*Okay, so here's my first story! I'll try to upload eveyday, but with exams and course work and what not it might not happen...
*Please review and tell me what you think:-)
*This goes for the whole story: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew or any of its characters, now on with the story!
Deep Blue laughed evilly. "And to think you loved me Ichigo! You actually trusted me!" He whirled around to face the Cyniclons.
"And you three- you really thought I was going to help you? How naïve you all are; the Aoyama you all believed and loved was just a mask. Just a disguise I wore so could find out about Earth while I became strong enough to take it over."
Laughing cruelly at the stunned faces of those surrounding him and the sobs of the pink mew mew in front of him, he raised his sword and brought it down with an almighty swing. At first, nothing happened. Then a minute crack appeared where Deep Blue had struck the ground.
"It has begun." Pai whispered.
Ichigo, who had been, until now, sobbing on her knees, knelt up and looked into Deep Blue's eyes. She could only see Aoyama there, but something was wrong-he wasn't smiling like the Aoyama she used to know; he was glaring at her, his expression one of pure hatred.
The sight made her heart freeze over. Her ribcage seemed to shrink, squeezing her heart and lungs and making it impossible to breathe.
Kisshu, Pai and Taruto were all staring in disbelief at the Cyniclon they had once worshipped, and the other mew mews were transfixed by the scene, standing still as if they had been paralysed; watching and waiting to see what would happen.
Finally, it was Ichigo who broke the silence.
"Aoyama-kun, why?"
Deep Blue peered down at her, like one might look at a bug that had just crawled onto their sleeve.
"I've already told you, Aoyama was never real. It was me. Me the whole time, you were just too stupid to see it. Look-"
He transformed into Aoyama and back again, before impatiently brushing Ichigo aside: "Now be quiet girl, I have things to do."
This transaction seemed to break the hypnotic states of the others, who all looked confusedly around at each other as if for the first time. Suddenly, Pudding summoned up her weapon and directed an attack at Deep Blue, who held out his hand just as it was about to hit him and deflected it.
One after one, the other mews attempted to take Deep Blue down, but each time he just brushed their feeble attacks away with the ease of swatting a fly. Before long, they were all panting and gasping for air, and seemed to have lost all the fight they had in them.
Deep blue smiled. He shut his eyes and began to chant under his breath. The chanting got steadily louder, until he was shouting the eerie words. Then, he raised his sword once more, and stuck it into the ground where the crack he had previously created was.
The ground began to shake violently, knocking the mew mews to the ground and upsetting the balance of the Cyniclons, who had been hovering in the air - causing them to fall to the ground also. Then, Pai and Taruto crawled over to Kisshu, who had fallen a bit away from them, and they all huddled together.
"We need to leave quickly, before the whole Earth is destroyed - teleport now!" Pai shouted at his brothers. Taruto followed his command and disappeared into thin air, but Kisshu shook his head,
"I won't leave, not without Ichigo. If I'm not there in 5 minutes, go home without me,"
At the uncertain look on Pai's face Kisshu laid a hand on his arm,
"Trust me, I'll make it." Without another word, Pai nodded and followed Taruto to the ship.
Meanwhile, the mews had also been huddling together.
"What do we do?" shouted Mint, "We can't just let him win!"
"And where are Shirogane and Akasaka-san?" cried Lettuce, "They could be in trouble! We should find them,"
Zakuro raised a hand to silence the others, "I don't know what to do, but we cannot give up. We owe it to the people on this Earth to fight to the very end. Even if our powers fail us, we must keep on fighting with whatever we have - I haven't come this far to give up."
The others nodded their agreement.
"But where is Ichigo?" asked Pudding, "She was right here a minute ago."
They all looked around in alarm, then saw her crawling determinedly away from them… towards Kisshu, who was making his way to her as well.
"Ichigo! What are you doing? We need you!" Pudding shouted to her, but despite her plea, Ichigo carried on, either not hearing or not caring.
When she reached Kisshu, she reached out her hand to hold his, tears streaming down her face.
"Kisshu, I'm sorry! All this time I was obsessed with Aoyama-kun, I thought he was the only one for me and I loved him with every bit of my soul - but now I see that the person who I really should have been with was right above my head the whole time. I - I love you Kisshu, and I wish I'd realised my feelings earlier, things could be so different! And-"
But Kisshu had put his finger on her lips to stop her,
"Don't tell me now Koneko-chan - we have to leave, and quickly,"
"But what about Deep Blue? And my friends? I won't give up!" she sobbed.
"It's over Ichigo, already most of Tokyo is flooded and it's people are either dead or dying. Deep Blue is too strong, and you mew mews are running out of Mew Aqua, and fast! Come with me now Koneko-chan, if we leave, we can start a new life together, with no fighting. What do you say?"
For a moment Ichigo was still, and then she hung her head and whispered: "Tokyo… flooded. My parents… are… dead." The last word choked her and caused more tears to begin streaming down her already tear-lined face.
All of a sudden, there came a high-pitched scream from one of the mews. The ground had started to split open and crumble, and the crack was growing steadily nearer to Ichigo's friends.
"Leave Ichigo, we need to go now!" Zakuro shouted, "She made her decision when she left us for that Cyniclon!" With that, they all flew up into the air and disappeared without a glance back at her.
This betrayal seemed to shock Ichigo the most out of all the things that had recently happened. Lip trembling and body shaking, she turned back to Kisshu, who was looking at her with sympathy and love in his eyes, and allowed herself to fall into his outstretched arms.
Together, they flew up into the endless, black sky, Ichigo safe in Kisshu's strong arms, but one thing was praying on the Cyniclon's mind: Had Pai and Taruto gone without him?
Well, there's the start, hopefully the start of a half-way decent story! Review please...