Prologue – B~a~l~d~y~

"Guts, hey, Guts! Rise and shine!" yelled Pete.

"Oh…! I've been up for hours! Hours hours hours!" exclaimed the abacus sprite.

"Yeah! Whatever! Can you send help out? It's such a pain to start working after those snowy days," requested Pete as he leaned at the counter.

"Oh! I'm afraid not. Not not not. You see, we're having our New Year holiday right now. Look at the Harvest Sprites. Look look look. They're all relaxing on this holiday. If you want help, you can ask your sister. Your sister your sister your sister."

Pete sighed heavily. "That's the problem, Guts. The only thing Claire knows is sleep!"

Meanwhile... In a certain house…

A beautiful woman (?) looked at a sleeping blonde with 9 little Harvest Sprites.

"Sigh… This kid just won't do any work whatsoever… I did promise her mom that she'll be a successful farmer, but she has no work ethic whatsoever… Sigh…" Harvest Goddess could not stop sighing. "Hmm… It's no use! Ha! I'll just tell her mom it's useless!"

Suddenly, a tremor occurred, though it could be felt by the 10. "Giving up already?!"

Harvest Goddess looked up. "That voice…! Harvest King!"

The Harvest King sounded angry. "You always give up before even trying!"

The goddess got pissed off. "It's not that I can do anything if someone doesn't wanna work!"

"It's your duty to figure something out! You've started loafing on your job in old age!"

"W-what?! Age has nothing to do with it, you big baldy!" yelled Harvest Goddess.

Another tremor occurred. "W-w-what?! B-baldy?! You really crossed the line! Take this!" Another tremor came and this time, Harvest Goddess had been turned into stone.

Wooly freaked out. "Hey! You're mean, Harvest King! Change her back!"

"Yeah! That's why people call you baldy!" Bran provoked the king.

"Baldy! B~a~l~d~y~!" And, yes, Kali just fuelled up the fire.

"Silence! You're all to reflect on your doings!"

Meanwhile, at Harvest Sprites Inc.

"What's all this shaking?" Jet pondered. "Waaa!" He vanished.

"J-jet!" Pete called out for the peddler sprite.

Roller came down from the incomplete second floor with extreme anxiety, which was a rare sight considering that he was one of the calmest Harvest Sprites. "B-b-boss! Oran and the others disappeared!"

"What what what?!" Guts stuttered.

"While they're working, they went 'zing!' and then they're gone! Even Hops, Jum and Tep vanished! Uwaaa!" Now, Roller had gone to another world.

"Blue! Where are you?!" Ceruleano looked around for Fishing Team Leader to have a glasses wrestling. He was about to ask Reese when the indigo sprite vanished. "Hmm… That's weird. And I'm having this strange feeling in my stomach."

"Leader! Where're our buddies?!" Owen came running to Ceruleano.

"I'm scared! Everyone vanished!" Eviran climbed onto the leader's shoulder.

"Hmm… Hmm…" And, tadaa! The three vanished in front of Pete and Guts.

Sacci appeared out of nowhere, half-naked. "Sob sob… Boss, we played hide-and-seek while having a bath. I can't find them!" He cried. A hole appeared under him and pulled him in there.

"My abacus my abacus my abacus!" Guts screamed while holding his precious abacus tightly.

"Hang in there, Guts!" Pete got hold on Guts until the hole was gone.

"You saved me! Thank you!"

"Hmm… Just… What happened? Everyone had gone away," Pete looked worried.

"I need to check on Mercury and the others! It'll be a big trouble if they're gone too! Trouble trouble trouble!" Guts went inside. Moments later, he came out with Mercury and informed Pete that the weather forecast sprite was the only one saved.

Bang!

Everyone turned to see the one who slammed the door.

"Witch Princess! Is it you who caused the Harvest Sprites to vanish?!" asked Guts.

"Why would I trouble myself like that?! I'm here to send this little one back!" scolded the witch as she threw Neptune to Pete. "That troublesome little thing came out of my pot while I was making my potion! What on earth are you doing in there?! Do you wanna taste my spell that badly?!"

Neptune trembled in fear. "P-p-p-please don't scold me, Witch Princess."

"Witch, I think you just rescued Neptune," said Pete.

"Hmph! Why would I want to rescue that little thing? Oh! Now I remember! Harvest King asked me to send Claire a letter!"

Pete, Guts, Mercury and Neptune cocked their heads to their left side while eyeing Witch Princess questioningly. Does Harvest King have a crush on Claire? The witch then left immediately.

"Hmm… I guess… I'll go home…"

The brown haired boy wearing a cap entered his house only to see Witch Princess having trouble waking Claire up. Shook her body, Claire shooed her away. Used spells, Claire somehow dodged them. Sometimes, they backfired. Most of the times, the spells ended up burning Witch Princess. Slapped her, Claire kicked her. Hit her using her broom, no response from Claire. The frustrated Witch Princess retorted to splash her with water using her spell as she was too lazy to grab a bucketful of water, but Pete was concerned that the spell might go wrong, so he stopped her attempt.

"Now now, Witch, I can't have you messing with my house anymore. The only way for you to wake her up is by a motherly call," said Pete.

"Why didn't you say so?!"