A.S.S.I.T.S 8

"Y'know, fly." The prince flapped his arms and seemed to levitate in the air a little. Jessica was slightly confused.

"This isn't like Peter Pan or anything, right? No fairy dust or anything?" She asked in a sarcastic voice. The prince laughed.

"Well, I'm not quite sure what…peter pan is but there isn't any fairy dust. Here," He continued to flap his arms. "Just do this for a little until you get in the air." Jessica was hesitant, but started to slowly flap her arms. She looked at him when nothing happened. "And you have to THINK about flying. It's actually more of a mental thing"

"Oh, thanks for telling me." Jessica said sarcastically. She tried to concentrate on getting in the air as hard she could. It just made her head hurt more, but she wasn't going to give up at this point. After a few more moments of heavy concentration she felt herself lift of the ground very slowly.

"There you go!" The prince encouraged her while she got a little higher. "Okay, now don't go any higher than you are. Just go forward. You can stop flapping your arms. If you're moving you can just hold them out, only flap them if you stop." Jessica was confused by what he was saying but tried anyway. She thought of pushing herself forward and did so. When she finally got the hang of it she flew in a little circle. Then she stopped and kept herself afloat like he told her to.

"So, where are we going anyway?" She asked as she landed slowly. The prince pointed down to a larger planet a bit farther on.

"There's a meadow down there where the rest of my cousins are. We're going there." Then he motioned her to follow him and the both flew down to the other planet. When he told her to land there, she saw they were in a meadow but...Jessica didn't see anyone. Then she noticed a little white cousin with blue polka dots on her sitting with some flowers. "Stay here," Said the prince," I'll be right back." He walked over to the other cousin and she got up and smiled at him. Jessica saw him tell her something and she looked confused. He pointed over to Jess and the other cousin looked at her in surprise then back at the prince. Jessica felt slightly uneasy, until she saw the girl cousin smile and started walking over with him. "Jess, this is June. She one of the nicest cousins here so I thought it best you meet her first."

"She doesn't look like a mortal. Are you sure?" June said while studying Jessica. The prince nodded. June simply shrugged her shoulders and smiled at Jessica. Then she randomly gave her a hug. "Hi there!" Jessica looked at her.

"Hi." She said shyly as June happily backed off.

"Yeah, she does that sometimes." Said the Prince, trying to break the awkwardness for Jessica. "Do you think I should tell dad about her?" He asked June, who looked back at him.

"Well, you should say there's a new cousin."

"But tell him she used to be mortal?" June shook her head.

"Nope! The King's unpredictable enough. Just say there's a new cousin and leave it at that." The prince nodded. He knew she was right. He looked back over at Jessica who seemed ill at ease because of the talk of an unpredictable king. She remembered her first encounter with him and how he spoke to his own son.

"Don't worry. My dad's pretty calm…some of the time." There was an odd pause. "…Well, you should meet the others. C'mon." The prince showed Jessica to a more open area of the meadow. June stayed by her side the whole time. As she followed the prince she realized he had a lot more cousins than she thought. There were how knows how many, and they all looked different. Different colors, shapes, sizes. The prince went to each of them individually when he came upon them and told them about Jessica. As he was speaking to the first of many, a furry looking one, and June was talking to one that looked like a strawberry, Jessica was looking around. She was walking slowly, but lost her footing by tripping on something.

"Oww! cough watch where you're going!cough Velvet you really need to..." Jessica looked down and saw what seemed to be a very bandaged cousin, who immediately stopped talking when he noticed she wasn't who he thought she was. "Oh…uh..." Jessica immediately started to freak out. She was sure she just injured an already hurt, and sick (she thought this because of his blue-ish, sickly looking skin), cousin.

"O my gosh! I'm so sorry! I wasn't looking were I was going and are you okay? I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" This went on a few more moments until the prince realized what was going on and went over to her.

"Jess, what's wrong?"

"Omygoshitotallytrippedoverthishurtguyrighthereandithinkimadeitworseand..." The prince stopped her.

"No no no Jess it's alright!" He pointed to the cousin, who was now standing upright looking at the both of them. "This is Opeo. He's always sick and hurt."

"But then why -?" Opeo laughed.

"It doesn't cough bother me much. But, who are you?" The prince stepped in front of her.

"Opeo, this is Jess."

"I've never seen her before..."

"I'll tell you about in a minute. Jess, these two are Colombo and Ichigo. You three can talk and June and I will keep passing your story around. Oh, and everyone is going to call you Jess. I tried to keep your name as short as possible." Jessica looked at him awkwardly. "So it's easier to remember." He said, trying to explain. Jessica thought it better not to ask. She nodded and walked slowly towards the two cousins.

"Hi! I'm, like, Ichigo!" The strawberry one was the first to talk. Jessica was slightly surprised by her voice. Girls she knew that talked like that had a "valley" voice, but Ichigo had an airy, high, squeaky voice. "Like, did you seriously use to be a human?"

"Ichigo! Don't say that!" The furry, purple cousin glared at her. Ichigo made a pout face. Then he looked over at Jessica.

"My name's Colombo." This one was a lot more polite. "Nice to meet you, Jess." She nodded.

"Nice to meet you too." They talked for a few minutes until the prince brought two more over. Their names were Peso, one that looked like he had a silver tennis ball on his head, and Marcy, a multi-colored cousin. They all introduced themselves in pretty much the same fashion as Ichigo and Colombo. Jessica learned that Peso used to dance, but it didn't workout. So, know he golfs. Marcy didn't say much about herself but Jessica made a few realizations on her own. She thought Marcy must be one of the flirty cousins in the group, simply because she saw Marcy hanging off Peso and Colombo (Any male she could get her hands on really) practically every chance she got. The rest of the day was pretty much the same thing. The prince would bring over two new cousins, they introduce themselves, and he'd bring over two more. Jessica got to know some interesting cousins like an almost invisible one named Jungle (who, of course, she didn't see at first.), a tall purplish one name Beyond, a fat one named Nik,one that had dotschanged colors named Dipp,one that looked oddly like the prince named Johnson, one that Jess was sure was a robot named Nickel, along with others named Velvet (who Opeo thought Jess was), Twinkle, Marny, Foomin, Miso (Jessica thought it was a funny name. She had eaten something called Miso Soup once), and many, many more.

"I'm pretty sure that's almost all of them." Said June when the day was over. Jessica had spoken too all of the cousins she had seen. Some, she didn't like much, but some of the others were very nice and she liked them a lot. She decided June was still the nicest one she had met that day, though and thought it would be best if she stayed around her. June turned to the prince "I couldn't find Kuro, but that's no surprise." The prince nodded.

"And I couldn't find Shy or Huey."

"Hmm?" Jessica was curious about the cousins she hadn't met yet.

"Huey and Shy are two more of my second cousins and they are both really timid. They probably herd the ruckus and stayed away, but I'm sure you'll see them soon." Said the prince reassuringly.

"But then who's Kuro?" Ichigo heard her say this and laughed.

"Kuro's, like, totally, anti-social. He's pretty, like, scary too."

"Kuro's not scary, Ichigo." The prince said in Kuro's defense.

"But he's, like, black and red."

"Yeah, and you look like a strawberry but it doesn't mean you're edible." Ichigo made the same face she had earlier and trudged off.

"Like, whatever." The prince watched her leave then faced Jessica again.

"I'll tell you about him later. So, think you got to know everyone pretty well?" Jess nodded.

"Good. I think it's time you learn something that will be important to know when my dad comes around." She gave an inquisitive look.

"What?"

"I think it's time you learn how to roll a Katamari."

------------------------------------------------

Wow. A chapter I actually sort of like! R/R por favor

Edit: Whoops! Thanks to a reviewer(And A look at my We Love Katamari Collection) I found out that Dipp is a guy! And I try not be a gender bender. So, I am replacing him with Marcy. I'm pretty sure she's a girl. If I'm wrong again, about this or anything else,please let me know.