Chapter 1

Katsumi Hara is just your average 16-year-old High School otaku student (who is rich and wears glasses). She goes to the after-school anime club every week on Monday and art club on Thursday. Loves to attend anime conventions every chance she gets all over the world. Katsumi does get made fun but not for her love for anime and geeky persona. It's because she's a Japanese girl whos body is on the thick side. Everyday is a nightmare for her. Depression, scared, confused...and that's not even by lunchtime.

Katsumi sat under her favorite tree at her local park, reading the last volume of "KiraMiri". After putting her bookmark in the manga to mark her place, she leaned forward towards her messenger bag to put it away. Suddenly, she saw a feather near her left sneaker. It was just a random feather, nothing special.

"I don't remember hearing any birds around this tree?" Katsumi thought. Not giving a second thought, she decided to pick up the feather with a tissue and put it in her bag. Katsumi got up and walked to her backpack to get out her homework. She never had much to do so that's why she read at least one chapter in her manga first. As she was writing her answer for a question on an assignment for English IV, she suddenly jumped as if she was frightened. Katsumi put her notebook down and sighed.

"...For some reason, I suddenly feel like something is different about today but I just can't figure it out. Oh well. Some things are just meant to be a mystery." Katsumi thought. She picked up her notebook and continued to write down her answer. An hour later, she decided to head home to watch some anime after finishing her homework. Looking up, she noticed that the sky turned cloudy.

"Wow. Today DOES feel different." Katsumi thought. Feeling a drop of rain, she started to rush before it the rain got worst. Not even halfway home, it became a little bit more heavier and darker.

"Crap! My stuff's gonna get soaked if I don't get home any sooner!" Katsumi said, talking to herself. A couples of minutes later, she arrived home. She opened the door fast and ran inside. Her parents heard the noise and rushed in. They saw their daughter, sopping wet and closing the door. As she turned around, she sighed.

"Katsumi, are you alright?" her mother asked. Katsumi jumped, surprised to hear her mother's voice.

"Um, yea. I'm fine. Had to run home before the rain started but I was sort of too late. By the way, why are you both home early?" Katsumi said.

"Well, my meeting with my boss ended early." her father said.

"And my last client canceled so my boss let me go home 30 minutes early as well." her mom said.

"Wow. I wish you guys called me..." she said. Her parents looked at each other.

"We did. Five times." her dad said.

"You did?!" Katsumi said, checking her phone. They were right. They did call five time and all were missed.

"Honey, are you feeling alright? Maybe, I should..." her mother asked.

"No, it's okay. I'm fine. I'm just out of it today, I guess." Katsumi assured her parents.

"Oh okay." her mother said, still worried. Not wanting to go into detail or start a LONG conversation, Katsumi figured out a plan.

"I..I..I'm just gonna go up to my room and watch anime." Katsumi told her parents.

"Okay. Your father and I will let you know when dinner is ready." her mom said.

"Thanks." Katsumi said as she ran up the stairs to her room. When she got to her bedroom door, she ran it and closed the door fast.

"Now, THAT was close. ...Okay! Let's see which anime I should catch up on today? Kari-Miro or Samurai Twins?" Katsumi thought, looking at her DVDs. After a few minutes, she decided to watch a shonen ai instead. The rest of the evening was spent watching anime, eating dinner (which was stressful) and drawing fanart.

By now, it is 8:30pm and Katsumi was in the shower, pondering about today's events.

"Seriously, what was Rina thinking? That skirt was WAY too short. It was like she wanted perverts to jump at her! ...That would actually make a great hentai. And at gym...wow, was the Coach trying to kill me today?! I am naturally thick not fat. And even then, that was TOO much! " Katsumi finished pondered...until the incident at the park re-entered her mind. She turned off the shower and got out. Drying off she remembered the feather was in her bag.

She quickly dried off and put her pajamas on. She walked out of the bathroom and straight to her bag. She took out the feather (still in the tissue) and laid it on her desk. Before, she could get a better look at it, she saw a faint glow from the dresser.

"Huh? Why is my jewelry box?" Katsumi asked herself. Walking over, the light got brighter. She opened her jewelry box and saw her favorite necklace glowing. The necklace was a sliver feather (kind of like the feather Katsumi has on her desk) with diamond and opal embedded in the feather's "heart". This necklace belonged to Katsumi's grandmother.

Her grandmother gave it to her on her 10th birthday. Katsumi knows the story of the necklace by heart but didn't totally understand it. The grandmother told her that "You will know soon, my sweet granddaughter."

"Why is this necklace glowing all of a sudden?" Katsumi said to herself, quietly. Suddenly, some kind of white aurora begin to emit from the necklace and slowly around the room. She quickly put the necklace back in the box and slammed the top shut. Katsumi couldn't figure out what in the world just happened? A few minutes, Katsumi decided that the best thing to was to get some sleep. She got into bed and laid down.

"This day has gone from different to just plain weird. That feather? My necklace? What is going on?! ...I better just leave it til the morning."

Katsumi turned to her right side and feel asleep.

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