Episode One of Tokyo Cutie Mew: The Golden Mew
A/N: I only own the characters I created but I don't own Tokyo Mew-Mew. I will try to update as much as I can but don't count on it. Enjoy,
"Good Morning, Sleeping Beauty," Rose whispered into her daughter's ear. Slowly emerged two arms wearing crumpled pink and white striped pajamas, then a head of long, tangled, brown hair. A pair of sleep-crusted chocolate brown eyes stared at Rose.
"Morning already," Ino said with a hoarse whisper. Rose nodded then walked back downstairs to finish preparing breakfast. Ino trudged out of bed, brushed her teeth and washed her face. As she was brushing out her hair to make it long and glossy, Ino noticed the clock. 7:25! School started at 7:30, she's going to be SO late. Ino threw on her school uniform, nearly tripping over her nightstand trying to squeeze into the skirt.
She dove into the closet and searched for her loafers while attempting to put on her socks. She grabbed her purple backpack and sprinted out the door. All Rose felt was a swift breeze and heard a sharp slam as Ino sprinted to school.
"Got to be on time, got to be on time," Ino chanted as she maneuvered through the busy streets. All of a sudden, SLAM! Ino felt a sharp pain as a cyclist collided into Ino on the street. Ino laid on her back in a daze. A throbbing pain in her knee was distracting her desperately. She carefully arose to look at the face of her "attacker" and met the electric blue eyes of Drew Jacobs. A rush of color swam onto Ino's cheeks as they continued to stare at each other.
"Ino, I'm so sorry. Are you alright?" he exclaimed. He clutched Ino's hand and helped her up. 'Oh my gosh, he's holding my hand. This is the best day EVER!' Ino thought. Ino nodded 'yes' Suddenly something occurred to the brunette.
"Why aren't you in school?" Ino asked. Drew raised a blonde eyebrow.
"Because it's Saturday," Drew answered in an Uh-Duh sort of voice. Ino slapped her forehead. How could she be so stupid? 'Great,' Ino thought 'The one time the guy of my dreams actually speaks to me and he thinks I'm a total moron.'
Drew chuckled at Ino's little mistake.
"It's cool. Hey, a couple of people are going to the park this afternoon. Want to go?" he asked while fiddling with the pocket of his red and blue jacket. Ino could not believe it. Was he asking her out? Well not really because there were going to be other people there but anytime with Drew was bound to be magical.
"Yeah, I would totally love to go to the park!" Ino cheered, failing to hide her enthusiasm.
"Cool," Drew said while getting back onto his bike. He gave her a small wave, hopped onto his silver bike, and rode away leaving Ino practically jumping with happiness. She sprinted home, all the pain of getting hit with that bike had long faded away. Ino felt like she was floating on a pillow of fluffy white cotton. Suddenly her happiness was interrupted by a long, intense growl. A sharp pain hit Ino in the stomach.
'Oh crap, I didn't have breakfast,' Ino thought as her face fell. She felt a small amount of money jiggling in her backpack. 'That should be enough for a little something to hold me over for the morning," she mused with a shake of her head. She wandered around, looking for a store to satisfy her hunger needs. A towering, shell shock pink building caught her attention. With its heart shaped windows and welcoming red doors, it was perhaps the cutest thing that Ino has seen in a while. In swirling, articulate scrawl etched into the sign read Café Mew-Mew. She felt instantly drawn to it and waltzed over to the oversized menu board that listed all the delicacies it served. Little did she know is that she was being observed by two men up above from the video camera hidden in the bronze cat statue perched on top of the restaurant.
"Should we push the button now? Her DNA is perfect; we won't come across another girl like this, so we must act NOW!" Kenji shouted, running his fingers frantically through his long chestnut hair. His glasses were askew and his lips were pursed into a thin line. If he pursed his lips any tighter he might swallow them.
"Patience Kenji, we have to do this carefully. One wrong move and the little brunette might be blown into smithereens. If she dies from a mysterious blast in the park, I'm sure it will give away our cover," Peter said while fiddling with the buttons on the keypad. With his gray eyes only being illuminated by the computer screen in the dark room, Peter looked more intense than usual. Sweat drenched the boys' brows as they debated over pushing the button allowing the energy beams to invade five girls' bodies therefore changing the girls' lives forever. While they were slipping deep into their argument, a dimple-faced toddler teetered over to the keyboard. Being so small, he slipped past the nerds with no issue. His doe eyes opened wide at all the colorful buttons displayed out before him but the one that particularly caught his eye was the biggest, reddest, blinking one that was dead center of the keyboard. He raised a chubby fist and pounded on the button. Dozens of iridescent light filtered through the skies like fireworks, sailing through the clouds; searching for a target to land on. A long golden light sailed straight down landing right on top of Ino's unsuspecting body. Millions of molecules invaded her cells, electricity zapped straight from her head to her toes. She landed with a large thud, unconscious.
Ino awoke to the harmonious chirping of birds. Her head felt like it was stuffed with marshmallows and her limbs felt like rubber. She met the stern gray eyes of a man staring above her.
"Good, you're not dead," he said in a monotone voice. Ino rubbed her eyes and crept off the ground slowly. She was still outside the pretty, pink café.
"How long have I been out?" Ino asked while canvassing the man. He seemed about sixteen with gorgeous tan skin and feathery blonde hair. He looked like the stereotypical "California beach boy" except for those unforgiving, murderous grey eyes staring intently at you.
"About three hours," he said nonchalantly kicking a pebble with his sneaker. Ino dusted the dirt off her butt.
"How do you feel?" he asked, his eyes trailing up and down her figure. Something about this guy was WAY too weird for Ino's liking.
"Uh, fine. I hadn't eaten in a while and I guess I passed out from exhaustion," Ino simpered. 'That still doesn't explain that mysterious bright light, though' Ino thought to herself. Had it been lightning? No, that's ridiculous. There is not a cloud in the sky. Then what caused that flash?
"Look, if you're not feeling well give me a call," he said passing Ino his business card. What was he? a doctor? The card was written in curly pink script and read Cafe Mew-Mew, home of all your desserts and magical needs. 704- 447- 7894. Ino stared in confusion at the slip of paper. Magical needs? What did that mean? Ino shrugged, slipped the paper into her backpack, and skipped home while trying to forget the events that had just occurred.
Later that afternoon, dressed in a frilly yellow skirt and a white and yellow striped top, Ino dashed to the park to meet her beloved. Her bright white sneakers thudded through the light green grass while her eyes searched for that familiar floppy blond hair that she had worshipped so.
"DREW! DREW!" Ino called when she noticed his bike slip down the bicycle trail that led towards the woods. She raced after it, hoping to run into her Drew. But what she saw she hadn't expected to see.
A humongous plant creature towered over Ino, cradling an unconscious Drew in its tentacle like leaf. The image before her was so bizarre; Ino's mouth opened and closed like a gold fish.
"Help him already," crowed a familiar voice. Her eyes trailed upwards to see the gray-eyed boy from the morning crouching in a nearby tree.
"How?" Ino called back while balling her hands into fists.
"Take this," he yelped while tossing her a pendant. Ino caught it in her palm; it felt smooth in her grasp.
"How will this help me?" she asked back. How was this stupid little trinket supposed help her beloved from this creature.
"Shout Mew Ino Metamorphosis and the rest will come naturally," he shouted back in an Uh-Duh sort of tone. Ino began to doubt that saying a little catchphrase would do anything but when she stared Drew, cold and unmoving, in the monster's grasp, she knew what she had to do.
"MEW INO METAMORPHOSIS!" Ino chanted. A lush yellow ribbon wrapped around her suddenly naked body; clothing her in a gold mini-dress, gold ankle boots, an ankle band, and yellow gloves. Atop her head were a pair of tawny colored ears and a tail popping from her behind.
"What did you do to me? I'm a cat freak!" Ino screamed toward her blonde-haired companion.
"This is no time for this, Ino! You have to save him!"
A wave of fear washed over Ino as she faced her opponent. But a new found confidence rushed through her veins as well. Somewhere deep, deep inside of her, she knew she could do this.
"Light Wand, I summon thee," Ino shouted, the words seeming to bubble up inside her. With a bright flash of light, the wand, long golden scepter with a heart shaped jewel at the top, was in her hand, ready for action. The plant beast moaned in frustration and brought down a beastly vine to snare Mew Ino in its grasp. But Ino was too quick as she dodged the vine with ease. Unfortunately, this plant was smarter than it looked. It swatted Mew Ino from behind, smashing her against a tree like a bug to a windshield. But she couldn't give up. She clutched that wand to her side then made an amazing leap over the monster. In the middle of her leap, she cried at the top of her lungs
"MEW INO, RIBBON LIGHT ATTACK!"
A beam of light blasted from the wand's jewel causing the beast to explode to smithereens of mucus colored light particles. Drew began to plummet to the Earth, floppy and dependent like a little rag doll. Mew Ino made a flying leap and caught Drew, saving his life once again.
"Drew," Mew Ino whispered softly into his ear. Relief slowly uncoiled the tension that had wrapped itself around her nerves. Drew was alright, that's all that mattered. Mew Ino looked lovingly into his face while she laid him down gently, like a mother putting down her newborn baby for the first time. A small cough interrupted their "moment".
"Ahem, Miss Ino," the boy said walking towards her. Anger began to fill her soul once she remembered she was still "Cat Woman".
"Look! You have some explaining to do, mister! What did you do to me, what was that thing that attacked Drew, who are you, and how do I change back," Ino hissed through her gritted teeth. Ino was fuming at this stranger. But instead of answering her questions, he merely flicked her on the nose.
"Look, calm down, your stupid questions will be answered momentarily. If you would just follow me to the café, everything will be alright," he said in an amazingly soothing voice. Ino's face changed from rage to worry in 2.5.
"What about Drew? We can't just leave him here," she asked pointing to the unconscious fourteen year old lying on the ground.
"Yeah, we can. By the time he wakes up, he'll think he was in a biking accident. Trust me, he gets into them often enough," the blonde haired guy said with a devilish little smirk. For some reason, (even though he was right) having him criticizing Drew made her pissed.
"Drew's a great cyclist," Ino shouted shaking her gloved fist at him. The golden haired wonder smirked, yet again.
"Cupcake, you can do so much better," he said while sticking his hands in his pockets.
"Don't call me cupcake," Ino said while crossing her arms. Suddenly something occurred to her. "You didn't tell me your name."
"It's Peter," he said while he turned his back toward the golden mew. Ino struggled to catch up with his long-legged stride as they rushed toward the café. Both Peter and Ino were unaware at the glowing yellow eyes observing them from the bushes.
"She's good," hissed a sinister voice of the owner of the yellow eyes "But I'm better. I'll squash this little mew-mew if it's the last thing I'll do,"
*Next Time on Tokyo Cutie Mew: Now that Ino has become a mew-mew, she must contact the others. Unfortunately, becoming a mew comes with some uh- challenges. How will Ino and her new candidate deal with these Side Effects? Tune in to the next episode.