Crystal Magicians
By: Anime's Angels
Part Nine
Yulie Yamano had a little chance to pat himself on the back. Mars was
doing fine, filled with
ordinary citizens who had buckled down and where doing in right, unlike the
mess on Io.
He had made it all the way to the Lunar base. He clutched at the Jewel of
Life. He knew
something about them... the gems... the Queits hated the gems... the Jewel
of Life, the Imperium
Silver Crystal... they could help!
If he could only get down there....
Little did he know that, even as a thirteen year old, he was being
watched....
~~~~~~~~
Cherri tucked it into his hand. Ryo Sanada, Cye Mouri, Rowen Hashiba, Sage
Date, and Kento
Rei Fuan. They had become her life lines for the past few days. She loved
them more than she
could stand. They where her brothers.... Ryo.... was special to her. What
was she DOING think
about him now? She had given him the letter, she had to get away.
Her blue shirt was missing from her ensemble, tucked away in her back,
leaving her in boots,
pants, and a bodice, all of them black. Her long hair was free and wavy
from the braid that she
had been wearing. Bending down, she lightly kissed Ryo's forehead. She
didn't know why, or if
she did she didn't want to admit it.
Grabbing her bag, she climbed atop the white horse she found in a nearby
stable. Hoisting
herself on to the blanket-for-a-saddle, she took one last look at her
closest friends outside of the
girls. She may never see them again, she reminded herself. She gripped the
silver mane of
Snow, the horse, in the moonlight. Kento looked like he was dreaming of
food again... Rowen
had pasted out into a small book she had lent him... Sage was peacefully
sleeping, though Cye
was tossing an turning... and Ryo... he was being Ryo... gorgeous.
Sage knew about her secret...and she let the others know in her letter, that
an a lot more.
Plugging her mp3 player's headphones in her ears, turning on one of a
multitude of Savage
Garden songs, she totted off silently before breaking into a gallop once
they were out of range of
the guys.
And as she realized she couldn't see them anymore, tears came out of her
eyes....
'It's for the best, Cherri... IT really is....'
~~~~~~~~
Ryo awoke in the middle of a most... pleasant... dream with an unusual
feeling. Cherri was gone
again. Usually, she'd get up to clean herself, not unusual. But instead of
a tiny note, she left
about five PAGES with him.
Something felt wrong... really wrong....
He opened the packet, sitting up an looking towards the sunrise, getting
barely enough light to
read it:
"Guys:
Cherri here.
^_^ Funny isn't it? You've probably noticed that I've gone, already. What
you don't know is that
I'm not coming back....I can't.
You wanted to know the truth... well, this is it.
I told you I was from another time frame. This is true. I'm from another
planet... another Earth.
An Earth where none of you guys exist except for in dream worlds. Magic
doesn't exist there. I
had the makings of a very ordinary life.
Almost a week ago, that was disrupted when a small group of Queits, posing
as humans invaded
my town trying to kill me. And my friends. Trista Meiou, Sailor Pluto,
brought us here, to end
your war.
The year there really is 2001. I really am 16. And a junior. No lie. I
didn't know about any of
this before hand, not the ring, not my powers, nothing.
Powers? I'm sure you've noticed, I'm different. Not just brainiac
different, not non-popular
different. Freak different. I'm a telepath. I don't know how to control
my psi powers very well,
Sage has helped me a bit, and I'll be eternally grateful.
You wanted to know what happened, Cye. My two best friends, another
extremely close friend,
and a girl I'd never met had to cross the time gates. We were under the
impression that if we
didn't stop them here, it would be a massacre and only a matter of time
before they go to us as
well. We didn't have a choice. We went.
JJ, the oldest of us, one of my two best friends, found a pendant in a cave.
Suddenly, she could
do weird stuff. My close friend Ariel and the other girl, quickly becoming
my friend, Cat, each
had gotten another gem by one mean or another. Aurora (my best friend in
the world... er...
dimension) and I didn't have anything... but we still fought.
When I went back to that cave, I found a box with my book and packages with
our names on it. I
returned to camp, where we were attacked by Queits. I used my powers to
save Aurora's life. JJ
killed it and I winced. She asked me why.
When JJ found out that I was using mind control and that I was inside of the
Queits brains, she
got mad. It wasn't her fault. As oldest, I guess she though she needed to
protect us. We got into
an argument. The amethyst she wore flashed and I was falling down the pit.
Luckily, you guys found me. You saved me. And I can never pay that back.
However, when Kwena jumped into my mind, my previous experience with the
creatures and her
own pattern sent me on some kind of memory flash... like seeing the future.
At that time, I had continued on with you guys, under your protection. This
world was
demolished, and they where ravaging mine. Everyone I knew was dead. Because
I stayed with
you guys instead... because I didn't turn myself over to them."
*No!* Ryo's mind shouted. *No!*
"I thought, what... what if I left you guys. In that future you guys where
gone. My friends where
gone. Everyone. My own family had long since died of the Queits attack on
my home world. If
I left, I would prevent the attack that killed you. By saving your lives,
maybe I'll *be* sacrificing
my own. But if it saves just one other person... it's worth it.
So I'm going. I'm going to find the girls. And I'm going to confront Kwena
and Morkela,
something I didn't do there. I'm going to them, although I'm certain it's a
trap.
I want you guys to know, that I love you all, very much. You'll always be
with me. Here are a
few extra pics of me, JJ, Ariel, and Aurora. I don't have one of Cat. Tell
them... tell them they
are the best fri-sisters a girl could have.
Love ya, now and forever,
Cherri ^_^"
Emptiness clouded his heart as he looked at the labeled pictures.... One of
three girls in matching
skirts and shirts. One of four all wearing jeans and T-shirt's and one of
her, her school photo,
smiling pleasantly at the camera.
"Where's Cherri?" Rowen asked.
Ryo looked at him strangely and buried his head into his hands. He had lost
her... maybe for
eternity. But he would fight. For her. For them. For *both* their
universes.
************
Something was wrong, so very very wrong. What was it? her mind demanded.
Unable to sit still
anymore, she got up and started to pace.
Kenshin, the 28 year old ex-samurai turned vagabond with orange hair and
crossed scars on his
cheek, was a very light sleeper. He was siting against a tree with his head
bowed and his sword
resting against his shoulder. He heard the shift in movement and lifted his
head.
"What's wrong Cat-dono?" He asked.
Cat looked into his calm violet eyes with her wild and frightened green
ones.
"Something's wrong, something is terribly wrong! I have to find the others,
and I have to find
them now!" Quickly, almost hysterically, she started shoving her things in
her bag. Kenshin got
up and grabbed her shoulders. Forcing her to meet his eyes, he willed her to
calm down.
"Tell me what's wrong, maybe we can help," he said in his calm, collected
and slightly feminine
voice.
"I can't explain. My friends and I, we all split up. And now I just know
that something horrible
has happened to them, I just know it! Please Kenshin, you've got to help me
find them! Please!"
she begged, tears welling in her eyes. She was entering hysterics, she had
to help them, she just
had to!
By then the noise had woken the others up.
"What's going on...?" Yahiko asked in his half-asleep voice. Then he saw Cat
and was suddenly
wide awake.
"Everyone, pack up you're things. We're leaving camp, now," he said with a
pointed look at his
companions.
Cat sighed with relief and collapsed into Kenshin's arms, giving him a warm
hug.
"Thank you." She said simply.
~~~~~~~~
Ariel was really scared. She had no clue what had happened. One second she
was in the woods,
the next she was in this... dungeon... all alone in this horrid place. She
was sick of this adventure,
she wanted to go home!
~~~~~~~~
Snow was running at her fastest capacity. As if sensing her rider's
anxiousness to get to the
destination, she poured all of her speed into the run.
Cherri was hanging on for dear life. Gosh this horse was fast. Suddenly, it
came to an abrupt
stop, almost throwing Cherri of in the process.
The brunette looked up and saw the familiar form of Kwena sneering at her.
"So Sapphirine, we meet again. Have you come to give yourself up?" she
inquired snidely.
"How did you guess?" Cherri responded with a sarcastic sneer of her own as
she disembarked
from the horse.
Kwena looked slightly surprised, this was easier than she had originally
planned. She had thought
the girl would have put up a minor resistance but, guess not.
"Well, you just made my life a whole lot easier," she said as her snide grin
slid back into place.
Suddenly Cherri was encased in what seemed to be a box made out of smokey
quartz.
Kwena laughed then.
"You know what? You giving yourself up won't stop the destruction of the
worlds, it'll just make
it easier." And with that she laughed again.
Cherri's eyes grew wide. *No!* she thought. *No! this was supposed to change
the future for the
better, not the worst!*
"Heh heh heh, two down, three to go!" Kwena snickered.
"What do you mean by that?" Cherri asked, not wanting to believe it meant
what she thought it
meant.
"Oh that's right, you don't know yet. Earlier this evening, I caught a
friend of your's. Does the
name 'Rubia' ring a bell?" she asked with a snide grin.
*Rubia?... rubies....* Cherri thought. "Ariel!" She said out loud.
"Bingo!" Kwena shouted. This was followed by more cruel laughter and then
the two forms
faded, being transported to the hive.
By: Anime's Angels
Part Nine
Yulie Yamano had a little chance to pat himself on the back. Mars was
doing fine, filled with
ordinary citizens who had buckled down and where doing in right, unlike the
mess on Io.
He had made it all the way to the Lunar base. He clutched at the Jewel of
Life. He knew
something about them... the gems... the Queits hated the gems... the Jewel
of Life, the Imperium
Silver Crystal... they could help!
If he could only get down there....
Little did he know that, even as a thirteen year old, he was being
watched....
~~~~~~~~
Cherri tucked it into his hand. Ryo Sanada, Cye Mouri, Rowen Hashiba, Sage
Date, and Kento
Rei Fuan. They had become her life lines for the past few days. She loved
them more than she
could stand. They where her brothers.... Ryo.... was special to her. What
was she DOING think
about him now? She had given him the letter, she had to get away.
Her blue shirt was missing from her ensemble, tucked away in her back,
leaving her in boots,
pants, and a bodice, all of them black. Her long hair was free and wavy
from the braid that she
had been wearing. Bending down, she lightly kissed Ryo's forehead. She
didn't know why, or if
she did she didn't want to admit it.
Grabbing her bag, she climbed atop the white horse she found in a nearby
stable. Hoisting
herself on to the blanket-for-a-saddle, she took one last look at her
closest friends outside of the
girls. She may never see them again, she reminded herself. She gripped the
silver mane of
Snow, the horse, in the moonlight. Kento looked like he was dreaming of
food again... Rowen
had pasted out into a small book she had lent him... Sage was peacefully
sleeping, though Cye
was tossing an turning... and Ryo... he was being Ryo... gorgeous.
Sage knew about her secret...and she let the others know in her letter, that
an a lot more.
Plugging her mp3 player's headphones in her ears, turning on one of a
multitude of Savage
Garden songs, she totted off silently before breaking into a gallop once
they were out of range of
the guys.
And as she realized she couldn't see them anymore, tears came out of her
eyes....
'It's for the best, Cherri... IT really is....'
~~~~~~~~
Ryo awoke in the middle of a most... pleasant... dream with an unusual
feeling. Cherri was gone
again. Usually, she'd get up to clean herself, not unusual. But instead of
a tiny note, she left
about five PAGES with him.
Something felt wrong... really wrong....
He opened the packet, sitting up an looking towards the sunrise, getting
barely enough light to
read it:
"Guys:
Cherri here.
^_^ Funny isn't it? You've probably noticed that I've gone, already. What
you don't know is that
I'm not coming back....I can't.
You wanted to know the truth... well, this is it.
I told you I was from another time frame. This is true. I'm from another
planet... another Earth.
An Earth where none of you guys exist except for in dream worlds. Magic
doesn't exist there. I
had the makings of a very ordinary life.
Almost a week ago, that was disrupted when a small group of Queits, posing
as humans invaded
my town trying to kill me. And my friends. Trista Meiou, Sailor Pluto,
brought us here, to end
your war.
The year there really is 2001. I really am 16. And a junior. No lie. I
didn't know about any of
this before hand, not the ring, not my powers, nothing.
Powers? I'm sure you've noticed, I'm different. Not just brainiac
different, not non-popular
different. Freak different. I'm a telepath. I don't know how to control
my psi powers very well,
Sage has helped me a bit, and I'll be eternally grateful.
You wanted to know what happened, Cye. My two best friends, another
extremely close friend,
and a girl I'd never met had to cross the time gates. We were under the
impression that if we
didn't stop them here, it would be a massacre and only a matter of time
before they go to us as
well. We didn't have a choice. We went.
JJ, the oldest of us, one of my two best friends, found a pendant in a cave.
Suddenly, she could
do weird stuff. My close friend Ariel and the other girl, quickly becoming
my friend, Cat, each
had gotten another gem by one mean or another. Aurora (my best friend in
the world... er...
dimension) and I didn't have anything... but we still fought.
When I went back to that cave, I found a box with my book and packages with
our names on it. I
returned to camp, where we were attacked by Queits. I used my powers to
save Aurora's life. JJ
killed it and I winced. She asked me why.
When JJ found out that I was using mind control and that I was inside of the
Queits brains, she
got mad. It wasn't her fault. As oldest, I guess she though she needed to
protect us. We got into
an argument. The amethyst she wore flashed and I was falling down the pit.
Luckily, you guys found me. You saved me. And I can never pay that back.
However, when Kwena jumped into my mind, my previous experience with the
creatures and her
own pattern sent me on some kind of memory flash... like seeing the future.
At that time, I had continued on with you guys, under your protection. This
world was
demolished, and they where ravaging mine. Everyone I knew was dead. Because
I stayed with
you guys instead... because I didn't turn myself over to them."
*No!* Ryo's mind shouted. *No!*
"I thought, what... what if I left you guys. In that future you guys where
gone. My friends where
gone. Everyone. My own family had long since died of the Queits attack on
my home world. If
I left, I would prevent the attack that killed you. By saving your lives,
maybe I'll *be* sacrificing
my own. But if it saves just one other person... it's worth it.
So I'm going. I'm going to find the girls. And I'm going to confront Kwena
and Morkela,
something I didn't do there. I'm going to them, although I'm certain it's a
trap.
I want you guys to know, that I love you all, very much. You'll always be
with me. Here are a
few extra pics of me, JJ, Ariel, and Aurora. I don't have one of Cat. Tell
them... tell them they
are the best fri-sisters a girl could have.
Love ya, now and forever,
Cherri ^_^"
Emptiness clouded his heart as he looked at the labeled pictures.... One of
three girls in matching
skirts and shirts. One of four all wearing jeans and T-shirt's and one of
her, her school photo,
smiling pleasantly at the camera.
"Where's Cherri?" Rowen asked.
Ryo looked at him strangely and buried his head into his hands. He had lost
her... maybe for
eternity. But he would fight. For her. For them. For *both* their
universes.
************
Something was wrong, so very very wrong. What was it? her mind demanded.
Unable to sit still
anymore, she got up and started to pace.
Kenshin, the 28 year old ex-samurai turned vagabond with orange hair and
crossed scars on his
cheek, was a very light sleeper. He was siting against a tree with his head
bowed and his sword
resting against his shoulder. He heard the shift in movement and lifted his
head.
"What's wrong Cat-dono?" He asked.
Cat looked into his calm violet eyes with her wild and frightened green
ones.
"Something's wrong, something is terribly wrong! I have to find the others,
and I have to find
them now!" Quickly, almost hysterically, she started shoving her things in
her bag. Kenshin got
up and grabbed her shoulders. Forcing her to meet his eyes, he willed her to
calm down.
"Tell me what's wrong, maybe we can help," he said in his calm, collected
and slightly feminine
voice.
"I can't explain. My friends and I, we all split up. And now I just know
that something horrible
has happened to them, I just know it! Please Kenshin, you've got to help me
find them! Please!"
she begged, tears welling in her eyes. She was entering hysterics, she had
to help them, she just
had to!
By then the noise had woken the others up.
"What's going on...?" Yahiko asked in his half-asleep voice. Then he saw Cat
and was suddenly
wide awake.
"Everyone, pack up you're things. We're leaving camp, now," he said with a
pointed look at his
companions.
Cat sighed with relief and collapsed into Kenshin's arms, giving him a warm
hug.
"Thank you." She said simply.
~~~~~~~~
Ariel was really scared. She had no clue what had happened. One second she
was in the woods,
the next she was in this... dungeon... all alone in this horrid place. She
was sick of this adventure,
she wanted to go home!
~~~~~~~~
Snow was running at her fastest capacity. As if sensing her rider's
anxiousness to get to the
destination, she poured all of her speed into the run.
Cherri was hanging on for dear life. Gosh this horse was fast. Suddenly, it
came to an abrupt
stop, almost throwing Cherri of in the process.
The brunette looked up and saw the familiar form of Kwena sneering at her.
"So Sapphirine, we meet again. Have you come to give yourself up?" she
inquired snidely.
"How did you guess?" Cherri responded with a sarcastic sneer of her own as
she disembarked
from the horse.
Kwena looked slightly surprised, this was easier than she had originally
planned. She had thought
the girl would have put up a minor resistance but, guess not.
"Well, you just made my life a whole lot easier," she said as her snide grin
slid back into place.
Suddenly Cherri was encased in what seemed to be a box made out of smokey
quartz.
Kwena laughed then.
"You know what? You giving yourself up won't stop the destruction of the
worlds, it'll just make
it easier." And with that she laughed again.
Cherri's eyes grew wide. *No!* she thought. *No! this was supposed to change
the future for the
better, not the worst!*
"Heh heh heh, two down, three to go!" Kwena snickered.
"What do you mean by that?" Cherri asked, not wanting to believe it meant
what she thought it
meant.
"Oh that's right, you don't know yet. Earlier this evening, I caught a
friend of your's. Does the
name 'Rubia' ring a bell?" she asked with a snide grin.
*Rubia?... rubies....* Cherri thought. "Ariel!" She said out loud.
"Bingo!" Kwena shouted. This was followed by more cruel laughter and then
the two forms
faded, being transported to the hive.