Ryou sighed. He didn’t know why he should be the one cleaning the café. Surely Keiichiro or Masaya could have done it, but no. They left the job for him. Now he knew how Ichigo felt. He leaned on his broom. Yes it felt just like yesterday that the café was filled and Ichigo was running around like crazy while Mint drank tea, Pudding did tricks, Lettuce messing up everything, Zakuro scaring off the customers, Berry and her boyfriend making deliveries. Yes siree it used to be crazy in here. Now it was empty and quiet.
The door opened with a bang.
“Sorry we’re closed. Come in on Monday for our grand reopening.” Ryou said not looking at who opened the door.
“Ryou!” said a frantic voice.
Ryou look over at the door to see Pepper and another girl carrying Chero in their arms.
“What happened?!” Ryou demanded.
“Chero and I went to the park and... and an alien named Teshi appeared, made a kirema anima. I fought the kirema anima while Chero took on Teshi.... She used a feather with a pointed end and hit her back. I’m not sure what happened next because the kirema anima grabbed a hold of me.” Pepper explained.
“I can explain what happened next. My name is Ginger Lee. Teshi was fighting Chero and Chero was dodging very well. Then Teshi threw a feather at me, but Chero jumped in front of me and took it in the arm. Teshi said in minutes the poison in the feather would spread and cause her to be paralyzed. Chero fell to the ground. Teshi floated over and picked Chero up by the hair. Then I turned into a mew and scared Teshi away. I helped Pepper and now we are here.”
“Follow me. We have to lay her down.” Ryou said.
Ryou took Chero off their hands and carried her upstairs to his room and laid her down onto of his bed.
“Who knows how long she will be out like this. Pepper, you and Ginger need to go down to the lab and get Keiichiro. Go now!”
The two girls ran out of the room.
Ryou turned to the limp girl on his bed. He bent over her and deactivated her mew powers. He flipped her over.
“I’m sorry...It’s all my fault....” He whispered.
He pulled out his first aid kit, he put on a pair of rubber gloves. He turned back to Chero and pulled her shirt up half way. There was a nice hole where the feather had hit. It was still bleeding so he got out some medicine and got to work bandaging her up. Once down with her back he pulled her shirt down, bandaged her arm and put a bandage on the gash on her face. He flipped her back over and sighed.
Keiichiro burst in the room with Masaya following behind. The two girls were also there.
“Chero!” Masaya cried out.
“Pepper do you have the feather that was in Chero’s arm?” Ryou asked.
“Yeah. I pulled it out on our way here to make sure no extra poison would go in.” She said handing him the feather.
“Good. Keiichiro can you make an antidote from the traces of poison on the feather?”
“Yes. What type of poison is it?”
“Not to worry it’s only a poison made to paralyze, but if you don’t hurry the poison may slow her heart beat down slow enough to kill her.” Ryou said handing the feather to Keiichiro.
“I’ll hurry as fast as I can.”
“Pepper, Ginger go and help Keiichiro out. He may need your assistance.”
“Right.” The girls said rushing out the door.
“I’m sorry Masaya. I didn’t know this group’s power was so strong. I’m so sorry.”
“She’ll be ok Ryou. Chero is strong like her mother. She will be able to over come this.”
A few minutes later Keiichiro and the girls returned with a shot in Keiichiro’s hand. He handed it to Ryou.
“I hope this works . You have to inject it in the same area as the poison started.” He explained.
Ryou nodded. He lifted up Chero’s blue sleeve and pricked her skin with the needle. He pushed the green liquid in. Then he pulled the needle back out and turned around to face the observers.
“Now we wait.” Ryou said.
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I was dreaming. A wonderful dream really. I was fighting Teshi and I was winning. I beat her and she and the other aliens left. The world was safe. Then the world got dark and it started to rain green glob. I started to cough, and then everything went black. It was cold and wet. Then a bright light surrounded me. Then I heard my dad call my name.
“Chero? Chero?” he said.
“Five more minutes dad.” I murmured.
“Chero! I’m so glad!” He said with excitement.
I opened my eyes to see my self surrounded by Dad, Ryou, Keiichiro, Pepper and that blonde girl.
“Um.....A little space please?” I asked.
My dad attacked my with a huge hug. Everyone else backed off.
“Thank goodness you’re ok.”
I looked over my dad’s shoulder. I was in a bedroom. It’s white and small. It was really bare.
“Um....Dad. You’re crushing me.”
He backed off.
“Sorry.”
“So what happened? Where am I?”
“You passed out from Teshi’s poison.” Pepper explained.
“We carried you here. Oh and I never introduced myself. I’m Ginger.” the blonde girl said.
“Oh... Hi. I’m Chero. So... where is here?” I asked.
“In the café. Upstairs in my room.” Ryou said.
“Oh.”
I started to get up.
“Chero you should lie down for a bit. You need to rest.” Ryou said.
“Yeah but.....” I said starting to blush.
“Oh... You don’t feel comfortable being in a guy’s room do you?”
“No really....”
“I can carry you to the car and drive you home if you want.” Dad said.
“That would be good.”
So Dad carried me to the car and drove me home. Once home he carried me to my room. Once I hit the bed I instantly fell asleep. Mom was out shopping. By the time I woke up mom had just got home. I came down stairs. Dad looked up from the paper.
“How are you feeling?” he asked.
Mom gave him a weird look.
“Is something wrong?” She asked.
“I felt sick earlier. I feel fine now.” I lied.
She nodded and returned to emptying the bags. I sighed and sat down next to dad and pulled out my homework. I started to work on it when my mind wandered.
After finally finishing my homework I went to bed.