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after the pillar is gone
by akoya

chapter 4

"Hikaru!" Hikaru looked up to meet bright green eyes.

"Fuu! what are you doing here? I thought that you were getting asigned to america." Hikaru
jumped up and gave her best friend a hug. as she let go she saw a blue haired woman behind
Fuu. "Umi too. wow, its been a long time since we were all together." Hikaru then hugged
Umi. "its really nice to see both of you again."

"hikaru, you make it sound as if we havn't seen eachother in 10 years." Umi.

"well it seems like its been that long." Hikaru said with a twinkle in her eyes.

"but its onlu been about 5 years." fuu. "and were is our little cousin?"

"im not sure. shes usually already here. she has like this 6th sense when it comes to you
guys." hikaru looked worried. "she did go to bed really tired out from the work out. lets
go wake her up." Hikaru grinned and started walking to her daughters room. umi and fuu
followed.

"where are your brothers hikaru?" umi said looking at the diserted place.

"huh? oh, im not sure where satoru is but masaru and kakeru are at school." hikaru.

"at school? but i thought no i know thery are older than you." umi.

"the probably wanted more education." fuu.

hikaru smiled at her two friends as umi shrugged. they reached Kumohi's room but only
when they slid the door open they didn't find Kumohi, they found Satoru meditating.

"satoru?" hikaru looked confused. "where is Kumohi?"

"can't you feel it? in this room, the presence." satoru looked at his younger sister and
hoped she could handle this. Hikaru shook her head in denial. she refused to use her 6th
sense. she hadn't used it since comming back from the funeral service. " you must."

satoru understood the reason for her denial. he knew this wouldn't help her state of mind
but she had to get those feelings back if she was to help her daughter. i just hope that she
can find some type o peace. im also glad that she gets another chance at love, but only if
she takes it. "you must awaken your heart's feelings and warnings sis."

"no. i..i can't. i wont!" hikaru wondered why he was starting this now. she had expected
this from him when she got married or before that when she poured out her tale of Ciphiro.
but why now?

"you must. because you have to go after her."

hikarus head snapped up to stare at her brother. "who."

"you know who. and all three of you know where." satoru looked at each girl in turn and saw
that though they didn't want to understand, they did.

"how?" fuu asked. "how did she get there. we tried so many times."she whispered.

satoru shook his head. "you did nothing wrong. you drifted away from eachother so much. the
fuel for the power that got you to Ciphiro was a combination of your love for the people and
your friendship with eachother. it was a number of things that stopped you from going to
Ciphiro. but Kumohi has gone there. and the magic is still here that took her there."

all three women looked at eachother and nodded in agreement and dissapeared.

`the palace, Ciphiro, last night`

Clef shot up in bed and groggily wiped his eyes of sleep. "what was that. something woke me.
ill go make a sweep of the planet to see if there are any attacks."

slowly he got out of bed and walked to the throne room. only to find someone else there as
well. "Lantis, what are you doing up?"

Lantis looked up at Clef and sighed. "i was thinking in the garden when i felt a burst of
magic that i didn't recognize. then I felt another energy that i recognized all to well. it
was that mage that almost leveled that village a few months back. she had just dissapeared.
and i wanted to know what she was up to. she isn't usually that carless to give away her
position. atleast not this close to the castle." Clef raised his staff and the lanscape
came into focuse so they could search for the elusive mage. "i felt it to the north."

Clef nodded and changed the sene. "that must be what woke me up."

Lantis was looking at the image infront of him, searching for something to give him a clue
as to where she went. "wait stop. go back a bit. there. see those trees. thats right next to
the neigboring village of the burned one. they look like they were struke by lightning."

Clef looks at Lantis. "why are you so intent to find her? you havn't been this interedted in
someone since Hikaru left." Lantis glared at his former teacher. Clef shrugged. "im too old
for this." and teleported Lantis to the area that they had been looking at. "good luck Lantis."


ok thats about all im doing for today so see ya tomarrow. bye peeps. and please review.
akoya