I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew or Beauty and the Beast, this was written for Mew Midnight's Crack Couple Contest.
Lettuce was the only one still in Tokyo, the aliens had spread all over the world, and each of the mews was in a different country. Each had been training a long time to get better and better, some even earning a new transformation and attack. Her pendant was flashing, she raised her hand in class.
"Yes, Midorikawa-san?"
"May I be excused, Sensei, I'm not feeling well," she bluffed, this was her excuse anytime she had to leave. The teacher nodded, now accustomed to this strange behavior from his brightest student. She rushed out and went up onto the roof where no one was. "Mew Mew Paradise, METAMORPHOSIS!"
Her wavy green hair became pure white and her hair was in two thin elegant braids, then they wrapped around her head like a crown, her outfit was the same, though mostly white with little stripes of green. She jumped off the roof, wings sprouting as she did so and she scanned the city for the Chimera. She found none, but she did see a familiar face.
"Kisshu," she said with a soft glare at him, both of them floating at the top of Tokyo Tower, Kishu with a Chimera Parasite bouncing in his hand.
"You've gotten better at flying," he acknowledged with a nod.
"Yes, well I've had more practice," she responded.
"Hmm, well, I guess I'd better test that with a Chimera," he rushed down to the bottom, Lettuce rushing after, but not quick enough to stop Kish from turning someone into a Chimera, she was barely halfway down the tower when she heard him shout, "FUSION!"
She stopped trying to control her fall and her wings disappeared, she picked up speed and her wings burst out again when she was twenty feet above the ground, and was met with a roar and a maniacal laugh, "See if you can beat that, Mew Paradise!" Kish laughed and disappeared.
Lettuce looked at the Chimera, it was a bit over six feet tall with brown fur and small horns, it seemed he had a long horse-like tail, and it let out a great roar startling the mew.
"Mew," it grunted, smacking its paw at her, she dodged it easily, the creature wasn't very fast.
"Human," she said pointing at her, "and so are you, at least you will be," she summoned her weapon, "Paradise Rod!" it was a white rod with a green heart on top and green ribbon wrapped about the handle part of it.
"No, you come," it lunged at her and she immediately changed back to a human, and the Chimera teleported her to what seemed to be a mansion.
"Huh?" she was confused.
"They'll explain," it's language seemed to be improving, he gestured at a few other Chimera, though they seemed to be maids at this place.
"Come with us, dear," they said and she was whisked away to a room on the second floor down seven hallways and the room was the third room on the right.
"You must be terribly confused," a thin broom Chimera with a French accent said.
"Yes, actually, what is this place?"
"We're what's called "Half-Chimera's" every parasite has the knowledge that it may become one, and where to go if it is, if the human part of a Chimera is strong enough they're brought here, and only one thing can set us free."
"Well what is it, I'd love to help!" Lettuce said.
"It's not something you can consciously do, dear," a plump glass Chimera said.
"Oh, well, why am I here, then, I'm not a Chimera," she was even more confused than she was before.
"The human part of the master, the Chimera that brought you here, he's strongest you see, must've known you and the master thought you might be able to complete the task. In the mean-time, just be on your toes, we'll try to get the master to let you go."
"If he's human I'm not going to leave him alone, not that easily, I'll get out what it is I have to do," Lettuce was determined, well originally. She knew the maids would force her back, so she crept towards the main corridor.
"Madame, you really ought to go back to your chambers," a tall very human looking Chimera said, the only odd thing about him was his hands and hair were aflame.
"Oh, I was just looking for, um, the master, you see I really have to get back home," she said cleverly.
"Look, he's not going to let you, he's a very odd sort of Chimera, but he's a Chimera, we all want to get out, but we're all stuck, the Beast is no exception."
"The Beast, is that his name or something?"
"Sort of, it's what the aliens call him, he's not overly found of it, which is why we call him 'Master' instead, though that's not exactly fitting for you." There was a vast roar, shortly followed by a whimper. Lettuce rushed to the source of the sound.
"It's just a scratch," he murmured to the two maids that had been attending her.
"Nonsense," the glass one said.
"You must let us take care of it," a new face said, from the back he looked like a very ordinary, portly man, though when he turned around he revealed his face was a clock face with eyes a mouth and nose, and he had a wiry bent moustache, obviously went to imitate the hands of a clock. Lettuce pulled out a handkerchief, and dunked it in the pail of water the portly woman had, she reached out to his heavily bleeding arm, as it touched her whacked her out of the way, "That hurt."
"And it'll keep hurting if you don't let me see it," she said and wiped the blood from the gashes left from his claws, "it'll hurt for a while, just give me time and I'll fix it," she said, ignoring her own cuts and cleaning his, receiving several low growls and whimpers, finally she wrapped it and set it in a homemade sling. "There, isn't that better?"
He grunted, she was right, but he didn't want her to know, "I guess."
The others seemed amazed, "Come on, dear, we better get you cleaned up now," the glass woman told her, put her arm around the girl and led the mew away.
"Dear, you need to be more concerned for your safety," the glass woman said.
"Thank you," she said, "um, forgive me, but what are you names, if I'm going to be staying here I really ought to know them."
"Oh, Madame, we don't have names," the duster said.
"Well that simply won't do, hmm, you can by Mrs. Merriworth," she said to the glass woman, then turned to the Feather Duster, "and you'll be Duchess, and you'll be Clockwork, and you'll be Lumiere," she told each of the Chimera. They all smiled, the names seemed fitting, Mrs. Merriworth was covering her cuts, for they were too noticeable to be called scratches, and began humming.
Lettuce rose early and got out a cloak from the wardrobe in her room and went outside, getting some oats from the stable beforehand, it seemed odd, she didn't know where she was but she still saw birds hopping about and chirping. She spread the seed for them, and saw a shadow towering over her and the birds scattered.
She turned around, "Hello," she said trying to smile warmly, though she was rather angry at him for keeping her here, and when she tried to help him he just hurt her.
"What are you doing?" he huffed.
"Feeding the birds, you ought to try it, then maybe you'd have more," she turned around and looked at him.
"Who cares?" he said, "You ought not be out here," he added.
"It's better than being stuck in that stuffy old house," she said.
The four Chimera the girl had taken a liking to were all watching from a window and looked at each other gravely, "This doesn't look good for the Madame," Duchess said.
"We ought to help her," Mrs. Merriworth started toward the door but was grabbed by Clockwork and Lumiere, and she turned and glared at them.
"They must learn to get along, or we'll never get out of here," they said at the same time.
"But we can't let her get killed," Duchess retorted.
"Lumiere, please, your closest to the Master, try to get him to calm down for her," Clockwork suggested, "and Mrs. Merriworth, you ought to talk to Ms. Lettuce so she will stop put herself in dangerous situations."They both nodded and took off.
"Oh, I can't help it, I know he's human, that's why I keep putting myself out there, but ugh! He's mean, and coarse, and unrefined!" she responded to Mrs. Merriworth's concern.
"Dear, we're just worried for you, I know why you're concerned, and I can see why you say these things, but please, if not for you, for us, stop putting yourself in danger.
As the weeks went by the mew ignored all of these warnings, determined to get the human part of the Chimera out. She kept getting frustrated though and storming off on the poor thing. She laughed a little at how attached she had grown to everyone but the Beast. She didn't want to leave, but she knew eventually she'd be "rescued" and sent home.
She was surprised that she didn't want to go, that she wanted to stay with the Half-Chimera. She did miss her old friends, but she had missed them for a long time, she never saw them while they were in different countries, the only person she saw semi-regularly was Keiichiro, who had stayed in Tokyo as well to let the girls stay in touch with their families.
Well, back on point, the mew and the Chimera were slowly getting closer, and after two months together they no longer stormed out, but just told each other point blank they were being a pest and would change the subject, and Lettuce soon taught the Chimera how to properly apologize. His human side was indeed coming out.
I couldn't resist keeping Lumiere's name, he's my favorite character in Beauty and the Beast, which this is obviously based off of. So I hope you enjoyed it, please review.