Sorry for the long wait everybody! I didn't realize how long it's been until I read my reviews one day, and saw how long I haven't been on. Actually, this chapter had been my project for the past to weeks, and as a treat, I made this chapter longer! (Hopefully, but I'm positive it's longer than usual.) Now, here's chapter 11 of "Tears of a Mew Mew". Enjoy!
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Yawning, Ichigo stretched out on the on the white sheets in slight bliss. What a nice nap she'd had, and this bed was so comfy… Wait a minute, bed? She could feel the soft mattress on her back, and immediately her eyes popped open.
She was dressed in a stark-white hospital gown, making her blend in with the linens. An IV needle poked into her arm, the tube leading to a dripping bag suspended on a pole. Pillows stacked behind her head propped her up, and she could see across the room.
Ryou sat dozing in a chair opposite of her bed, head leaning up against the wall. Blotches of red covered him, and there were also some marks of orange and white. They were in his hair, on his clothes, practically everywhere! He could tell her what happened after he explained why she was in the hospital.
Without really considering the consequences, Ichigo shouted, "RYOU, WAKE UP!"
The blonde was up and out of his chair in less than a second. Panic showed on his face, like he was being attacked. When he realized Ichigo was the only possible "threat", sitting up in her hospital bed and staring at him like she was very pleased with herself, he composed himself. Then, he walked over next to her, and took her chin in his hand. He could feel her face heat up, but she flushed even more when he simply said, "Idiot."
"For your information," Ichigo said, pushing away Ryou's hand, "I don't even know why I'm in here, so don't start blaming it on me."
"Yet," Ryou finished simply.
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Kish was the first to strike, which honestly wasn't that surprising. He swooped down from his spot in the sky and grabbed Aubrie's limp body off of the ground. Then he perched himself on top of the crooked clock face, one of his dual swords pointed at the woman's throat.
"If any of you make a sudden movement," Kish said with a smile, "your little friend here will be no more."
The Mews tensed, but there was nothing they could do. Aubrie was as good as dead unless they could figure something out, and figure it out quick. There was always the option of striking, but Kish would be too quick and stab Aubrie. They could always scatter, and come up from behind, but Kish could teleport anywhere he wanted. Maybe they could-
CRASH! Kish, Mint, and Pudding all turned their heads toward Lettuce. Mint and Pudding gasped, but didn't dare move out of their spots for Aubrie's sake. Kish just seemed to smile to himself, as if he won the jackpot.
Lettuce had collapsed into a heap on the rubble-covered ground. Her mouth lolled open a little bit, and the dust kicked up from her fall settled down on her. Pudding's eyes were frantic, debating between the sake of her friend or a stranger. Mint seemed to be debating the exact same thing, but Kish beat them to it.
The alien teleported in front of Lettuce, and dropped Aubrie to pick the Mew up. "Looks like it's my lucky day," he chuckled to himself, "two Mews down, and only three to go."
Three things happened at once, Mint and Pudding shot their attacks at the same time, and Aubrie woke up. The thing that surprised everyone the most was Lettuce, who woke up from her fake faint and attacked Kish just as he tried to teleport away.
Kish flew backwards, and landed in a pile of rubble, some of it collapsing on him as he sunk in deep. All the Mews launched themselves into action, and followed in pursuit of the alien as he burst his way out of the pile, and flew in a circle above it, cradling his arm. A large mark was scratched into his arm and started oozing red.
"Hurt or not," Kish mumbled, "I still have a job to do."
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"Test number thirteen, blood analysis," Akasaka announced, typing in a few numbers on his keyboard, and then pushing enter.
Ichigo sighed as the next light show flashed in front of her eyes and lasers ran over her skin, scanning her body. She'd been standing inside a plastic tube for almost and hour as Ryou ran his stupid tests. Though, they weren't really that stupid. All Ichigo could remember was transporting with Kish somewhere, and that was it. She couldn't even remember where she was going, what she was doing with him, nothing! Then all of a sudden, she wakes up in the hospital, and Ryou telling her he needed to know everything that happened! Not a very good day at all.
The Pink Mew shifted her position slightly, to relieve her stiff muscles, only to get a, "Please hold still," from Akasaka.
After five or so minutes, the light show ended. She then beat on the side of the tube, and said tiredly, "Let me out."
"We can't do that until we're sure that the aliens did absolutely nothing to you. Either that, or you remember," Ryou told her from the other side of the room. He was desperately fighting with the computers, which somehow fried his connection to Lettuce, Mint, and Pudding. The last thing he knew that had happened to them was that they ran into Kish, but Ichigo didn't know about that yet, he didn't want to make her think that she should go off to London to fight.
"I can't remember when I'm so tired like this!" Ichigo shouted in frustration, beating the side of the tube.
"You slept for two hours, and was asleep when I found you, how can you be tired?"
Ichigo slammed her fist against the plastic one last time be collapsing onto her knees in defeat. She was so tired…
"Test number fourteen, mutation analysis," Akasaka said, "Don't worry about standing up Ichigo," he said kindly as she started to pick herself up, "you can sit down for this one."
Ichigo smiled gratefully at him as she closed her eyes and drifted off into dreamland.
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Ooh, "dreamland"? I whiff a memory coming up there! What's going to happen to the Mews, and what might Ryou and Akasaka find inside Ichigo? Tune in eventually for another epic adventure from, "Tears of a Mew Mew"!
Sorry, I had some sugar today, but seriously, I wonder what'll happen? Well, wherever my mind leads me! 'Till next time, read and review!