Chapter 4
She let out an ear piercing scream and began to sob uncontrollably. A little head popped in , then disappeared starting to yell.
" Mommy, mommy! Big sister's crying!" Loud footsteps ran in a haste toward the sobbing girls room, dashing inside.
" Saline, what happened? Are you ok?" Saline's mother asked, hugging her. Saline pulled away slowly and wiped her face with the sleeves of her pajamas. Nodding, she hiccupped .
" What happened are you hurt? Should I take you to the hospital?" Her mother panicked, rubbing her daughters back who claimed it was a nightmare.
" I made soup! Are you hungry? Maybe it'll help you feel better?" Abby asked, ignoring Saline's shrug, and scurried out the door.
Saline twitched, pain throbbed through her entire body accompanied by a surge of power she had never felt before. Clutching her sides a migraine started to develop as she softly sobbed. The pain was unbearable and absolutely brutal. And the power. The amazing yet painful surging of power. The power increased the pain, pressuring her yet it was as if she was rising out of her own body. She moaned loudly in twinge as her cheeks turned pink and sweat rolled down her forehead. She bit her lip as the pain boiled up inside and she screamed again. She saw a flash of black and then fluttered her eyes open to see her mother sitting down with two men at her side.
One put a hand on her cheek as the other took out a needle. Her mother, eyes puffy, walked out of the room muttering something about water.
" What's goi-" The blonde one, who looked like just a teenage boy, silenced her by placing a finger on her lips.
" Shhhh. don't waste your energy." He said, though held no emotion to his words until she nodded. Her expression turned painful at the movement, and a look of concern hit his face.
" Miss Akdag, you have a very high fever, and your mother said you're experiencing pains." The brunet interjected. " There's nothing to worry about, it's only because of your mew mew powers. they kicked in when your friends got severely injured."
Saline rose, ignoring the pain; her eyes grew wide the two.
" You really shouldn't-"
" How do you know about me being a mew mew?" Saline's voice rose. A fainting spell hit her and she slumped off the edge of her bed. The blonde caught her.
" You're too troublesome." He muttered, placing her back on her bed. " I'll be at the café, you've got everything under control."
" Don't worry miss Akdag, we're taking care of your friends right now. Please trust me." The brunette, after bidding his partner goodbye, pleaded as Saline nodded feebly.
" Who...are you?" Saline let out as he smiled warmly at her.
" Akasaka Keiichiro." And with that she fell asleep.
After a few hours she awoke once more, sweat rolling down her face. She glanced around, her sight a blur.
" Are you feeling better?"
" ...No." saline replied dimly, her throat burning.
" I know it hurts, but it'll go away by tonight." Keiichiro took a needle once more. " I promise."
Saline closed her eyes, hearing the door open. She felt the needle pierce into her skin injecting a foreign substance into her. It hurt, adding more to the boiling pain, and she whimpered.
" Is she all right?" It was her father, she felt a large warm hand caress her cheek. " Do we need to take her to the hospital?"
His voice was concerned, almost panicked and Saline felt his heart beating fast.
" No, she's in immense pain though it should go away tonight." Saline's parents sighed in relief.
" She shouldn't go to school for at least two more days, she might be stressed and the pain might come back." Keiichiro calmly continued.
" What should we do in that time?" Her mother asked.
" Give her this medicine, give her lots of water and let her sleep." Keiichiro packed up his things , then turned to face the two parents. Saline's father, Eddy, took out his wallet. Keiichiro shook his hand to stop him.
" No, no. There's no need for that! This rarely happens so it's quite alright!" Kiichiro smiled at the two before heading out the door. Saline's parents fallowed.
"Excuse me, I forgot my bag!" Keiichiro went back into Saline's room. Before making sure her parants weren't around, Keiichiro placed a pink card on Saline's desk.
" If you want answers visit Cafe Mew Mew." He then walked out the door. Saline made a mental note of that and went back to thinking about the most puzzling thing ever, the thing that was so confusing it made her head hurt just thinking about it. Kisshu.
XXX
" Angelica, it's time to wake up now."
Angelica opened her eyes slightly, body burning with every breath she inhaled. The figure in front of her remained a blur.
" Come on sweetie, wake up."
The body focused into view; an elderly woman with outstretched hands smiled at her. Angelica gasped, though pain panged through her lungs, and weakly parted her lips into a smile.
" Grand...mother." Angelica croaked, the woman nodded.
" Come my dear Angelica." Angelica slowly reached out, trying to grasp the woman's hand who was fading away.
" No...Grand mother...come back." A tear slipped down her cheek as she reached further.
" I have to go now Angelica. . ."
" No, please don't!" She pleaded, more tears piling along her eyes.
" Good-bye, Angelica." Angelica whimpered at those words; both her arms were trying to grasp what was not in front of her. Angelica turned her head, the warm room her grand mother was in was now gone and the sweet smell of cookies had turned into nothing but a musty odor. Her body would not respond, she couldn't move anything. She moaned, and a familiar voice rang out.
" Finally you're awake."
"Crystal?" Angelica questioned.
" No freaking way, Angelica." Crystal mocked, clearing her throat.
" Where are we?"
" If I knew I think I would have told you by now." Crystal retorted, angelica scowled.
" Angelica?"
" Hm?"
" Good job."
" What?"
" Even though I can't move and Marissa is still unconscious, you did good." Crystal said, smiling as wide as her hurting face would let her.
" No, it was really you, I just remembered what you said." Angelica meekly replied.
" Yah I know, my humble personality and good looks really help my words stick!" She weakly laughed. ". . .I was just joking. . .Well, fine."
Angelica laughed in pain and attempted to stand again though fell back into the bed. Both girls turned their heads when the door creaked. A foot stepped inside fallowed by a body and a head. Both girls felt heat rise to their face and hearts speed up.
" I see you two are awake."
Both girls stared, mouths open, cheeks red.
" I'm Shirogane, Ryou."
They kept staring. Ryou's face held confusion and he arched an eye brow.
" Er I'm, um I'm..." Crystal blubbered.
" I er mmm am uh..." Angelica added to the others rambling. Silenced settled as Ryou stared at both of them.
" I'm Angelica."
" I'm Crystal."
Ryou smiled and headed towards his computer. Angelica pinched Crystal.
" Ow!"
" Back ooooffff!" Angelica sang the last word, keeping her smile on. Crystal pinched her back.
" No chaaannnncceee!" Crystal retorted in her own sing-song voice. They both kept hitting each other and abruptly stopped when Ryou turned to face them once more.
" I'm surprised you two haven't asked why you're here and who I am." Angelica and Crystals eye's widened and they turned to each other.
" You're not bad are you?" Angelica asked, eyes wide. " Did you ra-"
" Don't even go there." Crystal stopped Angelica's words by placing a hand over her mouth. Angelica, narrowing her eyes, slapped the others hand away. Both girls groaned at the contact.
" I didn't harm any of you." Ryou apathetically let out." Let me start again, I'm Shirogane, Ryou. Maker of the mew project."
" So you mean, you're the one who made us like this?" Ryou nodded at Crystals question. Angelica clutched her blanket.
" You're the one who did this, the one who made our lives so complicated!" Crystal raised her voice, Ryou nodded again and turned around to face his computer. Angelica smacked Crystal on the arm.
" Don't yell at him! Can't you see he's hot?" Crystal blankly stared at Angelica's scorning.
" Why did you do it?" Angelica asked, turning serious all of a sudden. Crystals jaw dropped.
" To save the world." Ryou swiveled his chair around to face them. " Those animals, or Chimera anima's don't just pop out of thin air, there's a source."
" Aliens." Crystal spoke as Ryou nodded his head with a smirk.
" You girls were chosen by whether or not you're DNA could be altered with that of a red data animal."
" Were infused with endangered animals." Angelica stated, interrupting Ryou.
" With that Red Data you have the power stand up against the aliens, to stop them from taking over earth." Angelica looked skeptically at him when he finished .
" Look dude, I'm sorry but this just sounds like a messed up Sci Fi movie." Angelica retorted. Blatantly ignoring her, Ryou walked towards the door.
" You two should rest, your injury's haven't recovered yet." He walked out, leaving the girls in the dark.
XXX
" YO HO HO!" Saline glanced side ways to see a brunette bursting through the door. Dropping a green folder stuffed with a large stack of paper on the desk, she pulled up a chair and sat next to Saline. Crossing her legs she turned to watch the playing music video on the television screen.
" Nothing cheers you up like a hot guy that can SIINNNNGGG!" Saline smiled at her friends poor attempts at opera.
" You missed out on soooo much but I, Cassidy McMullan, have taken it upon my self to help you and I heard that I have two days! Am I correct?" Cassidy asked, getting a weak nod from Saline. " First of all Emily and Ryan broke up, AGAIN! Those two are really getting on my nerves...Oh! Before I forget!"
Cassidy stood up, pulling her shirt a little above her belly button. Saline's eyes widened, her mind raced as she forced her head to turn despite the abhorrent pain. Above Cassidy's belly button was a small, green tattoo. Similar to Saline's and the others.
" Isn't it weird? I hope my parents don't see it. . ." Cassidy shrugged. " Oh well. . ."
" Cassidy!" Saline yelled, pain casing her bones. Startled, the hazel eyed brunnette turned to her.
" Go to the..." Pausing, she tried to decipher where the others where, " . . . The plaza!"
Cassidy raised an eye brow.
" Whyyyyyyyyy?" Cassidy asked as Saline shook her head. "
" Please Cassidy, Crystal and Angelica need you." Her expression was that of a hopeful one and yet doubted that Cassidy would listen. Cassidy rose out of the chair slowly, put it back to it's original spot and walked towards the door. She cracked the door open.
" Sure Saline." Cassidy nodded then turned away. " I'll go on my way home, definitely."
Cassidy shut the door behind her.
" She's not going." Saline muttered, shaking her head and flickered her attention towards the television.
Walking towards her sub-division, Cassidy stopped in an odd fashion and sighed. It wouldn't hurt to go, right? Pffff, wrong. But what if something was going on with the others? Turning her heel she took her chances and made way for the plaza. She mentally questioned her actions, not paying attention to her surroundings. Hence, she fell.
Muttering colorful curse words, Cassidy pushed herself onto her knee's and turned to look behind her. Nothing, not even one tiny crack. Leave it up to a dope like Cassidy to trip over nothing. She shook off her stupidity, well at least she tried; if it was even possible.
Cassidy's eyes widened, the ground beneath her shook numerous times before coming to a rest. In the distance she heard screams, each in perfect audio to her disbelief and fascination. Getting up, she ran towards the plaza which was exactly three miles away. Lucky her. Really. Everything went by in a flash and in half the time she was only meters from her destination, it only took 15 minutes.
'Well I'm here...' she thought pathetically, coming to see nothing happening.
"...bitch." Cassidy mumbled, groaning over the fact Saline made her run all this way. Her eyes rolled at her own stupidity. Why would Crystal, Marissa and Angelica need her help? She was beginning to feel more idiotic than she already thought she was. She turned around. Her face whipped to meet another's, a mutant of some sort, crossed between a cricket and human. Perfectly normal. Wait a sec. . .
"..oh..shi-" A flash of blue pulled Cassidy away from the hostile cricket. Cassidy eyes bulged and she looked up to a girl with wings.
" Crystal?" It was hard to tell, since her skin was paler than the original tan, her eyes and hair were pale blue and she appeared a few years older. Crystal herself looked shocked.
" Errrr, I have no idea what you..." Crystal began. "...Uh, yeah it's me. Just run away."
" Feel free to scream too!" Angelica added landing next to them and then gracefully hoped away. Cassidy grabbed Crystals shoulder and attempted to speak.
" No time; just run!" Crystal dashed to accompany Angelica. Cassidy stood, thinking back to find a reason why she was so frightened in the first place... and she couldn't find one. Breaking a large, yet puny branch from a nearby tree she ran towards the creature. She mashed the stick into the Crickets body, or at least tried to. After five seconds of standing there like an idiot, the cricket glanced over at Cassidy. Pushing the other mews into the stores walls, it turned to Cassidy.
" Okay. . . I'm screwed." Cassidy whimpered, backing up into a red convertible. She gulped. The creature lifted a claw to her face; it glowed an eerie green. Cassidy started screaming. The creature threw a cluster of baby crickets. Squealing, she began shaking about trying to get them off. To make matters worse something hard shot against her temple. Looking down she saw a small pendant glowing next to her hand. Instinctively, she grasped it.
" MEW MEW PAPAYA METAMORPHO-SIS!"
A radiant green threw off all of the crickets. Jumping out of the flash, Cassidy stood in a daze. Her light brown locks were a vibrant green along with her lime green eyes. Her shorts stopped above her knees, boots slightly below, and her tank top, with straps that connected around her choker, exposed her belly. She had on wrist bands and a pattern of black, yellow and white on her doggy ears and tail.
" For hurting these innocent people, I'll kick your ass!~Wana!" Cassidy cried out, earning a few looks from the other mews. Cassidy leaped towards the Chimera. Dancing en pointe, she twirled, ramming her legs into the cricket. Doing a back flip the chimera quickly got back up on it's feet and threw a ball of crickets in Cassidy's direction. She crouched, legs in that of a frogs and arms parallel to each other extended foreword, the crickets flew over her head. From her position she leaped, appearing ballon. The Chimera ran head first towards her; she moved into a Pas de Chat. She punched the Chimera, twirling on one foot. The Chimera was knocked onto the ground, glaring ferociously at Cassidy. She spun in place and then leaped into the air with her arm lifted above her head and in a lavish of green, a lime colored guitar gently hovered into her arms. Crystal jumped to Cassidy's left and Angelica to her right with their summoned weapons.
" Since our lead singer can't make the show, I'll be filling in!" The crowd, now surrounding them, cheered. Head phones appeared in a sparkle and lit up in a rainbow on her head.
" Mew Mew Melody! It's show time!" They cried out. The sound started off in an even play. Not to fast and not to slow. " There you go again, thinking everything come's so easy. There you go again, saying what you know will hurt me."
The sound now tore through the audience, as Cassidy began to strum her electric guitar harder.
" I still remember when , when you used to hold my hands and whispered to me softly that there was no one else you cherished more than me." Cassidy sang, her voice slightly rising. " I guess it was just me."
and how I used to think it wasn't just a lie.
The cheering became more persistent, the cricket anima twitched, clutching it's head and crouching. With no alien to control it, it's powers diminished.
" I'll go and break all these chains, those memories aren't worth a thing. I hate you so much and yet. . ." The chimera combusted into sparks. ". . .I still remember when."
" You were sooooo good!" Angelica exclaimed hugging Cassidy.
" Not really..." Cassidy blushed.
" Well except for the fact that the cricket population is up by 25 percent, I think we did good!" Crystal nodded.
" We better get out of here." Crystal turned to leap away with Cassidy behind. Angelica glanced back to the crowd, then ran after them pointing a finger aimlessly to the sky shouting,
" TO THE BAT CAVE!"
A/N: Yurp, edited once more, and yet again I managed to get his chapter down to seven pages. *sigh*
Title inspired by Passion Pits song Sleepy Head.