A/N: So now the Four Mutant God Arc truly begins (well, the introduction sub-arc begins). And there will be a little surprise at the end.
It was a nice spring day, cherry blossom petals flying in the breeze. Chiyo was walking out of her house, now wearing the western-styled school uniform of Mahjo Academy and with her mascot robot activated. Mr. Tadakichi, Chiyo's pet Great Pyrenees, walks up to his master.
"Tadakichi-san, I'm going to really miss you," Chiyo said, hugging her dog in the process before letting go and walking out of the gates.
One train ride later, Chiyo and her penguin mascot finally reached Mahjo Academy. The academy was large, having multiple dormitory buildings surrounding the main building. On her way to the entrance of the school, Chiyo spots her friends Yuka and Miruchi running towards her.
"Yuka-chan! Miruchi-chan!" Chiyo shouted to her friends.
"Chiyo-chan!" Yuka and Miruchi shouted back.
"Are you excited about becoming magical girls?" Chiyo asked her friends.
"Sure we are!" Yuka answered.
"But Chiyo, why you're wearing a blazer and plaid skirt?"Miruchi asked, "You know that this school is one of the few schools in the country that don't require their students to wear a uniform."
"Ehehehe," Chiyo sweat-dropped, "I didn't know about that. Well, we better go inside! They're going to assign us to our dorms!"
Inside the auditorium, students are being assigned to their dormitories. Chiyo received her dormitory number, but since the facility is so huge, she asked a woman with short black hair.
"Um, miss," Chiyo asked.
"Yes?" the woman responded.
"Can you please show me where Dormitory No. 4?"
"Sure, I'll show you. By the way, I'm Minamo Kurosawa, but you can call me Kurosawa-sensei."
Chiyo finally reached Dormitory No. 4 with the help of Kurosawa-sensei.
"Thank you, Kurosawa-sensei," Chiyo thanked the teacher.
"You're welcome," Kurosawa-sensei responded, " If you need any help, you know where to go."
As Kurosawa-sensei leaves, Chiyo removes her loafers and enters the dorm. Inside the dorm, there's a lobby with sofas and a kotatsu in the middle for comfort, a kitchen in the upper right corner, and a stairway leading to the bedrooms in the upper left corner. As Chiyo and her mascot walked in Chiyo spotted a Neko Koneko doll walking towards her. But it was not the standard white Neko Koneko, it was an Iriomote cat Neko Koneko.
"Wah! A Neko Koneko mascot!" Chiyo said, "I wonder who owns you?"
"I do."
Chiyo turns her head to the source of the voice: A tall girl with long, jet black hair that goes down to her hips, wearing a purple Neko Koneko camisole over a green t-shirt and jeans reading a book about cats. The girl gave a scary glare at Chiyo, but she doesn't seem like the type of person who wants to hurt a fly.
"So… what's your name?" Chiyo asked the girl.
"Oh, her name is Sakaki Fujiwara," said another girl.
Chiyo turns her head at the staircase, where she sees another girl with a teddy bear on her shoulder walking down the stairs. Her appearance is different from the Sakaki girl, being 2 inches taller than an average Japanese woman; her hair being light brown and waist-length. She's wearing a maroon sleeveless turtleneck and khaki pants. But the most notable thing about the girl was that she was wearing glasses on her face.
"By the way, my name is Koyomi Mizuhara," the girl explained to Chiyo, "Say, are you ten years old?"
"Yes," Chiyo answered, "Koyomi-san, how old are you? Are you 20?"
"No, no, no, I'm 15 years old!" Koyomi answered.
"15?!" Chiyo shouted.
Koyomi nodded before noticing that the kotatsu is shaking, "Oh no, Ayumu's waking up from her kotatsu nap."
Soon, a girl with a purple sea slug plushie on her head poked out of the kotatsu, crawling out in the process. She had straight, dark brown shoulder-length hair, and she's wearing a pink off-shoulder knee-length fur-trimmed sweater dress with white thighs underneath. The most notable thing about the girl was her large, vacant eyes.
"Oh, so ya are tha grade skipper the first years were talkin' about," the girl spoke in a noticeable Kansai accent, "By tha way, I'm Ayumu Kasuga, and it's a darn pleasure to meet ya."
"It's a pleasure to meet as well, Kasuga-san," Chiyo replied, shaking her hand with Ayumu's.
Then, the door opens and a girl in a blue tracksuit with an orca plushie enters the lobby. She was the same height as Ayumu, but she was more muscular, her breasts were comparable in size to Sakaki's breasts, her skin is darker than an average Japanese person (almost borderline tanned), and her short ruddy brown hair was wild like she came from an 80s anime.
"Kagura, you were out swimming again, aren't you?" Koyomi asked the tomboy.
"Come on, Yomi, you can't keep me away from the water!" Kagura shouted before she sees Chiyo, "Say who's this little girl?"
"I'm Chiyo Mihama," Chiyo said, "What's your name?"
"Name's Kagura Katawagawa," Kagura replied, "Born and raised in Naha, Okinawa!"
"Naha… So, you're a Ryukyuan?"
Kagura nodded yes to Chiyo's question, "So, everybody's here, right?"
"Well, Tomo's out getting dinner for us," Koyomi answered, her glasses fogging up in the process.
And right on queue, another girl with a ferret plushie on her shoulders and two paper bags in her hands slammed open the door. She was slightly shorter than both Kagura and Ayumu and while she wasn't as flat as a board like Chiyo and Ayumu, her breasts weren't as huge as Sakaki's or Kagura's or even Koyomi's breasts. Her dark brown shoulder-length spiked up at the ends, and she was wearing a red strapless leotard, and over that, a dark green jacket and a denim miniskirt.
"Yahoo! I'm back!" Tomo greeted, dropping the two bags on the floor.
"You went shopping for clothes again, didn't you?" Koyomi asked.
"Nah, Yomi," Tomo answered, "I did actually bought some dinner for all 5 of- hey since we have a little kid in here?"
"Oh, this is Chiyo Mihama," Yomi said, showing Tomo the little girl, "Although she's only 10 years old, she managed to pass her magical girl basics test on her first try."
"So, you're the Chiyosuke the other girls were talking about," Tomo commented, "I'm Tomo Takino! But you can call me 'Tomo-chan'!"
"'Tomo-chan'?" Chiyo confusingly said.
"Tomo tends to give nicknames to every person she meets, including herself," Yomi explained to Chiyo, "For example, she always calls me 'Yomi' and gave Ayumu the nickname 'Osaka' just because she came from the city of Osaka."
"She almost called me 'Naha-chan' once," Kagura added as she started to take out her tracksuit, revealing that she wore a blue strapless leotard with a white stripe running down the middle underneath. She then mumbles to herself in Okinawan as she puts on a denim vest and matching shorts, and looked in one of the bags Tomo brought, pulling out a bitter melon. "You really want me to make goya champuru again?"
"Kagura, it was either the champuru or Osaka's nasty takoyaki!" Tomo retorted.
"Ok, ok fine," Kagura groaned, "I'll get the pot and the tofu."
At the kotatsu, the five girls gather around as Kagura brought six bowls of goya champuru and rice to the table; her bowl having a larger amount of goya champuru while Yomi's bowl has a smaller amount.
"Itadakimasu!" all of the girls said as they started to chow down on their dinner.
"Yomi-san, why your bowl has fewer champuru compare to everybody else?" Chiyo asked.
"Oh, Yomi's always on a diet," Tomo answered, causing Yomi to get startled, " She always thinks that she is fat-"
"Tomo, that's enough," Yomi glared, "I don't want you to encourage Chiyo-chan to called me 'fat'."
"Oh come, Yomi, you can't stop your good old friend Tomo from revealing some deep dark secrets. Besides, you know that all of the calories that Kagura eats go to her big honking-"
"Will you stop talking about my boobs, you prev?!" Kagura quickly retorted.
"Well then, it's almost time to go to bed," Yomi announced, "Tomorrow's the orientation, and we don't want Yukari-sensei to yell at us."
In one of the bedrooms, Chiyo (now in her pajamas) was starting to unpack her luggage before she stares out into the window.
"Tomorrow's big day," Chiyo said to her penguin mascot, which responded with beeps, "Tomorrow's my first day of being a magical girl."
The following morning, all six girls and their mascots hastily run to the main building due to Tomo and Osaka waking up late. When they enter the building, they were approached by a woman with long wavy hair.
"Good morning, Yukari-sensei," all six girls nervously said.
"Why you girls are so late?!" Yukari scolded, "The orientation is almost about to begin, so get in!"
In the auditorium, every single sixth-year student was packed in the seats like sardines in a tin, and on the stage, the principal is on the podium, ready to give out his speech:
"Welcome, sixth-years, to the Mahjo Academy Orientation. As your principal, I congratulate you all for passing your magical girl basics test with… relative ease. Now, usually, this will mean that you all will participate in urban missions with the seventh and eighth years, but due to the increased amount of mutants in the Japanese wilderness, all of you sixth-years must participate in field missions until further notice."
"WAIT, NO URBAN MISSIONS FOR US?!" Tomo shouted, "NOOOOOOO!"
Endnotes: I want to thank ComradeSakaki for coming up with the idea for Sakaki's mascot design (it's the obvious Neko Koneko). And now the big announcement: I'll be creating an AO3 account in the near future (with this fanfic being my debut fic over there). That doesn't mean I'm leaving FanFiction. net forever, far from it. It's just that I want to expand my horizons when it comes to writing fanfics. So most fanfics are going to be shared between the two sites, but some will be exclusive to one of the sites.
So, read and review!
Note: I don't own Azumanga Daioh.