-1"Mmmmm!" Hemino sighed. She just made soup with Japanese ingredients. It smelled wonderful. And tasted good too.

There was just one thing, as Hemino slurped the soup, she couldn't get over the feeling that she was being watched. It had happened all the time when she was fighting Takako. Of course it was probably because Takako was in one of her human forms and always around her.

She turned toward the window where she heard a lot of laughing and giggling. She saw Andrea, who hadn't been able to get over her glee, and had been unable to control her laughter.

"Andrea!" she screamed "What are you doing spying on me?"

Andrea had a stricken look on her face. "Stay away from me witch!"

"Huh? Witch? What are you talking about you sneak!"

"So you admit to it? I saw you pull out weird stuff from your cabinet. You are a witch! You are! That's what 'preater' means, doesn't it? It means witch!"

"Ugh! AND-RE-AAAAA! The things you saw me pull out were Japanese ingredients for a Japanese soup! They weren't things to mix potions in! Now GET OUT OF MY YARD!"

Andrea slunk away. She was still firm in her belief that Hemino was a witch and the Japanese soup thing was only a cover up. Andrea only pretended to go away. After Hemino left the window, she went back. She saw one of the guys from the house across the street go to Hemino's house.

Hemino answered. She spoke in English this time. "Hey Hayate. What's up?" She asked this worriedly because Hayate was huffing as if he'd sprinted to her house.

"Hemino! There is a demon larva in the park. We have to go!"

Hemino threw down her soup and went with Hayate. Andrea knew where they were heading. There was only one park in town.

Andrea followed Hemino and the guy-Hayate? She thought. That's what it sounded like Hemino had said.

When she got to the park, she saw Hemino, Hayate, three other guys, and three kids. They were all wearing weird clothing. Andrea overheard Hemino say something about "preting with Shin since he was of age" Andrea had her video camera with her and videotaped the whole thing. She saw Hemino grab the littlest boys hand. Then for a few seconds there was a bright light. When that passed, Hemino wasn't in a goofy looking skirt and top. She was in a dress made of leaves.

"Hemino! Do you see the core yet?" asked the blonde guy in a yellow, brown and white outfit.

"No! I can't find it anywhere! I can't even sense it!"

"Oh damn. This is not good!"

"Wait! I sense it now! It's right in the middle of the body, not in the center on the outside, but in the center on the inside. That is so gross!"

Hemino closed her eyes as if in concentration. "Earth vine! Now to strike the core. Vine whip!" Hemino struck dead center in the core. "Phew. Thank goodness."

Shin and Hemino unpreted. Just then is when she caught a glint of sunlight from something. Looking closer, she realized that it was Andrea with a video camera. "Oh no." She whispered.

Andrea knew she had been seen. She walked up to Hemino. "So, I finally got to see the pretear in action. And I got it all on tape." she said "Now the whole school will see who you really are."

"Andrea," Hemino said "I really need that tape." she said firmly.

"Are you kidding? Once the school sees this, they will all want to become pretears. I'm a genius! If we all become pretears, then we all have equal power."

"Andrea, you can't automatically become a pretear. I -and so were all of the other pretears before me- born with that destiny. At first I didn't want it because I was scared, but after the first battle, I was glad to be a part of something. At first, I had no friends, my family completely ignored me and I was unhappy."

"Yeah, right. You're just saying that so I will hand over the tape."

At this point Hemino was getting pretty angry. "Andrea, listen to me. You have no idea what's it's like to be fighting the way I do. One time I lost my power. Another time I lost a friend. And in the final battle, I almost lost my life! I also almost lost my family!"

This is when the knights stepped in. "It's true." said Hayate. "At one point she couldn't pret, yet she only got her powers back because she really wanted to protect us. Then Sesame here quit being a knight because he loved the person we were fighting. In the final battle, she fainted and we all thought she had died. Also in the beginning of the final battle, her step-sister was being held prisoner."

Andrea just put her hand up to her mouth and faked a yawn. She wasn't buying it. Suddenly, the red snow started falling again.

"Oh man! Not again!" Hemino said. She said it as if she was scared, but Andrea was tired of their excuses. "No matter what you say, on Monday, this little baby goes on the announcements." she said holding up the tape. She began to walk away. Hemino had given up.

Mannen jumped out of the bushes and grabbed the tape out of Andrea's hand. "Got it Hemino. Just like Gou told me!"

"Good job, punk." said a redhead. Mannen gave the tape to Gou so he could burn it. Gou set it on the ground and set it on fire. The plastic melted leaving an awful smell.

"Better luck next time Andrea!" Hemino said mockingly. She gave all of the knights a high five.