Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo mew mew, but I do own the new characters in the story.
Chapter one
Ichigo sighed a sigh of relief. Another day at the cage was done and they had finished the cleaning. She sat down at a table and yawned. Her friends sat around her, sharing her exhaustion. It had been a long day with many costumers. But what worried Ichigo the most was the fact that Kisshu, Pai and Taruto hadn't attacked in months. They were up to something. She had seen Kisshu last week. He didn't attack them, but was watching. He also seemed a bit edgy about something, and he was normally quite calm.
Ichigo blinked as her smallest friend, Pudding, placed a piece of cake in front of her.
"Thanks." She said absently. She picked up the folk, but did not eat. Another of her friends Lettuce, noticed this and asked,
"What's the matter Ichigo-san?"
Pudding, Mint and Zakuro looked up at her, their eyes questioning. Ichigo shrugged and said,
"The aliens haven't attacked in months. I think their next move is big." Ichigo sighed and stared out of the window. "I saw Kisshu last week, but he was only watching. He seemed disturbed by something." She added.
Mint almost chocked on her bite of cake.
"Where?" She asked.
"When we were in the park." Ichigo replied.
"Why did you not tell us?" Zakuro asked. Ichigo shrugged again.
"He wasn't really doing anything. He disappeared after he saw something, but I don't know what it was. It seemed to disturb him for some reason." She said. Her friends exchanged glances, confused.
Then Masha, their alien detecting robot, who had been floating by Ichigo's elbow, raised himself until he was floating above the table, crying out in alarm.
"Chimera animal, Chimera animal. Aliens, aliens!"
Without thinking, they all stood up and ran out the door, following Masha.
The little robot, after they had transformed, lead them through the city. Eventually, Masha lead them to a river near the edge of the city, which was sparsely populated. The little robot stopped and repeated,
"Chimera animal, Chimera animal. Aliens, aliens!" Ichigo swung her head to side to side, trying to spot the chimera animal and the three aliens.
"Come for the party have you?" Asked a familiar voice above her. Ichigo looked up sharply, and sure enough, Kisshu floated above her. She paused. He seemed to have the uneasiness she saw when he was watching her and her friends in the park. Pai and Taruto appeared on either side of Kisshu. Ichigo looked closely at the other two. They did not seem to have the uneasiness that Kisshu had. He knew something.
Taruto smiled at them.
"Want to play with our new Chimera animal, do you?"
Ichigo clenched her fists, but did not say anything. Kisshu chuckled and she glared at him. She caught his eyes briefly; he seemed nervous and worried about something. She was distracted suddenly by a thunderous roar and the ground shaking slightly. Ichigo turned around and gasped. Behind them stood the chimera animal.
The head resembled a 6ft large bell shaped purple flower pointing downwards with evil looking eyes. The opening of the flower was the mouth with rows of sharp jagged teeth. The stem was 10ft long with other, smaller, purple flowers growing from it. The leaves near the base of the plant grew upwards and, but them drooped. There were four 11ft leaves, dropping at about 8ft. The roots of the plant spread out, acting as the legs of the plant. All in all, it looked terrifying.
"Foxglove." Ichigo heard Mint say behind her.
"What?" Pudding asked. "What's a Foxglove?"
"It's a plant. It looks nice enough, but the leaves are very poisonous, so I would avoid touching them. What are they planning to do with a poisonous plant?" Mint said.
Ichigo looked at the river. It was the river the whole city relied on. It supplied their water supply, mainly for drinking…
"You plan to poison the water supply and kill everyone off!" Ichigo almost shrieked. Kisshu laughed out load and nodded.
"Your right, for once, honey."
Ichigo hissed at him. He smirked at her. Ichigo ignored him and turned her attention to the chimera animal. She conjured up her strawberry bell.
"Ribbon, strawberry-" Ichigo did not even finish her sentence. The Chimera, as fast as lightening, lashed out with one of its leaves, striking Ichigo in the chest. Ichigo was thrown backwards and hit a nearby wall. She gasped as pain shot through her body.
"Ichigo!" She heard Lettuce cry out. Painfully, and with much effort, Ichigo lifted her head. No sooner had she looked up when her team mates were all thrown next to her. Ichigo couldn't move. Her limbs felt heavy and her breathing became laboured. She tried to stand, but the effort was too much. She saw the Chimera animal approach them. She had to get up; she had to defend her friends.
"Ribbon Ivory Sabre!"
A white cross of energy flew over Ichigo's head and it hit the Chimera animal in the head. It screamed in pain.
"Ribbon Ebony Sabre!"
Another energy cross, black this time, flew over her head and hit the Chimera animal in the base of its stem. It screamed again.
This time, the words were spoken in unison, and both energy crosses hit the Chimera animal. It screamed and echoing scream, which faded out and the Chimera animal exploded, leaving the jelly fish shaped creature that contained the foxglove DNA. Masha flew over and swallowed the DNA vessel, saying.
"Collection"
Kisshu landed a few yards in front of Ichigo. He looked at the top of the wall, 10 metres high, and Ichigo saw recognition on his face. Curious, Ichigo looked up. On the top of the wall, stood two girls, about the age of thirteen.
They both had knee length hair with a messy fringe thrown to each side of the face. They had intense, focused blue eyes, pointed face, graceful eyebrows and a well built nose. They were about 5ft tall. They were wearing a top that stopped just below the breast, with a bubble of material on the shoulder.
The glove left the fingers uncovered, but it covered the lower arm to the elbow. They wore breaches that had, from the top, eight pieces of mid shin length pieces of material. They wore a garter on their left leg, and they also wore knee high boots.
The only difference was, was that the right's ones garment was white, the lefts was black.
The one on the right had pointed ears similar to the aliens. From her head were two curly feelers about a metre long. She had a scaly tail feathered at the end. Her face was calm, wise and gentle, but there was a wariness about her.
The one on the left also had ears similar to the aliens, but on the underside were two small spikes. The horns came out of her head going upwards 3 centimetres which then turned sharply to become horizontal 30 centimetres. She had two black, bat like wings, each 5 ft long. She had a tail that ended in a folk. Her face, unlike the other girls, had a darker look and suggested that she was neither kind, nor gentle. She, too, had a wariness to her body language.
What Ichigo noticed that around their necks were broaches. The very same broaches that she and her friends wore.
Ichigo stared at them in awe. They were obviously twins. Kisshu shivered, attracting Ichigo's gaze. He, too, was staring at the twins. He seemed to know them; he also had the same wariness in his body language as them. He shivered again and snapped his eyes about his surroundings, his eyes flashing with hatred. He growled softly and disappeared, Pai and Taruto following him. What made Kisshu so edgy?
Suddenly, the twins landed in front of Ichigo. She, once again, tried to stand up, but her muscles didn't respond.
"Stay still. You have been poisoned by the Chimera animal, but not much, so you'll be ok." Ichigo stared at them in amazement. They spoke in unison as if they had rehearsed the saying and the timing of it.
"Ichigo!" Ichigo slowly turned her head to see Keiichiro and Ryo running towards them. They saw the twins and they skidded to a stop. The twins glowed blue and transformed back into human form. Their tails, horns, wings, ears and feelers disappeared, and their clothes became different. They were now wearing a tight short sleeve dress that stopped mid thigh and they wore knee high boots.
Again, the one on the right wore completely white and the one on the left wore completely black. Strange.
"Who are you?" Ryo asked rudely. The twins turned towards him and bowed.
"I am Ivory" The one on the right said. Her voice was calm and gentle and automatically made Ichigo like her as she seemed nice without a mean part to her personality.
"I am Ebony." The one on the right said. Her voice was not like her twins at all. It was a dark and sensuous voice. Ichigo did not like her that much.
"We are mew mews, like Ichigo, Mint, Lettuce, Pudding and Zakuro. We have come to help them as we sense a new evil coming and you need all the help you can get." They said.
Silence.
"Your mew mews?" Ryo asked, amazed.
"Yes." They replied. Ryo opened his mouth to reply, but was interrupted by Keiichiro.
"What new evil are you talking about?"
"We are not sure. It is a threat not only to us humans, but Kisshu and his species."
Keiichiro blinked, and then recovered.
"Come with us. Since your mew mews, you must work with the rest at café mew mew.
The twins nodded.
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