bark...bark...rrrr..bark!"
"Got it Charles, we're going to work." Lincoln replied continuing to talk to the fourth wall. "It's what you expect. Ever since that fight, Charles is my royal companion. He follows me to my job and go home when I tell him to go. And that haki thing, I find out that I can speak to any kind of creature, Chun-Li taught me how."
Lincoln grabbed his backpack and follows his dog, since the hound knows the way in the forest since he..well, marks his territory.
Lincoln and Charles made it to his job. He sees the twins just laying in the ground staring in the sky, deadpanned. Lincoln sees this, whenever his siste...Um... ex sisters make that expression, it means that they're bored. So Lincoln takes action.
"Hey gals, I see you're bored to death." Lincoln stated looking down at Lyra's eyes.
"You think? There's nothing to do today." Lyra said looking at Lincoln.
"We spent times in the forest, watching you doing your work. No offense."
"None taken, maybe you gals gonna hangout for today." Lincoln replied crosses his arms and thinks. "How about go to the arcade? The park is always fun? Perhaps the mall?"
"Lincoln, can I ask you a question?" Lyra asks.
"Huh, sure what is it?" Lincoln said as Charles walked beside the boy.
"What's a mall?" Both twins asks in union.
That makes Lincoln dumbfounded at them, two girls doesn't know what a mall is. Guess these girls is rich back home, Lincoln has to do what he can to get their mood back on track.
"Well, if you two never been to mall...I'm gonna help you know what the mall is."
"Really, not a bad idea."
Three of them look up sees Ryu and Chun-Li coming out of the house, with a smile. The man of the house spoke. "We been in the forest far too long, we could use a day off from training and have relaxing fun. We can even have lunch there in the mall if we like."
"Yay! I wanted to go!" Layla shout in excited jumping up and down.
"Hey, what the heck. Let's enjoy ourselves!" Lyra said crosses her arms.
In a unknown place, there's a group of men with loaded guns in their hands. All of them surrounding a small computer with a black screen with a red soundwave line. A man in a black jumpsuit with boots, wears a red metal skull mask.
"Sir, we are ready." He spoke.
"Great RL, get the vault in the mall and whoever dares to attack or escape, kill on sight."
"Yes sir, signing off." RL said turning off the computer. "The boss wants something in that vault, once we get it...we be rich!"
In the mall, we see the Loud family coming in a little excited to get something that caught their interests. Parents who come with them to get something for their son, even though he forgive them, it wouldn't hurt to buy something for him in the mall before he gets home from work.
"Okay kids, make sure you all have fun and be safe." Lynn Sr said.
"Yes, dad!" The girls shout as they separate.
"So honey, what you think Lincoln loves?" Lynn asked.
"He's into Ace Savvy and video games. He been working all the time, so why not let him relax at home." Rita answered.
"Yeah, your right, sweety. Let's go find the store." Lynn Sr replied
They then go to the entrance of the door, unaware that coming in is three identical black suited men with different color demon masks.
At a far side of the mall, in a clothing store. Lincoln sits in a chair with a bored look. Ryu was busy with Chun-Li in a moment, so this only leaves Lincoln with the twins.
'What's taking those two so long? Hope they not doing something embarrassing.' Lincoln thought until he hears the curtains opening.
"Hey Lincoln, what do you think of our style?" Layla shouted happily.
"Well..." Lincoln said turn around and then blush at the sight. "Buh...Buh...Buh."
Layla wears a black dress with a blue slash around her waist with blue short boots. Lyra wears a yellow dress with white heels. Layla rubbed her head while smiling and Lyra crosses her arms with a little angry face.
"I was kinda in the mood into blue sometimes, what do you think?" Layla asks.
"Buh...Buh...Buh." Lincoln said still struck in sight.
"Told you he didn't like it, plus I hate dresses!" Lyra shouts.
"Oh, he likes it. You girls'll know when you're a little older."
The twins look at the right, seeing Ryu and Chun-Li come their way with bags in Ryu's hands which he struggles a little as Chun-Li carries a really big black bag.
Lincoln snapped out of his stare. "Uhh..What took you two so long?"
"Sorry, I wanna show Ryu the clothes I purchase." Chun-Li said.
"And we brought something for you Lincoln." Ryu replied as Chun-Li give a black bag to Lincoln.
"What is it?" Lincoln asks look inside.
"Clothes in case of emergency." Chun-Li answered.
"Got it-" Lincoln stop mid-sentence as he sees someone familiar. "Oh no." The boy then hides in the dressing curtains.
"Lincoln, why are you?" Lyra question as she sees who he's looking at.
"Excuse me." Leni said as the fighter family look at her. "Is any chance that you see a orange button up?"
'Orange? Why she wear orange instead of light green?' Lincoln thought.
"You can take a look in the other section." Chun-Li said.
"Thank you." Leni replied as she walked away.
Lincoln then pop his head out of the curtains as Leni leaves. "That was close."
"Lincoln, who's that?" Layla asks.
That's...my ex sister Leni, I forget about my family goes to the mall every weekend." Lincoln said hits smacking his head in stupidity.
"We can go out-" Lyra said but was interrupt by Lincoln.
"No, I promised you guys a fun time in the mall. So I gonna have you all have a good time, just to hide when any of my ex sisters come to near us." Lincoln replied.
And so, the fighter family spends time with Lincoln. They go around the mall, while avoiding any of his sisters that come near them.
Chun-Li brings them to a shoe store which Layla really enjoys as well, but Ryu and Lyra just roll their eyes. Lincoln helps the twins puts on their shoes while Ryu puts on Chun-Li's. Lincoln sees Lori coming by as he rolled down in the sitting bench which Lyra and Layla is sitting in.
"Hello, you seen some shoes that is white and sizes eight?" Lori asked.
"Check in the end." Chun-Li answered
Lincoln sees Lori walk off, and wonders. 'Why does she needs size eight? She has eagle feet.'
So, Lincoln continues to spend time with the fighter family, while he watches whatever the heck his sisters are doing; Luna buying SMOOCH DVDs in the music store, Luan getting some comedy props, Lynn buying softball stuff, Lucy and even Lisa buying some books that resulted to any heroics and superpowers and the twins buying action figures whether is princess or dirty.
'Why are they buying those stuff?' Lincoln thought. 'unless...'
"Yo Linc, you there?"
Lincoln snapped out of his thoughts, he look sees Chun-Li, Ryu, Layla, and Lyra eating pizza in a round table.
"Sorry. I got a lot in my mind." Lincoln said rubbed his head.
"You thinking about your sisters?" Ryu questioned
Lincoln crosses his arms and turn away in hush. "My Ex-sisters."
"They seem to have done something to you huh?" Lyra commented.
Lincoln turn to them. "Let me tell you guys about my sisters."
Meanwhile, Lynn Sr and Rita is walking while carrying bags.
"Our son is going to be so happy to see some video games. Are you sure you okay of buying some video games?" Lynn Sr asked.
"I know what I did back then when I sign him up for football was wrong, but see him tired out. Dragging himself up to the stairs when he comes home, so let him rest easy." Rita said until she look at front. "What is Lincoln doing here, with some odd people?"
Lynn Sr look at what Rita is starring at. They spot Lincoln with some two grown ups and two females. "Perhaps he meet those little girls in school and the grown ups is their parents."
"Maybe...perhaps." Rita said come a thought in her head, until she shake it off. "Let's go meet them."
The fighter family was shocked from what Lincoln said, each of them has their reaction. Ryu just pinch his nose and leave out a big breath out of anger. Chun-Li gives off a chilling angry look. Lyra grabbed the table end, making a tight squeeze that makes her knuckles turn white as her face is red however Layla puts her hands on her cheeks as eyes went wide.
Lincoln leans on his chair. "That must be it, now you all know why I'm angry at my sisters right now."
"They just...I can't believe!" Lyra shouts as he pounds her fist on the table.
"Well. That was unpleasant, even for them." Ryu said.
"Really wanted talk to you're sisters about happen." Chun-Li replied.
"Lincoln, do you ever spent time for your own thing?" Layla asked
Lincoln confused what she talking about. "What do you mean Layla, I help my-" Lincoln respond.
"I mean, find your own thing that is best of you. Your talent, being a fighter is cool. But you need to find something good in life, I'm thinking of making my own restaurant." Layla said proud.
"I'll be her management and business, we work together!" Lyra shout hugged her sister.
"Find my gift." Lincoln said to himself, he stand up. "I gonna get some comics, be right back."
"Here, take this." Chun-Li said as give Lincoln the black bag.
"What this for?" Lincoln asked
"Just trust me okay." Chun-Li said with a smile.
Lincoln walked away from them, then all of them heard 'Ahem'. The fighter family turn around, sees Rita and Lynn Sr.
"Can I help you?" Ryu asked.
Lincoln walked in the comic store, while thinking of Layla say. He help his sisters all the time, no...all his life. Sometimes thinking of his empty space on the trophy case compared to his ex-sisters, having at least one trophy because he didn't do something great.
'Maybe I just pick something-' Lincoln thought as he touch a comic, then feels another hand. "Hm?"
Lincoln sees a person he touch, he face turn surprise. It's a girl that has light skin, brown hair forming a pony tail, and black eyes. Wearing a red Ace Savvy shirt, yellow skirt, and black shoes. "Renee?"
"Lincoln?" Renee respond then make a smile. "Wow, it been so long of not sees each other."
"Yeah." Lincoln said smacking his head. "So...how you been?"
"Fine, just being Ace Savvy's fan of course and keep on reading it." Renee answered pound her chest. "Well how about you, that gray sweater underneath can get you a fever."
"Is not a sweater-" Lincoln replied feel is arm, and shocked. 'Am I really getting some muscles?'
"You okay?" Renee asked.
"Oh I-I'm fine, just get to know about what to do tomorrow." Lincoln said then he ask her. "Say Renee, what are you gonna do in life?"
"Me? I wonder if get to be those people who play role in the cartoon shows." Renee answered.
"You mean voice over?" Lincoln said with a smile. "That's a good idea, every shows has great jobs of doing it. They makes great money and gets lot of fame of doing it."
"Really, thanks Lincoln-hey look!" Renee said look at the comic.
Both of them pull out a Ace Savvy comic, as it's the new comic today. Both of them look each other, Renee smirks while glaring at him.
"Wanna go another round?" Renee asked.
Lincoln about to accept the challenge, but he think of it...kinda be immature. Sure he loves Ace Savvy all his life. But, he realized of the comics is just gonna come in the shop every week. He then lets go of the comic much of her surprise.
"Naw, I don't want to fight over a comic again...you looked at it first, so you can have it Renee." Lincoln said
"Are you sure Lincoln? You seemed serious last time." Renee replied.
"I changed today, just thinking what to do in life...just take the comic, okay?" Lincoln said.
Renee smile at him as she puts the comic on her chest. "Thanks Lincoln, you're the best! I know you find something you good at-Count on that!"
Renee punches Lincoln in the chest playfully, but it makes Lincoln stumble backwards in surprise. Lincoln hits the bookshelves, making it shake as one certain book got out and falls down to Lincoln's chest.
"Oops...my bad." Renee said makes a nervous smile.
"Is fine." Lincoln said as he grabbed the book.
He sees the cover of a boy that has spiked hair, wearing a gi uniform with a sword on his back. He carried a girl in bridal style as she look at him with a lovable smile. The background is a group of people and a black dragon.
"What's this...never know there's big yet small books in here and why are the pages backwards?" Lincoln asked looking at it confusingly.
"That my friend is a manga...a comic containing anime shows that's not in America yet...You never know what's it is?"
Lincoln shake his head. "Nope, I read comics. Never know there's anime comics." He then reads the back. 'Drago. A kid who has the power of a dragon as he makes friends.' 'Manga...mmmm.'
*BANG! BANG! BANG! TUTUTUTUTUTU!*
Both kids jumped at that moment, they hearing screaming outside. Lincoln grabbed Renee's hand and pull her to him. He looks to see a bunch of black suited men wearing different colored demonic masks.
"Lincoln, what's going on?" Renee asked in worry and fear.
"Don't know, keep quiet." Lincoln answered in a small voice.
Lincoln and Renee walked behind the bookshelves, until they sees black suited men wearing a yellow demonic mask...holding a long black gun.
"Put your hands up man!" Yellow shouted as the cashier lifted up his hands.
"L-Look men! I-I don't any trou-Ahh!" The cashier shout as he's grabbed by the shirt's collar.
"You're coming outside! Everyone else inside this shop is also coming outside. Don't plan on being a hero because I'm searching this whole shop." Yellow said as he left the place, makes both kids scare.
"He's coming back!" Lincoln said a little scared.
"How do we get out of here?!" Renee question in panicked.
Lincoln looks behind him and sees a large air vent...he gets a idea. "Renee, make sure you keep watch if he comes back."
Renee take a huge breath. "Okay, what are you gonna do?"
Lincoln goes to the vent. "To open this vent."
Renee goes to the book-shelve end so she can see. Lincoln bend his knees, and look at the vent until he look at his hands.
'Focus...' Lincoln thought and then he sees his hands turn black. "Gotcha."
Lincoln grabbed the vent's edges. He struggles until he's able to break the top. 'Yes...now the bot-'
"He's, coming!" Renee shouted in fright.
Lincoln keeps his cool, as he begin to pull the bottom until he finally breaks it. "Alright...quick! Gogogo!"
Lincoln pulls out the vent cover, Renee first to go in as make quick one. Lincoln grabbed his black bag and get in the vent, he grabbed the cover of the vent and put it in.
Yellow came back to the store, he look around and sees no one all over. "Sir, no-one is in this store.'
"Good, now get the people into the center...all according to plan." The other one said.
"Yes boss, the plan is get everyone to the center of the mall. Cut off the alarms and break the signal so no cops can enter and get our top men to open that vault that's underneath the fountain." Yellow said.
"Good...Good that's it... and one more thing."
*SLAP!*
"STOP EXPLAINING THE PLAN YOU IDIOT!"
Lincoln, inside the vent, sees Yellow and other one walking out. 'Well, that one is a moron.'
"Lincoln...come on!" Renee voice echo through the vents.
Lincoln begin to crawl deeper to the vent. Seeing some dust but it's mostly littered with spiderwebs. No wonder Leni and Lynn Sr hated them. He sees Renee, as well as an open wide place full of different vent passages.
"How do we get outta here?" Renee asked.
Lincoln pulls out his cell phone and open up his camera mode as shows the map of the mall. "I go to the mall every weekend, this might help us to find the way."
Lincoln and Renee sees the map. the gray lines is the vents. So they check the area they are at...the vents goes to each shop...as one vent leads to outside.
"There's a way out here!" Renee shout.
Lincoln however feels horrible just leaving his friends and even his family like this...he spots a vent that leads to the security room. He look at his black bag and thought of what Chun-Li say.
'Clothes of case of a emergency.'
'I wonder...' Lincoln thought until he spoke. "Wait, we need to help them."
"WHAT?!" Renee shouted before covered her mouth. "We can't help them, we just go to the phone booth outside so we can call the police."
"Some of those masked guys are outside. They got the whole mall hostage, the only way to call the police is the security room. Renee, get in there and call the cops, I'm gonna help some people who's in the stores." Lincoln said.
"Lincoln...I'm sca-" Renee replied stops by Lincoln's hands on her hands.
"I know Renee, I'm scared as well...but the people might be dead today if we don't do something. All you need to do is get to the security room and set a alarm in the mall. Can you do that?" Lincoln asked with a smile.
Renee blush a little of his touch. "...yeah, I can do that."
Lincoln smiles at her. "I know you can say that, good luck and be careful."
What Lincoln did next shocked Renee...he kissed her cheek!
He crawls to the different vent, while Renee crawls to the Security Room's vent.
'He kissed me...he kissed me.' Renee thought making a goofy smile.
Lincoln opens the vent. It confirms to be the Men's bathroom. He looks inside each stall to see that no-one is in here which is a relief for him.
Lincoln look at the black bag. As he digs in the bag, he pulls out a...black mask that's similar to the classic movie of a men that has a name of an animal in spanish.
'I knew it...time to get to work.' Lincoln thought with a smirk.
*Bzzt* "Hey guys, Lincoln here! As you can see, Chun-Li got me a cool uniform and things gets heated up in the mall. No-one messes with my friends and my family in Royal Woods! Lucy? Lucy! Why you tell the truth toward them?! Next time in Path of a Warrior: Rise of a Hero! See you there!" *Bzzt*
It begain of the hero...sign out!