Ring

Ring

Ring.

Ring

Ring

Ring.

Ichigo grabbed the phone. "Hello?" she answered.

"Hello, you've won a contest, and your prize will be presented to you at the park by me, Ryou Shirogane. Please come right away." He hung up.

Ichigo stood right there before jumping up and down. "Yes! Finally I won a contest. This is my first!" she cheered. Then she stopped. 'Wait, what contest did I win anyway?' she thought. 'I've entered so many, and the guy didn't even bother to say the name of which contest.'

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When Ichigo got to the park, she saw Mint, Pudding, Lettuce, and Zakuro all there.

"Hey guys!" she called. They all turned around surprised to hear her voice. "Whatcha all doing here?"

"We were called about winning some contest. Apparently, we all won something." Lettuce answered her.

"Yeah, some guy named Ryou or whatever suddenly called my house, and told me to come rush over here." Mint said. She sighed. "And I was right in the middle of enjoying my afternoon tea. I didn't appreciate being interrupted like that."

"This is too weird. I can't believe we were all called here to the same place. Do you think we all won the same contest? I mean what gives?" Zakuro questioned, arms crossed over her chest.

They all nodded their head in agreement.

Suddnely, a figure appeared behind them. "Good you're all here."

They turned around startled, not wven hearing the persons' footsteps come towards them.

He guided them to the café. "Come inside. I have something to show you all." He said, his hand leading them inside and down the basement.

"Why are you taking us down here?" Ichigo wondered.

"All will be explained once in view of the computer monitor." He said walking behind them.

"But-"

"Hello ladies. So glad you all came as asked." Keiichiro said when they were all in the same room.

"Ok, what's going on here, buster?" Pudding interrogating Ryou.

He backed away from Pudding's closeness. "Last night or sometime yesterday, did something happen to any of you after you came in contact with water?"

They all froze in shock. 'How did he know? Is he behind this somehow?' they all thought.

"From the looks on your faces, I can say that something did. I'm guessing your feet were suddenly gone and what appeared in place was a mermaid's tail until you all dried off." Ryou said not beating around the bush, but straight to the point.

"Now hold on a sec, how did you know about that?" Mint said stepping forward, along with Ichigo. "Yeah, seriously. Did you do that to us?"

He raised up his hands. "Calm down and just listen." They did uneasily. "All of you have been infused with fish-like genes, along with gaining a special power. We did this, because undersea is in danger by three dangerous soldiers lead by an evil so-called god that they call Deep Blue." They all looked at him wide-eyed as if he just came out of a mental hospital. He noticed this and said in a serious tone, "What I'm saying is the truth. Why else would you all have trouble touching water ever since yesterday?" he retorted with the look they gave him.

They all stood silent not eing able to answer the question. Then Zakuro stepped forward. "Ok fine. But what made you two choose us to begin with?" she asked, not being too pleased with the situation they were forced unexpectedly in.

"We didn't choose you. Fate did." He answered. "And if they take over Japan's waters, they could destroy all of Japan., much less Tokyo."

He then looked at Ichigo. "You." She pointed at herself. "Me?" He replied, "Yeah. Point the palm of your hand at each of these five balloons in my hand." He ordered getting them.

"Uh, ok." Ichigo answered not too sure about this. She did as he said, and when she pointed her palm towards the floating objects, she felt intense heat coming out of her palm as the balloons started blowing up until they were all on the ground, piece by piece.

Ichigo took back her hand, and looked at it surprised by what just happened, everyone else staring at her with the same reaction.

"You have the power to heat any object or person you point at if you just put all of your concentration in your hand, and intensify the heat to your extent. You may even be able to create fire with it." He finished saying to her, her still looking out of it.

'Whoa, this could be a lot cooler than I thought. Maybe this won't be so bad after all.' Ichigo thought inside her head, a tiny smile on her face.

"Mint, your turn." He instructed her. "Point the palm of your hand at this plant." He put it on a table near him.

She shrugged her shoulders. When she pointed her palm, she all of a sudden felt kind of cold. The plant turned completely frozen. "Your power is turning anything into ice. The opposite of Ichigo's power." He said, looking at both of them.

They looked at each other as well. 'I always knew we had problems with each other.' Ichigo thought.

Next it was Lettuce's turn. Her task was to raise water from a glass.

Then Pudding. She turned the water into jelly.

Last but not least, Zakuro. "She touched a knife, and with enough concentration, she turned it into water.

"Starting tomorrow, I'm opening the café. You'll all be working here undercover, and coming early before it opens in order to practice and harnesss total control of your newfound abilities." Ryou said, with the girls all outside the café's door.

"Hey, wait, I-"

"See ya tomorrow bright and early." He said before shutting the door.

They all just stood there, and walked off complaining all the way. They then separated and Ichigo walked off to her home until she saw a certain green haired person she knew all too well in the aprk sitting on a bench staring at the sky.

"Kisshu!" she said surprised to see him there. She then tried to keep walking away. "Maybe if I just keep going, he won't notice me."

She then tripped over herself, and he heard the THUMP. He looked behind him 30 feet away to see it was Ichigo. "Ichigo, I see your as clumsy as ever." He said running over to her, offering a hand to help her up.

She looked up and saw him. She got up on her own, a scrape on her leg. "Thanks, but I can get up on my own." She said, not all too happy to hear him teasing her again, that big smile on his face yet again.

He then noticed her leg. He bent down and started running his tongue over the wound, her face starting to turn as red as a cherry, her voice lost, her eyes wide with embarrassment, and her m outh open as well.

"K-Kisshu, knock it off! Stop it! We're out in public, people are gonna stare!" she said frantically.

He then got up and said looking down at her, "That's a good thing. People will know that you and I are together!"

"Dummy! We are not!" she said defiantly hitting his chest over and over.

He wrapped his hands around hers and whispered in her ear, "You know you'll have to give me a chance at some point soon." He then traced his tongue halfway around her ear before she pushed him away, and looked at him, all the more beet red.

"Don't do that!" she told him. "That's clearly sexual harassment!"

He shook his finger. "Ah, ah, ah. It's simply someone who's showing his lover affection, my little strawberry."

She then turned around and stomped away. I'm going home! Don't follow me!"

""I'm glad you're alright." She then turned around. He smiled, a sad look in his eyes, "I really am."

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Kisshu was in his bed tossing and turning, along with his breothers in their other rooms.

"Come to me. The water is calling." The mysterious haunting voice called to them.

They got up, looking like sleepwalkers, no idea what they're doing, and walked out the door, and soon they were at the docks.

They started growing fins, gills, and shark teeth as sharp as razors. They then dove in, and came to bow in front of a tall dark blue figure, sitting at his throne.

"Master." They all said.

He smiled a wicked grin. "Now is the time my young ones."