Meanwhile with Aqua
She was walking down a street looking at all the various shops that lined up next to it. She had decided to look for gifts for her master and friends first then her family. First up was Terra's gift and what better place to look than at a weapons shop. Even thought she wasn't going to but him a actual weapon maybe they'd have something cool he could use like some kind of body armor. She looked through a window and found a pair of fingerless gloves with some padding on them like they were made for a fighter. Now if that didn't scream Terra then what would?
As She looked at them she didn't even notice that someone was sneaking up on her
"BOO!"
"Whoa!" she accidently fell on to the window as she heard a young boy laugh. She gritted her teeth and growled at him as she turned around to see a red haired boy laughing himself into a coma.
"Hey!"
"Hey yourself" he retorted bacl
"What's your problem I was just looking"
"Well I'm just trying to have some f…." then a blue haired boy with yellow eyes came up from behind and smacked him on the back of his head.
"Ow!"
"I told you not to…." He said then looked straight at Aqua "….I apologize for my friend, he can be kind of an idiot at times" he said as Aqua rubbed her head because that's the main area that got hit from the kid's spook.
"I would appreciate it if he told me that himself" she said angrily as the blue haired boy grabbed his friend and shifted him toward Aqua.
"Some friend you are Isa" Isa just rolled his eyes as he tightened his grip, hurting him, commanding him to say it
"Just say you're sorry Lea" Lea gritted his teeth from the pain as he looked up at Aqua and sincerely and forcefully said
"Sorry" Aqua had a semi mad expression on her face and would've possibly said 'you better be' but that would be against her nature. She instead took a deep breath calmed her face and mind
"Apology accepted" she said regularly then parted the weapon store. When she entered she began to look around for the shopkeeper, already knowing what she wanted. Then Lea and Isa walked in
"Uh do you need something?" Lea asked
"Yeah I need the shopkeeper" she asked as Lea got behind the counter and rested his hands on his face and his elbows on the counter.
"Well you're looking at the second in command, how can I help you?"
"Wait you own this store?" she asked not believing a teenager could own or manage a business.
"No, my dad owns it, but I help. So, what would you like?" Aqua was a little skeptical that he could help her at all, but pointed to the pair of gloves in the window.
"Uh those, I want those gloves in the window" Isa walked over to the window picked up the gloves and walked them over to Lea who examined them.
"Alright armored fighting gloves, that's gonna set you back 2500 munny" Aqua reached into her pocket and presented the credit card her master had given her. Lea scanned it then gave it back to her
"Hey, you want a cool box for that gift? It'll be on the house"
"Um no thanks" Aqua said, never really wanting to take more then she needed.
"No you gotta see it, stay right here" Lea said as he ran to the back of the store and could be heard shuffling through things to find this so called 'cool' box. Aqua didn't leave yet because she knew that would be rude of her. So she just waited at the counter for him looking over at Isa.
"Is your friend always like this?" she asked as he answered with a shrug then repositioned himself to lean on the counter.
"Only when he's around girls" Aqua laughed a little after hearing that. She could tell from what Isa said that Lea had a crush on her or at least liked the way she looked. She even thought since he was still a kid that that little prank was just a excuse to get her to talk to him. If so then maybe shouldn't have been mean to him
Lea rushed out with a wooden box with oriental cravings on the side and a tiny gem at the top of it.
"Here you are, the special box free of charge" he said as he handed it to her. Truth is he was only giving it to her to say he was sorry for earlier. She took it and then looked it over, she had to admit it did look pretty cool.
"Why thank you" Lea did a short chuckle at the compliment
"No problem" then Aqua had a idea on how to thank him and apologize for earlier to. She leaned in toward the side of Lea's face and kissed his cheek. Lea felt his heart skip a beat and his eyes go wide as Aqua waved goodbye to him then left. Lea was left stunned after that tiny kiss. Isa looked at him curiously and waved his hand in front of his face to try and get a reaction out of him
"Hello earth to Lea you still in there?" he said as he saw Lea fall backwards onto the ground with a small grin on his face. Isa looked at Lea from over the counter and saw that he probably not going to get up anytime soon. Instead of helping him he started laughing hysterically at the stupid look on Lea's face.
Aqua kept on the hunt for gifts, currently she was focusing on Ven who she was considering buying a snowball gun. When she first saw it the thought that crossed her mind was
'This can't possibly work' then she saw a little boy run out of the store with one of them and put some snow in it. Then a man with long blonde hair came running out of the store
"IENZO GIVE THAT BACK RIGHT….!" Before he could finish the kid aimed the gun and fired. A line of three snowballs quickly rushed out of the toy and hit him in the face causing him to lose his balance and fell flat onto his butt. After a second to take in the humility and pain, he quickly wiped the snow off his face and looked at boy enraged
"IENZO YOU GIVE THAT TOY TO ME THIS INSTANT!" the boy just stuck out his tongue and ran off with the gun in hand.
"GrrrrraaahhhHHHHHHH!" the man quickly got up and rushed after the boy, mad as hell.
Aqua laughed a little at his misfourtune then looked at the toy she had bought, she could already picture Terra chasing Ven for shooting him with it. She quickly walked over to the front of the store and found one of the cashiers on duty
"One of these please" she said as she handed him the card which he took and swipe then rehanded her the toy but in a bag.
"Have a nice day"
"I will, thank you" she said as she walked out of the shop and back onto the market street. Next she walked into a dress store to look for something for her mother and sister. As she looked through the various shirts, pants, and dresses she couldn't find anything that popped out to her and said that her sister or mother would like. Then when she was about to leave the shop keep came up to her and asked
"Need any help?"
"Actually yes, I'm trying to find something for my little sister and my mom…"
"Say no more I know just what you need" she said in a annoyingly happy tone. She brought Aqua to the coat section and knellt down to grab something out of a hidden drawer. What she pulled out was a sweat jacket that was light blue on the torso and checkerboard black and white on the sleeves. The strings along the hood were earbuds and next to the right shoulder was a cool tribal heart. There was only one thing Aqua could say
"Woah that's cool"
"I had to hide this one because they were so popular"
"I can see why" Aqua said still looking at it, this just screamed perfect for her sister. The shop keep could tell she wanted it so she hung it from her arm and walked to another place in the shop. Aqua followed her to the cash register as the shop keep put the jacket on the counter then walked over to a little to a glass case. Aqua followed and looked in the case and saw all the sparkling gems and precious metals that made up the contents within it. The shop keep pointed over to the ear rings
"There's a deal with that jacket, it's worth 3000 money. But if you buy it you get a free pair of ear rings, perhaps something for your mother." She suggested as Aqua looked at the ear rings, sure 3000 money was a lot for one jacket. But, she could kill two birds with one stone if she did this. She pointed to a pair of ear rings with star cut gems, the keep took them out of the case and brought them to the counter. Before she even rang up the price, Aqua drew out her card and had it out in front of her. She swiped it like the others did before and put her gifts in a bag. Aqua then waved good bye and left.
She was finished with her Christmas shopping, she thought that for her master and Terra's family she'd make them breakfast on Christmas morning. She armored up and made sure her bags were securely held onto her. As she was about to leave something hit her leg, nothing big but not too small to go unnoticed. She inspected what it was and saw a small cube with one brightly colored side over the other black ones on it. She picked it up and wondered what it was for a second, but in the end just shrugged and put it in her bag then zipped off. But just before she left she could swear she heard someone yelling out 'wait'. But it could've just been her mind playing tricks on her
As she zoomed through space she saw a bright light at the side of her. Upon further inspection she saw it was master Eraqus, and tied to his glider was a little mobile carrier that he had made with some girl waving in the window. She quickly moved toward her master and the carrier and flashed the peace sign to the girl and followed her master back to the castle.