Pet Shop Of Horrors Fan Fiction ❯ Pink Moon ❯ The Search for Thousand Year Old Phoenix; San San; pulling Our Legs... ( Chapter 1 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]

"Pink Moon"
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(Disclaimer: I do not own the creepy bishie known as D! Or his furry friend, Q-chan! Or D's unwilling assistant, Detective Orcot! However, I DO own, Shava Muhammad, Ishigami, Cheng Fang -Po, Menelik, and Fernando! :D )
Oh yeah! <.....> <------ That means that the characters are speaking in any other language besides English or English slang.
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(Afternoon in the USA...)

"UWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
< br> "Don't WORRY, Ishigami, we'll find her...."

"But...but...." the short, sea-green haired girl demon sniffed loudly, "She was in the family for a thousand yearhearhearssssss!!!!
Waaaaahh...."

Fang-Po immediately gave up talking ANY reason to Ishigami. Meanwhile, her longtime friend, Shava Muhammad was lagging
behind, staring at the tall buildings in Chinatown.

"Wow...nice place..." she said, her dark brown eyes sizing up them up, brick by brick.

"Ahhh, Shava!!! THIS is Chinatown! The place where dreams come true!" Fang-Po spread her arms about to emphasize her words.
Then she grabbed Shava in a playful headlock. "Y'know, Shaaaava! If we stay here long enough, YOUR dreams might come
truu-ue!"

"Ahh, get off it..." Shava pulled her arms from around neck. "Be-sides, we came here to look for Ishigami's stolen Phoenix, right?"

At the sound of the word "Phoenix", Ishigami started the waterworks again.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What would Papa say if he knew I lost the family Phoenix?!
Waaahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

Shava sweatdropped. "Ahh, shut up!" She scratched her headscarf as crying made her nervous.

Their two male companions, Menelik (the fabulous stick fighter) and Fernando (the carrier of the legendary two-tipped sword), walked
behind Ishigami even farther. They hated to see women cry. Especially women as cute as Ishigami.

"Man, this reeks, " Menelik said, his thick African accent apparent in the predominantly Chinese area.

"You're right, mi amigo..." Fernando had mastered the English language, but he still switched to his Spanish Brazilian accent. "But
they are OUR ladies, no matter how annoying they are."

"Hah! MY Shava is NEVER annoying!" Menelik clasped his hands together as his brown eyes went misty. "Shava HAS to be THE
most beeautiful woman I've ever laid eyes on!"

"Hombre, you've said that about her ever since you met her."

"But IT'S TRUE!"

"Heh heh, it is now. Shava sure has grown up...."

Fernando was right. Ever since Shava had started the traditional Life Journey process every Muhammad goes through, she had
grown from a rambuntcious, tomboyish thirteen year old with the strength of a modern female Hercules, to a polished, curvy twenty
year old....with the strength of a modern female Hercules.

Shava patted her stomach. She was getting hungry.

"And heeeeere we are!"

They had stopped in front of a Chinese pet shop. It looked ordinary on the outside, but Shava's senses said there was
something....weird about it.

"Count D's......hmmm......" Fang-Po read the sign. "What a strange name for a pet shop."

Everyone stared at her.

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"Well! Let's go in!" she said gaily. Everyone fell over anime style.

Taking the lead, Fang opened the door, smirking as the tinkling bells signaled new customers.

Meanwhile, Count D was finishing up a business transaction with another customer who had purchased a rare breed of dog.

"Remember the contract," he waved as Miss Greene stepped out.

"I will! Thank you, Count!"

D tickled the underside of Q's chin. "Well, that went well, didn't it?"

Fang Po stared at the tall man behind the counter. He was lean and fair skinned, with jet black hair. His clothes were definitely
Chinese, but had the air of...something else along with them. He was (right now) talking to a cute bunny like animal with horns and bat
wings.

"Uh...." Fang sweatdropped. This guy looked weird. Even felt weird! She decided to try speaking to him in Chinese (just in case he
didn't know much English). <Hello, I came to look for a pet?>

"Hmmm?" D was puzzled. Rarely any Chinese person came in here. And they sounded like a native! (Well, duh, Cheng Fang-Po's
from Hong Kong, China, stupid!)

He peered to his left to see a beautiful woman staring at him nervously. Her hair was black except for the bangs, which were a stormy
grey. She was dressed in a plain white Tshirt and jeans. (Oh she decided to dress American style today?! U__U())

<Welcome to my shop. You came for a pet? I think I know which one you want.> D said coyly, furthuring Fang's suspicions.

<Actually,> Fang said, her eyes narrowing. <My friends and I were all looking for a pet.> She turned to the doorway. "Come in, you
guys!"

Count D didn't know why she wanted her friends in here, but as soon as he saw them, he realized that this might get ugly.

Two tall muscular men were the first to enter the room. One of them was clearly African, wearing a blue and white traditional Chadian
robe, with a bunch of caramel colored sticks on his back. The other was a toasty brown colored, wearing a tight green muscle shirt
and olivegreen pants. His hair was the color of blood. D looked nervously at the huge sword sheathed behind his back. Then there
came in two young ladies. This first one slightly shocked the Count.

'What is a Muslim girl doing all the way out here?' he thought as she made her way to the front of the group. She was about five feet six
inches and wore a simple gray Chinese style outift, complete with matching headscarf.

But the last girl REALLY caught his eye.

She was human...at least mostly, but she was definitely Japanese. Her black eyes were streaked with tears as she shifted nervously
into the shop. Count D also noticed she had three horns on each side of her head.

His eyes nearly popped out of his head. 'Oh my GOD! A rare Japanese Lake Demon!!!!!' He quickly clasped his hands behind his
back to hide his excitement.

Q-chan looked at him quizzically. "Chi?"

"Hush, Q," D whispered, "I think we might've hit a gold mine here!"

He turned to Fang. <So this is why you chose to bring them in. You are a band of violent rogues, I see.> He sniffed, slightly insulted.
<Do not take me lightly. I'm far more dangerous than I look....>

"So you're Count D?" the muslim girl looked up at the Count, a smirk on her face. In a twinkle of an eye, she snatched a bit of the
Count's black robes. "Nice clothes."

"A-HEM...." he snatched them back. "How rude you are."

Shava smirked. "I'm not your average Muslim.....So!" She rubbed the glass counter, purposefully smearing it. "I hear you've been
collecting exotic birds lately....WE'RE looking for an exotic bird."

Count D mirrored Shava's smirk. "I think I know----"

"Ohhh, no you don't.." Shava interrupted. "We're looking for a Phoenix. I heard you got one.....from Japan, correct?"

D narrowed his eyes at her. "You didn't come to buy anything , didn't you?"

Shava's narrowed her eyes (which to Count D, looked strikingly like a Strelitzia's eyes) and balled her fists. "No...you stole a thousand
year old Phoenix from this young girl, " she pointed to Ishigami, "and now, we want it back."

D wasn't even thinking of giving up that (THOUSAND YEARS?!) old Phoenix just because this young lady ordered him to. He needed
a distraction, something to discourage them AND something to catch this Lake Demon named "Ishigami".

"Come then, we'll look for the Phoenix, "D said holding out his hand. "We'll go into the back and see if its still there...."

"WHAT?!" Ishigami started to cry, but Shava slapped her hand over the long haired demoness' eyes.

"Stop...that....NOW...." she said, her teeth clenched.

"Yes, Shava...."

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Shava kept an eye on Count D as he led them through a maze of passages and doors. Fang-Po was just surprised that such a little
pet shop could be so huge in the back.

'I could get lost in this place....' she thought, a little frightened.

However, Menelik and Fernando kept their weapons unsheathed, just in case D got violent himself.

"I can feel your eyes boring into my back, my dear..." D whined.

"Just shut up and move," Shava snarled, staring at him even harder.

At last they stopped in front of a door. D opened it, revealing a lush jungle greenhouse.

The warriors' eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets.

"Oh.....oh my...." Fang could hardly believe it. A rainforest in the back of a pet shop?!

Ishigami just felt the leaves to see if all of this was real.

D turned to face them. "Oh, it's real, all right. Isn't it lovely?" He grinned as they gawked everywhere around them.

Except for the Muslim girl.

"My dear, you're not amazed by all of this?" He picked a rather large pink flower and handed it to Shava, who promptly smacked it
away.

"I came to look for a Phoenix. Not a charming nitwit like you. Besides...this place smells weird..."

"Chiii!" Q-chan squeaked angrily.

"Oh shush!" Shava smirked at the little bunny, making him relax a little.

"My my...aren't we focused?" D chuckled a little. "Well," he led them to an ornate settee in a clearing of the rainforest. "Here we are."

Sitting on the settee was a medium sized, human like creature. It looked like a man, but it's wide almond shaped eyes were too
focused to be totally human. It's clothing and crown was Bali dancer style. The creature stared at the group of people with feigned
interest.

"What the heck is this?"Shava asked (well, maybe not "asked", more like "demanded").

D called the person to him. The creature spread its wings and flew into D's arms.

"This is a Strelitzia. This particular one once belonged to a young lady named Angelica. She was also the owner of his father and mother. But (due to incidents that you would never understand) she couldn't bear to
take care of him anymore and sent him back."

D patted the Strelitzia on the head. "I have nicknamed this particular one San San."

"Yeah yeah, that's nice," Shava waved him off. "Now where's the Phoenix?"

"Phoenix?" D said with fake amnesia. "What Phoenix?"

"I...am...going to ...HURT...you...."Shava mumbled under her breath. "Ishigami's Phoenix, numbnuts!"

"Puu?" San San the Strelitzia eyed the strange and angry looking gray female. For some reason, he felt a longing desire to jump into her arms.

So he did.

"Wahh!"Shava yelped when she saw the Strelitzia had jumped onto her back, piggyback style. "What the he--?"

"He LIKES you!" D did a little dance. "Oh happy day! I thought no one would BUY him!"

Shava's left eye twitched. "I...don't...WANT...this bird/guy...whatever!"

"Strelitzia." D corrected her.

"WHATEVER!" She pulled San San off of her back. "Nnngh! Stupid bird!"


San San just pouted and sat cross legged on his settee.

"Oh come now!" D implored her. "Don't hurt his feelings! I think he really likes you! I have a contract---"

"Phoenix...... NOW or get beat up."

"Ah well, let us look somewhere else." D walked airily out of the room.

Ishigami looked at Shava. "Is it only me, or am I NOT the only one who thinks he's just pulling our legs?"

Shava nodded. "You're not the only one."

Meanwhile, as the group left for another part of the backrooms, a certain young Strelitzia snuck out of his room to go searching for the interesting gray female.

"Puu!" San San cheered as he tiptoed down the semi-dark halls.

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End of Chapter ONE!