Preparation. Preparation Is the Key To Success

Avis woke up, looking around dazed and a bit hungover. She soon realised she was lying on top of one of Biz's golden statues, naked and covered in golden paint. "What the hell did I drink?" She laughed to herself, tiredly rubbing her head before awkwardly shuffling down off the statue.

Vinea, who was asleep under the statue, was rudely awakened by Avis falling on his back. "Ack! Ah, why the hell are you in my room? And... Uh... Are you going feral?" He groaned as he moved off of Avis's jacket.

"We're outside. It's... Oh Mollia, it's ten past eight...." She quickly rushed to grab her jacket, realising her clothes had been stuffed into her jacket to make a pillow. She began muttering to herself and snapped her talons. "We have about fourteen minutes to get ready, dressed and be presentable before we have to be at Biz's briefing." 

Before Vinea could even respond, Avis grabbed him by the vines and began rushing towards the mansion, chucking on her clothes as she put out her wings, jumping over the gate with an extra flap. 

"Too fast, Too Fast!" Vinea yelled as he was trying his best to hold in his vomit from running. The two bursting through the doors and running into a bathroom, quickly beginning to clean themselves up. They moved in tandem, both tossing deodorant back and fourth while tossing a hairbrush in between, getting ready in less time then they thought. 

They were now left with five minutes and realising quickly that they still looked awful, but then realised; "Wait... Does it even matter how we look?" Vinea asked, with Avis combing her feathers. 

"Uh... Yeah? We have to look good, right?"

"But we've known this woman for a day and if ya think about it, Rat doesn't even bother with her appearance and she's Biz's Mom."

"Have you ever tried braiding hair? That takes aaaages." Avis laughed as the two began heading down to the basement, going off to meet Biz for her plans. 

"You reckon we could get new clothes?" Vinea asked as he opened the door to the basement. "Prolly." She shrugged as they stepped through, seeing Biz idly chatting to Senshi, Fox and Tika. She turned to face the two with a cold scowl. "You're late." 

The two rushed to explain themselves only for Biz to shush them. "I have already gone through my security cameras. I must say, Harpy. You might have to bribe me not to let this video leak." She smirked and turned on a monitor.

After a while of showing a few memories of the night before hand, Biz got down to Bizness. She explained that Avis and Vinea were going to draw Ami's attention away from the Festival main stage, while Senshi would upload a video of Ami saying a few not so nice things about Panila. 

Avis let out a sigh, motioning between herself and Vinea. "Yeah. I get me and him dealing with Ami, but won't she have guards?"

Biz pointed to fox with a bored look. "Then take him with you. He'll get rid of any resistance along the way." Fox motioned boredom as he grabbed Red and Blue, standing over by the two. Senshi let out an insect like chattering and crawled about, trying to keep her nerves down. Though Tika raised her hand, like a student wanting a teachers attention. "I'll go with the Centipede. Makes life easier, doesn't it?"

"Fine fine." Biz said with a dismissive hand wave. "Aaaaand in return, can you watch Vex for me? Okay thanks, bye." Tika opened a portal just out of the room before Biz could answer, snatching Senshi and bolting through it to escape. 

"Oh, yes. I made you two something." Biz said, tapping a few buttons on her arm as a large case opened up. She revealed a small speaker and a set of replacement arms. "I developed these as a way for you to fight... But since Fox is there... I don't see why i need to give these to you. But Rat insisted."

Avis looked at the speaker with an awe struck look, letting out an excited chirp. Though Vinea looked a bit confused by his weapon. "Uh... Why do I need new arms? Vines work perfectly fine. And look cool."

Biz smirked, revealing the two sub-mind hearts. "Then I guess you don't want to use the hearts of Domain Leaders, right?" 

The two awkwardly shrugged. They didn't really want to use something so unethical, well there was unethical and then there was this. Biz noted their reactions and sighed, tossing the hearts to them. "Take them, lose them, I don't care. Rat will kill you if you lose he hearts though." 

Avis and Vinea looked at each other before grabbing their new weaponry. Deciding it was better to go in with something rather then nothing. Avis hooked up the microphone she got from Rat to the speaker and tested it out by tapping the mic. before Biz could stop her, String materialised like soundwaves, destroying Biz's favourite crafting bench. 

Avis was about to apologise, but Fox grabbed the two by the arms and dragged them out. the sound of Biz's yelling and cursing could be heard.

Fox, Avis and Vinea were now walking through Desire's Streets, seeing everyone setting up for the Memorial Of The Lost in a few hours. it was a rather calming sight to see, people getting along, cheering and helping each other. Avis and Vinea though, they were instead just chatting between themselves about what to buy first. 

"Will you two be quiet for a bit?" Fox said through Blue, being rather annoyed at their constant back and fourth. Avis chirped, moving up next to him. "Okay...Only if you can recite the alphabet backwards." 

Fox didn't even try, tapping Blue as the mimic began reciting the alphabet backwards for him. She thought to herself 'Should have seen that coming'. 

After a bit longer of walking, they soon reached a large church with another Statue of Mollia out front. Avis quickly put on her face mask as she noticed Ami walking with a particularly big Decaynine. Fox backed off slightly at the sight of the hound, as Vinea awkwardly tried to figure out how to turn his arms on.

Ami had been organising things to the best of her abilities (By getting other, more qualified people to do it) and was having the time of her life interacting with different people. Avis thought it was weird seeing her so chatty and comfortable, pulling the two back. 

Everyone sat down on a bench, deciding to watch how things play out. Ami seemed to be idly chatting to her Bodyguard with a chipper smile. "D-Do you t-t-think Panila will like it?" The Decaynine nodded, saying in a gravelly, raspy feminine voice. "Yeah. I'm sure she'll like it."

Ami let out a yelp, noticing her guard. "O-Oh yeah, y-you're right."

She soon began moving towards the trio with a smile. "Y-You three, a-are you excited f-for The Festival?" 

Fox nodded his head rather plainly. Vinea waved one of his arms. "Yeah, I guess it's tradition at this point." He said with a bored sigh, poking Avis. "Oh yeah.... Totally. So fun. It's Great. Just great." She tried to make her voice more masculine sounding, hoping Ami wouldn't recognise it. 

"Well t-that's g-g-g-great to here. See, I told you people loved the holidays." Ami said as she gave a glance to the side, confusing Avis a bit. "Who are you talking to?" She asked, causing Ami to get flustered. "M-M-Myself! D-D-Don't q-question y-y-your leader, m-monster." She quickly stormed off in a huff, being rather easy to upset. 

Avis felt her blood boil at the term, but kept her cool, only to feel Vinea poke her again. 

"What?"

"Nothing... It's just... I can already tell you two are related, you both get upset over the simplest things." He laughed, causing Avis to flick him with a wing. "I don't get upset easily. I just don't like being called a monster, Vine Kid." She smirked.

Fox motioned a sigh as he spoke through Red. "Look. She's going inside." He waited for the Decaynine to enter before following behind them. Avis and Vinea now trailing behind as they entered Mollia's Sanctum.