Chapter Eight
A New Mew Evil
"That's quite an attack you have there." Zakuro said quietly to Suika when they met up.
"Yeah! It was totally awesome!" Pudding yelled jumping up and down.
"I don't even know where it came from." Suika admitted shyly. "I just did what first came to mind."
"Well, it worked." Mint said blandly.
"Speaking of work…" Zakuro started, intending to say that she had to get back to hers, but was interrupted when the ground began to shake.
"What now?" Ichigo whined. All of the girls turned around while trying to keep their balance. What they saw made all of them gasp and Lettuce almost fainted with fright.
There was a huge fissure forming in the ground with steam and debris spewing from it. In the middle of the mess, a shadow emerged. The fuzzy outline defined itself into a body which was like that of a human with the legs of a horse. The creature's torso was accentuated with pointed wings and two red eyes glowed evilly through the steam. A low rumbling started and steadily grew louder until an ear-splitting roar filled the air.
"The world has changed…" the demon roared, "but no matter! I will make it mine in due time!" And with that, a stream of fire flashed from his finger tips and singed the very earth itself. He looked around and saw the six girls cowering in front of him. "Ah," he sneered, "my old friends." His grimace was the things nightmares were made of. Again blasted the ground, vaporizing a car that stood between him and the Mews.
"Girls, you know what to do!" Ichigo yelled, and within minutes, they had all transformed into their battle costumes again.
Zakuro attacked first. "Ribbon Zakuro Puree!" She yelled and threw her whip out to tangle the demon up. However, upon touching the beasts' flesh, the whip was instantly heated to a great intensity. After a few seconds, the wolf-girl was thrown back by a great force, and she crumpled to the ground, not moving.
"Zakuro?" Mint and Lettuce cried at once. The girl in green rushed over to her friend's side and lifted her out of the way of another stream of fire.
"This is for hurting Zakuro!" Mint yelled, jumping up and getting ready to attack. Within a matter of minutes though, she to was badly beaten and had to be lifted up and supported by Suika.
"Ichigo! This isn't working!" Suika yelled to her cousin. "If we keep doing this, we're all going to get killed!"
Ichigo knew this was true, but she couldn't forgive herself if she left this…this…thing on the loose. Ignoring the terrible feeling in the pit of her stomach, she nodded and yelled to the others, "Fall back!"
At once, she and the others fled the scene, with Lettuce carrying Zakuro, and Mint being supported by Suika. The demon's laugh filled their ears and Ichigo couldn't help notice that everyone was in tears.