Chaos the Pizzaiolo (Open)

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The master of mischief, the blue winged-cat with epic magical ability... needed a job if he wanted to experience the new and fascinating world he was thrust into. Sure he could just conjure anything he wanted, and had no need to shop. True, he could just barter by creating gold and jewels, or even try his hand at less honest but trivial means... but, this could be fun! And wouldn't disrupt the local economy...

The place was called Via Napoli Ristorante e Pizzeria, located within the Italian pavilion of Epcot, fittingly enough. "Epcot lets people see what it's like being able to travel the world as quick as me!

"I haven't had a job in a long time!" Chaos said to his new employer without a hint of self-awareness. "Just um... I have this thing if you use the word 'order', so... don't." he helpfully informed.

"Um, right. Don't worry, you'll be in the kitchen, I'll make sure everyone knows of your triggers. Not a problem if you can do what you say you can..."

The trickster cat nodded, "Of course! Being a cat won't be an issue, unless it is... then I'll still figure out something!" he chuckled

With that the boss left him for the first time since this odd set-up began. ""Pizza time~ Chaos said, as magic extended from his paws, giving him clean magical hands to work the dough into shape, put sauce and toppings on the dough that was ready to become pizza.

"Or-- er what?" Chaos heard some whispering. "Two sausage pizzas! Extra sauce!" he heard, "Coming right up~ he said as he piled on the sauce, topped them with the already-cooking sausage, and headed through the dining area, pizzas levitating above him, to the wood-fired ovens. He was more than a bit nervous, but was ready with magic to make anyone who questioned it, accept it! Just like he might have already done to the boss.

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Given how close it was to the holidays, Morgan was feeling a little sad that she was missing out on another holiday without her daddy. For the first time, the New Yorker wasn't really paying attention to where she was going. She was mostly looking down with a glum look after noticing all the holiday decorations up. The normally obedient girl wasn't normally one to wander off though, but she had gotten lost while trying to look for Dashiell to see when they were supposed to meet for class with Mr. Jumba again. It wasn't really like she liked school or was used to routines, but it was just a way to think that her daddy would be happy with her. Just having her father happy in her thoughts was enough to get the little six year old through all of this alone. Thankfully, she lived with toys to talk to at the end of the day. Unfortunately, her toys couldn't come to class with her.

The familiar smell that wafted from the Italian restaurant she passed somehow reminded her of the Italian restaurant her daddy and her used to go to back in New York. Glancing over to it, she pondered if maybe she might have a second to eat lunch before she'd look for Dashiell. Morgan walked behind a family inside the restaurant, and then separated when she found herself a table by itself.

Morgan didn't glance at the menu, hoping to just order a pizza. Last time she was at an Italian Restaurant, she saw the pizza was breathing because of Pip. Her smile seemed nostalgic as she recalled Giselle and her daddy there. She mised them. Almost as if on cue of something just as magical happening, Morgan parted her lips with a gasp. "A flying cat!" Morgan pointed out in amazement that the cat had wings, her smile brightening up in awe at how cute it was with wings like it was a fairy! "Wow! The pizza is floating!" Her hazel eyes blinked in awe at the magic she had seen before her when she next saw two pizzas floating above him to the ovens, which was even more impressive than the guy that threw the pizza into the oven from far away back at the restaurant in New York city. Hopefully no animals were inside this time. That wasn't fun to watch. 

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."A flying cat!"

Chaos smiled as he drew attention. He pondered why the magic that should be making it seem normal was faltering...

"Wow! The pizza is floating!"

"Cute kid." he said to himself, continuing his magical work without even looking as he approached her.

"Levitation is just one of my many tricks." he grinned. "I am Chaos!" he introduced himself. "Are you here alone? Interesting..." he increasingly has a feeling she was a character. That or she had some magic around her... "Who are you?"

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It was true that the rest of the people in the room did not react the way that they did to a chipmunk being in a restaurant, like what had happened with Pip back in New York, but Morgan didn't question the cat with wings the way everyone else might have. The fairy-tale dreamer was more enthralled by the sight of it than questioning it, thus did not fall under the spell of accepting it as normal. The New Yorker came from a world that was normal, and she was more in awe by things that were not, especially magic! The honey brown haired girl practically beamed across her chubby cheeks upon seeing it approach her.

"Levitation is just one of my many tricks,"

"Wow! You know more?" Morgan reiterated what he had said with a tone of wonder and awe. The little six year old was easily impressed! She was amazed to find this magical flying cat actually knew more than one trick! "Could I see? Please?" She asked, hoping she could be able to see more of his magic tricks. When the cat introduced itself as Chaos, she smiled warmly. She didn't know what chaos meant, so she wasn't worried by the name like her father probably would have if only he were here. "Hi Chaos!" She greeted the magically cat innocently with a shy smile. That smile only frowned slightly upon hearing the cat ask pointedly that she was alone. "Yeah.. " She responded with a frown, then glanced around in hopes that the other staff wouldn't kick her out for being without a guardian. "Are you here alone, too?" She asked the cat curiously, wondering if he was alone just like she was. 

"Who are you?"

"I-I'm Morgan," The shy First Grader replied simply, but she normally didn't give out her last name to people out of habit and not for the sake of keeping her privacy from strangers. The little girl didn't have many friends, so she was opened to strangers. Unfortunately, her father wasn't here to keep her from telling strangers unneeded information like her address if she were asked; but on the positive side, she was opened to helping strangers in any way she could. "Do you need help?" She asked him, wondering if perhaps she could help him fold napkins for free like she did for the waitress back in the Italian restaurant.

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"Wow! You know more?" "Could I see? Please?"

The winged-cat quirked a brow. She took him more literally than he expected. "I'm not some kind of magician, my magic is most real and powerful." he smiled, "But I do use it as a toy!" he admitted.

"Are you here alone, too?"

This girl sure was full of... odd questions. "Nobody can stand being around me for long." he shrugged his shoulders.

"Do you need help?"

Morgan's silliest question yet, brought the cat to an uproar of laughter. "Hahaha, haha! I've, haha, never... been asked that before. Not that I can remember." He would admit that she had no idea the extent of his power. "I need nothing. My power is so fantastic!" he smiled, "Sorry for laughing, Morgan..." he quickly added. "I don't normally perform for tricks, but I usually scare people with my introductions..." he hummed. "What would you like to see? I can do anything."

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"I'm not some kind of magician, my magic is most real and powerful."

Although Morgan was lead to believe that magicians were not real, given that her own daddy showed her his own magic tricks that he later showed Giselle, Morgan still wanted to believe that there was such thing as real magic. Morgan parted her lips, "I believe your magic is real, too!" The Fairytale dreamer tried to defend herself, albeit passively. She looked confused when he mentioned using magic as a toy. Given that the First Grader didn't understand figurative or implied language, Morgan took it quite literally. "You can use your magic to make toys?" She asked with a curious smile, thinking about Jessie or even when Jiminy Cricket mentioned a puppet being turned real. Was the cat able to do that, too?

"Nobody can stand being around me for long."

The six year old lowered her honey brown head upon hearing that sad reply to asking if the cat was here alone like she was. "I don't have many friends at school either..." She revealed softly, suddenly feeling so much sympathy for the cat that felt that nobody could stand being around her for long. Maybe that's why she didn't have friends either. Still, she smiled a little bit when she realized that at least she had the toys and Dash, who was older than her. That counted for something. 

"What's so funny?" Morgan crinkled her nose with a confused expression upon hearing the cat laughing, "Um..I didn't make a joke.."  She was very much confused because she was pretty sure that she didn't make a joke when she asked if he needed help, once again taking it all literally because she didn't understand the implied meaning behind things. She smiled when he apologized for laughing though, yet the confusion on the smile she wore indicated that she was still confused on why he was laughing in the first place. Still, he seemed silly in a good way!

"I don't normally perform for tricks, but I usually scare people with my introductions..."

"You.. scare people?" The six year old concluded with a look of concern and bewilderment, trying to understand what he meant by that. He didn't scare her at all, though it never occurred to Morgan that the reason people didn't like being near her was maybe because she scared them.

"What would you like to see? I can do anything."

Morgan didn't know what would that imply, but she did know that she liked to see magic. "Could you make my daddy appear?" She asked, wondering if perhaps he could make her father appear, not at all realizing that it was impossible for any magic to seep past the bounds that trapped them in this world. 

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"I believe your magic is real, too!"

Chaos smiled, "It is quite real..." he said, "Some people find it so hard to believe that magic isn't real." he rolled his eyes, it got really annoying when they got persistent. He liked kids for that.

"You can use your magic to make toys?"

The blue cat didn't pick up on her misunderstanding, but he nodded in response to her question. He certainly can!

"I don't have many friends at school either..."

He frowned a little, "Don't worry, you'll make some! I've had friends before, just not right now really..." he hrmed, he was pretty sure he had friends among his acquaintances somewhere, at some time...

"You.. scare people?"

Chaos shrugged softly, "I, well I use my magic to play some jokes and people get scared, so... yes!"

"Could you make my daddy appear?"

The wind left Chaos' wings as she asked that, causing him to drop to the ground with a thump. He was hoping she wouldn't ask something so serious, but he attempted. She would only see him looking directly at a spot on the floor a moment... and then, nothing. "...Apparently, not." he frowned, he'd never had his magic not work before. He didn't know the magic that brought him here might be interfering. "I'm uh, sure he's fine..."

[Jessie]

Jessie still wasn't sure if her actions were the right idea. Sneaking along inside of Morgan's backpack as she went to the science class that Jumba Jookiba ran, but Morgan had been so down lately and especially with the holiday season here and her father, well not. So Jessie had taken a page from Woody's book, though at the time she had criticized his actions along with Dolly, when he snuck to school with Bonnie.

There were a lot of emotions to unpack in terms of Woody and thinking on him again. Emotions that meeting Slinky again had almost brought up. It wasn't pure missing him, like the others, even before that Woody had chosen Bo over them and Bonnie. Jessie saw the reason, of course, and she'd done a lot of growing since meeting him, enough that she could be mostly ok with it.

And now copy some of his actions she had before criticized, though the leaving a kid she would not be copying and not when Morgan needed her, especially now.

It had probably been easier for Woody, though, since he didn't still struggle with claustrophobia! "It's for Morgan", she repeated to herself, and yet not so loud as to be detected, since that would undo all of her plans.

They stopped to talk to a...flying cat (Jessie had to peek to make sure after Morgan said this) and the doll inwardly sighed at the delay before watching the interaction carefully, and yes curiously, one didn't see a flying cat every day even here!

She wasn't sure about this Chaos person...and yet he seemed sympathetic enough as he explained that he couldn't bring Morgan's dad here, when the topic of wishes came up.

Jessie couldn't remain hidden after all of that, and came out. "Oh, Morgan, it's ok...", she hugged her girl's arm and was there for hugs if she wanted. The cowgirl doll sighed, "Too bad I can't give real hugs, huh?", she asked rhetorically.

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"Some people find it so hard to believe that magic isn't real."

Morgan smiled a little bit sheepishly upon hearing the magical flying cat say that. Little did the cat know that her dad happened to be one of those people; even though her daddy did do magic tricks, like the ones he later showed Giselle, he reiterated that it was just a trick and not real. Morgan wasn't one to talk bad about her daddy though. She wouldn't trade her daddy for the world. This cat really must be powerful though, based on what he'd said earlier, so he must be really good at what he does. "What other magic are you gonna do?" She asked with curiosity in her smile, wondering if he was going to do other sorts of magic in this restaurant. The easily amused girl would just take a delight in watching magic.  

The six year old smiled upon hearing the encouragement about finding more friends, and seemed to relate to the cat at least. She wasn't sure about the practical jokes scaring people though. "Oh.." The passive girl responded in a simple manner. She hadn't had friends to really be exposed to others doing practical jokes, and she was kept away from Halloween and April Fools pranks by her protective father. 

The first year old blinked in confusion when the cat seemed to land on the floor upon asking her wish. When he seemed to be staring at a spot, Morgan realized that maybe her daddy might appear there, so her hazel eyes fixed themselves on that area with hope. At least, until nothing happened, and her heart sunk, causing her expression to become sullen as she lowered her head slightly. "What happened?" Morgan truly believed the cat was very powerful, so for her daddy not to be able to come here, she realized that something must be wrong. 

 "I'm uh, sure he's fine..."

"Really?" The gullible girl asked as she peered up at the cat, believing the cat regardless. "It's okay.. At least you tried.." She was really just looking for reassurance that the magic didn't work because of something else and not because something happened to her daddy. He was her only family. Suddenly, her mouth parted upon seeing Jessie coming out of the bag. "Jessie?" Morgan asked, wondering what caused her to defy the rules of toys, but the embrace that she received on her arm indicated that it was because of her one wish that she had been wanting for at least two years was not able to come true. 

"Too bad I can't give real hugs, huh?"

It was in that moment when Morgan realized how much she would have wanted a big hug from her daddy if her wish did come true. Though she was happy with Jessie being her doll, the little girl realized that she really craved a familial affection after being alone for two years. "Um..Chaos? Do you think you make Jessie a human?" She asked Chaos, realizing that perhaps if he can't make her daddy appear, maybe he could do magic on toys like he had mentioned before. Having Jessie human, even temporary, would just be so great to have an adult to hug all the time!  

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Chaos blinked, "I've never not succeeded before. Hm, I'll have to figure out what is in my way..." he muttered to himself, "I mean, he is wherever he was." he shrugged, he mostly meant that he had not brought him half-way or anything weird like that.

"Of course I can... hm...?" he was perplexed at the talking toy as he looked at her, he almost wanted to ask her what she was so he could well, put her back to normal afterward. But he believed in his powers, and didn't want Morgan to have any doubts.

Jessie would be pulled away from Morgan, naturally, and brought floating about Morgan's eye level. Once she had room to be transformed, Chaos wiggled his nose, and she would start feeling her body grow out to life-size, Morgan would see the doll that Jessie was turning to a proper human. A young woman with realistic, bright red hair, Her plastic skin gained warmth and color, she would feel as her insides turned from stuffing to well, the insides of a human! Chaos seemed unsure about the process as it finished up, but it would be a success. Every feature was more realistic, more natural.

He would take care of her clothing last, for a brief time it would be the same material, the same clothing but scaled up, but soon would turn to real cow leather slacks, real denim jeans, and a real cotton shirt, not quite perfectly recreated... just like her features if one looked closely, they were flawed for a touch of realism.

Chaos looked the cowgirl over, he seemed... nervous? "It may be a very odd experience, I don't usually um, care about how people feel about my transformations." he admitted. "Then again they usually start human, this... is new!" he gave the girls a big smile.

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Jessie wasn't entirely sure what it was about this cat that she distrusted a bit. She usually liked 'critters', well enough anyway. It wasn't so much that he was trouble, but more he had the potential to be trouble, perhaps. Something just seemed off and heightened her toy's protective sense. Yet he was sympathetic too.

Morgan's words surprised Jessie, yet it only took a brief moment of thought before she realized that if it helped her girl she was willing to agree to being human. Plus it would be a lie to say she wasn't also more than a bit intrigued with the concept of perhaps wandering the parks as a human. But however long Morgan needed it and as soon as she needed her to be a toy again, Jessie would.

She gave a small nod of agreement and then felt herself float up, watching as she grew and came back down. Of course it was more than that, she was more real with every second and even though the slight pauses made her wonder for the first time if he could do this, she came back down a full human in her chaps and shirt and jeans, braided red hair with a yellow bow and red hat and all.

She looked at her hands and touched her face. "Well I'll be...". It was odder than she would have imagined.

"It's great", she reassured Chaos, she looked and felt just like she would have expected had she been a real cowgirl in her western town in Woody's Round Up.

Jessie soon remembered why she had done this and bent again to Morgan, who was now shorter than her, "How about that hug, Partner?" she smiled.