Okay okay, basic overview of the story; The Mashin are still able to be summoned,
only in times of need.
After Season 2 of Rayearth. And Nova's good, surprise!
Read and review, please, but be nice, it's my first Rayearth story here
on Fanfiction.net!
Disclaimer: I
don't own Rayearth! Copyright belongs
to the respective owners.
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"I want to go back to Cephiro!" Hikaru said sadly to Umi and Fuu. The three of them were enjoying a picnic in a park near the Tokyo
Tower on the anniversary of their visit to the other world. Fuu nodded.
"I do wish to see Ferio again," she replied dreamily. Umi gave her a nudge and a wink.
"And I want to see how Cephiro's changed after our last
adventure there," Umi agreed. "But how
are we supposed to get there?" as if on
cue, the tell-tale flash of light appeared, and the three were sucked away,
back to Cephiro.
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'Something's wrong' Lantis thought to himself as he looked
at Hikaru's retreating back. She never
asked to leave the dinner table early, as he himself had seen how much of a
voracious eater the Magic Knight of Fire was.
The Knights were back from their world after a year, and not
much had changed. The girls had matured
a little bit, but that was it. Hikaru
was still as lively as ever, Umi, serious, and Fuu, polite.
Glancing over the dining table, Lantis saw the goo-goo eyes
that Prince Ferio was making at Fuu.
Umi was talking up a storm with Caldina and Lafarga, with Caldina on
Lafarga's lap. Strangely, the captain
of the guard didn't look at all uncomfortable with the dancer sitting on top of
his leg. On the contrary, he looked
like he was enjoying it. Master Mage
Clef was chatting with Fuu and Ascott about some political issue at hand
involving the people of Fahren, and opening the trade routes between all four
countries.
The three girls had returned in normal fashion. In other words, unexpectedly.
"Lantis, are you listening?" Presea asked kindly. He shot back at attention.
"Uhm yea, I'm listening," Lantis replied absently. Presea gave him a reasssuring look.
"Go check on her, Lantis," she said, giving his arm a
nudge. He shot her a look of relief
before walking quietly out of the dining hall.
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Hikaru couldn't take the guilt anymore. After Clef had mentioned how Cephiro had
changed for the better, she couldn't bear to listen anymore. She went into her room and sat on the
windowsill, crying her heart out. Dark
feelings of guilt and pain flooded her mind and heart. A shimmer started beside her. Within a few seconds, Nova was there,
stroking Hikaru's hair sadly.
"Why was I so weak?!
Why did I kill both her and Zagato?!"
Hikaru kept on crying out. All
Nova could do was be there, after all, she was created from Hikaru's mind and
came into existence the moment that the Magic Knights put Princess Emeraude out
of her misery. She knew what Hikaru was
thinking, and felt the same agonizing pain lance in her heart.
"You did what you had to do," Nova tried saying, but Hikaru
wouldn't listen. Just kept on crying.
"Lantis loves you because you made the world of Cephiro a
better place," Nova continued. "He
knows you did what you had to do in order to save it."
"But there must have been another way!" Hikaru screamed at
Nova, tears streaming down her face.
Nova shirked back a little; even she didn't expect that kind
of reaction.
"I don't deserve to be a Magic Knight, I don't deserve
friends, I don't deserve Lantis. I
don't deserve anything!" Hikaru cried
out sorrowfully, standing up slowly.
Nova could feel the sadness flow through her mind like black, polluted
water.
Just then, Nova began to see some sort of shell surround
Hikaru's body. It looked like some sort
of crystalline structure. She began to
shake with fear.
"Hikaru, you know this isn't how you solve it!" Nova cried
desperately, pounding her fists against the hardening crystal.
'This is how I will solve it, though,' Hikaru spoke into
Nova's mind. 'Please… take care…'
Just then, Lantis charged into the room, and froze in his
tracks.
"Hikaru, no…" he whispered pleadingly.
'Lantis… my love… I must do this… to protect everyone…,'
Hikaru said, the crystal structure completing itself. Hikaru encased in the crystal began to fade away. Nova kept on pounding against the crystal
futilely, trying to shatter it, but one knows that Hikaru made it, and her will
was the strongest in all of Cephiro.
Lantis ran to where Hikaru and Nova was, fear etched in his
normally cool features.
'Please… tell everyone… I love them…' Hikaru's thought voice
was fading fast.
"Where are you going??" Nova and Lantis cried out
simultaneously.
'Nova knows… she was there before… aishiteru, Lantis… Nova…'
With that last thought, Hikaru disappeared.
"IIE!!" Lantis cried out in rage and frustration, falling to
his knees and pounding his fists into the floor. "She's gone…" But a
strange glint began to shine in his fist.
Opening it slowly, he found a ribbon.
Hikaru's hair ribbon.
"The place I was before…" Nova was thinking quickly. "The alternate world of Cephiro!" But then, Nova began fading away as
well. She gave a small yelp of
surprise.
"Nova, is Hikaru calling you back?!" Lantis asked frantically. She gave a small, helpless nod before she,
too, disappeared without a trace.
'The alternate world of Cephiro…' Lantis thought. 'Debonair's palace.' Just then, the door flew open.
"We heard a commotion!"
Fuu cried out breathlessly.
Everyone who was at the dinner table was now crowding into Hikaru's
empty room. Primera came flying up from
behind Umi, and began looking around suspiciously.
"Where's that little girl who keeps on trying to steal my
Lantis?!" Primera yelled. All Lantis could do was clutch the ribbon
tighter in his hand. Everyone pretty
much ignored her tedious and loud cries.
"Lantis, where is Hikaru?" Clef asked quietly.
"She's gone… to the other dimension… to slowly torture
herself…for Emeraude, and my brother," Lantis whispered quietly.
"Whaatt? That little
missy sure needs a good talking to!" Caldina said. "She knows that she had to do what she had to to save us all, but
she's still beating herself up after all this time?"
"It's true, it makes no sense to me why Hikaru still feels
guilt for granting Emeraude's wish." Ascott said sadly. "You forgave her, but she still can't accept
it."
"We have to find some way to get her back!" Presea cried out.
"Before she disappeared, Nova was also here, but she
disappeared with Hikaru as well," Lantis continued.
"Hikaru is slowly killing herself," a familiar voice
said. Everyone whirled around, and saw
the ghost-like figure of Nova floating in the doorway, quickly soildifying,
however.
"What did you just say, Nova??" Umi cried out, partially in shock.
"She is trying to kill herself," Nova repeated slowly. "She locked herself in Debonair's old
fortress, and the negative energies from her heart are filling the entire
alternate dimension with darkness, until her fire dies. Along with me."
"Miss Nova, how can we go to the alternate dimension?" Fuu asked quickly, trembling. "We must save her soon!" Ferio put a supportive arm around her
shoulders.
"The darkness has all but sealed off any entry to or from
the dimension," Nova said, shaking her head sadly. "I was only able to come here because of my own will. Hikaru did not want me to come here, but, as
I am a part of her, we share the same powerful wills."
"Leave that brat to do whatever she wants!" scoffed Primera. "She keeps on trying to steal my Lantis!" She was ignored again, as usual.
"Nova, is there -any- way at all to get to the alternate
dimension?" Clef asked.
"Yes," Nova said slowly.
"However, it will require all of my energy, which is diminishing fairly
quickly now, and when I run out, I will have to return to Hikaru, no longer
able to help. Once in the alternate
world, you will be alone. And I can
only transport up to 3 people there.
More, and I will kill Hikaru as well as myself."
"Take me," Lantis said confidently, but with a twinge of
-fear-?
"No way are you going without me!" Umi cried, stepping forward.
"Yes, we must get Miss Hikaru back," Fuu said.
"That's three, then," Nova said. However, both Ferio and Clef grabbed her arms.
"Please, I beg you, find some way to transport me as well,"
Ferio pleaded. He didn't want Fuu
facing Hikaru when she was in a state like this.
"If it's the alternate dimension of Cephiro, I'm needed to
keep a path open to home," Clef said.
"If I don't, and you're too drained of energy, you all could be trapped
there." The five of them, Umi, Fuu,
Ferio, Clef, and Lantis, formed a circle around her. Nova gave a defeated sigh.
"All right, but you all need to focus your wills into me,
otherwise, it's impossible, and I will die, along with Hikaru," Nova said
slowly, closing her eyes in deep concentration. The five of them began to glow bright yellow; the glow then
transferred to Nova in the center.
"TRANSPORT!" Nova
cried, and in a final flash, the six disappeared from Cephiro castle.
"Good luck, all of you, and bring our Hikaru back," Presea
whispered.
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Eeee, so how was that?
The next part should come up within the next few days!
