Eve: Well hello there people!
Gabbi: Wahhhh!
Eve: You thought I killed her at the end of the last chapter, right? Well guess what! She's NOT DEAD!
Gabbi: Just maimed and tortured.
Eve: T'is your fault for not letting me do the disclaimer AND for being lazy and not updating something around A YEAR.
Gabbi: Ahoo...
Eve: Well I best not delay this any longer for you people...Gabbi does NOT own Tokyo Mew Mew OR Harry Potter!
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As the girl sat down at the green table she looked away from Ichigo, but not before she gave her a surprisingly Mint-like sneer.
"Wha-" Ichigo was cut short as Dumbledore stood up and the hall fell silent.
"Greetings to all students returning, and to all new students. I hope you'll enjoy learning here at Hogwarts. But for now, without further ado, may the feast begin!" He raised his hands and the hall burst into cheers and chatter, the mews suddenly noticed all the plates were laden with food, most of which they had never seen before.
The girls tilted their heads to look up and down the table, to see what other people were eating. Then, giving up hope, tried a bit of everything.
"Yummy! Pudding feels like she's in heaven na no da!!" The child munched on the food while the other girls sweat dropped.
"Although, it is nice!" Ichigo beamed, if only there was-
"You'll want to save some room for desert." said a brown haired boy leaning over to Ichigo.
A little while later, as the last few people finished, the food disappeared to be replaced by cakes, sweets, ice cream, fruit, you name it! The girls stared in awe, even Zakuro, who had been watchful of what she had been eating gave in, and the Mews began their second course.
"Nyaaaaaaaa..." Ichigo leant back in her chair. "So niiicce..."
"Mmmmm…" Lettuce did the same.
"So full..." Mint stretched her arms slightly.
"Na no daaaaaa..." Pudding yawned. The hall hushed as a sound came from the staff table.
"Now that we are fed and watered, I have a few announcements to give. Firstly, to all first years. Let it be known you should be aware that the forest in the grounds are forbidden to ALL pupils, second, no magic is to be used between classes in the corridors. Quidditch trials will be held the second week of term and, we have a new Defence against the Dark-arts teacher, Professor A Ichor." A man with short hair hidden underneath a wizards hat, dressed in a purple-ish blue robe stood up and nodded courtly.
"Please make his job as pleasant as possible. And now before we all leave for bed, let us sing the school song!" The man flicked his wand and a golden ribbon flew out of it, twisting its way into words. "Everyone pick your favourite tune, and off we go!"
The school sang out at different speeds, no one sang the same tune apart from the girls, completely by accident, they sang to the tune of Koi Wa La Mode.
"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts,
Teach us something please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we forgot,
Just do your best we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot!"
When everyone had finished the school clapped, it was almost deafening, Dumbledore was the one who clapped the hardest.
"Music! The joy it spreads could not be spread by any other means! Now, bedtime. Off you go!"
The first years, all followed their house prefects through the crowd of other pupils, out of the Great Hall, and up a marble staircase, to come to a large, very tall place, that they couldn't see the ceiling of. However, that wasn't what amazed them. There were staircases, and looking up, they saw some of them move about, changing direction, there were paintings too, but the people in them moved also, some even left one only to appear in another!
"Ne, Ichigo, was it just me or did the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher seem familiar?" Mint yawned a little.
"A bit, I can't quite place his face though…" Ichigo looked at the other Mews who shook their head.
"This place is amaz-EEK!" Lettuce's right foot had gone onto a step that vanished!
"Lettuce!" the three girls yelled and grabbed her hand before she fell down, Zakuro turned around and sighed at them, before continuing to climb the staircases now that Lettuce was safe.
After a while, they reached a large portrait of a fat woman dressed in robes. The prefect stood tall, squared his shoulders and said "Uricarn." The first years watched the portrait swing open, and stepped through it, one by one the children gasped as they took in the sight of the Gryffindor common room.
It was large with a big fireplace on one side, various sized couches scattered around. There were two spiral stair cases that were on opposite sides of the room, they were told that one lead up to the boys' dormitory, and one the girls'. The five Mews entered one after the other, landing gracefully except for Lettuce, who tripped over the portrait and was caught by one of the prefects. The Mew's sat down on one of the couches and began talking about all the strange things they had seen in the past few days, worrying about classes, and what had happened at the sorting ceremony. Pudding had left while the girls were talking and had disappeared up to their room.
"Did you see the last girl who was put in Slytherin? I swear she glared at me!" Ichigo exclaimed in an exasperated voice.
"Oh Ichigo, I'm sure that wasn't the case." Lettuce reassured her friend.
"Well, it isn't as if anyone else hadn't been staring at you during the ceremony." Minto changed her tone to one that sounded more suspicious. "I swear that some of those boys looked up my skirt when I fell over. Don't you think that's terrible, Onee-sama?" After not hearing a response from her idol, Minto looked over to see Zakuro staring a pair of young girls, looking apprehensively at each other- or into space. It wasn't clear which.
"Zakuro-San?" Ichigo waved and touched Zakuro on the leg, who then blinked her eyes and looked back at Ichigo, it appeared that she had been staring into space.
"Sorry… I was just thinking about that Professor…" Zakuro seemed like she was planning to continue, but before she did the two girls came up, looking scared.
"Excuse me, but um, a-are you the…um, Tokyo Mew Mews?" asked one of the girls, she looked slightly underweight, had pale skin, freckles, dark hair that, when tied back in a pony tail, reached the bottom of her shoulder blades, and dark green eyes hidden behind a pair of metal-rimmed glasses.
"Ye-es…" Ichigo looked at the girls, then back at the Mews, who were just as perplexed as she was. She jumped as the girl hopped, turned to her shocked friend, exclaimed an 'I told you so!' and did a small dance in a circle.
The other girl, who was of similar size to her friend (if a few inches taller) had short, straight mousy brown hair that reached her shoulders, brown eyes, and a small, heart shaped choker around her neck.
"Ahem, w-what my friend means to say, is that we've seen you on the news, th- the muggle news, I mean, and we're HUGE fans of yours." She was interrupted by the girl with glasses.
"Big BIG fans!" She jumped in excitement. "I LOVE watching you guys! I thought you were muggles but of course you're not, I mean, I've never seen magic like the attacks you use on the alien, what's going to happen now that you're away from Tokyo? I mean, who's going to defend against the aliens?!" The girl spoke very quickly and even the translation spell that Dumbledore had cast on the girls didn't help much at this speed. They turned one after the other to Zakuro who sighed and spoke to the girl.
"Thank you." she spoke with a slight accent. "We didn't know either until the headmaster told us. I'm sure that our replacements; Mew Orange, and Mango, will hold up fine in Tokyo." By now the Mews had gathered a crowd that had apparently been too scared to come up to the Mews themselves. "Also, when you talk to my friends and I could you slow down a little bit? It's hard to understand you when you're going at such a pace." Zakuro smiled at the girl, who apologized.
"You know these girls?" And older boys strode up to them, he looked like a third year and Ichigo noticed that she had seen him during the ceremony.
"Yes! Well, on TV, they're super heroes who defend the city of Tokyo against the attacks of the evil aliens, Oh!" She turned to the mews once more "My name is Emily, and this is-" She was interrupted by her friend, who still had a calm air about her, much like Zakuro.
"My name is Amy." She nodded at the boy to show that he could start talking.
"Riiight… well, can I ask you a question?"
"Not if it's about our animal parts."
"Oh…" The boy looked embarrassed.
"Is it about our animal parts?"
"A bit… yes…"
"What is it?" Ichigo sighed.
"How did you get them? And why do you have them?"
"A high-school-aged genius and another, older man, injected up with animal DNA during an earthquake so we'd be able to fight the aliens. As for why they show? My guess is it's a fetish." Ichigo seemed very bored during the whole speech, and especially at the last section.
"Oh… I see…" The boys walked away quickly.
The rest of the evening lasted a short time, the people in the common room became more used to the sites of the ears, tails, and wings. After an hour or so a prefect broke up the group saying that it was lights out soon, and that all the students needed to go to their rooms.
The four climbed the stairs and entered the rooms to find Pudding fast asleep on one of the five four poster beds, the drapes had fallen off their hooks from her weight, apparently, and she had fallen asleep under them. Ichigo and the others got ready for bed quietly, so not to wake her up. They lay in their beds, awake.
"Well it has been an eventful day, lets have a good nights sleep and… and…" But Zakuro didn't get a chance to finish her sentence, and with a yawn, fell asleep, along with the other Mews.