Chapter 1

CRASH!

BOOM!

KABANG!

Just five minutes earlier it had been quiet and peaceful in the park. But of course, as is their way, the aliens had to show up and make a mess out of things. Sigh. Why why why? Why today of all days? the cat mew thought to herself in a gruff.

Ichigo had been hurrying to see Aoyama-kun since something came up eariler that morning when they were supposed to meet up. But at the last minute he called and cancelled, asking if they could meet up after the cafe closed. Of course she said yes. What else did you say to the school's number one super hunk? Who, surprisingly, happened to be Ichigo's boyfriend.

Well, she thought to herself, Looks like a change of plan. She dodged another attack of the kimera anima. It was just Ichigo, Mint, and Pudding fighting this time. Lettuce had left early for a dentist appointment and Zakuro was busy with some photo shoot. That was okay though, just the three of them were more than enough to defeat this.

"Ribbon . . . Mint Echo!" Mint shouted as she let loose the arrow in an eruption of blue light.

"Hey! Stop that! Don't you Mews ever give up?" Taruto hollered at them from his spot in the sky. He seemed more tired than angery as he said this.

"Taru-Taru! Please stop. Pudding doesn't feel like fighting!" The golden haired mew called back up to him.

"Stop calling me that, you stupid monkey girl!" he shouted in anger, though he secretly liked the nickname she had given him.

"Taruto would you please shut your mouth? Your giving me a headache and it's not pleasent," Pai said in an irratated voice.

Mew Ichigo decieded to take advantage of the situation and attack. Careful not to draw attention to herself she called forth her strawberry bell. Then, jumping into the air she called out, "Ribbon . . . Strawberry Surprise!"

She felt the power gather in her, then burst forth from the Strawberry Bell. It hit the kimera anima square in the middle and separated the infusior from the tree snake it had bonded with. Masha flew over and swallowed the jelly fish-like thing.

"Crap it! Oh well, you got off easy this time but next time . . . beware!" Taruto said in a angry, grumbling voice. "Come on, Pai. Let's go. Pai? Hello? PAI! Get your nose out of that book so we can go ho-" Taruto was yelling but was interrupted.

"AAAaaaaaahhh! Omi-Freakin, FREAKIN-gosh! I'm gonna freakin die!"

A blur of color was falling from the shy. From the sound of it, it was a girl. How had a girl appeared, falling from the sky, without any way of getting there? The mews were standing in stunned silence, as were the aliens. They were all deeply confused.

The girl however, continued to fall from the sky, gaining speed as she fell. She was still screaming her lungs out. "AAAaaaaaahhh! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna die! I'm gonna-" She suddenly stopped falling ; she was hovering a foot off the ground with her hands shielding her face. "Huh. Guess I'm not gonna die! YAHOOOOOO! I'm alive! I'm not dead, I'm-ooph!" And just like that, she fell that last foot.

Mew Ichigo finally came to her sences and ran toward the girl. Was she hurt? As Ichigo came to a stop behind the girl, she said, "Are you alright?"

"Fine, fine. I was a little shocked when I fell through the portal. Thats why it took me so long to stop. I'm fine now, really." And with that, the girl turned around and faced Mew Ichigo.

Mew Ichigo gasped. The girl was an inch shorter than herself. Dark red hair the same color as Ichigo's was tied into two low pigtails. There was a single strip of emerald hair in the girl's long side swept bangs. Her eyes were a golden amber that seemed so familier to the mew. She was dressed simply in black shorts and a neon green shirt with a mesanger bag slung over her sholder.

But what startled Mew Ichigo was her ears. They were sized like a humans but were tipped with points like the aliens. What is this girl? the mew leader wondered.

"See . . . told you I was fine," the strange girl said. "Oh and by the way, my name's Emiko." Then she looked up at the mew leader and gasped, startling the cat mew. "N-No way," Emiko shook her head. "Not possible,"she mumbled. She pulled out of her bag what looked like a picture album. Her fingers flipped trough the pages. Suddenly she stopped on a picture, her fingers hovering above the photo. Looking at the photo, then Ichigo, then the photo, then Ichigo again, her face went from shock to disbelief to absolute happiness.

"You're Ichigo, aren't you?" Emiko whispered to the mew. Mew Ichigo was stunned. How did Emiko know her name?

"How do you know my name? Do I know you?" Ichigo was extremely confused.

"No, you don't know me. At least not yet," ignoring Mew Ichigo's stunned face she carried on, "I'm glad I found you before it was to late, Mom."

Mom? the mew mew thought before the girl threw her arms around her.