Spotting Dark Pit wasn't a hard task for Irena, however, catching up to him was. The girl growled to herself as she stared hard at the black figure that stuck out like a sore thumb in the sky. She didn't think he was aware that she was chasing him down as she summoned her staff out and aim at his left wing so that it would only graze at the feathers. Letting go of the arrow, the projectile certainly did just graze the tips of the feathers causing him look back and smirk confidently. False pride, I guess.

"Ha! You missed me!" he said in a mocking tone.

Irena frowned at the male angel in black as she shot another arrow at him in which he dodged barely enough.

"Don't go playing with sharp weapons now!" he called behind him.

It's as if he wanted her to shoot him out of the sky or something in which she shot another arrow by his arm.

"Hand me back the stone you giant lump of black feathers!" the angel exclaimed as she chased him down.

"After you tried to insult me...... Nahhhhh...! I was having second thoughts, but maybe not," Dark Pit said as he flew into the town below.

Irena growled as she followed him down and began hauling objects she could grab as she passed by. Her tosses and throws varied by the weight of the objects. Some of them were able to reach him while others land short. Either she swung her entire body as if she was doing a hammer throw or just threw them with a normal ball throw. Surprisingly enough, she managed to slow him down a ton, closing up the gap.

"Dark Pit! I really need that stone back at its post!" Irena called as she shot herself over into the angel worriedly.

The girl was now close enough to push herself off one of the buildings near her and shoot directly at the boy. Grabbing him and forcing him to close his wings with her heavily impacted tackle, the two were sent flying on the ground, feathers puffing and fluttering down all around them.

"H-hey, watch it you moron!" Dark Pit growled, trying to shake her off.

Just as Pit did to her back at Palutena's temple, the girl sat on top of Dark Pit to try and keep him down. Holding out her hand, the girl frowned at the glaring angel underneath her.

"Stone. Now."

"I can just kick you off right now, you know," Dark Pit mumbled.

Instead of throwing her off his body without any effort, Dark Pit groaned as he pulled out the stone and gave it back to its owner with little curiosity lingering in his head.

"Why do you want it so badly?" he asked as she swiftly sent it back to the abandoned temple.

"None of your business...." she replied as she got ready to head back.

The male angel frowned and switched the roles of the two, quickly grabbing Irena and pushing her down backwards onto her back. He was now the one sitting on top of her, preventing her from attacking him and waiting for answers.

"I said it's nothing," Irena said with a straight face.

"Then I should just take that stone back for myself..." he commented cause the girl to furrow her brows.

"I need it to hide the presence of that temple," she quickly said. "Hades may contact us and all, but that stone prevents him from knowing where most my locations are. I've hidden one on myself as well."

Dark Pit looked at her funny and rose a brow at the girl.

"Huh? It's a temple. Anyone can see a giant floating temple."

"Want to get off me now? You're like a cow on me!" Irena exclaimed as she struggled.

"Say that to yourself!"

Dark Pit finally got off her which allowed her to intake some more air into her lungs. Of course he was curious so he decided to interrogate her more.

"So why is it that you need to hide the presence of that rubble?"

"It's not rubble! It's a temple! An abandoned one at that...." she mumbled. "It's to keep the Underground Army away from it; I can care less about the Forces of Nature, but I guess them too. I don't want those guys making any sort bases especially out of my place."

Well that was easy. She just spout it out as if it was nothing. And forgot the boy had already joined Viridi for the heck of it, not that he'd do anything.

"I'm leaving," the girl stated bluntly.

"I'll tell you something before you do leave...... Your security sucks!"

"The temple doesn't even have any sort of set up security, dimwit!"

"Exactly! No wonder I broke in so easily. I just waltzed right in!"

The girl pinched the bridge of her nose and groaned.

"So you're trying to imply that you're as brainless as the underworld minions?"

"What- No!"

"Well I'm sorry for not setting up my security like the gods and goddesses."

Dark Pit rolled his eyes and then slightly snickered as he suddenly shot his purple colored light arrow behind Irena, which surprised her a bit. Turns out that there was an enemy hiding nearby behind them.

"Thank me later," he said in a smug manner.

"They heard me," she mumbled instead. "I wonder how many more are near.."

"You didn't even thank me!" the dark angel exclaimed.

"Ah, did you say something?" asked Irena. "I didn't hear you earlier."

Of course he frowned at the female angel who smirked at him in response.

"I was joking. Thank you," she said, smiling at him before she left. "Just... don't go robbing me for my things again."

The dark angel scoffed as he rolled his eyes at her and crossed his arms. However, he noticed another underworld minion peering from a dark corner of the area and shot it with another arrow before taking off the same way with the girl.

"Now what is it?" Irena asked, clearly unaware of her surroundings.

"Nothing. You just threw me off course, that's all," he growled, wondering why the monsters from the underworld were suddenly appearing around the area they resided.

It was very.... Peaceful a second earlier, but that so called peace was now beginning to become disrupted by Hades' goons.

"Shady..... Very shady..." the female angel commented.

"Hey!"

"Whatever. I need to get back-"

"I think you should go to the temple where Pit and that Goddess of Light resides."

Irena look over at him curiously and rose a brow as she noted how he referred to them with their name and title. Sure he still sound disgusted as if his immune system would suddenly cause him to regurgitate, but it wasn't as bad as his usual tone of voice.

"Uh... What's up with you?" she asked awkwardly.

"Nothing is wrong with me, you idiot!" Dark Pit exclaimed before clearing out his throat. "Just do it. It'll be better to do so."

He didn't really expect her to listen, but he was going to force her to do so if she rejected his advice which was going to happen, a hundred and ne percent sure.

"I have business back home to attend to," she replied blandly.

'Knew it....' he thought as he hauled the girl over his shoulder.

"H-hey! Let go off me!" Irena exclaimed, looking back to see him.

"How about quit complaining and let me get you to that stupid place?!"

Groaning in response, Irena stopped her struggle and remained still, well maybe not completely still since she was still breathing and frowning and blinking and..... tapping his back with a single finger of hers.

"Would you quit that? It feels weird!" the male angel cried as he took off for Palutena's temple.

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"Pittoo? What are you doing here- wait, why is Rina with you?" Pit asked confusingly as he pointed a finger at them both.

Palutena remained quiet and watched the boys as she wondered what was going on.

"Quiet you!" he growled, dropping the girl to the floor.

"Ow! Watch it!" exclaimed Irena. "You tell me to come here, force me to do so, and just drop me on the floor? Rude....."

"Keep her here," he said in a less menacing tone.

Irena glared at the boy as he ignored her, wondering how she even winded up in such a situation with him in the first place.

"Uhh... What?" Pit asked curiously.

"You heard me, keep her here with you."

Pit, who was just as clueless as Irena, only blink and nodded quietly to the command.

"If you don't want trouble, girly, you're to stay in this temple under the watch of Mister Watchdog over here and Lady Rabbit Tamer over there," he said, pointing at the two.

"Hey, don't speak to Lady Palutena that way!" Pit exclaimed.

"He's not going to listen," Irena said as she stood up and punched the black angel's arm.

"Ow!"

"That's what you get for dropping me like heavy baggage!" she scowled before walking off to a different room.

"So why is it that you want us to watch her?" Palutena asked politely after she disappeared.

"A few of Hades' goons were found following her. I don't know, but she seemed to be unaware of it," he responded as he rubbed his arm. "Ow..."

"Hades.... He must be scheming something!" Pit exclaimed.

"No really, Sherlock?" Dark Pit asked sarcastically. "But it looked like his main focus was that girl."

"That sounds suspicious.... Verrryyyy suspicious....." said the white angel, remembering what happened back on the overworld with Irena.

Dark Pit didn't know what he meant by "suspicious" and only thought of it as being stupidly obvious.

"Look, faker, it's Hades. How is that suspicious if all he does is reek havoc?" questioned the black angel harshly. "No wonder Viridi hates your guts.."

"Again, I'm the real deal! ... But then again, you have a point..." he replied nervously. "Also, he's never asked his troops to stalk Irena before. I guess we can say that it is suspicious in someway or form...."

"Irena can handle herself just fine though so no need to worry-"

"I'm not worried about that moron!"

"I heard my name. Did you need something?" Irena asked, poking her head in with a fixed glare on her face.

Dark Pit knew it was directed onto him, but he ignored it. There was nothing threatening about her anyways.

"No. Mind your own business," Dark Pit spat.

The girl frown and looked away from the group in a displeased manner.

"I heard my name. It obviously is my business. Is this about the Underworld Army again? Great. Now it's none of my business."

"Annoying," the dark angel commented. "Yes, it's about you! Are you aware of the enemy movements?"

Irena shook her head as she picked up a lock of her hair and twirled it around.

"Hm, no not really," she said nonchalantly. "They're probably just attacking those who are alone. Easy target afterall, right?"

"That's true... They have been going after me also.." he mumbled.

"In fact, they're all always after you and I," Palutena jumped in. "You're just too worried about Irena. Softy for girls?"

"No!" Dark Pit choked awkwardly.

Irena rolled her eyes and sat down onto the floor boredly as he fell into a coughing fit. Pit followed her example and just smiled as he lowered himself to the ground.

"He's just crazy," the angel commented.

"Hey!"

"I can see that," she replied.

"HEEEYYY!!" the dark angel growled.

"Quit screaming! I can hear you, you know?" Irena lashed.

It was obvious that the two were on really good terms with each other... Who am I kidding- it's worse than bad terms, it's terrible..!

"How about not yelling at all, unless you're out at battles. You know, battle cries?" the goddess suggested.

"We ARE out battling!"
Dark Pit groaned.

"Verbally," the female angel added as she rolled her eyes. "Lady Palutena meant physically you idiot."

As Irena stood up and left, Dark Pit began opening and closing his hands as if they were talking and mock the girl's words. Irena was aware of it, but she didn't care since it was always fun and games for her when he got angry- and Palutena knew it all too well as she began to chuckle at the reaction Dark Pit gave to Irena's possibly stupid remarks after such an argument.