Sorry that I took so long to update, but I had a camp to go to, and two more to work at, and before that I was lazy, and a bunch of stuff happened sooo… yeah anyways I do not own any of this except for my OCs.
Pit looked up at the building in front of him. It was dark except for a red sign reading 'Throbbing Heart' that hung over the door. It was around eleven pm, prime time for a club such as this one. He looked at Dyune whom he had ridden with. Dressed in a red tank top with jeans black tenni shoes and a necklace borrowed from Ray he looked his part. Ray just wore his normal clothes, which seemed to fit this place perfectly.
As soon as they entered Pit was assaulted by the heavy stench of cigarette smoke and alcohol. This combined with the loud music and flashing lights made him feel nauseous and gave him a headache. Ray and Dyune didn't seem bothered by it at all though so Pit tried to ignore the feeling.
"You go over there." Dyune said, indicating a couch against the wall before walking off.
"First time in a club huh kid." Ray said in a only halfway teasing voice, while watching Dyune.
"Um yeah, why do you say that?"
"I felt the same way the first time I visited a club, so I know that look."
"Look?"
"You look kind of sick, and I'd say it's pretty obvious you weren't expecting this."
"Oh."
"Ray!" Dyune called.
"I gotta go." Ray walked a few steps then turned his head and looked at Pit "and relax kid, chances are you won't have to do anything this time."
Pit watched Ray and Dyune slump against a wall, probably waiting for someone. He wasn't really sure what this mission was about; Gaol had only told him that he was there in case something went wrong and they needed help 'dealing' with the problem.
He shook his head, trying to shake his headache and keep his attention on what was happening with the others. Looking over to the wall he saw that the two mercenaries were now talking with a large man that reminded Pit of a gorilla.
Looking to the dance floor he noticed two people he hadn't before that seemed kind of out of place. One was a large, muscular man with red hair and the other was a girl that seemed to be a teenager who had white hair that had yellow edges, and two sets of bangs; one orange and one red.
Their appearance was strange enough but what really made him look was their extreme difference in size. That and the fact that even though she barely came up to his chest their dancing was excellent; eccentric but very good. After a few minutes a new song started and they began to look irritated with one another. Then Pit realized from the way they were acting, the looks that they we're giving each other, and the few people cheering them on, that they were having a competition.
By the middle of the song their dancing was getting pretty wild, and after several people got hit the dance floor pretty much emptied of everyone except for the two wild dancers, who were not just dancing themselves but also avoiding each other's erratic movements.
In the end it seemed that neither won, but they both got a round for applause. They seemed unhappy at first but after a moment the cheering had them puffed up and proud.
Another song started and the man was grabbed by several women while the girl left. Pit realized that she was heading in his direction, and for no reason he could think of, he got the urge to hide.
The girl slumped on the couch and looked at Pit. "Hi."
"Oh uh hi." Pit said trying to inch away.
"Who are you?"
"My name's Pit."
"Pit huh?" she said, eyeing him up and down "my name's-" she stopped abruptly looking at Pits arm. Pit didn't notice though since he was looking at Ray and Dyune who already seemed to have finished the business.
Pit was jerked out of his thoughts when he felt a warm hand tightly grip his arm. "Where did you get that?" the girl said looking at his bracelet. Without waiting for an answer she stood up and dragged Pit towards the dance floor.
"Come on Pyrrhon I gotta show you something" she said grabbing the tall man's arm.
"Hahaha, later!" the man said in a goofy sounding voice, while looking at his barely dressed new dancing partner.
"Come on!" she said grabbing his arm and dragging them both towards the door.
"But wait! I was in the middle of a dance!"
"There'll be plenty more!"
Pit and the tall man-apparently named Pyrrhon-were dragged outside by the surprisingly strong girl. Pit continued to struggle but then noticed that Pyrrhon was just pouting now.
Before he'd fully comprehended what was happening Pit felt himself being slammed into a wall where he was pinned down with the girl's hands next to his head.
"Ok who are you and where'd you get that bracelet?" she shouted her face close to his.
He relaxed a little as he remembered the special ring that Gaol had given him so the others could alert him if needed, and that it could also work the other way. He pressed it and prayed that they would come, and soon. He decided to try and stall "Well what you know about it?"
"Uh..." she said sheepishly withdrawing from him.
"Virtas Dissimulo: made a few hundred years ago-or so-by Dyntos, they have the ability to disguise gods', angels and other inhuman beings so they look human." Pyrrhon said.
"Lord Pyrrhon your unending knowledge continuously amazes me!" Pit couldn't decide if she was sincere or sarcastic.
"Where did you find something like that out? Is, uhm...Virtas Dissimi-something these bracelets?" Pit asked.
"Yes" Pyrrhon answered nodding "I find all my information on supernatural things on divinipedia!"
"Now where'd you get that! Who are you really?" the girl said poking his throat with her finger.
"You first!" Pit choked out.
"Fine! I'm Pyrena, angel, and captain of the great god Pyrrhons army! This is my lord the mighty Pyrrhon! Ruler of the sun, fire, and all things hot!" she said in a dramatic way.
Pyrrhon started bowing "No need for you to cower in my presence, just bowing and worshiping me is enough."
Pit face palmed, clearly this guy was full of himself.
"Now that we've introduced ourselves it's your turn!" Pyrena snarled.
"We-well I'm uh Pit."
"Yeah, yeah we know WHO you are so now tell us WHAT you are!"
"I'm Pit, I'm an angel too, but I'm GENERAL" pit gloated "of Palutena, the goddess of lights army!"
"Well I would be general if our army was big enough!"
"Ha! Your army is that pathetic? I've heard of the loser sun god Pyrrhon, but I didn't expect him and his sidekick to be this pathetic!"
"Hey!" Pyrrhon yelled angrily.
"Yeah! Well I've heard that the wimpy angel general from Palutena's army can't even fly!"
"That was low!"
"Oh yeah?"
"YEAH!"
Not noticing the two humans running towards them the two continued their fight "Well how do we even know you are what you claim to be!" Pyrena yelled curling her fingers around Pits Virtas Dissimulo.
"Hey what's going on here!" Ray shouted at the group as the two approached.
'Oh crap' Pyrena thought as she realized it was too late to stop. She ripped the Virtas Dissimulo off of Pits wrist and his wings instantly appeared.
Ray and Dyune stared in shock at Pits undersized wings.
"Crap! Pyro!" Pyrrhon shouted thinking fast.
A giant strange looking bird came out of nowhere and landed next to them. "You called 'master'?" the massive bird said in an extremely sarcastic and deep voice.
"I need you to take these two to 'the lair'! Bwahahahahaaaa!" he said wiggling his fingers in a way similar to what a bad guy would do in a movie.
"What lair? Do you mean my nest or your palace?"
"Oh uhhhh... Whichever.
The giant (currently not on fire) phoenix picked the two men up gently in his claws, before he could take off though Pyrena grabbed Pit and jumped onto Pyros back, deactivating her bracelet.
"Get off of my back! You can fly on your own!"
"But it's so much more fun this way Sparky!"
"Don't call me that." he said taking off.
Pyrrhon burst in to flames (i.e. went into his true form) and flew up beside Pyro. "Ahahaha! We're off!"
So off the strangest group flew: a laughing god, a complaining Phoenix king, an enthusiastic angel, a confused angel, and two extremely scared, confused, and screaming humans.
AVA
They'd been flying for what felt like forever to the passengers. A long time back Pyrena had fallen asleep and would occasionally yell out something like "Let me drive..." or "Fly pretty pony..!" Pit just stared at the sky, wondering if anyone was looking for him. Pyrrhon was doing loopty loops around them then making all sorts of shapes in the sky before going back to a 'boring' straight line beside Pyro. Dyune hung silently, possibly asleep as well. Ray on the other hand was watching his arms and legs swing back and forth boredly.
"Hey, Giant weird bird thing!"
"I am the King of the Phoenix and my name is Pyro!"
"Whatever. Land for a minute or something will ya? I need to go pee."
"No."
"If you don't stop I'll just pee on you!"
"No you won't, you can't even reach your fly much less actually pee on me."
"I could just pee through my pants."
"You wouldn't dare!"
"You wanna bet? When you've gotta go, you've gotta go!"
"Hnnnn, fine. Pyrrhon, Pit, Pyrena, we've got to stop at the next civilization we come across, so this girly little human man won't pee on me."
Pyrenas eyes popped open at Pyros words and she jumped up almost falling off of Pyros back "Awesome! I'm so sick of riding I could just scream!"
"Then flap your lazy wings and fly!"
"NO!" She shouted, sitting back down and crossing her arms.
"Ye haw! Pyrrhon shouted flying in a big circle around them.
Dyune lifted his head and said "Good, my stomach is starting to hurt from this position."
Pyrrhon flew up beside him "You're not afraid we're gonna kill you anymore?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because if you had wanted to kill us, this bird could have easily tightened its claws, or even opened them, and sent us to our deaths, but he didn't, and we're still alive so there's no reason to think that you'll kill us."
"Good point." Pyrrhon flew away.
"There's a small city!" Pit shouted pointing at what looked like a small pile of rocks from their height.
Without a word Pyro made his way down, and dropped his bottom passengers before landing softly.
Pyrena and Pit jumped down from Pyros back. "Thanks Sparky!" They said in unison. They looked at each other for a minute then burst out laughing.
"Let's go!" Pyrrhon said enthusiastically and started walking towards the town.
"Um Pyrrhon…" Pit said.
"Yes Pit?" Pyrrhon said turning around to walk backwards.
"You're still on fire."
"Huh?" he looked down at himself "Hehe… oh." He put himself out. "Pyrena, keep an eye on our guests, Pit and Pyro, come with me!"
"No offense 'boss' but I think I'll stay here."
"Hm? Why?"
"Because I'm a Phoenix."
"Oh."
VAV
"Here! A bathroom! If you need to go, go!"
"Fine, fine, I'm going, I'm going!" Ray marched into the public restroom.
"How 'bout you blackie? You need to go too?"
"I assume I'm blackie. Don't call me that you call me Dyune. That's my name."
"Whatever just go."
AVA
"Alright Pit! We're in charge of getting food!"
"Food?"
"Yeah! If we're going to keep going we need to have full stomachs!"
"Um ok, so what are we getting?"
"Lots of bacon!"
"Bacon?"
"Yes, bacon is the best food in the world!"
"Well if we're getting food, we need ice cream, cake, pizza, hamburgers, and hotdogs too."
"I guess we should get a little something for the others too…"
"What does that giant bird even eat?"
"Small angels and things like that."
"W-WHAT!"
"Hehe, just kidding, he eats like, lava rocks and stuff."
"Oh good. Wait! Where are we going to get those?"
"I don't know. I guess we just look around?"
Pit sighed as the two walked towards the small city next to the oceans market.
VAV
"Are you two princesses done yet?" Pyrena stomped into the men's bathroom. Urinals lined one wall and she spotted Dyune and Ray standing in front of two of them.
"Wh-what are you doing in here!" Ray shouted quickly zipping up, then spinning around to face her.
"Wash your hands, and you hurry up! I'm tired of waiting for you!"
AVA
"There it is." Pyrrhon whispered to Pit from behind an orange cart.
"What is it, and why are we hiding again?"
"It's the largest bacon stand anywhere near here. We have to hide because we don't have any money."
"Why do we have to hide because of that?"
"Because we HAVE to have bacon."
"But we'd have to steal it."
"We'll consider it payment for saving the world."
"Saving the world? From what?"
"I'll tell you later, first we have to get the bacon! You go distract the shop keeper and I'll grab that crate." Pyrrhon shoved Pit out into the open.
For a moment, Pit just stood there surprised for a minute before heading over to the lady behind the stand. "H-hi there."
She looked him up and down before wrinkling her nose "You're dressed to strange and smell too much like alcohol without fish to be from around here."
Pit pulled back a little. He hadn't realized that the alcohol smell from the club had stuck to him. "Well I uh…"
The woman waved her hand at him "I don't care or even want to know anything 'bout ya, just buy what ya want and get inside; the sun will be down soon."
"Why? Is it illegal to be outside after dark?"
"No but after dark for the last month strange sea creatures have been attacking us. If ya stay inside and bar your house shut they'll leave ya well 'nough alone, but if ya go outside ya won't see the mornin'."
"Strange sea creatures?"
"Yeah, some who've seen em from inside say they're half fish half human creatures, and some large snakelike creatures. They steal our merchandise and destroy our stands, and if anyone tries to stand up to them, they're devoured by the snake creatures."
Pit noticed Pyrrhon sneaking off with a box of bacon and another box of other random food items. "Don't worry me and my companions aren't going to be staying overnight, we just needed to take a brake and resupply."
"Oh ok then, I suggest ya leave soon, if you wanna live."
Pit turned and walked off trying to catch up with Pyrrhon who was heading back to Pyro.
VAV
"Geez girl you're so embarrassing!" Ray said stomping alone beside her.
"I'm sure you'll get over it. Besides how much time does it take for two guys to go pee?"
Dyune didn't say anything as they made their way back to Pyro.
AVA
"Hey this is pretty good!" Pit said munching his bacon.
"Bacon is the best, and I am the best cook ever!"
"Of course, all you have to do to cook it is put it on your head." Ray said teasingly.
"Well I'm glad YOU'RE enjoying YOUR food." Pyro said.
"I'm sorry but charcoal was the closest thing we could find." Pyrrhon said apologetically.
Dyune watched them while munching his bacon.
"Oh guys, while we we're in town there was this woman that told me about some water monsters that attack their city."
"Really?"
"Yeah, she said that there were some half fish creatures and some giant snake things that come and destroy their stands and steal their stuff and kill anything that gets in their way." He bit down on a piece of taffy trying to bite it off.
"Sounds like trouble." Pyro said.
"Should we do anything about it?" Pyrrhon wondered out loud.
Pit had stopped trying to bite the taffy and was now trying to break it off by pulling it away from his mouth with one end clenched between his teeth.
"I don't think it's our problem." Pyrena said.
"Yeah, but-"Pyrrhon was interrupted when Pits taffy snapped and sent him flying backward off of his log. After that everyone laughed at him and quickly forgot their previous conversation.
VAV
It was the next morning. Pit had discovered that riding on Pyro with Ray, Dyune, Pyrena and Pyrrhon, did not make for good sleeping, although it didn't seem to bother the others. At least Pyrrhon had turned his flames off.
Suddenly all of the sleepers were woken up by Pyro who did a giant loop that took them upside down and made them all airborne again. Pyrena began flying and Pyrrhon burst into flames, doing the same. Pyro then swooped again and caught all the falling non-flyers.
"It's time for you all to wake up; we're here."
"Oh?" Pyrrhon asked rubbing his eyes (or at least where Pit thought his eyes would be).
Leaning over, Pit saw a giant volcano with boiling hot lava at the bottom. "I don't see anything but a volcano!"
"That's my home." Pyro said. "Our destination"
Looking down into the volcano Pit gulped. Maybe he shouldn't have come.
Responses:
G. M: I'm glad to hear it.
jimmy: I'll try.
kurt: Thank you.
Ugh, another pathetic chapter where nothing important happens. I'm so ashamed! Oh well, this is it for this time, make sure to review and I'll see you next time.