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Zakuro felt the cold metal pressed against her throat and had to concentrate hard on not panicking. She stomped hard on her attacker's foot, momentarily making him let go. She tried to run to the door but the attacker quickly recovered from his surprise and threw her against the wall.

From the floor she saw how stong he really looked, no way would she be able to outpower him. He was wearing all black, he had short brown hair and an evil grin on his face. Zakuro instinctively reached up around her neck to feel for her necklace. The cross necklace was the last thing Kenji had given her. It was really special, whenever she was scared she would hold it and it would help make her feel better.

Gripping on tightly to the cross Zakuro tried to quickly think of a plan. While looking around her eyes landed on her Mew charm on the kitchen table.

~Flashback~

The Mews had finally defeated their enemy, the aliens. Shirogane had asked them to come to the basement for a moment. Once they were all there, waiting for what he had to say, he began. "Even though you don't have the powers to transform anymore. You should keep your charms--"

He clearly wasn't finished when Ichigo interupted, "How come?" Then realizing he wasn't done she blushed and muttered a quick, "sorry."

So Shirogane continued on. "The charms react only to your DNA, even though your powers are gone if you are ever in a lot of trouble and need some help, the charm will send a signal to the computers here. Then we can come and help you."

At the time Zakuro had scoffed at the idea, but now that she was actually in trouble it didn't seem quite as stupid. If she could just get to her charm she would be okay, well at least she hoped so. Suddenly she pushed herself up and tried to reach the kitchen counter. Even though Zakuro was fast, the man was expecting this and managed to stop her. He shoved her against the counter.

Zakuro winced as her back dug into the hard edges. The charm was close to her, barely a foot away, but for Zakuro it was impossible to get. Zakuro slowly scooted closer to her right, closer to the charm. Maybe distracting the person would help. "Who are you?"

"None of your business." Was the instant reply. The man had a deep voice and it was full of authority. Obviously he wasn't to friendly, of all the people to attack her, it had to be someone who seemed like they had no weakness.

Trying a different tactic she began to make herself cry, while still scooting closer to the charm. Feeling like an idiot somewhat, she felt the tears come easily and convincingly. That seemed to make the man pause for a moment. It was apparent he wasn't good at being so tough around crying girls. Trying not to smile Zakuro took advantage of the moment and grabbed the charm.

Nothing happened. Zakuro began to panic, maybe there was a reason to why it wasn't working, there had to be. She tried to remember if Shirogane had said anything else about the subject, but he hadn't. Despair filled Zakuro and a tear, a real one this time, fell on the charm. Her eyes were so blurred that she didn't see that for a moment that the charm had glowed a strange light blue.

Everything at the cafe was quiet. The remaining people had their eyes glued to the TV screen as the movie reached it's thrilling climax. By now Moe and Miwa had gone home, so had all the boys. Identical shrieks came from all the girls when the window broke in the movie and the killer jumped inside. Shirogane walked to the basement shaking his head. Girls, he thought. Just as he was about to open the door Akasaka rushed out and almost collided into him.

"What's the rush?" Shirogane asked, sighing as he heard everyone scream again upstairs. Akasaka not wasting time got straight to the point, "Zakuro's charm went off, something's happened."

It took a second for the words to sink in but once they did, Shirogane's eyes became dangerous, you could practicly feel the anger rolling off of him. If someone had hurt her.... he didn't even want to think about it, but they would be sorry.

Zakuro had fought against him as much as she could, but every second that went by she just got hurt worse. Her arm was bleeding heavily from hitting into a vase and cutting herself. She had numerous bruises. Her ankle was swollen to about twice it's normal size. The worst of all was the broken rib. The loud crack had sent shivers down her spine, as if the pain wasn't enough it was getting very hard to breathe.

Even though she had a lot of injuries she had made sure that she wasn't the only one. The man also had a number of cuts and bruises on him, not to mention a few broken fingers. If she was going to suffer, so would he.....just not as bad.

She was slumped against the wall, her breathing was shallow and her vision was staring to get blurry. The man could see that she couldn't move and chuckled. Maybe I'll get to see Kenji soon, that thought was the only thing that cheered her up about dying. About never seeing Ayame, her fellow Mews, Shirogane and Akasaka again. If she died it meant no more singing,acting, or any of the other things she enjoyed doing.

With the last of her strength she reached up and grabbed the necklace, with trembling hands she unclasped the hook and held it completely in her hand. In her other hand was the Mew charm. Before she went unconcious she clutched the necklace tighter, then almost completely out of hope she welcomed the blackness. It would soon be her sweet relief from the pain. Then she blacked out.

Normal people who saw the ambulance rushing down the street wouldn't imagine that the famous movie star Fujiwara Zakuro was inside. Or that she was on the verge of death from being attacked in her own home. When the man had heard the ambulance come he had been enraged. He liked this girl, she had put up much more of a fight than the others and now his fun was ending. In a fit of anger he threw a nearby plate at the wall, it shattered loudly and one of the pieces cut Zakuro on the side of her head, the cut would take a long time to heal, if she even got the chance to heal.

Finally physco creeper is gone, thank goodness. Thanks for reading! Review or favorite it and I won't leave you hanging as long. ;)