Crystal Magicians
By: Anime's Angels
Part Sixteen
***Begin Dream***
"We can't pull up!" a male voice yelled
"Come on, come on, Amethy! Why won't it work!" JJ sat, strapped in and
shouting at her
pendant.
A couple sat in the corner with their four other friends... the plane with
thirty some people
seemed to hold it's breath....
The shuttle crashed, burning and taking out some large Leo's along the way.
It skidded, the metal
twisting and shrapnel flying. Inside the couple and co had been taken from
there normal,
comfortable space to being compacted into an area less than one square foot.
The man was sprawled out on the ground, fifty foot away from his original
seat in the cockpit, his
instruments in bits and pieces all around.
JJ had miraculously stayed strapped in, but the harness had severed through
the tender flesh of
her shoulders and thighs, each femur and scapula broken. Her seat was
forward, her pendent
shattered and cold, and a sharp piece of metal protruding threw her small
frame, coming to a
point that had sliced the seat in front of her.
The Queits came... incinerating the remains... Kwena took the gem... JJ was
spared that fate only
to be immortalize in transparent onyx as an example to the rebellion.
***End Dream***
Cherri awoke with a start. God, when would that stop coming to mind? Her
stomach had turned,
she could smell blood and see her friend laying, dead.
Her clothes... er... her jeans and Ryo's shirt clung to her lean and tall
form. The sweat had
seemed to drench her being. She hated this. It was coming. Looking down
she saw her five
books. Yes, she was (as ever) the book worm... the saying from early on -
the Human
Dictionary- still rang true....
First, there was her small navy journal. She had caught up on her
adventures this afternoon, she
wanted a record to be kept, after all. Sapphirine didn't have the chance,
and if it happened again
-- like it probably would if it didn't work exactly right -- she wanted HER
great granddaughter to
have a guide... or least knowing that she understood.
Second was the deep brown book she had found in the cave... it was twice as
thick as her journal
- nearly five inches -- and had many tales of the Crystalline girls... the
wizards there ancestors
where and the origins of all powerful jewels of this realm.
Third was a calm blue book with silver script on the front - Sapphirine~
Princess, Wizard, and
Lover... the Crystalline Wizards... Volume 1. Obviously, Saff's own
handwriting. It
concentrated on her life and her gem.
Fourth, a black book of incarnations, ones that Saff obviously knew but
rarely used or wasn't
supposed to based on the blue book. This one also told of her psi powers...
it many other weird
things too....
Fifth was the red book in Cherri's backpack, and was a journal/novel of
Hariel, her husband and
king. Cherri, however, stuffed all of them in, grabbed some clean clothing
from her Kohl's bag
and went to a room further down to shower up... so she wouldn't wake any
one.
~~~~~~~~
*Why didn't anyone tell me earlier! We found them, but we lost them! God,
I'm surrounded by
imbeciles! And Heero who won't let me walk, the now infamous trio of Trowa,
Dorothy, and
Quatre who left for God know's where, Ayeka is captured by villains trying
to get the most out of
the situation, Washu, Bulma, and Ami... all unable to break this
intermolecular seal on our
communications, my cousins out and scattered to find these people without
my consent, the
Ronins and Mia - where abouts unknown, Milliardo's off to Mars, Yulie gave
info and left, and
they all leave ME here where I can't do anything!* Relena mentally fumed.
WuFei looked in and walked on by. God knew HE wasn't going to tell her that
Heero had taken
off as well. Maybe it was injustice to that weak onna but they called him
CRAZY Chang, not
stupid.
~~~~~~~~
"Kagato... where did you take her? Is this about Nagi again? Yumi? Who!
Who are you
working with! Ayeka is a friend and we ALL need her power on Jurai to get
the ships to defeat
them!"
"Ryoko. Ryoko. Ryoko. My associates choose to remain anonyms. But I will
tel you they are
rather quietus, don't you think?"
"No... God... no...."
~~~~~~~~
Pera looked at Dai and Zirca, the twins. Morkela had come in and should
them whose boss. It
was kind of funny... in a pathetic kind of way.
But she felt some sort of guilt, she guessed.
However, guessing was irrelevant, and she walked on by the two broken and
bloody girls.
Tomorrow was another day... maybe then she would have her chance.
~~~~~~~~
Cherri came out, clean, but still haunted. Her baggy sleep wear (which she
had forgotten about
that evening) consisted of loose plaid pajama pants and an over sized grey
T-shirt. Her wet hair
was pulled back in a sloppy bun.
She stopped on the edge of the room, adjusting her mp3 player's head phones,
though the device
was silent now, the music had helped, and now she could listen to it when
she got to the room
she was sleeping in.
Silently, her sock clad feet patted down the hall, careful not to wake
anyone. However, someone
else noticed. Rather, two someone elses.
"You should be asleep princess."
It was him....
"Morkela," her breath whispered on her exhale, her body freezing. The inn
was similar to Mia
Koji's home - fairly wide halls and plenty of decorations... including some
swords.... Cherri
wasn't a skilled fighter but she had wrestled with her brothers and father,
and knew she could
protect herself if she had the element of surprise.
She pulled out the head phones and her music maker was placed in her right
hand... but she
continued to her room, placing it just inside her doorway....
"Aren't you going to acknowledge me?"
"Why would I do that?" she asked, edging closer to a datchi on the wall.
"Because, you belong to me," he replied, slightly sincere. "My offer still
stands... you are my
goddess, just," he walked closer to her... but she wasn't close enough to
the scabbard yet, "come
with me, my lady... Sapphirine... you look like her Cheron... a little
Saff... Cherri, you could be a
queen, royalty even!"
"She used to love you, you know," Cherri said, almost in range, "but you
became so changed that
she wanted space. When she found her Soulmate... Hariel," she clarified for
him. "She finally
got the courage to leave you, even leaving her place at the head of the
twenty one."
Her hand crawled up the wall slowly, knowing that he could harm her for her
back was still to
him, as it had been for this entire conversation. "But we are different.
She could have forgiven
you.... I could of even... but were as she would pardon her capture..." her
hand grabbed the
handle, and she sharply turn around drawing it from the scabbard, "I will
not!" and she charged.
The bearer of Alexandrite drew his own sword, blocking hers just in time.
Cherri wasn't to be
defeated so easily - she was on her own high, probably the most
concentration she had had since
her capture... every thing was in focus now.
She knew what he had done, to Sapphirine, to his own family... her hatred
was more than she
could bear. She wasn't sure how to fight, but she knew she had to win....
Her mind recalled
gymnastic pattern from working with Rora, simple fighting techniques of
kicks and punches that
JJ had taught them when a strand of date rapes went down a few months ago...
Her own logical
thinking, movie moves that Ariel and herself had analyzed.... Speed tips
from cat and her own
powers from the books....
She could run, but morally, she couldn't allow herself.
Hand to hand combat wouldn't help in this situation, and her own agility
probably wouldn't
help... though the splits (which she could do... for a REALLY long time....)
might come in handy.
And she couldn't do most of those moves without stunt men.
All this past in less than .01 seconds. But she *knew* from somewhere.
She turned, pivoted, hacked, slashed, clangs and ricochets bouncing
everywhere. They made
their way down the rest of the hall, her hair down and fairly dried now, as
she went in for a move.
Ryo watched her, instinctively sending her what she need to know, almost
like directing her in
her fight. He had both of his datchi in hand proving him ready for the
fight, though his white
undershirt and dark pj pants proved other wise.
Then he noticed, she was trying too hard to let her growing telepathic
powers to work, and her
ring had been left in her room. Aurora looked at him from across the hall.
Holding up the ring,
she tossed it, and he caught it, effortlessly.
Cat and Ariel came up behind her - Ariel in a nightgown, Cat in fancy satin
pajamas and Aurora
in an oversize T-shirt, all holding there own jewels.
Looking over his shoulder, he could see the guys get up -- well Sage, Cye,
and Kenshin anyways.
Looking at the girls, he tried to send a 'wait a bit' signal as he started
communicating to Cherri in
words instead of physical impulses.
*I've got your ring. I'm three feet away. Man, I can't always help you
like this. Tomorrow, after
we leave, and find a new spot, we work on sword training. Kay, I've got you
almost to throwing
distance. Now switch hands on the blade... and... catch!*
Cherri turned in time to grab the ring. Quickly, she did a roundhouse kick,
knocking Morkela
back - not down like she intended, while she moved her small, and rather
worn out sword back to
her right hand, while sliding the familiar stone over her left hand ring
finger.
Comforted by it's return, she quickly let it blaze a hot blue light, pouring
the heat of it into his
face - using her mind to increase the chemical effects of the stone on his
body. Briefly, her body
glowed a soft blue light, but it stopped before anyone but Ryo could notice
or even determine the
color or it's original existence.
Cherri wobbled a bit as Morkela teleported out. Her body swayed, realizing
that he had gotten
quite a few good blows in before her ring was returned. Oh yeah. She'd
feel this tomorrow...
err... this morning.
Tiredly, and semi-sweaty yet again, her body sank into sleep as did her body
to the floor, though
not before Ryo caught her or others shared a common, knowing look.
Cherri just turned over, though, as Ryo carried her over to tuck her in.
By: Anime's Angels
Part Sixteen
***Begin Dream***
"We can't pull up!" a male voice yelled
"Come on, come on, Amethy! Why won't it work!" JJ sat, strapped in and
shouting at her
pendant.
A couple sat in the corner with their four other friends... the plane with
thirty some people
seemed to hold it's breath....
The shuttle crashed, burning and taking out some large Leo's along the way.
It skidded, the metal
twisting and shrapnel flying. Inside the couple and co had been taken from
there normal,
comfortable space to being compacted into an area less than one square foot.
The man was sprawled out on the ground, fifty foot away from his original
seat in the cockpit, his
instruments in bits and pieces all around.
JJ had miraculously stayed strapped in, but the harness had severed through
the tender flesh of
her shoulders and thighs, each femur and scapula broken. Her seat was
forward, her pendent
shattered and cold, and a sharp piece of metal protruding threw her small
frame, coming to a
point that had sliced the seat in front of her.
The Queits came... incinerating the remains... Kwena took the gem... JJ was
spared that fate only
to be immortalize in transparent onyx as an example to the rebellion.
***End Dream***
Cherri awoke with a start. God, when would that stop coming to mind? Her
stomach had turned,
she could smell blood and see her friend laying, dead.
Her clothes... er... her jeans and Ryo's shirt clung to her lean and tall
form. The sweat had
seemed to drench her being. She hated this. It was coming. Looking down
she saw her five
books. Yes, she was (as ever) the book worm... the saying from early on -
the Human
Dictionary- still rang true....
First, there was her small navy journal. She had caught up on her
adventures this afternoon, she
wanted a record to be kept, after all. Sapphirine didn't have the chance,
and if it happened again
-- like it probably would if it didn't work exactly right -- she wanted HER
great granddaughter to
have a guide... or least knowing that she understood.
Second was the deep brown book she had found in the cave... it was twice as
thick as her journal
- nearly five inches -- and had many tales of the Crystalline girls... the
wizards there ancestors
where and the origins of all powerful jewels of this realm.
Third was a calm blue book with silver script on the front - Sapphirine~
Princess, Wizard, and
Lover... the Crystalline Wizards... Volume 1. Obviously, Saff's own
handwriting. It
concentrated on her life and her gem.
Fourth, a black book of incarnations, ones that Saff obviously knew but
rarely used or wasn't
supposed to based on the blue book. This one also told of her psi powers...
it many other weird
things too....
Fifth was the red book in Cherri's backpack, and was a journal/novel of
Hariel, her husband and
king. Cherri, however, stuffed all of them in, grabbed some clean clothing
from her Kohl's bag
and went to a room further down to shower up... so she wouldn't wake any
one.
~~~~~~~~
*Why didn't anyone tell me earlier! We found them, but we lost them! God,
I'm surrounded by
imbeciles! And Heero who won't let me walk, the now infamous trio of Trowa,
Dorothy, and
Quatre who left for God know's where, Ayeka is captured by villains trying
to get the most out of
the situation, Washu, Bulma, and Ami... all unable to break this
intermolecular seal on our
communications, my cousins out and scattered to find these people without
my consent, the
Ronins and Mia - where abouts unknown, Milliardo's off to Mars, Yulie gave
info and left, and
they all leave ME here where I can't do anything!* Relena mentally fumed.
WuFei looked in and walked on by. God knew HE wasn't going to tell her that
Heero had taken
off as well. Maybe it was injustice to that weak onna but they called him
CRAZY Chang, not
stupid.
~~~~~~~~
"Kagato... where did you take her? Is this about Nagi again? Yumi? Who!
Who are you
working with! Ayeka is a friend and we ALL need her power on Jurai to get
the ships to defeat
them!"
"Ryoko. Ryoko. Ryoko. My associates choose to remain anonyms. But I will
tel you they are
rather quietus, don't you think?"
"No... God... no...."
~~~~~~~~
Pera looked at Dai and Zirca, the twins. Morkela had come in and should
them whose boss. It
was kind of funny... in a pathetic kind of way.
But she felt some sort of guilt, she guessed.
However, guessing was irrelevant, and she walked on by the two broken and
bloody girls.
Tomorrow was another day... maybe then she would have her chance.
~~~~~~~~
Cherri came out, clean, but still haunted. Her baggy sleep wear (which she
had forgotten about
that evening) consisted of loose plaid pajama pants and an over sized grey
T-shirt. Her wet hair
was pulled back in a sloppy bun.
She stopped on the edge of the room, adjusting her mp3 player's head phones,
though the device
was silent now, the music had helped, and now she could listen to it when
she got to the room
she was sleeping in.
Silently, her sock clad feet patted down the hall, careful not to wake
anyone. However, someone
else noticed. Rather, two someone elses.
"You should be asleep princess."
It was him....
"Morkela," her breath whispered on her exhale, her body freezing. The inn
was similar to Mia
Koji's home - fairly wide halls and plenty of decorations... including some
swords.... Cherri
wasn't a skilled fighter but she had wrestled with her brothers and father,
and knew she could
protect herself if she had the element of surprise.
She pulled out the head phones and her music maker was placed in her right
hand... but she
continued to her room, placing it just inside her doorway....
"Aren't you going to acknowledge me?"
"Why would I do that?" she asked, edging closer to a datchi on the wall.
"Because, you belong to me," he replied, slightly sincere. "My offer still
stands... you are my
goddess, just," he walked closer to her... but she wasn't close enough to
the scabbard yet, "come
with me, my lady... Sapphirine... you look like her Cheron... a little
Saff... Cherri, you could be a
queen, royalty even!"
"She used to love you, you know," Cherri said, almost in range, "but you
became so changed that
she wanted space. When she found her Soulmate... Hariel," she clarified for
him. "She finally
got the courage to leave you, even leaving her place at the head of the
twenty one."
Her hand crawled up the wall slowly, knowing that he could harm her for her
back was still to
him, as it had been for this entire conversation. "But we are different.
She could have forgiven
you.... I could of even... but were as she would pardon her capture..." her
hand grabbed the
handle, and she sharply turn around drawing it from the scabbard, "I will
not!" and she charged.
The bearer of Alexandrite drew his own sword, blocking hers just in time.
Cherri wasn't to be
defeated so easily - she was on her own high, probably the most
concentration she had had since
her capture... every thing was in focus now.
She knew what he had done, to Sapphirine, to his own family... her hatred
was more than she
could bear. She wasn't sure how to fight, but she knew she had to win....
Her mind recalled
gymnastic pattern from working with Rora, simple fighting techniques of
kicks and punches that
JJ had taught them when a strand of date rapes went down a few months ago...
Her own logical
thinking, movie moves that Ariel and herself had analyzed.... Speed tips
from cat and her own
powers from the books....
She could run, but morally, she couldn't allow herself.
Hand to hand combat wouldn't help in this situation, and her own agility
probably wouldn't
help... though the splits (which she could do... for a REALLY long time....)
might come in handy.
And she couldn't do most of those moves without stunt men.
All this past in less than .01 seconds. But she *knew* from somewhere.
She turned, pivoted, hacked, slashed, clangs and ricochets bouncing
everywhere. They made
their way down the rest of the hall, her hair down and fairly dried now, as
she went in for a move.
Ryo watched her, instinctively sending her what she need to know, almost
like directing her in
her fight. He had both of his datchi in hand proving him ready for the
fight, though his white
undershirt and dark pj pants proved other wise.
Then he noticed, she was trying too hard to let her growing telepathic
powers to work, and her
ring had been left in her room. Aurora looked at him from across the hall.
Holding up the ring,
she tossed it, and he caught it, effortlessly.
Cat and Ariel came up behind her - Ariel in a nightgown, Cat in fancy satin
pajamas and Aurora
in an oversize T-shirt, all holding there own jewels.
Looking over his shoulder, he could see the guys get up -- well Sage, Cye,
and Kenshin anyways.
Looking at the girls, he tried to send a 'wait a bit' signal as he started
communicating to Cherri in
words instead of physical impulses.
*I've got your ring. I'm three feet away. Man, I can't always help you
like this. Tomorrow, after
we leave, and find a new spot, we work on sword training. Kay, I've got you
almost to throwing
distance. Now switch hands on the blade... and... catch!*
Cherri turned in time to grab the ring. Quickly, she did a roundhouse kick,
knocking Morkela
back - not down like she intended, while she moved her small, and rather
worn out sword back to
her right hand, while sliding the familiar stone over her left hand ring
finger.
Comforted by it's return, she quickly let it blaze a hot blue light, pouring
the heat of it into his
face - using her mind to increase the chemical effects of the stone on his
body. Briefly, her body
glowed a soft blue light, but it stopped before anyone but Ryo could notice
or even determine the
color or it's original existence.
Cherri wobbled a bit as Morkela teleported out. Her body swayed, realizing
that he had gotten
quite a few good blows in before her ring was returned. Oh yeah. She'd
feel this tomorrow...
err... this morning.
Tiredly, and semi-sweaty yet again, her body sank into sleep as did her body
to the floor, though
not before Ryo caught her or others shared a common, knowing look.
Cherri just turned over, though, as Ryo carried her over to tuck her in.