//------------------------------// // Welcome to a normal case, Dash. // Story: Dashie Wright: Competent Co-Counsel // by Terabyte West //------------------------------// September 2nd, 2016 Fey and Co. Offices 8:55 AM Mia grabbed her phone after having dialed her sister's number. While she only heard a steady tone, the phone on the other end heard a melody not unlike the Steel Samurai. After a good 30 seconds, no doubt due to the younger Fey sister refusing to end the theme song, she picked up the phone. "Hey, sis!" Maya greeted. "Okay, let's get down to business." Mia replied, no emotion in her tone. "I need you to come over here -sometime around 9:00 PM?- and hold onto some evidence for me. It's a statue of The Thinker, but that's not the important part." "Well, what is?" "The contents of the statue's base. It was originally a clock, but I removed the clockwork and stuffed the real evidence within." "Okay..." Maya complied, slightly disappointed. "Hey, don't be like that." Mia said, trying to comfort her sister. "We'll get some burgers when you get here, okay?" "Alright, love you." They both hung up at the same time. September 5, 2016 Gatewater Hotel 9:27 AM Unknown to either party, a woman had tapped into Mia's phone and was listening in to their conversation. After the line went dead, evidenced by static, the woman picked up her phone and dialed her boss. "Mr. White?" "Yes, Ms. May?" "It's time. Her sister's name is Maya." September 22, 2016 Fey and Co. Offices 8:57 PM Mia desperately sprinted to the back office after door opened to reveal a man with too much jewelry. Still sporting the same eerie smile, he trailed Mia into the back office. After he took notice of the folder he was after, he turned his attention to Mia. "I'll be taking the papers, Miss Fey." The man said, his usual eccentricity gone. "I'm sorry, but I can't give you what I don't have." Mia said, doing anything to keep his attention off of the filing cabinets. "You never were the best liar. I can see them right behind you." He said, revealing his true target. "That statue of The Thinker, it's housing those papers, isn't it?" When Mia's attempts at a response turned to stutters, he laughed and said, "Don't you know anything about me? Gathering business is my specialty." Mia chided herself for being so reckless, and the man proceeded to grab the statue. "My dear Miss Fey, I am so sorry, but I must ask for one more thing." The next words he spoke would ring in Mia's ears for the rest of eternity, them being the last words she ever heard. "Your eternal silence. Farewell, Miss Fey." The sound of the statue's base breaking her skull and killing her instantly rang through the office, Mia's killer smiling so wide it would likely have torn a normal person's facial tissue. September 5, 2016 Fey and Co. Law Firm 9:07 PM Phoenix wandered into the office, Dash trailing behind him. He wasn't exactly sure why he was here, something just spoke to him. He regretted accidentally waking up Rainbow, but she still seemed somewhat awake. "Dad?" Rainbow yawned, partially sprawled out on the couch. "Rainbow, I'm not too sure why, but I feel like I need to head down to the law offices. If you want to come with, go on ahead." She took him up on the offer. Rainbow moved forward, ahead of Phoenix, and sniffed the air for no apparent reason. Though the reason was made much clearer afterwards. "Dad, something smells like old vinegar and molded pennies. It smells like it's coming from the back office." Phoenix nodded affirmative, picking Rainbow up and putting her on his shoulders. Rainbow looked like she would pass out any moment, the unidentified smell being the only thing keeping her up. When they walked into the office, the first thing that stuck out was everything scattered about. Signs of a struggle... Phoenix considered. I may need to take notice of this. He pulled out his obsolete flip-phone (the only one he could afford) and took a picture of a knocked-over lamp, vaguely aware of a feeling he never saw it before. Lowering his phone, he saw something that rendered both Phoenix and Rainbow fully alert. Mia was hunched over under a window, not moving an inch. Blood was spattered over her head, and on a slip of paper. Phoenix could feel the cold of a dead body emanating from her. He heard sniffling, and thought that Dash was crying. "Hey, it'll be alright." He said in a desperate attempt to comfort Rainbow, unaware than it was someone else who needed help. "My sister's dead! How can it be alright?" A new voice said behind him. Phoenix's and Rainbow's attentions were diverted onto a new character. She looked uncannily like Mia, only with clothes that were shades of purple rather than black and gray. Her hair rappelled down her back all the way down to her waist, where a pink bow was tied. Around her neck was some charm that looked remarkably like Mia's, with pearls on a string serving as what kept it attached. Her getup also didn't expose her breasts, which definitely made Phoenix happy. The new girl dashed over to the late attorney's body, eyes watering. Phoenix wasn't fully aware of what she said while mourning his mentor, but one word lingered in his mind. "Sis!"