Ah, welcome to another (late) chapter of Pretear! Thank you all for the reviews, and for being tense...hopefully.

As usual...I don't own Pretear..or any of it's characters. Only Mikino, her family, and other unfamiliar characters!

Enjoy!

Mikino looked around in panic...hoping that she wasn't hallucinating, or maybe just stuck in a daydream. Was this even for real? She softly placed her father's head down on the ground, as she began to walk around and looked at everyone who had fainted. The person who had given them the ice cream was now unconscious over the counter, while little children were on the floor beside their parents.

'A demon larva...' Mikino could sense it..and she knew it had to be the cause of this. She was wondering where Hayate and the others were...maybe they would be able to sense it too...

"Hayate!" Kei yelled as he suddenly appeared; in his knight uniform.

"Hm?" Hayate said as he looked up from his gardening work he did after all help out Himeno's father.

"Demon Larva! The problem is...we aren't able to locate it!" Kei's face turned into a frown as Hayate dropped the bag of mulch.

"Are the others on it?"

"They're still searching..." Hayate nodded as he changed into his knight uniform and began to fly over the city area, hoping he would find the demon larva..and quickly too. If he didn't...it would eventually suck all the leafe out of that area, and become stronger, making it harder for them to defeat.

"Crap..." Mikino mumbled as she saw that she was stuck in the area. Some sort of invisible shield of some sort seemed to block off the area from everywhere else...maybe even creating a force field around it. She could see the rainbow colored energy shield over the area, and everything had seemed to be in black and white.

'Why am I the only one still conscious?' she thought as she tried to find some way out of the area, but it seemed to be impossible to her.

'I have no clue how to use my Pretear powers without Hayate here...' Mikino sat down beside her father as she then noticed a dark figure materializing not too far away from her. She hid behind the table as she noticed it was no other than the Princess Of Disaster.

'Great

"Amazing...my demon larva has taken more leafe than I expected.." she observed the area as her gaze soon fell upon Mikino who was hidden behind the table. She smirked as she soon made her way over to the table she was hidden behind.

"Ah, if it isn't the forgotten Pretear..."

"Don't start that again! What do you want?" Mikino's face held a scowl as she questioned the woman standing in front of her.

"Nothing more than leafe...but it seems these people have been hurt in the process...oh well."

"Maybe this man could come in handy..." Mikino's father was lifted off the ground as Fenrir smirked.

"Leave him out of this! Put hi-"

"You care for him?"

"He's my father..." Mikino avoided her gaze as she trailed off.

"I see..." Fenrir observed her father as her smirk grew wider.

"Finally!" Goh yelled as he, Shin, Mannen, and Hajime all spotted an unusual area. After 20 minutes of searching, they had finally found the area where the demon larva was spotted! It was in a pretty public area, so they were going to expect to help out the people who may have been hurt.

They landed, as Goh blasted an opening in the area. Shin gasped at the sight, it was worse than it usually was. Mostly everyone was unconscious...and everything was in black and white. All except...one girl they saw who was on her knees, and her fist were pounding the ground.

"Look," Shin pointed to her as the other's look over there as well. When they reached closer they realized it was Mikino!

"Hey, Mikino...what happened here?" Goh asked her as he kneeled down, but she was mumbling the same words over and over.

"She took him..."

"Took who?" Hajime asked.

"...my father..."

TT, I hope her pops is ok...anyway! I hope you all enjoyed the chapter...hmm...there was a little action...well I thought it was. Please review and tell me what ya think!

Bye for now! XD