AN: I'm listening to Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) again! Very beautiful!
Thanks for all the encouraging reviews! Well, I had hoped to make this chapter a chapter for all the revelations, the whys and hows about Cephiro and Kai and the new enemy who plans to… Well, all the mysteries of this story are too many to write in one chapter so I decided to do it step by step. Thanks for all the reviews again! More reviews are highly appreciated and oh, flames too. If you haven't been disappointed about chap2, maybe you will be by the end of chap3. Not much time writing. J
Reflection in Glass
By Chrynn
Chapter 3
Back to Cephiro?
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"Wow, Japan really is a very civilized world. Everything is technological. I haven't seen a single thing that shows belief in magic well except for the temples but those are miracles not magic. Do you, Hikaru?" Kai asked as they were being hauled up by the elevator to the highest level of the tower.
"Nani?" Hikaru asked, confused by his question.
"Do you believe in magic?"
"Magic?" Hikaru asked him again.
"Yes, magic. You don't?"
"I do."
Kai's smile was very sunny. Hikaru couldn't help but notice the glimmer in his eyes while he was talking about magic.
"But why-" Hikaru started to ask why he was asking her such things but the elevator opened and they were on the level they wished.
"C'mon." Kai said as he pulled her to the telescopes.
"Wait… Oh no! I just remembered I have a class at ten and now it's nine. I really have to go, Kai." Hikaru said after she stared at her wristwatch.
"You can skip that just for today, please? I'm really so lonely in a foreign land." Kai looked at her with the saddest golden eyes she ever seen… or had she already seen it?
Hikaru was too kind to leave Kai that moment. She smiled at him and sighed, hoping missing one class wouldn't get her bad grades in the future.
They went together to the telescopes and viewed all of Tokyo. Kai, of course, provided all the coins they needed.
"It's about time he started." Kai whispered loud enough for Hikaru to hear. His face was dark as he continued staring at his watch.
"Nani?" Hikaru asked.
"Nothing." Kai said as he broke again into a sunny smile.
"It's nine-thirty already, Kai. And I'm hungry." Hikaru confessed innocently to Kai who smiled and told her to wait where she was as he ran to the elevator.
When he arrived at where Hikaru was sitting, he noticed she was very happy, smiling at the people who passed her. He gave her the chips and soda he bought for her and she thanked him.
"Wait-" Hikaru stopped while she was halfway through with the bag of chips. "Do I have to pay for these too?" she asked.
Kai laughed at her gullibility at everything.
"No you just have to stay with me for the rest of the day since you don't have anymore classes." Kai smiled.
"Okay, I just need to be home by three or my brothers will be looking crazily for me." Hikaru laughed, remembering how her brothers reacted when they once they thought she was missing.
"Hikaru, let's go to that glass pane there with that map." Kai invited her as he pointed to the spot he was talking about.
The exact spot where she had been teleported to Cephiro, years ago.
"What map?" Hikaru asked, seeing only the sheer outline of Cephiro.
"That map." He was pointing at the precise spot where she sees the contours of Cephiro. He couldn't really see Cephiro, could he?
It was too late to ask him about anything.
A bright light, an all-too-memorable intense white light enclosed her and… Kai too? She saw his silhouette through the light.
How is it possible that Kai too is being transported?
He is not from the world of Cephiro…or is he?
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Umi had been pacing the castle for an hour. Fuu had been serenely sipping her tea in the jeweled cup which they used in Cephiro.
"Umi, making everybody dizzy with your pacing to and fro and all about the castle wouldn't make any difference." Caldina told her, trying to make her stop worrying. They have been gathered in Cephiro's crystal castle for the past few hours wondering why Umi and Fuu had just been transported in the middle of their respective tournaments and why Hikaru still wasn't here.
Clef had told them that since the pillar system did not exist any longer, it would be impossible for anyone to call for the magic knights. Only the power of the princess and her crown could do that. He also told them that after Hikaru created the new policy about the system, the crown had buried itself to somewhere Clef's powers could not trace.
Fuu had tried to hide all her apprehension by trying to finish the tea Presea handed her. In truth, she was also worried about Hikaru the second she realized she wasn't transported to Cephiro too. She suppressed her impulse to find Ferrio first and… what? Tell him how much she missed him all those four years they've been apart? She sighed.
**
Fuu was too busy with her tea and thoughts to notice that Ferrio was looking at her. Ferrio wanted to go to her and comfort her but he knew better. Fuu might have changed, after all.
" I think it is best if all of us retire for the day. We'll wait for results from Master Clef's search." Presea told everybody, meaning Caldina, Ascot, Lafarga, Ferrio, Umi and Fuu. Everybody mechanically obeyed her, knowing they could do nothing anyway.
***
Umi didn't walk straight to her bedroom that night; instead she went to Clef's room. She wanted to see Clef, see him but not disturb him. She opened the door a bit and peeped, just enough to satisfy her, to know that he was just all right.
What she didn't know was that Ascot had been following her from the moment she left the main hall just to check if she arrived safe at her room. Ascot sighed suddenly as he saw Umi head to Clef's room, as he was again reminded that Umi loved Clef and not him. He smiled sadly, admitting to himself that he was contented just knowing Umi was happy.
*****
"Lantis? Lantis!" Hikaru called as she saw him on the top of a tree, playing happily with colorful birds. She ran towards him as fast as she could but it seemed as if the meadow that separated them lasted forever.
"Hikaru!" someone from behind her called.
She looked back and saw… Kai.
"Don't go to him." He pleaded. "You belong as the pillar of Cephiro. And only as the pillar," his eyes glinted devilishly.
"Hikaru!" Lantis noticed her for the first time and called her.
And everything went pitch black.
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AN: I think this chappie is very boring. Don't you? I'm out of ideas. Everybody could help me by suggesting something for the fic! I would like to express my utmost gratitude to the following:
Hikaru_29, moon_goddess, Ssjlavenderkid , okamichan7 Evanscence, Mischief Monkey, Iarly , CrazyIceTenshi , RuByMoOn17 ...
Thanks!
Thanks for all the encouraging reviews! Well, I had hoped to make this chapter a chapter for all the revelations, the whys and hows about Cephiro and Kai and the new enemy who plans to… Well, all the mysteries of this story are too many to write in one chapter so I decided to do it step by step. Thanks for all the reviews again! More reviews are highly appreciated and oh, flames too. If you haven't been disappointed about chap2, maybe you will be by the end of chap3. Not much time writing. J
Reflection in Glass
By Chrynn
Chapter 3
Back to Cephiro?
************************************************************************
"Wow, Japan really is a very civilized world. Everything is technological. I haven't seen a single thing that shows belief in magic well except for the temples but those are miracles not magic. Do you, Hikaru?" Kai asked as they were being hauled up by the elevator to the highest level of the tower.
"Nani?" Hikaru asked, confused by his question.
"Do you believe in magic?"
"Magic?" Hikaru asked him again.
"Yes, magic. You don't?"
"I do."
Kai's smile was very sunny. Hikaru couldn't help but notice the glimmer in his eyes while he was talking about magic.
"But why-" Hikaru started to ask why he was asking her such things but the elevator opened and they were on the level they wished.
"C'mon." Kai said as he pulled her to the telescopes.
"Wait… Oh no! I just remembered I have a class at ten and now it's nine. I really have to go, Kai." Hikaru said after she stared at her wristwatch.
"You can skip that just for today, please? I'm really so lonely in a foreign land." Kai looked at her with the saddest golden eyes she ever seen… or had she already seen it?
Hikaru was too kind to leave Kai that moment. She smiled at him and sighed, hoping missing one class wouldn't get her bad grades in the future.
They went together to the telescopes and viewed all of Tokyo. Kai, of course, provided all the coins they needed.
"It's about time he started." Kai whispered loud enough for Hikaru to hear. His face was dark as he continued staring at his watch.
"Nani?" Hikaru asked.
"Nothing." Kai said as he broke again into a sunny smile.
"It's nine-thirty already, Kai. And I'm hungry." Hikaru confessed innocently to Kai who smiled and told her to wait where she was as he ran to the elevator.
When he arrived at where Hikaru was sitting, he noticed she was very happy, smiling at the people who passed her. He gave her the chips and soda he bought for her and she thanked him.
"Wait-" Hikaru stopped while she was halfway through with the bag of chips. "Do I have to pay for these too?" she asked.
Kai laughed at her gullibility at everything.
"No you just have to stay with me for the rest of the day since you don't have anymore classes." Kai smiled.
"Okay, I just need to be home by three or my brothers will be looking crazily for me." Hikaru laughed, remembering how her brothers reacted when they once they thought she was missing.
"Hikaru, let's go to that glass pane there with that map." Kai invited her as he pointed to the spot he was talking about.
The exact spot where she had been teleported to Cephiro, years ago.
"What map?" Hikaru asked, seeing only the sheer outline of Cephiro.
"That map." He was pointing at the precise spot where she sees the contours of Cephiro. He couldn't really see Cephiro, could he?
It was too late to ask him about anything.
A bright light, an all-too-memorable intense white light enclosed her and… Kai too? She saw his silhouette through the light.
How is it possible that Kai too is being transported?
He is not from the world of Cephiro…or is he?
************************************************************************
Umi had been pacing the castle for an hour. Fuu had been serenely sipping her tea in the jeweled cup which they used in Cephiro.
"Umi, making everybody dizzy with your pacing to and fro and all about the castle wouldn't make any difference." Caldina told her, trying to make her stop worrying. They have been gathered in Cephiro's crystal castle for the past few hours wondering why Umi and Fuu had just been transported in the middle of their respective tournaments and why Hikaru still wasn't here.
Clef had told them that since the pillar system did not exist any longer, it would be impossible for anyone to call for the magic knights. Only the power of the princess and her crown could do that. He also told them that after Hikaru created the new policy about the system, the crown had buried itself to somewhere Clef's powers could not trace.
Fuu had tried to hide all her apprehension by trying to finish the tea Presea handed her. In truth, she was also worried about Hikaru the second she realized she wasn't transported to Cephiro too. She suppressed her impulse to find Ferrio first and… what? Tell him how much she missed him all those four years they've been apart? She sighed.
**
Fuu was too busy with her tea and thoughts to notice that Ferrio was looking at her. Ferrio wanted to go to her and comfort her but he knew better. Fuu might have changed, after all.
" I think it is best if all of us retire for the day. We'll wait for results from Master Clef's search." Presea told everybody, meaning Caldina, Ascot, Lafarga, Ferrio, Umi and Fuu. Everybody mechanically obeyed her, knowing they could do nothing anyway.
***
Umi didn't walk straight to her bedroom that night; instead she went to Clef's room. She wanted to see Clef, see him but not disturb him. She opened the door a bit and peeped, just enough to satisfy her, to know that he was just all right.
What she didn't know was that Ascot had been following her from the moment she left the main hall just to check if she arrived safe at her room. Ascot sighed suddenly as he saw Umi head to Clef's room, as he was again reminded that Umi loved Clef and not him. He smiled sadly, admitting to himself that he was contented just knowing Umi was happy.
*****
"Lantis? Lantis!" Hikaru called as she saw him on the top of a tree, playing happily with colorful birds. She ran towards him as fast as she could but it seemed as if the meadow that separated them lasted forever.
"Hikaru!" someone from behind her called.
She looked back and saw… Kai.
"Don't go to him." He pleaded. "You belong as the pillar of Cephiro. And only as the pillar," his eyes glinted devilishly.
"Hikaru!" Lantis noticed her for the first time and called her.
And everything went pitch black.
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AN: I think this chappie is very boring. Don't you? I'm out of ideas. Everybody could help me by suggesting something for the fic! I would like to express my utmost gratitude to the following:
Hikaru_29, moon_goddess, Ssjlavenderkid , okamichan7 Evanscence, Mischief Monkey, Iarly , CrazyIceTenshi , RuByMoOn17 ...
Thanks!
