Melody Mew Mews

Chapter 14

The World Is Caving In

"Okay, Okay, Okay. . .I understand what you're getting at." The ebony haired girl waved her arms around in exasperation. " But listen to me. . .I think we should start small and work our way up."

The voice had been growing persistent and it nagged Crystal to no end. Either she was to stupid or to slow and could barely keep up with it. . .whatever it was. As punishment she received massive head aches and stomach aches until she would comply with its demands. The more she let in, the more she felt the invisible force grow stronger.

'We don't have much time. . .'

"Well, we can make time." She argued, peering inside the swirling abyss in her mirror. The mutating shadow glowed red in opposition, and appeared to be trying to rise out of the glass it was held captive in.

'Listen to me you insolent beast.'

"Insolent beast? Oh no you di-" Suddenly she crouched foreword in pain, gripping her throbbing head in two clenched palms. "Okay, Okay. . .jeez, stop it!"

'You have gotten Kisshu to agree to the plan?'

"Yeah, he seemed pretty into it."

'Now only Ryou must be bargained with.'

"Alright, alright, look I think you're right, I really, really do. Listen to me though. . ." Crystal waited for another blast of pain to her temples but upon feeling nothing, let out a sigh and continued.

" Okay, so though I think Ryou pretty much despises Saline, I'm not sure. And with that, if he really does hate Saline, like I think he does, he hates the aliens more. I don't think he'd be all 'gun-hoe' for a plan involving Kisshu."

'Oh, leave that up to me. . .'

"W-what are you going to do?" Crystal couldn't help the shaking in her voice. A sudden wave of heat had radiated from the swirling mass in front of her. A sudden head ache stabbed at her brain once more.

'Go.'

"Alright, alright. . ."

With that she dashed out the door, leaving the swirling mass and her head ache behind.

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"Nuh-uh. . .she did not say that!"

"She did."

Saline looked down at her hands and then peered back up at Angelica who sat twirling her small, black candy curls in annoyance.

"Marissa, did she really?"

Marissa, not so comfortable with gossip, looked uneasy as she slowly nodded. Angelica took a drink of her slurpee and snorted.

"Yeah and then she went on to say that you've gotten really stuck up."

"Oh. . .have I?"

The two other girls shook their heads in disagreement, patting the troubled girl on the back.

"Well, then why would she say that?"

"Because she's jealous."

"That doesn't seem like Crystal. Maybe she was joking?"

". . .Not a very funny joke if you ask me." Angelica responded, leaning back into her chair. It had already been 3 weeks since the hospital incident and besides a few chimera's here and there, nothing major had happened. Though, because of the disappearance of the aliens, everybody was on their toes and ready for a sneak attack.

"Isn't this the place you guys first got attacked?" Angelica asked.

"Yep." Marissa responded. " I'm gonna go get some more popcorn, any one coming?"

"I will, I'm all outta slurpee." Angelica bounced up and trailed behind Marissa. " You coming

Saline?"

"Nah, I think I'm going to go to the restroom." She stood up and walked past the concession stand, and toward the bathrooms.

A tall woman slipped past her, leaving the entire restroom empty. Saline slowly walked toward the long row of sinks and dipped her hands under the automatic faucet.

"Why the heck am I washing my hands." She asked aloud and moved onto the paper towel dispenser. Her inside clutched in pain, as she remembered how a few months ago Angelica and Marissa had ran off to Crystal about something Saline had accidentally blurted. It wasn't meant to be taken to offence but Marissa had taken things out of context which put the two friends under tough relations for a week. This was probably the same, Saline thought. What crystal had said was probably wrongly taken out of context.

Dropping the used paper towel into the trash, she walked out to find Angelica and Marissa still in line.

"Well that was quick."

"I'm always quick."

"Of course you are."

Saline rolled her eyes and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. In a moment she stopped, eyes wide, and quickly inspected her wrist. The bare flesh flashed at her under the bright theatre lights and urgency trampled through her veins. Reeling backwards she spun effortlessly in a circle, head whipping side to side in search of a silver trinket.

"Why are you spazzing?" Marissa inquired, slightly stepping out of line to find what Saline was searching for.

"The bracelet my sister gave me! It's gone!" She shook her barren arm in front of Marissa's face in proof.

"Okay, chill. You probably dropped it." Angelica interceded, gazing around the floor in hopes of seeing something. Saline gasped, eyes lighting up.

"You're right! I probably dropped it!" Her head bobbed up and down in consideration. " . . .Wait! What if I did drop it?! Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no!"

"Where did you last see it?"

"I don't know! Uh, hold on, I'll go look in the restroom." She swiveled on her heel and stalked back the way she had come.

"Alright, I'll go look around the entrance." Angelica skipped the opposite direction, leaving Marissa to stand in line.

Saline rushed back into the bathroom, slowing down momentarily as a mother and her four year old walked out, and frantically began her search. Finding nothing the way in or below the sink she had washed her hands in, she grabbed a paper towel from the dispenser and inched over to the trash can. It was built into the wall, with a metal flap of a door to keep the trash inside. Not only Aichmaphobic but also Verminophobic, she cautiously poked open the metal flap, finger protected by the paper. The inside of the trash can was to dark no matter how closely she forced herself to inspect it. Pulling out her cell phone, she shone the light in and barely saw a glimpse of the objects that occupied the hole in the wall. Beside's a few used papers, nothing glittered in the light, and with a groan of disappointment she put her cell phone back into her back pocket and discarded the germy paper towel.

"Hey!" A childish voice rang out from behind as Saline turned in surprise. There stood a small child, probably ten by the looks of it, with gleaming chestnut hair in pigtails and bright honey colored eyes narrowed in mischief. Her clothes reminded the coiled haired girl of something distant flashing in her head but she couldn't quite place her finger on it. The kid raised a bandaged arm in the air, with Saline about to tell her to not abuse her hurt arm, and cocked a hip to the side flaunting her puffy blue short shorts. Saline was frazzled, cocking her head to the side and at the gesture the kid put a small hand against her pale stomach, which wasn't covered at all by her small red jacket, and began to chuckle. Out of her clenched fist escaped a silver charm bracelet, twirling mockingly in front of Saline. " Missing something?"

"Yeah, that's mine, thanks." Saline forced herself to smile and reached for the dangling jewelry, only to have the small girl pull away.

"Ah, ah, ah." She wagged an ashen finger at her. " Not so fast hag face!"

Saline's face grew red as her eyes widened.

" W-what?" She sputtered. " Hag face?!"

"Stupid human, have a problem speaking?" And that's when Saline noticed the girl's long elfish ears sticking out into the air.

"You're an alien!" She stepped back, fingers brushing against her right pocket which held her pendant.

"And you're slow." She chided, giggling obnoxiously.

"Listen here, little girl!" She felt something pop against her head and unfurl from her tail bone. "

Give me back my bracelet or I'll kick your ass through your mouth!"

The kid bit back another comment, eyes slightly wide at the raging girl in front of her but quickly snapped out of it.

" Little girl? I'm A BOY YOU DUMB HAG!"

". . .A boy? You're a boy?" Saline looked her- er him, up and down in a thorough inspection. "Well, then forget my last comment, there's nothing I can do to you that you haven't already done to yourself."

"And what's that suppose to mean?" The boy screeched, leaning forward with burning eyes. "Ugh! Forget it! I'll just kill you right here, right NOW!"

He pulled out a pair of click clack weapons and leered deviously at her.

"I don't think so!" Saline yanked out her pendant and kissed it. "Mew Mew Brownie Metamorphosis!"

The boy covered his face at the bright pink flash of light, and soon found himself against the wall. Looking up he saw the pink mew extending her arm towards him and holding a white microphone. He slowly stood up and growled, lifting his own weapon once again and clutching the mews bracelet in his other hand.

"I see, so you use ultra sonic sound waves." His look of frustration soon turned to a smile.

"That's fine with me, because I use electric currents."

Silent, Saline's eyes widened. With a flick of his wrist and the clacking of his weapon, electricity shot toward her, sending her flying back. Her feet left the ground and head landed against the cold, hard tile floor, sending a throbbing pain throughout her skull.

"Not so tough now, are you?" He advanced on her twitching from. "Don't worry, I'll end this. It's the least I can do, especially to get Kisshu's mind of you and to focus on our mission."

"W-what. . ." Saline groaned in pain, easing herself onto her elbows. "What mission?"

"To suck the life out of this planet and its people."

"That's horrible. Why would you do that?"

"To save our people. While you stupid, filthy humans pollute this world and kill everything around you, our people suffer on our home planet."

"It can't be that bad. . ."

The boy scoffed bitterly.

"Oh, it can't? Most of the children on our planet die directly after birth, everyone's infected with some sort of illness, our crops are dead, our atmosphere is growing hotter and hotter and everything. . .everyone is dying."

Saline glanced up at him, eyes in a daze and mind swirling. The boy was wide open, to distracted in his fury and vulnerable to attack. Swinging her microphone, a blast of sound threw the kid backwards, though as Saline expected, he caught himself in mid air just before hitting the ground.

"You hag!"

"It's Saline." She pointed her weapon once more. " And. . .I'm sorry about what's happening to your people but I can't let you succeed in your plan. We're protecting our people as well."

The boy snorted, and attacked once more with a bolt of lightning, which Saline barely dodged. Instead she slammed against one of the stall doors, almost diving head first into a toilet. Squealing, she jumped back and focused yet again on the small alien. To her surprise, he was nowhere to be found. Glancing side to side, she slowly walked down the long bathroom kicking stall doors open with every step, weapon pointed and aimed. Reaching the end of the bathroom, in front of the second entrance, she concluded that he had left.

"Damn, where'd he go?"

A sharp scream pierced the pink mews thoughts, as she dashed foreword to the exit. Whirling around the restroom corner she saw the exit blocked by debris and quickly ran to the other side of the restroom to find the second exit the same. She kicked at the large rocks, and attempted to pull the fallen pieces away but failed, finding her enhanced mew strength to not match the weight of the debris. More screaming erupted and the lights flickered on and off. Saline paced frantically, racking her brain for a plan. Something crumbled on top of her head and she reached up to feel, finding white powder. Glancing up she saw a small crack in the ceiling, elongating itself. Glancing down she saw another crack, this time on the floor, mirroring the ceiling. Her heart stopped.

The theatre was going to collapse upon itself.

A/N: The plot thickens! 0.o um, hope you guys liked it and if you're on spring break like I am, have a great spring break! Reviews are appreciated.