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"Uhhhhg…" Arekkusu groaned as she slowly climbed back into the world of consciousness.
I feel like crap… she thought as she shifted around, confused by the fact that she couldn't move.
The last thing she remembered was that she had defeated that porcupine monster thing, but then… what happened next? As she struggled to figure it out, her physical body was struggling as well.
What the heck is wrong with me?! I can't move! Twitching, straining, jerking around, none of this was helping her.
"Finally awake, Koumori-chan?" a playful whisper right beside her ear asked.
"WHA-?!!!" Arekkusu yelled as her eyes snapped open. Jerking herself upright she banged into the speaker right above her.
"Crap…That hurt!" if she could move she would have rubbed her head, which she couldn't; considering she was tied up tightly.
Then she realized that the voice that said it was Kisshu. Kisshu, who was sitting right next to her and was now running a pale hand through her curly, brown, hair, he was petting her.
Arekkusu lay there bemused for a second more, then reality snapped back at her.
"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!" she screamed at the startled green haired boy.
Kisshu grinned and watched as Arekkusu struggled to get upright.
"Just petting you Koumori-chan, don't little bats like being pet?" he asked as he kissed her forehead. Jerking back and hissing, Arekkusu managed to scoot a few inches away from him.
"Aww, come on Koumori-chan, don't be like that." He smiled as Arekkusu glared at him and inched her way back some more.
"Is she finally awake?" the uninterested voice of Pai asked as he teleported into the barren lonely room they were in.
"Yep." Kisshu replied as he rested his head right next to Arekkusu's.
"Move." She growled. Kisshu gave her a 'not a chance' look.
"So now what have you planned to do, now that she is awake and irritated?" Pai asked, still sounding like he couldn't care less.
"Hmm, I think we ought to interrogate her, what do you think?" Kisshu asked in an offhanded tone, as he sat on her again, earning him a growl from the unhappy Arekkusu.
"Fine by me."
"Okay then, question number one; your name." Kisshu bent over until his nose was toughing hers.
"Personal. Space. Please." she growled.
"Maybe, but only when I get an answer though." Kisshu gave her a cocky grin that almost screamed 'Ha-ha-haha-ha!'
"Get off." She said with malice.
"Give me an answer, because I can't just keep calling you Koumori-chan. Or maybe I can…"
"Fine. Mew Cranberry." Arekkusu spat at him.
"I believe Kisshu is referring to your human name." Pai said.
"I know very darn well what the pervert was asking!" she gave Pai a cold glare for undermining her intelligence level.
"Tick, tock, tick, tock, this is going to take a looooong time now, isn't it my little bat-chan?" Kisshu asked.
"For the last time; Get. Off. Now." Arekkusu growled at the green haired boy on top of her.
"Not until I get your real name, Koumori-chan." Kisshu just grinned as he kissed the top of Arekkusu's head again.
"You know, this is the worst interrogation I've ever been through." she said with a sigh.
"Glad to know, honey."
Getting bored with just sitting on top of her, Kisshu resumed the act of petting her. All Arekkusu could do was glare.
"Kisshu, I believe that physical signs of affection are just going to continue to irritate her."
"Oh, I'm MORE than irritated, so how about you let me out so I can kick your butt's again!" she snarled as she turned to face Pai, careful to avoid eye contact with Kisshu.
"Do you really think that we would let you out just so you would have the slim chance of escaping?" Pai smirked slightly at her stupidity.
"Slim chance?" she asked, curiosity getting to her. It couldn't be that hard…
"From what data evidence I have gathered from watching your quick battle with the chimera porcupine, statistics would show that you would only have a 27% chance of escaping when the obstacle is fighting through Kisshu and me, and a 7% chance of doing it unharmed." He just stared at her, and when she didn't respond, Pai sighed.
"That means you have a very slim chance of getting out unharmed." He explained sarcastically, as if to a three year old.
"I know what it means….." she said with another frown. Kisshu just glared at Pai for making her unhappy.
Arekkusu focused her eyes on nothing in particular, and after a split second, she inhaled deeply.
And then she screamed like no normal human could scream.
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" twisting around sharply she managed to get out of Kisshu's way as he and Pai flinched, covering their sensitive elfin ears.
"YOU DON'T LIKE IT, HUH?! WELL I'M GONNA GIVE YOU ONE CHANCE- LET ME GO!!!!!!!!!" while continuing the scream she realized that she was sending out sonar pitches that bats would use, for communication, and echolocation.
"Shut her up Kish!!!" Pai yelled Arekkusu screamed again, managing to take it up a few octaves more.
"Ghaaah! I can't…think…too…loud…!" Kisshu was now bent over, teeth clenched and pupils dilated.
Taruto, who was a few rooms down, heard the commotion and sighed. Picking up a pair of earplugs and putting them in. he grabbed the duct tape and teleported in to where his older colleagues were being tortured.
Flinching from the sonic impact her bat screech had made, Taruto slowly inched his way to the brown haired mew, and with a swift motion, he duct-taped her mouth, cutting off the sound.
"Mmmph-mmmm!" was all the noise she could make now. Glaring with hatred at the three boys, Arekkusu decided that the best thing to do for now was to give up.
Pai stared at Arekkusu with curiosity, like a school-boy with the latest textbook. It was new, unfamiliar, and there was something to learn from it.
"Mew Cranberry."
Arekkusu responded to her mew name by looking up.
"Look, we didn't just kidnap you. We wish for you to join our side in this war against the humans, using your mew power. Now I'm going to take this tape off. And if you would, please answer the questions." Pai said in a neutral tone. Ripping off the tape, he watched as she let out only a tiny cry from the pain, and then face him with an equally expressionless face.
"So we're basically going to discuss this, me listening to your questions, and then I would like some of mine answered."
"That sounds reasonable." Pai agreed.
"One thing though, the perverted green one stays behind." She glared at Kisshu who had taken a hurt look to his face.
"Aww, come on Koumori-chan-"
"I said 'Don't call me that' before!" She hissed.
"Kisshu." Pai shook his head.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm going Pai, but just so you know, I call dibs on her! So I'd better not hear any suspicious noises." He said the last part as a joke before teleporting off with Taruto.
Arekkusu was the first to break the silence that followed.
"That little perverted idiot!" she cursed. Pai just nodded in silent agreement.
"Okay, shoot. What do you want to know about little old me?" She asked; letting more of her American accents creep into her voice than she had meant to.
"As Kisshu had first asked, what is the human name that you go by?"
"Itami Arekkusu. And can you please get me out of these?" Arekkusu asked as she strained against the ropes that bounded her.
"Maybe, but only if I am positive that you wouldn't use the opportunity to fight, or escape." Pai was almost amused by now, she was still thinking of the escape.
"Darn, okay then, how about a deal?"
"I don't make deals with humans."
"Well, I'm not a regular human, now am I?" she said with a grin.
"Point taken, so what is this deal? And you should know that if it involves any chance of you escaping, I'm going to have to refuse." Pai said.
"Okay, the thing is… I don't want to fight with you. Or fight against you guys for that matter. I don't want to fight at all, so how about you let me go, and I'll promise you that you, pervert, and midget won't fight me." She gave him a hopeful grin.
"No. Unfortunately, because of you're involved in the mew project, you will be forced to fight." He said apathetically, while crossing his arms.
"Well, what if I refuse?" Arekkusu growled, her patience running thin.
"Then we will eliminate you." He said, his voice darkening.
Arekkusu knew he wasn't kidding.
Pai stared at her as she looked sullenly at the walls of the room she was in, and deciding that it was too soon for her to decide, Pai knew that he should give her some time.
"I will come back within an hour to see if you have changed your mind. Though the smart choice is to do so." He then teleported off, leaving Arekkusu to herself.
Hmm, so where exactly am I? she looked around some more, but the only thing in the plain, barren room, other than herself, was a dying cactus and a barred window.
"Eww, so they can't take care of plants." She said to herself.
"Wha-?! It died already?!" a voice echoed in the air before the smallest of the aliens, Taruto, teleported in with her.
Holding his hand above the plant, Taruto shifted his fingers around slightly, and then, as if by magic, the plant quite literally sprung back to life.
"How'd you do that?!" Arekkusu asked in amazement.
"I control plants. Remember that for later, pathetic human." He sneered with superiority.
"You know, you really should respect people older than you." She chided.
"Heh, you can't tell me what to do!" he laughed.
Arekkusu grinned, back in her time in America, she and Joseph had often played pretend games of capture and escape, where one of them would capture the other, and that other would have to figure out an escape rout. Doing that with this kid wouldn't be that difficult. Especially since she already had an excellent plan in mind.
"Yo midget!" Arekkusu needed a poker face, but she couldn't keep a grin off her face, this was going to be too easy.
"I told you before, I'm not a midget!" Taruto yelled back as he turned his head around to face her.
She started off with an innocent whistle, much to his annoyance, but then it changed. The frequency and pitch immediately skyrocketed to an inhuman pitch, sending out sonic waves of echolocation, and sending Taruto to his knees.
"Q-Quit it!!" he managed to yell out, oh where was Kisshu or Pai when you needed them?!
"NOPE!" she yelled back, managing to keep the pitch in her voice.
"I-if you t-think I'm go-g-going to let y-you out b-because of t-this, y-you got another t-thing coming!" he stuttered angrily while trying to keep the noise at bay.
"I'm not trying to make you let me go." She said quietly, letting the sonar bat pitch leave her voice.
"Then what the heck was that about, crazy hag?!" Tart asked while rubbing his head, where the starts of a headache were showing up.
"I told you not to call me hag, and since you want to know…" she grinned as a rapid fluttering sound was heard from the outside of the lonely window.
"That was just a little SOS, bat style." Her grin turned into a smirk as a hoard of bats streamed into the room, breaking through the glass and hovering around her.
"Now my children, ATTACK!" the bats all screeched and flew for the panicking Taruto, who suddenly teleported, cursing, "I'll get you for that one, you old bat!!!"
"Well, that was fun." She said as most of the bats decided to return to their trees. A few stayed until they had bitten through the ropes that had bound her.
Finally, the last bat remaining screeched a question in its bat language.
"Oh, that-kii? I just said 'Attack my children' because I thought it would be funny and dramatic-kii" she answered back good-naturedly.
The bat gave a short reply before flying off with the rest.
"Ja ne! I'll see you guys later too!" she called after them before escaping through the window herself.
It seemed like she was being held in some sort of house for those three, and when she walked far enough, she found that she couldn't tell where it was anymore.
Deciding that it was probably a protective barrier, (because who knows what all they can do) Arekkusu walked back to the café.
"I'm back." She called softly into the café, thinking that everyone was probably out doing shopping or something like that, considering it looked empty.
"YOU BAKA!!!" someone shouted with a mixture of pure worry and anger. Running up from the kitchen, Ryou grabbed her shoulders and shook her firmly.
"You little idiot! Do you know how scared and worried everyone was once we learned that you were kidnapped by the aliens?! Huh?! Don't you ever pull a stunt like that again! You hear me? Idiot!" Ryou practically screamed in her face.
"wha……? Uh, well SO-RY!!! I didn't 'pull a stunt', I was freakin' kidnapped!!! How am I supposed to help that?! I escaped as fast as I could!" Arekkusu retorted, angrier than before.
She had tried her best hadn't she? Fighting and escaping? So why was this big jerk yelling at her like it was all her fault?!
"Grr, whatever. I'm going to bed." She sighed half-heartedly, the anger within her suddenly vanishing, leaving only tiredness, and a surprising weakness in its wake.
Maybe it was the tone of her voice, or maybe it was because he was actually worried about her, either way, Ryou stopped her with concern evident on his face.
"Are you okay though? They didn't hurt you in any way, did they?" He asked as he looked her up and down, searching for any open wounds or bruises.
"'M fine…" she mumbled as she started to trudge back to the stairs.
"Seriously, that must have been a lot for you, these past few hours. Want to talk about it?" he asked, beckoning to one of the ornate, pink, hearted, and frilly chairs that the customers sat in.
"Sigh, sure…" she replied, trying her best to make it sound sleepily. But Ryou wasn't fooled. She sounded sick. And her face was slowly starting to grow paler, while her cheeks flamed with the redness of a beginning fever.
"Okay," Ryou began as they both sat down. "I'll contact the others and tell them you're alright after I talk to you."
She just gave a sullen nod, her eyes losing focus as she leaned back in her chair.
Before Ryou could say anything though, Arekkusu gasped, and while grabbing her sides she coughed violently, and slumped over on edge table.
"Arekkusu!" Ryou shouted with shock evident on his face as he stared at the shuddering girl.
"Go 'way… I'll be fine… after…sleeping…" suddenly she moaned and pitched off the table, landing in a heap at Ryou's feet.
"Arekkusu!!"
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