Me: Third chapter. I know, I know – this is a fast moving story. BUT IT'S FAST, it happens in a week. xD So thereeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Amu: She's on a hot-pocket high. Please excuse her.

Ikuto: I'm so kiddy-ish in this storryyyy

Me: too bad x3

Yoru: She doesn't own Shugo Chara ~nya! When do I come in?!

Chapter 3

Exploring Ama Queous

First Day

After dragging me down for some while, she came to a stop. I wasn't looking down – I was looking at her for the whole time. My tail swished as I adjusted myself to get a view – a city… that was underwater. I saw mermaids with purple, yellow, even silver tails swimming around.

She pointed to a huge tower.

"That's my home," she said, smiling.

"Woah." I remarked, not sounding too enthusiastic.

She eyed me. "Let's explore before we talk to my father," she said, then took my hand again to drag me even farther down into the water.

"So this is Ama Queous. "Ama" means Water in Cherokee."

"Why Cherokee?" I asked.

"Mermaids originate from them. I don't exactly know how, though. And Queous sounds like Aqueous, so…" she giggled. "Aren't we clever?" (A/N I just made the Cherokee thing up. PLEASE DON'T be offended if you are Cherokee. And mermaids DO NOT ORIGINATE from Cherokees, I think. I don't know. So there. X3)

"I guess so," I answered, but I was very interested.

"Okay, here is Shellis, the food store. There's a restaurant in the back." She swam on, me following. "This is the zoo," she said, smiling. "It's one of my favorite places." She took my hand for the millionth time and led me in the zoo. There were killer whales, dolphins, and all sorts of marine animals – even very endangered ones.

"Amu-chaaaaan!" a voice called. I glanced behind me. "I knew you'd be here!"

"Ooii, Amu-chan! Finally found someone?" the hyper girl asked. Her hair was in pigtails with a red ribbon typing them into place. Her golden-brown eyes were lively with… well, life, and her tail matched her ribbons to be a red. Her top was two red shells attached by a pink orchid in the middle.

"Mou, Yaya. I'm just pretending so I don't have to marry Tadase." Amu twitched her eye. And then she lit up again, saying,

"Oh, right! Ikuto, this is Yaya. She's my best friend. And yes, she's my age. Yaya, this is Ikuto. He's helping me."

I held out a hand to her. Yaya stared at it.

"Um… nice fingers you have there…?" she started to giggle. My eyes shifted side to side. Did I do something wrong?
"Psst… Ikuto, we don't do handshakes here. We slap tails!" she laughed.

Cautiously, afraid that Yaya was going to kill my tail with her hyper energy, I glided my tail to hers.

"…Oh geez Amu. You didn't do it… did you?!" the so-called Yaya exclaimed to Amu. Amu looked away, having an ashamed expression on her face.

Yaya looked at her with her lower lip poked out. Her eyebrows were adjusted to a hard "v".

"FINE, fine! I did it. Okay? But it's only temporary!" Amu's tail was a deep red now. Annoyed, I thought.

"What?" I asked Amu.

"I wasn't supposed to turn a human into a mermai-er-man. I don't know how dumb Yaya found out though." She smirked, "So basically, you're illegal."

"WHAT?!" I yelled, drawing attention from the mermaids around us.

"Calm down, I'm a princess," Amu said, giggling.

"Whatever…" I said. "Let's meet your father."

"MOUU! YAYA WANTS TO COME TOOOOO!" the girl yelled. Amu rolled her eyes, sighed, then reluctantly motioned for Yaya to follow.

"YAAAY!" she exclaimed.

On the way to Amu's home, I heard "Oohhh's" and "Aaah!" and "OH MY STARFISH HE'S HAWT!"'s from mermaids. I rolled my eyes. This is exactly what happened at my school.

Yep. This sure was going to be fun.

Me: Bwaha. EEEEBBEEEEL. Kind of a cliffy.

Ikuto: I'm illegal…

Me: Muaha.

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