Still walking around the motel parking lot, Leaf and Makoto walked silently next to each other, trying to get themselves tired. Leaf really had no idea what to even say to Makoto, considering that he was still thinking about the kiss she gave him. He still loved Petal with all of his heart, but he didn't want to hurt Makoto's feelings by saying he still loves Petal. He had no idea love was this difficult to handle.
Leaf kept his hands in his jacket pockets, as he was looking around the sky above him, with Makoto walking next to him. The two were still silent, as neither of them really knew what to even say to the other. Once they were tired of walking, Leaf and Makoto stopped at one part of the edge of the back of the motel.
The elf looks up at the sky, taking a deep sigh, remembering his crush. Makoto remained looking up at the sky as well, looking at the stars, just like Leaf. Sadly, she doesn't really know what the elf is thinking, considering that she is rather enjoying of the night sky above them.
"It's a rather beautiful night, isn't it?" Makoto asked him, still staring at the stars. Leaf nods his head.
"Eh, I seen more beautiful back in the Forest of the Elves." Leaf said, looking at the sky still. "Honestly, Makoto, I feel like it would be so much nicer..." Leaf held up one of his hands, as it began to glow purple. "...If we added a little bit of magic to this."
The magic came out of Leaf's hands, as they aimed for the trees. Once the purple magical lights hit the trees, a couple flowers began to grow on them. They grew pretty quickly, and then began to fly away, turning into a lot of shapes in the sky, including the shape of a heart. Makoto smiled, as a blush came onto her face. Leaf took notice of this once he noticed the blush on Makoto's face.
"Um...that was really meant to be for Petal..." Leaf said, looking at the robot girl. "I hope those flowers fly over to the island, and Petal takes notice of it..." Makoto looks over to Leaf, walking closer to him.
"Well...I think it's a sweet that this was a thing you were going to give to Petal." Makoto said, smiling at the elf still. "If she saw that, she really would've ended up loving it." She giggles to herself. "I know I liked it."
"Yeah, well, that's because you...did end up kissing me out of complete nowhere." Leaf looks away from the robot girl. "I mean, love was something I though was going to be easy, until my own crush, thought I was nothing more but a complete loser." Makoto frowned hearing that.
"Guess you're still angry about that. Hmm?"
"Angry, no, I'm..." Leaf's face was visibly growing angry, before he stops, then looks down to the ground. He sat down on a nearby box. "...Frustrated about it, really...I thought she'd be the one for me, but...I guess some things were not meant to be. Hell, she didn't even notice I was even missing from the Forest in the Elves. Guess to her, I'm nothing more but invisible."
Leaf snaps his fingers, turning himself invisible. Makoto looks around, wondering where Leaf went, before he snaps his fingers again, appearing right next to the robot girl. He sighed, before looking over to Makoto, talking, which gets the girl startled by him.
"Yeah. It really sucks for me to have to go through something like that." Leaf said. "To think I would never go through heartbreak without even dating somebody." Makoto looks at Leaf with sympathy. The robot steps forward at the elf, before placing her hands behind her back.
"I...wish something like that would be different." Makoto says, looking down to the ground, rubbing a shin on the ground. "But...Petal would probably notice you're gone."
"I doubt she would care...considering she was scared that her friends saw me with her." The robot frowned, placing her hands on her hips, and now glaring at the elf.
"There is no need to be hostile with me. I am only trying to comfort you." Leaf frowned, before crossing his arms.
"Right...sorry about that...I've just never been so open when it comes to talking about Petal and how she treated me back there in the Forest of the Elves before I left."
Leaf sighed, before he sat down onto the box again, so that he can levitate himself into the air while sitting down. Now floating around, Leaf continued to talk.
"Aside from me, was there anyone else that you were in love with, Makoto?" Leaf asked.
"No. Only you." Makoto said, before poking Leaf on his nose as he was floating around her.
"Right...I should've expected that answer instead of..."
Out of nowhere, Makoto was taken down by something unknown. It was too fast for Leaf to notice what it was. But just as he took notice, he was immediately taken down too, by being hit by something, sending him falling to the ground below him.
"Well, well, well, look who we have here." That was Preston's voice. Leaf looks up, seeing the prep standing there, glaring down at him. "To think we lost you and your mates in the town."
Leaf gasps, before looking at the robot girl. Esma and Beebee were trying to keep her down. Leaf tried to hold up a hand, ready to save Makoto, only for the elf to have his wrist stepped on by Preston. The prep glares down at the elf, shaking his head at what the elf was attempting to do.
"What do you think you're doing? You're not using magic to save your sorry ass out of this one." Preston said, before pulling out a baseball bat from nearby.
Leaf has no other choice but to scream for help. He attempts to scream out for either James or Jenny to come and save him and Makoto, only for Preston to knock the elf out before he could do anything. Leaf passed out after that hit, as Preston stared at Esma and Beebee who have finally got Makoto to be knocked out too.
"Let's bring these two back to the warehouse." Preston said to the two girls he was with. "If James and Jenny want to have their two friends again, they will have to go back for them."
"What about the crown?" Esma asked. Preston gave the MorcuCorp girl a smirk.
"Don't worry, we got the metal back from Makoto." Preston looks down at Leaf, shaking his head. "We didn't need this elf, as we really only needed the robot...but considering that he seems like he's tougher than James, I believe we're doing a smart thing by bringing him with us."
"Agreed."
"But is he really magic? I've never seen a single bit of it used so far." Beebee said, looking confused.
"If he even attempts to escape. You might end up seeing it happen in front of you." Preston than looks over to Esma. "Maybe, anyway. For now, it's only vital that we bring these two to the warehouse, now."
"Already on it." Esma said.
The next day...
James woke up. He looks over to Leafs bed, noticing that he probably woke up before he did. Kind of something that he has gotten use to anyway, since the elf tends to wake up before he does, nowadays.
Upon leaving his motel room, however, he was surprised to notice that Jenny was outside, trying to find Makoto. It doesn't seem like either one of them were even outside the motel building, let alone even being around this part of the country at all. Jenny was calling out to the robot girl, hoping that she is somewhere, as James was silently looking around the elf and robot girl, unsure where they were at too.
"Leaf?! Makoto?! Where are you guys?!" James shouts, looking around the parking lot.
Suddenly, James got a call on his phone. He looks down at his jacket pocket, before pulling it out to see who was calling him. Much to his surprise, Preston was actually calling him right now. The boy hated the fact that of all people in the world, Preston was the one who was calling him right now. But knowing Leaf and Makoto are missing, he can only imagine that Preston had some sort of involvement in this.
Jenny ran over to her boyfriend, wondering who James was calling right now, only to see that it was Preston. She was even disgusted at the fact that the prep was calling them right now too. James answers the call as his girlfriend approaches him.
"Preston! What do you want?!" James asked. "What have you done with Leaf and Makoto?!"
"You assumed that I have some sort of involvement in your chaps being missing?" Preston asked. "Well, let me just say that your assumption is correct, as always, Louiston."
"What have you done with them, Preston!?" Preston chuckles on the other line. "TELL ME WHERE THEY ARE!"
"Remember the warehouse that you were at the last time? Where you found Makoto in the basement?" Preston chuckles one more time, before finally speaking the rest of his sentence. "Let me just say that your friends are in this warehouse along with me, Esma, and my girlfriend Beebee. You can try to save them all you want, but just know one thing...me and Esma have already made the second Nightmare Crown. We just finished it last night, thanks to us getting the rare metal for it back from your robot friend. You can try to come up here to save them again, but just know one little thing, once you come here, we'll be ready to open the Nightmare Realm, and finish what Morcubus was about to do back in 2010."
"You wouldn't dare open the Nightmare Realm, even if you had the guts to do so!" Jenny shouts, glaring at the phone.
"Give me the phone, Preston!" Esma's voice said from the other line. "Hello Jenny, I heard your voice, and I thought I'd say hello to you."
"You bitch! Don't you know what you'll do if you open that Nightmare Realm?! You'll destroy the world, not rule it!"
"What you're telling me is bullshit. We're done here."
"Don't you..." Esma hung up the phone before Jenny could speak anymore to her. "...Son of a bitch! I guess we're going to have to go back for those two before they open that portal."
"We're screwed. Those guys got a Nightmare Crown, while we have...our own fists." James said, before somebody from behind them spoke. "How are we going to save Leaf and Makoto without dying?"
"Hey, I heard you two mention something about...Leaf?" Pine-Cone's voice said behind the two. "Have you seen a person who has a green hat, gray hair, with..."
"...A green open jacket, no shirt, white pants? We're friends with him." James said, accidentally interrupting Pine-Cone before he could finish his sentence. "...Wait, are you guys friends with him or something? You look like elves." James then looks over to Petal. "I...also believe Leaf said you were Petal, right? He said a lot about you." Petal blinked a couple times, before raising an eyebrow.
"I...guess Leaf talked a lot about me being someone who treated him terribly...hmm?" Petal asked, feeling saddened by that. "I really didn't treat him too well back before he left the Forest of the Elves." Petal then looks over to Jenny. "Come to think of it, how did you two met Leaf? How do even know he's an elf?"
"He...kind of showed us." Jenny said.
"Of course he did..." Petal sighed, before looking at the couple again. "...But we're trying to find him. Do you know where he is right now?" James held up a finger.
"Uh...about that..." James started off saying. "...It turns out...he was kind of taken away from us because of a bastard that me and Jenny know, and he is also helping out this bitch who was about of MorcuCorp...now they made a Nightmare Crown, and are ready to take over the world with it. Also, Leaf might be killed if he is even near that Nightmare Realm."
"Nightmare Realm?" Pine-Cone asked. "The king said something about feeling something that feels...nightmarish back at the Forest of the Elves itself...maybe the Nightmare Realm is was that feeling." Petal rubs her chin, before nodding her head.
"With the help of these two, I believe that we can put a stop to that 'Nightmare Crown' object that these two brought up to us..." Petal said, before looking at James and Jenny again. "Uh...now where are my manners? May we have your names, since you are colleagues with Leaf now."
"Of course, I'm James." The geeky goth said. "Jenny is my girlfriend. We came up here for a vacation, only for things to turn into...well, something unexpected, really. Then Leaf came along into our lives when we were visiting my aunt, Professor Nova. It was a fun time, until Preston came into our lives during this whole thing, because of course he decided to come along during all of this."
"As much as I want to know what else happened during all of this, I think we can to get to Leaf before he most likely dies from that Nightmare Realm."
"Right. Come on, let's get to the warehouse before it's too late!" James pulls out his car-keys, only for Petal and Pine-Cone to get hesitate to go and use it.
"You mean we're riding in that?" Pine-Cone asked him.
"Well, duh. We have to, since it's the fastest way to get to the town." James smiled, before opening one of the doors to his car. "It's totally safe, just come on, you two." Petal and Pine-Cone looked at each other, before getting into the car along with James and Jenny. After they were all in the car, they started to head off to the town they were just in.
