Animal I Have Become

Chapter 3

"Kiba Firestorm!"

Mew Pudding leaped out of the way, and managed to avoid the blast that Kiba sent at her.

"Zakuro…" Ichigo looked at the wolf girl, uncertain of what they should do. Kiba was Zakuro's brother, after all.

"We will have to do what we must." Zakuro replied stiffly.

Ichigo nodded. "Let's go Ladies! For the future of the Earth, we serve!"

"This planet won't have a future." Kagakusha said from where he was sitting. "This planet will be mine."

"We'll see about that." Mint said as she tossed her hands up elegantly, throwing two blue energy rings up into the air. "Minto Arrow!"

Lettuce summoned her castanets. "Lettuce Castanets!"

"I'm sorry, Kiba," Mint muttered under her breath as she caught the bow and arrow. "Ribbon…Minto Echo!"

Lettuce followed the attack a moment later. "Ribbon…Lettuce Rush!"

Kiba dodged both attacks, then pulled his whip back out. "Kiba Firestorm!"

Lettuce and Mint screamed as the blow sent them flying.

"Pudding is tired of this!" Pudding proclaimed to no one in particular, then summoned her Pudding Ring.

"Ribbon…Pudding Ring Inferno!" Pudding sent the blast flying, and caught Kiba in it.

"Yes! Ichigo cheered. "Good job, Pudding."

Pudding smiled, then gasped a moment later, as Kiba used a fiery blast from his whip to escape the Inferno.

"Ha!." Kagakusha mocked. "You'll never be able to win! The Para Para control is working perfectly."

Para Para? Ichigo's eyes widened as she realized what she had just heard.

If it's a Para Para that's making Kiba do this, then I can stop it!

She looked around. Lettuce and Mint were ready to fight again. Zakuro was still standing there. Pudding was waiting to see what the other girls would do.

"Buy me some time. I think I can stop this." Ichigo told the other girls.

They nodded, and began attacking again, all except Zakuro, who waited.

The Mewberry rod flew up, and attached itself to Ichigo's Strawberry Bell. The pink catgirl began her attack prep as the other girls continued fighting.

Kagakusha, however, sensed what Ichigo was about to do. "Stop her!" He ordered Kiba.

Kiba sent the other three girls flying, then attempted to jump up and grab Ichigo, but before he could, he found himself wrapped up in a purple whip line.

"Sorry, brother, but it's for your own good." Zakuro said as she stood there, holding the handle of her Zakuro Whip.

"Ribbon…Strawberry Check!" Ichigo completed her attack, separating Kiba and the Para Para.

"What have you done?!" Kagakusha shrieked.

"Stopped you, that's what." Ichigo said as she dropped back to the ground.

Meanwhile, Zakuro pulled Kiba to his feet.

"What happened?" Kiba asked.

"Long story short, you were being controlled by that evil scientist." Zakuro indicated the scientist with a nod of her head. "But we freed you."

"So what now?" Kiba asked as he pulled his whip back out.

Zakuro smiled. "Let's show him the Fujiwaras feel about being used to destroy the world." She said as she pulled out her whip.

Kiba smiled and gave a nod, then the two began charging up their attack.

"Twin Wolves Blast!" The shouted in unison as they attacked.

The blast sent Kagakusha flying.

"I guess he learned it doesn't pay to take over the world." Ichigo said.

"Yeah." Kiba agreed. "Can we go back to the café now? I'm starving."

"It's to bad you're leaving. We'll miss you." Lettuce said.

The group was standing outside the café. The girls were getting ready to open the place, and Kiba was getting to leave.

"Yeah, but I'll be back." Kiba promised. "You haven't seen the last of me yet. But right now I want to travel around, see the sights, maybe even save the world a couple of times."

"Pudding will miss Kiba-oniichan." Pudding said as she held out her hand.

"Don't worry, Pudding." Kiba said. "Like I said, I'll be back."

Mint blushed. "Thanks for saving me, back when we first met."

"No problem." Kiba told her.

Next was Ryou. For a long moment, the two boys looked at each other, then Ryou allowed himself a small smile. "You did well."

"Thanks." Kiba said with a nod of his head. "Take care of my sister while I'm gone."

He pulled out his Power Pendant and shouted, "Red Wolf, Metamorphosis!"

A moment later, Kiba was standing there in his Mew form. He grinned at the group, called, "See you later," to them, then jumped up to the roof of the café and started jumping away across the roof tops.

Mint stared after him for a moment. "He's so cool." She sighed, then turned to Zakuro. "You have to get his address for me."

"Looks like the love bug bit Mint now." Ichigo teased as the group headed back into the café.

"Yeah? Well what about you and Masaya? And He was the Blue Knight!"

"That's nice." Ryou cut in. "Get back to work."

"I wonder," Mint said as she and the other girls headed for the changing room to change into their uniforms. "After that whole Kagakusha incident, do you think Kiba will be okay?"

"He'll be fine." Zakuro assured her. "And he promised he'd come back. And he always keeps his promises."

T.A.R.N.S: Hmm...not bad, not bad at all. Three and a half out of five stars.

Nyoshi: Um, T.A.R.N.S., you just rated your own story.

T.A.R.N.S.: I know. And thus ends the request ficcy. Because I could not think of any song lyrics to use for this chapter, I finally decided not to put any in. So there. Anyway...

Nyoshi: Please review and tell us how we did!