I hope you like it! But it's not that I'd kill you if you don't. And I don't think this is too hysterical, it's just slight humor.

Thud. A huge monster dropped down.

Slash! Hikaru's sword went through it.

Umi wiped her forhead. "For projections of people's fear, those monsters are awfully real!" she exclaimed.

"And they seem solid enough when they're coming at you!" Hikaru panted.

"Puu puu," said Mokona.

"Mokona says it's just ahead!" Hikaru pointed straight ahead.

All three girls dashed into somewhere. It seemed more like some open field than a fountain of Eterna.

Umi sweatdropped. "Hold on," she stated, folding her arms across her chest. "I don't see no spring." She paused for a moment. "MOKONA!"

Now Hikaru was the one who sweatdropped. "Without Mokona," she said, hugging Mokona, obivously, "Clef wouldn't have taught you magic."

"Grrrr...Listen, I know this thing helped us with the witch lady..." Umi glared at Mokona, then abruptly hollered, making Hikaru and Fuu jump, "BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT! IF WE WANT WEAPONS TO SAVE CEPHIRO, WE HAVE TO GO TO THE FOUNTAIN OF ETERNA! NOT TO SOME OPEN FIELD!" This was when Hikaru and Fuu realized that they were staring at endless fields of grass.

"IT'S NOT FOR US TO BE TAKING A STROLL IN A PARK!" Umi was screeching; she was steaming mad at Mokona.

"Still," said Fuu, patting on a clump of grass, "it'd be the perfect place for a picnic."

Umi wasn't listening to her, or anyone else. "Look around, schmoo," she yelled at Mokona, "there's no spring here!"

"Puu puu," said Mokona.

"Huh?" Hikaru suddenly said.

"What's up with you, Hikaru?" Fuu asked, smiling.

Hikaru pointed at a line in the midair. "What's that line?"

"Line?" said Umi, turning around. Fuu showed her the line.

"...It's a line."

Umi touched the line. It felt like any other line...in the midair. "What exactly is this?"

"I have no idea. There's just a line here." Fuu frowned.

Boing. "Puu puu," said Mokona. He hopped away.

"Wait!" cried Hikaru. "Mokona!"

Umi and Fuu discussed about this "line."

"So how could a line just be hanging there?" Umi asked.

"Well...," Fuu replied, thinking hard, "Cephiro is kind of bizarre, you know?"

"Bizarre schmizarre!" Umi threw her arms in the air, frustrated. "Who cares? Where's the fountain of Eterna?"

"AAAHHHH!" Hikaru suddenly yelled from a top of this pointy rock. "Umi! Fuu! Check this out!"

"What's wrong, Hikaru?" Umi and Fuu climbed the rock.

"!"

"Whoaaaa, a spring!" Umi exclaimed. "I-is this the fountain of Eterna? How...? It wasn't there a second ago!"

"Was too!" Hikaru leapt to the floor and pointed at the "line." "Was too! It was that 'line.'"

"Huh?" said Umi.

"If you look from the side," Hikaru explained, "it's just a line in the air. It's a two-dimensional spring..."

"Oh, my..." gasped Fuu.

"But...that doesn't explain where the escudo is. All I see is water. I don't see anything resembling a mineral," Umi declared.

"Puu puu!" Mokona hopped away from the "young women from another world. Then he hopped into Hikaru's arms.

"Maybe it's inside the line..." Hikaru said, grinning.

"WHAAATT?" shrieked Umi. Her voice then dropped to a mutter, and she seemed as though she was about to faint and she looked like she was having a headache. "Ohhhh...it's all too much..." She wobbled away from her friends.

"See?" Fuu said to Hikaru, who was sweatdropping again. "Cephiro's a bizarre place. I told her."

Umi abruptly whipped around. "IT'S MORE THAN BIZARRE!" she hollered in Fuu's face. "WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BRING BACK THE LEGENDARY MINERAL ESCUDO FROM THE WEIRDO FOUNTAIN OF ETERNA! MORE SPECIFICALLY, FROM THIS LINE!" Umi clenched her fist.

"When did the legendary fountain become the weirdo fountain?" Fuu asked, making sure she didn't go deaf.

"Weirdo became the operative word," Umi screamed, waving her arms in the air so fast they were just a blur, "the moment the fountain became a flat line!"

"Now, Umi," Fuu said, trying calm her hotheaded friend down, "that's hardly any way to respect a fountain that has earned a place in the legends if Cephiro, I mean..."

"Hey!" Hikaru interrupted.

"What now, Hikaru?" asked Umi.

"Oh, my...!" exclaimed Fuu.

"MOKONA?" Hikaru yelled.

Boing, Mokona jumped into the fountain and disappeared.

"Mokona?" Umi shouted. "...It's gone." Her voice lowered, and she pointed to the "flat line."

"Mokona!" Hikaru was panicked.

"Well," Fuu said, "I guess that proves that the fountain is in the line."

"But how deep does it go?" Umi questioned. "And how will we breathe underwater?"

"Well...we won't know until we dive in..." Fuu was the one who grinned now.

"Then I'm going in," Hikaru said.

"H-Hikaru?" Umi said.

"Mokona is leading us," sighed Hikaru with a serious expression on her face. "He knows the legendary mineral escudo is down there. I've sworn to become a Magic Knight. I can't do that without the escudo."

"You're right." Umi smiled.

"Let's go!" exclaimed Fuu. "We're not doing anyone any good standing around."

"I don't know what's going to happen...but if we're all together, we can handle it!" Hikaru announced bravely.

"Let's do this, then!" Umi acknowledged.

Then, just like that, they dove in.

That's all for this chapter! I know it's short, but I can't help it! Reviews are more than welcome!