(Dancing in my bedroom and singing a silly tune)
Tralalà, I am a really bad girl! I love to make you be
in pain and make you suffer! You'll hate me to death
when you'll read and you'll want my head on a
silvery plate! Oh oh oh! Oh oh oh! Oh oh oh oh oh!! =P
* * * * *
Sephiro, Palace's garden
Finally the agreement between Sephiro and the Earth
had been signed and to celebrate the new alliance,
King Ferio had organized a big party at the Palace:
in the east garden the guests danced and enjoyed
toasting the reached peace, even if the Sephirians and
the Earthlings were inclined to don't mix.
Ferio talked with Clef, Lantis, Caldina and Presea
about Emma and her team.
"I have never had fun as with them!" Ferio said
drinking wine. Moreover I like Emma's company so much,
it makes me feel.... I don't know, maybe in
peace: as if I have found a lacking piece after so
much time."
"What about Fuu? We were convinced that you would have
never given up the hope to see again her!" Presea said
astonished.
Ferio lowered his look and sigh painfully:
"I love her still, I don't deny it. In Sephiro
twenty-seven years have past since she has left, but
in her world..... who knows how much time has past in
her world: she could have forgotten me, she would,
could..... be dead now. And what if she has given up
too and she made a new life? Why should I wait for her
still? By now I have my age and I have been for a
long time, selfish: there would be a huge mess in
Sephiro if I died with nobody to take my place."
"This is right, Highness." Clef said looking at the
sky, "I just hope that your choice won't be the source
of suffering."
Ferio puffed and put his glass on a table.
"With age, you become more boring, Clef. Come with me,
you must absolutely meet Emma!"
Emma and his uncle talked with the General about the
mission's good result near the Pond of Water lilies
when Ferio and his party joined them. The three
soldiers greeted the ruler, whom introduced his
friends:
"Let me introduce my dearer friends and loyal
advisers: Madoshi Clef, Kailu Lantis, Pharle Presea
and Lady Caldina. Guys, these are General Lafayette,
Admiral Forester Admiral and Captain Kisaragi."
The four Sephirians gasped watching Emma: she seemes
like Fuu's copy; it didn't surprise them if Ferio was
very fond of her. They spoke about this and that for
some time, but then the General and the Admiral
apologized and left.
Before they left, Stephen stooped on his niece and
told in her ear: "Emma, remember that you're an air
force officer: do /nothing/ that could ruin your
career."
Emma smiled innocently telling to her uncle that she
knew fairly well what she did. As soon as they were
alone, Caldina overwhelmed Emma with questions and
Presea tried to catch her attention.
"Eheh! Cal, calm down. And the Captain is my guest,
show some respect."
Ferio laughed. Caldina winked:
"Captain? Who do you think to fool? Dear Emma, don't
tell me that he calls you "captain" even when you are
alone."
Emma smiled and answered:
"I don't understand what you mean, Lady Caldina."
"C'mon Emma: I know /everything/ about you two."
"Ehy Caldina, they are serving your favourite snacks!"
Presea exclaimed showing the buffet. Caldina said to
them goodbye and ran toward the table. Ferio smiled to
Presea and whispered:
"Thank you Presea, Cal should learn to not poke her
nose in my business."
"Don't worry. Captain, this is the first time that you
come to the palace, isn't it? Your Majesty, why don't
you show her the gardens?"
Presea said winking. Emma looked at her amazed: the
idea wasn't bad, moreover it would have allowe Ferio
and her to be a little bit alone -they didn't have
many changes- and the gardens seemed indeed wonderful,
however...... however a voice inside her suggested her
to don't go or a catastrophe would have happened.
'Go to Hell! ' Emma answered to that voice 'there is
nothing wrong if two friends go for a walk! Well,
Ferio and I are something more than simple friends....
however there is a lot of people around!' "Why not?
Moreover tomorrow at dawn I'll leave and I won't have
other changes. For now." Emma replied smiling. Ferio
touched her elbow and asked her to follow him through
a path.
Clef watched worried as the couple went away: he
didn't know why, but Emma gave him a strange feeling.
"What's wrong Clef? You seem worried.........."
"Nothing, it's just that........ I have the impression
to have yet sense that woman's aura: I don't remember
neither where nor when, but it is familiar." Clef said
more to himself than to Presea.
Presea sighed:
"Nonsense, you have this impression just because Emma
looks like Fuu."
* * * * *
Sephiro, one of the many Palace's fountains
Emma and Ferio sat on the fountain's edge, both very
embarrassed: that place was a little bit too isolated
and if anyone has seen them -especially Caldina- they
would have draw wrong conclusions: but that was the
only place where they could talk quietly. Ferio raised
his head and staring the sky said:
"Today........ is a nice day..."
"A-ehm..... yes, it is quite a nice day."
Emma replied looking at a daffodils' flowerbed.
"So tomorrow you leave..... why didn't you tell me it
before?"
"Because I would have made you sad, and I wanted to
spend this last day happily."
"Will you come back to Sephiro?"
"I don't think that I'll have any other missions here:
the treaty has been stipulated. But I have heard that
within a year or two even the civilians will come
here, especially for trade: maybe my father will do
some business in Sephiro, I would take advantage of
it."
"Your father seems a good person. Your mother too, eh.
I would like so much to meet them....."
Emma giggled:
"Yes, I already see them driving around with their
Ferrari! I think that my mother would be much
interested in Autozam: you know, for her job. "
Ferio watched Emma's profile and moved any curls from
her forehead.
"I have ever told you that you're gorgeous?"
"At least an hundreds times...."
She answered a little bit uneasy. Ferio took her chin
with two fingers and turned her face to look her in
the eyes, he then leaned his forehead on hers and
whispered:
"I love you Emma..."
" Me too......."
Ferio bent and placed his lips on those of Emma, but
she took herself off and stammered:
"S-sorry! But we ca-can't..... a-at least not here: if
anyone finds it out, we'll be in serious trouble."
"Ah-ehm.... you...... you are right, above all if this
anybody is called Caldina!"
Ferio answered grinning and both laughed, then he
tightened her hand. "Emma Suu Kisaragi, will you marry
me?"
Emma stop laugh and she watch him surprised: did she
have heard well or Ferio ask her to marry him?! Sure,
each woman dreamed to marry the Charming Prince,
but marry the King of an other world was a little bit
excessive. Sure, Emma loved Ferio and she sometimes
had desired that hypothesis, for then throw it in the
most remote corner of his mind. What about her career?
Her uncle expected much from her, and she had
intention to go to the end: her career was very
important for her. But Ferio was also very important
for her: just when
she waited for it less, she had met the man of her
dreams. What was more important?
Ferio or her career?
"Ferio I...."
"No, you must not give me a reply now. Even if I would
like to have it before your leave. It will be better
if we go back in the east garden: following that path
you'll come first, I go the longer way to not give
suspicion."
He kissed her quickly and went in the wood. Emma
watched him fade away among the trees and sat thinking
about Ferio's proposal: it wasn't an easy
decision to make.
* * * * *
Some hour later, east gardens
"Emma? Hey Emma, come back among the living."
Loveday said shaking a hand before her friend's eyes.
Emma jumped and blushed:
"Oh sorry, what are you saying?"
"Nothing nothing. It's from this morning that you are
strange, what has happened to you?"
Emma bit her lower lip: since the last time that she
had seen Ferio, she didn't do anything else than think
about his proposal. Within an hour and half they
would have gone back at the base and she wouldn't have
seen him. Emma sighed tidying her hair.
"Excuse me Loveday, but I must do an important thing:
we'll see eachother before go back to the base, ok?"
"You want to say goodbye to Mister Hottie, don't you?"
She said winking " go, and french him for me, this is
an order!"
"Loveday! How I must tell you that we are just
friends!"
"Yes yes, yes yes yes! Who are you trying to fool?! I
have the eyes for see!"
Emma sighed and left.
She looked for him from more than twenty minutes, but
she hadn't found him. Emma sighed in desolate; she
then saw Clef near the buffet, she reached him and she
asked him where Ferio was.
"The last time I have seen him he was going to
Palace's north wing. Very probably he is in /her/
bedroom."
'/Her/?!' Emma thought feeling a pang of jealousy, '
He didn't give me the time to agree to his proposal or
not and he's yet he cheats on me with an otherwoman!'
"Why are you looking for him?"
Clef said watching her. Emma laughed uneasy scratching
her nape.
"Nothing: soon I must go back to the base and I wanted
to say goodbye to
him. Ehm.... where is this bedroom?"
"Go in the north wing and follows the third hallway on
the right: it is the last door."
Emma thanked him and followed his indications.
It wasn't hard finding that bedroom: Emma stopped
before a huge door decorated with gilded inlays and
green stones, evidently who used that room was very
important. Emma went in without knocking and she
stopped on the threshold: two big windows open onto
the garden and from one the sunset's reddish light
went.
On a table there was two cups, a teapot and a plate
with some cookies, as if somebody has just stopped
eating breakfast; the closet was opened and some
clothes were on the floor, as if somebody had dressed
in hurry and she hasn't had the time to
rearrange. Also the bathroom's door was opened and
Emma heard the water drip from the faucet. The bed was
undone, the green curtains were half open and the
pillows were spread on the sheets. Ferio sat on a
chair and watched the empty bed with moist eyes.
"I used to love her so much, Emma." He said not moving
his eyes from the bed, "No-one could imagine how I
loved her........" Emma tightened her fits, jealous of
that unknown woman, whom came before her and
that was threatening her love. He sighed, still not
daring to look her. "The first times after her leave,
I used to spend my days in this bedroom, /her/
bedroom: we used to be so happy here. By time, I came
here even
less often, until the day I didn't come any more. I
don't know why, but after I proposed to
you, I felt the urge to come here. You resemble her so
much...."
Emma trembled hearing those words. After a long
silence, she spoke:
"Who was she? A noble woman I suppose."
"She was the Magic Knight of Wind. She was as gentle
as a summer breeze and as beautiful as a zephyr, with
bright leaf green eyes and soft curly caramel hair and
I used to love to make her blush." He said with a weak
smile, "We used to walk in the gardens when the
enemies didn't menace the castle, talking about our
future. About our life together. I'd married her if
she didn't leave. I remember so clearly the day I met
her, in the Woods of Silence, how I teased her gloomy
face and her burning expression when I told her I
loved her. That
time I was just teasing. Only when I was about to lose
her, when she was about to die, then and only then I
understood I really loved her. Even after my sister's
death." He said while the sorrow for his sister's
death added to the sadness for his lover's loss. Emma
knelt at his feet and laid her head on his lap: he had
told her about Emeraude and her death's circumstances.
He began to caress her hair. "Do you know what
happened to her? Do you know if...."
"I don't know. Here in Sephiro twenty-seven year have
passed, but how much time has passed in her world? She
could have forgotten me. She could be dead. I
have waited for her for all these years, but I am sure
that I'll end my days alone."
"No, you won't be alone." Emma said lifting her head
and smiling, and then she placed a hand on his cheek
and said, " After all you have me."
Ferio looked at her amazed and he opened the mouth,
but Emma silenced him by laying a finger on his lips.
"Perhaps it will take some years, but I promise you
that I'll go back to Sephiro. And when I am back, I'll
become your wife."
Both smiled and kissed passionately. Emma broke the
kiss and whispered:
"Now I must go, or Loveday will form strange opinions.
I leave you my and my parents' address," Emma said
writing a note,"I think that I'll spend the winter
at Kyoto. I'll wait for your letters with impatience!"
"And I'll write you each day Emma."
Ferio smiled taking the note. Emma kissed him a last
time and left, but when she opened the door she
stopped: she took off a necklace, she went back to
Ferio andput it in his hand. "When I was fourteen my
mother has given this to me, telling to give it to the
one I love."
Ferio smiled while he watched her fade away in the
hallway's shadow, he then lowered his eyes and opened
his hand: it was a ring. The same ring that he had
given Fuu twenty-seven years before.
============= TO BE CONTINUED====================
Tralalà, I am a really bad girl! I love to make you be
in pain and make you suffer! You'll hate me to death
when you'll read and you'll want my head on a
silvery plate! Oh oh oh! Oh oh oh! Oh oh oh oh oh!! =P
* * * * *
Sephiro, Palace's garden
Finally the agreement between Sephiro and the Earth
had been signed and to celebrate the new alliance,
King Ferio had organized a big party at the Palace:
in the east garden the guests danced and enjoyed
toasting the reached peace, even if the Sephirians and
the Earthlings were inclined to don't mix.
Ferio talked with Clef, Lantis, Caldina and Presea
about Emma and her team.
"I have never had fun as with them!" Ferio said
drinking wine. Moreover I like Emma's company so much,
it makes me feel.... I don't know, maybe in
peace: as if I have found a lacking piece after so
much time."
"What about Fuu? We were convinced that you would have
never given up the hope to see again her!" Presea said
astonished.
Ferio lowered his look and sigh painfully:
"I love her still, I don't deny it. In Sephiro
twenty-seven years have past since she has left, but
in her world..... who knows how much time has past in
her world: she could have forgotten me, she would,
could..... be dead now. And what if she has given up
too and she made a new life? Why should I wait for her
still? By now I have my age and I have been for a
long time, selfish: there would be a huge mess in
Sephiro if I died with nobody to take my place."
"This is right, Highness." Clef said looking at the
sky, "I just hope that your choice won't be the source
of suffering."
Ferio puffed and put his glass on a table.
"With age, you become more boring, Clef. Come with me,
you must absolutely meet Emma!"
Emma and his uncle talked with the General about the
mission's good result near the Pond of Water lilies
when Ferio and his party joined them. The three
soldiers greeted the ruler, whom introduced his
friends:
"Let me introduce my dearer friends and loyal
advisers: Madoshi Clef, Kailu Lantis, Pharle Presea
and Lady Caldina. Guys, these are General Lafayette,
Admiral Forester Admiral and Captain Kisaragi."
The four Sephirians gasped watching Emma: she seemes
like Fuu's copy; it didn't surprise them if Ferio was
very fond of her. They spoke about this and that for
some time, but then the General and the Admiral
apologized and left.
Before they left, Stephen stooped on his niece and
told in her ear: "Emma, remember that you're an air
force officer: do /nothing/ that could ruin your
career."
Emma smiled innocently telling to her uncle that she
knew fairly well what she did. As soon as they were
alone, Caldina overwhelmed Emma with questions and
Presea tried to catch her attention.
"Eheh! Cal, calm down. And the Captain is my guest,
show some respect."
Ferio laughed. Caldina winked:
"Captain? Who do you think to fool? Dear Emma, don't
tell me that he calls you "captain" even when you are
alone."
Emma smiled and answered:
"I don't understand what you mean, Lady Caldina."
"C'mon Emma: I know /everything/ about you two."
"Ehy Caldina, they are serving your favourite snacks!"
Presea exclaimed showing the buffet. Caldina said to
them goodbye and ran toward the table. Ferio smiled to
Presea and whispered:
"Thank you Presea, Cal should learn to not poke her
nose in my business."
"Don't worry. Captain, this is the first time that you
come to the palace, isn't it? Your Majesty, why don't
you show her the gardens?"
Presea said winking. Emma looked at her amazed: the
idea wasn't bad, moreover it would have allowe Ferio
and her to be a little bit alone -they didn't have
many changes- and the gardens seemed indeed wonderful,
however...... however a voice inside her suggested her
to don't go or a catastrophe would have happened.
'Go to Hell! ' Emma answered to that voice 'there is
nothing wrong if two friends go for a walk! Well,
Ferio and I are something more than simple friends....
however there is a lot of people around!' "Why not?
Moreover tomorrow at dawn I'll leave and I won't have
other changes. For now." Emma replied smiling. Ferio
touched her elbow and asked her to follow him through
a path.
Clef watched worried as the couple went away: he
didn't know why, but Emma gave him a strange feeling.
"What's wrong Clef? You seem worried.........."
"Nothing, it's just that........ I have the impression
to have yet sense that woman's aura: I don't remember
neither where nor when, but it is familiar." Clef said
more to himself than to Presea.
Presea sighed:
"Nonsense, you have this impression just because Emma
looks like Fuu."
* * * * *
Sephiro, one of the many Palace's fountains
Emma and Ferio sat on the fountain's edge, both very
embarrassed: that place was a little bit too isolated
and if anyone has seen them -especially Caldina- they
would have draw wrong conclusions: but that was the
only place where they could talk quietly. Ferio raised
his head and staring the sky said:
"Today........ is a nice day..."
"A-ehm..... yes, it is quite a nice day."
Emma replied looking at a daffodils' flowerbed.
"So tomorrow you leave..... why didn't you tell me it
before?"
"Because I would have made you sad, and I wanted to
spend this last day happily."
"Will you come back to Sephiro?"
"I don't think that I'll have any other missions here:
the treaty has been stipulated. But I have heard that
within a year or two even the civilians will come
here, especially for trade: maybe my father will do
some business in Sephiro, I would take advantage of
it."
"Your father seems a good person. Your mother too, eh.
I would like so much to meet them....."
Emma giggled:
"Yes, I already see them driving around with their
Ferrari! I think that my mother would be much
interested in Autozam: you know, for her job. "
Ferio watched Emma's profile and moved any curls from
her forehead.
"I have ever told you that you're gorgeous?"
"At least an hundreds times...."
She answered a little bit uneasy. Ferio took her chin
with two fingers and turned her face to look her in
the eyes, he then leaned his forehead on hers and
whispered:
"I love you Emma..."
" Me too......."
Ferio bent and placed his lips on those of Emma, but
she took herself off and stammered:
"S-sorry! But we ca-can't..... a-at least not here: if
anyone finds it out, we'll be in serious trouble."
"Ah-ehm.... you...... you are right, above all if this
anybody is called Caldina!"
Ferio answered grinning and both laughed, then he
tightened her hand. "Emma Suu Kisaragi, will you marry
me?"
Emma stop laugh and she watch him surprised: did she
have heard well or Ferio ask her to marry him?! Sure,
each woman dreamed to marry the Charming Prince,
but marry the King of an other world was a little bit
excessive. Sure, Emma loved Ferio and she sometimes
had desired that hypothesis, for then throw it in the
most remote corner of his mind. What about her career?
Her uncle expected much from her, and she had
intention to go to the end: her career was very
important for her. But Ferio was also very important
for her: just when
she waited for it less, she had met the man of her
dreams. What was more important?
Ferio or her career?
"Ferio I...."
"No, you must not give me a reply now. Even if I would
like to have it before your leave. It will be better
if we go back in the east garden: following that path
you'll come first, I go the longer way to not give
suspicion."
He kissed her quickly and went in the wood. Emma
watched him fade away among the trees and sat thinking
about Ferio's proposal: it wasn't an easy
decision to make.
* * * * *
Some hour later, east gardens
"Emma? Hey Emma, come back among the living."
Loveday said shaking a hand before her friend's eyes.
Emma jumped and blushed:
"Oh sorry, what are you saying?"
"Nothing nothing. It's from this morning that you are
strange, what has happened to you?"
Emma bit her lower lip: since the last time that she
had seen Ferio, she didn't do anything else than think
about his proposal. Within an hour and half they
would have gone back at the base and she wouldn't have
seen him. Emma sighed tidying her hair.
"Excuse me Loveday, but I must do an important thing:
we'll see eachother before go back to the base, ok?"
"You want to say goodbye to Mister Hottie, don't you?"
She said winking " go, and french him for me, this is
an order!"
"Loveday! How I must tell you that we are just
friends!"
"Yes yes, yes yes yes! Who are you trying to fool?! I
have the eyes for see!"
Emma sighed and left.
She looked for him from more than twenty minutes, but
she hadn't found him. Emma sighed in desolate; she
then saw Clef near the buffet, she reached him and she
asked him where Ferio was.
"The last time I have seen him he was going to
Palace's north wing. Very probably he is in /her/
bedroom."
'/Her/?!' Emma thought feeling a pang of jealousy, '
He didn't give me the time to agree to his proposal or
not and he's yet he cheats on me with an otherwoman!'
"Why are you looking for him?"
Clef said watching her. Emma laughed uneasy scratching
her nape.
"Nothing: soon I must go back to the base and I wanted
to say goodbye to
him. Ehm.... where is this bedroom?"
"Go in the north wing and follows the third hallway on
the right: it is the last door."
Emma thanked him and followed his indications.
It wasn't hard finding that bedroom: Emma stopped
before a huge door decorated with gilded inlays and
green stones, evidently who used that room was very
important. Emma went in without knocking and she
stopped on the threshold: two big windows open onto
the garden and from one the sunset's reddish light
went.
On a table there was two cups, a teapot and a plate
with some cookies, as if somebody has just stopped
eating breakfast; the closet was opened and some
clothes were on the floor, as if somebody had dressed
in hurry and she hasn't had the time to
rearrange. Also the bathroom's door was opened and
Emma heard the water drip from the faucet. The bed was
undone, the green curtains were half open and the
pillows were spread on the sheets. Ferio sat on a
chair and watched the empty bed with moist eyes.
"I used to love her so much, Emma." He said not moving
his eyes from the bed, "No-one could imagine how I
loved her........" Emma tightened her fits, jealous of
that unknown woman, whom came before her and
that was threatening her love. He sighed, still not
daring to look her. "The first times after her leave,
I used to spend my days in this bedroom, /her/
bedroom: we used to be so happy here. By time, I came
here even
less often, until the day I didn't come any more. I
don't know why, but after I proposed to
you, I felt the urge to come here. You resemble her so
much...."
Emma trembled hearing those words. After a long
silence, she spoke:
"Who was she? A noble woman I suppose."
"She was the Magic Knight of Wind. She was as gentle
as a summer breeze and as beautiful as a zephyr, with
bright leaf green eyes and soft curly caramel hair and
I used to love to make her blush." He said with a weak
smile, "We used to walk in the gardens when the
enemies didn't menace the castle, talking about our
future. About our life together. I'd married her if
she didn't leave. I remember so clearly the day I met
her, in the Woods of Silence, how I teased her gloomy
face and her burning expression when I told her I
loved her. That
time I was just teasing. Only when I was about to lose
her, when she was about to die, then and only then I
understood I really loved her. Even after my sister's
death." He said while the sorrow for his sister's
death added to the sadness for his lover's loss. Emma
knelt at his feet and laid her head on his lap: he had
told her about Emeraude and her death's circumstances.
He began to caress her hair. "Do you know what
happened to her? Do you know if...."
"I don't know. Here in Sephiro twenty-seven year have
passed, but how much time has passed in her world? She
could have forgotten me. She could be dead. I
have waited for her for all these years, but I am sure
that I'll end my days alone."
"No, you won't be alone." Emma said lifting her head
and smiling, and then she placed a hand on his cheek
and said, " After all you have me."
Ferio looked at her amazed and he opened the mouth,
but Emma silenced him by laying a finger on his lips.
"Perhaps it will take some years, but I promise you
that I'll go back to Sephiro. And when I am back, I'll
become your wife."
Both smiled and kissed passionately. Emma broke the
kiss and whispered:
"Now I must go, or Loveday will form strange opinions.
I leave you my and my parents' address," Emma said
writing a note,"I think that I'll spend the winter
at Kyoto. I'll wait for your letters with impatience!"
"And I'll write you each day Emma."
Ferio smiled taking the note. Emma kissed him a last
time and left, but when she opened the door she
stopped: she took off a necklace, she went back to
Ferio andput it in his hand. "When I was fourteen my
mother has given this to me, telling to give it to the
one I love."
Ferio smiled while he watched her fade away in the
hallway's shadow, he then lowered his eyes and opened
his hand: it was a ring. The same ring that he had
given Fuu twenty-seven years before.
============= TO BE CONTINUED====================
