Hey guys! I was able to post before my band trip! Yay! I'm sorry this took a while. I had this done for a couple of days and I was working on the next chapter (which is almost done) because I had it already planned out in my head, but I never finished it. Hehehe. Anyways, sorry! School got in the way…evil school.
Guess what? I found a new theme song for me! It's a song called Harvey the Hamster and it's by Weird Al, so I don't own it! You can either search for the lyrics or you can probably find it on the internet or on iTunes, where I found it because I spent 2 hours being bored. Lol.
Oh, Harvey, Harvey
Harvey the Wonder Hamster
He doesn't bite and he doesn't squeal
He just runs around on his hamster wheel
Harvey, Harvey
Harvey the Wonder Hamster
Hey, Harvey!
Please no one take it! It's my theme song!
Last time on The American Pretears:
"W-who's there?" Sakana asked.
"It's about time your girls showed up." The voice answered.
"Kaguya," Hayate growled.
"Kaguya?" The Pretears asked in unison.
"The Princess of Disaster," Goh explained.
Chapter 13
"What!" The Pretears gasped.
"How clever you are, Leafe Knights," the voice called out. A violet miasma began collecting around the demon larva with their parents, soon solidifying into a human form.
"What did you do to our parents?" Sakana shouted.
"Oh, all I did was suck a little of their Leafe," Kaguya said simply and smiled. "You'd best be grateful that I didn't take any more, or you wouldn't be a family anymore."
"W-what?" Akane's voice shook. Her legs felt like jelly and she wasn't sure how much longer she could hold herself up.
"Now, if you want to keep them alive, why don't you give me some of your Leafe?" Kaguya pointed and a large tentacle shot from the demon larva towards the girls. Too shocked to move, both girls remained paralyzed where they were.
"Sakana! Akane!" The Knights shouted.
We're not going to make it in time! Hayate thought as he transformed into his Knight outfit and rushed to help them. Just as the appendage was about to grab them, a blizzard of icicles froze it in its tracks.
"Mannen!" Akane sighed in relief.
"Hajime, Shin, Sasame!" Sakana added. The remaining Leafe Knights arrived just in time to save their butts.
"We can't leave you guys alone for a few minutes, can we?" Mannen smirked. Akane would have spat her own remark back, but was too grateful to even care at the moment.
"Thanks, Mannen," she smiled.
Kaguya growled. "You meddling kids, you will not stand in my way!"
"Sakana, come on!" Goh shouted and held out his hand. Sakana quickly took it and both disappeared in a flash of red light. Moments later, Sakana stood in her spot as the Fire Pretear.
"Hayate!" Akane called out to the closest Knight. Hayate nodded and they hooked hands. Disappearing in a flash of blue light, Akane closed her eyes as she felt the Wind Leafe and Hayate's spirit fuse with her own. The light dispersed, and now both Pretears were ready for battle.
"Shin, hurry!" Kei urged.
The small Knight nodded and cupped his hands around the amber amulet on his neck. "Beyondios!"
Snake-like vines erupted from the core, attempting to form the battlefield dimension between the worlds. Shots of dark violet electricity danced across the green tentacles. They squirmed and retreated back from whence they came.
"What?" Shin gasped. His spell hadn't worked!
"What happened?" Akane asked.
Kaguya cackled.
"What did you do, Kaguya?" Kei demanded.
"I had to keep you busy while I honed my abilities enough to counteract your little Pretear," Kaguya said, still hidden. "But I see there is more than one Pretear. How…bothersome."
"Why don't you come out and face us, you coward!" Sakana taunted.
"There is no need for me to; you see, even my new breed of demon larva can put an end to you," the voice said.
Hayate growled. Hurry up and attack.
"What?" Akane asked, baffled.
Just hurry up! He ordered. Akane glared at him.
So all of a sudden you are going to leave your senses behind and doing something Sakana would do?
Silence answered her, and Akane smiled.
"Wind Sword" Akane shouted and formed her sword of Leafe.
"Fire Axe!" Sakana followed, her fiery ax held tightly in her hands.
The girls glanced at each other, nodded, and charged together towards the demon larva. Akane swung her sword at an oncoming tentacle. The sliced appendage was cut in two and fell to the ground.
"Is that really all you've got?" Akane mocked.
Angered, the demon larva wriggled its damaged tentacle around. It split in two along the jagged edges, and then healing slightly. The newly formed parts twisted towards her, wrapping around her waist. Akane gasped and struggled to free herself, but the demon's grip was too strong.
Ahh! Hayate's cry boomed in her mind.
Hayate? Akane called. It was then she noticed the nearly transparent, light blue barrier surrounding her body. Hayate, let it go! I can take this ugly thing! Still, the stubborn Knight of Wind did not budge.
"Akane!" Sakana cried. She rushed over, fireball in hand. She tossed it at the demon's tentacle. The demon larva screeched and withdrew its grip.
"Thanks, Sakana," Akane said. Hayate, you ok?
Yeah, I'm fine. Hurry up and defeat that thing! We have to find Kaguya, Hayate ordered.
"I can't find a core!" Sakana exclaimed.
"What?" Akane took to the sky for a better look. She scanned the demon's body for any trace of a heart. Finding none, she returned to the ground.
"How do we fight something that doesn't have a heart?" Sakana asked.
"Just as your Pretear has evolved, my minions have also evolved over the course of time," Kaguya explained.
"What do we do now? Shin can't create his barrier, and it doesn't have a core!" Mannen said.
"I don't know, but we have to do something quick, or this city will be destroyed," Sasame warned.
"It has to have some sort of heart," Akane said.
"But you said yourselves that it doesn't have a core," Hajime said.
"Yeah, but every living thing has something that keeps it alive. Maybe this demon larva's heart is just hidden somewhere else."
You may be right, Hayate agreed.
"So why don't we split up?" Sakana suggested. "Some of us go after Kaguya, the rest stay here and take care of this…thing."
"It goes against my standards, but it's the best plan we've got," Kei said.
"Ok, Me, Akane, and Sasame will go after Kaguya," Sakana said matter-of-factly.
"No, one of you needs to stay here. A demon larva can only be defeated by a Pretear," Sasame said.
"I'll go, then," Akane volunteered.
"What? But I wanna go!" Sakana whined.
"Hey, you can probably defeat that thing with the luck you have; so when you do, come and meet us, ok?" Akane said.
Sakana pouted, but nodded. "But Sasame gets to stay here!"
"Fine. Mannen, Kei, come on!" Akane took to the sky and flew over the towering and collapsing buildings.
"Where exactly is Kaguya, anyway?" Mannen asked.
Akane stopped in her tracks. "Hehehe, I haven't got a single clue."
Oh, that's smart, Hayate grumbled in the back of her mind. Couldn't argue with him there.
Akane tried searching the air for any sign of depleting Leafe. Besides the battle not too far away, there were no other signs of evil anywhere. Her stomach churned, anxious. If she didn't do something quick, Sakana and the others might be fighting endlessly.
"Does anyone have any idea where she'd be?" Akane asked aloud.
"If you don't know, how should we know?" Mannen asked.
Again another punch to the esteem.
"We can't just stay here. We're sitting ducks for Kaguya," Kei warned.
Akane couldn't think. Her brain was trying to do too many things at once, she couldn't calm down and concentrate. She debated to herself whether to go back to Sakana and the other Knights; but then if she did that, she might be leaving the chance to catch Kaguya, and it would be her fault for second-guessing her own ideas.
A sudden nausea gripped her stomach and she doubled over in mid-air.
"Akane?" Kei and Mannen said.
It was a different feeling of doom that overcame her then. It was similar to what she felt when she sensed a demon larva, but at the same time, it wasn't. It felt more evil, yet more heavenly. It was strange and difficult to decipher, Akane didn't know what to do.
"Do any of you feel that?" Akane asked.
"Feel what?" Kei asked.
What is it? Hayate asked.
The strange feeling grew, and Akane had the sudden urge to go to the nearby planetary museum.
"I think there's something in the museum," Akane said and took off towards the building. She ignored the cries to wait from the other two Knights. Instead, all her attention was focused on going to the museum.
Where are you going? Hayate asked, but received no response. Akane?
Akane's eyes squinted in concentration. Spotting the familiar satellite globe at the top of the building, she glided down, ignoring the stares from passerby.
Idiot, a huge crowd just saw you land! Hayate scolded. Once again, Akane ignored him, and Hayate was growing thoroughly annoyed. Where the hell are you going?
Akane pushed through the large crowd of people and into the museum doors. Through the chatter of voices Akane's ears rung with a peculiar melody.
"Akane!" Mannen cried out, waving a gloved hand in front of her face. She had dazed out, hypnotized by the beautiful sounds she heard. She shook her head to try and focus herself, albeit reluctantly, and blinked.
"You were spacing out," Kei explained.
"I heard some sort of melody in my head," Akane said. Kei's expression turned to one of surprise and fear as he listened to the Pretear.
"A melody?" Mannen asked innocently.
"Hurry, you have to follow whatever led you here, and don't listen to that tune you heard," Kei warned.
Before Akane could ask why, the strange feeling returned, this time more prevailing than the last. She suddenly had the urge to visit the mythological artifacts room. Akane guessed that some force was putting these ideas in her head, but she had no other choice than to follow it, which she did.
The room she ended up in was dimmed. The items in the room glowed with a heavenly light. Whether they were glowing on their own or from spotlights, Akane couldn't tell, but she guessed it was the latter.
The Wind Pretear gazed around the room, examining with great interest at the many displays lining the walls. She was particularly interested in looking into a silky, pale pink fabric. Tiny glittering specks shot rainbows over the walls. They shone so bright in the dimly lit room, Akane wondered if the item really was magical. (A/N: Anyone guess what it is and where I got it from?)
Quit wasting time! The Princess of Disaster must want something in here, Hayate said.
Ok, ok. Just keep your pants on, Akane retorted. She returned to scanning the walls. Her sight stopped abruptly at a long sword in a glass case. It was glowing with a pale gold radiance, yet the hilt and scabbard were a mixture of midnight blues, silver, and black. The light around it shimmered in waves. Akane slowly approached it, drawn by its beauty.
"Akane?" Kei said. He followed her gaze to the sword and gasped. "Hayate, do you see what that is!"
Hayate's eyes widened in terror. Akane, don't touch it!
Her hand paused, hovering centimeters above the sword's hilt. The strange aura surrounding the blade sparked around her hand, calling it. Akane shook her head to rid herself of the trance-like feeling and backed away slightly.
"Well, well, it seems you have found it, the Celestial Blade," a voice cackled from the shadows. Akane froze. One by one, the tourists sank to the floor, collapsing as their Leafe was sucked almost dry.
A/N: Isn't that a great cliffy? LOL. Anyways, I hope the next chapter will be done before next Thursday before I go to Atlanta. So just bare with me, k?
/ponders to self/…I know I had something to say…I just forgot (again) what it was…
Anyways, please review! And tell me if you can guess where I made some references to other anime. (Natalie, E, and Sakimi, don't answer…I know you guys know, if you noticed)