This chapter's long. Really long. But I said I would finish the story in this one, so I squeezed a bit. It's all in there. The end. Woohoo!
I don't own anything in here. Enjoy. Review with any questions.
Pudding was talking. To herself. There wasn't any one else in her cage, so she must be.
Tart floated noiselessly over to her cage and hovered behind her, his batlike ears open.
"Alice," he heard her say, "and Kanako." Who were they? Pudding's imaginary friends?
But then a tiny voice said, "Pudding." There was someone else in there!!!
"Be polite." Another voice snorted. There was a thump, and the first voice said
"Ow!"
Tart was astounded. He was either hearing voices, or there were two more beings in Pudding's cage.
See? This is how far gone this plot is. I swear I'll make it better.
"Check in that one there, and I'll get this one!!" Ichigo yelled over to mint, and then proceeded to scramble up the large oak she was tackling.
"That one?" mint scoffed in horror. "That one's covered in ants!!!" she shivered.
"And pudding's captured by aliens!" Ichigo reminded her. "Ants don't matter."
"She's not in this one!!" Lettuce called from atop a smooth birch. "I-Oh, My!!!" and she promptly tumbled out of the 10 foot tree.
"Lettuce!!!" Mint gasped.
"I- I'm ok." Lettuce confirmed, and she got to her feet and wiped the grass stains off her bruised knees.
"Stop pretending to care and go climb your tree already, mint." Zakuro came up behind her.
"Y-yes Zakuro." Mint obliged dejectedly. (She never could deny Zakuro a direct order.)
"Heeelp me, Zakuroooooo!!" Ichigo howled from atop the oak tree. "I c-can't get DOOOOOWN!!!"
"Ha ha, the kitty's stuck in a tree!!" mint taunted, perched on her tree as though she belonged there. (Well she is a bird, alright?)
"Pudding can climb trees best, I wish she were here," Lettuce sighed, now attempting to scale another oak.
"I'm coming." Zakuro sighed and slid down from the elm tree she had been in, and strode over to help Ichigo down from her oak.
"Fine." Mint sighed. "Since I'm obviously the best climber-"
"Since when!" Pouted Ichigo. I climb faster, I just can't get down!!!"
"Fine." Mint sighed again. "Since I'm the best at getting DOWN trees, I'll go climb that one." She pointed at a really tall pine.
"Okay, I'll take that one." Ichigo pointed at the second tallest pine, several yards away from the tree mint was now beginning to climb.
"Tart?" Pudding yelled. "Taaaaaaarutooo?"
Tart ignored her stubbornly.
"Tart-tart-tart-tart-tart-tart-tart-tart!!!!!!" Pudding called. "Taru-taru- taru-chan!!!"
"WHAT?!" Tart said finally, swinging around irritably.
"I'm hungry." Pudding said calmly, smiling at him (as to get extra food) hopefully.
"N-" Tart started, and Pudding's smile faltered. So did he. "Ah… I don't…"
"Please? I'm really hungry," Pudding said, looking up at him sadly. (All technique for getting food.)
Tart hesitated for a moment, looking at the kitchen and then back to her pleading face. "I-yes, pudding." He said tiredly, and floated toward the kitchen to make her a peanut butter banana sandwich. (Another one.)
Pudding chuckled happily to herself. So did Kanako and Alice.
In the kitchen, tart was preparing pudding's sandwich. He felt kinda deflated, whished pudding were his friend again. Wait a minute, he told himself, Pudding was never your friend! She told herself that to bother you!
But all the same, he wanted her as a friend whether or not they had been friends before. (Possibly he wanted her as more, but that's in other peoples fan fictions.)
Tart came back with her sandwich. Pudding was delighted; it was just how she liked it. She grabbed half and dug in. mmmm!!! Tart watched her for a minute, and she looked up.
"Yes?" she asked politely, as he had just gotten her food.
He turned slightly red. "Nothing." He said stubbornly, and sort of floated way from her.
"Ok." Pudding said through a full mouth, having taken another bite of sandwich. "I like the sandwich!"
Pudding couldn't see his face anymore, he'd turned away. (For those who want to know, it so happens that tart was blushing.)
"He wants you." Kanako grinned evilly.
Alive pushed her. She fell off pudding's shoulder with a loud "OUCH!"
"Pudding?" Tart turned around, believing pudding had said ouch.
"Yes?" Pudding replied happily, chowing on her sandwich.
"Tell him you stubbed your toe!!" Alice hissed hurriedly, trying to help Kanako up. Although Alice was on pudding's shoulder and Kanako was lying on the floor, so this wasn't working.
"I- uh- ow!" pudding said. "I stubbed my toe."
"On what?" Tart said exasperatedly, coming over to pudding's cage to see her toe.
"Um… the floor."
"Ok," said tart. "Well, let me see it, I'll-" tart didn't know what he was gonna do, it was just a stubbed toe, I mean, you can't do much for that.
"You'll what?" Pudding asked.
"I don't know!" Tart said exasperatedly, "never mind." He started floating away.
Pudding wanted him to come back, but she didn't know what to do.
Then she remembered.
"Aren't you hungry?" she called after him.
"Why?" Tart called from his chair, where he'd been watching pudding over his cactus.
"I can't finish this sandwich!" pudding called back
Tart considered this for a moment, and then decided he might as well. After all, he deserved some oft hat sandwich. So he floated over.
Pudding was very happy.
Pudding often is
"Here!" she said, handing him the other half of sandwich.
He took the sandwich and they ate in silence for some time.
Pudding finished her sandwich first, so she sat there watching tart eat his. He ate slowly, she observed. Large bites, though.
Eventually tart finished his sandwich. Then they sort of just sat there in silence, neither wanting to leave, yet neither knowing what to say.
"Say something." Kanako, who had recovered by now, hissed into pudding's ear.
"Something." Pudding said.
"What?" Tart said.
"Nothing." Pudding said, frowning. "I can't really think of anything to say."
"How about…I don't know…how are you." Tart said, not being able to think of anything better.
Pudding giggled a little. "How are you, tart."
"I don't know." Tart sighed. "Lonely I guess, the other two keep leaving without me."
"You could've come talked to me," Pudding said.
"You were mad at me."
"Oh." Pudding said. This seemed like a long time ago, to her. "I-I was, wasn't i."
"Cuz I was mean." Tart mumbled.
"No, you were honest." Pudding looked away. "At least you told me." But she didn't look as though she had wanted to know.
"Yeah, but I liked being friends with you." Tart said so quietly that pudding could barely hear him.
"R-really?" pudding whispered happily. "We were friends? Truly?"
"...Yeah." Tart kinda half smiled.
Pudding smiled very, very widely. She reached her hand outside the cage and grabbed tarts. He looked up, surprised, and she smiled warmly at him. He smiled tentatively back at her.
"Aww…" Kanako and Alice sighed on pudding's shoulder. Then they vanished because they were a stupid part of this fan fiction and I don't' really have anymore use for them.
Pudding didn't notice. She was deep in conversation with tart about his cactus.
"MINT!!!!!" Ichigo screamed. "I-I found it!!!!"
she was at the top of the second tallest tree, poking solid air above her.
Mint excitedly flew over, (she gots wings tee hee) and bonked into the invisible ship above the tree.
Ichigo laughed, and so did lettuce although she covered it up quickly.
Mint acted as thought nothing had happened, and felt her way around the ship (so as not to bump her head again) and landed lightly on the top branch. It was a tight fit, as Ichigo was there and trees aren't' very big on top.
Lettuce didn't come up. She was afraid she'd fall.
She probably would've
"Mint," Ichigo suggested. "Fly around the ship until you find the door!"
"Okay." Mint said determinedly, and took flight once more.
She flew cautiously around, feeling the surface of the ship for any entrance she could find.
But there was none.
"No door!" mint called. "They must teleport in!"
Ichigo swore under her breath. "There must be some other way in, check for windows! Mail slots! Anything!"
"Aliens have mail slots?" Lettuce asked. "Uh, Ichigo, I-"
"Mail slots are beside the point," Ichigo said grumpily.
"I'll look again." Mint looked uncertainly at where her hand met solid air. "There might just not be a way in."
"There has to be!" Ichigo said desperately. "Pudding…"
"Ugh! I cant' believe this!" Tart complained, getting up.
Pudding had just beaten tart for the fifth time in a row in an anonymous alien board game. (Too lazy to make one up)
"Ha!" Pudding giggled. "You owe me…" she counted on her fingers.
"We weren't playing for anything!" Tart complained, hanging around in mid air above pudding's head.
She looked up at him fondly. "I beat you five times. I deserve something, no?"
"No." Tart stuck out his tongue
"Fine. I beat you one more time, and…" she searched around for something. "You let me out for one hour to run around in the ship."
Tart looked a little uneasy at this. "I don't know, the others would be angry."
"They won't be back for quite some time, didn't you say they were out trying to find the best spot to park the ship?" (Pie didn't like were they were, he wanted something more secluded.)
Pudding looked up at him hopefully. She hadn't been able to stretch her legs properly in days. (Her cage is about big enough for her to walk 5 large steps one was and three the other.) Tart looked back at her, still indecisive.
"I know how you feel," Pudding sympathized. "You don't even have a chance of winning, I mean-"
"Hey, I could and will win!" Tart grinned.
"Then how come you're chicken to place a wager?"
Tart knew he was trying to play him to let her out. He was smarter than that, he wouldn't be persuaded…
"You'd lose, that's why."
"Fine!" Tart said, completely forgetting that he wasn't gonna take her wager. "You're on!!!"
"Ah!" gasped mint. "I found something!"
"Yes!!!!" Ichigo cried, nearly jumping off her branch for joy.
"Oh, wonderful!" Lettuce twirled around in a little circle at the base of the tree.
"What did you find?"
"A wind- oh." Mint turned around. Behind her, floating all menacing-like, were Pie and Kish.
"You found a window?" Smirked Kish. "What will you do with it?"
Mint didn't reply, but she transformed and took out her weapon, holding it protectively in front of herself.
Ichigo did the same.
"Hello, sweet-cheeks," sneered Kish, turning on Ichigo.
"Don't EVER call me that." Ichigo aimed a swift kick at his midriff, but he dodged. Ichigo fell all the way to the ground.
"Sometimes I worry about that girl." Mint sighed, diving and catching Ichigo before she hit the ground and setting her down gently.
"T-thanks," gasped Ichigo, a bit out of breath.
Lettuce transformed, and brought out her weapon. "Are you ok?" she asked Ichigo.
"Yeah, thanks," Ichigo smiled.
"Not for long." Kish dived down toward Ichigo and tried to slice her shoulder with his knives. She ducked out of the way, and he swerved back toward her. She jumped above him, and kicked him from behind.
"You ok?" Pie asked from above, where he was fighting Mint.
Kish just growled, (being embarrassed at being hit) and brought out an anima parasite.
"Go, my anima parasite!" he growled, sending it hurtling into one of the trees. It came out as a giant earwiggy thing. Kish cackled evilly.
"Must you always let someone else fight for you?" Ichigo yelled up at him. He didn't respond, but sent the earwig on her.
"Ribbon strawberry check!" She cried, and it flinched. Lettuce joined in, with cries of "Ribbon Lettuce flash!" the crescent moons of energy burst forth and flew straight for the giant earwig. It waddled out of the way just in time, but its tail got caught in the fire.
"Ribbon Zakuro pure!" Zakuro had joined the fray.
"Aaah!" Mint was falling. She had been knocked out of the air while fighting Pie. One of her wings was bent, and she was flapping the other one helplessly.
"Aaah-oh!" she found herself slowing down, and then stopping. She looked up. She was being held by an ankle by an alien she had never seen, with a long ponytail and a mischievous grin.
"Croissaaant," Kish whined. "Why are you here?!"
"Pudding's brats all went to bed, I went to find the ship and it was gone. I only just find it, and here you are fighting to the death!"
"Not to the death," Kish pouted.
"Not our death anyway," Ichigo whacked Kish in the small of the back, sending him tumbling. Croissant laughed.
"You are pathetic."
"Go away."
"Make me."
"Fine, I will."
The mew mews (and pie) watched in astonishment as Croissant and Kish wound up fighting, completely forgetting them.
Pie rolled his eyes, and turned onto the mew mews.
Zakuro had, while no one was watching, wrapped up and done away with the giant earwig.
So Pie found himself facing four angry mew mews by himself.
And about 5 minutes later, he found himself tied to a tree by four angry mew mews.
"Kish!" He yelled. "Some help!?"
But Kish was out cold. Croissant had won.
"You got pwned," Giggled Croissant.
"Where'd you learn a word like that?"
"Human internet. I've often nothing better to do, you know."
"Not my fault."
"Isn't it?"
In this fan fiction, aliens are rather pea brained. While croissant and Pie argued, Mint flew back up to the window. She carried lettuce, while Ichigo and Zakuro climbed the tall tree. (Zakuro had some trouble, but being tall helped.)
"The window is here," Mint half whispered, setting lettuce down on an invisible window sill, (she was so nervous it's a wonder she didn't fall.)
Mint felt around a bit, and lifted an invisible window.
"Ah-HA!" Pudding called triumphantly. She had just made the winning move of the final game.
Tart swore audibly. (Pudding made a face, but said nothing more.)
"Let me out, let me out!" Pudding sang happily.
Tart sighed, looking around nervously, and opened the cage.
Pudding zipped out, and made a beeline for nowhere in particular. She ran this way ad that, jumping clean over tart's chair.
"Just- just an hour, ok?" Tart said nervously, looking around.
"Kaaaay," Said pudding, not really paying attention as she made herself an obstacle course out of rope, furniture and some silverware.
Tart picked up his cactus and sat down in a chair that pudding hadn't stacked for her course. He sighed and hugged the cactus' pot. (Kind of hard to hug the cactus itself. )
There was thump.
Voices.
Tart started to panic. "Pudding!" he called. "Get- get back in the cage!"
"No! It's not been an hour!" Pudding stuck out her tongue, sliding over a table and swinging off the rope.
"But- but someone's here, if they know I let you out then-"
"They'll know you stink at games."
Tart scowled.
The window opened.
"Here- you first."
There was a tumble; a crash, and- Lettuce tumbled into the room.
"Pudding!"
"Lettuce!"
"You're okay!?"
"Yuuup!" Pudding grinned.
"Pudding!" Ichigo gasped happily, as she jumped gracefully through the window.
"Ichigo!" Pudding called back, balancing plates on knifes while standing on the back of a chair.
"Brother…" Tart moaned.
"We've come to break you free!!" Mint said, happily helping Zakuro in through the window.
"Yaaay!" Pudding squealed, and she started cleaning up her mess.
"Y-you're not allowed to leave!" Tart shouted.
"Really?" Ichigo brought out her strawberry bell bell.
"Ribbon Zakuro pure!"
"Ribbon Mint echo!"
"Ribbon lettuce rush!"
"Ribbon strawberry check!!!!"
Tart was hit rather hard.
He was thrown against the wall, and sunk to the floor slowly.
"Ha." Ichigo stuck out her tongue. "Midget."
"H-hag." Tart muttered, getting tentatively to his feet.
"Are you ok?" Pudding walked over and helped him up. "They didn't hurt you too bad, did they?"
"They did too." Tart pouted, leaning on Pudding for support.
"We went easy on you!!!" Ichigo howled.
"Speak for yourself." Mint rolled her eyes.
"I've gotta go now, tart," Pudding said. "But I'll come back and play with you, okay?"
"What? No! I can't- I can't- they'll kill me!!" Tart panicked. "You gotta stay!"
"Sorry tart." Pudding smiled happily at him, and helped him into his chair. She handed him his cactus, and walked over to the mew mews. "Come make me one more peanut butter banana sandwich sometime, ok?"
Tart said nothing, just stared at his cactus.
The five mew mews left, one by one through the window.
"You WHAT????" Kish exploded.
"I let her get away." Tart said stiffly, his chest bandaged tightly. "Because you weren't there to help."
"Yeah," Croissant snorted. "Pie was tied to a tree and Kish was out cold."
"And who's fault was THAT???" Kish turned on Croissant.
"Um, yours?" Croissant rolled her eyes. "If you'd even practice-"
"I practice!!!" Kish roared.
Pie turned away from their bickering. "We failed." He sighed. "Really, you'd think we were better than that."
"You're not mad?"
"No, I think they would have beaten us even if we hadn't been separated." Pie shook his head. "They're simply too strong."
"Yeah." Tart nodded.
"YEAH??? WELL YOU SUCK YOUR THUMB!!!!"
"Who sleeps with a teddy bear? NOT ME."
"SHUT UP!!!!"
"Table four needs three strawberry sodas!!!"
"Got it!!"
"Here are your drinks, please enjoy!"
Ichigo sighed. Everything seemed back to normal. Last night Mint had slept over, as well as Pudding, Zakuro and Lettuce. They'd all celebrated being together again. It had been a night to remember.
"Ichigo?" Zakuro came up behind her. "Can you take these to table 7? Keiichiro needs some help in the Kitchen."
"Yes," Ichigo said. "Thanks, Zakuro."
"Mm." Zakuro walked off.
Ichigo walked over to table 7, and there sat Mint.
"Mint!" Ichigo yelled. "YOU ordered this!?"
"Yup," Said mint calmly. "Now hand it over."
Ichigo grudgingly handed her the tea and cakes she had ordered, but spilled a little of the tea as she set it down.
"Ichigo!" Mint ordered. "Clean this up!"
"Mint, you work here too, you do it." Ichigo said firmly. "I've got tables to serve." And she walked away.
The end.
Wow.
I finished a fan fiction. That is an absolute first.
Well, by now I've actually finished without a wand, although it's not all the way posted, but back when I wrote this I never finished fanfictions. Ever. So I was really happy. It's satisfying, knowing you created a plot like that. For those of you who do this on a weekly basis, don't burst my bubble.
It's a shiny bubble
Shiny things are fun.
Anyhow, that's it, and I worked hard on it, please give me a little something in return. A word or two on what you thought, so I know if me efforts were appreciated and worth it at all…
Ok that's just evil tactics. I wrote this for me and dianna, who really is the only one I feed my fanfictions to . force feed, at least. She reads them, so I write them. But I still care what you think.
