The Emerald Sovereign-- Chapter 1

Rated: PG-13

Fantasy/Angst/Romance

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              My...My mother...?

                       Fuu awoke in her bed, covered in cold sweat. She stared into space, just before tears of regret would pour down her face. Why was she having such strange and scary dreams? She got up and stared at her alarm clock.

                   "...This is not going well..." She said as she stared at her clock as it blinked 4:00 AM.

                          Maybe Hikaru and Umi were having strange dreams as well. So Fuu tucked back into her bed, wide-awake and bored. She couldn't fall asleep.

                            The next day, Fuu slept in, although it wasn't a school day, she was due to help her mother with the Christmas baking. Her alarm went off as she groaned and rolled off her bed. She cursed when she hit her head on the table, Fuu blushed and immediately covered her mouth.

                         "Fuu-chan! Did you remember what today is?"

                              "The same day every year? Bake cookies with mom?"

                            "That too, but it's your birthday!"

                                "It is?"

                            "Fuu-chan, look at the calender."

                          "I don't have one."

                              "Then come down here!"

                              "Is father down there?"

                            "Yes, why?"
                               "Oh, I guess that means I have to get dressed huh."

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                                    "Fuu...I have a question," her mother said as she stopped the mixer.

                                  Fuu looked up a bit puzzled, "Yes mother?"

                                       "I know you're set on becoming an engineer, but have you ever considered being a singer?"

                                     A bit surprised, and a bit embarrassed, Fuu replied, "...No..."

                                 Fuu went back to help cut out the little christmas trees that her mother always made. 

                                        "You have a beautiful voice, you know that."

                                      "...."

                                           "I heard you last night, singing to yourself."

                                      Fuu turned pink, and then, totally embarrassed, she cut one of the christmas trees in half. 

                                          "Uh-oh..."

                                        Her mother let out a laugh, "I also thought it was quite adorable. To hear my daughter singing an opera song."

                                        Fuu turned red, "Err...."

                                           Kuu entered the room, "Oh, I take it we're talking about Fuu's little musical last night."

                                        Fuu glowed bright neon red as she slipped under the table, "Awww....Gaaawddd..."

                                 Then the telephone started ringing and both sisters stared at the Caller ID to see 'Shidou Hikaru' flash across the LCD screen. Kuu giggled and leaped for the phone, which triggered Fuu to get out from under the table and proceed to tackle Kuu from getting to the phone.
                                        

                                     "Now girls, let's be civilized!" their mother scolded.

                                          "Civilized?!" Fuu shot out, "my elder sister planning to embarrass me is not CIVILIZED!"

                                        Kuu just cracked up and stopped resisting and let Fuu get the phone.

                                     Fuu panted and picked up the phone, "Good morning Hikaru-san!"

                                     "Hey Fuu-chan...did you like run to the phone just now?"

                                        Fuu continued to pant, "I had to fight my way through to the phone, let's leave it at that."

                                     Hikaru laughed, "Okay...I was wondering, are you still coming to Tokyo Tower today?"

                                       Fuu eyes widened, "Ah!! I totally forgot!!! Where has my brain gone today?!"

                                         Another female voice came in the conversation, "You tired it out last night Fuu-baka!!"

                                      Fuu turned around and saw Kuu on another phone, well, with the phone off the hook, rolling on the ground laughing.
                                         "Don't worry Fuu, just come if you want, we aren't doing much."

                                       "But I WANT to come!" Fuu said, in a somewhat sad tone.

                                           "I take it this is not one of your better days."

                                          Fuu looked at Kuu and her mother laughing, "Not really..."

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                                    'She's coming....'

                                                Fuu ran as fast as possible to get to the Tower in time for 11:30. But then something appeared in front of her, a small bug like shadow. Fuu backed away only to crash into another one.

                                       "This is not my day is it!"

                                     Then she felt a sharp pain travel through her back, "AGH!" She turned around to see her jacket ripped and her blood slowly dripping down.

                                        'I have to catch up with Hikaru and Umi!!!'

                                      Then she pushed and shoved through more shadows, barely missing claws. Her back was slowly getting more and more painful. She arrived at Tokyo tower to see the tower crawling with the shadows.

                                 "HIKARU! UMI!" Fuu yelled and entered the tower.

                                          'What...What's going on?!'

                                     She tore through the corridors and ran up the stairs, hoping they were safer than the elevator. Then she reached the observation deck, with her back covered in blood. She looked around frightened that Hikaru and Umi had been killed by the shadows.

                                             "FUU!!"

                                        Fuu looked to the top of one of the concession stands, to see Hikaru and Umi and a few other people fighting off the shadows. Umi jumped down, squishing one of the shadows, and ran to Fuu.

                                     "Fuu-chan! Are you ok?!" Umi put her hand on Fuu's back helped fight off the shadows.

                                    Fuu cringed in pain, "Wh...What are these things...?"

                                       Umi took her hand off of Fuu's back to punch one of the shadow thingys. Umi looked at her hand and saw blood dripping off it. But she felt no pain. Umi gasped and looked at Fuu's back.

                                      "Oh my god! Fuu!! What happened?!"

                                  Fuu responded with a panting noise and then she collapsed.

                                       "That's what she gets for doing her little acrobatic tricks...ripping her own wound open."

                                 Umi looked up and saw a woman in black clothes and a navy sash covering her nose and mouth. She wielded a broad, black sword with smoke coming from the tip.

                                      "You can't stop the inevitable. The darkness will swallow Tokyo Tower and all that surrounds it."

                           Umi held Fuu close as she kicked and shoved the shadows out of her way. Fuu opened her eyes and saw a shadow with armour on towering over Umi from behind.

                                "Those shadows are looking for the sovereign and the wielder of the Angel's sword."

                                     Then the mysterious woman launched a great attack with her sword at the shadow and destroyed it. Fuu stood up and looked at the ground as it faded. Hikaru, Umi and Fuu once again were being summoned.

      Summoned to Cephiro....

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                                 "That woman! That woman is getting in our way!!!" a young man's voice cursed.

                              "Yes, my dear but that's only ONE woman. You think that ONE woman is going beat all of us?! Including the shadows!!" yelled a girl's voice.

                                     "Bah! And that blasted woman found the blasted Magic Knights!" An older voice yelled.

                                   "Those Magic knights are mere scrawny girls! They pose no threat!" Yelled the same girl from before.

                                     "Look who's talking." Said the young man.

                                    "Shut up!!" Screamed the girl.

                                  "SILENCE!!!" A loud female voice boomed, "They may be the Magic Knights, but one of them wields the Angel's sword. The power to control light and darkness. We must watch them closely, we cannot take any chances."

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                             Fuu woke up on a cold floor as she stared at a nearby wall. Just then the sun rose and shone in  through the window and lit the room up making everything have a yellow tint to it. Fuu felt the floor slowly warm up from the sun's heat and she stood up. She looked around the room and she only saw crates and barrels.

                         Hikaru and Umi weren't with her. She was alone. She looked around and saw a very ornate door made of stone, probably granite, and blue and purple designs glowing on the surface.

                               Fuu watched the sun's rays as they became nearer and nearer to the door. When they got closer to the door, Fuu noticed a wooden plank with the identical designs cut out from the wood placed where one of the windows used to be.

                                 Angel's sword...wielder of the angel's sword

                             Fuu looked around and saw the door glow with the sun beams hitting the designs, exact. The door opened and sucked her in.

                               The shadows are growing stronger...

                              Her head was pounding, as she stared into the dark surroundings. She looked down, and saw a huge stain-glass floor. The design was of Mokona. A beam of light shone down onto the gem on Mokona's forehead.  Her Cephiran armour appeared and so did her sword.

                                   Are you the one...the one to fill the shadows with light?

                              The stain glass beneath her started to shatter and Fuu panicked, but she fell through. Once again, she woke to see another stain glass floor. This time, the design were the three Magic Knights, but she noticed, that instead of Hikaru being at the top. She was taking center stage on this stain glass.

                                 Are you prepared to fight and become...what you really are?

                            A pedastal appeared about 15 feet away from Fuu. Her armour shattered and disappeared. She   looked around disoriented and then she saw a necklace on the pedastal. The ground beneath her glowed as she got nearer to the necklace. 

                        Then everything went black.

                   "Fuu!"

                           She couldn't breathe.

                   "Is she waking up?!"

                         Her heart was pounding.

                   "She is!!"

                                 Don't be afraid.

                     "Fuu-chan!!"

                           Just remember...you are the one...to fill the shadows with light.

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                             "AH!" Fuu sat fully awake with cold sweat pouring down her head.

                                  Everyone let out a huge sigh of relief. She looked around and saw Hikaru and Umi, perfectly fine. As well as Presea and Caldina.

                           "Fuu! You're OK!" Hikaru said as she leaped and gave Fuu a huge hug.

                                     "I'm so glad you're OK Fuu-chan." Umi said smiling.

                                "PUUU!!!" Mokona said as it leaped into the room and onto the bed.

                                  Fuu laughed, "Oh hello, Mokona-san..."

                               Presea took her hand and checked Fuu's temperature, "Uh...Ahh, that's better. Before you were burning up!"

                             Fuu blinked, "I had a fever?"

                                Umi nodded, "Yeah! We were scared out of our wits...we thought you were seriously ill."

                              Hikaru finally stopped hugging Fuu and stood up straight, "We thought one of those shadow thingys might've done it."

                                 Presea looked up as if she was in deep thought, "Hmm...I wonder...where those shadows came from. Our weapons are totally useless against them."

                               Caldina looked out the window, "They're stealing pure hearts from the people of Cephiro...and our weapons suck against them...that's all we know. Do you Magic Knights know anything about it?"

                                   Hikaru and Umi shook their heads. Fuu looked down, remembering her dream. Umi saw Fuu looking a bit awkward.

                                     "Fuu, do you know anything?"

                                         Fuu looked to one side, "It's unbelievable that I know something abut this...but...while I was unconscious, I had a dream. About the shadows getting stronger by the minute...there was a necklace in my dream as well...I can't remember much else..."

                             Presea and Caldina looked at Fuu, a bit perplexed.

                                She is an enigma. There is more than meets the eye... The wielder of the Angel's sword.

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         O_o; man that was a long chapter. R/R!! ^^ I'm really beginning to enjoy writing this.