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"Shower time~," Ebony sung in a sing-song voice as she took the flight of stairs two at a time, she then quickly pulled off her pyjamas and stepped into her shower letting the warm water splash her face and run down her hair and onto her back.

As she turned the switch on the shower to 'stop' she grabbed two towels wrapping one around her now dripping wet hair and one around her body; she picked up Kish's necklace which she had gladly remembered to take off and gently walked out of her bathroom and made her way back into her bedroom. Noticing her dress hung on her wardrobe for her; she gently took it down and placed it on the bed taking the plastic cover off of it as she did so. Swiftly she moved over to her dressing table and sat down looking at herself in the mirror. She noted the few water droplets still remaining on her face and the slight red of her cheeks from the hot water, her skin was still clear and like always her cerulean eyes seemed to catch the light; reflecting off of the mirror and making her eyes look almost like glazed ice. She smiled as she thought of everyone at the café waiting for her and they all dressed up; although she wasn't sure why…to her it was just a birthday nothing important, even though it was her 16th. '

Nobody's ever really made a big deal about my birthdays and parties before…I guess they are now because of Blondie and the others, they're great friends to me even though I've only known them a short while, I haven't really been in contact with Ayame or Sakura that much either, I really miss them I hope they miss me too! I really should try and persuade Blondie to let them have jobs at the café…but then I guess they'd have to know about the secret and I'm not sure if they could handle that…the only reason I guess I didn't freak out when I was told I was a mew was because I have a very vivid imagination…or so my parents and relatives have told me! 'You would always stare off into space and not stop for hours on end, your father and I could only watch and wonder what on earth you were imagining, it seemed to be so interesting' I remember mother always telling me that! Geez, I hope I never did that in school or in front of friends…that could've been embarrassing!' She smirked at the memory as she finally stood up, un-able to decide if she should put her dress on first or her make-up. 'I suppose it would make more sense to put the dress on first…' So she walked over to her bed and when she was sure she'd dried off properly, she decided that just for today as it was a special occasion she'd use the special peach scented body lotion she got as a last year birthday present from Ayame. 'Awww, I'm so nervous…what if I put the dress on now and I don't like it? Maybe it just looked good in the store and now I'm not so caught up in the moment it will look completely awful and I'll look like a table doily!' With shaking hands she stepped into the dress and pulled it up over her, unsure of how she did it herself she managed to zip it up her back, then she tied the thick white ribbon in a bow at the back of the dress and left a bit so it trailed down behind her. She shuffled around in it a little; and after a little bit of trouble in the chest compartment she straightened it out after being so twisted she walked over to her closet and got out her black high heels, she caught a quick glance in her full-length in her mirror as she walked over to her dressing table and took it all in. 'Okay I guess I don't look like a doily and I still like it as much as I did in the store!' The black silk still looked brand new and shiny and she was happy with how she had tied the ribbon trailing down her back, the front still ruffled up to her knee on one side nicely and the silver diamond broach still held it there; reflecting the light, making it literally sparkle. As for the white material underneath the ruffles covering her leg, it stayed the same and the lace trailing along the cut at the top still looked precise and delicate.

Going to her jewellery she placed two fake pearl earrings in each ear and looked next to those to see Kish's necklace catching the corner of her eye. 'Okay so my parents agreed, well mostly one parent agreed that if Ryou is a good boyfriend he'll understand why I'm wearing Kish's necklace, it's so beautiful…'Without hesitation she placed it round her neck and smiled as she felt the coldness of it on her collar bone. Feeling a little stupid with a towel still around her head she made her way to her dressing table where her hair-dryer and curling tongs lay, slowly un-wrapping the towel from her head she ran a comb through it quickly and set the hair-dryer on full blast. She lightly hummed to herself even though she couldn't hear it over the roar of the hair-dryer and after a few minutes, she was happy that it looked clean and dry enough. Placing it down she played with bits of her hair for a while before looking at her clock on the wall. 'Right… limo's coming around 11.30 and its 10.30 now so I've got an hour to get hair and everything sorted, oh great!'Ebony decided she'd curl a few random pieces of hair on each side and the back and left the rest straight. Also not wanting to look to trampy she grabbed her eye-liner and put it on lightly under her eyes, then a little mascara; she was always told she didn't need it as she had her mothers long eye-lashes anyway, she ignored this and placed a light plink gloss to her lips. Smiling at herself in the mirror once more she knew she was ready with 30 minutes still to spare. As she manoeuvred off her stool about to stand up she caught a waft of peach scent on her arms from the lotion she'd recently applied 'Oh…Anzu and Akito the party crashers will no doubt be on their way to the café now to make Ryou's life even more miserable! Poor Shirogane…he's had a pretty crud life so far with his parents death…his best friend running off with his first true love to England, owning a pink café…' Ebony stopped herself there and laughed slightly as she randomly imagined Ryou in a pink bunny suit stood outside the café with a smile and rosy cheeks eating a carrot. 'I need to lay off the sugar…I suppose it'll be a little better because I'm with him when Anzu comes…although I could just make it worse by him realising that he doesn't like me, Lettuce, Zakuro or Ichigo; I have no clue out of us 4 really and that he really wants Anzu but he can't have her…' Ebony realised she'd been staring into space yet again and there was a frown plastered on her face.

'Wow…I'm being a bit too depressing; it's my birthday I seriously need to cheer up! But how would I react if Ryou didn't really like me anymore? Would I cry, get depressed or go insane? I might react like I did when I found Kish and…Ichigo together…or would I not be as sad? I mean me and Kish did have a…oh what's it called, a 'click' maybe? I'd smile every time I saw him or thought about him…I seriously considered slamming my head into a brick wall when I thought Kisshu was cheating on me…especially with Ichigo…would I do that if it happened with Ryou? I even remember telling Kish I loved him at one point…looking back at that now it seems pretty stupid…I only knew him for a short while and then all of a sudden I'm confessing that I love him? I guess aliens have that sort of affect on people…' She paused in her thoughts again and laughed at the memory. She thought about the first time she had her fight as a mew and argued with them for calling her the 'new one'.

'"Well look it's the mew mews and a new one!" Pai said trying to sound surprised.

"Tar-tar! Na no da" Pudding screamed happily at the little alien boy in front of her.

"My name is Tart!" He sounded irritated, having to repeat the same thing over and over.

"Excuse me yeah purple hair the 'new one' has a name! Also what is the big idea with me getting separated from everyone else! Is there something wrong with me?" Ebony was already buzzed from her argument with Shirogane, this guy wasn't helping.

"My name's Pai actually" He corrected Ebony.

"Like I care, now you know how I felt a second ago!"

"Ahem" Mint did a fake cough to get Ebony's attention but when she turned around all 5 girls were transformed and in battle stance.

"Oh right, uh yeah I'll just do that transforming thing now he he" Ebony laughed nervously. Then she felt the words in the back of her throat, grabbed her pendant and said "MEW EBONY METAMORPHO-SIS!" She realised how annoyed she really must've been with Shirogane to have the guts to go up against an alien she'd never seen before and speak to him like that. As she remembered the fight she could remember how she always caught Kish give a side-ways glance at her even when he was trying to 'smack-talk' the others, then all the memories of Kish over flowed in her head and she just let them re-play in her mind like a video tape, fast forwarding and re-winding. The one she stopped on the most she realised was the time Ebony had almost fainted from exhaustion after fighting the new chimera animals for 2 hours at least and then how Kish had arrived and taken her away to sit on a cliff by the beach.

'"I shouldn't even be talking to you! You said you didn't care if that chimera killed me or injured me and you took me away from my friends without warning me!" Ebony turned to walk but found the cliff they were on was in the middle of the sea with nothing but water surrounding them. "Great, I've been abducted by an alien with no way of getting home, what a story to tell the folks" Ebony turned to face Kish again only to find he'd gone. So she sat down in the middle of the cliff facing the sun hugging her knees to her chest and her chin resting on them. Kish couldn't believe what she had just said and so he'd teleported to another cliff; he could see her but she couldn't see him. 'Wow she looks so beautiful with the sun reflecting off her eyes. Why would she think things like that? I was only putting it on in front of Pai and Tart and plus it wasn't only to make Blondie jealous I wanted to be alone with cutie'

Meanwhile on the other cliff Ebony had started to quietly sing a song, she couldn't remember the name, just the tune and it was stuck in her head all day. Immediately she stopped and jolted her head round when she heard a crack, when she saw nothing she shrugged it off and turned back to the sunlight. But this time there was another crack louder and it sounded closer it was only after several cracks she realised the cliff was breaking all around her. Kish got confused when he saw Ebony turning around and looking all around her 'What's she doing now? I bet she's seen me and this is another trick' She was too scared to speak at this moment and the first bits of the cliff started to fall, as she watched it drop into the ocean, the deterioration became more frequent soon it was breaking at her feet so she stood up. Her head was darting all around and as she couldn't see Kish she shouted as loud as she could.

"KISH!" It echoed around all the alcoves and cliffs and Kish was brought out of his dazed state he saw half of the cliff had gone and Ebony about to fall, in less than a second he teleported over to Ebony and clutched her waist tightly then teleported back to where he was sat moments ago. He wanted to hug Ebony tightly but thought it would be best to sit her on the cliff, she was in the same position with her knees hugged to her chest, except this time her head was right in her knees and you could hear her sniffing and sobbing. She stayed this way for at least 3 minutes with Kish calling her cutie frequently, as she didn't respond he began to use her real name.

"Ebony, answer me please, I'm worried about you." At this she lifted her head up and her face was covered in tear stains and her eyes were all puffy, you could tell she couldn't cry anymore, it was mostly because of shock she was crying and the thought that Kish could have left her there to die.

"Why Kish, I was so scared out there, I couldn't breathe and you thought it would be funny to leave me on a crumbling, old cliff?" Her voice was weak and her throat was soar.

"No it wasn't like that!" Ebony was now standing up and didn't know which way to go, so she just headed the way she thought was best, to the mainland.

"I thought you liked me Kish, I bet this was Pai's idea to try and get me killed!"

"If I don't like you then why did I save you huh? I have been sat on this cliff watching you the whole time, did you actually think I would have left you on that cliff if I knew it could break! I could never let that happen to you Ebony, why did you think that?"

"Oh so you were watching the whole time I could have died?" Now she had stopped still a little shocked Kish had called her Ebony.

"I was too busy thinking."

"Oh and it was so important, it could have cost me my life?"

"Oh fine you want to know?"

"Yeah I would!" Now it had gone from sadness to anger and they were shouting at each other on the cliff.

"I was thinking about how beautiful you looked with the sun reflection in your eyes and how much I liked you! Okay?" Ebony didn't answer but had such a guilty look on her face she just sat down again with her back to him.

"Oh" It was so quiet a human wouldn't hear it, but Kish did have elfin ears so he could.

"Don't worry about it" He was sitting next to her now and had pulled her onto his lap with his arms wrapped around her stomach. "The best thing is your safe here, next to me" Kish had a smile on his face and Ebony had seen this and returned it, he put his hand up to her face.

"Do you have a tissue or anything cutie?"

"Kish I'm really sorry, I feel so bad I shouldn't have said all those things to you, I was just really shaken and I know you wouldn't let anything happen to me."

"Its fine I told you, don't worry about it" Kish moved closer to Ebony and put his arms out so she wrapped her arms around his waist and embraced him.

"You never answered my question cutie; do you have a tissue to wipe off your tears?"

"No I don't but it doesn't matter nobody at the café will ask if they know what's good for them!" She was being funny again and Kish knew this was a good sign and she had over come the shock.

"Do you want me to take you home cutie?"

"Wow, your actually asking for once usually you teleport me before I can answer. But no, I want to stay here with you a little longer." They watched the sun, sitting together with Kish's arm around Ebony's waist' Ebony faked retching and held her hand round her neck as if to strangle herself. 'Cheesy, corny, too sappy and gross, did I really say all those things to him? I guess I thought it was romantic at the time…' She once again turned her head to the clock and saw the time said 11:15; she had 15 minutes until the limo came to get her. Carefully, she brought her hand up to her neck and grabbed the diamond panda on the end of it; she smiled as she looked out of her window. She then thought back to last night when he gave it to her…of course this only led to her terrifying encounter with Deep-blue.

'In her window was the same reflection of the pale, elfin face in blue robes, however he wasn't actually in her room just a reflection in her window, she threw herself out of her bed covers and faced the windows. She studied is snow white face; now a ghostly ,transparent pale thanks to the moonlight, pointed ears, cold eyes, dark black hair and dark blue robes, in all fact Ebony thought she resembled this stranger, the black hair, light cold eyes and pale skin. All her courage dissipated and she began to shake, again, he was giving off an incredibly powerful aura that brought Ebony to her knees, then it began to speak, it didn't sound clear and sharp like she thought it would it was echoed and blurred.

"Disgusting creature, how dare you not kneel to me," She tried to lift her head up but a force was pulling her head down. She prayed her parents were asleep and would not hear the commotion.

"W…who are you, are you allied with Pai, Kish and Tart?" He let off and evil laugh that winced in Ebony's ears and she flinched.

"Allied? I rule there planet, and do not familiarise their names, they are Pai, Kisshu and Taruto, you may call me Deep Blue-sama,"

"I may not," She scoffed, although it had never really been brought up, Shirogane had briefed her on the situation when she first became a mew, the aliens were trying to re-claim there earth and at the same time re-awaken their leader Deep Blue-sama but of course she didn't think it was really him, he hadn't been fully awakened yet…had he?

"How are you awakened, I thought you were still…dormant?"

"I'm only half awake, creature that is why I am only appearing before you as a reflection; you still have time before I am fully awakened, are aware and be ready…"

"I have a name it's Ebony! I hope your not visiting all the other mews; if you scare one of them I'll kill you!" She snarled, her voice had never sounded so scary, she had clenched teeth and was somehow forcing her way out of the force that was holding her down, and she pushed herself up until she was standing, fists balled.

"Don't worry…Ebony, you're the only one I'm visiting, my senses told me you have some inner-strength the other mews don't posses I just needed to test it and you've proved that, nobody has broken out of the hold my aura lets out before,"

"Well let's hope I don't get another visit from you again, it has been lovely but I'd rather not waste my breath on scum like you," She smirked and surprisingly Deep-Blue smirked back at her.

"I see the Panda has some guts, I'll knock those out of you one day," Suddenly the air-pressure became heavier than before and it pushed Ebony into a crouch.

"Also I do not see how I Deep Blue-sama can be called scum by a wretched human who has been mutated into some filthy bear that is soon to be extinct, don't worry when I rule Earth again that will change,"

"I'm sorry," She managed to stand again her legs threatening to fail her any second. "But I can't let that happen, me and my 'mutated' friends will stop you, we may be destroying the Earth as humans but it's not too late to change it, it seems by you destroying this planet will end it quicker than us polluting it," Deep Blue smirked again making Ebony glare at his reflection.

"We'll see, oh by the way don't expect your filthy alien ex-boyfriend to be alive for a lot longer, as soon as I rule I will have no need for those three and they will be killed along with planet Earth, let them know of this and I shall kill you in an instant,"

"Oh yeah and how are you going to do that when your still a stupid little reflection in my bedroom window?" The pressure in the air lifted once again making Ebony feel like she was almost floating as she stood up straight again. Ebony smirked thinking he was about to leave and get out of her life until he awoke, however she was very wrong. She could feel a slight breeze rolling around her neck and stroking her hair then she couldn't breathe as an almost invisible hand reached out from the darkness and began to strangle her.

"This should stop you being so cocky, you brat," Then the other hand touched a finger to her fore-head and images rolled into her head. There was the mews, Ryou and Keiichero, the aliens and Deep Blue all stood at this abandoned shrine, most of the mews unconscious and Ichigo just standing, however Ebony herself was no-where in sight. Ichigo shouted but the images showed no sound, she kept trying to run to Deep-Blue however he easily pushed her back by the power from his sword. Then the image faded and Deep Blue spoke again this invisible force still strangling her.

"I hope you noticed you were not in that clip that was in the future Ebony, it's the day when I will awaken and fight the mews, you however are no-where in sight, I wonder why that is? Figure it out for yourself that is…if your still alive for the last day of humanity remaining on Earth," Then the force lifted and his image was gone, nothing but a silent hum in her room. That's when she collapsed onto her bed, not under the covers, just lying on her bed.

"Why was I n…not in it? I d…don't die do I?"' Her head shook and the image faded even though his threatening and very scary appearance still drifted and lay in wait for every time she closed her eyes to re-surface, she rubbed her arms to get rid of the goose-bumps that had appeared there. Her head turned to the window once again as she heard a horn from outside on the road. Her eyes lit up as she saw a classic black limo parked outside her house, it wasn't too long; 3 metres at least but she was still happy with it. She noticed a man in a posh suit with a driver's hat on stood outside the passenger's door near the back with a smile on his face as he waved. 'He looks strangely like…but no way it can't be him…it's not? But if it is then…she can't be here either, right?' Hauling her dress up in her hands she walked down the stairs as quickly as she could. Yanking her front door open as best she could with one hand on her dress, her eyes lit up as she got a better look at the person stood next to the limo, running in her heels down her path; which wasn't the best thing to do, she ran to the figure and jumped onto him giving him a hug, with ease of effort the man picked her up and span her round.

"How's my stunning ice princess this fine day?"

"Oh I'm so great, why are you here Uncle Hiroshi?"

"Of course your mother and father wouldn't let your boss throw a 16th birthday party for you without your favourite uncle and auntie!"

"Auntie Chiyo's here as well? I thought you were both in America in that rain-forest helping those uh…abrigoniral people?"

"Yeah she's here in the limo with me and princess, it's 'Australia' and we were learning about 'aboriginal people'…" Her uncle laughed as he finally put her down.

"Yeah, of course I remember now! Don't tell me you stopped that to come back for me?"

"Why of course we did, you're our favourite niece; we wouldn't miss your 16th birthday…" Ebony heard a feminine voice say as she heard a car door slam and high-heels on the path. Ebony once again ran up to the figure and hugged her tightly before letting her go.

"Auntie Chiyo, you look so nice in that dress!" Ebony saw her auntie in a traditional green kimono with red flowers trailing the side, it went perfectly with her traditional brown hair and brown eyes; she even had a green flower in her hair to match.

"Thank you Eb' I must say you look stunning in that dress though!"

"Oh don't you start, it really doesn't even look that good, I feel like I'm dragging my bed covers around with me trying to lift this thing up!" Her Auntie Chiyo tapped Ebony's nose with her finger and smiled at her.

"Ebony, when someone gives you a compliment you're just supposed to say thanks and smile nicely," Ebony sighed and rolled her eyes.

"Thank you very much, my wonderful, stunning, Auntie Chiyo," Ebony said in a very sarcastic manner as she exaggerated her words and gave a very cheesy smile showing all her teeth. Her Auntie shoved her arm lightly and laughed as her Uncle and Auntie both got into the front ready to drive. Ebony took a seat in the back of the limo and marvelled at the beige seats and lights on the walls. There was a plasma screen fitted into the middle although the journey was so short she figured she wouldn't need it and so she sat back and smiled. 'I must be one of the luckiest girls in the world today…' with that she smiled contently and felt the engine start, her house gradually went out of view.

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