11A not so peaceful Summer break
I know it's quite late and I'm sorry. In any case here is the next chapter.
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-Line Break- The next afternoon-
Today the cafe open later in the day, but the girl showed up earlier than usual. Just like yesterday they were all gathered in the basement of the cafe. Apparently the boys had some news for them.
"Thanks to some information we were able to gather, we found out that another warning card has been sent. Dark plans to steal the The Golden medallion at nine o'clock tonight." Akasaka explained.
"Let me guess, you want us to go out there tonight to catch him." Ichigo said.
"Yes." Shirogane simply stated.
"He won't get away from Pudding this time!" Pudding shouted.
Right before they had a chance to go upstairs they heard an alarm. Shirogane was at the computers in a matter of seconds, pulling panels up onto the large screen above them. "Aliens." he turned towards the girls. "Go! Tokyo Mew Mew!"
They all nodded and pulled out their pendants while they shouted out "MEW MEW STRAWBERRY METAMORPHISIS!" "MEW MEW MINT METAMORPHISIS!" "MEW MEW LETTUCE METAMORPHISIS!" "MEW MEW PUDDING METAMORPHISIS!" "MEW MEW ZAKURO METAMORPHISIS!" (Que transformation music)
It took only minutes before they arrived at the park. This time the chimera animas resembled a humanoid peacock. On top of that, all three of the aliens where here this time.
"Why do you have to keep attacking at a park anyway?" Mew Ichigo said in exasperation.
However she was ignored and soon the battle was underway. It seemed like the chimera animas were getting stronger and stronger lately because recently the girls seem to have more trouble defeating them. The first minute of the battle showed that the creature was both fast and strong. Every time one of the girls tried to attack, the creature would use it's tail feathers to reflect the light in order to blind them into missing their target. It didn't help that Mew Ichigo was busy with fighting Kisshu, who also kept teasing her.
Lettuce along with the others found it strange that Pai and Taruto just stayed out of it. She thought they were planing something, but couldn't think of what when she was preoccupied with the enemy in front of her.
Most of the girls showed their surprised when Dark flew past the creature. "Hey there Mews. Thought you could use a hand."
"Dark!" a couple of the girls said.
"You again!" Kisshu said.
"What's up pointy ear?" Dark said in a mocking tone.
"Stop calling me that!" he said angrily. "Chimera, ATTACK!" he yelled as he was joined by his companions.
"What are you doing here?" Mew Ichigo asked Dark as they all dodge a few attacks from the aliens and chimera alike.
"Well, I was just hanging around when I heard the commotion. I couldn't simply walk away and miss all the fun." he answered back.
"Glad you came by, because now I can get payback!" Kisshu said as he flew straight at Dark.
"Like I said, don't want to miss all the fun." Dark said as he engaged Kisshu in hand to hand combat.
"He fights pretty well." Mew Mint said with the other Mews nodding as they all saw how only Kisshu was getting hit.
They couldn't watch for long though, because the two remaining aliens attack along with the humanoid peacock. Taruto engaged Mew Pudding and Pai engaged Mew Lettuce. That left Mew Ichigo, Mew Mint and Mew Zakuro to deal with the chimera animal.
Just as it was about to attack a black feather zoomed by. The creature look over from where it came from and then the creature froze.
The girls looked a little confuse by the sudden stop but before they could take the opportunity it gave them, the peacock creature started doing a dance. This confused everyone even more.
"What is it doing?" Mew Ichigo asked.
"I think it's doing a mating dance." Mew Zakuro said as the creature started to walk towards Dark making some weird noises which drew the attention of the two groups who were fighting one on one.
"It seems even mutated creatures can't resist my charms." Dark said as he laughed a little.
Everyone sweat dropped at that but the girls quickly got back on track. While Dark distracted the creature by simply being there, they attacked from behind. The three Mews who were fighting before combine their attacks while Mew Lettuce held off Pie and Mew Pudding did same with and Taruto.
All that was left of the chimera animal was the parasite, that Masha ate, and a pink glowing ball which Masha took to deliver back to it's owner.
The aliens retreated leaving only a few destroyed park benches and some tired mews the only proof they were ever there.
Mew Ichigo turned to Dark and said "Thanks, I guess."
"Always a pleasure to help lovely ladies in need." Dark said with a wave of his hand in front of himself and a small bow. He straighten up before asking "I don't think I caught your names the last time we met."
The girls hesitated a couple seconds while looking at each other but then gave a nod to one another.
"I'm Mew Ichigo." she introduce herself.
"Mew Pudding is my name!" Mew Pudding said with a large smile.
"My name is Mew Lettuce." Mew Lettuce said with a small nervous smile.
"If you must know, I'm Mew Mint." Mew Mint said in a snobby voice.
"Mew Zakuro." Mew Zakuro said simply and to the point.
"Pleasure to meet you all." Dark said with a small smile which caused a few of the mews to blush. "Well, I best be going." he said in an over polite tone that didn't match his smirk. "See you ladies around." he said as he took off before any of them could speak.
They all de-transformed into their normal forms. And simply took a few minutes to regain some of their energy -with the exception of Pudding who seems to always have energy to spare- before heading back to the cafe. They were walking through the park when Lettuce saw something out of the corner of her eye. She looked over and sure enough there was Daisuke.
The others noticed that Lettuce wasn't with them anymore, so turned around to see she was walking towards a boy by the fountain and followed her.
He looked up from what he was doing and asked slightly surprised "Miss Lettuce?"
"Hello, Daisuke-kun. What are you doing here?" Lettuce asked as her friends came up behind her.
"You know him, Lettuce? Wait, didn't you come by the cafe?" Ichigo asked remembering him -specifically his hair- from yesterday.
"O-oh right, let me introduce you. This is Daisuke-kun, we met when he was looking for the grocery store but couldn't find it, so I helped him." Lettuce explained.
"When was that?" Mint asked.
"It was when I went out to get the groceries Akasaka-san asked for yesterday." Lettuce added to her explanation.
"Well it's a pleasure to meet you, Daisuke-kun, I'm Ichigo. But if you don't mind me asking, why did you get lost trying to find the grocery store?" Ichigo asked.
"W-well, I'm not from around here. I came here from my hometown with my family for summer vacation." Daisuke answered.
"So that's why. Well in any case, my name is Mint." Mint said.
"I'm Pudding! Nice to meet you!" Pudding said with a large friendly smile.
"Zakuro, nice to meet you." Zakuro said in an almost bored tone.
"It's nice to meet all of you." Daisuke said with a nod from his position on the edge of the fountain.
"If you don't mind me asking Daisuke-kun, why are you here?" Lettuce asked, repeating her question from earlier.
"O-oh, I was painting." Daisuke said showing some of his tools.
"Painting?" they all asked in unison.
"Yeah, it's not done yet, but you can look if you want." he said pointing to his canvas.
They looked at it and they could all agree that even though it wasn't done, it was still good.
"It's beautiful!" Lettuce said as she looked it over.
"Pudding agrees!" Pudding said bouncing up and down.
"It's so pretty!" Ichigo said admiring the painting.
"I'll admit it isn't bad." Mint said with a small smile.
"It's good." Zakuro said with the smallest smile.
"T-thank you." Daisuke stuttered. "L-like I said, it's not done yet, but I hope that when it is, it will be worthy of all your praises." Daisuke said with a small blush.
"I'm sure it will be." Lettuce said with a soft smile with the others nodding and giving their own smiles.
"T-thank you." Daisuke said his small blush growing a little.
"Well, we have to get going now. Hope the rest of your painting goes well!" Ichigo said as she wave good bye.
The others also wave goodbye and they all walked off. Daisuke waved back until they were out of sight.
When they turned the corner the teasing began. "So, Lettuce, what do you think of Daisuke-kun?" Ichigo asked with a knowing smile.
"W-what do you m-mean?" Lettuce asked not quite understanding Ichigo's smile.
"Do you like him?" Mint joining in on Ichigo's side.
"I-I think he's very nice if that's what you mean." Lettuce said with a small blush forming.
"You two should leave her alone. She'll talk to us when she's more comfortable about it." Zakuro subtlety teasing Lettuce as well.
Pudding still confused about what the others were hinting at remained quiet.
Lettuce didn't say anything, just blushed and kept her head down. Thankfully the girls left it a that when they could see the cafe coming into view.
-Time skip- Evening-
The girls were just cleaning up when Shirogane called them to the basement. When they were all gathered he started to explain.
"Last time we were caught off guard. This time we'll be waiting for him near the museum. We don't want to be spotted by officers so you'll be waiting on a roof top a little ways away. Besides that, it will be similar to last time."
The girls nodded then went to changed out of their waitress uniforms. They headed to the museum and found a secluded spot to transformed. When they were done they jumped up to the roof tops and got ready.
"We should try a different approach this time." Mew Zakuro suggested.
"Good idea Zakuro-onee-sama, but what?" Mew Mint asked.
"It's obvious that he has more stamina than us." Mew Ichigo contributed to the conversation.
"Then we just need to have more!" Mew Pudding said as if it was obvious.
"Not necessarily, it just means we can't let it drag on like the chase last time. It's also true that he has an advantage when he's in the air, so instead of trying to chase him down when he's flying we should keep him from getting into the air." Lettuce explained.
"Good idea." Mew Zakuro nodded in agreement.
"So all we need to do is keep him from getting into air and end it quickly." Mew Mint stated.
"Sounds easy enough!" Mew Ichigo and Mew Pudding said at the same time.
They all agreed on a plan and waited for Dark to show up. They didn't have to wait too long because soon they saw a figure in the distance approaching them. They watch until he landed on the roof in front them and folded up his wings.
"And what do I owe the pleasure?" Dark said in mock politeness.
"We heard about the warning card you left. So we came to stop you this time!" Mew Ichigo said.
"Why do you want to stop me?" Dark asked as he crossed his arms with a small smirk beginning to form.
"So you'll return the things you stole." Mew Pudding shouted while pointing a finger at Dark.
"And so you'll answer our questions." Mew Zakuro said in a cold tone.
The other mews nodded to each other and they all sprang into action. Mew Mint and Mew Lettuce jumped towards him planing on holding him still, but he evaded by jumping back. Mew Pudding jumped into the air and shouted "Mew ribbon Pudding Ring Inferno!" only he jumped to the left to avoid it. Mew Zakuro tried her attack right after, but he managed to get out of the way even though he had barely enough time to react. He even evaded Mew Ichigo who tried to grab him from behind.
One thought was running through all of their heads. "He's good."
"Nice try, but you're going to have to do better than that." Dark said as he took out a feather and held it in front of himself.
The girls prepared themselves for an attack, but were caught off guard when Dark mumbled a few words and the feather emitted a bright light that forced the girls to cover their eyes as to not go blind.
The light only lasted a couple of seconds and when it was over they quickly looked up to where Dark was before, only to see he wasn't there. They split up and began searching in different areas but when they met up later they all came up empty handed.
"Dang it, he got away again!" Mew Ichigo said annoyed that they didn't get him this time either.
"He certainly lives up to the role of a Phantom thief." Mew Zakuro said.
"It won't be easy to catch him." Lettuce said and they could all agree with that.
-Line break-
Like always, I apologize for any mistakes and I hope you enjoyed the chapter.
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