Quiche and the Strawberry Chapter 14:
Cat-astrophe
Written by Shady-rocket-chu-girl
Above ground: Sakura sat under the tree, waiting for the others to come back, and also on the lookout for people coming. Sakura squinted. A small blonde child ran up with two other girls.
"Hi na no da!" the small blonde child smiled brightly at Sakura, who stood up as the other two girls ran over. "Oh, hello," she said.
"We're looking for Ichigo, we're friends of hers," the girl with purple hair said, she seemed cold, and Sakura was unsure of what to say.
Sakura noticed the purple-haired girl squinting at the trap door, she then nodded to the other girls, and the green-haired one shouted, "MEW MEW LETTUCE! METAMORPHO-SIS!" She was engulfed in a green light.
The blonde child shouted, "MEW MEW PUDDING! METAMORPHO-SIS!" She was engulfed in a yellow light.
Finally the purple one shouted, "MEW MEW ZAKURO! METAMORPHO-SIS!" She was engulfed in a purple light.
"Oh, you're Mews," Sakura said. "Well, I didn't know. Mew Ichigo, her father Shintaro, Kisshu, and Taruto are all down there. Just go through the trap door there." Mew Zakuro nodded, opened the trap door, looked around, and jumped in.
"Thank you, we'll make sure everyone comes out okay," with that Mew Lettuce jumped in too.
"We'll be back with Ichigo-oneechan and everyone else soon, na no da!" Just as Pudding was about to jump in, Zakuro popped back up and said, "Pudding, this might be a little too violent for you. Stay here and explain the situation, and help Sakura if anyone attacks." Pudding nodded, and Zakuro went back down. Sakura closed the door behind her.
Underground with Ichigo and the others: Ichigo and the others had almost reached the end of the tunnel when she stopped them. She, Kisshu and Taruto summoned their weapons silently, then they pulled Shintaro against the wall, and flattened themselves against it too.
Zakuro and Lettuce suddenly ran up, and Ichigo stepped out of the shadows. "Where's Pudding?" Ichigo asked, immediately realizing that the hyperactive blonde monkey wasn't there.
"I told her to stay above ground with your mom, this might get too violent for young children," Zakuro responded, her weapon in hand. Lettuce also had her weapon out.
"Okay, let's go," Ichigo said. She walked into the room with the others following silently behind.
When they got there, they saw that Mint was transformed and huddled in a corner. Alto lunged at them.
"Ryou! What's your problem?" Zakuro shouted, as they all dodged the attacks from the small gray cat.
Alto meowed a bit, leaving everyone but Ichigo confused. "Uggh, it was partly your idea, Ryou!" she said glaring at him. He glared back and meowed more.
Ichigo noticed everyone staring at her, and held her hand up. Everyone else started to glow light pink, and something happened. Lettuce now had cat ears and a tail. So did Zakuro, except she still had her wolf tail. Shintaro got cat ears and a tail, and Kisshu and Taruto both got cat tails and their large Cyniclon ears were replaced with cat ears. Mint now had cat ears on her head, and everyone could understand Alto.
"I didn't mean to do that…." Ichigo mumbled, quickly lowering her hand. Alto's glare became harder, as Mint got up and tried to crawl to Ichigo and the others. She was crawling on her stomach, and this gave the others a good view of her wings and tail, which were bent; obviously someone had broken them. Her tail had scratches, and was bleeding a bit. Mint was bleeding everywhere, and as she left the corner, the others could see a puddle of blood where she had been.
"Mint! Ryou, what did you do to her!" Ichigo jumped over, picked up Mint, and jumped back. Then she handed Mint to Shintaro and said, "Dad, take her back to the surface, be gentle with her, and don't hurt her no matter what!"
Shintaro nodded, but before he could move, Mint said, "I-Ichigo… I'm sorry… for… what… I… did." Then she passed out.
"Hurry!" Ichigo said. Shintaro nodded, and ran to the entrance of the cave.
The other Mews gasped, looking at their weapons. Zakuro's Zakuro Cross had a light purple heart around it. Lettuce's Lettuce Castanets had a small light green heart around each, just like Ichigo's Strawberry Bell. "I didn't mean to do that either…." Ichigo mumbled.
Pudding suddenly ran up, she had a brown cat tail next to her monkey tail, and brown kitten ears on her head, and in the center of each of her Pudding Rings, there was a small light yellow heart, neatly attached to the ring it was on. "Ichigo-oneechan! Your mom and dad took Mint-oneechan to the hospital, you know the special one they made in case one of us Mews gets hurt, na no da!"
Everyone looked at her strangely, until Alto leaped at her. She cried out, "Nya!" and leaped out of the way.
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