Aroura: Hello! Today, we get to meet a new caracter, who is very cute, if I do say so myself.
Akki: Well, if you want the people to read it that bad, then shut your yap so we can get onto the story!
"Wha…what the?" Aelita groaned as something fuzzy tickled her nose. She reluctantly opened her eyes.
"Ow!!" Lizzy cried as she jumped up and hit her head on the bedside table. She growled as she rubbed her head gingerly. Lizzy sighed. "What a wonderful way to get woken up at four in the morning."
"What is that thing?!" Aelita cried. She had crawled backwards and up the side of her bed in fright, and sitting on the end of her bed was a baby raccoon with a small, powder-blue star on its forehead. There was a thick band of silver fur around its neck, ankles, and wrists. The tiny raccoon clutched its tail closer to its chest.
"So that's why you were screaming." Lizzy smirked. "I'm sorry. I didn't think that Masuku would wake you up."
"Masuku?" Aelita repeated. "Wait a minute…this thing belongs to you?"
"Yes, and its name is not 'this thing', it Masuku." Lizzy said. She walked over and scooped the baby into her arms. Masuku cooed happily.
"I've never seen anything like it." Aelita said as she eased herself back onto the bed.
"I found it after the explosion." Lizzy chuckled, tickling Masuku's stomach. "I think the radiation made him immortal. He was this size when I found him in America a few years ago, and he's been this size ever since." Lizzy held up Masuku so that Aelita could see him better. "You see that blue star? That's the same one I've got." In a blinding flash of light, Lizzy turned into her Angel form. "Since we both have the same insignia on our foreheads, that makes him my…helper. And the silver bands represent the fact that he is a partner of the Angels."
"Oh." Aelita whispered. Lizzy grinned.
"You want to hold him?" Lizzy asked menacingly. Aelita cowered away slightly.
"N…no, thank you."
"I'll take that as a yes." Lizzy snickered, placing Masuku gently in Aelita's lap. Masuku used his tiny claws to crawl up Aelita's shirt and onto her head. Aelita suppressed a whimper, as Lizzy began a fit of silent giggling. Using his nose, Masuku fiddled with a few strands of Aelita's bubblegum-pink hair, before curling up and closing his eyes.
"Aww." Lizzy whispered. "He thinks your head is comfortable."
"Please…get him off." Aelita shuddered. Sighing, Lizzy gently untangled Masuku from Aelita hair and carried him over to her bed. Lizzy reached into a tiny bag and pulled out a tattered cloth, which she placed onto her pillow before setting Masuku onto it and tucking the comforter of the bed around him.
"Today it Saturday, is it not?" Lizzy asked as she reached into the closet.
"It is." Aelita answered, following suit.
"Then we might as well hurry up so we can go meet the others in the cafeteria."
"But…it's only four thirty."
"Well, as I like to say, the early bird gets the worm, or…" Lizzy grinned evilly. "…in this case, four extra servings of breakfast."
Aroura: ...I don't like where this is going...
Akki: Well, I do! Eating contest! Eating contest! (pumps fist into the air)
Aroura: Okaaayyy...a few random thoughts...Masuku's name is actually Japanese for 'mask'. I'm really proud of myself because I think this chapter is rather funny, and it only took three hour to write! Please, reveiw!
Akki: Adios!
