Riku ran into his kitchen and slammed the garage door closed, huffing and puffing.
"Riku?" asked his mother. "Are you-"
"Everything's fine!" lied Riku. He ranto the living room and sped up stairs.
"Riku, where are the sodas?" called Mrs. Thompson.
"Have Rep go get them!" cried Riku from upstairs. He was so frightened, he didn't even know what he was saying.
"Rep's in Balamb!" yelled Riku's mom.
Riku ran to his room, took out his cell phone, and called Hurky. There was an answer after two rings.
"Hurky, come to my house, quick!" Riku said frantically.
"RIKU!" squealed a familiar voice.
"Ryo?" asked Riku. "What are are doing at Hurky's house?"
"She's staying with me until her house is finished, remember?" asked Ryo.
"Right..." Riku muttered. "Listen, can you and Hurky come to my house?"
"Why?" asked Ryo.
"Because we need to investigate something in my garage that's freaking me out!" said Riku frantically.
Hurky had the phone by then.
"Riku, what is going on?" she asked.
"Hurky, I need you and Ryo to come to my house." explained Riku. "There's something in my garage that attacked me and I need someone to be there with me and to find out what it is!"
"You're scared to look by yourself, aren't you?" asked Hurky.
"...Yes." replied Riku after a long pause. "All I know is that it might be a bird. It made some kind of caw and it pecked at me."
"Alright, we'll go." said Hurky. "But we'll be there in half and hour."
"Aw man, that would be simply amazing!" said Riku, thinking about the lasagna he was about to eat. He loved his mom's lasagna. "I owe you guys for this!"
Then, he hung up. He ate dinner as fast as he could and then went to the living room to wait for his friends. While he waited, he watched Mr. Whiskers was walk up and down the stairs and going "Buck buck buck." After what seemed like eternity, the doorbell rang and Riku darted for the door.
"Whoa, Riku, you sure have a lot of energy tonight!" joked his father from the couch. "You rush through dinner and dart for the door. What's next, you're going to start hopping buildings like Naruto?"
"So funny I forgot to laugh." Riku said sarcastically. He opened the door and Hurky and Ryo walked in.
"Let's go kick some monster butt!" said Ryo, swatting her keyblade made from Angel's Tears, a substance harder than diamonds in the air.
"Great, let's go to the garage." said Riku.
Riku's father stared at his son and his friends in total confusion as the trio went to the garage. He shrugged and went back to channel surfing.
Riku opened the door to the garage and Hurky and Ryo found it dark.
"Don't even bother with the light." said Riku. "It's never worked."
"No problem!" Ryo said. "I can cast a spell! Lumos!"
(Hurky: I know. Lumos is from Harry Potter, which I don't own!)
A light shone from the tip of Ryo's keyblade and lit up the garage.
"Whoa, when was the last time you cleaned out this place?" asked Hurky as she looked around and saw all the boxes stacked around, Riku's mom's car, and Riku's grandmother's Nova, a really, REALLY old car that didn't even run anymore and it remained there, even after taking her to a convalescent home to treat her Alzheimer's.
There was the cawing sound.
"Wait, there it is!" said Riku.
"Yeah, I heard it, too!" said Ryo.
The sounds got louder.
"Ryo, shine your light over there!" said Hurky, pointing at the garage door where there was a box labeled Christmas Lights.
Ryo shined her keyblade light at the garage door and found a weird silhouette of a bird. Hurky immediately recognized it.
"Whoa, is that a peacock?" asked Hurky.
"A what?" asked Riku.
"Those weird looking birds that wear the weird little yellow hats and bug me every single day." explained Hurky. "They're called peacocks, only the ones I deal with are messenger peacocks."
Ryo studied the bird a little longer and saw that it was indeed a peacock. She turned to Hurky. "I think it's looking for you." she said.
Hurky cautiously stepped up to the peacock. She turned to Riku and Ryo.
"I think it's not a messenger peacock." she said to them. "It would have yelled, 'Telegram for Miss Hurky Dermott!' in it's loudly obnoxious voice!"
The peacock crowed once again.
"It doesn't even talk." said Ryo. She turned to Hurky. "Are the ones from Balamb different than this peacock?"
Hurky nodded. "The Balamb Express peacocks are yellow hat wearing, talking peacocks that dance if you give them a large tip!"
"Then how come you never tip them?" asked Riku, now wanting to see a dancing peacock.
"Because they annoy me way too much." replied Hurky. "Maybe we should-Riku, what the hell are you doing?"
Riku had some munny out and tried to give it to the peacock. "I want to see the peacock dance!" he said gleefully.
The peacock got angry, spread out its tail feathers, and tried to attack Riku.
"WHOA!" he cried, dodging the bird's attack. "So it's not a Balamb Express peacock. You're right, I was wrong."
"Riku, I think it's not a good idea to provoke it." Ryo said cautiously. "It's frothing at the mouth!"
Riku and Hurky stared at it. It did appear to have white foam at its beak and an angry glare in its eyes.
"I think it has rabies!" said Hurky.
"That's insane!" said Riku. "Peacocks can't get rabies, can they?"
"I really don't know." replied Hurky.
"What are we going to do with the peacock?" asked Ryo. "We can't just leave this rabid peacock to overrun Riku's garage!"
"Let's get it out!" yelled Riku as he swung his Soul Eater at the peacock, but it ended up flapping its wings and jumped onto the old Nova, which caused Riku to miss and hit an old lamp.
"Riku Wade Thompson, what on earth is going on in there?" yelled Riku's mom from upstairs.
"Nothing!" lied Riku. "Just a big spider!"
Hurky gave Riku a funny look. "A spider?" she asked. "I can think of better excuses than that!"
Ryo swung her keyblade at the peacock, only resulting it in having the peacock jump off the car and Ryo hitting the car and nearly smashing the windows in.
"Destroy the place, why don't you?" asked Riku sarcastically.
"Okay!" said Hurky. She took her keyblade, which was a lot similar to Sora's, only it was pink and black, and smashed an old computer monitor. Riku totally freaked.
"Hurk, I was being sarcastic!" he screetched.
"Well, I don't know sarcasm when I hear it." said Hurky, slinging her keyblade over her shoulder.
"Whatever happens to the stuff in here, I get blamed for it!"
Riku's mom poked her head in. "Riku, Sora's on the phone for you!" she said, handing Riku the cordless phone and then walked out.
"Hello?" asked Riku.
"Hey, Riku." said Sora. "How's everything?"
"Um, real swell!" lied Riku. "Okay, not everything's alright. There seems to be a rabid peacock in my garage."
"How did it get in there?" asked Sora.
"I'm not quite sure." said Riku.
"So, how's Whiskers?" asked Sora.
"He's fine!" said Riku. "He's strutting around, crowing and eating and stuff."
"Well, that's great!" said Sora. Then, Riku heard Kairi's voice call him. "Whoops. Better go. It's dinnertime. I'll call you back!"
So, they hung up. Riku pressed the off button and went out of the garage, ignoring the peacock...