Chapter 2

The Beginning of Kish's Evil Plan

"Why didn't he love me?" Ichigo cried.

"He was an alien, Ichigo," Ryou said, "he didn't care about you!"

"Oh, thanks!" Ichigo cried harder, "That helps a whole lot!"

Ryou looked apologetic, "Sorry." He paused, "Well, I gotta go." He stood up from his sitting position beside Ichigo.

"Gotta go or wanna go?" Mint said. She was standing beside the door, smirking like crazy.

Ryou looked SO pissed off, "Don't you have some tea to drink?" he said.

Mint took a deep breath in, "Well, I would, but you two are a lot more interesting than the lazy guests," she smiled. She turned and looked out the door, "Yeah, all those peeps care about right now is Pudding's little acrobatic act."

"Great, more crap for me to sweep up," Ichigo bawled. There was a crash in the room where the guests were and Pudding's small voice whimpering "Ow!"

"Mint, would you clean that up?" Ryou said.

"Me? Clean?" Mint looked surprised. Seeing Ryou's threatening glance, she said, "I thought you'd never ask!" she ran and grabbed the broom from beside Ryou and whispered in his ear angrily, "I better get a raise for this!" She left.

"We'll see!" he hissed back. Then he turned to Ichigo, "Listen, that guy was a jerk. You don't wanna date him! Now, come on, before we don't have any dishes left thanks to Pudding!" Ryou took Ichigo's hand and led her to the main room. The day passed slowly and soon it was time for everyone to go home, except Keiichiro and Ryou, who lived there.

At home, Ichigo sat on the couch with her mom and dad watching the news.

The news reporter was saying, "There has been a series of deaths in the Tokyo area. The reason is still unsure. They were all females. Some of the deaths included Charlotte Westcott, Maya Alcove…" Ichigo listened to all the deaths, but it was such a long list, I will not name them all for you, "And they were all wearing this silver-and-black elastic bracelet, engraved in it the words "I'll love you till the day you die. Kiomi." Ichigo looked up at the TV, "Many people believe that this bracelet was the cause to all the deaths, but it's probably just a superstition. Here's Mark with the weather. Back to you, Mark." The weather came on and Ichigo went up to her room, horrified. She lied on her bed and called the café and asked for Ryou.

When he picked up, Ichigo said, "Have you seen the news?"

"Ichigo?" he said tiredly, "Do you know what time it is?"

"Yeah, midnight, why?" she paused, "Oh, sorry! But this is really important!"

"So is sleep," he mumbled, "OK, what is it?"

"Have you seen the news?"

"Yeah, it's on right now," he said, "hey! It's gonna be a nice day tomorrow! Why? Are you worried the nice weather will reduce the number of guests at our café?" he snickered.

"The Trouble Bracelet!" Ichigo hissed, "People have found it all over. It's been killing dozens of people around Tokyo!"

"Ichigo, I think you need some rest," he said, "Why don't you…what the?" in the distance, Ichigo could hear the TV reporter talking, "OK, maybe you're right. But why would the aliens want to kill off humans? They just want our planet…and you guys dead," he snickered again.

"Not funny!" Ichigo said.

"So what do we do?"

"Destroy the Trouble Bracelet!" Ichigo snapped, "DUH!"

Ryou was silent. He sighed then hung up the phone on Ichigo. There was a long bbbbbbbbbbeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppp, then a recording on the other line, "I'm sorry, your call has been disconnected. Please hang up and try again. Bbbbbbbbbbeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppppppp!"

"Hello? Hello?" Ichigo said, "I HATE RYOU!" she slammed the phone down.

"Honey? Are you OK?" Mrs. Momomiya shouted up the stairs.

"Yeah," she shouted back down

She showered and went to bed, for a deep, troubled sleep.

"Oh, I love you so much, Ichigo. Will you marry me?"

"Yes, Kiomi, oh, yes!"

There was an evil laugh.

"Don't you just love this bracelet I bought for you, Ichigo?"

"Oh, no!" Ichigo shrieked, "The Trouble Bracelet!"

Another evil laugh.

"Help me, guys, I'm dying!" Ichigo called to her friends.

"Oh, look, Ichigo's dying!" Mint said, "Ha, ha, ha!"

All the Mew Mews laughed.

"What did I see in that girl?" Masaya said.

More laughing.

Now there was Ichigo's gravestone. Engraved in it were the words:

Ichigo Momomiya

We thought she was our friend…

Then she died.

And her death was indeed quite funny.

We all thank Kiomi for it.

RU

(Rest Unhappily)

There was more laughing.

Ichigo woke up, sweating like crazy, "I gotta destroy that bracelet!"

The next morning, Ichigo woke up and changed into her school uniform and went to school. Soon it was lunch…

"Did you see that news report?" one of Ichigo's school-friends, Kiekie was saying, "That bracelet was apparently a gift to someone to begin with. Poor girl. They say the original owner of the bracelet almost died at her wedding. The guy's name was Kiodi."

"That was Kiomi, thank you very much, and the original owner was me!" Ichigo snapped.

"You?" her other friend Mia said, "No way. You're too much of a wimp!"

"Yeah," Kiekie said, "You don't even like being scared!"

"Excuse me," Ichigo said, "if I didn't know I was gonna die!"

"Ichigo," came a voice from behind her, "hi."

"Not now, Masaya!" she whipped around, "MASAYA!" she looked unhappy, "What do you want? I thought you broke up with me. I thought you liked --- was it Lisa? --- better."

"Yeah…Lisa…that son-of-a-gun jerk Lisa was cheating on me. I wanna get back together," Masaya said, "Like, soon."

"Well, not all of us feel that way," Ichigo said coldly.

"Yeah, Masaya," Kish said, "Ichigo's my strawberry!"

Ichigo closed her eyes in frustration, "GO AWAY!"

"Ichigo?" Mia said, "You know her?" She gestured Kish, calling him a her.

"Hey!" Kiekie said, "She's that freaky lady from TV! How do you know her?"

"Is she gay?" Mia said.

"I'M A GUY! BOY! DUDE!" Kish yelled, "AND, NO, I'M NOT A LESBO!" he fumed, "Ichigo are you gonna fight me or what?"

"Ichigo, you're…you're a Mew Mew!" Mia said.

"No!" Masaya said sarcastically.

"Yeah!" Kiekie said, not getting his sarcasm.

"What do I do?" Ichigo thought, "I can't change here!"

"Ichigo, change for all of our sakes!" Masaya yelled. He was being attacked by an elephant Kirema Anima.

Ichigo was very frustrated. Masaya was about to be trampled. Ichigo made her decision, "MEW MEW ICHIGO METAMORPOSES!" Ichigo changed into Mew Ichigo.

And everything was silent except the Kirema Anima. Ichigo was embarrassed to heck.

"Need a little help?" Mint said.

"RIBBON!" four familiar voices shouted.

"Mint Echo!"

"Lettuce Rush!"

"Pudding Ring Inferno!"

"Zakuro Pure!"

"Strawberry Check!" Kish was knocked to the ground.

"Get the bracelet from him, someone!" Zakuro yelled. Pudding ran forward and reached for the bracelet, which was attached to his belt. She tugged on it, but the elastic stayed strong. Kish laughed an evil laugh and vanished…with Pudding! Ichigo dived to try to get her, but she was too late and fell flat on her stomach.

"Oo!" all the Mew Mews said and some of the school kids.

"That was a gut-puncher!" Mint said. Ichigo got up slowly. She had tears in her eyes.

"Ichigo, did it hurt that bad?" Lettuce said.

"PUDDING!" Ichigo yelled, "Pudding! Did you not notice she's gone!"

"It couldn't be helped," Lettuce said softly, "She grabbed on and…"

"And what?" Ichigo cried, "What? What if they kill her, huh? What if they use some freaky brain-wash thingy to make her one of them? What if Kish…"

"What if what?" Mia interrupted, "What-if-ing isn't gonna bring Pudding back! You guys gotta go get her!"

By now Ryou and Keiichiro had realized the Mew Mews weren't in school and hurried over. They had been listening to pretty much the whole conversation.

"Please don't tell me…" Ryou said, "Please don't tell me you changed in front of your entire school!"

"Heh, heh, heh?" Ichigo said embarrassed.

"I'm taking back your raise!" he hollered, "Now you'll only get ten dollars an hour!"

"Hey!" Ichigo yelled back.

"STOP FIGHTING!" Mint yelled, "We can't change the past, but we should try to look to the future."

"That was beautiful, Mint," Lettuce said, "I didn't know you liked that kinda stuff."

"I don't," Mint said, "It was on this pie wrapper." She held it up and yelled, "Sorry for whosever it was, I missed lunch at my school."

A voice somewhere in the crowd of people shouted, "That's OK!"

"Uh, guys," Ryou said, "Pudding still ain't here, so I suggest you go get her…"

"Oh yeah…" all the Mew Mews said, "We'd better go get her…"

Ryou nodded, "I'll be at the café. I'm sending Masha with you to make sure nothing goes afoul. C'mon, Keiichiro!"

Masha flew over to Ichigo and rubbed her cheek. Ryou and Keiichiro left to the café, and the Mew Mews went to where the signs pointed, "Alien Hideout! This way!"

"Could they be more obvious?" Mint said.

"Yeah, c'mon, it's like they want us to kick their butts again!" Ichigo said. They were led right into a trap.

"We should have known!" Zakuro said, "How much more obvious could it have been?"

"Ichigo! Mint! Lettuce! Zakuro!" Pudding squealed, "You came for me!"

"Shut the hell up!" Kish snapped, "Ah, my prisoners!" Kish said, "You can have your little Pudding back." He dropped the net that was holding them, "Oh, and I'll even let you go!"

"On what condition?" Mint said, standing up.

"No condition," Kish said, "Just bein' friendly is all." He smiled and went inside.

"That was too easy," Zakuro said.

"Well, if we're done here, I guess I should get back to my dancing class," Mint said. She left.

"I have a photo shoot to go to," Zakuro left.

The three remaining girls looked at each other, "School!" they said in unison. Ichigo took Pudding's hand and led her back to the elementary school, but as they passed but middle school, which was just next door, everyone was standing outside, clapping for Pudding's return.

Back at the Alien's Hideout:

"You let them go!" Pie shouted, "You let them go! No brain-washing, no nothing! And you let them take the bracelet!"

"Relax," Kish said, "I implanted the same killing technique from the Trouble Bracelet under little Pudding's skin. Except this one will make her loose blood at a rapid pace, and by next week, she'll be dead…"

"But she's just Pudding!" Pie exclaimed, "The Mew Mews still kicked our butts without her!"

"I said relax," Kish said, "Just wait. They'll all be dead soon enough."

So what do you think? Please R&R for me. I'm working on chapter three as we speak. Bye!