Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Pink Moon ❯ The Room of Unsellable Pets; Looks Like Leon's "Crazy In Love"; A Bird for Your Services; Shava Stay ( Chapter 2 )
[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: Dream_Watcher 
D finally leads the gang to an artifical jungle in the very back of the shop, but an interruption by Leon Orcot distracts the Count and he leaves them to fend for themselves. However, after meeting the the "unsellable" creatures, however,the warriors decide to cheer them up while the Count and Orcot are out (saving the world). Will they get cuaght? What will happen THIS time?! And WHY is San San following Shava everywhere?!
Anime/Manga: Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.29.2003 | Pages: 6 | Words: 5.4K | Visits: 363 | Status: Completed
D finally leads the gang to an artifical jungle in the very back of the shop, but an interruption by Leon Orcot distracts the Count and he leaves them to fend for themselves. However, after meeting the the "unsellable" creatures, however,the warriors decide to cheer them up while the Count and Orcot are out (saving the world). Will they get cuaght? What will happen THIS time?! And WHY is San San following Shava everywhere?!
Anime/Manga: Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 08.29.2003 | Pages: 6 | Words: 5.4K | Visits: 363 | Status: Completed
Pink Moon
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Disclaimer: ......Don't own D or Q or Orcot, just the band of warriors. Oh! And I don't own Beyonce's (Yes...Beyonce's U__U() ) song "Crazy in Love".
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"Man, these halls could go on forever!" Menelik yawned as he inspected another one of his sharp pointed sticks.
Count D sweatdropped. "C-could you put those away? They make me nervous..."
Menelik growled. "No way, man. Not until we have found the Phoenix."
D groaned. Could this day get any worse?
A loud voice echoed from the front of the store.
"I'VE GOT YOU NOW, "COUNT"!!!"
Yep, it just got worse.
D turned to go back to the front.
"Hey!!" Shava called after him. "What about us?!"
"Oh...just go into the room in front of you and wait for me there," D said hurriedly, "I have a detective to get rid of."
"Uh...?" But before Shava could comment he was already gone.
"Shava, look at this!"
Ishigami held open the large doors for the warriors to go through.
It was a dimly lit room, but Shava knew it had to be bigger than it was. The warriors' eyes shifted as shadows of.....things flew this way and that.
Something scurried by Shava's feet.
"What the heck?" She lifted her foot. Nothing.
"How strange," Fang said. "It's like an artificial jungle in here."
"Hmmph." Menelik's eyes were used to seeing in the dark. This was nothing to him. "I just hope that Count doesn't skip out on us."
Fernando grunted in agreement.
"Ugh, you boys don't have to try so hard at heroism..." Shava said, grinning. "Let's just sit by here."
So the five warriors set up "camp" in the false jungle.
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"So, Leon, what brings you here?"
"Listen D! I'm warning you...if you give another one of those animals to innocent people, I'll--"
"You'll WHAT, Leon?" D smirked as he handed him the cup of tea.
"Ugh, no WAY am I drinking that, D."
"Suit yourself." D took a sip. "Now, who broke their contract and caused depressing and/or gruesome events to befall them THIS time?"
Leon threw a rather thin peach colored folder at D. "Y'know a lady named Miss Greene?"
"Yes, She was JUST here about fifteen minutes ago.
Leon took a looooong puff on his cigarette. "Yeah, well, it seems you've sold her a pretty strange breed of dog...."
"Oh!" D smiled. "You mean the loup-garou?"
Leon's eye went wide. "YOU SOLD HER A FRIGGIN WEREWOLF?!!!!"
"Well she wanted it and the loup-garou seemed to like her SO much, I couldn't help but give her the contract." [Yeah..sure...U__U()]
Leon broke out into a cold sweat. "B-but....werewolves are NEVER human-friendly....."
"This was a different breed of werewolf..." D explained matter-of-factly, "She most likely broke a part of the contract."
"Which was?"
"To never show him to anyone, apparently."
"UGH!" Leon flopped back onto the sofa. "Well! There we go! Maybe you should make those "contracts" of your a little more threatening." He sat up. "NOW we have a stray werewolf around the neighborhood, thank you very much."
"I'm so sorry," D apologized, "but I AM entertaining other customers...."
Leon gave the Count a look. "So, all we need is a silver bullet, eh?"
"WHAT?" D's eyes went wide. "Don't KILL it! It's so rare and nearly extinct!" He stood up and opened the bottom of a file cabinet. "At least use this...."
Leon eyed the "bullet" suspiciously. "What is it?"
"It's just a tranquilizer bullet. It should put the loup-garou to sleep." D sighed. "Maybe I should've put him under "unsellable" pets."
Leon grinned. ""Unsellable"? Is that even a word?"
"Ugh, you know what it means. Now excuse me...." D started to exit to the back room. "I need to take care of these guests of mine..."
Leon wasn't done with the Count yet. "Uh uh. You're gonna help me find this "loup-garou" before it causes any MORE damage.."
D sweatdropped. "I suppose so. Follow me."
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Meanwhile, in a dimly lit artificial jungle, there slept five warriors. The leader, an auburn haired Muslim girl named Shava and the rest who followed her during her journey.....
"Nnngh...." Shava slowly opened her eyes. Wiping the underside of her nose, she arose from the dirt floor.
"Shava? You awake?" Fang's voice seemed so far away.
"Huh? Where's the Count?" Ishigami was also awake. Not too soon after her, the two boys stepped out of dreamland into the livingworld. (I think.)
Shava looked around, then growled. "Rrrrrrr...the idiot DITCHED us!"
Fang took her friend by the shoulder. "DON'T worry, Shava. I'm sure he'll be back."
"Yeah RIGHT! Man, this whole day has been confusing!" Shava swept Fang's hand off. "Geez!"
"What's she getting all upset about?" the seagreen haired girl asked Fang. Then she got a sneaky look on her face. "Ooooo, I remember now..."
Fang smirked. "Really?"
Ishigami grinned. "Remember Shava was acting like this before we met Seyoki Yuni."
It was true, Shava was having a fit before they met the elusive water nymph---who ended up being Shava's full-blown crush. (Heh heh.)
The two women giggled insanely, forgetting exactly why they where here.
"D-you.....ARE you thinkin what I'M thinkin', Fang?"
"Duh, girl! Shava's losin' it again and I think I know over who-oo!"
"Will you two shut up?!" Shava snapped. "You can't predict anything from my emotions!"
"But, Shava, its true," Ishigami said, a little whine in her voice. "Besides, I SAW the way he looked at you."
"Yeah, and I saw the way he looked at YOU, Ishigami, "Shava countered. "And I think there's a reason why he's not leading us straight to the Phoenix."
Fang waggled her eyebrows. "Heh heh heh...."
BA-DONG!
Shava smirked. "Well that takes care of that!" She brushed off her hands. "You gonna be okay, Fang?"
@____@ "Just....fine......"
"Good!" Shava cheered. "I don't need ANY perverted ideas flowin' through my head right now!"
Ishigami took about five steps backward from Shava. "Uhh...yeah...."
Menelik just beamed. His Shava was so beautiful AND strong!
"Why don't we go look for the bird ourselves, amigos?" Fernando was tired of waiting for D.
"Yes, why don't we?" Shava looked all around her. Good, her eyes were getting used to the darkness. "This way...."
The group followed her and Menelik. (WHY is he by her side? Haha!)
"Shava?"
"Yes, Menelik?"
"If we don't get out of this place alive, I want you to know that you're the only woman I'll ever love...."
Shava sweatdropped. "That's....nice, Menelik....."
"Thank you!" he grinned. "I've ALWAYS wanted to say that!"
Menawhile, various animal noises chittered here and there throughout the dark jungle.
'Man, there are alot of birds around here....' Shava thought, an even bigger sweatdrop by her coffee brown colored head.
They finally entered a clearing in the "jungle". But it wasn't like any clearing they've seen before.
It was a well spotlighted circle as big as a stage, the floor (unlike the rest of the room) was not covered with dirt but was covered with a circular red carpet.
"Oookay...." Shava shielded her eyes from the bright light that was coming from right above them.
"WOW! What is THIS doin here?" Ishigami bent down to feel the plush red carpet. "We should've slept HERE!"
"Oy..."Shava slapped her forehead, then she felt something hug her from behind. "AHH! MENE--huh?"
"Pii!"
Shava groaned and slowly turned around to see none other than San San nuzzling his cute little face into her back.
"Hello, birdboy...." Shava said in a mock sweet voice. "D'you think you can release me out of your....."loving" grip, please?"
San San cheerfully let go, but not without giving the young woman one more squeeze.
The rest of the group looked blankly at San San.
"Um.....how did he get out?" Ishigami asked, while chuckling. "I think he REALLY REALLY likes you, Shava-chan!"
Shava eyed the Strelitzia suspciously. "....."
" :D "
"Ugh, come on then, San San...." She took scooped him into her arms. "WOW! He's really light!"
"Duh, Shava, " Fang said, "he's a bird! ALL birds are lightweight!"
"Except emus," Menelik added.
"Hunh?" The group stared at the Chadian.
"Long story, don't worry about it."
Shuffling onto the carpeted clearing, the groups sat down again to rest--except Shava who set down San San before sitting down herself.
"Uh...you guys?" Ishigami pointed to the trees around them. The warriors turned their gaze from each other to the glowing eyes in the trees.
Shava got into a fighting stance. "Here we go."
But Fang saw something different. "Wait Shava, look, those aren't trees, they're cages!"
Shava relaxed. "Well I'll be... This surely is a weird petshop...."
The cages were stacked on top of each other like stone bricks. However, there weren't bars on the cages, only ornate carvings big enough to peep through, but not big enough to get out.
"Well well," a rather loud man's voice from the very top called down to the warriors and Strelitzia, "What have we got here, brothers and sisters? It seems San San has gotten loose...AGAIN!"
A flurry of coos and animal grunts echoed the....whatever that was up there's contempt for the young Strelitzia.
Shava smirked. "And who are YOU?" She called back.
A dark mass shifted at the top. "I...am an Imitator, " it said in a posh British man's voice. "I can imitate anything, anywhere, anytime. I am an unsellable pet."
"Unsellable pet?" Shava wondered.
Fernando looked around him. "So...this room is for pets that can't possibly be sold to anyone?"
"That is correct, my Brasilian amigo!" The "Imitator" said in Fernando's thick accent.
Fernando's eyebrows furrowed at the mocking in the Imitator's voice. "Why you....."
"Calm down, Fernando..." Ishigami pleaded.
Shava held him back. Then she peered closely into one of the bottom cages.
"Haha! Don't get too close, Muslim girl! THAT'S a harpy!"
Shava immediately pulled herself back just as a screeching bird with dangling breasts lunged for her face.
"Grrrrr....," Shava growled savagely at the Harpy. "Why would D collect these things? I heard harpies were incredibly filthy...."
"Awwwww! You LIKE Count D???" the Imitator giggled insanely in a chirpy little girl's voice. "HAH! As if the Count could EVER have time for a peasant like YOU!"
"WHY YOU---!!," Shava jumped all the way up to the top cages before anyone could stop her.
"!!!!!!" San San took off after her.
"WHY YOU PIECE OF WASTED ANIMAL FLESH!!!!! I OUGHTA----!" Shava stopped. She gripped onto one the curves of the ornate carving. "What the---?"
Inside, she could make out a rather large blob of something. Whatever it was, it was gelatinous and breathing.
"Now, you see why no one would buy me?" it said in a mournful little boy's voice. "Look at me.....I'm not as beautiful as that silly Strelitzia behind you."
Shava snarled at San San. "Get down from here! You're agitating him!"
"Puu..." San San stuck out his bottom lip and floated downwards. Shava returned her gaze to the Imitator.
"We're the ones that even the incense the Count spreads around doesn't even change. We are the TRUE magical creatures. The creatures with the REAL powers." The blob sniffed loudly. "But for all our talents, D couldn't get anyone to buy us. So he put us here. Every once in a while a special human will buy a loup-garou or a dragon.But it's rare."
Despite the hardened look on her face, Shava couldn't help but feel sorry for all of these animals---even the harpy sniffled a little.
However, they came here for a thousand year old Phoenix. NOT an unsellable pet.
As Shava jumped down back to the carpeting. Ishigami immediately started to cry.
"NOW what, Ishi?"
"I-It's so SAAAAAD!!!!!!"
"Oh boy, here we go...." Menelik plugged his ears so he could protect his hearing from Ishigami's sonic sobs.
"Oh, Shava, they're ALL so unhappy! I wish we could make them happy for at least ONE day!"
Shava broke out in a cold sweat. "So whadda ya want ME to do about it?!"
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".......Y'know, when I asked, "Whadda ya me to do about it?" I had no idea you had an idea...."
Ishigami grinned. "Oh, Shava! Songs make everyone happy! AND you have SUCH a beautiful voice!"
"Grrrrr...."
"I guess NOW she doesn't," Fernando laughed, recieving a quick but painful bop on the head from the auburn haired ninja. "Ow!"
"Serves you right, Fernando...."
The creatures looked curiously from their cages. What was going on?
Ishigami finished hooking up the large speakers and DJ machine. "There we go! And now to add the FRILLS!" She raised her right hand in the air. "SUPER DEMON MAGIC ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A bright blue light emitted from her fingers and shot up into the air. It burst like a firecracker on the Fourth of July and its pieces sprinkled down to the clearing , changing everything in its reach.
Shava's blah grey outfit instantly transformed into a slinky sparkily short black dress, complete with make-up for her face and sparkily black heels for her feet.
Ishigami's and Fang's clothing changed to sparkily red and yellow dresses similar to Shava's. An array of colored club lights moved around, briefly lighting up the dark room, but not enough to hurt any nocturnal creature's eyes.
"Ahhhh! Isn't it beautiful?!" Ishigami squealed.
"And WHAT am I supposed to be singing?" Shava asked blandly.
"Shava! Remember that poem you wrote for Yuni? It was so lovely! All WE need to do is to "jazz it up" a little!"
Shava squinted. Not only were these heels killing her feet (and the fact that the dress was waaaay too short for her tastes), that poem to Yuni was PRIVATE PROERTY! She just didn't feel like exposing her...."romeo" side just yet, and in front of these creatures.
"C'mon Shava! They won't know who you're talkin about!" Fang whispered excitedly, as if reading Shava's thoughts
"Ugh...all right."
The warriors cheered.
"Whooohoo! Let's get this party started!!!!!" Ishigami turned on the machine and suddenly an orchestra of trumpets announced the beginning of the song.
Menelik: "Yes
It's so crazy right now
Most incredibly
It's your girl B
It's your boy Young"
Shava *taking the mike* :You ready?
Ishigami and Fang danced behind Shava as she took center "stage".
Girls: Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Menelik: History in the making part two
It's so crazy right now
Shava: I look and stare so deep in your eyes
I touch on you more and more every time
When you leave I'm beggin' you not to go
Call your name two or three times in a row
Such a funny thing for me to try to explain
How I'm feelin' and my pride is the one to blame
'Cause I know I don't understand
Just how your love your can do what no one else can
'This is easier than I thought,' Shava thought as she and her girls got down to BUSINESS with that dancin'! They were shaking their bad selves everywhere, the rhythm of the DJ machine as the charmer.
Girls: Got me lookin' so crazy right now
Your love's got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
love)
Got me looking so crazy right now
Your touch got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
touch)
Got me hopin' you'll page me right now
Your kiss got me hopin' you'll save me right now
Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
Girls: Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
The creatures stopped wondering what they were doing and just moved to the music. They had never seen or HEARD anything so entertaining! The flashing colored lights and dancing people made them feel that---maybe everything wasn't THAT bad.
Shava: When I talk to my friends so quietly
{Ishigami and Fang: Who he think he is} Look at what you did to me
Tennis shoes, don't even need to buy a new dress
If you ain't there ain't nobody else to impress
It's just the way that you know what I thought I knew
It's the beat my heart skips when I'm with you
But I still don't understand
Just how your love can do what no one else can
Girls: Got me lookin' so crazy right now
Your love's got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
love)
Got me looking so crazy right now
Your touch got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
touch)
Got me hopin' you'll page me right now
Your kiss got me hopin' you'll save me right now
Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
I'm lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
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"Man! That werewolf really put up a fight!" Leon said as he slapped the slumped body of the loup-garou on D's (CLEAN) sofa.
D walked in after him, grinning like an idiot. "What an adventure!"
"Yeah yeah, " Leon puffed out his chest. SO many ladies are gonna wanna be the date of the "were-wolf hunter" tonight!
Suddenly D felt the walls. "Wait a minute...."
"What's wrong, D?"
"I feel a vibration coming from these walls.....That's strange."
"Vibration?" Leon sweatdropped. "Like someone playing loud music vibration...or?"
"Yes..yes that's it! Come with me detective!"
The two men ran into the back rooms.
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Menelik took the center stage, his normal Chadian robes changed to a red sleeveless shirt and baggy black pants.
Menelik: Young Hov, y'all know when the flow is loco
Young B and the R-O-C, uh-oh
Ol' G, big homey, the one and only
Stick bony, but the pocket is fat like Tony
Soprano, the ROC handle like Van Axel
I shake phonies, man, you can't get next to
The genuine article I go, I do not sing though
I sling though, if anything I bling, yo'
A star like Ringo, roar like gringo
Crazy, bring your whole set
Menelik in the range, crazy and deranged
They can't figure them out they like hey is he insane
Yes, sir, I'm cut from a different cloth
My texture is the best fur chinchilla
I been healin' chain smokers
But how you think I got the name Hova
I been realer, the game's over
Fall back young, ever since the label changed over
To Platinum the game's been wrap, one
Shava: Got me lookin' so crazy, my baby
I'm not myself lately, I'm foolish, I don't do this
I've been playin' myself, baby, I don't care!
'Cause your love's got the best of me
And baby you're makin' a fool of me
You got me sprung and I don't care who sees
'Cause baby, you got me, you got me, so crazy, baby
Leon and D burst into the room of unsellable pets and gasped at what they saw. It seemed the whole "jungle" was turned into a club scene, complete with lights, audience (the creatures) and entertainment (the warriors).
"Oh my....." D nearly fainted at the apparent destruction of his precious indoor jungle. Leon just stared at the girl who was singing.
She was beautiful! Her long auburn hair swayed this way and that as she danced and sang of love and longing, her black dress hugged all the right places and her heels made her look like she was floating rather than on the plush carpeting of the clearing. Leon felt his heart skip a beat.
"My god...." He had to get a closer look! D weakly followed him.
Girls: Got me lookin' so crazy right now
Your love's got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
love)
Got me looking so crazy right now
Your touch got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
touch)
Got me hopin' you'll page me right now
Your kiss got me hopin' you'll save me right now
Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
Got me lookin' so crazy right now
Your love's got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
love)
Shava looked at the blonde haired man staring intently at her. She grinned and got bold. She stepped off the stage and sang while doing a sultry dance around him. Menelik narrowed his eyes.
Got me looking so crazy right now
Your touch got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
touch)
Got me hopin' you'll page me right now
Your kiss got me hopin' you'll save me right now
Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
Girls and Shava: Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
The music ended with the trumpets blasting the last note. The creatures went wild with glee as the warriors bowed and waved.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Ishigami said to her adoring "fans".
"Pii pii!" San San clapped his hands.
Shava grinned at San San. "Glad you liked it, kid."
"WOW!" Detective Orcot ran up to the young lady. "What's your name? How did you get so GOOD?!"
Shava sweatdropped. Was this the guy serious?
"Excuse me," she turned away from him, but Leon grabbed her hand.
"Wait!" He got down on one knee. "I'm so sorry! It came out wrong! Wow...you're so beautiful...."
"Excuse me, " D said, his eyebrow twitching. "I think I need to have a "talk" with my "guests" here....."
"Whoops!" Ishigami quickly wrapped Shava in a quickie burka and held her behind her.
D stared at the Lake Demoness with the Muslim girl hiding behind her back. He looked farther to see a familair Bali dancer's crown peeking from behind Shava.
"San San?!"
"Yeah yeah, it's yer Strelitzia..." Shava said, now dressed back to normal. She brushed herself off. "He escaped from his room and followed us here." She didn't say "me" because that would prompt the Count to try and sell San San to her again.
"Puu?"
"San San? Get offa me!" Shava waved her arms about. San San backed away and plopped into Menelik's lap.
"Hey!"
D stared at them. Of course, Shava stared back.
"Let's stop wasting time, D. Where's the Phoenix?"
"That's COUNT D to you, young woman. And I don't KNOW where it is."
Leon stood beside Shava. "You took something from her?"
U__U() "Why are you taking her side?"
"Because a grown man like you shouldn't take things from innocent maidens."
Shava sweatdropped. ""Innocent maiden"?"
"Hah! Who's innocent anymore?" D chuckled. "Besides, I told the truth, I really have no idea where the Phoenix is---"
"UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nene-chan's gone forever!!!!"
Leon cast a glance at Ishigami. "You took something from her too?! DUDE! I never knew you were a pimp!" [Sorry, ladies and gents, couldn't resist...]
"SHUT UP!" Shava roared at all of them. She growled at D. "Give us the Phoenix, or we'll take it by FORCE!"
"You'll have to get through ME first!" D flew into the air, his arms outstrecthed.
"Rrrrr, playin' it THAT way, eh?" Shava lunged after him. "Come back here coward!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Leon watched in amazement as Shava placed a volley of kicks and punches at D, while the Count swiped at her with his sharp nails/claws.
"Man, they're BOTH amazing!"
"They sure are!" Ishigami chirped. Then sighed happily. "Aren't they just PERFECT for each other?" ^.^
u__u() "Weren't you crying a few mintues ago?"
"Stand STILL, woman!!!!" D roared.
"Hahaha! I NEVER stand still!!!" Shava avoided another swipe for her face. "You're so fierce, come and GET me!"
D grinned. "All right." He balled up his fists and concentrated. A light blue aura flickered around said fists. "HERE IT COMES!!!!" He threw the balls of light at her.
"Aiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!" Shava narrowly avoided the first, but the second one got her from behind. "AHH!" She fell to the ground.
"AHHHH! SHAVA, MY LOVE!!!!!!!!" Menelik faced the floating man in the air. "Rrrrrrrr...." He took five of his sticks and threw them at the Count. "Take that!"
Meanwhile, while D was fighting with Menelik (ain't he brave?), Shava pulled herself off the ground. Leon ran to her aid.
"Hey, you ok? I know, D's a strong one, eh?"
"Will you be quiet?" she snarled. "As if that little ball of ki can hurt me!" She made a red ball of ki of her own. "I learned this trick from Ishigami's dear old dad."
She threw it into the air, right behind D.
Menelik noticed a small ball of ki behind the Count. 'Hey! It's Shava's "Mine Graine Attack" Alright!'
"See you later, dude."
"Hah! What does THAT mean, stick boy?"
Menelik gave the Count a simple push into the red ball. The ball grew bigger enveloping the Count inside. D screamed in rage and pain as the Mine Graine attack took its toll.
"YES!" Shava yelped. "NOW it's MY turn!" She flew into the air...... "Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"
.....and kicked the Count from the bottom, bursting the bubble and sending D crashing to the ground.
"WHOOOOHOOO! WE ROCK!" Ishigami cheered.
"Hahaha! Serves you right, Count!" the Imitator laughed.
Shava stepped over to the Count's nearly lifeless body.
"Where's the Phoenix?" she asked dangerously.
D slowly (and painfully) turned his head to meet her face.
"Y-you're so much more than human....." He instantly fainted.
"Whoa!" Leon crept over to the Count's body. "Is he.....*gulp* DEAD?!"
"No, unfortunately not..." Shava felt the underside of the Count's neck. "He's still got a pulse."
"Whoa...whew! I thought I had to arrest you all for homici----uh..."
The group stared intently at him.
Leon pulled at his collar. "Whew! Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?"
"It's just you, " Shava replied, smirking. She stared at D. "Maybe we should bring him to his room." She turned to Leon.
"I don't where it is.....ask...HEY! Where's that bunny thing that's always on his shoulder?!"
"Chii?" Q-chan, hearing people talking about him, flew into the room. When the rabbit saw his fallen master, he let out a wail.
"Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!"
"Oy, hey Q!" Leon shouted. "He's not dead, lil fella! Just unconscious!"
Q-chan flapped angrily to the group. He sat on D's chest, hissing at anyone who tried to touch him.
Shava sighed. She tried the "gentle" approach.
"Q-chan," she said in an amazingly softer tone of voice. "We're going to fix him up. He's just been in an accident, that's all....alright? All we need to know is where the Count's bedroom is."
Menelik and Leon couldn't believe it! This girl could switch moods so easily!
Q-chan gave Shava a skeptical look.
"Please, Q-chan?" She gave the rabbit one of her rare and lovely smiles.
"Chi!" the little bunny chirped with glee and flew off the Count. Shava gently threw the Count over her shoulders.
"Let's go."
As they followed Q-chan and Shava out of the room, Menelik and Leon both wondered the same thing.
Exactly what was Shava up to?
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"Unnngh...." D stirred in his sleep.
"He-hey! He's waking up, people!" Ishigami called everyone inside the bedchambers.
"It's about time," Shava grumbled. "He was nearly unconscious for at least six hours!"
"Heh, he's pretty weak! He can't match YOUR strength, my love!" Menelik crowed.
"Don't YOU start...."
A soft voice startled them out of their arguements.
"W-what's going on?"
"Hey! You're awake Count!" Shava moved to his side, which caused Fang and Ishigami to start laughing again.
"Get outta here!" Shava threw her shoe at them. They avoided it, still laughing.
"Hmmph, fools..." she turned to the Count. "You alright? I didn't think that Mine Graine Attack would take THAT much outta ya...."
"YOU!!!" D sat up too quickly, only to slump back down again.
"Heh, calm down, I'd never attack the defensless."
"Hah!" Count buried his head in his pillows. "Yes you WOULD...."
"A-hem...." Shava cleared her throat. Why was this guy making her nervous? "Look, do we have to PAY you to give up the Phoenix? Because I know its still here..."
"How?"
"Hunh?"
"How do you know its still here, Miss Shava?"
"That's Miss Muhammad to YOU, young man..." Shava grinned as she said it. From the pillows, the Count smiled.
"Thank you for turning my words against me, MISS Muhammad...."
"Always glad to serve the little people, Count..."
"Really?" D sat up. "Are you sure? Because I can give you your precious Phoenix...for a price."
Shava smirked. "Nothing is ever free in your little world, eh? Alright, let's have it."
"I'll make deal with you. A bird for your services."
"Wha--?"
D leaned closer to Shava. "If I give you the Phoenix, then you'll have to stay with me."
"!"
"Didn't think it would be THAT kind of deal, did you?" The Count chuckled a little. "Of course, if you don't like the deal, you could always take San San home for free..."
"No..." Shava sighed. "This is Ishigami's Phoenix. I'll....stay in exchange for the bird."
"Excellent!" The Count jumped out of bed and ran to his bureau. He opened the first drawer and took out a three page contract.
"Wow...that's long," Shava said as she read it.
"You and I BOTH have needs, Miss Muhammad. I need to keep this shop from closing down, YOU need the Phoenix....we all need something...Ah! Are you finished?"
"Wait, about this last part...."
"What about it?"
"It sounds....permanent." Shava read it out loud. ""The ensigned of this contract will be bound by the contract for the rest of their days..."?"
"Well, that's what it says...."
"How about I change it a little?" Shava grinned at him. "How about..." She crossed out "the rest of their days" and rewrote, "for as long as they're needed."
"There! See, we ALL need things, Count. But needs change. What's the use of having something that just takes up space (a.k.a SanSan)?"
"Very good, Miss Muhammad....You've spoken well." D watched as she signed the contract. "Alright...."hmm hmm hmm.....for as long as they are needed...blah blah blah..." Good!" He signed the second line. "Alright! Welcome to Count D's Petshop!" He shook her hand most businesslike.
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"Oh Shava THANK YOU!" Ishigami gushed as she hugged her thousand year old Phoenix.
"Squeee!" the Phoenix was obviously happy to be back with her mistress.
"Oh, Nene-chan! I thought I lost you forever!" the demoness snuggled against the bird's small head. She turned to Shava. "So! Are we ready to go?"
The group looked at Shava expectantly. She paled (slightly).
"Uhh...you go on ahead. Go back to Japan. I'll meet you there, alright?"
Ishigami looked puzzled. "Well....if you say so..."
Fang nudged Ishigami and pointed to D. They both started to laugh again.
"WOULD YOU STOP THAT?!!!!" Shava shouted. "Geez! It's not LIKE that!"
"What's not like that?" D asked from behind her.
"Never mind...idiotic chick talk."
"Oh..."
"Byeeee, Shava!" Fang called as the group exited the store. "Don't forget to wri-ite!"
"I wi-ill!" Shava said, mockingly. She eyed Menelik, who was still holding on to her arm. "Why are you still here?"
"I'LL NEVER LET GO, SHAVA! I'LL NEVER LET GOOOOO!!!!" he wailed.
"I TOLD you all those Titanic movies were gonna mess up your brains...." She peeled him off. "Now get going! Everyone else is waiting for you!"
Menelik looked like he was about to cry. "O-okay.....goodbye, Shava....mff!" He sniffed and ran out the door to bawl some more.
"He REALLY likes you."
Shava faced D. "Yes, unfortunately."
Leon, who was watching this performance stared hard at D. 'How come she stayed behind? Poor Shava. I'd better keep an eye on D for her.'
"Welp, this was interesting, I gotta go."
"You're leaving, Detective?" D asked, the smirk returning to his face.
"Yeah, I can't stay here forever.."
"That could be arranged."
u__u() "Creep....I'm goin' back to work." He turned to Shava. "Oh, and Miss Muhammad, here's my card."
"Thank you. " Shava decided to stun him with her rare and wonderful smiles.
It worked. The detective walked right into the entrance door. "Owww....."
Shava just laughed.
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End of Chapter Two! :D
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Disclaimer: ......Don't own D or Q or Orcot, just the band of warriors. Oh! And I don't own Beyonce's (Yes...Beyonce's U__U() ) song "Crazy in Love".
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"Man, these halls could go on forever!" Menelik yawned as he inspected another one of his sharp pointed sticks.
Count D sweatdropped. "C-could you put those away? They make me nervous..."
Menelik growled. "No way, man. Not until we have found the Phoenix."
D groaned. Could this day get any worse?
A loud voice echoed from the front of the store.
"I'VE GOT YOU NOW, "COUNT"!!!"
Yep, it just got worse.
D turned to go back to the front.
"Hey!!" Shava called after him. "What about us?!"
"Oh...just go into the room in front of you and wait for me there," D said hurriedly, "I have a detective to get rid of."
"Uh...?" But before Shava could comment he was already gone.
"Shava, look at this!"
Ishigami held open the large doors for the warriors to go through.
It was a dimly lit room, but Shava knew it had to be bigger than it was. The warriors' eyes shifted as shadows of.....things flew this way and that.
Something scurried by Shava's feet.
"What the heck?" She lifted her foot. Nothing.
"How strange," Fang said. "It's like an artificial jungle in here."
"Hmmph." Menelik's eyes were used to seeing in the dark. This was nothing to him. "I just hope that Count doesn't skip out on us."
Fernando grunted in agreement.
"Ugh, you boys don't have to try so hard at heroism..." Shava said, grinning. "Let's just sit by here."
So the five warriors set up "camp" in the false jungle.
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"So, Leon, what brings you here?"
"Listen D! I'm warning you...if you give another one of those animals to innocent people, I'll--"
"You'll WHAT, Leon?" D smirked as he handed him the cup of tea.
"Ugh, no WAY am I drinking that, D."
"Suit yourself." D took a sip. "Now, who broke their contract and caused depressing and/or gruesome events to befall them THIS time?"
Leon threw a rather thin peach colored folder at D. "Y'know a lady named Miss Greene?"
"Yes, She was JUST here about fifteen minutes ago.
Leon took a looooong puff on his cigarette. "Yeah, well, it seems you've sold her a pretty strange breed of dog...."
"Oh!" D smiled. "You mean the loup-garou?"
Leon's eye went wide. "YOU SOLD HER A FRIGGIN WEREWOLF?!!!!"
"Well she wanted it and the loup-garou seemed to like her SO much, I couldn't help but give her the contract." [Yeah..sure...U__U()]
Leon broke out into a cold sweat. "B-but....werewolves are NEVER human-friendly....."
"This was a different breed of werewolf..." D explained matter-of-factly, "She most likely broke a part of the contract."
"Which was?"
"To never show him to anyone, apparently."
"UGH!" Leon flopped back onto the sofa. "Well! There we go! Maybe you should make those "contracts" of your a little more threatening." He sat up. "NOW we have a stray werewolf around the neighborhood, thank you very much."
"I'm so sorry," D apologized, "but I AM entertaining other customers...."
Leon gave the Count a look. "So, all we need is a silver bullet, eh?"
"WHAT?" D's eyes went wide. "Don't KILL it! It's so rare and nearly extinct!" He stood up and opened the bottom of a file cabinet. "At least use this...."
Leon eyed the "bullet" suspiciously. "What is it?"
"It's just a tranquilizer bullet. It should put the loup-garou to sleep." D sighed. "Maybe I should've put him under "unsellable" pets."
Leon grinned. ""Unsellable"? Is that even a word?"
"Ugh, you know what it means. Now excuse me...." D started to exit to the back room. "I need to take care of these guests of mine..."
Leon wasn't done with the Count yet. "Uh uh. You're gonna help me find this "loup-garou" before it causes any MORE damage.."
D sweatdropped. "I suppose so. Follow me."
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Meanwhile, in a dimly lit artificial jungle, there slept five warriors. The leader, an auburn haired Muslim girl named Shava and the rest who followed her during her journey.....
"Nnngh...." Shava slowly opened her eyes. Wiping the underside of her nose, she arose from the dirt floor.
"Shava? You awake?" Fang's voice seemed so far away.
"Huh? Where's the Count?" Ishigami was also awake. Not too soon after her, the two boys stepped out of dreamland into the livingworld. (I think.)
Shava looked around, then growled. "Rrrrrrr...the idiot DITCHED us!"
Fang took her friend by the shoulder. "DON'T worry, Shava. I'm sure he'll be back."
"Yeah RIGHT! Man, this whole day has been confusing!" Shava swept Fang's hand off. "Geez!"
"What's she getting all upset about?" the seagreen haired girl asked Fang. Then she got a sneaky look on her face. "Ooooo, I remember now..."
Fang smirked. "Really?"
Ishigami grinned. "Remember Shava was acting like this before we met Seyoki Yuni."
It was true, Shava was having a fit before they met the elusive water nymph---who ended up being Shava's full-blown crush. (Heh heh.)
The two women giggled insanely, forgetting exactly why they where here.
"D-you.....ARE you thinkin what I'M thinkin', Fang?"
"Duh, girl! Shava's losin' it again and I think I know over who-oo!"
"Will you two shut up?!" Shava snapped. "You can't predict anything from my emotions!"
"But, Shava, its true," Ishigami said, a little whine in her voice. "Besides, I SAW the way he looked at you."
"Yeah, and I saw the way he looked at YOU, Ishigami, "Shava countered. "And I think there's a reason why he's not leading us straight to the Phoenix."
Fang waggled her eyebrows. "Heh heh heh...."
BA-DONG!
Shava smirked. "Well that takes care of that!" She brushed off her hands. "You gonna be okay, Fang?"
@____@ "Just....fine......"
"Good!" Shava cheered. "I don't need ANY perverted ideas flowin' through my head right now!"
Ishigami took about five steps backward from Shava. "Uhh...yeah...."
Menelik just beamed. His Shava was so beautiful AND strong!
"Why don't we go look for the bird ourselves, amigos?" Fernando was tired of waiting for D.
"Yes, why don't we?" Shava looked all around her. Good, her eyes were getting used to the darkness. "This way...."
The group followed her and Menelik. (WHY is he by her side? Haha!)
"Shava?"
"Yes, Menelik?"
"If we don't get out of this place alive, I want you to know that you're the only woman I'll ever love...."
Shava sweatdropped. "That's....nice, Menelik....."
"Thank you!" he grinned. "I've ALWAYS wanted to say that!"
Menawhile, various animal noises chittered here and there throughout the dark jungle.
'Man, there are alot of birds around here....' Shava thought, an even bigger sweatdrop by her coffee brown colored head.
They finally entered a clearing in the "jungle". But it wasn't like any clearing they've seen before.
It was a well spotlighted circle as big as a stage, the floor (unlike the rest of the room) was not covered with dirt but was covered with a circular red carpet.
"Oookay...." Shava shielded her eyes from the bright light that was coming from right above them.
"WOW! What is THIS doin here?" Ishigami bent down to feel the plush red carpet. "We should've slept HERE!"
"Oy..."Shava slapped her forehead, then she felt something hug her from behind. "AHH! MENE--huh?"
"Pii!"
Shava groaned and slowly turned around to see none other than San San nuzzling his cute little face into her back.
"Hello, birdboy...." Shava said in a mock sweet voice. "D'you think you can release me out of your....."loving" grip, please?"
San San cheerfully let go, but not without giving the young woman one more squeeze.
The rest of the group looked blankly at San San.
"Um.....how did he get out?" Ishigami asked, while chuckling. "I think he REALLY REALLY likes you, Shava-chan!"
Shava eyed the Strelitzia suspciously. "....."
" :D "
"Ugh, come on then, San San...." She took scooped him into her arms. "WOW! He's really light!"
"Duh, Shava, " Fang said, "he's a bird! ALL birds are lightweight!"
"Except emus," Menelik added.
"Hunh?" The group stared at the Chadian.
"Long story, don't worry about it."
Shuffling onto the carpeted clearing, the groups sat down again to rest--except Shava who set down San San before sitting down herself.
"Uh...you guys?" Ishigami pointed to the trees around them. The warriors turned their gaze from each other to the glowing eyes in the trees.
Shava got into a fighting stance. "Here we go."
But Fang saw something different. "Wait Shava, look, those aren't trees, they're cages!"
Shava relaxed. "Well I'll be... This surely is a weird petshop...."
The cages were stacked on top of each other like stone bricks. However, there weren't bars on the cages, only ornate carvings big enough to peep through, but not big enough to get out.
"Well well," a rather loud man's voice from the very top called down to the warriors and Strelitzia, "What have we got here, brothers and sisters? It seems San San has gotten loose...AGAIN!"
A flurry of coos and animal grunts echoed the....whatever that was up there's contempt for the young Strelitzia.
Shava smirked. "And who are YOU?" She called back.
A dark mass shifted at the top. "I...am an Imitator, " it said in a posh British man's voice. "I can imitate anything, anywhere, anytime. I am an unsellable pet."
"Unsellable pet?" Shava wondered.
Fernando looked around him. "So...this room is for pets that can't possibly be sold to anyone?"
"That is correct, my Brasilian amigo!" The "Imitator" said in Fernando's thick accent.
Fernando's eyebrows furrowed at the mocking in the Imitator's voice. "Why you....."
"Calm down, Fernando..." Ishigami pleaded.
Shava held him back. Then she peered closely into one of the bottom cages.
"Haha! Don't get too close, Muslim girl! THAT'S a harpy!"
Shava immediately pulled herself back just as a screeching bird with dangling breasts lunged for her face.
"Grrrrr....," Shava growled savagely at the Harpy. "Why would D collect these things? I heard harpies were incredibly filthy...."
"Awwwww! You LIKE Count D???" the Imitator giggled insanely in a chirpy little girl's voice. "HAH! As if the Count could EVER have time for a peasant like YOU!"
"WHY YOU---!!," Shava jumped all the way up to the top cages before anyone could stop her.
"!!!!!!" San San took off after her.
"WHY YOU PIECE OF WASTED ANIMAL FLESH!!!!! I OUGHTA----!" Shava stopped. She gripped onto one the curves of the ornate carving. "What the---?"
Inside, she could make out a rather large blob of something. Whatever it was, it was gelatinous and breathing.
"Now, you see why no one would buy me?" it said in a mournful little boy's voice. "Look at me.....I'm not as beautiful as that silly Strelitzia behind you."
Shava snarled at San San. "Get down from here! You're agitating him!"
"Puu..." San San stuck out his bottom lip and floated downwards. Shava returned her gaze to the Imitator.
"We're the ones that even the incense the Count spreads around doesn't even change. We are the TRUE magical creatures. The creatures with the REAL powers." The blob sniffed loudly. "But for all our talents, D couldn't get anyone to buy us. So he put us here. Every once in a while a special human will buy a loup-garou or a dragon.But it's rare."
Despite the hardened look on her face, Shava couldn't help but feel sorry for all of these animals---even the harpy sniffled a little.
However, they came here for a thousand year old Phoenix. NOT an unsellable pet.
As Shava jumped down back to the carpeting. Ishigami immediately started to cry.
"NOW what, Ishi?"
"I-It's so SAAAAAD!!!!!!"
"Oh boy, here we go...." Menelik plugged his ears so he could protect his hearing from Ishigami's sonic sobs.
"Oh, Shava, they're ALL so unhappy! I wish we could make them happy for at least ONE day!"
Shava broke out in a cold sweat. "So whadda ya want ME to do about it?!"
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".......Y'know, when I asked, "Whadda ya me to do about it?" I had no idea you had an idea...."
Ishigami grinned. "Oh, Shava! Songs make everyone happy! AND you have SUCH a beautiful voice!"
"Grrrrr...."
"I guess NOW she doesn't," Fernando laughed, recieving a quick but painful bop on the head from the auburn haired ninja. "Ow!"
"Serves you right, Fernando...."
The creatures looked curiously from their cages. What was going on?
Ishigami finished hooking up the large speakers and DJ machine. "There we go! And now to add the FRILLS!" She raised her right hand in the air. "SUPER DEMON MAGIC ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A bright blue light emitted from her fingers and shot up into the air. It burst like a firecracker on the Fourth of July and its pieces sprinkled down to the clearing , changing everything in its reach.
Shava's blah grey outfit instantly transformed into a slinky sparkily short black dress, complete with make-up for her face and sparkily black heels for her feet.
Ishigami's and Fang's clothing changed to sparkily red and yellow dresses similar to Shava's. An array of colored club lights moved around, briefly lighting up the dark room, but not enough to hurt any nocturnal creature's eyes.
"Ahhhh! Isn't it beautiful?!" Ishigami squealed.
"And WHAT am I supposed to be singing?" Shava asked blandly.
"Shava! Remember that poem you wrote for Yuni? It was so lovely! All WE need to do is to "jazz it up" a little!"
Shava squinted. Not only were these heels killing her feet (and the fact that the dress was waaaay too short for her tastes), that poem to Yuni was PRIVATE PROERTY! She just didn't feel like exposing her...."romeo" side just yet, and in front of these creatures.
"C'mon Shava! They won't know who you're talkin about!" Fang whispered excitedly, as if reading Shava's thoughts
"Ugh...all right."
The warriors cheered.
"Whooohoo! Let's get this party started!!!!!" Ishigami turned on the machine and suddenly an orchestra of trumpets announced the beginning of the song.
Menelik: "Yes
It's so crazy right now
Most incredibly
It's your girl B
It's your boy Young"
Shava *taking the mike* :You ready?
Ishigami and Fang danced behind Shava as she took center "stage".
Girls: Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Menelik: History in the making part two
It's so crazy right now
Shava: I look and stare so deep in your eyes
I touch on you more and more every time
When you leave I'm beggin' you not to go
Call your name two or three times in a row
Such a funny thing for me to try to explain
How I'm feelin' and my pride is the one to blame
'Cause I know I don't understand
Just how your love your can do what no one else can
'This is easier than I thought,' Shava thought as she and her girls got down to BUSINESS with that dancin'! They were shaking their bad selves everywhere, the rhythm of the DJ machine as the charmer.
Girls: Got me lookin' so crazy right now
Your love's got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
love)
Got me looking so crazy right now
Your touch got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
touch)
Got me hopin' you'll page me right now
Your kiss got me hopin' you'll save me right now
Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
Girls: Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, oh, no-no
The creatures stopped wondering what they were doing and just moved to the music. They had never seen or HEARD anything so entertaining! The flashing colored lights and dancing people made them feel that---maybe everything wasn't THAT bad.
Shava: When I talk to my friends so quietly
{Ishigami and Fang: Who he think he is} Look at what you did to me
Tennis shoes, don't even need to buy a new dress
If you ain't there ain't nobody else to impress
It's just the way that you know what I thought I knew
It's the beat my heart skips when I'm with you
But I still don't understand
Just how your love can do what no one else can
Girls: Got me lookin' so crazy right now
Your love's got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
love)
Got me looking so crazy right now
Your touch got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
touch)
Got me hopin' you'll page me right now
Your kiss got me hopin' you'll save me right now
Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
I'm lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
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"Man! That werewolf really put up a fight!" Leon said as he slapped the slumped body of the loup-garou on D's (CLEAN) sofa.
D walked in after him, grinning like an idiot. "What an adventure!"
"Yeah yeah, " Leon puffed out his chest. SO many ladies are gonna wanna be the date of the "were-wolf hunter" tonight!
Suddenly D felt the walls. "Wait a minute...."
"What's wrong, D?"
"I feel a vibration coming from these walls.....That's strange."
"Vibration?" Leon sweatdropped. "Like someone playing loud music vibration...or?"
"Yes..yes that's it! Come with me detective!"
The two men ran into the back rooms.
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Menelik took the center stage, his normal Chadian robes changed to a red sleeveless shirt and baggy black pants.
Menelik: Young Hov, y'all know when the flow is loco
Young B and the R-O-C, uh-oh
Ol' G, big homey, the one and only
Stick bony, but the pocket is fat like Tony
Soprano, the ROC handle like Van Axel
I shake phonies, man, you can't get next to
The genuine article I go, I do not sing though
I sling though, if anything I bling, yo'
A star like Ringo, roar like gringo
Crazy, bring your whole set
Menelik in the range, crazy and deranged
They can't figure them out they like hey is he insane
Yes, sir, I'm cut from a different cloth
My texture is the best fur chinchilla
I been healin' chain smokers
But how you think I got the name Hova
I been realer, the game's over
Fall back young, ever since the label changed over
To Platinum the game's been wrap, one
Shava: Got me lookin' so crazy, my baby
I'm not myself lately, I'm foolish, I don't do this
I've been playin' myself, baby, I don't care!
'Cause your love's got the best of me
And baby you're makin' a fool of me
You got me sprung and I don't care who sees
'Cause baby, you got me, you got me, so crazy, baby
Leon and D burst into the room of unsellable pets and gasped at what they saw. It seemed the whole "jungle" was turned into a club scene, complete with lights, audience (the creatures) and entertainment (the warriors).
"Oh my....." D nearly fainted at the apparent destruction of his precious indoor jungle. Leon just stared at the girl who was singing.
She was beautiful! Her long auburn hair swayed this way and that as she danced and sang of love and longing, her black dress hugged all the right places and her heels made her look like she was floating rather than on the plush carpeting of the clearing. Leon felt his heart skip a beat.
"My god...." He had to get a closer look! D weakly followed him.
Girls: Got me lookin' so crazy right now
Your love's got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
love)
Got me looking so crazy right now
Your touch got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
touch)
Got me hopin' you'll page me right now
Your kiss got me hopin' you'll save me right now
Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
Got me lookin' so crazy right now
Your love's got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
love)
Shava looked at the blonde haired man staring intently at her. She grinned and got bold. She stepped off the stage and sang while doing a sultry dance around him. Menelik narrowed his eyes.
Got me looking so crazy right now
Your touch got me lookin' so crazy right now (Your
touch)
Got me hopin' you'll page me right now
Your kiss got me hopin' you'll save me right now
Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
Girls and Shava: Lookin' so crazy, your love's got me lookin'
Got me lookin' so crazy in love
The music ended with the trumpets blasting the last note. The creatures went wild with glee as the warriors bowed and waved.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Ishigami said to her adoring "fans".
"Pii pii!" San San clapped his hands.
Shava grinned at San San. "Glad you liked it, kid."
"WOW!" Detective Orcot ran up to the young lady. "What's your name? How did you get so GOOD?!"
Shava sweatdropped. Was this the guy serious?
"Excuse me," she turned away from him, but Leon grabbed her hand.
"Wait!" He got down on one knee. "I'm so sorry! It came out wrong! Wow...you're so beautiful...."
"Excuse me, " D said, his eyebrow twitching. "I think I need to have a "talk" with my "guests" here....."
"Whoops!" Ishigami quickly wrapped Shava in a quickie burka and held her behind her.
D stared at the Lake Demoness with the Muslim girl hiding behind her back. He looked farther to see a familair Bali dancer's crown peeking from behind Shava.
"San San?!"
"Yeah yeah, it's yer Strelitzia..." Shava said, now dressed back to normal. She brushed herself off. "He escaped from his room and followed us here." She didn't say "me" because that would prompt the Count to try and sell San San to her again.
"Puu?"
"San San? Get offa me!" Shava waved her arms about. San San backed away and plopped into Menelik's lap.
"Hey!"
D stared at them. Of course, Shava stared back.
"Let's stop wasting time, D. Where's the Phoenix?"
"That's COUNT D to you, young woman. And I don't KNOW where it is."
Leon stood beside Shava. "You took something from her?"
U__U() "Why are you taking her side?"
"Because a grown man like you shouldn't take things from innocent maidens."
Shava sweatdropped. ""Innocent maiden"?"
"Hah! Who's innocent anymore?" D chuckled. "Besides, I told the truth, I really have no idea where the Phoenix is---"
"UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nene-chan's gone forever!!!!"
Leon cast a glance at Ishigami. "You took something from her too?! DUDE! I never knew you were a pimp!" [Sorry, ladies and gents, couldn't resist...]
"SHUT UP!" Shava roared at all of them. She growled at D. "Give us the Phoenix, or we'll take it by FORCE!"
"You'll have to get through ME first!" D flew into the air, his arms outstrecthed.
"Rrrrr, playin' it THAT way, eh?" Shava lunged after him. "Come back here coward!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Leon watched in amazement as Shava placed a volley of kicks and punches at D, while the Count swiped at her with his sharp nails/claws.
"Man, they're BOTH amazing!"
"They sure are!" Ishigami chirped. Then sighed happily. "Aren't they just PERFECT for each other?" ^.^
u__u() "Weren't you crying a few mintues ago?"
"Stand STILL, woman!!!!" D roared.
"Hahaha! I NEVER stand still!!!" Shava avoided another swipe for her face. "You're so fierce, come and GET me!"
D grinned. "All right." He balled up his fists and concentrated. A light blue aura flickered around said fists. "HERE IT COMES!!!!" He threw the balls of light at her.
"Aiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!" Shava narrowly avoided the first, but the second one got her from behind. "AHH!" She fell to the ground.
"AHHHH! SHAVA, MY LOVE!!!!!!!!" Menelik faced the floating man in the air. "Rrrrrrrr...." He took five of his sticks and threw them at the Count. "Take that!"
Meanwhile, while D was fighting with Menelik (ain't he brave?), Shava pulled herself off the ground. Leon ran to her aid.
"Hey, you ok? I know, D's a strong one, eh?"
"Will you be quiet?" she snarled. "As if that little ball of ki can hurt me!" She made a red ball of ki of her own. "I learned this trick from Ishigami's dear old dad."
She threw it into the air, right behind D.
Menelik noticed a small ball of ki behind the Count. 'Hey! It's Shava's "Mine Graine Attack" Alright!'
"See you later, dude."
"Hah! What does THAT mean, stick boy?"
Menelik gave the Count a simple push into the red ball. The ball grew bigger enveloping the Count inside. D screamed in rage and pain as the Mine Graine attack took its toll.
"YES!" Shava yelped. "NOW it's MY turn!" She flew into the air...... "Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!"
.....and kicked the Count from the bottom, bursting the bubble and sending D crashing to the ground.
"WHOOOOHOOO! WE ROCK!" Ishigami cheered.
"Hahaha! Serves you right, Count!" the Imitator laughed.
Shava stepped over to the Count's nearly lifeless body.
"Where's the Phoenix?" she asked dangerously.
D slowly (and painfully) turned his head to meet her face.
"Y-you're so much more than human....." He instantly fainted.
"Whoa!" Leon crept over to the Count's body. "Is he.....*gulp* DEAD?!"
"No, unfortunately not..." Shava felt the underside of the Count's neck. "He's still got a pulse."
"Whoa...whew! I thought I had to arrest you all for homici----uh..."
The group stared intently at him.
Leon pulled at his collar. "Whew! Is it getting hot in here or is it just me?"
"It's just you, " Shava replied, smirking. She stared at D. "Maybe we should bring him to his room." She turned to Leon.
"I don't where it is.....ask...HEY! Where's that bunny thing that's always on his shoulder?!"
"Chii?" Q-chan, hearing people talking about him, flew into the room. When the rabbit saw his fallen master, he let out a wail.
"Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!"
"Oy, hey Q!" Leon shouted. "He's not dead, lil fella! Just unconscious!"
Q-chan flapped angrily to the group. He sat on D's chest, hissing at anyone who tried to touch him.
Shava sighed. She tried the "gentle" approach.
"Q-chan," she said in an amazingly softer tone of voice. "We're going to fix him up. He's just been in an accident, that's all....alright? All we need to know is where the Count's bedroom is."
Menelik and Leon couldn't believe it! This girl could switch moods so easily!
Q-chan gave Shava a skeptical look.
"Please, Q-chan?" She gave the rabbit one of her rare and lovely smiles.
"Chi!" the little bunny chirped with glee and flew off the Count. Shava gently threw the Count over her shoulders.
"Let's go."
As they followed Q-chan and Shava out of the room, Menelik and Leon both wondered the same thing.
Exactly what was Shava up to?
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"Unnngh...." D stirred in his sleep.
"He-hey! He's waking up, people!" Ishigami called everyone inside the bedchambers.
"It's about time," Shava grumbled. "He was nearly unconscious for at least six hours!"
"Heh, he's pretty weak! He can't match YOUR strength, my love!" Menelik crowed.
"Don't YOU start...."
A soft voice startled them out of their arguements.
"W-what's going on?"
"Hey! You're awake Count!" Shava moved to his side, which caused Fang and Ishigami to start laughing again.
"Get outta here!" Shava threw her shoe at them. They avoided it, still laughing.
"Hmmph, fools..." she turned to the Count. "You alright? I didn't think that Mine Graine Attack would take THAT much outta ya...."
"YOU!!!" D sat up too quickly, only to slump back down again.
"Heh, calm down, I'd never attack the defensless."
"Hah!" Count buried his head in his pillows. "Yes you WOULD...."
"A-hem...." Shava cleared her throat. Why was this guy making her nervous? "Look, do we have to PAY you to give up the Phoenix? Because I know its still here..."
"How?"
"Hunh?"
"How do you know its still here, Miss Shava?"
"That's Miss Muhammad to YOU, young man..." Shava grinned as she said it. From the pillows, the Count smiled.
"Thank you for turning my words against me, MISS Muhammad...."
"Always glad to serve the little people, Count..."
"Really?" D sat up. "Are you sure? Because I can give you your precious Phoenix...for a price."
Shava smirked. "Nothing is ever free in your little world, eh? Alright, let's have it."
"I'll make deal with you. A bird for your services."
"Wha--?"
D leaned closer to Shava. "If I give you the Phoenix, then you'll have to stay with me."
"!"
"Didn't think it would be THAT kind of deal, did you?" The Count chuckled a little. "Of course, if you don't like the deal, you could always take San San home for free..."
"No..." Shava sighed. "This is Ishigami's Phoenix. I'll....stay in exchange for the bird."
"Excellent!" The Count jumped out of bed and ran to his bureau. He opened the first drawer and took out a three page contract.
"Wow...that's long," Shava said as she read it.
"You and I BOTH have needs, Miss Muhammad. I need to keep this shop from closing down, YOU need the Phoenix....we all need something...Ah! Are you finished?"
"Wait, about this last part...."
"What about it?"
"It sounds....permanent." Shava read it out loud. ""The ensigned of this contract will be bound by the contract for the rest of their days..."?"
"Well, that's what it says...."
"How about I change it a little?" Shava grinned at him. "How about..." She crossed out "the rest of their days" and rewrote, "for as long as they're needed."
"There! See, we ALL need things, Count. But needs change. What's the use of having something that just takes up space (a.k.a SanSan)?"
"Very good, Miss Muhammad....You've spoken well." D watched as she signed the contract. "Alright...."hmm hmm hmm.....for as long as they are needed...blah blah blah..." Good!" He signed the second line. "Alright! Welcome to Count D's Petshop!" He shook her hand most businesslike.
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"Oh Shava THANK YOU!" Ishigami gushed as she hugged her thousand year old Phoenix.
"Squeee!" the Phoenix was obviously happy to be back with her mistress.
"Oh, Nene-chan! I thought I lost you forever!" the demoness snuggled against the bird's small head. She turned to Shava. "So! Are we ready to go?"
The group looked at Shava expectantly. She paled (slightly).
"Uhh...you go on ahead. Go back to Japan. I'll meet you there, alright?"
Ishigami looked puzzled. "Well....if you say so..."
Fang nudged Ishigami and pointed to D. They both started to laugh again.
"WOULD YOU STOP THAT?!!!!" Shava shouted. "Geez! It's not LIKE that!"
"What's not like that?" D asked from behind her.
"Never mind...idiotic chick talk."
"Oh..."
"Byeeee, Shava!" Fang called as the group exited the store. "Don't forget to wri-ite!"
"I wi-ill!" Shava said, mockingly. She eyed Menelik, who was still holding on to her arm. "Why are you still here?"
"I'LL NEVER LET GO, SHAVA! I'LL NEVER LET GOOOOO!!!!" he wailed.
"I TOLD you all those Titanic movies were gonna mess up your brains...." She peeled him off. "Now get going! Everyone else is waiting for you!"
Menelik looked like he was about to cry. "O-okay.....goodbye, Shava....mff!" He sniffed and ran out the door to bawl some more.
"He REALLY likes you."
Shava faced D. "Yes, unfortunately."
Leon, who was watching this performance stared hard at D. 'How come she stayed behind? Poor Shava. I'd better keep an eye on D for her.'
"Welp, this was interesting, I gotta go."
"You're leaving, Detective?" D asked, the smirk returning to his face.
"Yeah, I can't stay here forever.."
"That could be arranged."
u__u() "Creep....I'm goin' back to work." He turned to Shava. "Oh, and Miss Muhammad, here's my card."
"Thank you. " Shava decided to stun him with her rare and wonderful smiles.
It worked. The detective walked right into the entrance door. "Owww....."
Shava just laughed.
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End of Chapter Two! :D