Chapter 1
Mise was walking down the street to meet his new clients at their house. He was wearing his favorite black chef's coat, with black pants, and black shoes. His black hair was slicked back and goatee was kept well groomed and trimmed. He had gotten a call earlier in response to an ad for a personal chef he had placed in the local newspaper.
After about 20 minutes of walking, Mise arrived at the address he was given over the phone, what he found was not what he expecting. What he saw was a normal sized bungalow, but it was the fact that it was split down the middle with a giant black line and decorated in two different styles that really took him back. “Man, they take keeping things separate to a whole new level. I just hope this doesn’t get in the way of my job.” Mise said as he thought out loud to himself.
He walked up to the door, which was also split down the middle, and knocked on it. He waited there for a few seconds until a girl roughly his age opened the door. “Hello, can I help you?” asked the girl as mise simply stood there mesmerized.
Mise was at a loss for words, he had seen many beautiful women before both in his various lines of work and life endeavors, but something about her was different from the rest, he couldn't figure it out, something...from within, almost as if it were something radiating from within her spirit just connected with Mise on a level he didn't know existed.
The aforementioned girl had light grey skin, long black hair, and bright lavender eyes. She was also wearing a purple waistcoat, pink skirt with a treble clef on the side, and a pink bow tie and spoke with rich English accent. Before the girl could suspect or call Mise out on why he wasn't saying anything, he quickly snapped back into reality and managed to keep a professional composure despite the overwhelming feeling he just endured.
“Yes, my name is Mise en Place, but may just call me Chef Mise, I got your call in response to my ad in the paper.” said Mise as he pulled out a newspaper clipping and handed it to the girl who smiled warmly. “Ah yes, I remember now. My name is Octavia Melody, it a pleasure to meet you. Please do come in.” said the girl now identified as Octavia as she looked up from the article.
As Mise followed Octavia through the house, he noted how, just as on the outside, the inside was split down the middle. One side was neatly decorated with classical and orchestral designs while the other side was decorated with speakers and wires and a large turntable in the middle.
"I don't mean to tell you and your roommate how to do things, but don't you think two have taken this whole 'this is my side and that's your side' thing to a bit of an extreme?" Mise asked as he looked around "it would seem that way, but trust me it's the only way to keep the peace around here. It's a double edged sword really..." Octavia said as mise nodded 'I know how that can be...' Mise thought to himself as he followed Octavia.
“And here is the kitchen, everything you need should be in there already. feel free to have a look around, i'm sure with your credentials you like to have things to an exact standard” Octavia said as Mise stepped in and began to scope out the kitchen and everything seemed to be in order, except for one thing.
“Why is there a giant speaker where the dishwasher should be?” asked Mise with raised eyebrow “Ugh, I thought I told Vinyl to get rid of that.” said a very irritated Octavia “You see, the good thing about Vinyl as roommate is that she does the dishes…” said Octavia. “Ok, so what’s that have to do with this?” said Mise pointing to the large speaker.
“That’s just it, she cleans them with…wubs.” Octavia said as she pinched the bridge of her nose. “Wubs? Your roommate does realize how she's paying for my services” asked Mise as he made sure they were both on the same page.
“Yeah, you crank that base up to 11 and it’ll clean the dishes on a microscopic scale.” called a raspy female voice. the pair turned around to see a girl who was leaning up against the door frame.
“Vinyl, I told you to get rid of that thing. Our new chef I hired can’t wash his dishes with that…thing.” said Octavia crossing her arms and pointing to the speaker
“Oh come on Tavi, I’m sure ‘Chef Boyardee’ over here can manage.” said the girl, now identified as Vinyl.
“Its chef Mise, and I will do them by hand but I get paid by the hour. So it’s you choice.” Mise said as he cracked a smirk at Vinyl. “Ugh, fine I’ll put the dishwasher back.” Said Vinyl in a defeated tone.
Later that day, as Mise was getting everything ready, he noticed a framed pictured sitting in the window sill, that oddly enough he never noticed before. He picked up the picture and it showed three kids about 8-10 years of age, two of them he identified as being Octavia and Vinyl, and the third one he couldn’t identify.
The boy in the picture had dark blue skin, silver hair with a light blue highlight, and his eyes were sky blue and was being hugged from both sides by Octavia and Vinyl ‘reminds me of uisce and tara...I often wonder what might happened if the events of that day never happened....where would I be...where would they be...would we even be alive?’ Mise thought as his thoughts darkened and deepened as he stared out the window.
“How is dinner coming along in here?” Asked Octavia as the sound of her voice pierced Mise's thoughts. Mise snapped out of his trance and turned around to see Octavia and Vinyl walking into the kitchen to check on the night’s meal.
“Oh, uh, it’s coming along great, the roast is in the oven right now and the sauce is on the fire.” said Mise as he stealthy put the picture back without either of the girls noticing “Fire, what fire!?” said a frantic Vinyl as she ran to the pantry to grab the fire extinguisher as mise put his hands up defensively “Whoa, Vinyl calm down, it just a figure of speech us chefs use.” Explained Mise as he tried to calm her down.
“Oh, yeah, well I knew that.” said Vinyl as she tried to play off her embarrassment while Octavia snickered and Mise simply rolled his eyes and returned to cooking. While they were waiting for the meal to cook Mise went on to explain the various phrases used in kitchens by chefs and what kitchen life was like.
“So Chef Mise, how did you get to be a chef in the first place, and very good one at that?” asked Octavia, intrigued by what it was Mise was telling her, while Vinyl just sat there with her head on the table.
“Well before I came here to Canterlot, I worked in my parent’s restaurant doing prep work and putting away deliveries and such, and I eventually got the bug for cooking and I enrolled in cooking classes and got to train under a very prestigious French chef, who my father was good friends with.”
“That’s quite the story, Chef Mise.” Octavia said with smile as mise nodded. and just as she said that, the timer for the roast went off.
“Well the roast is cooked to perfection, and sauce looks great.” Mise said as he got the two plates of food set up for Vinyl and Octavia. Hearing this, Vinyl sprung up from her stupor like a spring loaded trap.
“Food, glorious food!!” Vinyl said she wasted no time scarfing down the meal. Mise and Octavia just watched in shock as Vinyl polished the plate of set before her. “Wow, I think that’s some kind of record.” said Mise as looked down at his watch. “You can’t be serious?” asked a concerned Octavia. “Eh, I’ve seen worse.” said Mise as he brushed off Vinyl’s eating display. 'Lady if you've seen the things I've seen...well you'd be either insane, alcoholic, or dead'
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Well now I can't wait for Chef Mise to meet Vinyl's boyfriend Treble. Great start by the way, looking forward to more.
Welcome to the Crew, your quarters are below deck with me in the armory. If you have any other questions, please talk to Captain Edward Kenway and his First Mate Spooky Shadow. I'm Punk, Weapons Master and expert in anything that goes boom.
*explosion from above deck*
I had nothing to do with that.
Finally welcome aboard can't wait to see more Celtic. Oh and I'm just taking a guess but Vinyl is going to drive Chef Mise crazy and vice versa am i right?
6535790
Punk, for the last time, I am the weapons master, you are in charge of training people to throw other people through tables. Now get out of my armory.
6535756 not big fan of rap so not sure what the meaning is, but thanks anyway.
6535765 the feeling is mutal, and thank you and I look forward to writing more
6535790 pleasure to be aboard, and pleased to serve. and also like I always say, "when in doubt, C4"
6536108 thank you, and you bet your sweet candy ass they are. just wait you meet his uncle...
6537044 Well, it's gonna go down for real!
6537074 oh hell yeah
6536114 im taking the chair with me... And this table.
6537204
Fine, but the thermos is mine.
6537246 and I'll take this pencil for some reason then!
6537246 which one?
The one that says, Kiss the dragon slayer, or the one that says Drug Free for life?
6538142
The first one.
It is a nice story, even if I didn´t liked it that much, that it nearly looked like love at first sight again, but that isn´t anything really bad.
However, I can´t stop to think of him as some sort of chinese Man, or at least some very...snobby chef, the way he speaks.
I don´t mean that he is mean, no...I just try to explain how his speech sounds to me.
Well good story so far, I don´t have really anything to complain so far.
6540614 thank you I'm glad you're enjoying it. And as far as his speech, he is just trying to stay professional while trying to surpress his feelings for Octavia because of what happened in his past, which will be revealed in future chapters. He's actually a very easy going person will a bit of a wild side
6540843 So if I understand you right, it wasn´t absolutely love at first sight? Or did something bad happened, and he don´t want to repeat the mistake?
Well I´m really not ad about the "I see her, and love her part", it just looks to easy, or to fast in storys, you know the type of love that some call "instant Love?"
It isn´t that important for me, but I would like it, if he would not be that type of guy, that the girls can manipulate easy, or that would look like an idiot, or a poor, little and sad guy because of it. Not sure if you know what I mean, I just had to remember some storys, where the guy was a real wimp.
To make it perfect, those guys would be usually those, that everyone was going to laugh at. I hope you know what I mean, I noticed I have maybe overdone it a little bit with the description of that personality.
6541202 he does like her yes, but something did happen in the past that kind of made a much more harder person to push over and he doesn't want to go through it again. It will be explained. And i totally know what you're getting at
6541285 That´s good to know, and if I think about it, he was kind of funny too, but that is just because how the scene played out in my head.
6541354 yeah, he's only "professional" when he's working. But when he's off duty so to speak, he's a lot more outgoing and fun. You'll see what I mean in the next chapter
Ok, I like this
but I got some serious Sanji vibes from Mise
This is amazing! I've read about three of the stories from the PoME universe,and i've loved all of them!
This is the first one i've commented on because i haven't had an account until now
< hence that thing,i need to change my profile picFixed it.
Vinyl's a vulture!!!!!
This was very nice. I liked it a lot.
I haven't read a Viynl and Octavia story in a while and just by going off this chapter you did a great job of portraying these two. The chef is in for quite a time.