Zoey looked at her comrade lying in hospital bed and thought, "How is he targeting us…does he know who we are?"
"Second one in the last two days," Said the voice of Wesley who was standing next to her, "he's clipping us left and right."
Elliot was talking with one of the doctors, "Well Mr. Grant I'm glad you care about one of your friends this much," the doctor said folding back a few pages on his clip-board, "but I'm afraid the information you're asking for is strict doctor-paitent confidentiality."
"All I'm asking do know is where she was injured." Elliot argued.
The doctor just left, one of the nurses came up to him and said, "He won't tell you…but I'll tell you that the main focus of the attack appeared to be her jaw, it was broken in four places."
"Like an attempt to keep her silent?" Elliot mumbled to himself.
"It would appear so, she'll have to have her jaw wired shut." The nurse told him.
As they were leaving, they heard someone at the front desk say, "Ello, I'm John the Baptist…"
They all looked and saw Warren and Renee, "What are you two doing here?" Elliot asked.
"You forgot where she was attacked, I feel I have to see her." Warren told him. "You know, I'm starting to wonder if I'm a jinx to you guys."
"We don't think you're a jinx…at least, I don't." Renee told him.
"Renee you go ahead, I'll catch up…I have to talk with Elliot." Warren told her.
Elliot told Wesley to take Zoey outside, he'd meet up with them, whatever Warren had to tell Elliot didn't take long…because he came out of the doors carrying an envelope.
Kikki saw Renee enter, Kikki started to right something on a dry erase board Elliot had given her as a gift. In red dry erase marker she wrote: 'RENEE…IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU.'
"It's good to see you too…but I'm afraid that the next time you see me will be the front cover of a magazine." Renee told her sadly.
Kikki erased her previous message and wrote: 'WHY?'
"Because Warren set up a modeling contract for me, in fact he's my manager so he'll make sure the contract doesn't screw me over." Renee told her.
Kikki then looked a little frightened and wrote: 'UH-HUH, AND WHILE WE ARE SPEAKING OF WARREN…I THINK THERE IS SOMETHING YOU OUGHT TO KNOW…'
"And what might that be?" Asked Warren who was standing in the archway of the door to the room, Kikki's expression then changed for slightly frightened to down right fearful. She then wrote: 'HAVE YOU NOTICED HE ONLY WEARS BLACK CLOTHING…I MEAN, WHAT'S UP WITH THAT?'
Warren gave an irritated grunt and said, "I'll let you know I find black a very loose and freeing color." Then looked at Renee and said, "Why don't you leave us Renee…I'll watch her for a bit."
"Okay Warren." Renee said in response.
Warren then looked down at Kikki and said, "Smart save you little runt." Then he left.
That night Zoey was doing her best to get some sleep, but the anxiety that Htarw could be waiting outside her room waiting for her to fall asleep so he could kill her was too much, in fact the thought of it was enough to make her cat ears and tail accidentally pop out, and she had a hell of a time trying to make them disappear.
Meanwhile at the hospital Kikki was trying to get to sleep, her eyes were about shut when she saw something metallic enter through her room window, it was Htarw. She then jolted awake, she noticed he didn't have his sword, but that didn't mean he still wasn't dangerous.
"So now you know my little secret, huzza for you." He said to her with sarcasm.
She wrote: 'WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!'
Htarw shrugged and said, "Well, guessing since you know my little secret, I thought it only fit that you now know my full plan. But first let me tell you that I would need not take the form of Renee's dear Warren," He then took out the black amulet she'd seen before, "The truth is, with this piece of magic…" he then slipped it on, but this time Warren did not stand before her, but Renee, "I could be anywhere…" he said in Renee's voice, then he turned into Zoey and said, "I could be anyone…", then Elliot, "And as long as I wear this…" the last transformation was Dren, "None of you little fluff squad sissies will get in the way of my plan." He then took off the amulet and returned to normal.
She then wrote: 'OKAY? SO WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING?'
Htarw gave her a 'I was hoping you'd ask that' kind of look and said, "Well…tomorrow Elliot and Wesley will tell your other friends that little Renee has resigned from the Café Mew to re-pursue her career as a Super-Model, in an envelope I gave Elliot he'll find a Letter of Resignation and a Xeroxed copy of her one year contract, signed both by her and her generous manager Warren Jackson."
Kikki erased what she wrote before and wrote, 'YEAH, OKAY…BUT I STILL DON'T GET WHERE THIS IS GOING.'
Htarw chuckled and said, "Give it a bit, and maybe it'll set in…now where was I? Oh yes, getting to the ingenious part of my plan…well you see each one of you Mews are but a piece of unshaped clay, a piece that Elliot and Wesley have been molding for a bit now, but now I've stolen one of those bits of clay away from them and am free to mold it into any image I see fit."
Kikki then wrote, 'I SEE WHERE YOU ARE GOING…SHE'LL NEVER JOIN YOU!'
Htarw waved his finger in front of her and said, "You don't get it…this is a simple case of 'What Renee Roberts wants…Renee Roberts gets, and right now what Renee Roberts wants is to get away from that piss end prison the Café Mew, and Warren gave her that. Pretty soon I won't doubt that Renee Roberts will desire Warren Jackson…and being the lecherous, S & M person I made Warren. When she wants Warren, it'll be a sweet, sweet victory for me." Htarw said with a noise that sounded like he was licking his lips.
'OKAY I THINK I SPEAK FOR ZOEY AND THE OTHERS WHEN I SAY 'ICK'.' Kikki wrote.
"Well you're just a little girl, what would you know about love…after all again I say you're a little runt, a silly monkey of a girl and wouldn't realize what it means to fall in love." Htarw told her.
'I KNOW THAT RIGHT NOW THAT RENEE LOVES WARREN, NOT YOU!' She wrote.
"True, true…alas, all true…but given time, maybe I won't need to wear this mask anymore." He told her looking at the amulet.
'SO WHY WOULD SHE THEN JOIN THE CYNICLONS! HUH? ANSWER ME THAT!'
Htarw chuckled, "Because my dear, it's a matter of choice…choice is what makes you human, and very soon Renee will have to make a choice, a very difficult one. One that will involve you and the other Mews very soon, and if she chooses right…then not only will you all walk away, but my hopes for an apprentice shall be fulfilled!"
'SO WHY TELL ME THIS NOW, ALL I HAVE TO DO IS TELL ELLIOT, WESLEY, OR THE OTHER MEWS WHAT IS GOING TO GO DOWN AND WE WILL STOP YOU.' Kikki wrote.
Htarw then got close to her face, "Because I have a deal for you, you see now that you know this, you can't tell anyone…because if you do, I can't let you live. I'll even have somebody spying on you to make sure you don't, and the moment you think it's safe to say word to one of your friends, the moment you think it's okay to let the cat out of the bag, I'll be right behind you and break more than just your jaw…and to make sure you don't try to grow a brain."
Htarw then took the dry-erase board from her, and with a salute…teleported in front of her.
"And remember…you blab, you die." Htarw's disembodied voice told her.
Now to answer more Reviews:
To Tyler Asroc: Now that I look back, I do see that Warren is kind of creepy…but as you look closer, you do find that he has a heart.
To LordTerminal: Okay LT…I'm going to say this once, and then I'll hope you get the message, I'm going with what I know…I may not be going on much, but it's enough to get me by. I don't mean to insult anybody (especially any TMM fans)…I don't mean to make a mockery of this anime. But if you think you can help me or give me some well needed info. Then by all means—PLEASE DO!