Chapter 20: Flames of Youth
Hinata writing a speech, a speech to reach Tenten… While she knew that Tenten was close to Neji she figured out a long time ago it would be her bond with Guy and Lee that would bring her back.
"This is hard." Sighed Hinata.
"Is everything all right?" asked Sakura.
"Just trying to write the speech to get Tenten back." Said Hinata.
"Is it really that hard?" asked Sakura.
Hinata nodded.
"Wait… are you doing the Guy and Lee angle?" asked Sakura.
Hinata nodded.
"No wonder why you're having a hard time." Sighed Sakura.
"I don't know them well enough." Said Hinata.
"I understand." Said Sakura.
"Can you help me, I know you spent more time with Lee than I have." Said Hinata.
"Sure." Said Sakura.
"So…" said Hinata, "Did you get a good grasp on Lee's personality."
Sakura breathed a sigh of relief.
"What's wrong?" asked Hinata.
"Oh nothing… it's just that all those times I hung out with Lee everyone else called them dates." Sighed Sakura.
"I know you're friends." Said Hinata.
"Thanks." Said Sakura, "So anyways…"
"Oh Sakura!" said a voice.
Sakura turned around and saw a purple version of Lee.
She immediately punched the person sending them flying.
"What the hell!" yelled the person who was Amethyst who turned back to normal.
"Why did you do that!" yelled Sakura.
"Sorry… I heard he had a crush on you." Said Amethyst
"Not funny!" yelled Sakura.
Hinata sighed, this wasn't helping at all.
Meanwhile in the Gem Stealth hip in space, Maxixe knew it was time to get back on track.
"Now does anyone have an idea. On how we should proceed?" asked Maxixe.
She turned to her team, Eudialyte while Amazonite was raising her hand.
"Yes Amazonite?" asked Maxixe.
"How about we sending one of Danburite's Guardians back in time to kill the Hybrid's father!" said Amazonite.
"We do not have the means of time travel." Sighed Danburite.
"Oh how about we clone a bunch of dinosaurs and unleash them on the city!" said Amazonite.
"How about we store that for later…" said Maxixe.
"Also we do not need to clone them…" said Danburite, "Dinosaurs have not gone extinct on the planet I observed."
"Okay… then… how bout we place a bunch of ships all over land marks of this planet and blow them up!" said Amazonite.
"Amazonite… where are you getting your ideas?" asked Maxixe.
"I saw a bunch earth movies during our break! THEIR SO AWESOME!" she said.
Maxixe sighed and slammed the table.
"Cajun Waffles!" yelled Eudialyte waking up.
"Are you okay?" asked Amazonite.
"I slept a lot during our break." Said Eudialyte.
"What…" mumbled Maxixe.
"What it's fun." Said Eudialyte with a shrug.
Maxixe sighed.
"Please Danburite tell you me you have a plan on getting them back." Said Maxixe.
"Actually I do have a plan." Said Danburite, "But you will not like it."
She told them her idea, needless to say they were in shock.
"What! Have you gone crazy we can't just do that!" yelled Maxixe.
"Let me explain." Said Danburite.
Back in the beach house, Amethyst was recovering from Sakura's punch.
"It's your own fault." Said Sakura.
"You didn't have t punch me." Said Amethyst.
"You shouldn't have transformed into Lee." Said Sakura.
"What kind of person hits their friends like that?" asked Amethyst.
"Calm down you two!" said Steven who was playing video games.
"He's right please stop fighting, none of this is helping." Said Hinata.
"So what's going on again?" asked Steven.
"I was working on my speech to Tenten… Sakura was trying to help a but then Amethyst decided to make fun of Sakura." Said Hinata.
"Then she punched me!" yelled Amethyst.
"You transformed into Lee!" said Sakura, "Why did you do that…"
"I heard about your dates…" said Amethyst.
"They weren't dates!" yelled Sakura.
"Oh I have an idea!" said Steven, "Why don't we use mom's room."
Sakura stared at Steven.
"What's so special about your mom's Room?" asked Sakura.
"Oh! You haven't been in there yet." Said Steven.
"I have." Said Robin who reading nearby, "But it wasn't to use it for fun."
"Oh yeah you did go in there… I forgot because it during the Changeling Incident." Said Steven.
"I thought we promised not to bring it up again." Said Amethyst.
"What?" asked Sakura.
"Never mind…" aid Amethyst.
"Anyways ways we can create anything we want in my mom's room!" said Steven.
"Maybe you can get an imprint of Guy and Lee to help you with your speech." Said Robin.
That was when Steven's gem glowed.
"I guess it's worth a shot." Said Sakura.
"I think I'll join you." Said Robin.
That was when Erza, Mirajane and Lisanna came in from the warp pad. They noticed they were carrying several bags of strawberries.
"Cake?" asked Amethyst .
"Cake." confirmed Mirajane.
"So you're using Rose's room?" asked Lisanna, "I haven't gotten a chance to try it out."
"Well if you want to join us." Said Steven.
"I would like to try out this room as well." Said Erza.
"Fine with me." Said Steven, "Mira?"
"No thanks…" said Mirajane, "I'm fine…"
And so everyone but Mirajane decided to go into the room.
"So you can imagine anything and it will appear." Said Steven.
That was when Happy popped up.
"Hey!" said Happy.
"Oh no he Happy glitch is back!" yelled Steven.
"Actually I was testing it…" admitted Lisanna blushing blue a bit.
"Aye! She wanted to see me." Said Happy.
That was when a version of Franky popped into existence.
"Hey should I get started on building this dresser?" asked Franky.
"Of course." Said Robin with a sly smile.
As tools and lumber appeared Franky bent down to build it.
"Robin what are you doing?" asked Steven.
"Just watching Franky build something…" said Robin, "It relaxed me during our short time together."
Amethyst eyed Robin's reactions to Franky building things.
"It's always the quiet ones." She muttered.
That was when they saw many Strawberry cakes appeared.
"Um… Erza…" said Steven, "You can't eat the cakes."
Erza saw that the cake disappeared into a puff of pink clouds.
"I see…" said Erza.
"So what was the reason you guys came in here?" asked Happy.
That was when Guy and Lee popped up.
"They better not hug." Said Amethyst.
"Agreed." Sighed Steven.
"Hug?" asked Lisanna.
"You don't want to know." Said Amethyst.
"So you need your help writing a speech to get Tenten back to the light!" said Guy.
Both of them nodded.
He then gave the thumbs up and smiled.
"Don't worry I'll give you advice for your speech." Said Guy.
Outside of the room, Mirajane was getting ready to bake a cake and was now joined by pearl.
"I didn't know you enjoyed baking." Said Mirajane.
"It's just a hobby, I just don't enjoy eating." Said Pearl.
That was when the alarms started blaring.
"Their here." Said Mirajane.
They went to the door which thankfully opened to Rose's room.
They saw that Sakura and Hinata were talking to the version of Guy and Lee. Also that Robin was watching Franky work his magic.
"What are you doing?" asked Pearl.
"It relaxes me." Robin said once again.
Pearl noticed was she was really watching.
"Really" asked Pearl.
They heard the alarm from the Forest Fairy.
"Hey!" said Steven.
"Don't worry I think I finally got it." Said Hinata.
"Wait… you're going to be…" said Sakura.
"It's my fault you two got into this." Said Hinata.
"Hinata…" said Sakura.
"I should be the one to reach her." said Hinata as she left the room.
"She'll be fine." Said Lee to Sakura.
"I know…" said Sakura.
"You don't blame her, do you?" asked Lee.
"Of course not!" yelled Sakura, "But she shouldn't be blaming herself."
"Go fight with her!" said Guy.
Sakura nodded and ran out of the room.
Outside on the beach, Nami was fighting Danburite's guarding while Garnet was fighting against Amazonite and Lapis was fighting Vivi.
Eudialyte, and Tenten watched the fighting.
That as when the others arrived.
Oh come on! Lapis!" yelled Amethyst she arrived at the deck.
"I got here first!" called out Lapis.
"And she says she's not obsessed." Laughed Robin as she too got to the deck.
Amethyst began to steam in anger.
Hinata ran towards Tenten.
Eudialyte tired to stopped her but Sakura grabbed her arm.
"Looks like we're the ones fight this time." Said Eudialyte.
Sakura summoned her gloves and readied a punch.
The others got to the deck to watch the fight.
"Do you think it will work?" asked Steven.
"I'm sure it will." Said Pearl.
With Hinata's fight…
"Tenten! I don't want to fight!" yelled Hinata.
"Too bad!" said Tenten summoning one of her scrolls, she summoned a massive amount of weapons at Hinata.
"Protecting Eight Trigrams Protecting Palms!" called out Hinata.
She used Chakra to slice through the weapons.
"Tenten!" yelled Hinata.
"Don't call me that!" yelled Tenten, "It's Verdelite!"
"Why do you think you were given a green gem?" asked Hinata.
"What?" asked Hinata.
"It's because of your bond with Guy and Lee." said Hinata.
Tenten looked at her Gem.
"we both know that Green is a youthful color…" said Hinata.
"What?" asked Tenten.
Hinata was blush when she said that.
Tenten stared at Hinata.
"I'm sorry being a little awkward… but…"Tenten, "You were a team! What would Guy, Lee and Neji say if they saw you."
Tenten was quiet.
With Sakura and Eudialyte's fight.
"Was she this awkward when she go you?" asked Eudialyte.
"No." answered Sakura.
"I see…" sighed Eudialyte.
Back with Hinata… she calmed down and sighed.
"What do you think will happen if you try to start up a kindergarten!" said Hinata.
(Flashback)
Sakura and Hinata were getting advice from Guy and Lee.
"You don't need a rehearsed speech." Said Guy, "SO don't' write down everything we say."
"What?" asked Sakura.
"Okay…" said Hinata.
"I get what he's saying speak with your heart and that's how you can reach her." Said Lee.
"Isn't that what happened with Sakura." Said Guy.
"It was." Said Hinata blushing.
"Look deep into your heart and tell what you see." Said Guy.
Hinata nodded.
That was hen Mirajane and Pearl came into the room and they knew the fight was going to happen.
(End of Flashback)
"Tenten… if you stay with them you're just going to fight them! Their your family!" said Hinata.
Tenten was quiet.
"Do you honestly want to fight then?" asked Hinata, "Believe in the flame of youth!"
Tenten started laughing when Hinata said that, causing her to blush even more
"Sorry… I'm just remembering all of the interesting training we had…" said Tenten.
That was when her gem began to glow black. The black energy shot out of the gem when it did the mark on her headband changed to that of the leaf village and she passed out.
"All right!" cheered Steven, "They got Tenten!"
"Just one more to go." Said Robin.
"Retreat now!" ordered Danburite.
All of them disappeared.
Hinata sighed.
"You did good." Said Sakura.
"Yeah." Sighed Hinata.
"Believe in the flames of youth?" asked Lapis.
Hinata blushed a bright purple.
"You don't' know much about Guy and Lee…" she managed to say.
"We should get her inside." Said Sakura.
Sometime later in Hinata's room Tenten started to wake up.
"Where am I?" asked Tenten.
"You're in my room." Said Hinata, "On the forest Fairy…"
"Oh yeah that's the name of the ship you stole." Said Tenten.
Tenten sighed.
"I'm so sorry!" said Tenten.
"It's okay you were brainwashed. "said Sakura, "Remember I went through the same thing."
"Yeah…" sighed Tenten.
"Don't worry everything's fine." Said Hinata.
"If everything's fine why haven't you gone back to the Leaf Village?" asked Tenten.
Hinata sighed and told her the truth.
"I see…" said Tenten.
"It was a tough choice." Sighed Hinata.
"So what now?" asked Tenten.
"We wait until they show up again and I reach Vivi." Said Nami in the doorway.
"Were you listening in?" asked Tenten.
"No I just walked by at this moment." Said Nami.
"Oh right." Said Hinata, "You meant to do Vivi earlier…"
Nami nodded, "But something always came up." Said Nami.
"Wait… so Vivi…" said Tenten.
"Is one of the earliest to reach. "said Nami.
"Wait… so…" said Tenten.
"Didn't you hear the speech Hinata gave you… it was pretty awkward." Laughed Sakura.
"Can we please stop talking about it." Blushed Hinata.
"Not for a while." Joked Tenten.
Hinata once again blushed and she sighed.
However she was happy she reached Tenten and that's all that mattered.
Back in the stealth ship.
The four arrived in front of Maxixe.
"So you lost Verdelite." Said Maxixe.
Amazonite and Eudialyte both looked disappointed.
"Aquamarine you may go to your quarters." Said Maxixe.
"Alright." Said Vivi who left.
Maxixe smirked as she left, while both Amazonite and Eudialyte no longer looked disappointed.
"All right… it's all going to Danburite's plan." Said Maxixe.
(Flashback)
"We let them fall…" said Danburite.
"What! Have you gone crazy we can't just do that!" yelled Maxixe.
"Let me explain." Said Danburite, "If we do get them and put them under our control they will fall to their friends… And with them programed we can't strengthen it… however if they have zero programing then we can put them under something stronger… something that will not easily break… we let the rest fall then put them under something much stronger than before…"
Maxixe blinked then smirked.
"I get it… but it just can be reprograming something to suit our purposes we need do something else… said Maxixe, "I'll figure it out, you will deal them… remember let them fall…"
Both Eudialyte and Amazonite nodded.
(End of Flashback)
Maxixe smirked.
No matter what she would turn the losses in a big win, all she had to do was figure out what to do… and also lose Vivi.
Because after all if they could fall so easily then what would happen on their home planets.
And little did the Crystal and Conversion Gems that getting Tenten back was just as planned for Maxixe… and that they would get Vivi back soon… with both sides thinking it would be a win.
Next Time: Only Vivi's left, will Nami be able to reach her? Well considering the topic and the fact she went though hell for that topic chances are yes... But what about Maxixe's plan? Find out next time!