Hey people who are still reading! I am really tired right now so I can't make a really long introduction. (like that's even possible for me...) The trip to Ireland was great! Although I spent half my vacation running around buying souvenirs for all my friends...Anyway, the Irish I noticed are a whole lot more generous than Americans. Me, my sister, and my brother got about 200 euros (EACH) from family members in the first 5 days! (Yes, we got even more after that) By the end of the trip, my little brother still had 121 euros, my sister 110, and me? 60 euros.... (i have a lot of friends to get stuff for...)

But guess what? That has nothing to do with Magic Knight Rayearth! Which I don't own! so read the next chapter I wrote on my "vacation"!

Everyone was silent, most either staring at the two bodies on the floor or where the enemy had just been standing seconds before. Emeraude for one was looking at the unconscious couple with a sympathetic look on her face that seemed to be that she was regretting her actions. To make up a little bit of it, she willed a bed in the side of the room under them so they wouldn't be on the ground.

Meetee had stepped out from under Zagato's cape when Vanta had disappeared. He made his way over to Princess Emeraude followed by Sol Zagato. When Zagato reached Emeraude, he put a comforting hand on her shoulder and Emeraude leaned into him. All of this was done in almost complete silence. But in Cephiro, like in any world, silence never lasts long.

Lantis, surprisingly, was the first to break it. "What's going on?" He asked and everyone jumped at the sound of his voice, like they had all been under a spell that cut them off from the world and Lantis' voice had just shattered it.

"Is that your brother?" Eagle asked his best friend, whom he had come to stand next to. But he knew the answer, because even after death, Lantis and Zagato looked very much alike.

"Yes, that's Zagato."

Zagato turned to his younger sibling during the question and answer of Eagle and Lantis. Then he replied to Lantis' question. "We have something we have to explain only to Prince Ferio and Fuu. The rest of you can leave." During this, Emeraude slowly sat next to Ferio's form on the bed, not looking at anyone else though many eyes were on her.

"What's so important that Fuu needs to hear but we can't?" Umi demanded. She was having one of the worst days of her life and it didn't seem to be getting any better any time soon. (From seeing her friend and her friend's love in bed together, then seeing her friend on the brink of death, fighting a weird monster that turns out to be sent from the princess she killed, then a new enemy...)

"Maybe we can help." Hikaru added, always for sticking together through thick and thin. (She's one of those main stereotype anime characters after all) "We've gotten through almost anything together, so I'm sure that whatever Fuu-"

"Only Fuu and Ferio need to hear this right now." Zagato repeated, cutting off Hikaru's heroic speech. Then he turned to the one beside him. "Emeraude..." he asked.

"Meetee," Emeraude called finally looking away from her brother. Meetee ran to her side quickly, happy to comply with whatever Emeraude would have him do. "Can you please stay with the others while me and Zagato are speaking with these two?"

"Meetee will stay with others while Princess Emeraude and Sol Zagato are speaking with these two, Meetee will." Meetee bowed and marched over to Hikaru, turned around and saluted to Zagato and Emeraude. Emeraude smiled while Zagato shook his head.

Zagato then closed his eyes and put out his hand. The next thing the others knew, they were staring at themselves. Or if you remember this spell as the Magic Knights did recall, a reflection of themselves.

"What in the world?" Tarta exclaimed.

"Oh my." Tatra gasped at the same time as her sister.

"Huh?" Aska put in.

"Zagato's done this before." Hikaru informed. "All we have to do is hit it with magic..."

"No!" Meetee jumped in front of the barrier. "Do not do that Magic Knight of Rayearth! Princess Emeraude and Sol Zagato are discussing something very important in there! Do not interrupt!"

***

Emeraude stared down at her little brother, the present Prince of Cephiro. She gently stroked his hair out of his face. "He's grown a lot." Emeraude thought aloud.

"Has he?" Zagato quietly answered her. Emeraude turned to him; seemingly not embarrassed at all that he had heard her thoughts.

"I'm not sure I can go through with this. It's so unfair to do this to them. And coming from us?"

"I know it's hard, Emeraude, but we have to. It will be worse if we don't. For Cephiro and for them. Vanta was already here, and you saw the condition and form she was in."

"You're right Zagato, I know you are. This is what we came here for after all." Emeraude sighed. Then she turned her attention back to her brother and his lover. "They're waking up now. I didn't hit them too hard. I wouldn't have been able to even if I had wanted to."

Ferio began to stir first. He groaned as he slowly began to open his eyes. They landed on Emeraude since she was the one looking at him and closest to him. "Sister?" He inquired uncertainly and began to try and sit up.

"Be careful. You might feel a little dizzy after that hit..." Emeraude warned him and began to reach to help him.

"That's right!" Ferio exclaimed, eyes wide open now. "Fuu! Is she all right?" He looked around until his eyes fell upon the now waking Fuu next to him. "Fuu, are you okay?"

Fuu opened her eyes at the sound of his voice. "Ferio?" She looked at his face, which was full of concern. "Yes, I'm fine." He sighed in relief. She smiled softly to him as he helped her sit up. (Not that she needed any help!)

Zagato coughed unnecessarily loudly into his hand to remind that couple that they still had an audience, which had been conveniently forgotten. "I suppose you two are wondering what is going on?"

"Yes." Ferio answered with a frown.

Emeraude sighed. "Well, where to begin?"

"How about those, insects did you call them? The black things that attacked us all?" Ferio asked, a little more comfortable speaking with his sister than Zagato. But she did attack them...

"Those creatures that attacked you, the Losti, are fueled by desire in your hearts. The people who have the most desire are hurt the most by them. They were created and are controlled by Vanta." Zagato explained. "They were the ones who were driving Meetee mad and caused his transformation in which our instructions were misinterpreted in his mind."

"Your instructions?" Fuu asked.

"To bring you to our place of rest; temporarily of course. He's actually a very powerful and loyal creature." Emeraude told them.

"Vanta," Fuu began, recalling Hikaru's outburst earlier. "What is she after?"

Emeraude cast her eyes downward. "What she was after... was you two."

***

"Ferio and Fuu?" Hikaru shouted by accident. "Why?"

Meetee had been answering the questions that the others had been asking. (Only because Umi threatened to attack the shield anyway if he refused.) They had only asked the same questions that Ferio and Fuu had really.

"Meetee cannot tell you that." Meetee reminded. "If Meetee could, why would Princess Emeraude separate all of you?" Meetee nodded his head, assuming that he had stopped all further questions. He isn't that bright...

"So that's what they are discussing." Clef stated.

"Ahh! You are not supposed to know that!" Meetee cried out. His sense of victory gone.

"Okay you weird little thing. Let us pass now!" Aska demanded. "I want to see Fuu!"

"Meetee is not a thing." Meetee pointed out once again, insulted.

"Actually Aska, it is about time we started to head back to Fahren." Sanyun told his princess.

"Yes, they seem to have enough trouble on their hands as it is." Chang Ang agreed.

"Are you saying I am trouble geezer?!" Aska argued.

"Of course not Lady Aska!" Chang Ang lied. "We should just be heading back to Fahren around now..."

"We should probably go back as well Tarta." Tatra told her sister who nodded in agreement.

"Us too," Eagle added. Then he turned to Lantis. "Hope everything goes well with your brother."

"Thanks." Lantis replied.

"That girl, she was Princess Emeraude right?" Eagle asked quietly to Lantis.

"Yes, why?"

"I was just thinking, she didn't have much of a family did she? I mean, aside from Guru Clef and you and Zagato, she was pretty much alone."

"Yeah, wait." Lantis caught himself. "She had a younger brother. Ferio, the boy that's in there with them."

"Really? You never mentioned him before. But you guys must get along pretty well, both went through the same thing and all." Eagle assumed. Then he caught Geo's glare from behind, who pointed to his wrist. "Oh! Better get going. Geo will bite my head off if I take much longer. See you soon Lantis."

After a small goodbye, the people from the other countries left for their own homes. As if on cue, when the last ship took off, the shield rose.

Fuu was sitting on the bed, staring at nothing but looked like she would start crying any moment. Next to her was (not Ferio but) Emeraude who was looking at Fuu with the same pitiful face. Ferio was now standing by the side of the bed, glaring at the ground. His fists were clenched so hard that his hands were shaking. Zagato looked almost exactly the same as he had before, only his facial expression was softer.

They were all still and quiet for a moment. No one spoke or moved, as if everyone was waiting for something to cue them in. Then, a tear slid down Fuu's cheek. When she went to wipe it away, more began to fall. A soft sob she had been holding back escaped from the prison of her throat.

Ferio, out of habit, began to turn with the intention to comfort her when he heard; but stopped himself halfway. He squinted his eyes shut, holding himself back. Then he ran out of the room, fists as clenched as ever.

Emeraude reached out and pulled Fuu over and let Fuu cry on her shoulder instead. Fuu stopped trying to hold her tears back and cried freely. Her sobs were the only sound in the entire room. When they finally began to die down, Emeraude spoke.

"You should go to your room." Emeraude whispered to her. "Think about what we said and get some rest." Fuu nodded.

As Fuu got up, Umi and Hikaru came to there senses, no longer mesmerized by their friend's cries and ran over to her instead, concerned and confused. They walked with her out of the room and began towards their instructed destination. They didn't probe her about what happened inside the shield or speak at all for that matter. Which Fuu was grateful for, because she was holding in her sobs for most of the way.

When the girls had left, Clef chose that time to speak. "What happened in there?"

Zagato turned to him. "It's not yet time to tell you that."

"What do you mean?"

"It's Ferio and Fuu's place to explain it." Emeraude answered. "When they want to, then you'll know."

"What about the enemy?"

"Let's talk about that elsewhere." Zagato suggested. "Somewhere safer, because Vanta may decide to attack while we're speaking of her."

"How about the throne room? An attack can be sensed there."

"All right."

Zagato and Emeraude and Clef then left for the throne room. Meetee, who had been quiet up until then, ran out after them. Caldina, Lafarga, Presea, and Ascot wandered out discussing the day's events, filling each other in on what the other may have missed. Lantis was the only one left in the room then, with Primera.

"So Lantis...what should we do?" Primera asked slowly. She had gotten back most of her energy fast, using her own will and magic. "How about we go for a nice, long, walk together?"

Lantis ignored her, but did begin to walk out of the room. He was following the way Ferio went. He felt if anyone had more of a right to know what was going on, it was him. But that wasn't the only reason he was going to see Ferio. Eagle's words were still in his mind. "You guys must get along pretty well, both went through the same thing and all."

He had never thought about it before but it was true. Ferio was in almost the exact same position as him, maybe worse. Ferio had lost his only sibling, hadn't been able to be there before they died, faced a lot of changes afterwards, had hated the pillar system, and loved their country more than anything except for a certain Magic Knight. But Ferio hadn't even known of his sister or her fate until it was too late, which was why Ferio couldn't be there for her. Lantis had left on his own accord.

Lantis stepped outside and then he saw the younger man. Ferio was training, or at least it seemed like it. He was swinging his sword at fake monsters that once they had all been defeated, they reformed and posed for attack again. Clef had designed this area after the invasion, so people could be more independent. Ferio seemed to be struggling. No one had ever figured out why Ferio never wanted to learn magic. Even Lafarga put will power into his sword strokes to make them more powerful. Then Lantis realized, there was a lot people didn't know about Ferio.

"What are we doing here?" Primera asked. "You're going to train again?" Primera groaned at the fact that their 'romantic' walk was going to end with nothing 'special' happening at all. (not that anything would...)

Lantis ignored her again. "Ferio!" He called.

"Huh?" Ferio looked up as the monsters faded. "Oh Lantis, didn't see you there. You want to train?"

"Actually, no. I wanted to talk to you."

"What?" Primera asked.

"To me?" Ferio asked confused, not remembering ever having a privet conversation with Lantis in his entire life.

"Yeah." Lantis nodded. He walked over to him.

Ferio willed his sword back into the gem on his hand. "So, what did you want to talk about?"

"Um," Lantis began. "Have you been out here the entire time?"

Ferio looked away. "Yeah." The tone of his voice he had and the body language he was giving off made it look obvious that he didn't want company. But Lantis wanted to know what went on in the shield.

"Ferio, before, when Fuu was crying, why did you stop yourself from comforting her?" Lantis asked seriously.

Ferio's head snapped around to Lantis. Had he been that obvious? He looked away again, fighting back tears. He didn't want Lantis, or anyone for that matter, to see him cry. That was the reason he had come out here in the first place.

"I," Ferio slowly told him, voice quivering really soft.

"Yes?" Lantis encouraged him.

"I'm not allowed to love Fuu."

Cliffhanger again! Ha ha! Okay, this part of the fic I wanted to use a lot of Lantis. Why? Because I never use him! Normally I just have him standing on the side in the shadow. That, or he's with Hikaru because I am busy with Umi and/or Fuu. And I gave the black things a name! The Losti. Why did they need a name? Because I was running out of synonyms for black things. Fuu had almost no dialogue again, but at least I had her conscious at the end of this fic! That's an improvement. But Umi had little dialogue this time too. And Lafarga, Presea, Caldina, and Ascot didn't speak at all. Well, they did speak but they weren't really saying anything. I was just throwing them out of the room. Can you tell I am tired? There's a 5-hour time difference from Ireland and New York. (That's my state!) A day after the plane ride back and I am still tired. But, as promised, I got the next chapter up! When will I have the next one up? When I get some sleep....

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