Mew Dream World

Chapter Two!

Dream World had never seen so much excitement in one day, except for dreamed up junk that usually led to a cliched fluffy battle scene. Yousei, the pixie of song and plants, clenched her baton in one hand and used the other to point accusingly at the little pink and black Mew. Mew Satou, on the other hand, has her hands positioned much differently. With her thumbs on her cheeks and other fingers spread out, she stuck out her tongue and made an immature face at Yousei. Shugo was using his hands to try and ease his headache.

"UGLY! UUUGLY!" Mew Satou chanted at Yousei, making Yousei more and more angry with her, which was a rather stupid thing to do. It hadn't occured to Mew Satou yet that making someone with attack power mad when you had none was just asking for a game over.

"You little twerp! I'll kill you!" Yousei shrieked angrily, now flying down to the Mew Mew with her baton held over her shoulder with both hands. Shugo was quick to get away from the little Mew Mew, who was watching Yousei rather closely. Yousei slowed down when when she reached Mew Satou and then swung the baton at the pink idiot's head. Just then, Mew Satou pushed herself off the ground and flew a few feet above Yousei before dropping down and kicking her in the back.

"Wow, for an idiot, she actually seems to know what she's doing." Shugo commented, from his safe distance, of course, "She might actually be useful."

Before Mew Satou's attack could hit, she stopped. Just kind of stopped and smiled, as if she'd accomplished something. Yousei still had no idea where the Mew Mew was, so was still wide open. Yet, Mew Satou did nothing.

"What are you doing! KICK HER!" Shugo snapped angrily.

"I caaaan't!" Mew Satou whined.

"Why not!"

"Because in the anime I stole this move from, the episode ended right about now, so I have no idea how to end my attaaack!" Mew Satou whined.

Shugo just stared and took back all of the positive comments he had made on Mew Satou's fighting skills.

"Try something else, Mew Satou! She's wide open!"

Mew Satou blinked, still holding her dramatic pose with her leg out. Around this time, Yousei decided to look up and noticed the Mew's leg, so grabbed her foot and swung her down to the ground.

Mew Satou simply hit the ground, back aching terribly and painful tears in her dull pink eyes. Yousei giggled, making sure to kick some dust in the Mew Mew's pink hair just for effect. Mew Satou started coughing and sat up quickly.

"That whazzn't vewy nice!" She snapped between coughs and gasps for breath, "You should apologize and go away!"

"Why? Because you're losing? Hmph! You can dream, Sweetheart, but as long as Nightmare Minion Yousei's here, this is going to be an unhappy ending for you!" The green pixie replied, giggling and putting her hands on her hips. Mew Satou took the moments used for Yousei's evil laugh to stand up and brush herself off, before trying to kick at Yousei again. Once again, Yousei caught her foot and pushed her aside.

"Mew Satou!" Shugo called, seeing that she was falling over hard for the second time now, "You're obviously no good at physical fighting! Find some other way to beat her!"

"I'm trying!" Mew Satou protested, rubbing her head and getting up again, "Yer so mean!"

"I'm not mean, I'm trying to help you!"

Mew Satou glared and turned to face Shugo, looking ready to snap at him again, but Yousei flew over and elbowed the Mew in the back. Mew Satou screamed and fell over again, now a whimpering, pathetic, stupid, pink Mew instead of just stupid and pink.

"Owy..." She whimpered, "Just three hits and it's already hard to move nya..."

"How sad! I never even started using my full power!" Yousei chirped, obviously having a good time pushing Mew Satou around.

"Mew Satou, are you ok?" Shugo asked, walking over and trying to help her up. Mew Satou sniffled and looked up with teary, chibi-like eyes.

"I-I-It hurts." She whined, "My back hurts! I don't think I can fly right now..."

"Listen, doesn't your OC have a weapon and attack? Try using those."

Mew Satou fell silent for a moment, then nodded and stood up straight again, eyes narrowed at Yousei.

"Sugar Chime!" She called, holding out her hand and summoning her bright pink weapon. Grabbing the straight part of her 'D' shaped weapon, Mew Satou gave it a good shake so that the 4 bells on it rang, then pointed it at Yousei.

"Ribbon Sugar Wind RINGU!" She screamed. The wind around the pink Mew girl picked up a bit, lifting some stray leaves into the air and some dust, before sending it all at Yousei. Yousei screamed and moved her arms in front of her face for protection as the windy attack blew by. When the wind stopped, she lowered her hands and quickly whipped a mirror out of a pocket on her dress and looked at herself. Then she screamed the loudest scream of the whole chapter. The type of scream you'll still hear in two pages.

"MY HAIR!" She exclaimed, motioning to the leaves and twigs stuck in her short hair, "And my dress!" She added, now looking down at her dust-powdered green dress.

"YOU RUINNED THEM BOTH!"

"No, I think izz an improvement, nya." Mew Satou explained happily, satisfied with her work.

"I'll get you for this! After I take a shower and get my dress washed!" And with that, Yousei vanished.

With Yousei gone, Mew Satou felt free to fall to her knees and start crying in pain. Shugo ran over to her, though it took a moment, and kneeled down beside her. She simply flopped over and used him for support, since her back hurt so much by this time.

"Mew Satou izz in paaaain!" She whined. Shugo sighed and pet her head carefully, trying to brush some dust out of her hair while he was at it.

"You did good, Mew Satou. Just rest now, ok? You should be waking up soon."

"Waking up? I am awake!" Mew Satou whined.

"You're awake in Dream World. You'll wake up in Reality soon, and then I'll come by your house for your Dream Shard."

Mew Satou looked ready to protest, but she began glowing and returned to her human form before simply falling asleep. Shugo sighed and picked her up, then walked off to Random Location X.

Satou woke up in her bed, finding that her parents had moved her under the covers sometime while she was sleeping. Her alarm clock, decorated with Tokyo Mew Mew pictures, beeped loudly at her. She sighed, still laying flat on her back, and stared up at the ceiling. Had that all been a dream? She felt like an entire day had just passed by, but clearly nothing had happened, since her room hadn't changed much from when she remembered flopping down on her bed.

"It couldn't have been a dream." She murmured, now remembering some details more clearly, "He was there. Why would he appear in my dreams unless I was throwing him off the Grand Canyon?"

With this conclusion, Satou rolled herself out of bed, whacking her alarm clock as she fell. Usually, she would catch herself as this happened, but an unusual and unexpected pain in her back kept her from doing so. She fell to the ground, which only made the pain worse. The loud "thunk" dhook the floor a bit, attracting the attention of her half-awake Monday morning mother.

"Satou..." Her mother moaned, voice cracking a bit with dry sleepiness, "Did you fall out of bed?"

"Yeah, but I didn't mean to!" She protested, "My back hurts for some reason!"

Her mother just nodded.

"That's because you fell out of your bed."

But her mother didn't hear her, since the tired woman was now wandering down the hall to wake up her other daughters.

Satou sighed and pushed herself off the ground, then wandered to her closet and started putting together an outfit. That dream really had been strange... No, it wasn't a dream, she'd decided that already. Still, she knew she hadn't done anything but sleep... And there was no way she could've gone to Japan...

Curious, the half dressed 9th grader turned to her Japanese magazine and breezed over the pages. Nothing made sense to her anymore, even though she'd been able to understand those signs before...

"I guess it was a dream." She said to herself, "But... That's not possible. I mean, it felt so real... Not to mention my back hurts, and I didn't do anything unusually painful last night, but I did in that dream... Thingy.. A jiggy... Blah, who cares."

Now fully changed, Satou grabbed her book bag and slung the strap over her shoulder so the bag rested comfortably on her hip. She then grabbed her purse and binder before walking downstairs to the kitchen.

"Morning, Satou." Said her mother, who was more awake after enjoying the heavenly gift that is Coffee. Yes, you capitalize Coffee.

"Morning, Mom!" Satou chirpped, also feeling a bit better now. The aches and pains in her back were gone now that she felt more awake, though she didn't question why.

The kitchen was alive with the sound of toast popping in the toaster and the microwave humming as it warmed up hot pockets and the like. Satou's mother opened the microwave door as it sang out to annouce that the food was done. As her mother got her hot pocket, Satou decided to reflect a bit more on the dream. She'd turned into Mew Satou, and then there was the Dream Shard...

"Oh! I forgot something in my room!" She said quickly, getting up and running back up the stairs to her room. Once in her room again, she searched the pockets of her jeans from the night before, and then her bed, looking for the Dream Shard. It wasn't there. No matter how hard she looked, she simply couldn't find it. After about 3 minutes, she gave up and walked back downstairs to start eating her hot pocket again. She was just about to start eatting, too, but the younger of her two younger sisters appeared next to her. The blonde and brunette exchanged confused stares for a few seconds, before Satou spoke up.

"What do ya want, Saltigo?"

"Why didn't you tell me!" The younger girl demanded. Satou cocked her head in confusion.

"Tell you what?"

"That you had a boyfriend!"

Satou's face turned a couple shades of red and she shot her sister a nasty glare.

"Stop making things up! I'm single and loving it!"

"Then who's the good looking blonde at the front door who wants to walk to school with you?" Saltigo asked.

Satou stood up, leaving her hot pocket on the table, and then marched to the front door. There, standing in the doorway, was Shugo.

There was a long silence, before Satou darted up and swung a punch at him.

"So you're a stalker too!" She asked in anger, only to have Shugo step aside and let her fall out the door.

"Can you bring me her stuff?" Shugo asked Saltigo. The girl giggled and nodded, running to the kitchen and back with Satou's purse and binder. Satou almost always wore her book bag on school days.

"Thank you." Shugo said kindly as Saltigo closed the door. About that time, Satou had collected herself and turned around to punch Shugo, only to miss again and hit the door with her fist. She went quiet and bit her lip, holding back tears.

"Why are you here?" She whined, "You show up everywhere."

"It's my job."

"So you're paid to stalk people?"

"No. I protect Dream World. Following you around just became part of my job."

Satou reached out and took her things from Shugo before deciding to question him.

"So that wasn't a dream?"

"Yes, it was. Kind of. You enter Dream World."

"How? I've never been there before, so why go now? What IS Dream World?"

"Dream World is simply a world made of Dreams. It's protected by a stone wall that keeps people in your world from getting in, though."

"So how'd I get in?" Satou asked, "You said people from my world can't get in."

"They can't when the wall is whole. A while ago, a simple piece of the wall chipped off because people were dreaming too hard and forcing themselves in.. The piece is called a 'Dream Shard'. If a person has a Dream Shard when they fall asleep, the shard pulls their conscience through the hole left when the shard fell off. That is how you get into Dream World."

"Sounds like a good thing." Satou commented, "I mean, it sounds fun..."

Shugo shook his head and glared at Satou.

"If the only people getting into Dream World were airheads like you, it might be fun. But someone who exists in Dream World and Reality got there. He plans to weaken the wall so much that Dream World and Reality become one. Then, since he'll be ultra powerful, he wants to take over the world."

"Taking over the world is so cliche..." Satou mumbled, before glaring at Shugo, "Hey wait! You called me an airhead, didn't you?"

"Yup. You're a slow airhead, at that."

"MEANY!"

"Whatever. Now, please give me the Dream Shard you found last night."

There was a long pause, and Satou laughed nervously.

"Yeah, about that... I think I lost it."

"LOST IT!" Shugo repeated, "YOU LOST SOMETHING THAT POWERFUL! YOU IDIOT!"

"Hey, I thought it was just a shiny rock! It was in my pocket last night, and I guess it rolled out. It's probably somewhere on the bed and I just haven't found it yet!"

Shugo took a moment to think this over, then looked at Satou again.

"Hmmm... Actually, I don't think you will find it..."

"What? You're questioning my treasure hunting abilities? You're talking to the third grade treasure huntin' MASTA here!" Satou protested, striking a pose to prove how special she was. She proved to Shugo to be the type of special that gets you wrapped up tight in pretty jackets and put in padded trucks.

"No. I think the shard fused with you."

Satou blinked.

"Say wha?"

" I think that last night, when you transformed, you somehow got the shard in you. Like how Mew Mews get infused with animal DNA. You were probably thinking too much."

"Really? That's cool!"

"Not really. It means I can't get it out of you."

"HA! I WIN!" Satou annouced, "I WIIIIN!"

Shugo sighed and turned a final corner. The two could now see Satou's school just down the road.

"Well, I'm almost there!" Satou annouced happily, "Guess I'll never see you again! Buh-bye, Shoes, I'll miss you so very much! HA!"

"You'll see me next time to fall asleep, because you've got that shard inside you." Shugo pointed out, smirking, "So I guess you will see me soon. Be sure not to fall asleep in class, airhead."

Satou's face turned a few shades of red and she marched towards school. Then she turned around halfway there to walk backwards and stick her tongue out at Shugo.

"I am not an airhead, you meeany, nya! MEEEANY!"

"Airrrhead!" Shugo called back, smiling a ever-so-slightly evil smile, "Bye then. Seeya tonight."

"NEVER! Just you watch, I'll stay up all night, and there's no way you can stop meeee!" She snapped before turning around and marching all the wall to school. Stupid Shugo! So insensitive and mean!

"Ga!" Satou gasped, "If I don't hurry up, I'm gonna be late! I'll deal with that stupid meany tomorrow!"

And with that said, Satou ran into the school and rushed off to homeroom.