MEW MEW METAMORPHOSIS!
Chapter Seven: Striking Silver Author's Note: Ia don'ta owna Tokayoa Mewa Mewa, comprehenda? And I promise Kaminari really isn't me, it's just the name I use when I don't have a name for a character...and, okay, I have to admit really don't like this chapter very much, but maybe you will, or not, I hope that doesn't keep my readers from not wanting to read anymore ; ...anyhow, lots of people have asked me about introducing new characters, new characters will come, I promise!
"Where were you, na no da?" Pudding asked as Ichigo entered the Cafe, "and where's Shirogane-oni-san (big brother)?"
Ichigo sat down across from the rest of the 'employees' at Cafe Mew Mew. After a few minutes she explained her and Ryou's detour on the way home and the girl they had met at Tokyo University.
"A girl?" Lettuce rested her cheek on her palm and thought quietly for a moment, "an old girlfriend of Shirogane-kun's?"
"Hec! Why would you think that!? Why would I ever be with him? We've never gotten along! I only called because I know him; we went to the University of New York together. Since both of us were way underage compared to everyone else, we were in a lot of classes together."
"I don't think they're together." Ichigo sweatdropped, laughing a little.
"Well," Mint started in her usual elegance, "whomever she is, I don't think it matters."
"I think it does!" Pudding paced back and forth between to nearby heart-shaped tables with a magnifying glass in one hand. "Detective Pudding is on the case!"
"There that monkey goes again...look what you've started Ichigo Momomiya!"
"What is that supposed to mean, Mint!?! I didn't do anything! You asked so I told!"
"But you were dieing to tell us, I could see it your eyes."
"Why would I be dieing to tell you about me and Shirogane-kun's walk! It wasn't that interesting!" Ichigo stepped back defensively, knowing Mint would take what she had just said the wrong way.
"Ichigo's blushing!"
"Am not!"
"Are too! You always blush when we talk about Shirogane-kun!"
"I don't! I don't! Stop saying I do!"
"Fine, but we all know the truth. Ichigo's a natural blusher!"
The door to the Cafe opened as the owner, Ryou Shirogane, walked in. A small bell sounded behind him. Dressed in his usually red and black attire he walked passed the girls, smiling at their shouting.
"IF I'm red, which I'm not, it's because your being an idiot, Mint!" Ichigo hit the table with her fist for dramatic effect.
"You're red again, Ichigo. You should take better care of your face." Ryou entered the kitchen, hands behind his head. Ichigo wasn't sure whether he meant to be rude or kind.
"I AM NOT RED!" Ichigo glared at the boy. Without thinking she picked up a tea tray and threw it in his direction. The tray missed.
This whole conversation reminds me of something...Ichigo thought to herself, watching the girl's laugh together, "the Blue Knight...he hasn't shown up for a while. I remember when Pudding made the accusation of Ryou being that strange knight...is he? Shirogane denied it, but was he lying to us?
(Flashback Phrase)
"Ichigo, why's your face all red?"
"Hey!" Ryou called to the girls from the kitchen, "we're opening in a few minutes, get off the tables and come help wash the dishes!"
"Coming!" ------------------------------------------------
"Ichigo, Ichigo, Ichigo..." Kishu tapped his finger restlessly against his folded arm, "where's my little toy?" the green-haired alien sat impatiently in a tree, "you gave me such good ideas, my little kitten. Tokyo U...this must be an important place...would you save the people from being turned into slaves? Come play with me, my kitten." -----------------------------------------------
"Eh, Tokyo U?" Zakuro held the ticket in her hand.
"Hai, their gymnastics team is having a big opening show tonight, I thought it'd be fun to go." Akasaka gave a ticket to Ichigo, showing up late as usual.
"Eh! Arigatou!" she took the ticket and read the small kanji words quietly, "formal casual dress?" she spoke aloud to herself, not really noticing the others. ------------------------------------------------
The two Cafe owners and the Mew Mews sat down in almost front row seats to view the show. The gymnastics team sat on different places around the blue warm-up mats, stretching and practicing their routines.
"This is exciting!" Lettuce exclaimed, "Gymnasts are so elegant and balanced. I wish I could do all those stunts!"
"Mmm!" Ichigo nodded her head in agreement. She looked around at her group and smiled, that was, until she noticed Ryou staring at her.
How rude! Why does he keep looking at me like that? Ichigo cleared her thought with a shake of her head and continued her conversation with Lettuce. Zakuro's eyes narrowed, she looked sharply over her shoulder, sensing something wrong. "Be careful, everyone."
No one really heard Zakuro's remark, over the loud cheering of the crowd as the event was about to begin.
"Welcome! Welcome! This will be Tokyo U's 76th annual gymnastics start off! Please give a warm welcome to the teammates as I read their name, position, and years at Tokyo U!"
The announcer-man cleared his throat before continuing, "Tokyo University's Gymnastics Team, also known as TUGT, president, Kaminari Mitsuki!"
Ichigo's eyes widened as a girl walked out. Long brown hair, to thin braids in front. Intense green eyes. Adorned in her silver and black uniform.
"That's the girl from before!" she whispered to her surrounding friends without Ryou hearing.
"Ryou, do you kno..." two hands clasped around Pudding's mouth before she could finish.
"Kaminari Mitsuki graduated from Brigham Young University, Utah at the age of fifteen. Only a few months later she took two years of training at the University of New York, New York, and now has been with us here, at her third college, for about eleven months."
"Three colleges, and a star gymnast?" Mint starred forward with slight admiration, "that's saying something." The sound on the microphone suddenly demolished as a large sort of quake hit the stadium. Chairs fell over, the audience screamed.
"There you are, my cute little toy!" a familiar voice called out once the majority of the people had gone, "time to come home with Kisshu!"
"Kisshu!" Ichigo glared up in the direction of the voice, "go away!"
"Fine." Kisshu glistened for a moment and disappeared.
"You'll fight me!" a deep, monotone voice called from behind Ichigo. The announcer-man's eyes bulged out of his head, his skin a distorted green color. In left hand he swung a microphone on its cord around and around. Every time it passed his head it let out a high-pitched, ear-throbbing squeal.
"Chimera...Anima..." Ichigo spoke into the broken stillness.
In a blind-to-the-eye movement the Chimera Anima swung the microphone cord around the Mew Mews, Akasaka, and Ryou.
"Die!" a growl came from the one-human creature's throat. Strands of spit hung from his mouth as he squeezed the cord tighter.
"No one will die!" all looked up in surprised as a voice interrupted the monster's murderous action from the shadows.
"Deeeeeffffff..." the monster made a long, awkward sound as he turned his head. Emerging from the darkness came the girl Ichigo had mentioned earlier, the President of the TUGT.
"Mew Mew Kami! Metamorphosis!" the girl uncovered a broach from her pocket as she called up the worn, magic words.
A blinding light filled the destroyed stadium as Mew Kami transformed. Once it had cleared the Silver Stranger stood above the Chimera Anima on the high balance beam.
"Hurting the innocent is a crime against nature! I, Mew Kami, as leader of the rainbow knights, order of the Silver and Blue, protector of the five rulers, will not tolerate Deep Blue or his minion's cruel methods!"
Kisshu's form appeared in another corner of the room, unseen by the Mew Mews. "Who are you?" his eyes narrowed in hate, "it's my turn to play. I hate people who can't have a little innocent fun." "Eh, Ichigo, Mew Kami's speech makes yours sound pretty dumb." Mint teased with a smile.
Ichigo didn't say anything in response to Mint, "Rainbow Knights? Blue? Silver?" she looked over at Ryou for a moment and returned her attention to the Chimera Anima, "five rulers...what is she talking about...?"
Mew Kami jumped off the beam and landed on top of the tightened cord, snapping it in two.
"Mew Mews," she asked politely over her shoulder, "you two" she indicated to Akasaka and Shirogane, "I have to ask you with my highest regards, to stay out of this one."
"What!? I can't do that! It's my..." Ichigo began to protest.
Zakuro placed a hand on the pink-haired girl's shoulder and shook her head sternly, "this isn't our place." Her purple eyes pierced Ichigo's in solemn silence.
Ichigo sighed and stood up, rubbing her arms, "get em', Mew Kami!"
The Silver Stranger nodded with a smile and leapt above the monster. Pieces of energy gathered around her hand in thin strands as she prepared to attack. "Ribbon Silver Death!"
A spiral of glowing streamers curved their way into the beast's skin, tearing flesh, wounding and bruising his fragile skin. Trickles of blood ran down his sides. The high-pitched swinging sound of the microphone seized.
"Return to peace, Chimera Anima. I forgive you for what Deep Blue had done to you." A light, multi-colored aura surrounded Kisshu's Chimera Anima victim. "I erase these thoughts from your mind, you will wake up outside, among the panicked crowd, and tell them everything is better now, but don't let them in for half an hour, got it?"
Mew Kami seemed to be using hypnosis on the creature, gently leading him to sleep. At the snap of her black-gloved finger he disappeared.
"H...H...How did you do that? Na no da..." Pudding was the first to over to Mew Kami, the others following one by one behind her.
"Same way you do." a bright light flashed through the room again, more quickly before.
Kaminari turned to Ryou and smiled, "I won't erase their memories, this time. If they get in my way I won't be able to promise the same things, however..."
Shirogane nodded, "I know. Coming back with us to the Cafe?"
"Why not?" she took the lead and headed back to Cafe Mew Mew, acting as though nothing had happened.
"This is confusing, na no da."
"It is, it is..."
"... I, Mew Kami, as leader of the rainbow knights, order of the Silver and Blue, protector of the five rulers..."
"leader of the rainbow knights..."
"silver...blue"
"five...rulers..."
A million things flashed through Ichigo's mind, she didn't completely trust this girl yet. Who was she?