Destiney sat on a cold stone ground while Thirza sat on a bench inside of the school, seeming anxious. Just about 3 yards away from them was a Pool; something Thirza was basically afraid of. It smelled of chlorine and the sounds of water being slammed on by the other students scared her. Destiney didn't mind, she wasn't afraid of a public pool, unlike Oceans or anything she could get lost in. The reason they were both even there though was because Heina had signed them up for extra Physical hours and to get them involved in a club, seeing how Destiney had been sleeping over 13 hours a day from after the time she got home from school to the time she woke up. Heina walked up to the duo wearing her red swimsuit, having black stripes going down the sides.
"Y'know the instructor will see you two eventually and you'll be forced to get in there?"
Thirza looked up at Heina, seeming a bit pale with fright.
"The waters like what, 6 feet deep?"
"Yeah, minimum for us."
"Well what if I drown? The water goes 9 inches taller than me!"
"And what if we have a instructor who knows how to swim? And there's also cute boys here Thirza."
"Cute boy my rear end, your not getting me in there."
Destiney looked at Her.
"Don't worry about it Thirza, I'm sure they'll understand and work with you so you don't have to do anything like the diving board."
Just after Destineys statement, an girl walked up to them. Her hair was short and waved, and seemed like the color you would get if you mixed orange and brown together. She has a pair of Goggles on her head and wore the same colored school swimsuit as Heina. She grabbed Heinas arm and tugged on it.
"Yami-San, it's your turn on the diving board."
Thirza tilted her head to the side in confusion, looking at her.
"Who's this Heina?"
"Oh, It's someone who's in my level, we take the class together."
"Yes, we do. And you two girls are new members, right?"
Destiney and Thirza both nodded.
"Oh, okay! I can send Niwa-Kun over to help you if you'd like. He's an upper level and a second year student, he can help you out."
Thirza seemed a little so-so on that thougt, she knew that when she said the "Kun" honorific that meant a boy would come over and help them. Destiney however made the response for them.
"That would be fine, thank you much."
"Your welcome, now come on Yami-san."
The Orange haired girl continueously tugged Heinas arm as they went over with their level. Thirza stood up and slowly walked over towards the pool, hesistantly she dipped her toe in the water. Much to her surprise, it wasn't very cold or actually anything of the like. It felt comfortable and if it wasn't for her fear of deeper water, she would jump in, pushing Destiney in first as a joke though.
Just about to turn around and walk back to her Bench, Destiney walked up from behind her.
"What are you doing Thirza?"
Thirza was caught off guard and became stunned, losing her balance and screaming at the same time. She fell into the warm, chlorined water. Destiney reached out to grab Thirzas hand, but it was to late and she fell in. The last thing Thirza had heard was Destiney scream her name is shock.
Black quietly slipped away as Thirzas dazy eyes opened, and when she looked up she saw a boy who appeared to have wet, brown hair that was the color of light chocolate candies. His concerned looking eyes shined with the color of wooden pine trees. She groaned softly and blinked several times, looking around. The boy offered his hand in assitance to Thirza, who grabbed it to pull herself into a sitting-up position. Thirza looked at him with a sense of confusion and un-awareness on her face.
"I'm sorry... but... What exactly is going on here?"
"You fell in the water when the Silver haired girl startled you. You didn't seem to be getting back to the surface, so I rescued you."
Thirza remained silent for a moment, letting his words run through her head.
"What do you mean by 'I Rescued You'?"
"What do you want to hear?"
"That hopefully I wasn't given mouth-to-mouth?"
"Oh, then please forgive me. I was only trying to help you. And before you begin to freak-out..."
He leaned foward and looked closely at her.
"Are you feeling well now?"
Thirza become a bit un-steady to have this boy that she didn't even know the name of get close to her at all, she in response she slowly pushed him back with her one finger.
"I'm feeling fine, thank you very much."
He chuckled, along with patting her in the head. Thirza looked at him for a second, his smile seemed warm and calm. He looked back at her, examining her expression which was quickly turning softer. She shook her head, then looked at him once more.
"Ehh... um... What's your name anyways?"
"My name? I'm Shun Niwa."
"Shun Niwa? You were supposed to help me and Dessie with swimming, right?"
"So your names Thirza Yami then?"
"Where did that come from?"
"I was told by Yuki-san that Thirza and Destiney Yami needed some help. Your Thirza?"
"...Yes. My name is Thirza Yami. What did you think it was, 'Mcnugget'?"
Shun chuckled and shook his head in response. Thirza was surprised that he hadn't been offended by her re-mark, after she had realized what she said.
"You want to go change into your normal clothes?"
"Huh? Why?"
"Well, it's getting late and your sisters may be waiting for you."
"Oh... right..."
Thirza laughed a bit nervuously, then she stood up. Just as she did, a ringing noise came from her bag which sat upon the wooden bench she had left it at. When she heard it, she realized she couldn't hear splashing, or the noises of whistles and footsteps. She ran over to her bag and grabbed her phone, in the process looking over at Shun.
"Why are we the only ones here?"
"Most likely you and I talked for longer than we thought and all the classes ended. It doesn't really matter though, I have a key to the door."
"Alright then..."
She pulled the phone out, which now read "Missed call". She sighed and flipped it open, reading to see whom had called her. Shun stood up to his feet, walking away from Thirza knowing his work was done for now. She looked at her Chartreause Green phone with a Kitten screen-saver, reading that Destiney had called her. Pressing numbers into the phone, she then called her sister back while collecting her items. After a ringing tone went on and on for 10 seconds, Destiney picked up the phone.
"Hey Thirza, are you ok?" She asked.
"Oh I'm doing fine now!" She replyed, seeming a little bit happy.
"Thank goodness, I was worried I had almost killed you."
"Well I'm alive, thankfully."
"Yeah, you are. Anyways, Heina wants to talk to you and then we all have to meet at the Cafe."
"Deal. Can you put her on?"
"Sure, she's right here."
Thirza could hear Destiney exchange to phone to Heina as there were thumping noises on the phone.
"Hello?" Heina said.
"Hey Heina, what do you need?"
"Ehh... just wanted to um, say I'm sorry for getting you into that. If you wanna drop outta the club you can."
"Well..."
Thirza looked around, the sighed.
"I think I'll actually hang around a bit."
"What? I didn't expect that!"
After that, she could hear the phone drop on the floor with a loud "Crash", although it was still in one piece. Destiney then leaned over and picked it up.
"Sorry about that Thirza, anyways, can you come and meet us at the Cafe?"
"Sure thing, be over soon!"
And with that Thirza hung up and dashed to the changing rooms as fast as she could before the school locked it's doors to students in 15 minutes. With just 3 minutes to spare, she was outside and running as fast as she could, passing others and bumping into a few along the way. Just as she began to run out of breathe, she had made it. She bent over, putting her slightly greasy hands on her knees, panting. From behind, she heard a voice go "Boo!", which frightened her tremendously. Thirza screamed, and then she also heard someone fall over to the ground. Slowly turning around, she noticed that it was just Heina; whom had tried to play a joke on her.
"Heina!" Thirza exclaimed. "What did you do that for?"
Heina remained there for a second, then no more than maybe thirty seconds later she shook her head and sat up straight.
"Jeez Thirza! What was with the screaming? I wasn't doing anything wrong!"
"But you scared me half to death!"
As the two continued on, Destiney quietly walked up from behind them as she took her sweet time like always and just watched them bicker. She didn't like it, but somehow it resembled the fighting that your grandmothers would get into. However she was confused on how she could get them to stop, but luckily before she could try something and screw up they could hear Nigais voice, chuckling from over them.
"So, you two are at it again?"
They both suddenly looked up, feeling surprised from the sudden appearance of him. In response they both nodded, waiting for him to reply.
"Well for one thing, I don't believe your sister Destiney likes this very much. And for the second we need to start getting to business here."
And without any further quarrel, Heina stood up and Thirza turn to face him.
"Thank you very much, Nigai." Destiney said.
"It wasn't a problem." He replyed.
And without further conversation, he directed the girls into the building to begin their meeting for the night. As the three girls sat down at a white wooden table, he brought out a small folder.
"What's that thing?" Heina asked out of curiosity.
"This folder right here, contains all of the information on the Emerald Mew Mew Project." He replyed.
Speaking no more, he opening it up and pulled out a small stack of photos, containing seven in the entire stack. He spread them out so all of the pictures were revealed to be of animals; a different one on each. On the first two were pictures of Wildcats; One was a grayish color and the other was an orange color. On the second, third, and fourth were pictures of a Monkey which was rather small, a Gray colored wolf, and a Black and White bear which looked like it was wearing glasses. And then there were two more with pictures of a Shark, and one was a picture of a festively colored bird.
"Aww... that bear is really cute!" Thirza said.
"Yeah, it is." Destiney replyed.
Heina just rolled her eyes at them, uninterested in the current event. But then Nigai pulled out another folder which was a different color than the last one.
"And now what do we have here?" Heina questioned.
"Your team, Heina-San." He said.
And with the he moved the pictures towards Destiney and Thirza to look over. And with that he spread out the next set on the table, with another set of seven pictures. Destiney looked up for a minute, seeming puzzled once she counted them all.
"Both of the teams have seven members?"
"Yes." Nigai replyed. "There are reasons for that."
Heina scanned them all carefully. She saw a Tiger, which she knew immediatly that it was her animal DNA. She saw a Brown colored rabbit, a Green butterfly, and a light colored blue bird. Along with those, she saw the strange sight of a dog like creature, an actual fox, and a small little mouse.
"May I ask what this is?" Heina said, pointing out to the strange thing.
"That, my dear lady, is a Tasmanian Devil." He replyed.
"A... Haha! Okay then! Whatever you wanna say!" She said.
"Oh, one more thing ladies."
"What would that be?" Thirza said as she scanned the pictures with Destiney.
"Starting this weekend, you three will be working here."
"Excuse me, what?" Thirza said as she looked up at him.
"You heard me, this is a cafe and we'll be opening soon. Two of you will work serving tables and the other one will help me in the kitchen."
Heina shrugged.
"If I get to wear some sort of maids costume, I'm in."
"Heina!" Thirza said.
"What?"
"That... ugh, nevermind. I'm not getting into another fight today."
Destiney held the picture of the small monkey in her hand as she watched the two. She looked at it really quickly, it's brown golden and white furr seemed a bit cute to her. But of course she had to see if the meeting was not over. And of course with Heina and Thirza starting up another little bickering session it may be a long one.