Me and Nadia where on the balcony of Yu-wans for some fresh air, Nadia looks at me.
"How's your back?"
"It's finally healed, but I just hope I don't get any more back pains for a while."
"I'm Purr-tty sure you will."
"Gee, Thanks Nadia."
I begin to hear footsteps coming from below us, I look down and see the Detective that helped us a few months ago, I tapped Nadia's arm.
"Look down, it's the Detective from the Medici Fight."
"IRVIN!"
Nadia waves at him, wait his name is Irvin? Why didn't anyone tell me? We both jump down to him and say hello.
"So, what brings you here Detective?"
"I came here for you two; The River King wishes to speak to you both."
"What does he want?"
"I have no idea, I just got the call this morning saying to get the two anonymous heroes and bring them to the casino at 6 pm."
I'm at least glad he left us anonymous in his report, do Detectives have to write reports? Hmm… it was properly for the press or for the river king himself.
"Alright, thanks for the message Irvin."
"My pleasure, I'll see you two at the casino."
"Don't you wanna stay and have lunch with us?"
"No, I have some things I need to do, I'll see you two later."
Irvin leaves and we go back to Yu-wan's for lunch. Later me and Nadia begin walking to the Casino; I hold Nadia's hand and begin to feel her tail on my back.
"So, Nadia have you ever been to a casino before?"
"Never."
"Did you at least play any gambling games?"
"If you count Mahjong as one."
"You used to play Mahjong?"
"Yeah, and I was really good at it but that was a long time ago."
"I see."
"What about you have you ever gambled?"
"Once, a long time ago, during my years at high school, I've only been into the River King Casino only once and that was for business."
By business I mean being a huge reason why the kidnapping happened, I shouldn't be thinking about that it's in the past now. We arrived outside the Casino and we see Irvin outside whistling.
"Yo, Irvin."
Irvin turns to us.
"You two made it in time."
"Were you waiting long?"
"Nope, I just got here myself."
We enter the Casino and we see two security guards guarding the casino, Irvin walks by them but when me and Nadia try to follow Irvin, the guards stop us.
"Sir, we're going to need some i.d."
"Relax you two, they're with me."
"So, these are the two you were talking about?"
Irvin nods his head, the guards quickly apologize and we follow Irvin, while we were walking, I couldn't help but look at the casino.
"Wow, look at this place."
This place is amazing, it has its usual slots machines and tables but I was looking at the aquarium for the most part but now's not the time, we climb a few stair cases and we reach to the River King's room, Irvin opens the door and we see the River King himself sitting in his desk.
"Ah Irvin, I see that you have the two heroes with you."
So he really did call us heroes… I could get used to this. The River King shakes me and Nadia's hands.
"King, this is Ms. Fortune."
"Meow."
"And this is G."
"G? I beg your pardon, but what does that, "G" stand for?"
"It stands for G; G is my actual name."
I think maybe my name should be called, "Just G" instead of G, because I've lost count how many times people ask me, "what does that G stand for?"
"Right, anyway I'm glad that I can finally meet you two."
"Out of Curiosity, why now and not a few months ago?"
"Well, back then, I wasn't the owner of this place."
"You weren't?"
"But when I heard my Daughter was rescued, I wanted to make sure that she was safe and wouldn't have to deal with any kidnappings, so I became the owner of this casino."
"Who was the previous owner?"
"We found out that the Medici Mafia themselves were the owners of this casino."
That doesn't make any sense… why would they have us kidnap our own people? But better yet, why didn't they tell me? This raises more questions more than anything, but that was in the past. I should just forget about it. The River King pulls out two casino chips from his pockets and gives one each to me and Nadia, I look at the chip and it says, Five-hundred.
"As a token of my appreciation, I want you two to have fun in my casino."
"Thank you."
"Now, I'd love to stay and chat with yawl, but I need to get back to work."
"It was nice meeting you King."
We all leave his office and go back to the front of the casino.
"So, Irvin, are you going to join us?"
"No, I can't I'm quite busy right now."
"Alright, if you say so."
Irvin left and it was just me and Nadia.
"Come on Nadia, lets go play some Blackjack."
I grab her hand and we go to the nearest Blackjack table, I take my seat and Nadia stands behind me, I place my Chip and the dealer looks at me.
"You feel Lucky kid?"
"Maybe."
The dealer draws the cards, the first card I get is a King and then the second card is an Ace, BLACKJACK BABY!
"Boo yeah."
"Congrats kid."
The dealer gives me my winnings, I can leave with this money but I gotta keep this boat going, A few hands in and I just keep winning I've gotten so much money that I lost count, The People at the table were looking at me funny.
"What can I say; I've got horseshoes coming out my ass."
After a two losses in a row, I figured that I should just stop and leave with the money I have. I get off my chair and I take all my chips with me.
"Well, I'm done, but what about you Nadia? what do you wanna do?"
Nadia stops for a second to think but quickly grabs my hand/
"I want to try the Roulette tables."
She quickly goes to the Roulette tables dragging me along; we go to a Roulette table and just in time.
"Place your bets please."
Nadia places her chip on 32 red.
"Nadia, why did you put the chip on 32?"
She looks at me and smirks.
"Maybe tonight I'll tell you why."
I didn't quite get what she meant by that, but it didn't matter. The Dealer Places the ball and it rolls and rolls almost hypnotically, it quickly slows down and I thought it was gonna land on 0 but the ball moved to 32 but I then noticed that the ball gently moved on its own.
"PAWSOME! I WON!"
"Nadia… I don't that luck is on our side/"
"Meow?"
"Place all your chips on Double zeroes."
"Why?"
"You gotta trust me Nadia."
She has a smirk on her face
"Hmm, I don't know…"
I let out a sigh I know what she wants.
"Look if I'm wrong then tonight I'll be a good kitty."
"I thought you liked being a good kitty."
"Well uhh… this is the wrong place to talk about it."
I turn my head away from her so that she doesn't notice that I'm blushing, Nadia giggles, of course she knows I'm blushing. She places all her chips on Double Zeroes. The ball rolls and rolls again and it begins to slow down, but then the ball landed on Double Zeros, Nadia turns to me and whispers,
"Wow, you were right!"
"This is a message from the River King, Keep playing until you lose one, ok?"
Nadia Kept placing bets and she kept on winning, she finally lost two bets in a row so we decided to stop. I do feel as if we can win so much more.
"So Nadia, you wanna leave or play some more?"
"I think I'm good with the money that I won today."
"Alright, I just want to play a few games before we go."
I had to see if we can get even more money… and I didn't. I ended up losing a quarter of my winnings. But that's ok. Honestly, we're still walking away victories. We leave the building and we walk the New Meridian, The night is still very young the streets are crowed with cars coming to the casino and there's a lot of people on the sidewalks
"So Nadia, What do you want to do?"
Nadia stopped for a second to think.
"Hmmm..."
She then gives me a smirk… again.
"I haven't gone shopping in a long time."
Oh no, don't tell me she wants to…
"What kind of shopping?"
"Clothes shopping."
OHHHHH MAAAN I DON'T WANNA GO CLOTHES SHOPPING… you have to man up G, you got to do this for her. You knew what you signed up for when you decided to be her boyfriend.
"Alright, where do we go?"
Nadia Smiles she grabs my hand. We go the New Meridian Shopping Plaza were we begin the incredibly boring time that I will have while Nadia goes Clothes Shopping. We start off first at a formal wear store, we look at fancy suits and dresses, Nadia picks up a suit and asks me,
"How do you think I would look in this?"
I stood there awkwardly for a second, but I see Fedoras right on top of the suits. I pick one up and put it on her head and take another look at her.
"You'd look Purrfect if you got it with the Fedora."
"You know you haven't done a cat pun in a while."
"Well, I was waiting for the right time."
"I'd think it would be better if you let me do the puns."
We continued shopping all over the place, from formal wear, to Casual wear to I'm only going to wear this once and never use it again. Next, the… umm lingerie store I was actually excited to go into. However, just as soon as I go inside, Nadia pushes me out of the front.
"HEY! What was that for?"
"Nope, you're going to be a good kitty and wait outside for me."
"But… alright I'll wait."
Nadia giggles and goes inside, I turn around and accidently bump into someone, she looked like a school girl, she loses her balance and falls on the ground.
"Oh, I'm sorry."
I get close to her and reach out my hand, instead of her hand I get her shoe on my face, she sends herself flying from the ground and lands on the other side of the hallway, I quickly get back up.
"What the hell?"
I then noticed her hair is moving on her own, there is no wind blowing right now, it's just moving on its own. I then noticed her hair had teeth who is this girl?
"That'll teach ya not to wake me up."
"WHAT THE HELL? DID YOUR HAIR JUST TALK!?"
The girl's Hair snarls.
"I've had a bad hair day today and YOU just made it worse."
"Calm down…uhhh…hair?"
"Let's go babe."
"SAMSON NO!"
So her hair's name is Samson, eh? Samson then takes the shape of a human and charges at me, he tries throwing a punch, but I quickly dodge it I would attack but I don't want to hurt this little girl, Samson then changes back and the girl begins to attack me. I drop the bags of clothing and begin to guard all her attacks. Gah, her moves are fast I have to do something. The girl throws a punch. I grab her fist and get a good grip on her hair.
"Alright Samson, do you want to do this the easy way or the HARD WAY?"
Samson has a mean look on his face he opens his mouth and tries to eat my head off.
"I'm sorry little girl, but your friend here gave me the wrong answer."
I had no choice but to pull on her hair to torture Samson. I can hear Samson in pain and sadly the girl, she kicks my chest forcing me to let go, I jump behind to make sure that the kick is the only thing I get. I can hear and feel both of their rages.
"Alright then, you're going to have THE WORST HAIR DAY OF YOUR LIFE."
They both charge at me but they quickly stopped, I looked behind her and I saw Nadia pulling on her hair
"We meet again, Hairball."
Oh thank goodness Nadia was there.
"Alright, before one of us gets killed, I say we just stop fighting, I know you're pissed off Samson, but we can definitely do better than this."
"He's Right Samson, please let's not fight anymore."
"GRR, alright but if you make one more move, ill make sure you have the worst hair day."
"What's your name?"
"My name is Fillia"
"Fillia, listen why don't we go somewhere else and we can talk about why you and Samson are having a… bad hair day."
First Nadia with the cat puns and now Samson with the hair puns... I'll just have to deal with it. I pick up the bags of clothing and Fillia grabs her hat.
"Where should we go?"
"I usually go to the Madman Café. It's not too far from here."
Even though the Café has a name that sounds like it's an obvious trap it's one of the more popular cafes in New Meridian, Nadia doesn't like the idea of this but it's at least a way to make up for the fight.
We entered the café and took our seats, we ordered Milkshakes but Nadia gets water instead.
"So Fillia, mind if I ask you why Samson has been having a bad hair day?"
"I've been doing some homework, and it's been frustrating me all day today."
Ah, the days of high school were; homework is stressful and the awards can be pretty much nothing.
"What kind of homework?"
"Well, it's Science."
When she said that, I couldn't help but be interested even more.
"Maybe I could help."
"Ok then."
Fillia gives me her textbook and tells me where the question is. I take one good look at it and I instantly find the answer.
"There is no answer to this."
"What?"
"Whoever made this is wrong… well, unless the question is how to fail and blow up a room but that is not the case, you should talk to your teacher about this."
"Well, could you tell me what's wrong with it?"
"I think it would be better if I showed you. Do you have a pencil and a sheet of paper?"
Fillia gave me a paper and pencil. I wrote down the proof that the question is wrong.
"Just show this to your teacher."
"Thanks, you know, you're really good at this."
Nadia then hisses at Fillia, she grabs me and holds me close.
"Back off hairball, this kitten is mine."
"I kind of figured, you bought some really good lingerie."
"She did? Could you explain in detail what th…?"
Nadia presses her claws on my back, Maybe that wasn't the best thing to say.
"You know what? Never mind, forget I said that."
Fillia chuckled she knew that Nadia did something to me.
"Fillia, I want to know something."
"Sure, what is it?"
"Why do you have Samson?"
"Too be honest, I don't even know. I have no memories of what happened."
"You have amnesia?"
"I guess."
"Do you at least remember anything?"
"The only thing I can remember is that I got some involved in something really bad."
Fillia was sad when she said that. Who can blame her? She doesn't remember a thing about her past.
"Is there any way that I can help you with this?"
"I don't think you'll be able to help me with this."
I've never dealt with amnesia before but this little girl doesn't deserve it.
"Listen, if you begin to remember anything, call this number I'll be glad to help."
I wrote down my phone number and gave it to her.
"We'd love to stay and chat, but it's getting late we should get going."
"Don't you have School Tomorrow Fillia?"
"Nope, not tomorrow, it's a long weekend."
"This would explain why, I mean it's…"
I look at my watch and I realize it's already Eleven P.M.
"Dang, time flies."
We say goodbye to Fillia and we go home. While we were walking home I couldn't help but ask about the lingerie again.
"So… now that we are alone, care to tell me what kind of lingerie you got?"
"Hmmm… I won't tell you unless tonight you promise to be a good kitty."
I hate it when I have to be a good kitty to her, but then again, is it worth it in the end? Of course it is, what am I saying?
"Meow…"
Nadia Giggles and holds my hand.
"Good kitty."
She purrs loudly, I gulp. I am not looking forward to this, but then again, it could be worth it just to see Nadia in lingerie… only tonight will tell.