I would like to apologize for not updating. I was going to yesterday but my school had a field trip , so I had to go to school on a Friday... Sad Face with a Tear!
Anyway we learn more about Phoenix in this chapter, and we have everyone's favorite ear pulling person in the next two chapters at minimum four at maximum.
Phoenix:'Bout time you updated
Jack: Is that cat dead yet?
Me:Sorry,but no! I will never kill Shadow!
Jack&Phoenix: Phoenixian Kaiba does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. If she did, there would have been another season. She does however own Phoenixian Niwa.
Several weeks after the incident at the docks, The Enforcers were walking down a street in the Notting district of the Satellite Sector.
Yusei, Kalin, and Crow were all keeping careful eyes on Phoenix and Jack. There was no telling what subject they could find to argue about, but what ever it was it would come down to their friends basically sending them both to time out like children.
"So, where are we going?" Phoenix asked Yusei. She was looking around as if the area of trees they were entering were familiar to her.
It was a cloudy day, and it looked like it was going to rain, so Phoenix had traded out her black cloak for a brown vest. This way she looked part of The Enforcers and she didn't have to carry a rain soaked cloak.
"We want you to meet someone we've all known for a long time." Yusei said from in front of her and Jack. "We have a feeling that you'll like her." He smiled fondly as he talked about said person, Phoenix noticed.
"Mrrow!" They all looked down and saw Shadow had abandoned her task of trying to trip everyone as they walked. Instead, she was looking at a gray, three story house with peaked roofs. Before the Satellite and city were separated, it might have been an exquisite house.
Yusei, Kalin, Crow, and even Jack gave small smiles before quickening their paces, leaving Phoenix to stare in recognition of a place she had come often with her mother when she was much younger.
"Hey!" Crow called. Phoenix's head snapped in his direction. "Are you coming?" She joined them at the front door where they could hear young voices speaking in animated tones. Kalin knocked on the door and the voices became silent.
The door opened to reveal a middle aged, deeply tanned woman with dark brown eyes and hair.
Martha's eyes grew brighter as she took in the four young men in front of her.
"My boys!" She exclaimed as she embraced each of them in turn. She caught a glimpse of a slight bruise on Crow's left cheek and immediately began to fuss over him.
"Crow, what on earth happened to you?"
Crow mentally cursed himself for falling down the stairs the day before. Now he would be subject to a lecture on being careful… For the seventh time.
"Actually Martha," Yusei smoothly stepped in, saving Crow. "We brought someone that we think you might like."
Martha looked up from Crow and noticed the pale girl standing just behind her boys.
"SAGE?" Martha exclaimed.
Phoenix's eyes widened in what looked like hope, as she whipped around to look behind her. Realizing that no one was behind her, she turned back to Martha.
"No. It's Phoenixian, Martha." Phoenix said with a small smile.
Martha stared for a second. Then she came forward and pulled Phoenix into a incredibly tight hug.
When she released her, the others were staring in shock. Martha was usually strict with people that she didn't know. She didn't hug them!
"I don't know what to say Phoenixian." Martha said with a huge grin.
The Enforcers were sitting around Martha's dining table. Well, Kalin and Yusei were. Jack and Crow decided that they didn't want headaches from trying to figure out how Phoenix and Martha knew each other, so they went off to play with the orphans.
"To be honest, I didn't know I was going to be here!" Phoenix said equally happy as Martha that they were seeing each other again.
Kalin and Yusei were watching very closely for a sign of how these two very different people knew each other.
"How is your mother doing?" Martha asked. Phoenix suddenly looked uncomfortable, and took her time before answering.
"If I knew, I'd tell you."
"What do you mean?" Martha frowned.
"I-… I don't know where she is" Phoenix was staring at the grooves in the table. It was a sign that Martha had learned meant she didn't want to talk about it, so she let the subject drop until they could talk alone.
What does she mean She doesn't know? Yusei asked himself silently as he watched the two people in front of him. It's her own mother! How could she not know where she is?
The clock on the wall chimed four o'clock. Martha stood up and looked at Kalin.
"
I certainly hope that the five of you will be staying for dinner." She said as Jack and Crow chose that exact moment to walk into the room, followed by all of the orphans.
Hearing Martha's statement, they all immediately began to beg Yusei, Jack, Crow, and Kalin to stay.
"We really-" Crow broke off his sentence as he looked into the eyes of April, one of the youngest orphans. She was looking at him with pleading eyes.
"Ahh…" He looked at Kalin, his resolve being pummeled into a pulp by wide, innocent brown eyes.
Looking at the young girl, the toughest of people would be helpless. So Kalin Made the only decision he could.
"I guess we can stay."
All the children cheered. They loved The Enforcers. They were their heroes. Yusei caught Phoenix giving Kalin a look that said quite clearly, "You sap."
Martha sent the children off to do various thing. Crow, Jack, Kalin, and Yusei went out side to play with them. Phoenix was headed out to do the same thing until Martha stopped her.
"While you're helping me with dinner, you can explain what's been happening." Martha looked at her with a slight sternness in her eyes.
For awhile they prepared the meal in near silence, with only a few questions about how thick this should be, or how hot the stove was needed to be set at. Finally Martha asked the dreaded question.
"Where is your mother Phoenix?" Phoenix stopped stirring the vegetables and rice, standing silently with her back to Martha. After a few moments of silence she finally responded.
"A-About a year ago, I was coming home from visiting you. I took the long way around so I was coming from behind our house. When I got there, my mom was dueling some one. I don't know who it was, but it was a man." Phoenix noticed that the vegetables was were beginning to freak out. Quickly she stirred them to cease their burning on one side, then continued with her story.
"He had a black cloak on with strange markings. He didn't see me but mom did. She motioned for me to hide, so I did… M-mom lost the duel and disappeared. I haven't been able to find her since." Martha had walked over to Phoenix by now and was looking at her with concern. The teen was blinking rapidly, shifting her gaze to different objects around her, to anything but Martha.
After a few seconds Martha spoke in a gentle voice. "So that would be the reason why you reacted the way you did when I called you Sage. You thought that your mother was here."
Phoenix nodded slowly. Martha gave a wan smile and crossed to the sink where she had been washing a knife.
"I'm sorry for that. But you do look extraordinarily similar to her. Except that you have your father's eyes. Sage's were blue." Martha returned to her knife as Phoenix stared at the steam rising in front of her.
In the hallway, just outside the kitchen, Yusei stood contemplating what he'd just heard.
Martha knows not only Phoenix, but her mother as well. He thought to himself. For some reason the fact that Phoenix had stuttered had made him feel disturbed. Not once, in the weeks that he had known her, even against tough Duel Gangs, had he heard her confident voice waver.
The rest of the time until Martha called everyone to dinner, Yusei spent turning this new information over in mind. Finally he decided not to tell the other. If she wanted them to know, she would have told them.
"Phoenix made this?" Jack said incredulously. Everyone was sitting around the dinning table with mismatched plates in front of them. Jack was staring at his rice with slight horror. "Did you poison it?"
The girl in question leaned forward to see past Kalin and Yusei. "I didn't poison all of it Jack, if you catch my drift."
Jack looked at his plate until the rest of the table burst into uncontrollable laughter. Then he caught on that she was joking.
Dinner passed pleasantly, only punctuated by outbursts of arguments between Jack and Phoenix, after which Martha made them sit in separate corners of the room. When everyone was done and dishes were cleaned, Kalin walked outside… Only to return dripping wet. While they had eaten, a storm had begun to rage, with thunder and lightning flashing and roaring.
Martha sighed, then motioned for some of the older children to follow her.
"Well we cant have the five of you walking in this weather. You'll stay here tonight." She said.
"But Martha," Kalin started. "We'll be fine reall-" Martha cut him off with a terrifing look. Kalin let out a defeated sound.
"Yes Ma'am,"
Phoenix stood looking out the window before moving suddenly to the front door.
"And just where do you think you're going?" Martha asked.
The raven haired girl threw two quick comments over her shoulder before leaving.
"I'll be right back. I think I left Shadow outside!"
Yes I know that cats don't like water but I had to give Phoenix a reason to go outside.
Oh yeah! First person to guess who Sage was doing get's slapped with a weasel!
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