Disclaimer: Prétear is not mine.

Extinguished Fire And The Voice

Himeno rushed to the Shinyamate station to meet her best friend, Takato Yayoi.

"Hey, Yayoi." She greeted a girl with glasses and hair that was about medium length.

"Himeno! Why is there red snow? I thought all of this ended." Yayoi said.

"I thought so, too..."

They both had a worried look on their faces.

"Himeno!" A voice said. They turned around. Hayate stared at them.

"Er..." Himeno began.

"Don't even remember; do you, tulip-head? I guess you are a valley girl after all. OUCH!"

Himeno punched him.

"I'm no valley girl! I just didn't recognize you at first because of your hair."

"Are you ready to fight again, Himeno?" Another familiar voice asked. It was the Knight of Sound, coming from behind Hayate.

"Sasame! It's so good to see you again!"

"Sorry about your radio program..." Yayoi said.

"That's ok; we've got bigger things to worry about."

A couple of seeds came out of a crack in the ground. Hayate and Sasame pulled the two girls away.

"Himeno! Guys!" Goh ran up to them.

"Goh, where's everyone else?" Sasame asked him.

"Mannen's being a brat, Kei's stuck at work, Hajime's got...problems...and Shin...well he..." The Knight of Fire trailed off.

"What is it?" Yayoi asked curiously.

"He hasn't been seen by any of us in two years." Hayate answered since Goh seemed unable to say it.

"We've gotta go look-" Himeno began.

"Now's not the best time, run!" They fled form the seeds, which destroyed everything it touched.

'I remember this feeling...the seed's evil...it's more powerful than when I was younger.' Himeno thought.

The group stopped. The seeds were floating three feet away from them.

"Enough running. Ready to become the Prétear again, Himeno?"

She nodded. Goh stretched out his hand and Himeno grabbed it. She transformed. Himeno was wearing a new outfit; the Fire Prétear dress.

"Let's burn those seeds!"

"Alright. Wha-?" Himeno's body was surrounded by flames and she couldn't see anything else.

"What's happening?" Yayoi asked.

"Lately, Goh hasn't been able to control his powers so that means Himeno can't either." Sasame explained.

"Oh no!" Himeno's best friend could only stand by and watch.

Hayate blew the seeds further away from Himeno.

"A voice..." Sasame suddenly said.

"What?" Hayate lowered his hand that had sent out the wind and turned to the Knight of Sound.

"I hear a voice talking to the seeds..." He replied.

"Ahh!" Himeno plummeted down and Goh was a foot apart from her.

Yayoi went up to them. The seeds had disappeared.

"Are you guys ok?"

"Yeah, just a little shocked is all." Himeno gave her a small smile.

"Damn! If only I could still control my power..." Goh said, punching the ground.

"It's not your fault." Himeno replied. The Knight of Fire smiled at those words of comfort; Himeno was still able to say the right things when she wanted to.

The Knight of Sound's eyes started to widen and a soft gasp escaped him.

"Sasame..." Hayate said.

"The voice...it told the seeds to go after Mannen."

"What?" They all turned to him and asked.

"We've gotta get to the high school and help him and prevent the other students from getting hurt!" Goh shouted and started to run.

"Goh, wait!" The Prétear cried out. He stopped in his tracks, and then spun around.

"This could be a trap." Hayate warned. Himeno was thinking along the same lines; that was why she had told Goh to wait.

"I wonder what the voice and seeds want with Mannen?"

TBC...