Woo let's finish this story. I really want to finish this story, because I want to write the last chapter because I am looking forward to what is happening. Oh my gosh I just found a way to use the title in the story. I'm on a roll, baby.
Crimson Red Nightmare
Chapter Ten
"What do you want, Kram?" Zoey asked, sitting up.
"What do I want? You know what I want… what you really want to know is what you want." Kram told her, dancing around.
"Stop talking in riddles." Zoey groaned, clutching her aching head.
"Aww, are you in pain? Well, like I say, a deed for a deed."
Kram dropped to the ground and walked up to Zoey, squinting at her. She placed her middle finger upon Zoey's forehead, and a red light emanated from it.
"There, your pain has disappeared. I have done you a deed, so you are in debt to me. This is what I need you to do…" Kram began, watching as Zoey's eyes turned from bright pink to red, and her pink dress turned black…
Renee's eyes shot to Elliott's, trying to see if he had an answer, but his facial expressions revealed nothing. Renee kept her eyes on him as Wesley continued to tell the other girls of Zoey's disappearance, and what it might have had to do with Kram.
"I know that Zoey wasn't exactly… as perky as she usually is the past week." Elliott began. "But I for one know that she isn't the type of person to just give in and switch sides because of something that happened to her."
He looked guilty, Renee realised. He was the last to see her, and it was him she had run away from. He must think that he had done something to Zoey to push her off. He looked down, his eyes shining with unshed tears.
"We must do anything to get Zoey back." he concluded, his voice unaffected by the tears that were slowly sliding down his cheeks, unnoticed by everyone except Renee and Wesley.
"But what if Zoey has joined the other side?" Kikki asked quietly, not her usual cheerful self. This news had brought a grey cloud over everyone's heads.
"No!" Elliot yelled, looking up. "She is stronger than that! I… I know her!"
Wesley put his hand on his friends shoulder, and looked determinedly at the team. "We traced her to this point exactly," He told them, pointed to his computer screen. "This is where she disappeared. I will need you to check it out, see if there are any traces left of what happened this morning."
"Right." Everyone said, determined to find the leader of their group.
"Go!" Welsey whispered.
Corina, Bridget, and Kikki all swung their bodies around and ran out the door, transforming as they went. Only Renee and Wesley remained behind, standing with Elliott.
Renee placed her hand on the shoulder Wesley's hand wasn't on. "You really love her, don't you?" She asked him quietly, before leaping off to join the hunt.
"You can never put anything past her nose without her smelling it." Wesley stated before leaving Elliott to dwell alone in his misery.
"How do you feel, Zoey?" Kram asked her companion as they floated high above the city of Tokyo.
"Better, thank you." Zoey told her robotically.
"Are you ready to cause some havoc?" Kram snickered.
"Yes, Kram." Zoey answered.
"Man I hate it how you talk. Ah well, it will be different in a day or so. Where shall we go first?" Kram asked.
"I do not know. Where would you like to go first, Kram?" Zoey asked.
"Man, you are useless. There's no point in sending you somewhere too important. We'll just have some fun." Kram thought aloud. "Alright, we'll go there." Kram pointed to a large building. "What is it called?"
"The theatre. It is where ballet and plays are performed, as well as orchestra performances." Zoey informed her.
"Perfect place. Lot's of posh people. Would you like to know what you are to retrieve?" Kram asked.
"No, what am I to retrieve, Kram?" Zoey muttered.
"Well, you know crystals, like diamonds, amethysts, onyx?" After Zoey bobbed her head in reply, Kram continued, "Well, if anyone has anything of that sort – jewellery, underwear, whatever the sort – I would like you to take it from them, and then give it to me. Understand?"
Zoey snickered evilly. "Perfectly." She replied before diving towards the theatre with Kram.
"Elliott!" Wesley called out. "Quick, come here! I think I have something."
Elliott, who was in the room across from the basement, jogged into the room and gazed down at the computer screen.
"The radar just honed in on Kram's presence, as well as another, unusual presence with her. They are currently floating over the theatre." Wesley informed Elliott.
"What does this mean?" Elliott asked, hoping that his suspicions were untrue.
"I'm… not sure. It could mean many things…. Kram may have other people assisting her, like Dren did… but then again…"
"If it was Zoey, I'm sure the radar would recognise her data." Elliott told Wesley, before running out of the room to grab the girls.
"I'm not so sure…" Wesley whispered after his friend.
"There! I can hear screaming coming from inside the theatre! They must be there." Bridget cried, picking up her pace as she was falling behind. She was right behind Elliott, and she was enjoying the view that she was getting… maybe after this they could have some time alone. She hadn't seen him much for a while, as he seemed to have spent all his time with Zoey, recovering.
Forgetting the horrid image that crept into her mind, she ran on.
"No…" Wesley whispered, shocked by his discovery. Although it had sat in the back of his mind, with a chance of being true, Wesley couldn't believe it.
"This… this can't be true…" Wesley whispered.
He had upgraded his radar, placing a piece of Zoey's hair into the machine so that it would pick up on the slightest feature of Zoey. The radar had started reacting crazily, a red light flashing on the dot next to Kram. The dot that flashed red was the dot of the unknown presence.
Researching further, he had found the force of her power, and discovered that it was massive, at least ten times greater than Deep Blue's. While he was at it, he discovered that Kram's power was at the same extent, just a touch greater.
"If this is correct, than the whole world could be in danger." Wesley realised before grabbing his phone.
"Hello?" Elliott said, stopping in the middle of a street. He held his vibrating mobile in his right hand, and he was using the left to help him climb over a small fence that blocked the road from the path next to it.
"Elliott, I need you and the girls to listen. No matter what goes on in there, you must fight. But if it's too dangerous, abandon the mission. I have just read the power level of the two, and they are both very great. If you can, I want you to drain some of their power. I'm on my way." Wesley told him over the phone before hanging up.
"Girls!" Elliott called. "Stop!"
Running to catch up, Elliott told them. He did not yet know that the one whose power he was supposed to drain was Zoey's.
Zoey leapt down, her head turning swiftly as people ran towards the exit, only to find them barred shut. Seeing a flash to her left, she dived towards it, snatching the object that had flashed. It was an pair of aquamarine eardrops.
"Ow! Excuse me, those are mine!" The woman whose ears the stones had come from cried, snatching back her treasures.
"How dare you!" Zoey cried, her crimson red eyes blazing bright. "You shall pay for that! You scratched my hand!"
"Stop, fiends!" a small voice cried.
Zoey looked down, and hissed like a cat. Down below her stood Kikki, Bridget, Corina, and Renee, the four remaining Mew Mew's. Panting behind them was Elliott Grant, the boss of the team.
Due to the stage light shining on Zoey's back, her features could not be seen. Smirking, Zoey saw Kram appear high in the theatre, looking towards her. Zoey flew up to join her, their team of two leaving the four on the floor with wide mouths.
"Zoey?" Bridget whispered, appalled.
There. Finished that chapter. Took me about four days to write. I am getting sick of this story :( its not fair. I want to make this a long story. Oh well, I am determined.
Love Kirst…