omegafriends | 02 - Pull Yourself Together

A - Venture Park, closed to Eiji Hino

This city was one strange, dangerous place. If it wasn't one thing keeping him from finding that blasted hobo, it was another. (Mostly, he was choosing to blame that weird purple Greeed for making messes and getting in his way.) But today he was determined to find Eiji Hino. He had reached the limits of how far he could grow while nesting at Joji Yuki's lab, or while huddled shamefully at the bottom of Hina Izumi's purse.

Mind you, Ankh has absolutely no patience left. There is no room for subtlety and stealth in his plans today. "EIJI! HEY! EIJI!!!" So there is now a very noisy floating hand rushing through Venture Park at inappropriate speeds. One that cares not for who he bothers or how much attention he's drawing.

B - Venture City in general

When you're more than just a floating hand, there are more things that you can do. Like actually go into an ice cream shop, purchase multiple ice cream bars (with money that was gotten via earlier pickpocketing, but let's not go there), and sit down to eat them all. Even if they don't taste like anything. Even if they don't feel like anything. They're supposed to taste sweet and feel cold, and maybe if he eats enough of them, he'll get something out of it.

But so far, it's just serving to tick him off, for obvious reasons and for reasons that feel just a few inches outside of his grasp. He looks very, very grumpy, for a man with that much ice cream stacked in front of him.

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"Need money. No have." Where's a jungle man supposed to get money, Ankh? Where? He can't read, he smells funny, and he doesn't wear pants.

Ankh's look goes from defensive to disapproving. "Go take some from Joji." The answer here was obvious, Amazon. Were you too dumb to realize that their host had a lot of stuff that could just be taken?

"No take." Amazon shakes his head firmly. "Joji nice. No take before ask." He thinks some more. "Joji no home."

Ankh snorts. "Then take it from someone else in this city that's not nice." And with a little careful teeth-work, he gets the last of the ice cream off of the stick and into his mouth. The stick, having served its purpose, is dropped unceremoniously onto the table. "...that's what you do, right? You're one of those stupid heroes, aren't you?"

"Stealing no nice. Amazon no steal." He crosses his arms. "No steal from bad. Then Amazon bad too."

This conversation was getting more and more annoying with each passing second. Ankh's eyes flick down to the pile of (rapidly melting) ice cream, then back to Amazon, sourly. "...if I give you one, will you go away?" Melted ice cream wasn't worth the bother, after all.

Amazon considers this, then nods and grins. "Amazon leave for ice cream."

Ankh picks up a yellow and orange ice cream bar, then just about tosses it at Amazon. "There! Peel off the wrapper before you eat it!" See? He's being very generous, here. He's offering important advice.

"Amazon thank." And now he's opening that ice cream bar up, peeling the wrapper as instructed, and trying to take a bite. "Cold!" There is a bit of surprise there on Amazon's part.

A funny sort of look crosses Ankh's face. He's... never had ice cream before, has he? Ankh is not known for his ability to sympathize, but this suddenly reminds him of his first taste of an ice pop. "Yes, it's cold. And what else?"

Yes. Tell him about it. What flavor was that one?

"Cold and...sweet." Yes, that's the word he was looking for. Sweet. "Like..." There's another pause as Amazon searches for the right words. "Mango. Banana." He seemed to appreciate the fruit flavors; they were familiar ones, considering what he preferred to eat normally. "Amazon like."

Really, it's too bad Ankh isn't sharing with someone who's better with words.

Cold and sweet could be assumed. But mango and banana, that was important information, even if it was expressed simply. There's a sudden look of longing on Ankh's face. He remembered those. He liked them. Mango especially.

And then he felt angry. Intensely so. He should be the one tasting flavors, but he isn't. He shoves the remaining ice cream bars across the table, towards Amazon, and rises to his feet with such haste that he almost tips his chair over. "They're yours. I don't want them anymore."

"Angry Bird nice!" comes the immediate reaction. Amazon doesn't mind this sudden wealth of ice cream, even if he's going to share most of it with random passers-by. But Ankh is not happy, which makes Amazon worry. "What wrong?"

Nice. Right. He's already striding away from the cafe by the time Amazon realizes that this isn't entirely what it seems to be. It stops him, though, and he turns and looks back over his shoulder with an irritated snort. "I can't taste it! There's no point. Idiot."

"Why no taste?" Amazon is a bit concerned for poor, tasteless Angry Bird right about now...and it's probably for the best he hasn't yet learned what "idiot" means. "Amazon help?"

Amazon's not going to let up until he fully explains himself, is he? Ankh turns sharply on one heel and marches back to him, obviously angry. That grasping motion that he makes with his monstrous hand is also quite aggressive. "I'm a Greeed! I'm not human! I don't have senses like a human! Not anymore!"

Amazon's got to process this. "Amazon help?" He's concerned, even if he's quite possibly not 100% up on what's going on here.

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