Walking out of the lobby, carrying her Luna Blaster, Celia Avers, a 14-year-old inkling, took her rotationly 1400 coin bonus before leaving Inkopolis Plaza.

"It had to be my least favorite stages today…" she mumbled to herself, stepping towards an empty seat in the Inkopolis Metropolis Train.

"Without Ethel, Orbee, and Hanz… I wouldn't have gotten this bonus at all." She continued to think as she watched the passing of trees out the window. For a while she stopped and took out something from her backpack.

"I wonder how Nanami is doing." The inkling wiped her finger along her hair, leaving a pink stain on her fingers. She places it in her mouth and writes something down on the object she took.

"I hope she'll like it..."

Chapter 1: A Gift, Four Years Early

"Celia-nee-san!" from inside the house, a bubbly, high-pitched voice rang as Celia opened the door.

"Hey, Nanami!" Celia said as she picked up a mint green squid hiding in a mint green puddle. "How's my favorite little sister?"

"I'm doing great!" Filled with confidence, Nanami, the mint green squid, slipped off between the fingers of Celia's hand.

"Check this out, nee-san!" She said in excitement. She takes a deep breath and shortly after, she starts grunting, and started to morph into a human form. However, she couldn't completely turn into a human form, and she appeared like an inkling with mint green, melty skin and long droopy tentacles. Her body wasn't clear and neither was her face.

Within half a minute in this form, she slowly melts into a mint green puddle, hopping out as a squid again.

"Wow, 33 seconds!" Celia said, impressed at her sister's progress. "You're getting the hang of this!"

"Hehe, thanks!" Nanami said. "I wanna play turf wars with you one day…" she wondered as she played with the edges of her minty puddle.

"Yeah… well, I don't play Turf Wars that much…" Celia said. "Oh! That reminds me!" she put away her Luna Blaster and hurriedly took something out of her backpack. It was bag with the Ammo Knights logo printed on it.

"Go on, open it."

Celia picked the mint green squid up from the puddle, who formed fake arms using her tentacles. Upon opening the bag, Nanami let out a bubbly scream.

"Tada! It's your first Splattershot Jr.!" Celia announced. Nanami climbs on her new weapon as if hugging it like a squid. "See! Now we can play Turf Wars together right here at home!"

"Oh, nee-san! Thank you! Thank you soooo much, Celia-nee-san!" the very delighted Nanami said, climbing up Celia to try to give her a hug.

"Aww, you're welcome, Nanami!" Celia said. Taking the weapon from the ground, she flipped it over and revealed a pink signature. "Look at this, I learned a little trick from Hanz, and signed it with my own ink!"

Nanami shifts herself into her semi-humanoid form to give a small smile to Celia.

"I love you, Celia-nee-san." Nanami gives a light response as she gives Celia a full-on hug. "I'll treasure this for the four years to come."

"Now." The mint one said suddenly as she melts back into a squid. "Do you wanna play?"

Celia lost her smile and gave a sigh. "Oh, right… I'm sorry, Nanami. It's just that I'm a bit tired from that last rotation, playing three hours straight to earn my bonus. The stages were my least favorite ones and some of the teams we fought were really tough…"

"Oh…" Nanami gave a small frown as she took her new Jr. gun and crawled to her room. "I understand, nee-san… but we can play tomorrow, right?"

Celia gave another smile. "Sure. I'll see ya tomorrow!"

The night was as dark as Kelp Dome during a Splatfest. It has passed by very quickly without a problem. It was very peaceful and quiet, most especially in Celia's room, just like the top of Moray Towers.

Then suddenly a loud ringing interrupts the peace, making Celia jump out of her bed and falling on the floor. Grabbing the phone, she answered it in a grumpy voice.

"Ethel… it's midnight… please make this importa–"

"It's terrible, Celia! Hanz told me he got grounded for a month and he won't be able to play in Inkopolis with us any time soon!" a panicked voice came across the phone.

Hearing this, Celia immediately got up and sounded as if it was still in the middle of the day. "What? Why now!?"

The voice through the phone started to whimper and worry about it. "I don't know… Fish sticks… Without Hanz–"

"We don't have a full team…" Celia continued. "which means we're…"

They stayed silent for a while as a frown formed simultaneously on their faces, before saying at the same time…

"We're disqualified."

As soon as the peace was interrupted, Nanami meanwhile started grunting and moving around in her sleep.

"What's… happening…?" she muttered as she woke up from the pain. The grunting goes on until the rest of the night…

Author's Notes

This is my first fanfic! Please enjoy!

All the characters were based on my four loadouts in Splatoon, and a few of my friends in real life and online!

Each chapter will come out on Thursday (GMT+3), but if I get a chance to use the computer out of Thursday and this fic grows popular enough, another chapter may be published ahead of time!

Shoutouts to boredguy108 and Reversion Primavera!

-o.O