Author's Note: My quickest update EVER! I feel so proud of myself. It isn't my longest chapter, but I think it's good.
Again I didn't do research on what malls Nagoya had. I should have. *Hits self* Anyways, I just named the mall the Nagoya Central Mall(Not very original, but oh well)
Please enjoy :D R&R please!
Chapter 4: Mewty and the Beasts
The only thing that could make the work day any worse was if it rained, and to Aneeta's dismay it did. She found herself taking all the orders and running out all the food, because she was afraid Tiffany would complain or insult more customers. By the end of their shift, Aneeta felt even more exhausted then she felt after soccer practice. She slumped lazily in a chair, while Tiffany swept the mop here and there, not worried about cleaning every inch.
"Um Tiffany?" she asked.
"Yes?" Tiffany took this as an opportunity to stop working so she dropped the mop back into the bucket.
"You're not mad about um, me and Jeremy are you?" She stared at the unevenly washed floor, feeling a bit guilty.
"Of course not," Tiffany replied, rolling her eyes. "I wasn't really into him anyways. I just jump at the chance with a guy, cause I get bored of them easy." Aneeta felt a little awkward hearing that piece of information.
"You know what I like to do on rainy days?" she asked, looking suddenly happy.
"Shopping?"Aneeta sighed rolling her eyes, glad to be off the guy subject.
"Yeah," She smiled. "How'd you know?"
"Just a wild guess," she replied rolling her eyes again.
"I know what we could do today!" Tiffany squealed, shifting from one foot to the other in excitement, waving her hands up an down. Let me guess..., Aneeta thought.
"Female bonding!" She cheered. Aneeta almost fell of her chair when she herd it. She couldn't believe what Tiffany just said.
"Female...Bonding?" Aneeta repeated, making sure she heard it right.
"Yes, female bonding," she nodded excitedly. "You, me, Kita, and the Nagoya Central Mall!"
"But Kita's doing her family bonding," Aneeta said, lifting an eyebrow. "She missed yesterday because of the museum, so she has to be there today."
"That is totally weird though, how you guys ended up going the same time we did," Tiffany laughed, looking totally amazed. Aneeta sighed of relief, glad she didn't ask further questions, and of annoyance for her not putting the pieces together.
"So shopping it is!" Tiffany announced, shooting a fist into the air. "I'll go call Kita." Leaving the mop and bucket behind, she went into the kitchen to use the phone. Aneeta let out another long breath and rested her elbow on the table. She hadn't been a Mew any longer than a week, and already her life had changed so much. She had the DNA of the Indian Bat in her system, she had superpowers so she could fight aliens, she had her first part-time job here at the cafe, she had a date with Jeremy, and she was developing what she hoped to be friendships with Kita and Tiffany. Real friendships. She's surprised she hasn't done anything to mess them up, and hopes she doesn't.
"Aneeta!" Tiffany stuck her head back out of the kitchen. "Do you know Kita's number?"
"Isn't it in your cell?" Aneeta sighed, but couldn't help but smile.
"It's in the lounge," she whined. "I don't feel like going to get it." Aneeta rolled her eyes and reluctantly got out of her chair.
\NMM/
"I cant!" Kita shouted through the phone. "I've gotta beat my sister at SORRY! This weekend game is SORRY! And I've gotta have my revenge!"
"Can't you get revenge on her tomorrow or some other time?" Tiffany sighed, looking aggravated. She and Aneeta had the phone in between them, so they could both hear.
"NO!" Kita cried, shocked at what she said. "How could you suggest such a thing? Bad enough I missed out yesterday!"
"It's a game," Aneeta groaned. "Come on. How can you pass up an opportunity to get free clothes?"
"I can't....FREE?" Kita shrieked, totally caught off guard.
"Yeah," Tiffany nodded. "I just got my allowance today, so I got money to burn. So I thought why not by you guys something. We were gonna pick out something cute for Aneeta to wear on her date."
"I so wanna be there for that!" Kita whined, sounding torn between the two things she really wanted to do. "Hold on a sec."
"I knew that'd get her," tiffany grinned, winking at Aneeta. The two of them waited patiently, hearing muffled voices come through the phone.
"I can come!" Kita cheered, returning after several more long moments.
"Okay, so you want us to come pick you up?" Aneeta asked, feeling suddenly very excited/
"I'll be waiting.
\NMM/
Pacing angrily back and forth across the roof of a very tall building, Rinya glared at the pathetic city. They went about their business as normal, but little did they know their world would soon be shook to pieces in order to find it. She just had to find it, but she most importantly had to keep those Mew Mew's from getting in her way. No matter what she brought up, they always seemed to take tit down. The frustration of seeing her favorite lizard being destroyed really sent waves of resentment through her system.
"I will defeat those Mews," She told herself. "I will do it."
"If you continue on as you are you won't." Rinya spun around to see Maken standing on the edge of the building, arms held behind his back.
"What are you doing here?" she demanded through clenched teeth.
"Dlender sent me," he replied, not frightened by her attitude. "She wants me to how much progress you've had."
"Well I mentioned to patrol one part of the city before my lizard gave away its position when it was hungry," she sighed. "The Mews then found it and killed it. Like all my other pets."
"Perhaps you should take another approach to it," he suggested.
"Oh, I am," she smiled, a plan suddenly coming to mind.
"Do not fail again," he warned, before disappearing. "Or Dlender will make sure there will be dire consequences."
"Oh I won't fail," Rinya snickered.
\NMM/
"So where do you want to go first?" Tiffany asked when they arrived at the mall, relieved to be out of the rain. Aneeta had been here a million times before, but since Tiffany had offered to spend $100 on them each, she looked at it in a whole new way. The complex was three floors high, with a fountain on the main floor, and statues of various people and animals scattered everywhere, made of purple-tinted medal. The roof was made of glass, so the gloomy sky could be seen, but it didn't sour the trio's mood the slightest bit. There were a million clothing stores, a handful of shoe stores, a large bookstore with a coffee shop inside, a three floored electronic center, a few toy stores and a food court that took up almost half of the first floor. Aneeta was so excited, but still felt uneasy about using someone else's money, so she held back the urge to run off, and followed Kita.
They spent almost a half an hour in this one children's clothing store, helping Kita choose an outfit. She kept changing her mind. First she wanted something cute and girly, then a sporty outfit, then something preppy, but finally settled on a casual outfit.
"I can spend the rest later," she grinned, skipping on ahead with her bag in her hand. "It's time to find Aneeta something for Tuesday!" Aneeta couldn't help but blush a little.
"So what are you guys going to do?" Tiffany asked as they climbed onto the escalator.
"Well, we were going to an early movie," Aneeta replied, playing with her jacket. "Then we were going to this new fast food place."
"Is he paying?" she cocked an eyebrow, and looked very serious.
"W-well," Aneeta stammered. "He offered..."
"Good," she nodded, looking pleased. "That's a good thing about guys; they offer to pay for everything. And when they do, always take advantage of it." Aneeta wasn't to sure about doing that, but didn't mention it as she followed Tiffany into a large clothing store.
"It's perfect!" Tiffany squealed when Aneeta emerged from the dressing room. She'd spent an hour, yes an hour, putting the right outfit together, when in the end, it only consisted of three things. She took Aneeta's hand and yanked her in front of the mirror.
"You look awesome," Kita gasped in delight. Aneeta look at her reflection in surprise. She did look nice. She had on a strapless orange dress that stopped at her knees, with a cropped jean jacket over top. On her feet were gray laced boots that gave the outfit its 'edge', as Tiffany put it, and a little bit of height to her.
"It's not the most high fashion outfit," Tiffany said, looking only slightly upset. "But it is so for you. The dress say 'I can be girl', while the boots shout 'But I'm a tomboy on the inside'!"
"I think it's great," Kita grinned in agreement. "But what are you going to do about her hair?" Tiffany pursed her lips in thought.
"You are defiantly not leaving it in this ponytail," she protested, pulling at the elastic.
"Huh?" Aneeta panicked. She always had her hair in a ponytail. Even at home she had it up. She only let it out at the Cafe. Tiffany finally manage to let loose her dark hair, allowing it to fall to her waist. She raked her fingers through it, bringing some over her shoulders.
"Oh yeah, defiantly leaving it out," Tiffany nodded. "Plus he likes it out."
"How do you know?" Aneeta gasped, blushing again.
"He's the type," She smiled. "Oh, you can wear a hat! Oh, one of those cute little caps I saw at that one store. It's not exactly a baseball cap, but...you know...Oh, I'll show you later."
"An orange one," Kita nodded.
"Of course," Tiffany smiled. A weird noise made them both look as Aneeta questioningly.
"Sorry," she giggled. "I'm hungry."
"Then let's eat!" Kita announced. "I'm dieing for some udon."
\NMM/
"Yum!" Kita declared when she joined Aneeta and Tiffany at their table. Aneeta had gotten a tray of sushi, and Tiffany had a salad with dressing on the side.
"You guys wanna go somewhere after this?" Tiffany asked as they dug into their food. She just twiddled her fork in the mound of lettuce.
"Of course," Kita muffled through a mouthful of food. "I still got money to spend."
"We could go to the book store," Aneeta suggested. "There's this one book I wanna get." Tiffany nodded, finally putting some salad in her mouth.
"We interrupted this program for a special news bulletin," came from the speakers of the giant TV's that hung in the center of the food court. The girl's looked over out of curiosity.
"This is Mizuki Onozawa reporting. This footage was just received from the Nagoya Historical Museum."
"What?" Kita gasped, choking on her food.
"The museum?" Aneeta watched with wide eyes as the TV showed two girls with animal parts take on a mutated dinosaur and win.
"This footage was taken yesterday, where this mysterious creature attacked two citizens. Two girls, who look to be members of Tokyo Mew Mew, came to their aid, destroying the beast. There are no certain details as to where the creature came from, but it can be assumed that it is not from Earth."
"Obviously," Kita sighed, but the TV had her full attention.
"Could Japan be under yet another alien threat? Could Tokyo Mew Mew have come to Nagoya? Only time will be able to answer these questions. You're regularly scheduled program will proceed after one last showing of the footage. This has been Mizuki Onozawa." The girls watched the video again awestruck.
"That can't be me!" Tiffany shouted in disgust, breaking the silence. "The camera must add 10 pounds.
"SH!" Kita hissed at her. "Not so loud!"
"What's Tokyo Mew Mew?" Aneeta asked. "You think they may be the first Mews?"
"They must be," Kita nodded in agreement.
"Oh,oh!" Tiffany gasped. "I'm guessing they're from Tokyo!" Aneeta nd Kita stared at her blankly.
"That makes us Nagoya Mew Mew!" Kita grinned, shrugging off what Tiffany had just said.
"Let's try not to bring anymore attention to ourselves though," Aneeta suggested. "Eliot might get annoyed by all the publicity." The others nodded, and as if on cue, a loud yowl shook everything.
"Does it always have to start with a battle cry?" Kita sighed, noticing the pattern. They heard people scream in terror, and everyone around them fed off the panic, and quickly evacuated, with the same amount of fear. Aneeta and Kita ditched their food, and pushed their way through the crowd. Tiffany gathered their bags tenderly, and hid them in a nearby plant. She was about to follow when another feline-like yowl came from up above, causing her to freeze in place. Looking up she saw a giant tiger-looking beast perched on the railing of the second floor. It was black, with yellow lightning shaped stripes, hair sticking out randomly all over its body. She was left alone in the food court staring into its bloodthirsty eyes,
"AH!" Tiffany screamed, finally able to move. She ran in the opposite direction Aneeta and Kita had taken, and the tiger followed, leaping powerfully off of the railing.
"Why me?" She cried, struggling to stay ahead in her high heels.
\NMM/
"Here looks good," Aneeta said, and Kita nodded in response.
"Mew Mew Plum!"
"Mew Mew Licorice!"
"MEWTAMORPHOSIS!" Kissing her pendent, Aneeta was whisked away by a cool night breeze. Her clothes melted away, and her Mewfit appeared peace by piece. Watching the full moon bask everything in a silver light, her eyes and hair became dark purple. Extending out her hands arms, a pair of bat wings and eats extended with her. She used the wings to lift her up into the night sky, and struck her final pose in front of the full moon, as her pendent appeared around her neck.
Kita gave her pendent a big long lasting kiss, and found herself in her candy land. Leaping through the child's dream land, licorice peels wrapped them selves around her, creating her Mewfit. She leaped through the waterfall, dieing her hair red. Catching the cherry, a pair of ears and a tail appeared after she took a big bite out of it. Her eyes turned to red, and she through the cherry up in the air, jumping up onto a stick of licorice, striking her final pose as her pendent appeared around her neck.
"Let's split up," Plum suggested. "Holler if you find it."
"Gotcha," Licorice gave her a thumbs up, before sprinting off. Plum decided to take to the sky, so she could cover more ground easier. She didn't go very far when she caught site of a lion-looking alien. It was orange. Instead of a full main, it only had long white hair coming out of the top of its head, and stuck out like a Mohawk, and curved forward. White hair grew from its face like facial hair, making it look elderly. It also looked kinda shaggy because excess white hair extended from its stomach.
"I found it!" Licorice shrieked. Huh?, Plum thought. That means there's more than one. The lion saw her, and a growl erupted from its throat.
"Nice kitty," she chuckled nervously.
\NMM/
Tiffany was astonished with how fast she could run in such skinny heels. She had better balance then she remembered. She figured she could keep this up until she got rescued, but then she realized sh was headed toward an escalator.
"And it's going down!" She whined. "I'm trapped! I'm going to become cat food, and end up in a mutant sized litter box! I still never got to buy that bag I saw on the internet from Italy. Or that necklace from India, or-" She felt a sudden jolt, and her cat-like reflexes finally kicked in. When she reached the escalator, she pushed off the ground as hard as she could, and took the stairs 20 at a time.
"Oh, yeah," she laughed stupidly when she reached the top. "I've got Mew Powers." The tiger neared the bottom of the escalator as she took out her pendent.
"Don't mess with the Iberian Lynx!" She warned, kissing her pendent. "Mew Mew Rose! Mewtamorphosis!" She was brought to the beautiful rose garden, and she made her way toward the gazebo. As she did the roses around her helped her to create her Mewfit. Leaping up on top of the gazebo, a strong breeze blew against her, dieing her hair black, and rippling pink streaks through it. Her eyes were now dark pink, and she felt a pair of ears and a tail pop out of her body. Her pendent appeared around her neck, and she struck her final pose.
"Mute phones!" A pair of pink leopard printed headphones appeared on her head, as the tiger started its way up the stairs.
"ROSE AMPLIFIED SOUND SHOCK!" She shouted into her microphone. The tiger remained uneffected, and continued to plunge its way up the escalator.
"WHA?" Rose wailed. "Why didn't it work?" She had to quickly start running again before it caught up to her.
"Maybe it's immune to the frequency?" Plum suggested, swooping down to glide along side her. "You're a cat, it's a cat. You're not effected, so maybe it's not effected either."
"Then I'll increase the frequency," Rose huffed, becoming tired of running.
"If you do that, you'll be hurting yourself along with it," Plum sighed.
"Then what do I do?" She demanded, rounding a corner, and nearly running into a statue.
"Try projecting your voice into the headphones," Plum instructed. "Try using them as the weapon instead of a shield."
"Then won't we be the one's being attacked?" Rose looked so confused.
"Put the headphones on the cat," Plum groaned, tired of spelling everything out for her.
"OH!" The light bulb finally went off in her head. She waved her hand and the headphones disappeared from her head, and appeared on the tiger's head. She turned a dial on her microphone, and shouted again "ROSE AMPLIFIED SOUND SHOCK!" The tiger let out a shrilling yowl and collapsed.
"You stunned it!" Plum shouted in excitement, stopping. She was about to summon her jungle chuck when Licorice ran into view, carrying her paint brush, with a leopard hot on her tail.
"LICORICE RIBBON PAINT BLAST!" Rainbow paint shot out from her brush, wrapping around the tiger, causing it to thrash around before finally disintegrating.
"There's another one?" Rose gasped, seeing the leopard.
"And a lion," Plum added. "I've got an idea though." She took off into the air, summoning her jingle chuck. She stretched it as far as she wanted and dropped one end so it dangled just above the floor. She started flying in the opposite direction Licorice and the leopard were going giving her chuck a few shakes, causing it to jingle. The leopard stopped its pursuit on Licorice and watched the bells go by. It couldn't control its inner cat instincts, so its eyes widened and followed.
"That's amazing," Licorice laughed, finally able to stop running. "Even alien cats like things that jingle." She readied her brush as Plum brought it around again.
"LICORICE RIBBON PAINT BLAST!" Paint blasted the leopard, causing it to snap out of its kitty-trance, but not soon enough. It disintegrated as the tiger had.
"One more," Plum sighed.
"How do we get it to come out?" Rose wondered.
"I could be a distraction," Plum volunteered holding up her jingle chuck.
"Yeah, we'll go hide," Licorice grinned. "I've got a plan!" She pulled Rose along, and hid in the nearest store. Plum nervously looked around. She wasn't sure where the lion was going to come from. Making the chuck small, she used it as a skipping rope, keeping up a steady beat. Just when she thought it wouldn't fall for it, the lion leaped from the third floor, and landed only a few feet away from her.
"EEEK!" she screeched, jumping back a bit. It eyed her evilly, and opened its mouth, revealing a row of abnormally sharp teeth. Come on guys, she pleaded silently, swallowing a lump in her throat. Everything suddenly went black, and two spot lights came out of no where. One shone on her and the lion, and the other was on Rose.
"Welcome viewers," She winked at no one in particular. "and welcome to Mew Idol! Oour first contestant will be singing a Tom Jones classic, and is dedicating it to that hunk of feline muscle over there." Plum and the lion stared at her in disbelief. What was she doing?
"Don't forget your Mute Phones big boy." She blew a kiss at the lion, and headphones appeared on its head. "So without further delay, here's Mew Licorice singing 'What's New Pussycat?'!" Rose stepped out of the spotlight, and Licorice stepped in with Rose's microphone.
"What's new pussycat? Woah, woah, woah! What's nee pussycat? Woah, woah woah!" She sang into the microphone. Wow, she is good, Plum thought. Too bad the lion wasn't enjoying it. It was rolling around in pain. Plum saw this as her opportunity, and leaped into the air creating some distance between her and the lion.
"PLUM NIGHT PIERCE!" She swung her chuck at it, and it instantly straightened, piercing its chest, fading into nothing.
"We have a winner!" Rose declared. "Our first ever Mew idol is mew Licorice!"
"Thank you, thank you," Licorice bowed, trying to look humble, and catching a rose bouquet that was thrown at her. "You're too kind!"
"Over doing it much?" Plum laughed.
"Never," she grinned in response.
\NMM/
Rinya was fuming, watching the Mews finish off her last cat from the roof.
"HOW!?!" She growled. "How could they beat them? There were there! THREE! Oh I'm gonna-"
"Go see Dlender." Maken appeared beside her, and put a hand on her shoulder. She looked up at him with fear in her eyes.
"She wants to see you," He spoke calmly. Rinya took one last frustrating look at the Mews, and vanished with him.
\NMM/
"Excuse me!" A two men came out from behind a statue, one with a microphone, the other with a camera, and raced up to them. "Are you guys really part of Tokyo Mew Mew?" He shoved the microphone in Plum's face, and the other had the camera steadily on her.
"Uhhh..." she was at a loss for words. She was never really good in front of cameras.
"Of course not!" Licorice boasted, pulling the microphone to her, and the camera followed. "We're Nagoya Mew Mew! Nagoya's very own superheroes!" So much for not bringing anymore attention to ourselves, Plum thought.
"So we have our own team of Mew Mews now?" he asked.
"Of course," she nodded.
"What can you tell us about these ali-"
"Sorry, we gotta get going," Plum interrupted, tearing Licorice away. "You know, we gotta get ready for when the next attack happens."
"These attacks will continue?" The man urged, trying to follow them. Dammit, me and my big mouth, she scolded herself silently.
"Bye!" Taking Licorice in her arms, she took off, and Rose kept up by running.
\NMM/
"We're gonna be on the news!" Kita cheered, while they made their way back to the cafe to tell Wesley and Eliot about the triple cat attack.
"Yeah, hopefully they won't be pissed," Aneeta sighed. They managed to get their bags from their hiding place after turning back to their normal selves.
"Eliot's too uptight about these things," Tiffany huffed as they entered the cafe. "It's not that big of a deal. We save people, so we should get some recognition."
"MAL!" MAL flew from the kitchen, and into Kita, hugging what she could with her little arms.
"Hey there," Kita laughed. "Whatcha up to?"
"MMM! LLL!" She pulled them toward the kitchen.
"Eliot and Wesley are I the basement?" Aneeta asked, making sure that's what she was trying to tell them.
"MMM!" she nodded. They walked into the kitchen, and as soon as they opened the door to the basement, Kita's excited voice greeted them.
"We're Nagoya Mew Mew! Nagoya's very own superheroes!"
"Too late," Aneeta groaned, leading them down the stairs.
"What's this?" Eliot demanded before they even reached the bottom.
"We got ambushed!" Kita shouted, trying to look innocent. "We couldn't keep them away."
"Sure you didn't," he said, rolling his eyes.
" Sorry, we gotta get going," her own voice came from the TV screen. "You know, we gotta get ready for when the next attack happens."
"These attacks will continue?"
"Way to make things more complicated," Eliot scolded.
"I'm sorry," Aneeta apologized bowing her head.
"You don't need to apologize," Tiffany told her, straightening her up. "Give her a break. We beat the cats, so that all that matters really."
"Cats?" Wesley asked, turning around in the chair. "With an 's'?"
"Yup," Kita nodded. "There was three of them!"
"I'm surprised they didn't show it yet," Eliot commented looking at the Tv just as a mutated cat showed up on the screen. "Oh, there it is."
"Be happy we at least handled ourselves well," Tiffany snapped.
"You screamed like a helpless little girl," Kita snickered.
"What did you say?" Tiffany sneered. Kita laughed and ran back up the stairs with Tiffany right behind her.
"Keep those two in line," Eliot warned her.
"I am," she nodded. At least, I think I am.... She picked up her bags again and went back up stairs, with MAL right behind her.
\NMM/
Disclaimer: I give full credit to Tom Jones for creating such an awesome song.
Song used: What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones
Preview of Chapter 5:
Small But Mewty
Aneeta – Please, oh please, oh please let nothing go wrong!
Kta – Yeah, you got a daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate. Aneeta and Jeremy sitting in a tree...
Aneeta – There's also my soccer game I've gotta worry about!
Tiffany – Oh, isn't it some semi thing?
Aneeta – Yeah semi-finals
Tiffany – Oh, so I bought this dress for nothing?
Kita – Let's work outside!
Tiffany – Picnic!
Wesley – I'll whip up something special!
Girls – HEY! This is Preview is for Mews only!
Eliot – What are you going to do about it?
*Girls transform and pull out weapons*
Wesley – We'll be leaving now.
Kita – Go Aneeta! Cafe, working, Soccer player, Cute boy dating girl by day! Secret alien fighting Mew Mew by night!
Aneeta – You guys do that stuff too.
Kita – Not the dating part. I think boys are too gross.
Tiffany – And I don't play soccer. Can you say 'gross grass stains'?
Kita & Aneeta – Gross grass stains!
*Girls leave and MAL pops in*
MAL – MMMMMM! LLLLL!(Translation: I'm gonna help out! I'm a part of the team too!)
Author's Note: This is in case you didn't get what Tiffany meant when she said she bought the dress for nothing. My school has dances called Semi-Formals or Semi for short. So when she heard the word Semi, she thought of a dance.