~¤~Prétear~¤~

by Crimson Flame

Pokemon is not mine. Prétear is not mine. Fushigi Yuugi is not mine.

(.…bla bla….) Is thoughts

"….bla bla…." Is normal speech

{….bla bla….} Is notes/book writings/signs etc.

**This chaps a bit longer as a request! Things are heating up! Enjoy! ^__^

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"So you’re the Leafe Pokemon Master of Psychic?" Misty asked.

"Yes."

"You know, I was just kidding when I said that you thought that you were a Jedi Knight, er I mean a Leafe Master. You don’t have to say that just to impress me or anything."

"……."

"So you are a Leafe Master."

"That is what I said." Gary said smiling as if to entertain a small child.

"Ooook. Can you give me a demo.? Like an example of your powers or something." Misty asked eagerly.

"I already did."

"You did?" Misty was puzzled. She couldn’t remember seeing his powers.

"How did you think I had obtained the information to conclude that you had come from another world? Did you wonder how I knew your name before you even introduced yourself? Or did you know why you couldn’t hit me the last time you tried?"

"Er..Good questions."

"First of all, I…"

Gary started to explain about how he read her mind but Misty had started to tune him out. Instead of paying attention, she caught herself checking him out.

(He looks so much like my Ru. The same handsome face, the same gorgeous hair, the same purple eyes and the same deep voice. Yet the differences are there. He’s much more quiet and polite than Ru. He’s just so polite. It almost gets on my nerves. Even when I hit him, he didn’t hit me back or anything. He forgave me so easily. And he’s so patient in explaining everything to me. He’s a perfect gentleman if I ever met one. Ooh, I think I’m in love. And his voice, it sounded a bit sad. He looks as if he has a dark past or something. Tall, dark and mysterious kinda guy. Ooh. Stop it Misty, you’re drooling. And what about Ru? Are you giving up on Ru for a guy who looks exactly like him? Yes. Girl, you are so weird. )

"…and I blocked you using my telekinetic powers."

When Gary had finished explaining, he looked at Misty for confirmation that she had understood what he had said. Instead of that however, Misty was scowling at herself with a very slight blush tinting her cheeks. She looked lost in her own world.

"Misty?"

"Uh…Hai! What did you say again?"

Gary sighed.

"Where are you when I need you Ash?" Gary muttered softly to himself.

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(Somewhere)

"Ahchooo!!" Ash sneezed.

"Geez I must be getting a cold." A puzzled Ash said as he walked on.

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"So what do we do now?" Misty asked curiously.

"Ah yes, I had almost forgotten. We have to meet up with them soon and give them the news. When the Princess Prétear appears, it would only mean that the Queen Fenryl would act faster. We need to contact them before she makes her move."

"Um..them?"

"The other Leafe Masters."

"Oh. Can you tell me more about them?"

"Well, as I told you there are seven of us. I am the Leafe Pokemon Master of Psychic. The others are of Fire, Water, Electricity, Nature, Earth, and Wind."

Misty looked at him with an interested gleam in her eyes.

"Um..I guess we’ll meet up with Ash first. I was supposed to meet with him anyway in Cerulean. We can leave first thing tomorrow morning." Gary continued on nervously when Misty merely stared at him with a glazed over look.

"Ash?" A switch clicked on inside Misty’s head breaking her away from her dreamy fantasy. (Hmm sounds familiar.)

"He is my cousin and the Leafe Master of Electricity."

"I see." (Ash. Ash. Now where have I heard that name before? Something to do with some towel, I think. Ah who cares?)

"In the meantime, I suppose I could train you up a little. Do you know any form of combat?"

"Huh? Uh..I did take up Karate once. I was a brown belt."

"Figures from the way you punch." Gary subconsciously rubbed his chin while muttering.

"What?"

"Nothing, nothing. Anything else?"

"Oh I’m also a member of the archery club in school."

"Hmm interesting. Come on. Let’s see what you can do."

Gary led Misty to some sort of training area at the back of his house. They sparred around for a while. Gary commented on how good Misty’s style of fighting is. This made Misty flush with embarrassment at the praise even though she was secretly thrilled to have gained his approval.

Then they tried out Misty’s archery skills, which were unfortunately a bit rusty. Misty almost shot a pokemon 3 feet away from her original aim. The said pokemon shouted at her furiously before flying away. Frustrated, Misty growled angrily and muttered curses at the target.

"A few more inches and we’d have roasted Pidgey for dinner!" Gary said in a hopeful voice, teasingly.

"Gary! Mou! How could you?!" Misty replied glaring at him with an annoyed look on her face.

Instead of making him feel guilty, Gary laughed graciously at the funny face which Misty sported.

It was the first laugh in a very long time.

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Ash looked at what lay before him. The material was soft and it tingled under his fingertips ran across its length. He suppressed a groan as he remembered the nights where its warmth blanketed his cold wet skin. It had made him so comfortable and so content. His thoughts wandered to where it once kissed his naked skin and he moaned lowly and reached his hands to wrap it around his hips and…

"Uh sir?"

"GIVE ME BACK MY TOWEL DAMN IT!!" Ash shouted at the man who had just interrupted his memory of his faithful towel.

"Sir! Please calm down. I don’t have your towel but I can sell you one of mine for a very reasonable price. If you’d please let me go?"

Ash stared at the shopkeeper who was struggling in his hands.

"Uh sorry." Ash said sheepishly letting him go. Looking around, he then decided, "I’ll take the one with the dancing pikachu."

The shopkeeper nodded and wrapped up the purchased item and handed it to Ash.

Ash muttered a quick thanks and hurried off, embarrassed at his outburst.

(Oh how I’ll miss that towel…) Ash thought sadly as he walked towards the place where he had agreed to meet up with Gary.

"Pikapi!"

Ash stopped walking as he turned towards the sound of that voice. His Partner Pokemon, a pikachu named Seishi (though he usually just responds to the name Pikachu) came running up to him and jumped onto his shoulder.

Ash resumed his pace towards the Great Garden of Cerulean with an exhausted pokemon on his shoulder.

"So buddy, had a great time?"

"Pika! Pi pi pi! Pikachu!"

"Sou ka? I hope you didn’t spend too much on buying those hotdogs that you forgot to buy me that thing I told you to buy."

"Pi…ka.." It sounded suspiciously like an ‘Uh Oh’.

"Pikachu! I can’t believe you actually forgot! It’s a limited edition, one time only collectors item, Singing Bulbasaur Face Towel!!" Ash half-shouted, half-groaned.

Pikachu merely shook his head regretfully at the weird fixation his partner has with towels. ‘Sweatdropping’, he tried to change the subject.

"Pikapichu pipi ka?"

"We’re heading there now. Gary said he’d meet us at noon and it’s about 15 minutes till then. We’d still have a few minutes to spare."

"Pi…" Pikachu gave out a dreamy sigh.

"Well I’m glad you’re happy. I know you have a crush on Faith." Ash said teasingly earning him a Thundershock from his friend.

"Pikachu. I don’t even know why you bother. You know electric attacks don’t work on me…owwwww!!!"

Pikachu seemed to realize it at the same time and had bitten into his shoulder. Then he ran off, eager to meet up with the Leafe Master of Psychic because what Ash had said was totally true.

"Why you little rat! Come back here!"

Ash ran as fast as he could but he was no match for the pokemon’s Agility. He kept his eyes out for the yellow streak in front of him as he entered through the gates of the Great Garden. So focused he was on catching the little rat, he didn’t even realize until too late the figure in front of him and he crashed down to the ground on all fours, pinning the other person down beneath him.

Ash struggled to catch his breath and looked down to apologize to that person, eager to resume the chase.

However as he did, his sunset brown eyes met with familiar sea blue green. His eyes widened with surprise as hers dilated in recognition and they both shouted simultaneously at each other.

"YOU!!!!"

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Misty was blushing a deep scarlet as she looked up into the face of the pervert from the lake. And now she’s in such an embarrassing position—right under the pervert’s body. Her heart’s tempo increased as she stared at him. He merely stared back with a look of wonder in his face. Oddly, this current situation seemed comfortable, as if it was almost natural. Misty mentally cursed, disgusted at herself for even thinking such things. She almost screamed for him to get off. But before that, she punched him hard in the nose and shoved him off her. She stood up quickly and brushed away the leaves and twigs that stuck to her body.

"Y-you ke-ep away from m-me, pervert. I-I’m warning you. I-I have po-powerful friends." She managed to stammer out.

Ash merely regained his composure as he stood up rubbing his aching nose.

"Heh! Who says anything about being near you? One look at you would cause any normal person to run off screaming in the other direction." He said smugly.

Misty glared daggers at the boy in front of her. She was about to hit him again when a yellow creature the size of a small dog came running towards them. It had long ears, brown stripes, a jagged tail and red cheeks. Misty stared at it and then shouted,

"Aaaaaaaaah!!"

Ash smiled smugly and said, "Scared now aren’t you? My best bud here’s going to…"

"Kawaii!!! Mou! You’re sooo cute!!" Misty squealed happily as she scooped up the dazed pokemon into her arms and hugged it tightly.

Ash’s jaw dropped a considerable distance. This was not what he had in mind.

"Pika? Pikachu chu?" Pikachu looked dazed but was enjoying himself.

Ash sighed and answered,

"Yeah I know her. She’s the one who stole my towel."

"I didn’t steal it! You gave it to me!"

"I did not give it to you!"

"You did too!"

"I did not!"

"You did too!"

"I did not!"

"What’s going on here?" A calm voice interrupted the two battling ones.

Pikachu’s ears twitched up and with a happy "Pika!" leapt out of Misty’s arms and ran up to the owner of the voice.

"Pika? Pipi ka chu pi?" He looked up hopefully at the boy.

Gary petted his cousin’s pokemon and reached for his own pokeball to grant the pokemon’s request.

"Have fun but don’t wander off too far." He said as Faith emerged from her pokeball. Both the pokemon sped away for some time alone.

"Now where were we?" Gary looked back to the task at hand.

Both Ash and Misty were glaring at each other not saying a single word.

"You know, Misty, this is who we’re going to meet." Gary said after a long time of pondering.

Misty shouted, "What?"

Ash had a completely bewildered look on his face. "Cousin, you know this Firepup?"

"Firepup? Hmm interesting." Gary said with a twinkle in his eye. Then he continued with the introductions.

"Misty, this is my cousin. Ash Satoshi Ketchum."

"Ash, this is Misty Kasumi Waterflower. She is the Pr…"

"HELLLLP!!!! WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE THINGS??!!!"

A sudden cry for help broke away Gary’s words. Ash and Gary shared a knowing gaze and tore off towards the sound leaving behind a very stunned Misty.

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There they were. Queen Fenryl’s minions, the Deletrius. Dark, soulless pokemon who had had their Leafe absorbed. They walked around like zombies with nothing on their minds except for the Queen’s orders. Which usually consists of absorbing more Leafe for their Mistress.

Ash and Gary called upon their respective Partners who came rushing at once when they did. Pikachu and Faith went into action quickly without sparing a minute second. Ash and Gary gave out their orders and joined in the battle. Soon electrical torrents surged through the air joined by psychic waves, fainting the Deletrius one by one.

Ash blocked a flamethrower from the nearby Charmeleon. Charging up his hands, he threw the electricity out in streams towards the unfortunate creature. It fell to the ground almost instantaneously.

"River of Light!!" He shouted as he dodged another attack by a Bulbasaur. He picked up his pace and shot some balls of electricity in many directions, hitting their targets perfectly. A nearby Hitmonlee tried to bring him down the traditional way but Ash was too quick for it. Plus, he also had the advantage of a working mind. He dodged a few kicks to his left and gave it one of his own to its right.

Gary himself was doing fine on his own. The lack of thinking skills the pokemon had made it quite easy for him to defeat with his psychic powers. One by one the pokemon around him fell affected by his surging wave of power.

"Mind Games." His voice clear but dangerous. Illusions sprung forth clouding the affected pokemon’s sight. It made it all too easy for him to bring down the confused pokemon.

Pikachu and Faith were having a great exercise. Both of them are caught in the heat of battle and the only thing in their mind was victory.

As the four battled on, they began to realize that they were being pushed back further and further into the Great Garden. True they were winning battles but the Deletrius kept coming at them. There seemed to be an endless assault in numbers.

Their powers were draining and Ash knew they couldn’t hold them off forever.

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Misty had watched as Gary and Ash sped off. After being dumbstruck for a moment or two, she had decided to follow them.

And so she did. The sight that greeted her was not a pretty one. Dark looking pokemon were battling with them left and right. Those who weren’t, were absorbing the Leafe of the nearby flora and fauna. Even the crystal clear stream was not spared as Misty watched it turn black and murky.

Nevertheless, Misty could not keep her eyes away from the two boys any longer. She watched in awe at the way they battled. Then she decided that it really wasn’t like a battle at all. She merely stared in a trance like state, as she finally found the word to describe what they were doing.

They were in a dance. Each movement as graceful as the next. The way they dodged an attack after another and fired off those of their own. Each step carefully planned and accurately maneuvered. However, while Ash’s steps were lively and full of burst of energy like a thunderstorm, Gary’s attacks were calm and strikingly precise like a snake waiting to strike.

As Misty watched entranced, she began to realize that they were falling back. Ash and Gary were beginning to struggle hard. She stepped forward wanting to do something to help. That was when Ash suddenly turned to her, with an alarmed expression on his face.

"What are you doing here baka?!! Run!!" Ash shouted at her.

Misty panicked for a moment becoming very terrified and then she did run. She ran away as fast as she could till her legs wore out and she stumbled onto the soft grass.

(What am I doing? Why am I running away? I must not be scared. I have to help.) Misty thought, her legs already leading her back towards the battlegrounds.

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Ash had felt a little relieved when he saw the girl run away. (At least, she won’t be in danger.) He thought.

Then he heard her again. It shocked him enough that the Machop in front of him got a chance blow.

"What can I do to help??!!!" The girl shouted out.

Recovering from the hit, Ash looked at her like she was crazy all the while shooting of Thunderballs from his hands.

When she showed no signs of backing down, he rushed to her side determined to haul her away from the scene.

"Are you crazy??!! Do you need directions or something?!!! Ok if you really didn’t know it’s that way!! Now go!!"

"No! I wanna stay and fight. I want to help you!!"

"What??!! What can you do?? Leave now baka!!" Ash shouted exasperated. Then he heard Gary shout at him.

"Ash! Listen to her! She is the Pri---umphmph"

"What? I can’t hear you!" Ash struggled to understand what he said but Gary was too occupied to repeat it.

Meanwhile Misty was getting a bit impatient. So she grabbed Ash’s hand with hers, wanting to lead them back into the fight. What she didn’t expect was that her hand started to glow where it met Ash’s hand. She looked at it in surprise and searched Ash’s face for an answer.

Ash was looking at her with sudden realization.

"Y-you are the Prétear?"

Misty could only gasp in affirmation as a strange yellow symbol began to shine on Ash’s forehead. Then she felt a warm glow on hers too.

Ash looked down unable to look into her eyes. Misty was puzzled. Ash had an expression like he was betrayed and his next words had a tinge of silent chill in them.

"Do you really want to help?" He asked slowly and softly.

"Yes." Misty replied.

Ash nodded and then the magic began.

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(1)I’m no good with battle scenes. ^__^

(2) Um.. the towel obsession just came out of nowhere. ^__^

(3) Hai==> Yes

(4) Mou!==> Geez!

(5) Sou ka==> Is that so? / Really?

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Next Chap:: The transformation and the new powers. Misty is excited but Ash begins to act coldly around her. And Misty meets the lecherous Leafe Master of Earth for the first time (Give you two guesses as to who he is ^__^ )

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