Inside Mannen's Dreams
He was running down a dark hall that had little light and he could hear something following him. He felt scared as he ran. He fell and kept falling. He screamed but no one heard him, he fell right into a pool of hot water and he couldn't move, he struggled and pulled at the water, but it didn't release him and he screamed and swallowed water and suddenly he was being thrown into a whirrl of something that sounded like nails on a chalk board or glass scraping glass and he felt his head splitting, then he was in a dark place and the cold of winter was bitting deep into his skin...
He screamed, his eyes shut tight and tears spilling over and falling and felt himself just floating there in space it seemed. He opened his eyes and was staring at black space and felt heat rushing all around him. He faught to move but all he managed was to begin a slow circle in this dark space. He felt someone's warm, gentle hand on his shoulder and a gentle shake and he stopped spinning.
Go
He shook Mannen's shoulder and gave up when Mannen shifted away. He felt like kicking the boy, like he always did, but it faded when he saw Mannen's hair flash black and his white uniform flared with evil Leafe and his bracelet vanished all for just a moment before it reappeared. He reached out and touched Mannen's Leafe jewel and felt the cold Leafe was barely holding to it. He looked at Mannen's sweating face and realized the boy was fighting his nightmare so he could wake up.
Making sure no one was looking, Go leaned down and gently kissed Mannen's forehead. He felt it then, pain searing through Mannen's body and his hair flared black and his cloths became black as night and his braclet shattered into several pieces. The boy's eyes flared open and he glared into Go's face.
"Get away from me, you b-st-rd!" He shoved Go back and took off, tears rolling down his cheeks. "If no one will believe me, no one will remember me! I'll get rid of all of you! I swear!" Mannen yelled at Go. He was just out of Go's reach. "I don't care what the f-ck you guys think of me! I hate all of you! This world won't listen to the truth, so I'll make it listen to the truth!" Snow began to fall as Mannen vanished.
Go stood there, eyes wide, and he realized something very important. He turned around and picked up Mannen's braclet and held it in his hands as tears flooded his sight. He didn't mean it... was that ok? To not really mean something you said? Was it ok for him to not take Mannen seriously? He stood up and turned around to leave and saw that only that spot where Mannen was was the only place that snow wasn't falling, like that was the only place Mannen didn't want to wither away...
Sasame & Hayate, one hour later
Hayate stared off into the distance as Sasame tried to locate Mannen. Had Go seen things? Or was this real?
There was an explosion that sent Sasame and Hayate up into the air. Hajime broke through the concrete, ice forcing him to the surface. Mannen appeared, an evil smirk on his face. He thrust the huge chunk of ice at Shin, who tried to get Hajime down. Mannen seemed to have aged some and he was nearly sixteen. His hair was stark black, just as Go had said, and his cloths were those that the Princess of Disaster Takako had worn before she'd been frozen in the Lime stone cave, and his entier right arm was covered by a black gauntlet made of black ice.
"Hayate! Sasame! How perfect!" He thrust his hand forward and it rained spears of black ice on the duo. "I can take out four of you at once! This is as perfect as it can get!" He threw his head back and laughed. "This is to much fun! C'mon! At least give me a struggle, you b-st-rds! Gimme a good fight! This is so much fun!"
Sasame sent a shock of sound through the air and was shocked when it was cut easily before it even reached Mannen. Hajime and Shin sent a wave of water and sharp thorned roses at him and it parted when he glared at it. It was like the power of the Prétear pounded out into a Leafe Knight. He sent a huge iceberg at the two little ones and laughed as they screamed. Sasame was shocked.
"Mannen!" It was Hayate, he had used the wind to get close to the boy. "Stop this! What's wrong with you!"
"This world won't listen to the truth, so I'll make them listen," he said in a threatening tone. His eyes were sad but his face was outraged. "You wouldn't listen to the truth, so I lied to you to make you believe me. Ever since those two things took over, I've had to lie. Ever since Hajime and Shin took you all away from me, I've had to lie to all of you! Every single one of you! Even you, Prétear! This time, no one will take this away from me! Not a lie! Not those things! Not you!"
