Chapter 2
Ichigo woke up, expecting some sign of Masaya, but then remembered he was gone. She sighed to herself and as much as she didn't want to admit it, she actually missed Masaya. She couldn't speak for her phoenix sister, Kira, but she guessed Kira was sad too.
Needless to say, Ryou'sbeing gonewasn't very traumatic, except maybe to Retasu and a few mothers who wished to make good matches. More often than not, the girls caught Retasu looking out at the ocean and making sighing noises. Often, Ichigo felt like joining her.
Ichigo quickly dressed and went down stairs to find that Kira and Keiichiero were already eating. "Here's your's, Ichigo," Kira said, pushing a plate of food toward Ichigo. She toyed with part of it, while eating other parts. When Kira finished Ichigo said that she too, was done. Keiichiero looked at Ichigo's plate, but merely smiled and said, "Fine. You two go out and play now, or do whatever it is you do." Ichigo and Kira laughed and waved as they exited thier humbled dwelling.
Mostly all of the men were gone, leaving a village full of women. Now, no one had given this much thought, but once word got around, the village would be invaded by northerners. They were much like the people of the mew mew clans, except they had long pointy ears and were very tall and skinny. They could float to and were very fast travellers and were called cuniclons for no particular reason. The people of the mew mew clans said that once an old wise man had been attacked and yelled something that sounded like, "sin icl ons!". These people also thanked the gods that the cyniclons weren't combined with animals the way the mew mews were.
Ichigo and Kira had barely met up with Retasu, Zakuro, Mint, and Purin when there was a slight commotion. "Come on, let's go see what's happening," Purin said excitedly and began running off toward the center of the happening. Ichigo, Kira, Retasu, Zakuro, and Mint swiftly followed.
In the center of all the hubub were three cyniclons. "This can't be good," Retasu commented.
The first was mounted on a large gray creature resembling an elephant in some respects. He had shoulder length dark green hair with small portions of it tied into sidelocks. The other two were equally spaced behind him. The older one had purple hair, all of it trimmed short except one lock of hair, neatly bound by a leather string, which was in front of his right ear. The last one was really short and resembled a midget with pigtails. He was the younger of the three.
The green haired one spoke first. "We in the north have heard that the men of your village are gone. Is that true?" A slight murmuring went through the crowd of girls and women. "Why does he ask this, Ichgigo-san?" Purin wanted to know. "Shh," Ichigo silenced her. Puring quieted down. "Oh, well, no need to answer that. We have come to take you away from here, to live with the cyniclons and join them with the mew mew clans!" He announced. "Now all of you line up in front of me. side by side!" He ordered. "Who are you and what are you doing here?" Ichigo shouted up at him. He looked down at her. "I am Kish and I'm taking you ladies back to marry cyniclon men since all of your men are gone," Kish put the plan plainly.
Ichigo trembled with fury. "You'll never get away with this. I won't let you." Ichigo glared up at him. He smirked at her. "And just what are you going to do?" She glared up at him with fierce wildcat eyes. "You just watch."
She stood back with her group. "Follow my lead," she whispered.
"Iromote Wildcat Transformation!" She called. A ghost of the wildcat seemed to leap into her. She closed her eyes as she was engulfed in white light. When it vanished there she stood, in a pink combat outfit. It was pink deerskin with shiny shells sewn onto it. She wore armbands of the same material and boots to match. Her hair was done up in two pigtails. A large pink bow with two shiny gold bells was ties around her tail and her neck. She held a heart shaped weapon with a pink bow and two large bells tied on.
"Phoenix Transformation!" Kira yelled.A transluscent phoenix jumped inside of her and she glowed bright with fire. Large fiery wings grew upon her back and the phoenix tail peeped out from beneath her skirt. She glowed a bright red and when it was done she stood back to back with Ichigo, holding a large sword made of fire.
Mint raised her arms and called, "Blue Lorikeet Transformation!" The blue lorikeet ghost jumped into her as the wildcat had done to Ichigo. In a shower of blue sparks Mint was done. She stood on Ichigo's right side, adorned in a blue leather outfit. Her lorikeet wings had been enlarged to fit her size, as had the feather tail. She word sky blue moccasins which matched her leather dress.Her hair was done up in double buns with two locks of hair down by her ears. In her right had was a blue crossbow, loaded and ready to fire.
Retasu stepped up and said, "Finless Porpoise Transformation!" She glowed a bright forest green and grew two white antennae on top of her head. Her hair broke out of its bun and into two long braids running down to her knees. Her green deerskin outfit nicely matched her eyes and two gold bracelets adorned each of her wrists, matching the necklace on her throat. She took her place on Kira's left side. Green and gold tanets occupied both her hands.
Purin summersaulted over Ichigo and Kira shouting, "Golden Lion Tamarin Transformation!" She glowed and monkey ears and monkey tail grew from her body as she landed in front of Ichigo. Her body glowed a bright yellow, like the sun, and when it poufed into a shower of glittering sparkles, she stood there in a yellow leather outfit, much like a leotard, only roomier. There were fingerless gloves on her hands and matching boots on her feet. in one hand she held a golden tambourine and in the other, she held a slightly smaller, but still rather large, brown ring.
Zakuro stood tall over them all and cried out, "Grey Wolf Transformation!" She glowed a bright purple and her ears and tail popped out. She was dressed in a leather two piece. The top went down to mid abdomen and had straps which extended over the sides of her arms. The bottom started rather low and only went down about ten inches from start to finish. She wore long high heeled boots and crossed her arms. One hand held a purple and gold ninetail whip with the handle in the shape ofa crucifix.
Kish looked at them confusedly. "So you wish to present yourselves to us in these ravishing clothes?" Ichigo trembled in fury.
She held her weapon in a dramatic pose and shouted, "Ribbon, Strawberry Check!" The heart shaped weapon unleashed a powerful ribbon shaped stream of magic upon the cyniclons. They were knocked off their large gray elephant resembling beasts. Kira stood beside Ichigo and shouted, "Ribbon, Phoenix Dragon Attack!" and she did a swirling attack move with her fire sword, igniting the ground surrounding the cyniclons. Mint took the stage next, "Ribbon, Mint Echo!" A flurry of mint leaves surrounded the northerners and Mint released three deadly arrows. Each one struck its target. The large gray elephant resembling beasts fell down dead. Kish turned on them, "So, you wish to play do you? Take this, Dragon Swords!" And the attack bolted toward the group of transformed mew mews. Retasu stood in front. She spread her arms and twisted up. "Ribbon, Retasu Rush!" and she brought her arms down. Crystal blue waters from the seashore rose up at her call and came rushing forward as a tidal wave. Retasu used them as a shield and deflected the dragon sword attack. As Kish was about to speak once more Purin bounced up and over Retasu shouting, "Ribbon, Purin Inferno!" She clanged the tambourine and ring together and spun around, when she turned toward the cyniclons, she wielded a fire ball of great magnitude. She released it upon them. "Dragon Swords!" Kish yelled once more and defended himself and his brothers from the fiery column of death. Zakuro stepped up in front of the girls. "Do you give up?" She asked. Kish stood, his brothers behind him. "We will be back," He said and they all vanished from the city.
Ichigo and her friends detransformed and a cheer rose up from the crowd, because, even though most of the men were in love with Ichigo and Kira's crew, they still realized the danger they had been in.
Ichigo and Kira walked home that night with full tummies.