In The Dead Of The Night Chapter 4: Rain, a tokyo mew mew fanfic

Here we go, monsters signal the start again

Around we go, it's time to share our pain

When you see the red eyes it's time to cry

Because then it's your time to die

Mint blankly stared out at the vast land that her family owned and her eyes looked down contently at the cup of tea sitting on the small table next to her, the was nothing better than to sit out on the balcony with a good cup of tea on these warm summer nights. As she stared out towards the medium sized lake that was one of the many beautiful surroundings of her grand house, she saw what looked like a person in her garden near the lake, she watched worriedly as she thought that it could be a burglar but the intruder didn't do anything, only stand there as if they were lost.

Mint stood up and made sure that nobody was looking before her dark blue and beautiful wings popped out of her back and her feathery tail waved freely. Quietly and slowly she gently fluttered down to the soft grass of the house garden. Mint made sure that her bird body parts had disappeared before stomping towards the person.

As she came closer she could just make out in the darkness of the night that this person was a young woman, but it was too dark to see most of her features, all she could tell was that this person had dark long hair that freely flowed down to about her thighs and she wore a light dress.

"What are you doing here? Don't you know this is privet property!?" she questioned angrily as she roughly grabbed the woman by that shoulder and spun her around to look at her, she almost gasped at how cold she felt to the touch but managed to keep her stern expression as she glared hatefully at the intruder.

"There you are…" the woman said gently as she stared blankly at Mint, the bird girl's glare changed into an confused look "Oh I'm sorry, I should have said 'good evening' how rude of me…" she said as she apologised for her bad manners rather than intruding into someone else's property.

"Anyway… this is Aizawa family property! You're lucky I haven't already called the police, so unless you want me to you'd better get out right now!" Mint snarled furiously, the woman almost seemed angry at her and she gave her a look that was somewhere between a glare and a smirk.

"You can never own the land as it has been the home of many before you. Even if the land seems empty and lifeless it is never simply empty, it sings with the songs of the people who have came before, the signs are there, if you look in the right places." She stated as she glanced away from the girl in front of her and back at the lake.

"What the hell are you talking about? Are you one of those crazy hippies?" Mint asked annoyed, how dare this delusional person come into her land and then start talking crap!

"What do you think that is?" the woman asked in an almost casual tone and lifted up her arm, pointing out to something floating out in the dark lake. Mint merely shrugged uninterested and was more concerned with getting rid of this person rather than what was floating out in the water.

"It's small dark and shapeless, it could be a log but then again I suppose it could also be a small body" the woman said quietly as she continued to stare at the water "It could almost be a child's body, perhaps a young child that was mercilessly dragged into the deep water and now their beautiful corpse goes wherever the water takes it…"

Mint stared at her blankly before taking a few steps backwards away from her. The woman turned back to look at her, Mint could feel her eyes almost burning into her skin and the tension between them was so thick it was almost painful.

"You know… they deserve it, they always get what they deserve… those people…" the woman muttered staring strangely at the mew girl. Mint sighed this person didn't seem to be going anywhere soon, perhaps it would be best just to call the police… or an insane alyssum, whichever worked.

"Well… I have to go now, there's … someone I need to see to, and they need to be punished" the woman said before slowly walking away, Mint watched as she seemed to flicker in and out of sight for a moment before finally disappearing, the bird girl stared around in horror, where did she go? That was impossible!

After a few more moments of standing around mindlessly she decided on going back to her bedroom, she felt like she should go lay down somewhere after… that.

Once again her wings popped out and she quickly flew up to her balcony before someone had the chance to see her. She walked through her room and sat down on the large queen sized bed with blue covers and white pillows, she began to think about the strange woman, who on Earth was she? Why was she standing around in her garden and most importantly, how did she simply disappear like that? Was she another alien? … But then she didn't have large ears and the way she disappeared was different from the alien's teleportation. Mint sighed to herself as she lay down and stretched out her legs comfortably, why was everything in her life so strange?

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Mint looked around, how did she get here?! She was standing in a forest and completely alone, or at least she thought she was. Right time to find out where she was, she took in her surrounding and tried to make sense of it all. All around her there was nothing but the dark trees that seemed to give mournful groans as the winds blew around them. A chill ran up the bird girl's spin, it was horribly cold here, was it Winter?

A soft crying could be heard, it sounded horrible somehow, as if the person was in agony. Mint walked through the trees a little before finding a girl, probably not much older than herself if not the same age, sitting on the earth ground and crying miserably.

Mint felt tears prick at her own eyes for some reason, she badly wanted to make this person feel better, and she hated seeing her cry.

"Hey… what's wrong?" she asked softly as she gently kneeled down in front of her, the girl lifted up her heard quickly and stared fearfully at Mint as tears continued running down from her dark brown eyes.

"I tried to help them… all I wanted was to help them!" the girl cried, her eyes flashed bright red for a moment before returning to their original colour, Mint stared at her blankly, she felt like she knew this person somehow even though she had never before actually met her.

"Who? Who did you try to help?" Mint asked calmly, trying to get more information out of the girl. A loud clap of thunder sounded overhead and rain began to fall heavily.

"I helped them and now… now they this to us?! I hate all of them!" the girl screamed furiously and she grabbed Mint by the shoulders and shook her as she cried pitifully, Mint's face fell and she simply stared at her while the rain mercilessly hailed down on them.

Mint's eyes snapped open and she quickly sat up only to find that she was in her bedroom and it had all been a dream, she rubbed her eyes tiredly and shifted uncomfortably in the bed covers. That must have been the weirdest dream she had ever dreamt.

"Maybe I should stop drinking so much tea…" she muttered to herself quietly, before peering down at the empty cup on the bedside table that had once contained her favourite drink "Another cup of tea will clear my mind" she said aloud, snatching the cup and heading out of her room.

Ichigo padded downstairs and into the kitchen of her house and she was indeed very pissed off. Why the hell couldn't Ryou learn that Saturdays were for sleeping in till the afternoon? She mumbled to herself lightly as she entered the kitchen. Her parents had left an hour ago to go find some special offers on food, cloths and basically anything that was cheaper than it normally was.

She opened the fridge and peered inside at the nice collection of food that lay waiting for someone to come along and eat it all, a tasty bowl of strawberries immediately caught her attention, she eyed the red fruit but she knew that she couldn't really have desert for breakfast, she'd have them later instead. After continuing her search she went for the easiest option, cereal. She grabbed the bottle of milk and selected her favourite brand of cereal, Neko Nyan Munch, which ironically sounded more like a type of cat food.

On her way to the table she quickly switched on the radio and soon the song 'Sakuranbo' by artist Ai Otsuka began to play. As she poured the fish shaped crunchies into the china bowl she sang along with the song's chorus.

'Egaosaku kimi to tsunagattetai

Moshi ano mukou ni mieru mono ga aru nara

Aishiau futari shiawase no sora

Tonari dooshi anata to atashi sakuranbo'

She spooned a few mouthfuls of cereal in as she thought about the day ahead, it wouldn't be anything special, just working at the café, how boring. To make it even worse it had been raining non stop since last night.

The song on the radio suddenly cut out and was replaced by static sounds, Ichigo stared at it, wondering whether the bad weather was effecting the signal, the strange sounds became louder and it almost sounded like a human voice growling and choking.

"… I ….sttttthate… iiii ggrrrr haastttteeii shhhhhh hate you sssssss iiiii haaatte stttttttttsss" the radio shortly cut out completely before returning to the song.

"Bright-Eyes, I think, I think Ikari got the nasty person, yes I think" Tamala murmured to the little cat that was comfortably cradled in her arms, the cat turned it's head to stare at the girl with it's bright blood red eyes. "It was very … fun, the person screamed very loudly… yes when Ikari played with her, yes" the cat meowed softly and Tamala nodded in agreement. "Yes, it rained that day too, yes," she said as she gazed around the park and then back up at the dark sky. The cat stood up and leaped off of the girl's lap and disappeared before it landed on the ground.

"Hi Tamala-chan na no da!" she looked up to see Pudding running towards her, smiling happily. She aloud a small smile to appear on her pale face, Pudding sat down on the bench beside her almost giggling. "Did you wait here for me na no da?" the mew girl asked, Tamala thought for a moment, she actually hadn't but she was going to spy on Pudding anyway… So nodded and watched interestedly as the smile on Pudding's face grew bigger.

"Let's get out of this rain na no da" Pudding said standing up and waiting for Tamala to do the same, which she did.

"Do you like the rain? Do you? Yes? No?" Tamala asked as she tilted her head to the head lightly.

"Yes I like it na no da, but I don't like getting wet in it na no da" Pudding answered honestly.

"… I don't… it makes me think of things, yes it does, very bad things, no, no bad" the strange girl said as she stared blankly towards the dark clouds high up in the sky.

"What kind of things na no da?" Pudding asked curiously but with a slight tone of sympathy in her voice, she knew that Tamala wouldn't answer by the way she was staring at her. Pudding shrugged her shoulders and looked towards Café Mew mew.

"Come on Tamala-chan, Pudding has to go to work but you can come and Pudding will get you some yummy cake" she said and grabbed hold of her friend's hand, her bright brown eyes widened when she felt how cold Tamala was. "Are you ok na no da? You feel very cold na no da" she asked worriedly, Tamala stared blankly at her and nodded.

"I'm cold… all the time, yes, yes very cold, freezing" she replied as if it was nothing to worry about. Pudding's face fell slightly but then regained it's previous smile.

"Come na no da! Let's go get cake for Pudding and Tamala-chan!" she grinned and lead the way towards the café while holding onto her new friend's hand.

Cybil-kitty- Hey another happy chappy, whoo! I was inspired to write after playing The Lost Crown, heehee. Also you know those nice little starters I do? You know it's either like a poem or a character's thoughts; those are incredibly hard to come up with! Writing those are annoying! But I like them… pahh… and remember to review!

Yes the song on the radio was Sakuranbo by Ai Otsuka and here's the English translation

Your smile blooms; I want to become one with you,

If we can see something in the distance.

A couple in love, a happy sky...

Together forever, you and I are cherries.