Wow, I updated really fast this time. I was inspired I guess. This chapter doesn't hold a whole lot of relevance to the story, but it does have some important things in it. Also I got a bit lazy in some parts so… Anyway I don't own this, except my OCs.
Walking out of HQs secret entrance accompanied by Joren, Rock, Ray, and Lera, Pit sighed. He did not think this would be a pleasant experience.
AVA
Flashback
"Take a seat Pit." Gaol touched a chair before she turned back to the screen. Pit obliged.
"So, um, did you have a mission for me or something?"
"Yes, I do. It won't be much, you'll just be going along for backup and to, let's say, test you out."
"Okay."
"You'll be going to a certain club called Thumping Heart. You'll be there with Ray and Dyune who have a mission of their own. Your only job will be to be muscle if something goes wrong, okay?"
"That's it?"
"This is your first mission; we have to see if we can trust you, and see if you're really good enough for this job."
"Aw come on, can't I at least know what they're doing?"
"Well…"
Pit could see Gaol wavering and decided to help her along "Oh pretty please?" he said holding his hands in the praying position and giving her puppy dog eyes.
"Fine. Ray and Dyune are there to steal some important… items, from an important person. Two different people actually but that's all I'm going to say. All you have to do is keep an eye out for trouble and if they give you the signal come to their aid."
"Signal?"
"Tomorrow I'll give you a necklace that is a type of pager. I'll explain more about it when you get it. For now though, I have another mission for you."
"You do?" Pit said excitedly.
"Yep" Gaol smiled "you're going shopping."
"Shopping?"
"Yes. You obviously don't have any clothes that would be suitable for a club, so you and a few others will go get some. You'll have unlimited money so don't worry about that. Buy whatever you want."
End flashback
VAV
"Ahh so which car are we going to use today?" Lera asked in a sing song voice.
"You guys have more than one car?"
Rock chuckled "Actually we don't have any cars at all. Ray has a motorcycle but that's it."
"Then are we just going to walk?"
"Of course not." Joren said.
"But if we don't have a car…"
"Here we go, let's use this one!" Lera said standing next to a red convertible that they would most likely all be able to squeeze into.
"But-"
"Great that's perfect! Come on Pit."
Pit shrugged and followed them. By the time they got there Lera had already gotten the door open and was hot-wiring it. "Wait you're going to STEAL it?"
"No, no, no, no! Not steal it, borrow it. The people that work in these buildings are rich, and stay in one place all day, so they won't even notice it's gone."
Pit wasn't sure if it was okay or not but he just slid into the car and didn't protest. After a lot of fighting, and sliding around it was finally decided that Rock would drive, since he would take up too much room in the back anyway, and Lera would sit in the passenger seat and tell him what stores to go to. Joren would be sitting on one side of Ray and Pit on the other. A cramped seating arrangement but it worked.
"Come on guys don't pout." Lera said from her position.
"Easy for you to say, you're not cramped between the door and two other people." Joren grumbled.
"I didn't even want to come on this stupid shopping trip anyway!" Ray complained.
"Yeah but you have the best fashion sense for that kind of atmosphere, so you will have to approve whatever he gets." Rock said, focusing on the cars ahead of him that were waiting for the light to change.
"The first place that we're going to is the Readew Mall. They should have something." Lera said.
The light finally turned green and the traffic began to crawl forward. As they were driving a certain building caught Pits eye: a large marble building with a pathetic garden in the front, had a stained glass window that was of Lady Palutena!
Throwing open the car door he shouted "You guys go ahead, I'm gonna check something out and meet you there okay?"
He didn't wait for the surprised people to answer as he jumped out of the slow moving car.
"Hey!" Ray shouted hanging out of the car and trying to grab the door "you can't just jump out of a car like that, even if you can!" then he pulled the door shut.
"Hey Pit, don't take long okay? It's just up the street. See you there!" Lera shouted out the window. Then they were gone.
Pit made his way through the crowded sidewalk and stopped at the large door to the building. He'd heard of these but he'd never actually seen one of Lady Palutena's temples for himself. He reached to open the door when he heard a voice.
"You there, boy!" an older sounding voice rang out.
Pit turned "You mean me?"
"Mmm-hmm." The old man affirmed.
"Come over here." He was sitting on a small stone bench in the dying garden.
"Yes sir?"
"I have something I want to give you."
"Huh? But you don't even know me."
"Two days ago a pair of teenagers gave me something, and asked me to give it to someone I felt needed it. For some reason I feel I need to give it to you."
"Well thank you, but I don't think-"
"Nonsense." The old man said standing up. "Follow me." Pit followed the old man around the side of the building and up a fire escape. The man took out a set of keys and opened the door revealing a small room that looked like a storage room. They walked through the small area into a hallway. After walking for a while the man stopped again and took out the set of keys and unlocked another door.
This time he told Pit to wait outside and returned with a small box. "This is it boy. Now follow me." The man and Pit went back down the way they'd come up. When they had returned to the garden where they had started the old man put his hand on Pits shoulder. "Good luck. I feel you're going to need it. I will remember you in my prayers." Then he went right back to sitting on his stone bench.
Pit looked up at the building one more time, and considered still going in, but after thinking about he decided that he had taken enough time and he should probably get moving so that the others didn't start to worry.
He walked for a few minutes before finding the Readew Mall. When he walked in the first thing he saw was his group waiting for him.
"There you are!" Joren said walking up to him and throwing his arm over Pits shoulder "We thought you'd gotten run over or mugged or something." He said snickering and poking him in the ribs.
"Well I didn't."Pit said removing himself from under Jorens arm.
"What's with the box Pit?" Lera asked.
"Some old guy gave it to me."
"What for?" Joren asked.
"Um, I don't know, he just said he thought he should."
"Open it! I wanna see what's in it!" Joren exclaimed.
Pit nodded and undid the small latch. Lifting the lid he was surprised to see a small golden bracelet. On the center it was shaped like wings. He lifted it out of the box for everyone to see.
'There's something familiar about this... ' Pit thought.
"Oh that's pretty!" Lera said.
"Pretty cool too." Joren added "Is it real gold?"
"Everyone needs a little bling." Rock said, apparently referring to his studs, and Ray's necklace.
"Yeah it's great." Ray said, with a hint of sarcasm.
Pit put it back in the box and opened his backpack a little so he could slip it in. He flattened his wings out nervously and quickly zipped the backpack back up before any of them saw his wings.
"Okay come on! That one looks promising!" Lera said, dragging them towards a store.
"You're not going to find anything appropriate or boyish there." Ray said crossing his arms.
"Well, I… um."
"Come on."
They followed Ray into a store and began looking around. After a while they had each picked out an outfit for Pit to try on. They began to make their way towards the dressing room. Once there they piled Pit up with the different outfits they'd picked for him and shoved him in a room.
Pit began to take off his backpack when he realized something 'Oh no! My wings! What am I going to do about my wings?'
He sat the backpack on the ground and stretched out his cramped wings. 'Oh this feels good.'
His backpack was open and the small box containing the bracelet caught his eye. He picked up the box, opened it, and took the bracelet out. He held the bracelet in the light and examined it closer.
'Oh man, that's what it is! I remember now! I've heard about these things but I've never seen one before.' He put the bracelet on and watched as a set of white wings appeared on the wing shaped part of the bracelet and his own wings disappeared. It made him feel uneasy when they disappeared so he deactivated it quickly to make sure they were okay. They instantly reappeared as the bracelet returned to its original state. (1)
"Hey Pit, are you ready yet?"
Jorens voice startled him. "A-Almost!"
"Okay just hurry up!"
Pit put on the black sleeveless shirt, ripped jeans, and white converses that Joren had picked out. He didn't think it suited him well, but he walked out and showed them.
"No. I think you should get something better!" Lera said.
"It could work." Ray said.
"I think it's awesome!" Joren said.
"Enough of what you guys think, what do you think Pit?" Rock asked.
"Well, um, it looks fine but it's not really my style."
"What!" Joren yelled.
"Okay try the next one then." Rock said.
Next Pit tried on Leras pick: a green sports coat with a nice pair of jeans and a pair of black shoes. He walked out to show them.
"Oooooh you look adorable!" Lera squealed.
"It doesn't suit you." Ray said.
"I don't really like it." Pit said.
"Next!" Joren yelled.
Next Pit came out wearing Ray's choice: a plain long sleeve black shirt under an over the top white leather jacket with white feathers around the neck and black decals. The pants were black leather, and he had a pair of white leather boots.
'He really likes leather, I guess.'
"Ugh, no!" Lera shouted.
"You hate it just because I picked it don't you?"
"Ye... No."
"Any way I don't think it really goes with your personality, so I have to say no too."
"The jackets a little much I think." Rock said.
Pit walked back in and huffed. He didn't like shopping. He looked at Rocks choice: a red long sleeve shirt and a white T-shirt with the outline of a pair of wings in black, black pants and red shoes, along with two golden chain necklaces. He looked over the clothes again and got an idea.
"Come on Pit what's taking so long!" Lera complained.
"Coming!" When Pit emerged from the dressing room he was wearing something that none of them picked.
"Hey who picked that?" Lera asked.
"All of you did."
"Huh?"
"Yeah look: I'm wearing the black long sleeved shirt from Rays pick, the white T-shirt from Rocks pick, the jeans from Leras pick, and the shoes from Jorens pick." He said smiling.
"Looks good." Ray said.
"Yeah I think it's perfect for you!" Joren said.
"I think it's cool." Lera put in.
"It looks like it's settled then. Let's buy this stuff and get outta here." Rock said.
AVA
"Hey guys let's get something to eat!" Joren suggested.
"Oh yeah, let's go to that place! You know the place with all the pies?" Lera said.
"You mean Hookey Bakery?" asked Rock.
"Yeah let's go there!"
"Ok that should be fine." Rock changed the cars course.
After a few minutes they arrived at a smaller building that had a sign over it that read Hookey Bakery. It seemed fairly busy.
"We want a table for five." Ray said.
"Okay, um, follow me." The waitress said.
They all sat at a table in a corner, and soon had their food.
"I heard that this place makes two thousand pies every day!" Lera said.
"That's interesting." Ray said sarcastically.
Lera didn't seem to notice and continued "They make cakes too; I've heard that they can make cakes eight feet tall!"
"Who cares?" Joren said. "I'm hungry so let's just eat already."
After they had ordered and eaten their food they decided that they wanted dessert.
"Guys I'm gonna go to the bathroom before we get any dessert." Lera said standing and beginning to walk towards a door. 'The bathrooms gotta be around here somewhere. Maybe it's behind that door'
Pit saw Lera start to open the door and jumped up to go stop her. He had seen the bathroom on the other side of the restaurant and knew that that door didn't lead to the bathroom.
Lera opened the door and stepped inside, the door swinging closed behind her. 'This defiantly is not the bathroom' she thought. She seemed to be standing on some kind of ledge; right in front of her was a very, very large cake that went almost all the way up to the ledge. After the cake there were ten bakers, and tons of pies.
"Hi, um, I uh-"
She was interrupted by the door slamming into her back and shoving her off the ledge and headfirst into the cake. Pit ran down the stairs afraid she might have been hurt.
Several of the bakers ran over, afraid she was hurt and angry. She fell onto the ground and the bakers began to help her up when Pit got there.
"Are you okay?" He asked as she stumbled around, a red icing rose stuck to her nose.
"She stopped next to a table of pies and glared at him.
"This is for shoving me off the ledge!" She shouted, hurling a pie at him. Her aim was perfect, and the pie hit Pit right in the face.
Pit stood startled for a moment before wiping the pie out of his eyes and throwing a pie of his own. His aim was as perfect as Lera's but she had been expecting it and ducked.
However the baker behind her did not and got a pie in his face. A few of his coworkers laughed at him, so he shoved a pie in one of their faces, and that one returned the favor to the other.
Soon pies were flying to and fro and the bakery and bakers (plus two guests) were covered in pie.
VAV
"Why are they taking so long?" Joren complained.
"I dunno." Rock said "I'll go get em." He stood up and began walking towards the door the two had disappeared into.
"Hey, I'm coming with you!" Joren said, jumping up and running after him.
When they walked into the room Rock burst out laughing at the chaos. There was barely a clean surface anywhere and pies were flying like bombs.
Joren ran down the stairs as fast as he could and joined in the fight. Rock however tried to make his way down the stairs without getting hit, having only the purpose of grabbing his comrades and getting out of there. However he barely took three steps before a pie hit his bald head. After that he ran down the stairs to get revenge.
AVA
Ray had been waiting irritatedly for almost five minutes since Rock and Joren had left, and he was sick of it. 'What are those idiots doing?'
"Argh! Do I have to do everything?" He stormed towards the door and gripped the handle angrily. There was a strange sound coming from behind it, and if he hadn't been so irritated he would've been cautious, but as it was he violently pushed the door opened and shouted "Hey guys!"
He regretted this move because as soon as the words had left his mouth six pies hit him in various places all over him. Startled he stumbled forward, and fell straight into the already beat up cake.
By the time he'd gotten on his feet and gotten his eyes to stop stinging enough to see through them he'd been hit several more times and was now covered in pie from head to toe.
Even though he was mad he couldn't help but laugh at the others who were so covered in pie that you couldn't even recognize them (except for Rock who was not only the only black person, but the largest person in the room). They actually kind of reminded him of snowmen.
He was knocked out of his laughter when another pie hit him right in the face. Yanking the pie tin off he felt for a pie and flung it in any random direction, laughing like a maniac.
VAV
It had been ten minutes since the pie fight started, and Rock began to realize that they really needed to get out of there, before the fight stopped and they got in trouble. After clearing his eyes of pie he caught a glimpse of red hair and grabbed Leras shoulder. She turned and slammed a pie in his face.
"Oh wait" she said scraping some of the pie off his face, "Is that you Rock?"
"Yeah come on, we gotta find the others and get out of here."
"Okay."
"The two split up and began to try and find the others.
"JOREN!" she said standing beside a table of pies. She picked one up and threw it at the person on the other side of the table "Joren, where are you!"
"Right here you idiot!" Joren (who happened to be the person across the table) shouted returning the favor and throwing another pie in her face.
"Come on we gotta find Pit and Ray!"
"PIT! RAY!" Lera shouted.
"GUYS WHERE ARE YOU!" Joren shouted.
A pie hit the back of Jorens head. "I'm right here!" Pit shouted.
Joren turned around to see a slightly smaller snowman blinking at him, Pits eyes being his only visible part.
"Oh okay, come on were leaving."
He grabbed Pits wrist and the three of them went ahead and ran up the stairs and through the restaurant, and to the car.
Rock was slowly making his way through a flurry of pies that seemed to be coming from one person. It was easy to guess that the person causing this storm was Ray. When he finally got to the center of the mess he tried to grab Ray but to no avail.
"GET YOUR BUT OVER HERE AND STOP THROWING PIES RIGHT NOW RAY!" Rocks voice boomed over the noise of the fight in a rumbling sort of way, and for a split second everything stopped.
Rock grabbed an unrecognizable Ray and ran out the door, stopping to throw the money for the food they had eaten on the table. (2)
AVA
"You missed a spot!" Lera pointed out to Joren who glared and cleaned the spot.
After driving back to HQ covered in pie it was nessicary to clean the inside of the car so it's owner wouldn't know it had been "borrowed".
Pit looked up from his cleaning spot at his new friends. An unconventional and-currently-unrecognizable bunch, but he found he enjoyed their company. They were all skilled in their own ways, and for their type of business they seemed fairly honest. He hoped that he would like Magnus, Gaol, and Dyune as well. He was also interested to see how the mission tomorrow night would go.
1. I'm going to explain a little about the bracelet because I can't think of any way to do this in the story. When the bracelet is activated a pair of wings appears on the bracelet. The way it works is that the wings are still there, but they are invisible and you can choose what they go through things.
2. Did anybody find this scene familiar? Anybody? Has anybody heard of 'The Great Race'? No? Didn't think so. Anyway this little piece was inspired by the pie fight scene in that movie. It's not exactly the same, but if you want to have a slightly clearer view of what I was thinking go watch that scene.
Was that an awkward way to stop? Well anyhow that's it for this time, hope you enjoyed it, review blah blah blah.