Chapter 7 - Fly away, little butterfly.

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*****FLASHBACK*****
Mint burst into her cousin’s room, panting.
‘Mont, What’s your problem?!’ Kaili yelled, throwing a pillow at the cousin.
‘Hey cut it out! I have the best news!’ Mint sat at the end of Kaili’s bed, barely containing herself.
‘we are going on an all expense paid trip to Paris, France!’ she said.
‘OMG! RLY? WEGOTTAGOPACKNOWS!’ Kaili squealed.
That following weekend, she, Mint and the others (Ichigo, Pudding, Lettuce and Zakuro)
All left for Paris on a private jet that their ‘happy customer’ had let them use.

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In the mansion of Mint Aizawa, better known as mew mew Mint, an elderly lady ate her dinner alone.
After her grandchildren, Mint Aizawa and Kaili Aizawa, had left for their trip to france a few weeks ago, she had been left mostly alone in the great house.
‘well micky,’ grandmother Aizawa said to mint’s pet dog who ate from a small silver bowl on the floor beside her chair. ‘it seems we are alone again.’
She looked outside at the heavy rain.
The view was that of the front entrance of the mansion and the street the bronze gates opened up too.
‘wouldn’t like to be out in this weather.’ She said to herself.
Then she noticed the drenched figure that was walking to the front door.
Getting up at once, grandma Aizawa went to invite the person in.
‘Please come in at-’ but she didn’t finish. Instead she gasped.
At the door was a girl. Long sandy brown hair clinging to her face and back, she still wore the cloths she had on when she had left for france.
‘Kaili?’ asked her grandmother. ‘w-what are you doing here?’
‘what do you mean? I just got back from the store. But I couldn’t find the ingredients you wanted. Sorry grandma.’ Kaili said in her usual cheery voice.
‘but you and your cousin… you left three weeks ago for your trip to france…’
‘trip to france?’
Kaili’s grandmother stared at her for a moment. What was going on?
Reaching up to her granddaughter’s forehead, grandma Aizawa guessed that kaili did not have fever.
‘you must have gotten amnesia…’ she said worridly. ‘here come inside. We don’t want anything else to happen to you.’

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Another day, another load of customers, another batch of cake.
Same old, same old in café mew mew.
‘wow, work sure is tedious.’ Madison said to lucia who was slouched behind the till.
‘yeah well, wo’ ya gonna do?’she replied. ‘looks li’ a nuther customer for ya’.
Madison sighed and went to greet the new customer.
‘hello and welcome to café mew mew!’ she said with a plastic smile. ‘how can I be of service?’
‘wow such a cute café!’ said the sandy haired girl as Madison led her to a free table.
‘so what would you like today miss?’ Madison asked.
‘oh, a chocolate cake please! And a orange smoothy would be nice too. Or maybe –’
Madison sighed again. Why did she always get the indecisive ones?

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From the back of the café, Ryou watched the new customer, a some what confused frown on his face.
Little did he know, he was being watched too.
‘how long has he been staring at her?’ Natasha asked Bella in a low voice.
‘a couple of minutes tops.’ She whispered back.
‘I bet he likes her.’ Rinzen giggled.
Natasha grinned and sauntered up next to him.
‘oooh I see lil Ryou’s got a crush.’ She teased.
Ryou gave her a ‘shut the heck up, insolent child, for you know not the true feelings I hide under this cool guise’ kind of look.
Natasha twitched.
‘err….Keiichiro, Ryou’s bullying me’ she whined.
‘Natasha, that girl over there is one of the first mews.’ He said stonily.
‘but I thought…’
‘so did I.’ Ryou walked over to the girl, who was now digging into a strawberry cheesecake.
‘Kaili?’ he said, half not expecting an answer.
Kaili looked up.
‘Err…do I know you?’
‘Why are you here? Shouldn’t you be in France with the others?’
‘Excuse me but who are you? Why do you think I went to France?’ she questioned standing up.
but now Ryou was only an inch away from her.
‘Don’t you even remember me? Or the mew mews or the café?’
Kaili started laughing.
‘You must be crazy!’ she said.
‘Shush! You’re a mew mew and three weeks ago you and your team mates including your cousin Mint went on a trip to France.’
‘You really are crazy. And how did you know I had a cousin called mint?’
‘Because!’ Ryou slightly raised his voice without knowing. ‘I know everything about you!
Your name is Kaili Aizawa, and almost eight months ago your mother was killed. You never knew your father, and when you were little you were bullied at school.
Your now fourteen and you live with your cousin Mint and her family at a mansion not too far away from the café so you were never late for work.
You’re a happy-go-lucky person and you care a lot for your friends but you never wanted to be a mew mew.’
Kaili stared, horrified, with her sparking green eyes. Ryou stared straight back.
‘a-are you stalking me?’ she stuttered. ‘ or are you just insane!?’
The last bit she screamed. Then she turned and ran out the door.
Silence. Everyone had been watching them and now all eyes focused on Ryou.
‘The café is closed.’ He said quietly.
Nobody moved.
‘well you ’erd ’im’ Lucia said, getting up. ‘get the ’eck out. We’re closed.’
Slowly everyone left the café, some taking their cakes with them.
After the last customer left, ryou turned around.
Natasha, Bella, Rinzen, Madison and Lucia were standing behind him.
‘I guess you must all know that the girl who just left screaming is a mew too.’ He said quietly.
They all looked at each other and nodded.
‘well then, you know what to do. Go find Kaili.’

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Kaili stopped running and stopped at a bench.
‘how…how did he know so much…’ she said.
sitting down kaili thought about what had happened the past two days.
‘grandma, that guy…. It must all mean something…’ she said to herself.

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‘hmm..’ said the dark orange haired alien, Kenta, as he and his sister watched the girl.
‘that’s what you’ve been saying for the past five minutes!’ snarled Ginni.
‘well now we know where you flew away to, little butterfly’ Kenta continued, pretending not to hear.
‘oh whatever! Just get me when you need another infuser! I’m going to go see in Reik or Xian needs my help…’ Ginni teleported in a huff.
‘stupid sister,’ Kenta whispered. Then he got out the infuser Ginni had given him and looked around for a victim. Finding a dandelion, he merged it with the infuser.

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A burst of light shot out from behind a bush nearby Kaili.
A flowery chimera anima rose, and as soon as it saw the terrified girl, it swung a huge roots at her, causing kaili to fall down.
Then it trod over the bush to cause further damage.

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‘AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!’
The piercing scream could be heard from miles around.
‘That must be Kaili!’ cried Mew Mew Autumn.
Forest, Dumpling, Grape and Madison nodded and the group followed the sound until they reached the bench where Kaili was.
‘GRAPE HEART RING!’ Bella’s heart shaped weapon sent out purple light rings that expanded and trapped the chimera anima.
‘good going Bella!’ Rinzen commented. ‘AMBER BLADE!’
The attack sliced off one of the monster’s roots; now, it was mad.
Eerily turning to face Rinzen, it made a sudden movement which released it from its bonds.
Then, as if spurred on by pure, iron-willed rage, it rushed at Rinzen.
With it’s two front vines, the chimera picked her up and tossed her onto where Bella and Madison were standing, thus bringing all three down at once.
‘Well this sucks.’ Said Natasha.
‘GAWD D*MNIT! NATASHA I’ll TAKE DOW’ THA’ CHIMERA, YOU GO HELP KAILI!’ yelled Lucia. ‘METAMORPHA SWORD, TRIPLE SLICE!!!’
Natasha ran to where Kaili was sprawled on the ground.
‘Are you ok??’ she asked.
‘Yeah-hey! You-your that waitress…you all worked at the café!’ kaili said.
‘yeah well…apparently you worked there too. Look, theres not enough time to explain but you have to transform!’
Kaili gave Natasha a confused look.
‘You know, transform into a mew?’
‘Oh what is wrong with everyone today!’ Kaili cried out. ‘Why do you all think I’m a mew mew? I don’t want to be a mew mew! And if I ever was, I’m happier now!’
And with that Kaili ran off.
Natasha watched after her, hardly believing it.
‘she can’t just do that…’ Whispered Natasha, ‘none of us knew this was coming…’
Now anger welled in Natasha.
She rose up in a flash and summoned her weapon.
‘WILLOW WAND!’
In one quick movement, she sent razor sharp leaves at the chimera anima, killing it instantly and returning it to a mangled weed.
‘Hey! I was gonna do tha’,’ Lucia huffed.
Natasha angrily turned to her team mate. ‘HOW COULD SHE JUST DO THAT? IT’S NOT LIKE YOU CAN CHOOSE IF YOU’RE A MEW MEW OR NOT!’
‘Well I don’t know what’s stopping that from excepting that she is a mew, but we have to
get her to join us.’ Madison said. Apparently she and the other two had gotten back up again.
Natasha sighed. Then she took off her pendant.
‘I’m going home…’ she said quietly, but loud enough so the others could hear.
Rinzen shrugged and the went after Natasha, also taking her pendant off at the same time.

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Natasha and Rinzen walked home slowly, silently for the most part.
The sun was setting in the sky and only a few people were around on the small streets and alleyways the girls usually took to get home.
‘Natasha, how are we going to get that Kaili girl to believe she’s a mew?’ Rinzen asked, meaning to squeeze a word out of her friend.
‘I don’t know. I’ll try tomorrow or something’ she answered.
‘Ok. Well, here’s my turn…see you later Tasha!’ Rinzen turned to the left and waved to Natasha as she ran along.
Natasha waved back and then continued on her way home.

The alien Kenta sat atop a roof, watching the girl, playing with a rock he had found.
Ginni appeared next to him.
‘Oh, you failed did you Kenta?’ she said contemptuously.
‘Hey, I didn’t here you complain when Reik got the heck beaten out of him.’ Muttered Kenta.

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