Umi gripped the gray silk bed sheets of Clef bed, soft gasps escaping her lips as he teased her by slowly entering her and then pulling out. She lifted her hips in an attempt to force him in, but reading her thought, Clef would pull further back. He pressed his lips to hers and parted her mouth with his tongue. The two kissed passionately until Umi broke away and locked eyes with Clef's intense violet stare.

"Stopme," she whispered.

Clef smiled down at her and then nodded. Ever so slowly he proceeded to her warm entrance. Just as he was about to thrust into her, a deep booming voice echoed through their heads.

"MAGIC KNIGHT! GURU! THIS ACT WHICH YOU ARE ABOUT TO COMMIT IS AGAINTS THE TEACHINGS OF THE LEGEND!"

"Celes?" Umi exclaimed as Clef moved off her to allow her to sit up.

"Yes, it is I," Celes responded. "I cannot allow you to proceed further. The guru is your guardian as well as your advisor. It is taboo for one of the Legendary Magic Knights to engage in intercourse with the guru while in Cephiro and while the legend is still in existence."

"Figures," Umi groaned wrapping the blanket around herself.

"We understand, Celes. Forgive us, we did not know," Clef apologized.

This seemed to please the great manshin for his voice was no longer heard. Clef rose from the bed and reached for his pants on the floor when he felt Umi's arm on his shoulder. He turned and saw her smiling down at him from the edge of the bed. She pointed back to the bed.

"Where do you think you're going?" she laughed pulling on his arm.

"II though that" he stammered looking at her nude body, not for the first time that night.

"There is something else we can do," she replied pushing him down onto the bed. "I borrowed a friend's romance novel last summer and learned a fewtricks from it."

Clef smiled at Umi as she looked down at his naked physique. He was utter perfection, slim and yet with defined muscles. Umi giggled to herself as she remembered the small boyish look he had the previous times they had been to Cephiro. Now he was everything that Umi had dreamed of. During the prior adventure in Cephiro, Umi realized how she felt towards Clef. Indeed, she had fallen in love with him. It was almost too much for her to believe that he was here with her right now. She caressed his neck and then moved down to his chest. His skin felt like silk under her fingers. She massaged the muscles in his chest and then gently squeezed a nipple between her thumb and forefinger. Clef moaned at the heavenly touch of her hands and fingers on his body. She lowered her head and lightly brushed her tongue against his hardened nipple. He wriggled and gripped the sheets as a wave of passion and pleasure coursed through his body. Feeling his body shake by her caress, she took it in and suckled vigorously. Not wanting his other side to feel neglected, she moved over and repeated her actions while Clef writhed and whispered her name under his breath.

Feeling finished with his chest, she moved slowly down his body, leaving a fiery trail of kisses as she went. Finally she reached her destination. Slowly she trailed one of her fingers down his shaft. It stiffened by his touch and Umi positioned herself in front of it. Clef sat up and looked at Umi.

"Umiwe can't" he whispered wishing she would touch him again.

"Will you relax," she laughed. "We are not going to break the code."

Allowing Clef to remain sitting, Umi stroked his erection once more with her before leaning forward to softly lick the tip with her tongue. Clef moaned and entangled his fingers in her cerulean hair. She left a trail of kisses up and down him before taking him fully into her mouth. Clef threw his head back and moaned her name over and over again. Umi felt an explosion of hot liquid in her mouth and quickly pulled back and spit it out. She looked over at Clef who had a look of complete ecstasy on his face. She smiled and then leaned over him. She pressed her lips to his and kissed him passionately. Clef growled into her mouth at the taste of himself in the kiss. His mouth came away and Umi gasped with at the pleasure that coursed through her body. Clef trailed kisses to her cheek, then to her temple, and then to her earlobe. She felt his tongue sweep from below her ear down her neck and back up again. She reached one arm around his neck and pressed her hand against his head to bring him closer to her. While he suckled on Umi's neck, he reached one hand around her back to hold her up while he allowed the other to wander. She felt his hand trail down her shoulder to the curve of her breasts. She arched her back when she felt his soft touch on her erect nipple. Noticing her reaction, Clef did as Umi had done to him earlier.

She felt his lips on hers again as the two allowed their tongues to dance together. His tongue left her mouth, and began to move downward, back over her neck until he was softly, slowly licking the pink around her right nipple. She arched against him and let out a cry, tangling her fingers in his violet-gray hair. He drew it into his mouth for only a second, just sucking a tiny bit, then pulled his head away. He pulled her nipple in again, and started a strong, steady suction, making a deep noise in his throat as he did so. She cried out, feeling her body writhe, her hips start to move against his. Every inch of her was flooded with what felt like a million tiny charges of electricity. His right hand was slipping down her body as he feasted on her right breast, then moved his mouth to her left. Clef tickled at Umi's sides with his free hand and heard her soft giggles. He then moved his fingers even lower and toyed with the curls that guarded her womanhood.

"Clef" Umi gasped as she moved her hips forward, encouraging him to proceed further.

Grinning, Clef trailed hot caresses down her body until he plunged one finger into her. He moved very slowly and explored every inch of her body. He then slipped a second finger in and felt Umi thrust her hips upward to take him in more. Clef returned to Umi's lips and kissed her while his fingers continued to probe her. She was panting, her body seeming to have a mind of its own, writhing, moving toward him again and again and again. She massaged her hands down his body until she found his manhood and began to stroke it with her hand — first wrapping her hand around it and gently squeezing and then moving her hand up and down. Clef pulled his fingers out and flicked them upward towards her passion-swollen jewel. She cried out his name and wrapped her legs around his waist. Clef pushed two fingers into her again as she continued to stroke him. She jerked, shrieking, as wave after wave of ecstasy totally consumed her. She heard her Clef cry out as well, and felt a wetness on her hand. Completely exhausted, she collapsed onto the bed and felt Clef's pressed against hers. She looked up only to find that she was now drowning in deep pools of violet.

"Ilove you," she whispered as she softly kissed him.

"I love you too, Umi, my Legendary Magic Knight," he smiled as Umi drifted off to sleep in his arms.

*******

"Sir, the FTO will be ready for launch in two hours," Geo reported.

"Good," Hawk smiled. "I want you and Zazu to return to the palace. I have just received word from Lafarga that there is to be an evacuation of Cephiro. You are to return to the castle and listen to whatever Clef tells you to do. I am transferring my command to him, and the people of Cephiro."

"But, what are you going to do commander?" Zazu questioned knowing how reckless he was–just like Eagle.

"I will remain here and battle Debonair until the end, just as my brother did."

"HAWK! You can't mean that–" Geo snapped.

"You are to do as I have instructed you," he calmly replied. "You know that my brother would have done the same thing."

Zazu looked nervously back and forth between Hawk and Geo. He hoped that Geo would tell Hawk he was crazy for going out there by himself. That Geo would try to stop him, but he knew that he wouldn't. As stupid as it seemed to allow their commander to go out there against Debonair all by himself, Geo wouldn't stop him. He had tried to stop Eagle from doing the same thing, but he had found a way around Geo's blockades. He knew that Hawk would do the same.

"Right, commander," Geo replied looking Hawk straight in the eye. "I'll go check on the FTO's progress."

Hawk nodded at Geo and then sat down in the captain's chair on the bridge. Zazu eyed Hawk and then took out his bottle of whiskey and took a drink. He offered some to Hawk who politely turned it down.

"Oh come on commander, you've gotta be a little drunk to do something as crazy as you are about to do," he laughed.

"No, I want to be sober out there," he smiled. "As for you, I think that you have had enough."

Hawk gently took the bottle from Zazu and set it high on a shelf where he couldn't reach it. He wanted to protest, but knew better than to get angry at the commander. Zazu sat down on the step that lead to the shuttle bay where Hawk's FTO was kept.

"Hawk, what is the real reason you're doing this?" Zazu asked looking at the ground. "I knew Geo wouldn't say anything. He respects your privacy just as he did Eagle's. I can tell when you both are hiding something from me, even if I am just a tad drunk."

Hawk looked over his shoulder at Zazu and then rose from his chair. He then sat down next to Zazu and rested a hand on his shoulder.

"Eagle told me that you would be a hard one to fool," he laughed resting his arms in his lap. "Before he died, Eagle had told me everything that had happened to him. He knew that he was deadly sick and that he was going to die. After a while, he just stopped taking the medication that the doctors on Autozam had prescribed to him, said that there wasn't any point in delaying it anymore. When he came to Cephiro he found someone that he cared very deeply about."

"You mean Lantis," Zazu interrupted.

"Yes, he was one of the main reasons why he came here. But, then he met someone else. A certain red-haired Magic Knight who changed the way he thought."

"Hikaru," Zazu smiled. "Yeah, Eagle was quite taken with her."

"I have countless messages from my brother about her. He had fallen in love with her. Yet, despite his feelings, nothing would come of it. He didn't have much time left and it hurt him to see her sad eyes. He knew that she was in love with Lantis, even if she didn't realize it herself. Once he was in the palace and Hikaru had helped nurse him back to health, he knew that he had to protect her. He knew that he was going to die for her. It was part of the legend–one of the hidden stories of the legend."

"I guess that I'm not following ya Hawk."

"It's all right, I didn't expect you to. Now, you should go rest."

Zazu got up. Before he returned to his room he looked over his shoulder to see Hawk smiling back at him. Once the door closed, Hawk walked over to one of the control panels and pulled up a few menus. He browsed through several files before he stopped on one. He scrolled down until he came to what resembled a loading bar.

"I'm in the red zone now," he whispered closing the screen. "It's happening much faster than I thought it would."

Hawk leaned over the control panel and began to cough uncontrollably. He covered his mouth with his hand as beads of sweat began to run down his brow. When he pulled his hand away from his mouth, he found that it was covered with blood.

"I don't have much time" he gasped.

"Nowwhere have I heard that before?" Geo said from behind Hawk. "Dude Hawk, don't go through with this. You can stop any time you want. Everyone is leaving Cephiro. You could too. Then you can have that one Magic Knight use her powers to heal you and"

"No Geo, this is how it has to be," Hawk replied turning and looking at his friend. "It is what destiny has told me I must do."

"Yeah, well that's bullshit!" Geo snapped. "You are going through with something just because this legend said that you had to?"

"I knew you wouldn't understand," Hawk smiled as he walked past Geo handing him a disk. "I have some data that you should look at. It will explain everything. You will be able to access them once the FTO has been launched."

Geo took the disk from Hawk with shaking hands. Hawk smiled gently at him and then exited. Geo watched the door close and then walked over to the console that he had seen Hawk at before he had spoken to him. He looked at the black disk that Hawk had given him and was about to insert it when he heard a loud crashing noise. The monitors on the bridge all turned on and showed the FTO forcing its way out into the dark sky.

"Damn him!" Geo yelled pounding on the console. "He knew I was going to lock it down so he couldn't leave! Zazu! Wake up! We have to stop Hawk!"

He was just about to run and wake Zazu when he remembered the disk in his hand. Without thinking about it, he jammed it into the console and quickly scanned through the information. His eyes widened and he nearly fell backwards.

"But.that's impossibleEagle died years agothis would mean thatEAGLE!"

*******

"What's going on?" Hikaru asked as she went crashing into Lantis' arms. "The ground is shaking so violently! I thought that Mokona was going to stop all this until we were ready!"

"It's time then," Lantis replied helping Hikaru to her feet. "The final battle is about to begin. We'd better go and get the others."

But there was no need. The moment that Lantis and Hikaru ran out of the gardens, everyone was standing in the hallway together. Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu looked at each other.

"Are you all ready?" Hikaru asked.

"You bet!" Umi smiled throwing a look of confidence at Clef.

"We will do our best," Fuu responded.

"Please everyone, to the throne room," Clef requested leading the way.

They all arrived in the throne room just in time to receive an incoming message from the NSX. Ferio ran over to the control panel and turned on the screen to see Geo looking down at them.

"Geo," Hikaru gasped. "Geo, what's wrong?"

"Hikaru, it's Hawk."

"What about Hawk? What's he done?"

"The same thing that he did before. He is going to fight to protect you again."

"Hawk has never fought to protect me before!"

"That's because Hawk is not who he says he is."

"What are you talking about?" Umi questioned.

"Listen to me Hikaru, when you became the pillar you wished Cephiro to return to the way it was before you were the pillar right? You wished for all the lives that were lost in that battle to return. Your wish came true," Geo explained.

"Thendo you meanHawk is really"Hikaru stammered.

"Yes, Hawk is really Eagle. He was only pretending to be a twin brother so that none of us would worry about his health. He put all of this onto a disk that he gave to me just before he launched the FTO. Now he's out there to battle against Debonair. He said that it was part of the legend that a man die for the pillar of Cephiro each time the Magic Knights were summoned. Zagato for Emeraude, and he for you in the place of Lantis," Geo explained.

Tears began to stream down Hikaru's face and Geo's transmission was interrupted by another — a blonde haired boy with sad brown eyes.

"Eagle!" Hikaru shrieked. "Eagle, please stop this!"

"I cannot do that," he replied looking around the room of sad faces. "I thank you Clef for keeping my secret. That is why you were so sad that day, you knew who I was and why I can come to Cephiro. But, I have to see you one last time, Hikaru. Thank you for everything that you have done for me. Lantis, protect her. Pleasebe happy"

With those final words, Eagle ended the transmission.

"EagleEAGLE!" Hikaru screamed collapsing to the ground.

"LEGENDARY MAGIC KNIGHTS!" echoed a voice. "The time has come. I will now release the spell holding Debonair and you all must flee and return to Tokyo. The time has come. The final battle, the Battle of Cephiro has begun!"