Hello! It's me, Etsumi again! How was it? Please also give comments for the second chapter. I don't think I write well. I apologize for any errors and mistakes. It seems that only in this chapter the story sort of gets started. I'll try to get the next chapter ready soon! J
~ Etsumi
Toki-Mahou no Houseki~13 Jewels of Time---Chapter 2 : Legend of Shinzaiho ( I )
1 year passed……
It seemed like there was no such person as Kirin Fukai. Something else was wrong…..after she came out of the theater that day, everything had gone back to 1 year before that day. Her dog Rutaro was still a rather young puppy. Her friend Yasuyo had never moved out of town, she took tests she had taken before and watched movies for the second time. Everything was just like before, except that Kirin wasn't there anymore.
Mai's parents had been totally worried about Mai's ability to predict the future and having an imaginary cousin- Kirin, whom they tried so hard to convince did not exist at all. However, Mai could never let this be reality. She had not felt herself to be in the true world at all.
Mai had felt the incident's connection with the movie, " The Lost City" which they were watching when Kirin disappeared.
She had went to do research on the movie. It was based on a legend about the city of Shinzaiho- a Legend no one had heard before. It had meant to be a secret.
The weirdest thing was that it was set in the future from the time the legend started. The city of Shinzaiho was an ancient magical city of fairies and was guarded by 2 guardian princesses, Shizuku and Ayame. They were intelligent skilled warriors yet kind and gentle ladies.
However, one day disaster struck on the peaceful city. The 12 jewels kept in the central palace kept peace and order. There was a 13th jewel, the mysterious main crown jewel. They were the representatives of goodness and helped to create a defense around the city, that was in the middle of the universe, unaffected by time. However, evil broke through into the city and the jewels mutated in evil forces. They need to be restored before the city can be saved. As keepers of time, the change of the jewels also caused a greater impact on the city—bounded by time, the surreal city seem to be unable to exist and begins to disappear……
As guardians, Princess Shizuku, Princess Ayame together with the son of a high post officer, young general Tatsuro begins a journey to restore the jewels……..
This was the tale of the legend of Shizaiho. Mia had no idea if the crazy fantasy story would ever be true. But what about Kirin, her disappearance would have been equally unbelievable. And what about her going back to time…her Mathematics teacher would not believe she scored full marks for the difficult competition, although she is a top student. She could change the history, but can she change the future-present?
" Can you go over to my house later?" Mai's friend, Chika voice was heard on the phone.
" I'm going to watch a movie with my cousin later……Sorry"
" It's ok…maybe you can come on Friday?"
" I think it'll be alright!"
" Ok, see you, bye!"
" Bye!" Mai sighed as she put down the phone. One year ago was the exact same scene. She had been trying hard not to change anything. The only change as that it was that Mai was going to watch the movie with Yoichi and not Kirin. He had told her he had something important to tell her.
Mai was late again. She had also planned to watch " The Lost City" that has been released. It was exactly 1 year ago when Kirin disappeared.
" Mai-chan! Over here!" Yoichi called out. He was standing on the exact same spot as Kirin stood.
" Gomene!" panted Mai as she apologized.
" Mai……. I remembered one-chan….suddenly yesterday, I remembered Kirin. I had flashbacks of the past..and slowly I remembered everything about her. I just cannot explain how I totally forgot the fact that I have a sister, for 16 years. I seemed to have led this life before. It's like a feeling that all these had happened before….I'm sorry I didn't believe you and even tried got angry when you wanted to convince me about Kirin.."
Mai replied" It's alright. I know it'll be hard to believe me. After all, it's all too crazy….I can't stand it myself. Sometimes I really wanted to give up searching of a way to find Kirin and pretend nothing happened and just everything be its way…" There was a sparkle in the eyes.
" I don't know how it happened to me either..It just came to me, all the memories.just came to me…Did you wear the pendant? I wore mine…I saw Kirin in my dream last night. She wanted both of us to wear this pendant at the movie. Oh no, it's starting!"
" I did….let's go in!"
Both of them went in with curiosity as they their pendants started to flash with a magical light, neither of them would expect history to repeat itself……
~ End of Chapter 2~
