Chapter 7: Hikaru on the Hunt
"Hmph!" Hikaru groaned as she walked angrily back to the Mokona Hotel, "Fine! If those two aren't going to help me then I'll do it by myself!"
A few hours after her departure, Hikaru realized that Umi wasn't coming back, but she was still dead set on protecting Cephiro from the monsters that roamed the country even without her magic and with only a wooden kendo sword.
After she gathered her few belongings, Hikaru started on her way. Mokona followed after her as the egg shelter dematerialized into light that disappeared into the jewel on Mokona's forehead.
"If Fuu were here she would say I am being reckless," Hikaru said to herself. "Who cares? I'm doing this for Cephiro!"
Hikaru started to think while she walked. She wondered what was up with Fuu. Fuu never really made conclusions about things unless she was positive about them. She wondered why Umi had left and where she had gone. She wondered why Mokona had picked this time to show back up after so long. She wondered why more of her friends from Cephiro hadn't been at the castle. She wondered and she walked.
After sometime, Hikaru came upon a small gray blob creature, "Ahhhhhh!" She screamed as she drew her sword and lunged at it. The blob put up little resistance and then hardened to rock and crumbled into dust.
"Alright! I don't need a sword to play exterminator!" Hikaru yelled in triumph.
She went on like this for several hours, killing small mostly monsters, but something was wrong. She didn't feel like she did when she was first in Cephiro. She didn't have her sword or her magic…or her friends. "Awww, forget them. Its their fault they're not here!" She said to her self trying and failing miserably to heighten her spirits.
Not too long after she came upon a cave in the side of a cliff. She was tired because it was almost nightfall, but she felt she really needed to get rid of at least one big monster before she retired to her cozy bed. She also found the cave to have an ominous "eternal darkness" look to it.
"The perfect lair for a monster in this storybook world," She thought. However, as she got closer to the den she became a little bit less confident in her ability to fight with her "weapon."
Without warning, a huge beast leapt from the cave. It looked like a giant gray stone bear with blood dripping off its teeth.
Hikaru felt overwhelmed by this sight at started to move backwards, but the bear leapt forward heading straight at her.
Hikaru screamed but didn't lose control. She started to run away as hard and as quickly as she could, but as she did she spotted something out in her peripheries. Another monster! This one was like a large golden brown eagle with the body structure of a human. She was caught between a rock and a hard place and Hikaru gave up in despair. She screamed in fear before she blacked out…