The last chapter was about a strange dream Hikaru had. It was about the possible future of the world and Hikaru met a strange little princess name Sapphera-hime ( Princess Sapphera .) Things don't look good for everyone in the future. Hikaru wants to help after seeing what she did in her dream. And Fuuma shows up too! What will happen to Hikaru next?
Hikaru, The 7 Dragons And 7 Angels
Chapter 4: What's an "Ovum?" Troubles at school?
"This is an ovum.
You will learn the use of it another time. I must go now." The princess's voice
said, but she was no where to be seen.
"Wait! I have to
ask you! I still don't know what I have to do!" Hikaru shouted.
"Get up!" An old
woman's voice hollered. "You'll be late for school.
Hikaru soon pushed
dream aside as soon as she heard her great-grandmother's yelling and became
perturbed. "Yeah, yeah! You dried-up, old hag, I'm getting ready!" Hikaru
quickly changed into her uniform and ran out her bedroom door.
Her great-grandmother,
waiting outside the door, stuck her cane out and tripped Hikaru. Once Hikaru
tripped, she ran into the wall.
"Itta!" Hikaru yelped.
"Who is dried up?!"
She squawked. Hikaru's great-mother then left after her remark.
After Hikaru
recovered, she then went to leave. 'I should be more careful. She may be old,
but she still can kick my ass.' Then she remembered. 'I almost forgot my lunch
and books!' She rushed dot the kitchen and grabbed her lunch and books that
were on the table and ran back, heading towards the front door. Hikaru thought
to herself and walked out the front door. Hikaru walked out the door and walked over to the side of the house and got her red bicycle. 'I'm gonna
be sooo late!'
"Common! Common!" She
shouted to herself as she ran up the stairs of the school building. She had a
minute at the most to get to class. She ran as fast as she could go and her
class room door came into view. 'There it is!' Hikaru rushed in and threw
herself into the vacant desk next to Kotori, who had probably been there at
least five minutes early. Hikaru was panting from the sprint to her class room.
"Poor Hikaru-chan."
Kotori giggled. "Maybe you should get
up earlier."
"And miss all the
exercise I get from having to run to our classroom every morning? Besides, do
you think I could possibly get up early enough to do that?!"
"I suppose not…"
Kotori sighed. 'I'm glad Hikaru is acting more like herself today. Being
serious doesn't suit her.' Kotori smiled at Hikaru and then, she noticed
something from the corner of her eye. "What's that?"
"What's what?"
"What's that on your
left hand?" Kotori pointed.
Hikaru looked at the
top of her left hand. 'No way!' There it was. The "ovum" from her dream. 'Great
now I have an ornament stuck to my hand!' She mused to herself. "Oh, this? This is just something I had
lying around. It's kinda like a tattoo, but it's not permanent and it is made
up of jewels instead. It's supposed to be the latest fad, but I guess that
nobody does it here," Hikaru quickly lied. 'God, I hope it isn't permanent!'
"Oh, OK. And I think
you're right about it not being popular here. Hikaru-chan, you're the only
person that I've seen with it."
'I wonder if I can get
this thing off…' She the started to try to chew it off her hand. It was hard
and it wouldn't budge. 'I'll just hurt myself.' She concluded. 'At least it's
pretty looking. Crap! What the hell am I thinking?! Oh, well… can't do anything
about it now. Hmm? Class hasn't started? I didn't even notice. I feel so tired
for some reason. Maybe I can take a nap…' "Psst. Kotori-chan, I'm going to go
to the roof and take a nap."
"Mo! Hikaru-chan,
you're hopeless!" She said.
"Bye!" Hikaru got up
and left the room. She walked up the stairs to the roof and walked to the
middle. She took of her shoes and lied down, stretched out on her back. Her eyes
slowly drifted closed.
'Nani kore? Yume ka?' The field was full of various wildflowers. Blue, purples, reds, oranges, yellows, pinks, and other colors filled the vast field. The sky was a deep robin's egg blue. Wisps of white clouds dappled the sky along with a couple floating lands that could be seen of in the distance. 'Beautiful…' It was beautiful. Hikaru was the only person in the field and she was still wearing her school uniform. She pivoted around, turning 360 degrees, scanning the field for other people, not really caring. Hikaru wouldn't mind if there were no guests popping up in her dream and giving her nightmares. For now, she could just relax and take in the scenery some more.
Hikaru was starting to get
bored. 'All of this… just flowers?' She desired to see more. 'This is a dream,
my dream. I want to fly…like an… angel.' She thought to herself and just then,
she grew white wings. The wings were pearly white and her wingspan was huge.
Without even thinking, as if she always had wings, she started to flap them and
kick up a whirlwind of flower petals. She lifted off the flowery field and
started to fly up into the sky. She flew above the field, above the floating
lands, up to just below the clouds. She started gliding along the sky, not knowing
where she was going.
There seemed to be different
levels of land. All of it was gorgeous. The woods, the fields, the villages,
waterfalls, and the ocean, a sparkling, marine blue.
"Hikaru…" A feminine voice
whispered. "Hikaru…"
'Dare… who's calling me?'
"Hikaru."
"Dare? Doko?" She flew towards
the whisper. The voice, it was coming from a large castle. The castle was
floating, high above everything else. The castle was made up of what appeared
to be crystals, around the base, and towers that reached up, out of the castle.
The castle was white, with gold, silver, and white.
Hikaru flew to the castle and
landed before the entrance. "Dare?"
"Hikaru…Hikaru"
She walked to the large doors,
with her wings still on, and they
opened without resistance. Hikaru walked along many long hallways, following
the voice. She finally came to a large doorway. Without hesitation, she opened
the door and walked in.
"Hikaru."
"You!?" She shouted in shock.
"Do not be alarmed." It was
Sapphera-hime and now she was at normal size, no longer in a miniature,
floating sphere.
"Where are we?"
"We're Terra. This is my world."
"It's beautiful…"
"I see that you have your wings." She said, smiling.
"Wings?" Hikaru turned her head and gazed at her
back. She was utterly shocked. Wings, she had wings.
"Those are your wings, because you're a Tenyo. Not
an angel, but part angel."
"That's impossible," she said, still gazing at her
long, white wings. "It's just a dream…"
She murmured, flexing her wings.
"Yes, it is a dream. But what about your ovum? You
still have it, even after you left your dream. And what you saw before. The
seven angels."
"Were they really angels?"
"No and yes. That might of just been symbolic… I
cannot totally predict the future, but I see many possibilities."
"Possibilities? What do you mean?"
"Dream gazers can see possible futures. Many
variables make up a future. And if one of those variables changes, the whole
future can be different."
"I understand, but what about the "angels?" Am I one
of them?"
"No, you aren't one of the seven."
"What about my "ovum?" What is it?" She asked,
changing the subject.
"Your ovum is the source of your new power. Or,
rather the ability to use the power that was within you." The princess paused.
"You are a Tenyo who has the power of fire. When your heart burns, everything
opposing you will burst into flames and burn up. With your anger, from the suffering of hurt people, your ovum
will glow and your power will from it. To protect everyone, the people you
love."
'The people I love…'
"That's right. Your power comes from the very people
you protect. Your wish, your desire to protect the people you love, and
everyone's future."
"I don't want anyone to die…" Hikaru paused and then
thought for a moment. "But still, how can I be part angel? That must mean
that…" She started.
"Your mother," the princess interrupted.
"My mother?! I don't understand. My mother died a
long time ago. I don't even remember her. Is she part angel?!"
"No. Your mother wasn't but part of you is."
"Then my father?"
"No, you didn't have a father?"
"What do you mean?!" She cried.
"In your world, only two things can make man. God
and…. man."
"Then I was made by people?!"
"Yes." The princess said casting her eyes downward.
"I'll show you the past, if you want…"
"I want to! I want to see!" Hikaru cried. "I want to
see my mother," she said quietly and closed her eyes. Hikaru opened her eyes.
She wasn't in the palace anymore, or in the presence of the princess. But, she
was now in a laboratory. There was only one other person there. Her mother.
"Everything is going perfectly," She said into a
small tape recorder. Hikaru's mother, Nikko, was a tanned woman with maroon-red
hair and maroon-purple eyes. She was wearing a white lab coat and black
glasses. Her wavy hair was put back with a loose pony-tail and it reached all
the way down her back. She walked
past various test tubes to a large
cylinder-shaped, glass container. It was hooked up to many wires, which were
hooked up to computers and other machines. "All life signs are stable. There
are no signs of any abnormalities that weren't desired."
'She must mean the wings,' Hikaru thought to
herself.
"With DNA of the deceased creature, that was uncover
in the artic twenty years ago, I have combined it with my DNA as well. My daughter
will be not human or angel, but Tenyo. True… there are still Tenyo around. But
they have nor the skill or the power of the original Tenyo. Their bloodline has
been watered down sort-of-speak…" She paused and looked at what was Hikaru at
the time and smiled lovingly. She turned off the tape recorder. "I know what
you're destined for… I saw it in my dreams, long before I even thought of
making you. My daughter would help decide the fate of the world. I knew you
would be safer if you had "real" power. The power to protect the people you
love, just like what I'm doing right now…" She paused again and tears started
to form in her maroon- purple eyes. "I just hope you won't hate me for this!"
She started sobbing.
"Oh, mama!" Hikaru cried and ran to hug her mother.
But, she went right through Nikko and stumbled. "Nani kore?!"
"This is a vision of the past. Nothing you do can
effect it… These events have already took place, so you cannot communicate with
them," the princess's voice explained.
"This is just a replay of past events…"
"That's right. Now close your eyes. I'm going to
show you something a little further on."
Hikaru closed her eyes and then re-opened them.
She was now in a field. No, someone's yard. It
wasn't in Tokyo. It was in the country. There was a little girl in the yard
running around. She had her red hair up in pig-tails and was wearing a sun
dress. She had big, purple eyes. Hikaru realized who the little girl was.
'It's me…'
The little girl was running around. A white car
pulled up. Hikaru's mother stepped out with groceries. Little Hikaru ran up to
her mother.
"Mama, welcome back!" She chimed.
"Has my little Hi-chan been good for grandma?"
"Yup! Hiba-chan and I read a story and then she let
me go outside a chase the butterflies!"
"Wow! It sounds like you have had fun today!" Nikko
said enthusiastically. "Why don't you go inside and get ready for lunch?"
"OK!" With that Hikaru ran inside and her
great-grandmother walked out to help Nikko with her bags.
"You shouldn't try to carry all of this on your
own…" Nikko's grandmother scolded Nikko.
"You are always worried about my well being grandma…
Thank you. But, really, I feel fine today. I haven't had any attacks today,"
she tried to re-assure her.
"No "buts!" You go right inside and sit down!" She
barked.
"Ari…" Nikko collapsed and fainted.
"Nikko!" Her grandmother screamed and rushed to
Nikko's side.
Hikaru clenched her eyes shut, trying not to cry. 'I
don't want to see this!' She opened her eyes again. Now she was in a hospital.
In her mother's room with her past self.
"Mama?" Little Hikaru whimpered. "Please don't die.
I don't want to be alone! Don't leave me alone. I'm scared!" She cried, tears
spilling over. The little Hikaru buried her head in the side of her mother's
bed, while she was holding her mothers left hand. Hikaru's mother squeezed her
hand and Hikaru stopped crying. Hikaru slowly looked up meet her mother's gaze.
"Sshhh. You're not alone. You have granny and your
friends. You have your friend Kotori, ne?" She whispered. "And I'll never leave
you. I'll always be right here," Nikko's mother pointed to Hikaru's chest.
"Right here. In your heart." She paused and started to brush her daughter's
hair of her face. "And as long as I'm there… you'll never be alone." Nikko
stopped brushing Hikaru's hair with her fingers. Her head leaned aback against
her pillow and she closed her eyes. "Always… I'll always love you no matter
what. You're my little girl and I'll always love you. Hikaru be strong, protect
the people you love." And with that, Nikko's life signs flattened.
"Mama?! Mama! Mama~!!!" Little Hikaru screamed.
Meanwhile, the present Hikaru watched and started to
remember. She started to sob. "Mama! I forgive you! I love you to and I'll
always love you!" Hikaru wrapped her arms around herself, still crying.
"Hikaru! Hikaru" A voice shouted.
Hikaru opened her eyes. Someone was leaning over her. A man. Fuuma! "Ah! Monou-sempai! Doushite koko ni?!"
"When you didn't come home, your grandma called us. Kotori thought you might
be here…" he said in a monotone voice.
"What time is it?" She asked, sitting up and rubbing
her eyes.
"It's about nine o'clock."
"Nine?!" She shrieked and covered her mouth, trying
to correct herself? "How did you get back here?"
"I climbed the fence," Fuuma said casually. He then stood up and helped Hikaru up as
well.
"Oh, I should have figure that out…" She brought her
left hand up and ran it over her face.
"What's that?" Fuuma pointed out.
"Huh? Oh, this? It's nothing, really. Someone gave
this to me. That's all… Hey, Monou-sempai, thanks for waking me up. I'll be
leaving now and you don't have to walk me home. I have a bike." Before Fuuma
could even object, she had ran down the stairs and grabbed her bike. Fuuma was
amazed in how fast she could run.
'Must be all the sleep she got.'
"Bye!" She waved to Fuuma, still on the roof. "Tell
Kotori-chan thank you! And not to worry! Ja~!" Hikaru lifted her bike and threw
it over the fence. The red bike made a loud crash, but it wasn't harmed. Hikaru
then climbed over the fence and left.
"What a strange girl…"
Hikaru rode her bike downtown, to the shrine. There
was a girl watching the large TV screen located in the middle of the
intersection. The girl looked about thirteen or fourteen. She hard short black
hair that stopped at her cheeks, cut straight across. She was sitting there,
with her dog. Hikaru thought the dog was peculiar looking, but she love
animals. She rode her bike up to the girl and got off of it. She rested her
bike against a ledge and proceeded to walk over to the girl.
"Hey, I'm sorry to bother you, but… I was just
wondering if you would let me pet your dog?" Hikaru asked shyly.
"This one?" The girl asked, stunned.
Hikaru bent over and patted the dog. "Good boy!" She
cooed to the dog. Hikaru stood straight up again and got on her bike again. "It
was nice meeting you! Thanks! Bye!" She yelled as she rode away.
The girl just stood there with a blank expression on
her face. 'She could see Inuki… Who was that girl?!' Yuuzuriha Nekoi thought to
herself.
Well, finally Fuuma showed up and to help Hikaru! And Yuuzuriha showed up too!