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AN: Yay, I got another one up! It's short, but it should still be well enough I think.
Anyway, I hope you all like this and please remember to review, but if you've nothing polite to say then don't bother saying anything at all!
~A Match of Two Souls~
oO-To Take a Chance-Oo
"No! NO! Hikaru!" Sierra pleaded with the girl, even if she possibly couldn't hear them. "Don't lose faith! Remember your wish!"
"Sierra, what's happening with Hikaru now?" Presea asked, clutching Mokona a little tigher in her arms. They watched in fear as the dark aura that had faded came back even stronger than before. "You said she was fighting back! What's happened to change that now?"
"Whoever is interfering must have shown Hikaru something she wasn't ready to see, something hadn't quite realized for herself," the younger Pharle bit her lip. "That's the only thing I can think of."
"Can't you do something to help her?" Presea asked urgently.
"Puu-Puu!"
"I can't directly interfere and with a situation as unique as this, I don't know what could happen…"
"Then take a chance! We can't just sit around doing nothing!"
Sierra thought for a moment before letting out a small sigh. "I could try…but I don't know if it'll work. Hikaru's situation is very delicate and much different than anything I've ever seen. I don't know how it'll affect her or the trial."
"What do you need to do?" Presea asked hesitantly.
"When repairing a weapon or tool made of Escudo, I'm not to interfere directly with the trial," the younger Pharle explained. "But I might be able offer a bit of assistance. I won't be able to see what is happening, but I can try to help Hikaru's soul push out the darkness trying to infect her."
"Then do it!" Presea urged her younger sister.
"It's not that simple!" Sierra burst out. "I said that I might be able to help. As this is a trial to fully revive a broken weapon, I don't even know if it will work!"
"Puu! Puu-Puu-PUUUUU!" Mokona cooed with a surprisingly stern face.
"I think Mokona wants you to take that chance," Presea smiled down at the usually annoying creature in her arms. "After all, we won't know if something will work unless we try, right? So take the chance and see what happens."
She sighed and looked at the fiery-haired girl within the mass of darkness surrounding her. "Someone with a heart as strong and kind as hers shouldn't have had to go through any of this. But she still wanted to fight for Cephiro despite everything that happened last time, despite not being told the entire truth of the Legend of the Magic Knights. Umi and Fuu are wonderful girls, but I've seen how they are together. Hikaru is the heart and soul of their little group and to lose her would be to lose them all."
"So do what you must," the elder Pharle told her sister. "Even if it doesn't work the way you want it to, try and take the chance to help Hikaru."
Sierra looked at her sister for a moment. "Very well…"
She closed her eyes and hummed.
Her sister was right. Even if it didn't work, trying and failing was better than not having tried at all.
Adieu,
TsukiyoTenshi
