Episode 3: Idols 101

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Take note that I own absolutely nothing but the plot!

Last time, we saw Hana, Ann and Rose, inspecting the Practice Message Orb Hall in the Dressia Palace. And my, did they take some time off along the way. Now we see our five girls going underground to another secret room (other than Kyouko's) beneath the Seirei Private High School grounds.

Let's now take Meisa's POV for this episode.

It all started that afternoon with a little visit to Izumi-san's office. I came here when she's on a business trip with the Head Director of Million Agency. Little that she knew, she hid a container with an 11-day old chocolate bar from the school garden of Seirei as their present to her. So I decided to have a bite, but little that I know, Mao was following me possibly for keeping a lookout.

"Meisa-chan!" Mao greeted me as we both went near Izumi-san's office.

"Stay out of this, Miss Goody-Two Shoes!" I warned her for my privacy, "I'm trying to taste chocolate."

"Don't tell me you've been breaking in to Izumi-san's office!" Mao said in shock.

"No other choice." I responded, "She has eleven-day-old special Seirei chocolate in her cabinet."

This shocked Mao in glee as she said, "I heard something similar called 'cheese' that dries faster overtime."

"Exactly!" I said to her. "I think it must be its similarity with chocolate."

"Okay, I'll keep a lookout. Go for it!" Mao said to me as I went to Izumi-san's office. So I snuck in until I saw the cabinet with the Seirei chocolate I was looking for.

"Jackpot!" I said.

And as I turned back to know if Mao was looking out for others (and she is), I opened Izumi-san's cabinet and saw the container.

I opened the container, and there it is-the 11-day-old Seirei Private High School chocolate. I took a bite out of it closing my eyes and thinking it tastes great, but when I opened my eyes, I noticed that something's not right with the chocolate. I spat out the bitter taste of the chocolate, and ran with Mao on the leave.

"Total bitterness!" I hollered as I ran out of the office.

"How's the taste?" Mao asked me.

"Too sour!" I said to her, "Maybe it must not be stored for more than seven days!"

"Eww!" said Mao as we rushed out of the school grounds for a day's worth of star-destined training and practice.

-A few days later-

A few days have passed since that nasty day, and what we just noticed is that there's an underground passage way leading us to the fountain where we gather for our next class with Professor Yatsude Goshikida. Of course Shiori, Ruli and Kyouko pitched in with us.

(For those wondering, Yatsude Goshikida is a supporting character from Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger. I decided to put her in the story because I wanted a Star Darlings counterpart to go with her.)

So obviously, I went down first for being bright and early first thing. And then, the others followed.

"Holy cow!" gasped Shiori as the four of them went downstairs from Izumi's office, "I've looked at maps of Seirei Private High School and the whole city, but never before have I saw anything about underground caves!"

"It just took enough to impress you all, doesn't it?" I asked her sarcastically.

"If you don't wanna be here, then Izumi-san could find someone else more eager, Meisa-chan." Ruli said to me.

"But I'm chosen, Ruli." I said sarcastically.

"Well, lucky you're not choosy." said Mao as Shiori put her elbow on her torso for Professor Goshikida's arrival.
(For those wondering who Goshikida's SD counterpart is, it's Professor Elera Ursa.)

"I am Professor Goshikida Yatsude!" she introduced herself to us as my friends take their seats, "I've spent years gathering my knowledge of alternate dimensions and the ways of Aikatsu they do there, and now Watanuki Izumi-san tells me that you are allegedly some of the star-destined chosen idols that she thinks are going to save our worlds. Well you better be fast-learners, because I don't have patience for... whatever I'll be showing that you could find disturbing."

"Now, you might have thought that going to another world is some kind of dream come true. Oh! I've been chosen to explore the Aikatsu Welkin! Magnificent!" said Professor Goshikida sarcastically as she begins our lesson, "Well, best you not lose focus! Idols are strange! Observe!"

So on the fountain, Professor Goshikida shows us a picture of the Colossus of Rhodes in Greece.

"I've heard about this!" answered Mao, "They pay tribute to their loved ones by building big figures called 'statues' and the people around will see it as a symbol of their community."

"Okay, Otoha Mao-san is it?" questioned the professor, "But! Did your book say that everyone stares and yells at the statue as it first became erected?!"

And Mao reluctantly responded, "No."

"Just what I expect from you." the professor said.

"What happens if the statue's not preserved properly?" Kyouko asked.

"Well, Kyouko-san." said the professor, "I saw it once before, but I've always imagined. BROKEN PIECES!"

And the footage on the fountain showing the Colossus breaking up like being in an earthquake gives us more or less of a shock. Of course, I was in on this.

"If you think that's bad, these people make wishes wastefully throwing...!" the professor lectured us as the fountain shows us the footage of something called 'rai stones'. Rai stones are an ancient form of currency made in Micronesia in the West Pacific.

"Coins!" responded Shiori, "And these are ancestral versions called 'rai stones', seems like an innocent way to make a wish and deliver a message while they're at it."

"Innocent, Motoya Shiori-san? INNOCENT you say?!" the professor frustratingly asked her.

"Have you known about the preciously innocent aquaculture within these oceans?" asked Professor Goshikida Yatsude as the footage on the fountain continues.

"One careless throw and... FISH KILL?!" she said as the makes a cut-throat gesture that gave the class a scare, but I wasn't that worried.

"You see, Star-Destined." said Professor Goshikida Yatsude-sensei as she ends our lecturing, "You better prepare for ANYTHING."

And so she leaves poignantly, but in a much disciplinary way than we thought.

"Oh, no." gasped Shiori, "Maybe I'm not cut out to be a star-destined after all."

"You? What about me?" said Ruli in shock, "I'm a first-year, I am so unprepared!"

"Will you four just chill for once, please?!" I yelled for them to stop worrying.

"I've been studying parallel worlds for months. You know why?" I asked them as I started my short speech, "Because my biggest dream is to visit one of them someday!"

"But don't go letting Yatsude-sensei hold your horses! We can handle it, you know why?" I questioned.

"Because we are the chosen ones, we are idols. We are the Star-Destined!" I answered myself as I'm about to finish my speech to my fellow idols.

"Whoa, yeah!" Shiori applauded.

"Oh, explode!" said Kyouko amazedly.

"Well, she may not be choosy." Mao said to her three friends, "But Meisa-chan knows her stuff."

"That's like her." added Ruli in glee with her friends.

"Not an argument!" Shiori said as I walked back up to Izumi-san's office. I guess after all, there is more to what we see than meets the eye.

[End of Episode 3]

Next time, we'll do some research with our girls! But something's odd to be worth of addition to Shiori's 'Odd Wall'! What would it be? We'll soon find out! What happens next we didn't yet know.


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