Legal Stuff: Right, I don't own any of these characters. The God Craig
McCracken and all those people at Cartoon Network own PPG and everything
related to it. All bow to them for creating the greatest cartoon on the
planet, and one that still is no matter what all you naysayers think.
Author's Note: You may want to have read my first fic, Inner Turmoil in order to fully understand what's going on. You could probably get by without it, but I do make references to the story here and there.
Anyway, on with the story.
Heightened Tensions- Intro
They all agreed that September had come much to quickly.
It had seemed like only yesterday when summer holidays began, but in no time the back to school signs were up and the sales for school supplies were in full swing. It was the dullest time of the year, and already children were showing the grumbling signs of adolescent disappointment. Nobody was eager to go back to school, especially the girls in the Utonium household.
It was not the usual dreading of homework and tests, or school projects that curbed their excitement this year. It was something else that kept their spirits down the lowest it had ever been. To say the least they felt hurried, and felt that they'd been cheated out of a good school-free two months.
There was definitely a reason for that no doubt, a reason that not a lot of people get to experience. A good portion of their final weeks of summer had been spent unpacking and putting their house back in satisfactory order. They had just moved back into Townsville from their five-year absence of the small city, and in the final days of August were just starting to feel settled. August had been a busy month, but that didn't automatically mean that July had been so full of fun and games either.
In fact, July had been one of the worst months of the girls' lives. That was the month when they'd finally learned about the truth of their origins, and that for the past twelve years their father, the professor, had been lying to them about where they'd really come from. They'd learned that they'd been the results of a greedy corporation's experiments with Chemical X, and that the professor, had in fact been the head of the project. A lab accident had caused their premature awakening, and the professor, guilty and feeling the heavy responsibility on his shoulders, had smuggled the three of them out and had decided to raise them on his own, in Townsville.
Just learning about the truth hadn't exactly been enough. The girls had actually had a confrontation with the company's secret division, White Hazard, and it hadn't turned out pretty. At first they had thought it was just the corporation wanting to reclaim them, when in fact it had turned out to be much worse.
On one fateful night at the end of July, the girls had ventured into the enemy complex in order to save their father who had been kidnapped form their home during their absence. They had ended up getting separated, and in that separation learned the full truth of what was going on. It was not corporate greed, it was a demonic scheme that ran deeper than just wanting the girls back.
Him, the satanic demon that had plagued the girls for most of their young lives with his circuitous plans and ridiculous mind games, had decided to show his face and revel the full truth of the situation. It was in fact he who wanted the girls back, and wanted to use their extraordinary super powers to aid him in his quest to take over the entire mortal world. He was willing to manipulate their minds in order to get what he wanted, and, even willing to kill for it.
That was where Blossom came in, arguably known as possibly the smartest and most emotionally stable of the three girls. She knew better than to fall for Him's mind games, and he knew it to. She would not be easily swayed, and had the battle scars to prove that Him was also aware of this fact. This scar would be a constant reminder of the horrible things she had to face, and may even prove to be more in the future.
Now, something else is brewing along with the family along with the dread of the beginning of the school year. There is tension mounting that has never been seen before, and it is just now starting to rear its ugly head in the face of their once peaceful existence. As they just get settled in after moving, something else begins to emerge; a jealousy that has been festering for years, and one that cannot be so easily remedied.
Author's Note: You may want to have read my first fic, Inner Turmoil in order to fully understand what's going on. You could probably get by without it, but I do make references to the story here and there.
Anyway, on with the story.
Heightened Tensions- Intro
They all agreed that September had come much to quickly.
It had seemed like only yesterday when summer holidays began, but in no time the back to school signs were up and the sales for school supplies were in full swing. It was the dullest time of the year, and already children were showing the grumbling signs of adolescent disappointment. Nobody was eager to go back to school, especially the girls in the Utonium household.
It was not the usual dreading of homework and tests, or school projects that curbed their excitement this year. It was something else that kept their spirits down the lowest it had ever been. To say the least they felt hurried, and felt that they'd been cheated out of a good school-free two months.
There was definitely a reason for that no doubt, a reason that not a lot of people get to experience. A good portion of their final weeks of summer had been spent unpacking and putting their house back in satisfactory order. They had just moved back into Townsville from their five-year absence of the small city, and in the final days of August were just starting to feel settled. August had been a busy month, but that didn't automatically mean that July had been so full of fun and games either.
In fact, July had been one of the worst months of the girls' lives. That was the month when they'd finally learned about the truth of their origins, and that for the past twelve years their father, the professor, had been lying to them about where they'd really come from. They'd learned that they'd been the results of a greedy corporation's experiments with Chemical X, and that the professor, had in fact been the head of the project. A lab accident had caused their premature awakening, and the professor, guilty and feeling the heavy responsibility on his shoulders, had smuggled the three of them out and had decided to raise them on his own, in Townsville.
Just learning about the truth hadn't exactly been enough. The girls had actually had a confrontation with the company's secret division, White Hazard, and it hadn't turned out pretty. At first they had thought it was just the corporation wanting to reclaim them, when in fact it had turned out to be much worse.
On one fateful night at the end of July, the girls had ventured into the enemy complex in order to save their father who had been kidnapped form their home during their absence. They had ended up getting separated, and in that separation learned the full truth of what was going on. It was not corporate greed, it was a demonic scheme that ran deeper than just wanting the girls back.
Him, the satanic demon that had plagued the girls for most of their young lives with his circuitous plans and ridiculous mind games, had decided to show his face and revel the full truth of the situation. It was in fact he who wanted the girls back, and wanted to use their extraordinary super powers to aid him in his quest to take over the entire mortal world. He was willing to manipulate their minds in order to get what he wanted, and, even willing to kill for it.
That was where Blossom came in, arguably known as possibly the smartest and most emotionally stable of the three girls. She knew better than to fall for Him's mind games, and he knew it to. She would not be easily swayed, and had the battle scars to prove that Him was also aware of this fact. This scar would be a constant reminder of the horrible things she had to face, and may even prove to be more in the future.
Now, something else is brewing along with the family along with the dread of the beginning of the school year. There is tension mounting that has never been seen before, and it is just now starting to rear its ugly head in the face of their once peaceful existence. As they just get settled in after moving, something else begins to emerge; a jealousy that has been festering for years, and one that cannot be so easily remedied.