I be back! I was on vacation, snowboarding and bruising myself.
On a completely unrelated note, who here watches Hetalia? Those who don't can skip this paragraph... Anyways, me and my dad are really into history, but he has no clue what Hetalia is. I'll ask him questions that I get from the show, and when he guesses wrong, it's usually funny in a way only a Hetalia fan can understand. I was asking him what country had control over North Italy at whatever time Chibitalia takes place (I forgot) and he guessed France. That gave me mental images. Very funny and inappropriate mental images. I collapsed on the floor from laughter and he asked me what was so funny about France occupying Italy. I laughed harder.
Disclaimer: I own Mermaid Melody as much as I own... something that I don't own. So there.
I hesitated before knocking on Amelie's door. It's not like I was nervous, but I was deep in thought. There were five other people who could help us take Gracilicaud down again? It was like a miracle.
"Come on, Nami, we don't got all day!" Kaede said, knocking me out of my thoughts. I knocked on the door and stood back as an unfamiliar girl opened it.
"Hello?" she asked. "Are you the other princesses Amelie was talking about?" I nodded.
"Yeah. I'm Nami. I'm the princess of the Arctic Sea. These are my friends: Kaede, princess of the Antarctic Sea; Lani, princess of the North Pacific Sea; Ruri, princess of the North Atlantic Sea; Kohana, princess of the South Pacific Sea; Hippo, guardian of the seal, and Yuri and Akira," I said, pointing to each of us in turn. The girl smiled.
"I'm Feilynne, but you can call me Lynne. I'm the princess of Lake Huron!" She said, bouncing up and down slightly. "Come on, you've got to meet my sister and the other guys!" Lynne grabbed my hand and dragged me into the house. I almost fell over and Kaede snickered.
"Not funny," I whispered. She only stuck her tongue out at me.
"Everyone, they're here!" Lynne called as she pulled us into the living room. She let go and I flexed my hand. That girl had some grip. I looked around the room at the people looking at us. Amelie and Matt were there, and so was Lissa (no surprise there). There was also a girl that looked kinda like Lynne but with darker hair in a headband, and a couple of guys that I vaguely remembered passing in the hall.
"Hey, Lynne, how long is this gonna take?" A boy with bleach blond hair and chocolate-brown eyes said. He looked pretty annoyed. "We've got to practice before our concert tonight."
"Shouldn't take too long," Lynne's sister said for Lynne. "Besides, we've been practicing non-stop for a month and a half."
"Guys, we're here to form a possible alliance. We can talk about the concert later." A boy with blond hair (darker than the first boy's) and sky blue eyes said. He looked like the mature one of the group, the one who kept every one on track. Unfortunately, no one seemed to hear him.
"Yeah, we're a really good band. I can't believe we got a gig in the park!"
"I can't wait to come and see you guys play. You'll be awesome."
"Of course we'll be awesome. I'm the drummer!"
"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" the blond boy yelled, standing up. "We have to introduce ourselves to these people, so let's stop talking about the concert!" No one talked for a while, and he sat down. "Thank you." He said. He turned towards me and my friends. "I'm Lewis," he said. He pointed towards the first boy "That's my brother, Greg."
He pointed towards Lynne's sister "Laviassé. Call her Via."
"And you already know everyone else."
"Shit!" Via said, looking at her watch. "Guy, we've got to get ready. Greg, call Andy. Let's go." She and Amelie got up and went back further into the house.
"You're not the boss of me!" Greg called, but he pulled out his cell phone anyways before walking out the front door
"Is it time already?" Lynne asked. Lewis nodded. "Well," she said. "I've got to go get ready. See you at 7:30, Lewis." As she said this, she kissed him on the cheek.
"See you then," Lewis agreed. I stared at them for a moment before leaning over to Lissa.
"They're a couple?" I asked. She nodded.
"I know," she said. "I wouldn't have guessed it, but they actually do work well together. Lewis keeps Lynne calm, and she helps him loosen up. One of my best jobs."
"Jobs?" I asked.
"Yeah," Lissa said. "I played cupid to most of the couples at school, and Lynne and Lewis was probably the hardest. Definitely the most rewarding, though."
"Hm, do you think you can keep two people together when one's on the other side of the world?" I asked. Lani had been worrying about how this trip would affect her relationship with Ryuto, and was tempted to break it of before we left. The problem was, she wasn't sure what would happen while she was gone, and she wasn't sure he'd still want to be with her.
"Long distance relationship? But I thought you were dating Akira," she said. I shook my head.
"I am. I mean for Lani. She had to leave her boyfriend in Japan, and she's not sure their relationship will last." I explained.
"Oh, okay!" Lissa said. "No problem, Long distance is my specialty. You have to do me a favor, though."
"What is it?" I asked. I hoped it wasn't something gross or embarrassing.
"Help me and Via get Matt and Greg together?" Lissa asked, putting on a pretty decent puppy pout.
"Eh?" I asked, surprised. "That's it?"
"Of course!" Lissa said, smiling.
"But wouldn't it be dangerous for her to date a human?" I asked. Lissa laughed.
"Lewis and Greg are princes of the water clan." She explained. "They're twins, despite being polar opposites. Lewis is reserved and quiet, though he can get pretty aggravated easily. He kinda used to act like he had a stick up his butt, but Lynne's really made that disappear. Greg, on the other had, is loud, obnoxious, and is a major playboy. I doubt his ego can get any bigger, and he and his two best friends are the most popular guys at the school. I think dating Mattie would be good for him, and I know they have feelings for each other. Matt is just too shy to admit it, and Greg's too 'cool.' To say anything."
"Really?" Ruri asked sarcasticly, scooting over to us. "I never would have guessed. Can I have in on this cupid mission?"
"Sure," Lissa said. "I've already got a couple ideas. First, though, we need Mattie."
"I'll go get her," Ruri offered, turning to go get the tomboyish girl. Lissa got up and I followed her to the stairs. There were a lot of water-related things decorating the house, I noticed. I wondered of all of the houses of the lake princesses were like this.
Lissa led me to a bedroom, where Kohana was already sitting on the bed.
"I already recruited Kohana," Lissa explained, walking towards the closet. She opened the door, and disappeared inside. "You guys coming or not?" she called from the closet.
Make that room, I thought as I walked into the massive space. And every inch was taken up by clothes, shoes, and accessories.
"Wow, who's are all these?" I asked.
"All of ours. The twins just have the biggest closet of all of us," Lissa explained.
"Dude! This thing's bigger than my room!" Kohana said, looking around. Just then, Ruri and Matt walked into the room – I mean, closet.
"So what's this about, guys?" Matt asked. She looked around briefly, and then a look of terror washed over her face. "No, guys, I'm not doing it!" she said.
"Come on, Mattie! Please?" Lissa pleaded.
"No," Matt said. "How would the team react if they saw me in one of those?"
"They're not gonna be able to recognize you," Kohana said, smirking a little. It honestly scared me a little; I had never seen her use a face like that before.
"The only people who will be able to recognize you will be us, Lynne and Lewis, and the band," Lissa insisted. " 'Sides, Greg's never seen you in anything remotely girly besides your idol form."
"What are you talking about?" Matt said. Her face was getting redder by the second. "I don't like Greg! Um, I mean, he's nice to me and everything, but I don't like him like that..."
"Please," Ruri said. "I've known you for what, two days? I can see the way you guys shoot each other glances when you think no one's watching. Not only do you like him, but he likes you back. I bet even Lynne knows to an extent."
Matt lowered her head in defeat and sighed. "Fine, but if anyone recognizes me, I'm gonna kill you."
Yep, It's been a while. I've been really busy *shot*, and I have exams coming up.
This chapter was supposed to go on to the concert, but I felt like here was a good place to stop it. You probably would rather have a decent sized chapter up now than a monster chapter up next month.
You've probably noticed some similarities between my new characters and characters from Hetalia. I had a major plot bunny where this actually had them in it, but I didn't want to make this a crossover. I might still do a separate thing with that plot bunny later, though.
