As many of you may or may not know, I had an older, much more immature, version of this story. I am re-writing all of my stories and I decided to start with this one. I hope to make it a bit more interesting, and hopefully you'll all enjoy it a bit more than the last one. It wasn't very popular. .

-Silver
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Our story starts one night years ago….

"Sweetheart, are you alright?" A tall, young looking blonde man asked his wife.
"I'm fine, dear, it's just, I'm pregnant again. So, we have to go through the morning sickness and all again," A shorter, beautiful woman replied.
"That's fantastic! Do you need anything?" He asked.
"No, I'm fine. Go back to your work," She smiled.

"If you're sure, I'll go. Till dinner," With that he headed down the stairs after a quick kiss.

"It would be more fantastic if she was yours…" The woman whispered with a hint of sadness.

"Ryou, Mommy has something very important to tell you," The woman told a young boy later that night as she tucked him in.
"What is it, Mommy?" Ryou asked.
"You're going to have a little sister soon, Ryou. Do you promise Mommy that you'll take good care of her?"
"Yes! Wow! A sister. I wonder if she'll be like that girl from down the street that's always following me everywhere…" Ryou contemplated with a scowl on his face.
"Oh goodness, who knows! We'll find out soon, won't we?"
"Yes, yes we will, Mommy."

A few months later in a small hospital outside of Tokyo…

"Ryou, would you like to see your little sister now?"
"Is she ugly?"
"No, she's beautiful," His father replied.
"Then…I suppose," Ryou said and followed his father into one of the rooms.
His mother sat in a hospital bed cradling a small bundle. Ryou leaned over and looked at the bundle, his father had not been joking. Ryou had seen babies before; most of them were fat and gurgling, not his sister. His sister lay in his mother's arms quiet as a sleeping dove, fair as a white rose, eyes as blue as his own. Ryou smiled and nodded, "She's nothing like the little girl from down the street."

Years passed, Ryou and his sister, Maeve, grew to be young children. Ryou started school and spent much of his time teaching his little sister how to read and write like he could. One day, Ryou was looking for another book to use for reading practice when he heard voices coming from his father's study. He heard his mother say, "No, I won't let you! Why would you want to test your theories on our CHILDREN?!"
"Dear, it's the best way. We can't very well test it on animals and unless you want me dragging strangers into our house and not being able to monitor them properly like I need to, then what am I supposed to do?"
"You're supposed to test it on me, or yourself, or Keiichiro, but never on our children."
"Darling, it's the best way. They might still grow out of the affects of the serums. Please, just let me try it."
"Are you sure it's safe?"
"Positive, nothing will happen to them."
"Start with Maeve then, she isn't going to school, it is much easier to observe her for signs of problems."
"Thank you dearest."
"Don't thank me yet."

Soon enough, Maeve was taken down to the lab every morning and did not come back up until her brother returned from school. She thought it was absolutely terrible, getting all the shots and tests done. She did not have fun at all, even though her Daddy had suggested it to her saying it would be "fun and exciting, something none of her friends would ever have a chance to do." Sure enough, one day she'd had enough and she said so. "Daddy, why do I have to get all these shots and things?"
"To get you ready for a very important job."
"What job?" Maeve asked, tilting her head to one side.
"Helping to keep the Earth a better place," Her father replied as he prepared another needle.
"Oh…" Maeve replied playing with the end of her braid.
"Now, this shot is going to be a little different from the others. You're going to feel a little tingling and then you're going to see some things. Now, don't be frightened, Maeve, I'll be here the whole time."
"Okay, Daddy," Maeve said and her father injected the serum into her arm, the first animal DNA to be injected into a human.

Maeve began to feel woozy. "Daddy, I feel weird," Maeve complained as she passed out.
Maeve materialized in a bright place and looked around. Suddenly, she heard a noise from behind her. A large white cat with black spots approached her. She smiled and called to it, "Here, kitty-cat. I won't hurt you kitty," as it stopped in front of her.
Maeve touched its nose and her body glowed as the cat seemed to leap into her body. She blinked a few times to see if she would wake up, but she did not. Instead, another animal came towards her, this one was a bird, and it screeched loudly and landed on her shoulder. Once again, as soon as contact was made, the animal blended into her skin, but unlike the last time, she woke up to see her father when she blinked.

"Daddy that was the weirdest dream…" Maeve stated as her father smiled.
"It worked then," was his only reply.
"What worked?"
"The injection of animal DNA into your system, you are only 90 percent human now. You are also part bird and part cat," Her father said as he fished something out of his pocket.
"What's a percent?" Maeve said as she stumbled over the word.

"Nothing you should worry about, now, take this necklace. When something tries to hurt you, simply push the pink heart and shout out 'Mew Maeve Metamorphosis' and you will be able to protect yourself," Mr. Shirogane replied and handed Maeve a small golden pendant on a gold chain.
"Okay, Daddy!" Maeve exclaimed and jumped off his lap and ran up the stairs to find her Mommy and show her the new necklace that her Daddy had given her.

"Mommy! Mommy, where are you?" Maeve shouted and looked around for her mother. When she failed to find her mother she sat on the bottom of the staircase in the entrance to their home and waited for Ryou to come home. She did not have to wait long.
"Maeve! Are you ready to read a new story? I borrowed a book called Redwall from the library today," Ryou said and put his backpack down by the door.
"Yay! Ryou, look! Look what Daddy gave me today!" Maeve exclaimed as she held up her pendant.
"What does it do?" Ryou asked and pressed the pink heart.
"Daddy says I can protect myself if I press that heart and say 'Mew Maeve Metamorphosis'!" Maeve explained and was suddenly engulfed by a bright white light.
"RYOU!"
"MAEVE! DAD! What's happening to Maeve?!" Ryou shouted.
Their father came dashing up from the basement. "Did you touch the pendant?"
"Yes, why?" Ryou asked.
"It's activated her new animal DNA that I'm using to create a protector force for the world, Mews," Their father replied as Maeve stepped out of the light. Her hair had turned white with a thick stripe of brown, her eyes had turned golden-brown, and she had a pair of white rounded ears with black fur lining the inside of the ears. A white strapless dress with black half-moons had appeared on her body along with brown wrist wraps, black boots that reached half-way up her shin, a white tail with the same half-moon shapes and a black tip, along with a pair of brown wings.
"It's perfect, flawless. She has received the DNA and has successfully transformed into her Mew state with no side affects. It works, it really works," Mr. Shirogane muttered.
"Dad, what does this mean?" Ryou asked.
"It means that the world will survive no matter what problems are ahead," He replied.
"Dear…what's all the noise? OH MY GOODNESS!" Mrs. Shirogane said as she descended the stairs. She had heard the commotion and had come to make sure that the children were alright and she had found her daughter transformed into a half-beast creature.
"Don't worry, Darling, everything has gone smoothly, she's flawlessly transformed. Be the witnesses to the first Mew," He proclaimed.

"Oh, don't worry, the first shall be the most beautiful of them all, because their won't be any more," A voice cackled.
"Who are you?!" Mr. Shirogane shouted into the air as he moved in front of Ryou, Maeve, and their mother.
"Oh, who I am doesn't matter, because soon, you won't be alive to remember," The voice cackled once more and finally a tall, dark haired figure appeared before him. He was like nothing that Mr. Shirogane or Ryou or Maeve had ever seen before. He was tall, pale, had large pointy ears, and long dark hair. His eyes pierced through yours with a single glance from their menacing blood red irises, his lips curled back to reveal glimmering, white, sharp as a knife, canines. Teeth of an animal. He glowered down at Maeve.
"So, Mew, Protector of the Earth, can you beat me? Save your family? Live to see another sunrise?" He asked as Maeve peeked around her father's side.
"You can't hurt me! I'm a Mew!" She shouted.
"Oh, well, we'll see about that," He replied and charged towards them. Mr. Shirogane pushed the children back just in time for them to avoid the bloody fate that he met. The stranger's sword plunged straight through his middle, sticking out the front like an ugly finger. Maeve gasped and her eyes grew wide.
"Does that hurt?" The stranger asked with a strangely kind look on his face, though it melted quickly as he pulled the sword out of their father and he slumped to the floor, dead. The stranger turned on their mother.
"You, you will pay for his attempt to SAVE you ALL!" And charged once more. She, too, met her fate and slumped to the floor, the front of her dress dark and bloody. Now the stranger turned towards Maeve and Ryou.
"Are you prepared to meet the same end? Or are you going to fight me, Mew?"
"How dare you challenge a young kid like my sister?" Ryou shouted, "why don't you fight someone your own size!"
"Oh, what, like you?" The man grinned as Ryou turned pale as a ghost.
"Don't touch him!" Maeve shouted as she turned her own sword on the stranger. The stranger glared down at her.
"What, do you expect that your puny little sword can stand up to mine?" He should have been right. His huge steel-bladed, dark onyx hilted sword looked as though it could slice through Maeve's like butter, but her small, silver-bladed, clear-hilted, with a small pink heart surrounded by brown wings and a single black moon on the end, was stronger than it seemed.
"Yes, yes I do," She replied and raised it in front of her, "BLIZZARD!"
The man was blown away and slammed into a wall, ice crystals sticking to his skin and burning him.
"WHY YOU LITTLE! I'll show YOU, MEW!" And with that he set their house up in flames.

Ryou grabbed his sister and ran for the door, they had barely made it out and to the sidewalk when their house exploded in flame. Ryou turned to his sister, in his hands he held all the notes his father had kept in his pocket. Maeve opened her palms to reveal more she had stolen earlier out of curiosity.
"With these, we can create more Mews, like you, to protect others from fates like ours," Ryou said.
"You do that… I don't want to have anything to do with Mews, ever," Maeve said and pulled her pendant off with a jerk, breaking the chain and turning her back into herself.
"Maeve, you don't have a choice, do you?" Ryou exclaimed.
"Yes, yes I do, and I choose to never have anything to do with it again," Maeve replied and hung her head with a sigh.
"Fine, then you can go live in the Temple," Ryou replied and turned his back on her.
"Ry Ry, why are you doing this to me?" Maeve cried.
"Because, I don't have time to be bothered with little children. The monks with take care of you and train you and teach you what you nee to know. Now leave me alone!" Ryou cried out and ran off down the street leaving Maeve to stand in front of their burning home, tears streaming down her face.

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Okay, so this definitely is a LOT different from my first version. I'm going to leave it up till all the chapters are written for this version. Since it's the summer, and I don't have much else to do, hopefully it'll be done about mid-July. So, review and tell me what you think. =D

-Silver

Note: Ryou is seven and Maeve is five when their house is attacked. Maeve has the DNA of a Snow Leopard and Eurasian Peregrine Falcon. I did my research this time. Both the Snow Leopard and the Eurasian Peregrine Falcon are ON the endangered species list, and more importantly, they are endangered in ASIA, the continent this takes place on.