Okay, I have to say, I was proud of myself. I didn't think my first chapter was going to go that well. I'm impressed. Were you impressed? If you're reading this chapter, you probably were. =D Ha-ha…oh whatever, you're not here to listen to be babble, you're here to read, so here it goes!!
-Silver

Note: Rated T for Teen for a reason. Those of you who are younger should stop reading now. This chapter includes some bad language. Enjoy!
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Years passed, Ryou grew, he found the Mews, and continued with his research in a desperate search for a way to kill Deep Blue, who had destroyed Ryou's young life all those years ago.

On Ryou's 17th birthday, Keiichiro asked him if he even wanted to open the café for the day.
"Yes, Keiichiro, open the café, you never know who could walk in those doors," Ryou replied and turned back to his computer screen.

The day passed fairly uneventfully. Ichigo was late for work and tried to leave early for a date with Masaya, but not before arguing with Ryou about a pay raise. Minto did absolutely nothing and just ordered people about while Lettuce slipped and slid around and broke a few dishes. Pudding hung from the ceiling doing tricks to amuse the customers, falling on Lettuce a few times, causing dishes to break. Zakuro went around scaring customers and glaring at everyone, but it was a fairly normal day by all Café Mew Mew standards. Or at least, it was. Close to closing time a girl with ash blonde hair and a streak of white-blonde hair showed up. She was like many of the other customers, dressed simply in jeans, a green camisole, white tank top, flip flops, and wore a single piece of jewelry, a gold chain.

"Welcome to Café Mew Mew!" Ichigo chirped to the girl.
"Thank you. I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of a Ryou Shirogane," The girl replied and Ichigo blinked, eyes wide.
"Um, wait here for a second," Ichigo replied and headed down to the basement just as a flash went up on his screen.
"What the hell…?" Ryou said to his computer.
"Um, Ryou, there's a girl upstairs asking about you," Ichigo mumbled quietly.
"There is? That would explain…but that means…" Ryou muttered incoherently and dashed up the stairs, Ichigo following only a few steps behind.

"Ryou?" The girl asked, blue eyes wide.
"It can't be…but…Maeve?" Ryou voiced expectantly.
"Ryou!" The girl, Maeve, as she ran at Ryou and jumped into his waiting embrace.
"Maeve, it's been, ten years, how did you find me?"
"It's called a phone book," Maeve joked and smiled, "it's good to see you. You look well, a bit old, but well."
"You look a bit old yourself," Ryou scoffed.
"Well, like you said, it's been ten years."
"I feel terribly about how I left you… can you forgive me?"
"Forgave and forgot. Let's move on. How about the name of this café, a bit obvious. You wonder how I found you, let's start with the name. A bit freakin' obvious, don't you think?" Maeve said with a smile.
"Well, yeah, but you know, why not? No one's ever going to suspect…"
"But me."
"Well yeah, but that's okay, it helped you find us didn't it?"
"Yeah, it did. That's another story. So are we going to stand here all day gabbing or are you going to introduce me to your friends?" Maeve asked him, placing a hand on her hip, exaggerating her athletic and curvy body.

"Well, you met Ichigo, Minto is over there, this is Lettuce, Pudding, and Zakuro," Ryou said pointing to each one in turn, "everyone, this is Maeve, my sister."

Those two little words dropped like a bombshell, the plate Lettuce had been holding slipped from her grasp and shattered with a loud crash. Ichigo's mouth dropped to the floor and never recovered. Minto's tea cup clattered to the ground, spilling the remaining tea in the process. Zakuro's face softened at the corners as Pudding jumped up and grabbed hold of Maeve's hand. "It's nice to meet Ryou-onii-san's sister, NA NO DA!"
"It's nice to meet all of you, too. Finally, I mean," Maeve said and smiled, she picked up her golden chain and showed it to Ryou, "remember this?"
"Yes, I do. How could I forget? That was the day our parents died," Ryou said softly.

"They were murdered, and don't ever try to rephrase it in a nicer way," Maeve said, her tone commanding attention, eyes hardened, "but you will also remember then that I broke it."
"Yeah, so, why is it in one piece and why are you wearing it?" Ryou asked.
"Because I feel like I'm ready, after ten years with the monks and their ways, their teachings and trainings. I'm ready to accept the fact that I'm a Mew," Maeve replied as her head sunk to her chest in resignation, "but I'm ready mostly because I miss them and I want to take down the bastard that killed our parents," Maeve said a bit louder and raised her head, her eyes burning with a fiery passion.

"Wait, let me get this straight," Ichigo started, "first of all, you're a mew. You are Shirogane-san's sister, and Deep Blue killed your parents?"
"Yes, yes, and yes. I will NEVER forgive him, and I don't care if he's been taking over human bodies to attack, I will kill him, even if a human has to die in the process. Whoever he took control of has a weak soul, that's the only way Deep Blue would ever be able to take over his body in this weakened state he's been in since he attacked us and I fought back. He was fully alien then, using his own body, now he's just a floating soul, looking for a body to use, like a parasite. He will die, at my hand or at the cost of my life, whichever comes first," Maeve replied and pulled the rest of the chain up to reveal her pendant.

Ichigo and all the other mews were taken aback. "But that also means you've been around for ten years, why haven't you been helping us all this time?" Zakuro asked.
"Because, the day my parents were killed, I swore I wanted nothing to do with being a Mew. I thought that being a Mew had brought that fate upon my parents, but I've realized through the years that my being a Mew is the only thing that saved us, Ryou and I, from the same fate," Maeve replied.
"Girls, there's an alien downtown," Keiichiro called out from the top of the basement stairs.
"Maeve you can go or stay, whichever you feel like," Ryou replied.
"Ryou, we don't have time for this. I have to go," Maeve replied and kissed her pendant, "MEW MAEVE METAMORPHOSIS!" A blinding white light filled the room and soon faded to leave Maeve not much different from the first time she transformed. Her hair had turned to white with a single brown streak down the front, she had a pair of leopard ears and a matching tail, and a set of wings a bit larger than Minto's. Her outfit had altered greatly, she now wore a halter top with black trimming and black half-moons, puffs on her arms with brown trimming, a white mini skirt with matching half-moons, a garter with brown trimming, and a pair of jet black boots that went up to her knee.
"Are you all ready?" She asked the other mews who had also transformed. They nodded and headed out the door.
"Ryou, don't worry, I'll be fine, those monks didn't just teach me calculus," She said and winked to her brother as she flew out the front doors.

Downtown….

"LETTUCE!" Ichigo cried out as chimera grabbed Lettuce and shook its other tentacles.
"ZAKURO WHIP PURE!"
"STRAWBERRY BELL CHECK!"
"It's not doing anything!" Minto called out in exasperation as she shot the creature again.
"Stand back girls," Maeve shouted and called out her sword, "BLIZZARD!"
Shards of ice shot out at the creature and imbedded in its skin. The creature called out in pain.
"NOW!"
"STRAWBERRY BELL CHECK!
"ZAKURO WHIP PURE!" And other battle cries were heard ringing through the streets as the monster was blown to pieces.

"You may have defeated us this time," Kish started, Pai at his side, "but it won't happen again, new Mew."
"No matter how you try, you will fall to Deep Blue when he awakens," Pai added with a smirk.
"He didn't kill me the first time, I doubt he'll get a chance this time!" Maeve shouted at Pai with wrath in her eyes. Pai was taken aback.
"You're the one who put him into this state?"
"Yeah, you going to do something about it?" Maeve growled.
"Kish, back to the ship, we have some…battle plans to discuss," Pai added as he teleported away.
"That's it cowards! Run!" Maeve spat out the words like fire that burned. Pai flinched.
"We are not cowards, we just chose timely points to leave," He spat out his own poison.
"Sure, whatever you say, Alien," Maeve stated and walked back towards the café.

"She's got spunk, that one," Kish said.
"No doubt, just like you," Pai said.
"Reminds me of my sister, Shara," Kish muttered.
"Don't think about that, Kish," Pai said as they teleported away.

"It was the greatest battle EVER! You should've seen it, Ryou-onii-san!" Pudding bubbled.
"It was pretty awesome," Minto added.
"The monster got a hold of Lettuce," Ryou flinched, "and Ichigo and Zakuro and Minto attacked it trying to get her back, but it didn't do any damage, and then, out of no where, Maeve just attacks it with this thingy," Pudding said and held up Maeve's sword, "And boom! We attack it again and it's over. Then she had this really long and mean conversation with the aliens," Pudding finished in one big breath.

"Oh? And what did Maeve say?" Ryou asked with raised eyebrows.
"That they were cowards and that Deep Blue didn't kill me when he had the chance, there's no way in hell he'd be able to do it a second time around," Maeve replied.
"Actually, there is. See, animal DNA bonds differently when you're young, Dad didn't realize that you'd be much stronger as a teen than as a child, but you also were pure when you were five, which was an advantage over Deep Blue, your purer attacks burned him more because you hadn't seen the bad in the world yet. It's not going to be as affective anymore," Ryou replied.
"Well whoopee!" Maeve shouted, "I'm still going to kill him, so what difference does it make?"
"A lot. It's going to take a really long battle before you can defeat him," Ryou replied, "time to work up your stamina, girls."
"And I know just the way to do it!" Maeve shouted, suddenly perky.
"What?" All the Mews chorused.
"You can come with me to the Temple! We'll get you in tip top shape in no time!" Maeve exclaimed.
"China?" All the Mews repeated.

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Okay, a bit of a cliffy, and this is shorter than my last chapter, oh well. I hope you liked it. Read and review. And please, if you have an account log in so I can reply to your reviews.

-Silver