Magic Knight Rayearth 3 Chapter 2
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Six beautiful teens went spiraling through the air. However, four of the girls weren't screaming because of fright at the moment. They were screaming about one of the few flaws in their beauty....
"I'M GONNA ASK YOU ONE MORE TIME, UMI..YOU WOULDN'T HAPPEN TO HAVE ANY HAIR- BANDS, HEAD-BANDS, OR SCUUH-RUUNNNNCH-AYS ON HAND NOW, WOULD YOU?"
"NOPE, WHY, SHIRA?"
"BECAUSE MY HAIR IS KILLING ME! LITERALLY! IT'S WHIPPING ME!"
"I'D HAVE TO SAY THAT GOES FOR ME TOO, UMI!"
"WHA DA YA MEAN, HIKARU? YOU...OHHHHHH MY GOSH! I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THAT YOUR HAIR WAS DOWN!"
"WELL, NOW YOU ARE WELL EQUIPPED WITH THAT INFORMATION!" Diamond shrieked, partially laughing while she screamed.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! GIANT FLYING FISH-EEES! AT THREE O'CLOCK! ..BELOW US!", Yunari screamed unnaturally high, reminding everyone of their current problems.
"IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO CATCH US!" Hikaru yelled. "Actually," she began talking lower, "it kind of reminds me of ..FyulAAAAAH!"
Hikaru's sentence ended in a cry of pain as she landed on the all-too familiar fish.
"HIKARU!" All of the girls "ran" along the length of the flying creature. As they reached Hikaru, Shira gently helped Hikaru sit up, and Fuu lightly gripped her shoulders to keep her from falling.
"Thanks..you..rrh..you guys," Hikaru said through gritted teeth.
"No problem!" Shira gently replied, smiling brightly at Hikaru. "We never really did talk in gym class; if only our dang teacher would let us talk..."
"Where in the hay are we?" Diamond pondered aloud.
"It almost looks like a real-life version of that weird website; 'I-Love-To- Draw-Cute-Smiley-Fishies.Com'," Yunari stated blankly as she stared off at the sea, the floating mountain, the volcano, and the sky.
Hikaru laughed before continuing as best she could. "That's what I was saying before I...bruised my arm. This has got to be Fyula, and you know what that means, don't you Umi, Fuu?"
"..... CEPHIRO!"
The two Knights cried out the magical name simultaneously. As they did so, a spot on the front pocket of Yunari's fuku began to glow. "What the..Cephiro?..." Her voice trailed off, but then she yelped as she noticed her pocket glowing with a bright yellow aura. "AHHHHH!" The pocket suddenly opened and released a necklace. "MY GOSH....MY GRAND-FATHER'S GIFT...THE DRAGON-TALON NECKLACE! But...How did it get here? I'd never had it before, or even SEEN it!?"
All the girls stared as the necklace slowly floated over to Yunari's now out-stretched right hand. "And..it has a WOLF FANG on it as well?" Yunari clasped her hand closed over the still- glowing necklace. Then, after a moment's pause, she put it on. As soon as she did, however, their ride came to an end with a jolt as they were all dropped off on a ledge.
"*Why* does it always begin this way?" Umi sighed, shaking her head. "Good question," Fuu replied in answer.
"Hey Yunari?" "Yeah Hikaru?" "Is there something special about that necklace?"
"Oh, yeah..In my family, there is a legend of a magical galaxy called Mah- taye. There are many planets in it, but there are four that dominate over the rest. My grand-father said that one of the people in my family would one day go there...that they would arrive in the dominant planet Cephiro.." Yunari was cut off by the Magic Knights' gasps of shock.
"Cephiro was to be the place of the destiny of this chosen person from family. Then, my grand-father turned and winked at me, saying that I would soon find *my* destiny..and he whispered something to me about he had a gift for me that he would give me soon..something like a necklace with a dragon talon....That was four years ago. My grand-father has since passed away."
"Oh.I'm sorry about your grandfather," sighed Hikaru.
"Oh, no! It's OK! He's moved on to a better place."
"Well if that's how you look at it...".
Yunari laughed for a moment, and then she paused to take a look around. "So, this is Cephiro, huh?"
Umi nodded. "As far as we can tell, it is. Where else do you find a huge volcano, a beautiful ocean, AND a floating mountain all in the same place. Not to mention huge animals known as Rune-God."
"You mean that all of those magical things exist too??!!"
Yunari had just finished her sentence when, right on Que., a huge monster burst out of the ground, roaring loudly.
"RUN FOR IT!" yelled a Chibi-Neko Yunari and a Chibi Diamond and Shira.
"No, wait! Umi, Fuu and I can deal with it, can't we, you two?" Hikaru grinned as she looked at the monster. "We already know how to use magic."
"No we..oh, wait, YES, we DO!" Umi concluded."
"Ready Umi? Fuu?"
"Ready!"
"Flame..."
"Water..."
"Emerald..."
"ARROW/ DRAGON/ TYPHOON!" All three Magic Knights attacked the monster simultaneously. Their attacks hit the monster hard, and tore it to shreds.
"Yeah!" The three girls high-fived while Shira and Diamond just stared, astonished at what they had just witnessed. Yunari walked over near the edge of the ledge, then turned to face the forest. (A.N.- It rhymes! ^_^```)
"I didn't know that you knew magic, Hikaru!" Shira exclaimed. "Neither did I!" Diamond added.
"You mean you knew that magic existed?" Hikaru looked somewhat surprised. "Well, I believed in it, but still.." Shira went on. The Knights, Shira, and Diamond started talking and celebrating their defeat of the monster. Yunari, on the other hand, was standing straight up, muscles tightened. She looked very alert, and seemed to be straining to see or hear something. She seemed to notice something that the others didn't. Fuu was the first person to notice this.
"Yunari, are you OK?" The other girls stopped talking.
"Yeah, Yunari, why aren't you talking?" Diamond questioned.
Hikaru became aware of what Yunari sensed. "Is something..wrong?" she asked warily. Yunari didn't answer at first; she simply nodded her head. Hikaru walked over to where she stood. The other girls stared for a moment, and then they went back to their previous conversations of the defeat of the monster, and of the hair bands that they so badly needed.
Yunari made sure that the others weren't listening. Then, she began talking quietly. "Do you hear that noise?" "What noise?" Hikaru looked slightly puzzled. "It kinda sounds like distant thunder. But it isn't. I know that." "How can you tell what it might be? I can't even hear it!" Yunari sighed before continuing. "I have this sort of sense that tells me when it's a storm that's coming. I don't know why; I just am really informed about the weather, and I am in tune with the weather, too. Plus, since when does thunder literally roar angrily?" Yunari added after a faint roar was heard in the distance. Hikaru's eyes widened. "That was a monster! Are you saying you can hear that thing coming?" "Yeah," Yunari replied, muscles tightening even more.
The monster's roar was heard again. It was obvious now that it was approaching, because even Umi, Fuu, Shira, and Diamond could hear it this time.
"Oh, crap!" Shira whined. "Not another one!" The others added their complaints as well, and they began to worry. "What if it attacks us?" wondered Umi.
"It is going to attack us." The four girls looked over to see Hikaru and Yunari walking back towards them. As they joined the group, a white bouncing fluff-ball jumped into their midst.
"Mokona?!" cried Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu.
"Pu Pu Puu!" was the living marshmallow-rabbit's reply.
"It's so good to see you!" squealed Umi as she picked up Mokona and gave him a little hug.
Hikaru and Fuu just stared at her. "Since when do you like Mokona so much, Umi?" Fuu asked wonderingly. "Oh, well, I thought it over when I got back to Tokyo, and I realized I missed this little fuzz-ball just as much as everyone else. No matter how annoying he is," Umi added as an afterthought.
"Oh, OK..heh heh." Fuu gave Umi looks that said "you're crazy" while Hikaru explained how much Umi had hated Mokona before. When she was done, Diamond, Shira, and Yunari all gave her crazy looks as well. However, soon after that, a crashing could be heard following huge footsteps. Hikaru prepared for battle, and so did Yunari, though she couldn't even figure out why. Abruptly, the crashing stopped.
Everybody tensed up as they awaited the arrival of what seemed to sound like a monster. Umi was busily muttering under her breath, "I hope it's not a monster, please, let Yunari and Hikaru be wrong, I hope it's not a monster.."
Here wishes weren't fulfilled, however, and a huge monster suddenly crashed through a few trees before standing in front of the six girls. It looked at them for a moment. They all stood very still. The monster didn't look harmful. It appeared to be a giant bull mixed with a turtle. It also had human-like arms that were covered with feathers. So, all in all, the only threatening things about were the two horns on it's head, and it's immense size. It actually looked like the last monster they defeated, only three times bigger.
As the girls all shivered and shook, praying it wasn't going to attack, it bent down and looked them over with one giant eye. Then, it smelled the air around where they stood. Then, it picked up the scent of the defeated monster. It suddenly turned its head back to the girls, and it's eyes flared an angry orange. They had been green only a moment ago. It stood upright again, and looked down upon the six friends.
"Uh, Hikaru?" Yunari whispered slowly. "Yeah?" Hikaru still was staring at the monster. "I think that monster we just defeated may have been this one's baby," Yunari said, shivering a bit. "That can't be good," Fuu said. The monster continued staring at them for a moment, and then it lifted its gaze towards the sky and roared. It then proceeded to bend down and begin chasing the girls, who started running as fast as their legs could carry them.
"FUU! DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO STATE THE OBVIOUS AT TIMES LIKE THIS?!" screamed Umi at the top of her lungs.
"Sorry!" Fuu yelled back, blushing slightly at her embarrassment.
The girls kept running on the paths in the woods. They had no idea where they were going, but it seemed that they were just getting deeper in the forest. As they were running, Yunari suddenly yelled over to them, "I can hear the wind blowing on that path that curves up ahead. I think it sounds like a clearing is down that path!"
Hikaru and the others looked surprised, but they nodded and turned onto the path when they got onto it. They expected to go even deeper in the woods, but to their surprise, sure enough, there was a clearing. However, it ruined their happiness when they discovered that the monster-mother had beaten them there.
"Oh, GOD no!" shrieked Umi and Shira, while the others just stood and stared. As the monster began swooping down upon them all, Hikaru looked quickly to where Yunari had stopped. But she was not there. "Where's Yunari!" she cried.
Just as the monster was about to stab them with it's horns and hooves.....
"LIGHTNING.....ATTACK!"
"WHAT!????!" cried the remaining teens at the same time.
The monster was hit full on as bolts of lightning penetrated it's skin, piercing and electrocuting it until it's death.
When the monster disappeared, a girl with blond hair jumped down from the air.
"That can't be..!?"
"What? Why are you all looking at me like I have two heads? Am I turning purple from monster blood or something?"
"YUNARI!"
"HOW DID YOU..?!"
"YOU COULD'VE BEEN HURT!"
Before the girls could dive on Yunari, she dodged out of the way, explaining as she ran.
"I just knew I had to do something *pant pant*..so I thought real hard about it and suddenly I knew how to do that..that..MAGIC!"
Just as the girls caught up to Yunari, and they were about to pounce on her, a holographic image of a tall man appeared from Mokona's jewel.
"Magic Knights? Who is that with you?" They aren't intruders are you? And which one of you used a new kind of magic? If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have found you."
Umi was the first to whip around.
"CLEF!? YOU'RE.....TALLER?"
Yes, I am. By the way, I know it's abrupt, but I must go for now. My Tiger- eagle should be there any moment..Look, there he is now! Goodbye!"
"WAIT!" The Magic Knights' request was lost to thin air as Clef disappeared.
"He's gone.."
Oh well, let's get on his Tiger-eagle that's here." Diamond said as she crawled up the lowered wing of the friendly Tiger-eagle.
The girls looked at each other, nodded, hopped on, and began their journey towards Clef, and safety.....
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Six beautiful teens went spiraling through the air. However, four of the girls weren't screaming because of fright at the moment. They were screaming about one of the few flaws in their beauty....
"I'M GONNA ASK YOU ONE MORE TIME, UMI..YOU WOULDN'T HAPPEN TO HAVE ANY HAIR- BANDS, HEAD-BANDS, OR SCUUH-RUUNNNNCH-AYS ON HAND NOW, WOULD YOU?"
"NOPE, WHY, SHIRA?"
"BECAUSE MY HAIR IS KILLING ME! LITERALLY! IT'S WHIPPING ME!"
"I'D HAVE TO SAY THAT GOES FOR ME TOO, UMI!"
"WHA DA YA MEAN, HIKARU? YOU...OHHHHHH MY GOSH! I DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE THAT YOUR HAIR WAS DOWN!"
"WELL, NOW YOU ARE WELL EQUIPPED WITH THAT INFORMATION!" Diamond shrieked, partially laughing while she screamed.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! GIANT FLYING FISH-EEES! AT THREE O'CLOCK! ..BELOW US!", Yunari screamed unnaturally high, reminding everyone of their current problems.
"IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO CATCH US!" Hikaru yelled. "Actually," she began talking lower, "it kind of reminds me of ..FyulAAAAAH!"
Hikaru's sentence ended in a cry of pain as she landed on the all-too familiar fish.
"HIKARU!" All of the girls "ran" along the length of the flying creature. As they reached Hikaru, Shira gently helped Hikaru sit up, and Fuu lightly gripped her shoulders to keep her from falling.
"Thanks..you..rrh..you guys," Hikaru said through gritted teeth.
"No problem!" Shira gently replied, smiling brightly at Hikaru. "We never really did talk in gym class; if only our dang teacher would let us talk..."
"Where in the hay are we?" Diamond pondered aloud.
"It almost looks like a real-life version of that weird website; 'I-Love-To- Draw-Cute-Smiley-Fishies.Com'," Yunari stated blankly as she stared off at the sea, the floating mountain, the volcano, and the sky.
Hikaru laughed before continuing as best she could. "That's what I was saying before I...bruised my arm. This has got to be Fyula, and you know what that means, don't you Umi, Fuu?"
"..... CEPHIRO!"
The two Knights cried out the magical name simultaneously. As they did so, a spot on the front pocket of Yunari's fuku began to glow. "What the..Cephiro?..." Her voice trailed off, but then she yelped as she noticed her pocket glowing with a bright yellow aura. "AHHHHH!" The pocket suddenly opened and released a necklace. "MY GOSH....MY GRAND-FATHER'S GIFT...THE DRAGON-TALON NECKLACE! But...How did it get here? I'd never had it before, or even SEEN it!?"
All the girls stared as the necklace slowly floated over to Yunari's now out-stretched right hand. "And..it has a WOLF FANG on it as well?" Yunari clasped her hand closed over the still- glowing necklace. Then, after a moment's pause, she put it on. As soon as she did, however, their ride came to an end with a jolt as they were all dropped off on a ledge.
"*Why* does it always begin this way?" Umi sighed, shaking her head. "Good question," Fuu replied in answer.
"Hey Yunari?" "Yeah Hikaru?" "Is there something special about that necklace?"
"Oh, yeah..In my family, there is a legend of a magical galaxy called Mah- taye. There are many planets in it, but there are four that dominate over the rest. My grand-father said that one of the people in my family would one day go there...that they would arrive in the dominant planet Cephiro.." Yunari was cut off by the Magic Knights' gasps of shock.
"Cephiro was to be the place of the destiny of this chosen person from family. Then, my grand-father turned and winked at me, saying that I would soon find *my* destiny..and he whispered something to me about he had a gift for me that he would give me soon..something like a necklace with a dragon talon....That was four years ago. My grand-father has since passed away."
"Oh.I'm sorry about your grandfather," sighed Hikaru.
"Oh, no! It's OK! He's moved on to a better place."
"Well if that's how you look at it...".
Yunari laughed for a moment, and then she paused to take a look around. "So, this is Cephiro, huh?"
Umi nodded. "As far as we can tell, it is. Where else do you find a huge volcano, a beautiful ocean, AND a floating mountain all in the same place. Not to mention huge animals known as Rune-God."
"You mean that all of those magical things exist too??!!"
Yunari had just finished her sentence when, right on Que., a huge monster burst out of the ground, roaring loudly.
"RUN FOR IT!" yelled a Chibi-Neko Yunari and a Chibi Diamond and Shira.
"No, wait! Umi, Fuu and I can deal with it, can't we, you two?" Hikaru grinned as she looked at the monster. "We already know how to use magic."
"No we..oh, wait, YES, we DO!" Umi concluded."
"Ready Umi? Fuu?"
"Ready!"
"Flame..."
"Water..."
"Emerald..."
"ARROW/ DRAGON/ TYPHOON!" All three Magic Knights attacked the monster simultaneously. Their attacks hit the monster hard, and tore it to shreds.
"Yeah!" The three girls high-fived while Shira and Diamond just stared, astonished at what they had just witnessed. Yunari walked over near the edge of the ledge, then turned to face the forest. (A.N.- It rhymes! ^_^```)
"I didn't know that you knew magic, Hikaru!" Shira exclaimed. "Neither did I!" Diamond added.
"You mean you knew that magic existed?" Hikaru looked somewhat surprised. "Well, I believed in it, but still.." Shira went on. The Knights, Shira, and Diamond started talking and celebrating their defeat of the monster. Yunari, on the other hand, was standing straight up, muscles tightened. She looked very alert, and seemed to be straining to see or hear something. She seemed to notice something that the others didn't. Fuu was the first person to notice this.
"Yunari, are you OK?" The other girls stopped talking.
"Yeah, Yunari, why aren't you talking?" Diamond questioned.
Hikaru became aware of what Yunari sensed. "Is something..wrong?" she asked warily. Yunari didn't answer at first; she simply nodded her head. Hikaru walked over to where she stood. The other girls stared for a moment, and then they went back to their previous conversations of the defeat of the monster, and of the hair bands that they so badly needed.
Yunari made sure that the others weren't listening. Then, she began talking quietly. "Do you hear that noise?" "What noise?" Hikaru looked slightly puzzled. "It kinda sounds like distant thunder. But it isn't. I know that." "How can you tell what it might be? I can't even hear it!" Yunari sighed before continuing. "I have this sort of sense that tells me when it's a storm that's coming. I don't know why; I just am really informed about the weather, and I am in tune with the weather, too. Plus, since when does thunder literally roar angrily?" Yunari added after a faint roar was heard in the distance. Hikaru's eyes widened. "That was a monster! Are you saying you can hear that thing coming?" "Yeah," Yunari replied, muscles tightening even more.
The monster's roar was heard again. It was obvious now that it was approaching, because even Umi, Fuu, Shira, and Diamond could hear it this time.
"Oh, crap!" Shira whined. "Not another one!" The others added their complaints as well, and they began to worry. "What if it attacks us?" wondered Umi.
"It is going to attack us." The four girls looked over to see Hikaru and Yunari walking back towards them. As they joined the group, a white bouncing fluff-ball jumped into their midst.
"Mokona?!" cried Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu.
"Pu Pu Puu!" was the living marshmallow-rabbit's reply.
"It's so good to see you!" squealed Umi as she picked up Mokona and gave him a little hug.
Hikaru and Fuu just stared at her. "Since when do you like Mokona so much, Umi?" Fuu asked wonderingly. "Oh, well, I thought it over when I got back to Tokyo, and I realized I missed this little fuzz-ball just as much as everyone else. No matter how annoying he is," Umi added as an afterthought.
"Oh, OK..heh heh." Fuu gave Umi looks that said "you're crazy" while Hikaru explained how much Umi had hated Mokona before. When she was done, Diamond, Shira, and Yunari all gave her crazy looks as well. However, soon after that, a crashing could be heard following huge footsteps. Hikaru prepared for battle, and so did Yunari, though she couldn't even figure out why. Abruptly, the crashing stopped.
Everybody tensed up as they awaited the arrival of what seemed to sound like a monster. Umi was busily muttering under her breath, "I hope it's not a monster, please, let Yunari and Hikaru be wrong, I hope it's not a monster.."
Here wishes weren't fulfilled, however, and a huge monster suddenly crashed through a few trees before standing in front of the six girls. It looked at them for a moment. They all stood very still. The monster didn't look harmful. It appeared to be a giant bull mixed with a turtle. It also had human-like arms that were covered with feathers. So, all in all, the only threatening things about were the two horns on it's head, and it's immense size. It actually looked like the last monster they defeated, only three times bigger.
As the girls all shivered and shook, praying it wasn't going to attack, it bent down and looked them over with one giant eye. Then, it smelled the air around where they stood. Then, it picked up the scent of the defeated monster. It suddenly turned its head back to the girls, and it's eyes flared an angry orange. They had been green only a moment ago. It stood upright again, and looked down upon the six friends.
"Uh, Hikaru?" Yunari whispered slowly. "Yeah?" Hikaru still was staring at the monster. "I think that monster we just defeated may have been this one's baby," Yunari said, shivering a bit. "That can't be good," Fuu said. The monster continued staring at them for a moment, and then it lifted its gaze towards the sky and roared. It then proceeded to bend down and begin chasing the girls, who started running as fast as their legs could carry them.
"FUU! DO YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO STATE THE OBVIOUS AT TIMES LIKE THIS?!" screamed Umi at the top of her lungs.
"Sorry!" Fuu yelled back, blushing slightly at her embarrassment.
The girls kept running on the paths in the woods. They had no idea where they were going, but it seemed that they were just getting deeper in the forest. As they were running, Yunari suddenly yelled over to them, "I can hear the wind blowing on that path that curves up ahead. I think it sounds like a clearing is down that path!"
Hikaru and the others looked surprised, but they nodded and turned onto the path when they got onto it. They expected to go even deeper in the woods, but to their surprise, sure enough, there was a clearing. However, it ruined their happiness when they discovered that the monster-mother had beaten them there.
"Oh, GOD no!" shrieked Umi and Shira, while the others just stood and stared. As the monster began swooping down upon them all, Hikaru looked quickly to where Yunari had stopped. But she was not there. "Where's Yunari!" she cried.
Just as the monster was about to stab them with it's horns and hooves.....
"LIGHTNING.....ATTACK!"
"WHAT!????!" cried the remaining teens at the same time.
The monster was hit full on as bolts of lightning penetrated it's skin, piercing and electrocuting it until it's death.
When the monster disappeared, a girl with blond hair jumped down from the air.
"That can't be..!?"
"What? Why are you all looking at me like I have two heads? Am I turning purple from monster blood or something?"
"YUNARI!"
"HOW DID YOU..?!"
"YOU COULD'VE BEEN HURT!"
Before the girls could dive on Yunari, she dodged out of the way, explaining as she ran.
"I just knew I had to do something *pant pant*..so I thought real hard about it and suddenly I knew how to do that..that..MAGIC!"
Just as the girls caught up to Yunari, and they were about to pounce on her, a holographic image of a tall man appeared from Mokona's jewel.
"Magic Knights? Who is that with you?" They aren't intruders are you? And which one of you used a new kind of magic? If it weren't for that, I wouldn't have found you."
Umi was the first to whip around.
"CLEF!? YOU'RE.....TALLER?"
Yes, I am. By the way, I know it's abrupt, but I must go for now. My Tiger- eagle should be there any moment..Look, there he is now! Goodbye!"
"WAIT!" The Magic Knights' request was lost to thin air as Clef disappeared.
"He's gone.."
Oh well, let's get on his Tiger-eagle that's here." Diamond said as she crawled up the lowered wing of the friendly Tiger-eagle.
The girls looked at each other, nodded, hopped on, and began their journey towards Clef, and safety.....