Pretear of the Old Legend
Chapter 10
"Mannen, Shin LETS GO!" Hajime said impatiently. Shin shook his head and Mannen laughed at him.
"Hajime, you have never wanted to come to the training grounds so early in the morning so why now?" Mannen asked after his laughter faded.
"Yeah, we usually have to drag you out of bed…let me correct myself. I have to drag your sorry asses out of bed each and every morning so I think I am a little curious Hajime." Shin said as he sighed remembering how every morning goes.
Mannen just grinned while Hajime's head hung down in shame. "I know, I know Shin, but you will forgive me after I tell you this. The Princess is coming, yes this early too."
Mannen raised his eyebrows, "Whoa, whoa Hajime say that again? The Princess is coming? Which one will it be?"
Shin sighed, "It's the older one, and from what I am told we will learn her role in our organization."
Mannen sniggered, "She's probably this fat spoiled little brat, who is just looking for a play mate or a bodyguard. I feel sorry for those that get her."
Hajime laughed while Shin just shook his head and went on. "If you want to find out let's go! If we don't hurry we won't get to see anything."
They ran toward the main training ground, its name was Training Ground Field One. Mannen was in the lead and he stopped really quickly too. Hajime and Shin almost bumped into him.
"Whoa check this out guys, someone is sparring with the King and it isn't with fists it's with real swords." Mannen's voice was filled with awe. They all knew very few could last long with the King, but here this Knight was and he was lasting longer then anyone.
"Whoa this Knight is like the best! He has been going at it with the King for about ten minutes, can you believe it?" The boys turned to see who had spoke, it was their friend Goh. Goh was one of the strongest Leafe Knights of Fire.
Mannen's glaze went back to the Knight. This Knight had on black and gold robes, but what was different were both the King and the Knight had on masks. Did this mean they were fighting without seeing the opponent at all?
Next thing anyone knew was that both masks had come off; the unknown Knight's flew right to Mannen. Then there was the other one, the one that the King had one, it was the Hajime had caught it. The mysterious Knight had long blonde hair…and the Knight's laughter didn't sound like a guy's at all, nor did the voice.
"Whoa, dad that was intense did you have to knock my mask off? I think someone was going a little overboard there." The unknown Knight said its voice full of laughter. Wait did this Knight just call the King his father?
The King beamed at the Knight, "Well you knocked mine off as well…daughter."
Ok, Mannen was really confused now, the Princess was a Knight? What the hell? This had to be against nature.
The girl sighed and turned around, "If you don't mind mom is expecting us back soon, and remember dad she said no playing around." The girl smirked, "But what she doesn't know won't hurt her right?" Both the King and the girl laughed.
The girl waved a hand and the barrier around the King and Princess was gone. Mannen hadn't even known it was there to beginning with. The girl walked off the field not really paying attention where she as going, which you should or you run into other people. Which was just what she did, it was sad really, the Princess was a klutz after all.
The Princess fell back, but didn't hit the ground. The wind around her stopped her and she floated for a second, and then was back on her feet. She shook her head and looked at the one who she had bumped into. It was a girl; she had the whitest hair you ever saw. The first thing you thought of was snow.
The girl hadn't fallen over because there was a Knight behind her that caught her. The Princess' eyes turned cold as she looked at the girl. "Yuki...this is…a very…unpleasant surprise. Did you already get out of that hole? Took you long enough, though I always knew you were slow."
Mannen wanted to laugh, so this was the Princess, an Ice Princess. Her face held the expression of the cold. If he hadn't seen how open she was with the King, Mannen wouldn't have thought she had emotions to begin with.
The girl, Yuki, smiled at the Princess. Her smiled held no life it in as well, it was a forced smile at best. "Oh, are you still playing Knight Princess? Last time I checked Pretear's aren't supposed to play Knight."
Before anything else could be said the King came up and asked, "Oh, daughter, it's your friend Yuki. How are you Yuki and her Knight?" They both nodded and said they were fine. The King looked at his daughter and said, "So are you ready to tell everyone? Or do you want me to tell them?"
The Princess just shrugged and said, "Whatever it is you wish father, I have no mind of what to say."
They walked into the Knights Command Center and went up to the balcony. On the way the King noticed that something was wrong with his daughter and voiced his question. "What is troubling you daughter?"
She looked at the King and said, "May I be frank?"
The King nodded and she sighed and looked ahead of them, "I wish you would let me kill her. She pisses me off so much…do you realize how much it takes not to obey them and kill her?"
The King laughed, "So even they want to kill her? There are a lot of Knights, Pretears, and the Common Folk who want to kill her, but she is one of our best Pretears. Plus your sister seems to love her; they are best friends." His voice got serious now, "So tell me why do they want her dead daughter?"
The Princess' eyes grew cold, and her voice grew distant as if something was speaking through her again as she responded, "We all feel it, those who are close to the elements. We feel unease around her, something is off. Even her element doesn't like her, it cries out for us to help, but we can't because of you and your laws." The Princess' looked at the King and her eyes grew even more distant then her voice and her voice changed as well. "When she fulfils her destiny, the deaths and destruction will be on your hands. Their deaths, their souls, their agony will be on your hands. Your hands, we can see are already stained in enough blood, why add to it?"
His voice grew cold as well, "You have stained my daughter's hands as well. We all know her destiny; hopefully this meeting will change that. It would not do well for this Kingdom to be destroyed by its own Crown Heir. Now leave her, we have business to attend to."
The Princess' eyes started getting focused again, and she started swaying till the King grabbed her and steadied her. Her head hurt again, whenever they take over her body it always hurts, not the mental pain is what she sees that hurts the most. The Princess' didn't want to see what she was going to do, she didn't want to see everyone she has killed, or was going to kill. She looked at her hands and saw the blood running over them, they could never be clean she knew that, and she accepted it. She nodded to the King as they went out on the balcony.
After that the meeting was held and everyone found out that the Princess was going to be in a team of seven Knights and a Commander. It would be a standard Knight group consisting of nine Leafe Knights. Someone spoke up, it seemed they were confused.
"Sire, a team of nine Knights, you just said eight and the Princess is a Pretear—" it made the Princess laugh, it seemed this laugh had more emotion in it. Annoyance was the emotion, it made Shin, Hajime and Mannen laugh when they realized this. Though they weren't the only ones, a few others laughed as well.
The Princess caught all of them that laughed and it seemed this made her smirk. That scared Mannen but what could he do? He knew that because that smirk was meant for him, his life was going to be hell.
"For the one who just asked that ridiculous question here is your answer. I will be the final Knight." The gasps that filled the area combined were loud. She went to the edge of the platform and pulled two swords from her back. It seemed that had been invisible till she called on them.
As everyone looked at the swords they knew what they were. "Is your question answered, Tadashi, Leafe Knight of Fire?"
That caused even more gasped, how there hell had she known that? He wasn't famous so how did she know his name or his power? She smirked again; it seemed she was having fun.
The King pointed out to her that she had to choose her Knights. She looked at the crowd and said, "I will only choose the top Leafe Knights in their field. As Commander I chose the stupid old man." Every Knight out there laughed, the King did as well. The only one who wasn't laughing was the stupid old man.
"My Leafe Knight of wind will be…Hayate. My Leafe Knight of Light…of course it's Kei! Get your skinny little self up here! My Leafe Knight of Sound is my precious Sasame!" She blew him a kiss and he actually went on stage and hit her on the head!
"Don't do that! People will get ideas Risa." Sasame said angrily. She just laughed as she dodged his next blow. She turned to the crowd and continued.
"Next is Fire…hmmm I think I will choose Goh. Now about Water…that has to be Hajime! Only two left huh? Who shall I pick? Oh I know…Shin and Mannen get your cute asses up here. Everyone else you are dismissed." With a wave of her hand everyone else who wasn't chosen left.
"Did you have to say all of that Risa? You embarrassed the hell out of us! Not just Sasame and me, Mannen and Shin too! Are you the Princess or what?" Kei scolded after everyone else had left. The King only laughed when he noticed his daughter not listening. It seemed she had been looking at the crowd.
They heard her mutter something, "Why couldn't I have picked a Leafe Knight of Darkness?"
Shin woke up first, and soon after he did so did Hajime. They looked around and saw that they were almost half off the bed. It seemed they were on the ends and the soft body next to them was…the Princess. She was sleeping; they expected that since she just healed both of them, on top of everything that had happened that day too.
She moved more toward Shin and whispered something, but they didn't catch it. They looked around the room to see if anyone else was there and it turned out Kei was. He was asleep as well, they sniggered. They told the other of what they remembered happened before, the attack and the dream of the past.
After they were through Risa woke up and looked around, "Damn it, it seems I have woken up in another weird place again!" she growled, but soon realized where she was and who she was holding onto tightly. She laughed as she told Hajime she was sorry.
She got up and went outside, leaving Kei to sleep. They soon found out it was the next day, they had sleep a day and a half away. They all got updates on what happened and when Mannen apologized and told her he would never be in command again she just hit him on the head. Then she yelled, "BAKA" as she walked away. The other Knights just laughed as they saw Mannen rubbing his head.
She past Goh and saw Hayate and Himeno talking, something inside of her snapped and she just wanted to cause some pain…why? She didn't know or care why; she just wanted to do it.
"What are you still doing here Hayate?" Risa spoke, remembering that Erebos, Sasame and Kei always told her ever since they were little to stop using a cold voice, to stop having emotions. Maybe this time she would listen. Her voice wasn't cold; it had emotions, just not nice ones.
Hayate didn't say anything, Himeno jumped to his defense. "What are you going on about? He has every right to be here, he lives here for goodness sakes!"
Risa tilted her head and looked at Himeno, and addressed Hayate as she spoke. "Why have you not told her? I always thought those that love each other never kept secrets from the other. Does your claim of love not go this far? Do you truly love her as you claim to ?"
Her voice sounded curious, and it was. Himeno didn't understand. She knew that Hayate loved her, but not telling her something that was what bothered her the most. She turned to Hayate and waited for him to explain.
"Aren't you going to tell me, you stupid baka?!" Himeno said, her voice was soft, even though something inside of her wasn't, it was furious that he would keep something important from her.
Hayate looked at her and said, "For doing something that I shouldn't have done, I have been punished. I have been dismissed. I am no longer Leafe Knight. I am no longer your Knight Himeno." He said the last part softly, he was staring at the ground, he was ashamed of himself.
Himeno couldn't speak, the only thing she could do was hit him over the head, and continue to hit him. She finally stopped when she turned around and saw Risa on the ground laughing her ass off. Risa looked up finally and said, "If you can hit a Knight like that then I applaud you. I actually like you, you know little Pretear."
That was something that no one ever expected to hear, but then Risa groaned and said, "I don't like you anymore. Not if your going to start on that shit again, but thanks for reminding me."
Himeno was a little confused, but she knew what Risa was talking about. She was about to bring up the problem Risa had with her about her fusing with the other Knights, "No, Risa…I mean Princess Eris we need to talk about this. I will not stand here and take this shit from you. How the hell was I suppose to know the thing with Tenebrae? And the thing with Shin, we had no choice you took your sweet damn time with Hajime that—"
Risa cut her off, Risa sighed and walked away, "Like I said, I don't like you no more. Stop bitching about it and stop making excuses. Excuses are useless, they have no point. Own up to what you did, take the consequences and move on. That is how a Pretear should be. Be strong little Pretear, that is the only way to survive."
Himeno snapped, she had really had it with this bitch's attitude. Telling her this was supposed to be this way.
"Okay I get it you are a Princess and all, but I have had it up to here with all your bitching and all your shit. Tell me honey, how many of your so called perfect Pretears are left? Hmm? No answer? That's because they are all dead! If they were so perfect why the hell did they die? Now get off your freaking high horse and fight me now, we are going to end this now!"
Risa had the nerve to laugh, "Let's go, no Knights. Kei, get the smart ass bitch a sword. Yes, sweetie you wanted to fight I chose the swords, hope you're as good as your mouth claims to be."
Kei came back with a sword and gave it to Himeno, "Risa this is getting out of hand, just fight her without weapons, it's unfair that she had never wielded a sword before and you have had how long to practice with it? Just fight all natural."
Risa scoffed at his comment, "and pray tell me Keiy poo how long has it been since I have picked one up and fought with it? That little thing with Tene doesn't count, but if you think it's unfair, take the sword back. This fight is already like taking candy from a baby anyway."
Okay that had made Himeno even madder and she threw the sword down and charged Risa. She did a right hook to the side of Risa's head but missed at the last second because Risa moved. Risa laughed, "little girl, you can't match my speed."
Himeno charged at her again, but tripped over a root that had come out of the ground. She got her balance back quickly, but this time she was in the air. She couldn't move, she didn't struggle she just stayed still giving Risa death glares.
"It's fair Hayate, so shut up. Kei said all natural and this is natural for me. Now I am sick of your disobedience Himeno. I can't have this during a battle. The first time this happens it would mean the death of someone here. I can't have that…no I won't have that. They are all that I have left and I won't let some stupid human take that away from me."
She returned some of the glares at Himeno and said, "You, just like your lover are dismissed. I don't need people who would get everyone killed."
The other Knights weren't happy about this, well Tene didn't care one way or another but still, they were upset. They couldn't do anything about it. Risa was right. Risa's sister would be stronger then before and they could barely handle her last time. One simple, small mistake and everyone was dead.
Hayate looked at Himeno then at Risa, "Of course, we understand. If she doesn't understand Princess I will explain it too her."
He turned to Himeno who was really confused, "One little, small mistake that normally wouldn't do anything could cost us the battle. The enemy will be stronger then you could handle anyway Himeno. You would die and Risa would be trying to protect you and end up hurt herself and can't face her sister. If we are liabilities then we have to go. It's that simple."
Risa blinked at that, which was a pretty good speech she started clapping till snow hit her hand. It sizzled against her skin and she yelled, "Put barriers around your self's NOW! THERE IS NOT TIME FOR EXPLANATIONS! DO IT NOW!"