The New Legend of Snow White: The Silver Pretear
Written By: Andrea MacFarlane
All original characters and situations are copyright the author of this story, all characters from Pretear are copyright Junichi Satou.
Author's Notes: For a quick story note refer to Author's Notes from Chapter 1. Here's the second chapter! Sorry for the delay, finals and all that crack took priority for a bit. I completed a bunch of artwork for the fic too so that'll be up with the next chapter. Hope you're liking the story so far, and if you aren't, don't bother to leave any rude comments cause I won't reply to them. Thanks to bunni for her kind review. If you put nice things up I'm more inclined to forgive the bad things. But if you review without any compassion or empathy for the author as Morbid Fascination and endlessly did, then I suggest you don't waste your breath.
WARNING: This fanfiction will and does contain mature content and situations, so if you aren't mature, DON'T read it!
Chapter 2: I'm A Believer! Hey! Hey!
It had been two weeks since the incident on the terrace. Every evening on her way home from work Ayako would feel the eyes of Go's friend watch her as she left. She felt as if he were watching her all the way home, sometimes in her sleep she'd feel those cold eyes staring into her, breaking easily through shields and barriers she'd long held intact. It was a crazy thought though. There was no possible reason for him to be following her.
Ayako was preparing to go in for an afternoon shift, but her body had been feeling rather sluggish lately, so she didn't even hear him enter her room. She'd finished changing clothes and turned to se him standing in her doorway. Her eyes widened for a moment before returning to normal. His large frame took the entire space of her doorway and she prayed silently that she could go without much interference. She'd missed four days of work this month already and it'd be bad to lose any more cash. He'd only blame her for the lack of money anyways.
"You're a slut just like your whore of a mother ya know that?" he asked with glazed eyes before stumbling back into the hallway and moving to go to the bathroom.
Ayako sighed inwardly with relief as she grabbed her bag and moved quickly to get out of the house as fast as she could. She moved silently on sock covered feet down the carpeted hallway and then she slid smoothly across the tiled kitchen until she reached the front hall with its wooden floors. She slid her sneaker on and walked out the door without even a glance back at what she, regrettably, called her home.
It was a shorter route to go behind some of the some of the smaller shopping districts and back alleys to get to work, usually she didn't in the morning only because people from the night before were usually still about and she didn't need any more trouble in her life. Today it was bright and clear with a nice soft breeze, no criminals would be in those darker areas today, it was too nice to waste. So as she entered into those alleys and side streets she began to feel those cold eyes upon her and as her breathing became labored she blamed it on his presence. When her vision began to blur ever so slightly she blamed it on her lack of sleep. But when she saw the giant tentacles reaching out for her from within the dark crevices of the alleys she knew there was no way to shift the blame to anyone else. Either she'd gone completely insane or the world had flipped out and forgotten to pass her the memo.
Darkness enveloped the area all around her within moments and Hayate barely had time to react. He threw himself into the darkness immediately set up a barrier for himself and Ayako. The dumb girl was just standing there! Immediately he knew there was no possible way for her to be the Pretear, even Himeno hadn't frozen up so badly her first time seeing one of the Seeds.
It was a difficult concept for Ayako to understand with her rational mind. Some…THING…was trying to attack her one moment and in the next moment she felt Hayate moving behind her and then a burst of unknown wind seemed to wrap itself in a protective bubble around her and Hayate. Even stranger still her mind was telling her that this cold-eyed man was the source of the wind.
"You had to choose one of the sunniest days of the year to take dark alleys to work didn't you?!" she heard him yell at her over the roar of the wind. Immediately she felt her ire rise but then just as suddenly it dropped back down along with a vast majority of her strength. She felt her knees buckle for a moment before she locked them together to stay upright. She wouldn't fall in front of this asshole if it was the last thing she did.
"Hayate?!" Kei cried from one of the alley's rooftops, Sasame was with him along with Go as the searched for Hayate and Ayako. Sasame had located the seed and Hayate quickly enough but not quickly enough to stop its spread. They knew Hayate was somewhere within the murky depths along with Ayako, but without the help of the Pretear herself, such a large spread of darkness was going to be hell for Kei to take care of alone.
The darkness around her seemed to be closing in on her and she felt as if the air in her lungs was slowly dissipating. Ayako took a shaky step back as the darkness inched closer again and found herself leaning against Hayate. He looked down at her with his cold gaze, but he seemed to be exerting himself immensely, sweat was almost pouring off him.
Hayate knew the other knights were going to get there soon enough. Something growing this big couldn't be ignored for long. When he saw the burst of light pierce the darkness he knew that everything would get resolved. He watched while Kei, Sasame and Go took care of the seed and once the darkness had receeded he released the wind he'd used to protect himself and Ayako. His energy was completely drained and he nearly fell over for all his lack of strength. But he managed to sway forward and keep himself up by leaning back against Ayako as she leaned against him, supporting each other with their weight.
Ayako watched everything in amazement and knew quite suddenly that thing weren't going to stay normal in her life for very much longer. She felt the extra weight of Hayate leaning against her and she grunted a little uncomfortably. His weight far exceeded hers and with the strength zapped from her legs she couldn't help but begin to slowly slide to the ground.
Cool, smooth hands took her into their arms as a soft melody played in her ears and she couldn't help but be lulled into the sleep so long denied her.
Sasame moved in quickly when he say Ayako falling and helped move Hayate into Go's arms and taking Ayako's frail body into his own, they moved to follow Kei back to Leafenia. It was time to educate their Pretear and see if she could handle being what she was born to be.