Chiyo: *moves book so it's in front of my face* Okay, so... I guess you can say this is like.. The 1) Longest and 2) Most important compared to previous chapters
Ichigo: Wait, does this mea-
Chiyo: Shhhhhhh
Chapter 29
Danger! Danger!
His words fell on deaf ears though, Izumi had fallen asleep in Klaus's arms. Ryou stayed awake a while longer, running things through in his head as he kept Ichigo close to him. He wasn't going to let anyone hurt his strawberry. Or... So he thought...
The next morning, Izumi and the others left Izumi's house pretty quickly. Izumi's father was pretty mad, so Izumi rushed everyone out. It was Sunday, but Ichigo and the others had to head home and Izumi wasn't up for being home. "Hey! Wait!" A voice called from above the girls. Submarin stood on the front of her airship like a figurine. "I'm back to ruin you guys!" She laughed, pointing down at the girls. Keiichiro and Ryou dragged Klaus into a nearby alleyway while music notes came down and destroyed the ground.
They didn't have enough time. Ichigo went flying towards Marin, Pudding towards Zephyr, Lettuce towards Pashibaru, and Mitsukie flew into a building. Pai, Taruto, and Izumi didn't meet anyone while they flew through the air except the ground. When they landed, the ground around them cracked. Zephyr took his shinai and struck Pudding in the back like a baseball. Pashibaru sliced Lettuce's cheek with his rapier, and Marin zapped Ichigo with her lightning bolt.
Seiko ran over to Izumi and helped her to her feet. "Knock it off you guys!" She shouted. "First you drag me here like some sick puppy and now you attack my friends?!" Seiko's hair was a fire red, along with her eyes.
"Oh come on, you're such a party pooper." Killi sighed, dragging Taruto towards Seiko by his hair.
"Owww! That hurts! L-let go!" Taruto had his hands on his hair while he tried to stand up, but lost his balance everytime, which pulled his hair even more.
Submarin decided to fire more music notes and watch the girls below her fly around. Pai had dodged the attack by floating off the ground a bit, but Mitsukie was thrown towards the road while the others went everywhere. Killi threw Taruto towards a peice of sidewalk flying in the air. "T-Taru-taru!" Pudding shouted, pushing against the sidewalk and bouncing towards Taruto. She grabbed his hand and fell to the ground, making sure Taruto was safe. "Leave Taru-taru alone!" Pudding shouted again, glaring at Killi.
"My head hurts..." Taruto pouted.
"Okay, little girl, how about you and I play a little game?" Killi asked, summoning her bow and twirling it around.
"Um.. Okay!" Pudding agreed, smiling with her hands on her cheeks.
"First one who falls loses. If your hand or any other part of your body but your feet, you lose." Killi smirked and knocked her arrow.
"What happens when I win?" Pudding asked, then transforming into Mew Pudding.
"You get-" Before Killi was able to finish, more music notes came flying at them.
Everyone was swooped up by bats and set down safely. "Enough." An unfamiliar voice shot through Killi, making her kneel.
"Argh! I was having fun!" Zephyr whined, folding his arms.
"Enough..." The voice sounded again.
A figure walked out of the shadows, she had waist length orange hair with bobby pins with small ghosts on them clipped her bangs to the right side of her face. She wore a black spaghetti strap shirt with an ice cream orange miniskirt with spiderwebbed lace at the bottom. She had a choker with a small ghost on the front and an 'N' on the back and she had on black converse. Her tattoos of ghosts and candy apples on her arms didn't really mean anything that the others could see. "Your majesty..." Killi said, her head facing the ground.
"Geez, finally show up and look at all the fun you ruin." Zephyr sighed and started to fly towards Pudding.
The girl put out her hand and Zephyr had stopped moving. When she moved her hand back to where he was standing, he moved back there too. "What took you so long?" Pashibaru asked, looking at her, his arms folded. "And where's Ransurot?"
"Isn't his lapdog supposed to know where his master is at all times?" Zephyr teased.
Seiko walked over to the girl and stood in front of her. "Why are you here?" She asked, her voice stern.
Ichigo and Lettuce looked at each other. "Who is she?" Lettuce whispered.
"I don't know, royalty or something?" Ichigo asked.
Izumi and Mitsukie ran over with Pudding on Izumi's shoulders. "I'm here because I can be here." The girl said and walked over to the girls. "You want to know who I am?"
The girls screamed and Izumi and Mitsukie jumped behind Lettuce and Ichigo. Pudding was still on Izumi's shoulders. "Y-yeah..." Pudding said, looking at her confused.
"I'm a witch, Noir." She said, doing a smal bow. "Why do you want to know?"
Izumi put Pudding on the ground and stepped forward. Pai and Taruto, after finishing their talk, flew over to the girls. "Then leave this place!" Izumi yelled, transforming into Mew Spice. Izumi gripped her scythe tightly and glared at Noir. "Cyniclons aren't allowed here!"
"Oh, pardon me. Then I am allowed." Noir said with a small smile. "You are quite brave, madam. I admire that. But answer me one thing, madam. Why are my friends not allowed here?"
"Because this is our home! We won't let you guys take it from us!" Izumi spun her scythe around and held the stick behind her.
"Pardon me, but you want your home taken from you, don't you?" Noir asked, tilting her head a little.
Izumi gasped and took a step back, losing her will to fight. "N-n-no... It's h-home... I don't want my h-home taken from me..."
"What about your mother who abonded you? Your father who beats you? Your stepmother who doesn't love you? Your twin who's not coming back?" Noir's questions made Izumi drop her scythe and cover her ears. "Your younger sister who's terrified of you?"
"Stop..." Tears fell down Izumi's cheeks like waterfalls. "Stop it..."
Pai and Taruto stepped forward and put their arms out, showing that they were going to protect her. "Hm... Humans sure are weird..." Noir sighed and held her hand out to Taruto. "What about you? Will you come with me?"
Taruto's arms fell to his side. "Taruto!" Pai grabbed his wrist before he was able to get to Noir. "Noir, what are you doing?!" Pai's voice was stern, but it also had a hint of hurt in it too.
Noir's eyes filled with tears. "I... I only wanted... A friend..." She said, her voice sounding like she was about to cry.
Lettuce took Pai's spot while he retreated with Taruto. "Well you won't get one by acting like that!" She yelled, her hands in closed fists. They didn't really have to step forward, but no on realized that Keiichiro and Ryou had brought Izumi away from the group to calm her down.
Noir blinked her forced tears away and in her hands appeared a bow. "You girls are brave. But are you strong?"
The bow looked like it was all spiderweb and on it was a few spiders, but they never moved. The arrow in Noir's other hand was quite different. Although it was still grey, the stick of the arrow was lighter color then the head of it. In an instant, all the girls, but Izumi, transformed and readied their weapons. Seiko laughed and decided she'd have a little fun. "I can't let my friends do this alone, but I'm not good with a bow and there's no room for me in on all the fun..." She whispered.
Zephyr snuck up on her and whacked her wrist, then the side of her head, then her stomach, then he hit her on the back of the neck. "Zephyr!" Killi yelled, standing up and getting her bow. Ransurot showed up and sighed heavily after seeing Seiko fall to the ground. "She's still one of us!"
"No." Ransurot said, "Not anymore. She traded sides and she's going to be our enemy." He said plainly, as if he didn't trade sides all the times anyway.
With the girls transformed and Pai and Taruto by their side, the other Cyniclons could do nothing but watch. Noir was a girl that no one wanted to mess with. But then again... Neither were the Mews, Pai, or Taruto...
Mitsukie had her swords and charged forward. Noir calmly knocked her arrow and pulled the string back in just a split second. The arrow flew from the bow and stuck into Mitsukie's left shoulder. "Ahhng!" Mitsukie dropped her sword in her left hand, but she continued to charge at Noir. Lettuce used her attack to try to get Noir off balanced for Mitsukie. Noir simply dodged both Mitsukie and Lettuce, but Lettuce's attack still hit Mitsukie. Pudding and Ichigo combined their attacks. Ichigo's strawberry surprise missed Noir and Noir wasn't affected by Pudding's pudding ring attack.
Noir shot multiple arrows at once. Mitsukie fell to the ground and Lettuce stumbled backwards. Mitsukie had a few arrows in her shoulders, one in her leg, and one skimmed her stomach and stuck into's Lettuce's stomach. Pai dragged Mitsukie and Lettuce away from the others and left them next to Keiichiro and Ryou. "They have great potential..." Ransurot whispered.
"Sir..?" Pashibaru turned his attention to Ransurot instead of the fight.
"Excuse me?" Zephyr looked upwards, towards Ransurot, not quite hearing what he said.
"What?" Killi looked over at Ransurot as well, confused.
"They have great potential. But Noir is much stronger. Even I can't beat her..." He muttered to himself.
The other three shrugged it off and watched the battle again.
Noir turned her bow and arrow into thin air, where she had gotten it from in the first place. Taruto threw his clackers at Noir while Ichigo tried her strawberry surprise again. Noir simply turned her back and started walking off. "Not so fast..." Izumi whispered, quiet enough for only the girls to hear. She was infused with a deer, so she was able to be agile and quiet at the same time and snuck up on Noir. She swung her scythe down at Noir not saying a word.
Izumi's scythe stuck into Noir's shoulder. "Ahhgn!" Noir instantly put her hand on her shoulder and pulled herself away from Izumi after she got her scythe out. A bunch of small plants popped up around Noir as well as fire surrounded her. "Stay back, you two!" She ordered to two figures in the shadows. "This is mine."
"Noir! Noir!" The plants high pitched voice was too cute for their creepy looks.
Noir's tattoos of ghosts came off her arms, her bobby pins, collar, the few on the laces of her shoes, and the few that she had on her hands. The candy apples were their weapons. All 30 ghosts surrounded Noir.
Keiichiro and Ryou looked at each other and then back at Noir. "She's no normal Cyniclon..." They said in unison.
Mitsukie was on the ground, blood all over her and the ground as she tried to pull out the arrows. She was squriming around as if someone was choking her as well, so getting the arrows out wasn't going to be easy.
Mint and Zakuro still weren't around to help out though, so it was only Ichigo, Pudding, Izumi, Pai, and Taruto to fight Noir. The ghosts flew over to the girls and none of their attacks were working... Well.. They were ghosts, so there wasn't much to be surprised about. The plants took away their weapons and pinned them to the ground while the fire started inching closer to them. "Stop it... Stop it...!" Izumi's tears had streamed down her face like waterfalls again. Noir cleared her throat and the fire had left. It seemed to be that she was calming down, but Izumi still called out to her. "Stop it! Stop it!" She screamed.
"Stop what?" Noir asked.
"G-get these ghosts off me!" Izumi yelled.
"Pardon me, but madam, I have no control over what they do as of right now." Noir said, her voice not really changing much. It was almost monotone, but not quite.
"Wh-what?!" Izumi was surrunded by ghosts while the others were just getting attacked with candy apples.
"Noir is mad! Noir is mad!" The ghosts around Izumi yelled.
"Get off of me!" Izumi's voice was loud, so loud that if she had screamed it, it could have broken glass, and it was so loud everyone was surprised that no one came running. "Please... Just get off of me... I'm begging you leave me alone!"
Mitsukie, with all the arrows out of her, wobbled to her feet. "Wh-why is it... Always... Izumi who goes through everything?!" She yelled, holding on to the building next to her for balance.
Noir sighed and pulled out a staff from thin air. It had a long handle and what looked like the shape of a pumpkin on top of it. Although it was a very thin piece of metal with a ghost on the inside of the circle shaped metal. She rose the staff into the air. Ichigo crawled away from the plants and dove onto Ryou. "What's going on with her?! She's crazy!" Ichigo yelled, sitting on Ryou's lap.
"Are you okay?" He asked, putting his hand on her cheek. There were no vines so those black flowers couldn't cut her and there were no visable cuts on her. "Are you hurt?"
"I-I'm fine..." Ichigo said, putting her arms around his neck.
Keiichiro was trying to get Mitsukie to sit down before she fell down, but she wouldn't move. "Isn't this enough?!" Killi yelled, stepping forward.
"What are you doing?! That's crazy to go against her!" Zephyr yelled, actually kind of worried for his teammate.
Noir heard Killi, but didn't look at her or say anything right away to say she heard Killi. "Come here." Noir said, making all the plants run towards her. Pai, Taruto, and Pudding ran away a few feet, Pai to Lettuce and Taruto and Pudding making sure each other were okay. The ghosts still surrounded Izumi, but they weren't attacking her. Noir's staff started to get darker and all the ghosts faded and returned back to where they were on her body. The plants put the ground back together and shrunk into the ground.
Izumi stumbled before getting up and ran over to Ryou and Ichigo. "Mitsukie, you're really pale you should sit down." Keiichiro insisted, holding her shoulder and hand.
The two sat down, Mitsukie on Keiichiro's lap, and looked at their friends. "Madam." Noir said, making her staff disappear. "Do not think that I will not be back." She said, turning her back again. "While I am gone as well, do not think that Killi and the others won't come back either, so I suggest you train."
"Your majesty!" Killi ran to Noir's side. "I can teleport you back to the ship!"
"I can stay here. Leave me." Noir said, walking past a dark alleyway, giving it a small glance.
The Cyniclons sighed and teleported off, leaving Noir to stop after pasing the alleyway. "Sora, Runa, we should find somewhere to stay."
"As you wish." Sora said, following in the shadows.
"As long as the place doesn't ruin my beauty..." Runa said, following Noir and Sora.
It was quiet among the group for a while. Someone was missing... But they only remembered that when a gust of wind came and blew a note out of the alleyway that Sora and Runa were in. Izumi walked over and picked it up.
'Dear Mew Mews,
I think I have someone special to one of you. I suggest that you do as I say if you want him back. He wasn't that hard to kidnap either, so I'll make this hard for you girls. If you think you can beat that witch, Noir, then I suggest you train. If you want this brat back, then I want a trade. If give me Izumi, I'll give back this 'Klaus' guy. Or, if you don't want that, give us Earth and Klaus will be yours.
Think hard about this trade, Mew Mews.'
Izumi kept what was written on the note a secret. She didn't want the others to know what was on it. "What is it?" Ichigo asked.
"Nothing, it's just a blank piece of paper." Izumi said, shoving it in her pocket.
The group decided to go to the cafe and open shop. Ryou and Ichigo were holding hands, Keiichiro was carrying Mitsukie, Lettuce and Pai were just walking close together, and Pudding and Taruto were running all over place like a huge fight never happened. When they got to the cafe in slience, everyone stepped inside. The girls, but Ichigo, went to go change. Ichigo turned to Ryou and wrapped her arms around his neck. "Ryou... I don't want you to be anywhere near Noir... I don't want to lose you... I wouldn't be able to handle it... So please... Promise me that you won't be near her when she shows up, okay?" Her voice sounded shaky, as if she was on the verge of tears.
"I'll try, Ichigo." Ryou said, putting one hand on her cheek and one on her back. "I'll try hardest, for you, and you, promise me something. That you won't go recklessly into a fight and get yourself killed, I wouldn't be able to handle that..." He whispered, looking into Ichigo's brown eyes.
"I promise, Ryou..." Ichigo replied, looking into Ryou's aquamarine eyes. They leaned in closer, their eyes closing slowly. Their lips pushed against each others as they embraced the other. They kissed passionately for a while, until they heard someone running upstairs. She pulled away and took a step back. "I should change..." She said, her cheeks red. Ryou averted his eyes and put his hands behind his head. The two walked off, Ichigo to go change, and Ryou to his room...
Chiyo: Whoop whoop sorry Mitsukie sorry everyone that I hurt in this chapter... I think that's everyone actually XD But yeah, I have plans for this to end soon, so the next chapter is going to get pretty bad. And I might change the rating because of a crap ton of violence... Especially within the next few chapters... So yeah, I hope to see you in the next chapter!