I DIDN'T GET GROUNDED!

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Chapter nine: The final mew, lucky number thirteen.

"Hang on," Zari said then jumped on top of a sky scraper. "Having fun back there?" Zari asked as she turned her head to see Shikyo smiling.

"Ya!" she said, giggling.

"What's so funny?" Zari asked.

Shikyo giggled again."Look down."

Zari looked down and saw that the skyscraper was missing! She nearly had a heart attack, but luckily she put two and two together: Shikyo was making her float.

"Okay, set me down, please." Zari nervously said.

"Okay!" Shikyo said, floating them down in the middle of a crowd.

Citizens pointed and panicked because a Mew was in the area and that usually meant trouble.

"No trouble here, folks. I'm just on patrol!" Zari reassured them, then jumped away. "Okay next time let's land in an alley."

"Okay!" Shikyo smiled cheerfully and put a smile on Zari's face.

"Mew Mews! Come back to the café! We have a situation!" Keiichiro yelled through the pendents.

"Looks like we're going back!" Zari said, taking off towards the café. When she got there, she saw dozens of people trying to knock down the doors and demanding cake.

"Holy crap!" Zari yelled then landed behind the café, turned back to her normal form, and entered through the back door.

"Thank god you're here! Go get changed and get ready to open up," said a flour-coated Keiichiro.

"Right." Zari replied, going to go get changed. She came out and began waiting tables, with Shikyo still on her back. Zari wondered why she was getting big tips until she heard a married couple whisper."Look at that, a teenaged mother who has to take her child to work. Honey, let's leave her a big tip."

"Crap!" Zari said, then took Shikyo to the kitchen and gave her a piece of cheesecake. "Wait here, I have to work," Zari said, leaving.

Three hours later the last of the customers left and Zari had a big pocket full of money from tips.

"Who knew having a kid on your back for ten minutes would get you big money?"

"Pudding. She always gets big tips 'cause people feel sorry for her and she performs tricks." Kea whispered as she walked past the carameled haired girl.

"ZARI! Your kid's calling for you!" Melody yelled from the kitchen. Zari groaned and walked into the kitchen to see Shikyowith light pink cat ears. She looked like she was crying and Hogosha was floating near her.

"Weren't her cat ears red?" Zari asked.

"They change when she's sad or at ease." Keiichiro said.

"Oh, What's wrong?" Zari asked as she got to eye level with Shikyo.

"The cage dream." Shikyo sniffled out. Zari pulled her into a hug and picked her up.

"It's all right, nothing will happen to me or my friends."

"What about Chocho?"

"Who?"

"The girl with big orange braids, black eyes with gold dots in the middle, and orange and black butterfly wings."

"Um, she'll be alright also."

Shikyo shook her head."She's going to really hurt her boyfriend." she said as she pointed to Kea.

"Um, I promise she won't, okay?"

Shikyo eyed Zari doubtfully but smiled and hugged her.

"How about we go and get you some new clothes? You've been wearing that pink nightgown that doesn't even fit you."

"Okay! Only if I get to keep this though, Mama made it for me." Shikyo said as her cat ears turned red.

"Alright! Anyone else want to come?"

"I'll come." Zakuro said.

"So will I!" both Jason and Mint said at the same time.

"I can't! I have homework!" Ichigo whined.

"Your loss. RICH SUPERMODEL IS PAYING!" Kea yelled, running outside.

"No need Zakuro, I got major tips today." Zari said.

"Can I come?" Kurimu asked.

"Yeah! The more the merrier!"

"I'll go!" Melody said as she set her Warrior book down.

"All right, then! Let's go!" Zari said, swinging Shikyo onto her back then went outside and saw a huge white limo.

"Who--"

"I called ahead, and I'll pay. Take it as a thank you for saving my life." Mint said, then elegantly got into the limo. Everyone followed Mint's example and tried to elegantly get into the limo.

Once everyone was in the limo, Mint told the chauffeur to drivethem to the mall. After twenty minutes of driving around and mindless chatter they arrived at the same mall where they had first found Zari.

"Everyone scatter! Meet back here around whenever! Before dark." Kea said, then followed Jason and Zakuro and received some dirty looks from them.

Mint went with Zari so she could buy Shikyosome new clothes, and Kurimuand Melody went together and aimlessly wandered around.

"How about that store?!" Zari yelled as she pointed to a store with streamers and toddler mannequins in the window.

"Why? How about that one?" Mint asked as she pointed to a store full of toddler formal wear.

"Well take a look at whose back she's on, and I want her to be comfortable when I'm jumping around as a mew."

"Fine, we'll go to your vulgar choice, but after we get to go in my choice." Mint whined, walking into the 'vulgar' store. Thirty minutes later, they walked out of the store with fivebags in each hand filled with clothing and Shikyo wearing a pair of pink sweats and a matching tee-shirt.

"My store next!" Mint cheered, briskly walking over to the formal clothes. After about an hour of arguing with Shikyo and Zari, Mint was finally satisfied and they left the store.

Meanwhile Zakuro, Jason, and Keawere wandering around and stopping every five seconds to look at something.

"Oh look over there! A smoothie store! They better have raspberry!" Keayelled as she ran towards the smoothie stand.

"Can we ditch her?" Jason asked.

"That would hurt her feelings."

"So?"

"I know she a bit annoying, but she's our friend," Zakuro said as she saw Kea strangling the smoothie venderthen saw five huge guards pull her away.

"Can we go now?"

"Sure," Zakuro said then turned around and started walking away. "We'll go get her when we leave." she added. Jason just laughed and ran to catch up to her, and somewhere in the far-off distance the screams of two girls could be heard.

"THIS IS AWESOME!" Kurimu yelled as the indoor roller coaster went up a huge hill and screamed at the top of her lungs as they went down. The coaster stopped at the bottom and let all the dazed passengers off; the two snow mews couldn't even walk straight.

"Let's go on the ferris wheel!" Melody yelled.

"Alright! I think we had to many sugar busters!" Kurimu joked as she ran with Melody to the ferris wheel. They waited in line, then paid for their ride and got in.

Behind them was a huge guy with a bandage on his nose and in front of them was a girl with blonde hair who was curled up in her seat, sleeping. The seat rocked back and forth as the wheel started turning.

They were reaching the top and had a marvelous view of the mall.

"Hey look! I can see Kea taking on the guards!" Melody exclaimed, pointing to their delinquent friend who was jumping all over the place and kicking guards in their faces.

"You know her?!" boomed the voice from behind them.

The two turned around and saw the big guy who looked mad and nodded their heads. The big guy evilly grinned then took a long steel bike chain out of the bag beside him. He spun it, then started hitting the rusty bolts that held their seat in place. The girls screamed, but the operator just thought they were scared and ignored them.

When they reached the top of the ferriswheel, the bolts on the left side finally gave out and Melody slid out of the cart. Kurimu grabbed her hand and pulled her in the best she could. The operator saw her dangling, stopped the ride, and called for the rent-a-cops.

The girl from the cart in front of the mews woke up and turned around and saw that the other side was about to give out. The girl acrobatically jumped out of her seat onto the metal structure and began jumping through the bars to get to the girls, but her foot got caught on one.

She harshly pulled until she heard a rip and saw that she was free, but her jeans were ripped all the way up to her thigh. She ignored it and continued weaving in and out of bars to get to the girls.

"Yo! Grab onto my hand!" she yelled with a strange accent as the last bolt was about to give. Both girls jumped at the same time and they each grabbed one of her hands.

A few seconds later the blondegirl began glowing white and the two girls began glowing their mew colors. Then balls of the original five mews' colors flew in the center of the girls and glowed white and grew bigger until it tapped each girl and they were blown apart.

Melody landed in the fountain, Kurimu landed in a roller coaster seat and the blonde girl who had greenish-blue eyes landed in a hot dog stand close to Kurimu.

Kurimu jumped out of the seat and ran towards the girl and saw that on her thigh there was two skinny tails that formed a heart then changed into a fox tail and a cat tail that formed a cross.

"Hey! Is she okay?" a soaked Melody asked running over to them.

"I think so, other than the fact she has meat in her hair," Kurimu said then pointed to the hot dog bits in the girl's hair.

"Ouch. What was that?" the girl asked.

"I'm not sure, but I do know one thing!" Kurimu said pointing at the girl's mew mark.

"Whoa! It's different."

"We haveone too!" Melody said, tilting her head to the side and moved her hair to reveal a heart with cat ears on her jaw line and Kurimu showed a snowflake made of fox tails on her shoulder.

"Whoa! Does this mean I'm part of a cult?!"

"No, you're a mew mew."

"Hey I've heard of those! Recently there have been more spotted."

"Yep! That's us!" Kurimu said.

"But the thing that confuses me is why your mark changed," Melody said.

"It felt like." the new mew said as she stood up.

"Oh! I'm Kurimu and this is Melody!" Kurimu said.

"Satou."

"Come meet the rest," Melody said, hooking arms with Satou while Kurimugot the other side. They carried her away to places unknown, also known as the children's stores. The three girls found Mint and Zariarguing and Shikyo on the ground trying to push them apart.

"Zari! This is Satou; she's a mew," Kurimu announced

"Hi! I'm Zari and this is Mint!" Zari said, picking up Shikyo and swinging her onto her back."And this is Shikyo."

"Hi, sweet to meet you all." Satou said.

"She saved our lives!" Melody yelled.

"Really! How?" Shikyo asked.

"We were on the ferris wheel and this huge guy behind us heard we knew Kea and he got this chain out and started hitting the bolts that hold our seat up. The bolts came off and we were going to fall but then Satou jumped out of her seat and ran over to us and caught us before we fell!"

"Then we got blown apart," Satou plainly stated.

"Um, okay. Let's find Zakuro and the others," Zari said.

"There's more?" Satou asked then was dragged off toward Zakuro and Jason.

After mindlessly wandering around for hours, Mint had had enough. She pulled out her phone and dialed Zakuro's number and heard Zakuro's ring tone coming from behind her. She turned around to see Zakuro coming out of a store with her phone in her hand. Mint waved to Zakuro and she and Jason walked over.

"Who's that?" Jason asked.

"Guess mew!" Melody said.

"Oh. Hi, I'm Jason. You know that line is lame as lame can get," he said.

"Zakuro," she said, ignoring Jason's remark.

"The model?" Satou asked.

"Yeah."

"I'm Satou, I'm very pleased to meet you all."

"Haven't met us all yet." Zari said," You still have about ten more to go, I think, plus a lot of enemies."

"Ten!"

"Well, the next one on our list is very much like you," Kurimu said.

"Where is Kea?" Zari asked.

"Got arrested," Zakuro plainly stated.

"For what?" Satou asked.

"Assaulting the smoothie guy, destruction of mall property, assaulting a rent-a cop, disrupting the peace, the list goes on," Zakuro said.

Zari held the bridge of her nose and muttered something about the small ones being the most dangerous.

"All right everyone! Pay up! We need to get Kea out." Zari said, then put her hand out. The mews reached into their pockets and pulled out random money and change and put it in Zari's hand.

"All right let's go," Zari said, then walked towards the mall jail. They were just down the hall and they could hear Kea's screaming and the rattle of the bars.

"Let's hope she's not in a straitjacket," Jason mumbled.

"I think I'm afraid to meet this girl." Satou said.

"Don't worry! She doesn't bite! I think," Shikyo cheerfully said.

The group walked into the room and saw Kea jumping around the cell like a monkey and some of the bars were bent.

"I think I just shit myself," Satou said, staring at the wild girl.

"KEA! CHILL!" Zariyelled and Kea stopped jumping around and stared at her friends.

"Hey guys!" Kea said sweetly. Zari shook her head and went to the guards and gave them the money. They reluctantly opened her cell and gave her a dirty look as she ran towards her friends.

"Thanks Zari! You're the b-- Ow!"

Zari grabbed Kea by one of her ponytails and pulled her out of the room.

"What the hell were you thinking!?"

"I wanted a raspberry smoothie."

Zari hit Kea behind her head, then grabbed her ponytail again and started walking away.

"Guys, we're going to the café!" Zariyelled as she turned the corner.

The group of teenagers ran after them and drove to the café.

"Ryou, we're back!" Zari yelled as she kicked the doors in and saw Ichigo, Lettuce, Pudding, and the aliens in their uniforms cleaning tables.

"Did you find the last mew?" he asked as he came out of the basement.

"Yeah, But something weird happened. Kurimu, explain please."

"Me?! Oh, um, well.... We were in a Ferris wheel and the guy behind us-"

"Conta." Zari interrupted, matching the description Kurimu gave to Conta.

"Conta, found out we knew Kea and started hitting the bolts of the seat with a chain. Then Satou jumped out of her seat and ran over to help us and tore her pants in the process. But after a few seconds we were blown away from each other and her mew mark changed." Kurimu quietly said without making eye contact.

"Did you touch both of them at the same time?" Ryou asked Satou.

"Yeah, I think."

"Well, that explains it. If more than one Mew that has transformed touches a Mew that hasn't, the one that hasn't transformed will take the animal of the other two," Keiichiro explained.

"What was I supposed to be?" Satou asked.

"We were expecting, well, um--"

"A naked mole rat." Ryou coldly interrupted.

Satou quickly ran to Kurimu and Melody and wrapped her arms around their waists as tightly as she could.

"I LOVE YOU GUYS! THANK YOU SO MUCH!" she yelled.

"Um, you're welcome." Kurimu said unsurely.

"So what animals am I?!" Satou asked, giddily jumping up and down.

"Snow leopard," Melody said.

"Arctic fox," Kurimu said.

Satou began screaming her head off.

"I take it you like those animals," Jason said, covering his ears from her shrieks.

"YES!"

"Okay, before you shatter my eardrums, go get dressed," Ryou said, then handed Satou a box with a white ribbon.

"But I thought we weren't opening the café again!" Ichigo complained.

"Do you want to say that to the raging teenagers outside?" Ryou asked.

"No!" everyone said.

"I guess that means you guys aren't strapped for cash anymore." Kea said.

"You! No talking!" Zari said.

"Okay."

"Ah! IT'S A DRESS! WHAT THE HELL!?" Satou screamed running out of the changing room with a maid outfit like the others but in creamy white.

"Or course, this is a café and you're--"

"Just wear your pants under it. I do." Kea said, then got hit in the head.

"You're not allowed to talk until I'm happy and calm," Zari said then crossed her arms over her chest and walked into the changing rooms, followed by the remaining mews.

Everyone came out dressed and opened the café yet again.

"Za, can I have a cookie?" Shikyo tiredly asked as Zari came into the kitchen for people's orders.

"I don't think so, I think you need a nap," Zari said.

"But I'm not tired," Shikyo said, yawning and rubbing her eyes. Zari smiled and picked Shikyo up from her stool and carried her upstairs to Keiichiro's bedroom.

"Go to sleep." Zari said, then left. Soon after, Shikyo was deep in dreamland, also know as nightmare hell.

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Shikyo didn't know what was going on but she knew the important things: it wasn't good, and she didn't like it.

Blood painted the walls; her friends were in a cage crying; Kea was banging on the bars trying to get out and screaming Makai's name; Zari was holding Koran through the bars who had blood pouring out of his side; and a dark silhouette with glowing blue eyes was cackling. Shikyo began panicking and ran out the door.

She ran into a room and saw a boy with slick black hair hanging from a rafter with his black tongue tied around the rafter and his neck. Shikyo walked passed the hanging boy to where she saw the red-and-black boy laying in a corner with blood on the side of his mouth, and the girl with butterfly wings and a huge sword in her limp hand dripping with blood, on the ground with blood coming out of the inside of her thigh.

Shikyo had a feeling that all her friends were dead because of her and she fell down to her knees into a puddle of blood and began crying. Then Hogosha appeared out of her grim reaper doll that was in Makai's limp hand and floated over to her. He patted her on the back and held her in his arms. Then, out of nowhere, Mew Zari appeared in front of her and limply walked over to her.

She fell to her knees and put her hand on Shikyo's shoulders, then pulled her into a hug.

"Shikyo, wake up! Please, Shikyo, wake up!" Zari yelled, then her lifeless body fell to the ground.

Shikyo shot up and felt cold sweat flowing down her forehead. She looked around and saw she was surrounded by the mew team, and Hogosha had her in his arms.

"Are you okay?" Zari asked, her voice lined with concern.

"Um, yeah. Just a dream!" Shikyo said, then Hogosha shook his head.

"What does that mean?" Melody asked.

"He know's she's lying. Her dreams aren't really dreams, they're the future." Ryou said.

"What?!" Ichigo asked.

"Oh and who's paying for the giant hole in the wall?" Ryou asked as he turned where the wall to the outside was suppose to be.

"I will, she didn't mean it." Zakuro said.

"Okay, then. I'll be downstairs, try to keep her under control." Ryou said then left.

"I"m gonna kill him!" Kea said as she walked towards the door but was held back by Mint and Lettuce.

"I'm not stopping you. He keeps referring to her as an animal." Zari said then picked Shikyo up from the bed..

"What was your dream about?" Zari asked as she carried her downstairs with the rest behind her.

"You guys were in a cage again and Keawas jumping around the cage calling for the big tooth boy, blood was everywhere, and Zari was holding the black cat boy through the bars and he had a big owieon his side. Then I ran into another room and saw a boy who looked slimy and he was hanging from the beams on the ceiling from his own tongue and Makai was dead in a corner and he had my doll in his hand and the butterfly girl had blood on her sword and she was dead, then I woke up." Shikyo explained.

The entire café was dead silent. No one even knew what to say.

"Shikyo, could you repeat that?" Kurimu asked. "I don't think we heard you
right."

"I had a dream and all the people you were fighting were dead and you guys were in a cage, some I think were dead. But I don't think they killed each other, there was a figure that I couldn't see. I can never see it in my dreams," Shikyo told them.

"Did you see Koran?" Zari asked, on the verge of tears.

"I think he was the first to die."

Zari let out a strangled sob as she collapsed into a chair.

"Zari get a hold of yourself," Ryou snapped.

"How'd you feel if someone told you your boyfriend was going to die, and there was nothing you could do about it!?" she screamed. Zari jumped up from her chair and dashed upstairs.

"Smooth, blondie." Kishu smirked, leaning back in his chair. Ryou glared at him and kicked said chair out from underneath him.

"Did I do something wrong?" Shikyo asked quietly.

"Of course not," Lettuce told her, cradling Shikyo's head next to her chest.

"Shikyo?" Kurimu asked, kneeling down to her eye level. "Do you have dreams like that all the time?"

The Kemon girl sniffled. "Sometimes."

"And do they ever come true?"

"Sometimes." She sniffled again.

"Like when your mommy and daddy died?" Kea asked, leaning over Kurimu's shoulder. Shikyo sniffled again, and burst into tears.

"Oops." Kea muttered, backing away slowly.

"I don't believe it." Jason announced.

"What are you talking about?" Zakuro asked.

"The whole destiny bit. The average human makes an infinite number of decisions in their lifetime. It's impossible to accurately tell what each person will become in their life."

"So, you think the same thing holds true for the Kemons?" Zakuro asked.

"Unless they've already all dropped dead, then yes," he replied.

"Well, they haven't!" Keiichiro shouted, running up from the basement. "It's another attack at Tokyo Bay!"

Zari ran back into the room and transformed with the rest of the mews.

"Wicked!" Satou yelled, admiring her white pleated miniskirt and matching halter top. "I have a tail!" she shouted, holding up her fox tail.

"Hey! Quit petting your ears and let's go!" Kea said to Satou who was petting her white cat ears.

"Right! I'll pet my ears later." Satou said, then they all ran out of the café to the location of the attack.

"Are you guys sure it'll be okay to bring Shikyo? What if they recognize her? It didn't take Koran long to figure out that she was a goddess," Jason said.

"They'll have to deal with me to get to her." Zari said.

"Same here," all the mews said.

"We're almost there! Just in case, try to hide Shikyo. Don't bring attention to her," Pai said.

"Got it!"

The Mew team arrived at Tokyo Bay and saw that all hell has broken loose. Mugoiwas flying in fast circles making whirl pools in the water and a girl with butterfly wings was flapping her large wings, causing a twisting wind.

"Chocho!" Shikyo yelled.

"Shhh. Don't let them hear you!" Zari said.

"Hey! Enough with the flapping! You're giving me whiplash!" Kea said.

"Come and make me!" Chocho said.

Kea flew toward Chocho at top speed and rammed into her. They fell to the ground, causing a huge crater in the concrete. They both got up as if nothing happened and circled each other like lions ready to pounce.

"Kea! We need a plan! You can't just attack like that." Zakuro said but Kea ignored her and kept her eyes on Chocho.

"Looks like batty's gone. Mews, this is Koganeiro, but you can just call him Koga. And that little hellion is Chocho," Makai said, pointing to a slimy-looking boy, then to the butterfly girl."So who's fighting who?" Makai asked.

"I have the red fox!" Koran immediately answered.

"No, I think I'll take her," Makaisaid, knowing that he hit a nerve.

"No, I'll take her," Koran said through his teeth.

"No I insist," Makai said, pretending to be formal.

"I decline," Koran said then ran towards Zari.

"Fine, I'll play with the blue bird," Makai said then charged at Mint.

"Figure out who'll you'll fight yourselves!" Grainiun's voice boomed.

The Kemons charged at random directions towards random mews and began fighting.

"Hi Kitty!" Shikyo yelled as she waved to Koran.

"Hey. So what's this dream I hear about from inside your head?"

"Shikyo predicted the future and it isn't pretty," Zari said, then thought about what Shikyo said. Koran turned his attention to Shikyo and concentrated on the dream.

"Come Shikyo, let me in," he said. Shikyo closed her eyes and Koran smiled then dug around in her subconscious. Koran's smiled faded and his eyes widened at the images he saw. He sat down as if someone had knocked the breath out of him, looking as if he had seen a ghost.

"Koran? Are you okay?" Zari asked as she cautiously approached him.

"No. I saw how I was going to die, how my friends were going to die, and more importantly, how you were going to die."

"It's okay. Me and the Mews are going to do everything we can to stop it," Zari reassured, pulling him into a hug.

"So that's the girlfriend you keep betraying us for," Makai said, then did a back flip to dodge one of Mint ballet kicks. Makai ripped out his fang, turned it into his sword, and slashed at Mint, but she flew out of the way and kicked him in the face.

"Damn birdie! Feisty today, aren't we?" Makai teased, then got kicked in the stomach. Mint was kicking Makai so fast that he couldn't even see her anymore, got disoriented, and fell over. Mint smiled triumphantly and walked over to Satou and Kurimu, who were fighting Koga, or trying to.

"Ah! Don't touch me with that!" Kurimu said as she jumped out of the way of Koga's long black tongue.

"Come on, girlies! You know you like it," Koga said then shot his tongue at Kurimu.

"First date, no tongue!" Kurimu yelled, bashing her staff down on his tongue. Koga jumped back and swallowed his tongue back into mouth.

KEMON KOGA SCOURGE!

Koga's tongue shot out of his mouth. It hit Kurimu on the neck and she fell to the ground.

"Kurimu! What's wrong?!" Satou asked.

"I...can't feel....my...body." Kurimu strained out then went completely numb.

"Gotta love the DNA of a golden coqui." Koga said then shot his tongue out at Satou, but she turned and dodged it.

SUGAR STAFF!

A white, arm-length staff with a giant heart diamond on the top and a rainbow of all the mews' colors and two fox tails on the side appeared in her hand.

RIBBON SUGAR SWIRL!

A blue and white ball of light came out of the heart and swirled around each other until a ray light shot towards at Koga. Koga jumped out of the way and stood with his head tilted like he was thinking.

"Seeya! I might die here!" Koga said, then teleported away.

Satou and Mint stood in shock that he just ran away then remembered that they had a paralyzed mew on the ground.

"Zari!" Mint yelled. Zari looked over and saw Kurimu paralyzed and looked back at Koran.

"She'll be alright, just paralyzed. It's not like Aiyoku's attack." Koran explained.

"Mint! Satou! Get her out of here!" Zariyelled. Mint and Satou picked Kurimu up and ran off towards the café.

Curry saw the white goddess run off and felt something pulse through his body then turned his attention back to Jazz.

"That was short, I actually wanted to fight her," Curry whispered to himself as Satou ran out of sight.

"Yeah but you're fighting me! So deal with it!" Jazz said, quickly kneeing Curry in the stomach.

"You're fast," Curry said holding his stomach while sitting on his knees.

"Same animal as you," Jazz said as she petted her cheetah tail.

"Let's see who's faster!" Curry said, then quickly got up and tried punching Jazz. She crouched down, and he tripped over her and landed on his face.

"Smooth!" Jazz said, laughing.

Curry growled and stood back up in a offensive stance.

KEMON CURRY SCORCH!

Fire began spewing out of Curry's hand and formed a circle around Jazz.

SUN ARROW!

A huge gold bow appeared at Jazz's hip d and a little strap full of arrows appeared around her waist.

RIBBON SUN FIRE!

Jazz shot an arrow. The fire around her disappeared, and the arrow caught on fire and headed for Curry. Curry quickly side-stepped out of the way but the arrow skimmed across his shoulder, leaving a bloody burn and a burning sensation in his shoulder.

" Shit! A little pyro, just like me," Curry said then kicked Jazz in the shin, causing her to fall to the ground. Then he kicked her in the face. Jazz jumped up and kicked Curry as hard as she could in the ribs. She heard them snap. Curry held his side and teleported away.

"Jason! We have to get out of here! To many buildings and people!" Zakuro yelled. The mews began running away, Jason with Jazz in his arms, and the Kemons followed after. The mew stopped at a clearing in the mountain forest and Jason set Jazz down.

"I'm just... going... to....go to...sleep." Jazz mumbled, out then fainted. The mews just looked at her then began fighting again.

"Hey loser! Look what Chocho made for me!" Kaseki yelled at Taruto then pulled out a gun type weapon. He aimed the gun at a nearby hummingbird and pulled the trigger and a parasite alien came out and fused with the passing bird.

The bird grew a thousand time bigger and its beak became steel and very sharp. The Chimera Anima began flapping its wings together sending high-pitched sound frequencies at Taruto and Pudding.

Pudding threw her ring like a frisbee and broke one of the wings, and the bird plopped down onto the ground. The bird starting awkwardly flapping its wing and began inching closer and closer to Pudding and Taruto. It slashed its beak at Taruto, but he teleported above it and electrocuted it with his click-clack weapons. The bird let out a horrible shriek that caused everyone to stop and cover their ears.

"Hogosha! Make it stop!" Shikyo, who was crying, yelled, and cat ears turned pink. Hogosha came out of the grim reaper doll, flew over to the monster, and phased into in. Seconds later the bird stopped and shrunk down to its normal size, and Hogoshacame out with the parasite alien in his hand and gave it to Izzy.

"Interesting creature." Chocho said. "From the Shadow People Clan if I'm not mistaken," Chocho said as she walked over to Hogosha, whose eyes turned fierce and exposed razor sharp teeth.

Koran leaned towards Zari and whispered into her ear, "Get Shikyo out of here, or this could end badly."

Zari nodded and turned around to run, but she ran into Grainiun and fell over.

"Going somewhere?" Grain smugly asked. Chocho turned her attention from Hogosha to Zari and saw the girl with pink cat ears on Zari's back. Chocho swiftly ran over to them, pulled Zari up, and tried to grabbed Shikyo but Zari punched her.

"Let me see the girl," Makai commanded as he walked over to Zari.

"You want the girl, you'll have to go through all of us." Jason said as the remaining mews gathered.

"Well, you're about four mews short, so this will be over quickly," Chocho said.

"Make that three!" Satou yelled as Mint let go of her and she landed on Curry. She quickly jumped off and stood in front of Zari with all the other mews.

"Two!" Kanon said as she landed beside Satou.

"Took you a while!" Jason said.

"I'm sorry, I had trouble getting away from my dad. Oh! Hi! I'm Kanon," Kanon said as she notice the new mew.

"Satou."

"I know, Ryou told me everything on the way here."

"Sorry guys! The paralysis wore off, in case you're wondering!" Kurimu said as she came out from behind the trees, then stood besides her friends.

"Just give us the girl!" Chocho yelled.

Fuck you!" Kea yelled at her.

"Chocho, do you know who that little girl is?" Mugoi asked.

"I know she's powerful, and that's enough for me," Chocho said.

"It's Shikyo the goddess of death. And that's Hogosha, the guardian of the Shadow People," Mugoi explained.

"THE Shikyo?" Makai asked.

"We need some explanation over here!" Grainiun said as he motioned his hand at himself, Nukai, Takina, Kaseki, and Curry.

Mugoi sighed, as he ran his hand through his hair, "The legend of Shikyo and Hogosha. Shikyo used to be a normal Kemongirl until she hit age five and she stopped growing. Then one day a mob went to Shikyo's house because she was not like other Kemons; she has red ears but no tail. Shikyo got scared and her red ears became pink and her eyes glowed red. The mob leader stepped up to throw a torch through the window, but he stopped and dropped his torch. His blood began to boil and seconds later everything in his body blew up. The mob dropped their weapons and began bowing down to Shikyo. Then the high council came to Shikyo and appointed her the Guardian of the Shadow People, Hogosha, to be her guardian so that she'll never get scared again. So she was claimed a goddess because of her strange powers and Hogosha was sentenced to be kept in a doll until he was needed," Mugoi explained and all the mews just stared at him.

"Mugoi's the most cultured of all of us," Koran said to break the silence.

"Interesting. So hand over the girl, she's too dangerous to be with humans," Chocho said.

"Got to kill us first," Kea blankly stated.

"You're willing to die for someone dangerous and who isn't even human?" Makai asked.

"It doesn't matter to me!" Zari yelled as she moved Shikyo from her back to her arms.

"Can't we just let them keep her?" Koran asked.

"HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN WHY WERE HERE!?" Chocho yelled trying to intimidate him.

"Yes I have!" Koran yelled, apparently not intimidated.

Chocho went up to Koran, grabbed him by his shirt and glared into his eyes. "We are here because we are at war! Our people are dying and we need somewhere for them to go if we lose!" Chochoyelled then threw Koran to the ground.

"Who can forget the asshole making us do this," Makai muttered to himself.

"It's your dad!" Chocho yelled.

Meanwhile, Zari tried to make an escape, but Koga appeared out of the vortex and shot his tongue at her to stop her.

The Kemons turned their attention back to the Mews and got ready to fight, except Koran, who sat on the ground.

"Koran, get up, you oaf!" Chocho yelled then charged towards the wall of mews. Kea was the one to jump in front and caught her halberd with her sais.

"Why do you fight me?" Chocho asked as she stared at the small girl with anger burning though her eyes.

"Because of what you did!" Kea yelled then pushed her sais up and kicked Chocho in the stomach.

"She hasn't done anything yet Kea!" Zari yelled.

"She will!" Kea viciously shouted then lunged her sai at Chocho but the Kemon moved and the weapon skimmed her side. Chocho took a step back and closed her eyes.

KEMON CHOCHO DOKU!

An orange dust poured out of her sword and caused Keato fall to the ground.

"Jason!" Kea muffled out. Jason left the circle of protection, started flapping the dust away, and helped Kea up.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, just a little numb."

"You didn't get enough of the dust in your lungs to become paralyzed!" Chocho yelled in frustration.

"Jason, go help the others." Kea said, then walked towards Chocho with her sais in her hands.

RIBBON KEA JINX!

Chocho dodged the balls of light and jumped up in the air. Her sword landed in Kea shoulder. Kea let out an ear-splitting scream and Makai's eyes widened like he had seen a ghost. He dropped his sword, pushed Chocho out of the way, and kneeled down besides her.

"Kea? Kea, are you okay?"

"MAKAI! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Chocho yelled.

Grainiun stopped attacking and let out a booming laugh. "It happens to the best of us."

"What?!" Chocho fiercely asked.

"Intagliare." Grainiun stated then started laughing. Makai's eyes got even wider; the hair on his animal parts stood up; and his tail went in between his legs.

"N-No! I don't care about her!" Makai lied as he stood up.

"Makai, you intagliare. Admit it." Grainiun said with a smug smile on.

"N-no I didn't!" Makai said as his face flushed red.

"What does it mean when you intagliare?" Kaseki asked.

Grainiun let out another booming laugh. "It means he's in love with the bat!"

"Intagliare means crave in Italian," Zakuro said.

"He craves her. Her smell, her body, her voice, everything," Grainiun explained.

"NO I DON'T!" Makai yelled.

"I can't believe I didn't see it before!" Chocho said then hit her forehead. Her eyes widened. "Oh shit!" Chocho yelled, then took off running away from a deranged Makai.

Koran walked through the circle of people defending Zari and stood next to her. Zari gave him a confused looked.

"When a boy Kemon intagliares, they fall in love with someone. It's like love at first sight and if someone harms the one the Kemon intagliares, the Kemon will go crazy and protect her. The girls, however, don't intagliare like the boys. When they get intagliared, they intagliare on that person. But sometimes there are odd cases," Koran said, then looked away with a blush-tinted face.

"Is that what happened to you?" Zari asked, a blush on her face also.

"Hmmm, maybe," Koran said then smiled at her.

"Another one?" Aiyoku darkly asked. "Guess that explains why he kept betraying us."

"Grainiun! Get the girl and get back to headquarters!" Chocho yelled as she dodged Makai's sword.

Grainiun hit his fist together and electrocuted all the mews on the front line (Jason, Satou, Kanon, and Mint) and smiled in triumph.

"Let's go!" Koran yelled swinging Zari and Shikyo onto his back and took off as fast as he could.

"Curry!" Chocho yelled.

Curry stood in one place with his eyes widened as he saw Satou on the ground with her eyes closed.

"Curry!?" Chocho yelled, then kicked Makai in the shoulder.

Curry turned to Grainiun, and his smile was gone in a flash.

Curry ran towards Grainiun and bit him in the shoulder. Grainiun flipped Curry off and bashed him against the ground, causing a huge crater in the forest floor. Curry jumped up in the air and landed on Grainiun's neck in hopes of breaking it, but it didn't. Grainiun grabbed Curry by the ankle and threw him into the trees. Curry ran out on all fours, pounced on Grainiun, and twisted his arm.

"Fuck! I forgot how strong you are!"

"Takina! Nukai! Go get Koran and the goddess!" Chocho yelled, then kicked Makai in the stomach.

Takina and Nukai took off running after Koran as fast as they could and had him in sight within minutes.

"Zari!" Shikyo yelled then buried her face in Koran's back.

"I got this. Koran I'm trusting you to keep her safe!" Zari yelled, then jumped off his back and landed in front of the two oncoming Kemonswith her bell in her hand.

RIBBON ORANGE BELL FOX CLAW BITE!

Takina and Nukaiboth were blown back out of sight and Zari began running to catch up with Koran.

"Got'em," Zari said, then ran besides Koran.

"Where do we go?" Koran asked.

"I think the café will be best," Zari answered, then the two picked up the pace. Within minutes they arrived at what used to be the pink castle. The café was still in its castle shape, but the walls were metal, there were no windows, and it look like the door was bolted shut.

"Um, that's new," Zari said, then stopped at the door in front of a security camera.

"Um, hi? Anyone in there?" Zari asked waving at the camera. Locks could be heard from the inside as they unlocked. The door slide open and Ryou pulled them in.

"We saw what was going on through Masha and Izzy. We should be safe here; I took DNA samples from metal that is reinforced with diamonds and adamantine should be strong enough to stop them," Ryou said, then knocked on the greenish wall.

"Wow! This must have cost a fortune!"

"It did. Now, take Shikyo to the basement and into the security room we built," Ryou said. Zari and Koran took Shikyo down to the basement and went down another flight of stairs to a room that look like it was made of the same stuff.

"Has titanium in it as well as the other stuff," Keiichiro said as he helped settle Shikyo in.

"Wow. I feel like I'm at my own military base," Zari said, then sat down on the bed with Shikyo.

"Let's hope it's enough." Koran said then sat down on the other side of Shikyo.

"Is this all because of me?" she asked.

"No! Remember the cage dream? We don't want that to happen," Zari said.

"Kem-- I mean Koran! We need you to defend the café with the other mews!" Ryou yelled through an intercom.

"Gotta go. Bye," Koran said then kissed Zari on the cheek and left the safe room. He ran outside and saw Ichigo standing on the roof, then the others stood up and stared at him.

"Are you with us Koran?!" Ichigo yelled. Koran nodded, jumped up on to the roof with the mews, and crouched down to hide next to Makai, Curry, and Mugoi.

"Who have you intagliared on?" Makai asked the sixteen-year-old bat Kemon. Mugoi looked over at Mint, who noticed him and turned away, blushing, and Koran gave Mugoia sly look. Above them was Hogosha, who looked like he was ready to destroy an entire planet.

The remaining Kemons came out of the forest, and they all looked pissed: Chocho, Aiyoku, Nukai, Takina, Grainuin, Koga, and a confused Kaseki. Everyone on the roof jumped down and formed a line in front of the café.

"So this is the path you've chosen?" Chocho asked.

The four Kemons nodded, "Any of you wish to join?" Makai asked.

Takina looked at the ground and walked over to them, followed by Nukai. Chocho looked at the two lovers in disgust and looked at Aiyoku.

Aiyoku nodded and stared at Kanon and to all the mew's surprise, she walked over to them!

"Hello. If you stay with us, you can be a mew all the time," Aiyoku enticed as she held the girl passionately.

"Okay," Kanon said, lost in Aiyoku's eyes.

"Aiyoku can bring people to her side by flirting with them, basically," Koran explained as he read all the mews' confused thoughts.

"So this is how it is? Just give you the girl and we won't kill anyone," Chocho said.

"Never! You can't have her!" Koran yelled.

"Makai, think of what your father will say." Chocho pleaded.

"I don't care! I hate that ass!"

"So it begins," Shikyo said from inside the fortress.


Intense!

I MADE ZARI THE MOMMY! I don't know why, I just felt like she would make a good mommy. If you would like to be relieved of your mommy duties I can make someone else be the mommy

Had to change Satou's outfit juuust a little.

Ever since I wrote Kanon/sakuuya's chapter I've been making the chapters more than ten pages! This one is bout 22!

I'm thinking of doing a rewrite thingy of this story from the Kemon's point of view. Should I?

I thank my Beta! thank you thank you thank ya!

I learned someting new from my beta and my teacher.(Shocker! my teacher actaully teaching?) You're suppose to put a comma after a statement, not a period. (i mean when someone speaks of course.)

Nearing the end I think. I may extend it a bit because it's all moving so fast. THEY JUST BARELY FOUND THE LAST MEW! And now they're going to have a final fight! I'll just fix that. Hehe.

I lost Curry's kemon attack, so I put down what I think it was, but I forgot what the description was.

Haha, you don't know how badly I wanted to give Koga a British accent. I havean x-men game and Koga is exactly like Toad and Toad has a British accent in the game.

Ripped off twilight and imprinting.

Adamant is not a real metal, got it from a computer game and another show.

Hello people! I ran into a problem with the story so the next update will take EVEN LONGER! I won't be able to write until I figure out my problem, it's pretty pathetic.

Thank you Zephyr for the transition to the fight.

Note to self: intagliare: crave.(Italian)

I have no clue what a sugar buster is, but my mind says it's a ball of flavored sugar. Yummy! Just found a new invention!