I don't believe this!!!!!! It took me forever to write this chapter and when I finally finish it, (and chapter 6) it doesn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!! But you know what? Chapter 6 was fine. But I can't post 6 until I finish 5 so here I go all over again!!!! The terror of chapter three has come back to haunt me!!!!! So here I am at 9:33 PM typing in secret the thing that took me over a week to write/type and find out it doesn't work!!!! I need to take a break from this story. I can tell you chapter 3 by heart and I bet I will be able to do the same once I finish retyping this chapter.
(Today wasn't a total loss, I got the Rayearth OVA on DVD. But then I found out Ferio is a bad guy and Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu never went to Cephiro. The OVA is really messed up, but then again I haven't finished watching it yet, so I don't know. By the time I finish typing this I probably would have already finished watching it though.)
Oh yeah, before I forget, I still don't own Magic Knight Rayearth. If I did, I wouldn't need to use a cheap floppy disk that messes up everytime I write an important chapter. In fact, someone would be doing this for me. And I would be living in Japan. And I would be writing in Japanese. And I wouldn't be wasting everyone's time just talking about what would happen if I did own Magic Knight Rayearth oh just read the story!
That morning, Fuu woke up with light streaming through between the curtains of the room. For a moment, she forgot where she was. When she opened her eyes and saw Ferio's naked chest, she nearly jumped out of her skin! But then memories of last night flooded back to her, and she smiled a sly smile which was something you rarely saw on Fuu. She stared at his faxe which looked strangely more innocent than she'd ever remembered it. Almost childlike, which of course wasn't the case!
Ferio was sleeping peacefully with steady breathing. His arms wrapped around her naked body and his legas wrapped around hers. Fuu didn't want to move, she wanted to stay like this forever. But she knew she couldn't do that. It would be really emgarrassing if Umi or Hikaru or anyone for that matter saw them like this!
Fuu began to move to get up, but Ferio's grip on her tightened and brought her closer to him. Fuu had to oblige. There was no way she could struggle against him, not that her body wanted to. Fuu laid her head against his chest. 'I have to wake him up.' Fuu thought. 'But how?' Then she recalled from books that she had read and in movies that she had seen that you wake your lover up with a kiss. Fuu blushed at the thought. 'That's silly. Why would I do that? I'm not going to believe some stupid fairy tale just because of this.' But she knew she was lying. 'Well, I might as well try it. Why not after all of this?'
Fuu moved over Ferio and stared at him for a moment. More memories of the night before flooded back to her, causing her to sigh. There were no words to describe the pleasure she had experienced last night. She was glad to find that Ferio had felt the same way she did for him. That he loved her so much he was able to express such passion to her.
But after that, what was going to happen? Things certainly wouldn't be the same as they were before, so what were those things? She shook off that thought. No, Cephiro was a land of will, where belief in your heart becomes power. As long as she and Ferio were in love, there was nothing that could harm them or change that. She found relief in that philosophy.
Fuu stared at his face again. She smiled, gathered up her courage, bent down, and pressed her lips to his. His body reacted naturally to her by his arms which began to stroke her back before he was even fully awake. Fuu didn't pull away from him until his eyes opened, when she lifted her head of his.
"Wow, that's a nice wake-up call." Ferio grinned, rested his hands on her hips. "Where did you learn to do that?"
Fuu just smiled at him as her answer. Ferio smiled the 'You're pretty tricky' smile back at her. And then he turned over so he was on top of her. He began to kiss all over her neck and shoulder again. The little shockwaves that went through Fuu with each kiss almost made her want to forget everything else in the world. But she knew that they had to get up, before someone came to get them up.
"Ferio, we have…" Fuu started. But Ferio silenced her with another long kiss, which her body quickly accepted.
When they broke, he urged her "We don't have to do anything we don't want to right now."
"What if someone comes in?"
"Then they'll get quite a sight." Ferio joked.
"Ferio!"
"I'm just kidding Fuu." Ferio laughed. "Just let me have a few more minutes like this." He began to smooth his hands all over her body to back up his plea. Fuu couldn't refuse.
But then, footsteps came from down the hall. Both Fuu and Ferio froze. Then they heard Umi's voice "Come on Hikaru! We have to wake up Fuu!"
"Then why are we going to Ferio's room?"
"Fuu's sleeping, um, in there."
"I still can't believe Fuu didn't sleep in our room last night. I wonder why."
"You can ask her when we get there."
"You've got pretty devoted friends." Ferio stated.
"They're coming!" Fuu warned.
"Do you think our 'quick undress' find will work backwards?"
"I hope so." Fuu was worried. "I can't imagine what Hikaru would think if she sees us like this!"
"Then close your eyes and concentrate." Ferio instructed and then did so himself. Fuu followed his lead.
Soon, Fuu could no longer feel his warm skin and instead felt her rough clothes. When Ferio felt the silky material of his outfit return, he opened his eyes at the exact same time as Fuu. He scanned her school uniform and armor and thought aloud.
"I think I liked you without clothes better."
"Ferio!" Fuu yelled, turning red.
"Just kidding." Ferio smiled and began to move off her and the bed. Fuu did the same and began to smooth her skirt. (not that there were any wrinkles)
Then the door burst open and Hikaru came running into the room. She ran up to Fuu and started asking her questions right away. "Where were you Fuu? You missed Aska and Tarta and Tatra and Eagle and Sanyun and Geo and…"
Then Umi came over and cut Hikaru off by saying "Now Hikaru, come on. They'll be coming again today right? Fuu can see them then. Now Fuu, we came to get you because we have to leave now so we can get back early."
"Get back early for what?" Fuu asked, grateful for Umi cutting Hikaru off.
"You know those monster hunts he was talking about yesterday?"
"Yes," Fuu recalled. "The one everyone got hurt on?"
"Well," Umi continued. "Hikaru and I thought that we might be able to help. We are the Magic Knights after all. We could easily be able to bring these monsters down. What do you say Fuu?"
"I guess so." Fuu replied. "Not as many people would get hurt if we went."
"I'll go too." Ferio added.
"Ferio…" Fuu reacted, not totally wanting him to go, but really happy that he was at the same time.
"After all, I did go last time and I would like to have another word with that demon." Ferio smirked, letting Fuu know that wasn't the only reason he wanted to go. Unfortunately, Umi caught the look too quickly turned.
She hid her embarassment by saying "Let's get downstairs ok? Don't want to keep Lafarga and Caldina waiting."
"Caldina's going too?" Fuu asked.
"Yeah, she convinced Lafarga." Umi brushed Fuu off, not even wanting to look at Fuu because of her fear that Fuu would see her blushing and catch the reason why.
But Fuu noticed that Umi was acting a little odd, yet she didn't say anything. She just followed Umi and the others down the hall in silence.
Actually, the whole group was silent, each with something else on their mind. Umi trying to get last night out of her head, Ferio replaying last night and wondering if it would happen again soon, Fuu wondering why Umi was acting so odd and trying to avoid Ferio's gaze so as not to let on what happened last night to anyone else, and Hikaru wondering what everyone was so quiet and having her carefree thoughts running as always. It was very quiet.
When they got downstairs, they were greeted by a big and exaggerated "Hello!! I hope y'all are ready ta go monsta huntin'!" from the famous Caldina who was acting as if they were going on a picnic.
A quiet "Good morning." from a quiet Ascot who decided to come along when he heard a certain Magic Knight had decided to go on this trip.
A simple smile from a black armored Cail and a "Let's get going now." from the Dal Lafarga.
"Ok! Let's go everyone!" Hikaru smiled and ran over to walk with Lantis who held his arm out to her.
Umi didn't wish to be left alone with Ferio and Fuu which coincidentally made her go with Ascot. Ascot was blushing (big surprise) when Umi walked over to him. But she was so preoccupied with getting away from that couple that she didn't notice.
Ferio was only too glad to be left alone with Fuu. As the other two couples waalked ahead, they walked at a slower pace. Ferio slipped his arm around Fuu's waist. He then bent down and kissed her cheek. This caused Fuu to turn her head to look up at him. She smiled back at him. Then she rested her head on his shoulder and they continued to walk just like that.
Umi took a glance back at the two of them. She quickly whipped her head back and straight forward, blushing almost as bad as Ascot did. She couldn't get the pictures from last night out of her head. Even though she really didn't see anything then, her imagination was attempting to fill in the gaps against Umi's will! This made her blush even more.
Ascot noticed Umi turning red and a instant wave of concern swept over him. "Are you alright Umi?" He gathered up the courage to ask.
Umi jumped at the sound of his voice. She had been so wrapped up in her own thoughts she had been neglectful of what was going on around her. "Yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry Ascot." She put on a fake smile which dissapeared the minute she turn away from him.
The group walked in silence for some more. But it made Hikaru a little edgey. She didn't want this trip to be completely in silence like it was on the walk through the hallway. So she tried to lighten the mood.
"So where were those monsters last seen? I mean, well, I know they were last seen in the castle, just where were they when they attacked the first time?"
Lafarga answered her. "Around the Spring of Eterna in the Forest of Silence."
"It's still here?" Fuu asked startled. "I thought it would have been destroyed when Cephiro was falling apart."
"No." Lafarga explained. "Parts of the Forest of Silence are still in Cephiro. Clef believes that it is because of the Spring of Eterna's power since the Spring of Eterna has the powerful ore Escudo. He thinks that the magic from the ore is what is sustaining the Spring and parts of the Forest."
Fuu slowly asked "Wouldn't that mean that there is still Escudo in the Spring..."
"I'm not sure." Lafarga replied. "All I know is that is what Guru Clef told me."
The group walked a little furthur. They began to see more and more clusters of trees appear on the landscape. This gave the impression that they were wandering through where the Forest of Silence used to stand. The trees were in little islands. There were groups close together or there were groups far apart.
"We're almost there." Lafarga informed, leading the way with Caldina close by him.
They walked through the scattared remains of the forest. Some creatures were scuttering the forest floor. Some were flying out of the trees as the group neared them, while others just peered at them from the cover of isolated trees. None of these creatures looked poised for attack, but they didn't seem frightened either.
"Oh no," Lafarga muttered and stopped in his tracks. His eyes wandered the trees with a worried expression on his face.
"What's wrong?" Caldina asked. Both Lantis, Ascot, and Hikaru got in a ready position, expecting an ambush or attack on them.
"I can't remember which way to go next." Lafarga answered with the same seriousness of before. Everyone fell over (typical anime) except Lafarga.
Caldina got up and sweatdropped and asked. "Are you sure?" Lafarga nodded.
"Do you remember Lantis? Ascot? Ferio? Any ideas?"
Lantis took a good look around, as did Ferio and Ascot. "You know, I don't know which way either." Lantis told Lafarga. Ferio and Ascot nodded in agreement.
"Then what do we do now?" Umi asked. "Do we split up? Guess which way? Stand here?"
"We shouldn't split up. We're best when we are together." Hikaru objected.
"Maybe we should break up into smaller groups. Most of us know the way to Eterna, so something might jog someone's memory of where to go." Fuu proposed.
"Fuu's right." Lafarga agreed. "That way, no one's alone and we can cover more ground."
"No! I still say it's best if we stick together!" Hikaru objected. "What if someone gets attacked and needs help? Or someone gets lost? We're at our strongest and best together."
Just then, something black shot out from one of the trees, just missing Hikaru's neck, and landed in the bushes behind her. Then another shot out from behind Ascot and landed behind Lafarga. Both too quick to see what it was, aside from being black and fast.
"It's them." Lafarga warned. "Be on gaurd!"
Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu pulled out their swords from the gems on their gloves. Right before thousands of the black creatures began shooting out from all different directions. When they brushed by someone, they left a deep cut behind. They were as quick as lightning and the group was getting cut a lot more than they were cutting these demons. In fact, not one person, even with the Magic Knights and the Dal and Cail, had even wounded, much less killed one of these mesterious minions.
"There's too many!" Umi shouted, ducking one but getting slashed by another.
"What are they after?" Hikaru yelled, swinging her sword but accomplishing nothing by it, except slicing air.
Then, several of the dark streaks ganged up and charged at Ascot, Caldina, and Fuu. They through them in all different directions, through the trees and out of sight.
Lafarga started to run after Caldina, but a swarm of these monsters attacked him head on. He slashed his way through them and ran off after her, and away from the group.
Umi tried to follow after Ascot, but a black circle surrounded her and becgan to attack her without breaking their formation. She was helpless to dodge, much less slay any of them. "Hikaru! Help!" She shouted.
Hikaru turned and saw Umi in danger. She started to run but some of the monsters tried to stop her. She swung her sword a few times, accomplishing nothing by it. Then an idea struck her. "~RUBY LIGHTINING!~" She attacked the monsters, and they were killed by it. She ran to Umi and shouted. "Umi! Duck down! I'm going to use magic to kill those things!"
"Ok!" Umi nodded. She emiditetly ducked and covered her head with her hands.
"~FLAME ARROW!~" Hikaru shouted and flames burst from her finger and burned the entire ring of demons.
"Thanks." Umi thanked Hikaru as she got up. "I have to help Ascot."
"Alright." Hikaru answered and Umi dashed into the cover of trees.
Meanwhile, Ferio had attempted to follow after Fuu, but came against thousands of little black dashes trying to stop him. His sword was useless against the quick demons. The more he tried to cut through them, the more he got cut. They attack him from all sides and he was getting really bad wounds. Finally, he just gave up trying to defend himself or attack the demons and tried to focus on just getting through them. 'I have to get to Fuu!' He thought. He tried to just run past them, ignoring all of his injuries, which he in fact got more of, until he fell because of all the cuts on his legs. He couldn't stand and the demons emidietly tried to take advantage of that.
"~LIGHTENING CALL!~" The lightening attacked most of the demons and Ferio looked up to see Lantis, Lafarga, Caldina, and Hikaru running towards him.
"~FLAME ARROW!~" Hikaru shouted and took out the rest of the demons. "Are you ok Ferio?" She kneeled down next to him. She had a few wounds, as did Lantis and Lafarga who had come back with Caldina who had barely any wounds on her. But none of them had anywhere near as many as Ferio. "Can you stand?" Hikaru asked, face full of concern.
"I'm alright." Ferio assured. But when he began to stand up, he cried out from the emidiet pain in his legs and fell back down.
"You're hurt bad." Hikaru obsereved. "He needs help. Umi was in bad shape too, but she went after Ascot."
"I'll be fine, just let me rest for a minute." Ferio panted. "Go help Umi, Hikaru."
"Are you sure?" Hikaru asked.
"Yeah, by the time you guys get back, I'll be ready and we can help Fuu." Ferio assured.
"That's right! Fuu! We have to help her!"
"Don't worry Hikaru." Lafarga said. "Caldina and I will stay with Ferio. You and Lantis go help Umi. Then we'll all go look for Fuu. She has healing magic, so she'll be alright for the moment."
"Ok, let's go Lantis." Hikaru affirmed and she and Lantis ran off after Umi.
After Hikaru and Lantis ran off, Caldina turned to Ferio. "You need help gettin up?"
"No." Ferio shook his head. "I'm going to stay down here for a bit. I just need to catch my breath."
"Alright." Caldina agreed, but still really concerned.
Then Umi and Ascot and Lantis and Hikaru came into view. But there was something else on Lantis' shoulder. It was Primera! And all of those four had not a scratch on them, which means they had used her magic.
"Hurry Primera! You have to heal them too." Hikaru told the pixie.
"Ok." Primera flew above Lafarga's head. "~FUTURA!~" She began to spin and sparkles flew from her body and onto Lafarga's wounds. Lafarga's wounds began to slowly close up. When she had finally healed all of his wounds, she flew over Caldina and did the same. "~FUTURA!~" When she finished with Caldina, she flew over Ferio. "~FUTURA!~" And when she had healed all of his wounds, she fell onto his lap worn out.
"Are you ok Primera?" Ferio asked.
"Boy, you guys know how to wear a fairy out." She replied exhausted. "Where's Fuu? Man, am I going to have to heal her too?"
"Don't worry Primera." Umi assured. "Fuu has healing magic that she can use on herself."
Then, Ferio's orb began to speak. "Ferio!" Ferio took out the orb and spoke into it. "Fuu? Are you alright?"
"Yes, how is everyone else?"
"There fine. We found Primera and she healed all of our wounds."
"Good."
"Fuu, where are you?"
"I'm where that rock was."
"The one we broke?"
"Yes. It's still here. The remains of it are right behind me."
"Ok, we'll come get you. Don't move!"
"Alright."
Ferio turned to the others. "Let's go."
They ran off in the direction Fuu had been thrown in. They hadn't gone too far when Ferio's orb began to make noises again.
"F-io! D-n-t C-m! Th-s-" And then there were just noises that would resemble static. Ferio began to shout into the orb.
"Fuu! Fuu! Are you there? Fuu!!" Ferio shouted. But there was no answer. Then, the whole group heard an explosion and saw a flash of light from the trees not too far ahead.
Ferio dashed off. The others struggled to keep up, but he was leaving them in the dust.
"Ferio! Wait up!" Hikaru yelled as she tried to run at his pace but to no avail.
But Ferio did no such thing. He continued to run until he reached the spot where he was sure he had seen the flash of light. But what he saw brought no calm to his heart. In fact, he nearly had a heart attack at the sight of it. He couldn't believe it.
When the others ran up behind him, they all stopped in their tracks when they saw what he was staring at. Caldina and Hikaru gasped, Umi said "Oh god...", Lantis rested his hand on Hikaru's shoulder and looked away, Lafarga and Ascot just stared in shock.
(They were all in the spot where the Magic Knights and Ferio had been when they were deciding what to do with the rock that was turning the creatures into monsters) Down the hill, Fuu laid in a pool of blood. She had slashes all over her, contributing to the pool. Her right arm was over her head, suggesting that she had been about to use an attack when she had been attacked. Her eyes were closed and her mouth was slightly open. Her sword was not out. Her glasses were a few feet away from her. She wasn't moving at all.
Sorry it took sooooooooooooooo long to get this chapter up! I swear I had it finished, it's just that my floppy disk doesn't like me and I hadn't saved all of it to my computer! And I had only a little bit more written down so I am sooooooooooooooooooo sooorrrrrryyyyy!! Please forgive me!!!!
Thanks to everyone who has been reviewing me! At least I know you didn't abandon me! You don't know how much reviews encourage me and make me happy. (I know that sounds stupid, but it's true! Ask Cloud! She's there everytime I scream out "I GOT MORE REVIEWS!" or even Keith who I beg to go on his computer to see if I got more. I love getting reviews!)
Oh, and to those of you interested on my opinion of the Rayearth OVA, all I will say is that it is definately different and has nothing to do with the series. I didn't hate it. Actually, it was pretty cool if you are judging the Fuu/Ferio pairing. My favorite quote is said by Ascot to Ferio in the first episode. "Give me one good reason why I can't kill Clef!" It's not that I hate Clef, I don't, it's just the way Ascot says it, he is so cute. Major changes that you'll notice in the OVA: Clef is tall, Ascot is small, Eagle is Emeraude's brother, Emeraude is always the older one, Magic Knights go to the same school, Mokona has almost nothing to do with it, Lafarga, Caldina, Presea, and anyone from the invading countries (except Eagle) don't exist, the mashin are different, and Alcione is not in love with Zagato. I don't suggest it to Hikaru/Eagle lovers, or Ascot/Umi lovers. And, a lot of people end up dead by the end of it. I won't say who, but a lot of people do. Oh, and don't judge good guys/bad guys by the actual series. You won't get far.
Ok, this thing is now ten pages long so it is completely ridicoulous. Thanks to anyone who read all of that so I know I didn't just waste my time. Read on to the chapter that was finished about two weeks before this!!