\AN/
I doubt this will be at all scary. :P I just wanted to attempt a ghost chapter. I changed the name of the chapter, because it sounded more appropriate. They are more like spooks instead of horrors. :P
Enjoy!
WARNING: Sorry if any of this freaks you out.
Chapter 8: Spooks of Mewgoya
The Mews decided to meet up after school before heading to their Friday shift at the Cafe. Aneeta picked up Kita from school, while Jeremy walked Hay home for her, then they walked to Kotona's school to pick her up, and met Tiffany at an ice cream parlor.
"You think we should buy the ice cream here?" Kotona asked nervously as they lined up to order.
"Why not?" Kita grinned. "We could use something different. It's not like we're actually betraying the Cafe."
"But what if Wesley gets offended?" She really looked worried.
"He'll understand," Aneeta smiled. "He's nicer then Eliot is."
"I'll have a vanilla cone dipped in chocolate please!" Kita grinned. "Come on Kotona! The cafe doesn't have chocolate dip ice cream cones. This place does."
"Make it two!" Aneeta chimed, taking our her wallet.
"I'll just have a plain vanilla, but on a waffle cone," Tiffany grinned. "At the cafe, they give you bowls to eat out of, but here, you actually eat the whole thing!"
"Well...," Kotona hesitated, playing with her tie.
"Make it three chocolate dipped vanilla cones," Kita corrected. "Come on Kotona! Whip out that cash!" The little Mew tackled her, pulling her wallet out of her purse.
"That's stealing!" Kotona squealed, getting up.
"You know you wanna buy it," she grinned mischievously, taking out some money. Kotona stood silently as the girls paid for their ice cream, and had to have the cone shoved into her hands when it was made.
"Don't think of it as betrayal," Tiffany laughed, as they left the parlor. "Think of it as checking out the competition."
"You'd know a lot about checking out now wouldn't you?" Kita snickered under her breath. Aneeta heard what she said, and couldn't help but laugh as well.
"Isn't it cool how we all work Fridays?" Tiffany smiled, not catching on. "We all have different schedules, but we all are working on Fridays. I'd much rather be hanging out with my friends though, but what can I do?"
"I say we keep it as a tradition!" Kita shouted, waving her ice cream in the air, without it surprisingly falling off. "Every Mew must work Friday night!"
"That's sounds good to me," Aneeta nodded in agreement.
"Okay," Kotona replied, finally eating her ice cream.
"Now that isn't so bad now is it?" Kita laughed, skipping on ahead.
"I guess not," she shrugged.
"Don't worry," Aneeta smiled reassuringly. "Wesley won't mind. He's very understanding."
\NMM/
"You....were eating ice cream....from somewhere else?" Wesley said, looking hurt.
"We were hungry!" Kita whined, looking teary-eyed.. "We didn't mean anything by it!"
"Of course we still love your desserts," Tiffany pouted, looking innocent. "You're the best Wesley!"
"Was the ice cream better than mine?" he asked, looking a little doubtful. None of the girl answered, but looked down guiltily.
"It was that place where they dip your ice cream in chocolate wasn't it?" he asked, looking upset now. Again, the girls didn't answer.
"It was chocolate!" Kita cried, flailing her arms. "Chocolate dipped ice cream! How can you expect us to resist? We're young, and we love sugar!"
"I don't think your helping," Aneeta sighed, patting her head.
"And I think its only you that craves chocolate," Tiffany added. "I try to avoid the stuff as much as possible. Too many calories."
"I told them not to," Kotona glared at them. "Then Kita stole my wallet to pay for an extra ice cream."
"You could have just throw it away," Eliot said, walking into the lobby, arms crossed.
"And waist a perfectly good ice cream!" she gasped, looking insulted. The girls looked at her surprised, then she blushed when she realized how she must have sounded.
"I'm sorry," she sighed, looking down at the floor.
"Don't worry about it Wesley," Eliot smiled, slapping a hand down on his shoulder. "You're still number one in my book."
"Thanks," he mumbled. "I'll go prepare for tonight's shift then." Still looking upset, he left the girls and Eliot, retreating to the kitchen, where he pulled down the blind so they couldn't see inside.
"See!" Kotona shouted. "We did hurt his feeling!"
"I thought he'd understand," Aneeta sighed, looking painfully guilty. "I feel bad now."
"You've got more important stuff to worry about," Eliot snapped, cutting in on their discussion.
"How can you be like that?" Kita snapped. "He's your best friend!"
"Yes, and he is also a grown man," he pointed out. "He won't stay down for long. He's doing what he loves best, and besides, he's heard worse then what you guys said today. Anyways, I've got an assignment for you."
"Like a mission?" Kita's gasped, eyes glowing in excitement.
"I guess you could say that," Eliot nodded. "After your shift today, I would like you girls to go out and scout out any aliens."
"Wait, we get off at 10:00," Aneeta said, putting her hands on her hips.
"So?" Eliot shrugged, folding his arms.
"It's way too late to be gallivanting around the town," she protested, "and it's too late for Kita to be out."
"I don't mind staying out," she chirped. "I like the dark!"
"Anyone else with objections?" Eliot asked, ignoring Aneeta. The other two just shook their heads.
"Then it's settled," he nodded..
"B-but...," Aneeta stammered.
"You're not afraid of the dark are you?" Eliot asked, looking very amused.
"Of course not," Aneeta scoffed, marching off to the employee lounge.
"She's afraid," Tiffany whispered.
"Oh yeah," Kotona and Kita nodded in agreement.
\NMM/
Her body was weak. Her limbs creaked with pain as she changed her position. It hurt just to breath. The door to the cold empty room opened with an annoying squeak, and in stepped Maken.
"What do you want?" Rinya snapped, feeling pain from moving her lips.
"I came to check on you?" he said dryly.
"Oh, making sure I stay in pain?" she asked, not looking u pat him, for she knew it would only send more pain signals to her brain.
"Exactly," he replied, stepping toward her. She flinched, and squeezed her eyes shut. She knew the pain she felt with those small actions was nothing compared to what would happen next. Instead of hitting her over the head like he had three times a day since she stopped doing field work, he took her face in his hand, and lifted it to look her dead in the eye. She opened hers, and stared back with as much resentment as she could, to show he could never truly break her. He frowned at her, but finally released her.
"Dlender says your punishment is over," he said, with his back turned to her. "But you are to remain here until she says." At least I won't be beat anymore, she thought.
"So what do you plan to do?" she asked, tilting her head slightly, causing herself more pain. "Those Mews aren't push overs."
"No," he agreed. "but they are young. And they have their fears." With that, he left her alone again.
\NMM/
"You're staying out later?" her dad repeated, not sounding too happy.
"Our shift is being extended slightly," Kotona replied nervously. "and since its Friday, I need to help with stocking up on things." She hated lieing to her parents.
"You know your mother and I don't like you staying out that late," he said, sounding angry. "And you have studying to do."
"I study all the time," she sighed, "and its not like its a school night."
"And if you cut back on studying, you won't get into a good university," he replied, not sounding pleased.
"Please Dad?" she pleaded. "How would that look on my resume if I got fired for not doing my full potential at my first job?" Silence followed, and Kotona anxiously paced around the staff lounge. She didn't see anything wrong with it. But knowing her father, he was probably coming up with an excuse for her not to, just like he had one for everything else she wanted to do.
"As long as you are home before midnight," he said, sounding very stern. "If you come home at 12:01 you will be grounded. And I mean 12:00 on our clocks."
"Don't worry, my watch is in sync with the house clocks," she nodded, a huge grin on her face. "Thanks dad."
"Yeah," he mumbled. "Behave."
"I will," she assured. "See you then." She hung up her Mew Cell, and squealed. She'd never had such a late curfew before. She knew this wouldn't be possible if it weren't for the fact it was work related, but it still excited her. Her happiness was soon replaced by guilt however. She hated lieing. The reason she was going out was work related, but not the type of work her dad thought it was.
She then heard a few screams and a crash, followed by more screams. Kotona's heartrate picked up, when she thought the worst. Not here!, she thought, dashing toward the door. As soon as she entered the dining room, she nearly slipped and fell on her butt. The entire floor was covered with smoothie. Kotona looked around and saw almost the entire dining room a mess. Chairs were toppled over, even a table had its legs in the air, there was chocolate cake splattered on the wall, customers were complaining, on their feet and on their butts, and Tiffany stood obliviously amongst the chaos, with her Mew Cell to her ear, and an overturned pitcher, with coffee dripping off the table next to her.
"What happened?" Kotona demanded, sliding over to where Kita was grabbing a mop out of the closet.
"Tiffany," was all she said, in a frustrated voice, sliding the mop and bucket to start cleaning. Aneeta was helping some customers to their feet, and Eliot was finally on the scene, taking Tiffany's phone away, and telling her to to back into the kitchen. She gave him a snotty look, and marched away.
"This is worse than what Bridget use to do," Wesley sighed, scratching the back of his head.
"What did she do?" Kotona asked, sliding over to him, and nearly losing her balance.
"She took the coffee out to a table of customers," Wesley began. "She got a phone call on the way, and answered it. She screamed, sounding excited, and swung her arm out; the one with the coffee."
"Oh no," Kotona gasped.
"The coffee spilled all over the customers at that table," he continued, not looking pleased. "Of course they pushed back in shock, and this caused a couple to fall off their seats. One bumped into Aneeta, who knocked over another customer, who flew onto that table, and knocked it over, causing the cake at that table to hit the wall. When Aneeta was bumped into, her tray of 12 smoothies spilled onto only the floor thank goodness, but another customer slipped, and I think that's all."
"How can one girl cause so much damage?" Kotona asked, bewildered.
"I'm not sure," Wesley shrugged. "You better help clean up. This is going to take a while."
\NMM/
"After this we get to go alien hunting!" Kita chimed excitedly, washing one of the tables quickly. It had taken them awhile to finally clean up the place, and now they were cleaning up a second time since their shift was no done. Aneeta only rolled her eyes as Kita skipped by. She didn't think it was safe to be going out on a mission this late. It was dark....very dark. Not that she was completely afraid of the dark, she just didn't like walking around aimlessly when the sun wasn't up. She could handle being in her room at night, but if she had to leave, she'd turn on the lights as she went to her destination. So you could say, she was semi-afraid of the dark.
As if planned, the lights of the Cafe went out, causing the place to become entire black.
"AH!" Aneeta screamed, unintentionally, dropping to her knees, and crawling under the nearest table.
"Eliot," Kita sighed, sounding irritated. The lights came on soon after, with the sound of Eliot laughing.
"That was uncalled for!" Aneeta shouted, jumping up from under the table.
"I was just making sure you were afraid of the dark," he smirked.
"I'm not afraid," she snapped. "I just find it...unsettling."
"You're still afraid," he repeated. Aneeta only made a face at him, and continued to mop the floor.
"When can I have my phone back?" Tiffany whined, sulking into the dining room.
"When I say so," Eliot replied, folding his arms.
"You're not my father!" she snapped. "You can't take it away!"
"Well I'm paying for them, so I can do what I want with them," he shrugged, turning away form her.
"Awww!" Tiffany cried, flailing her arms like a little kid. "This isn't fair!"
"Then maybe you'll learn your lesson," Eliot replied passively. "Don't carry your phone with you when you are working, especially if its on."
"Stop acting like my father!" she shouted, flailing her arms again. "My father doesn't even act like that anyways."
"So you must be a spoiled brat then," Eliot concluded, cocking an eyebrow in accusation.
"I'm not a brat!" Tiffany snapped, putting her hands on her hips in frustration. "I may be spoiled, but I am not a brat!"
"How long do you think they'll go on?" Kotona whispered to Kita.
"Who knows?" She shrugged, checking her watch. "Oh look!We get to go ghost hunting!"
"We're going alien hunting," Aneeta corrected, feeling a knot tie up in her stomach.
"Ghosts are cooler!" Kita grinned widely, jumping onto her back. "You never know if they're going to appear, they can give you chills by walking through you, and they can even possess you..."
"Stop it!" Aneeta shrieked, shaking her off.
"Are you afraid of ghost too?" Kotona giggled.
"No," Aneeta huffed, pulling at her skirt. "It's just Kita made them scarier then they actually are."
"It's all in good fun," Kita laughed. "Come on! Let's go get changed." The three of them headed toward the employees lounge, while Tiffany and Eliot were still arguing.
"Hey Tiffany, it's time to get ready!" Kotona called over her shoulder.
"Oh," Tiffany gasped, turning toward them. "Coming!" Forgetting about her little argument with Eliot, she skipped over to them, leaving Eliot shaking his head at her.
\NMM/
The four mews cautiously made there way down the darkened streets of Nagoya. They each carried a flashlight that was supplied by Wesley, to help them see. So far the girls have walked in silence. Kita was buzzing with anticipation, shining her flashlight on almost everything they passed. Kotona was anxious, constantly checking her watch to make sure she would get home late. Tiffany was bored, sighing dramatically, and playing with her hair. And Aneeta was nervous as heck, staying in between Kotona and Tiffany, with Kita in front of them. She was constantly looking over her shoulder in paranoia whenever she heard something out of the ordinary.
"Let's tell ghost stories," Kita snickered mischievously, turning to face them so she was walking backwards.
"No!" Aneeta whined. "Being out here at night is bad enough!"
"Ya, very scary ones!" Kotona agreed, excitedly.
"Oh let's, let's!" Tiffany cheered. "I'll go first." The girls hurried across the street before Tiffany cleared her throat to begin.
"It was a week before Christmas began," Tiffany began, trying to sound spooky. "A girl was shopping with her mother, when she saw the cutest pair of shoes. She asked her mother for them, she said she'd have to wait until Christmas. Her mother said this with a big smile, so this excited her a lot. Christmas day rolls around, and the girl opens all of her present right away, but none of them has the pair of shoes. At the last minute, her mom holds out a pretty box, with a cute ribbon. She opens it...." She pauses to add suspense, which had Kita and Kotona lean in closer, and Aneeta shiver.
"...and inside...," she added, with a wicked smile. "...was the gaudiest pair of shoes you could ever imagine!" The girls nearly fell over in disappointment.
"And they were two sizes to small!" she added, sounding devastated. "Oh that poor little girl!"
"That was horrible Tiffany," Kita sighed, just horrible. "Totally failure."
"Actually I can," Kita smirked, tilting her flash light up, so it shown form under her face, making her look a little spooky.
"Like I can do that," Tiffany scoffed, turning her flashlight completely around, shining the light directly in her eyes.
"AHH!" she cried, dropping it. "My eyes! My beautiful eyes! I'm blind! I swear I've gone blind."
"No you're not," Aneeta covered her mouth, stiffing her laugh, but unintentionally snorted. Kotona then burst out laughing, shining her light in Kita's eyes by accident.
"Hey watch it!" she shouted. "This is no time for laughing! I'm suppose to be sending chills down your spines!"
"I gotta settle down my funny bone first," Aneeta snorted. She knew it was a bad joke, but Kotona couldn't help but continue laughing.
"I'm blind, and you guys are laughing!" Tiffany whined. "You guys are horrible."
"You're not blind," Kita sighed, rolling her eyes.
"Yes I am," she squeaked.
"Oh look, that stores having a sale tomorrow," Kita said in a monotone voice.
"Where, where?" Tuffany gasped, picking her flashlight up again, and pointing it at every store close to them
"Oh look, you can see," Kita replied, keeping her monotone voice. Tiffany blinked in astonishment, and looked down at herself.
"It's a miracle!" She cheered, hop in tiny hops because of her high heels. "It's a beautiful miracle! I thought I'd never get to see myself again."
"Oh boy," Kotona sighed, shaking her head. "Isn't there a minimum requirement of common sense in order to be a mew?"
"Who knew little miss shy was so rude," Tiffany scoffed, flipping her hair over her shoulder.
"Don't tell me you guys are gong to start fighting now," Aneeta sighed, shaking her head.
"She started it!" Tiffany pointed at Kotona accusingly, sounding like a little kid. The girls only rolled their eyes, and began walking again.
"Okay, so here's my story," Kita grinned, pointing her flashlight up at her face again. "There once was a man. Who fought in WWII. His name was Kanji Inihara. When he returned home, he was a changed man, his whole family knew it; his wife and two kids. One by one, on stormy nights, he shot them with his army gun, all of them in the heart, and buried them in his backyard, using the excuse that they left him because they thought he was crazy."
"He is crazy," Tiffany shivered. 'That's so horrible. How could he kill his family?"
"It didn't stop there," Kita grinned, and the way it looked from the angle of the light, made Aneeta's heart jump. "A few weeks later, someone heard him shouting, followed by a loud bang, and a van rolled down the street at a crazy speed, but there was no driver."
"So why was it empty?" Kotona asked, tilting her head in confusion.
"They say he shot the man in the heart, then took him into his backyard to bury him, leaving the car to roll down the street without a driver," she shrugged, with a devious smirk. "They say that you can see the car rolling down that same street in the middle of the night. No driver at the wheel."
"Of course that's not real," Aneeta laughed. "There's no such thing as a ghost car."
"No," she agreed, "but there is such thing as a ghost van, cause that's what that is." Aneeta rolled her eyes.
"Do you have a story Kotona?" Tiffany asked, nudging the shorter mew, with her elbow.
"My brother told me about this one story," she nodded. "He said
that there was this one shop in town, a shop of porcelain dolls-"
"I already don't like where this is going," Aneeta pouted,
covering her ears.
"He said, that this store painted the faces of their dolls with colored blood," she continued. "I think the type of blood they used was dog blood."
"What?" Kita gasped. "That's so gross!"
"Yeah," Kotona agreed, nodding her head. "They use to drain their dogs of blood, and bury them beneath the basement when they were finished. That's what makes this story even scarier. The dolls that got sold, came to life a year exactly after they left the shop. They were as vicious as the dogs whose blood was painted on their faces, killing their owners. They'd return to the shop soon after to show their creator how loyal they were, just like dogs."
"I'm making sure one of those never ever comes in my house," Tiffany shivered, pulling at he skirt. "Do you know the name of the store?"
"It's actually this one right here," Kotona said, nodding to the building they now stood in front of. The girls slowly turned their heads, and shone their flashlights on the store window, illuminating the shapes of of dolls dressed in gothic clothing. The girls stood frozen in place, mouths dropped open in fear. A cold hand then touched Aneeta's next, causing her to scream at the top of her lungs, which caused Kita and Tiffany to join in, and they hugged each other in in desperation.
"Hahahaha!" Kotona was reeling over in laughter. "Your faces were priceless!"
"Why'd you do that?" Aneeta demanded, trying to calm her heart rate.
"They wanted a scary story," she shrugged with a smile.
"I meant touching my neck," she snapped. "That was cold and creepy."
"....I didn't touch your neck," Kotona replied, looking confused.
"Then...who did?" she asked, turning to the other two, who were staring at something behind her. Aneeta swallowed a lump that suddenly appeared in her throat.
"There's something behind me isn't there?" she squeaked. Only Kita was able to nod in response. Slowly, afraid she'd break the dead, cold silence that surrounded them, she turned around, and her breath, caught in her throat when she met its eyes. Or, what would have been its eyes. A skeleton, a real corroded corpse was standing before then, scraps of clothing hanging from its arms, and torso, and a sword in its hand.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The girls screamed, when it moved, to take a fighting stance. Instead of standing their ground, they took off down the street.
"IT'S A HAUNTED!! THAT PLACE IS HAUNTED!" Aneeta hyperventilated, practically crying.
"It reeked!" Tiffany coughed, spraying perfume on herself as they ran.
"It's invasion of the Black Pearl!" Kita shouted, hysterically.
"Why do you always make references to other movies that have nothing to do with us?" Kotona asked, as pushed herself to move faster.
"Well the moon's out, he has raggedy clothes on and a sword," Kita pointed out. "He looks like her could be a pirate." The girls rounded a corner, and stopped dead. There was a whole army of corpses.
"Told you it was an invasion," Kita hissed.
"Looks like the Mews aren't as tough as they thought they were," mused a male voice from above. The girls looked up, and saw a man dressed in blue robes, with pointed ears just like the girl in pink.
"You mean these things just work for you?" Kita asked, eyes wide.
"That's such a relief," Aneeta sighed. "Looks like nothing's haunted then."
"But these are possessed being," the man replied, lowering himself so he was now hovering just above the ground.
"What happened to pinkie?" Tiffany asked, sticking out her hip, and placing a hand on it.
"You must mean Rinya, he nodded. "She has been replaced. My name is Maken."
"Don't really care what your name is," Tiffany snapped. "We're gonna kick your butt just as hard as we kicked hers."
"But I am no fool," he stated, holding his arms out to his army. "I spent weeks gathering these bodies, and making them strong enough to withstand against you."
"You mean...." Aneeta's voice trailed off.
"Those are real bodies?" Kita shouted, finishing her sentence. "Like, from in the ground?"
"They are the bodies of your diseased, yes," he nodded.
"That is wrong on so many levels," Tiffany gagged, in disgust. "Or is it on only one level?"
"We can't kill what's already dead," Kotona panicked.
"Precisely," Maken smirked.
"We can still fight you!" Tiffany snapped. "Right?"
"Of course we can!" Kita nodded, taking out her pendent. "We are Nagoya Mew Mew!"
"Mew Mew Licorice! MEWTAMORPHOSIS!" Her clothes vanished, and she was wrapped in licorice strips, which created her blood read Mewfit.
"Don't just stand there!" Licorice shouted, flailing her arms. "Transform already!"
"Oh right," the girls gasped, shaking out of their freaked trance.
"Mew Mew Cotton Candy!"
"Mew Mew Rose!"
"Mew Mew Plum!"
"MEWTAMORPHOSIS!" In the short amount of time their clothes were quickly replaced by their Mewfits, Maken was out of site, and Licorice had her Glitter Brush out, and was taking aim.
"LICORICE...RIBBON....PAINT BLAST!" A stream of rainbow colors shot out, and hit the center of the gathered skeletons. The front few did fall over on impact, but none didn't seem to be effected by the poisonous stings.
"What's wrong with this thing?" Licorice shouted, pounding a fist on her brush. "Did it break on me or something?"
"They can't be poisoned, cause they're dead," Cotton Candy explained, calling fort her Cotton Candy Rod.
"Jingle Chucks!" Plum shouted, calling forth her own weapon.
"EEP!" Rose squeaked when the skeleton army began to advance. "So what's the plan?"
"Trial and Error?" Cotton Candy replied, for lack of a better answer as she summoned a ball of energy. "COTTON CANDY GLOWING PUTT!" She whacked the energy ball at the army, causing a few to fall over in a domino effect, but they slowly got back up again.
"What can we do?" Rose panicked. "We're gonna lose! We can't-"
"Look out!" Cotton Candy pushed her out of the way, and swung her rod up to intercept the sword of the skeleton that had followed them. She pushed the sword back, and kicked it in his rib cage, causing it to stagger.
"Maybe we can try fighting them by hand?" Plum suggested. "Maybe try to disassemble them."
"It's worth a shot," Licorice nodded as her brush vanished. She ran over to a stray corpse, and jump kicked it in the face, knocking it on its back.
"You can't be serious," Rose gasped, looking mortified. "I...I-I can't touch them! They'll give me a disease!"
"If we lose, then the whole world will be in danger!" Plum shouted. "Can you stop thinking about only yourself?" She turned on her, and ran toward a group of skeletons, swinging her nun chuck. She swung it to the side, hitting on in the face, then swung it to the other side, to his another. One swung their sword at her, so she quickly ducked, and popped back up, kicking her foot out hard enough to knock its head off. She dropped down again, spinning, and knocking their feet from under them, and swung her chuck out as she stood up, wrapping it around the neck of one that still stood, then pulled hard, popping its head off.
Cotton Candy used her Rod mostly to attack the approaching skeletons, but wasn't afraid to use her feet as well. She jabbed it at one of them, and got it stuck in its ribcage. She used is as leverage, to lift herself up, and kick a couple corpses behind her the head, knocking their head off. Her feet came down hard, and she used the momentum, to pull down on her end of the rod, lifting the corpse up and over her head, bring it down with a loud crash on the other side of her, freeing her rod.
"What's with popping their heads off!" Rose shouted, flailing her arms. "You know it's gross seeing their boney heads roll aroun- EEEK!" She leaped away, as a skeleton came a little too close for comfort.
"Stay away!" She squealed in disgust. "Stay away from me!"
"Fight him Tiffany!" Licorice shouted, kicking a skeleton in the leg, causing it to go down low enough for her to spin, and kick his head clear off.
"No way!" Rose shouted back, pulling herself to her feet. "I'd use my weapon, but I doubt it'll do anything to something that doesn't here! The only thing I'm good for is distractions and running!"
"We don't wanna here any of your dramatics right now," Plum grunted, jumping up into the air to avoid being smothered by all the skeletons that moved in on her.
"We don't want your dramatics," Rose mumbled, mockingly. "Well what if I-" She stopped and stared up in the air, and saw Maken, with something weird in his hands. It looked like it was glowing. For the first time she could remember, something useful and smart popped into her head, that wasn't related to organizing shopping priorities.
"Oh wow," She whispered. "Yay me!" She clapped her hands excitedly, and whipped out her microphone.
"Let's turn it up all the way shall we?" she smirked, turning the dial on her microphone.
"ROSE AMPLIFIED SOUND SHOCK!" She shouted into her microphone. The girls halted, confused on what she was doing, but their questions were answered by a cry of pain. They looked up to see Maken doubled over, with a pink pair of headphones on his head.
"Take that mister!" Rose grinned triumphantly. By breaking his concentration, he lost hold of the light he was holding, and it vanished. The skeletons around them halted, and began to shake violently. An unexpected wind erupted down the street, the skeletons fell disintegrated into dust, and were carried away by the wind.
"Dammit," Maken cursed.
"Haha!" Licorice cheered, jumping up and down. "Take that!"
"Watch your backs," he said simply, throwing away the headset. "You never know what's lurking in the shadows." He was covered by darkness, then disappeared without another word.
"Oh yeah!" Rose cheered. "I did it! I did it!"
"Not bad," Plum nodded.
"I have to admit, you did make it much easier for us," Licorice agreed.
"I guess I'm not useless after all!" Rose grinned twirling on her foot.
"No one called you useless," Cotton Candy sighed, folding her arms.
"Or right," she nodded. "So now what?"
"Can you guys walk with me home?" Cotton Candy asked. "I gotta be home soon."
"Sure," Licorice smiled. "Let's go!" She darted off down the street.
"She knows the way?" Plum asked.
"She did come over," Cotton Candy nodded, "but I'm not sure she truly knows the way."
"Which way do I go?" Licorice called from up ahead, earning laughs from the other girls.
\NMM/
"Thanks for walking me home," Kotona smiled, skipping up her driveway.
"Is your brother home?" Tiffany gasped, running past her excitedly.
"No!" Kotona shouted running after her, but it was too late. She had knocked on the door several times over and was now waiting patiently for someone to answer.
"Why did I have you walk me home?" Kotona groaned in regret. The front door was opened, of course, by Shieru, who nearly fell back into the house when he saw who was standing out on the porch.
"What are you dong here?" he demanded, exasperated.
"No, 'hello how are you this evening'?" she asked, pretending to look disappointed.
"Goodbye now," Kotoan ordered, pushing her away with the help of Kita and Aneeta.
"But I never got introduce myself properly," she whined, helpless against the force of the shorter mews.
"He already knows your name," Kita replied, rolling her eyes.
"Really?" Tiffany grinned looking hopeful.
"See you guys tomorrow," Kotona waved as the other two managed to get her down the street.
"You know, I may gave to get a restraining order now," Shieru sighed, scratching his head.
"She's harmless," Kotona shrugged. "I think...."
"Come one shorty," Shieru grinned, dragging his little sister into the house.
"Do you have to bother her brother?" Aneeta asked, looking at her in disbelief, as they crossed the street.
"Of course," Tiffany smirked. "My new goal is to go out with him."
"And what will you do once you accomplish that?" Aneeta wondered, cocking an eyebrow.
"How am I suppose to know?" Tiffany sighed, flipping her hair.
"Hey guys," Kita said, stopping in the middle of the street.
"Yeah?" Aneeta asked, looking over her shoulder at her.
"You know that ghost car I told you about?" she replied, staring down the street.
"How can we forget?" Tiffany sighed.
"Well, this was the street it rolled down," she said softly, looking mystified. A pair of headlights then lit up Kita's face from down the block, and an engine could be heard closing in.
"Kita!" Aneeta screamed, running at her, and throwing her body weight on her, so the two of them tumbled to the ground, just out of reach of the vehicle's tires.
"Are you okay?" Aneeta gasped, horrified.
"Yeah," Kita groaned. "I didn't even see that coming. It was like it appeared out of no where."
"And it returned to no where," Tiffany breathed, staring down the path the van took. The girls looked, and the street came to a stop at a store, with no sign of the van at all.
"That's where the van crashed when they found it," Kita whispered, sounding spooked. A cool breeze blew through their hair, causing them to shiver.
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Disclaimer: I referred to Pirates of the Carribean, yet another Disney movie. If you're getting annoyed by my movie references, let me know.
I also got "Yay me!" with the clapping of hands from "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody". Yay London! ^^
Preview of Chapter 9:
Please Don't Stop the Mewsic
Kita – So what's on the list of things to mention?
*looks at sheet of paper Aneeta is holding*
Kita – Your mom works for Glamly????
Aneeta – Yeah...
Kita – That's so cool!!
*Kotona enters*
Kotona – Why'd you ask?
Kita – Aneeta's mom is interviewing a girl for the magazine.
Kotona – What's so special about this girl that she gets to be interviewed?
Kita – She's a well known dancer here in Nagoya.
Tiffany – If it who I think it is???
*Tiffany runs in and looks at paper*
Tiffany – Oh it is! She's so fantastic! I love her moves.
Aneeta – But why is her DNA chart here too?
*All girls lean in to stare at the chart*
All Girls – She's a Mew!!!
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Kira – We forgot to mention one more thing on the list!
Aneeta – What?
Kita – She ends up saving our butts! Without using her Mew Powers