Tokyo Angel's Friends
Chapter 8 – Lonely Wolf! – Part 2
"I'm sorry but I have no intentions of working with you" everyone's eyes widened in surprised before this confession…"I don't need any friends" this shocked them even more, some were even gawping….Mint on the other hand was in the verge of crying…
"But…you're the final member that we finally found! Onee-sama!" she hugged her from behind but the woman immediately repelled the hug and pushed her away, Mew Mint fell on the floor
"Stop that!" exclaimed Zakuro "Girls like you are annoying!"
"B-But…"
Zakuro ignored them all and walked away from them, leaving behind her shocked partners and guardians with her words…
Mint stood there in the middle of the café, sitting down on a chair, looking at the void, her brown eyes with no life, her right hand lifted while holding a yellow flower. All the others in the background stared at her with a worried look. She has been like this for two days, ever since the encounter with Zakuro…
"That's the face of a person who is shocked right?" asked Ichigo
"You think…?" ironized her guardian devil
"Well…she was told 'you're annoying'…by her idol, that's totally excepted" said Miki, they sighed and returned to look at the blue haired girl who was still exactly in the same position…just then the clock rang, signaling the 15 hours. Ichigo's face lit up as she got an idea.
"Hey, Mint! It's tea time!"
The girl slowly turned her head to them, her eyes still empty "Ah…okay…" she turned back to the table, put down the yellow flower…what happened next made everyone's expressions change from a little worried to shocked and seriously worried!
"M-Mint! T-That's not a cup, it's a…!" luckily the girl caught up and stopped right in time, just when she was bringing up the vase of flowers to her mouth, she moved her eyes to the vase…
"It's a vase…" everyone just slapped their foreheads
"She's seriously ill…" murmured Sulfus, Ichigo stood up with a determinate look on her chocolate brown eyes as she stomped off in the direction of the kitchen, the others just followed. Ryou and Keiichiro looked up when the whole group entered.
"Ok that's it Ryou!" exclaimed Ichigo trying to look mad at the blond boy "We need to seriously talk!"
"And what exactly do we need to talk…?" murmured the blond in his usual relaxed tone
"W-Well…" suddenly she just seemed to have lost the courage to talk about the subject when she again looked at her blue haired friend; Sulfus just sighed and talked for her
"We've been wondering if Zakuro is truly a member of the Mew Project…"
"She transformed, didn't she? I think it's obvious…"
"Will you stop playing dumb? You were the one who told us to go figure out but you already knew!" yelled Ichigo "If you didn't then how would you know that the fifth member was in danger two nights ago?"
The blond looked away "Maybe…" a vein popped on the head of the strawberry haired girl, the others all started backing up once they saw it because they knew perfectly well what would happen if Ryou keep teasing her like that…
"HEY! She said in front of ALL of us that she had no intentions of joining the team, she was CRYSTAL CLEAR! We're all supposed to be together, the FIVE of us and all the eternals! But how are we supposed to do that if she has said something like that!" keep screaming the girl "We're doing our best to fight all together, it's NOT easy for us to fight and try to have a normal life but you said we need the fifth member to defeat the enemy! But now this happened, how are we supposed to deal with this! It's because this happened that Mint is in shock and is walking around like a GHOST!"
Just as she finished saying this everyone but her saw Mint "floating" around while holding the same vase of flowers, everyone just stared worried at her, forgetting about the whole speech of the Mew leader…noticing everyone wasn't looking at her anymore, she looked behind her but saw nothing
"And why are you so mad?" asked Ryou
Two veins
"WHAT THE HECK DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?
"It's up to her to decide if she wants to join in or not…" said calmly the boy "Your job is to convince her to do so"
"Correction mister rich blondie, it's MINE and Dolce's job to convince her! Which we haven't managed! Since she can see us we thought we could talk to her without even transforming, hell even this time I'm siding with the sugary over there to convince her to join but she just ignores her! If she ignores US who are her guardians, then what makes you think that she will get convinced with them?" said Kabale, sort of tired of how calm Ryou was no matter how bad the situation was…
"It's not what I think, it's an order from me: Go and convince Zakuro Fujiwara to join the Mew Project"
Sulfus frowned and approached him, staring at him eye to eye "I thought we had settled here that we wouldn't receive any type of orders from you!" the boy just stared at him
"Oh? But I'm not ordering any of you, eternals; I'm ordering the Mew Mews to do so"
Two veins popped on the raven haired devil's head as he controlled the urge to jump on the blondie "They are not YOUR POSSESSION, you…you…" he stopped when Raf took his arm and pulled him away before he decided to strangle the teenager
"Leave him, Sulfus, he is not worth it…let's just go find Zakuro before Kisshu does it first" nodding, they all run out the kitchen, all of them with the determination of finding the model and bring her into the team.
"Be careful, she might be the enemy" teased Ryou
Ichigo still heard that and answered even if she was already out of the kitchen for a long time "That's completely out of question!"
As this all was happening, back in the alien dimension, Kisshu was reporting the events of the last attack he had launched upon the Mew Mews and the eternals
"Forgive me" he began "I'll produce results next time"
"And?" echoed his master's voice
"They should make contact with that girl again, I'm very sure of it. Although it has been two days, they won't give up that easily to try and convince her to join them. I'll use that opportunity…and erase them from this world" he affirmed
"However, I believe that Momomiya Ichigo's ability will come in handy in the future. So I would like to bring her to our side…" he suggested, yet unknown to his master that the true reason behind this suggestion was because he was slowly getting a forbidden interest in the leader…
"What about the rest?"
"I will erase them, of course…" he said as he raised his eyes now shining a red light…before he disappeared between the waves of the dimension…
With the others, they were standing at the moment of a huge queue coming from inside a mall, apparently Dolce and Kabale had found out that Zakuro had an appointment in that mall for an autograph session, the mews were between the many people who wished to have an autograph from the famous model, somehow they had managed to drag Mint with them. The angels and devils had preferred to stay in their eternal forms instead of being squeezed in the queue like their humans were, they were standing above the mews heads, floating and waiting for their turn to come.
"We could've used this method instead of going to do an audition" said Ichigo "We can make contact at an autograph session for sure!"
"Hum…you think so…?" murmured Lettuce not really sure of it
"Weeee an autograph! Pudding wants one too!" exclaimed the youngest one really loud
"But there are so many people in here…" murmured the green haired
"What are you talking about?" said Ichigo turning to the Mew Dolphin "You thought I would just sit and wait after what she said?"
"That's not exactly what she means.." said Miki sweatdropping "It's just you won't have much time to talk…" little by little they were starting to get closer to the model who was smiling at the people once she had signed their fan book with her autograph
"Thank you very much" said the girl after she had signed another one, Ichigo came up next with an extremely happy face
"Hi!" however Zakuro instead of smiling at her remained silent and emotionless…"I've something important to talk to you" she still didn't answer and the time was passing…the guard had to intervene
"Excuse me, could you just take your autograph and leave?" he said trying to sound the most politely he could
"But I've something important to talk about…"
"I'll choke the line behind you…"
"But I've something to talk about!" she insisted, she and the guard keep fighting back and forth while her partners just watched her with an embarrassed look, for sure they were wishing not to know her at the moment…her guardians just face palmed when she was taken away by two guards "Heeey! Let go of me! Put me down!"
"I was hoping this wouldn't happen…" murmured Raf
"With her anything can happen, get used to it…" answered Sulfus…
A few moments later, the group was standing on the top of a bridge, under cars would pass fast but they had their eyes on a certain black car…precisely Zakuro Fujiwara's car…Ichigo and Pudding were the ones leaning on the bars of the bridge and using binoculars to get a better view of the cars, trying to find her car. The eternals were just floating above their heads.
"I'm not sure if this is going to work…" murmured Raf worried, knowing perfectly what was the plan of her human once the car was right underneath them…
Sulfus rolled his eyes as he remembered the plan "It's NOT going to work but not even I can change this stubborn strawberry's head mind…"
"Can't we think of something…less dangerous?" proposed Dolce
"No, no, this IS going to work" insisted Ichigo very sure of her plan
"Target located, Ichigo onee-chan!" exclaimed Pudding as she took off her own binoculars, Ichigo leaned a bit more searching for the car…and she found her
"Alright, let's go!" she exclaimed as she jumped out the bridge, everyone yelled and tried to grab her before she had a fatal fall on a car but luckily they didn't have to do it…the bars of the bridge did that job for themselves, she was now hanging on the bars with the lace of her dress wrapped around the bar…everyone just sighed in relief
"I swear one day I'm going to have a heart attack with this girl…" murmured Raf. Seeing that they couldn't manage to get to Zakuro with stupid plans, they decided to stop by the small empty park to reflect about a better plan…Ichigo was sitting by the beginning of a slide, Mint on one of the bars, Pudding sitting on a swing with Lettuce behind her.
"The only way I see we can manage to get to her is to find her alone…" murmured the blonde angel who was sitting by the feet of Sulfus, he was hanging up on a swing
He continued for her "However nothing guarantees us that she will or want to listen to us…"
"Maybe she is just a hopeless case…are you really sure we need her to defeat that alien? For the seven hells, we're much more than him, counting with us, we're 14 against 1!" exclaimed Misha
Cabiria glared at her "Do you have to be reminded that even though we're higher in number, although we've always win, we've been beaten up by his "pretty" monsters!"
"No" said Ichigo firmly "I'm not going to give up on her…I refuse to believe that she is an enemy"
"How can you tell that…?" murmured Mint, after being so quiet the whole day
"Because…I saw it in her eyes" the girl looked confused "…they are similar to yours when we first met" the mew bird looked away and blushed but allowed a small smile to appear on her lips "That's why I don't think she is a bad person"
And so they decided to go to the studio where Zakuro was staying, by now it was already sunset and they were surprised when they reached the place…
"Nobody is here, no guards, nothing?" murmured Ichigo as she looked around, nobody was seen…it was so strange…
"Well this allows us to search for Zakuro better" said Kabale
Dolce looked around "Yes but this place is huge, we'll never find her unless…"
"Unless we split" finished Sulfus "And that's exactly what we're going to do, we're going to split and we'll go two by two, that way if one finds Zakuro, the other can go warn the rest" everyone agreed and split in different directions
But the minutes went on and nobody was getting anything…either about Zakuro or about the others…
"Sulfus it has been about twenty minutes, nobody says anything…" started Raf "This place isn't a castle, even though it's big, someone should have found her already…" the devil looked at his lover and nodded in agreement
"You're right…plus my sixth sense is telling me that something is wrong…"
"Mine too…you think…something happened to the others…?"
"I sure hope not however…" he reached out and held her hand, at the sudden contact she blushed and looked up at his amber eyes "…if there is danger I won't let anything happen to you"
Raf smiled but couldn't help giggle a little at his words "Well thank you Mr. Devil Knight but you know I can defend myself" he chuckled and pulled her close to him
"I know but I still can protect my girl, can't I?" she blushed at the word 'my girl'
"Come on Sulfus, it's not the right time to be romantic, we've something to do" she said, although she didn't want to be separated from him, she really wished they could find some time to be alone, just themselves and nobody else but going between the classes and fighting aliens was a bit hard to find that little time spot for them…the devil sighed and nodded, knowing that his angel was right, they knew Kisshu was after Zakuro and they had to find her before he did…
The two of them approached another door and went through it since they were still in their eternal form "Nothing here either" but right when they were about to leave, the room started waving around, the door and the window disappeared and everything turned dark
Raf exclaimed "W-What's going on?"
Sulfus tried to go through where he thought a wall was but just ended up hitting against it, the blonde angel helped him up "It's a trap…" he murmured
"That means…"
"That means that Kisshu is here and knows we're here too, he planned all of this! That's why we don't know anything about the others, they must have been caught as well…damn that alien…" he cursed, suddenly the floor disappeared right under their feet and they fell into a dark hole…
"I'm going to call someone…" warned Zakuro as she turned around to face Kisshu
"I don't mind. Why don't you call for your friends instead?" he suggested with a smirk
Zakuro remained with the same emotionless expression "I have no intention to work with another"
"I know" he said as he approached her slowly "But if you work with me, you can revenge on them" he approached his face to hers
"Revenge you say…?"
"Yes" he smirked "Because, they made your body into what it is now…don't you think of returning back to normal? If you wish so, I can return it back to normal…"
"Onee-sama!" they both turned to face Mint, Lettuce and Pudding who had just entered in the room, both their eyes widened in shock when they saw Kisshu near Zakuro with a smirk, the girl instead stared at them with no expression…the mews misunderstood the scene and thought she was siding with him "W-Why…?"
"I-It can't be…" murmured the green mew
"Tell me you're lying, Zakuro onee-sama!" however the alien didn't give the mew the chance to answer her partners, he licked his lips and a sand ball started forming in his hand
"I got you all now!" he threw the sand ball at them and a tornado appeared around them, the girls covered their eyes and screamed, Ichigo who had seen the sand entered in the room
"Kisshu!" she exclaimed shocked "What are you doing to them?"
"This is your punishment for being late!" he threw another sand ball, more screams were heard and then…nothing…the sand disappeared as well as the three girls…the only thing left behind were Lettuce's glasses that fell on the floor…Ichigo's brown eyes were widened in shock
"No…" she said "What did you do to them, Kisshu?"
The alien chuckled "Simple, I made them disappear. And they won't come back…depending on the situation"
"Just you wait until the others-"
"No use" he chuckled "They're my prisoners too"
"What…you mean…"
"You got that right, I got them all…one by one" he laughed a bit
"Give everyone back!" she demanded
"Then how about this…" he started as he landed "The two of you fight…" they both were caught by surprise at this proposal
"What are you talking about?" demanded Ichigo
He chuckled again "The winner will have to work with me, and then I'll return all of them back…how about it?"
"That's messed up!"
"Then get used to the idea that they'll never return"
Zakuro closed her eyes and remained calm "Like I said, I don't work with-"
"Then you won't be able to return back to the normal" she glared at him, he keep his smirk on his pale lips "Think well about it…bye, bye" he disappeared in his vortex , leaving the two girls staring at one another…
The mew wolf was about to lean in to grab the fallen glasses of the mew dolphin when Ichigo slapped her hand away and grabbed them herself, she glared down at Zakuro when the last mew raised her eyes to look at her
"This all happened because of you! If you just had become a member in the first place…"
The mew stood up and walked away "This has nothing to do with me…" she murmured as she left the room, leaving Ichigo to cry the loss of her friends
It was night and Keiichiro was doing a re-search to see if he was able to find the three mew mews and the eternals "They seem to be all in the same place, those lights represent them" he said as he typed on the computer's keyboard "There's no need to worry, they're fine"
Ichigo sighed in relief "I'm so glad"
Keiichiro sighed and Ryou noticed the worry in that sigh "What's wrong?" the brown haired man turned to him
"It seems they're trapped inside a different dimension created by the enemy" he continued "So there's no way to rescue them…"
"That's not possible" said the leader
"In other words, they're not going to last very long" said Ryou
"I don't understand how you can be so calm! This isn't the time!" she said "We've to do something quick!"
"Then do you want to fight Zakuro Fujiwara?"
"I…" she murmured
"If the winner works with him, he will return them all. That's obviously a lie."
"Yes" agreed the brown haired man "By taking them all as hostages, he shaved off our power and is planning on crushing you and Zakuro-san one by one."
"Then what should I do? I don't know anymore!"
"Do you really believe that Zakuro Fujiwara is a friend?" asked Ryou, Ichigo looked at him "Can you believe in that?" the leader answered with a nod "I see, then go…and tell her your feelings"
"Shirogane…"
"A path might be created if you do so" she seemed a bit confused now
"I see" said Keiichiro with a smile "It might be possible to create a slit in the other dimension with her whip of light. Ichigo-san, she should be attending a live TV broadcast right now"
"Understood!" she run out the café, more determinate to get Zakuro on their side and bring all of her friends back…
"Where exactly are we?" yelled Misha "I'm in my eternal form yet I can't use any of my powers, not even fly!"
"We can't transform either!" exclaimed Pudding
Urie wrapped her arms around herself "This feels like that time when Reina sucked all of our powers…"
"Reina?" asked the mews
"Long story and it's not the right time or place to talk about it" said Sulfus as he turned to them "Even if we can't use our powers, there must be a way to get out of here…"
"Whaaa I can't see anything without my glasses…" said Lettuce
Miki gulped as she shivered and looked around "Be glad that you can't…this place is seriously creepy…"
"Hey are you authorized to enter here?"
"U-Um h-how should I say this…I…" stuttered Ichigo now knowing what to say
"You shouldn't get in without permission!"
"That's fine" said Zakuro as she approached the scene
"Zakuro-san…" murmured Ichigo
"If you say so" said the manager as she left, Zakuro looked at the strawberry haired girl
"Do you have something to talk about?" she asked
"Time is running out" she said "Shirogane said that we might be able to rescue them all with your amazing powers…"
"Shirogane…?" she murmured "So, those two bathed you with a weird light too?" Ichigo stared confused at them "I've no intention of helping out selfish people like them for whatever reason
"Please!" begged the leader "They're…they're my important friends…we can't even have one person missing!" she grabbed her hand and gave her Lettuce's glasses
"You…" she stared at the glasses "…didn't come to fight with me?" Ichigo widened her eyes and shook her head
"Zakuro-san, it's time!" called the manager, Zakuro started walking towards the studio, leaving Ichigo behind…she decided to remain on her place and watch Zakuro recording the live TV show…but things got complicated when Ichigo saw a light coming front outside, sensing trouble, she run out just to come face to face with Kisshu removing the spirit of the mew wolf's manager
In that time waves of sand started coming from every side of the dimension where the mews and the eternals were, they all gasped and looked around
"What's going on here?"
The sand approached them more and more until they all had their feet covered, they fell, losing the balance and the sand started covering them…
"Fusion!"
Ichigo closed her eyes from the light and when she less excepted Kisshu had grabbed her wrists and pushed her down, he on the top of her and she struggling under him
"What do you want?"
"It's troublesome if four other girls like you appear at once, let alone more of those…flying creatures" he said "But it's not hard if I do it one by one, but I won't kill you Ichigo…you're…really important to me…" she struggled more "It's no use, you can't do anything with your normal power" he laughed as a creature started appearing behind him "Now Zakuro Fujiwara can't transform…kill her first!"
At the moment Zakuro was holding a snake from the show…that was when she noticed the bigger snake that had just entered in the room…the Chimera Snake
"What the hell is that?" exclaimed the people in the studio when they noticed the huge creature
The chimera growled and moved her huge body, destroying everything in sight, everyone started running away scared, all of them except Zakuro who didn't know if she should transform in front of all those people…
"Let go of me!" screamed Ichigo trying to get rid of Kisshu's grip "LET GO!" she kicked him with her knee in the stomach, he loosened up his grip on her wrists to grab his in pain stomach, she took this chance to escape
"C-Come back here!"
"MEW MEW STRAWBERRY! METAMORPHO-SIS!" Kisshu frowned when she started transforming and lifted up in the air
"Go Garara!" he ordered the Chimera to attack, the monster growled and launched herself at Zakuro who still hadn't transformed due to being in front of all those humans, Mew Ichigo jumped in front of her with her arms wide open, the chimera ended up hitting her, the mew wolf watched helplessly as the mew leader was squeezed in the tail of the huge snake, running out of breath
"Z-Zakuro-s-san…r-run…"
"Why…"
"Because…you're a friend…" she murmured before releasing another scream of pain when the Chimera gave her another hard squeeze, cutting her breath for another moment, Zakuro's eyes widened in shock and surprise when she heard those words…Kisshu gritted his teeth when he saw the scene of Ichigo being squeezed by his Chimera Animal…no way in hell he had planned this to happen…damn she was really stubborn…that was what he liked about her…
"Garara, forget that Mew and kill Zakuro!" he ordered, the Chimera growled and released Mew Ichigo who fell barely conscious on the floor, then the monster sent a light towards Zakuro…and she was gone…
Kisshu landed on the floor, standing behind the fallen Mew Ichigo, he gritted his teeth again…why was he feeling bad for seeing her in pain like that…? Was he starting to care for her…? No, no, no and no, that couldn't be possible! They were enemies, he couldn't care for his enemy…he pushed all those thoughts away and kneeled down behind her
"She is not your friends, she ran away"
"It doesn't matter…I told her to do so…"
"Heh…you sure are obstinate…you're going to die for real at this rate" he said with a smirk "So? Do you want to work with me? If you do, I can help you…" he whispered those last words into her ebony ear
"Forget it…" she looked away
"You sure are stubborn…"
"I'm never going to work with you!" she exclaimed glaring at him with her rose eyes "Strawberry Bell!" she summoned her weapon, she stood up and crossed her arms to gather her power but…
It never came…
"What…why aren't my powers gathering…?" Kisshu chuckled
Screams from the other dimension were heard as everyone was being sucked inside the sand hole, they tried to find something to grab on but they were failing, at this rate they would die…
"This is the end! Goodbye cruel world!" exclaimed Pudding waving her hand in sign of goodbye
"Mew Mew Zakuro! METAMORPHO-SIS!" they heard the voice echoing through the dimension and looked up and saw none else than Mew Zakuro
"Zakuro!" exclaimed Dolce when the Mew landed on the sand
"What? Where?" Lettuce looked around not being able to see anything without he glasses, something that Zakuro solved by placing them on her eyes
"Hurry up and hold on each other and onto the whip!" she ordered and they did so, she threw the whip in the air and they were all thrown in the air, she jumped right after them, she then used her attack to open a path to go outside that horrible dimension
"Ribbon…Zakuro Spear!"
"You're really going to die, I-chi-go" said Kisshu smirking, the mew still tried to stand up…no matter what she did her powers just wouldn't gather…
"I'll never lose against you…" she murmured
Kisshu gritted his teeth but wasn't excepting the next reaction of the Chimera, it growled and launched herself towards the nearly fallen mew "Garara don't!" he yelled, Ichigo looked up
'I can't dodge it…'
But when she thought her end had come…
"FIRE FLY!"
"INFLAME!"
The red and blue flames were thrown right at the face of the Chimera who retired back immediately due to the pain, everyone already transformed and able to use their powers landed on the floor, Sulfus and Raf, who had their Fire Fly and Inflame wings activated, helped Ichigo up
"Are you ok?" asked Raf, the Mew leader just nodded
"Yes…I'm so glad you are all alright…" she smiled weakly
"What? How did Zakuro cut open the other dimension?" exclaimed Kisshu
"You won't escape this time!" exclaimed Mint as she summoned her Mint Arrow "Ribbon…Mint Echo!"
"Ribbon…Lettuce Rush!"
"Ribbon…Pudding Ring Inferno!"
"Ribbon…Zakuro Spear!"
"Fire Fly!"
"Inflame!"
"Sound Fly!"
"Ice!"
"Burger Fly!"
All together the attacks hit the Chimera Animal and blind Kisshu for a few moments
"Ichigo it's your turn now!" the mew leader nodded, now that everyone was here her powers were finally gathering together, she summoned again her Strawberry Bell and concentrated
I can feel it…I can feel everyone's powers…
"Ribbon…Strawberry…CHECK!"
The Chimera screamed before disappearing into mist, separating once again between the spirit and the alien parasite.
"What incredible power…" murmured Kisshu, then he closed his amber eyes and chuckled…then laughed "This is amazing. I can't break them quite yet!" he disappeared in his vortex
"We did it, we did it!" celebrated Pudding jumping up and down
"Zakuro…" started Dolce as she looked at her human "You've helped us…does this mean-"
"I…don't like friends…" she stated, everyone stared at her a bit disappointed but the girl turned around with a smile on her lips "But…" she looked at them "I'll consider about it in this case" the mews faces lit up and they all jumped on Zakuro, hugging her, the eternals just smiled glad that finally the Mew team was reunited
The moment of happiness ended when lights were pointed towards the Mews, they all stared at it confused and quickly changed their expressions to shocked when they saw all the cameras of the studio pointed at them
"Uh oh…" murmured Raf
"We will resume the broadcast. I don't know what happened, but five super ladies have appeared here"
"Y-You m-mean…" stuttered Ichigo "Is this being broadcasted live throughout the country, nya?" she blushed in embarrassment and started talking TOO much "Err…yea, well, we're from Tokyo's Café Mew-" only to be shut up by her guardians
"Keep that big mouth of yours shut!" exclaimed Sulfus as he and Raf pulled her away from the camera
"Don't say the truth!" said Raf
"R-Right…" but the curious humans approached them with the microphones
"Mew Tokyo?"
"Is that what you all are called?"
"You said Café Mew right?"
"So? Please tell us"
"Are you cosplaying?"
"Umm…haa…GET ME OUT OF HERE NYAAAHHH!"
TBC…
