SUN SHORT #1 - Ready To Move To The Next Level?
Outside Starlight High, Joel Cooper tells Ronnie, “It’s going to be tough trying to defend yourself from The Massachusetts Boys all by your own.”
With Joel gone, it leaves Ronnie to ponder if he was being serious or not. However, that wasn’t the only person who heard the conversation. Since behind a tree is none other than Christopher Wrinkle, who was trying to get some wall sits in before overhearing the conversation those two had.
As he begins to walk away, Christopher thinks back to when he fought Victor. He fought him out of anger from seeing a friend get hurt, he’s still ashamed that he threw that punch. Yet he knows that if more people are going to be after his friends, he’s going to need to find a way to protect them.
Which means getting stronger.
As Christopher heads to the Dawnbreak Health & Fitness Center, he contemplates how exactly that will work when he recalls Sammy telling him how his punch was awful. Christopher comes to the realization that if he wants to get strong, he’s going to need to have a good form.
“Christopher?” Someone asks.
Christopher looks and in shock he sees his boss, Mechai Aromdee, standing in the gym chatting with the owner Garry Jackingson, and the boxing specialist Francisco Champion.
“Mister Aromdee, it’s nice to see you!” Christopher asks, ”What are you doing here?”
“Well since Victor’s injured and can’t come into work, we’re unable to take as many moving requests as usual, so I decided to take a side gig with an old friend of mine,” Mister Aromdee explains.
“Believe it or not that man right there is going to be our Muay Thai instructor,” Garry Jackingson remarks as he flexes.
“Muay Thai?” Christopher questions.
“It’s a martial art that originated from my home country of Thailand,” Aromdee explains, "It also goes by the name ‘Thai Boxing’. I used to be decent at it back when I was your age.”
“Really?” Christopher questions, “Sounds pretty aggressive.”
“All martial arts and fighting have some form of aggression to them,” Francisco shrugs, “What matters is deciding how you release that aggression, and to what extent.”
“I see,” Christopher says before asking, “If you don’t mind, I’d like to learn more about Muay Thai!”
“Is that so?” Mechai Aromdee questions, “Then I’d be happy to teach you.”
Garry interrupts the two as he hands Christopher a contract and says, “As soon as you sign the paperwork you’ll be able to take this class.”
As Christopher reads how much this costs and signs the papers, he thinks to himself how he’s going to need to get glasses. Because there’s no way there were that many zeros on the bill than what he saw.
SUN SHORT #2 - The Sixth Tape
Sitting in his bedroom, Ronnie Everst looks down at the box of VHS tapes that his late father and James Lewis recorded. There’s a total of nine of them, and since he had already watched five, he figures it’s about time to watch the sixth.
He takes out the VHS tape, removes it from its covering, and is about to slide it into the player when-
“DINNER’S READY!” his mom, Sally Everst, yells from downstairs.
“Coming!” Ronnie yells down as he puts the VHS tape away.
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Perhaps he’ll just have to wait another day to watch the tapes.
SUN SHORT #3 - Flourish
Out on the streets of Starlight City resides a newly open store known as ‘The Griffon Botany Shop’. On the outside, it has a nice slick modern black front with large glass windows leading to the inside, whereas the interior has hardwood flooring and old brick walls. One thing though was abundant in the shop, covering the outside sidewalk, strung across the shop, and hanging from the ceiling were all types of plants and flowers available for purchase.
And it’s this shop that Aken Amnestor heads into as he spots the owner of the shop Gabriel Griffon. Gabriel Griffon is a tall young 20-something with short black hair, white skin, a slim yet muscular physique, and a smile that could make anyone’s heart skip a beat. He’s also wearing a white leather jacket over a black t-shirt, gray cargo pants, and black shoes.
“Oh Amnestor, long time no see,” Gabriel Griffon remarks as he walks over and gives the man a big hug, “Feel free to choose anything you like here, it’s on the house.”
“It’s nice to see that you’re adjusting well to life outside of a cell,” Amnestor remarks as he stops to smell the roses.
“Yeah well I was lucky enough to get off on a light sentence,” Griffon remarks as he waters some plants, “And I had a very generous benefactor who helped me set up this shop.”
“I’m happy that you’re able to get back up on your own two feet,” Amnestor says before adding, “But that begs the question; why did you even get in this situation in the first place? Why were you digging in the school’s cafeteria before attacking two of my students.”
Gabriel Griffon stops watering the plants as he picks up a soil scooper. His low-key demeanor has shifted to an eerily strict rigidness as he walks over to scoop some dirt into a pot.
“I was pretty out of it back then,” Gabriel Griffon remarks with his back turned to Amnestor, “But I must warn you if you want to try and dig this all up again…”
Gabriel Griffon slams the soil scooper into the pot, causing it to shatter as he remarks, “Then you’ll be making yourself a target for him.”
“Him?” Amnestor questions.
“The person that’s at the root of it all,” Gabriel Griffon states before putting the soil scooper to his mouth and whispering the name, “The Phantom.”
Hearing that name, Amnestor can’t help but feel a chill run down his spine, despite never hearing that name before, just by judging Griffon’s actions, he knows this individual is one not to be trifled with.
But even so, if he steps back down, then things will remain covered up by those who want it covered up. And once his final year as a teacher is done, he isn’t sure if he’ll ever get a chance to find out the truth ever again.
Griffon, seeing Amnestor’s gaze, softly smiles before telling him, “The Three Ts know more about it all than me, make sure to talk to them about it.”
“I see, thank you, Griffon,” Amnestor remarks as he picks up a bouquet of chrysanthemums, “As for the flowers if you don’t mind I think I’ll be taking these. There my wife’s favorite.”
“Tell her I send my regards,” Gabriel Griffon as he waves at Amnestor.
Amnestor leaves the botany shop, not knowing how much he should take Griffon’s words at face value. All the while in the botany shop, Griffon spots a rat running across the floor. He grabs it by the tail and walks over to a certain plant.
“Hey, you’re making the floor all filthy,” Griffon groans as he reaches a Venus fly trap.
After dangling the rat over the fly trap and staring into the rat’s eyes, Griffon sighs before putting the rat on his hand and lightly petting it, “You’re lucky you have cute eyes.”
The rat cuddles as it gets petted when Griffon decides, “It’ll be nice having another employee here besides me, don’t you agree, Limon?”
The rat, now named Limon, takes kindly to the new name.
SUN SHORT #4 - Doing Fine
At The Moore Family Apartment, Elizabeth is sitting on the couch watching the TV with her 8-year-old sister Nhung Thi Moore and her 13-year-old brother Hai Vhan Moore. Her parents, Nolan Moore & Lan Thi Pham-Moore are in the kitchen.
Elizabeth walks over to the kitchen where she overhears her parents planning out Lang’s upcoming ninth birthday so she suggests, “She really likes that one princess show, how about making it princess-themed?”
“That’s a great idea sweetie,” Mister Moore responds before asking, “Though don’t you have your club today, how come you’re here so early.”
“Oh uh,” Elizabeth says as she tries to think of an excuse, “It got canceled today.”
Picking up on something being off, her mother asks, “Elizabeth is everything okay?”
“Yeah yeah, I’m doing fine,” Elizabeth lies, “Though I’m gonna try and get a quick nap in.”
“Okay,” Misses Moore responds as she decides not to press further,
Elizabeth walks down the hall and enters her room before falling to the ground and sighing, “How did things even get to this point?”
SUN SHORT #5 - The Most Shocking School Decision
“What’s going on?” Ronnie questions as he tries to get through the extremely crowded halls of Starlight High.
It’s passing period and while most people would be heading to class already, a ton of people are crowded by a wall with a newly hung up poster advertising an upcoming event.
And most of the students there are fucking pissed.
“You gotta be kidding me!” Victor groans.
“THIS IS BULLSHIT!” Randy yells as he kicks a nearby locker only to stub his toe.
“There’s nothing we could do,” X Locke sighs as he sits defeated on a chair.
“What’s all the fuss about?” Ronnie questions as he looks at the poster.
The poster is regarding this year’s upcoming homecoming dance, and how it will be a joint homecoming between Starlight High and their rival school Seastar High.
See You Next Chapter!~