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CHRONICLES OF A MOON PRINCESS

CHAPTER TWO: IT BEGINS

The day after talking to Hayate, everything seemed normal…

"AAUUGH!" Himeno cried as she spit out her breakfast. "WHAT THE HECK IS IN THIS CRUD!"

"Himeno, you shouldn't disrupt the entire city by screaming like that. And you shouldn't spit out your breakfast, for that matter," her stepmother Natsue said sternly. She and Himeno were on better terms now and wasn't on Himeno's case as much, but she still lectured her sometimes on how to become "a proper lady."

Her father, on the other hand, was concerned for his disgusted daughter. "Himeno," he said worriedly. "What's wrong?"

"I'm sorry, Mother. And as for your question, Dad, THIS is what's wrong! Just taste it!" Himeno thrust her plate across the table to him, and when he took a bite, he promptly spit it out.

"You're right! This is awful!" Kaoru cried as Natsue comforted him. "Who would do this to your meal?"

Himeno, who was filled with pure anger, glared at Mayune, who was trying to make a break for it. "You!" she said menacingly quietly.

Mayune started sweating bullets. "Oh my," she muttered. She wanted to get on Himeno's nerves, but she never imagined she'd get this angry.

"When you mess with my food, there's no way I'll show mercy," Himeno threatened.

"Himeno," Mawata said as she tried to comfort her fuming stepsister. "You know that Mayune was just trying to get you like this. She wanted to get you to go after her, and you don't want to give her the satisfaction of getting mad or getting even, do you?"

This changed Himeno's mind. She flashed a happy smile at Mawata. "You're right! Thanks, Mawata!" Everyone sweat dropped, happy that she didn't kill Mayune.

This was actually a pretty rare case nowadays. Normally, Mayune, Mawata, and Himeno got along great together. Mayune still did pranks, put it was just because she liked doing them. Plus, it was sort of a habit.

Himeno said good-bye and went outside. "Wow! What a beautiful day!" Himeno smiled widely as she stared at the blue sky above her, dotted with soft, white clouds and birds. She started having a weird feeling. Not like sensing demon larvae, or the feeling she's been having, but something else. She walked through the mansion's grounds to the place where the feeling was strongest.

She spun around she heard laughter. A woman with long, black hair stood behind her. Her outfit was made of a dress with black and red and black boots. "Ahaha! This will be fun!" The woman said.

"Who are you?" Himeno managed to cry out.

"I'm Tolani, sent to carry out my master's orders! You seem to have a remarkable amount of power inside you. That might get in the way with Master's plans!" Tolani reached to the sky. "Yamou! Go out and destroy!"

Suddenly, another woman appeared from the black light that came out of Tolani's hand onto the ground. She appeared to be half-bird. "Yamou!" she cried. Tolani disappeared, leaving Himeno alone with Yamou.

"Heh, nice bird lady," Himeno said shakily.

"Time to kill the worm! YAMOU!" Yamou began swooping down onto Himeno.

"HWAA! Leafe Knights, I could really use your help right now!" Himeno cried as she jumped out of Yamou's path. Yamou swooped down to attack her, and Himeno closed her eyes, unable to get away.

"Huh?" she asked herself when the attack never came. She slowly opened her eyes to see the seven Leafe Knights fighting Yamou. They were already in the containment field.

"You called?" Goh said in between attacking.

"Himeno, let's prêt!" Hayate said. The two preated into the wind Pretear.

Himeno summoned the Wind Sword.

"Yamou Flight!" Yamou's attack struck Himeno, but Hayate took it for her.

"Yaugh!" Hayate cried.

"Are you ok?" Himeno asked.

"Be careful, she's not a Demon Larvae. She's really strong."

"Ok! Let's teach this freak a lesson!" Himeno stuck Yamou, but Yamou was merely struck down for a moment.

"What the!" Mannen said, surprised.

"Himeno doesn't have enough power to destroy her!" Kei called to everyone, while sending a burst of light at Yamou.

"Himeno, can you transform into the White Pretear again?" Shin asked tentatively.

The girl frowned. "I wish I could, but I think that's an on and off thing," she answered sadly.

"HIMENO, LOOK OUT!" Sasame's voice shouted through the fighting zone, causing Himeno to turn her gaze away from Shin to Yamou. Yamou was charging straight at her.

Yamou was about a centimeter away from her when she cried, not wanting Hayate to take another blow from this monster, "NOOOOOOOOO!" A bright light burst forth from Himeno's forehead, and a pink light somehow managed to slip into the containment field and strike Yamou.

"MASTER WILL NOT BE PLEASED!" Yamou cried as she was destroyed.

The containment field disappeared, and Himeno unpreted with Hayate. She blinked a couple times. "So, um, any ideas on what happened?"

The group just stared at her.

"I'm guessing that's a no," she sighed and sat down.

The Knights still stared at her.

It was beginning to tick Himeno off. "Look, my question wasn't THAT weird!"

"Himeno," Hajime started, still staring at her. "There's something on your head. It wasn't there before you preted with Hayate…"

"Huh?" Himeno asked, feeling her forehead. "I don't feel anything weird."

The Leafe Knights brought Himeno to their meeting place and told her to look in the water. Confused, Himeno did so, only to jump back in surprise.

"W-What the heck!" She saw on her reflection a golden moon crescent on her forehead. She looked again, and this time she was in a gorgeous white dress with barrettes in her hair. She looked at herself, and she wasn't wearing the dress. Eventually, the reflection showed her normal self.

"What's going on with me?" she whispered.

"I think it's safe to say that there's something we don't know about Himeno. By the way, Himeno, what happened before we got here?" Kei asked.

Himeno explained, and when she was finished, Goh made an effort to cheer up the gloomy group with some ice cream at the restaurant he worked at. This cheered up the kids and Himeno, but the others stayed behind. When they left, Sasame looked at Kei. "What's happening to Himeno?"

Kei sighed. "There are some things that even I can't understand," he answered.

Hayate looked at where the others were last seen. 'Himeno…' he thought.

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