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In this version of Pretear, it's going to be based on the manga. Just to give you a heads up.
So enjoy! ^^
EDITED 17 JUNE 2016 EDITED
Blood Red Pretear
Chapter 1
I hated my abusive life, but I still love my family no matter how much they abused me. They gave me a life so I can enjoy life, no matter how bad it is. That's what I learned in life.
Sorry, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Casandra Noama. My mother has this strange obsession with Greek mythos, so named me after a cursed witch. Oh well, not much I can do to change it now.
Well, since you're going to actually be paying attention to me, let me tell you some things about myself. I don't really talk to many people, I am seventeen years old, I go to Awayuki Middle School and am abused by both of my adoptive parents. I don't like dresses much, or skirts for that matter, so I always wear pants and the boys' school uniform whenever I go to school.
I'm just in this world to enjoy life and die a peaceful death. Hopefully, that's what I was meant to do anyway, considering that's kind of my philosophy at the moment. I don't want to die from some stupid fight or something.
Oh great! There I go again! I should really stop rambling or else people would think that I was crazy or that I'm going to be in some stupid accident just 'cause I was in deep thinking. Trust me, I've almost been in three accidents and fell in three ditches per day in one week, with seven scratches to add to all of the scars that I have from being abused so much, because I have been thinking so deeply.
ANYWAY, I'm outside the Awayuki Mansion [which is fuckin' HUGE] waiting for Himeno so we can go to school together. While I was waiting, Mawata and Mayune, Himeno's step sisters, walked past me towards the huge stretch limo that Tanaka, the family butler with a hairless head, waits for them. Mawata waves hi to me as she gets in the car and leaves Himeno behind, yet again.
I wave back and signal to her that I will call her later. She just smiles at me sadly and turns to face the front. Mawata is probably thinking too much again - I can't blame her for that.
Oh, I should tell you about Himeno's family before you get anymore confused. Himeno Awayuki is the daughter of Kaoru Awayuki, a famous romance novelist. They were very poor before Kaoru met Natsue, president of a major cosmetics company and a big fan of Kaoru's novels. She also owns the entire island of Awayuki Island. So she's very rich and they fell madly in love at first sight. I really don't want to even know how, so don't ask me for that tid-bit of information. Natsue Awayuki has two daughters; Mawata, a second year student in high school, and Mayune, a freshman along with me and Himeno in high school. I'm very sure that Himeno has no idea on what to do since she's living the rich life now. I kinda feel sorry for her. Then I suddenly saw Himeno run towards the stretch limo yelling "Wait for me guys!"
After a few seconds, she looked so destroyed that she was left behind. I was starting to get the strangest thoughts then, like they were surrounded in darkness, anger, and, most of all, hatred.
'She wanted to take the limo instead of walking with you to school, didn't she? Why don't you just leave her there, let her see how it feels.' A voice darkened with hatred and laced with menace came into my mind; a voice I didn't recognized. I shook it off as soon as I heard the last word it mentally said. I never heard anything like it, and I didn't like it one bit. And whenever I don't know or like something, I either get really mad or, in this case, scared. It's just something I developed while I lived with my 'parents'.
After a few seconds, Himeno spotted me thinking by myself in front of the gate and walked towards me, wondering what the hell I was doing. when she was close enough that her shadow was blocking my sun, I looked up and completely freaked out... well, almost completely, but it was close enough.
Himeno's POV
I am so going to be late if I don't catch that limo. Once I got outside, I yelled, "Wait for me guys!" Once I saw that they had already gone, I was so destroyed that they left me, again, might I add! But then I spotted my best friend, Casandra Noama, standing next to the gate looking very troubled. I walked towards her and once she noticed me standing over her, she freaked out. And by freaked out, she passed out for a few minutes. Yeah, that's not like the ultimate freak out from her. But trust me, when she is in full freak out mode, she is one mean little bitch.
She must have heard of something that she didn't either like or was afraid of. Very unlikely the latter, since she's barely afraid of anything. Something she's developed since she had been living with her 'parents'. Yeah, I know about that type of crap, but she doesn't know that I know. Just something that isn't right in this world. I shook my head then slightly shook her to wake her up. She shot up with a blush covering her cheeks a second later. She looked at me with a... scared look? Since when has she been scared?
"Sorry..." I heard Casandra say as she scratched the back of her head and got up. She cleaned off some imaginary dust on her school pants. I sighed.
"When are you going to wear the girl's school uniform, Casandra?" I asked as we walked through a little path that I spotted a couple of days ago. Casandra was still limping from her injuries from last night, so I had to help her walk toward the school.
She gave me a 'are you serious?' look. Then she just started laughing. She doesn't laugh often, so her melodic laugh rang throughout the little garden we were going through. It was really rare for anybody to hear Casandra laugh, so I laughed along with her. But as we were laughing, we both accidentally stepped on daises that we weren't aware of until we stepped on them. We both developed really sad faces and knelt beside the flowers.
"What's wrong?" A little blond boy was standing at least a couple feet away from us. He looked really cute.
End of POV
"We stepped on these flowers, and we want to save them..." I trailed off in concern. Himeno nodded in agreement and sadness.
"Give me your hands." The kid held out his hands for us to take.
"Our hands?" Himeno asked, possibly confused as to why the kid would ask us something like that. If she was wondering that, I am wondering the same exact thing as well.
"That's right, your hands." The kid smiled a kind and understanding smile as he still held his hands out to us. Himeno and I each slowly grabbed hold of the little kids hands. We were all suddenly pulled into the air as a bright green light surrounded us all. I was confused and when I looked over to see Himeno's reaction, she looked as surprised as I felt. When I looked to see what was going on around us, Himeno and I saw that, before our very eyes, a bud of the daises were going through the cycle of life.
It was a wondrous sight, both weird and beautiful at the same time. We then felt weak and slowly fainted, side by side.
"-sandra,-meno." A sweet voice called out in my consciousness. "Casandra, Himeno." A woman stood a few feet away from us [Himeno and I], calling out to us as if she knew us our whole lives. She was familiar, with long pale hair and a beautiful smile.
Then I noticed why she looked familiar; it was Himeno's mother. I knew her before she died - I always came over to their home in order to play Himeno, and I would feel more loved and wanted there than I ever did in my own home. I felt that love and want wash over me now.
"Your hand is cold, Mama. Why Mama? Why?" I hugged Himeno while we both gazed on the now lifeless body of Himeno's mother. I cried as hard as Himeno was crying, as if she was also my own mother. In a way, she was.
When I next woke up, some strange man was above Himeno. He had long black hair held in a low pony tail. From what I could see, his eyes were the color of the sky. And his outfit was too strange to describe. Himeno was outrageously red. I slowly got up and limped over to her. Murder was written on my face, I knew. No one got that close to Himeno without my permission.
"You're awake, huh?" He asked Himeno. "You were having some terrible nightmares. Are you alright?" Himeno was completely silent as she sat up. I was still trying to limp over to her. He put his hand to her forehead and asked "Your face is red, do you have a fever, too?" Himeno was still bright red.
"FWA!" She yelled out. 'Fwa?' I thought. I then heard footsteps and heard a deep rich voice ask "Oh no- Hayate's already making his move." I looked toward the door of the room and saw a pale man with albino hair knocking once on the open door. His outfit was also strange, yet it suited him for a strange reason. It was like that strange man that is still hovering over Himeno.
"Seems like I'm interrupting..." He said teasingly.
"Sasame!" The man in blue yelled at the guy in white. "Who's making a move?" Hayate, I'm assuming that was the man in blue, yelling at who is now Sasame.
"You're not? How boring." Sasame replied.
Another man, this one with sun bright yellow hair, walked in with another weird outfit. I blushed at the first site of him. "Oh, are they awake?" He asked looking over Sasame's shoulder.
"Are they alright?" The blond little boy from earlier asked. He looked like he had been crying. Is everyone here wearing strange outfits except for Himeno and I?
A boy with orange hair popped up beside the blond boy. "They seem fine!" He happily exclaimed.
Two more guys appeared; one was older than the other. The older one had black hair that defied gravity with a red and black outfit and the young one had albino hair that also defied gravity and was wearing a white outfit. "No, the color of this one's face is still bad, she'd better warm up." The older pointed to Himeno.
"Naah! It's better that her head cools down." The younger one said. I was to my destination by now and sat by Himeno.
"Excuse me-" Himeno started. "I suddenly felt dizzy...?" She held her head in one hand. I hugged her close to comfort. She took it willingly.
The young blond boy started crying river falls. "I'm sorry, that was my fault." He looked too adorable to ignore, so I picked him up and put him in my lap and gave him comforting pats on the back, despite the protests of pain from my legs and arms. I didn't pay attention to what the other men said, I was too busy trying to calm down Himeno and the little boy at the same time. It's what I do, although I don't give words of comfort at all. People just seem to understand when I'm trying to calm them down. I set down the little boy once I was done calming him down and looked at Himeno. She was starting to get anxious, so I just hugged her the best I could in my wretched state.
The older albino boy came over and asked "What's the matter?" I glared at him as Himeno replied "I don't quite understand, but..." I was also confused on what was going on, so I paid close attention to what he has to say.
"You were chosen as the 'Pretear', though there seems to be two pretears this time."
"Pre-?" Himeno was greatly confused. "What?"
The young man continued. "Right now crisis draws into this world."
"...Huh?" Himeno wasn't getting any of this and neither was I.
"Red snow is falling, and that is a sign that Saihi has come back. It is the action of Saihi. 'Saihi' is stealing 'leife'-the existence of everything and the origin of power."
'These...' I thought.
"The only thing that can stop it is the 'pretear'!" He veered over Himeno as I thought, 'These people are...'
"So try your best and let's fight together." The man said with enthusiasm as he placed a hand on both of our shoulders.
'...part of a cult*...' I thought. Apparently Himeno was thinking the same thing, since she was probably driving herself insane inside her head. I then heard the worst thing that has left a guy's mouth from the guy that was hovering over Himeno earlier.
"You really think we could leave it to a tulip-head and fire-head little girls like them!" He motioned towards us.
Himeno turned around and yelled, "... Who... Who is he calling little girls?"
He simply replied "You."
"It's not 'you', it's Himeno and Casandra! Besides, your pride is just because of your good looks!"
The guy just laughed at us from under his breath. "Just good looks, huh?" He said with a cocky smile on his face. Next second, Himeno and I both punched his lights out with a double punch. He fell to the ground totally out. The guy that was explaining the pretear thing earlier looked extremely happy and said "They took him out with one blow!"
"We're going home!" Himeno yelled as we walked toward the only door in the room. We slammed it shut behind us and we continued to walk home after that.
Third POV With Strange Boys
"Ah, you made them mad." Sasame stated toward Hayate as he looked toward the door that the woman just exited out of.
Hayate rubbed both of his sore cheeks as he got up from the ground. "I don't believe it- brutal women." He muttered.
"You really don't have a way with girls, you know-" Sasame teasingly said, but he was cut off from Hayate.
"Shut up." Hayate muttered as he glared at his albino friend.
Kei, the sun blond one, said "For the time being, let's look at the situation since there's no changing the fact that we need the pretear, now pretears."
The little ice blue haired kid said, "Hey, with that being said... is it okay to let them go like that? They said that they were going home, but, I think it's impossible." The boy stated simply pointing out of the only window in the room.
End of POV
Himeno and I were in a land that we have never seen before. It's like we were taken to another dimension when we passed out. It was very beautiful though.
"Where... are we?" Himeno asked, looking around wildly. "How do we get out of here?" We then saw a large tree behind us. It was in the middle of a lake and it was connected to the land by a single bridge that zigzagged toward the entrance. Himeno then started talking to herself. "It's not like I can ask how to get home... Ah! I forgot my bag and blazer- what'll I do..."
We then heard a voice say behind us, "Here, your things." The voice sounded angry and it sounded like the guy that we punched out, just without the cockiness.
"Ah, thanks..." Himeno turned around and saw that it was the guy that we punched earlier. "You-!" He didn't look too happy to see us either. She then took some weird stance that she probably learned in martial arts. "What's your problem?" She asked defiantly.
"You're my problem." We then noticed that he had the little blond kid hiding behind the guy's leg.
"You..." was all Himeno managed to say.
"Miss, are you both alright?" The kid started. "Are you still angry?" He looked like he was on the verge of tears. Then I did something that I haven't done in years; I hugged him and hummed the tune that I remember my real mother used to play on the piano, before she died of some strange sickness.
Hayate's POV
I had to give tulip-head her stuff back and I had to take the little shrimp with me. Can my day get any worse? So I took the stuff that she had and walked outside toward the two girls standing in front of our house. Tulip-head was muttering something to herself while the redhead was looking at everything in amazement and wonder at our world. When I got up close, I said "Here, your stuff." The red head's ear twitched slightly at the sound of my voice, so I'm assuming that she's trying to analyze my voice in her head.
"Ah, thanks..." Tulip-head started saying as she turned around to see who had brought her stuff back to her. She quickly backed away and said "You-!" once she saw me. She then did some weird pose and asked me what my problem was. I told her that she was my problem and I settled my free hand on the top of the shrimp's head. He was still hiding behind one of my legs. I noticed that the redhead's gaze greatly softened when her eyes landed on him.
'What kind of effect does this kid have on the redhead?' I wondered while the shrimp asked tulip-head if she was still angry. Then the unexpected happened; the redhead hugged the little shrimp close and hummed a little tune that was somehow familiar to me, but I couldn't place it anywhere. I was then filled with happiness and a lot of energy the more I listened to the creepily familiar song. The little shrimp calmed down and stopped looking like he was on the verge of tears.
Then tulip-head said something that really caught my attention, "Yeah, we're fine. We're feeling better already, so we're not angry at you." Tulip-head gave him an extremely sweet smile that she probably uses a lot. I smiled a tiny little smile, the first since...
I then turned around and said "...Let's go." She did that weird karate pose from earlier.
"G-go where?" She asked me warily.
"To send you to the 'outside'." I replied like it was the most obvious thing to do.
"Huh?" The girl was confused. I turned toward the opposite way to our house.
"You go straight ahead... and then take the road to the left." I pointed to a small trail in between a few trees. Tulip-head had her blazer and bag with her and the redhead was carrying the little shrimp with her.
"Well then, I..." Tulip-head was cut off by the little shrimp.
"Miss..." He started. "Bye bye, see you later!" The redhead set him down, took something off of her neck, and put it on the little shrimp. She then gave him a little peck on the forehead as a gesture of farewell.
"Later." I didn't want to deal with these two idiots more than I had to.
Tulip-head turned and started walking down the path that I have indicated. She waved her hand and said, "Okay, bye bye."
The redhead whispered something into the ear of the shrimp and when she pulled away, she put her pointer finger on the top of the mouth in a 'shush' way. She then ran towards Tulip-head and waving back towards the little shrimp. The little shrimp waved back until they were out of site.
Once they were out of sight, I asked the little shrimp, "So what did the redhead tell you?" But he just shook his head and replied "I promised I wouldn't tell until the time was right. That's what she told me to do." The little kid had a dreamy look on his face.
"Alright then, what did she give you?" I asked, curiosity eating me raw. He showed me a gold box on the end of an intricate silver chain. It glinted in the light, and I couldn't tell if there were carvings on the sides of the box or not
"She gave it me. It was really pretty and she said to not tell anyone what it is or what it does. I have promised that I wouldn't tell anyone what she said." He gazed off into space, probably thinking about the redhead. Shin just probably saw her as a mother and friend.
Boy was I right.
End of POV
"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" Our friend, Yayoi, bursted out laughing when Himeno was finished telling her about what happened to us earlier. She told us that we were probably daydreaming or something. That got me thinking.
'Was that place, those people, a dream? Even...' A picture of the sun colored hair guy came into my mind and so did the little kid. I blushed and smiled when both people popped into my mind. It's kinda hard to daydream about those kinds of things, so it couldn't have been that.
"Oh yeah, Himeno, Casandra. You free tomorrow?" Yayoi asked us. I just shrugged as my answer. I probably wasn't, so I should give her a maybe answer to be safe.
"Yeah." Himeno answered automatically.
"Well then, wanna go shopping? We can go to the new store at the Shinyamate Station." Yayoi said to Himeno.
"Let's go, let's go!" Himeno said excitedly. We were all at the cross road where Yayoi separated from us.
"Well then, meet you at 11 in the plaza in front of the station!" We waved bye as we all walked to our homes.
"Hey Himeno?" I asked once I was sure that Yayoi was out of hearing range.
"What is it, Casandra?" She asked back.
"Can you walk me home and help me check something?"
"Yeah, sure." Himeno smiled softly at me and we walked in the opposite direction of Himeno's mansion to go to my two-story house that I currently lived in. It was an eggshell white color, so it wasn't very flashy. I cautiously walked up the steps towards the front door and saw a note attached with my name on it. I snatched it off and this was what I read:
Casandra
We will be gone on a trip for the rest of the year. Do not destroy anything and we want the house spotless when we get back! Make sure that the house stays clean and refrigerator full. Money is on the table if you need anything. If you don't want to stay at the house, at least visit everyday and keep it clean.
Love
Your Family and Maids
I smiled and quickly ushered Himeno in once I unlocked the door. I gave Himeno the note and went upstairs to grab the stuff that I would need; including my school stuff, guitar, and the remaining picture of Himeno and I when we were little. I stared at it for a while and smile. I stuff it into my suitcase and run back downstairs. I grabbed the cash and keys and we were off to the Awayuki Mansion. Himeno smiled and we ran all the way back to her mansion.
Once we got to the mansion, one of the butlers, Jhon, greeted us. "Good day Himeno, Casandra. How long are you staying with us this time, Lady Casandra?" He asked as he took my suitcase upstairs to Himeno's room.
"A good day to you, too, Jhon. I will be staying for the rest of the year apparently." I smiled lightly at me. He smiled back and turned back to Himeno.
"You have visitors, Miss Himeno." He said formally as he led us into the main room.
"Visitors?" Himeno asked. "Who could it be?" Jhon opened the door and there, sitting on the couches, was the weird gang from earlier. Except that they were all in normal clothes. The little boy from earlier saw me and immediately put down his cake and ran toward me. I bent down and hugged him when he jumped into my arms.
"Welcome home!" They all said as they saw us. "Do you live here, miss?" The little kid asked me. I sighed sadly and said "I'm sorry, but I don't live here. I'm only staying here for the rest of the year." He gave me a little pout. I laughed and said "Don't worry, I'll still live around here when I'm not here." I gave him one of my small smiles and he smiled widely at me. "Now go finish your cake. Never put cake to waste, is what I say!" I pushed him toward the table where his cake lay in waiting. He happily ran toward it and ate it. They all said hi and Himeno was yelling why they were there.
"I said later, didn't I?" Hayate said, slamming his hand onto the door he was leaning on.
Himeno looked like she was about to scream her lungs out so I moved and sat beside the little boy from earlier.
'What is going to happen to us now that we have met these people?' I thought.
Tiryn: That was a long chapter... Please R/R! I would really appreciate it ^^
Heavily edited on June 17, 2016