At the modern dance classes, our heroes were all waiting for Ms. Benjamin, "Where's Ms. Benjamin?" asked Vada. "She was suppose to be here ten minutes ago."
"I don't know," answered Saatvika. "Maybe she's performing on the streets for extra money again. She did that for her brothers and sisters when their dad left them at a young."
"What about her mother?" asked Danna.
"She died when Ms. Benjamin was young," Saatvika sadly answered. "Incurable illness."
Hearing this, Harley knew how she felt about losing a mom.
By the door, instead of Ms. Benjamin, it was an elderly lady with '60s gym clothes. Quickly, the students recognized her as Coach Buckley, who was a famous alumni and gym teacher, "Listen up!" she shouted. "Ms. Benjamin is out cold and won't be able to teach you guys dancing. So I'm taking over. For this lesson, we'll be doing it SNF style."
"'Saturday Night Live'?" asked Saatvika. "I love that show."
"No, Saat," corrected Harley. "'Saturday Night Fever'."
Horrified, everyone started to dance like it was 1970.
XxoxX
After school, our heroes' couldn't help but lie down on the ground and pant, "Good thing we already did our homework for the week to avoid getting bad grades," Harley said.
"I wonder what's wrong with Ms. Benjamin?" asked Danna. "She cares about us, and we care about her."
"Think nothing," Chanel replied. "Coach Howland was starting to worry about her too. He wants to go over a salsa routine with her tomorrow that he learned from 'LADUWS: Mexico Season 1'."
"We better get to her house after dinner and after we recover," Carla suggested. "Can't see all the banana pudding go to waste."
XxoxX
After dinner, the Mew Mews arrived at the Benjamins' residence. The only thing left now, is to get in. Saatvika thought about a Bollywood music video based on escaping a prison. She got out a bobby pin, placed it into the lock and they were in.
In her house, it was like a minirature Chinese circus, "Her house is full of Chinese artifacts," Presley Beth said. "It's like an antique store."
"I know," Carla replied as she started becoming amused by the Chinese lantern. "And these lanterns are so pretty."
While looking around the place, Julianna spotted a picture of the Mew Mews working at Cafe Mew Mew, "Only a few months and we were already Mew Mews." she said.
When Julianna turned her head, Presley Beth scared her with a Chinese mask.
"Pres," Julianna said to her sister angrily, "you know I hate getting scared."
"Come on," chuckled Presley Beth. "It's a joke."
As Julianna was getting over the accenting, a gibbon with a yellow chinese hat came in and mistook Presley Beth for a banana, "Who's laughing now?" chuckled Julianna.
"Girls!" shouted Harley. "We need to focus!"
On the collar was a Chinese coin, and on the back was its name. Danna looked at the monkey and read her tag, "FENFANG."
"A fragerance of flowers," smiled Danna. "That's a nice name for a monkey."
"Everyone," Chanel said, "I found Ms. Benjamin."
XxoxX
In her Chinese/Circus themed bedroom, they could see their teacher sleeping with a kung-fu fighting rainbow monkey. Fenfang crawled onto the bed and comforted Miss. Benjamin, "Fenfang must be Kiki's pet monkey."
"But what about the fox?" asked Vada.
The space-like fox looked at our heroes and knocked them out by touching them with his tail.
XxoxX
When they woke up, they found out that they were in their own dream worlds. Chanel's was a gothic castle, Vada was a Thai kitchen, Saatvika was a movie premiere, Carla's was a beach, Danna's was a music studio, Harley's was a circus, Presley Beth's was a farm, and Julianna's was a mansion. However, their dreams were turning into nightmares as numerous Poach McCartnets appeared out of nowhere. Remembering the song "Our Dream" from "Blue's Clues," and her favorite fairytale "Sleeping Beauty," she decided to think of something happy.
A hand popped to her and a voice said, "Come along, Honey Bear."
It was a beautiful Australian woman with shoulder-length blonde hair, a slender figure and brown clothing, "Mom?" asked Harley as she took her hand.
"I'm here for you," Andrea said as she wiped the tears off her daughter's face.
Quickly the duo made their way towards the light, and into the dream realm, "Be brave, my Honey Bear," her mother said as she faded out of existence.
Hearing the words, Harley felt encouraged and decided to go find the other Mew Mews.
Mew Mew Honey, Metamorphosis!
Thinking hard, the portals to the dream realms of her friends popped up. One by one, she opened the door and said in all of them, "Guys, the only way you can get out of here is think of something happy."
Hearing what their leader said, they thought up many happy thoughts as they can. Chanel thought about romance, chocolate, and hearts that say "I Heart Danna," Vada thought about candy, treats, and female superheroes, Saatvika thought about ballet, dolphins, and pink scented cosmetics, Carla thought about the beach, sunflowers, and circus acts, Danna thought about music, the flowers of Haiti, and cute animals, Presley Beth thought about the Old West, mud, horses, and Julianna thought about cute boys, butterflies, and lovely bows.
They thought about these happy things so much, all the Poach's went away. After everyone got into the Dream Realm, it was time to go to one more dream realm, Kiki's.
Mew Mew, Metamorphosis!
XxoxX
They found Ms. Benjamin's dream realm by thinking of her door. When they got in, they saw that the whole place was a Chinese circus. In the middle, Ms. Benjamin was having a hard time taming the same fox that was on her.
"That's was causing her to stay asleep," Mew Mew Honey realized. "A space fox that's keeping her from waking up."
"We gotta help her," suggested Mew Mew Chanel.
As Ms. Benjamin was getting down, Mew Mews Peanut Butter and Jelly helped their teacher and told her that she has to think of something happy. Thinking real hard, Miss. Benjamin thought about a lot of circus animals, treats, clowns, and most of all, Coach Howland as a ringmaster.
"Hey, Kiki," greeted Dream Coach Howland as he did a flirtatious wink.
Seeing his face, Ms. Benjamin felt much better.
Knowing that their teacher needed more help, they decided to put on a dream circus.
"Ladies and Gentlemen!" shouted Miss. Benjamin, "Please welcome to the first ever Cirque De Mew Mew, and welcome all of our acts, the Mew Mews!"
While the Mew Mews took down the dream foxes in the styles of a circus, Dream Coach Howland escorted her to the waking world.
Mew Mew Style,
Mew Mew Grace,
Mew Mew Style in your face!
The dream foxes were so scared, they ran away and the original woke up.
"You know girls" said Mew Mew Honey, "we should wake up now."
XxoxX
By the time they woke up, they saw Kiki petting Fenfang and the fox, whom Fenfang took a liking too, despite being a monkey and a space fox, "Look at that," smiled Vada. "The dream fox wants to be friends with us."
The dream fox smiled and cuddled the girls, "Thanks for getting me out of that crazy dream." Ms. Benjamin said. "I could really tell that the fox meant no harm and was cruelly abused by his boss."
"Yeah," Presley Beth said. "How do you know?"
"I'm Mew Mew Pudding," answered Ms. Benjamin. "Monkeys are not only have good flexibility; they have good instincts like cats do."
"I think we should name him," Danna suggested. "If he's going to be part of the ACS, he has to have a name."
Looking at Ms. Benjamin's music CDS, Saatvika found one of the 80s rock band Heart, and played their top hit "These Dreams" on Ms. Benjamin's boom box. Hearing the song, they knew exactly what to name him - Dreamheart. Ms. Benjamin and Fenfang agreed to his name, and so did Dreamheart.
While everyone was petting the newest member to the team. Harley was getting out a small box filled with trinkets, which include a camera, an acrobat's pamphlet, a fudge recipe book and a few shelled jewelry. Everyone else was confused on the stuff she brought, "This was my mom's stuff before she disappeared," she explained. "Not only she was an acrobats teacher, but she was also a good photographer. She'd even loved making fudge to earn some extra money."
"Tell me about your mother," Ms. Benjamin said to her. "I'm your teacher, so it's my job to listen."
"Yes," said Carla. "And friends are suppose to share each other's secrets."
"It was three years ago," explained Harley as she shed a tear. "My mom was entering a photoshoot competition and was going to go to The Outback for three days. Unfortunately, she disappeared with only one trace, her camera. We uploaded all the photos, but Dad only kept the good ones. Some of them were off a mysterious being with a great white shark symbol."
Hearing these words, Ms. Benjamin decided that they should take off from the ACS, "Finally!" shouted Presley Beth. "Now I can work on my map-making of the school and the best ways to get to the cafeteria."
"Y'all want to get to the cafeteria and clear up all the peanut butter cookies again?" asked Julianna.
"Duh!" answered Presley Beth.
After they left, Ms. Benjamin thought about her late mother as she was
"Papa Willie and Papa Darwin wouldn't like it," Julianna scolded.
XxoxX
When Harley got back into her room, she dropped the stuff and picked it all up. While she was putting away the shelled-jewelry, she spotted a strange shark tooth necklace with the name "Ariya." Harley looked at it in confusion and asked, "Who in the world is Ariya?"
The End.
