I'm sorry I took so long to put this up! I had it before and was going to put it up with the other two but somehow that file got a virus. (how the hell does a .doc file get a virus?) Anyway, here is the third chapter. Oh yeah, I STILL don't own Magic Knight Rayearth. This is the third time I've said that and it won't be the last. Just read.
As always, the Magic Knights were amazed at the beauty and size of the castle. It was amazing that it was created from willpower. And that the willpower had come out of people's hearts when Cephiro had no pillar and needed one.
"Umi!" A familiar palu yelled, brining the girls out of their daze.
"Ascot!" Umi laughed and followed the voice into the next room. The other two followed her. The laughing stopped when all three girls entered the room.
Ascot, first of all, was in pretty bad shape. He had bandages all over him. His left arm was in a sling, his right leg bandaged completely, and his left cheek had a bandage too. He had more bandages, but that was all Umi noticed before she yelled "What the hell happened?!" And ran over to him.
Ascot began to turn all red by the time Umi got to him. He had a major crush on Umi, but Umi never seemed to notice. Even now, while she was completely taken in by his wounds, she didn't notice his skin turning red.
"He'll be alright. He just looks bad because the ambush was pretty much aimed at him, or so it seemed." A deep voice assured.
"Lantis!" Hikaru recognized. She turned around to see how he was, but his condition did not make her smile.
Lantis, for one of the first times ever, was not wearing his usual black armor. His shoulder was wrapped up (left) in a bandage, but you couldn't really notice because his shirt was white. (Lantis in white! The guy who wears black 24/7 wearing white!) His right wrist was also wrapped up. And he had a long bandage wrapped two or three times around his chest. His hair was messy and he looked tired, as if he had not had sleep. But he was giving Hikaru a soft look that made her assured that he was ok.
"You guys here already?" Gave (duh! who do you think?) a very familiar voice.
"Ferio!" Fuu whirled around, very worried. But she really didn't need to be.
Ferio was pretty much fine. He had a couple of scratches, but nothing really worse than normal. In fact, there were only two things worrying Fuu when she saw him. First, the bandage (only one) wrapped around Ferio's head. Second, how the hell did he get away fine while the others were hurt so badly?!
"Ferio..."was the only word that came out of her mouth.
"Fuu." Ferio gave her a small smile. They both stared at each other for a moment.
"FUU!" Umi shouted and ran over and grabbed her arm and dragged her over to Ascot in about ten seconds flat. Fuu barely had time to blink before Ferio changed to Ascot. "Healing magic Fuu, NOW!"
Ascot was really embarrassed now. Umi was giving him so much attention. She was acting as if she really cared a lot for him. But once again, she seemed oblivious to his blush. "I-it's ok. I-I'm fine, really!" Ascot studdered.
"Like hell you're fine!" Umi argued. "You've got more bandages than everyone in Cephiro put together! Healing magic now Fuu!"
"~WINDS OF HEALING!~" Fuu used her magic on Ascot. And all of Ascot's bandages dissapeared, along with the wounds and any ripped clothes were sewn back together. Ascot was fine, and Umi wasn't going crazy or shouting anymore. At least for now.
I lied. "ASCOT! You're okay! Thank the gods!" Umi yelled and flung her arms around Ascot and laughed. There aren't any words to describe how much Ascot was blushing or how red that blush was. And guess what? Umi didn't realize he was blushing. Everyone else in the room did though. There was a laugh going round, but not so loud that Umi noticed.
"Now heal Lantis please Fuu!" Hikaru pleaded to the girl who hadn't been able to even speak to the one she's in love with because she had been too busy healing her best friend's boyfriends.
"Okay Hikaru." Fuu subsided.
They walked over to Lantis, who of course tried to convince Fuu and Hikaru that he was fine, but to no avail.
"~WINDS OF HEALING~" Fuu incantated. Lantis' bandages dissapeared, along with all the other stuff I said with Ascot dissapeared too.
"Thank you Fuu!" Hikaru rhymed. (in japanese it would be 'arigato Fuu-chan and not rhyme, but this is fanfiction so I don't care!)
"Yeah, thanks Fuu." Umi remembered to say.
"No problem." Fuu replied.
"Can I talk to her now?" Ferio reminded him that he was still there. He pulled Fuu over. Fuu's turn to blush now. He didn't take her too far away from the others. Just enough so that they knew that he was only talking to her.
"Ferio..." was the only thing again, that she could say to him.
"Hey Fuu." Ferio repeated. He took her hand and kissed it, which made Fuu blush more. "I missed you." He brought her hand to his cheek.
"I missed you too." Fuu whispered. Ferio smiled at her, which made her heart jump.
"I bet I missed you more." Ferio was still pressing Fuu's hand against his cheek. He closed his eyes, as if he was trying to take in all the feelings he was experiencing at once. He moved his head up and down along her hand. Fuu was blushing big time now.
'He must have missed me a lot.' Fuu thought. 'He's never done anything like this before...'
"Ferio..." Fuu said. "How bad is it?"
"Is what?" Ferio asked, muffled because her hand was now in front of his mouth.
"This." Fuu answered and reached up and touched the bandage around Ferio's head with her other hand.
"Oh." Ferio said and touched it with his free hand. "I don't know." His face looked confused. "I didn't know I had this on..."
"Ahh, you're up." Clef said as he walked into the room with the others. "Feeling better Ferio?" All the couples turned to see the entering people.
"Better from what?" Ferio asked.
"You don't remember?" Presesa asked shocked.
"Remember what?"
Lafarga started to laugh. "Oh my gosh!" Lafarga laughed. "When we were attacked! You took a hit to the head and have been asleep ever since. Six days!"
"The attack was six days ago!?" Ferio was obviously surprised since he dropped Fuu's hand.
"Yeah," Lafarga laughed. "And I had to carry you back. We brought you to your bed and you haven't moved until now. You don't remember any of this?"
"I remember running at the monster, ready to attack it but then, nothing."
"Another monster came up from behind and got you in the head."
"How long was that after we left?" Fuu asked. (remember, Cephiro time and Earth time are different.)
"Four days." Clef answered. (Cephiro time)
"Six days ago," Umi repeated.
"But the wounds looked fresh!" Hikaru recalled.
"We had another ambush on the castle." Lantis explained. "We were able to defend them off, but Primera dissapeared after that."
"Right, Primera could have been able to heal your wounds with her magic." Hikaru realized.
"What exactally are these things?" Umi asked.
"We're not totally sure about anything about them." Clef told them. "Aside from the fact that they are very fast and evil." The girls looked uncomfortable at the thought. Clef noticed this and quickly added. "Don't worry, I can sense when they are coming now. They can't take us by surprise again."
"That's a relief." Umi sighed, along with Hikaru and Fuu.
"Like Clef would let you misses stay in Cephiro if there was any danger of y'all getten hurt. If there was, y'all be outta here faster 'n you could even say Cephiro!" Caldina joked. "Clef would never let any of you misses get hurt!"
"Yes, well," Clef said. "You girls can enjoy yourselves now, ok?"
"Why don't you come outside?" Presea asked. "We are expecting Princess Aska, Princesses Tatra and Tarta, Eagle, and all of them to come soon today. They'll be arriving soon." Presea and Clef, followed by Caldina and Lafarga, left the room to go outside.
"Do you want to go Lantis?" Hikaru asked.
"If you want to Hikaru." Lantis answered, none too excited.
"But Eagle's coming!" Hikaru tried again. "We might also be able to find Primera outside!"
"I guess." Lantis repeated in the same voice, but didn't move at all.
"Come on!" Hikaru began to pull Lantis' arm out to the door to follow the others.
Umi was giggling at the two of them. She turned to Ascot. "Let's go too Ascot, ok?"
"Alright Umi." Ascot replied.
"Let's go!" Umi announced. She started walking to the door. Ascot followed, blushing as always.
Fuu began to laugh at the odd couple as they walked out of the room. "Shall we?" She smiled to Ferio. She began to follow after the others. But Ferio grabbed Fuu's arm before she had taken two steps. She turned, surprised to him. "Ferio?"
"I want to show you something." Ferio told her.
"But the others..." Fuu started.
"I just want to show you, Fuu." Ferio cut her off. "They'll have to manage without you for now."
Ferio began to pull Fuu out of the room. He brought her down the hallway, a way Fuu realized shehadn't been down in all her visits to Cephiro. She noticed it didn't seem to be the same as the others. It seemed a little fancier.
"I've actually wanted to show you this for a while," Ferio seemed excited, but he didn't look back to her, or let go of her hand. "But the time has never seemed right."
Fuu asked. "What are you going to show me, Feiro?"
Ferio stopped and turned to her. He gave her a playful smile that made her heart skip a beat. "It's a surprise."
Then they continued down the hallway, without conversation, until Fuu tried asking again. "Where are we going?"
"We're here." Ferio declared in answer to her question. They stopped in front of a door. It didn't seem that different from the ones surrounding it, yet it also seemed to be special at the same time to Fuu, but she didn't know why. 'But, it's just a door.' Fuu told herself.
"And where is here?" Fuu asked Ferio.
"My room."
Ugh! Finally done! I must have rewritten this chapter fifty times! That stupid virus! I had to rewrite more than half of it from memory! Then that part my sister decided would be funny to delete! (FYI Miko Windam saves it to a 3 1/2 floppy disk, no recycle bin) Then I lose the floppy and have to start to rewrite in school! (FYI 80% of story is done in school, not home, thus the disk) I know I messed up somewhere with the part about Primera. Mokona might not be able to make his fluffy appearence... AHH! I spoke too much! I will try to make up for this taking so long by writing the next chapter quick! I'll try!
(PS the ending to this chapter was written three days after the beginning, which is when Umi first sees Ascot. Then the floppy was lost. This is the floppy version. All the others go to either the same part, or to the Primera part. This took way too long!)