Chapter 5
Warmth. A feeling of warmth agitated her body, which now felt fully rested. She didn't want to open her eye's but sleep for hours on end. And though her body was relaxed and she felt blissfully warm, a constant tick made her cringe. It was a boisterous and obnoxious noise, creeping into her ears. Finally she snapped her eyes open. It was eerily quiet, almost suspenseful. Then-
" MARISSA!"
" AHHHHHHHH!" Now all three of them were shrieking-Marissa who's heart had just stopped and the other two girls giddily in a union.
" What are you two trying to do? Make me go deaf?" Marissa glanced at both girls standing on each side of her bed. Their constant grinning made her uncomfortable.
" Guess What!" Angelica questioned, bouncing on her tip toes.
" What?"
" CHICKEN BUTT!" Marissa shook her head as Angelica broke into uncontrollable laughter.
" No really, really-" Angelica took a breath.
" Guess!" Crystal finished for her.
" Oh I know!"
" Yes, Yes?" Angelica impatiently repeated.
" You both are complete idiots." She said dryly. Ignoring the comment both girls shook there heads side to side.
" Introducing the latest addition to Melody Mew Mews; drum roll please!" Angelica started a drum roll as Crystal pointed at a wooden desk lined with un organized papers.
" MEW PAPAYA!" Both girls yelled in a fusion as Cassidy jumped out from behind the desk, striking a pose.
" Oh my goodness!" Marissa mouth gaped, " Seriously?"
" Yeah, why not?"
" I don't know! It's just amazing; I mean the fact that so far we all know each other!" Marissa pondered.
" Yeah, it is a bit weird. But hey I'm not complaining! I like it this way!" Angelica shrugged, the others looked uncertain. " Right you guys?. . .Hello?"
" What if one of us got hurt." Crystal crossed her arms. " It would effect the whole group."
" Oh, please! Have you seen those things we fight?" Angelica cocked her head. " It only takes a few hits to defeat them! They're not much of a challenge."
" But just think..."
" I swear Crystal you're such a mood killer!"
" Well we do have to at least consider it!" Crystal received another glare from Angelica.
" It's still not goanna happen, Crystal!"
" I never said it would, but it could!"
" La la la la la laaaaaa la!" Angelica placed her hands over her ears.
" Don't you La la me! Listen here blubber butt-"
" They just have to ruin a good mood." Interjected Cassidy, leaning against the bed.
" That's a shame." Marissa nodded her head and began to rub her throbbing temples.
Cassidy, trying to ignore the two girls bickering, gazed around the room. It was large, consisting of metallic and silver. Different sized computer screens were lined along the wall which was parallel to the stair case that led back down to the cafe. The monitors showed various places throughout Florida as well as other places around the world. One screen showed the view of a street lined with large buildings and clustering pedestrians; In the far off, behind the brooding yet always stylish buildings was the tip of the Eiffel tower. Another monitor was scouting another large and western city; Tokyo to be exact. There was also a space view of the earth and another screen with red dots scattered across a map of the united states. Test tubes and lab equipment were neatly placed on the high tables or next to the various sinks scattered against the walls. Cassidy scrunched her nose, vaguely aware that she had gotten used to the cold smell of the attic. She turned to Marissa who was struggling to stand.
" Need help?"
" No it's okay I'm fine!" Marissa flashed a brilliant smile, something she had a talent for doing. Marissa had the most prettiest smile. The corners of her eyes would crinkle, the tips of her cheeks would flare pink against her brown skin and she would tilt her head up.
" I see you girls have fully recovered." Ryou, entering the room, gave a small nod in Marissa's direction. Cassidy was just as stiff as the other girls but not in the least bit drooling over his good looks. " Who are you?"
Cassidy's eyes widened as her head rose up an inch. She found it incredibly hard to look into his eyes. She just pointed at herself dumbly as he nodded.
" Cassidy."
" She's a mew." Crystal interloped and felt her heart speed up when he moved his eyes toward her.
" I can see that." He walked closer. " Let me introduce myself again, I'm Shirogane Ryou."
Cassidy took his hand and felt her face flare; she thanked God when a brunet barged in.
" Well she's fine and I gave her the address to the cafe...oh hello!" Keiichiro smiled at the girls, who instantly warmed up. " I see that these are the others."
Ryou gave a curt nod and turned his attention back to his brunette assistant.
" Was she that ill?"
" No just a fever, it'll clear up today. Ah, why don't we start by telling these young ladies everything they're probably wanting to know."
" You go ahead, I have some business to attend to." Keiichiro gave a weak smile to the blonde, who exited out the room as quickly as he came in.
" Oh, I'm sorry." He gave a small smile to the cluster of girls; realizing they hadn't met before. " How rude of me! I'm Akasaka Keiichiro."
The girls glanced at each other. Angelica tapped her foot impatiently on the ground while Cassidy kept examining the room and its inhabitants. Keiichiro glanced at a small screen at the very corner of the room.
" It's another chimera anima." He mused, smiling back at the group of girls.
" Don't think you're getting rid of us that easily." Angelica frowned. " We're not leaving until we get some straight answers!"
" We should at least wait for your leader."
" And that would be?"
" Ms. Akdag."
" Who died and made her leader?" Crystal asked as Keiichiro rubbed the back of his head nervously. The other girls surprisingly agreed.
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" The oranges are rotting!" A middle aged brunette sighed holding up a moldy orange spotted with white patches.
" You did buy a whole box full."
" That's just all the more reason you two should eat a lot!"
" A person can only eat so many oranges." The brunette huffed and carried the half empty box into the garage. Saline turned back to the living room television screen and flipped through the channels. Finally she stopped and gave a small smile of content.
" Oh, who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!-"
" Aren't you to old for sponge bob?" Saline's mother sat next to her and rubbed her temples.
Saline started laughing uncontrollably. Her mother raised a thin eye brow and saline stopped.
" Oh, you're serious?" Saline asked, dumbfounded by the question. Her mother shook her head and stood back up, heading to her room. After a few minutes she came out and walked to the front door.
" I'm picking up Serena from school. I have a key so don't answer the door if it rings and if something happens just call me."
Saline blinked once and her mother rushed out the door. She resumed watching. Half an hour passed. An hour. Two hours. Something was wrong.
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" Can we hurry it up?" Cassidy shot over her shoulder at the other girls who were struggling to catch up with her. It appeared Cassidy had a knack for speed when it came to her mew form.
" What's the rush?" Angelica heaved as she pushed herself off another car; the driver spat some choice words at her.
" I have to get to the movies! I'm meeting Erin." Cassidy whined.
" What Cassidy means is . . . " Marissa smirked. " . . .We have to save the innocent people that are in danger of dieing."
" Oh, shut up." Cassidy muttered and continued to dash foreword. " Hey, where'd Crystal go?"
" She flew ahead."
" That's so unfair!" Angelica groaned.
" Hey! The signals coming from that preschool!"
" Oh snap, that's not good!" Marissa leered.
" Alright!" Cassidy pumped her fists." Lets attack!"
" There are children still in there, we can't!" Marissa tugged on Cassidy's shoulder who immediately pulled away.
" Oh, right. I didn't think of that." Cassidy backed away and stared hard at the small building.
" Alright I got it!" Angelica smirked huddling them all up. She whispered softly into the girls ears before they set off to action. Crystal flew off above the school and summoned her weapon. Placing the metallic tip to her lips she began to blow out a soft tune. Soon all the children filed out the building as if trying to fallow the music to its source. Marissa stood by the line of toddlers and teachers blasting stray chimera anima and playing her own melody to accompany Crystals. Angelica was currently inside attacking the malformed guinea pig, barely winning the fight.
The giant rodent snapped it's jagged, yellow stained teeth and fell head first into a shelf. It pawed it's head distortedly before jumping onto it's hind legs and shooting sharp daggers from its front paws. Angelica back flipped over a desk and pushed it down to act as a shield against the spikes before kicking it straight toward the animals face. The chimera anima swiped it away with one paw and snarled fiercely before ripping out the front door from it's hinges and hurdling it to her. Angelica jumped to the right to avoid it but it smacked against her leg, flipping her through the air and crashing her head through a doll house. It hopped beside her, swiping its long nails against her rib cage and sending her rolling across the floor. She kicked herself off the wall and onto the office counter before lifting her harp above her head and bringing it down to her chest fast.
A beam shot out toward the monstrous guinea pig who flew back and through the wall into another room. Angelica smirked and burst through the giant hole to assail the beast. It reared its head and charged in her direction. She quickly jumped to the side as it flew into the wall, resulting in another hole. She shouted her attack once more, knocking out the chimera anima though not un-mutating it. She quickly prepared to finish the job.
" SKITTLES . . . ." Angelica held the harp above her head, concentrating on the power it began to form. A large array of colors spun wildly before being transfixed into an orb. " . . .LI-UHG!"
Angelica's sight shifted from the unconscious chimera anima to the cold, blue tile. A strong, piercing gust of wind had sent her into the air and then back down, face foreword, onto the floor. Angelica groaned as she tried to stand but let herself sink to her knees when she saw large slices that had barely dug into her skin on the side of her top. She lifted her head expecting to see the smirking, playful face of Kisshu but instead came face to face with a rather stoic, callous one. The boy floating inches off the ground was definitely not Kisshu but rather someone older. He still had the dominant feature of long elfish ears and unnaturally pale skin but his hair was a nice, bold shade of purple which was let loose except for a small clump enclosed by a dark green ribbon. His outfit was also different with a sleeveless purple shirt that's collar was slightly covering his throat and long purple pants with ribbons flailing behind him.
His dark colored eyes flashed over to her. Angelica slightly trembled as her red wolf ears drooped. The heat rose to her face. She quickly pushed herself to stand, not wanting to appear weak. He raised a large red fan in defense as Angelica mentally groaned. She was not going to put up a fight with this guy and his super wind powers. Angelica glanced at her ripped up outfit, the older alien noticed this and smirked maliciously at her. Angelica tried her best to glare frighteningly at the male but it wasn't working quite as well as she'd hoped
" What is wrong with you?" Angelica hissed, sassily placing both hands on her hips. He raised a delicate eyebrow in amusement. " You can't just bust in and flip a person straight on their face!"
" . . .It isn't my liability that you can not keep your ground."
" Listen here dip-wad, don't start picking a fight with someone you can't handle!"
" I do not." He dismissed the insult as if it were a feeble comment. " That is the purpose of my being here."
" Oh? It is ON, cracker jack!" Angelica aimlessly flailed a pointed finger at the alien who moved his arm gracefully from his chest to his side while floating a few inches backwards and letting out a powerful gust of wind. Angelica threw her arms and weapon in front of her to create a periwinkle force field though it was pushed backwards by the gust. She felt her hair swivel around her as she shut her eyes. Pai swooped forewords knocking her off her feet with a single punch and then ripping her puffy shorts with the side of his fan. Angelica rolled onto her feet in an attempt to fight back but was pushed into a pile of stuffed animals, much to her relief. Being pushed into hard, sold surfaces had began to pain her body the first few times. She hopped back up and rippled a sound wave through the air with the stroke of her harp. Pai easily blocked it and raised his arm to attack once again.
" Good bye little mew mew." A forceful blast of air sent her through the window, sliding across the mulch of the playground and into a wooden bench. This time Angelica made no move to stand; she had exceeded her limit.
" What the hell dude?" Cassidy rammed her fist into Pai's chest before jumping back onto her feet and summoning her guitar. " Hey, Angelica, you okay?"
Angelica let out a muffled groan in response.
" What?" Cassidy leaned foreword. Angelica raised her head and spat out a mouth full of mulch and weeds. Her face was adorned by black bruises, cuts and dirt with white debris sprinkled into her periwinkle hair.
" . . . just dandy." Angelica mumbled before letting her head fall back down onto the ground.
" Alrighty then . . ." Cassidy turned around to be kicked onto the seat of a yellow swing. She fell off the seat, onto her back.
" You should not turn your back on the enemy." Pai stated flatly, as Cassidy untangled her legs from the chains. She stood up and strummed the strings of her guitar hitting Pai and sending him flying higher into the sky with a grunt.
" What ever you do don't mess up his face!" Angelica warned, now deciding was a time as good as any to get back on her feet to fight.
" Why?" Cassidy inquired. Preparing to attack as Pai tried to regain his balance.
" He's cute!" Angelica whined as Cassidy gawked at her. Smacking her face with the palm of her hand, Cassidy turned her attention back to the alien who had disappeared.
" Where'd he go?" Cassidy screamed, frantically spinning around. Pai reappeared before her. Cassidy lifted her weapon only to have it ripped out of her hands and thrown off to one side.
' A-pft-uh-ack-uh . . .dude?" Cassidy dumbly gaped at her guitar lying a few meters away. Marissa landed behind the alien as Crystal floated above him. Angelica sat Indian style a few feet away simply oblivious to the fact that the plan was to trap him.
" Oh, so we're trapping the hot-erm, I mean creepy alien." Angelica wobbled over to them and sat down.
" Where is Kisshu and who the heck are you?" Crystal demanded.
" How many of you are there?" Cassidy stipulated, ready to jump on him any moment.
" I am not disposed to answer any of your questions." He said in monotone then broke out into a smirk, " Though as for Kisshu, you should really be with your fellow mew right about now."
A ripple flew out in a circular formation as he disappeared. The mew mews jumped at where he was standing but ended up bonking each other on the heads and then landing in a heap on the ground. Angelica was the first to turn back into normal and rolled onto her side limply. Crystal crossed her arms and turned her head away from Angelica.
" Honestly, you tire out so easily." Crystal remarked. Marissa looked at the mutilated building, adorned with several holes.
" It does look like she got hit. . . .a lot." Marissa frowned and sat next to Angelica who laid in a daze." We should get to Saline, you heard what the guy said."
" Relax, Kisshu wont hurt her." Crystal said. Marissa shot her a look reminding her of what state the leader was in and who had caused it. "Okay, okay . . .he won't kill her. Happy?"
" Who the hell is Kisshu? I keep hearing his name!" Cassidy plopped down beside the other two girls.
" Another alien."
" Seriously? Wait so in addition to those mutant things there are aliens?" Cassidy asked to earn a slight nod from Crystal. " Oh, well I definitely can't wait to meet him. He has to be a bundle of joy."
" Ugly too."
" He's not ugly. Crystals just mad because he hurt Saline." Marissa giggled.
Angelica breathed in and let out a deep, wavering sigh. She smiled goofily and rose to a sitting condition.
"What's wrong with you? I'm pretty sure it's not because you got the crap beat out of you." Crystal stared intensely at the swooning girl.
" I think I'm in love." Angelica whispered as the others fell onto their backs with a groan.
A/N: Wow. I sure took my sweet little time on this one and hey! Looky-looky! It's eight pages! The shortest chapter yet! THIS CALLS FOR A CELEBRATION!
Edit: Yeah, so I fixed it up. Took out some unnecessary dialogue as well. Now it's six pages. . .never actually realized how long these things were and how many random things I added for no good reason.
Title inspired by David Guetta's song If We Ever.