I'm so sorry my updating is so inconsistent, but I have a life, so I can't always update, however I'm going to try to update every other Saturday. Also, in Chapter 15 There will be a big reveal! Please speculate in the review section below

A blur of midnight streaked across the ever darkening skies. A shining blast followed by a screech could be both seen and heard in the distance.

Marin sat in the now empty cafe, it was getting tougher and tougher to keep up with the demands of school, work, and fighting the aliens. Both groups were getting stronger, but there never seemed to be enough hours in the day. While she was thinking Jeni walked up to her and held a magazine in front of Marin's face.

"What is this?" Jeni shouted

"I don't know, I can't see." Marin responded sourly, she was exhausted and didn't need nor want more work.

"It's an article about a sighting of a strange girl with animal parts! We have to keep from being seen, or people might find out about the aliens and get hurt!"

"Wait, so all this time we could have just alerted the military? Why are we fighting if they could?"

"Do you honestly think that if I called up the military they would believe me? Besides, they couldn't fight the aliens. You are genetically modified to be able withstand their attacks, and fight back, normal humans would be slaughtered."

"Alright, I get it." Marin said dismissively, "But this is a gossip magazine, besides the pictures are low quality, I would bet money that no one believes it."

Marin walked into the classroom to see a mass of students huddled around one desk. Marin peered in for a closer look and was astounded by what she saw. The article.

"You don't actually believe that crap do you?" She asked the group of students Who turned towards her, the sea parted to reveal Lance in the center with the article.

"Normally I wouldn't, but I've seen this, it isn't some hoax." He said firmly, "She was there, and midnight, it was dark out so I couldn't get a good look at her, but she's real."

Marin sighed, they'd been seen, but wait, Marin had never fought at night,neither had Emma, and the picture was too cool looking to be of Nicole, and too high up to be the arcophobic Thea. Who was in the picture? Marin decided it had to be the fifth member. Now the better question, how could she transform, no one else could until Jeni, or Marin gave them the Mew Pendant, what was so special about this girl? Jeni could probably explain. After the storm of children had left the magazine alone, Marin found herself flipping through the pages, until she saw something that interested her for some reason, a picture of a necklace, a small blue gem on a silver chain, she didn't know why it was so interesting but it was. Kent managed to sneak up behind her and look at the article.

"What's this, I didn't think you ere interested in jewelery?" he asked coyly.

Marin jumped at the sound of his voice, "It's not that, I just." she trailed off as he grabbed the magazine and flipped through the pages himself before finding the article he wanted.

"You need to be more careful, who knows what could happen if you get caught." He said slowly. Marin started to nod but looked at him sharply.

"You know?" she asked him shocked at what he just said

"When your friend turns into a cat, you tend to get curious as to why." He stated bluntly.

"Alright,but why are you telling me this?"

"A guy can't worry?" He asked

"I've been genetically modified, I should be worrying about you, not the other way around."

"That changes nothing, I'll always worry about you, I can't afford not to."

"What are you talking about." Marin asked bluntly

"The one time I stopped worrying about you you nearly died! I won't ever let that happen again." He looked at Marin, half horrified at his own words. His face clouded. "Come on, you need to get to the cafe."

Marin nodded before taking off, on the way there she caught up with Emma, who had recently been transferred to another class.

"Emma, did you hear about the sighting?" Marin asked breaking into a run

"Yeah, everyone in my class was arguing over who it was, none of our names came up, but there was one that I heard multiple times." She said back easily keeping up in their little race

"Who would that be?"

"Azara, Azara Peirce."

The two ran in sync, one occasionally slipping ahead only for her pace to be matched all the way until they had reached the cafe, Marin made a leap up the stairs to the door, and Emma followed.

"How long?" Marin asked

"12 minutes." Emma replied, "We still have a ways to go before we can meet here any time."

The two opened the door and were not shocked that they were the first ones there. Marin pulled up a chair, and told Emma about what had happened earlier that day.

"Wow, a new mew, and Kent knows, your class is a heck of a lot more interesting than mine."

"You got a name." Marin pointed out. "oh, here's Jeni I wanted to talk to her."

Jeni walked up to Marin, "What is it, you texted me earlier, by the way, don't text during class, or next time I won't tell you anything."

Marin rolled her eyes."It's about the fifth mew." Jeni sat down.

"What do you want to know?"

"Who is she, and why can she transform without a pendant?"

"Her name is Azara, and the second answer is simple, she can't."

"But Azara is the one that got caught, and she was transformed."

Jeni looked at Marin with a somber look, "Do you really want to know?" Marin nodded her head, Jeni closed her eyes. "You aren't the first person to become a mew, before you there was Azara. She had the second strongest connection we'd seen in our tests, besides you, but Ryou refused to use you for the test, because of what happened seven years ago." Marin looked down solenmly, "Azara was picked, we injected her in a similar way to you but we were not yet finalized, she has an ability that the rest of you will never have. She can absorb the alien parasites, but as the parasites are toxic to humans we had to have a way to release the poison that is her ability, she can create a shimmering ribbon of the parasites toxins, but as we were designing that, something strange happened. We locked her heart, she is devoid of all emotion, a killing machine, and if her heart is not properly brought back, she may take to killing humans as well." Marin looked shocked,

"You've been letting someone that dangerous just wander the streets?"

"We have been suppressing her power as much as we can, before now she couldn't transform, but something happened, an energy was released that has given her back her power. Aiden and I are trying to find out what it is, until then please, locate Azara and get her back. Her Mew form is known as Mew Privet, after the toxic berries which have a similar compound to the parasite's."

"Alright." Marin and Emma said in unison before darting off

"Any ideas where to look?" Emma asked

"None, and we might need some help, I'll dispatch Tora to gather everyone, we'll meet in the center of the park." Marin said as the tiger striped puffball flew away off to preform its duties.

Once everyone was gathered Marin had mapped out a plan to find Azara, with the four of them each covering a quarter of the city, "If you find her," Emma said, "transform, that way the rest of us can help you." Everyone nodded before setting off in their different directions.

After about an hour of searching Marin came to an old church, it looked like it hadn't been used for years, the windows were cracked, and the once white surface was a dull gray. Marin walked inside to see a tall girl, with short black hair, a tank top and shorts. The girl was standing on the cross in the back and her eyes looked completely empty.

"Why is it that you fight? Vengeance? The idea of protection, or is for a different reason? Are you afraid?" the girl asked with a low voice

"No. I can't afford to be afraid, not yet." Marin replied, "I'm fighting for all of mankind! All of their hopes and dreams, are now my own!"

"Yes," Azara replied sitting down and crossing her legs, "but what is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets, but I've talked long enough, I know why your here, your here to fight me."

"Mankind is more than that, and I'll prove it to you!" Marin said holding up the mew pendant, "Mew Mew Lime! Metamorphose!"

"Alright then, we're settling this my way Mew Mew Privet, Metamorphose!"

All light seemed to vanish as the moon cut across the sky finding the exact right sport in the window. "What a horrible night to have a curse, to bad you already decided to fight!"

Privet still had the short hair but now it was midnight blue, her thin top had a piece of armor on the shoulder and incredibly short shorts with a white ribbon flung around her waist and long midnight gloves and boots. Privet lunged forward reaching for the ribbon around her waist and swinging it like a whip to destroy everything in her path, the old building crumbled under her might. It was all Lime could do to stay away from her. That's when Lime noticed, on her neck, right below her mew pendant, there was a red gem, that looked just like the blue one Lime had seen earlier.

"That's what I have to hit. Lime Mallet!" she summoned her oversized green hammer and lept back into the fight with Privet. The glistening whip flying towards Lime before, 'Ribbon Lime Bolt!" The shock wave hit the em shattering it sending incredible amounts of enery pulsing through the romm, and all across the city to the different mews.

There you go, chapter 12, if you care you can find Azara's themes at these two urls, (their different songs)

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