The next day, after the final class, Ichigo studied Kish like a scientist studied an unidentified specimen…. At the end of class Ichigo went to his desk and slammed her palms down.

"What have you done with Mr. Kawakama! And why are you here—at my school!"

"Now, now kitty-cat, you can't talk to your teacher in that tone!" He laughed. "I've heard all your little mew mew friends left for other places am I right? Well, I'm just on the look out for any other mew mew's you might recruit." He stood and looked her in the eye. "And so far I haven't found one single mew mew in Japan." He really has no idea…. "So why don't you give up know and save yourself the pain? Just give Tokyo to the cyniclons and take the shorter route?" He put hand on her cheek, Ichigo immediately slapped it away. "You jerk!" She huffed and marched out of the classroom, fists at her sides.

When she found Nika, she grabbed her by the arm and dragged her away from the school, not answering any questions until they got inside the Café and explained the entire story from when she received her power pendant to now. Nika was a surprisingly great listener, the entire time she had stared at Ichigo with her absolute attention. "And

Ryou gave me my power pendant and I transformed for the first time…." Ichigo waited for Nika to laugh, but not a sound from her mouth was heard.

Chapter 3

The next day wasn't any better for Ichigo, she was still on her toes and still eyeing Kish like a hawk. At the end of class Ichigo marched over to his desk and slammed her palms down again. "You'd better not hurt anyone in this class or I'll--"

"I didn't do anything today did I kitty-cat?"

Ichigo was so boiled up in anger her cat ears popped right out of her head. "Argh!" Ichigo's hand immediately flew up to cover them.

Kish laughed. "Cat genes does have it's con's doesn't it?" Kish neered. "But here's a suggestion…." Kish stood up. He was tall in human form. So tall he had to look down at Ichigo. "I know how to put your power to use. In fact, our whole planet does. All you have to do is come with us."

"Never!" Ichigo shrieked and started to march out of the room.

Kish teleported in front of her. "You didn't let me finish. If you don't come with us then we'll destroy you're friends! It really is too bad you can't save them since they're all over the earth and all!"

Ichigo stopped struggling and stared blankly, terrified of what Kish had just said. "You can't…." She whispered.

"I can, and I will. It's not a very hard choice kitty-cat, come with us and listen to every word we say or let your friends be destroyed…."

Ichigo was quiet for half a minute, tears forming in her eyes, then they were uncontrollable and were streaming down her face, her arm shading her eyes, struggling to hide her sobbing.

"Ichigo…what's wrong?" Masaya asked, trying to remove her arm.

Ichigo yanked her arm away fiercely. "Ah…?" Masaya took his hand back and looked at her surprised.

She was so hurt and confused she had hardly seen where she was going, just following the view she had of the ground home.

"Now hold on kitty-cat!" Kish teleported in front of her, causing Ichigo to run into him then bouncing off of him, Ichigo wiped her tears and glared at Kish. "You can run all you want, but you'll have to decide eventually. Yes or no?"

Ichigo shivered with anger and gritted her teeth, unable to answer.

"Fine then. I guess I could wait. But for now…" Kish held up a predicyte alien glob. He laughed and threw it at an ant a few yards away from them.

"Mew Mew Metamorphasis! Strawberry Check!" Mew Ichigo fired at the enormous ant with distinguished markings.

The attacks did nothing, it was as if all the power had bounced off! The ant reeled back it's front arm and thrust it at Ichigo who was knocked into a thick tree and like a shriveled up leaf curled by the tree. Her knees were pulled up to her chest and her arms tight against herself.

The ant lifted it's powerful arm once more, ready to strike again when a blur of black stopped it's arm from hitting Ichigo. She squinted the tears away and looked at her hero. "Nika!"

Nika pushed with all her might and managed to throw the giant ant into 14 trees which it knocked into, smashing them all. "Ribbon Moon Eclispe!" The ant shrieked and disappeared, the alien back in Kish's hand.

"So you have recruited more mew mew's!"

"Ribbon Moon Eclispe!" Two moons merged together into one atop her scpeter and make an icy glow that was fired at Kish, who turned wide-eyed and a blinding light appeared and lasted for a few seconds. When Mew Ichigo finally opened her eyes Kish and Nika were gone.

Ichigo transformed then got up and ran to the café. How did Nika get so strong! And…. Tears started to form again…. What in the world am I going to do? I'm miserable!

Ichigo stopped in the café, Nika was taking an order from the girl that was last yesterday. When she and Nika were in the kitchen Ichigo took a deep breath; "Nika, I just wanted to thank you for saving me earlier!" How did she get here so fast! Even if she only was a little bit ahead of me, there's only one way to get to Café mew mew and I didn't even her along the way! Unless she went through the forest in the back…she still wouldn't have made it in time!

"Hey, no problem!" She laughed.

"I mean, that kirema animal was a fierce one….!"

"Kirema animal? What kirema animal!" Nika looked around rapidly and laughed, falling on the floor.

"The kirema animal that—how could you not remember!"

"I don't remember a lot of things, but I would remember something as exciting as a kirema animal!" She laughed and carried some plated with strawberry cakes on each hand.

"Keiichiro and Ryou better know what's going on!" Ichigo snapped. "RYOU, KEIICHIRO!"

"Ichigo, why aren't you in your café uniform?" Keiichiro asked. She burst through the lab doors. "Nika transformed and saved me from a kirema animal and she had this amazing strength!"

"We know. Well, what we forgot to tell you was each of the mew mew's we recruited have a specialty. Strength, Defence, Accuracy, and Speed. But the wild tiger's (Nika's DNA) specialty isn't strength, but speed…." That could explain how she got here so fast!

"Do you think we found another mew mew?" Keiichiro asked, behind Ichigo.

"It couldn't be! She looked exactly like Nika!"

There was a shriek from upstairs and the crashing of glass. "NIKA!"