Pretear of the Old Legend
Disclaimers: I don't own Pretear I am just playing around with the characters. Warning: Language, maybe a lemon, expects deaths.
A/N: I will mainly go by the Manga. This is my sequel to the manga, here is your warning now, spoilers etc.
Pretear of the Old Legend
Chapter 1
She watched as the Pretear, correction, the White Pretear defeated the Princess' of Disaster's puppet. The Pretear's own stepmother, how cruel, the girl laughed. It seemed just like her to be cruel, use family members as bait. It was her alright; it was good that the girl had woken up. This was going to be too much for that weak new Pretear.
She went back to Leifaina after that battle, she had seen what she needed to and it made her excited when she thought of the fight that was coming. It had been so long since she had been a fight. She knew this was going to be a hell of a fight, but worth it, so worth it. If it was fun then it was worth it.
She went to her house; it was the same as when she woke up not to long ago. It seemed she woke up just as the fight had started. On top of the house she could see the Old Kingdom. It looked the same from here, but something told her that it wasn't like it used to be.
She jumped off the roof and went toward her old home. It didn't take long since she was flying. She closed her eyes as well as her heart when she saw her old home, the Castle of Leifaina. Ruins, which was what it was, it was no longer either a home or a Castle anymore. She had known when she ran from the Castile that night that the Castle would not be there when she returned no matter how long it took for her to come back to her birth place, her first home.
She should have known the war was too much for it. It stood for so long, a couple hundreds of years, maybe a thousand. It was old, now even older, how many years had past? How much had she missed? Did anyone miss her? She couldn't think about that, one of the things every human was afraid of was being forgotten, the only thing she could do was block out those thoughts and emotions.
She wanted to examine the Ruins of the Castle, for that she had to go to the ground. As she touched down on the ground and went through the Ruins, she remembered the battle that had taken place. It was a long battle, but in the end she won. Her sister had lost, that was where she had sealed up the Saihi's power, well most of it anyway she had seen some it had leaked out. It should have stayed sealed for a while, maybe five hundred years at the most.
The whole Kingdom was destroyed; the only survivors were her and the Leafe Knights. Everything she had known from the moment she was born was all gone, all destroyed in that battle. Her parents were dead, her only sister was the cause of it and was sealed away. The only thing she had left in this world or the next was her Knights but it seemed that they were content with the Pretear they had.
None of that mattered; she knew that these feelings couldn't, wouldn't get in the way, which meant they had to go away just like before. If she was going to win the battle again some things had to be done, she would correct her mistakes and this time she wouldn't seal her sister away she would completely destroy her, body and soul.
Her eyes turned cold, vacant like nothing was in them. She rose into the air once more and went to the last Pretear's resting place, or where she was sealed.
She was once again on the ground and circled around it. "So once again, someone with Pretear power is sealed away. If I cared I would be upset that they copied me. My idea originally, I mean I did it. But sigh, I don't think they remember me, I guess its time to get the Prologue over with and get the Act started. This play needs to start. Not that the Prologue was boring or anything, no I could never say it was. There was too many emotions involved for it to be boring, no it was far from boring."
She decided it was time she went to the other world now, as she went into it she felt all of the girls who could become Pretear, she pushed this away she didn't need them, they wouldn't be needed in this fight only get in the way like the last one.
When she landed on Earth so much death and decay hit her, it took her a few minutes to get her breathing under control; nature was dieing, the animals, the plants, the air, the water. She wondered how the Leafe Knights of water, plants and air could survive and fight while this was going on. She had to do something, she used her power and searched for something, a plant that needed her help and she found one close by, it cried out, not to her but to anything. It was dieing it was so sad, she had to go to it, no she needed to go to it.
She walked a little way and found the tree and touched it, it was dying and the sad thing was it knew it was too, she hugged it and whispered to it, "Do you want to play? If you do you can live a little longer and have some fun, well for me it will be fun. What do you say my green friend?"
The tree felt her power and knew that she was a friend; she had the touch to make everything better. It could tell that she had helped a lot of plants in the past so it would go along with her wish; it was going to die and if it was going to have fun before it then that just made it that much better.
When she felt its reply she giggled, "Yes this will be fun," something passed between her and tree, it looked black. The tree didn't feel pain like it thought it would, but it was the opposite, it felt full of energy. For the first time since its prime it felt alive. No that was wrong, it felt more then alive, the feeling couldn't be described, humans would use the phrase 'I was floating on cloud nine'. It didn't seem to realize that the power it was getting was coming from other living things.
Shin gasped as he was walking with Mannen and Hajime to Himeno's house. They turned to look at him and asked what was wrong; Sasame and Kei both knew something was wrong too. Just like Shin they could feel it too, well whatever it was anyway, hopefully it wasn't what they thought it was.
Shin looked at Kei and said, "Something is taking the plants Leafe, I think it's a tree, yeah a big one I can see it. It feels like it coming back from death, like it was dying and is now healing itself. It's over there." He pointed in the direction Goh, Hayate and Himeno were coming from.
They all transformed and flew to the location their friend pointed out and followed him as he lead the way and when they caught up to the others they told them what was happening. Himeno knew what tree they were talking about. She ran, and they followed her, praying she knew where it was and they got there fast before anything bad really happened.
They found the tree and Himeno started going weak, it was trying to take her Leafe. Sasame grabbed Himeno and took her a little away; just to make sure she was okay.
Sasame was watching the battle his friends were trying to fight the tree, and then he called to his friends, "Didn't we just finish all of this? Didn't we win?" Himeno gasped, and Sasame turned his attention to her, she wasn't in any condition to become Pretear but what were they suppose to do? This one was stronger then the others, he wasn't sure that even with her help they could defeat it.
The other Leafe Knights jumped back to where Sasame and Himeno were to figure out was what going on. That was when they sensed some weird Leafe coming from behind the tree.
Hayate spoke first, "Damnit, why is there someone near the tree? Now we have to go save them, like this wasn't bad enough." He was about to go find the person, when Kei stopped him. The figure was moving and it was coming to the front of the tree.
They froze when they heard the laugh that followed, they knew it from somewhere but couldn't exactly remember where, like a dream they had long ago. Were they waking up from that dream, they thought, or was this dream going to continue on?
The body was clothed in all black, the skin was white, they could see a lot of it, not that most of them minded anyway. A short skirt was on this person so they could rule out males, it was a girl. A tight, black t-shirt on top it was a little low cut but again most of them didn't really mind, there were also black boots that went to up as far as her knees.
The girl's hair was down almost to her waist and it was a dark blonde color, kind of dirty blonde, wasn't that what the humans called that hair color now? The girl's eyes were aqua blue; they had a look about them. A looked that said you couldn't look into them for very long or you might not come out look.
"Oh come on boys, don't tell me you can't beat this?" she leaned against the tree, "Has all this time made you weak or is it that Pretear that is making you weak? A little way ago one of you could have beaten this thing by yourself no need for a Pretear, so I ask again has this Pretear made you weak?" she asked them.
Himeno was confused, did they know her? And why was she touching the tree? Didn't she know it would take all of her life force, her Leafe? Himeno didn't think about what she was doing, her body just reacted; she ran straight to the girl and grabbed her arm, ready to drag her if she had to, just to save this stranger.
The girl looked confused at first then laughed, the laugh was so empty that Himeno couldn't find anything in it, "You think you can save me? Don't make me laugh; this is what makes you a weak Pretear. There is always someone you can't save sweetie remember that, you can't save everyone."
Himeno was lifted into the air and was thrown back. Goh caught her; all the others were just standing there. Shin looked at the girl and took a step forward saying, "You did this? You're hurting the tree! Please stop!" Mannen and Hajime grabbed Shin and pulled him back.
The girl turned around and touched the tree lovingly, Himeno was so confused now, that act added to her confusing, nothing here made since.
The girl turned back to Shin and said, "What are you talking about? Can't you hear it? It told me it wanted to have fun; the sad thing was it was going to die, it was barely alive like seconds away from death, so I asked it. Now it is living, not hurting. It told me it hasn't felt this good since its prime, wait that's a little wrong; it said it's never felt this good. Are you really the Leafe Knight of Plants little Shin?"
She tilted her head to the side, and giggled. Kei sighed and walked forward stopping next to Goh who was still on the ground next to where Himeno was.
"Are you done playing around? I know you came to talk, so lets talk, let the tree be and take your ball out of it…please." The girl sighed, "You are never any fun Kei, but if that is what you want…"
She turned around and walked to the tree and kissed it, as she drew back she said, "Sorry, they made me do it. They just don't get what its like to have everything back when you come from the banks of death." As her lips drew back a black ball of energy came out of the tree and back into her body. The tree slowly retreated back to its death.
Both the girl and Shin grimaced as the tree died, Shin slowly started to cry.
Himeno got up and walked up next to Hayate and said, "Who the hell are you? Are you Saihi, another Princess of Disaster?"
The girl just laughed and said, "Wouldn't you love to know. But if it lets you sleep at night to know, I will tell you who I am. I am Eris, Princess of Leifaina. That's not what you want to know is it little one? You are just dieing to know if I am another Pretear aren't you, to see if I am like you? Or is it your afraid that I will replace you? You are weak and all so maybe I will…anyway if you're at least a little smart you can tell obviously by the Knight's reactions that they know me."
She laughed and suddenly wasn't near the tree anymore, she was right next to her, walking around her.
"Okay boys, one question where on Earth did you get this one? She isn't much, hmm she is a goody-two-shoes, don't like her. I can see this one has no fun, I mean none of you could tolerate her. Mannen loves fun, Kei though is another story. Though from what I see in your eyes Hayate this one is feisty, she actually hit you?" She giggled and then nodded a little, "The hitting Hayate takes guts, and I know few who would actually do that so, I give you a few points. The other males that trained with him feared him so they would never hit him, though me on the other hand…that's a different story heehee."
Kei, Sasame, and the others laughed except Hayate who was looking down and blushing at her teasing. Sasame spoke first, "Of course you don't like her, and you never did like any Pretears besides you did you Eris?"
She frowned, and shook her head, "You know all of you are party-poopers. I was just trying to see if she was strong enough for what was about to come and unfortunately this one is probably the weakest Pretear I have ever seen. Sorry to tell you honey, but you are the weakest Pretear I have ever seen and trust me, I have seen a lot, I grew up watching Pretears train and I have trained with them a couple of times, and I have also actually trained a few too, now that I think about it."
"I grew up watching and training with them, which you I can guess never heard of them and I bet at first you didn't even want to be one am I right?. Though I will tell you this, out of the ones I sensed when I came into this world she is the strongest, that's sad, the Pretear power has gotten so weak, but since you're the strongest that has to be worth a few points at least, I think."
Then all of a sudden her mood changed from annoyed and scolding to happy and teasing as her gaze went from Himeno to Mannen. She skipped over to Mannen and knelt down, "You wouldn't happen to be my Prince of Ice would you?"
He smirked and nodded; she kissed his cheek, and picked up Shin and put him on her hip and turned to the others, and started to bounce him, while he was on her hip she knew it would help if she walked a bit so she did,.
"Would someone tell me what the hell happen to my Knights while I was asleep? Three of them are dead; I guess I can't leave you alone for a few centuries can I?"
She shook her head and hugged Shin and whispered happy things to him to get his mind off the plants. Shin could feel that she was suffering too, she was shaking just a little, and he wiped his tears away and hugged her back.
