Heaven and Hell

by Tsukiko AlienWitch

A heavenly and helly remix version of TMM. Ichigo and Kisshu are 'friends' and have been for a while. When two different lights change their lives can they over come the big changes. Ichigo looks for her comrades and Kisshu has to control himself or else.

36. The Final Purification

A/N: Kuro: Hello, everyone. Kuro speaking because Tsukiko is ranting.

Tsukiko: That stupid little computer note!! First it says that it's having some small problems and then it says to come back in a few minutes! It's been like that for days!!

Kuro: as you can see, she was done with chapter 35 of this story before and she was even done with the author's note but the website didn't let anyone login so that they could update, Tsukiko included. Anyway…Tsukiko does NOT own TMM or the songs she uses in her stories. Thank you all for the wonderful reviews and pleas keep them coming. We despertly need them. Thank you and please enjoy.

Tsukiko: Not to mention that I have other things to do and I wasn't able to do them because I was all hang up on why I couldn't update anything!!! And…

To save the future, you need to tell the truth in what happens in the past. But what if the past is too shocking to believe?

Ch. 36: The Final Purification

When Ryou was very, very close to tears and he's on his knees, five lights appear above him and Keiichiro. They both look up to see five bright white cylinders appearing out of nowhere. First, it was only a small speck but then it got bigger and bigger until they all became hand size. Before they could say anything, the souls glided down to the Mew Mews bodies and they enter the bodies. Soon after they entered, the Mew Mews started to open their eyes.

"Those were their souls! Their souls came back!" Ryou breathes out, not believing what had just happened.

Keiichiro calls with a waking Zakuro in his arms, "Zakuro-san! Are you hurt?"

Weakly like she just woke up from a peaceful sleep, her peaceful sapphire eyes look up at him as she asks, "Why are you here, Keiichiro-san?" All he does for now is smile at her and move some strands of hair to the size. He's too much of a gentleman.

Ryou instantly goes to Mint and helps her sit up. He asks, "Are you okay?"

Mint feels like she's having a migraine as she answers, "I feel okay, but I feel like I haven't woken up in twelve hour." When Ichigo was able to come back to her sense and she was halfway up anyway, she saw Ryou going to Mint's side. Well that's the least he can do since she spend every minute waiting by his side, hoping that he would get up when he was half dead.

Ryou tells her, "Well you were soulless for a few minutes, we believe."

'We've been at the borderland for what felt like hours and we've only been soulless for a few minutes? Oh god…' Ichigo thinks, holding her head in pain like she's the one with a migraine. Lettuce and Pudding get up feeling the same thing.

Mint looks down at herself and asks, "Why am I human?"

"Right before your souls returned, you all returned back into your human forms. We thought that you all died." Hearing that, Zakuro, Lettuce, and Pudding look down at themselves and they are human again.

'Thank goodness you're all awake!'Ichigo hears. That's the same voice who warned her about Deep Blue's release.

Ichigo asks, 'Who are you?'

'Angela.'Ichigo's eyes grow wide from that. She tells her, 'Please! You have to tell him the truth, both the Blue Knight and Ryou!'

'The Blue Knight?'

'Ask Ryou and Keiichiro-san. They know.'

Ichigo was going to fallow to fallow Angela's instructions but something distracts her and the others. Ichigo looks forward and she sees a black mist portal appear and Deep Blue steps out of it. His legs are so weak that when he touched the ground, he immediately collapses to his knees. He starts huffing from exhaustion breathing in from his nose and out through his mouth. Looks like the fight and the light really took it out of him and since he had to come back to the living, he must be close to fainting. But he holds strong as he looks up to see the Mew Mews and the royal angels.

After a bit, he smiles and says, "Well if it isn't the prince of heaven and his faithful servant. Tell me, how is your mother and father? Are they doing well?"

Ryou got angry. He puts Mint down and stands up. He tells him, "They will be when you're dead!" Ryou summons a sword and that causes Ichigo instantly to get up.

Deep Blue smirks and stands up straighter, ready to fight. Ryou was going to charge but Ichigo sticks her hand out and faces Ryou. She's defending Deep Blue. Everyone stares at her surprise and shock. Even Deep Blue lost his smirk and stares at her in a curious way.

Before they could say anything, Ichigo asks, "Ryou! Keiichiro! Answer me this one thing before you go running off! The Blue Knight." Ryou, Keiichiro, and Deep Blue gasp at that. "Do you two know of the Blue Knight?"

Ryou lowers his sword as he answers, "He was a great warrior in heaven." The mew mews look at them in curiosity as Keiichiro gets up and helps Zakuro get up.

Keiichiro explains, "They say that a long time ago before the war, the Blue Knight was a great warrior that was deeply in love with the queen." Deep Blue's mouth closes and he looks away, almost sad. "The Blue Knight challenges the king in a duel to win the queen's hand in marriage. But their love for each other was so strong that the king defeated the Blue Knight and marries the queen. The Blue Knight was never seen again."

"So that was the bullshit that they've been telling their children," Deep Blue mumbles. He looks back at them with cold hard eyes as they stare at him in surprise.

Finally understanding, Ichigo puts her arm down and says, "Kish told me that Deep Blue went through the same thing they did but the real thing." She turns to look at the hell lord and asks, "You weren't just in love with Angela, you two were lovers, right Blue Knight?" Ryou and Keiichiro gasp at that and quickly look at Deep Blue.

Deep Blue chuckles and says, "The Blue Knight died a long time ago, angel. Him and his love for that lying angel. Since you know my story so well, why don't you tell them? It seems that I still hate lies."

That was surprising to hear from the lord of hell, the ruler of hate, betrayal, anger, misery, sadness, death, and lies. Saying that he hates one of the things he rules is quiet shocking but Ichigo is the only one who's calm as she explains what happened many, many years ago.

"Before Ryou was born, the Blue Knight and Angela were lovers and it seemed that their love for each other was deep and eternal. Even though it was against the rules, the king, Robert was jealous because he too was deeply in love with Angela so he challenges the Blue Knight to a duel for her hand in marriage. Because he could not deny a challenge, the Blue Knight accepts. Then the Blue Knight lost the battle and also fallowing the terms of the challenge, Angela accepts Robert's hand and marries him. One night, the Blue Knight tries to run away with her but she says no. He pleaded her and begged her to come with him and even becomes humans so that they can live together, but she had a duty to marry Robert so she refuses him. Soon Angela learns to fall in love with Robert and has a child while the Blue Knight's heart that was torn and smashed by the very woman he loved. It became clouded with darkness and turns black. He was never seen again but when he came back to heaven, he had the entire army forces turned into agents and attacks the heaven kingdom as Deep Blue, ruler of Hell. Some angels that were not in the army and were faithful to the king fought against the agents and some died trying. Angela was the one who was able to purify all of them and after they were purified, they were reborn on earth as humans. Then Robert fights the Blue Knight who then calls himself 'Deep Blue' and lost. He dies as Angela then uses every bit of energy that she had to destroy Deep Blue's body and seals his soul in the darkness forever. Angela died at the spot."

"And she damn well deserved it," Deep Blue tells them. They look at him as he adds, "And that damn king of yours deserved it as well."

'But that's not the whole truth! Please Ichigo! You have to tell them, everything!'

Unaware that she spoke to Angela with her voice, she says, "But I don't know. I don't know if they can handle it."

Mint asks, "Ichigo, who are you talking to?"

She doesn't answer because she hears, 'Please, Ichigo! You are my voice. You're the only one who can tell them the whole truth.'

Ichigo lowers her head and says, "It's amazing to me that an angel stayed in heaven with a tainted mind." Now everyone's confused.

But Deep Blue has gotten enough of this history lesson. "It doesn't matter now." They look up at him and he's literally glowing blue with black electricity sparkling out every now and then. His hair rises up from the energy as his clothes softly flaps. "Nothing can change the past. What's done is done." He raises a hand and a huge black portal appears. What came out of it are what looks like hundreds of kirema animas with fangs sharper than any knives and claws deadly. The angels didn't have time to transform. They had to get out of the way.

Some kirema animas head towards the angels individually and the angels try to get out of the way as much as possible. Mint, Ryou, Keiichiro, and Zakuro separated so that they won't be easy meals for the demons. Ichigo is kind of having an easier time dodging, better than the others. Because of her cat abilities, she dodges them by jumping high in the air and for sensing danger when they tried to attack from behind. Since Ryou has his sword, he was purifying the demons with a simple swing of his sword while the others are dodging. But unlike Ichigo, he didn't sense danger from behind. A kirema anima gets him behind and by the time he notice the demon, it already has a good slash at his back. He didn't let out a cry as he falls to his knees and tries to deal with the pain as best as he can, his blood dripping from the side and smelling his blood is making Deep Blue very tempting to bite him. He hasn't had real blood in a while now.

Mint sees him on his knees and gets extremely worried. The same demon goes over to hit him again as Mint runs to his side. "Ryou!" she screams, reaching for him. Then her whole body glows blue like a star. Deep Blue covers his eyes from the light as Ryou stares at her in surprise. The Mew Mews got a few glimpses at the light but are too busy by the kirema attacking them.

She runs in front of Ryou to protect him as the demon is coming at them faster with fangs at the ready. She goes to her pocket and takes out her blotch. "Mew Mew Mint METAMORPHOSIS!!!" Her bright light from the transformation stops the demon and it dissolves in the light. The angels got another chance to look and they see the light fading and Mint is in her full angel form; her white dress and everything. She takes a step forward and says, "No one will touch him, you hear me?! I will protect Ryou, even if I have to die in the process!!"

Since Keiichiro is being distracted, a demon comes at him and tries to eat him but Zakuro takes out her blotch and yells, "Mew Mew Zakuro METAMORPHOSIS!!!" The demon dissolves from her bright purple light and now she's standing right in front of Keiichiro in her full angel form. "Just try and kill us."

Almost being inspired by their warrior spirit, Lettuce quickly goes to her pocket and takes out her blotch. "Pai-sensei and his family helped us return to our bodies. I'm not about to let their efforts be for not! Mew Mew Lettuce METAMORPHOSIS!!!" Her body glows green and she's back in her mermaid outfit but with the pants and legs instead of a fish tail.

Pudding takes out her blotch and cries, "Mew Mew Pudding METAMORPHOSIS!!!" She transforms into her full angel form with her Chinese silk rob and she proclaims, "Taru-Taru promises me to see me in my dreams and I'm not going to die here and let him break his promise!!"

The voice in Ichigo's head tells her, 'Your friends need you. Just say the words and you can transform too!'

Ichigo asks, "Really? I can be an angel again?"

'Just believe in yourself and the one you love most. It will work.'

Believing her, Ichigo decides to give it a try. "Mew Mew Strawberry METAMORPHOSIS!!" After so long, a bright pink light shines from Ichigo's body and she can feel the familiar warm, comforting feeling of becoming an angel again. But somehow, the transformation is different than the ones she remembered having. It felt more powerful and the feeling feels more pure. Her friends saw the light and stare at it in surprise as in her light alone, nearly half of the demons are purified because her light is so big.

When half of the kirema animas are gone, the light fades away and Ichigo is in a new outfit now. But unlike the interesting ones that her friends have, hers look a little plain. All she has is a white sleeveless summer dress that fits her body perfectly and it's only two inches above her knees long. Her hair is down and looks more beautiful and radiant than ever! On her back are her white wings that are three times bigger than how they were before. Her halo is bright and she has no shoes at all. Her body is giving off a soft pink glow and she's hovering above the ground. When the Mew Mews look closely at her new look, there is one thing on her that is interesting. On her neck is a five point star gold necklace on a gold chain. From the point to the middle in the shape of diamonds are five color jewels that make the star; blue, purple, green, orange, and black. Also on her neck is her red ribbon collar with the beautiful golden bell. Besides the necklace and her collar, her outfit looks simple but she still looks so beautiful.

Ichigo opens her eyes and they meet Deep Blue. She smiles and says, "I promise Kish that I will save you and that is what I intend to do it. For your sins, I will purify thee –nya!"

Deep Blue raises his arm again and charges up another black blast. "Annoying." Then he launches it and it heading for her at full speed.

Mint, who is kneeling down to Ryou's level so that she could heal his wounds, stands up and calls, "Ichigo! Get out of the way!" But Ichigo just smiles.

When it look like the blast hit her, her body wasn't there like an illusion. Deep Blue is surprise to see that but is shocked when Ichigo is suddenly right in front of him. Her smile isn't on her face as she asks him, "You still love Angela, don't you?" He flinches back, his eyes giving away that he still is. Some of the angels stop fighting the demons with element attacks, Lettuce is using water and Pudding is using earth, for a bit so that they can watch. They are a bit surprise to see Deep Blue's expression as Ichigo explains, "If you didn't love her, you would've been trying to just kill us instead of having the guys go down to hell with you. No matter how much it hurts, you still love her because love is a very hard thing to try and kill."

He takes more steps back as he tells her, "Stay away from me!"

Ichigo looks down at her necklace and says, "I believe I know a song. Let's see, opera and rock." Her fingers press the blue and the black jewel as if they're buttons and her whole body glows white. Because Deep Blue is so close, he had to cover his eyes from it. The angels are surprise as they can see that the demons are starting to cry in pain from the light. Then after the light, there is music. First it sounds like violins but then it starts using drums and guitars.

When the light was gone, Ichigo has a new outfit. Her wings and her halo are still the same but now her body is glowing white. On her legs are black tights and blue ballet dancing slippers. Her outfit is a medieval style tutu that's dark blue and has black ribbons. Her star is on the center of her outfit collar and she still has her red ribbon collar on her neck. What is interesting about her new outfit is that she has long big sleeves that are not connected to the dress. They are both apart by four inches of the arm and on her back is a big black bow about waist size, similar to her work outfit bow. For the final touch, her hair is up in her regular pig tails and they have black ribbons holding it up.

Ichigo touches her star gently so she doesn't press anything as she whispers, "Thank you, Kish. I'll keep my promise." Then she looks up at Deep Blue and offers her hand to him. He drops his arms to look at her and gasps at her look. She's giving him a gentle angel smile as she asks, "Do you want to do with me, Deep Blue? It's hard to dance this song by myself." Being captivated by her beauty, he accepts her hand. All the other angels can do now is watch as Ichigo is dancing ballet with the lord of hell. Since her touch doesn't bother either of them, it was okay to dance. Then it was time for them to sing. Deep Blue sings first (his solos are bold.)

Beauty and the Beast by Nightwish

Remember the first dance we shared?
Recall the night you melted my ugliness away?
The night you left with a kiss so kind
Only a scent of beauty left behind

Then it was time for Ichigo to sing. But as she's singing, she sounds like she's singing opera.

Ah, dear friend I remember the night
The moon and the dreams we shared
Your trembling paw in my hand
Dreaming of that northern land
Touching me with a kiss of a beast

I know my dreams are made of you
Of you and only for you
Your ocean pulls me under
Your voice tears me asunder
Love me before the last petal falls

As a world without a glance
Of the ocean´s fair expanse
Such the world would be
If no love did flow in thee
But as my heart is occupied
Your love to me now has to die
Forgive me, I need more than you can offer me

Didn´t you read the tale
Where happily ever after was to kiss a frog?
Don´t you know this tale
In which all I ever wanted
I´ll never have
For who could ever learn to love a beast?

Then there is a long intro of music for a bit and they both just continue to dance. The way that both of them are dancing, almost looks like two lovers are dancing. But it looks like Deep Blue is desperately trying to have Ichigo stay with him, but she keeps refusing him. He looks like he's pleading for her stay but Ichigo looks like she's pleading for Deep Blue to let go of her and leave. Then Ichigo finally breaks away from Deep Blue and starts dancing on her own a few feet away from him. She faces him and starts singing again

However cold the wind and rain
I´ll be there to ease up your pain
However cruel the mirrors of sin
Remember, beauty is found within

....Forever shall the wolf in me
desire the sheep in you...

That was the last of the lyrics but the song still continues. Even though they should be worried about the demons that are still trying to kill them, the angels couldn't help but look at the scene in surprise. The lyrics almost made sense of what Deep Blue is feeling. Maybe he figured that Angela believes that their love for each there didn't matter anymore because he couldn't be the strong, powerful warrior that deserves to have her. Maybe she did think like that at first but when she lost to Deep Blue, she abandons his heart.

When the song finally ends, Ichigo was in Deep Blue's hold again but walks away like she's drifting away from him. He stays where he stands and reaches for her as her hand is drifts away from him. At first, she was looking at him as she was leaving but then at the last minute she turns around and looks at him. When she looks back at him, he gasps and widen his eyes as if he's just woken up from a trance. He blinks a couple of times and looks at the ground. When he looks back at her, his eyes are deadly. He raises a hand and mumbles, "Die, wench" Then he unleashes a fast blue blast.

Lettuce finishes purifying her last demon as she yells, "Ichigo! Get out of there!" Apparently, Ichigo was still in a trance from the song. She gasps in surprise like she just woke up as the blast hits her. She goes flying back. Both Pudding and Zakuro stop fighting when they saw her get hurt.

Pudding calls, "Ichigo onee-chan!" As she's flying back, her body glows and her clothes go back to her simple white dress. Ryou gets up and uses his wings to get to her faster. Right before she hits the ground, he catches her. Mint breathes out a sigh in relief and goes back to purifying the last of the demons. Being distracted enough, Lettuce, Pudding, and Zakuro go back to helping Mint.

Ryou asks, "Ichigo! Are you okay?"

Ichigo looks up at him and nods. "Just tired a bit. That was the first time in a while I did something like that." Ryou puts her down and he leans a little close to Ryou he whispers in his ear, "I'm going to distract Deep Blue as much as I can. While he's distracted, I need the others to surround him. I need them to use the 'Mew Power Extension.'" Ichigo pulls away from Ryou and he nods.

Ichigo prepares herself and turns to Deep Blue. Ryou runs back to the others to tell them Ichigo plan as she yells, "There's more to the story, Deep Blue!" Deep Blue raises a brow in curiosity. Ryou is curious too but he helps Mint defeat a demon and then whispers in her ear Ichigo's plan. She nods and goes over to help her friends to tell them. Ryou goes back to the scene as Ichigo adds, "Angela was threaten to give up her love for you or Robert was going to kill you!" Keiichiro hears that too and the message went pretty fast. Everyone looks at Ichigo in surprise.

But Mint asks, "How do you know that Ichigo?!"

Ichigo lets out a sigh in guilt and answers, "What happened before he was born was Ryou's nightmare. I didn't tell some of you but when I was still unable to become an angel again, I gained the power to see and steal memories or dreams. I saw Pai's and Tauto's memories through Lettuce and Pudding and without meaning too, I stole Ryou's nightmare when he was still unconscious. I didn't understood it until now and that's why I didn't tell you." Ichigo looks back at Deep Blue and says, "The missing blanks Angela told me." Deep Blue takes a step back in what looks like a blank surprise.

Keiichiro asks, "What did she say?"

Ichigo still looks at Deep Blue and answers, "Robert offered himself to Angela before the challenge but she rejects him, telling him that there is someone else that she's deeply in love with. Then Robert challenges the Blue Knight to a challenge for her hand in marriage but Angela became cautious about this. She kept telling him not to do it but you used to tell her that a true warrior never backs down a challenge. Then Angela sees Robert putting something in the Blue Knights drink right before the battle and she finds out that it's numbing poison. Don't you remember how she pleaded you to take a drink, saying that she put her love in it so that you could win? But you told her that seeing her is all he needs to win." Deep Blue gasps at that as the memory of how she pleaded and pleaded him to take her drink. Ichigo explains, "That was the antidote so that you could fight with him fair and square. The poison causes you to lose and fallowing the rules, Angela accepts Robert's hand. Then days later, you send her a note saying that for you two to be together, you would both run away to earth and live as humans forever. She was so happy to go that she starts packing but Robert saw her and knows about you meeting her so that you could runaway. He told her that if she leaves and doesn't marry him then he was going to kill you. When it was time for you to meet her, he told her that she has to refuse you. Not willingly, she goes to meet you and rejects you; no matter how many times you plead her to go with him or how many times you told her that you love her. When she went back to Robert, she was crying and slaps him. Then he woke up from his selfish episode and saw how much pain he caused the woman he loves."

Ichigo looks down at the ground and asks, "Keiichiro, do you remember what Ryou was mumbling when he was still unconscious?" Keiichiro couldn't say anything. He was too shock by what Ichigo was telling everyone, the truth of what happened.

Mint instead says, "Didn't he say things like 'Light in the darkness, darkness in the light,' 'Love becomes hate, hate becomes love,' 'Angels become humans, agents become humans,' and 'Good becomes evil, evil becomes good?'"

Ichigo nods and says, "Those were clues on what happened in the past and clues on how to save the ones we love! 'Love becomes hate, hate becomes love.' Your love for Angela turned to hate soon after she 'betrays' you to save you. Then Angela's hate for Robert becomes love because he was so good to her after that. 'Good becomes evil, evil becomes good.' You were good but turned evil because of your darken heart while Robert becomes good after seeing Angela's tears. 'Angels become humans, agents become humans.' Angels are supposed to love with all of their hearts as agents are supposed to hate with all of their souls. I became a human after my heart was darkened by the things Kisshu did to me and the agents were able to turn back into humans because their souls were filled with love instead of hate! Finally, 'Light in the darkness, darkness in the light.' That was a clue to help us find them when we were at the borderland."

There was a moment of silence for a bit. Deep Blue, finally able to tear his eyes away from Ichigo, looks down at the ground and tightens his fists. He asks, "What's the use of telling me this now? What's done is done. Don't you realize that yet? It's too late to tell me such useless things now."

"It's never too late, Deep Blue because there are two more things you need to know." Deep Blue looks at her again and she tells him, "That day when you were sealed to hell, yes you got your revenge by killing the man who stole your love away and Angela was there. She saw you kill her husband and yes she was there to stop you, but not just because she cares for him. She did it because she didn't want to see the monster that you've become. When she saw you kill Robert, she was heartbroken to see that the man she would always love is no longer there. So using her powers, she seals you away because she couldn't bear the thought of killing you. She dies that day and leaves your son to be taken care of by Keiichiro." The last part became shocking enough to just turn everyone to stone. Hearing the silence and seeing their reaction, Ichigo answers the unspoken question. "There was another life that Robert threatened to kill unless she left you, the life of her unborn child. When she married Robert, she was pregnant with your child. She was going to replace your blood with Robert's so that it could be his child, but she wanted your child more than anything. Even though it could've killed her after her son was born and before Robert was going to see him, she uses every bit of magic to make him look like his son. She survived after being bedridden for weeks but she's guilty for having your son that does even look like her. He looks like the man she didn't want to marry." Ichigo turns to Ryou and says, "Ryou, Deep Blue is your father." She turns to Deep Blue again and says, "And this is your son, Ryou."

Ryou looks at Deep Blue and Deep Blue does the same. Their eyes are the size of entrée plates and all they both are doing is just staring at each other. Deep Blue takes one step forward and asks, "My…son…She had…my kid?"

Ryou asks, "He's…my dad? I still have family?"

Ichigo looks at her friends and they saw her gaze on them. She nods and they nod back. They fly towards Deep Blue and start to surround him. Deep Blue gets out of his trance and looks around to see that he's surrounded by angels. They summon their weapons and raise them up in the air. They all chant, "Mew Power Extension!!" Their weapons glow white and just like with Kish, white chains shot out of the ground and grabs his wrists. The cross appears behind him and pulls him up with it.

Ryou tries to yell, "Hold on!"

But Ichigo places her hands on her star and chants, "Ribbon Strawberry Surprise!!" The pink light stops Ryou from running up to the cross and it makes Deep Blue look away before his eyes start to burn like his wrists are now. After the light, Ryou and Keiichiro look at Ichigo in surprise. Deep Blue looks up as well and is deeply shock.

Instead of Ichigo, there is a different person. A woman with long beautiful golden hair like the sun's rays that just reaches her butt with skin as white and soft as clouds. Her eyes are a beautiful shade of lake blue and she has rosy cheeks and soft lips that are curl up into a soft gentle smile. She has on a strapless baggy white shirt that is long enough to touch her skirt. Her skirt is white and long but it has two long slits up to her thighs, about four inches below her waist where her skirt is hanging. On her back is pure white angel wings two times bigger than what Ichigo's wings were and she has a bright halo hovering over her head.

Ryou couldn't help but ask, "M…Mother?"

Keiichiro whispers, "No, it's Ichigo's body possessed by Angela's soul. Her attack is having her body be possess by a soul and then looking the person. The only ones who can see that form are ones who desperately want to see that person. Like you and Deep Blue. I think this is the finishing touch to the 'Mew Power Extension.'" Keiichiro was able to give that example because all she sees is an illusion of Angela and Ichigo as if Ichigo is in her body and is moving and doing the same things she is. Ryou looks back at Angela and starts to see the same thing Keiichiro does. He gasps again in shock.

Angela doesn't look at her son as if the only one she can see is Deep Blue. Her rosy red lips move so that she could talk and she says, in a voice that even sounds like her, "Blue Knight, my love." His eyes soften, feeling like this is the real thing. Angela is right in front of him again.

He couldn't help but mumble, "Angela, my dearest." Her eyes brighten up as her wings straighten out. She flaps them and goes flying over the Mew Mew fortress and to Deep Blue. The Mew Mews see the same thing Keiichiro and Ryou see and gets a little worried. This is the second time Ichigo is going this close to someone dangerous who was just caught by the cross.

Angela lands right in front of him and then hugs him. She smiles and tells him, "I've missed you so much. I'm so sorry that I did such terrible things to you but I couldn't bear the thought of Robert killing you and I wanted our child so badly. I'm sorry. Oh, Blue Knight, I love you. I really do. I always have and always do." His eyes widen again. Everything that Ichigo told everyone was true. The warm feeling that he hasn't felt for thousands of years returns back to his chest and he can feel his heart pounding after so long. He closes his eyes and relaxes in her hold. So badly, he wants to hold her but be can't because of these chains. Now, they don't hurt so bad. In fact, they're just holding him back now.

Deep Blue whispers in her ear, "I missed you too. I forgive you."

She pulls away to look at his face and asks, "Really?"

He smiles at her and nods. "I love you, Angela. I haven't forgotten you for a single day." She smiles and tears of happiness start to pile up in her eyes.

Angela closes her eyes and leans towards him. Her red lips kiss his cold ones and he kisses her back. That kiss then suddenly unleashes a big white light coming from the both of them. The other angels had to cover their eyes with their hands to block out the light. The cross dissolves and Deep Blue was free to hold her and pull her closer. One hand is behind her head and it's lost in her soft golden hair. Then on his back, two white angels wings, the same size as hers, appears on his back and his big elf ears disappear into human ones. His hair comes together and gets tied back in a low ponytail by a white hair band. His clothes change from dark blue to white and the buttons on his rob from the bottom to his waist unbutton to reveal shorts and white boots. (For his looks, just imagine the Blue Knight for the serious but with dark blue hair and a white outfit because that is what he looks like.) Her arms circle around his neck and her fingers get tangle in his still black hair. When the light started to fade away, their kiss broke.

Deep Blue, or the Blue Knight smiles in sad yet sweet way and says, "Goodbye, Angela." His hands slide off her and her hands does the same. They're just holding hands now.

She tries to smile at him too and says, "Goodbye, my love." She closes her eyes and she releases Ichigo's body. Ichigo, from loss of energy starts to collapse but the Blue Knight catches her.

"Whoo, there," he lets out, catching her. Ryou and Keiichiro run up to the Mew Mews and they are all staring up with hope.

Ichigo opens her eyes and looks up at the Blue Knight. He asks, "Too much for you?"

She lets out a chuckle and says, "You have no idea."

He smiles sweetly at her and kisses her forehead. "Thank you."

She turns red from his charm and starts shuttering. "Aw..N-No problem."

He looks down at their hands and says, "Takes these." She looks down and when he releases her hands, there are three souls.

She breathes out, "Are these…?" He just nods. Ichigo turns towards her friends and calls, "Lettuce! Pudding!"

They run to her after seeing the souls in her hands. They look down and stare. They look the same so they can't tell who's who. Lettuce goes first. She gulps and asks, "Pai-senpai?" One soul rises up and she reaches for it. She holds it in her hands and pulls it back to stare at it in wonder. Pudding decides to go next.

"Taru-Taru?!"

One soul just sprints from Ichigo's hands and goes to Pudding. She catches it and stare at it the same way Lettuce and Ichigo are looking at theirs. But Ichigo couldn't help but call, "Dren-kun?" The soul rises up from her hands to her face and makes it looks like the soul just kissed her. She starts tearing and holds the soul, carefully but lovingly. "Dren-kun!" Lettuce holds the soul close to her, feeling like she can feel his arms around her as she smiles and starts crying in happiness. Pudding just gives the soul a small kiss before holding it close to her heart.

Pudding looks up at the Blue Knight and says, "Thank you, na no da!"

He smiles, telling her, "You're welcome." Mint lets out a sigh and both her and Zakuro smile at their friends' happiness.

Ichigo looks up at them and rushes over to them. She shows them the soul and says, "Guys, it's Kisshu or Kish or Dren-kun…He has three names. I don't know which one to call him."

Mint tells her, "I'm used to 'Kisshu' so I'll call him that." She turns her attention to the soul and smiles. "I'm sorry for making Ichigo hate you at first for saying that I love you. That mess was my fault. I'm sorry and it turned out to be that it was just a small crush, anyway." The soul flouts up to Mint and gently touching her cheek, like he just kiss her there. Ichigo just smiles that everything is all good now, but then Mint decides to play a small prank. "What's that? You want to get me back? Well I don't know." The soul jolts a bit from that as Ichigo grabs the soul and pulls him.

Ichigo tells Mint, "Nice try, Mint! Don't get cocky with the kiss! He just did that to show that he forgives you, not love you!"

Mint tells her, "Sorry, Ichigo. It can't be helped that I'm more attractive than you."

Ichigo starts flaming up. "Why you little…" The soul looks like it's shaking while the others are now just laughing. Looks like things are back to normal; more or less.

Ryou calls, "Hey!" The Blue Knight looks up and sees Ryou. He just looks as Ryou asks, "So…you're my father?"

The Blue Knight smiles a bit in embarrassment and says, "Yes, and I understand that this might take some time to get used to. But-"

"Sure as heck it is!" Keiichiro just looks at him as the Blue Knight and the other angels look at him in surprise and blink from that response. Then he starts rambling. "It's going to take some time on letting go of the feelings I've been holding for you for the past couple of thousand of years, then I got to tell everyone in heaven that the Blue Knight is alive and he was really Deep Blue, then I got to make them accept you back into heaven, then I got to get used to on your demands, how much of a parent you are, and I have to announce you king of heaven. Darn, that enough is heck on earth and I hate to think of anything else that I'm going to have to do that I forgot."

As he looks like he's trying to think, the other angels think, 'Having the job of being prince on heaven must not be an easy task.'

"Yep, life as a prince of heaven is not an easy task," Ryou mumbles. The angels are surprise for him to say that as Ichigo is freaking out. It's just like what happened when she met him. "But," Ryou starts. He looks at his father and smiles, "I think I can deal with it."

After blinking a few times, the Blue Knight smiles and asks, "How old are you again?"

Ryou answers, "Six thousand years old." All but Keiichiro, the Blue Knight, and Ichigo had their mouths dropped to the ground. That's right, Ichigo was the only angel that knows his age. The other two that weren't surprise thought of six thousand as sixteen in humans years or maybe younger or older.

The Blue Knight walks towards Ryou and then holds him. Ryou is so shock from this that he doesn't move. Some of the girls were watching as if they're watching a love movie as Zakuro and Keiichiro just watch, just glad that now the Blue Knight is holding his son. He pulls away and says, "Sorry but Angela got to hug you before and I never did. I am your father after all."

Ryou pats his shoulder and tells him, "It was your first time so I'm not going to hold it against you but never again please."

"I guess, I can deal with that. It's normal for a teenager to be like that."

Ichigo, Mint, Lettuce, and Pudding let out a sigh in a dreamy way at the father and son moment while the souls, Zakuro, and Keiichiro have a sweat drop from that.

Then Zakuro asks, "Now what?" Everyone looks at her as she explains, "Not to blame on you, but nearly half of Tokyo's citizens are dead, Kisshu, Pai and Taruto don't have bodies to live in, and Tokyo is turning into a ghost town." She did say 'not to put blame on you' but that was a little too straight ford.

The Blue Knight didn't mind one bit. "Well I can do something to fix that." The girls look at him, a little hopeful as he adds, "But I need to go back for a bit." Now they're confused, but Keiichiro and Ryou know exactly what he means.

Keiichiro says, "Blue Knight-sama! That is impossible to do! It takes up too much holly energy and we don't know if you'll be alright by then."

He tells him, "Holly energy has been lying dormant inside of me for thousands of years and thanks to Ichigo-san who allowed me to see Angela again, I have ten times as much holly energy than before." Ichigo couldn't help but blush as some of the glory goes to her but she's still confused on what he means. Then he says, "Don't worry though. The angels here will remember everything. But when they wake up, it will be the day before the infusion happened." Now they are no longer confuse as the Blue Knight summons his sword. He tells Ryou and Keiichiro, "You two better stand back."

Before he could stab the ground, Ichigo asks, "Wait! If things change, will we ever see each other again?"

The Blue Knight smiles and assures her, "It's your decision to see them again or not. You're getting a second chance now." Then he stabs the ground and kneels down, still grasping it. Then he sounds like he's mumbling something in an old language. His body starts to glow white and his hair and clothes rise a bit from the energy. Then his sword starts glowing and it got bigger and bigger until it starts to engulf everything. That bright light was the last thing that any of them saw.