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Mew Mew Power Part 13- Surprise Safari

It was a typical March afternoon. It had a light breeze and daffodils had begun to sprout on the grass patches, around our school. The only thing not right about this beautiful day; was the fact that Abi was continuously pestering me to go to Ham Parade with her. “Let’s go. Plllleeeeassse! Alleyn’s won’t be here until 5pm!” Abigail said. We were waiting for our opposition in our netball match to appear. Miss Allen (One of the PE teachers- and our netball coach) said that we could go anywhere as long as we came back by 4:30. Abi here was pestering me to go down to Ham parade. “But Ham Parade is so TACKY. It’s not even a proper High street. But fine I’ll come. We’ll go to Greggs and then we’ll go to the Off Licence to buy drinks and sweets. But that’s it! We still haven’t got changed!” I said. She gave a ‘Whoop’ and hugged me. We had an hour to get back. We went to Greggs and I bought a muffin and some doughnuts. We sat on a bench at the corner of the road and ate the stuff we bought. “I’m thirsty, man.” She said. I groaned at her and we tossed the bag into the bin and walked to the newsagent. I’d wasted all my money at Greggs but I was pleased when I saw Abi produce a ten pound note from her purse. “My treat. And what’s money between friends?” she said. I smiled at her and grabbed two cans of KA from the drink section and she loaded up on the sweets. We put it on the till and the guy scanned everything we’d bought. “£8.80 please.” He said. She handed him the money and put the change in her purse. We linked arms and made our way down the street. The bag was swinging in our hands. I turned around and walked backwards whilst talking to her. “I can’t believe it took us half an hour to eat and buy food. It’s 4pm! So whadd-”
“Duck!” Abi screamed her face twisted in horror so I believed her and I swung my head low and ran forward. I turned around and saw three guys looking back at us. “Hey, don’t worry girls! We won’t hurt ya! Just give us a quick snog and we’ll be on our way. Otherwise there’ll be consequences.” A brown haired guy said. Abi and I exchanged a quick glance. A blondie put a hand on Abi’s shoulder. She began to scream. “Shut that one up.” Said the brown haired guy. Blondie put a hand on Abi’s mouth. I placed a hand on blondie’s arm. I could feel the fire inside me burning up and the anger from within me burnt his hand. “Ow!” he yelled, yanking his hands off Abi. She ran to stand beside me.
“Leg it, Abs. Go grab Miss Allen and come back.” I said. She didn’t look like she wanted to leave me all on my own. I nodded at her showing her that I’d be fine. She ran back down the street to school. One of the gang members tried to chase after her but nobody is as fast as Abi, when it comes to running from danger. The other guys closed in on me. I grabbed a KA from the bag, shook it, then smashed it against the ground. It blew up not quite as largely as I’d expected but still, it was enough of a diversion. I was about to use my Fire power on them when I remembered what Renee had said last night. ‘Don’t use your magic in public.’ I let the anger sizzle down. That’s when I saw a piece of metal catch the sun. A knife. I saw the three of them exchange a glance. Knowing what was about to come I tried to jump out of the corner, but they got me. It was about midway on my thigh and blood poured out as if it was Niagara Falls. I wasn’t going to let them win by screaming, so I bit my tongue to stop myself from yelping with pain. He brought the knife down again and I shut my eyes. I waited for the impact and when nothing happened I opened my eyes. The three of them were standing above me smiling and laughing. Then I saw Miss Allen’s hands reach out. She grabbed them all and pushed them to the ground. She threw her phone at me and knowing what had to happen I called the cops. I gave Miss Allen a thumbs up and she took her foot off of the guys and came over to me. She bent down to look at my cut when the three men stood up again, this time with iron rods in their hands. “Miss Allen!” I screamed but I was too late. They’d already hit her on the head and she’d collapsed onto the ground. Then somebody else grabbed one of their shoulders. He yanked his hands back and beat him up until he was almost dead. “Elliot?” Abi said uncertainly. The other two guys tried to run away but Elliot grabbed onto them and the police came just in time. They took the three guys off of the floor and they made a grab for Elliot too. “No! He didn’t do anything! He saved me from this lot.” I said indicating the men sprawled inside the police van. “He’ll still have to come downtown and we gotta get that leg checked.” The police officer said, pointing at my thigh.
“He didn’t hurt me! He... he... He’s my boyfriend!” I screamed finally. Elliot had this cheeky grin on his face as the officer unshackled him. “And what about Miss Allen? What’s gonna happen to her?” I said. He shook his head and spoke into his walkie talkie. A few minutes later an ambulance pulled up and took Miss Allen, Abi, Elliot and me inside. A few hours later I was bandaged up and taken home by my parents.

I woke up feeling pain shoot through my leg. It was Friday and I was aching. And I doubt it was because of the Mocks I had, had all week, at least they’ll be over on Monday. We’ve only got Chemistry and Biology then and then General Studies all week! I shivered as last night’s events ran through my head. I washed my face, and got changed into my school uniform. Mum insisted on driving me to school, however many times I disagreed. I got out of the car and told Mum that I could manage to get to the main building from the parking. Abi, Liv and Em came over when the saw me enter the foyer. “OMG! Abi told us all about it! You ok?” Emma said, looking at me worriedly. “If Abs told you all about it, you’ll know that I’m completely fine and I missed my first date because I was too busy being bandaged up like a freak!” I yelled.
“Elizabeth shut the hell up! You wouldn’t want 11W and 11F screaming and shouting when you’re doing your Chem and Bio mocks! Emma and I have to go to Tiffin Boys because we took Food Technology instead of Ballroom dancing like you two! See ya in the exam rooms!” Olivia said. She grabbed Emma’s hand and they walked outside. Miss Allen came to see me and she said. “Good thing you weren’t killed! What would Schofield do without their best netballer?” I hate how everyone always talks houses. It doesn’t matter anyway because Schofield (Blue team) beat all the other teams. Flavell, (yellow) Bebbington (red) and Watson (green) all suck! That’s what F, W, S and B stand for. Everyone in your form is in the same house as you. Abi pulled me toward the gym so that we wouldn’t be late to our General Studies lesson. We walked in and 20 guys and 18 girls stared back at us. “Sorry Miss Berry. It just took me a long time to get into the school cos of my um leg.” I said. She nodded and said, “Ok come in then! Now pair up!” everyone ran to get a good looking guy. Everybody was running into a corner which Abi and I couldn’t see from here. Must be a real hottie! As Abi had said she excused herself and left. I went into the corner to see who everyone was fawning over. “Elliot?!” I cried. All the girls turned around to look at me. A sort of pathway was made and Elliot walked forward. He grabbed my hand and all the girls groaned. “Ladies, there are other choices!” Miss Berry said. They all ran in opposite directions to find a different guy. Once we were all paired up, as Abi had predicted Caleb was the last guy and Abi took her cue walked in, shrugged her shoulders and went over to Caleb. She acted as if it was a total coincidence and when the music started playing she looked as if she was in heaven. I looked up at Elliot. He was one of the only people that I could actually look UP at everyone else is shorter! “Elliot! What the hell are you doing here?! This is just meant to be Tiffin Boys’! They’re gonna kill you when they find out that you aren’t actually from there!” I whispered.
“Who says I’m not from there? You said two nights ago that I need to go make some friends so I joined Tiffin.” He replied.
“They can’t just take someone just when we are finishing our Mocks!” I said.
“They gave me a quick IQ test and I passed with flying colours. No school would turn away a genius!” he said.
“I’m so glad you’re here! I thought I might be paired up with some freak!” I said.
“Less of the chatting, Elizabeth! Now men, dip your partners.”
Elliot grabbed my back and dipped me backwards. He leaned forward and kissed me. Right there in front of everyone and I didn’t even mind. Everyone cheered and I could hear Abi wolf-whistling. I wasn’t in the slightest embarrassed. Then, unwillingly he let go and I stood up on my own two feet. I hugged him and Miss Berry didn’t say a word! “We gotta go on a Safari. Predasites are high in the desert. Wesley and I organized suitable clothing for everyone, we’re leaving tonight.” He whispered into my ear.
“What?! Why tonight? What are we gonna say to our... umm...” I didn’t know how to finish my sentence because I was weary of Elliot’s feelings. “Parents? Don’t worry you can say it and that part has been taken care of. It’s a fun packed weekend to celebrate the fact that you’ve finished your Mocks and the others all have another random reason like that. So just come to the Cafe as soon as schools finished with clothing for ALL the girls. Renee and Kiki will already be there. We need to get Zoey out of school and Cor-”
“Less talking, more dancing, you two!” Miss Berry said to us. I laughed and we didn’t talk for a while after that. “Bridget and Corina need to get taken out of school too.” Elliot whispered and then we carried on dancing until the end of the lesson.

After I finished General Studies, Elliot went to the Cafe, Abi was arm in arm with Caleb and they were gazing into each other’s eyes and I was running to 8B’s form room. I ran in and all the year eights were running around like maniacs. Typical. “Yo Zoey!” I called out, quite loudly. Everything went silent and everybody looked at me. I stood there waiting for Zoey to reply. A supply teacher pushed passed me and sat at the front desk. Everyone went to their normal seats. “May I help you?” he asked, looking at me.
“Erm yeah. I need to take Zoey out due to a family emergency.” I said, looking around the classroom to see if I could find her. She stood up, looking slightly alarmed. The supply teacher looked at me as if I was scum. I gave him the same dirty look back and Zoey took her cue and came out of the classroom. When I got to the foyer I saw Abi leaving with Caleb. She turned around to look at me. I clamped my phone to my face and mouthed ‘Call me’ looking happy for her. I walked out with Zoey a few minutes after Abi had left. “What family emergency? What’s going on? Was it Mum or was it Dad?” Zoey asked her expression was scared and weary at the same time, her voice sounded like it was expecting the worst. I laughed, not believing her stupidity. “Nobody is ill! It’s a mega Mew mission! Just go home and grab a toothbrush and towel, nothing else.” I said. I shoved her in the direction of the way she goes home and I grabbed a bus to my house. When I got there, I was shocked to find my parents there. I looked at them startled. “Don’t worry honey, we just wanted to say bye and give you a big kiss good luck! And try everything there is!” Mum said. She leaned in to give me a hug and kiss as did Dad. I groaned disgustedly but hugged them back. “I gotta go grab my toothbrush and stuff sooo.” I said. They let go of me laughing and I bounded up the stairs with my long legs. I I longed to add ‘thin’ to that sentence too! I pulled my shoulder bag out of my wardrobe and I filled it with essential needs for a girl. I pulled it over my shoulder, hugged my parents goodbye and then I ran out the house and went straight to Cafe Mew Mew. Renee, Kiki, Corina and Zoey were there. “Where’s Bridg?” I asked them.
“We had to pull her out of school because she refused to ‘bunk.’ Zoey gave us the same tactic you used on her.” Renee said. Bridget came out the toilet and joined out little circle. We were all in our school uniform except Renee and Kiki because Renee doesn’t go to school anymore and Kiki is still going through the process of being enrolled at the local primary school. Elliot and Wesley came out. “Right ladies, you have five minutes to get changed into the clothing we provide you with. We don’t need any complaints and before you ask they are all the same except for some differentiation in gloves.” Elliot said. He laid out six boxes on the table. By now we’d all learnt that anything that was meant to be given to one of us will be personalized. We all have our own colours; there wasn’t a second thought about it. We grabbed our boxes and headed straight for the locker rooms. We all opened ours at the same time. It was two piece clothing and it was a really bleak colour. We all had the same outfit. “I CAN’T be expected to wear THIS.” Corina said holding it with her finger nails and pulling a face, as if it was dripping with something disgusting. Kiki had already changed into it and was pulling the shoes out the box. “I’m extremely sorry your HIGHNESS, but your gonna HAVE to wear it.” I said bowing low. I went over to my locker and dumped my uniform into it and changed into the clothing that was given. It showed our bell buttons and Bridget looked a bit embarrassed. Corina had put on the costume and her eyes were positively shining at the shoes. “Heels! At least they have great taste in shoes!” She cried. She held them to her chest. I laughed to myself as I put the heels on. We all looked exactly the same, except for the hair. “Hey guys, check it out! The gloves are soo cool!” Zoey said. We dug around in our boxes until we found our own gloves. Kiki and Corina had the same gloves and the rest of us all had different ones. “If any of you brought extra stuff, squeeze it into my bag.” I said, holding it open. Corina put some soap in it. “I doubt we’re even going to wash so we probably won’t need that.” I said, taking it out again. She eyed me then dropped it back in again. I decided to leave it. Bridget, Kiki and Zoey put combs and tooth brushes inside. Renee didn’t put anything in. “Gee, I thought since you were the mega star, you’d put the most stuff in, Renee.” Corina said. Renee rolled her eyes and walked out. Corina looked at me. I shrugged my shoulders and followed Renee out, as did the others. When we got out we saw that Elliot and Wesley were ready for us. “You certainly took your time. Now hurry up! Lives at stake!” Elliot said. He had a map in his hand. We all bunched up together and started to make our way to the door. “Wait. We aren’t going that way today. Follow me.” Elliot said. He turned around and started to walk back into the Cafe. He went into the locker rooms. The Mews and I exchanged nervous glances. He went inside and went to the far corner of the room. He bent down and punched the wall. Nothing happened. He punched it again. Still, nothing happened. Kiki began to giggle. He punched it again. Bridget, Zoey and Corina snorted. I groaned and went over to him. “Never let a man, do a woman’s job.” I said. I kicked the wall, with my good leg and a small white door opened up. Everyone laughed then, including me. “I loosened it up; otherwise she’d never been able to do it.” He said, looking a bit annoyed. We couldn’t help but laugh harder. He put a finger to his lips and indicated that we go through the muddy, disgusting, tiny, little hole. Corina cringed in disgust. I went in and I have no idea who I was followed in by. Thank goodness we weren’t wearing skirts otherwise they would have seen my underwear! I crawled for almost an hour before I came to a clearing. It had metal bars on the front of it, but here we were able to stand up. “Bet you can’t kick this down, without me punching it first.” Elliot said.
“Bet I can.” I replied. I knew this was going to be tough so I kicked it with everything I had in me. It collapsed to the ground with a thump. “You know, you needn’t have bothered kicking that down, because we could have just gone down another tunnel.” Elliot said, helping me up onto the ground –since the ground was above us, showing us how deep the tunnel was- “Well I’m glad she did!” Corina said, grabbing onto my arms and hauling herself up. We helped up the others and turned around to see a massive jeep. “Looks like someone got here before us!” Kiki said.
“No one got here before us. We put it there. Jump in girls.” Elliot said. It was more like a truck to be honest. It had a driver’s seat, with a seat next to it and behind it there were two rows of seats. We jumped in. Renee, Kiki and I were on one side and the others sat opposite us. There were a few blankets on the floor and there was a pull up roof that wasn’t pulled up. “MMMMM! I smell food!” Kiki said, diving onto the floor. She pulled up this relatively large compartment on the ground and we saw that it was crammed with food and drinks. Kiki dived straight in. Wesley began to drive and Elliot turned around to speak to us. “Don’t eat it now; otherwise you will starve for the rest of the weekend. That’s our only supply of food and water. It’s gonna take quite a while to get there, so when it gets dark pull the roof up and tap my shoulder, so I can get the rest of it ready.” Elliot said. We nodded and I pulled Kiki out of the compartment. She sighed a little then jumped up and sat on my lap, really hard. “Owww!” I cried, in pain. Blood seeped through my bandage. Kiki gasped and jumped off my lap. Wesley stopped the car and turned around. Elliot pulled out a first aid kit from the front and came round to the back. He knew exactly what had happened, as if he knew it was going to happen. More blood came through the bandage and I felt tears prick my eyes. “Straighten your legs out. No, wait. Come and sit on the ground and THEN straighten your legs out. I nodded and with a little help from Renee and Elliot I climbed out the truck and lay on the ground. The shorts I was wearing were quite short so I didn’t have to pull up the leg sleeves. Elliot unwounded the bandage and a lot of blood came out. “What’s gonna happen if I lose all my blood?! Will I die?” I asked worriedly. Elliot rolled his eyes and took out another wad of bandage. I could tell by the look on his face that he wasn’t going to answer. He wrapped the new bandage around my leg. “Now try not to let more blood come out. We need at LEAST a meter of bandage.” Elliot said. But he was grinning. I jumped back onto the truck and we set off again.

After a few more hours on the road, our stomachs began to rumble. It was darkening, and Kiki was almost asleep. Zoey, Corina and Bridget were looking half asleep too. I checked my phone for the time. It was almost 9pm. I nodded at Renee, when our gaze met and she tapped Elliot on the shoulder and whispered, “Everyone’s tired. Get the food out and lets set camp up somewhere around here.” He nodded and mumbled something to Wesley. The car came to a stop and we saw that we were surrounded by trees. I softly shook Kiki and she opened one eye. “Are we there yet?” she yawned.
“No. But since everyone is tired we’re gonna set up camp here so that we can get some zzz’s. We’ll set off again tomorrow.” I said. Everyone jumped out the truck and Elliot went into the little compartment. “Wesley, Corina and Bridget go get some twigs and stuff for a fire.” Elliot ordered. Corina groaned but Wesley pulled them two along. He looked at Zoey, Kiki, Renee and I. “Three of you girls can sleep on one of the tents. I suggest: Renee, Kiki and Elizabeth. The rest of ‘em can sleep in the back of the truck, once I sort it out.” He said, pulling out some food. At the same time, Bridget and Wesley came and dumped an armful of twigs and logs on the ground. Corina added a leaf to the pile. Wesley sat down and began to rub two of the sticks together. “Don’t forget that there’s an element controlling girl here! Fire in particular!” I said. I shooed him away with my hands and then flicked fire at the pile, which immediately set ablaze. I smiled feeling proud. We all sat around the fire whilst Elliot passed the food and drink around. “I’ll get some water, sort out Corina, Bridget and Zoey’s bed and put up the tent.” The girls that weren’t there when Elliot explained looked at me curiously and I spoke to them telepathically. They nodded. Elliot put a bottle of water and some plastic cups beside Wesley, who began to pour it out. “Tents ready, so put Kiki in.” Elliot said noticing that Kiki’s head was lolling ever so slightly. Renee lifted her up and put her inside the huge tent that was set out for us. After Kiki was put to bed with a few blankets, Renee joined me beside the fire. Everyone except her and me were in bed. “Let’s go to bed. Tomorrow will be a long day of fighting.” I said to Renee. I got up and helped her onto her feet. Then we went into the tent and we slept either side of Kiki.

I woke up to the sound of Kiki’s soft snoring. It was super uncomfortable, inside the tent. I checked the time on my phone. 4am. I opened up the tent and stepped outside, closing it behind me. The gentle breeze lifted my hair up. It was quite cool out here. I went and sat by the fire which was sparking ever so slightly. I felt an arm on my shoulder. I went into Karate mode as I turned around. I giggled softly when I realised it was just Elliot. I sat down again and Elliot sat beside me. “Want anything to drink?” he whispered. I nodded at him. He got up and returned with two cupfuls of a blue liquid. “What’s this?” I asked slightly astonished. I’d never seen a blue DRINK before. He chuckled. “Don’t trust me enough, eh? Just drink it. It’s blue lemonade.” He said. I took a sip of it. I was hit by an amazing, fizzy, colourful taste that sent me into heaven. I carried on drinking until I’d finished the whole thing. I turned to face Elliot. I laughed quietly as I saw his blue-stained lips. “You think I’m the only one? Well I’m not...” he said. I gasped. He pulled out a tissue from his pocket and passed it to me. I wiped my lips. An abundant turquoise stained the tissue. I kept wiping yet more seem to appear. “Let me try.” Elliot said. He reached out to take the tissue from my hand and I gave it to him. He lifted it up and held it above my lips. Then he sighed and let the tissue fall to the ground. “I gotta better way of getting rid of it.” He said and with that he bent his head over mine and leaned in to kiss me. His lips tasted of blue lemonade and were soft against my lips. I leaned into him and we carried on kissing.

I woke up inside my tent. I have no memory of actually getting in there. I sat up and lightly tapped Renee on the shoulder. She twitched and woke up. She stretched, making a baby lion noise which woke Kiki up too. “Time to defeat some monsters!” Kiki cried, bounding up and ripping the tent open. Elliot and Wesley were sat by the fire. Elliot. Was last night real? “Nice to see that you’ve woken up. Now go wake up the others.” Elliot ordered. We went over to the truck and shook the three of them awake. They stirred but didn’t bother getting up. Renee grabbed at the blanket and pulled it off them. They screamed and tried to pull it off Renee again. Renee didn’t let go and they soon got the idea that she wasn’t going to do so anytime soon. We all walked back to the fire. “Eww! What is that?!” Corina screeched. We all turned to see where she was pointing. It was the bottle of blue lemonade and two cups lying beside it. “Who drank THAT?!” Corina yelled. I looked at Elliot. Then I looked at Wesley pleadingly. “Uh it is Blue lemonade. Me and Elliot drank it. We couldn’t get to sleep because of your snoring Zoey.” Wesley said. I almost passed out in relief. Zoey blushed. Elliot held out a plateful of croissants. “Hurry up and have breakfast. We’ve got to get moving. I’ll sort out the back of the truck so it turns into seats again. We’re already behind schedule.” He said. I took the plate from him, hiding my face with a curtain of my hair. He stood up and walked over to the vehicle. Everyone reached out for some breakfast. I pretended that I was eating, but I didn’t really feel like it. “We’re all set!” Elliot said. We all gave a mini cheer and stood up and went over to the truck, then collapsed onto the chairs. Us girls gossiped for a while and then we all went on our phones -except for Kiki, she played on Renee’s other phone. She has 5 phones- and texted.

After a few more hours of travelling, Corina without looking up from her phone said, “Are we there yet?”
“Yes we are. IF you had spent just a second looking up, you would’ve realised that we haven’t been moving for the past 5 minutes!” Wesley said. All six of our heads looked up at the same time. We were at some sort of desert. Elliot and Wesley got out and motioned for us to do the same. We all bounded out and looked around. There were a few animals walking around but nothing else. “Oooo! Guys watch out! We are in a predasite infested zone!” Corina said jumping around wildly. The Mews and I laughed but Elliot and Wesley stayed stony faced. “Don’t be fooled. They could be in disguise.” Elliot said. Kiki gasped. She bent down and picked up a grain of sand
“Guys, watch out! This grain of sand is a predasite in DISGUISE!” Kiki said. We all doubled up laughing. Zoey screamed and started jumping around wildly. “What’s wr-”
“SNAKE! SNAKE!” Zoey screamed pointing at the ground. We looked down to see a coral snake. “Get back. It’s venomous. Don’t make any sudden movements.” Elliot said, slowly backing away.
“It’s getting bigger!” Zoey screamed. Everyone looked at her as if she’d gone totally bonkers. Everyone except Kiki.
“It IS getting bigger.” Kiki whispered. It was growing at speedy rate.
“Power Pendant Mewtamorphosis!” I yelled grabbing hold of my necklace. We transformed and landed on our feet. “The other animals!” Kiki screamed pointing at the other two animals which had grown bigger than us. A camel, a snake and a huge bird thing. “Split up! Bridg, Renee get the camel! Corina, Zoe you get bird brain and Kiki and I will get snakey. Renee shield Elliot and Wesley!” I yelled. I could barely see what was going on; it was like a sand storm. Renee shot out a barrier around Wesley and Elliot. “I can’t see!” someone screamed. Suddenly, I felt these goggles on my eyes. I could see! I turned around and saw that everyone had one of them on too. Even though I could open my eyes now, I still could not see where the predasites were. I could hear everyone attacking from quite a distance away. That was when I heard the piercing hiss. It was almost deafening. I grabbed my ears, unable to stand the pain. I felt the sand storm slowly die down. I could see again, but I didn’t like what I saw. “I wish the sand storm didn’t die down.” Kiki whispered reaching for my hand. We were surrounded by around 10 gigantic predasites, looming over us, casting a huge shadow. We stood up from the ground and formed an outward circle. “Battle strategy 101, guys! When it is hard to do, on your own... join forces with your mates!” Zoey said. She stuck out her hands, indicating that we do the same. We all held our hands outward, with our fists uncurled, as if we were about to high-five someone. We floated up into the air. “Ocean of Light!”
“Fire!”
“Air!”
“Water!”
“Disco Shell!”
“Earth!” We spun around faster and faster, not feeling dizzy at all. Slowly we brought our attack to an end. We flew back down and landed daintily on our feet. We looked around to see all the predasites had been eliminated! Our attack had worked! “Mew Mews forever?” Kiki said –though it sounded more like a question- sticking her hand into the middle of the small circle we had formed. I stuck my hand into the middle too. Zoey and Bridget laughed sticking their hands in. Renee tossed her hair back and put her hand in the middle. Corina stood away stubbornly, refusing to put her hand in the middle. Renee grabbed her hand and pulled it in. “Mew Mews forever!” we cried, jumping in the air. “I think it might be a little too soon to celebrate girls.” Elliot said.
“You are SUCH a killjoy, Elli!” Zoey said. We laughed for a few seconds until we saw what Elliot had meant. “IMPOSSIBLE!” Dren screamed, throwing his hands in the air. “You cannot destroy those predasites! Sardon said so!”
“Well if SARDON said so, everything MUST be right then, shouldn’t it?” Corina said, with just a tinge of sarcasm, lurking in her voice.
“I’ll destroy you next time, Mew Mews!” Dren said, disappearing into thin air.
“There won’t be a next time!” Kiki said, trying to attack him, but he had already gone. We smiled at our victory. Bridget stood biting her nails. I looked at her inquisitively. “What if he’s right? What if he does destroy us next time? You’ve gotta admit, this time it was pretty tough. Tougher than the last ones, that’s for sure.” She said. She looked really worried.
“Bridg, just live in the present! Don’t think about the future otherwise you will waste your life worrying about what’s coming next, instead of enjoying the now.” I said. I looked at Renee and a beat came out of nowhere. It was a dancy, singy kind of beat. We saw that the music was pelting out of the abandoned truck. Elliot and Wesley jumped into the front, whilst we dived into the back. We knew Renee was generating the music with her magic, but she had picked an amazing song. It took us a while before we recognized which song it was. It was ‘Wannabe’ by the Spice Girls. We sang along to the lyrics and stood up quite a few times doing a little jig. “It sounds good when we sing together!” Zoey commented. Renee went through all our favourite songs until we got to the song that ALL of us had close to our hearts. ‘Hey Soul Sister’ by Train. It was beginning to darken and as the song came to an end, we reached the spot where we had camped out last night. I saw the bottle of Blue Lemonade and the two cups, Elliot and I had drunk from. I took the advice I gave to Bridget, and as everyone got out of the truck and piled the twigs together I cleared my throat and everyone turned to look at me. “The blue lemonade you guys saw this morning, wasn’t drunk by Wesley. It was drunk by Elliot and me. We’re umm sort of going out.” I said.
“Go figure.”
“Great.”
“That’s brand new information!” I giggled at how simply everyone took it. They carried on with what they were doing, not minding at all. I don’t know what I was so embarrassed about. Elliot gave me a lopsided grin and kissed me on the cheek. “We’re ok with you two going out, but please. No intimacy in front of us please!” Kiki said, laughing as she caught the pillow I through at her.

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Mew Mew Power Part 13- Surprise Safari

It was a typical March afternoon. It had a light breeze and daffodils had begun to sprout on the grass patches, around our school. The only thing not right about this beautiful day; was the fact that Abi was continuously pestering me to go to Ham Parade with her. “Let’s go. Plllleeeeassse! Alleyn’s won’t be here until 5pm!” Abigail said. We were waiting for our opposition in our netball match to appear. Miss Allen (One of the PE teachers- and our netball coach) said that we could go anywhere as long as we came back by 4:30. Abi here was pestering me to go down to Ham parade. “But Ham Parade is so TACKY. It’s not even a proper High street. But fine I’ll come. We’ll go to Greggs and then we’ll go to the Off Licence to buy drinks and sweets. But that’s it! We still haven’t got changed!” I said. She gave a ‘Whoop’ and hugged me. We had an hour to get back. We went to Greggs and I bought a muffin and some doughnuts. We sat on a bench at the corner of the road and ate the stuff we bought. “I’m thirsty, man.” She said. I groaned at her and we tossed the bag into the bin and walked to the newsagent. I’d wasted all my money at Greggs but I was pleased when I saw Abi produce a ten pound note from her purse. “My treat. And what’s money between friends?” she said. I smiled at her and grabbed two cans of KA from the drink section and she loaded up on the sweets. We put it on the till and the guy scanned everything we’d bought. “£8.80 please.” He said. She handed him the money and put the change in her purse. We linked arms and made our way down the street. The bag was swinging in our hands. I turned around and walked backwards whilst talking to her. “I can’t believe it took us half an hour to eat and buy food. It’s 4pm! So whadd-”
“Duck!” Abi screamed her face twisted in horror so I believed her and I swung my head low and ran forward. I turned around and saw three guys looking back at us. “Hey, don’t worry girls! We won’t hurt ya! Just give us a quick snog and we’ll be on our way. Otherwise there’ll be consequences.” A brown haired guy said. Abi and I exchanged a quick glance. A blondie put a hand on Abi’s shoulder. She began to scream. “Shut that one up.” Said the brown haired guy. Blondie put a hand on Abi’s mouth. I placed a hand on blondie’s arm. I could feel the fire inside me burning up and the anger from within me burnt his hand. “Ow!” he yelled, yanking his hands off Abi. She ran to stand beside me.
“Leg it, Abs. Go grab Miss Allen and come back.” I said. She didn’t look like she wanted to leave me all on my own. I nodded at her showing her that I’d be fine. She ran back down the street to school. One of the gang members tried to chase after her but nobody is as fast as Abi, when it comes to running from danger. The other guys closed in on me. I grabbed a KA from the bag, shook it, then smashed it against the ground. It blew up not quite as largely as I’d expected but still, it was enough of a diversion. I was about to use my Fire power on them when I remembered what Renee had said last night. ‘Don’t use your magic in public.’ I let the anger sizzle down. That’s when I saw a piece of metal catch the sun. A knife. I saw the three of them exchange a glance. Knowing what was about to come I tried to jump out of the corner, but they got me. It was about midway on my thigh and blood poured out as if it was Niagara Falls. I wasn’t going to let them win by screaming, so I bit my tongue to stop myself from yelping with pain. He brought the knife down again and I shut my eyes. I waited for the impact and when nothing happened I opened my eyes. The three of them were standing above me smiling and laughing. Then I saw Miss Allen’s hands reach out. She grabbed them all and pushed them to the ground. She threw her phone at me and knowing what had to happen I called the cops. I gave Miss Allen a thumbs up and she took her foot off of the guys and came over to me. She bent down to look at my cut when the three men stood up again, this time with iron rods in their hands. “Miss Allen!” I screamed but I was too late. They’d already hit her on the head and she’d collapsed onto the ground. Then somebody else grabbed one of their shoulders. He yanked his hands back and beat him up until he was almost dead. “Elliot?” Abi said uncertainly. The other two guys tried to run away but Elliot grabbed onto them and the police came just in time. They took the three guys off of the floor and they made a grab for Elliot too. “No! He didn’t do anything! He saved me from this lot.” I said indicating the men sprawled inside the police van. “He’ll still have to come downtown and we gotta get that leg checked.” The police officer said, pointing at my thigh.
“He didn’t hurt me! He... he... He’s my boyfriend!” I screamed finally. Elliot had this cheeky grin on his face as the officer unshackled him. “And what about Miss Allen? What’s gonna happen to her?” I said. He shook his head and spoke into his walkie talkie. A few minutes later an ambulance pulled up and took Miss Allen, Abi, Elliot and me inside. A few hours later I was bandaged up and taken home by my parents.

I woke up feeling pain shoot through my leg. It was Friday and I was aching. And I doubt it was because of the Mocks I had, had all week, at least they’ll be over on Monday. We’ve only got Chemistry and Biology then and then General Studies all week! I shivered as last night’s events ran through my head. I washed my face, and got changed into my school uniform. Mum insisted on driving me to school, however many times I disagreed. I got out of the car and told Mum that I could manage to get to the main building from the parking. Abi, Liv and Em came over when the saw me enter the foyer. “OMG! Abi told us all about it! You ok?” Emma said, looking at me worriedly. “If Abs told you all about it, you’ll know that I’m completely fine and I missed my first date because I was too busy being bandaged up like a freak!” I yelled.
“Elizabeth shut the hell up! You wouldn’t want 11W and 11F screaming and shouting when you’re doing your Chem and Bio mocks! Emma and I have to go to Tiffin Boys because we took Food Technology instead of Ballroom dancing like you two! See ya in the exam rooms!” Olivia said. She grabbed Emma’s hand and they walked outside. Miss Allen came to see me and she said. “Good thing you weren’t killed! What would Schofield do without their best netballer?” I hate how everyone always talks houses. It doesn’t matter anyway because Schofield (Blue team) beat all the other teams. Flavell, (yellow) Bebbington (red) and Watson (green) all suck! That’s what F, W, S and B stand for. Everyone in your form is in the same house as you. Abi pulled me toward the gym so that we wouldn’t be late to our General Studies lesson. We walked in and 20 guys and 18 girls stared back at us. “Sorry Miss Berry. It just took me a long time to get into the school cos of my um leg.” I said. She nodded and said, “Ok come in then! Now pair up!” everyone ran to get a good looking guy. Everybody was running into a corner which Abi and I couldn’t see from here. Must be a real hottie! As Abi had said she excused herself and left. I went into the corner to see who everyone was fawning over. “Elliot?!” I cried. All the girls turned around to look at me. A sort of pathway was made and Elliot walked forward. He grabbed my hand and all the girls groaned. “Ladies, there are other choices!” Miss Berry said. They all ran in opposite directions to find a different guy. Once we were all paired up, as Abi had predicted Caleb was the last guy and Abi took her cue walked in, shrugged her shoulders and went over to Caleb. She acted as if it was a total coincidence and when the music started playing she looked as if she was in heaven. I looked up at Elliot. He was one of the only people that I could actually look UP at everyone else is shorter! “Elliot! What the hell are you doing here?! This is just meant to be Tiffin Boys’! They’re gonna kill you when they find out that you aren’t actually from there!” I whispered.
“Who says I’m not from there? You said two nights ago that I need to go make some friends so I joined Tiffin.” He replied.
“They can’t just take someone just when we are finishing our Mocks!” I said.
“They gave me a quick IQ test and I passed with flying colours. No school would turn away a genius!” he said.
“I’m so glad you’re here! I thought I might be paired up with some freak!” I said.
“Less of the chatting, Elizabeth! Now men, dip your partners.”
Elliot grabbed my back and dipped me backwards. He leaned forward and kissed me. Right there in front of everyone and I didn’t even mind. Everyone cheered and I could hear Abi wolf-whistling. I wasn’t in the slightest embarrassed. Then, unwillingly he let go and I stood up on my own two feet. I hugged him and Miss Berry didn’t say a word! “We gotta go on a Safari. Predasites are high in the desert. Wesley and I organized suitable clothing for everyone, we’re leaving tonight.” He whispered into my ear.
“What?! Why tonight? What are we gonna say to our... umm...” I didn’t know how to finish my sentence because I was weary of Elliot’s feelings. “Parents? Don’t worry you can say it and that part has been taken care of. It’s a fun packed weekend to celebrate the fact that you’ve finished your Mocks and the others all have another random reason like that. So just come to the Cafe as soon as schools finished with clothing for ALL the girls. Renee and Kiki will already be there. We need to get Zoey out of school and Cor-”
“Less talking, more dancing, you two!” Miss Berry said to us. I laughed and we didn’t talk for a while after that. “Bridget and Corina need to get taken out of school too.” Elliot whispered and then we carried on dancing until the end of the lesson.

After I finished General Studies, Elliot went to the Cafe, Abi was arm in arm with Caleb and they were gazing into each other’s eyes and I was running to 8B’s form room. I ran in and all the year eights were running around like maniacs. Typical. “Yo Zoey!” I called out, quite loudly. Everything went silent and everybody looked at me. I stood there waiting for Zoey to reply. A supply teacher pushed passed me and sat at the front desk. Everyone went to their normal seats. “May I help you?” he asked, looking at me.
“Erm yeah. I need to take Zoey out due to a family emergency.” I said, looking around the classroom to see if I could find her. She stood up, looking slightly alarmed. The supply teacher looked at me as if I was scum. I gave him the same dirty look back and Zoey took her cue and came out of the classroom. When I got to the foyer I saw Abi leaving with Caleb. She turned around to look at me. I clamped my phone to my face and mouthed ‘Call me’ looking happy for her. I walked out with Zoey a few minutes after Abi had left. “What family emergency? What’s going on? Was it Mum or was it Dad?” Zoey asked her expression was scared and weary at the same time, her voice sounded like it was expecting the worst. I laughed, not believing her stupidity. “Nobody is ill! It’s a mega Mew mission! Just go home and grab a toothbrush and towel, nothing else.” I said. I shoved her in the direction of the way she goes home and I grabbed a bus to my house. When I got there, I was shocked to find my parents there. I looked at them startled. “Don’t worry honey, we just wanted to say bye and give you a big kiss good luck! And try everything there is!” Mum said. She leaned in to give me a hug and kiss as did Dad. I groaned disgustedly but hugged them back. “I gotta go grab my toothbrush and stuff sooo.” I said. They let go of me laughing and I bounded up the stairs with my long legs. I I longed to add ‘thin’ to that sentence too! I pulled my shoulder bag out of my wardrobe and I filled it with essential needs for a girl. I pulled it over my shoulder, hugged my parents goodbye and then I ran out the house and went straight to Cafe Mew Mew. Renee, Kiki, Corina and Zoey were there. “Where’s Bridg?” I asked them.
“We had to pull her out of school because she refused to ‘bunk.’ Zoey gave us the same tactic you used on her.” Renee said. Bridget came out the toilet and joined out little circle. We were all in our school uniform except Renee and Kiki because Renee doesn’t go to school anymore and Kiki is still going through the process of being enrolled at the local primary school. Elliot and Wesley came out. “Right ladies, you have five minutes to get changed into the clothing we provide you with. We don’t need any complaints and before you ask they are all the same except for some differentiation in gloves.” Elliot said. He laid out six boxes on the table. By now we’d all learnt that anything that was meant to be given to one of us will be personalized. We all have our own colours; there wasn’t a second thought about it. We grabbed our boxes and headed straight for the locker rooms. We all opened ours at the same time. It was two piece clothing and it was a really bleak colour. We all had the same outfit. “I CAN’T be expected to wear THIS.” Corina said holding it with her finger nails and pulling a face, as if it was dripping with something disgusting. Kiki had already changed into it and was pulling the shoes out the box. “I’m extremely sorry your HIGHNESS, but your gonna HAVE to wear it.” I said bowing low. I went over to my locker and dumped my uniform into it and changed into the clothing that was given. It showed our bell buttons and Bridget looked a bit embarrassed. Corina had put on the costume and her eyes were positively shining at the shoes. “Heels! At least they have great taste in shoes!” She cried. She held them to her chest. I laughed to myself as I put the heels on. We all looked exactly the same, except for the hair. “Hey guys, check it out! The gloves are soo cool!” Zoey said. We dug around in our boxes until we found our own gloves. Kiki and Corina had the same gloves and the rest of us all had different ones. “If any of you brought extra stuff, squeeze it into my bag.” I said, holding it open. Corina put some soap in it. “I doubt we’re even going to wash so we probably won’t need that.” I said, taking it out again. She eyed me then dropped it back in again. I decided to leave it. Bridget, Kiki and Zoey put combs and tooth brushes inside. Renee didn’t put anything in. “Gee, I thought since you were the mega star, you’d put the most stuff in, Renee.” Corina said. Renee rolled her eyes and walked out. Corina looked at me. I shrugged my shoulders and followed Renee out, as did the others. When we got out we saw that Elliot and Wesley were ready for us. “You certainly took your time. Now hurry up! Lives at stake!” Elliot said. He had a map in his hand. We all bunched up together and started to make our way to the door. “Wait. We aren’t going that way today. Follow me.” Elliot said. He turned around and started to walk back into the Cafe. He went into the locker rooms. The Mews and I exchanged nervous glances. He went inside and went to the far corner of the room. He bent down and punched the wall. Nothing happened. He punched it again. Still, nothing happened. Kiki began to giggle. He punched it again. Bridget, Zoey and Corina snorted. I groaned and went over to him. “Never let a man, do a woman’s job.” I said. I kicked the wall, with my good leg and a small white door opened up. Everyone laughed then, including me. “I loosened it up; otherwise she’d never been able to do it.” He said, looking a bit annoyed. We couldn’t help but laugh harder. He put a finger to his lips and indicated that we go through the muddy, disgusting, tiny, little hole. Corina cringed in disgust. I went in and I have no idea who I was followed in by. Thank goodness we weren’t wearing skirts otherwise they would have seen my underwear! I crawled for almost an hour before I came to a clearing. It had metal bars on the front of it, but here we were able to stand up. “Bet you can’t kick this down, without me punching it first.” Elliot said.
“Bet I can.” I replied. I knew this was going to be tough so I kicked it with everything I had in me. It collapsed to the ground with a thump. “You know, you needn’t have bothered kicking that down, because we could have just gone down another tunnel.” Elliot said, helping me up onto the ground –since the ground was above us, showing us how deep the tunnel was- “Well I’m glad she did!” Corina said, grabbing onto my arms and hauling herself up. We helped up the others and turned around to see a massive jeep. “Looks like someone got here before us!” Kiki said.
“No one got here before us. We put it there. Jump in girls.” Elliot said. It was more like a truck to be honest. It had a driver’s seat, with a seat next to it and behind it there were two rows of seats. We jumped in. Renee, Kiki and I were on one side and the others sat opposite us. There were a few blankets on the floor and there was a pull up roof that wasn’t pulled up. “MMMMM! I smell food!” Kiki said, diving onto the floor. She pulled up this relatively large compartment on the ground and we saw that it was crammed with food and drinks. Kiki dived straight in. Wesley began to drive and Elliot turned around to speak to us. “Don’t eat it now; otherwise you will starve for the rest of the weekend. That’s our only supply of food and water. It’s gonna take quite a while to get there, so when it gets dark pull the roof up and tap my shoulder, so I can get the rest of it ready.” Elliot said. We nodded and I pulled Kiki out of the compartment. She sighed a little then jumped up and sat on my lap, really hard. “Owww!” I cried, in pain. Blood seeped through my bandage. Kiki gasped and jumped off my lap. Wesley stopped the car and turned around. Elliot pulled out a first aid kit from the front and came round to the back. He knew exactly what had happened, as if he knew it was going to happen. More blood came through the bandage and I felt tears prick my eyes. “Straighten your legs out. No, wait. Come and sit on the ground and THEN straighten your legs out. I nodded and with a little help from Renee and Elliot I climbed out the truck and lay on the ground. The shorts I was wearing were quite short so I didn’t have to pull up the leg sleeves. Elliot unwounded the bandage and a lot of blood came out. “What’s gonna happen if I lose all my blood?! Will I die?” I asked worriedly. Elliot rolled his eyes and took out another wad of bandage. I could tell by the look on his face that he wasn’t going to answer. He wrapped the new bandage around my leg. “Now try not to let more blood come out. We need at LEAST a meter of bandage.” Elliot said. But he was grinning. I jumped back onto the truck and we set off again.

After a few more hours on the road, our stomachs began to rumble. It was darkening, and Kiki was almost asleep. Zoey, Corina and Bridget were looking half asleep too. I checked my phone for the time. It was almost 9pm. I nodded at Renee, when our gaze met and she tapped Elliot on the shoulder and whispered, “Everyone’s tired. Get the food out and lets set camp up somewhere around here.” He nodded and mumbled something to Wesley. The car came to a stop and we saw that we were surrounded by trees. I softly shook Kiki and she opened one eye. “Are we there yet?” she yawned.
“No. But since everyone is tired we’re gonna set up camp here so that we can get some zzz’s. We’ll set off again tomorrow.” I said. Everyone jumped out the truck and Elliot went into the little compartment. “Wesley, Corina and Bridget go get some twigs and stuff for a fire.” Elliot ordered. Corina groaned but Wesley pulled them two along. He looked at Zoey, Kiki, Renee and I. “Three of you girls can sleep on one of the tents. I suggest: Renee, Kiki and Elizabeth. The rest of ‘em can sleep in the back of the truck, once I sort it out.” He said, pulling out some food. At the same time, Bridget and Wesley came and dumped an armful of twigs and logs on the ground. Corina added a leaf to the pile. Wesley sat down and began to rub two of the sticks together. “Don’t forget that there’s an element controlling girl here! Fire in particular!” I said. I shooed him away with my hands and then flicked fire at the pile, which immediately set ablaze. I smiled feeling proud. We all sat around the fire whilst Elliot passed the food and drink around. “I’ll get some water, sort out Corina, Bridget and Zoey’s bed and put up the tent.” The girls that weren’t there when Elliot explained looked at me curiously and I spoke to them telepathically. They nodded. Elliot put a bottle of water and some plastic cups beside Wesley, who began to pour it out. “Tents ready, so put Kiki in.” Elliot said noticing that Kiki’s head was lolling ever so slightly. Renee lifted her up and put her inside the huge tent that was set out for us. After Kiki was put to bed with a few blankets, Renee joined me beside the fire. Everyone except her and me were in bed. “Let’s go to bed. Tomorrow will be a long day of fighting.” I said to Renee. I got up and helped her onto her feet. Then we went into the tent and we slept either side of Kiki.

I woke up to the sound of Kiki’s soft snoring. It was super uncomfortable, inside the tent. I checked the time on my phone. 4am. I opened up the tent and stepped outside, closing it behind me. The gentle breeze lifted my hair up. It was quite cool out here. I went and sat by the fire which was sparking ever so slightly. I felt an arm on my shoulder. I went into Karate mode as I turned around. I giggled softly when I realised it was just Elliot. I sat down again and Elliot sat beside me. “Want anything to drink?” he whispered. I nodded at him. He got up and returned with two cupfuls of a blue liquid. “What’s this?” I asked slightly astonished. I’d never seen a blue DRINK before. He chuckled. “Don’t trust me enough, eh? Just drink it. It’s blue lemonade.” He said. I took a sip of it. I was hit by an amazing, fizzy, colourful taste that sent me into heaven. I carried on drinking until I’d finished the whole thing. I turned to face Elliot. I laughed quietly as I saw his blue-stained lips. “You think I’m the only one? Well I’m not...” he said. I gasped. He pulled out a tissue from his pocket and passed it to me. I wiped my lips. An abundant turquoise stained the tissue. I kept wiping yet more seem to appear. “Let me try.” Elliot said. He reached out to take the tissue from my hand and I gave it to him. He lifted it up and held it above my lips. Then he sighed and let the tissue fall to the ground. “I gotta better way of getting rid of it.” He said and with that he bent his head over mine and leaned in to kiss me. His lips tasted of blue lemonade and were soft against my lips. I leaned into him and we carried on kissing.

I woke up inside my tent. I have no memory of actually getting in there. I sat up and lightly tapped Renee on the shoulder. She twitched and woke up. She stretched, making a baby lion noise which woke Kiki up too. “Time to defeat some monsters!” Kiki cried, bounding up and ripping the tent open. Elliot and Wesley were sat by the fire. Elliot. Was last night real? “Nice to see that you’ve woken up. Now go wake up the others.” Elliot ordered. We went over to the truck and shook the three of them awake. They stirred but didn’t bother getting up. Renee grabbed at the blanket and pulled it off them. They screamed and tried to pull it off Renee again. Renee didn’t let go and they soon got the idea that she wasn’t going to do so anytime soon. We all walked back to the fire. “Eww! What is that?!” Corina screeched. We all turned to see where she was pointing. It was the bottle of blue lemonade and two cups lying beside it. “Who drank THAT?!” Corina yelled. I looked at Elliot. Then I looked at Wesley pleadingly. “Uh it is Blue lemonade. Me and Elliot drank it. We couldn’t get to sleep because of your snoring Zoey.” Wesley said. I almost passed out in relief. Zoey blushed. Elliot held out a plateful of croissants. “Hurry up and have breakfast. We’ve got to get moving. I’ll sort out the back of the truck so it turns into seats again. We’re already behind schedule.” He said. I took the plate from him, hiding my face with a curtain of my hair. He stood up and walked over to the vehicle. Everyone reached out for some breakfast. I pretended that I was eating, but I didn’t really feel like it. “We’re all set!” Elliot said. We all gave a mini cheer and stood up and went over to the truck, then collapsed onto the chairs. Us girls gossiped for a while and then we all went on our phones -except for Kiki, she played on Renee’s other phone. She has 5 phones- and texted.

After a few more hours of travelling, Corina without looking up from her phone said, “Are we there yet?”
“Yes we are. IF you had spent just a second looking up, you would’ve realised that we haven’t been moving for the past 5 minutes!” Wesley said. All six of our heads looked up at the same time. We were at some sort of desert. Elliot and Wesley got out and motioned for us to do the same. We all bounded out and looked around. There were a few animals walking around but nothing else. “Oooo! Guys watch out! We are in a predasite infested zone!” Corina said jumping around wildly. The Mews and I laughed but Elliot and Wesley stayed stony faced. “Don’t be fooled. They could be in disguise.” Elliot said. Kiki gasped. She bent down and picked up a grain of sand
“Guys, watch out! This grain of sand is a predasite in DISGUISE!” Kiki said. We all doubled up laughing. Zoey screamed and started jumping around wildly. “What’s wr-”
“SNAKE! SNAKE!” Zoey screamed pointing at the ground. We looked down to see a coral snake. “Get back. It’s venomous. Don’t make any sudden movements.” Elliot said, slowly backing away.
“It’s getting bigger!” Zoey screamed. Everyone looked at her as if she’d gone totally bonkers. Everyone except Kiki.
“It IS getting bigger.” Kiki whispered. It was growing at speedy rate.
“Power Pendant Mewtamorphosis!” I yelled grabbing hold of my necklace. We transformed and landed on our feet. “The other animals!” Kiki screamed pointing at the other two animals which had grown bigger than us. A camel, a snake and a huge bird thing. “Split up! Bridg, Renee get the camel! Corina, Zoe you get bird brain and Kiki and I will get snakey. Renee shield Elliot and Wesley!” I yelled. I could barely see what was going on; it was like a sand storm. Renee shot out a barrier around Wesley and Elliot. “I can’t see!” someone screamed. Suddenly, I felt these goggles on my eyes. I could see! I turned around and saw that everyone had one of them on too. Even though I could open my eyes now, I still could not see where the predasites were. I could hear everyone attacking from quite a distance away. That was when I heard the piercing hiss. It was almost deafening. I grabbed my ears, unable to stand the pain. I felt the sand storm slowly die down. I could see again, but I didn’t like what I saw. “I wish the sand storm didn’t die down.” Kiki whispered reaching for my hand. We were surrounded by around 10 gigantic predasites, looming over us, casting a huge shadow. We stood up from the ground and formed an outward circle. “Battle strategy 101, guys! When it is hard to do, on your own... join forces with your mates!” Zoey said. She stuck out her hands, indicating that we do the same. We all held our hands outward, with our fists uncurled, as if we were about to high-five someone. We floated up into the air. “Ocean of Light!”
“Fire!”
“Air!”
“Water!”
“Disco Shell!”
“Earth!” We spun around faster and faster, not feeling dizzy at all. Slowly we brought our attack to an end. We flew back down and landed daintily on our feet. We looked around to see all the predasites had been eliminated! Our attack had worked! “Mew Mews forever?” Kiki said –though it sounded more like a question- sticking her hand into the middle of the small circle we had formed. I stuck my hand into the middle too. Zoey and Bridget laughed sticking their hands in. Renee tossed her hair back and put her hand in the middle. Corina stood away stubbornly, refusing to put her hand in the middle. Renee grabbed her hand and pulled it in. “Mew Mews forever!” we cried, jumping in the air. “I think it might be a little too soon to celebrate girls.” Elliot said.
“You are SUCH a killjoy, Elli!” Zoey said. We laughed for a few seconds until we saw what Elliot had meant. “IMPOSSIBLE!” Dren screamed, throwing his hands in the air. “You cannot destroy those predasites! Sardon said so!”
“Well if SARDON said so, everything MUST be right then, shouldn’t it?” Corina said, with just a tinge of sarcasm, lurking in her voice.
“I’ll destroy you next time, Mew Mews!” Dren said, disappearing into thin air.
“There won’t be a next time!” Kiki said, trying to attack him, but he had already gone. We smiled at our victory. Bridget stood biting her nails. I looked at her inquisitively. “What if he’s right? What if he does destroy us next time? You’ve gotta admit, this time it was pretty tough. Tougher than the last ones, that’s for sure.” She said. She looked really worried.
“Bridg, just live in the present! Don’t think about the future otherwise you will waste your life worrying about what’s coming next, instead of enjoying the now.” I said. I looked at Renee and a beat came out of nowhere. It was a dancy, singy kind of beat. We saw that the music was pelting out of the abandoned truck. Elliot and Wesley jumped into the front, whilst we dived into the back. We knew Renee was generating the music with her magic, but she had picked an amazing song. It took us a while before we recognized which song it was. It was ‘Wannabe’ by the Spice Girls. We sang along to the lyrics and stood up quite a few times doing a little jig. “It sounds good when we sing together!” Zoey commented. Renee went through all our favourite songs until we got to the song that ALL of us had close to our hearts. ‘Hey Soul Sister’ by Train. It was beginning to darken and as the song came to an end, we reached the spot where we had camped out last night. I saw the bottle of Blue Lemonade and the two cups, Elliot and I had drunk from. I took the advice I gave to Bridget, and as everyone got out of the truck and piled the twigs together I cleared my throat and everyone turned to look at me. “The blue lemonade you guys saw this morning, wasn’t drunk by Wesley. It was drunk by Elliot and me. We’re umm sort of going out.” I said.
“Go figure.”
“Great.”
“That’s brand new information!” I giggled at how simply everyone took it. They carried on with what they were doing, not minding at all. I don’t know what I was so embarrassed about. Elliot gave me a lopsided grin and kissed me on the cheek. “We’re ok with you two going out, but please. No intimacy in front of us please!” Kiki said, laughing as she caught the pillow I through at her.