Thirza stormed off down a sidewalk, trying to blow off steam before her morning classes. This morning, an argument between her and Heina had sparked when Heina began to ask Thirza questions about why she hasn't had a boyfriend yet. It erupted when Thirza responded instead of ignoring her, and they had spent a good time of their breakfast fighting.

Easily she was put into a bad mood from the fight, skipping breakfast, and having a more tiring walk to school than usual.

"Jeez Heina, the one thing I hate to talk about is the one thing you pester me about... Maybe you wouldn't like it so much if I told all the guys in school about you, huh?" She grumbled to herself, then sighing. "I wish you would understand that... I'm insecure about that stuff."

Her thoughts drifted off elsewhere as her pace slowed down, eventually coming to a temporary stop. Thirza just wanted to stand there and breathe for a second. She began to think to herself, what it would be like to have an actual boyfriend. Would he butt heads with her and the relationship would fall apart, or would it actually work out?

"Hey, look out!" A male voice yelled.

She snapped back to reality at the sound of the voice, but she was too late. Her eyes were closed tightly, rendering her unable to see who it was or what happened. She was able to hear the sound of a bike clattering against the concrete and grunts of short lived and mild pain. Opening her eyes, she looked above her to see a recognizable face crowned with shaggy, forest brown hair. Her face slowly beamed with a luminescent red blush, her mind couldn't process how to respond immediately. Thirza's impulsive nature coming into action, the first thing that came to mind was the first thing she did.

Slap.

She hit the boy in the side of his face with her palm, an impulsive and confused response to seeing him on top of her. It was an accident, but that was Thirza's only

response. Backing herself up, she realized what she had done and felt regretful about it, this was just the sort of thing she would expect herself to do.

"Gah, darn... You're really strong..." The boy said, rubbing the side of his face which presented a fine red handprint.

"W-wait, who are you?!" Thirza asked, feeling that his voice sounded familiar.

"Shun Niwa. Hey, I think I recognize you! Aren't you Heina-san's younger sister?" He asked her.

"Niwa-san?! You're the leader of the swim team Heina's on!"

"Yeah, I am. But besides that, what's your name? I don't think I've caught it before."

"Wait, have we met somewhere before?!"

"Don't you remember the pool incident back in October? You fell in." He said. Ignoring the fact that Thirza had dismissed his question.

In the back of Thirza's mind, she groaned. She had completely forgotten about the pool incident, and to be honest, she wished he hadn't brought it up.

"Er... Yeah, I remember now." She said.

Shun was about to stand up and get going again when he noticed Thirza's left thigh was injured well enough for her to be bleeding. It wasn't a major injury, but even so he figured it should be treated.

"Hey, you're bleeding." He said bluntly.

"Huh? Oh yeah, I guess I am." She replied.

"I think I have a band-aid or at least something for you to put on it, just hang on..." Shun said as he opened up his school bag and began to diligently dig through it.

"Don't worry about it, it's no big deal. Just a little scratch." She said, the tone in her voice made it seem like it was almost an everyday thing for her.

"I'd like to at least do something for you since I ran you over." He replied, digging deeper in his bag until he pulled away with a bandage in his hand. "Here it is, you want me to do it for you or would you rather do it yourself?"

"I'll do it myself!" She said in a rush, quickly pulling the bandage out of his hand. "Er... If that's alright."

Shun laughed at her a bit, he found it amusing that she seemed so flustered from his offer. Other young men may have been offended that she didn't let them do it for her, but because of Shun's submissive personality he was fine with it.

"Don't worry about it. Hey, I'm really sorry again for running into you. Do you think I could make up for it by walking you the rest of the way to the school? Or is that a bit selfish of me to ask?" He asked her.

"Uh... Well..." She said hesitantly. "Alright, I'll let you walk me to school. But wasn't the band-aid enough?"

"Then how about I just do this out of kindness?" He asked her, walking over to the curb and picking up his rather old looking, rusty black bike.

"Are you positive you want to walk me to school though?" She asked.

"Well you seem like you're a nice person, you seem pretty funny too, the way you keep getting all embarrassed." He said, it seemed almost naive the way he spoke.

Thirza had no comment as to what he had said, rather she just sat there on the ground with a warmth making itself present on her face. Something about this was strange to her, his teasing made her mad inside but on the outside she just blushed rather than yelling at him. Shaking her head quickly and then patting herself on the cheeks, she stood up and dusted herself off, leading herself to believe that she was only tired enough to think such silly things.

"Well then we better hurry, school's going to start soon and I'm going to get in so much trouble if I'm late." Thirza said.

"Same for me. Well then, we go down this road, right?" Shun asked her.

"Yeah, the school's just about three blocks from here."

Shun nodded in response, a small smile appeared on his face as he turned away and began to walk down the street. Thirza was frozen in her place for a moment, finding it hard to believe that this boy, who she had just slapped and treated poorly could smile at her as if he would actually like her. People like this hardly existed anymore, they just popped up in Anime and Manga now-a-days. He stopped for a moment, and turned around to look at her.

"Hey, are you coming?" He asked in a loud voice.

"Hu- Oh, yeah!" She yelled back.

She moved her long legs, clad in thigh length socks that were the color of a raven's feathers. Sprinting over to Shun in fairly little time, she slowed down in front of him.

"You're pretty athletic, aren't you?" Shun asked her, trying to strike up a conversation as he began moving again.

"Yeah, people tell me I am. I don't know, sports and stuff are alright, but it's just not my sort of stuff. You know?"

"Yeah? So what do you like to do then?"

"Er... Promise you won't laugh?" She asked him.

"Why would I laugh? Is the stuff you like to do that embarrassing?"

"No! It's just that, I really like to perform for people." She said, looking for a second, then looking back. "People actually are pretty surprised when I tell them that, I guess it's because they figured I wouldn't like it."

"Well I'm surprised, why do you like to perform?" He asked.

"I like dancing, and my sisters tell me if I practiced singing my voice would be good enough that I could be a singer. I've always had these really big ambitions since I was a kid that I would become famous for something when I grew up and I would get to see the world. Now are you going to laugh?"

"No, I'm not going to laugh. It's actually pretty cute of you rather than silly to want that. Plus now that I think about it, it makes a lot of sense. I mean, you've definitely got the legs for dancing."

Thirza was flustered easily from the comment about her legs, and as a result she had rather sudden burst of impulsive behavior.

"What was that comment about my legs supposed to mean?!" She yelled, her strong reaction a bit off putting to Shun.

"I'm sorry, I guess I thought it was a compliment. Maybe I'm wrong and it was something pretty rude." Shun said, a bit discouraged from the negative criticism.

Thirza blinked in surprise, Shun was giving an odd, unusual impression on her. Granted, he wasn't perfect and if he didn't yell back the only other thing Thirza saw him doing was regressing into a shell like Destiney did when Heina became rowdy around her. She didn't want him to regress into a shell, she found that his low-key personality was comfortable to be around.

She walked along side, taking an unexpected long look at him. His structure was fairly average for a teenage male, nothing too special about his body except that maybe it was toned from swimming. The color of red on his school uniform contrasted the soft and compassionate color of his forest green eyes in a good way. His shaggy, dark brown hair made him seem laid back, as if he didn't care what he looked like. He was nothing special, just an average teenage boy.

"Alright, we made it." He said abruptly.

Thirza had lost track of where they were when her mind had drifted off to space, because as Shun had said, the two had made it to the school. Both of them standing in front of the large, black, metal gate as Shun slowly pushed it open.

"You first." He said to her in a quiet voice.

Merely nodding at him, Thirza walked into the gates. There were minutes left before she was due to be in class, and she knew she had to hurry. Turning around to look at Shun, who was placing his bike in a chained bicycle rack so he wouldn't have to worry about it, she sighed heavily.

"I need to go Niwa-san. I'll seeya later!" She yelled.

"Oh? Alright! Say, do you think you can make it to my Swim meet after school?" He asked her.

"Oh yeah, I'll come! By the way, my name's Thirza Yami! You can call me Yami-chan!" She yelled.

"Alright, goodbye, Yami-chan!"

She waved farewell, then taking off like a dart through the schoolyard and then into the building. Up inside of the school, Heina was watching the two from one of the sophomore class rooms. Her arms folded and a bold grin spread across her face, it would be hard to tell exactly what she wasn't thinking.

"So, now after all of that fighting this morning, you've got a boyfriend!?" Heina exclaimed.

Thirza was pinned down by Heina as she ate her lukewarm bento inside of the classroom, as it was too cold to go out and eat it in the chill of early December. When it came down to it, Thirza could see this situation coming at her eventually if Heina were to catch her with practically any boy. While she would like to prove Heina wrong, if she were to begin screaming at her tiny bits of white rice and tough chicken would fly out of her mouth.

"Heina, he is not my boyfriend." She said, swallowing down all of the food in her mouth. She cringed a bit as all of it went down her throat like a large swelling ball, not to be felt anymore after a mere second. "We just happened to bump into each other on the way to school."

"Oh really, then why were you gazing at him when you walked up to school?"

"I was not! I was tired, and I wasn't paying attention." Thirza exclaimed.

"I have the window seat to the front of the school in my class! You didn't look the least bit tired!" Heina yelled back, curious to hear what her little sister might have to say.

"I have nothing to say! He just happened to bump into me, and we walked on the way here. We talked a bit, he gave me a band-aid, and I told him about my little Idol dream! Nothing else!" She implied.

"Nah-ah! I betcha even if it wasn't what I think it was, you two are prolly gonna.." Heina's mouth curled up into a playful grin, and when she separated her lipstick colored lips her voice came out in a playful, sing-song way. "Fall! In! Love! I can just feel it!"

Thirza's face which was once colored normally with her lightly tan was flushed with the bright color of red, heat pouring into her face as if the sun itself was bathing her cheeks in its warmth.

"No! It's not like that Heina, stop trying to tell me about your fantasies that involve me!" Thirza yelled back at her older sister.

"Oh really? Then explain why your face is redder than my dyed hair!"

"My face isn't red! Here, I'll prove it! Try the chicken! Or maybe I'm getting sick! But it most definitely isn't love!"

"Well you sure are hot, but you don't sound nasal and you certainly aren't sniffing! You are blushing!"

"What?! No I'm not!"

"Yes you can, you're probably destined t'be soul-mates! Jeez... I'm so jealous of you..."

"No we're no- Wait, what did you just say?"

"Oh? Nothing, just thinking out loud. By the way, boyfriend three o' clock."

"He is not my-!"

Heina lightly pushed Thirza's head with her index finger to the right, showing her Shun as he leisurely walked down the hallway. Thirza turned back to look at Heina and squeak for help, but Heina already seemed far gone. Her head whipped to the other side once more, her eyes locking into has as his face was in front of hers, just close enough for comfort.

"Wh-whoa! N-niwa-san! Don't sneak up on me!"

He looked at her in surprise, the way her voice sounded caught him off guard.

"Yami-chan? Are you getting sick?" He asked.

He was completely off target with his analysis of Thirza's sudden high voice, as was Thirza, for she believed she was beginning to choke on rice. Clearing her throat several times, Thirza spoke up.

"Er, no... You just scared me a bit."

"Oh, sorry about that. I came over to ask if I could eat lunch with you. Is that alright?"

"Oh, sure you can. I've got no one else to eat with."

Shun nodded in response and sat down next to Thirza. His own bento lunch in his hand, he pulled out his eating utensils and began to eat his lunch. The faint sound of chewing filled in the gap of silence between the two. Thirza, feeling that the painful silence should be broken, spoke up.

"Er, so, Niwa-san. What do you think about the Mews?" She asked, the topic of the Mews coming directly off of the top of her head.

"The Mews?" He responded, his voice muffled by grains of rice. "They haven't been on my mind for awhile, but I was starting to wonder about them. Honestly magical girls seems a bit far-fetched, but... I was thinking about how they actually got powers, if they were regular human being's like us, you know?"

"How they got magical powers? Why would you wonder about that?"

"I don't know, it's something that just struck me recently."

"Do you have an idea as to how they got magical powers?" Thirza asked, disgracefully shoving rice into her mouth.

"Usually in the magical girl stories my little sister reads, the heroine always gets her magical powers from some sort of piece of jewelry or something. Honestly I think there's something inside of the Mews' body that maybe not even they know about. Don't mind me, I'm thinking outside of reality."

"Huh... Well, let's change the subject for now! So, what got you into swimming?" She asked, her mind now boggled with thoughts about what Shun had said.

"I don't know exactly, I think my friend got me hooked into it. It turned out to be something I'm pretty passionate about."

"Are you swimming for a specific reason ?"

"Not yet... It just something that's a strength of mine right now. I know I'm pretty good at it and people say I'm a pretty talented swimmer, but I'm not exactly fulfilled with being good at it..."

"Wait, why aren't you happy with it?"

"I don't know yet. I don't feel exactly happy inside, you know?"

"Yeah, I get the feeling..." Thirza replied.

The two fell back into an uncomfortable silence Thirza was willing to break, however the school's bell disagreed with her. As it rang, the two packed up their lunches and students ran down the hall past them, trying to make it to their class.

"I need to head back to class Yami-chan, but I'll see you at my swim-meet later, right?" Shun asked.

"Oh yeah, what time is it?"

"It starts at about four-thirty."

"Right, I'll be there!" She replied.

They smiled and said their goodbyes, then returning to their respective classes. While this day had a pleasant feeling, and the swim meet that would occur later on was something Thirza had to look forward to, the force of fate had other plans.

Walking on school grounds with cold, dead concrete underneath his feet, Shun walked to the school's indoor pool with his school bag in tow. Another figure, one whom Shun was unfamiliar with was watching him from a distance. Something peculiar, something that glowed, was floating in the palm of his hand. A sinister grin on this man's face, he stepped out of the shade of the school and into the light.

Thirza walked through the halls on the other side of the school, making her way to the same destination as Shun. Suddenly, she froze in the place she stood. Something didn't feel right, something felt off, it was but a mere feeling, however she got the feeling that someone was in danger.

"Are you going to stand there all day or are you going to come save the guy you keep making googly eyes at?" A man said to her.

Thirza's body whipped around one hundred and eighty degrees; catching sight of the source of the voice. It was a man with dark black hair, and deep red eyes like Heina's; it was none other than her older brother Mephisto.

"Mephisto! I was not, jerk! What did you do!?" Thirza yelled at him.

"What did I do? Why don't we play a little game of cat and mouse. If you catch me, I'll tell you what I did." He said.

A portal of the same type that Mephisto had used before opened up behind him. Thirza knew that he was going to escape through it, and so reflexively dashed for him before he could vanish. Her effort however, was for naught. Before she could take hold of him, he had disappeared into the portal and it had closed shut.

"What's the matter? Does my presence shake you? It isn't a surprise, now that I have powers you should be afraid." He said.

Thirza's head whipped around to catch a glimpse of him in a growing desperation, becoming more and more worried as she thought of possibilities of what he could do to her or someone else. Every few seconds she would see him pop up somewhere else along the hallway, then trying to take hold of him and ultimately failing. The more she tried to take hold of him and fail, the more frustrated she became.

Thirza screamed Mephisto's name in frustration, releasing all of the built up anger inside of her in one blow. She knew to herself that he must be having fun, watching her chase him around almost aimlessly. A portal opened up right in front of her as she wasn't looking, and a small whisper, a few small words beckoned a taunt at her.

"Do you give up yet, Big-Little sister?"

In a fast strike, her hand grabbed hold of his upper neck and tightly forced her fingers into a coil around what she hand in her hand.

"Not in the least bit, you creepy psycho!"

Mephisto, in shock, tried to pry Thirza off of him as he stumbled back into the portal. Only going through his portals for a short minute, Thirza caught a glimpse of something that seemed like a semi-built maze. It was oddly shaped, and before she could get a good look they feel through the portals once more.

They tumbled across the ground until Thirza had Mephisto pinned against the December cold concrete, both of her hands around his neck. Her breathing was heavy, small and a few beads of sweat dripped down her face.

"Tell me what you did right now or I'm going to go gorilla on your rear end!"

"Look behind you and see for yourself." Mephisto said with a grin on his face.

"How do I know you're not trying to get away from me?!" She asked, her skeptic nature kicking in.

Shriek.

The sound of a monster shrieking, it was always slightly different but now Thirza had become quite familiar with the noise since becoming a Mew. Her head slowly turned in hesitation, her eyes unpleasantly greeted by the sight of a chimera anima which had taken the body of a common winter bird and transformed it into a beast. It took only a few seconds however, for something else to catch her eye. It seemed to be a male student, not much older than her. Other students had also hidden themselves in corners of the school building or under benches, shielding themselves from the bird.

Thirza was well aware of the fact that she was the only hero for these students, as people who passed by the scene ran away in terror. Little did she know one of these students was the boy she was slowly coming to love; Shun. He was the male student she first saw, frozen with terror as the bird went from trying to get one student to the next.

"Darn you Mephisto... You better stay here! Or I just might tell Nee-chan and Nii-san on you!"

"You honestly believe that's a threat to me?" He asked her. "That's so childish of you."

"Shut up! Alright, time to cook this goose!"

She jumped off of him, turning her back and facing the bird. Throwing her right hand out in front of her, a grin on her face, she was ready to transform.

"Starlight DNA Switch!" She yelled.

Her body glowed with a vibrant neon green until the light has consumed it and concealed it. For the short few seconds she stood there with what seemed to be her hair whipping around violently behind her, Mephisto took it as a chance to escape and did exactly that.

After only two or three seconds the light burst off of Thirza and revealed her to be in her Mew form, with her long neon green hair and eyes to match, green corset like top, black mini-skirt, black and green boots, and all else that was included with her Mew form. Now, she was ready to combat the Chimera Anima and with a bounding leap she took after it.

She landed on the top of the Chimera's head, unsure of what to do. Impulsively, she shaped her hand to mimic that of a gun and fired her attack into it's skull. It reacted, startled yet almost unfazed by her attack, it threw her off it it's back and sent her falling to the ground.

Thirza, stubborn as she was, refused to give up so easily like so and turned herself around, firing her attack once more at the ground. The energy from the attack stopped her fall; and shot her right back up into the air. The students who remained in their hiding spots watched her, for once finally catching a glimpse of one of the elusive Mews who did the majority of their combat at night.

Shun, who was amidst the students recognized her easily. It wasn't hard to tell the difference between the human Thirza and the Mew Thirza, since the only large difference was a hair dye job and a set of ears along with a tail. He was however, greatly shocked and unaware of how to react to this transformation of hers; and was questioning himself on whether it would be wise to get involved with a girl who had a dangerous life of destroying monsters.

And suddenly, he heard students panicking. They scattered, for the Chimera Anima was had fallen in front of them and Thirza was knocked to the ground. Now, with its short attention span, it had forgotten about Thirza and was beginning to try and make a meal of the students once more. Its vicious, beady looking eyes locked onto Shun; whom was frozen solid in his place.

It's monstrous and large beak opened wide, from Shun's perspective it was a slow and painful process for it to reach him. He shut his eyes tight with hopes that Thirza would come and save him, and the closer the beat came to his to more he doubted he would live to see his parents once more, that he would hear Thirza's voice once more.

"Get away from him right now!" Thirza yelled, preparing herself to fire.

"Y-yami-chan..." Shun said in a quiet voice, afraid of disturbing the beast.

"Shining Starlight!" She yelled.

The Chimera Anima shrieked as the ray of energy shot its side, its beastly wings flapping with feathers shedding flying everywhere. As it took off to the sky, it took Shun into the custody of its jagged foot.

"Yami-chan!" He beckoned her.

"Niwa-san!" She cried. Nearly kneeling to the ground, she took leap up into the air as high as she could, just barely grabbing onto the edge of the Chimera's wing. Dangling from few feathers, she could feel them pluck off one by one as the bird went higher into the air.

"Niwa-san, help me!" She yelled in her loudest voice, the final feather falling off of the bird as she began to plummet back down to the ground.

Shun saw her begin to fall from above, her right arm thrown out below her for him to grab hold of. He reached out, and quickly grabbed hold of her wrist. She cried out, but then looked up at Shun. Her expression became serious and determined as her left wrist began to glow.

"Hang on for just another second, and sorry if this hurts!" She said. "Shining Starlight!"

A massive beam or green light shot out from the gem on her bracelet and penetrated through the bird, causing it to let out a howling scream of pain and vanish in a burst of light. And now; there was nothing for the two to keep in the air, and so the effect of gravity came into play as they fell back to the ground and lost the link that Shun had made from holding onto her.

"Niwa-san, grab my hand! This is going to be a rough landing!" She yelled.

"You're going to break all the bones in your legs if you try to land!"

"Well you know what they say!" She yelled, reaching up and grabbing him as she slung him over her and shoulder and prepared her energy once more. "Cats always land on their feet!"

They came closer and closer to ground, Thirza making sure of that she could time the landing just right.

"Shining Starlight!" She cried once more, the energy firing out of her weapon and hitting the ground, slowing down the descendance and breaking their fall. Before they knew it, they had made it to the ground, both somewhat shaken from the fall.

"Yami-chan... Wow... Um, that wa-"

"Weird, right? You think I'm a trouble maker or someone who lives a destructive life now?"

"It was, yes, it was weird."

"So is this the cheesy crybaby part where you say you can't be my friend anymore and I cry over you like in anime?"

"It..." He thought to himself for a moment, silence filling in the air.

"Ah, jeez, I guess it is. Well then, Niwa-san, I guess we part our ways now?"

"You're being incredibly insensitive about this, aren't you?" He asked her.

"Wait, huh?" She replied.

"I wanted to think about it for a second. If I stay your friend and know this about you I'm involved with this dangerous lifestyle you have. But honestly, I think a cute girl like you could use a human friend. I'll stay with you, but only if you're fine with a weak human like me tagging along in your life. If you can't handle me, I won't bother."

Thirza became flustered, speechless, and shocked all at once. She shook her head, her face was lightly brushed red from the embarrassment.

"I... I don't know why exactly why I feel differently about him, maybe it's because he's different from other guys. I don't know what this feeling is either, maybe I'll find out later on. But for the time being, I think he'll be a fun guy to hang out with..." Thirza thought to herself in silence.

"Haha... Well then..." Trying to make a cool facade, she put her hands on her hips, pointed her index finger at him and winked in a feminine superheroine sort of way. "I'm Mew Thirza, also known as Thirza Yami, glad to be of service. I hope we can get to know each other, Shun-kun~"

Now Shun was bright red, that was a more endearing honorific that what she had been calling him before.

"I never said you could call me 'Shun-kun'!" He said.

"I don't care, we're not strangers anymore. You still have to call me 'Yami-chan' though."

"But! Alright..."