Melody Mew Mew's
Chapter 6
The Golden Opportunity; Our Trembling Breaks.

Saline ran down the street , skidded around the corner and darted up into an empty parking lot. She gasped for air while heaving her shoulders up and down. Glancing behind her for a single moment, she began to run again, her legs going like windmills. She skidded to a stop before entering one of Florida's many forested areas and ducked behind a tree. She fell onto her butt, her face burning feverishly and bringing back the memories of the unpleasant sickness she had just gotten over.
Her heart was about to burst inside her chest and her legs burned from all the running. After she was certain that she was safe she let out a sigh of relief and tilted her head back. Instead of feeling the warm sun on her face, a pair of lips crashed down on hers and she let out a stifled scream.

" Now, now Kitten-" Kisshu cooed. " -you're going to have to run a bit faster than that."

Saline crawled away, her Atreyu band shirt covered in moss and grass stains. Her khaki shorts were also dirt covered. She stood up, cursing herself for loosing her pendant and glared at him. He floated closer as she kept stepping back.

" Aw. Did I scare my little kitty?" Kisshu smirked maliciously.

" Hell no!" Saline growled, her feline genes getting the best of her. She stepped foreword as her tail slipped out of her shorts and began swaying to and fro fiercely.

" It's not wise to curse at someone who loves you so much." He tsked at her.

" Shut up!" She yowled. " You just never seem to keep that damn mouth of yours shut!"

" Don't be mad at me that your boy friend didn't come to you in your 'time of need' ." Kisshu grinned toothily at her, clearly amused to see her getting even more steamed.

" Well he wouldn't have to visit me if you hadn't have dropped me!"

" I thought you wanted me to obey your wishes-you did tell me to let you go after all."

" Now you're obeying my wishes? I thought it was just tough love." She said sarcastically. Kisshu pinned her to a tree.

" You'll learn to like me." Kisshu sneered with a sadistic grin. His hands squeezed hard around her wrists. Salines anger got the best of her.

" Ha!" She mockingly gave out a harsh laugh. " I don't like you and I never will, not even if hell freezes over!"

Kisshu threw her to the ground. He was now glaring coldly at her.

" If that's how you feel kitten, then there's no point in keeping you alive now is there?"

Saline automatically regretted those very words and not only because it pissed Kisshu off enough to make him want to kill her, but because something had hit the pit of her chest like a heavy, rough rock. She immediately jumped up onto her feet and backed up. Kisshu summoned a pair of swords and swung them dangerously in the air in front of him. She backed up even more, feeling her heart speed up with anxiety. Not only did she not have her pendant, but her fellow mews were no where in sight; neither was Masha.
Kisshu flew head first into her. She flipped over him with ease but he grabbed her ankle and ripped her through the air like a rocket. She flew past various bushes before painfully landing on her face. Rising to her feet she did the only thing she could do; She ran like hell into the city.

" Well, what should we do now?" Crystal asked lazily staring at the cloud formations in the sky. She had seen approximately: three horses, five elephants, four cats, two bananas and a hobo. Her head was granting her a massive migraine.

" Well-" Marissa started. " Angelica's gone off into her own little world and Cassidy is probably at the theaters throwing popcorn at the people sitting a few rows below her."

" So?-" Crystal asked expectantly.

" So-my guess is that we just lye here until we get some feeling in our limbs again."

" We have volley ball practice tomorrow, but I hurt too much."

" Amen to that." Marissa sighed.

" What about Saline?" Crystal glanced over lazily at Marissa.

" She's a big girl, she can handle herself!" Marissa groaned. " Besides what's the worst that could happen?"

Just at that moment Saline let out an ear splitting scream as she dodged over and in between cars, as well as Kisshu's swords of fury.

" Yeah, I mean, She's probably at home watching Sponge bob or something" Crystal agreed.

" Mhm . . . so she's the leader." Marissa inquired.

" Why does she have to be the leader?" Asked Crystal, making the other two girls heads turn. " I don't want to take orders from someone!"

" I don't either but Saline is leader material." Angelica countered. " And besides, she wont go all power crazy."

" Or will she?" Marissa's eyes darted from side to side before she laughed." Joking!"

" I never said anything before, but-" Crystal leaned foreword using the last bit of what ever strength she had left. " Ever since she started going out with Dustine and everybody's been acting like her friend, she acts like she's better than us."

" She seems the same to me." Angelica said, eye brows furrowing.

" Whatever! She keeps rambling on about that new book she ordered, I finally said -' Just shut up!'- yesterday in gym. We were playing Guard the Pin and she just wouldn't listen to anything I had to say." Crystal whined.

Angelica rolled her eyes.

" Alright, what has crawled up your leg and bit you in the buttocks?" Angelica asked, her eyes locked with Crystals. " Selin hasn't changed Crystal, you have and I love Saline too much to let you insult her like this."

" I have not changed and yesterday she made fun of my brother!"

" She was only joking!"

" Joking or not, she's gotten extremely stuck up!"

Marissa's face scrunched up. What had gotten into Crystal? Crystal didn't like being charged around, that was for sure but could she honestly believe that Saline would work them like slaves? And they were all best friends, they shouldn't be talking about each other like this.

" Everyone thinks she's so perfect!" Crystal said aloud falling onto her back. " Like she's all that and a bag of chips."

Marissa shot up, feeling woozy in a instant after the fast movement and turned to what used to be the gate out of the park.

" I have to get home." Marissa was sick to stomach right now and she intended to leave the sitting girl to insult their 'bff' without her.

" Where are you going?" Angelica asked immediately. Both girls looked up innocently at her.

" I'm going home, if you guys want to sit here then go ahead." Marissa hastily walked out of the park.

" You know, I'm going to go check on Saline." Angelica slowly rose and sauntered behind Marissa. Crystal remained on the ground and lifted her knees up to her chest. Something had happened to her, something making her feel so bitter and she knew it.

" Come on kitty! Why don't you play for a bit?" Kisshu sneered, his usual playful tone replaced by something venomous.

Saline blandly ignored the mocking question and cursed herself in every language she knew for wearing her white ballet flats. She slowed down before stopping completely. Taking sharp in takes of breath, she stared at him. He swung his knife next to the crook of her neck, small slivers of dark brown hair fluttered to the pavement. Her breath hitched in her throat. She had a mild case of Aichmophobia, the fear of knives and other dangerously sharp and pointy objects. The blade was pressed against her skin and she screamed in her mind. Her body trembled violently as her eyes closely examined the blade.

" I wonder-" The sardonic voice broke Saline's thoughts. " -how the other mews would manage if I cut through your throat right now."

Saline swallowed a heavy lump in her throat, her fists clenched tightly next to her waist.

" Would they be able to manage?"

" Don't be cocky, they can take you with or without me!"

" How long would it take for them to notice your gone?"

" . . . . ."

" And would they miss you?"

With that, Saline knew exactly where Kisshu was taking this. He was trying to get her to doubt where her loyalty was and whether or not it was pointless to keep on fighting. Maybe if she had her pendant she could raise it before her and transformation with chance of standing against him or maybe if she was a bit more brave she could just punch him out right. Instead she stood there, shaking and scared, praying that some one -anyone- would come and help.

" Isn't it worthless to keep on trying? To keep trying to fight something you can't win against." Kisshu smirked. Saline nodded her head 'no' meekly. " Then why do you fight my little kitten?"

" Why do you fight?" Saline asked timidly, the blade still a tiny push away from breaking her skin.

" Why do I fight?" Kisshu's eyes inadvertently widened a bit in a sudden blankness. " I fight for something greater than all of you, something greater than me. "

" And I'm fighting for something equally important." Saline choked and mustered up a bit of courage to push his blade down, much to her surprise as well as Kisshu's. " I know you're not fighting in vain- but neither am I. And I don't care what it might cost me but I'll take this fight to the ends of the earth. So don't under estimate me!"

"-And that's why I like you." Kisshu pulled her closer.

" h-huh?"

" You're unpromising ambition makes you even more amusing."

". . .unpromising. . ." Saline mumbled the word, clearly aware of the meaning.

" Yes, unpromising, because I too will fight to the ends of the earth but the difference is- I'll win." He whispered the last part and then disappeared.

Saline collapsed onto the ground, the dirt and mulch staining the skin of her knees. She began breathing heavily, the cool tip of Kisshu's blade still on her throat though he had already left.

"Hey, that dudes head, 5 points!" Cassidy sneered. A skinny brunette next to her blew into a straw: a balled up sour patch kid flew down to the first row.

" Your turn!" The small brunette pushed the bag of candy to her. Cassidy glanced down at it and then hesitantly snatched it up. She hated getting in trouble but one try wouldn't hurt, would it?
Cassidy stuck the candy into her mouth, moistening it. She shoved it into the straw and then aimed at the bald head of a man sitting a few rows below her. She blew.

" Holy Crap! What The Hell Was That?" The man shrieked, diving onto the ground.

Cassidy sunk down into her chair.

" Erin, let's just watch the movie."

" It's so gay though!"

" Yeah, but we're going to get in trouble!"

" No we wont!" Erin aimed at another helpless victim. " heh heh heh."

" Oh, dear God." Cassidy squeaked. She scooted as far away as she could from Erin with a ' I don't know her.' look. She turned her focus back onto the movie, RV, which was a horrible excuse for a comedy. She wiped at her forehead. Why was the usually ice cold movie theatre so warm all of a sudden? She smoothed out her shorts and- woh, shorts? She was wearing jeans a few seconds ago. She looked down. Her heart leapt as she realized what had just happened. She ran out of the theatre, Erin calling after her. She had just turned into Mew Papaya without commanding it.

" Café Mew mew? Hmmm. . ." Saline glanced up at the pink building before her. " Cute."

She slipped the card that Keiichiro had given her back into her pocket. People gave her odd looks as she walked by. Saline pulled out a twig from the tresses of her hair and glanced around nervously. She stopped, hesitating in front of the door. Dusting off her shirt and pants and then fixing her hair, she walked into the café. It was packed. She recognized a lot of girls from her school.

" I see you've found your way here!" A cheery voice from behind her said. Saline turned to face Keiichiro.

" Oh, um, yeah." She awkwardly replied. Keiichiro motioned for her to fallow him. He led her to a door with the sign 'employees only' on it. They both walked through into a dark hallway with stairs at the very end. They walked up the metal stair case and down another hall with doors on all sides. At the end of the hallway Keiichiro pulled a string that was hanging off the ceiling. A flight of steps came down. Keiichiro motioned for her to go up first. Saline shrugged and walked up. The stairs led up to a large attic, or more accurately, a laboratory.

" So you did come." Ryou spoke, swerving his computer chair to face her. Her breath hitched in her throat. His eyes were so piercing; his cold glare scared her. Keiichiro lightly nudged her to get closer. She inched at the blond haired beauty. " I'm sure you'd like things to be cleared up for you but we must wait for the others."

Saline nodded, too shy to object. He stood up and walked over to a box. He pulled out a crème colored maids outfit with light pink lace decorating its exterior. He threw the wonderful dress at her.

" Go try it on in the fitting room." He turned to his computer. Keiichiro smiled meekly and led her back down into the first hallway they went through. He opened the door to show a medium sized room with lockers on one side, a little open room for bathroom stalls in the corner and another open room with showers.

" we'll be waiting up stairs." Keiichiro slipped out of the room. She tried on the dress which ended a bit above her knees. It was adorable, in truth but ridiculous to be worn in a café. She opened the door to find shoes. Putting on the black sneakers she walked back up into the lab.

" You look lovely." Keiichiro proclaimed, smiling at her. She smiled back.

" Thank-you."

" Isn't she pretty, Ryou?"

Ryou glanced back, made a face and then turned back to the screen. Saline sighed. Keiichiro seemed confused at his partners strange behavior. Ryou was, well, normal per say around the others but seemed to dislike the curly haired girl before them. Odd. He was normally polite around women.
Foot steps echoed up the stairs. Cassidy ran into the lab as mew Papaya.

" Something happened!" Cassidy said. Then she saw Saline. " Oh hey Saline!"

" Cassidy!" Saline exclaimed. " C-Cassidy?" she repeated once more.

Cassidy glanced around aimlessly.

" Hiiiiiiiii," She gave a nervous smile. " You didn't know did you?"

" I-but-you-I-how-they-uhhh . . ." Saline fell back words and fainted.

A/n: Yeah. . . .It's been four months hasn't it? This chapter was crappy, I know. It lacks proper description and good flow but I'm rushing to get this finished and work on a new chapter on Tokyo's Sutoro. The truth is, I've lost my interest in these two stories, well, no that's a lie. The real truth is, I want to write the more exciting chapters now, the ones that will come out after a few more chapters. The chapters I'm writing now are just to introduced the characters, their personalities and relationships with each other. I'm overly bored with writing these chapters. In future chapters there's more romance too, so I also can't wait to get into that.

Another reason is, I've been having so many unique idea's for stories! I've about twenty or so saved in my documents! I've also started a quizilla account and I have a story on there. I'm also very lazy, remember this. The only reason I wrote this chapter was because of -Blue Amytal Cherub's review which I read just today.

Another thing, thank you all who have reviewed. I look back at my first and second chapters and I see that they are horrifically deformed. They're absolutely horrendous and I pledge to fix them. So thank you those who have read those atrocities and still kept being with me up to now. And if you have any question, about myself or any of my stories feel free to message me! I enjoy quenching your thirsts for answers. And check my homepage because some info is on there.

The next chapter will hopefully be out soon. Thanks for reading and please review.