Note: hi, ahahaaahaaa.I haven't been using the html format, but NOW you will be able to read the story better! Ehehehe. Anyway, read on!

Once Umi and Fuu had fallen asleep and everyone else in Cephiro had gone to their rooms, Hikaru left the room to take a walk and think. She soon found herself in the garden where she had first talked to Lantis. As Hikaru looked around, she noticed that Midoriko was in the same room. She was lying on a tree branch, sleeping. Hikaru noticed a Guru's staff with a dragon figurine at the top. Hikaru studied the sleeping woman carefully. She sighed and turned around, standing face to face with a small green dragon. She gasped and picked it up. It climbed up to the top of her head and started to yawn.

"Could you get down please? " Hikaru whispered, but the dragon just glared at her.

Hikaru looked at the dragon nervously; she didn't know how to get it off.

"Leave her be, Suko. " Midoriko's eyes were still shut, but she sat up, leaning her back against the tree's trunk.

"Oh! Er.umm.sorry for waking you up-" Midoriko silenced Hikaru with a wave of her hand and jumped down. She reached for Suko and plucked him off Hikaru's head.

Midoriko looked back at Hikaru as Suko climbed to her shoulders. "You think I'm strange? " Hikaru looked confused as Midoriko continued, "I can read minds. "

Hikaru blushed and looked at the floor. "I can't help it.miss."

"Call me Midoriko. Clef was correct, you do have strong magic senses. I'm surrounded by magic. The 'strange' feeling you get is from the magic. " Midoriko smiled.

"Why are you surrounded by magic? "

"Cause I'm in my temporary form. I look like a young girl this way, instead of some scarred and scary woman. "

Hikaru's head tilted to one side as dog-ears popped up on her head. Midoriko grinned and spoke a word Hikaru couldn't catch. A bright light filled the room and where a short girl had been standing an older woman in a long robe stood, towering over short Hikaru. Her face was covered in scars and her right eye was missing. The woman smiled as her dragon squeaked in glee. Midoriko laughed and rubbed her dragons' back.

"I think it's time for you to get some sleep, don't you think, Hikaru? " Midoriko asked the shocked former Magic Knight. Hikaru nodded and Midoriko walked silently with her to her room. Hikaru opened the door and looked back at Midoriko's face.

"By the way, I wish to talk to you three tomorrow, alright? You'll have to introduce me to Eagle of Autozam, too. Oh, and bring Lantis, Ascot and Ferio! " She called her last sentence as she ran off, back to the garden to rest. Hikaru began to wonder if tomorrow would ever come as she closed the door behind her.

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