Magic Knight Rayearth DX

Disclaimer:
I do not own any of the Magic Knight Rayearth characters, but I don't want anyone taking the made-up characters. I made them myself!!

Notes:
Rated PG-13 for violence later on and some romantic scenes. Please R + R!! The third chapter... These are sorta quick to write so I'll be updating often. I really need some more reviews though. Thanks!
Kaomi


Chapter Two :: Hesitancy

Hikaru found herself laying on a field of crystalline grass. She quickly glanced over to make sure Umi and Fuu were there. Seeing them about a few meters away from herself, she relaxed. "As long as I have them, I'll be allright." She told herself. She looked around, and got up onto her knees. "Where are we? This isn't Cephiro." she said, looking up at the dark green sky.

"Maybe it's an alternate world, like Cephiro..." Fuu suggested, rubbing her glasses, and putting them back on her small nose. She looked at Umi, who seemed to have had a rough landing - as usual.

"Fuu, please don't state the obvious..." Umi said once she had pulled her head out of the reddish earth. "I don't need any more headaches by listening to unnesecary talk." Umi snorted, rubbing her bruised head. She couldn't see anything but tall grass for miles. It almost looked like a white sheet on the ground, with the light reflecting off the gem-like grass. She looked up in the sky, and to her astonishment, saw a very high-tech air-plane soar overhead.

"Umi, this is definatly not Cephiro..." Hikaru said, rubbing her eyes. She couldn't notice what it was, but something seemed to stir under the grass. "Fuu, what's that?" she asked nervously.

Upon the maroonish earth came a small, rat like creature who seemed intent with itself. It's ears were way too big, and made up most of its body.

"Omigod!!!!" Umi screamed. "It's even worse looking than Mokona!" Umi stood up and started running away from the rodent, which had started chasing her.

"Look at this..." Fuu said, lifting a few pices of dirt off a shiney, metal plate. As she dug, it grew to me much bigger than herself. "I wonder what it's for..." she asked, curious.

"I don't care! Just make this little thing stop it!" Umi whined. Finally, it jumped into her hair, coiled up and fell asleep. "..." Umi was steaming red. She looked as if she was going to scream. Which she did. "Ahhhhhhhhh! Get this thing off me!" She screamed as loud as she could. Then, about a dozen more poped up at the sound of her voice. The things wrapped around the three knights, and seemed to take them somewhere.

"What are they?" Hikaru asked, quite scared at what was happening. "Whatever they are, I hope we're not dinner..." Hikaru felt a quick pain in her leg, then slowly fell asleep.

"Hikaru!" Umi yelled, who was now trying to break free more violently, actually shaking some off. Soon, one bit her hand, and she passed out.

"Umi, Hikaru! Oh dear..." Fuu said, as she too felt the sleeping sensation.

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"Wake up..." A male voice said, removing an cloth from Hikaru's head.

"Lantis?" Hikaru asked, her eyes still closed. A sharp pain was left where the creature had bitten her, and caused her to grimace with pain. She slowly opened her eyes, and found the young man was definetly not Lantis. She seemed to be on a futon, much like home. She sat up, and looked at her surroundings. Umi and Fuu were beside her, awake and about.

"Hikaru-san, it's good to see that you've come-to." Fuu smiled at her, and got her some water that was beside her. Hikaru drank it gratefully, and looked at the man who had been tending to her.

"Who are you?" she asked him, looking at his maroon hair. She felt as if she had met him before...

"I'm Scirrus, and as I've heard from you're two friends, you've come from another world." He looked so handsome to Hikaru, and the red-head felt some-what dizzy for a moment.

"Yeah, he says we're on Celica. It's a good thing he fond us, or we would have been mouse-chow." Umi retorted. "I almost wish Mokona was here." She admitted.

"Umi-san, I thought I'd never see the day when _you_ missed Mokona!" Fuu gigled.

Scirrus looked at Fuu, then turned back to Hikaru. "You need to see the elder... Beretta, could you take them to Ghalant? I still have some unfinished business to attend to." He threw what looked like an amulet over to the another girl in the tent. Catching the disc with ease, Beretta shoved it into her pocket. Her hair seemed cropped short, and it almost looked like she had dyed her hair purple.

Seeing the three girls were somewhat concerned over the fact that the man had just left, Beretta reassured them. "He always sounds like that. He's just anxoius because of his test next moon. He's right, you need to find the elder. He can explain things..." Umi helped Hikaru up, and the three magic knights hesitantly followed Beretta through the villiage.

"Everyone here has maroon or purple hair - I wonder why?" Fuu whispered to the other two.

"And everyone seems so lifeless, as if they've been drained..." Umi added. She knew she looked rather odd with bright blue hair.

Hikaru only listened, too curious to add anything to the conversation. Finally, Beretta took them into a great, violet tent, and brought them through the throngs of people to confront the elder.