Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Ronin Warriors Fan Fiction ❯ Silent Warrior Inferno: SuperB ❯ Sally's Soup Stop ( Chapter 15 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: Takato
“Hey TJ, do you know that big house on 4th street?”
“Timmy, you mean that skimpy old woman’s house?”
“I heard that she’s really nice, and an even better cook!”
“Someone must be spreading bad rumors about her then! Whoever is doing such a thing, will be punished!”

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“Hey TJ, do you know that big house on 4th street?”
“Timmy, you mean that skimpy old woman's house?”
“I heard that she's really nice, and an even better cook!”
“Someone must be spreading bad rumors about her then! Whoever is doing such a thing, will be punished!”
Silent Warrior Inferno: SuperB
Episode 142
Timmy and TJ are shopping for dinner, and they start to fight about what kind of meat to put in the stew. TJ wants beef while Timmy wants chicken. They continue to fight until they hear an old woman arguing with the cashier.
"The price is only $1.17," the woman insists.
"I'm sorry miss, but like I told you, the sale ended the other day," the man says sternly.
"Is it too much to just let me have it at the sale price? I walked all the way over here because I saw that advertisement. I think it's a little rude of you to increase the price just because I'm a day late."
"Oh alright, you can have it for the sale price."
"Good. I'll take two."
Sally's Soup Stop
It's starting to rain, and Ashley sees the old woman on the curb.
"Would you like my umbrella?" she asks her.
"And just what do you expect to get from letting a stranger use your umbrella?" the woman asks coldly. "My house is just up ahead."
Ashley starts to walk too, and almost gets hit by a truck. The cats are on the other side of the street, and see Ashley.
“There's a sight you don't see every day,” Athena snickers.
"Lady Yuna was so kind, and that lady was so rude," Mid-Knight says. "I'm going to go and complain to her."
“Mid-Knight, wait!” Prometheus calls as he runs off.
“He gets these impulses from you,” Athena moans.
Mid-Knight gets through the front gate of the woman's house, and tries to get the old woman, but he trips and falls near her feet. The woman sees him, and takes him inside.
"I hope he doesn't forget that he's not supposed to talk around strangers," Athena worries.
The woman is giving Mid-Knight a bath, and dries him off. Prometheus and Athena come up to the window and try to tell him to get out, but the woman carries him off to the kitchen. The kitchen is huge, and there's some soup already made.
"If I knew that my guest was going to be a little panther cub, I would've made a fish platter," the woman says, chuckling.
It stops raining, and Mid-Knight starts to eat the food when he notices there's another plate. He wonders if there's anyone else in the house.
"It's been a long time since I've had a guest," she says, as though she was reading his mind.
TJ is at Café Mileto, with everyone, and he's talking to Ashley about her giving that old woman her umbrella.
"Ashley's over-kindness is her weakness," Tyrone says.
"I think it's her strength," Tyrese says.
"In her case, it's both," Damon says.
"That woman's famous," Styve says. "She lives by herself in a huge house. She gets very suspicious of people that approach her because she thinks they're all real estate agents that want her house."
"Why did you want that woman's house?” TJ asks. “Aren't you rich enough as it is?”
"No TJ, you misunderstood," Ashley responds. “Why do things always end up like this?”
“Just ignore them,” Tyrone and Tyrese sigh.
Damon then yelps (don't ask).
“What's wrong?” Tyrese asks.
"That man over there, he's the head chef of a restaurant called 'The Three Lights,'” he says. “He's ranked one of the top five chefs in the former European region. He's known as Mr. T-Bone Taylor. I wonder why he's here in the Floating City?"
* * *
At the bar, Jacoby finds the picture of the old woman, and likes it.
"At her age, she must have seen the sweet and the sour of the world," he says.
“She must be stern as a rock,” David says.
“The charm of an older woman with the flavors enhanced, much like dried shitake mushrooms!”
"I can't believe your tastes go that far, or that old!" Elliott exclaims.
“I just don't get it,” David says, chugging his drink.
* * *
Timmy is thinking, in his room, when StarFire appears in the globe on his dresser.
"What are you thinking about?" she asks him.
"Why were there two meals ready at that old woman's house?” Timmy asks.
"Did she have a guest?"
"Mid-Knight didn't say there was anyone else at the house."
"Maybe she's preparing for an important person at an unexpected time."
The next day, Timmy is talking to Mid-Knight, on the way to the old woman's house.
"The house could be the enemy's headquarters," Timmy says.
"That can't be," Mid-Knight defends. "She's too good of a great cook."
They get to the house and see the man from the café. He starts to leave and bumps into Timmy.
"Are you a famous chef?” Timmy asks him.
"No, I'm just a stupid traveler who can't find his way out of this floating city because of a memory of love at this age," he responds.
"My parents told me that no matter how old you get, love never changes in your heart."
"Thank you, mon petit monsieur," he says.
Timmy is excited that he praised him and Mid-Knight jumps off his shoulder.
"He was only thanking you," he rolls his eyes.
Timmy stands outside the house, when the woman comes up.
"What are you doing out here?" she asks. “Oh, it's the cub from the other day…”
“So your name is Takato,” the woman says to him. “What an interesting name.”
“My friends back home call me TK,” Timmy says.
“Ok then, TK. I'm really surprised you knew that Mid-Knight came here. How did you know?
"He was so well fed that he couldn't' fit through his kitty door when he came home last night.”
Mid-Knight is trying to say something, but Timmy is holding his mouth shut.
"Is there anyone else in the house?" he asks. "It's so big; you can't live here alone."
"Well, I am alone," she says. "I got this house by working very hard so that I could welcome many guests."
The doorbell then rings.
"They're here again,” she says, going to answer it.
The other cats are leading TJ to the house, about a block away.
"Is the woman that Ashley wanted to share her umbrella with cute?” TJ asks.
Before they can say something, they notice two men outside of the house, yelling for the woman to come out.
"No matter how many times you come, I'll never give you my house," the woman says, coming out of the house.
"Don't be so stubborn, Ms. Taylor," one of the guys says. "It's dangerous for an old woman to live alone."
"They're mob agents, and they want that house for some reason," Prometheus tells TJ.
Jacoby then shows up and grabs the arm of one of the men.
“Who do you think you are?” the man asks.
“Just a passerby,” he responds. “But, I never was one to pass by a lady in distress.
"Are you all right?" he asks the woman.
"What are you expecting from helping a woman you don't know?" she shoots back.
He's very surprised at this remark, and she's wondering if he's one of the mob people. She leaves and thanks him, but Jacoby gets mad. Timmy is watching, from the window.
"She's so different outside," he says.
"It's because I have to protect my house," she says. "My neighbors say I'm a strange old woman who's saving money with no cause."
"I don't think you're strange, I think you're nice."
"Those agents have a good eye," Jacoby says, appearing in the house. "This is a really nice place."
"You're very rude, coming into a ladies home like this!" the woman scolds.
"Don't you remember? You invited me over for tea."
He then changes and does the one two three, and takes her mirror out.
"I can't transform here," Timmy says.
"I can't forgive you for ignoring me," Hawk's Eye says, coming out of her mirror.
"Transform," Mid-Knight says, lunging at Hawk's Eye.
Timmy leaves the house, and bumps into TJ outside.
“Wildfire.”
“Inferno.”
“Amor Up!”
Inside the house, Hawk's Eye throws Mid-Knight onto a pillow, and is about to attack him when the daggers appear.
"You're being charged with trespassing, and assault with a battery! I, Xero Warrior Wildfire, will not let this crime go unpunished. I'll punish you in the name of the future!" Xero Warrior says, making his own speech without Silent Warrior.
"Who's assaulting with a battery?” Hawk's Eye asks. "You know, you're a very rude little boy. Wheeler, Autobiko!"
Autobiko is a girl inside a tire. She starts to ride around the ceiling, and on the walls, and almost completely destroys the room. Hawk's Eye leaves, and Mid-Knight tells them to get out of the room or else it'll be destroyed. They run outside, and Autobiko breaks through a window and starts to chase them.
"Star Slinger!" Yellow LightStar's attack makes Autobiko run into a bush. “A villain who wrecks a beautiful garden into pieces will stop here!”
She starts to come out of the bush, when Angel Warrior appears.
“Angel Feathers!”
"StarFire please come, come protect this person's soul! Call of the Flame!"
"Rage of Inferno!"
* * *
After the battle, TJ and Ashley put the woman on her couch, just as she's waking up.
"Who are you people?" she asks, looking at TJ, Zakia, and Ashley.
"We're Timmy's family," TJ answers.
"Oh great, our dreams are completely destroyed," the woman says, looking around the room.
"What does she mean 'our'?” Timmy asks Ashley.
The man from the café then walks into the house.
"I had a dream 20 years ago to make this house into a beautiful restaurant," he explains. "Even though I was ranked as one of the best chefs in the world, I never found anything as good as Sally's soup."
"My soup is always hot and ready for you, Taylor," she says.
"Can you ever forgive such a selfish person?"
"Yes, but only if you keep your promise to open a restaurant in our house."
"I will," he says.
Later that week, all the guys are eating at the house.
"Later, in the future, this house becomes a beautiful restaurant," Mid-Knight says.
The woman is cutting some meat for TJ, and Ashley gets a little jealous.
"Looks like their dream finally came true," Mid-Knight says.