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CHAPTER 4: Friends

"What are you supposed to be?"

I honestly didn't know.

Looking down at myself, I saw an outfit a bit similar to Zakuro's, but white with black lacing. I had white fox ears and a long white tail.

It bothered me that I was wearing so much white, including my white hair.

"Oh, you're one of those white rats." I looked up at the blue haired demon still holding onto Sora.

"Oy, stupid. You still have something." I growled, at which he smirked at.

"Oh, this," he held up Sora who whined, "I decided to keep it and make it one of my creations. It looks rather…precious…to you." He slowly took out a needle from his pocket.

"The demons take animals, or people, and shoot them with some sort of dart. When they're shot, they transform into something…hideous…"

My eyes widened a bit. He was going to inject MY Sora with that. Now, I'm mad.

"ICE ROD"

In an instant, there was a meter long rod in my hand with a crystal at the top. It was blue with a white ribbon tied at the bottom. Strangely, it felt cool to the touch.

"You're a little too late to start a fight." And with that he injected the needle into Sora's torso. I was at a loss of words as my best friend, and only friend, writhed in pain and slowly began to change shape.

From a small red haired fur ball to a 14 foot tall, two tailed, savage fox. His fur was now black with the same crimson eyes as the demon.

Sora was now a ghoul.

"Wow, this one turned out nicely." The demon whistled. This caused a large amount of anger to swell up inside me.

"You're…going to pay…" and with that I help my rod up. He looked at me and laughed like he had been challenged by a mouse…

"So the little rat wants to play, huh? Then fight him. I'm sure he's just itching to slaughter you." I looked at Sora…he was snarling and drool was dripping down from his long canines.

"You're wrong. I'm going to save him…and after that I'm going to break your leg." He only laughed again. He thought I was joking…he's in for a surprise.

"RIBOOOON VANILLA BLIZZARD!"

I swung my rod into a spiral, kind of like a baton. From the crystal at the top came a blast of snow, directly hitting not only Sora, but the blue haired demon as well.

"W-w-w-what's h-h-h-happening?" The demon crossed his arms in an effort to warm him, but wasn't succeeding. Sora on the other hand, was whining and whimpering with his tail between his legs.

"W-w-w-what are y-y-you w-w-waiting f-f-for? K-k-k-kill her!" no, Sora didn't come after me. Instead, he shrunk back to his normal size and curled into a ball.

Before the demon could react, I swung my rod and tripped his foot in an awkward direction. A loud snap was heard, and he wailed in pain.

"I warned you, didn't I?" Even in his pain, he gave a shaky grin.

"You're smart and violent. A worthy opponent…we'll meet again…"and with that he melted into the ground. So he can run fast and magically disappear. At least I broke his leg.

"S-snow...help?" came an all too familiar voice. Sora!

I scrambled over to him, slipping a little on the frosted ground. I can't believe I made it snow in the middle of spring.

"You're so bothersome…" I grumbled, scooping him into my arms.

"T-thank you…Snow…are you okay?" I raised an eyebrow. He just got changed into a ghoul and he's asking me if I'M okay?

"I think I should be the one asking that." I smiled gently, walking away from the scene.

"So…you aren't…broken?" I froze in my tracks and looked at Sora. He was giving me a concerned look because we both know what he was referring to…the 'incident'…

Why is there so much blood?

"No…I'm fine…" He narrowed his eyes and was about to speak again when 5 familiar females ran up to me.

"Vanilla! Are you alright? Our pendants warned us you were trouble." Ichigo called.

I looked down and frowned at the yellow pendant hanging from my neck, "Well that could become a problem…"

They rolled their eyes and Lettuce was the next to speak, "I see you were able to transform. Congratulations, Vanilla!" She smiled weakly.

I see I'm still on these guys' bad side. Oh well.

"Do you any of you know a guy with blue hair, delinquent clothes, is kind of a demon." I blurted, ignoring Lettuce.

They're jaws dropped in shock. "You know Takeru?" Ichigo cried, a little too high pitched for my liking.

"Yeah, he just transformed Sora into a ghoul." Again, they're jaws dropped.

"…and you fought it ALONE?" it was mint's turn to give the high pitched cry. Seriously, don't I get enough of this at school?

"Yeah, that's what happened…" I sighed.

"It seems you may be more 'updated' then us." I gave Zakuro a confused look but the other mews only nodded.

"What she means is you're a lot stronger than us. Maybe it was because your powers were asleep for so long but we need Ryou to upgrade are weapons to help us battle the ghouls." Mint answered my confused look.

"You can fight while we get stringer, vanilla!" Pudding chirped. My eye twitched.

"Do I have to?"

"It'll be fun Snow, let's do it! Just us!" Sora smiled, wagging his tail. I sighed in aggravation.

"Fine, but get those upgrades quickly. I don't want to be doing this alone." They nodded and we began to walk back to the café.

I finally realized I, and all the other mews, were back in the work uniform. When did I change back?

"Ah, you're all back fairly early. Any injuries?" Akasaka smiled as we entered the café.

"None! Vanilla transformed and beat up Takeru! He he!" Pudding answered, jumping around the tables.

"Really? That's great Vanilla; this means you can-…"

"I'm not saving the world."

"Then…what are you doing?"

"As far as I'm concerned, I'm maintaining my job." And with that I started to sweep the floors.

The mews sighed like they were used to me already and my constant rudeness.

"Ah, good, you're all here." Ryou stated while entering the room. "I watched the battle through Masha. Congratulations Vanilla, would never have thought you could do that." He gave a cryptic smile, and I returned with a smirk.

"You five come down to the basement, I need to try and apply some updates into your weapons." Pudding squealed in excitement.

"Make my pudding ring bigger! I want a HUGE one! With lights! And Sound!" she continued to ramble as they disappeared downstairs.

"I guess this means I'm opening shop?" Akasaka gave me an apologetic smile which I took as a you-can't-say-no smile.

I sighed and walked over to the sign and flipped it to say 'open'.

"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?"

Why did I do nothing?

I sighed in relief as the last customer left for the day. I should have ran away instead of opening the café. It turns out my fan club showed up and went nuts over me having a job. I'm probably never going to hear the end of this from them…and to make it worst, probably half the school knows now.

Monday is starting to look more and more like dooms day for me.

"You did a good job today, Vanilla. I apologize for the others not being able to help out, but they're…" Akasaka smiled nervously.

"Upgrading?"

"Right…Ryou usually gets frustrated…his data sometimes doesn't get to the weapons and is erased…Just another perk of the job." He beamed.

Seriously, was this guy ever NOT smiling?

"I wanted to play with Snow…but now the sun's setting…" Sora pouted from his spot at a table.

"I'll play tomorrow, I've got no work so I'll play with you." He immediately perked up and grinned widely.

"Yay~! Snow, lets finish playing hide and seek! I want to find you!" he cried, jumping around me.

Before I could answer, the 5 super hero's walked into the room with bored looks. They looked extremely tired. I would too if I was listening to Ryou complain about faulty technology all day.

"Pudding tired!"

"I missed my date with Masaya…"

"I still have homework to do!"

"I have a kink in my neck…"

"I need to call my manager…"

All that was said at once as they entered the room. I couldn't hear all of it, but I knew one thing:

They were exhausted.

I'll cut them some slack and not complain to them about not helping me with the café. I'd rather serve pastries them listen to Ryou babble like an idiot.

"I'll clean up, you guys can go home." They all gave me shocked looks.

"Oh my…"

"The heartless…"

"Cold…"

"Vanilla…"

"Just did…"

"A FAVOUR!" they all screamed at once. I rubbed my ears in annoyance.

"It's not the end of the world, so quit yelling." I growled.

"This is great! Vanilla isn't so mean! We should be friends!" Pudding cheered, tackling me into a hug.

"Didn't I say I didn't appreciate this?" She only hugged tighter and the others laughed.

"This calls for a celebration!" Ichigo clapped her hands excitedly.

"If you're going to make such a big deal of this, I'll leave the cleaning to you." I grumbled, only to be ignored.

"A celebration? Then we should all have a sleepover at my house! All of us!" Mint announced, sending a pleading glance to Zakuro. Said girl sighed and nodded.

"Yay! It should be tomorrow! I'll get a babysitter!" Pudding cheered.

"I suppose since I have nothing to do…" Lettuce smiled. Ichigo and Mint nodded, than they all looked at me.

"What now?" I grumbled, taking a mop and bucket out of the closet.

"You did say everyone, Mint…" Ichigo looked at her blue friend, who was frowning.

"Whatever it is, I'm not going." They ignored me again.

"Yay! Bring Vanilla! It'll be fun with all six of us!" Pudding jumped up and down.

"Don't I have a say in this?" I snapped.

"Fine, I guess she can come." Mint sighed in defeat. Pudding cheered while the others smiled.

"I don't want to go!" I growled, finally being noticed by the 5.

"You don't want to have a sleepover at a mansion?" Mint raised an eyebrow, giving a slight grin of pride.

"I don't know what that is, so no." I heard gasps all around the room. "What?"

"Well…you are from the streets…but you've honestly never heard of a sleepover?" Lettuce asked, trying not to sound mean.

"That's what I said." And Mint started to laugh. I wasn't offended, I expected someone like her to do that.

"Just come over to my house at nine." Mint smiled, shoving a piece of paper into my hands. "Never heard of a sleepover…that's GOLD!" and she walked out.

I looked at the small paper, realizing it was some sort of address.

"We'll see you tomorrow vanilla!" Ichigo called, walking out with Lettuce. Zakuro waved and did the same.

"Bye Bye Vanilla! I can't wait to become friends with you!" Pudding smiled, skipping out with a wave.

Silence floated around the room, and a small grin spread across my face.

Maybe…this 'sleepover'…could be…fun?

Why is it I can do nothing to help?

"Can I come too, Snow?" Sora asked. I slightly nodded and he cheered with excitement.

Why…why did I let you die?

I sighed and slowly walked upstairs to get some well-deserved sleep. This day has been nothing but hectic for me. I'm shocked I didn't get a headache in the process.

Though…I suppose it was a little fun…I mean…I'm going to one of those sleepovers, right? It can't be all that bad.

As I sat in bed, there was only one thing on my mind that was starting to really bug me:

What do you do at a 'sleepover'?


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