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During the weekend, Lavender went off to the audition. She changed into some loose, work-out clothes in the change rooms, then went to the backstage area where all the other girls were waiting.
"Eh? Brown-san, what are you doing here?" Ichigo wondered.
"It sounded like fun." Lavender said with a shrug, "And I kind of wanted to see what sort of person Zakuro-san was." She paused, "You can call me Lav if you want. All the girls in my class call me Lav-chan, since my name's a bit hard to pronounce for them."
"E-Eh? Eto…in that case, call me Ichigo." Ichigo said.
"Ichigo-chan, then." Lavender dipped her chin in acknowledgement.
The judges came in, sitting down in front of him. A man who looked half Asian sat down in the middle of the table (obviously he was the most important). One man sat on his left, the other to his right.
Then, Zakuro came in. There was a lot of cameras going off, flashing and lighting up the auditorium.
She took a seat at the end, she had big dark glasses over her eyes.
Lavender's eyes widened a bit. So, that was what a big star looked like…She was kind of cool.
"Now, we will start the auditions!" The announcer at the side said into his microphone.
They were called up by number. Number one first, then number two…
Lavender watched them carefully, suddenly growing quite nervous. Would her skill level be good enough to compete? They all got a lot of applause from the audience.
It was a dance and singing audition.
"Contestant number fifteen. Aizawa Minto-san."
Mint was up first out of the three girls. Purin was too young to be in this, Lavender figured.
Minto made her way up onto the stage. She was dressed in a blue leotard and ballet slippers. She was getting ready to dance when screams came from off the stage.
"Everyone get back! A small monkey that breathes fire is here!"
What? Lavender wondered.
Could it be a Chimera Anima?
Only, it wasn't. It was Purin. She ran out onto the stage,
"That was mean, leaving me behind! Purin wants to audition too!"
"Purin!" Ichigo tried to stop her, chasing her onto the stage.
Retasu quickly went to Ichigo's aid.
"Oh dear…" Lavender murmured, watching the catastrophe play out.
At some point, Purin brought out a gong and started banging on it like crazy.
No one was amused.
"Enough!" A voice shouted out in English.
Everyone froze, coming to a complete stop. They all looked at the judge in the middle who had risen up from his table.
"Are you making fun of me? That's it! This audition is canceled. Obviously, if no one's taking this seriously, it's a waste of my time."
The girls all looked devastated.
"Please wait a minute." Lavender spoke up, stepping out from behind stage, she moved over to the judges table. All eyes were on her, "No one was making fun of you, and I think they are taking things seriously." Her eyes traveled over to Purin, then back to the judge.
"When I was a little girl, I used to think about how incredible stars were. I mean, idols." She corrected, "This girl is young, but from what she was saying, I think she has the same dream as well. That's why she crashed the performance. I'm not condoning what she did, but I can understand it. I don't think anyone here would want to give up that feeling of being on stage in this audition." Lavender paused, then bowed her head, "Forgive me for speaking so out of turn."
The man frowned, then sat back down in his seat, an odd look on his face. His eyes scanned Lavender over. It was almost disconcerting.
"Alright." He said, "What is your name?"
"My name is Lavender Brown." She introduced herself, "I'm British. But I've been living in Japan for a long time. I'm fluent in both Japanese and English."
"I see…" The man seemed to be thinking on something, "Alright…in that case, we may resume auditions…but only on one condition."
Lavender blinked,
"Alright?"
He then turned to Zakuro,
"Would you please dance first?" He asked her.
Zakuro blinked, then smiled and gave a small laugh,
"That's fine." She agreed.
"He says that he'll allow the auditions to continue on the condition that Zakuro-san do a dance as well." Lavender told the girls.
"Sugoi! That was incredible, Lav-chan!" Ichigo said with awe.
Lavender blushed a little,
"Not really. English is my first language, remember?"
Zakuro walked up on stage.
She took off her clothing to reveal a leotard underneath. Had she been prepared for this? Lavender wondered.
How did idols do it anyways?
The music started and Zakuro started to move. She was leaps and bounds ahead of all the other girls. It was really quite incredible.
"Bravo!" The judge in the middle clapped his hands.
The other two judges were in awe.
And then Minto spoke. It might have been a bit much though. She claimed that Zakuro was a companion and, well…It didn't go over well.
Minto was frozen after that. She didn't audition and the other girls, Ichigo and Retasu had to take her with them off stage.
Purin looked guilty and Lavender watched as she started to move off stage.
Lavender got up and followed after them.
"Purin-chan?"
Purin turned around to look over at Lavender. She gave her an encouraging smile,
"You aren't the one who hurt them, okay? If you feel upset about it, then apologise, just remember that it was Zakuro-san's words that made Minto-san upset."
"Hai…" Purin seemed to cheer up a bit, "Thank you, Lav-neechan."
"Take care." Lavender said, "I guess I don't really have any reason to stay here anymore."
Zakuro wasn't going to talk to her. It was possible that the Mew Mew wasn't her too…Well, she supposed that finding the other Mew Mew was the goal of their group anyways. It wasn't like Lavender was super set on having another group of companions…not after last time.
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Monday was a holiday and by then, all thoughts of Zakuro had sort of just stopped…until Lavender got a call on her cell phone.
"Moshi moshi?" She answered.
"Brown-san." It was a familiar voice, "Come to café Mew Mew. There's an emergency. The girls have all been captured."
"Eh?" Lavender wondered, eyes slightly wide, "I…okay. I'll be there in a moment."
She closed her phone and ran out of the house.
"Eh? Lavender-chan?" He heard Himeko's voice behind her.
She had no time to stop though as she ran through the streets. She fled towards the wooded area, racing down the path towards the café.
She entered through the door of the café. Even though it said 'closed' on the sign. She unlocked the door using her magic.
"What's going on?" She burst in through the door.
"Eh?" Ryo looked startled. He'd just been about to answer the door. He seemed to relax again, "Come with me. The situation is serious. Keiichiro is gathering data in the back room."
Lavender followed him around the slopped wall corner and into the kitchen, then through another door at the back into a big, but dark room. At the far end of the room were computers all lit up as Keiichiro typed away on a keyboard.
He spun around in his chair,
"These four lights represent the girls." He explained to Lavender, "They're trapped in another dimension. However, there is one way to save them."
"How?" Lavender asked him.
"Zakuro-san possesses the power to cut through dimensions. She should be able to cut through this one with her powers and save them. However…"
Lavender let out a sigh,
"So, she isn't your ally yet, is what you're saying."
Keiichiro nodded seriously,
"I'm sorry about this, Brown-san but…the fact is, you're the only Mew Mew we can count on now."
"I get it." Lavender said.
Even if she didn't think of them as her allies, or friends, she wasn't just going to let them die.
"I guess…I'll team up with you for now." She couldn't help but think of Purin. She was just a kid…They were all kids though, weren't they?
"There should be a live television broadcast that Zakuro-san will be attending." Keiichiro told him, "No doubt the aliens will be going after Zakuro-san as well."
Lavender's lips thinned,
"Is that the television station near the Teleco building?" She knew where that was…
"The very one." Ryo told him.
"Alright." Lavender said, "I'll go…this broadcast is happening now?"
"In about two minutes." Keiichiro said.
She didn't have time to waist! Lavender took off running. Ryo stared after her as she left.
"Is something wrong, Ryo?" Keiichiro looked at him.
"It might be nothing…" He trailed off, "There's something different about her."
"Hm?" Keiichiro looked up at Ryo, "Well…thinking on it, there was a peculiar reading. Originally, we only planned for five Mew Mews to appear."
"But six of them did." Ryo completed for him, "Could you pull up the data from back then?"
"I think so…" He typed something into the computer.
After a moment, something came up on the screen.
"This one here…" Ryo said, "We know that Ichigo has the Iriomote Wildcat DNA fused inside her. Which means this one…The Snow Leopard…that must be Brown's." His eyes narrowed at the screen, "It looks…strange. This part here." He pointed to the DNA, "There's an extra element here that I've never seen before…No, wait…it's familiar. That looks a lot like the image of the girls' DNA after the fusion…how's that possible?"
"You're saying, Brown-san was a Mew Mew before?" Keiichiro looked surprised.
"No…" Ryo's eyebrows knitted together, "It's…element X." His eyes widened, "What gives the girls their power. The element that fuses it together."
"She already had it in her system before the fusion?" Keiichiro wondered, "In that case…you think there might be something to her claim? Of being a witch?"
Ryo frowned, but remained silent.
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Lavender got to the studio. It seemed the broadcast hadn't started.
"Hey, do you have permission to be here?" A woman stopped him.
Shoot. She pulled her wand out.
"Confoundus."
The woman gained a glaze look, then shook her head,
"My apologies, Brown-san."
"Hey."
Lavender turned. Had she been caught? It was Zakuro. She gave her a suspicious look.
"Um…I should go." The woman said, running off, leaving Lavender alone with Zakuro.
"What did you just do?"
Lavender grimaced,
"Bit of magic to convince her to let me stay. I wouldn't normally do it…but the lives of four girls are at stake."
Zakuro's expression hardly changed,
"That means…you are…"
"I came to tell you." Lavender said, "There's a way to save them, but only you can do it. Your power can cut through to the other dimension."
"You're like me too then." Her eyes traveled over her face, "Part animal."
"I am." Lavender said, "I…don't really want to be a part of their group. I mean…I'll help people and I'll fight and I'll continue fighting…because who's going to do it otherwise? But…but I don't want to join. It bothers me. That Ryo-san and Keiichiro-san did this to us. I don't like being manipulated…I've been manipulated far too often. But I can't just watch this world die either. All I can do, really is to fight on my own terms. So, I'm not going to ask you to join some magical mission. Obviously, that's not going to work on you." She met her eyes, "But…could you still save them? Purin-chan is only eleven. She's just a kid. Please…just safe four kids."
Zakuro stared at her a long time,
"I'll think about it." She moved off onto the stage.
How could she be so cold? Lavender felt frustrated. She drew in a deep breath.
Cut through dimensions…maybe…maybe she could try doing that. She had her spear. And she knew what it was like to travel through a barrier. Cutting one was a whole other thing. But…maybe if she manipulated her magic in just the right way…
A voice that sounded annoyingly like Granger's echoed through her head,
Don't mess with magic you don't know about.
She watched the broadcast with Zakuro. It was like she was a completely different person on television. Kind of made her see the world of celebrities as something completely different.
Zakuro normally had a much colder personality. She acted kind, maybe even a little cute in front of the camera.
Her attention was drawn when she sensed something from down the hall. A light caught her eye. She ran out, feeling a bit of trepidation as she glanced out into the hallway.
It was the alien! Kisshu! He had his hand, palm out and he just finished extracting a crystal from a woman's chest.
The black crystal floated into his hand.
"Oh, look who's here. The other kitty cat." He smirked, "Fusion!"
He combined the crystal with one of those jellyfish things and from it grew an enormous snake.
Lavender knew right away that it was leaps and bounds more powerful than any of the other Chimera Anima she'd fought. It was on the level of a low-level vertex.
She could still take it.
Kisshu suddenly lunged forward, trying to pin her. She snarled at him, then spun around and kicked him in the head. Kisshu was surprised.
"Don't think I'll go down so easily." Lavender's eyes glowed.
She held out her hand and her spear appeared.
The alien flew back, looking irritated,
"Go! Kill Zakuro!" He ordered the Chimera Anima.
Kisshu came charging at her with a pair of blades that materialized in his hands.
Lavender jumped out of the way quickly, parrying his knives with her spear, spinning it around expertly.
This wasn't just her innate skills as a Mew Mew. She had technique as well, something the other girls didn't have. She was also used to fighting much more powerful opponents. The blade cut through his flesh, leaving a line of blood over his upper torso. But it was a shallow wound.
"Hm…it seems there's more to this kitty than just claws."
Lavender wished he'd stop calling her that.
Her magic burst out in a glow of blinding light. She was in her Hero outfit, her hair was white now, and her ears and tail were still there.
Kisshu realized Lavender hadn't been fighting at full strength and quickly teleported away.
"Tch." Lavender gripped her spear in hand.
She needed to save Zakuro.
She ran into the back of the studio. Zakuro had a snake around her neck, a real one. She was stroking it affectionately and smiling. But her expression changed when she saw the giant demon snake approaching from in front of her.
The other TV hosts suddenly screamed when they saw it too.
"What is that thing!?" Someone shouted.
Lavender leaped into action when the snake lunged for Zakuro. She blocked with her spear. Lavender was pushed back a few inches.
She turned her head,
"Get out of the way!" She shouted.
She could hold it off a while, but it was a pain protecting everyone there while she was fighting.
They seemed to break from their trance and ran off. Lavender then jumped up suddenly, knocking the thing on the head with the blunt end of the spear and causing it to hiss with anger and irritation.
The spear transformed into a staff. She twirled it around and an explosion of ice wrapped around the thing.
Hm? It wasn't affecting it as she thought it would. Could it be that the scales were harder than she'd predicted? It might be magical resistant.
That was annoying.
Lavender jumped in the air, moving the ice back around the serpent and hitting it again. She needed to find a weak point. The eyes or the mouth maybe?
Lavender leaped over her swinging serpent tail, causing her to turn around. Her mouth opened again, fangs in attendance. She waited until the very last second, prepared for her teeth to sink into her flesh.
"There!" She shouted a little louder than before.
This time, the ice turned into a deadly spear, piercing through the roof of her mouth.
Ha! She'd done it!
A flash of light filled the studio and suddenly, Zakuro was standing there, as was Ichigo, Retasu, Minto and Purin.
Lavender let out a sigh of relief.
Time to finish this thing off!
She spun her staff around, then sent her ice down the creature's throat. The Chimera Anima glowed and then all that was left was a black crystal and an infuser.
The pink puffball that followed Ichigo floated over to the infuser and swallowed it up.
People seemed to come out of hiding.
"Who are you?" Someone wondered.
"Does someone have this on film?"
Ah well…at least she'd looked super epic fighting that thing.
Ichigo seemed to panic,
"Ah! E-eto…aha…w-we work at Tokyo Café Mew –"
Minto suddenly smacked her over the head,
"Idiot, don't tell them the truth!" She hissed to her quietly.
"Ah, right!" Ichigo said tensely.
"What's that? You're the Tokyo Mew?" Someone wondered.
Ichigo perked up,
"That's right. We're the Tokyo Mew Mew and we're here to be of service to earth, nyan!"
Wait…was she on television right now? Lavender felt her face growing hot and she looked off to the side nervously.
She was really growing sick of television.