Author's talk
Aki: Mwha ha ha ha ha! Finally, I can take control of this body, how glorious, after spending a long time as a spirit, now I, Aki, finally have a body! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Akira: Stroking his chin Mmmm... Actually, I should not have let you gain full control of this body.
Kai: Hey! Aki! Don't use my body to do weird things okey?
Aki&Akira: Too late, man.
Retasu: No! My First Kiss!
Akira: Mmm... I think I will not let this situation last long.
Chapter IX: Puppeteer
"Long ago," Aki begin the explanation as he receive intensive attention from the Mews "Apart from this world, there is at least one realm in another part of the dimension, its name is Pandemonium, and, for some reason, it's merged with this world, with only dimensional gates separate the two realms from each other. Those gates had never been opened before," Aki paused periodically between his explanations to check if he still has the audience's attention. Confirmed that the Mews listen to him with good attention, Aki continues "But twenty-four years ago, a civil war exploded throughout Pandemonium, many civilians have been killed, the king decided to retreat to this world with only a small group of royal attendants and their families with him." Ryou, at this moment, runs out of patient, stands up and ask Aki a direct question.
"That doesn't explains why those new kind of Kimeras exist in this world" he said.
Aki scratches his head in disappointment "Geez, that's what I'm going to explain, don't be so hasty" he said, Ryou gets back to his seat and listen. Aki then continues "After we fled from our realm, we decided to seal the gates shut in order to prevent the abomination spirits that are in pursuit for us from the fallen Pandemonium and our attempt was succeed, the gates to Pandemonium has been sealed" at this point, Ryou strokes his chin in an thoughtful pose then he asked "Then, why are those abominations comes here if the gate is shut?"
"That, my friend, is what I'm worried about" Aki answered
"I've predicted that there are cracks and leaks on the gate's seal and perhaps that's where the Kimera comes from, slipping out from the leaks, try to imagine how major it will be if the seals are destroyed" he then continued
"So why were the seals leak, I mean, there must be a reason somehow" Retasu asked up, still shocked with Aki's kiss ambush
"That's a good question and I have an appropriate answer for it," Aki grinned "The sealer of the gates is getting weaker and weaker and she will run out of her magic power soon, that's it"
"Can't we enhance her power?" Retasu then asked again
Aki glanced sadly at the long, green haired girl and sighed, Retasu's sure don't know that the sealer of the gate was perhaps her mother herself "We can't even summon her, she has lost all her memory after she sealed the gate, we must do it ourselves," he answered
Aki take a quick look around the group and continued "Here's the plan, Kai and I, we will enhance your weapons with enough magic power that can reseal the gate, then, you guys are to proceed to the gates, which are located around the world and shut them, once and for all"
"Wait a minute, did you said, around the world" Ichigo interrupted "Then how can we do that, I mean, even we're Mew Mews, but even I still don't have enough money to pay for seven air tickets around the world, not to mention the position of the gates" Minto added
Aki giggled, "Well, that's not the thing to worry about, I will make a contract with the UN to devise an escort and transport team for all of you" his voice softened, his eyes also changed, they looks more gentle than a short while before, in fact, the original Kai has regain of his own body "Sorry if my demonic part did something weird, didn't he?" Kai asked, all the audience sweat-dropped, stunned to a sudden change of Kai's personality, Retasu blushed furiously as she tries to hide what was going on when Kai is in his 'internal sleep' "Ehhhh… nothing," Ichigo answered "Except that naughty Aki has just kis… oops!" she continues, but as she is about to end the sentence, Retasu silence her, covered Ichigo's mouth and whispers to her friend "Psst… Onegai, don't tell him what happened, that's embarrassing!"
"Hmmm" Kai leans his face toward the two girls
"A Ha ha ha, no, it was nothing, right, Ichigo-San?" Retasu laughs nervously to hide her real expression
"Yep, nothing, nothing" Ichigo then added.
"Hmmm… ok," Kai sighed in relief although he knows that the girls has tell him lie "Then, where are we now, oh yes, the transport team is now clear to go, now I'm waiting for an intelligence support and some sat-recon from our ally"
"Ally?" The Mews asked in chorus
"Yes, the one we make a contract last night," Kai replied as he looks at his watch "he will arrive in three, two, one"
After Kai ends his sentence, sparks of light flashed and shows a figure of a tall man with lavender colored hairs and long, pointy ears, that's Pai, he take a quick gaze around and descends from the air, in his hand is a roll of paper which looks like a document of something. He turned to face Kai, and said "Sat-Recon completed, target coordinate identified"
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"Awake now," a sound echoed in Siana's head while she is sleeping in the infirmary. It was a rather hallow, half-wailing sound of a women, no matter how loud it echoes, it's loud enough to wake her up. Sia opens her eyes slowly, but instead of her usual innocent and joyous brown eyes, it was a pair of brown, lifeless eyes that lose its focuses. Sia gets up on both of her feet and walk weightlessly to the door as the voice echoes again "They're at the lab, the way in is hidden in the kitchen. Kill them all, and you will be free" the voice echoes an order to annihilate the Mews and their accompaniers. Sia opens the door and try to get to the kitchen, but once she is at the café's hall, she's been detected by Masaya, who comes here to visit his girlfriend. "Eh? You're," but the hypnotized girl don't let him stands long, Sia reaches her arms toward Masaya, she then expanded her palm and frozen mists, like that from her eldest brother, but the different is that her mist cannot froze objects, it can only sleep living beings. After Masaya falls asleep, with a force that appears out of nowhere, Sia carries him up and brings him to the underground lab.
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"Pai, upload the gates' positions onto the screen, please" said Kai then turns toward the Mews while the lavender haired alien input the code into his laptop "That's it, Gates' coordinate confirmed. Now, I will assign the Attack Zone for all of you" he continued
But before he could give any instruction, the lab's door flung open, in fact, the door panel is being throw off into the air and approaches to where the Silver-haired man stood. The Mews, and even Kim rushes to take cover and Kim tells his brother to do so Kai calmly steps aside and avoid the incoming projectile. Kai looks at the doorway, there, stood a figure of a girl with brown hairs and beside her, a levitating figure of Masaya. "Aoyama-Kun! Sia-Chan!" Ichigo cried out as she saw her lover unconscious state "What have you done!" She then asked at the girl, who appears to be Kai's little sister, a joyful, innocent girl who she'd just knew earlier. "Don't worry, he's not dead, yet, for I will kill him along with all of you" Said Sia solemnly and without any emotion, Sia then throw Masaya off into the air with her telekinesis, Ichigo managed to catch her boyfriend and prevent him from crashing onto the ground.
"Hey! Sia!" Kim shouted and put his baton onto both of his hands, he will try to get his sister back in consciousness, even if it means that he will be forced to attack her.
"That's no use, she is being controlled by someone from afar" Kai warned his brother as he tries to find a way to stop his own sister from annihilating him and his teammates.
Sia don't let her brother think long, she reaches out her left arm to her left, red vengeful aura shines around her and a blue energy sphere formed on her expanded palm "Enough chat, now die!" she shouted and threw the energy sphere at the team. The sphere rushes so fast that nobody can get out of the way and it seemed like the sphere is strong enough to vaporize everything it hits. Kai, without any panic, reaches out his right arm and expands his palm toward the incoming sphere. As for the sphere, it hits Kai's expanded palm directly, but an indestructible barrier, the same barrier that once protect him and Retasu from an unstoppable Kimera attack before, formed to stop the incoming sphere. The sphere faded away as soon as it hits the energy shield, it faded quickly just like a splash of water dropped onto hot steel.
"Siana sure don't know that she have such a powerful magic like this" Said Kai as he pulls back his reached arm and shakes his hand slightly, his right hand burned slightly to the destructive force from his sister. "Then, why do you do this, what is this cowardly attack for?" Kai asked angrily toward his sister to the one who controlled her no matter where he or she is
"A revenge" Siana replied briefly.
"For who?" Kai returned a brief question.
"You don't need to know, for you all will die here, and you, Kai, will be the first" Siana replied again and forms another energy sphere on her palm, this time it will be strong enough to breach Kai's shield and hit him directly. Kai turns around, adjusting his glasses, "Fine," he murmured and about response to the incoming threat by his 'Absolute Zero' even if the threat itself is his own sister.
"Now, you shall be removed…" said Sia as she throws the sphere of destruction to her brother. But as soon as the sphere leaves her hand, another small sphere rushes from a different direction and intercept it, the intercepted sphere itself suddenly shattered to million pieces. Kai looks at the shattered sphere in surprise, this times, it's not him who dispose the sphere.
Looking back to the direction where the interceptor sphere came from, Kai found Retasu in her divinized form, Mew Retasu stands weakly, shakes slightly and her eyes are almost shut due to her magical tiredness. Retasu loses her strength to stand and eventually collapsed to the ground.
"Retasu-Chan!" Kai cried out and rushes to where Retasu collapsed. Kim saw his brother rushes back and cursed "Damn it, Kai, your enemy is still standing" he then set himself on guard and quickly move to attack.
Sia quickly summoned a small sphere to stop her brother. But before she could make any move, Kim disappeared from where he stood and reappeared behind her as if he could teleport himself.
Kim glanced at the back of Sia's neck, he found an unusual mark, a mark carved in Chinese symbol that read as 'Puppet'. He knows by the time he saw the mark, "Tao cultist's Puppetry?" he murmured, then, before Sia could move, Kim poke his finger on the mark and shouted "Seal, RELEASE!" a small flash of light sparked from where the mark and Kim's finger touched and Sia then suddenly fall unconscious to her brother's embrace.
Kai, on the other hand, shakes Mew Retasu lightly, trying to take her back to her consciousness. "Retasu-Chan, Retasu-Chan! Hang in there, come on!" Retasu opened her eye slightly "Uhmm… Kai-San? I'm OK, don't worry, just… need… some…rest…uhm" She replied to Kai and fell asleep right on Kai's lap.
Kai laid the green haired Mew on the ground beside Sia and Masaya, he then stand up and says "Now that your 'puppet' is down, are you afraid to come down and face me?" he provoked the real attacker, no matter where he or she is.
After the demon's heir finished his words, a voice echoed, it was the same voice that take control of Sia, but this time, it's not hallow it's instead an overconfident female voice "Fine, sometime those puppets are useless compared to me" and after the voice goes silent, sound of footsteps echoed down the stairways, once the footsteps silenced, Kai saw a figure of a woman with blonde, neck-long, and trimmed hairs. The woman wears red Chinese long dress with a portrait of a peach tree drawn onto it, in her grip is a long Chinese saber in its black sleeve. The mysterious woman grinned cunningly to who provoked her, Kai, who just stop provoking a moment ago, turned to face the red dressed woman "So… it was you who used the puppetry magic of the Tao cult on my sister" he assured himself.
"All of you deserves more than death, in fact, you deserves to be removed from this world, not even a tip of a hair left" The woman said cruelly "And I, Sumomo Raiku will ensure that myself" she then draw her saber, and rushed to where Ryou is. Ryou, taking care of the sleeping porpoise girl Retasu, don't have enough time to get himself on guard, as soon as he realize the Sumomo's presence, she is only a few feet from him.
"Only if you, only if you and all your girls died, my vengeance will be fulfilled and the world will be like what it supposed to be again" the Battle Cry from Sumomo echoed loudly in the lab's hall as her leaps into the air and approaches Ryou and Retasu.
A thunderous sound of metallic objects hitting on each other echoed throughout the hall as Ryou closed his eyes shut and tries to cover Retasu from the approaching Sumomo. He reopened his eyes when the sound of the impact silenced and saw Kai in his full Demon Form stands in front of him, parrying the incoming Chinese saber with his Katana, he then looked up to the blonde haired swordswoman and grinned cunningly and say "Well then, I will be glad if you'd kill Ryou, for he is my heart rival, but then, if you'd also threaten the green haired girl over there, I will not stand such an idiotic act and will stop you no matter what"
End of Chapter IX