"Welcome To Rachel's Inn! How may I help you, gentlemen, today?" The girl with a bright smile said behind the counter.
"Can we have three rooms please, fine young lady?" Dion said, grabbing her hand and kissing it.
"Um~ Um~ Yes! We have three unrestricted rooms. Would you like a supreme room that can hold four instead of one each?" The girl said flustered and blushing.
"That's a good question. Let me ask the group behind me and see what further course of action they want to take." Dion said before turning around and looking into Aza's eyes.
"Would you like to have a supreme room or a normal room?" Dion said to her with no hesitation or stutter at all.
"No, I would rather you four have a supreme room or a three-room split than having a giant room to myself and having you guys all sharing 2 rooms," Aza said unexpectedly.
"Alright!" Dion said before turning back to the lady running the counter.
"We'll just take the three rooms instead of taking the supreme room if that's okay," Dion said with a sexier voice than the one he was using before.
"It's fine~ I mean, It's fine." The girl at the counter said fixing her voice from being high pitch back to her normal pitch voice.
"Here are the keys to your room, and we have a deal where you can get an extra room with your purchase." The girl said turning bright red.
"I didn't see anything about a deal anywhere, but I have no reason not to trust a beauty like you so I suppose we'll take the extra room," Dion said with his smile that shined bright straight towards her.
"Dion, I'll take the extra room, I need it," Apollo said taking the extra key she gave before running up the stairs to his room.
"Don't hurt yourself, and good night!" Dion screamed before turning back to the lady in front of him.
"Thank you for your generosity, I'll be off to my room now. You know room 215." Dion said before going up the stairs.
"Here you two boys go, you're in room 216. Young lady, you're in room 217." The lady at the counter said giving me the key for 216 and giving Aza the room for 217.
"Thank you very much! Have a great night!" All three of them said in unison before going up the stairs towards their room. While walking up the stairs Aza started to grin, a very evil grin before she started to speak.
"Z. Kingsley. I need you two to find the nearest vendor and bring me back some pink lemonade and some ramen. Do that and I'll consider my gesture of splitting the rooms instead of taking the premium room, repaired." Aza said looking at them like she was the devil himself.
"I knew it was out of character of you not to take the premium room, you set us up!" Kingsley said with a shocked face and his whole body shaking.
"Mmm? You don't have a problem with that right, Kingsley? The same goes for you Z, there's no issue right?" Aza said with a creepy face that scared the shit out of both of them.
"No ma'am!" Kingsley and I said at the same time.
"Great! I'm glad this is all settled, alright chop-chop." Aza said shooing them away.
"Right away ma'am." They both said before sprinting back downstairs and out the door trying to find someone who could be selling pink lemonade and ramen.
CHAPTER 9: How About A Glass Of Wine
"Welcome to Coodles! The noodles that have a care in the name, we only have one ramen bowl left is that fine?"
"Yes! Perfectly fine!" They both said in unison just remembering the face she made before they left. They didn't want to go back empty-handed.
"Alright just stay right there while I finish it off!" The man said putting so much care and detail into every aspect of the ramen.
"Here you go, would you like a box to carry this?"
"No we don't need a bo-"
"Z, wait! What if something happens to the noodles shouldn't we carry them in a box just in case? I don't want to go back empty-handed." Kingsley said cutting me off.
"You're right! Yes, we would like a box."
"Alright, here you go then." The man handed them the box and they went out to find food for them and pink lemonade.
"It's been ages and we still can't find the pink lemonade. I'd say we bring back water get fifty percent of the payback and pay her back another way." Kingsley said practically leaning on me so he doesn't have to use all his energy walking perfectly straight.
"You're probably right, and if we're fast enough we can hide in our room with the door locked." I said turning around and seeing Apollo.
"What's the matter Z-" Apollo what the hell what happened you!?" When they saw Apollo he looked very sweaty, had bags under his eyes, had red eyes, and was breathing very hard.
"I'm just so... Hungry! I'm so hungry in fact, give me that!" Apollo grabbed the box, opened it, and started eating all the ramen. "That hit the spot, anyways I'm off cya."
"Apollo we're going to kill you!" Z and Kingsley both said chasing Apollo down and both hitting him on the head.
"Now we're going to die," Kingsley said with tears streaming down his face.
"Welp, I had a good life, did you?" I said to Kingsley.
"Let's run away, I don't think it's worth going back," Kingsley said with a loss of hope in his voice.
"Let's just, pick up something else and go back to the Inn." I said already feeling the yell and beating they were going to get as they both went to a random vendor and got food for the three of themselves.
"Here you go Aza, beef tacos with regular lemonade." I said to Aza as she looked at them with sudden death in her devilish eyes.
"Funny. Now, where's my ramen and pink lemonade?" Aza said with a smile on her face.
"Apollo ran up and ate the ramen, for the pink lemonade, they only had regular," Kingsley said in a low voice.
"Oh, you're being serious. Well then," Aza started getting her voice ready to yell at them.
"I told you guys to give me ramen and pink lemonade! You guys come back with regular lemonade and beef tacos, they're not even birra." With that, she took a deep breath and looked at them with the same angry eyes "I'll let you off the hook, only because the time you took was long and seemed like you guys generally tried. Tell Apollo to watch his back as well. Okay now out of my room, shoo-shoo." Aza said kicking us out with a "good night" closing the door and leaving the us terrified of her.
"We lived! Yes!" Kingsley said walking into our room.
"I know it only got us mildly deaf but still." Z said laughing as he also walked in.
"Alright so, Z, you can have the bed. I'm going to sleep on the floor." Kingsley said gathering extra blankets they picked up just in case.
"Are you sure, we can easily share the bed? It's a big bed, the biggest bed I think I've ever seen." I said unsure.
"I'm positive, trust me... Well, good night Z." With that Kingsley put his head down on his makeshift bed and snored for the rest of the night.
"Good morning everyone! Are you guys ready to get on with our case?" Dion said looking as neat as he usually was only this time his hair was a bit more messy than usual.
"Don't give me that bullshit, Dion! I was awakened from my sleep by some jerk hitting the wall with their bed. Here's a tip, put a pillow behind it." Apollo angrily said while Dion just blushed.
"Brother, may we discuss this another time and not in front of a bunch of kids," Dion said trying to keep his gentlemen composure.
"You're lucky, lucky!" With that everyone was ready to go.
"Well I have to leave but I'll come back for sure, save me another room?" Dion said looking at the girl at the counter.
"Yeah, sure." The woman said hiding her blushing face. "C'mon guys let's go... Win our hockey nationals!" Dion said, followed by everyone leaving the inn.
"This walk is so long. Can somebody carry me, please?" Kingsley said intentionally acting like he's dying.
"Kingsley, pull yourself together. It's only a little bit more."
"Yeah but I'm freezing now, the winter cold is affecting me now. Santa! Can you please come down and let me on your sleigh and fly me there." Kingsley said shouting to the sky.
"Even if Santa was real he wouldn't come and get a kid on the naughty list," Aza said pushing Kingsley to go faster.
"My soul has been... Downtrodden." Kingsley said in a matter as if he was dying.
"Aza, can't you just let him dream?" I said laughing at his words.
"Dream? He is lucky if he could have some in his sleep while I'm around. Plus he is naughty, naughty."
"Naughty!? What have you been a complete angel?" Kingsley said in a shocking matter.
"How'd you know?" Aza said with a devilish smile.
"No, you're definitely working with the devil." I added in a low voice.
"Hey!' Aza responded surprised.
"Will you three be quiet!?" Apollo said out of nowhere, dripping with sweat. "Apollo, why have you been sweating a lot around nighttime?" Kingsley said poking him on his side just to get on his nerves.
"I don't know, if I did I would have already fixed it by now. Now stop poking me or I'll shave off your precious gold hair."
When Apollo said that everyone stopped talking and looked at him shocked, then proceeded to all walk ahead of Apollo.
"The gold hair is what makes Kingsley, Kingsley. I can't believe you said that." Dion said shaking his head with shame.
"When did you get into these fights!?" Apollo said shocked that Dion, his brother of all people would say something like that.
"Guys look! I see lights! Could that be?" Aza said pointing forwards. Then like it was scripted everyone yelled "Phronesis! Yes!" With that, they all started to run towards the light.
"Here we are team, we made it to Phronesis. Let's go over the plan again so there are no mishaps. Our objective, destroy the two facilities and beat anyone who gets in our way. Then try to get a No-Name restrained and bring it back to H.Q. Lastly, get revenge for Koji and live. Also if you can get anything else useful make sure to bring that as well. Am I clear?" Dion said looking at everyone who gathered in a circle.
Everyone nodded in agreement and smiled, everyone was feeling confident.
"Alright! Let's bring this one home!" With that they started to split into the two teams, Apollo, Aza, and Z. Then Dion and Kingsley with this everyone said at the same time "Don't Die!" then officially split.
"C'mon Kingsley you gotta move faster than that!" Dion said running noticeably faster than Kingsley was while looking backward and talking to him.
"You'll see I'll catch up to you, old man," Kingsley said trying to keep up running with him.
"Old man? I haven't even reached my 40's yet, give me a break." Dion said turning around and trying to scout the facility.
"My brother and his group must already be fighting, this is bad we're behind schedule. Pick it up, slowpoke!."
"I am, our fight on the whole other side of Phronesis, not to mention is a little further out than that as well!" Kingsley said finally starting to pick up his speed a little.
"I think we're almost there. I can see something in the distance... It looks like a No-Name! We're almost there. Keep it up K-" Dion was cut off by a bullet getting close to his face, yet he dodge it a second notice.
"Dion you good over there? You slowed down?"
"Kingsley! Be careful, they know we're coming." With that, they reached the end of the city and they both jumped really high and far and landed running straight toward their destination.
"Kingsley! The bullets are getting closer to hitting me, are you sure you can dodge them?" Dion said trying to focus on running this time.
"Yes, I can. I just needed some time to heat up a little. I told you I can go faster didn't I?" With that Kingsley started to pick up his pace and started to go a little faster.
"Hey, you can have some decent speed. Alright, let's finish them off. I don't like their attitude towards me, didn't even offer me a drink first!" Dion said as they finally get in close reach.
"Chop barrage!" Dion said while chopping up the snipers that were shooting at them. "Kingsley go in from the front, I'll go in through the back we'll ambush them on the count of one starting from ten. Starting now!" Dion said chopping up more of his opponents in front of him, counting down to one.
"Five, Four, Three, Two, One!" Dion and Kingsley both said in their heads breaking into the building from both sides and seeing two kids sitting in the middle, with no names next to them.
"Oh our tip-off was right, they really did come. They also didn't bring small fish, well at least in their small pond." The adult with white hair said standing up and starting to stretch.
"Zap. Take care of the kid I don't want to see his disturbing face in mine when I'm done slaughtering this man over here." The man with white hair said as he finished stretching.
"You got it Quix. I'll destroy him so badly, we can feed his bones to the dogs. I'll use his dead body for a curtain since the sun keeps getting in my eyes."
The little boy with red hair said before dashing straight at Kingsley and trying to kick his head off.
"Ahh! You could have chopped my head there you know, too bad that was too slow." Kingsley said before clashing with his kick.
"Ooo! No one has ever done this before, except for him." Zap said out loud before backing and starting to laugh.
"I have one question for you: did you poison a kid with blue hair?" Kingsley said getting serious out of nowhere.
"Blue hair? I haven't even seen a guy with blue hair, although I did just hear they were experimenting with these poison bullets to kill someone from this pesky agency that will get in our way. I think it's called Undershow Agency, yeah that's the one. But I think you know that already now, don't you?" Zap said with a creepy smile on his face.
"One more thing, what would happen if I don't stop you right now?" Kingsley said facing down and then looking him in his eyes with anger.
"Let's see. Well it's clear to me you had a connection with the kid that got poisoned so after killing you, I go to the agency and kill him myself. Just to make your soul never rest with ease, to feel your disappointment with yourself. That would pride me so much, although it might have already happened. How's the agency?" Zap said with a twisted smile
"Wrong" Kingsley said before starting again with a full yell.
"Wrong answer!" Before dashing forwards and almost kicking Zap's head off.
"Wow, that was close. Going for an instant win like that you don't seem like that type of guy. Well, it doesn't matter because now, I can feel this fight will make me stronger than before. Thanks for being a stepping stone!" Zap said before doing his attack.
"Medium Speed!" With that Zap was a little faster and was a little stronger with his kicks, making Kingsley barely dodge, until he got hit straight in the nose.
"You can't even handle my medium speed! You're the definition of a yapper." Zap said before releasing a barrage of attacks.
"Spike Kick!" When he said that a spike came from the bottom of his shoe and cut Kingsley in the stomach.
"Spike Barrage!" A barrage of spike kicks hits Kingsley leaving little holes all over his body.
"This is all I need to finish you off, a shot straight towards the brain!" That's when Zap jumped in the air and started spinning a bunch before aiming at Kingsley's brain and starting to go down. "Sharp Dancing!" That's when Kingsley grabbed the spike from the bottom of his shoe and threw Zap against the wall.
"I have to say, I like the way you fight. I want to use that now, It's perfect for my ability as well!" Kingsley said before taking a deep breath and starting up his move.
"Colored Flames: Black!" That's when Kingsley's foot went into flames covered with the color black.
"Burning Collage!" With that Kingsley zoomed right behind Zap and kicked him in the head.
"Burning Skates!" Out of nowhere, Kingsley started to act like he was skating and found the opening he needed and kicked Zap right in his mouth.
"I see now, what a unique and interesting ability. Using colored flames to make them hotter the more you go in the color spectrum. Although with a cost, you can't do any of the higher flames yet, and if you can it injuries you severely. Am I right?" Zap said looking at him with a smirk on his face.
"You're not as stupid as I thought. Well, it doesn't matter because usually, I'm happier than this. But, I don't like someone who associates with the people who hurt my friends and for that, you dug you're grave... Before we started fighting." Kingsley said before dashing towards him with more fire in his eyes than on his foot.
"Why is he getting, stronger?" That was all Zap could think in his head.
...
"Alright, now how about we simply go about this in a gentlemen's manner? You give up and tell me who you are and the plan you scums have scheming and I'll tell my friend over there to stop fighting and we'll leave." Dion said cleaning his shaded glasses. Before dropping them back down to show only his eyes.
"Give up? To a weakling like you guys? No way! I have to though, that one fighter for your group was pretty great. Too bad he got too cocky for his good." Quix said starting to laugh.
"Is he talking about, Dion?" Dion said his face started to show more anger than ever in his life.
"Take it back," Dion said in a low voice.
"Take it back, or I'll promise you more than death could ever bring. I promise."
"How about... No, now go fuck off and kill yourself why won't yeah?" Quix said before shooing off Dion.
"Before we start I wanted to ask you, how about a glass of wine? Considering it's your last." Dion said, pouring himself a glass of wine.
"I want to kill you, not make friends with you," Quix said, yawning and getting ready to fight.
"Good, I didn't want to share any wine with a creep who hangs around a little kid in an abandoned warehouse anyways. Pe-do."Dion said in a quirky way before smashing his cup on the floor and drinking the whole bottle of wine.
"Alright, let's start. I have a girl at an Inn to go see and the devil doesn't wait for his victims!" Dion said his eyes twitching and his sword dripping of wine.
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"I love you, Rachel!"
"I love you too, Dion. Let's get married."
"Okay, Rachel!"