Crystal Magicians
By: Anime's Angels
Part Fifteen
"You can put me down now...."
"I'm serious...."
"Really Ryo, I'd appreciate it...."
"I'll start screaming bloody murder...."
"Ryo!! Put. Me. DOWN!!!"
Aurora laughed at her best friend. Cherri was trying everything under the
sun to be able to walk.
They had started out -- clean and fresh for an afternoon hike. Cherri had
stolen one of his shirts
and was carrying a book bag (while normal size for her) that Ryo decided was
to big for her.
Punishment? That he carried her -- specially after the protest she put up
earlier. She begged.
Pleaded. Threatened. And of course her semi-boyfriend continued to refuse.
Cat had seemed to be taking it slower now, walking back with Kenshin and
Sano, making side
conversation with Rowen every now and again.
Kento had good naturedly struck up a conversation in between the little Cye,
Ariel, Sage, and
Rora group while carrying on with Ryo at the same time. And laughing at
Cherri's predicament,
of course.
Though, behind the masquerade, everyone was a bit on edge... it was
strange....
~~~~~~~~
Dia and Zirca sat in their quarters. Dia with her white hair and lavender
eyes looked to be a fairy
herself, like she could sprout wings and fly away. Zirca, whose grey-green
eyes and slightly
sliver hair was reminiscent of a water sprite... a winter sprite with the
look of winter running
through each of the twins.
They sat, waiting, the Sikwe sisters did, waiting for orders from Morkela,
ruler of the Nine or
Kwena, his second. There where four girls on the Nine - Onxy Kwena, Dia
Sikwe, Zirca Sikwe,
and another. She was usually called Pera, from her stone the Peridot, she
had never taken an
assumed name herself.
Alrite Morkela, Aquine Gontik, Torum Hyceni, Quo Wolkd, and Tapoz Frinq made
up the men
of the council, each wanting one of the girls who had crossed the
dimensional path line... just as
they had wanted the originals over a thousand years before.
Dia had saved the one once known as Sapphirine. But since the nine was
shrouded, they had
picked both to be placed in the prison, to learn about there race's history
and culture.
Scarily enough, the gems now working against them were once part of the same
collective, a
group of highly skilled people ranging from artisans to royalty, warriors to
merchants, serfs to
judges. Twenty one.
It was a very complex group, and even the 21 had others, serving below to
help run things. Other
jewels, not of the 21 or of there origins had power - the silver crystal of
the Moon Kingdom of
Lunaria, the mystic stone of Gaea, a Jewel of Life, and a sphere of power
that was used in staffs...
all these worked similarly, though not from the same grounds or principles.
Sapphirine had been in the five, the five gems they so desperately needed,
and she had probably
caused the break up. Her and her 5. They had a council of nine, them and
four others. When
Sapphirine had chosen Hariel for her king - instead of whom the nine had
chosen, the council
was split.
The five left, and the other four disappeared. Leaving the others, the more
power hungry to fade
out as well. But they, they weren't going with out a fight.
The traveled, out of persecution, to find several planets out beyond the
rim of what had been
known. They found races... races that changed them, and they were easy to
change... to corrupt.
The Queits (and their allies)... with their advanced technology believed
that destruction was the
only way to make another, younger race grow and develop.
All they had need of was the tools. People to set it in motion. The others
came along and
together they took revenge for Sapphirine's crime... out on the entire
universe... until there was no
more. Realizing that she had jumped and that poor Hariel was dead as well,
the leader -
Morkela- went dimension hopping, to find the woman who had wronged him and
to flaunt his
proverbial muscles.
Zirca mentioned something about how stupid this was, and how stupid Dia was.
Dia smacked her sister.
~~~~~~~~
Serena quickly blasted them, her wand talking down three at a time. The
other scouts where
making progress as well, but since Hilde and Duo had to go off to Mars to
protect against an up
coming Queit attack, they were dwindling on back up.
"You women are all to weak. I have to fight for those weaker than I am,"
WuFei Chang said,
Shenlong coming up to cover.
Sailor Jupiter smiled at him, then at the plane Sally was in. It was good
to have a little more
cover, even if it came in shifts.
The only problem was, how long until this unit falls? And how long did they
have in between.
Sere didn't have TIME to get out her crystal, though little did she know
that it could help.
And they merrily fought on.
~~~~~~~~
*Hey.*
Ryo could hear.
*Cherri?* he replied... not sure if she was thinking or speaking.
She kept on trying new things and some of it scared him... some of it scared
her... but some of it
was kind of cool.
He could hear her laugh out loud. He grinned, only a moment before she
started whispering to
him mentally once again, a link he didn't knew they had.
*Read this,* she thought, showing him what she saw in front of her... it was
another one of her
messy scripts - poem or play, he couldn't tell. Not even using her OWN ways
of deducing her
handwriting.
*I am... the cheese?* he guessed.
*No!!! Stop being stupid. I'm worried about J. She's... something's
wrong. She's going to come
home and there is going to be an accident, but I don't know when or how but
it will be soon.*
"Cher," he said, walking the ten feet over to her and talking normally,
"we'll find her. Don't
worry. Everything will be fine."
*I hope....* he added silently, not allowing Cherri to perceive it.
********
The group reached a fork in the hiking path.
"Which way?" asked Cat. Aurora shrugged her shoulders, as did mostly
everyone else.
"One goes up to the mountains, the other to the plains below," Sage said
quietly.
"I say we go mountains. It'll be a lot more fun that way!" Ariel added in.
Cat grinned. "I agree," she said.
"But I'm tired, and hungry," Kento complained. He sat on a nearby rock.
"I am too, and Cherri here is in no condition for such a hike," added Ryo.
Cherri gave him 'the Look'. "I'm fine, now PUT ME DOWN!" she screamed. He
put her down,
but still kept a tight hold on her hand. The rest of the guys sat as well,
so the only ones standing
happened to be the four girls.
"Are you all tired and hungry?!" asked Cat angrily. They nodded. She
groaned, then started
heading up the mountain path, mumbling about how all guys were wimps. Ariel
followed her,
then Cherri and Aurora followed them. They walked on for a long time,
uphill, and finally
stopped at the summit of one of the smaller mountains.
"Wow!" whispered Aurora quietly.
The view was beautiful. An endless sea of grasses spread out before them,
rising to meet the
horizon that was streaked gold and red and violet from the sun that had
already set behind their
sites.
"See? I told you this path would be a lot more fun than the one going to
the plains," Ariel said,
grinning.
They began to head back down, and it was nearly completely dark before they
finally reached the
fork.
The guys were still sitting where the girls had left them, with Ryo looking
none too happy that
Cherri didn't take him with her and wouldn't let him come. The guys stood.
"Are you guys okay?" Sano asked, looking at Cat specifically but talking to
all of us.
"Of course!" she replied, glaring at him.
Ariel started cracking up.
"Lets go back and get some food, I'm starving." says Kento. His statement
was punctuated with
the loud sound of his stomach growling.
"Okay, but I get to make dinner," Ariel said, glaring at Rowen, who turned
red and stared at the
ground. Everyone cracked up, and they headed back to the inn. They reached
it just as the last
stars were coming out.
Ariel turned around right before she walked through the door, looking into
the night, feeling that
something is going to go very very wrong. *Please be okay JJ, and come back
soon,* she thought
as she headed to the kitchen. She then grinned. *And for the bad guys,
bring it on.*
~~~~~~~~
The group had returned to the inn, eaten and gone to bed.
Since the Queits were no longer around, they'd changed the sleeping
arrangements slightly. All
the guys were sleeping in one room and the girls in the other. No big
changes.
In the guys room, just about everyone was sleeping soundly with the
occasional snore.
Sano had been asleep but a disturbing dream had woken him up.
The ex-gangster was sitting in the bay window looking out at the sky,
contemplating the dream.
It had been really weird. He'd been a rooster and this giant broom had been
trying to crush him....
It was very disturbing....
~~~~~~~~
In the girls room, Cherri and Cat were still awake. Cherri was flipping
through her "spell book"
as she'd dubbed it while Cat was sitting in the window looking outside.
The only sound in the room was the turning of pages. Cat glanced over at
Cherri who seemed
completely enthralled with the book that explained her stone and it's power.
Curiosity suddenly getting the better of her, she left her perch to sit
beside the older girl and
looked at the book over Cherri's shoulder.
"What's it about?" Cat asked, gazing at the page.
"My ring...." Cherri whispered as she continued to read.
"What's it say?" Cat asked.
"It's talking about what powers the stone in it gives the user and how to
accept the power and
about the person who created this ring, Sapphirine," Cherri responded.
"Oh...." Cat said nodding. Curiosity quenched, she returned to her spot in
the window.
She gazed at the star for a few minutes before reaching below her seat and
grabbing her bag. She
opened it and grabbed the book within it.
She looked at it for a few moments. It was an old book. The cover was hard
and covered in dark
brown leather. The side was also bound in dark brown leather. On the cover,
in green ink, the
words "Crystal Magician" were scrawled in large curvy calligraphy.
Underneath the title, the
words "Volume 3 - Emerald" were written in smaller and less fancy print.
She opened it. On the very first page, there was a picture of an incredible
griffin, standing
regally. She recognized it. It was the same image that was engraved on the
emerald hanging from
her charm bracelet.
She looked at the charm. It glinted in the faint candlelight of the room. It
looked like a harmless
charm. She fingered the stone, it felt dead and cold, just as a stone
should.
She looked back at the book and turned the page. On this one, there was a
woman and a man
posing together....
*It's them....* she thought. The picture was of the man and woman that
haunted her dream. She
looked at the names at the bottom of the picture. The woman was named Emara
Catsi and the
man was Abelard MacLaren.
*MacLaren?... but, that's my last name....* the reader thought.
Perplexed she turned the page. It was words this time. There was a small
picture of Emara in the
corner and beside it was her birth date and death date. Underneath was her
entire biography.
Cat bean to read.
i Emara Catsi.
Born March 5th 1463 Dead April 8th 1488, age 25.
Emara was born in the village of Carlistan, in Northern Europe. Her mother
died in child birth
and her father died of an unknown illness when she was two.
She was raised by the village magic user, Domela Arcanste, and was taught
the woman's skills.
Emara was particularly fond of magic coming from the realm of "Earth".
She met Sapphirine (view Volume One) and Amethy (view Volume Two) when she
was twelve.
She then left Domela and the village and began to travel with her two new
friends. The three of
them were all magic users and in every village they went to, they left with
another magic user in
tow.
By the time she was sixteen, the small group of novice magic users had grown
into a group of
twenty-one of the most powerful magic users in that world.
The group created what is now known to be the most powerful magical items in
the known
world, the Summon Crystals.
Each member had a certain crystal in which they had concentrated all they're
power. Emara's was
the Emerald.
Each member also had the power to summon attacks branching from a certain
element, Emara's
was Earth and used nature attacks.
The concentrated power in the crystal was guarded by a certain creature,
they were known as the
Guardian Beasts. The type of Beast was determined by the amount of power
that the crystal
possessed. A very powerful crystal was protected by a very powerful and rare
mythical beast as
opposed to one of the weaker stones which were protected by weaker and more
common
creatures. The guardian beast was then carved into the stone to show how
powerful that stone
was. Emara's emerald was ranked third strongest and was protected by the
legendary Griffin.
In 1481, when Emara was 18, the ancient race known as the Quietusans, also
know as Queits,
attacked for the first time, seemingly out of the blue.
The crystal bearers, now known as the Crystal Magicians, used they're power
to stop the attack
but the war was far from over. Many of the crystal Magicians had changed
sides during the wars
and were now significant aides to the Queits. Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of
Time, had been sent
into another dimension to get help. She'd returned with five young men who
became important
soldiers in the war.
The five strongest Crystal Magicians, Sapphirine, Amethy, Emara, Rubia, and
Amber, teamed up
with the warriors.
Abelard MacLaren was one of the warriors. He and Emara became very close
though the details
to they're relationship remain a mystery to this day.
Near the end of the first war against the Queits, in 1487, Emara was
captured by Aquine Gontik,
creator of the aquamarine summoning stone and 7th most powerful Crystal
Magician, who had
turned to the side of the Queits.
No one knows what happened to Emara while she was a prisoner, all we know is
that the first
time she was seen after her capture, she was fighting for the Queits.
She ended up killing Abelard in a battle in February 1488 and after that
battle she was never seen
again.
Her body was found beheaded on the outskirts of Carlistan in April 1488.
/i
Cat looked up from the book then. She slowly closed it and put it down at
her feet. She then
looked at her charm. What had once seemed like an ordinary charm now seemed
incredibly
powerful and dangerous. She ran her fingers over it, slowly massaging it
with her hands. It had
seemed cold and dead before but now it felt warm and seemed to pulse with
life. It scared her a
little....
She looked around the room, Cherri had gone to sleep while Cat had been
reading. Ariel and
Aurora had been sleeping before she'd even started so there was no change
there. Cat was wide
awake, she doubted she'd sleep at all that night.
She looked out the window. So now she knew what her dream was. It was a
flash back, if not a
memory, of a time long before her. There was obviously some kind of a blood
connection
between Abelard, Emara and herself. It was the memory of Emara's last
moments, a vision, a
glimpse of the past. But what was the other part? Was it a vision of the
future? Was it telling her
that one day history would repeat itself and she would kill also join the
other side and kill
someone she cared for? But why was the person Sano? How was he connected
into all of this?
Or what if the dream wasn't a vision but some kind of warning? Telling her
not to get close to
Sano perhaps... no, not likely. Was it a warning that history was going to
repeat itself?
Or maybe... maybe it was a mournful plea, begging her not to repeat past
mistakes....
Whatever it was, it made a little more sense now.
She looked at the book... no she wouldn't read anymore tonight. She turned
her head and looked
out the window, once again lost in thought.
~~~~~~~~
Back in the boys room, Sano had gone back to bed. He was now asleep and
dreaming again. But
this dream was no less disturbing than the last one. In this one, he was
once again a rooster but
instead of being chased by a broom, he was running away from a giant fox....
"Go 'way... lemme 'lone Megumi...." Sano mumbled in his sleep.
By: Anime's Angels
Part Fifteen
"You can put me down now...."
"I'm serious...."
"Really Ryo, I'd appreciate it...."
"I'll start screaming bloody murder...."
"Ryo!! Put. Me. DOWN!!!"
Aurora laughed at her best friend. Cherri was trying everything under the
sun to be able to walk.
They had started out -- clean and fresh for an afternoon hike. Cherri had
stolen one of his shirts
and was carrying a book bag (while normal size for her) that Ryo decided was
to big for her.
Punishment? That he carried her -- specially after the protest she put up
earlier. She begged.
Pleaded. Threatened. And of course her semi-boyfriend continued to refuse.
Cat had seemed to be taking it slower now, walking back with Kenshin and
Sano, making side
conversation with Rowen every now and again.
Kento had good naturedly struck up a conversation in between the little Cye,
Ariel, Sage, and
Rora group while carrying on with Ryo at the same time. And laughing at
Cherri's predicament,
of course.
Though, behind the masquerade, everyone was a bit on edge... it was
strange....
~~~~~~~~
Dia and Zirca sat in their quarters. Dia with her white hair and lavender
eyes looked to be a fairy
herself, like she could sprout wings and fly away. Zirca, whose grey-green
eyes and slightly
sliver hair was reminiscent of a water sprite... a winter sprite with the
look of winter running
through each of the twins.
They sat, waiting, the Sikwe sisters did, waiting for orders from Morkela,
ruler of the Nine or
Kwena, his second. There where four girls on the Nine - Onxy Kwena, Dia
Sikwe, Zirca Sikwe,
and another. She was usually called Pera, from her stone the Peridot, she
had never taken an
assumed name herself.
Alrite Morkela, Aquine Gontik, Torum Hyceni, Quo Wolkd, and Tapoz Frinq made
up the men
of the council, each wanting one of the girls who had crossed the
dimensional path line... just as
they had wanted the originals over a thousand years before.
Dia had saved the one once known as Sapphirine. But since the nine was
shrouded, they had
picked both to be placed in the prison, to learn about there race's history
and culture.
Scarily enough, the gems now working against them were once part of the same
collective, a
group of highly skilled people ranging from artisans to royalty, warriors to
merchants, serfs to
judges. Twenty one.
It was a very complex group, and even the 21 had others, serving below to
help run things. Other
jewels, not of the 21 or of there origins had power - the silver crystal of
the Moon Kingdom of
Lunaria, the mystic stone of Gaea, a Jewel of Life, and a sphere of power
that was used in staffs...
all these worked similarly, though not from the same grounds or principles.
Sapphirine had been in the five, the five gems they so desperately needed,
and she had probably
caused the break up. Her and her 5. They had a council of nine, them and
four others. When
Sapphirine had chosen Hariel for her king - instead of whom the nine had
chosen, the council
was split.
The five left, and the other four disappeared. Leaving the others, the more
power hungry to fade
out as well. But they, they weren't going with out a fight.
The traveled, out of persecution, to find several planets out beyond the
rim of what had been
known. They found races... races that changed them, and they were easy to
change... to corrupt.
The Queits (and their allies)... with their advanced technology believed
that destruction was the
only way to make another, younger race grow and develop.
All they had need of was the tools. People to set it in motion. The others
came along and
together they took revenge for Sapphirine's crime... out on the entire
universe... until there was no
more. Realizing that she had jumped and that poor Hariel was dead as well,
the leader -
Morkela- went dimension hopping, to find the woman who had wronged him and
to flaunt his
proverbial muscles.
Zirca mentioned something about how stupid this was, and how stupid Dia was.
Dia smacked her sister.
~~~~~~~~
Serena quickly blasted them, her wand talking down three at a time. The
other scouts where
making progress as well, but since Hilde and Duo had to go off to Mars to
protect against an up
coming Queit attack, they were dwindling on back up.
"You women are all to weak. I have to fight for those weaker than I am,"
WuFei Chang said,
Shenlong coming up to cover.
Sailor Jupiter smiled at him, then at the plane Sally was in. It was good
to have a little more
cover, even if it came in shifts.
The only problem was, how long until this unit falls? And how long did they
have in between.
Sere didn't have TIME to get out her crystal, though little did she know
that it could help.
And they merrily fought on.
~~~~~~~~
*Hey.*
Ryo could hear.
*Cherri?* he replied... not sure if she was thinking or speaking.
She kept on trying new things and some of it scared him... some of it scared
her... but some of it
was kind of cool.
He could hear her laugh out loud. He grinned, only a moment before she
started whispering to
him mentally once again, a link he didn't knew they had.
*Read this,* she thought, showing him what she saw in front of her... it was
another one of her
messy scripts - poem or play, he couldn't tell. Not even using her OWN ways
of deducing her
handwriting.
*I am... the cheese?* he guessed.
*No!!! Stop being stupid. I'm worried about J. She's... something's
wrong. She's going to come
home and there is going to be an accident, but I don't know when or how but
it will be soon.*
"Cher," he said, walking the ten feet over to her and talking normally,
"we'll find her. Don't
worry. Everything will be fine."
*I hope....* he added silently, not allowing Cherri to perceive it.
********
The group reached a fork in the hiking path.
"Which way?" asked Cat. Aurora shrugged her shoulders, as did mostly
everyone else.
"One goes up to the mountains, the other to the plains below," Sage said
quietly.
"I say we go mountains. It'll be a lot more fun that way!" Ariel added in.
Cat grinned. "I agree," she said.
"But I'm tired, and hungry," Kento complained. He sat on a nearby rock.
"I am too, and Cherri here is in no condition for such a hike," added Ryo.
Cherri gave him 'the Look'. "I'm fine, now PUT ME DOWN!" she screamed. He
put her down,
but still kept a tight hold on her hand. The rest of the guys sat as well,
so the only ones standing
happened to be the four girls.
"Are you all tired and hungry?!" asked Cat angrily. They nodded. She
groaned, then started
heading up the mountain path, mumbling about how all guys were wimps. Ariel
followed her,
then Cherri and Aurora followed them. They walked on for a long time,
uphill, and finally
stopped at the summit of one of the smaller mountains.
"Wow!" whispered Aurora quietly.
The view was beautiful. An endless sea of grasses spread out before them,
rising to meet the
horizon that was streaked gold and red and violet from the sun that had
already set behind their
sites.
"See? I told you this path would be a lot more fun than the one going to
the plains," Ariel said,
grinning.
They began to head back down, and it was nearly completely dark before they
finally reached the
fork.
The guys were still sitting where the girls had left them, with Ryo looking
none too happy that
Cherri didn't take him with her and wouldn't let him come. The guys stood.
"Are you guys okay?" Sano asked, looking at Cat specifically but talking to
all of us.
"Of course!" she replied, glaring at him.
Ariel started cracking up.
"Lets go back and get some food, I'm starving." says Kento. His statement
was punctuated with
the loud sound of his stomach growling.
"Okay, but I get to make dinner," Ariel said, glaring at Rowen, who turned
red and stared at the
ground. Everyone cracked up, and they headed back to the inn. They reached
it just as the last
stars were coming out.
Ariel turned around right before she walked through the door, looking into
the night, feeling that
something is going to go very very wrong. *Please be okay JJ, and come back
soon,* she thought
as she headed to the kitchen. She then grinned. *And for the bad guys,
bring it on.*
~~~~~~~~
The group had returned to the inn, eaten and gone to bed.
Since the Queits were no longer around, they'd changed the sleeping
arrangements slightly. All
the guys were sleeping in one room and the girls in the other. No big
changes.
In the guys room, just about everyone was sleeping soundly with the
occasional snore.
Sano had been asleep but a disturbing dream had woken him up.
The ex-gangster was sitting in the bay window looking out at the sky,
contemplating the dream.
It had been really weird. He'd been a rooster and this giant broom had been
trying to crush him....
It was very disturbing....
~~~~~~~~
In the girls room, Cherri and Cat were still awake. Cherri was flipping
through her "spell book"
as she'd dubbed it while Cat was sitting in the window looking outside.
The only sound in the room was the turning of pages. Cat glanced over at
Cherri who seemed
completely enthralled with the book that explained her stone and it's power.
Curiosity suddenly getting the better of her, she left her perch to sit
beside the older girl and
looked at the book over Cherri's shoulder.
"What's it about?" Cat asked, gazing at the page.
"My ring...." Cherri whispered as she continued to read.
"What's it say?" Cat asked.
"It's talking about what powers the stone in it gives the user and how to
accept the power and
about the person who created this ring, Sapphirine," Cherri responded.
"Oh...." Cat said nodding. Curiosity quenched, she returned to her spot in
the window.
She gazed at the star for a few minutes before reaching below her seat and
grabbing her bag. She
opened it and grabbed the book within it.
She looked at it for a few moments. It was an old book. The cover was hard
and covered in dark
brown leather. The side was also bound in dark brown leather. On the cover,
in green ink, the
words "Crystal Magician" were scrawled in large curvy calligraphy.
Underneath the title, the
words "Volume 3 - Emerald" were written in smaller and less fancy print.
She opened it. On the very first page, there was a picture of an incredible
griffin, standing
regally. She recognized it. It was the same image that was engraved on the
emerald hanging from
her charm bracelet.
She looked at the charm. It glinted in the faint candlelight of the room. It
looked like a harmless
charm. She fingered the stone, it felt dead and cold, just as a stone
should.
She looked back at the book and turned the page. On this one, there was a
woman and a man
posing together....
*It's them....* she thought. The picture was of the man and woman that
haunted her dream. She
looked at the names at the bottom of the picture. The woman was named Emara
Catsi and the
man was Abelard MacLaren.
*MacLaren?... but, that's my last name....* the reader thought.
Perplexed she turned the page. It was words this time. There was a small
picture of Emara in the
corner and beside it was her birth date and death date. Underneath was her
entire biography.
Cat bean to read.
i Emara Catsi.
Born March 5th 1463 Dead April 8th 1488, age 25.
Emara was born in the village of Carlistan, in Northern Europe. Her mother
died in child birth
and her father died of an unknown illness when she was two.
She was raised by the village magic user, Domela Arcanste, and was taught
the woman's skills.
Emara was particularly fond of magic coming from the realm of "Earth".
She met Sapphirine (view Volume One) and Amethy (view Volume Two) when she
was twelve.
She then left Domela and the village and began to travel with her two new
friends. The three of
them were all magic users and in every village they went to, they left with
another magic user in
tow.
By the time she was sixteen, the small group of novice magic users had grown
into a group of
twenty-one of the most powerful magic users in that world.
The group created what is now known to be the most powerful magical items in
the known
world, the Summon Crystals.
Each member had a certain crystal in which they had concentrated all they're
power. Emara's was
the Emerald.
Each member also had the power to summon attacks branching from a certain
element, Emara's
was Earth and used nature attacks.
The concentrated power in the crystal was guarded by a certain creature,
they were known as the
Guardian Beasts. The type of Beast was determined by the amount of power
that the crystal
possessed. A very powerful crystal was protected by a very powerful and rare
mythical beast as
opposed to one of the weaker stones which were protected by weaker and more
common
creatures. The guardian beast was then carved into the stone to show how
powerful that stone
was. Emara's emerald was ranked third strongest and was protected by the
legendary Griffin.
In 1481, when Emara was 18, the ancient race known as the Quietusans, also
know as Queits,
attacked for the first time, seemingly out of the blue.
The crystal bearers, now known as the Crystal Magicians, used they're power
to stop the attack
but the war was far from over. Many of the crystal Magicians had changed
sides during the wars
and were now significant aides to the Queits. Sailor Pluto, the Guardian of
Time, had been sent
into another dimension to get help. She'd returned with five young men who
became important
soldiers in the war.
The five strongest Crystal Magicians, Sapphirine, Amethy, Emara, Rubia, and
Amber, teamed up
with the warriors.
Abelard MacLaren was one of the warriors. He and Emara became very close
though the details
to they're relationship remain a mystery to this day.
Near the end of the first war against the Queits, in 1487, Emara was
captured by Aquine Gontik,
creator of the aquamarine summoning stone and 7th most powerful Crystal
Magician, who had
turned to the side of the Queits.
No one knows what happened to Emara while she was a prisoner, all we know is
that the first
time she was seen after her capture, she was fighting for the Queits.
She ended up killing Abelard in a battle in February 1488 and after that
battle she was never seen
again.
Her body was found beheaded on the outskirts of Carlistan in April 1488.
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Cat looked up from the book then. She slowly closed it and put it down at
her feet. She then
looked at her charm. What had once seemed like an ordinary charm now seemed
incredibly
powerful and dangerous. She ran her fingers over it, slowly massaging it
with her hands. It had
seemed cold and dead before but now it felt warm and seemed to pulse with
life. It scared her a
little....
She looked around the room, Cherri had gone to sleep while Cat had been
reading. Ariel and
Aurora had been sleeping before she'd even started so there was no change
there. Cat was wide
awake, she doubted she'd sleep at all that night.
She looked out the window. So now she knew what her dream was. It was a
flash back, if not a
memory, of a time long before her. There was obviously some kind of a blood
connection
between Abelard, Emara and herself. It was the memory of Emara's last
moments, a vision, a
glimpse of the past. But what was the other part? Was it a vision of the
future? Was it telling her
that one day history would repeat itself and she would kill also join the
other side and kill
someone she cared for? But why was the person Sano? How was he connected
into all of this?
Or what if the dream wasn't a vision but some kind of warning? Telling her
not to get close to
Sano perhaps... no, not likely. Was it a warning that history was going to
repeat itself?
Or maybe... maybe it was a mournful plea, begging her not to repeat past
mistakes....
Whatever it was, it made a little more sense now.
She looked at the book... no she wouldn't read anymore tonight. She turned
her head and looked
out the window, once again lost in thought.
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Back in the boys room, Sano had gone back to bed. He was now asleep and
dreaming again. But
this dream was no less disturbing than the last one. In this one, he was
once again a rooster but
instead of being chased by a broom, he was running away from a giant fox....
"Go 'way... lemme 'lone Megumi...." Sano mumbled in his sleep.