Betraying My People Chapter 11:
Teleporting Mishaps
"Where should we teleport to?" Pai asked.
"Café Mew Mew," Keiichiro said. "I can call up the others from there."
"Okay," Pai said. "Taruto, teleport Keiichiro, I'll take Kisshu and Ichigo."
Taruto nodded, and floated up, then grabbed Keiichiro's shoulder and teleported. Pai did the same with Kisshu and Ichigo. They landed in the main room of Café Mew Mew, and Keiichiro said, "I'll call the others." He left to find a phone.
Ichigo and Kisshu sat down at one of the tables, and Pai and Taruto sat down at another. Keiichiro came back a few minutes later, and said, "They're on their way. We just have to wait."
About fifteen minutes later, Mint and Lettuce came in. Zakuro and Pudding weren't too far behind. "Good, everyone's here," Keiichiro said when they were all inside. "Pai, would you care to explain your plan?"
"Hai," Pai said. "I believe if we cooperate to gather the Mew Aqua, we will be able to save my home planet, which would leave you humans this planet. We would have no need to attack anymore."
"That sounds like a good plan, but what happens with your leader?" Zakuro asked.
"I'm working on finding out who his human host is, so we can kill that person and solve this problem," Pai said.
"Alright," Zakuro said. "I think this is a good plan. What about the rest of you?"
The other Mews looked at each other, and all said, "We'll do it!"
"Good, that's settled," Keiichiro said. He turned to Pai and said, "How do you think we should go about gathering the Mew Aqua?"
"I'm not sure," Pai admitted. "Mew Aqua is generally located underground, and that's going to make it hard, since we don't know exactly where to look."
"Could we make some sort of sensor for Mew Aqua?" Keiichiro suggested.
"That's an idea," Pai said. "Can you do that? Or do you need help?"
"I might need help," Keiichiro admitted. "I have a small amount of Mew Aqua, we might be able to use it in creating the sensor."
"Alright," Pai said. "Are we using your lab or mine?"
"If you don't mind, I'd like to use mine," Keiichiro said.
"That's fine," Pai said. He turned to Kisshu and Ichigo, and said, "Do you want to go back to the ship?"
"Yeah," Kisshu said. "I think I can teleport, so we'll just go back. You stay here."
"Are you sure?" Pai asked, worried. "I don't want you to end up somewhere else because your teleport got messed up."
"I'll be fine," Kisshu said. He took Ichigo's hand, but before he could teleport, Pai said, "You know how to contact me if something goes wrong?"
"Yeah, telepathy," Kisshu said. "We're going." He gripped Ichigo's hand, and teleported. It seemed to take a bit longer this time, and Ichigo got worried. She was right to be worried, since they ended up on a deserted-looking street.
Ichigo looked around, and saw no one around. "Kisshu, where are we?" she asked.
Kisshu was staring straight ahead and didn't answer. Ichigo followed his gaze, and saw a woman with ears like Kisshu's looking at them in shock. Suddenly Ichigo noticed Kisshu's grip on her hand was getting weaker, and she turned back to him just in time to catch him as he collapsed. "Kisshu! Kisshu, wake up!" she cried out.
Suddenly she noticed the woman was coming closer, but she seemed almost hesitant. Ichigo was trying to hold up Kisshu, but finally had to sink to her knees and sling one of his arms over her shoulders. Then she stood up again. The woman was almost right in front of her. Her lips moved, but Ichigo didn't hear her, even with her advanced hearing. She decided to take a chance, and asked, "Can you help us?"
Instead of answering, the woman whispered, "Kisshu…."
"You know Kisshu?" Ichigo asked.
The woman seemed to snap out of shock and said, "Yes, of course, I'm his adoptive mother. Who are you?"
"I'm Ichigo," Ichigo said. "Um… where are we?"
"Ichigo, are you a human?" the woman asked.
"Hai," Ichigo said.
"Why are you with Kisshu?" the woman asked next.
"I joined him and his brothers after my parents were murdered," Ichigo said. "He was trying to teleport back to our ship, but I have no clue how we ended up here."
"It sounds like he made a mistake while thinking of where he wanted to go," the woman said. "I guess you'd both better come home with me."
"A-alright," Ichigo said. She followed the woman as she walked back the way she had come from. They eventually reached what looked like a tunnel, and Ichigo followed the woman in. They came to a door, and the woman knocked once, then opened it. Ichigo hesitantly followed her in, and the woman closed the door. A Cyniclon man came into the room, and started to say, "Hamaya, where-" then he broke off, seeing Ichigo and Kisshu. "What happened?" he asked. "And who's this?"
"This is Ichigo, and she says Kisshu teleported here by mistake," Hamaya said. "I brought them back here, since it looks like something's wrong with Kisshu. He collapsed soon after he landed."
"He teleported from Earth?" The man asked, seemingly horrified by this.
"Um… is that bad?" Ichigo asked.
Hamaya sighed. "It can be," she said. "It's good that Kisshu's so strong, teleporting between planets can really strain your body."
"I'm amazed he managed it, then," Ichigo said. "Today's the first day in almost a month and a half he's actually been able to teleport."
Hamaya immediately looked worried. "Did something happen to him?" she asked.
"Hai," Ichigo said. "A month and a half ago, he got seriously ill, and nearly died. I managed to heal him to the point that he wouldn't die, but he's been pretty slow to recover from that. He's nearly back to full strength, but teleporting is still hard on him. Is there somewhere he could rest here?"
"Let me show you where he sleeps," the man said. "I'm Aran, by the way, and that's my wife, Hamaya. We adopted Kisshu, and Pai and Taruto are our sons."
"It's nice to meet you," Ichigo said.
Aran smiled slightly and led her to a small room off the room they had been in. There was a futon on the floor, covered by a blanket. Aran took the blanket off, and Ichigo put Kisshu on the bed. She took off his boots, and Aran covered him with the blanket. Ichigo put a hand on Kisshu's forehead. "He doesn't have a fever, so it looks like we just have to wait for him to wake up," she said. "May I stay with him?"
"Hai," Aran said. "Hamaya and I will be in and out. Call if you need anything."
"Alright, thank you," Ichigo said.
Two hours later, Ichigo was still watching Kisshu. He hadn't stirred, and she was getting worried. I wonder if I can sense the problem, she thought. She gently placed a hand on Kisshu's chest, and concentrated. She sensed that his previous weakness was back, but he didn't have a fever this time. Thank goodness for that, she thought. I wonder if I can heal this weakness. But I'm not sure how Hamaya and Aran would feel if they knew I'm a Mew. Maybe I should give it a bit more time. If Kisshu's not up in an hour, I'll go talk to them.
One hour later: Kisshu still hadn't stirred. Mentally sighing, Ichigo got up and went to find Hamaya and Aran.
They were in the main room, and they looked up at her. "How's Kisshu?" Hamaya asked.
"Still unconscious," Ichigo said. "I was wondering if you'd let me try to heal him."
"I thought humans didn't have powers like that," Aran said.
"Normal humans don't," Ichigo said. "I'm not entirely human, though. I'm a Mew Mew."
Hamaya and Aran looked scared. "The group that was supposedly attacking Kisshu?" Hamaya asked.
"Hai," Ichigo said. "I quit, though, and the guy who created the Mews got mad and murdered my parents. So I decided to join Kisshu, and that's what I did. I've been living with him, Pai and Taruto for about three months now."
"Your leader murdered your parents!?" Hamaya asked.
"Hai," Ichigo said sadly. "I killed him a while after I joined Kisshu. But by that point, we all had decided that the fighting was pretty pointless. Pai came up with another idea, and we were talking about that before Kisshu teleported here by mistake."
"What was Pai's idea?" Aran asked.
"Using Mew Aqua to restore this planet," Ichigo replied. "But we still need to help Kisshu. Will you let me heal him?"
"You can, but I'd like to watch," Hamaya said.
"Of course," Ichigo said. She went back to Kisshu's room, and took out her pendant, then transformed. Then she knelt next to Kisshu, and put a hand on his chest. Like the last time, she began to glow pink. The pink glow traveled from her to Kisshu, and he began to glow too. The glow slowly faded, and Ichigo took a deep breath. Kisshu was starting to wake up.
Kisshu opened his golden eyes, and looked surprised. "Koneko-chan? What happened?" he asked. Then he noticed Aran and Hamaya, and his jaw dropped. "I teleported home, didn't I?" he whispered.
"Yeah," Ichigo said. "I think I healed you, but how are you feeling?"
"Fine," Kisshu said, sitting up. "Thanks."
Ichigo smiled. "Sure."
Kisshu turned to Aran and Hamaya and said, "How's everything here?"
"Fine," Aran said. "You had us worried there. You've been out for about three and a half hours."
"WHAT!?" Kisshu yelled. "We have to get back, they'll be worried sick!"
"And how exactly are you planning on getting back?" Hamaya asked. "You can't teleport, it'll drain you again."
"Is there a way to contact the ship?" Ichigo asked. "Maybe Pai would have some ideas."
"We might have something," Aran said. "Come with us."
Kisshu and Ichigo got up, and followed Aran and Hamaya to a device that looked like a TV. Hamaya typed in a number on the keypad next to it, and waited as the screen turned from black to clear. Suddenly Pai's face came up, and he looked startled. "Mom? Is something wrong?" he asked.
"Yes, Kisshu somehow teleported himself and Ichigo here," Hamaya said. "Do you have some way of getting them?"
"I guess I can come back and get them," Pai said. "Is Kisshu okay?"
"Hai, Ichigo healed him," Hamaya said. "What's your ETA?"
"I'll be there in about eight hours," Pai said. "Can you wait?"
"Hai," Aran said. "We'll be waiting. Call when you get here."
"Will do," Pai said, and cut the connection.
Aran sighed and said, "He'll be here at about 10 tonight, then."
"I'm sorry," Kisshu said.
"You really should save that apology for Pai," Hamaya said. "It was nice to see you though."
"Thanks Aunt Hamaya," Kisshu said. "And thanks for not freaking about Ichigo."
"She's taken good care of you, we had no reason to freak," Aran said. "Let's go have dinner, and you can tell us about Earth."
"Okay," Kisshu and Ichigo said.
Well, it's not the best ending, but my friend is begging me to update, and since she and all the rest of you are probably impatient, I'll end the chapter there and continue soon. Review!