Disclaimer: I don't own Rayearth. Clamp do, the four Japanese goddesses (the Apapa sincerely admit having created the world).
N/A: I know, I update late, but sincerely I hoped for at least one rewiew. No one did, this story is no interesting for no one, but I received no flame, and this is ok. Who shut up he agree, as an Italian proverb say, so here is the second part of my story.
Lantis had gone to Clef. "Where is she? " "She is sleeping." "It is cruel, but you will do better to wake up her. The demon has arrived." It didn't appear a true demon, it was as a mountain that raised itself suddenly in the sky of Sephiro. "Clef… she won't do it." "She had said… " Clef was interdicted. Lantis had interrupted him: "That thing… it can have me, if it wants." And Clef had known that Hikaru didn't know anything. That was still ready to do it. She was now only so tired,… "You are not the pillar." Clef was severe. "Technically, Hikaru is even it. Not more. Doesn't Sephiro have a pillar anymore, Clef, or have you forgotten it ? " Lantis was hard. "I know it, but… " "Well, if nobody is it more, it means that everybody can be it. Even me." "She stays the strongest." "She is not here. Why you believe that is sacrificed, the other pillars? For love… love of Sephiro, love of her, what changes? This will give me the strength, Clef. All the enough strength to feed… that thing." And if also so it was not, I won't lose her. I won't be me to lose her. Lantis was really strong. Clef realized it sudden. He could leave him to try? Could he allow him it? "If you are determined... go. You see that burrow, that forwards itself in the abdomen of the mountain? At the end… ". Lantis had simply nodded. "Say her that I love her… " and he had run into his destiny.
Hikaru woke up suddenly. It was day. It was the day. And her bed was empty. Lantis was not there, to look at her a last time. To give her strength to do what had to do. Lantis…Hikaru bursted to cry again. Can it be known where he was, curse? Suddenly, a shiver in her heart. A pain. He couldn't… he could not have done… she was the pillar. She! Any other would have been able. Or yes? She had started to race, the heart in tumult. Do that he's not… God, do that he's not… he cannot have done it. He cannot have leaved me alone. And you, what did you want to do? A voice inside of her. I wanted to save Sephiro! Her tears, those tears that since yesterday they didn't want to stop gushing out. Lantis is not so ambitious. What wants… it is to save you. "I won't allow you to do it." His voice inside her heart. That heart that kept on aching her so much. And she raced… She had to arrive to Clef. She had to face that demon. She owed… to stop him. To stop Lantis, if she was still in time. She had to be in time. She could not have him lost. She couldn't. Lantis… no!
Lantis was forwarded. That place was dark. That place was cruel. That place rejected him. The voice of the demon in his mind. "Where the pillar is? You are not the pillar. You are weak. And I am hungry." "Sorry for you, but some things are changed in the last twenty thousand years. And I am what you will have." The rocks who snapped at Lantis. Making him to bleed. He who continued to advance. At the end, had said Clef. And he at the end would have arrived. At the end of that burrow. At the end of his life. But he would have protected Sephiro. He would have protected her. She… a voice, suddenly. A cry, a complaint. "Lantiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis!" She was there. She was in front of that mountain. And she was calling him back. All of her love was calling him back. Lantis was slipping. Again the voice of the demon: "Here it is, the strength whom I need! " "You won't have her! " Lantis had shouted. "And won't have Sephiro! You won't have… other… than me." Lantis that clawed the rock, fighting for not surrendering. "Lantiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis! " It was so difficult to hear the whole pain in her voice and to go on, to leave her to his shoulders. But Lantis knew that if he had returned back would have been she, then, to advance herself for that path. That he would not have succeeded in stopping her. And he went on. The rocks that kept on hurting him, on crushing him. On torturing him. And the voice of the demon… "You are not enough. She is whom I need. Return back! " "You cannot have her! Have you heard me? You cannot have her… " The pain. That whole blinding pain. And still again: "Lantiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis! ". It is because I love you that I cannot return to you. Don't you understand it? I cannot leave that you face all this. I will go until the end. I have to succeed in being stronger. Stronger than all of your love. Stronger than you. Then I will finally succeed in satiating it. It will be ended. He had collapsed in knee instead. And he was felt to bring back. She was the strongest. Clef had told it. The demon told it. But he could not afford it. He could not surrender. Hikaru… enough. For pity, Hikaru, enough. Allow me to do what I owe. Allow me to protect you. How can you want that I return back… to lose you? I cannot lose you. I cannot lose you because I love you. He had succeeded in rising again himself. And he had restarted to go on. The rocks had bite again him. Lantis had forgotten the pain. And kept on continuing. To save her.