Hello. This will be probably the second fanfiction I'll ever publish. I'm terribly sorry that I deleted my first story. It's just that I lost my muse for it and couldn't bare to write an inadequate one when I'm not inspired to finish that story. I hope I can finish this one, though. Anyway, please enjoy this little prologue. I'll release the first chapter right after this one. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Shugo Chara! or any of its characters.
A Girl's Best Friend
Prologue:
Sunlight glimmered on a simple-looking house. Some of that warm light shone through the curtains of the house's bedroom and lit up the dirty, paper-littered floor of the room. There were wires and bolts scattered everywhere and a few wrenches were lying on a messed up bed. But the little human girl who was busily working on her study table didn't seem to mind the clutter. Her eyes were focused on the teddy bear as her hands skillfully placed various machine parts into the teddy bear's insides. She took a few odd looking screws and fitted them into the stuffed toy's head and adjusted a few cogs by its legs.
"Hmm…Now where did I put that heart component?"
The girl swiveled around, opening and closing different drawers and tossing out random items out. "It's got to be here…Where did I put it?" she mumbled, tossing a hammer out of one of the drawers. She let out a small sigh when she spotted it hidden beneath a pair of socks. "Huh. How did it get here? No matter. I'm almost done!" The girl scrambled back to her table and slowly, carefully placed the small, heart-shaped heart piece into a gap in the teddy bear's chest part.
The moment the small, crystal heart piece fitted into the gap, a steady heartbeat began. All the cogs started spinning silently and it gained a wide grin from the girl. "Awesome! Now to patch you up!" she said. The girl took a big jar of special stuffing out from under her table and carefully filled the teddy bear up with it, not worried about it jamming the cogs. The girl reached for some thread and a needle, and quickly sew the teddy bear shut.
"You're gonna need something…."
The girl dug under a pile of clothing and found a black-buttoned blouse. "Perfect." she said, ripping two of them off the blouse. She carefully sew the buttons on the bear's head and connected it with the eye mechanism. "Now you can see." And for a final touch, the girl took a big red piece of ribbon and tied it around the teddy bear's neck to make a neat bowtie. "Anastasia, you've outdone yourself." she bragged. "Now, time to test you out." Anastasia sat the bear up and cleared her throat.
"Go on. Say something."
At first, the teddy bear didn't move. It's cinnamon pelt still and unmoving. But then it twitched a paw, and then an ear. "Something." the bear squeaked, its high pitched voice ringing loud and clear. Anastasia bolted off her seat and giggled happily. "Awesome! I did it! You're alive! I made a living teddy bear! High five!" She stretched out her hand towards the teddy bear and stifled another giggle when it patted her hand with its paw.
"So Bear, how's your progress?"
It had been two months since Anastasia Glimming, child prodigy, created her living teddy bear. She spent the past time training the bear to speak properly and educated it in basic topics. "I've managed to finally master the basic operations of Rational Expressions and am moving to Biology." it said. Anastasia nodded and jotted down his words on a piece of paper. "Good! You're doing great!" she said, "Pretty soon, we'll have you learning Geometry! Oh, how I wish dad was here to see this. He'd be ecstatic." Bear looked at the girl and noticed the sad glimmer in her usually cheerful, blue eyes.
"Are you feeling the emotion of sadness, Ms. Anastasia?"
"What? Oh, no! I'm quite fine."
"You're eyes tell me otherwise.."
"Well, it's just that dad's science experiments take him away from home usually and I'm left all alone. I mean, who leaves an 8 year old kid by herself? But then again, I am a genius."
"He will come back. You always tell me he loves you. And if you say he loves you, then he does. Because you don't lie, Ms. Anastasia."
Anastasia looked at Bear happily and grinned. "You always know what to say, don't you?" Bear merely nodded, his button eyes on the young girl. "You know what Bear? I think I know what you'll be once you've completed basic education!" She picked up bear and hugged him tightly. "You're going to be a best friend. Someday, you'll find someone who'll you'll want to take care of, who you'll want to cheer up. You're going to give them advice, and make them laugh, be a shoulder to cry on, and who'll be the closest friend that person will have."
Bear looked at the young genius with a glint of surprise in its eyes. "That seems hard. Besides, how will I know if that person is the one I'll become best friends with?" he said.
"You'll know. Don't worry. And I know you'll be the best, best friend you can be."
It's not too long, and hopefully not too short for a prologue, I hope. Please stay tuned for the next installment of my story. Please rate and review, if you can. Thank you.
