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Two - Yumemi
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It was the barest contact.
Just the brushing of their fingertips.
A single, breath-like touch…
And she had awakened.
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After two and a half weeks, the uproar of the 'Floating Island' incident had yet to die down at school. Everyone had their theories of alien invasion, or government experiments gone wrong, and even a magic castle in the sky.
But only three girls knew the truth.
Ono Ichiko was the most excited about the event. She had come to share the tale of when the island appeared over her head several times a day with her friends, Imamura Suzume and Hidaka Yumemi, and they never failed to smile at her telling.
And why not? It had been a momentous day, with Suzume and her beloved Kazuya's "marriage" starting it off. Truly, the story of their union would go down throughout the school years as one of the most bizarre, as well as one of the sweetest.
But the true adventure belonged to Yumemi. She had told her friends of her visit from the Magical King Munto and his plea for her help. Her friends were in awe of her tale and her role in saving two worlds, and they felt somewhat disappointed to have missed out on it.
However, both could see the incident had affected their friend deeply, for was no longer so shy. She stopped carrying an umbrella everyday. She no longer kept her eyes glued to the floor. And she seemed to become more upbeat and confidant than either her friends or her family had seen in a long time.
When they walked home together from school, Suzume commented on this, and Yumemi smiled softly.
"I guess I'm still…worked up from the whole ordeal," she replied, tilting her head back so that she could see the sky, and the odd lands hanging above her, beyond the clouds. Her friends followed her gaze, though they could not see what she did.
"I wonder what it's like up there…" Suzume said wonderingly. "Where magic still exists."
"I know!" Ichiko said with a clap, her eyes shining with excitement. "It's not just islands up there, but people! Do you think they all look like that red guy of yours?"
Yumemi laughed. "What do you mean? Pointed ears? Wild hair? Gold eyes…" Her green gaze became distant and her steps slowed. Suzume and Ichiko noticed this and slowed with her, though they doubted that she noticed. "Deep eyes… Deep, deep…gold eyes…"
Ichiko and Suzume exchanged curious glances, until Yumemi came to a stop on the sidewalk and they looked up at the sky, trying to see what they knew they couldn't.
But Yumemi could see it. She could see the kite-shaped isle that hung directly overhead. And she knew he was there, having returned safely from the place between their worlds.
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She had awakened..
Gazing into his golden eyes she felt right.
The eyes of the King of Heaven.
Munto.
She had been so afraid when he came to her, but not now.
She could hear herself.
She could feel him.
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"HEY! MAGICAL KING!"
Yumemi jumped at Ichiko's shouting and turned to her with a start.
"GET READY!" She called at the top of her lungs, thrusting a fist up toward the clouds. "WE AREN'T THROUGH WITH YOU YET!"
They all laughed at that, as it was really rather silly to think Ichiko's bullying would have any effect on a Magical ruler on the other side of the space time continuum.
Even so, Yumemi agreed that things were far from finished.
And somehow, she felt glad about it
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Shout out to ElfMaidenOfLight: Thank you oh so so so so somuch for the URL to those Munto III articles! I was able to copy a lot of pictures and hope to post them on MiniTokyo…once I figure out how.
Anyway, CHAPTER TWO! Yippee!
Basically, the chapters will be segregated between Munto and Yumemi as they go throughout the two and a half years and eventurally join together during the Munto II portion of the story
