Thanks everyone who has read my story, and extra thanks to all who reviewed!! Finally, this is the last chapter, but I am sort of sad it’s over. Just kidding, it’s like 5 tons were just lifted off my shoulders! NEWAYS, I had fun writing this story, and I hope everyone had fun reading it!

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A/N: Someone wasn’t sure in a review so I’ll make this clear: Pretty much EVERYONE is now 13, except Ryou. Kay now we’re all good :D

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“Well then,” Tart said, stepping forward, causing Ichigo’s team to go into a defensive stance, “En garde.”

Chapter 16: War

The first sound made was Anabell’s epe sliding out of its holder on her hip, and then the quiet tap as the tip rested on the ground.

“Ribbon Anabell Assault!” Anabell darted forward, ready to slash at Tart, but suddenly Ta-Lynn appeared before her and countered Anabell’s attack with her own fury of slashes. They constantly attacked, blocked, and attacked each other, in a never ending series of sword against sword. The others stared blankly at the fighters, before realizing that they, too, were supposed to be in combat.

Sahara called out her attack chant, “Ribbon Sahara Shake!” and pulled some cement from the ground, hurling the already crushed sediments at Tart’s head. But before it hit him, a “Ribbon Kuri Rose!” burst into the air, and the groups of shattered ground erupt into flames, falling helplessly to the ground in ashes.

Desperately urging the brainwashed girls to come to their senses, Tempo and Sara hurtled their attacks at the older mews and Kuri, who blocked and countered them easily. But one explosive card took down Pudding, and no sooner than you could say, “Aww, poor Pudding!” Pai had already orbed to her side, healing her injury.

“Oh no, you don’t!” Luna charged at Pai calling, “Ribbon Candy Swirl!”

When he dropped Pudding from the attack, Sara jumped in and caught her, bringing her to safety. Even if she was under the influence of some drug that made her obedient to the wrong people, she was still a friend.

Back in the battle, Kish, Koi, and a few other aliens joining them had emerged from the aliens’ ship, and had begun to fight the outnumbered Mews. Things were not looking good for them, and they tried their best to snap the other girls back to normal. Even Ichigo lashed out at Kuri.

“What the hell are you doing, Kuri? Get a hold of yourself!” Ichigo yelled, while dodging Kuri’s constant waves of flame that lapped at Ichigo in sheets of thick heat.

Ichigo had her share of attacks aimed towards Kuri, but both girls didn’t hurt each other badly. Ichigo had some little burn marks and Kuri had a few bumps and bruises here and there, but neither of them hurt very much. That is until Ichigo mis-stepped and fell, crashing her head into the curb. As Kuri witnessed blood spill out from the back of Ichigo’s head, she finally snapped back. With her return was a scream. She constantly cried mom, over and over again, breathlessly and the breaks in between filled with choked sobs, and she supported up Ichigo’s shoulders making her head slump backwards. This was all unknown to everyone else, though, because her cries were drowned out by the war taking place just behind her back.

The New Mews weren’t giving up. Tempo attached detonator cards onto Sara’s weapons, and she yelled, “Ribbon Candy Drops!”

The large circular candy-like weapons skidded across the road in the middle of the enemies. Tempo snapped his fingers, and they exploded, and some of the aliens dropped to the ground, along with Lettuce, who was already injured to begin with.

But the duel between Ta-Lynn and Anabell was wearing thin; Anabell was tiring and Ta-Lynn had all the fighting spirit in the world. As a finishing blow, Ta-Lynn smashed the side of her sword into Anabell’s ribs. Anabell collapsed onto the hard ground, coughing up blood.

Luna direly threw her attacks at Pai, who slashed her with fierce air currents, swaying them with his giant fans. Kish, Zakuro, and Mint occupied Tempo and Sara, and in the crossfire between them the roads ripped up unmercifully and any gardens on the sides were uprooted.

Tempo and Sara almost seemed to be dominating when Zakuro went down with a shriek after her gut was hit hard with a “candy drop” thrown by Sara (they seemed more like 2 ton loads of metal). The fear in Mint’s eyes was clear when two cards stuck to both her arms, and they exploded, making her arms practically useless from the serious injury.

So it was Kish versus Tempo and Sara. But lucky for Kish, Sara was already slowing down and had various injuries scattered across her body. She was down for the count when Kish delivered an uppercut to her gut with his fist.

Kuri turned away from her mother, to witness what Ichigo had in that dream, not too many nights ago. Her friends were falling, one by one, and she couldn’t do much about it. Why were the aliens fighting them anyways? Hadn’t they already restored their planet? What was the purpose of this? And besides, weren’t they going to make the toys evil or something like that, instead of mindless battle?

She was going to get answers. Kuri gently let down her mother, tears pouring down her face, and stormed back to the battlefield. Sahara was molding road into weapons and trying to take down Tart when Kuri came over. It wasn’t going so well.

“Make me a sword,” Kuri demanded, not in the mood for being polite.

Sahara was unfazed by Kuri’s tone and instantly pulled cement from the sidewalk, turning it into a sword. A ratty, unwell made sword, but a sword none the less.

Tart came at her, but she wrapped fire around his wrists and pressed in, and he immediately drops his weapons and howled at the pain. She drew the fire away but burn marks stayed, and Tart stayed on his knees.

Pai glanced over at his screaming comrade, but his expression did not change. Luna took this chance to lunge at him, attacking him with her last might. Pai quickly parried her, and he eventually won, pushing her onto the ground. Pai almost slashed her across the face with a sharp gust of wind, but Anabell shoved him from her painful spot on the ground. Pai only inflicted a scratch to Luna’s face, making her wince.

Luna looked over to Anabell, both of them on the ground and smiled a thank you. She smiled back and weakly said, “That’s what sisters are for.”

Anabell wimpered and more tears spilled out of her eyes when Pai delivered a kick to her ribs, possibly cracking on or two. After that she blacked out.

Kuri charged right up to Kish and put the sword to his neck. Both Pai and Tart started to rush towards her, but she yelled, “Stop!” and she raised her other hand, flames circling the other aliens, enclosing them. She started screaming at him many things in confusion and lots of profanity mixed in, before Kish held up his hands and told her to slow down.

“You! You caused all of this… this betrayal, and war, and pain! You’ve caused my mother death,” She motioned to the lifeless Ichigo, making Kish- who might have still had feelings about her- gasp, “and have inflicted on all my friends. Why? Why did you do all of this? You have your own planet!” Kuri raised her voice even louder, if it was possible. “Why?!”

“Domination over everything,” Kish simply said. This made Kuri press the cement sword harder into his neck, a bit of blood trickled down to make a stain on Kish’s shirt.

“You will leave. Now.”

Kish raised his eyebrows. “And if we don’t?”

Kuri applied more pressure. “Then I will behead you, and Tart, and Pai, and even Koi.”

With that last alien’s name, Kuri noticed that Koi was missing. He was smart in doing that, because his life was the one Kuri would have the most enjoyment in taking.

For the first time, Kish appeared scared. He also realized that Kuri wasn’t kidding. She was filled with rage, and would most likely go ahead and actually kill him.

So he orbed away, and Kuri let down the rings of flame. The other aliens followed his lead and orbed away as well. Kuri dropped to her knees and sobbed, silently this time, as Tempo, the only other person that was well enough to walk, tried to comfort her.

“My mother is…” Kuri stared forward blankly, completely unaware of her surroundings anymore. “Koi is…” She let out a sudden yelp. “They’re all gone! No! Don’t be gone!” She shook terribly and Tempo hushed her and spoke to her in a soft voice, anything to get Kuri to calm down. But she continued to mutter and cry.

Her noises became a subtle gasp and her eyes faded and Tempo looked at her in confusion, until he looked down and saw the sword. It was through her stomach, and it was Kuri who had pushed it in. Tempo called out for help, but he knew she wasn’t going to live. The other girls looked over, every single one of them devastated and in shock.

So, Kuri and Ichigo were lost that day, and the others grew to be fine, with not too bad lives. The animal genes in the Mews wore off this time, instead of staying inside the girls’ bodies forever. Everything was fairly normal for them, except for Ryou who had feelings for Ichigo and never truly healed.

That’s life.

There you go. My long story has come to an end. Oh my gosh, this chapter was a bit worse than what I had hoped for. There were no funny parts or nothing!

Anyways, I hope everyone enjoyed this story, and please read and review!