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ACE ATTORNEY SCRAPBOOK
Chapter 11: Too Much of a Good Thing
Case Tag: 2-4 (Farewell, My Turnabout)
Quote: User Suggested Prompt!
Maya:
"I'm so hungry even you look like a nice, juicy burger on a bun to me, Nick!"
March 24, 2018, 11:53am
Wright and Co. Law Offices
Phoenix Wright didn't make his way to the office until nearly noon the next day, feeling completely exhausted, but in a good way. The trial of Matt Engarde was over and, most importantly, Maya had been returned safe and sound. Following the conclusion of the trial and Maya's subsequent rescue, Nick, Maya and Pearls went out for a big celebratory dinner, full of burgers, fries and pretty much anything else that Maya could think of (knowing the teen spirit medium like he did, that was a pretty extensive list of foods). They returned to the office afterward where Maya, being utterly wiped out from exhaustion, promptly passed out on the couch. Pearls couldn't even begin to think of leaving her precious Mystic Maya after the traumatic experience, so the sweet little girl had gathered some blankets and some spare couch pillows and curled up on the floor next to her beloved cousin. Having spent a night or two on the office couch himself, Nick knew the girls would be fine overnight.
It was a cloudy and grey day outside, so, with majority of the lights turned off in the office, it was actually pretty dark when Nick entered inside.
"Maya! Pearls! It's Nick!" he called out to the Fey girls as he flicked on the lights via the switch near the front entrance.
With the front room illuminated, Nick was a bit surprised to find the couch and floor empty. Both were devoid of their respective occupants, as well as any pillows and blankets they had been using. Opening his mouth to call out to Maya and Pearls again, Nick swallowed his shout upon hearing a small groan. It was soft and muffled, sounding like it came from the inner office. Were Maya and Pearls all right? Did De Killer come back to get Maya again?
In a panic, Nick rushed forward toward the inner office. Throwing the door open, he found Maya and Pearls on the carpeted floor of the office, looking like they had been having a sleepover party of sorts. Momentarily relieved to see that they were safe and sound, Nick's eyes slowly began to drift around the inner office, discovering exactly what Maya and Pearls had been up to overnight. Empty bags of chips and popcorn, candy wrappers, empty soda bottles and some empty pizza boxes littered practically every surface of the office. Nick's jaw dropped much like it would in court when his opponent would slice his argument in half like a samurai sword.
"Maya!" he gasped. "Pearls!"
Still groggy from her food coma, Maya rolled over from laying on her stomach and groaned once again as she rotated to rest on her back. She looked positively green and nauseous. Pearls, still asleep, snuggled in a little closer to her cousin and pulled the giant blanket up to her chin.
"Hi...Nick..." Maya mumbled.
Despite being quite annoyed at the food tornado that seemed to have whipped through the office last night, Nick couldn't help but chuckle at Maya's sad state. He figured the seemingly bottomless pit that was her stomach had to have a limit of some sort which she apparently hit last night. Carefully avoiding the wrappers, bags and other debris, Nick tiptoed his way over to Maya and knelt down next to her.
"Maya," he began to say. "Can you tell me why there is essentially the entire stock of the local supermarket on the floor of my office?"
"We got hungry..." Maya replied.
"Hungry?! How could you be hungry after the huge celebratory dinner we had after court yesterday?!"
"I was kidnapped, Nick! I couldn't eat for days," Maya reminded him in an overly dramatic fashion. "I had all that time to make for!"
"So, what did you end up eating?" Nick questioned as he surveyed the items on the office floor.
"Well, Pearls and I weren't really sure what to have, so I looked up some local fast food places on the computer," Maya began to explain. "We got some pizza and subs from the place down the street. Then we got some noodles from the noodle stand not too far from here. Oh! And on the way back from picking everything up, we stopped at the convenient store and picked up from chips and candy!"
"So, you're telling me you ate everything? Even after the super triple deluxe cheeseburger and large fries and triple scoop sundae you had at dinner?"
"Well, yeah, Nick! I have a separate stomach for pizza and snacks, duh!"
Nick let out a laugh.
"You better watch out, Maya. If you keep growing stomachs like that, you're not going to be able to fit in to your channeling costume anymore and I don't think the spirits you channel will be pretty pleased about coming back and being channeled in a body that's wearing a moo-moo."
"Hey!" Maya started to protest, jolting upward.
However, the nausea hit again and she fell backward against the pillow, groaning as she clutched her overly full stomach.
"I'll check on you later, Maya," Nick assured her as he stood up and began to make his way toward the inner office door.
"Don't think that the pizza has won, Nick!" Maya called out to him, thrusting one hand upward in one of the finger point gestures Nick would normally use in court. "Just like the Steel Samurai, I will rise again and conquer my foe!"
And with that, Maya fell back to sleep, the hand she'd been gesturing with falling back above her head. Nick smiled and shook his head as he reached the door, stepping out into the main office and closing the door behind him. It has been said that you can have too much of a good thing but Nick began to question that argument's validity because time with Maya was a good thing and it was something he could never have enough of.