Hullo people, well maybe this will get my posting to be regular, but I can't promise. My drama teacher shattered her wrist and so in drama class it's a mess now. So I'll attempt to type a little on this everyday, though it can't be promised with all the homework from honors classes I'm getting. Oh and if anyone actually knows the names of their rune gods, please tell me, because I haven't seen the series in so long I've forgotten their names. -_-; Oh and if you can't already tell, I have biases towards characters. *cough* Rath *cough* Umi *cough* So if you don't like either one of those characters, you might not like a few of these chapters. But who can't like Rath or Umi. Oh and by the way. Start voting in your reviews as to weather you would like me not to do crossover pairings, or if you want me to. I already have ideas in my head but if enough people object I might put them aside for now.. hr

Umi looked over her room, and was then going to the door when she felt a sudden urge to look back at the bed, so she did, and there was her sword, with a sheath and belt, lying across it. It was a bit odd looking, until she realized it was only at it's second transformation.

"well I wonder how that got here.." She started to say, then thought better of it. "wait, I might not want to know."

She gathered it, with the new sheath and belt, and hooked it around her waist.

"I wonder If Fuu and Hikaru have their swords too." She thought as she walked out her door into the hall.

She went and knocked on one of the other doors, Hikaru answered it.

"Have you." they started in unison until Umi noticed the sword on Hikaru's back and she noticed the sword on Umi's hip.

"well I guess we just both answered our own question." Hikaru said, a large smile spreading across her face. "I guess Fuu's got her sword too."

"well let's go see." Umi replied starting for the third door, and knocking on it, Fuu opened it, strapping her sword on her back she began to ask. "do you two."

"Yes." Umi and Hikaru said in Unison before she could even finish.

"I don't know about you two, but I'm going to look around the castle." Umi said, starting off down the hall.

"Umi-san." Fuu called to her. "are you sure that's a good idea, I mean we don't know if we're allowed to."

Umi turned around and shrugged, I was told to make myself at home so I am." She called back and turned back around. Right after Umi left, Cesia appeared

"the queen has realized that none of you have clothes, so she's offered you to pick out a few outfits from the tailor's here." She informed Hikaru and Fuu.

"thank you, Cesia-san I believe." Fuu answered.

Cesia nodded.

"you're welcome, but where's the other girl, Umi?" she asked, looking around.

"she went off to look around." Hikaru said, shifting a little, wondering if that was alright.

"oh, well I'll sow you two where the tailor's is and then I'll find her." Cesia said, turning and starting off, motioning for the girls to follow.

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Umi walked down hall after hall and found nothing of interest to her, there were some interesting paintings of people but that was about it.

She then walked down a hall that led to an outside door, beyond it she heard yelling and the clang of swords, or at least it sounded like swords. When she got outside thought it had suddenly turned rainy, and she couldn't see well, but the clanging was getting closer, she looked around quickly and saw Rath, and someone else, fighting. Rath looked like he was having fun. She silently sweat dropped, as the smiling idiot took another swing at his opponent. She then noticed something else coming out of the shadows, and towards her, she unsheathed her sword quickly, and had it up in time to keep herself from being split in half by a giant claw.

"eep, what th' heck is this thing?" she said, quickly thrusting it to one side and leaping away.

Rath heard a clang, besides his and Bierrez's swords; he looked over towards where it came and saw that blue haired girl, fighting with another demon.

"she's not half bad," he noted, as he took another swing at Bierrez as he attacked.

Umi was having issues, her hair was wet and began to stick to her face, covering her eyes. "crap." She cursed, brushing the matted mess out of her face, as she parried another thrust form the things claws. "how am I supposed to kill this thing?" she wondered.

As she said this something totally off the wall to her came into her head.

"I will not call for a water dragon." She scolded herself, "Seres's not here."

But soon the thing struck at her again, and this time she barely got the sword between it and herself. It's picking up on my style she thought. And a little voice asked her in her head. Try calling for the dragon, what have you got to lose? So she did the only thing that came to her, and called for the water dragon, and sure enough a large blue dragon answered and, and came in a swirl of water. She found herself armored and on its back, telling it what to attack. It soon destroyed the shadowed figure that had been attacking her.

"return." She said, holding her sword, and sure enough it did return to the sword.

She sighed and collapsed to her knees, in the rain, not knowing what to do. Rath struck at Bierrez and suddenly realized that there was nothing there.

"coward." He muttered. "He ran away. I wonder how that girl's doing."

He back tracked quickly enough to see Umi collapse to her knees, a bewildered look on her face, the demon that had attacked her dead on the ground a few yards away.

"I guess I should go help her." He muttered to himself, walking over to Umi.

Umi looked up when she heard someone squelching through the mud, it was Rath, maybe he was here to laugh at her, mud stained and wet, with a bewildered look on her face. But opposing her thoughts he asked.

"need some help?"

She was speechless, so she just nodded. He offered her a hand which she gladly took, and he helped her up.

"you were pretty good back there, most girls I know won't take on a powerful demon like that head on, they use some type of magic." He said out of pure respect and awe for her skill.

"you weren't bad yourself, I like your sword technique." She told him, realizing he wasn't the jerk she thought he was.

They walked into the castle after that remark in silence, each scrutinizing the other. Umi began to wring out her wet hair in the entrance way. "thank you." She muttered to Rath as she began to walk away, maybe there would be some clothes in her room. She stared down the hall at a quick walk, and turning a corner she didn't notice Kai-stern coming from the to her direction, and they ran into each other. Kai-stern didn't seem the least bit startled; in fact he acted as if running into muddy, wet people was a daily occurrence.

"you haven't seen Rath have you?" he asked as she stepped back from running into him.

"yes." She answered, trying to smooth her hair out of her face, a bit embarrassed by her looks and for running into him, leaving a mud stain on his jacket.

"where?" he asked.

"we just walked into the entrance hall a few minutes ago, there were things attacking, didn't you know?" she said, a bit bewildered that he was so calm when there had just been an attack outside the castle.

"oh, yes I know that's why I need to find Rath, to make sure he hasn't gotten himself into trouble, it must have been Bierrez that attacked, he's the only yokai that can enter the palace grounds." Kai-stern said, so indifferently, Umi became a bit mad.

"but since you say you just saw him in the entrance I guess he's fine."

He hurried off in the direction of the entrance hall. Umi pouted, he didn't even ask about how she had gotten so muddy. She continued down the hallways, until she met up with Ceisia.

"wow, did you get caught up in that fight?" she asked, looking at Umi.

Umi nodded.

"do you have any clothes for me to wear?" she asked.

"oh, yes I was actually looking for you the Queen's said that you can have a few outfits from the tailor's so, I'll take you there and then you can get back to your room and get dry." Cesia said, turning down the hallway motioning for Umi to follow.

They made their way through the winding hallways and to a large door. As Umi stepped in she was amazed, it looked like a gigantic closet. She began to hunt around for something she liked and would fit. She soon found a few outfits that met that category. One was a shirt that went to her knees, and belted at the waist, it was a light blue. She then found some darker blue pants to go with it and brown boots that came to her knees, over the pants, causing them to bunch at the knee. Another was a navy blue turtleneck, with leather pants and a long trench coat in a lighter shade of brown. Last was a dress that had a white shirt under a navy blue jacket and had a very full skirt, complete with petty coats. She picked out some pretty shoes to go with it. Last there was a royal blue tank top and black pants that looked good together and another coat that was black.

"that's all?" Cesia asked.

"yeah, I don't think there's much else that'd look good on me in here its mostly browns greens reds and blacks. My hair doesn't really go with those colors." Umi told her. "I'll head back to my room and get cleaned up now if that's alright."

"sure, it's fine." Cesia said as they walked out the door.

Umi hurried back to her room.

But before that Hikaru and Fuu...

To be continued in the next chapter of The Magic Knights meet the Dragon Knights.





AHH, well that was my longest chapter yet, four whole pages wow. My muses have been busy. Namely Angel Ryuu (is constantly getting whacked over the head by me, and knocked out cold, she id the muse of goodness and sweetness.), Theiveos Ryuu (the muse of thievery, I've found she comes out when you least expect it.), Evil Ryuu (the muse of bad evil things, my favorite), Chibi Ryuu (my main muse and cause of all my problem..err stories) and last but not least Chibi Ai Ryuu (the Ryuu that causes all the sappy love scenes and pairings in my work.)

Chibi Ryuu: Yup it's amazing you didn't skimp off on one of my awe inspired creations for once.

Yuko: grrrr. I do not skimp off, I don't have time for all these stories.

Angel Ryuu: Now, now you two don't fight.

Yuko: so you'd rather I get mad at you?

Angel Ryuu: *steps back cautiously* now lets be nice about this *gets whacked over the head and is now unconscious*

Evil Ryuu: Yes score!

Yuko: well let's stop here before someone gets hurt.