No, this story isn't abandoned, Unnamed. Thank you for the review, by the way. Oh, and I'm not sure to take yours as a compliment or not, James Birdsong, but thanks for the compliment (I think...), and no, I haven't updated because I haven't any inspiration for a while. Yes, I agree cliffies are appropriate in some places, but it was short cause I was rushed and I didn't have anything else to do for this story, Heroine of the Valley. I will keep it up, thanks Casey0449! You have the simplest review so far, and for that, I'm thankful! Thank you, WhiteTigerLily69!

I don't own anything that is recognizable as Pretear, thank you very much! If I did, Shin wouldn't have died, at all! The kid's sweet, people, give him a break!

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The Difference Is What It Makes

Chapter VI

Fighting Fire With Fire

Himeno's POV

"Are you sure she just disappeared, Himeno?" Anger marks formed on my forehead at Goh's question, once again!

"Yes, I'm sure! She probably jumped out of the window, Goh! Why are you so worried? She can take care of herself!" Goh blushed and turned away. I smiled a secretive smile as a plan formed in my mind. But that would have to wait. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go destroy the egg first!" I said. We all ran off to an abandoned building using Hayate's wind.

Once there, we heard some ruckus going on inside. Out of fear for the people inside, I grabbed Hayate's hand and we were preated immediatley. Don't know how, but we would dwell on that later.

"Hurry up, tulip-head." Hayate grunted. I nodded, deciding to not fight with him at the moment, considering fighting the new seed a bit more important, but inside, I worried about my friend. 'Will Cilian be okay?'

"Don't worry about it, Himeno," Hayate said soothingly. "I'm sure that she can take care of herself. Now, pay attention! We have to get rid of this seed!" I nodded and set to work. We all ran inside, all of the Leafe Knights in their combat uniforms. What was in the building shocked us all.

Cillian was fighting the hatched egg, and quickly loosing.

"Cillian!" I shouted. She turned towards me in surprise, unaware of the concrete tentacle heading towards her unprotected back. "Watch out!" I screamed for her. A ball of fire came in the nic of time and shot it away from. I nodded in thanks at Goh and he smiled cheerily before going back into the fight.

"Shin, make the shield!" Mannen yelled. We heard a small 'Right!' before the entire area was covered by a green sheild, protecting the entire outside world from our fight.

"You have to preat, Cillian!" I shouted. I dodged and threw a wind slice at the thing.

"What? Hell no!" The cry came from the left of me and I could see that she was blushing like mad. I had an idea why...

"If you want to survive, I suggest you do!" Kei yelled. I heard a low growl and saw Cillian do a back spring from a tentacle. I didn't know she could do that...

"FINE!" I heard. "Goh!" Well, she goes for the one of heat; so saw that coming.

"Coming!" I saw a bright flash from where the voices came from. I wonder how well Cillian can do in her first fight...

End of POV

"Goh!" I went for the one closest to me at the time, which was Goh, the Leife Knight of Heat.

"Coming!" He yelled back. He grabbed my right hand and I began to feel strange, but warm. Light bagan to swarm around me, like little bubbles. I looked in front of me to see Goh, smiling warmly at me. I closed my heavy eyelids and felt even more warm than there was before. I opened my eyes to see that I was back in the real world.

I looked down at myself to realize that I was in a dark red yukata with a crimson red tight jeans. I was also wearing knee high golden go-go boots. I touched my neck and realized that I was also wearing a choker with a fire symbol on it. I also realized that the yukata was high-collared and long-sleeved with bell sleeves. Well, at least it covered myself.

'Jump!' I jumped without thinking. A tentacle landed at where I was just at. I landed a few feet away. I looked around for the voice (which sounded suspicously like Goh's) with which I heard. 'You don't need to look around, ya know.' God that's so creepy! It's like he's the voice inside... my head... Now that is just damn scary.

'Thanks.' I could practically see Goh roll his eyes at me. 'Okay, let me explain this as quickly as possible. Basically, we have formed into one body, which is yours. And with that, we have formed into one concious. Whenever you fight, I'll be your sheild and your weapon, you just got to know how to work with my element.' I kinda blanked out at that. So we're sharing the same body? And he's my sheild and weapon? Whatever...

I'm so freaked out! Well, got to store that away for the moment and fight. 'Okay, so I know that your element is heat, which is fire, correct? Anyways, what am I supposed to do now?'

'Look for the center of the egg; it is its weakness.' I nodded and jumped off into the air, looking for the spot and dodging tentacles all of the time. With the fight from earlier and what is happening now, my body was weakening and I was quickly losing energy. 'Watch out!' I looked to the left and instinctively brought my hands up and swung down hard.

I heard a little 'shuk' noise. I opened my eyes to see a concrete tentacle fall off of the monster and nearly miss Himeno. "Sorry!" I yelled out. I finally noticed the fire-y sword in my hand. The flames were dancing and were absolutely beautiful. "Alright, concentrate, Cillian..." I looked and noticed a little flash in between what looked like the eyes of the creature.

"Is that it?" I asked myself, though I knew that I was asking Goh. A glorious warmth traveled through my body. I'll take that as a yes. "Himeno!" I called out. I slashed another tentacle out of my way, heading for the forehead. "Head for the forehead!"

"Got it!" Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Himeno start making a ball of air, it seemed. "Ready?" Himeno called out. "Ready!" And we both aimed for the head. Once I was close enough, something strange happened. The creature's eyes seemed to stare down into my very soul, and I saw, in the dark depths, pain. A lot of it.

Then it was gone. The creature disappeared in a puff of black. Shin's sheild came down, and I looked to see that the outside world was completely unharmed. I don't know what happened, but the look in that creature's eyes hurt more than any silence ever could.

Sorry it took so long to update! I do hope you guys liked this, even though the fight scene sucked! Please Read and Review!