Thank you for your reviews! This is a story I kinda came up with in a dream, so it's all impromptu as well, since I dun remember my dreams… anyway, here's the next chapter, "Debonair revealed!" Sorry… it's a little short, but the best stuff comes later!
Disclamer: Rayearth doesn't belong to me. Only thing I own is my sketchypad, which I drew my own original Knight in…
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Hikaru and Nova were gazing over a crystal mirror in the center of a throne room. Hikaru wasn't in her school uniform; on the contrary, she was dressed similar to Princess Emeraude, only the gown was bright red with thin spaghetti straps. The symbol of the pillar, the necklace, hung around her neck; though it had lost its power, it served as a symbol of Hikaru's sadness. A flaming red gemstone was set in the center, flickering with wisps of black smoke that curled in the heart of the stone.
"Nova, you shouldn't have brought the others here," Hikaru sobbed. "I will only hurt them!"
"I had to," Nova replied softly. "You are trying to kill youself, what else? Do you see how much your friends care about you, though?"
"I still don't deserve it," Hikaru continued. She began to glow a deep purple-black. But what was this? A strange deep blue smoke silently entered Hikaru's body. Nova didn't notice it.
"No, you know you don't want to hurt them!" Nova cried.
"I will just give them a warning," said Hikaru in a cold voice very unlike herself. Her eyes had gone blank, and glowed with an unearthly light.
"Don't hurt them, please Hikaru!" Nova said softly. "Those are the people you care about the most!"
"I will do what I must."
"Please no…"
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A low rumbling came from the ground ahead of them.
"Yaaaa! What's that?!" cried
Umi. All watched as a huge rock-beast
came exploding out of the ground ahead. It resembled a huge rock snake, down to the rock scales and the hissing
stone toungue.
"A rock snake created by Hikaru's mind," Clef said, taking a fighting stance with his staff. Lantis whipped his magic sword out, but didn't Magic Knight transform, while Ferio drew his sword out as well. Umi and Fuu withdrew their Escudo-made weapons from the gemstones on their hands.
"Here it comes!" Ferio yelled as the snake lunged at the group, causing the five to
scatter to all sides, surrounding the beast. The impact of its lunge made the ground quake beneath their feet. Fissures split the ground open, causing Fuu
to fall.
"Feriooo!!!!!" Fuu cried out as she fell into the blackness of the
fissure.
"Fuu, NO!!" Ferio cried, running to the edge of the crack of earth. But fell backwards when Fuu came flying up on a shaft of magical green wind.
"Fuu, you're all right," Ferio said, relieved, as Fuu glided into his arms.
"I learned a new spell," Fuu replied softly, smiling. "Hurricane Wind." Ferio's only reply was to give Fuu a gentle kiss.
Meanwhile…
"Umi, behind you!" Clef yelled. Umi leaped out of the way as the huge rock snake lunged again, just barely missing her.
"Ice Sword!" Umi cried, slicing the beast in half, and watched in mild amusement as the rocks and boulders fell harmlessly to the ground.
Only to put itself back together, angrier than ever.
"Yaaatttaaaa neeee!" Umi yelled, running away ~in chibi form~ from the rock snake.
Lantis mumbled an incantation, and a bolt of lightning came lancing from the dark sky, which struck the beast, splitting it into tiny pieces. This time, the pieces did not put themselves back together again.
"That's down, but the castle's still a good two miles away," Umi said, tossing her hair, embarassed at her show of chibi-kawaii-ness.
"Then let's get going, before Hikaru sends another creature after us," Clef said.
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Hikaru snapped back to consciousness quickly. Nova leaped back in surprise.
"Lantis…" Hikaru whispered, her eyes beginning to tear up. But then, the wall inside of her emotions and feelings came back up. The tears were blinked back. Hikaru's braid became undone by some unseen force, and her hair became as long as Umi's, but rippled like fire cascading down her back.
"Please, Hikaru… don't do this…" Nova pleaded. "You know how much this hurts Lantis, to see you like this!"
"I just want to be left alone…" Hikaru said, in that cold voice again. Nova felt a shiver creep down her spine. That voice. That same, icy cold voice.
"De.. Debonair?!" Nova cried. She received no reply from the placid Hikaru, who focused inside of herself again. The necklace's gem glowed red. Blood red.
"Debonair is back…" Nova said softly, shaking her head. "I never thought that she could come back, after all this time."