"Okay, you people must be dying to find out what happens next. So, I won't bore you with the intro. Just read," Breezyfeather says with a grin and yawns. "While you read, I'm gonna sleep. My eyes sting so badly from the salt water. Yes, I'm on vacation. Where? I don't think wise to say where I am."

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"Ichigo," Kishu cried, along with everyone else. Ichigo winced, waiting for the impact, but none came. She opened her eyes in shock. Tsikiko and Mint were standing there, Mint's Power Extension up.

"Ichigo, get out of here! Tsikiko will help you. We and the Blue Knight will take care of everything," Mint said. Ichigo nodded, feeling jittery. Tsikiko rushed to her side and helped her to her feet.

"Ichigo, you aren't escaping," Pai shouted. Ichigo looked back in fear. Tart's click-clack weapon appeared in his hands. Ichigo's eyes widened and she reached out to open the door. She pulled it open, but not before Tart's click-clacks wove themselves around her and Tsikiko's legs. She gasped in pain while Tsikiko stumbled.

"Ichigo, don't move," Mint said. "Ribbon Minto Arrow!" The arrow sliced through the click-clacks, making Tart scream in protest.

"Hey! Why are you always breaking them?"

"Because you're my enemy and threatening my friends lift! Get a clue!" Tart was seething.

"Tsikiko, we've got to go the way that you came. They know all of my other tricks and we have to take the most direct route now anyway," Ichigo panted. She was already dizzy from loss of blood and pain. Her leg was throbbing. Tsikiko nodded.

"I'm sorry that I had to leave you," Tsikiko said through gritted teeth.

"It's fine, since I told you to, Nee-chan," Ichigo whimpered. Tsikiko smiled. By know they were at the end of the hallway, with the broken window. Tsikiko tightened her grip on Ichigo's arm, which was draped over her shoulder.

"When we get in the air, hold on with hands on my shoulders, kay?" Tsikiko asked. Ichigo nodded. Tsikiko jumped onto the window sill and pulled Ichigo up, then let themselves fall. Tsikiko and Ichigo both spread their wings and soared up. Ichigo flapped so that she was above her twin sister and grabbed her shoulders, keeping out of the way of her wings.

"I think we're in the clear," Tsikiko gasped.

"I dunno. They have a weird way of tracking me," Ichigo said. She was panting heavily.

"Ichigo, just let yourself glide. I'll steer,. Ryou and Akasaka-" Tsikiko started, but Ichigo cut her off.

"Don't tell me where we're going. I think that they can hear what I hear. I don't know what the heck they did, but I think that they might have done something that lets them hear what I hear," Ichigo explained rapidly. Tsikiko nodded, angling her wings to the right. Ichigo did the same, and the two soared to the right.

"There! They're right there," Tsikiko said, pointing. Ichigo nodded, realizing that landing was going to be a problem. Akasaka and Shirogane were waiting below, waving. Ichigo's vision was becoming fuzzy.

"Tsikiko... everything's blurry," she panted.

"Oh no! Akasaka!" Tsikiko shouted. Ichigo sighed, going limp. She let go of Tsikiko and glided to the side, rolling over in the air so that she was soaring to the left. Tsikiko flew so that she was above Ichigo and grabbed her under the arms. She hung from her arms vertically; making Tsikiko struggle to remain airborne. She circled toward the ground, pulling up to keep Ichigo's legs from touching the ground. Akasaka and Shirogane gasped when they saw Ichigo's leg. Her face was deathly pale and her shoe was soaked in blood.

"I'm leaving her with you," Tsikiko said, letting Ichigo drop into Shirogane's arms. Shirogane caught her and laid her gently on the ground.

"Akasaka, I need some antiseptic," Shirogane said. Akasaka brought over a bottle of alcohol and handed it to Shirogane. Tsikiko landed a few feet away. Shirogane poured most of the contents of the bottle over Ichigo's leg. He grabbed the hilt of Kishu's sword tightly, making Ichigo moan. "I'm sorry about this Ichigo," he whispered, then pulled up sharply on it. Her eyes opened wide and she screamed. Shirogane tossed the sword aside as Akasaka knelt down next to her, pressing two gauze pads on either side of her leg.

She panted in pain. "Shirogane? Akasaka?" she whimpered. Shirogane smiled at her and she laid her head down on the soil, gasping for breath.

"She's going to need a blood transfusion," Akasaka announced gravely. "Tsikiko, call 911."

"But what about her ears and wings and tail?" Tsikiko asked fearfully.

"That's a risk were going to have to take," Shirogane said. "I'll explain and use the other Mew's for evidence. Hurry!"

"O-okay," Tsikiko stammered, diving into the car for a cell phone. She found it and quickly dialed the emergency number. "Konichiwa?"

"Huh?"

Aw, shoot! They don't understand Japanese. Dang! Let's see how well I can do this... "Uh, hello? Uh, yeah, I'm on the road by the abandoned laboratory in Los Angeles and, uh, I have an injured girl here who needs an urgent blood transfusion or she might die," Tsikiko said hastily in English. Did I say that right? Hope so.

"Okay, do you know what blood type this girl is?" asked the dispatcher.

"Uh, Ryou, what blood type-"

"O. Her blood type is O," Shirogane said.

"O."

"Okay. I'm dispatching an ambulance to your location. Stay put and apply constant pressure on her wound."

"Uh, we're already doing that," Tsikiko said nervously, surprised that she could understand so well. Then, she heard a noise that sounded like a rippling. She could sense Kishu a mile or so away and bit her lip nervously.

"The ambulance should be approaching your location now."

"Okay. Here, Shirogane, take the phone," Tsikiko said urgently. He looked at her like she was nuts as she thrust the phone into his hands.

"Tsikiko, what's wrong?" he asked.

"Kishu," she muttered. She held her wand tight in her hand as Kishu approached them.

"Tsikiko! Where's Ichigo?" he asked.

"No where that you can get her. You've hurt her enough. She has to go to a hospital, you jerk," she snapped at him(People, I'm trying to keep the language PG, so I don't have to move the rating up. So please excuse the lame insults and curse words). He looked nervous. "Stay away from my sister, you fiend!"

"I'm sorry! I wasn't aiming to hurt her so badly," he protested, and then the Blue Knight was there. He gasped and jumped back, trying to dodge his attacks because he couldn't block as effectively with his one dagger. Tsikiko keep her distance from the two, guarding Ichigo. Ichigo's eyelids were closing slowly, but she was trying to take in the fight.

"Ichigo, you can't sleep right now. You might not wake up again if you do," Akasaka said. Ichigo sighed, forcing her eyes to remain open even though it felt like sandpaper every time she blinked. She was breathing hard from loss of blood, and then the siren came into earshot. All of them froze.

"Did you really call and ambulance?" Kishu asked fearfully.

"What else was there to do?" Shirogane snarled.

"I and the rest of our race have healing powers! If you hadn't run, we would have healed her," Kishu shouted as the Blue Knight launched another attack.

"And the price for that would be too drastic! Get a grip, Kishu," Tsikiko shouted at him.

"Yeah, but now they're gonna find—Pai!" Pai and Tart teleported to his sides. The Blue Knight fell back, sword still drawn.

"They're going to find what?" Tsikiko asked through clenched teeth.

"Uh..."

"You did something to her! What did you do?" Tsikiko screamed.

"Okay, fine! We injected a serum that was supposed to kick in when she transformed! But, it takes time to cultivate. When it is fully functional, a piece of metal shaped like her pendant is supposed to grow right in the center of her neck, on the outside," Kishu explained hurriedly. The Blue Knight seemed rather mad.

"It had a few hours to go before we were interrupted by you guys. But, if you take her to the hospital, they'll find it. And if it is discovered by one of them, they are going to want to remove it or experiment on it," Pai said. "And if it is tampered with before it finishes growing, then she could turn into a monster worse than the Chimera Anima. By worse, I mean that she'll turn against all of us, while still remaining in her current form."

"And you did this to her? Why did you even try if you knew the risks?" Tsikiko shouted.

"Well, we weren't expecting her to get away after being so badly wounded!" Kishu told Tsikiko. "I was going to heal her as soon as we won the fight! But you were so focused on getting her away from us that you didn't notice it on her neck!" Tsikiko glanced at her twin's neck and noticed the golden bump there. Her eyes widened and the Blue Knight hissed, turning back to Kishu and his comrades.

"Oh, shoot! We've gotta get away from here," she cried. "But... Kishu, I think we need to work on the same side for now. One of you has to whip up a cover so that we can get Ichigo away from here. I know that you are going to try to keep her, but after you heal her, we're going to duel out fair and square. And this time, you can't use Ichigo as a pawn," Tsikiko said. Kishu looked at his comrades uncertainly and Pai nodded.

"Fine. Tart-"

"Leave me out of this."

"Fine. I'll shoot the ground below them," Pai said. He flew off toward the ambulance and shouted, "Fuu Rai Sen!" A huge cloud of dust shot up and the ambulance skidded.

"Hurry," he shouted. Tsikiko picked up Ichigo as Akasaka kept his hands on Ichigo's wound. The Blue Knight held onto Akasaka's shoulder. Shirogane grabbed Tsikiko's shoulder while Kishu held onto her wrist.

"I'll take us back to the lab where we can work in peace," he muttered, eying the Blue Knight angrily. The air rippled and they all teleported back to the lab, where a rather mad Mint was trying to yank open the door. She gasped, making the others turn.

"Kishu! Tsikiko?" Lettuce exclaimed. The others stared in shock, then Mint looked insanely mad.

"Kishu! I'm gonna ki—Ichigo!" she gasped. Ichigo didn't make a sound.

"I need some more bandages," Akasaka said.

"There's no need," Kishu said. Tsikiko carefully laid Ichigo on the ground and Kishu knelt down next to her. Akasaka drew back his hands and Kishu laid his on her wound. Tsikiko was watching with interest, then placed her hand on his. He looked at her, confused and annoyed.

"What?"

"If you can do that... then I might be able to also," she muttered. Kishu's eyes widened and he glanced pointedly at Pai. He nodded. Then, Kishu closed his eyes and focused himself.

Tsikiko drew her hand back as a blue glow started up. Kishu opened his eyes, staring at the bright glow seeping through his fingers. Then, something struck him as odd. "It's not working!"

"What do you mean?" Shirogane asked. Kishu shook his head, confused.

"I don't understand! It worked before," he muttered, willing the wound to close. It did, but Ichigo still didn't wake. "She won't wake up! I don't understand it, I healed the wound!"

"That's not the main problem," Zakuro said. They all turned to her. "She lost a lot of blood trying to run. If she doesn't get more blood, then she won't live." Zakuro's emotionless mask had been cast aside. Now she looked worried.

"Does anyone here have type O blood?" Akasaka asked. Shirogane nodded.

"Tsikiko does." They all stared at her. "But, we can't use her blood. She's fused with a bat, and Kishu's DNA. If we use her blood, Ichigo might not respond correctly," Shirogane said. He looked regretful and angry with himself. All of their face's fell except for Pai's.

"There is one other way," he said thoughtfully. All of their faces whipped toward him hopefully. "Usually, on our planet, the only way for us to heal our wounded when they are suffering from blood loss," he said, pausing. "is to have one of their direct relatives heal her. But, no one here is a direct relative of Ichigo, and she isn't an alien, so-"

"Yes, one of us is," Pudding interrupted excitedly. Lettuce nodded, looking at Tsikiko. Mint's face was filled with happiness. "And she happens to be fused with Kishu's genes."

"Tsikiko is-" Tart gasped.

"A direct relative of Ichigo?" Kishu finished. Tsikiko nodded, standing up.

"We just met recently, thanks to Ryou," she said with a grin. "He discovered that we're not only adoptive sisters now, but direct sisters. And not just that."

"What do you mean?" Pai asked.

"We're twins." And of course that went down like a ton of bricks. Kishu and the others exchanged dumbfounded glances and Kishu sputtered. Tart's mouth was hanging open and Pai looked surprised. Tsikiko glared at them.

"But you look nothing like each other," Kishu protested.

"They're not identical twins, you idiot," Mint snapped. "Now, get down to helping Ichigo, before we loose her!"

"R-right," Kishu stammered. Then, Pai took charge.

"Tsikiko, lay your hands on your sister's leg. Then, concentrate on her health."

"That's it?"

"Just do it! Don't ask questions or we risk her life. That is valuable to both of us," Pai snapped. Tsikiko hastily placed her hands on Ichigo's leg and did what he said. Come on, Ichigo nee-chan, open your eyes! You've gotta live. I just met my sister, I can loose you! Tsikiko's body began to shine blue, as if she were reacting to Mew Aqua. She gasped, as did the others. Then, Ichigo's body also began to glow.

"Mew Aqua?" Pudding called out. Lettuce and Mint stiffened while Kishu looked around in search of it. Then, a small blue teardrop appeared above Tsikiko's hands. They all stared at it and Ichigo stirred. She moaned, drawing all of their attention to her.

"Ngg... wha...?" she moaned.

"Ichigo," Tsikiko sighed in relief. Her eyes were shinning with happiness. "You're okay!"

"That's Mew Aqua," Ichigo realized, sitting up. Then, she reached out and snatched it. "I'm not letting you get your hands on it, Kisshu!" Then, the glow that the drop was emitting intensified, shinning out between her fingers. She gasped, staring at it. The others had to shield their eyes, turning away from her. She sighed, feeling a soothing coolness in the center of her neck, where the bump was. She curled into a ball, the Mew Aqua grasped in her hands between her legs and her chest.

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Then, her eyes shot open. She screamed in pain and they all turned to stare at her in shock.

"Ichigo!" Tsikiko and Kisshu both shouted. She sobbed, then let loose another heart wrenching scream.

"What's wrong?" Tsikiko demanded, turning to Kisshu. He looked at Pai, who looked shocked.

"The Mew Aqua is reacting to the anomaly that we placed in her. The injection that allows us to control her," Pai explained. "It's trying to heal it, to purge it from her. But it's not working. She's loosing herself!"

"No! Ichigo," Tsikiko screamed. Then, she felt a pain in the center of her chest. She gasped, sinking to her knees. She clutched the fabric there, praying for the pain to go away.

"Tsikiko!" Lettuce cried.

"Tsikiko!" Shirogane shouted in fear. Tsikiko screamed, straightening and facing the ceiling. Then, she and Ichigo both fell silent. Both of them rose slowly into the air, eyes closed and hair floating.

"What's wrong with them?" Akasaka shouted. Pai floated over to the computer in the room and started punching commands, then his eyes widened in shock.

"Tsikiko is reacting to her twin. They have a telepathic bond that you know of as Twin Telepathy and Ichigo's condition is resonating with her through that! The two of them will attack without acknowledging what they are doing, who they are hurting, and so on," Pai reported. Shirogane and Akasaka glanced at each other nervously.

"Is there a way to negate the effects?" Shirogane asked.

"Yes. If e defeat them. But, if we're not careful and fast, they could destroy all of us," Pai told him. Shirogane and Kisshu stared at each other, eyes wide.

"So this means..." Mint started.

"That we have to work together?" Kisshu finished. He and Mint locked gazes, both eyes reflecting what the other felt. Anger, disbelief, and fright for the ones they loved.

"Yes. We have to work together. There's no other way," Pai said.

"For the record, I'm only doing this so that we can have our test subject back. And so that I don't die," Tart said. Pudding's eyes widened and she smiled at him. He smiled back and then turned to Ichigo. "I've been waiting for a chance to go at them."

"We can't kill them. You just have to weaken the two of them enough for me to inject this needle, okay?" Pai said. Kisshu and Mint nodded at each other, then Mint nodded at the rest of the team.

"Alright. Ichigo, we're setting you free," Mint said. Then, she and Kisshu both took a running leap toward Ichigo, and the fight began.

"Ha ha ha! So many cliffhangers! It's the best way to end a chapter," Breezyfeather laughs. Ichigo and Kisshu glance at each other and shake their heads.

"Not for the readers," Ichigo protests. "Or for me."

"Ah well. Get used to it, my friend."

I will update as soon as I can. But, tomorrow I have plans so I'll try to get in as much as I can tonight, then update on Tuesday. Or maybe even Monday if we're all lucky. Well, goodnight.