Cherry was lying down and starring up at the black nothingness, her side was against the stone wall and her hand was still shackled with the chain to the wall. She couldn't sleep at all, she knew it was night time in her dimension but was too bored to catch some Z's.
She suddenly began to feel something disturbing the presence around her…Cherry stopped tapping her fingers and froze to listen carefully. It was a wavering sensation…a tall presence…she sighed, "Can I help you Kisshu?"
"How do you do that?" Kisshu said as he floated over and sat down beside Cherry.
"Instinct I guess. What are you doing up?"
Kisshu shifted uneasily, "Just thinking."
"You sound upset."
"How do you know?" Kisshu looked down at Cherry and nearly burst out laughing when he saw the annoyed expression stickered across her face. "Sorry Batty, sheesh."
"Why do you call me Batty?" She chuckled.
Kisshu shrugged, "Suits you."
"You think I'm crazy?"
"You know what I mean." Kisshu said.
For a long while the two just sat in silence and didn't speak. Cherry was trying to figure out what to say that could get him to start being friends with her. Her thoughts were interrupted when Kisshu shifted closer and spoke, "So how did it happen?"
"Eh?"
"Your accident?"
"Oh…" Cherry faced down. She was trying to be friends with him to get her home; she didn't want to talk about the horrible and painful experience she went through. Losing her sight was the worst thing ever; her eye sight getting killed was another thing.
"I'm not talking about that." Cherry stated.
"That bad eh?"
"Yeah."
"Agh I'm getting bored. Let's do something Cherry." Kisshu stood up quickly and began to stretch.
"Do…something? Aren't you sleepy?"
"No. Are you?"
Cherry bit the inside of her cheeks, "No…"
"Then let's do something." Kisshu suddenly unlocked the cuff on Cherry's wrist and pulled her to her feet. She nearly tripped when he had yanked her up so quickly, "Wh-what are you doing?"
"Lets play a game Cherry."
"Are we playing Saw or what?"
"What?" Kisshu asked confused.
"The movie?" Cherry figured he would know what a movie was but since his planet has no electricity they would obviously have no movies. "Never mind. What are we doing?"
"Hold on tight." Kisshu wrapped a playful arm around Cherry's shoulder and teleported out of the private green dimension. Kisshu floated to the ground and released Cherry. She stumbled a little then fell to the ground with an "Oof!"
"Can't stand?"
"A little warning when we are about to land would be nice." Cherry stood up and brushed the leaves off her pants. "Where are we?"
"Guess." Kisshu floated around her playfully.
"I thought we were going to play a game."
"This is a game. Guess where we are."
"I thought you meant a game we could play." Cherry said.
"We are playing, I get the satisfaction of seeing you guess where we are, and you get to guess."
Cherry groaned and figured that he wasn't going to tell her and he wasn't going to take her back to the dimension unless she plays along. Cherry got down on her knees and felt the ground carefully, it was grassy and her fingers dug into rich soil. Cherry crawled a little until she felt like she was coming towards a solid object, she stopped. With her left hand she lifted it up and moved her hand forward until she came into contact with the rough object, it was a tree. Cherry began to listen now. There were no birds singing or chirping, she heard crickets and shuffling of creatures in the leaves. It was a heavy animal that's for shore.
"Are we…in the woods?"
"Very good." Kisshu nodded impressed.
"Okay is that it?"
"Lets see if you can find me."
Cherry stood up, "What?" Silence.
"Kisshu? Kisshu?" Cherry turned her head and listened for a sound, "Kisshu! You can't be serious?" Cherry figured that he was, in fact, serious. She groaned and couldn't help but feel annoyed with his stupid games. She didn't have much fun out of it, she was giving him the satisfaction. Cherry stood still and listened to her surroundings. A soft summer breeze, leaves rustling, night creatures crawling, a wavering a few feet away watching her. Cherry began to walk towards the un familiar sound in the woods, arms outstretched, and used her ears to see. Her finger suddenly brush up a soft leathery material, she began to feel it more with both hands and smirked, "Found your foot."
Kisshu laughed and floated down to her level, "Not bad Batty."
"Thanks Kisshy." Cherry giggled.
Kisshu floated around her and whispered into her ear, "Lets make things a little bit more tricky." Then he flew off. Cherry listened quickly and felt the breeze heading west and on the right side of her body she felt the breeze being disturbed. Cherry followed the new winds direction and had her hands outstretched. She heard crickets hidden in the grass all around, except towards the left. Cherry turned left and dodged a tree when she felt it with her finger tips. Cherry wondered through the woods for a few minutes until she heard a wavering instead of the usual nature lullaby. Cherry felt around and found a tree, she leaned up against it and crossed her arms, "You can come down now. I found you."
Silence.
Cherry chuckled, "Kisshu I can hear you. You're a couple feet in the air."
"Damn your good." Kisshu floated down and leaned against the tree beside her. Cherry sighed, now beginning to realize how tired her body was and positioned herself against the tree to be more comfortable. While she did so, Kisshu was looking at her more closely than he had before. She was no Ichigo, that's for shore. But she was…something else. In a way she seemed much more stronger then Ichigo. Ichigo can hear very well with her cat ears but Cherry was ten times more powerful when it came to hearing. With sight? Not so much Cherry. Ichigo can see clear as day. Strengths? Kisshu smiled at the thought of having the two battle it out. But of course Ichigo would never hurt a fellow mew. Pathetic, Kisshu thought. But soon she will have no choice but to battle with Cherry once she was under his control. All he needed was her trust.
"Are we done playing?" Cherry sighed.
"What? Bored already?"
"It's not exactly the greatest game in the world."
Kisshu chuckled, "Then what do you suggest we do?"
Cherry thought about all the games she has played in her life, well truth or dare was out. Tag, defiantly not. Hide and seek, already played that. Charade's…oh yeah…she can't play that one anymore. Hm…well there is…
"I know what we can do." Cherry smiled.
Kisshu's curiosity peeked, "What is it?"
"Wanna race?"
"Race?"
"Yeah race." Cherry stood up and set her hands on her hips and smiled, "I used to be in track before my accident."
Kisshu snorted, "You're going to run into a tree."
"No I won't."
"How do you know?" Kisshu snickered.
Cherry smiled and pointed at her ear, "Because I'm a mew. My senses will guide me."
Kisshu floated to the ground and stood beside her, "Yeah but your forgetting one more thing Batty." He, once again, rose into the air and floated around her head, "I am very fast."
"Only when you're flying, I want it to be fair. You can't fly, just run."
Kisshu stopped, "Run?"
"Yes run. Is that a problem?" Cherry smiled. Kisshu lifted his chin high and confident, "Your on."
"So no flying?"
"No flying."
Cherry smiled and turned her attention to her ears and listened around…she could hear everything, but not enough. "Mind if I transform?" Cherry asked. Kisshu arched his eyebrows suspiciously.
"What for?"
"I want to listen for something." Silence. Cherry groaned, obviously he didn't trust her when it came to transforming. "Fine. I'll improvise." Cherry said as she rolled her faded eyes.
She closed her eyes and concentrated very hard on her mew powers. She couldn't transform completely but she felt like she could manage to bring them out a little bit…just a little. She opened her eyes a little and saw that the black nothingness was slowly turning red then back to black, it was working! Cherry tried harder to contact the inner mew inside and all of a sudden her furry brown bat ears popped up and her fangs extended. Half her eye sight was able to see in her UV rays but they were a bit bleak. Cherry listened with her bat ears and she was able to hear things further away then she had before. She heard a squirrel running through a tree away from an owl. A loose tree branch finally falling from the tree it was once a part of, and a small stream.
"Okay, there's a stream about a mile away in the east. That's our finish line."
Kisshu pursed his lips and nodded rather impressed, "Alright. Do you want to make it interesting?"
Cherry retracted her ears and fangs, "Interesting?"
"Yes, what if I lose?" Kisshu smiled. Cherry tilted her head to the side then nearly gasped but stopped herself, maybe this was another chance! Cherry popped her knuckles and began to stretch out her legs, "If I win you let me go. You take me back to café mew mew and leave, no questions asked."
Kisshu laughed then suddenly grabbed Cherry by the shoulders and pinned her against the tree, her blank eyes widened in surprise, "And what if I win Batty?" His voice sounded cunning and mischievous.
"What…what do you want?" Cherry asked. Kisshu grinned, "You stay with me for as long as I need you."
Cherry's eye brows arched, "Is that it?" Kisshu tapped her nose, "And, a kiss."
Cherry gasped, "You have to be kidding me."
"Nope. A kiss and you must stay no escape unless I release you." Kisshu floated up again and laughed at the shocked look on Cherry's face. "I'm not shaking on that!"
Kisshu shrugged, "Alright. I guess you're not as confident as I thought you were. Plus you have your chance to be free…" Kisshu taunted.
Cherry bit her lip, tempted to make the final deal so she can have the chance to escape. Ugh it was too hard a decision. Then again, what choice was there? Cherry toke a deep breath and extended her hand, "Alright…we got a deal." Kisshu smiled pleased and was about to take her hand but she pulled away, "But you must promise to not fly!"
He groaned, "Alright, alright. I promise."
"Okay…then we got a deal." The two shoke hands, sealing the deal and Kisshu walked cherry to her mark and he stood beside her.
"You ready to lose?" Kisshu said with a smirk.
"I was just about to ask you that." Cherry finished stretching her legs and made a running stance.
Kisshu chuckled and made the same stance, ready to go.
"Three," Cherry smiled. "Two," Kisshu chuckled. "ONE!" They toke off. Kisshu looked over and saw cherry smiling and sprinting off faster and faster by the second. He looked ahead and saw there was a tree coming up ahead; would he let her hit it? Just when Kisshu was about to push her out of the way Cherry clicked her tongue then dashed out of the way and ran around it.
"Keep up with me Kisshu!" Cherry laughed as she sped off. Kisshu clenched his jaw and sprinted faster than he had before. He began to catch up with Cherry and smiled when he saw her beginning to slow down. "Getting tired Batty?" Kisshu laughed.
Cherry smiled, "We will see who's tired!" She suddenly clicked her tongue some more before leaping high into the air and landing a few feet ahead.
Kisshu tilted his head confused, "What the, AH!" He suddenly fell into a ditch with a yelp, "Agh…" He rubbed the back of his head and began to remove all of the leaves and mud from his head and shoulders. He looked up and saw Cherry standing at the edge laughing, though she wasn't looking down but just having her head looking straight up but she knew he fell in, "Smooth Kishy. I'll see you at the finish line!" She saluted then ran off in the speed of lightning.
Kisshu growled then climbed out of the ditch as fast as he could so he can start catching up to her. Kisshu wanted to desperately fly but they had a deal. Kisshu sprinted, he sprinted like he never sprinted before until he was finally able to see Cherry dodge a tree and continue to run towards the stream. He snickered and pushed his legs to go faster. It felt like he was pushing the earth underneath him to spin for he was going so fast!
Cherry began to hear Kisshu catch up behind her! She quickly sped up but she still heard Kisshu's feet beat against the ground. They were locked!
"Getting tired Cherry?" Kisshu smiled as he began to get ahead of her.
"I don't…think so!" Cherry leaned forward and tried to run faster and faster.
Kisshu was right beside her, neck at neck, and pushing his legs to the limit! The both of them felt like the world had slowed to a stop just to see who was going to make it to the stream first. They both ran faster...and faster...and faster...until...
"I WIN!"
