Mew Mew: Advanced Mode!

Chapter 7: What's That? Trouble at the Cafe!

Things were pretty busy ...as they usual are at the Cafe. That's when the trouble started. Cherry gave a girl customer her order. The girl looked at Cherry with cheery eyes and asked her to sit down with her. Cherry was about to object when she felt herself sit down. ''Kay then...' She thought. The girl started a typical conversation. She asked Cherry her name,age, her DNA. '...Wait. ...Did she just ask me about my DNA?" The girl gave a eerie and enchanting laugh. "Be warned. This won't be your typical work day." Cherry gave a look of fear. The girl continued to laugh. "Dreams can be exciting things." The girl then disappeared and the room around Cherry began to melt. "AAHH!!" Cherry screamed. Well...she couldn't hear herself scream but she knew was screaming. Cherry landed on a pink tile floor. "Oooww!" Cherry whined as she rubbed her hind quarters. "Queen Cherry!" She heard Honey. "Wha...?" Cherry pointed to herself. She saw her team mates. They looked like her friends,sounded like her friends but...something was different. ...Really different. They wore dresses that looked similar to the one Princess Peach wore in the games. "Hail Queen Cherry!" They bowed. "Queen?!" Cherry gave a huge grin. "How awesome!" They bowed again. That's when Kish walked in. Cherry didn't reconize him at first. His hair was done in a fancy way and he wore a suit. Cherry blushed. 'Oh my God. He looks so handsome in a suit!' Cherry thought with glee. 'Is this one of those dreams?' She took alook at herself. She wore a similar dress as her friends only her dress had more jewelery. A crown was on her head. The place she was in suddenly changed. She was now in a forest. "?!" Cherry realized that there was no more tile floor but a mud path. Her friends and Kish were gone. "The hell's going on?!" Cherry ran down the path. "How strange..." Cherry stopped in front of a cottage. A middle-aged woman was sweeping in front. "Excuse me!" Cherry yelled. The woman didn't look up. "Uh. ...Hello!" Cherry tapped the womans shoulder. The woman turned. She looked exactly like the woman from the Cafe. Her hair was white and up in a bun and her eyes were red and green. "Hello dear. Having a nice time?" She asked calmly. "NO! ..I mean..yeah. I mean..." Cherry didn't know what to think. "I want to go home!" Cherry cried. The girl gave that eerie laugh. "Aww. Don't you want to stay? Your queen! Your with the love of your life!" Cherry shook her head. She did like the idea of the dream but ...it was just that. A dream. She wanted to be back in reality. "Fine. Ruin your dream. It'll get you in the end." The woman growled. Cherry felt the ground beneath her shake. "!!" Cherry fell through the hole that appeared. "Oh nooo!" She blacked out. Cherry suddenly woke up in her own bed. "How strange!" Cherry yawned. "I swear I was at the Cafe!" She scratched her head in confusion.

Cassie and Sammy washed some tables. "Everyone must know about this place!" Sammy dumped some dish's in the sink. "Ugh. Exactly." Cassie was about to go switch the door sign to 'Closed' when a white haired little girl waltzed in. "Are you still open?" She asked sweetly. Cassie and Sammy gave a quick nod. "Good." She said and sat in the far back. The girls red and green eyes sparkled in the light. "How are you guys?" She acted like a old friend. "Fine." "Fine." The girl then looked in front of her sadly. Cassie sat down enxt to her and grinned. "Hey! Don't be sad!" "Oh. I can't help it. Nobody likes me." Cassie didn't understand why. "Come now! 'Course they do!" The girl shook her head. "They hate how I look." The girl gave a wide smile and looked at Cassie and Sammy. "You don't care how I look ...do you?" They shook their heads. "Would you...care to play a game?" Cassie and Sammy gave each other skeptical looks but agreed to anyway. The girl stood up. "Wonderful." The cafe seemed to slide away. ..Like sliding blocks and the girls saw themselves on a stoney floor. A forest of some sort surrounded them. "Woah. Seems familiar." Sammy looked around in awe. She caught a glimpse of herself in a puddle. "WOAH!" Her outfit changed. She wasn't in her cafe uniform but in the costume that the character Talim wears in the game Soul Calibur 2. "Dude! The heck?! Where are we? How did my outfit change?" Cassie whined and clung to Sammy. "Not sure. Just a sec--" Sammy's sentence was cut short when a sword brushed against her cheek. "YIKES!!" Sammy jumped to the side. "Sam!" Cassie gasped. Cassie herself was dressed as the character Cassandra and used the shield on her arm to deflect another attack. The girl who threw the sword spoke the the girls couldn't hear her. "Let's get out of here!" Sammy and Cassie rushed off. "How did we get stuck in the Soul Calibur game?!" "No idea! Keep running!!" They continued to run until they were halted by the white haired girl. Only she wasn't so little anymore. She was taller and dressed as Ivy. "Heh. Heh. Welcome to your favorite game!" She cackled. "GAME?!" "You said you wanted to play with me!" "I thought you meant like checkers or hide-n-seek!" Cassie yelled. "Why would I play such games? Interaction like this is MUCH better!" The white haired girl took out her weapon. "Let's play!" She lifted it in the air. Cassie and Sammy looked at each other and nodded. They ran in seperate directions. Sammy ran around screaming "MARCO!" Cassie would answer "POLO!" That went on for five minutes. "God dang! Stand still!" Cassie hopped around the girl screeching like a owl. "Stop!!" The girl held her head.'These idiots are crazy!' her thoughts screamed. "Send us home!" The girl looked at them with tears in her eyes. "But...we didn't get to play!" Cassie screeched again. "FINE! Dreams are like games. It's always fun 'till you wake up or ...die." The girl clapped her hands and the ground opened up. "Oh damn!!" They hugged each other as they fell in the hole. The girl looked down the hole and turned. She then briskly walked away. Sammy was the first to open her eyes. She was back in the Cafe. "Strange..." She stretched. Cassie was snoring next to her. 'Were we really a part of Soul Calibur 2? Was that ...a dream?' Sammy looked at the ceiling lost in thought.

"Oh shit! Oh shit!" Ria ran as fast as she could. "Wait!!" Honey panted. "Oh! Hello there!" A shy voice made the two stop. "My name is Yume and I wondered if you had a few moments to spare..." Honey rose a eyebrow. "We are pretty late for work..." Yume giggled making her white hair bounce. "Why waste time at work when you could be fighting to save a princess?" Ria blinked. It sounded cool. ...Really cool. "Uhm..." Honey clung to Ria's arm. "Shut your eyes..." Yume spoke softly. The two girls yawns and closed their eyes. "Good. Sleep soundly." The world around the girls molded into a Japanese school yard. Ria's outfit turned into a black male uniform. Honey's outfit turned into a golden dress. The dress itself was pretty. It showed her shoulders and some of her back. "You there!" A voice woke Ria up. "Huh?!" Ria stared wide-eyed at the sword in front of her. Honey rubbed her eyes. "I see your still with the Mistress." The girl ...who looked an awful lot like Cherry... growled. "Huh...?" Ria just stared at the sword. "Ria-chan! I challenge you ...to a fight!" Honey gasped. "What? Fight?!" Ria finally got the nerve to push the sword away from her face. An hour later Ria was in this huge circular room. A large chandiler hung from the ceiling which gave the room a yellowish glow. Ria saw her friends. Cherry walked forward. Honey shook her head. These people kept calling her the "Honeysuckle Mistress". This just had to be some fucked up dream world. She wasn't going to watch her friend get hurt. The fight began. This Cherry knew what she was doing and got a few good slices at Ria. "Holy crap!" Ria backed away. Honey couldn't take it anymore. "STOP!!" She screamed and threw herself at Ria. "Mistress!" The others gasped. "Stop it! Leave her alone!" Honey yelled through gritted teeth. The Cherry girl put her hands on her hips. "Fine. Whatever." She turned and walked away. "Ria-chan! Are you okay?" Honey looked Ria over. "Fine. Fine." Ria smiled. "Dear God. ...This is strange. ...I wanna' go home." Honey sniffed. "This place is cool though!" Ria smiled. The smile quickly faded when she saw Honey's fearful face. "Aww. Ready to go already?" Yume's voice chuckled. "The games only just begun!" Yume walked to them. "You girl's broke all your beautiful dreams! You must die for such a thing!" Yume's body began to change. She had a cat like face with a snake like body. "Mew Mew Honey! Metamorphosis!" "Mew Mew Ria! Metamorphosis!" They transformed. Yume laughed hysterically. "Trying to destroy the Keeper of Dreams? Want to lose your dreams, eh?" Yume gave a light hearted smile. "Well..." Honey thoguht aloud. Yume lifted her hand. "Don't worry girls. Everythings that happened. Never really did." A light formed around Honey and Ria. "It's a reflection of your dreams..." With that...the girls disappeared and reappeared in front of the Cafe. "Freaky..."

Upcoming chapter:

Chapter 8: Flight Of The Owl! Who's That Mysterious Mew Mew?

NOTES: In this chapter..the girls entered a few different places. Cherry's dream was based off these short little story she sends with her letters. Sammy and Cassie's dream was based off one of their favorite video games,Soul Calibur 2. Ria and Honey's dream was based off the manga/anime Revolutionary Girl Utena.

Disclaimers: Ria,Honey,Metellus,Jomei © Maria Mc.

Cherry © Cherry-a-la-mode

Sammy,Cassie © Sammy and Cassie.

Kish,Pai,Tart © Mia Ikumi,Reiko Yoshida