Weaknesses

An image appeared before the knights as Goh pushed Mannen behind him. It was of a beautiful girl with long red hair and soft green eyes. She wore the uniform similar to Goh's but obviously made for a woman. She helped costumers with a bright smile on her face and everyone seemed to love her. Then she went into the kitchen for her break where she found Goh waiting for her.

"Hey there Chiisa-Tori," Goh said nervously, "How are you doing?"

Chiisa-Tori smiled, "Wonderful! And you?"

"I'm doing alright but I have a question for you."

"What is it?"

Goh brushed he fingers through his hair as he took a deep breath before replying, "For quite awhile I've been working along side you Chiisa and well I've noticed that I wanted something more."

"What are you trying to say Goh?"

"I'm saying that, well, I love you."

Chiisa-Tori's eyes grew wide before she turned away from him. It was obvious that she was about to say something that Goh did not want to hear. In fact it was something that Go feared more than anything that she would say.

"I'm sorry Goh but I don't love you."

Everyone watched as the real Goh fell to his knees. Tears were streaming down his face. He didn't know what to say but what was worse was that everyone in the room had seen it. It was even too late to take it back.

Hidoi laughed at his expense until she saw a ball of light fly towards her. Instantly her shield was back up and her next victim chosen. Hidoi's smile widened. Everything was going as planned and the knights didn't even realize it yet.

Kei stood before her with anger flaring in his eyes. At the moment he didn't care about planning an attack, he didn't care about himself, he didn't care about anything except for the fact that he wanted to make Hidoi pay for hurting his friends. Kei had no idea how he would do it but he planned to die trying. What he did not count on was Hidoi rising from her thrown to approach him.

He found that he could not move no matter how much he tried. His eyes could only follow her slow movements down the stairs. When she reached him she knelt on the last stair until she was eye level with him.

"Did you forget that I know all of your weaknesses? I can read each and every one of you like a book. You, Kei, are no different," she hissed, "Now I would like your friends to be introduced to your greatest weakness."

Hidoi rose and faced the others, "Kei was the second most complex person among you to read. He is so clever at hiding things from the rest of the world that I almost missed it. But if you had paid attention then you would have noticed that there is a reason as to why he has those pictures of himself.

"Your Knight of Light hides behind those pictures. As long as everyone thinks that he loves himself then no one will want a relationship with him. His weakness is his fear of a relationship. He does not want to become involved with anyone because he knows that as a knight they have the chance of becoming hurt. He saw that with both Hayate and Sasame. But he didn't want you to know because then you would see how weak he really was and he did not want to let you down."

The others watched in silence as Kei was released from the spell. He fell to his knees hiding his face in shame. Even when Hajime rested a hand on his shoulder, Kei pulled away from the contact. The knights looked at each other confused about what they were going to do now. They were surprised to see Atarashi step forward.

"You really are a sick creature Hidoi," the girl whispered, "Feeding off of the pain of the knights. It's almost impossible to think that there could be anything out there so cruel but you have proven otherwise."

"Why thank you little Prétear. However I don't think you quite understand exactly what I am trying to do here."

Atarashi shook her head, "I do know what you are trying to do. You are trying to feed off of the best Dark Leafe around. All of which is currently located around Mannen, Goh, and Kei. In order to make sure that this leafe comes out you are revealing to everyone in the room their greatest weakness. This will all lead you a strength that you think is beyond your weakness."

"I don't know what you are talking about girl!"

"I'll bet you anything that my mother is here, right? Because she is my father's greatest weakness. And how about Takako? She is Sasame's. And let me guess, I'm Shin's weakness? So if you hurt me then you take down Shin as well?

"Don't you get it Hidoi? Weaknesses are what make us who we are. In fact you are made of hundreds of weaknesses from humans that hurt others. But for you these all make you strong except for one thing."

Hidoi frowned, "And what would that be?"

"Your greatest weakness is my greatest strength."

"Oh really? Why do you think that?"

Atarashi braced herself, "Show me my greatest weakness."

"What?" Hidoi took a step forward curious now, "You actually want everyone to see what it is?"

"Yes now show them."

"As you wish."