Blooming Friendships

Ch7 A New Friend

(Hey everyone. I just wanted to thank everyone who read this far and liked my story enough to read it to it's end. I had a lot of fun writing it and it makes me happy knowing some people loved it enough to read it fully. If you liked this consider checking out my other works. Thanks to everyone for reading this, faving it, or leaving a nice comment. And thank you to GearsForBreakfast for creating such wonderful characters and giving me the opportunity to make this wonderful story. )

The air was nice. Well a lot nicer now that the entire place wasn't dripping in lava replacing the water and making everything hotter than a solar blast! She scowled as she stomped along the town known as Mafia Town. Yeah. Maybe not a really creative name but what did she expect these guys that couldn't even say the word "i" around here? Not a lot that's for sure. After all it was their fault this whole mess started in the first place. Breaking into her ship and sending her time pieces cascading down onto this planet like they freaking owned the place!..Ok. Maybe they DID own Mafia Town but not her time pieces or ship! And now after that Mustache Girl stole her time pieces and set off the lava she had to fix their mess! Fighting their boss, cleaning up he lava, dealing with their bullying, fixing time rifts here, the Boss Jar somehow breaking into her ship, and NOW she had to race against one of these guys on a firework in order to get the last time piece from here. And now that she was done here, she had better leave and move on to the next place where she could sense the presence of a time piece. After all she needed to recollect all of them before anymore fell into the wrong hands-

Wait...What was that sound?

It sounded like...crying. Turning the hatted girl started down a path that she heard the faint crying come from that lead her down between two buildings and around the corner getting louder. And louder. Until she turned a second corner and saw it. Another child with dark curly hair and a bow on her head was sitting there crying and looked to have been pushed down as a giant Mafia man stood above her looming. 

"All people needs to pay toll in Mafia Town. Even little girls!," he said sternly making the crying girl cry more. "Little girl won't pay toll? Then feel Mafia's wrath!" The man pulled his arm back- Only to feel a hard slam on his head. "AH!! HEY!!" 

With a swift turn of his head and his hands flying to clutch his noggin, he looked down and saw the peculiar sight of  another small girl right behind him. She GLARED at the taller Mafia man before lifting her umbrella again and with inhuman strength slammed it against his side with the force of three grown Mafia. The man obviously reeling back from the hit as he choked from the air being forced outta his lungs as pain now speared from his side. Clutching his side, he went down on one knee one hand on the ground holding him up as he looked now scared at the other little girl, as she delivered another Whack to his shoulder making him fully fall flat onto his face. The bow girl blinked and gazed on shocked at what was going on before her. Too shocked to even continue crying anymore as now in fear, the man got up and began running. The little girl with the hat chasing him a few yards waving the umbrella wildly at his feet before stopping and watching the man speed off, disappearing around a corner. After a moment she huffed. Served him right picking on a kid...Oh! The girl! When she turned back around the bow girl was still there staring at her. She smiled widely and bounded up to her. 

"Man. That was close. Those guys are all brawn and no brains," she said stopping right in front of her with a smile, "You ok?" She held out her hand. "Here! Lemme help you up!"

The little girl stared back at her blinking. She had purple eyes and a blue bow holding back dark curls, and now that she got a good look at her. She wore black boots, blue skirt, a white shirt, and a green coat with cat pockets and buttons on it. She continued to stare at her for the longest moment, then she finally blinked down at the hand held out to her, then back to her. Then back and forth a few more times. Before slowly reaching her own hand out, and grabbing onto hers. With a smile the Hatted child pulled her back onto her own two feet and the bow girl sniffed and wiped her face.

"T-Thank you," she finally spoke between sniffing.

She smiled back. "Hey! No problem! That guy was asking for it anyways. My name's Hattie! Who're you?"

"*sniff*.....B-Bow."

"Oh! I get it! Because you're wearing a bow right?" She didn't give her a chance to answer before looking around. "Did you get lost or something? Where's your mom and dad?"

The little girl paused for a long moment ..before shaking her head and looked down. "...No. I'm not lost. I...d-don't have any parents."

In an instant Hattie whipped to Bow with wide eyes. "Wait! YOU TOO!? Hey! I don't have parents either!" ...Bow blinked at her. "But if you're not lost where do you live? Don't tell me you live in this dumpy alley way."

Again Bow shook her head. "I don't have a home either."

Again Hattie's eyes widened. "You don't!?"

"Nuh uh. I u-used to live in Nyakuza Metro but I ran away when all the crime got worse because of the Empress. I thought thing's would be different here but..."

Hattie scowled and rolled her eyes. "Yeah. Backstabbing mustache girls and big blue bullies. This town SUCKS!!" And that was the truth. But she took a moment to look back to Bow for a moment. "You...really don't have anywhere to go?" Again Bow shook her head. "Oh....Hey! I know!" Her bright smile returned as she jabbed a thumb at herself. "I don't have parents but I gotta sweet spaceship and a Rumbi! I dunno anything about any Queens-"

"Empress."

"Same difference. But if you want you can come with me!"

Bow's eyes perked up. "R-REALLY!?"

"Sure!...But first, you're not gonna backstab me or betray me right?"

"Uh....No?"

Hattie nodded before reaching over and grabbing Bow's hand, making her blink as she pulled her along. "C'mon! I can take you there no problem. You're gonna like you're new home!"