Hello everyone! Welcome to Chapter 2!
Sorry for the looooooong delay, I'd been very busy in my life and ran out of ideas.
But luckily, I finished it at last!
Without further ado, here's Chapter 2!
Disclaimers: I do not own any characters that I will use here, except Ace Thompson, which I own.
They were now inside of the mall. The mall was only one floor but wide, with all sorts of shops you could spend your money to.
"Where should we go first?", Ace asked excitedly as she checked her surroundings.
Before they could answer, she looked at Leon and smirked.
"Leon, you go buy snacks at the grocery store", she said in a matter-of-fact tone, "because you're the strongest guy here.", she grinned at her last statement.
Everyone, except Leon, Ark and Ace, sweatdropped. Leon glared at her while Ark facepalmed.
"What?! Do I need my strength to buy snacks?!", Leon asked angrily.
"Come on,", she replied calmly, "you can buy snacks alone without any help. Me, Claire and Ark will buy their clothes. And Steve and Sherry will do whatever the hell they want."
Before Leon could open his mouth, she continued.
"Here,", she handed Leon a piece of paper, and he pocketed it, "this is the list of what will you buy."
Before Leon could open his mouth to protest, she handed him the money to buy the snacks.
"Take it, emo.", she smirked, "be sure to buy all snacks that I listed there."
He sighed in defeat. He knew that he's going to lose anyway and went to the grocery store. Ark watched Leon enter the grocery store and sighed.
She turned to Sherry and Steve and her smirked turned into a sweet smile, "You two can go and hangout wherever you want. Just don't separate.", she said and handed Sherry money to spend.
"Thanks, Ace.", Sherry said and grabbed Steve's hand, "Let's go there, Steve!"
"Alright, just don't leave me!", Steve replied and they left.
Meanwhile, Claire's smiled widened while Ark smiled. She went closer to Ace and spoke cheerfully.
"You were right," she told her, still smiling, "they HAVE feelings for each other!"
"I agree.", Ark said, "but they still don't know that.".
Both Ace and Claire smacked him at the back of his head.
"Ow!", he yelled, "What was that for?".
"For saying something stupid, brother.", Ace replied while sighing in disappointment. His brother can be stupid sometimes.
"So what are we going to do?", Claire asked.
Ace smiled evilly, and spoke with passion, "We're going to follow them, think of quick ways on how to make them together, then we'll see the results if we succeed!".
"That is a great idea!", Claire agreed.
"But how if we fail?", Ark asked worriedly. He knew that they will fail, miserably.
"Come on! Let's go!", Ace said, ignoring Ark, while she grabbed their hand and they went to where Steve and Sherry are going.
Steve and Sherry were walking to the ice cream stall, because Sherry wanted an ice cream, so was Steve. Meanwhile, the trio were already at the ice cream stall, Ace at the stall while Ark and Claire are hiding somewhere.
Ace was in disguised as an ice cream vendor, she wore a light blue short sleeved shirt with a plain white apron and blue doll shoes. She also wore a long straight blonde wig and a pink eyeshadow and a pink lipstick.
The other two still retained their original clothes.
"Plan one, ice cream.", she whispered to them with an evil grin. Ark noticed her grin and gulped.
'Oh no...', he thought worriedly, 'She can't use that!'.
Before he could tell his little sister, it was already too late.
Steve and Sherry are already there.
"Two strawberry ice cream, please?", Steve ordered.
"Two strawberry ice cream, coming right up!", the vendor replied cheerfully, well, with a very little hint of venom.
Just as she was about to served the two ice cream, a long, red-haired lady and a lavender-haired guy stole the ice cream.
The red-haired wore a red frill top and blue jeans while the lavender-haired guy wore a blue polo shirt and blue jeans.
"This is OUR ice cream now, loser!", the red-haired taunted the two and laughed. The lavender-haired guy laughed as well. After the laughed, they consumed the ice cream.
Ace placed her hands on both of her cheeks and screamed, "Nooooooooooo!"
Sherry and Steve raised an eyebrow and wondered why the hell she's screaming.
The two frozed for a moment, and they ran to each other and kissed passionately. Steve and Sherry decided to leave the two lovebirds alone and went somewhere else. Claire's jaw dropped while Ark sighed in relief.
He remembered the ice cream trick when he was helping Ace on her match-make mission.
Ark and Ace was hiding on a bush, while watching the two subjects having a pleasant conversation.
She took a bottle that contained a green substance.
"What's that?", he asked.
"Oh, this?", she looked at the chemical and shoved it at the front of his face, "It's the French Kiss Potion! A single drop of this shit and you'll eat each other's mouth in no time!", she informed him while giggling like a psychopath.
Ark's jaw dropped, "What the heck was that for? They don't need THAT!"
She ignored him and went to their respective place. She dropped all the contents on all of her ice cream and waited patiently.
"Shoot! We failed!", Claire muttered in disappointment.
"Not to worry, partner!", she replied with determination, "the next plan will never fail!"
The trio went to a shortcut and proceeded to their another place.
Steve and Sherry entered the arcade. The arcade was filled with a bunch of arcade fighting games, a machines that give tokens, a arcade shooting games, and a Dance Dance Revolution arcade.
"Steve, let's play DDR!", Sherry said excitedly.
"A DDR? I'll bet I could beat you". Steve replied proudly.
"Don't underestimate me, Steve!", she said annoyingly, "Let's go!"
They picked a song and started dancing.
Meanwhile, the trio were at the back of the arcade, dressed up as one of the operator at the arcade.
They wore a yellow collar T-shirt, blue jeans and brown shoes. Ace wore a black wig that tied in a bun, Claire wore a blond wig tied also in a bun, and Ark wore a blonde wig and a black sunglasses.
"Plan 2, DDR. Tee-hee.", Ace whispered to them.
Ark sighed while Claire asked, "What's up with that?"
She grinned, "I'm going to shut it down, they'll ask assistance, help them while messing with the machine, then they'll dance romantically."
"That sounds...interesting," Claire said while watching the two dance, "but how will they dance romantically?"
"Simple!", she replied, "I'll put a special gas on the machine and they'll do it in no time!"
They looked at each other and shrugged. And they went at their separate ways.
The song was almost finished when suddenly, the machine shut down.
"What? For all the time, why now?" Steve said in disappointment.
"Come on! Let's tell him!", Sherry said while pointing at the guy operator, who is Ark in disguised.
They went at the guy, "Excuse me, sir? Can you help us?", she asked.
Ark turned around to look at them, "Yeah? What's wrong?", he asked in a deep voice.
"The DDR suddenly shut down.", Steve answered, "and we didn't do anything but we were just playing it."
Ark adjusted his sunglasses, "Okay. Lead."
As they went to the machine, Ace secretly released the special gas inside the machine. She left quickly and went to the Soul Calibur II arcade as they arrived. Ark started to examine the machine and opened the back of the machine to fix it. As he closed the back, the machine started up and inserted a coin.
"Thank you sir.", said Sherry.
He said nothing and left the two.
'At least I sounded like somebody else.', he thought while leaving the arcade to change.
As they were about to step at the dance floor, a pale, brown-haired tied in a bun lady wearing a blue cocktail dress dragged a blue doll shoes and a black-haired guy wearing a gray tuxedo closer to the DDR machine.
She pushed them away, "Get the hell out of the machine! We're going to play!", the lady said angrily.
The guy sighed, "Come on, May, they're still playing DDR."
May sighed in frustration, "Shut it Brendan."
Claire, while trying to win a toy at the crane machine, saw the scene.
Before Steve could tell the two that they're still playing, like Brendan said, and Claire called call Ace to remove the gas, if possible, May already picked a song and hit play.
Too late! They started playing!
'And we failed at the end!', she thought while slapping her forehead.
Sherry and Steve decided to leave the two, and went to the crane next to Claire. As Steve was winning the prize, Claire won the prize and quietly went to Ace.
While Ace was fighting the final boss Inferno with a full bar, Claire watched in amazement as she used a similar move to defeat Inferno, and won perfectly.
"Yes!", she yelled while punching the air, "Take that losers!"
Claire sweatdropped and tapped her shoulder lightly, "Ace, we failed."
Ace's jaw dropped, "WHAT? ARE YOU SERIOUS BRO?"
At least nobody bothered nor cared to looked at her.
She motioned her to be quiet, "Yes, because an idiot stole the free chance.", she sighed and rubbed her temples, "Well, at least we help others."
She sighed in disappointment, "Meh, I'm wasting my shits to watch others to make out. I need to see them to-", she was interrupted by a smack at the forehead using her prize.
"We're here to make them together, NOT to watch them french kiss!", she told her with a venom on her voice.
She gulped and squeaked, "Okay!"
Ark arrived and sighed in defeat, "We failed."
"We know.", they said in unison.
Ace stood up from her seat, "I promised, this time, we WILL not fail!", she declared with passion.
They did everything they could, selling water, free tastes, a fashion show, and as always, they failed miserably.
After they're attempts, they rested on a bench not far away from the bench Steve and Sherry sat.
"Oh my gosh, I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm going to give up.", Ace moaned.
"Me too. It's too much.", Claire replied.
Ark sighed and left the two. He needed a time for himself.
He sat at the bench not far away from both, a little closer to Steve and Sherry. He heard Steve and Sherry talking and decided to eavesdropped.
"Sherry, I need to tell you something." Steve said while looking at Sherry's eyes.
Sherry blushed a thousand shades of red. She actually knew what Steve was going to say to her, hell, they knew that Ace and Claire was planning to match-make them, but too bad they already confessed last night.
"Yes?", she asked as innocent as possible.
"I-I love you.", he said while blushing like mad.
"I-I love you too, Steve.", she smiled and hugged Steve.
As they hugged each other, they think about their confessions before they went to bed last night.
The awkward and uncomfortable silence bothered them to no end. They were lying on their separate bed, trying to sleep but failed.
"Um, Steve?"
"Um, Sherry?", They said in unison.
They blushed brightly and twiddled their fingers.
"You go first.", Steve said.
"No, you go.", Sherry replied.
"I love you.", they confessed in unison.
They blushed deeply.
"Are you sure?", they asked in unison.
They smiled, because they already knew their answers and slept peacefully.
As they pulled away from each other, Ark smiled and clapped his hands while Ace and Claire squealed like teenagers seeing their crushes.
They blushed a thousand shades of red.
"Congratulations, you two.", Ark declared, "Leon's not here to kicked his butt!"
They all laughed happily and high-five each other.
"Sweetheart, why don't you kissed Sherry?", Claire asked while smiling. The Thompson siblings nodded in agreement.
"Be sure you two don't go too far!", Ace said, and earned a smack at the back of the head by Ark and Claire.
Steve and Sherry shrugged and faced each other. They looked at each other and slowly drew their faces together and kissed each other.
The girls squeal while Ark smiled.
Not too soon, an angry emo looking guy marched angrily at them, "STEVE! TASTE THE WRATH OF MY TWO FIST!"
They broke the kiss and Ace went to their front, "You'll never touch him!"
"Leon, calm down!", Claire pleaded.
"Dude, they love each other!" Ark informed his best friend.
Leon calmed down, "Alright, but no funny business!"
"Kissing doesn't count as funny business.", Ace teased while smirking.
Leon's right eye twitched, "ACE! I WILL KICK YOUR BUTT EVEN WHEN YOU'RE A GIRL!", and started chasing Ace.
"You'll never catch me, Rookie!", she teased while running away from him.
Ark sighed, "Sometimes, those two fight each other like siblings"
"I agree", they said in unison.
After that, they went back to Leon's house.
Yes, I used characters from other series as well!
Well, if they are errors, feel free to inform me.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter, and please review as well. But no flaming, constructive criticism are acceptable.