Mina: Before we start, I'd just like to say... I am not a sleepy head! I was up at 8! Don't lie about me and be a meanie, Ember. :p
Ember: Sorry, sorry! I didn't know. But wow... going to bed at 2 a.m. and then waking up at EIGHT? I would have died.
Mina: I guess I'm just an early bird or something. *shrugs*
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Mina: So uh... hope you enjoy this chapter as much as the others. :D
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Bu-Ling was a clever little girl. Taruto had told her that she must surrender, but he had said nothing about her friends. The blonde reached into her pocket and pressed the pink heart on her Mew Mew pendant. She hoped that the others would get the distress call in time.
Retasu Midorikawa was enjoying a nice cup of green tea to start her morning. Suddenly, she was grabbed from behind. She screamed in shock and pain as her hot beverage spilled all over her. She tilted her head backwards to get a good look at her assailant. "Pai-san!" she gasped. The alien gripped her tighter, and then the two vanished. They reappeared over the ocean, and Retasu gasped as Pai began to grope her all over. "P-P- Pai-san, what are you doing?"
Pai wasn't intentionally feeling up the porpoise mew. No, he was merely giving her a pat search. If she had her pendant with her, he couldn't allow her to keep it. Ichigo had said that it was only without her pendant that Mew Lettuce couldn't swim. He was rough with his search, and the jostling caused Retasu's glasses to come off and fall into the water below. "I-I c-c-can't see!" she exclaimed in fright.
Worried for her life, Retasu slipped her hand into her cleavage and pulled out her pendant. (She had put it there because her outfit had no pockets.) Pai saw it in her hand, and right before she could kiss it, he snatched it away. Then he dropped her. "Sayonara, Lettuce," he said monotonously as he watched her fall. He had teleported out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There would be fewer passing boats to save her this far from shore. Retasu's scream pierced the salty air. Her body hit the ocean with a loud slap. "Fatality rate," Pai whispered as her green hair vanished beneath the water, "99.8%"
Panic set in as the blinded girl flailed her arms. She accidentally inhaled the ocean water and began to cough. The salt water burned her eyes and her chest heaved. She started to vomit, but that caused her to inhale more water. The already blurry word around her went black as her body slowly sunk. Her final thoughts flashed from her family, then to Ryou, and finally stayed on the Mews, her friends. 'I'm sorry...'
"Uhm..." Taruto looked down at Bu-Ling. He hadn't been expecting her to surrender so easily. 'Well that's no fun...' He wasn't sure what Pai wanted him to do now. Luckily, the purple haired alien appeared in the bedroom at that exact moment.
"Mew Lettuce has been taken care of."
"Restasu onee-chan!" Bu-Ling exclaimed in panic.
"I told her to give up, and she gave up," Taruto told him.
Pai shook his head. "That's too easy. Surely, she must be planning something."
And then everyone heard, "Ribbon! Zakuro's Pure!" A whip of purple fire tore through the wall and created a hole. Through the hole stepped Mew Zakuro, looking every bit as majestic and scary as the grey wolf with which she was infused.
The door to the bedroom slid open and a blue lorikeet girl leaned sassily against the door frame. "Onee-sama, you could have just used the door," Mew Mint said matter-of-factly. The snobby rich girl preferred decorum over dramatics, but she would never outright reprimand Zakuro, so she played off her slight annoyance as a joke.
"Deep Blue?" Ichigo asked aloud. She remembered Kisshu mentioning that name, but her mind refused to register what had been said about this so called Deep Blue. "Aoyama-kun, what's Deep Blue?" Ichigo crawled over to the blue-clad alien and tugged on his garment. She glanced at Kisshu and wondered why he was bowing.
"How dare you touch me, filthy human!" Deep Blue roared. He summoned his sword and pointed it at Ichigo.
Kisshu panicked. "Deep Blue-sama, I implore that you not hurt my mate. The girl is a fool and has been rendered powerless. She is no longer a threat to you." He was still bowing, his head still lowered. His words had been a monotone request.
Deep Blue glanced back at Kisshu. "Very well," he told him. "Since it is thanks to you that I now have full control over my body, I will let the girl live."
"Hai," Kisshu answered him. He didn't exactly understand what he had done to help Deep Blue, but he figured he should not question it. He and Ichigo would be safer if he acted like he had helped on purpose.
"Aoyama-kun?" Ichigo asked in confusion. "What are you talking –"
"Silence, human! I am not the boy of whom you speak," Deep Blue told her.
Ichigo's heart sped up. "What do you mean you're not Aoyama-kun? You just were!" Ichigo grew loud and slightly hysteric. "You were the Blue Knight and came to save me, but then Kisshu killed you and you turned back into Aoyama-kun! And now you're this!" The more she spoke, the faster her words came out. "So why? Why would you let Kisshu live? He RAPED me!" she sobbed.
"Now make my siblings better again, Taru-Taru, or Zakuro onee-chan and Minto onee-chan will hurt you!"
Mew Zakuro and Mew Mint stood ready.
"You're not the boss of me!" Taruto shouted at Bu-Ling. He spawned a parasite and infused it with Heiicha's spirit. The spirit of the tiny girl turned into a surprisingly scary Chimera Anima. It was a lioness with giant bat wings, a scorpion's tail, and a snake's eyes, fangs and tongue.
"It seems that Kisshu's original theory was right," Pai noted. "The purest spirits do make the best Chimeras."
The manticor charged at Mew Zakuro. Zakuro jumped out of way and summoned her whip. "Mew Pudding, Mint, get the kids out of here." Even if they were disconnected from their souls, there was still a chance they could hurt or worse. She smacked the Chimera with a "Ribbon! Zakuro's Pure!" Instead of injuring the Anima, the whip wrapped around its tail, giving it plenty of room to come around and bite Zakuro with its front end. It did, and its serpentine fangs pumped poison into the wolf mew's arm.
Deep Blue ignored the human girl's squalling and turned to face Kisshu again. "You didn't know this, but I had long ago cloned a human boy to be my body for the day I awakened. I didn't expect him to have a soul or a mind of his own because the spirit remained in the original boy, but I was wrong. Aoyama developed a personality that seemed to have been the weakened version of his original, Aoymada."
"Aoymada?" Ichigo thought. "Isn't that the name of the Aoyama look-alike that lives in the mountains?"
"The boy from who I cloned him had a strong desire to save the Earth. Aoyama developed a similar personality, and he struggled against me and my agenda," Deep Blue continued to explain. "I found some success in fusing the body with some of my power, and this resulted in the alter ego called 'Blue Knight'. However, I couldn't seem to get my spirit into this body when it already had one of its own. Thanks to your actions, Kisshu, this body's original spirit left and I was able to claim this vessel as my own. It seems that I was wrong to discount you. I will reward your help by allowing you to keep the human girl as your mate." Now that he was finished with his speech, Deep Blue left to find the optimal place to set up his palace. Soon, he would rule this pathetic planet.
"No wait!" Ichigo screamed. Now it was just her and Kisshu. She quickly turned away from him and went over to the bed so she could cover herself. Now what was she going to do? She could barely think straight.