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.
~*~
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.
~*~
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!
