Classic Courthouse Antics

Note : Current ships are JustiCykes, Phoenix x Maya, Klavier x Ema. The referenced case (Lucas Everheart's) is actually from a murder mystery I wrote a while back, except their ages are a little messed up.

"The court finds the defendant, Lucas Everheart, not guilty on the charge of murder! Court is adjourned." On the banging of the gavel, confetti was strewn all over the courtroom floor. Not long after, everyone proceeded to leave the courtroom.

"Polly! You did really well in the courtroom!" Trucy Wright complimented, beaming. The entire duration of the trial, she had been sitting with the rest of the Wright Anything Agency members, watching Apollo and his long-term court rival, Klavier Gavin, duke it out to find the truth and indict the real killer. After the court was adjourned, she had sprinted out of her seat and to the Defense Lobby, before any of the others could.

Apollo grinned back. "It wasn't just my work, you know. Klavier helped out! Plus, all I did was help to discover the truth." Apollo, as all the agency members knew, was more focused on finding the truth, and not on the verdict. In that sense, he was more similar to Klavier and Miles Edgeworth, as compared to the other defense attorneys.

"Oh, Mr. Justice! Thank you for defending my older brother! Thank you so much!" A familiar voice rang out. It was Leia Everheart, the younger sister of the defendant. Closely followed was Lucas himself.

"I really thought I was dead there!" Lucas laughed, ruffling his sister's hair. "But you and that prosecutor, Mr. Gavin, proved that I was really innocent!"

"Hey, I'm not a child anymore, Lucas! Stop doing that!" Leia shouted, annoyed. "I'm already eighteen, okay?"

Apollo laughed a little as the aforementioned prosecutor walked in, with most of the agency members.

"Apollo, that was quite a show back in the courtroom you did. I'm considerably amazed, to be honest," his boss, Phoenix Wright, commented. "But I suppose Klavier did a lot too."

In the background, Detective Ema Skye was busy munching on her favourite snackoos. "Hmph, once more I worked with the glimmerous fop, and once more I'm the comedic relief! That's not fair at all! I'll make sure to snackoo him later!" She was too busy brooding over it to pay attention to the others, even when Edgeworth showed up.

Klavier was too distracted to say anything, and was visibly startled when he heard the Chief Prosecutor's voice. "Hm. Both of your searches for the truth was truly astounding."

"O-Oh! Herr Edgeworth!" "Thanks, Mr. Edgeworth."

Even in the midst of all the classic drama from the crew of friends, Apollo noticed that Athena was nowhere to be seen.

"Um, Trucy, where's Athena?" the attorney asked, curious. He had clearly seen her in the courthouse earlier that day, before the trial started. Apollo also knew that the members of the Wright Anything Agency were all sitting in the gallery during the trial, as they had announced their intentions of doing so the day before the trial.

"Oh! Athena said she had to go fetch something, and left during the five-minute break!" Trucy replied. "I think it was her camera. She said that she wanted to take a picture of all of us together, after all."

"Oh. I see," Apollo mumbled, strangely disappointed she missed out on the end victory. Trucy took one look at him, before smiling knowingly to herself.

Just then, Athena Cykes entered the room, holding on to a digital camera. Behind her followed Maya and Pearl Fey. "Hey! I'm back! Judging from the state of the courtroom, Polly won, right? Congratulations!"

(Speak of the devil dressed in yellow, she's here now,) thought Apollo. Out loud he said: "What do you mean "win"? This is a courthouse, you know. Also, why are you with the Feys?" However, he was definitely happier now; a fact that was made clear by the smile tugging at his lips.

"Hey, at least I'm congratulating you! And technically, if you get a "Not Guilty" verdict, that's still considered winning in my book!" Athena retorted. "I swung by the office earlier, and the Feys were cleaning up the office, while waiting for us to get back! I didn't want them to do all the work when it was your job to today, so I asked them to tag along when I came back!"

Apollo opened his mouth to refute her logic, but couldn't think of anything. "Ugh, fine. I guess you're right. But to me that's still not "winning", no matter what you say."

"M-Maya? Pearls? What are you two doing here?" Phoenix looked surprised to see them. "Shouldn't you two be back at Kurain Village?"

"I'm currently on vacation right now, and it's Pearl's school holiday. We decided to come back to Los Angeles to visit our favourite lawyers and detectives," Maya replied as Pearl greeted Trucy and the others. "Iris is covering for me in my absence from Kurain, as always. That's just in case you wanted to know. She's such a kind soul."

"I guess that makes sense. But how long are you staying for?" Athena could sense the surprise and... happiness in his words? She decided she would have to look into that.

"I'll have to leave in three days' time for Kurain Master duties, but I will be back for the entirety of next month." In other words, they had to leave for two weeks, after which they would be free to return. "Pearl is having her summer break, however, so she'll be staying here for the entire duration. Nick, I'm leaving her in your care."

"W-What?!" Phoenix exclaimed, causing Maya to laugh.

"Don't worry, I'm sure it'll be fine! She's grown up already, and can take care of herself, after all."

(...Pearls isn't what I'm worried about; I'm worried about the state of the office if the girls are all there...)

"Hey, everyone, pose for the picture! Almost everyone's here, and Apollo won a case with Klavier's help, so let's all take one to remember this occasion with!" Athena suddenly announced.

At that point, Ema had been snackoo-ing Klavier as he ran away, Edgeworth was silently watching all of their commotion with slight annoyance, Phoenix and Maya were having their conversation, Trucy and Pearl were chatting animatedly, and Apollo was staring blankly at empty space. Absolutely none of them heard the yellow-clad attorney at all.

"Hey! Earth to Apollo! Stop spacing out! And could the rest of you please calm down a notch so we could take a picture?" Athena repeated herself once more.

While the detective and the so-called "glimmerous fop" ran around in circles repeatedly, everyone else shuffled closer together to take the picture, still continuing with whatever they were doing.

"Ah, I give up." Putting the camera on a table, she set the timer and ran over to the rest of them, before putting an arm around Apollo's shoulder and smiling at the camera.

"H-Hey! Athena!" Apollo exclaimed out, face turning a little red. Athena ignored him entirely.

*CLICK!* The camera went off.

"Now let's all go for a celebratory lunch! My treat! Last out of the courthouse is a loser!"

A/N : This chapter was so much fun to write, amazingly. I know I'm not very good at showing their personalities, but this is really the first fanfiction I've written with these many characters showing up at once. -I need to tune down my characters- So, please leave a review, and tell me what I can improve on in terms of the characters' portrayal! Also, the fluffy shipping will only commence later, with KlavEma being the latest of the original three. I need suggestions on what other ships to use in this story, however- feel free to give me some!

~The Sparrow Messenger

(Edit : Put brackets and italics where thoughts are, in the format the thoughts in-game are placed. Follows this way in all following chapters.)