"Hello?"
Hikaru called out as she stood in a small closed room. It had no windows, no doors, and just 4 walls surrounding her.
"Is anyone here?"
Of course no one's here, she thought, I'm in a room with no form of communication. What am I going to do?
"Someone please help! UMI! FUU!"
The isolation was scaring her. She's never been so alone before, and everything was so silent that the echo of her breathing could be heard. She placed her hands over her chest as she frantically looked around the enclosed room. She clenched her hands together, and her eyes soon came focused to a shadow in a corner
"H-hello? Umi? Fuu?"
"My---. Leave---and become one---not Lantis."
Hikaru gasped as she heard the shadow speak out Lantis' name. But what was he saying. She couldn't make out the words clearly, and because she couldn't see his mouth, she couldn't what it was either.
"Who are you? How do you know Lantis?"
The shadow didn't respond. It merely reached out its hand out toward Hikaru.
"Join---and---it all."
Hikaru didn't know what to do. She didn't even know what was going on. She looked down and stared at the black hand. It looked as if it had no fingers at all unless it was viewed from another angle. She looked up to where there was supposed to be a face, but it was just a blank head. It almost looked like it could suck you in. She reached out for the hand.
"Please."
Gasp
Hikaru jumped up from her bed, sweating. She was soaked, and her heart was beating fast. She never felt so scared in her life. Not since the last battle in Cephiro.
"…Cephiro…"
The thought of it brought back memories. Memories of the battle against Debonair, Nova, her becoming the Pillar of Cephiro, the twin princesses Tarta and Tatra, Aska, Eagle…and Lantis. Lantis, Zagato's younger brother, the Cail of Cephiro, and the one Hikaru had fallen in love with. She looked down at her hands and sighed.
"Lantis." She said under her breath.
I miss him so much. I wish…I wish I could see him again.
She got out of bed and walked to her desk in the room. She opened the top drawer and took out a box. The box was small and ordinary, but what it held inside was of great importance. She opened it and took out a large, mirror pendant. It was the gift that Lantis had given her. She remembered how it protected her against the enemy many times. She wiped off some dust that was stuck inside the chains.
A tear dropped from her cheek and fell onto the mirror. She clenched the pendant and couldn't hold back the tears any longer. She held the pendant toward her heart and fell to her knees.
Everything started rushing back. Every single detail, but she knew that even though it made her sad, she could never forget. She didn't want to forget.
It had been 2 years since then, and the 2 years without Lantis saddened her. She was now 17 and getting ready for a new year in high school. She put on the pendant and then dressed into her uniform. She at her mirror and smiled.
"I can't be sad. I'll see Lantis again. In fact, I know I will!"
Hikaru then looked at herself in the mirror again and starred for a while.
"Hmmm," she thought, "maybe I should wear my hair down today and not in braids."
She tilted her head and thought. But with a smile she shook her head in disagreement.
"Nah. I like my hair the way it is. It's just fine, and besides…this is who I am."
Hikaru then went running out of the house and ran all the way to her school, excited. She had completely forgotten about her dream when she got to school. She never gave it a second thought.
I wonder where Umi and Fuu are? Hikaru thought as she walked to the bulletin board to find out her new class for the year. When she got there her head instantly trailed up & down and side to side searching for her name. About 3 minutes later she found it.
"Aha! Here I am! Let's see…class C, year 2. I wonder if Fuu and Umi are with me too. I can't wait to find out! Okay! Let's see if…"
Hikaru was cut off from the bell declaring that school was about to start.
"Oh! I better hurry. I'll find out if they're in my class then."
Hikaru left and smiled. She was too excited to worry about anything. Down the hallway she ran to her class without a care in the world.
Back at the bulletin board a black figure began to immerge from the ground. A pair of blank eyes had then appeared out of nowhere. You could see right through and see what was on the other side. It had no actual eyeballs, but it gazed down the hallway that Hikaru had ran down just a few seconds ago.
It whispered, "…Hikaru…"
Preview:
Hikaru is starting a new year in high school and a mysterious dream is haunting her during the night and during the day. Who is this shadowy figure, and how does he or if know Lantis? And will Hikaru have the same class as Umi and Fuu?
