Chapter 9: In the Evening
(Back in Chapter Eight…)
"You're Emerald Knight…?" Pudding asked with awe.
"Uhh…" Ed had to stop and think about it for a moment, "… Maybe? What's an Emerald Knight?" he then noticed who was asking him the question; he'd recognized her, "… Kikki?!"
"Huh?!" questioned both Nazz and Sarah.
Pudding made a surprised face, "How did you--?!"
"You remind me of banana pudding, and so does Kikki; so you two must be the same!" Ed concluded.
Pudding made a sigh as she then magically transforms back into her regular clothing, "I guess some people can figure it out, eh?"
Nazz and Sarah, on the other hand, were now both confused beyond all reason at what was going on. Little did they know that something inside them was going to make a mark on them… literally.
(And now, onto Chapter Nine…)
Meanwhile, back in the nurse's office, we can see Eddy, Double D, Ichigo, Bridget and Renée; all of them were around the now sleeping Corina, most of them with worry on their face. One of the main worriers of the crowd was Eddy. He kept wondering what made her faint like that so suddenly.
Everyone soon heard a soft groan as Corina started to come to her senses, "What…?"
"Are you okay?" Ichigo, Bridget and Renée all asked Corina.
"Y-Yes, I think I am…" Corina replied as she propped herself up on the couch that she was lying on. Her eyes soon gazed at Eddy as she noticed something startling about him.
Eddy noticed Corina staring at him as he started to blush a little, "I-Is something wrong?" he asked with a bit of a stutter.
"Y-Your eyes…" she started to say as she came up closer to Eddy's face to examine his eyes, she got up a little to examine him; this made Eddy blush even more as he also step back a little in surprise, "Your eyes are the same hue as Topaz's eyes."
Ichigo, Bridget and Renée all made surprised faces as they widened their eyes in surprise. Meanwhile, Double D was a bit confused at her statement while Eddy was, of course, already beyond confused at what she was talking about.
Corina made a sad sigh when she saw the clueless look on Eddy's face, 'I guess it's just a coincidence…'
Eddy noticed the sad face that she made, 'What's wrong with her?' he thought with a bit of a worried face.
Ring! The bells out in the hallway started to ring, "Oh dear, it seems we've missed lunch," Double D stated after the bell, "That's not good at all…"
"… Hey, I have an idea!" Ichigo started to say as everyone turned to her to see what she had to say, "Why don't you come visit us this evening?" the two Ed's seemed to freeze up at the statement; Eddy was the one with the most shocked face. Bridget also looked a bit shocked, "We'll fix you guys something up to eat in a jiffy; if you're still hungry at the time."
"… Of course," Double D said, much to the surprise of Eddy, "We'll see what we can do to come."
"Great!" Ichigo cheered with a slight sly smirk towards Bridget, "We'll see you all this evening then!"
"… We better get back to class," Renée stated, "Or else we'll be tardy from lunch."
"Oh, you're right!" Bridget agreed with a slight gasp.
The six of them soon rushed back to their class, hoping not to be tardy…
(About Three Hours after School Later…)
It was now six o'clock here in the little community of the Cul-De-Sac. We see three figures walking down the Lane. The three figures were, in fact, the Ed's; dressed in what they wore to school; seeing that this event coming was no big deal. They were heading towards where Ichigo invited them; her and her four friend's house. Naturally, since Corina was going to be there, Eddy was very nervous and a little edgy about going.
"Please Eddy, stop being so anxious about this," Double D stated, trying to calm Eddy down a bit, "You know as well as I do that this is not a--"
"But what if it is a date?!" Eddy retorted back to Double D. Apparently, the last 'date' he had was still fresh on his mind. It had scarred him a little bit since it happened with Nazz a long while ago; even though it was actually a babysitting job for Nazz.
"… I'm pretty sure it's not going to be a date, Eddy," Double D tried to explain, "Even if it is one, I'm very positive that it will not go like the one you've experienced in the past."
"…"
"Hey, I think we're here!" Ed stated, interrupting the silence of the group, as they all then look ahead to see only one house with their lights on. The three of them soon came up to the door as Double D then knocked on the door.
A few seconds later, the door was answered by Kikki, "Hiya!" she greeted as she gestured the three Ed's inside.
The three Ed's obliged to her request as the three of them entered the newest house of the Lemon Streams Estates. It looked a lot like every other house in the Cul-De-Sac. Because of this, the three Ed's knew where the living room was located, so they sat down on a couch that was there in the living room.
"So, this is their house?" Ed questioned as the two other Ed's looked at him, confused at the sudden burst of smartness, "Looks nice."
"… Ed?" Double D started to ask him, "Are you feeling alright today?"
"Hmm…" Ed thought about it for a moment, "Yeah, I'm feeling good; why?"
"You're not talking dumb like usual," Eddy replied, "What's with ya?"
"I don't know," Ed stated back to him and Double D, "I think something fixed my brain for me."
Double D arched an eyebrow to him, "What do you mean by that?" he soon asked Ed.
But before he could answer Double D's question, Kikki came back into the room, "Hey, you three can come eat now!" she said with a chirp.
The three Ed's all made smiles on their faces; finally, something to eat! The three of them soon followed Kikki into the kitchen. There, they saw a long table for at least twelve people to sit at. They also saw the four other girls sitting down at the table. There were also three other people there; three teenage boys.
(Insert descriptions of Elliot, Wesley and Mark here… because I'm too lazy to type it at the moment… 8D)
"Ah, so you are the three that the girls keep talking about," stated the long, brown haired teen with a polite smile, "My name is Wesley."
"The name's Elliot," said the blond haired teen with a slightly suspicious eye towards the Ed's.
"And I'm Mark," said the navy blue haired teen, 'So… they've found three of them…' he then thought.
"Okay, that's enough of the introductions for now," Ichigo started to say as everyone turned to her, "Let's eat!"
Soon everyone sat down in their desired seat as they then started to eat. They ate almost everything on the table within thirty minutes. After they (AN: Or mostly Double D) helped clean the dishes, the three Ed's left as they waved and said their goodbyes to the five girls.
"Well, that was not so bad, now was it?" Double D asked the two other Ed's as they started to trail back to the Lane to walk back to their neighborhood.
"Nope," Ed stated with a shake of his head, "Not bad at all."
The two other Ed's soon turned towards Eddy, who had a huge, warm grin on his face. Apparently, they did not need to even ask him about how he was feeling.
Unknown to the three of them, there was someone watching them from afar; a red haired boy, 'Good, more subjects to steal energy from for Master Falion's plans…'
Meanwhile, back with the five girls, they were all preparing for a night of sleep… that is, until they all heard three pairs of screams coming from the Lane. It was loud enough to where they were it in their room. They all gasped as they met in the living room. They soon concluded that the three screams belonged to the Ed's. Without another thought about it, the five girls rushed out of the house and ran towards the Lane as fast as they could.
They knew that the Ed's were in danger.
Before they all got to the scene, they transformed into their Mew forms. And when they got there, they all gasped at the site from shock. There, standing in front of them, was a huge, three-tailed fox that was white in color. It had the Ed's individually in one of its three tails. It was sucking the energy from them as they scream in pain of what was going on.
It was while he was in pain that Eddy noticed the girls below; he was tearing up in the eyes from the pain. He then closed them tightly as he let the pain take him over. That look of pain in his eyes snapped something inside Mew Mint; it looked as if she was watching Topaz suffer.
She produced her Mint Arrow in her hand and points it at the three-tailed monster, "Reborn…" Mint pulls back the arrow in her crossbow as the tip of the arrow starts to glow a bright blue, "Mint Echo!" she shouted as she then let's go of the arrow; it hits the tail that constricted Eddy. The three-tailed fox howls in pain as it let's go of Eddy. Mint gasped as she then chased towards where he would land. She jumped up into the air and caught the smallest Ed as she then lands back onto the ground in a graceful form. This was also the same situation for Double D and Ed, who were rescued from their constricted prisons by Mew Lettuce and Mew Pudding.
The three Mews soon laid the Ed's on the ground and turned back to Mew Ichigo, "Defeat this thing now!" Mint called out.
"Right!" Mew Ichigo replied as she took out her Strawberry Bell and faced the bell towards the three-tailed monster, "Reborn…" she started to say as the Strawberry Bell started to glow a pink light in her hands, "Strawberry Check!" she shouted as a beam of bright, pink light spewed out from the bell and pierced through the fox monster, making it evaporate into nothing. As usual, the stolen energy trailed away from the scene, heading back to whoever summoned the monster.
The five girls soon turned their attention back to the three Ed's, who were all well passed out at the moment. Mew Mint, Lettuce and Pudding all made slightly worried faces.
"… Do you three want to wait here till they come around?" Mew Zakuro asked the worried Mews.
"… T-That'll be fine," Lettuce replied with a bit of a stutter as you could see them change back into their usual clothes.
"Alright, we'll see you three whenever you come back home, kay?" Ichigo stated with a little wink for 'good luck' as she and Renée soon trailed back to their house.
Corina, Bridget and Kikki soon glanced back to Eddy, Double D and Ed. Only one of them seemed to be coming too from passing out; Eddy.
"Oh…" Eddy groaned, "What the heck…?" he muttered before he realized that Corina, of all people, was beside him. He blushed madly at her sudden appearance, "Corina?"
"Are you feeling alright?" Corina asked him, "We all heard you three screaming… and found you all like this."
"Y-Yeah… I-I think so…" Eddy replied, trying to hide his blushing from her.
Soon we come to Bridget and Double D, where we see Bridget looking down at Double D; she had a sad look in her eyes. She also had a blush on her face. Bridget soon made a relieved face; Double D's eyes started to twitch, meaning that he was about to wake up.
"Hmm…" Double D muttered as he opened his eyes, only to see Bridget in front of his face. His green eyes widened like saucers as he blushed a bit of a rose in his cheeks; he had never had a girl so close to his face before like this, "B-Bridget?" he stuttered with a bit of a surprised gasp, "W-What are you doing here?"
"W-We found you all lying here, a-after we heard you screaming out here," Bridget replied with more stuttering; as much as Double D was.
Meanwhile, back with Kikki and Ed, Ed was starting to come to, much to Kikki's relief, "You feeling okay?" she asked.
"Yeah, I think I'm fine," Ed said with a smile.
Soon all three Ed's were up and at it within two minutes, "Thank you for caring for us when we were knocked out," Double D stated with a warm smile, slightly towards Bridget.
"… I-It's no problem," Bridget muttered as she, Corina and Kikki soon trailed back to their house. Soon the Ed's did the same…