Disclaimer: I don't own any characters mentioned in this story except for Solez, she's mine, I made her up.
Author's Note: I'm sorry. I lied. This chapter doesn't have the first round of fights in it, but I promise to get the NEXT chapter (which DOES have the fights in it) up as soon as I can. Also, for all of you Prétear fans, I would like to apologize for the way I portrayed Sasame. At the time that I wrote the first chapter of this story, I had only read the first book of Prétear. And now, I own all 13 episodes on DVD, so these are my thoughts on Sasame now: SO FRICKIN' COOL! Also in this chapter, special guest appearance, Harry Potter!
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"…ee…" a faint scream, "…aiee…" becomes louder, "AAAHHH!" until,
20 people came crashing out of the ceiling and painfully landed on the floor of a large, white, circular room.
The one with short, spiked, brown hair, Yoh, stood up first to take in the scenery of the vast room. He let out a low whistle. "Cool… and no Anna either." As he turned around, he heard a grunt from under his feet. Yoh looked down to see that he was standing atop another boy with short brown hair. "Hey," he asked. "What'cha doing down there?"
"Being crushed by you, obviously." sputtered Caleb.
"… Now why would you want to do that?" Caleb sighed.
"mmrmph" The two brunets on the top of the giant pile looked down. "mmrmph" They looked at each other. "I said, 'mmrmph'!" yelled a young man wearing a straw hat as he shoved the first two off. Caleb and Yoh hit the ground simultaneously with a loud 'THUD'. Yoh couldn't believe his eyes when a green hamster came crawling out of the pile and transformed into an all green boy who flopped down beside the other two. "Yeep!" yelled Luffy from the top as he came tumbling down; an angel of all things had accidentally pushed him while surfacing for air. Then the angel was knocked down when yet another man with black hair pushed his way to the top. Then that man fell over the edge, knocked off by what appeared an eleven year old blond wearing a long red coat. Then (saving the others on the bottom quite a bit of trouble), a large blast scattered all 20 people across the room.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" demanded the one with dog ears.
"Too…many…BOYS…" cried Miroku.
"Sorry," said a little boy with white hair. "That may have been a tad excessive."
"YOU THINK?" shouted the blond with the red coat."
Seeing all the other men there, who appeared to be fighters, some of them started to get paranoid. They started yelling and throwing threats at each other, until
"SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU!" They all stopped, turned, and stared at the small figure approaching them. It was a young girl, no more than twelve, with long black hair and an irritated smile on her face. "Just be quiet, all of you!"
"Why should we listen to a little brat like you?" snorted Inu-Yasha. The girl raised her hand to him; in it was a remote controller. She pressed a button and Inu-Yasha, and only Inu-Yasha, was electrocuted.
"That's why." She released the button. Inu-Yasha nodded, fingers twitching, and a few strands of his hair were singed. "That's what I thought. Now," she turned to address the large group that had gathered around the two. "My brother and I have brought you all here for a very important reason. Out of the millions of people in the world, you twenty are the first to answer 'yes' to being chivalrous." The boys stared at her, not knowing what to think. A few awkward moments passed like this until the girl got angry. "IT'S RUDE TO STARE!" The majority of the boys took a startled step backward at the girl's sudden outburst. Once again, she hit the button that shocked Inu-Yasha. Then, after another awkward moment of watching the singed half-demon twitch, one of the boys stepped foreword. It was Chrono.
"Excuse us, Miss," he started in that wonderfully sweet voice of his. "But could please tell us the real reason that we're here for?"
"Yes… of course… anything for you, Chrono." She drooled. She had gone into some sort of 'super floaty' mode, or as the boys would call it; 'even more annoying'. She cleared her throat. "Anyway, the real reason you all are here, is to compete to determine which of you is the strongest and smartest."
"Uh… Where exactly is here?" asked the boy with blue hair.
"Ah, good question Shugo. Or do you prefer to be called Kite?"
"Uhh…"
"HEY! Just how the hell do you even know our names?" shouted the short one with the red coat.
"Oh, Ed, how could I be so rude? My name is Solez." She said dreamily.
"What the hell? Are you being nice to me just because I'm…I'm…"
"Vertically challenged? Oh, heavens no! I don't think that you're short at all. I think you're wonderful…" she went back to her 'super floaty' mode and somehow, Ed got dragged into it too.
"How exactly are we competing, and why should we participate?" asked Hayate.
"You'll build up, and possibly lose, a system of points for the battles you win and the other various activities you participate in. And as for WHY you'll be fighting," Solez aimed her remote at the wall. The white wall was then replaced by a large window showing the boys 20 sleeping girls—THEIR girls. (Just to name them all (in order of mentioned series (see Chapter 1)) Sakura, Rosette, Riku, Risa, Tohru, Kagome, Sango, Hikaru, Umi, Fuu, Rena (Black Rose), Ichigo, Berri, Terra, Himeno, Hitomi, Cornelia, Nami, and Anna). "If you don't participate, then your little girlfriends will go to my brother. And if you lose, they'll go to my brother."
"And just who's your brother?" asked Kyo.
"Zelos." They stared at her, utterly confused. Solez rolled her eyes. Then, she pointed to Miroku. "Think that guy, only better and more successful at what he does."
Then, behind the window with the girls, appeared Zelos in his entire pinkness. "If you lose, I win." He said with a smug grin on his face.
The boys gasped and took several steps backward. "You wouldn't dare!" shouted Kish.
"That's horrible!" screamed Yoh.
"What's the big deal?" asked Inu-Yasha. The others shot him surprised look.
"He'll woo your girlfriend and she'll never want to come back to you!"
"So? That brat's got Kagome back there, not Kikyo." Miroku smacked him upside the head.
"You idiot! If it was Kikyo back there, you'd say the same thing about Kagome."
"Would not!"
"Would too!"
"STOP!" Solez pushed the 'zap' button again to shut Inu-Yasha up. "The only reason you OR Kagome are here, is because my brother wanted her for his collection."
"Err…" the boys stared at her.
"My brother and I have very different ideas for our 'collections'. His is keeping those girls with him forever." The boys scowled. "But I cut you all a break, and if you can beat my challenges, you'll get them back."
"What's your idea for a 'collection' then?" asked Chrono.
"This," Solez scuttled up to Chrono, and held out a red notebook and pen to him. She was blushing and she had reverted back to 'super floaty' mode. "Can I have your autograph?" she asked shakily.
"…"
"Pweaseys, with a chewwy on top?" she converted her 'super floaty' mode to 'ultra cute' mode. Chrono couldn't resist. Before he knew it, he had taken the notebook and opened to the first page, and signed it. Solez squealed with delight as she took back her notebook and danced around with it held close to her heart. "I have Chrono's autograph! And it's the very first one in my book!" she sighed.
…
"Ed, will you please sign next?" This autograph signing doom-ness continued for several minutes, until Solez had all she wanted. "There," she sighed. "My collection is complete."
"Hey," said Inu-Yasha. "What about us?" Solez had neglected to force Inu-Yasha, Lantis, and Hayate to sign.
"Oh… I don't really want YOUR signatures in here, it would… defile it."
"…"
"OOH! But I know who I DO want in here." She reached for her remote, fumbled it slightly, and hit a button. Within a second, four new boys were falling through the ceiling. This time though, Solez hit another button which made them land softly on their feet. She shuffled up to the first one, a white haired little boy. "I love you so much—can I have your autograph?"
"WHAT? You want Mannen's but not MINE?" demanded Hayate.
"Hayate, what're you doing here?" asked Mannen as he signed in the notebook.
"No time for talk, thanks and byes!" said Solez quickly before zapping Mannen back to where he came from. She then proceeded to another small boy. "Can you sign to?" she asked all floaty-like. Lantis grunted, clearly (if only slightly) jealous of Ascot. "Please and thankies!" chirped Solez as she zapped Ascot back to Cephiro. She turned for the next boy, but he had wondered off. "Harry? Where'd you go?"
"I say," said the British, cartoonified eleven year old. "Where the bloody hell am I?" Ed slowly inched over to him. "No matter, for at last, I have uncovered it—the Philosopher's Stone!"
"AH HA!" shouted Ed, leaping at the boy. "I knew it! (Ahem!) Hey kid, mind sharing that thing with me? Or even just let me see it for a minute, come on?"
"Are you daft? Do you know what I had to go through to get this?"
"Do you know how many people I'd have to kill to make a new one? … Actually, killing you is a heck of a lot less, considering the alternative."
"I say, why are you looking at me like that?"
"GIVE ME THE DAMN STONE!"
"EEP!"
"What are they doing over there?" asked Solez.
"I say, I'm going to kick your ass, bastard!"
"It's called equivalent exchange, bitch!"
"Knock it off, you two!" shouted Solez at the two fighting boys.
"I dare you to try that again, Shorty!"
"WHAT WAS THAT, FOUR EYES?"
'BZZT!' Solez zapped the boy back to his own universe. She sighed. "Maybe it was a bad idea to bring him here…"
"No… The Philosopher's Stone… So close… Almost…Had it…"
"Oh, get over it." said Solez as she kicked Ed who was lying on the ground looking extremely pathetic.
"Uh… Why am I here?" asked the last person whom Solez had stolen.
"OH NO! How on earth could I have forgotten?"(Maybe because this isn't earth?)
"…"
"Haru… Can I have your autograph?"
"…" Haru stared at Solez for a moment, looking at her from top to bottom. "She's like… a cross between Rin and… Kisa…" Haru stared at her for another moment, then, he did something so completely random, it was scary. "SO CUTE!" With that, he swept Solez up into his arms. No one was as stunned by these actions as Kyo, who almost fainted out of disbelief. Solez squealed with joy.
"Forget the autograph, you shall be my king!" Haru's only response was hugging tighter. "Now, please put me down my king." Haru did so. "Please and Thankies! Now, as for the rest of you, IT'S TIME TO FIGHT! The first battle will be," she held up her remote and pressed a new button on it. Two spotlights appeared from the ceiling and started going from boy to boy until they stopped on "VAN vs. DARK!"
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End Note: You wouldn't believe how long it took me to write that…
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Please and Thankies:)
(P.S.: The Ed/Harry fight was inspired by the 173rd VG cats comic "Wise Advice". Check it out at vgcats(dot)com (the reason I do (dot) for websites, is because FanFiction(dot)net won't show it if it has the actual period. But any way,) go to archives and find #173. Also, if you don't know how annoying Zelos looks, I urge you to do a Google image search for "Zelos"; he'll be the one with pink hair.)
(P.P.S.: For those who don't know,
Zelos is from the video game "Tales of Symphonia",
Haru is from "Fruits Basket,
Harry (that I used) is from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's (Philosopher's) Stone,
Mannen is from "Prétear",
And Ascot is from "Magic Knight Rayearth".)