OTDE: Into The Deep Chapter 8- Something Deadly
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Ichigo: I don't like where you're going with this story
Me: Its literally been months how do you just show up like that?
Ichigo: Because I know what you're doing and I don't appreciate it
Me: I'm not…
Ichigo: No. Just no.
The Cyniclons moved through the trees, completely silent except for the sounds of metal sliding against metal. They picked their way through the foliage until the leader motioned for them to stop. The others came up to him, crouching down so that the undergrowth camouflaged them.
"I still don't see why we couldn't have just teleported." A girl towards the back asked. The girl was new, she hadn't accompanied them to Earth and she obviously didn't know what they were up against. After losing so many at the final Earth battle, they had been forced to find new recruits. And new recruits though they brought new powers and fighting skills, also brought dangers but they usually underestimated the enemy.
"Well considering that all of them were star pupils of the military academy I assure you they could hear the sounds of teleportation from a mile away. And if we wanted them to know we were here we'd be walking up to the front door not hiding in the bushes." The leader glared at the new recruit, wondering how even in the short time he'd been gone the academy's standard for their students had already dropped. "And also, as anyone with even basic training would know, you cannot teleport somewhere that you have not seen." The girl dropped her head sheepishly. It wasn't her fault that she had to leave the academy before her education was complete.
"Kokoro." He called. A small boy moved forward, barely coming up to his leader's shoulder. "See if anyone's on the lookout."
The boy closed his eyes, throwing his senses out into the open and searching. He put all of his concentration into his job, remembering what his leader had told them had happened to the other mind reader they had had. She was now in a Cyniclon prison.
"There's no one out here. They're all inside." He reported. His leader grinned and nodded, patting him lightly on the head.
"Let's get this show going."
Amon stood up and led his forces through the beautiful gardens towards Ikisatashi Manor.
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Ichigo rolled over and stretched, her eyes popping open to a nondescript white wall. Something seemed off though she couldn't quite figure out what it was. It wasn't until she looked down that she realized she was not in her bed at Ikisatashi Manor.
And that she wasn't alone.
Hot breath washed over the back of her neck, making her shiver. She turned, coming face to face with someone.
She was in a tiny bed…pressed up against Lot.
Everything from the previous day washed over her, making her stomach churn and her heart ache. Images of Kish flashed through her mind, his arms wrapped around his fiancé. But a heart stopping realization erased all thoughts about Kisshu from her mind.
She was in bed with Lot. She didn't remember anything from the time they had teleported to his apartment until she had woken up in his bed. Her heart pounded as she prayed they hadn't done anything.
She looked over at Lot, trying desperately to regain the memory of the last few hours. Surely she would remember something like that?
Lot stirred and opened his eyes, smiling slightly when he noticed Ichigo's stare.
"How did you sleep?" he asked, his hand reaching out to brush a stand of red hair from her forehead. He had envisioned this moment so many times, from the first time his eyes had landed on the beautiful Mew. He had lain in bed at night, imagining her small body beside him staring at him the way he had so often stared at her. But in all of his dreams she had looked happy not panic stricken, her eyes wide with concern.
"Did we….did um…we didn't…?" she couldn't say it. She felt blood run to her face and her cat ears popped out, twitching nervously on top of her head. All she could see was Kisshu's face, how hurt and disappointed he would be if he ever found out. For a moment she forgot that he was engaged to someone else.
"No we didn't. You passed out almost as soon as we got here."He said and to Ichigo's chagrin, he seemed a bit disappointed. She quickly got out of the bed, wondering if she should ask to go back to the Manor. But the image of Kish wrapped around Mikata flashed into her mind again and the bitter taste in her mouth erased the uneasiness she felt about being alone at Lot's apartment.
"Do you want to help me make breakfast?" Lot asked, swinging his legs over the side of the bed. Ichigo nodded and followed to the kitchen, glad that the awkwardness seemed to be over, for the moment at least.
The blonde boy started grabbing pans and bowls, placing them around a stove top and reaching into the refrigerator to grab eggs and pancake mix. It was all very….human.
"Can't you just…I don't know make this stuff appear? Kish used to do it all the time on Earth when he worked for Deep Blue." She sighed. Even when alone in a nice apartment with a very attractive boy making her breakfast her thoughts still went to Kisshu.
"We're technologically advance were not magic." He said while cracking an egg into the bowl. "Well I mean besides the gifts some of us have." He demonstrated by pulling a stream of water from the sink and twirling it around his head. "But even that isn't quite as much magic as it is just learning to manipulate nature."
Ichigo was a bit confused, and apparently it was evident because Lot grinned at her and tried to think of a better way to explain.
"See, I can't make water appear, it has to be there to manipulate. And my 'gift' so to speak isn't something other Cyniclons couldn't do if they put their mind to it. All I do is use the same technology we use for teleporting or hovering ourselves. I've just figured out how to apply that to water."He dropped the water back into the sink and turned back to his cooking.
"But all those things Kisshu made appear came from somewhere. He just teleported very quickly to retrieve them." Lot glanced at her over his shoulder, his brow furrowed in thought. "I don't know about your planet, but here we call that stealing."
**** Ikisatashi Manor*****
Kisshu was currently sitting in the dining room, surrounded by his teammates, as they held a Mew Meeting to figure out what to do about Ichigo. The meeting had started out civil but the Mews who were both very worried and very loyal to their leader blamed the green haired Cyniclon for her disappearance.
He did too.
"Well if this baka hadn't lied to everyone we wouldn't have a problem would we?" Mint growled, gesturing rudely towards Kish. The others, minus the Ikisatashi brothers who were desperately trying to support Kish, all looked like they agreed.
"Whose fault it is, is not the issue. The issue is to find Ichigo." Pie spoke up from his seat beside Kisshu. His adoptive brother looked at him gratefully. He fully accepted the blame for Ichigo's disappearance but that didn't lessen his worry about her or his desire to have her back.
Suddenly, Pudding was on top of the table, dressed in a trench coat and hat that no one could figure when or where she had gotten.
"Pudding has an idea!" the blonde Mew crowed. "We will look for clues!" she held a magnifying glass up to her eye. The others groaned, the Mews smacked their foreheads and Tart wasn't sure if he should go along with Pudding or remind her that they had already searched the spot where they disappeared and both Ichigo and Lot's rooms. Nothing had been found in either, though Kish had torn Lot's room apart in a way that spoke more of vengeance than of searching.
"Pudding we spent all of last night looking for clues." Mint reminded the girl, trying to keep her annoyance from showing. Pudding tapped her magnifying glass thoughtfully on her chin.
"Ah but Pudding knows where you did not look!" She said happily, launching herself off of the table and down the hallway. Shrugging, the Mews followed her, leaving the Cyniclons still debating in the dining room. When they reached Pudding, she was in Lot's room, buried in his closet.
"What exactly are you doing?" Lettuce asked curiously, the fish Mew peering into the pile of clothes concealing the younger girl. The pile suddenly exploded, sending Lettuce reeling backwards into Zakuro. The elder Mew steadied her and Lettuce fixed her glasses before blushing red.
"Look!" Pudding held up a photograph proudly, shaking various clothing items from her head. She handed it to Lettuce, who looked closely at it.
"It's a picture of a room?" she questioned, handing the picture to Zakuro who looked at it for a few seconds before passing it off to Mint. Mint studied it, wondering if there was some hidden meaning. Who had a picture of just a room? There had to be something about it….
Suddenly Mint gasped and dashed out of the room. The other Mews exchanged glances before following, Pudding easily catching up. She had somehow managed to change out of her detective outfit already.
"Pudding wants to know what you know!" She said, doing an acrobatic flip to bring herself up alongside Mint.
"Well…once Fell explained to me how teleportation works." Mint said as she skidded back into the dining hall. The Cyniclons looked up, surprised by her entrance.
"But Pudding doesn't understand what that has to do with the picture." The monkey Mew darted around the table and pounced on Tart's back, wrapping her hands around his chest. "Taru-Taru Pudding found the picture!"
"Fell explained that you had to have seen the place before you can teleport there, because you kind of have to imagine it in your head." Mint explained, handing the picture to Kisshu, who's ears perked up in realization.
"So if he has a picture he can get there without having ever been there before." He said. His amber eyes hardened and his grip in the picture began to crumple it. "And so can I."
Kisshu stood up, photo help up in front of his face, and closed his eyes, concentrating. It was much slower, with him focusing on a place he had never been, and his form started to flicker as the teleportation began.
"Chimera! Chimera!" Masha called, flying out from wherever he had been hiding while Ichigo was in the hospital room.
At that moment something crashed through the wall and Kisshu solidified as his eyes flew open in shock.
A huge Chimera spider stood before them, hundreds of eyes glowing red from its dark, hairy face. Giant, sharp pinschers snapped at the air. The glass on the other side of the group exploded inward as another creature, this one some form of Chimera slug oozing a deadly looking slime, joined the party. Kisshu pulled his double swords from where they were strapped to his back and raised them, plenty angry enough to take on either of these giant pests alone. Toge moved up next to him, pulling his throwing knives from his sleeves and Pie arrived as well his fans unfurling in his hands.
Kish looked behind him, finding the rest in a fighting stance: Semoka's had her hands raised to call down all sorts of hell from the sky, Loki stood next to her with his club gripped in his large hands, Tart's clacker balls swung dangerously at his side, Nile held a small dagger, Maya was posed to attack, Narcis already had an arrow notched in her bow. The twins were standing back to back with their swords drawn, the trees etched into them glinting and Riff held his throwing stars as he waited for the sign to attack. Fell, Emzie and Larka all stood ready, though Kisshu wondered if Fell and Larka's powers would have any effect on the Chimeras.
The Mews didn't have to have their leader to know it was time to transform.
"MEW MINT!"
"MEW LETTUCE!"
"MEW PUDDING!"
"MEW ZAKURO!"
"METAMORPHO-SIS!"
The Mews stood ready, each of them wishing Ichigo was standing in front of them spouting off some lame line about how these uninvited house pests needed to be exterminated.
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Amon smirked from where he sat in the forest, watching his creations march across the lawn towards the Manor. His minions brought him various creatures they scooped up from the underbrush and he quickly infused each of them with a parasite. It was almost boring, he mused, he so badly wanted to introduce the rebels to his new army.
That's when the real fun would begin.
**** The Apartment****
Ichigo sat listening as Lot told tales from his days at the academy, most somehow involving Kisshu causing trouble.
"He was one of the best but also one of the worst." Lot sighed, shaking his head at his memories. "And he always got away with it because he and his siblings were little military prodigies." Lot's voice held a hint of bitterness and Ichigo wondered just what the Ikisatashis had done during their time at the academy.
"I'm surprised that they've made it this long without going to the Elders to repent." He finally said, surprised Ichigo. "They're not used to being out of favor with the important people. They all know that Deep Blue would forgive them if they promised to serve him. But everyone else would pay the price though I don't think they would really care. After all these are the people that lied to all of us."
Ichigo straightened up, wondering what Lot could possibly be talking about. He noticed her confusion and grimaced at her.
"I wasn't going to tell you this because it'll upset you too much but the other night I heard Pie, Tart and Kisshu talking. Apparently Amon wasn't trying to take over the Earth at all, he was trying to get Kisshu to give the Mew Aqua back."
Ichigo shook her head, trying to understand what Lot was talking about. "But Deep Blue has the Mew Aqua here on Cynnth. Remember you explained how they were gathering it up to restore Deep Blue when you came to help us on Earth. That's why it was disappearing, because the Elder's were hoarding it."
"Deep Blue never had the Mew Aqua. When Kisshu saw how much it was improving our planet he realized that it would give him great power if he had it. So he began going to the spots where they had placed the Mew Aqua and he stole it. When they received the call from you Mews about Deep Blue, Kisshu took the opportunity to escape Cynnth with the Mew Aqua and he also wanted to kill Deep Blue while he was still weak. So that he could rule Cynnth instead." Lot explained, gripping her arms hard enough to bruise. Ichigo's ears popped out in confusion and denial as she tried to unscramble all of what Lot was telling her.
"But if he was going to use the Mew Aqua why hasn't he?" Ichigo questioned. It didn't make any sense, Kisshu cared about Cynnth just as Masaya had once cared about Earth. He would never do anything that would harm his planet or his people. More than that, he would never lie to her.
But he had hadn't he? He had lied for months, never telling her that he was engaged, and then he had lied by saying that he didn't have feelings for Mikata which he clearly did.
"He did use it. Do you remember the Dragon Warrior? How he fought with twin blades that were a replica of Kisshu's swords just on a bigger scale? Do you remember that Kisshu just happened not to be there that day? Kisshu used the Mew Aqua to begin transforming into the Dragon Warrior." Lot's grip on Ichigo's arms was still tight, and she opened her mouth to ask him to let go. But something stopped her.
Her head spun with Lot's theory and she remember how familiar the Dragon Warrior had seemed, how she had felt completely safe with him. Could it really have been Kisshu all along? But what about when he rescued Pudding and wielded the spiked ball and chain?
She opened her mouth to ask the question, the one hope she clung to that Lot was wrong about everything.
But at that moment his lips descended on hers and she tasted something deadly on them.
And she was suddenly inside of her dream again, Kisshu lying dead at her feet.
You guys should be really proud of me cause this chapter is literally seven pages long! I'm glad I was finally able to give ya'll a long chapter (especially after how short last chapter was) and I'm going to try to make the next chapters long as well.
So what do you think? Is Lot lying or did Kish really steal the Mew Aqua for himself? Who is the Dragon Warrior? What is going to happen to Ichigo and why does she keep passing out? What will happen to our rebels at Ikisatashi Manor? Review/favorite/follow to find out!