The Hartman Chronicles
It was getting late I had to find shelter, fast. Luckily, I had picked up an add mentioning a place called the Mew Mew café had space for rent. Don't ask the ramifications of how a café could serve as a hotel because I have no clue. I then began to think about what the fox girl had asked me, about join that super hero group and all. It sounded like a great opportunity, but then again I was a 16 year old male. Then again saving the world would be pretty damn cool, hell it would get my good publicity as well. And after I had "asked" my dad I felt as if it would be the right way to honor his memory. I then began to wonder if I was every going to meet that fox girl again. The thought left my mind when I came up to the Mew Mew café, and holy shit was it girly! I mean the outside was painted like a fucking Barbie doll house. Great, I thought, At least it's free. I then went to the door and knocked on it.
"Sorry but we're closed for the night" A voice said
I cussed under my breath.
"I'm here for the room!" I yelled through the door.
"Oh well then," Another voice said as the door opened "Come in"
As I went in I took note of the person who let me it. He was white with brown eyes and hair. His hair was done in a pony tail similar to mine, only the hair wasn't as spiky. He looked about 21. He had on an outfit that look similar to one a street fighter I saw on T.V. had worn (Dudley I think it was) except the guy didn't have boxing gloves on and instead of it being light green overalls he had on brown ones.
"Thank you for letting me in" I said, showing a side of me that rarely got out.
"You're welcome" The man said with a bow
"Names Adrian" I said "Yours"
"Keiichiro" He said
I then saw another boy at the end of the hallway; he looked like he was around 18 or 19. He looked like what people would have described as the Hitler youth. He had bright blonde hair and light blue eyes. Like Keiichiro he had white skin. He was wearing was I would call a vest, except he had nothing under it. The vest was buttoned though so I really didn't see his chest. His shirt did have a collar that went up to about his neck. He had on white slacks and black tennis shoes.
"And who is that?" I said, pointing to him.
"The name is Ryou" The boy said coldly
"And hello to you mister" I said sarcastically, I then turned to Keiichiro "So how much is the rent going to be?"
"It will be two hundred yen per month" Keiichiro said
"Plus an up front fee of fifty yen" Ryou added
Shit! I thought as I reached into my pockets, I don't even have ten bucks in my own nation's currency! I began to frantically look around the room, suddenly and idea hit me.
"Why don't I work for you guys? You know I get a room for free and you guys get free labor in return" I purposed
"We could always use and extra hand" Keiichiro said "Don't you agree Ryou"
Ryou nodded "I guess it couldn't hurt"
"Good" I nodded "I'm going to go see what my room looks like, see you guys later"
"You're room is up the stairs over there" Ryou said pointing to a door on the far end of the café
I nodded and headed over there. After some quick traversing I soon found myself in my room. It had a bed in the far left hand corner, net to it was a night stand and at the end was some kind of trunk, and if you looked right from the door you would also see that there was a standard closet. I then noticed something across the room for the bed that I hadn't seen in a long time…a computer. I was eager to check the thing out when all of a sudden I heard the café door open. I heard what sounded like foot steps and I dropped my head to the floor and began to listen.
"Any luck on finding the fifth Mew Mew?" Ryou's voice asked
"No luck whatsoever" One of the voices from earlier in park said
"Alright" Ryou' voice said "What about the monster?"
"That's the thing" A voice that I instantly recognized as Momo's said "When we got there someone else had already taken care of it"
"Really did you get a look at the person?" Ryou's voice asked yet again
"Oh! Oh! Can I tell him?" A very cheerful voice said which was another voice I recognized from the park. That voice then went to describe me in very vivid detail.
"Odd" Keiichiro's voice said "That sounds like the man who just rented a room here"
"Really?" Momo's voice said. It was then that I decided to get up and head down the stairs as I opened the door I noticed Ryou and Keiichiro were facing four girls. One of which was Momo, there other girls there were pretty strange too. One of them looked about 14 and had a silverish-white hair that went to her legs. She had teal eyes and white skin as well. She was wearing dark blue boots that came up to her shins, her outfit was the color of a shark. Speaking of her outfit, her belly button was exposed via a triangular hole and it looked like she had triangular holes whose points started from about a third of the way across her chest and ended at the sides of her body. She also had a shark tail, in the same spot as Momo's too. The second one also had white skin, she also looked like a fourteen year old, but her hair and eyes were sort of a light-ish green, She had on a one piece that looked similar to what you would see Tinkerbelle wearing and was bright yellow in color, She had dark green wrapping on her wrappings along her arms and legs. She was also sporting dragonfly wings. Her hair went down to her the end of her torso but it was in a Spanish braid. The third one had white skin and purple eyes, she looked about 15. She was wearing dark purple boots that went to her shins. She had on a purple skirt that went to about the middle of her thighs; this was accompanied by a shirt that looked like Momo's only it was purple. She had on white gloves with purple fluff coming out. Her hair was purple and was done in a style strikingly similar to Momo's only she had pinkish bows on the end of her hair. She had what looked like purple lion ears and a purple lion tail; it had some sort of pinkish bow on it with a bell. After carefully observing all of them I decided it was going to make my presence known. I opened the door and loudly announced
"That guy you met in the park has a name you know, and that is Adrian Hartman!"
All eyes were on me now.
"Now that I have you attention" I smiled "I would like to take you up on your offer Momo, I would in fact like to join this group"
"You offered him to join?" Ryou said in shock
"I'm sorry but I think that he's…" Momo was interrupted by Ryou
"We don't have proof that he is!"
"I know but…" Ryou interrupted Momo again "Why did you do this?"
"Actually" Keiichiro said "We could use him to fill the spot of the fifth Mew Mew for the time being"
"No! We can't!" Ryou exclaimed "We don't even know if this is the guy!"
I then pointed to the hole the cat beast I fought had made when it bit me
"This enough proof" I said
Ryou sighed "Fine, Fine, but when we find the fifth Mew Mew we're wiping your memory"
I rolled my eyes "No your not"
I then diverted my attention away from the Hitler youth and looked at the girls "Well seeing as I'm part of the team now why don't you all introduce yourselves?"
Momo looked at me
"You should know my name already" She said in a snarky tone
"My name is Umi" The shark girl nodded "Please to meet you"
"The name is Aki!" The green haired one said before hugging me
"Uh…" I said with a pause "Please, respect my personal space"
I then looked at the purple haired girl.
"What is your name?" I asked
No response
"What is your name?" I asked again, a tad bit more stern
Still no response
"What the hell is your name!" I roared
The purple hair girl seemed like she was going to cry, the other three girls looked at me.
"She doesn't like to talk much" Umi said as she tried to comfort the purple haired girl.
"Well she could at least tell me her name" I said, still a little furious
"My…my…name is Lavender" She said in a very sweet voice
"See" I smiled "That wasn't hard"
I then looked at everyone again "If you need me I'm going to be in my room upstairs…good night"
I then quickly went up the stairs and got in bed. I slept peacefully for the rest of the night
I woke up the next morning and went down stairs, expecting breakfast. Instead I got something else. Ryou handed me a uniform, similar to his, except the vest was a maroon color and the pants were a brighter red.
"Your work uniform" He said "Put it on and get prepared for the day"
"And good morning to you" I said as I rolled my eyes, I then headed upstairs, got dressed, and then went downstairs and began to make preparations. A few hours later the four girls arrived, they weren't in their Mew Mew forms.
"So you guys actually have human forms?" I said, curiously
"Of course we do" Momo said in a you-should-know-this-you-dumbass, kind of voice.
I gave her the don't fuck with me stare "I appreciate your sense of humor but I'm not in the mood"
I held my stomach "Ryou won't even feed me"
"Well we could get you some cheese cake" Aki said "He's pretty good at making those kinds of things"
They have cheesecake here! I thought, Yes! Thank god for cheesecake
"Sure" I smiled "I would like some"
Aki then headed to what looked like the kitchen. After maybe an hour or so, she emerged with a cheesecake.
"Sweet!" I exclaimed
"Keiichiro said it was for all of us" Aki smiled
"Damn it" I said with a loss of enthusiasm "I wanted all the cheesecake"
Aki then cut a good sized slice of cheese cake for me and put it on a plate. I took the plate and smiled.
I then said something I thought I would never say again "Thanks"
"You're welcome" She giggled as I dug into my cheesecake.
After I finished my slice of cheesecake I was ready to face the day and quickly took care of the first customers with a gusto that was I had rarely exhibited since my father had died. Soon it was at the end of the day and I was relaxing, I then noticed a fuzz ball fly past me.
"What the fuck is that?" I said to myself
"It's what we use to track the Chimera animals" Ryou said as he walked by
I swear that guy can hear anything I thought to myself.
Soon Keiichiro made his way into the café
"Listen" He said in a rushed tone "There's been a report of another Chimera Animal"
Looks like their little robot sucks at tracking, I thought
"We're on it" Umi, Aki, and Momo said "But first we need to change into some other clothes, just so we don't go walking around in our work uniforms"
"Well then consider me gone" I said "Not gone as in I'm off the team, gone as in I've gone and kicked the monsters ass"
I then rushed out the door, hoping to at least get a little blood on my knuckles today.
After about ten minutes of constant searching I was beginning to get pissed.
Alright, where the hell is that thing! I thought. I suddenly heard what sounded like a lizard roar and smiled, There it is.
I then made my way to the sound of the calling and looked at the beast. It was a ten foot lizard man with black scales and four arms. I smiled as I cracked my knuckles.
"Hey Adrian" I heard Momo's voice say, I turned around and noticed Momo and the others were right behind me in their Mew forms.
"How long did it take you to change?" I asked out of curiosity
"We just got done changing, three minutes ago" Umi said
"How the fuck did you get here so fast then?" I asked
Momo pointed to the little fuzz ball
"So the thing does work" I said
The lizard then roared.
"Oh right…the lizard" I then said, realizing I had a job to do. The other girls said something that I didn't even bother to listen to and began to transform. In this time nothing was happening…and I HATE it when nothing happens in a fight, so instead of waiting for them to finish their transformation, I bull-rushed the lizardman. This work surprisingly well, as I soon slammed my fist into the chest of the lizard. I then followed with a knee to its stomach.
Ha-ha! I am the best! I thought, my ego boost was soon lost though, for the lizard grabbed me and pinned me to the ground. He was about to slam his three other free hands into my body when I heard Lavender shout "Ribbon Lavender Shot!" I looked over at Lavender and I saw that she now had a sling shot. It looked pretty damn high tech too. Also it had a little heart in the middle. My attention then went back to the lizard as a heart shaped pellet knocked into him, sending him back and in the process releasing me. I then proceeded to get up and land a roundhouse kick to the things chest. I quickly followed with an uppercut.
"Ribbon Lemonade Rush!" I heard Aki's voice said "Adrian get back!"
I did so and a miniature tornado soon engulfed the lizard, throwing him into the air, the lizard landed flat on his back. I looked over at Aki; it seemed her weapon of choice was a yoyo. The lizard soon got up and I heard Momo yell "Ribbon Peach Blossom!"
I laughed "That has got to be one of the stupidest names for an attack ever!"
Momo soon shot an energy blast in the shape of a flower at the lizardman. It slammed into the lizard, leaving a decent sized burn mark that looked like a flower.
"Daaaamn!" I said, getting pumped. I then ran up to the monster and landed an elbow blow to its chest
"Ribbon Shark Mirage!" Umi said as she played a melody on a blue colored flute, where she got it I have no clue. A tidal wave was soon summoned, this tidal wave turning into two decent sized water sharks and zoomed toward that lizard. I suddenly realized that I was in the way of the attack.
Shit! I thought as I got hit by the water sharks. A pain shot through my body, as if I was being chewed on by some aquatic beast. Fortunately, the lizard man was hit by the attack to and fell to the ground. I looked at the lizard, its body began to glow and it soon split into a purple gem and another one of those jelly fish thingies. I was going to ask this but then the pain shot through my body again.
"Adrian!" Umi exclaimed "Are you okay?"
"'Tis by a scratch" I said as I got up
"A scratch? You were hit by my Shark Mirage!" Umi said
"No I wasn't" I said
"Uh, Yes you were" Momo said in her snarky tone
"I've had worse" I said
"That is totally a lie" Momo responded
I rolled my eyes
"Listen" Umi said "Can we stop arguing and get back to the café?"
Momo and I nodded. The girls then set off for the café. I was right behind them. Adrian, I thought, You have probably just signed up for the best job ever.