Panacea- Remedy of all ills and difficulties
Notice how the title is so similar to Pandemic, and there's more where that came from, proof is all here in Panacea. This is my fourth TMM mystery, and I'm so proud! Kickin, too. So let's get this party started, non?
Disclaimer: I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew.
"Just a tad bit deeper," the boy muttered to himself. He was young, possibly 15 or 16, with long, slender, brown hair, tied limply in the back with a ribbon. He was spending his time searching, digging, looking. For what, he wasn't sure, but something drew him to this particular spot. Once he selected his desired crack in the ground, deep below in the catacombs his mentor was currently studying, he frantically drove his shovel into the dried soil.
The boy had been at that same spot for two hours, the hole now five feet deep, five feet wide. But he didn't quit, only continuing to shove his tool into the forbidden dirt. Something caught his eye. Kneeling down, he noticed what seemed to be a blue jewel embed in something bigger. He brushed his hand over it, removing more dirt.
"Doctor Shirogane, I think I've found something!" he called out, excited by his discovery. But maybe they already left, maybe he was the last person still excavating the site. Finding an edge of what seemed to be a stone tablet, he started to pull it up from the ground, debris and dust drifting.
This was it. This was what had been attracting him to that area that whole day. He couldn't define the feeling, but it felt important, powerful, destined.
A bright, blue light shot up from the ground, engulfing the teenage boy. His voice pierced the air with surprised pain, eventually stopping when his vision grew black, and he fell to the ground of his hole in unconsciousness.
Possibly fifteen minutes later, an older man, maybe in his upper thirties, with dark brown hair, and a younger boy, about ten, blonde hair, blue eyes, came into the fateful chamber they heard the cry from minutes before.
The young boy ran up to the strangely deep hole located at the middle of the chamber. "Keiichiro!" he yelled at the teen, collapsed at the bottom of the hole.
The older man rushed over to the boy. "Ryou, help me pull him out," he told him gently, starting to slide himself down.
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Time passed, and late that night the underground catacombs were deserted of any humans who were investigating the remains earlier that day.
However, the blue-jewel encrested tablet was gone. Or rather, it was gone from the ruins. It still existed in reality, yes, though it was no longer materialistic…because for the first time in thousands of years, someone uncovered it, gave it life, since it now has found itself the perfect host…
I love this prologue. It's so mysterious, but I've found that that's what I'm good at, so everything works out. So sit back, relax, grab your Keiichiro plushie, and enjoy Panacea- Remedy of all ills and difficulties – tale beyond a gentleman, tale beyond the Mew Aqua.