Bleach Fan Fiction / Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction / Sailor Moon Fan Fiction ❯ Silent Warrior ❯ The Fortune House of Terror ( Chapter 2 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

By: Takato

“What's worse than old men who are envious of youth and popularity, are those who think nothing of other peoples' feelings. In the name of the Phoenix, I will punish you!”

Silent Warrior

Episode 2

A lot of girls are at a fortune telling booth in the city. An old man is telling everyone good fortunes about their futures.

“This place is the bomb,” one girl says.

“Yeah, I saw ads for it on TV,” another says.

“Stupid humans…” Goliath smirks, watching the girls.

The Fortune House of Terror

“You still haven't found the Zinzuishou?” King Mithos asks Goliath.

“Not exactly,” he responds.

“I want you to gather the energy from every human, understand?”

“Of course, King Mithos, I have already begun as we speak.”

* * *

TJ is sleeping in, late as usual for school, when Prometheus jumps on his bed.

“Tim, you're late for school, again,” he scolds.

“Please, call me TJ, and you're choking me,” TJ grumbles.

“You won't be much use to this mission like this.”

“What, you said I'm late again?! Why didn't you wake me up?”

“I woke you up three times…”

At the school, the teacher is taking attendance for the morning. As he's calling everyone's name, TJ tries to sneak in quietly.

“Hey TJ, what's going on?” Marcy calls out.

TJ rolls his eyes and the teacher asks him to step outside for being late, and Marcy to go out for disrupting him.

“Why are you standing out here with me?” TJ asks.

“It's not something I can explain easily…” she responds shyly.

* * *

After school, Marcy calls up Melvin on the phone to discuss something serious.

“What's up girl, you wanted to talk?” Melvin answers.

“Well, you're like TJ's best friend, and I wanted to know if you think I should ask him to go on a date with me,” Marcy explains.

Melvin is silent with astonishment.

“I also want to exchange numbers with him and talk to his parents about our future together.”

“No way girl; I don't think it's going to work if you approach him so boldly like that.”

“Well then I'll lay out a surprise attack!”

“Why don't you get your fortune told? There's this place on 10th avenue that's supposed to be the best. That should tell you how you should approach TJ.”

Unknown to those two, TJ is already on his way over to another fortune house.

“Wow, there's no line today,” TJ notices. “I wonder what's going on.”

“A rival entered town,” the old man at the fortune house says.

“That place is too flashy for me,” TJ says, noticing a huge fortune house down the street.

“People like big and new things,” the old man continues. “Everyone went over there.”

“Well you can still tell me my fortune. What do you see?”

“There's a girl who likes you right now.”

“Well, what girl could resist these looks?”

“It's someone that you see every day,” the man says, rolling his eyes.

“I see her all the time? I wonder if it's…”

TJ thanks the old man, and leaves, heading over to the arcade, Game Edge.

“I don't see her yet,” TJ says to himself.

“Hey TJ, how's it going?” an older girl asks, coming up to him.

“Perfect timing, now to work my magic.” “Hey, what's up Miranda?”

Miranda is a tall woman with tan skin, medium length dark brown hair, and is thick in all the right places.

“I just got in the new Terrific T game; you haven't played it yet have you?” she asks him.

“Nope.”

TJ goes to the arcade game and starts to play, but keeps losing.

“I'm no good at these first person shooters,” he complains.

“It's pretty hard, isn't it?” Miranda asks, leaning over his shoulder.

“You bet it is.” TJ responds, turning a little red.

“Here, I'll give you some tips.”

As the two are playing the game, Prometheus walks in and comes up to them.

“Prometheus, what are you doing here?” TJ asks.

“Oh, this is your cat? What an interesting name. He seems to come in here a lot.”

Prometheus jumps up on TJ's shoulder.

“Promeeth, what are you doing?” TJ asks again, as if expecting a response.

“It's time to get going,” Prometheus responds telepathically.

“You have telepathy too?”

“I didn't know that you did. I was just projecting my thoughts into your head. But we can talk about my abilities later. Right now, we need to go!”

“Oh alright, I'm going!” “I've got to go Miranda, Promeeth just reminded me of something I've got to do.”

“OK TJ, come back again soon,” Miranda says. “I feel happy when I see your face. I'll be waiting for you.”

TJ and the cat walk out, and TJ gets mad at him.

“Didn't you see I was trying to get mine in there?” he yells.

“Is it ok to be going to arcades on the way home from school?” Prometheus answers.

“Well, I guess not, but I had to see her.”

“At least you see something wrong with games before homework. You have an important mission you know.”

“Oh I do? Maybe I should go back and have my fortune read by the old man about Miranda. But the new place is a lot closer and I don't feel like walking far. Maybe I should flip a coin to decide where to go.”

“What are you going on about TJ?”

“Heads I go to the old man, tails I go to the new place.”

TJ flips the coin, but flicks it too hard and it ends up hitting the girl from yesterday who was walking up the street.

“Hey, that hurt, Tiny Tim,” she yells, coming up to him.

“Oh great, it's you again,” TJ complains. “How do you even know my name is Tim anyways?”

“It was on that horrible test you hit me with yesterday,” she responds. “If you don't behave more civilized, you'll never get a girlfriend.”

“Is that all you can say? Now I feel bad.”

* * *

At the new fortune place, Marcy is having her fortune read.

“Wow, this place is amazing,” she exclaims.

“Look into my eyes so that I can see your soul,” the fortune woman says. “You are now a servant of the power of Cruxius. You are free to do whatever you want.”

“Yes, I will do whatever I please,” Marcy says in a trance.

“Soon, the energy will be mine for the taking!”

* * *

“Hello there TJ,” TJ's step dad says as TJ walks in the house.

“Hey Henri, what's going on?”

“Not much, I came home from a mission early, so your mother sent me to go shopping.”

“I wonder if Miranda is as nice as my mother…”

* * *

The next day in homeroom, Melvin pulls TJ aside to talk to him.

“Have you talked to Marcy?” he asks.

“What are you talking about Mel?” TJ asks.

“It seems that she likes you, but since she's so shy around you, she can't say anything.”

“Oh really?”

Marcy then walks in, dressed in a nice low cut skirt and some heels.

“Hey TJ, let's go out on a date,” she says with attitude.

“What are you doing dressed like that?!” TJ asks. “Where's your uniform?”

“Who cares where it's at, let's go out.”

“Excuse me Ms. Fox, but why are you dressed like that?” Mr. Karr asks, coming into the classroom.

Marcy looks at him and puts some gum in her mouth. On his way past her to his desk, she slaps him on the butt and winks at him.

“It's like this,” she says. “That's a nice ass on you, for a half breed. I'll call you `sweet cheeks'.”

The teacher looks at her and hangs his head.

“I've been reduced to being rejected by high school freshmen girls…” he cries.

Homeroom starts, and Mr. Karr is depressed. Marcy is on her cell phone talking and laughing hysterically, being completely ghetto.

“Girl, and then I said `you've got to get some of that' and she was like `I know he didn't,” and didn't you know he was doing it the whole time? Mmhmm, that's what I'm saying,” Marcy converses on her phone.

“Marcy Fox, you need to behave,” Mr. Karr yells, getting up to walk towards her.

On his way over, someone trips him and he falls.

“That hurt; who tripped me,” he bellows.

“I did,” another girl says.

“What was that for, Erika?”

“You need to speak more quietly in the classroom, especially when addressing a lady.”

Later, TJ and Melvin are talking about Erika and Marcy at lunch.

“You're saying she went to that new fortune teller?” TJ asks.

“Yeah, I told her about it the other day. I guess Erika went down there too,” Melvin replies.

Just then, a rock goes flying through one of the school windows.

“What's the meaning of this?” Professor King, the principal, asks, running over to the broken window.

“Stop acting so big,” a girl yells. “You're not that smart just because you're the principal.”

* * *

“They're going to riot,” the female fortuneteller says, watching them in a crystal ball.

“Yes, the energy of rebellious youth is great,” Goliath adds.

* * *

TJ and Melvin run up to the rioting girls.

“What are you crazy females doing?” TJ asks.

“Why don't we go to the locker room,” Marcy asks TJ, fluttering her eyes.

“I'm not taking advantage of anyone!”

“Come on girls, let's go.”

The girls leave and Prometheus comes up to TJ.

“I feel some bad energy,” he says to TJ.

“Don't worry TJ; I'm sure they're all just having that time of the month,” Melvin says, thinking it was TJ who said that.

“I hope that's it,” TJ responds.

TJ and Prometheus leave the school, and TJ starts to wonder about Marcy.

“What is she thinking, dressing and acting like that?” TJ asks.

“I believe a major bad force is behind all of this,” the cat responds.

“So what does that mean about Marcy and the others?”

“They are being possessed by the evil forces.”

“There is something about that fortuneteller.”

“What about her?”

“Well, I'm no Professor Xavier, or Jean Grey, but I'm getting this strange feeling from her. Marcy and the others didn't become like this until after seeing her.”

“Nice investigating TJ.”

“Thanks, how about another item as a reward.”

“No way kid, that's not how it works. Let's just get down there fast.”

The two race down to the fortune house where they feel the evil emanating from it.

“Am I going to be fighting demons again?” TJ asks.

“What do you mean `again?' Of course you are; that's the enemy!”

“Right, I guess…”

“What's wrong now?”

“I forgot the words to transform.”

“You idiot, it's `Phoenix Transform.'”

“Hey, if I put this bracelet on you like a collar, would you transform?”

“Would you just hurry up and stop playing around!” Prometheus yells, baring his claws.

“Alright, I'll do it, I was just joking around…Phoenix Transform!”

Inside the house, the woman is talking to the girls from the school.

“You all did great today,” she praises. “From now on, I want all you ladies to run wild and rampant all over the city.”

The girls are about to go out when a dagger strikes the ground.

“There's nothing worse than a woman who convinces her fellow females to do bad things. I can't forgive someone who believes people should behave like savages and sex hounds. I am Silent Warrior, and in the name of the Phoenix, I will send you back to hell.”

“Silent Warrior, this isn't the time or place,” the demon says, showing her true self.

She throws some sharp-edged fortune telling cards at him, and he jumps out of the way.

“Hey, that's dangerous you know,” he complains.

“You threw a dagger…” Prometheus points out. “Besides, there isn't time to worry about safety right now.”

“Girls, get him!” the demon commands.

The girls start to come towards him.

“Now ladies, there's plenty of me to go around, but if you don't behave, I'm going to have to put you down.”

The girls keep getting closer and Silent Warrior debates beating up girls or not. Just as they are almost on him, the yellow trading card strikes before him.

“Yellow LightStar made the girls stop!” Silent Warrior exclaims.

“No matter how bad the situation is, never give up,” she says.

As Silent Warrior thanks her for coming to his rescue, the demon decides to attack him.

“Hey, that attack almost hit me,” he cries as some cards knick his uniform.

“Use your flaming fist, quickly,” Prometheus commands.

“This hand of mine is burning red! Fist of the Phoenix, flare!”

The demon is defeated and Silent Warrior starts praising himself.

“You failed me Youkai, too bad for you,” Goliath says, watching from his lair.

* * *

The next day at school, all the girls are back to normal.

“You're saying I slapped his ass and grabbed his package?” Marcy is asking Melvin.

“You also tried to get up on TJ,” he continues. “And Erika broke the window to the principal's office.”

“Hey Marcy,” TJ says, coming in late as usual.

“TJ I'm so sorry about…”she starts.

“Don't think anything of it. You were having one of those days, completely understandable.”

“When you put it like that, it's all so simple!”

“If only you knew what I had to go through to make it simple!”