A simple story [Wrightworth/ Narumitsu]

Back where it began

It had been a while since Phoenix had been in a courtroom, facing off against the prosecutor which was usually Edgeworth. Not today... Probably never. Phoenix had a goal today, to defend his friend, one of his closest friends who had been with him through it all. Even though this wasn't the first time defending her, and it probably wouldn't be the last, Phoenix had a duty to do. He was going to do it the Wright way.

The judge sat down at his place in the courtroom he still had that same look of peculiar positivity, not angry but not jolly either. He stared into Phoenix's eyes and Phoenix gulped he didn't feel to good. 

He watched as the young prosecutor took her place at the stand both her and her whip menacingly facing Phoenix. She smirked as she waved a few documents around in front of her. Cocky... She was clearly too confident, Phoenix just wanted to get the trial over with quietly and calmly. That's never how Phoenix's trials go though, he knew he should prepare himself for the next big twist. He was too tired, he just wanted a normal trial for once, no interviewing birds no getting hit in the head and forgetting everything. Just a normal trial. 

As he was gloomily fuming in his little corner Pearl tugged his jacket and stared up at him angrily.

"Mr Nick! Promise you're going to make sure Maya is innocent."

"Yes- yes I'm going to keep her safe..." Phoenix sighed, the trial hadn't even started yet and the nervousness was getting to him. Just as he was about to pick up a small file next to him he felt a hard pain in his hip.

"You meanie!"

Phoenix found himself knocked into the wall behind him, the gallery murmured things like did she just hit him or woah that little girl is strong!

"Did you just punch me?"

"Yeah! You keep saying you're gonna keep Maya safe but what have you done! She's not out of jail yet!"

Phoenix looked down at the little girl, how could such a small being hit with such power? His hip really hurt, Phoenix had always had a bad back and this would just be the cherry on top. All too quickly, the judge bellowed out...

"Court is now in session!"

Phoenix cracked his knuckles and prepared himself for whichever witness came his way, they were all usually liars either accidentally or on purpose. The first witness to take their place on the stand was Detective Gumshoe. He was really only there to give a quick summary of the report and the crime, breaking his testimony apart was quite easy though, so the whole ordeal was over in about 20 minutes. Sadly, during this time, Phoenix was unable to avoid a few slashes from Franziska's whip. It hurt. Really badly. In the meantime all, Gumshoe could do was sadly stare on, clearly he had been victim to that whip one too many times aswell.

Most of Gumshoe's testimony was just Phoenix and Franziska arguing back and forth, the judge stared on in shock, he was way too scared to stop Franziska from whipping everyone. Soon however, Franziska calmed down and directed her anger at Gumshoe. Just like Edgeworth. Poor Gumshoe could never get a break from those prosecutors, he was always being called incompetent. 

The next part of the trial was a short recess issued by the judge, Phoenix could finally go and talk to Maya.

"Maya!"

"Nick!"

"Are you okay? Sorry this trial is taking so long, I just wish it would end..."

"No-no it's ok Nick, this isn't the first time I've been accused..." Maya's eyes sparkled with tears welling up in the corners, Phoenix had been a part of that first trial. Poor Maya.

"I know you were giving it your all to defend me... But I could feel the death penalty hanging in the air..." Maya sighed and turned towards Pearl.

"Mr Nick? You still tricked everyone into believing you right? You used your special 'lawyer' technique!"

Phoenix panicked, he couldn't have this girl thinking that he was a liar! Maya quickly intervened.

"Oh Pearls! Nick didn't trick anyone or lie, he was just showing everyone the truth."

Pearl nodded and hugged Maya before they headed back to the courtroom.

"Hey Nick... The next witness is Lotta Hart right?"

"Yeah... I thinks so."

A/N

Sorry if this chapter felt boring, the is part one of two, I'll try to make the next chapter more interesting. Right now the story is following the Reunion and Turnabout case very closely.