So…I got back from a trip a few days ago, which is why this hasn't been updated for about a week. I will be leaving for camp on Sunday, so maybe I'll get two or three chapters before that. Please be patient. Also, if you know anyone who would enjoy this story, please, direct them this way. After I finish this story I will be rewriting some of my other stories as well, such as: Wild Strawberry, Kish's Tragedy of Life, and Thoughts. Thoughts is a follow up to this story, but if it doesn't end the same way as it did last time, Thoughts may be deleted… anyway, on with the show!
-Silver

Note: I'm pretty sure if you read the old version, I'm starting to deviate from my original story… More notes at the end of the chapter
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Maeve woke up early the next morning and started packing. As soon as she heard the other girls wake up she told them to do the same and headed down to the training room to meditate. She was met at the door by a tall figure with purple hair. "Pai, what do you want?" Maeve asked as she assumed a fighting stance.
"I want you to explain those," He replied and pointed to something near her head.
"What are you talking about?" Maeve asked.
"Your ears," Pai once again replied and motioned to her ears.
Maeve reached up and touched her ears and shouted, "DAMN!"

Maeve shot up from bed in a cold sweat. "Oh thank Kami, it was just a dream," She placed a hand on her forehead, pushed her hair out of her face, and looked in a mirror. She gasped, there, right in front of her, she had changed. Her face was paler and her eyes were more brilliant, as well as her teeth looking more defined. "What the hell?" She muttered, eyes wide. Maeve dressed quickly in a t-shirt that barely covered her midriff, a pair of skinny jeans, and headed towards the training room. She was pulling her hair into a ponytail when he appeared, just like in her dream. "Hello, Maeve," Pai said with a quick scan of her appearance.
"What is it, Pai? I really need some meditation time," Maeve grumbled.
"You meditate?" He said, eyebrows raised.
"Yeah, they taught us that here, plus, my mom said that my dad always liked to do that," Maeve replied and tilted her head to the side, "Why?"
"They teach our kind to do that in times of frustration or anger, that's why Deep Blue is so powerful, he doesn't release his anger," Pai stated with a strange look on his face.
"Good to know, Pai, now, can you leave?" Maeve growled.
"Till next time, Mew," Pai bowed and teleported.

Later on the Mews met up in the hallway in front of Maeve's room, "We're all ready to go," Lettuce stated.
"We'll leave in a few minutes," Maeve called out from inside her room, "I just have some last minute things to take care of."
Maeve was putting on make-up to cover the change in skin color, hoping and praying no one would notice the other changes. When she was finished she prayed to Kami, 'Oh, Kami, please, don't let anyone have realized what was going on. I don't need to be dealing with this right now.' And with that she emerged from her room, bag slung over her shoulder, pendant around her neck.
"Let's go home!" Ichigo shouted and ran out the door and down towards the road.
"Well, she's excited," Minto stated.
"That is an understatement, Minto," Lettuce said with a smile.
"Wouldn't you be excited too, if you had a boyfriend waiting for you back in Japan?" Ichigo stated with a goofy grin on her face.
"Remember what I told you, Ichigo," Maeve said solemnly.
"Yeah, yeah, but I haven't seen him in months, I have the right to be excited," Ichigo replied curtly.

Not long afterwards, the plane had landed in the airport when Maeve received a call from Ryou. "Moshi, Moshi, Maeve speaking," Maeve said brightly as she started the call.
"Konnichiwa, Maeve, it's Ryou."
"Oh, Konnichiwa, Ryou!" Maeve replied.
"A car is coming to pick you up with some…instructions. Just go with the flow, okay?"
"Sure, but I want to know what you're planning…" Maeve said and smiled as Lettuce and Ichigo looked at her with interest.
"Can't tell you, it's a surprise, now, just do what I told you, and everything will be fine," Ryou said with a joking tone.
"Alright, see you, Ryou," Maeve replied and hung up.
"What was that about, Maeve?" Lettuce asked.
"I have no idea," Maeve replied and turned her cell phone off.

They found the car easily, it was a limo parked out in the pick up lanes. "Is that our car?" Pudding asked with eyes wide.
"Yes, Ryou said there would be a car to pick us up. Get in, I have to talk to the driver," Maeve replied as the Mews climbed in.
"Miss Shirogane, I presume," the driver asked.
"Yes, that's me," Maeve replied, "Ryou Shirogane, my brother, said you had some instructions."
"I'm to take you to the mall and you are supposed to help the girls find dresses," The driver replied.
"Dresses?" Maeve tilted her head.
"That's all he told me."
"Thank you," Maeve said with a smile and climbed in, "Girls, we're going shopping."
"Oh good, I could use a new pair of heels," Minto said.
"Good idea, Minto," Ichigo said, "I could use a new swimsuit."
"We're shopping for dresses. Nice ones, from what I can tell," Maeve said.
"Why do you say that?" Lettuce asked.
"Look at the credit card the driver gave her, it's Ryou's," Zakuro said and pointed to the platinum piece of plastic in Maeve's hand.
"Woh…" Pudding said, eyes widening.
"Let's go!" Ichigo said excitedly.

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Alien Ship

"She what?" Kishu said, eyes wide.
"She had pale skin, light-jewel-colored eyes, and defined canines, like aliens," Pai repeated.
"That doesn't make sense, she's that guy's sister. How could she have alien features?" Kishu asked Pai.
"I'm not sure, it will require more observation, but from the way she reacted to my presence, it's happened before. To hide her features she was going to meditate, Kish. How many humans do you know, meditate?" Pai posed this question to Kishu with an air around him like he already knew the answer.
"Not many, but that doesn't mean anything, she gave you an explanation, didn't she?" Kish said with boredom beginning to seep into his voice.
"Yes, but, I've done research on her 'father', he did nothing of the sort. We've had people watching him since before Ryou was born, and he has never, in the entire 25 year span we've watched him and his children for, meditated," Pai replied as Kish's eyes grew.
"You don't think…that…"
"Yes, I do, and it could be his undoing," Pai replied gravely.

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Earth

The girls had successfully finished their shopping and were going to grab something to eat when people started screaming and fleeing the food court.
"What could that be?" Lettuce voiced aloud.
"Aliens," Ichigo and Maeve replied at the same time.
The two started running towards the food court to find it already deserted other than a large green mass that looked like lime Jell-O in the shape of one of the ghosts from Pac-Man.
"Ew…" Minto said as it spit out globs of green acid.
"Ew, is right, Minto," Ichigo replied and looked to Zakuro.
"How do we defeat something that could melt us to nothing?" Pudding asked.
"We don't, she does," Zakuro said and pointed to Maeve.
"I can freeze the acid bombs while the rest of you attack the chimera itself," Maeve suggested.
"Good idea," Ichigo replied.
"Let's go! TOKYO MEW MEW! MEW MAEVE METAMORPHOSIS!" Maeve shouted and transformed in a burst of silver light, her appearance was slightly altered, her entire body was pale as the aliens' and her uniform was silver instead of white.
"You okay, Mew Maeve?" Mew Ichigo asked Maeve.
"I feel fine, let's get rid of this glob of goo," Maeve replied with a wink just as an acid bomb flew at them.
"LOOK OUT!"

Maeve did not have time to launch an attack and the acid bomb headed straight towards them so instead she pushed Ichigo out of the way and was about to get hit when a pair of arms wrapped around her torso and pulled her out of the way as well.
"Let me go!" Maeve shouted and twisted around to find herself inches away from Pai.
"Are you sure?" Pai asked as Maeve looked down.
"Yes, I'm sure, I can fly just fine," Maeve replied, a blush creeping up her cheeks, causing her face to look like it was on fire.
Pai shrugged and teleported away, without Maeve, and she dropped a few feet before her wings were able to stop her fall. She smiled to herself and then flew to action and froze an acid bomb, "AVALANCE!"
"Thanks!" Pudding shouted and attacked the chimera.
"STRAWBERRY BELL CHECK!"
"LETTUCE CASTANETS!"
"RIBBON ZAKURO PURE!"
The chimera exploded in a rainbow of colors and slime.
"It's going to take a week to wash this out of my hair!" Minto moaned.
"Speak for yourself," Ichigo muttered.
"Maeve? Are you okay?" Lettuce asked and rushed over to where Maeve was kneeling on the floor with her head in her lap, body shaking.
"Lettuce, get back," Zakuro said.
"Maeve-san?" Lettuce repeated.
"Lettuce, I said GET BACK!" Zakuro shouted and barely had a chance to grab Lettuce and pull her back to the rest of the girls as a black light closed in around Maeve and formed a solid barrier, what looked like black electricity jumping from place to place on the bubble.
"Oh Kami…" Ichigo said eyes wide.
"What's happening?" Pudding asked and started to move closer.
"It's not safe, Pudding!" Lettuce grabbed Pudding and pulled her close.

Pai landed softly on the ground a few feet from the Mews. "This is not good," He stated and narrowed his eyes.
"Pai, do you know what's happening?" Ichigo asked.
"In a way," Pai replied, "I think it is like Deep Blue's transformation, which would confirm my assumptions."
"What assumptions?" Lettuce asked.
"She is one of us, just as she is one of you," Pai replied, eyes flashing.
"That can't be possible, she's Ryou's little sister," Ichigo replied calmly.
"Kishu and I believe that their mother had an affair with one of Deep Blue's siblings and it drove him over the edge, causing Deep Blue much pain. It is because of that pain and anger that Deep Blue became who he is, in a transformation like this," Pai stated.
"Will Maeve-san, be alright, Pai?" Lettuce asked.
"I'm not sure. Only Deep Blue and a few of our criminals have ever been through this transformation. Most go insane, others die, only Deep Blue lived."
"That's terrible!" Lettuce shouted as Pudding hid her face in Lettuce's stomach.
"It is, but we also believe she has a stronger will power. It also helps that she knew this was coming," Pai said.
"She knew?" Minto asked, eyes wide, "Why didn't she tell us?"
"Probably because she did not want you to worry she wasn't on your side," Pai stated angrily, "You never would have accepted what she said if she told you she was 45 percent alien, would you?"
"No, probably not," Ichigo replied with a sadness hinted in her voice.
"It was better for you not to know, but now the only thing you can do is watch. It is only safe for an alien to enter her fortress," Pai stated.
"One time you wish you had an alien on your side…" Ichigo sighed.
"I am on your side in this instance. We do not need a powerful alien on the loose, and at this rate, she will be very, very powerful," Pai said and walked into the bubble wall, disappearing from sight.
"I hope he can help her," Lettuce replied.
"So do I," Zakuro, "if he can't, we might all be doomed."

Many minutes passed, seeming like hours to the other Mews as they waited for Pai to emerge with Maeve, or for the 'fortress' to dissipate. Soon, the bubble seemed to become weaker, turned purple, then blue, then gray, and finally disappearing completely to reveal an exhausted, but very human, Maeve and Pai. Maeve was still on the floor of the food court, Pai sitting cross-legged right beside her. Maeve looked up and blinked at the girls, "Hey, guys," She said with a small smile, "sorry about that."
"Maeve-onee-san!" Pudding shouted and jumped on the girl.
"Are you alright?" Lettuce asked.
"I'm fine. I was just angry, I've been thinking about Deep Blue and my parents and it was bubbling up inside me, and then when Pai…saved me, something didn't make sense and it flipped some switch in my brain. I'm so sorry guys," Maeve replied her eyes pleading with them to forgive her.
"It's alright," Zakuro spoke up first, "it's important that you are in one piece."
"I really should kill you now," Pai said, "as part of my duty to Deep Blue. You could be the key to his undoing, but I do not feel right turning on you like that after helping you like this. Till we meet again, Mew," Pai finished and teleported.

"What happened in there?" Ichigo asked when they arrived at the café.
"Pretty much Pai jumped into the fortress, as he calls it, while I was slowly becoming an alien. It was painful. The ears make your head burn, it was like the alien blood and the human blood were fighting for control, nauseating really. I'm thankful you guys let him in, he was somehow able to help me fight to gain back control, and now I have the control I need. The good news is, if my human blood and Mew blood become exhausted, I can still draw power from my alien blood. Basically, I'm your secret weapon against Deep Blue, but Pai knows now, so we need him on our side," Maeve said with a crooked smile.
"Not hard, he's obviously in love with you, we'll just pull him over that way," Minto stated and Maeve turned red, eyes widened.
"She's right, we can all see it," Lettuce replied with a smile.
"He doesn't just save people from acid bombs for nothing," Ichigo added.
"Guys!" Maeve shouted.
"What?" Ryou and Keiichiro asked.
"Not you, them!" Maeve said and pointed to the five girls.
"What did they do?" Ryou asked.
"Nothing.." Ichigo and Minto replied innocently.
"Yeah right," Maeve said and headed up to her room with her bag.

"Okay, so, Ryou and I are planning a surprise party for Maeve's birthday," Keiichiro started when the original five Mews and the two of them were in the locked basement.
"Yes, and we want to throw a big ball like thing," Ryou said, "Maeve's always been into the Titanic and stuff."
"Titanic?" Pudding asked.
"American ship that sunk and only a handful of people survived," Ichigo said, "Great movie."
"Yeah, so we were thinking we'd deck out the café to look like the first class dining hall and have live music and dancing and things like that," Ryou butted in.
"Sounds amazing, so that's what the really nice dresses were for!" Lettuce said.
"Yes, and if you all would be willing to, you know, make her look really nice tomorrow night…that would be amazing, because she doesn't really try to make herself look good. The make-up she owns is just for show, she doesn't really use it," Ryou replied.
"Oh that would be fun! So are we going to close the café early?" Ichigo asked.
"Yes, with the same amount of pay you would normally earn. If you guys would all go to Minto's house, or Lettuce's house, or something and get ready and TAKE HER WITH YOU, that would be really helpful," Keiichiro said.
"Can do!" Pudding said and saluted.
"I'm with Pudding, this is going to be fun!" Ichigo exclaimed as Minto and Lettuce nodded and Zakuro shrugged.
"Now, you'll all need escorts, because of the times, Ladies never went to dinner unaccompanied, so find a guy, and have some fun," Keiichiro said and winked at Zakuro who only blinked.
"Fantastic!" Ichigo squealed and jumped up and down.
"Now go home, already, it's late," Ryou said and grabbed Lettuce's wrist when everyone else was gone and she was heading up the stairs, "but not you."

"Did you need something, Shirogane-san?" She asked politely, trying not to blush.
"Yes, would you mind if I was your escort, Lettuce?" He asked.
"Oh, um, are you sure you don't want to be Maeve's escort?" Lettuce replied as a blush crawled up her neck.
"We have made…arrangements for Maeve's escort," Ryou stated.
"Oh, well then, I'd be happy if you escorted me," Lettuce said as the blush reached her cheeks.
Ryou smiled, "Thank you, Lettuce."
"No, thank you," She replied and left.

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Okay! So that's the end of another chapter. This one is sort of…anti-climatic? Yes? Oh well, it's still good and it ties in a few things that I needed to start working into the story. There will be some party crashers, of course. Always are. Anyway, if you have any ideas for the story that you would like included, put them in your review!

-Silver

Note: Please remember that I am pretty busy and will only get busier the closer the next school year gets. I beg you to not just write 'update soon' or anything of the sort because I am doing my best. Thank you!