Chapter Three: Three More's Company, Nyan!
A whole week whizzed by after the Weekly Mews incident, and everyone was as paranoid as ever.
"Did you see the Weekly Mews thing last week?" Ichigo's friends would ask, walking about the mall and shopping absentmindedly.
"Yeah!" The reply would come. "I hear that they're going to have another one Thursday night."
Ichigo's human ears pricked up.
I'll have to watch for that…. She thought.
"We'll finally be able to know who the Mews are!" Someone else would state. They kept talking about it as they were walking through the mall.
"Do you remember that one of them goes to our school?"
"And has red hair! That narrows it down a bit."
"What about Ichigo?"
Ichigo snapped up from looking on the ground.
"W—what? What about me and the Mews? Me being a Mew? That's absurd." She stuttered.
"We were…. Just going to ask if you had any idea who they were." One of the friends reiterated.
"Oh! Heh heh heh, o—of course I don't know who they are!" Ichigo tried to cover. She put her arms behind her head and laughed sheepishly.
"Well, don't you think we should try to uncover who they are?"
"Yeah! We could be like a 'Mew Uncover Team!'"
"M.U.T?" One friend tried. "That's a good idea! Are you in Ichigo?"
"Oh! Would you look at the time! I'm late for work!" Ichigo excused.
"…….It's noon."
"Well… we have an early meeting. Drop by later or something! Ja ne!" Ichigo took off.
"BAKA!" She shouted at herself once she was alone. "BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA BAKA!" Of course she didn't have to go to work until three, so she had all this free time away from the Mew Crazy Kids.
"I suppose I'll have to do something away from my friends and work, since I'm not going there until I have to." She said to herself as she walked away from the mall plaza and into a nearby park. The grass was greener than at Inohara Park, and they had a swing set lined up in the middle.
"Koneko-chan!"
"Nani?" Ichigo spun around once, trying to find the one thing that ever called her by that name.
Kisshu.
"It's just my imagination…." She convinced herself, sitting on one of the swing set's swings. "Kisshu can't be here, he left months ago."
"Fuu-Rai-Sen!" Ichigo heard Pai this time, springing off one of his attacks. Instinct told her to jump off the swing set, away from the attack.
"NYA!" She screamed, catapulting off the swing and landing on her feet in front of it.
Nothing happened.
"This is strange…." She said, rubbing her chin. "I don't understand why I'm hearing things."
She searched through her pockets for her pendant. She found it in her sock (good place for it, too) and squeezed it.
T T T T T T
"M-M-Minto…." She whispered into her pendant. "Minto, please be there."
Minto took the vibrating and speaking pendant out of her dress pocket and left the crowded room quickly.
"I'm here, Ichigo." Minto's reply came instantly. "What's wrong?"
"Something's here, Minto." Ichigo said. Minto heard a whirring sound next, and a slight gasp. "I'm getting freaked."
"You're probably just freaked about everything that's been happening to you." Minto reassured, more for herself than for Ichigo.
"No, Minto, I'm sure I heard something." Ichigo contradicted, her voice more desperate than before.
"Really?" Minto was more puzzled than anything.
"Yes. I think th—" There came a pause. "HHAAAAAAAHH!"
BOOM!
Then there was nothing.
"Ichigo?" Minto asked. "Ichigo?"
The next thing she heard was heard all over Tokyo.
"MEW MEW STRAWBERRY METAMOREPHOSE!"
"ICHIGO!"
TTTTTT
Ichigo had tried to get her friend to understand what was going on, but something had wrapped its arms around her waist. She was instantly transported over from her standing point a bit.
"HHAAAAAAAHH!" She screamed, jumping into the air and making the arms let go. Her ears and tail pop out as she flipped over and landed on the ground.
BOOM!
"Nani!" Ichigo whirred around to face the swing set, which was now in ruins. There was a battle taking place where the swing set once stood. She instantly recognized one of them as the one that teleported her.
Kisshu.
"Kisshu?" Ichigo stammered. "What are you doing here? What is that? Why is it attacking you? OH!"
Ichigo picked up her pendant again and shouted out the magic words.
"MEW MEW STRAWBERRY METAMOREPHOSE!"
"Pai, look! We've found Koneko-chan already!" Kisshu sounded delighted.
"Good, she can help us with these things." Was Pai's emotionless reply.
"Why would the Oni-Baba (they use that in the anime, it means Old Hag) want to help us? She might break a hip." Taruto sang.
"I'll show you!" Ichigo summoned her little Bell-Bell. "What are we battling?"
"That thing," Pai pointed to the sky, where a giant eagle was flying over-head. "It's a rouge Chiremal Animal."
"Alright! Ribbon Strawberry Check!" Ichigo attacked the Chiremal. It had no effect. "Nani?"
"That's not good!" Kisshu was flabbergasted, slapping his forehead.
"What if we all attack it together?" Pai suggested.
"Let's do it!" Taruto threw a fist in the air. "Oh, and Oni-Baba, remember not to break that hip in the process." He whispered to Ichigo. She growled and prepared to attack.
"Ribbon Strawberry Check!" Ichigo screamed as loud as she could.
"Fuu-Rai-Sen!" Pai's fan sent a wave of air onto the Strawberry Check before his real attack fused with Ichigo's.
"Dragon Swords!" Kisshu's dagger thingies created a form of pure energy, throwing it at the Chiremal Animal.
"Ha-ha-ha! Take that!" Since I don't know what Taruto screams when he attacks, that'll have to do.
The four attacks together hit the Chiremal and made it disappear, the eagle with it.
Ichigo landed on the ground with her Mew uniform still on.
"Uh, Kisshu, what just happened? Why are you back? Why was a Chiremal Animal attacking you?" She asked. All Kisshu did was smile.
"You remembered me!" Kisshu said, teleporting closer and trying to kiss her.
"HENTAI!" She screamed at him. She left a hand print on his face. Then he was suddenly tackled by a blue blur.
"Leave her alone!" Minto screamed. Her blue jumper was getting all muddy, but she didn't care. "You're just as perverted as ever!" The others, Ryou, and Keiichiro ran up from behind Minto.
"Honestly Kisshu, you'd think you'd learn by now," Pai came into view too.
"P—Pai?" Zakuro's voice stumbled for the first time in a while.
"Pai-san!" Retasu bowed slightly, making Ryou grunt and frown.
"What are you three doing back?" He asked coldly.
"How'd you know I was here?" Taruto teleported in. He was upside down, showing extreme boredom.
"Taru-Taru na no da! You came back no da!" Purin jumped on top of the poor alien, making him fall down.
"Hey! Don't call me that!" Was Taruto's reply.
"Let's not discuss why we're here until we get to the café." Kisshu threw his arms over Minto and Retasu's shoulders, making Minto flush white and Ichigo cross her arms. "There's a lot we have to explain."
"Alright," Keiichiro eyed Kisshu carefully and led the others away.
What they didn't know was that someone was watching them from the bushes. Someone who now had new information to give to the news people in two days.
THE END!
THEY'RE BACK! YAY! That'll keep you guessing! n.n Review please!