Disclaimer: I own Lana and everyone else in this fic but Miaka and Taka.

Warnings: Eh, heh heh. *sweatdrop * Nothing bad in this Chapter, A little short though

Chapter 8

Marisa woke up with a groan. "Are you alright, no da?" a voice asked, and Marisa opened her eyes, seeing the green haired man's face just a few inches from hers. "Ack! What the-!" she cried, jumping up, surprised. "Don't worry, we won't hurt you." Sodom told her with a smile, and gestured towards the green haired man, saying, "This is Schola, and this," he gestured towards the tall man and his cat, "Is Rouin." The cat let out a 'mrow!' and the emperor chuckled, saying, "Oh, and this is Tama." Marisa gave them all a weak smile, saying, "Hello. I'm Marisa" "Where did you come from?" Rouin asked her, helping her to her feet. Marisa took a deep breath, and said, "I come from the last Suzaku no Miko's world. I got here through the same book Miaka-san did." Sodom, Schola, and Rouin all looked at eachother, and nodded, then Sodom turned to Marisa, and asked, "Marisa, as the emperor, I have a request to make of you." "Hai?" Marisa asked, a certain sense of foreboding coming over her. Sodom looked at her with a serious expression, and said, "Marisa, will you become the Suzaku no Miko and summon the Phoenix god for us?"

"Ok, hold this board in place while I nail it in." Lana told Allelu, and began repairing the broken fence. "So where you from?" Joses asked Lana, leaning against one wall of the house, watching her. "I'm from Tokyo." she answered, telling Allelu to please hold the board straight. "Tokyo? Where's that?" Kami asked in confusion. "Oh, yeah, I'm in Konan aren't I? Ummm, I guess you could say I'm from another world." Lana said casually, Allelu acted as if she had expected this all along, and tried to hold the board straighter. Joses raised an eyebrow, and said, "Another world? Yeah, sure. How do you figure?" Lana stood up, stretching, thanking Allelu for helping her finish the fence, before turning to the two boys, and asking, "Do you know the story of Suzaku no Miko?" Kami laughed, and said, "Of course, who doesn't?" Lana smirked, and climbed up a tree, grabbing some reeds she was going to use to fix the roof, before jumping onto the top of the house, and looking down at them with a grin, saying, "Well, Suzaku no Miko, or Miaka, is my Grandmother."

Marisa stared at Sodom with her mouth hanging open. "ME!?" she squeaked, having no more experience in leading people than being head of a Harry Potter Fan Club on the internet. "You come from another world, and know Suzaku no Miko, correct?" Sodom said, and Marisa nodded her head, mouth too dry to speak. "A country from the West, known as Seryuui territory is planning an attack on Konan. We had treaties with them, but they have nearly doubled their armies size, and our spies tell us they are planning an attack." Marisa face-faulted. "If you had treaties, why do you have spies in their country?" Sodom coughed, looking uncomfortable, and Schola changed the subject. "The Suzaku no Miko is a priestess who can call upon the God, Suzaku, when she has gathered seven warriors, and ask to have three wishes granted no da. We just want you to use the first one to bring peace to our country. The other two you can use however you please, no da." Marisa immediately had images of herself decked out in jewels, and going through the mall, grabbing everything in site. "I'll do it!" she cried, pumping a fist in the air, before she even seriously thought about it. "Everyone!" Sodom called out, and curtains on either side of the room were lifted, revealing servants, lords, and ladies. "Behold! Suzaku no Miko!" he called, and everyone bowed. Marisa couldn't help silently adding in her head, "Model two." Marisa had a feeling there was something she was forgetting, but shoved the thought out of her head when a handmaiden came up to her, asking her to please follow her, and she would get her into some palace attire.

Joses and Kami stared at her with their mouths wide open while she bent down, and patched the hole in the roof, suddenly spotting something, and picking it up. "Allelu! I told you not to use the bow until I got back!" Lana scolded, holding the arrow she had found up in the air. Allelu looked up at her with tearful eyes, saying, "Gomen Lan-chan! I just wanted to help!" Lana sighed, and instantly forgave her, saying, "That's okay. Can you go get me the ax so I can go chop some firewood?" "Hai!" Allelu said, now cheerful again, running into the house. Lana jumped off the roof with a flip, and landed on the ground in front of the still stunned Kami and Joses, stretching. "Itai, I'm NEVER going to finish all the housework before supper. Oh well." Lana sighed, wincing as her back popped. Joses and Kami were still gaping at her, so she rolled her eyes, and went over, bopping them both on the head. "Stop staring. No, I'm not the next Suzaku no Miko, I wound up here by mistake." she told them shortly, taking the ax from Allelu, who ran out, with a smile and "Arigato" and walking into the woods. "You've been using a Granddaughter of THE Suzaku no Miko as your handyman?!" Joses cried, staring at Allelu and Kami. Kami gulped, and said, "There isn't some divine punishment for that, is there?" "What's wrong with Lana?" Allelu asked, looking worried. "Nothing, Allelu-chan." Kami told her quickly, and ran after Lana, Joses close behind. Allelu stared after them with a confused look, then shrugged and walked back in the house.

Later, while Marisa was being waited on in her room in the palace, Schola was having a conversation with Sodom. "She said something about a friend of hers who was transported to this world, no da, shouldn't we let her find her companion before we send her to find the seishi?" he asked, respectively standing before the emperor's throne. "We don't have the time. We have to find the other seishi as soon as possible. Besides, she was worried about her friend before, now she seems to have forgotten all about her and seems to be happy, let her worry about it after her job is finished." Schola bowed stiffly, saying, "As you wish, no da." and left the throne room. He knew the emperor was right, and that finding the rest of the seishi was crucial at the moment, but the command still seemed somewhat cold to him. He sighed, and went to his room, sitting on the floor to meditate. Schola had decided a few years ago to follow the example of his ancestor, Chichiri, and become a monk who trained under Taiistkun. Schola decided to see if he could find Marisa's friend for her, and reached out with his chi, searching for another life pattern like Marisa's.

Lana was cheerfully cutting wood, and had just gathered enough, when Joses and Kami ran up to her. "NOW what do you guys want?" she asked, looking at them slightly annoyed and walking back to the house. "How come you're WORKING HERE instead of letting everyone wait on you hand and foot at the Palace?" Joses asked bluntly. Lana stiffened, and said, " I like to work for my keep, not sit around like some prissy princess just because I know the right people." Lana told them, continuing on walking back to the house. Kami opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by two high- pitched screams coming from back at the house. "Allelu-chan!!! Serena- chan!!!" Lana cried, and dropped the logs, running as fast as she could back to the house, not noticing that a few buttons had been ripped off her shirt.

Schola had managed to find Marisa's friend, and opened the connection so he could see her, and try to figure out where she was. The first thing he had seen was trees flashing by, and something running through them at amazing speed. "What-?" he thought confused, and then heard screams through the connection, and the thing burst out of a forest. Schola was frozen. The 'thing' was an auburn-haired girl with brown eyes, dressed in men's clothes. He pulled back the view and opened it wider so he could see what was going on around her. His stomach tightened when he saw Seryuui soldiers on horseback, laughing sickeningly and grabbing two people, a woman and a child, who were screaming for help.

Lana burst out of the edge of the woods, and saw men on horseback kidnapping Serena and Allelu. "Get your hands off them!" Lana screamed, drawing the sword she had never had time to take off. "Lan-chan!" Allelu cried, desperately fighting in the grasp of a man. The men turned, and saw Lana. One's gaze traveled down, and he grinned widely. Lana looked down also, and realized the logs had caught a few buttons on her shirt when she dropped them. "Forget these two!" the man holding Allelu said, shoving her off his horse. Allelu gave a cry of pain when she landed, and quickly scrambled to Lana, clinging to her and whimpering. The man holding Serena also shoved her off his horse, and cried out, "Yeah! This one'll be worth more than the other two put together!" Serena quickly ran to Allelu and pulled her close to her, running into the house. "Well, I'm still getting the other two. They're still worth SOMETHING." one said, turning to the house. Lana screamed in rage, and felt sudden warmth on her chest, just below her collarbones. "You will not touch those two." she snarled, and flew at the men.

Schola watched as the girl screamed at the men to release the two women, and the two women were shoved to the ground. One man turned to recapture the two girls Marisa's friend was protecting, and then the girl attacked. "Suzaku, the girl has a character on her!" Schola thought in shock, blushing when he registered where it was. He shook his head telling himself not to think about that, and watched as she went for the man nearest to her, who had dismounted. She fought with him for a while, finally getting an opening, but instead of killing the man, she knocked him unconscious with the flat of her sword, and turned to the other men who had dismounted, chest heaving, eyes narrowed in anger. Schola also noticed he was continually repeating in his head, "Good lord! I'm a monk, I'm a monk, I'mamonk,I'mamonk,I'mamonknoda!"