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Prologue: Shadows Of The Future
Green Shadow lept from rooftop to rooftop, building to building. Suburbia was asleep, as the sun set and the moon rose to take its place. As the night settled in, she thought about what she had seen.
/Flashback to twelve hours ago...
Green Shadow was scouting out L.E.A.F academy, looking for new, promising young agents who would shape the future. New plants of all kinds, all seven years old, filed into the academy, excited that they would become legendary fighters in a never-ending war. They wanted to be like the heroes, like Squad A, like Doug, Sunny and Peas, the first agents to ever walk on this planet. Green Shadow sighed.
"Excuse me miss, where's L.E.A.F academy?"
Green Shadow was jolted out of her trance, and she whipped around to find a small peashooter holding a threepeater in a pot. The peashooter looked about seven, and the threepeater was obviously a baby. But why were they here, on the streets, with no parents in sight?
"It's right there," started Green Shadow, pointing to the large building that she was watching less than a minute ago. "Where are your parents?"
The peashooter frowned, on the verge of tears. The threepeater's heads looked at peashooter in confusion as peashooter's miserable expression deepened.
"My Dad is in the war. He's a general. My Mum..." The Peashooter couldn't go on.
Green Shadow looked at him sympathetically. She, too had lost family to the zombies. This was assuming his mother wasn't drunken, driven mad or abusive.
"She died in the failed invasion. Her body wasn't found. I think she's still alive, but that's near impossible."
Now Green Shadow was confused. He didn't have any difficulty talking about his mother, but he was still in an emotional state. She decided to take him to the academy, since he wanted to go there for some reason. She took the peashooter's hand and guided him down the street. As they passed the seemingly endless array of buildings, the peashooter pulled out an envelope. How Green Shadow didn't see it was beyond her.
As they neared the academy, the lawn was full of plants, and they gasped as the legendary Green Shadow walked by them, tailed by a peashooter with a baby threepeater in a pot. Green Shadow wasn't fazed by the crowd, but the peashooter was white with fear. His hand was trembling as he held the envelope, which all of the plants were curiously examining. Finally, they reached the front steps. The peashooter cautiously went inside, closely followed by Green Shadow.
At the front desk, the peashooter stammered,
" I want to j-join L.E.A.F ac-cademy."
The cactus working at the desk looked at him, then Green Shadow, then the threepeater. She asked Green Shadow curiously,
"Do you know these plants?"
Green Shadow replied,
"I only met them today. As far as I can tell, they're homeless. But seeing as he somehow has the money to enroll, I don't see why it matters."
The cactus sighed, and twiddled the pens on her desk. She seemed to be trying to make up her mind.
"Alright, peashooter. What's your name?"
The peashooter replied,
"You just said it. Peashooter."
Green Shadow was growing suspicious of what the young plant's motives were, and why he's enrolling. He isn't the least bit excited about going here, and he seems more worried about the cactus and her expression than anything else. Noticing this, the cactus smirked.
"This type of envelope only comes from L.E.A.F. Agents and staff. How did you, a seven-year-old peashooter, acquire this?"
The peashooter was on the verge of tears again. Not because of the question, but because of memories. Horrible memories that were all too recent. Green Shadow sighed.
"Do you really think this kid is trying to pull something? Look, if the kid doesn't want to talk about it, he doesn't want to talk about it. He's at liberty to disclose any information that he wants, and he can withhold any he wants as well. You might be better off not knowing what happened or where he got it from, maybe not. But one thing's certain: he's getting into this academy, whether you like it or not."
The cactus smiled sweetly at Green Shadow.
"Fine then. He's in. We'll send the pot to the Zen Garden on Seventh Street. As for you, miss Shadow, the principal would want to hear about this. I find it only fair that you tell him about the first new student."
The walk to the principal's office was long and tedious. As if the school was designed this way so the visitors would already be intimidated on the way. This king of logic doesn't work on Green Shadow. As she knocked on the door, the principal said,
"Come in! Come in!"
Green Shadow opened the door, and was surprised to see the most laid back Sergeant Strongberry she had ever seen. The office had pieces of paper with childish drawings all over the walls and desk. The floor was cluttered with random A grade assignments from all the way back to the early 2000's. Green Shadow walked in and immediately stepped on a paper.
"I'm sorry about the mess, miss Shadow. Please, take seat."
Green Shadow found a chair covered in drawings and moved them before sitting.
"Now. We're here about the peashooter. To start off, we both know he's special. Correct?"
Green Shadow nodded.
"Now then. I'm guessing he has no parental signature for the form, so you can sign it for him."
Green Shadow preceded to sign the form. The Strongberry smiled. He seemed very happy to sort out this mess.
"Now, I heard that he had a special L.E.A.F. envelope with him, correct?"
Green Shadow nodded again. "Why does he keep asking these questions? Is he really that interested in Peashooter?" she thought.
"I just want to say, miss Shadow, that he's the kind of student that I don't want anything to do with, but he's an exception. He's got the look of a plant who's been scarred for life, and he probably is. But he's here now, and I believe your colleague might want to hear about him. Tell her that Ralphy's watching him with extra interest. That's all. Good day."
Green Shadow left the room. She definitely was going to see Rose about this. This might be the plant she's been looking for.
/End Flashback.
Green Shadow had already arrived at Rose's room in L.E.A.F. HQ. She was nervous. Rose might not take it the right way. She has been known to be overprotective on these things. Sighing, Green Shadow knocked on the door.
Rose immediately answered.
"Penelopea! What brings you here?"
"Rose, I have urgent news on the vision you saw."
Rose turned pale. The vision she saw showed eight beings who brought peace to the entire world by ending the war. The only problem was that the vision showed a peashooter staring into a black pit with a dying plant in it.
The peashooter was part of the eight, so he could turn the tide of the war, but at the cost of a plant's life.
"Come in. Quickly."
Green Shadow rushed into the room. There was no sunlight or moonlight anywhere. The room was in total darkness, except for the green glow of runes imprinted in the walls and floor. In one corner was a small bed. In the other was a stand with Rose's spellbook on it.
Green Shadow sat on the floor as Rose conjured her crystal ball.
"Tell me," Rose started, What did you see, where did you see it and what does it have to do with my vision?"
Green Shadow always thought Rose watched too much TV, and now she apparently was into Cop Shows. She sighed.
"Look, Rose. I found the peashooter. He's at L.E.A.F. Academy. The principal said that "Ralph is watching him with extra interest." Rose, did you break your own oath and tell him about the vision?"
Rose nodded sadly. She was embarrassed and afraid. She knew Ralph, and he wasn't evil or even mean in the slightest. But how did she disclose valuable information to him?
"Track that peashooter, Shadow. Keep him alive. Do whatever it takes to end this war. You're the only one who can be trusted. I don't even trust myself anymore."
Green Shadow frowned and put a comforting arm around Rose. She didn't know what to say. Finally, Green Shadow left the room, while Rose was sadly gazing into the crystal ball, waiting for another vision.