Brought Together Chapter 18:

The Battle

The next morning, Kisshu and Ichigo got up and got ready. When they came downstairs, Sakura and Shintaro were waiting. Sakura hugged Ichigo, then Kisshu, and said, "Please be safe."

"We will," the two replied.

Shintaro hugged Ichigo, then surprisingly, held his hand out to Kisshu, who shook it. "Kisshu, keep my daughter safe," he said.

"I will, I swear," Kisshu said. Shintaro nodded, and then it was time for Ichigo and Kisshu to leave. They both waved, then teleported to Café Mew Mew. Everyone was already there.

"Sorry if we're late, my parents wanted to say goodbye," Ichigo said.

"That's natural," Pai said. "Okay, here's the plan. We'll teleport into Deep Blue's dimension, and start looking around. We should stay together, so no one gets separated. We don't want him picking us off one by one, or a hostage situation."

"Okay," Ichigo said. "But I've never been there before. How am I going to teleport to a place I've never seen?"

"I can implant the image in your mind," Pai said. "Come over here and close your eyes."

Ichigo obeyed, and Pai put a hand on her forehead. "Can you see it?" he asked.

"Hai," Ichigo said. "I'm ready."

"Ichigo, aren't you going to transform?" Mint asked.

"No, I'll be fine with my sword. The rest of you should transform, though," Ichigo said. The other Mews nodded, and transformed.

"Everyone ready?" Pai asked. The others nodded. "Good," Pai said. "Let's go."

Pai then grabbed Lettuce's hand, Taruto grabbed Pudding, Kisshu grabbed Mint, and Ichigo grabbed Zakuro. Then Ichigo and the Cyniclons teleported into Deep Blue's dimension.

At first there was the usual blue mist, but Deep Blue didn't appear. Suddenly the scenery changed. Now they were standing in the middle of a carpeted hallway. At the end they saw a door. The Cyniclons and Mews looked at each other, than started walking. As they reached the doors, the doors swung open silently.

At first, the light was dim, but it got brighter, and soon they saw what looked like a throne room. Lying on the floor in the middle of the room was a body. As they got closer, they saw that it was Masaya.

"I wonder what this means," Pai said quietly. "Deep Blue would need to keep the human host alive until he awakened. Does that mean he's already been awakened?"

Suddenly Masaya's eyes snapped open, glowing red. He slowly sat up, and snapped his fingers. Then a cage came falling down from the ceiling, and trapped the Cyniclons and Mews!

"HEY! What's with the cage?" Ichigo shouted.

'Masaya' laughed evilly. "I decided to make you fight me one by one, so I could see your true strength," he said. Then a blue light surrounded him, and when it vanished, there was a Cyniclon with ice blue eyes and calf-length black hair in place of Masaya. As the Mews and Cyniclons watched, a large sword appeared in his hand.

"Well, who should go first?" Deep Blue asked mockingly. "I think I'll let Kisshu go first, since he was the leader of the mission." Deep Blue snapped his fingers, and Kisshu was suddenly outside of the cage.

Though startled, Kisshu immediately summoned his Dragon Swords, and got into position. Deep Blue smirked, and teleported behind Kisshu. Kisshu heard the sound, and turned, leaping away as Deep Blue swung his sword in a motion that would have cut Kisshu in half if he hadn't dodged. Kisshu lunged forward, and tried to stab Deep Blue, who put his sword up just in time. Kisshu's blades slid harmlessly off the flat of Deep Blue's sword.

Kisshu snarled and created an energy ball, sending it at Deep Blue, who smirked and formed a shield around himself. The energy ball disappeared as soon as it touched the shield. Kisshu lunged forward again, but this time Deep Blue was ready. As Kisshu got closer, Deep Blue pulled back his sword a bit. Right as Kisshu reached him, Deep Blue lunged forward, and stabbed Kisshu in the stomach!

"KISSHU!" everyone screamed, but Ichigo screamed the loudest. Deep Blue laughed and sent Kisshu flying off the end of his sword.

Ichigo was in shock. Suddenly, it snapped. Her eyes began to glow light blue. Then she threw her arms out, one to each side. The bars of the cage, as well as the top, disintegrated. Now everyone was free, but they didn't move. Deep Blue had stopped laughing.

Eyes still glowing, Ichigo threw out her right arm, and shouted, "INAZUMA NO YAIBA!" Her Cyniclon weapon appeared in her hand. Then she said in a cold voice, "Prepare yourself, Deep Blue, for the fight of your life."

Deep Blue wasn't smirking anymore. He raised his sword and charged at Ichigo. She dodged, and flew up above Deep Blue, then dived down. Deep Blue raised his sword, attempting to stab her, but she suddenly teleported. Before Deep Blue could figure out where she went, she shouted from behind him, "INAZUMA SENKO!" The attack was dead on, and it hit Deep Blue in the back. He cried out, but was still standing. Ichigo shot another lightning attack at him, which scorched his arm before he could dodge it.

Deep Blue switched his sword to his other hand. Unfortunately for him, Ichigo had seen that coming, and she scorched his other hand before he could grasp the sword. Deep Blue's sword fell to the ground. Seeing a chance in this, Ichigo stalked over to him, and kicked his sword out of reach.

Ichigo smirked and said, "What will you do now?"

Deep Blue snarled and raised a hand, palm up, about to create a Chimera Anima. Just as the parasite appeared, however, Ichigo's lightning attack fried it. Taking advantage of Deep Blue's shock, Ichigo lunged forward before he could lower his arm, and stabbed him, straight through the heart! Then, at the same time, she performed her Inazuma Senko attack, which succeeded in completely obliterating Deep Blue. Now all that remained of the former alien leader was a pile of ash, and a large sword.

Ichigo took a deep breath, and her eyes stopped glowing. Then she let her weapon disappear, and turned to her friends.

Everyone, even Pai, had their jaws on the floor. "Y-you defeated Deep Blue?" Pai asked in a shocked whisper.

Ichigo didn't reply. Instead she ran to Kisshu. The others came over to see if they could help, but they soon found out it was too late. Ichigo was sobbing, her tears falling on Kisshu like rain. "WHY?" she wailed. "Why did this happen?"

The others stood there, unsure of what to say. Suddenly Pai looked over at the ashes of Deep Blue, sensing something.

The others, except for Ichigo, looked up as Pai went over to the pile of ashes, and pulled out… A Mew Aqua!

Don't flame me. Pwease? *gives reviewers the 'imacutelittleneko' face*