Authur's note: Well, I just wanted you to know, here are the pictures for the girls so far: Hitomi- http://www.cruelangel.net/cruelangel/d/dani02.jpg

Chiharu- http://www.animevisions.net/Pictures/BlueHairedGirl1.jpg

Gigi- http://www.animevisions.net/temp/Nadesico3.jpg

Autumn-Rose- http://www.animevisions.net/Pictures/tan96.jpg

Fushigi Yugi The Mysterious Play

Volume Two

Episode One: The Universe of the Four Gods. Happy Birthday Chiharu!

[Opening Song]

Tamashiino Hitomi knocked on the door of her best friend, Seijitsu Chiharu's house. She shifted the package she carried from one hand to the other. She smiled to herself.

She's going to love it, Hitomi thought excitedly as a girl with long, blue hair and secretive purple eyes, framed by round-wire glasses, answered the door.

"Happy birthday, Chiharu!" Hitomi said excitedly as she hugged her friend.

"Thank you," Chiharu said, laughing, a bit embarrassed by all the attention. "Come on, the others are already here." Chiharu held the door open for the brunette to pass threw.

Hitomi came in to be greeted by a purple haired girl in jeans and a red t-shirt and a blonde with amber eyes.

"Bonjour, Hitomi-chan," Mallory Genevieve, known more like Gigi, said, her French accent was nearly gone now, but it still showed threw every now and than.

"Hiya, Hitomi," Tailor Autumn-Rose said. Her accent was what the people in America called Southern.

Gigi and Autumn-Rose where both exchange students. Gigi coming from a town just north of Paris, France, and Autumn-Rose coming from some place in the state of Georgia in the United States of America. Autumn-Rose has been staying with Chiharu's family while Gigi was staying with the Himiyano family. All four of the girls had become fast friends despite how differently they could act. It was as if they shared some special, unknown bond.

"Hi hi!" Hitomi said in her usual hyper way. "Have I missed the cake?"

"We were just about to cut it," Chiharu smiled, picking up the knife.

After a quick verse of Happy Birthday, with much laughter between phrases, the girls cut and ate the cake. Hitomi taking four pieces herself.

"Where does she put it all?" Autumn couldn't help but question.

"Who knows, but I even her. She eats and eats and doesn't gain anything," Gigi said, still picking at her first piece.

"Presents!" Hitomi said, jumping up as though they hadn't said anything at all. "Mine first!" Hitomi quickly ran and got the bright blue package she had brought with her.

Chiharu laughed as she took the present from the girl. She slowly began to open the package, this drove Hitomi nuts. She didn't understand why Chiharu couldn't just rip it open like she would have.

Finally, Chiharu saw what Hitomi had gotten her. It was a book written in Ancient Chinese. Chiharu grinned. It was well known that Chiharu adored ancient Chinese script. It was sort of her hobby to study it. This book was a fine in deed.

"Well, what's it called?" Hitomi couldn't help but ask.

Chiharu laughed. "Only you, Hitomi, would by a book and not know what it is called," she said jokingly as she hugged her. She than looked at the cover of the red bound book. "It's called The Universe of the Four Gods."

"Well, open it, Chiharu, sugar, and see what its about. Its sound interesting enough," Autumn-Rose said excitedly as she and Gigi came up on Chiharu's right side while Hitomi was on her left.

Chiharu smiled as she opened the book. No one noticed the odd golden glow that surrounded them all.

"It says," Chiharu said, quickly translating the words in her mind and than verbalizing them. "This is a story of a girl who made her dreams come true after she came to possess the Seven Stars of Suzaku and many powers were bestowed upon her. The story itself is a spell the one who reads it will be given the powers and granted a wish just like the girl in the story. The story begins and becomes real after the first page is turned."

"Yeah right," Gigi said, rolling her blue eyes.

"Well, turn the page!" Hitomi said impatiently.

Chiharu smiled, amused, as she turned the page, which was yellowed with age, carefully.

Suddenly, Chiharu felt as though she were falling. She looked around herself but couldn't see anyone, but she heard Gigi, Hitomi, and Autumn's screams that where mixed with her own.

The next thing she knew, Chiharu was surrounded by water.

"Help me!" she said, after she made her way to the surface of the lake she had fallen in. "Please, I can't swim!" She started to cough and sputter before going under again.

~*~

Hitomi had felt herself falling and was holding her breath. Her throat was sore from screaming as she fell.

Am I going to die now? Hitomi questioned.

Suddenly, she hit something, but it was somewhat softer than the ground. When she opened her eyes, Hitomi saw a man with red hair laying on the ground under her. He had a white bandage on his noise in the shape of an X from where her head had hit him.

"Yips!" she said, quickly crawling off of him. "Did I land on him?"

"Hey! What's the big idea, anyway!" the man said, standing up and looking very angry. "Falling on me! Think you could rob a bandit of Mt. Reikaku! I'll show you." He brought out a large, diamond fan and called out: "Lekka Shinen!" setting the ground beneath his assailant's feet ablaze.

Hitomi let out a scream as she began to dance around in SD form, franticly trying to dodge the flames.

~*~

Gigi landed hard on her butt in the middle of a clearing in the middle of a forest. She stood up, looking around. She frowned.

"Hello!" she called out. "Is anyone there? Hitomi! Chiharu! Rosie!" There was no answer.

Gigi rubbed her arm. She didn't like being alone. It made her nervous.

Just then, she heard a rustling from the trees. "Hitomi?" she questioned, turning to where she heard the sound.

Suddenly, a girl jumped from the trees, sword drawn and aimed right at Gigi, ready to make a fatal wound on the intruder.

~*~

Autumn-Rose, however, lay unconscious by a stream. When she landed, she hit her head on a rock. A small bit of blood ran from the small wound at the side of her head.

In this state, she didn't see the large, black beast in the shadows of the forest. The one with the glowing red eyes and razor sharp fangs. The one that looked very hungry...

[Ending Song]

Author's Note 2: This will get better, I promise. Mine generally start off a bit slow lol.