Disclaimer: This is a Rainbow Brite fic. However, it also contains
elements from Dragonriders of Pern and Neopets. Don't worry if you don't
know those two things, it's only animals and food I'm borrowing. It won't
be too confusing, I'll give descriptions or it will be a given mental
picture. And by the way, none of this is really mine except my characters
(which include: Prismatic Light, Lioness Blackfire, Sunlight, Moonlight,
Persephone, Blackie, Pan, Apollo, Mithra, Iris, Aoi, Ringo, Zuki, Cherry,
Kirai, Laurel, Minami, Aiko, Butterfly, Dragonfly, Lime, Mika, Runner,
Starra, Start-up, Sparkle, Sage, Thyme, Rosemary, Dancer, Night, Kawaii
and Love) and my "old names" for the RB characters. I'm only taking them
out to play. If you feel like using my characters, e-mail me saying you
are. I'll feel honored and privileged that someone wants to use my silly
people (or animals) in their fics. My addy is lioness@rainbowbrite.org k?
Have fun reading!
Note: I'm making the "Happy Talk"-speaking sprites speak... slightly
hashed japanese. I'm only just learning, so don't expect much out of them.
If there's a crucial word I can't remember, it will appear in
japanesed-english. : P
Book One
The Color of Hope
By: Lioness Blackfire
Chapter One: Come to Rainbow Land
A rainbow shot through the sky as a girl walked below on the ground. Her
short copper-red hair fell about her face. Rainbow Brite looked at her.
"This is just as hard as the first time we met Brian!" She exclaimed.
"She is being awful stubborn." Twink agreed.
"It's like she can't even see the colors!" Starlight commented. Rainbow
started.
"You don't think... she can't actually see the colors, do you?"
"The way she's acting, I wouldn't be surprised." Starlight replied.
Rainbow squinted at the back pocket on the girl's jeans. A pair of glasses
was sticking out of them. The metal bridge of them was broken in half.
"Hmmm... maybe we can give her a little help. Twink, a red star
sprinkle!" Twink pulled a red star out of the little purple pouch on his
belt. Rainbow held the star sprinkle over the star on her color belt and a
red beam of light shot out and hit the center of the glasses. Red being
the warmest color, it wasn't long before the metal melded back together,
fixing the glasses. Rainbow retracted the beam and suddenly the girl
stopped walking. She touched her pocket and pulled out her glasses. Twink
stared at her in awe.
"Look at that, she's staring straight at the rainbow and doesn't even see
it!"
"It's hard to believe." Rainbow observed. "But I can't deny it." She
thought for a moment. "I wonder if that's how Shy Violet sees?" Suddenly
they heard a voice call out.
"Rainbow Brite!!!" They all looked down in surprise.
"Did she call us?" Twink asked.
"Rainbow! Starlight!! Twink!!!"
"She really did!" Starlight recoiled slightly.
"Well, if she know us I guess we could go down. She doesn't sound like
Murky or the Princess." They nodded at each other and Starlight ran them
down to the bottom of the rainbow. Once there, Rainbow Brite hopped off
and looked at the girl. Her eyes sparkled a deep green. The girl dropped
to her knees in front of Rainbow.
"It's really you... Rainbow Brite." She reached out one of her hands
toward Rainbow, who took a step back.
"Who are you?" The girl pulled her hand back.
"Oh, of course you don't remember me. It's been too many years." She held
up a necklace with a bow pendant and a red jewel, looking more in Twink's
direction than Rainbow's. Rainbow squinted at it. "It's me... Prismatic
Light."
"P-Prism?" Twink stuttered. "It really is..." he whipped around to
Starlight and Rainbow. "Look, guys! It's Prism!"
"Prism?" Rainbow questioned. "Who's that?"
"You don't remember Prism?!" Twink cried. "She was around before you,
Rainbow. But Starlight, I thought you'd remember her!"
"I've never seen her before." Starlight admitted.
"But if you were around before me, how do you know my name?" Prism smiled
sassily.
"I have my ways." Twink ran up to and tackled her, hugging her around the
waist.
"Prism! I can't believe it's you!" Prism laughed and hugged him back.
"I'm glad to see you too, Twink! You're not the little red sprite I
remember."
"I survived Murky's reign though, didn't I?"
"You sure did!"
"Say, I know you ended up here on earth, but whatever happened to Liona?"
Prism looked down. "You don't mean...?"
"Really, I don't know. She disappeared and I passed out. When I woke up I
was here on Earth like this."
"Well we have to take you back to Rainbow Land! Maybe Shy Violet could
help you figure out what happened!"
"Who?"
"Shy Violet!" Twink stopped. "Oh yea, you only know the old names...
um..."
"Old names?" Rainbow asked. Twink turned to her.
"Yes. Before Rainbow Land was taken over by the darkness-" Prism coughed.
"No offense to Liona- we all had different names. Or, the color kids did
at least."
"Color KIDS?" Prism asked. "HOW are you the color KIDS?"
"Well, we're kids." Rainbow said, stepping forward.
"But..." she looked at Twink. "Did the long imprisonment shrink them or
something?"
"I guess that's what it was. I don't remember how long the evil was in
charge." Rainbow sat down on the ground.
"I'm getting confused."
"Sorry, Rainbow." Twink said.
"It's ok I guess, Twink." she replied. "Just, answer some things for me."
Twink nodded. "First of all, Prismatic Light, what color do you guard?"
"Color?" Prism looked at Twink, who looked apologetically at her. "The
Angel Warriors don't guard colors..."
"Angel Warriors? We're the Color Kids, not Angel Warriors. And we do so
guard colors! We're in charge of all the colors in the universe!"
"The Angel Warriors protect the universe from destroying itself. I do so
with the power of light. The others use their own respective powers. You
just happen to be the leader and owner of rainbow powers. HOWEVER, that
does not change the powers of the others."
"How can you explain the Color Cave and Star Sprinkles then?" Rainbow
asked. Prism smiled.
"It's to compliment your power and provide fuel for it." She looked
wistfully up at the sky. "Had I retained some... any of my powers or their
fuel, I would have come back." Rainbow looked at the ground.
"I'm sorry to hear you got stranded here. But, um, why didn't the kids
ever tell me they had other powers?" Prism absentmindedly twirled a strand
of her hair as she pondered that.
"I don't really know." She thought for a moment longer, then snapped her
fingers. "It COULD be that after the evil was overthrown and they
digressed in age, they tried to use their powers and found they no longer
worked. They would have been absolutely crushed, I know, and then perhaps
they just never told you." Rainbow soaked that in for a moment.
"Ok, I'll take that." There was an awkward moment. "So, uh, I guess you
should come to Rainbow Land with us?"
"Really? You'll let me come just like that?"
"Well, yea. If you were a Color Kid or Angel Warrior or whatever, you
deserve to come to Rainbow Land." Prism's eyes filled with tears and she
sprung forward and hugged Rainbow around the shoulders.
"Oh thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!" Rainbow laughed
when she was released and beckoned Prism toward Starlight, mounting him
from the mane. Prism walked up and calmly mounted behind Rainbow in a more
normal, Earth fashion, followed by Twink who jumped up, as usual.
"Hold on tight, it's quite a ride!" Prism nodded and put her hands on
Rainbow's shoulders. They rode in silence for a minute. Once they reached
outer space, Prism loosened up a little.
"So, who is this 'Shy Violet' you mentioned?"
"I'm not sure." Twink replied. "It's been so long since the days when you
were around, I can't remember the names."
"Well... what's her hair color?"
"Light violet." Twink replied with a confused expression. Prism grinned.
"Ah! Shy Violet is Alette!" Twink thought that over.
"You know, that name DOES sound familiar." Starlight admitted. Twink
snapped his... er... nonexistent fingers.
"Oh yea! Alette had the knowledge duty! I remember now!" Prism smiled
again.
"Yup. Remember what her power was?" Twink thought again, and finally
shook his head.
"No, sorry."
"Don't worry about it." There was more silence. "Hey, do they still have
their belts?" Twink nodded.
"Yes, but they aren't quite the same as before the evil came."
"Oh? Well, I'm sure that will change." Rainbow frowned at that.
"What do you mean 'that will change'?" Prism looked surprised.
"Well, you didn't think I'd come and just leave them without their
powers, did you?" Rainbow made a face.
"No, but I hadn't really thought about it at all."
"Well, if I can find my old power source then I'm going to change them
back into their old selves." Rainbow looked down at Starlight's mane, a
little sad. Prism noticed. "I can change you too, if you want." Rainbow
glanced back at her.
"Really?"
"Really. But only if we can find my power source, like I said."
"What is your power source?"
"Well, I either need to charge my belt on firework energy or to have Sun
Crystals."
"You can use firework energy?"
"Yup! Convenient, isn't it?"
"Uhh... yea, I think. Anyways, we're nearing Rainbow Land. Get ready to
meet the Color Kids." Prism looked excited.
"Good! I can't wait to see Persephone again!" Starlight glanced at her.
"Persephone? Who's that?"
"My dragon." Rainbow glanced back at her again.
'This is going to be a LONG week...' She thought, and directed Starlight
down the rainbow, into Rainbow Land.
elements from Dragonriders of Pern and Neopets. Don't worry if you don't
know those two things, it's only animals and food I'm borrowing. It won't
be too confusing, I'll give descriptions or it will be a given mental
picture. And by the way, none of this is really mine except my characters
(which include: Prismatic Light, Lioness Blackfire, Sunlight, Moonlight,
Persephone, Blackie, Pan, Apollo, Mithra, Iris, Aoi, Ringo, Zuki, Cherry,
Kirai, Laurel, Minami, Aiko, Butterfly, Dragonfly, Lime, Mika, Runner,
Starra, Start-up, Sparkle, Sage, Thyme, Rosemary, Dancer, Night, Kawaii
and Love) and my "old names" for the RB characters. I'm only taking them
out to play. If you feel like using my characters, e-mail me saying you
are. I'll feel honored and privileged that someone wants to use my silly
people (or animals) in their fics. My addy is lioness@rainbowbrite.org k?
Have fun reading!
Note: I'm making the "Happy Talk"-speaking sprites speak... slightly
hashed japanese. I'm only just learning, so don't expect much out of them.
If there's a crucial word I can't remember, it will appear in
japanesed-english. : P
Book One
The Color of Hope
By: Lioness Blackfire
Chapter One: Come to Rainbow Land
A rainbow shot through the sky as a girl walked below on the ground. Her
short copper-red hair fell about her face. Rainbow Brite looked at her.
"This is just as hard as the first time we met Brian!" She exclaimed.
"She is being awful stubborn." Twink agreed.
"It's like she can't even see the colors!" Starlight commented. Rainbow
started.
"You don't think... she can't actually see the colors, do you?"
"The way she's acting, I wouldn't be surprised." Starlight replied.
Rainbow squinted at the back pocket on the girl's jeans. A pair of glasses
was sticking out of them. The metal bridge of them was broken in half.
"Hmmm... maybe we can give her a little help. Twink, a red star
sprinkle!" Twink pulled a red star out of the little purple pouch on his
belt. Rainbow held the star sprinkle over the star on her color belt and a
red beam of light shot out and hit the center of the glasses. Red being
the warmest color, it wasn't long before the metal melded back together,
fixing the glasses. Rainbow retracted the beam and suddenly the girl
stopped walking. She touched her pocket and pulled out her glasses. Twink
stared at her in awe.
"Look at that, she's staring straight at the rainbow and doesn't even see
it!"
"It's hard to believe." Rainbow observed. "But I can't deny it." She
thought for a moment. "I wonder if that's how Shy Violet sees?" Suddenly
they heard a voice call out.
"Rainbow Brite!!!" They all looked down in surprise.
"Did she call us?" Twink asked.
"Rainbow! Starlight!! Twink!!!"
"She really did!" Starlight recoiled slightly.
"Well, if she know us I guess we could go down. She doesn't sound like
Murky or the Princess." They nodded at each other and Starlight ran them
down to the bottom of the rainbow. Once there, Rainbow Brite hopped off
and looked at the girl. Her eyes sparkled a deep green. The girl dropped
to her knees in front of Rainbow.
"It's really you... Rainbow Brite." She reached out one of her hands
toward Rainbow, who took a step back.
"Who are you?" The girl pulled her hand back.
"Oh, of course you don't remember me. It's been too many years." She held
up a necklace with a bow pendant and a red jewel, looking more in Twink's
direction than Rainbow's. Rainbow squinted at it. "It's me... Prismatic
Light."
"P-Prism?" Twink stuttered. "It really is..." he whipped around to
Starlight and Rainbow. "Look, guys! It's Prism!"
"Prism?" Rainbow questioned. "Who's that?"
"You don't remember Prism?!" Twink cried. "She was around before you,
Rainbow. But Starlight, I thought you'd remember her!"
"I've never seen her before." Starlight admitted.
"But if you were around before me, how do you know my name?" Prism smiled
sassily.
"I have my ways." Twink ran up to and tackled her, hugging her around the
waist.
"Prism! I can't believe it's you!" Prism laughed and hugged him back.
"I'm glad to see you too, Twink! You're not the little red sprite I
remember."
"I survived Murky's reign though, didn't I?"
"You sure did!"
"Say, I know you ended up here on earth, but whatever happened to Liona?"
Prism looked down. "You don't mean...?"
"Really, I don't know. She disappeared and I passed out. When I woke up I
was here on Earth like this."
"Well we have to take you back to Rainbow Land! Maybe Shy Violet could
help you figure out what happened!"
"Who?"
"Shy Violet!" Twink stopped. "Oh yea, you only know the old names...
um..."
"Old names?" Rainbow asked. Twink turned to her.
"Yes. Before Rainbow Land was taken over by the darkness-" Prism coughed.
"No offense to Liona- we all had different names. Or, the color kids did
at least."
"Color KIDS?" Prism asked. "HOW are you the color KIDS?"
"Well, we're kids." Rainbow said, stepping forward.
"But..." she looked at Twink. "Did the long imprisonment shrink them or
something?"
"I guess that's what it was. I don't remember how long the evil was in
charge." Rainbow sat down on the ground.
"I'm getting confused."
"Sorry, Rainbow." Twink said.
"It's ok I guess, Twink." she replied. "Just, answer some things for me."
Twink nodded. "First of all, Prismatic Light, what color do you guard?"
"Color?" Prism looked at Twink, who looked apologetically at her. "The
Angel Warriors don't guard colors..."
"Angel Warriors? We're the Color Kids, not Angel Warriors. And we do so
guard colors! We're in charge of all the colors in the universe!"
"The Angel Warriors protect the universe from destroying itself. I do so
with the power of light. The others use their own respective powers. You
just happen to be the leader and owner of rainbow powers. HOWEVER, that
does not change the powers of the others."
"How can you explain the Color Cave and Star Sprinkles then?" Rainbow
asked. Prism smiled.
"It's to compliment your power and provide fuel for it." She looked
wistfully up at the sky. "Had I retained some... any of my powers or their
fuel, I would have come back." Rainbow looked at the ground.
"I'm sorry to hear you got stranded here. But, um, why didn't the kids
ever tell me they had other powers?" Prism absentmindedly twirled a strand
of her hair as she pondered that.
"I don't really know." She thought for a moment longer, then snapped her
fingers. "It COULD be that after the evil was overthrown and they
digressed in age, they tried to use their powers and found they no longer
worked. They would have been absolutely crushed, I know, and then perhaps
they just never told you." Rainbow soaked that in for a moment.
"Ok, I'll take that." There was an awkward moment. "So, uh, I guess you
should come to Rainbow Land with us?"
"Really? You'll let me come just like that?"
"Well, yea. If you were a Color Kid or Angel Warrior or whatever, you
deserve to come to Rainbow Land." Prism's eyes filled with tears and she
sprung forward and hugged Rainbow around the shoulders.
"Oh thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!" Rainbow laughed
when she was released and beckoned Prism toward Starlight, mounting him
from the mane. Prism walked up and calmly mounted behind Rainbow in a more
normal, Earth fashion, followed by Twink who jumped up, as usual.
"Hold on tight, it's quite a ride!" Prism nodded and put her hands on
Rainbow's shoulders. They rode in silence for a minute. Once they reached
outer space, Prism loosened up a little.
"So, who is this 'Shy Violet' you mentioned?"
"I'm not sure." Twink replied. "It's been so long since the days when you
were around, I can't remember the names."
"Well... what's her hair color?"
"Light violet." Twink replied with a confused expression. Prism grinned.
"Ah! Shy Violet is Alette!" Twink thought that over.
"You know, that name DOES sound familiar." Starlight admitted. Twink
snapped his... er... nonexistent fingers.
"Oh yea! Alette had the knowledge duty! I remember now!" Prism smiled
again.
"Yup. Remember what her power was?" Twink thought again, and finally
shook his head.
"No, sorry."
"Don't worry about it." There was more silence. "Hey, do they still have
their belts?" Twink nodded.
"Yes, but they aren't quite the same as before the evil came."
"Oh? Well, I'm sure that will change." Rainbow frowned at that.
"What do you mean 'that will change'?" Prism looked surprised.
"Well, you didn't think I'd come and just leave them without their
powers, did you?" Rainbow made a face.
"No, but I hadn't really thought about it at all."
"Well, if I can find my old power source then I'm going to change them
back into their old selves." Rainbow looked down at Starlight's mane, a
little sad. Prism noticed. "I can change you too, if you want." Rainbow
glanced back at her.
"Really?"
"Really. But only if we can find my power source, like I said."
"What is your power source?"
"Well, I either need to charge my belt on firework energy or to have Sun
Crystals."
"You can use firework energy?"
"Yup! Convenient, isn't it?"
"Uhh... yea, I think. Anyways, we're nearing Rainbow Land. Get ready to
meet the Color Kids." Prism looked excited.
"Good! I can't wait to see Persephone again!" Starlight glanced at her.
"Persephone? Who's that?"
"My dragon." Rainbow glanced back at her again.
'This is going to be a LONG week...' She thought, and directed Starlight
down the rainbow, into Rainbow Land.