Red and Black

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Chapter 2

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I do not, and never will, own MKR, YYH, and/or Slayers.

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CAUTION!! Spoilers for whole of MKR series in this chapter!

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To the fic!!

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Hiei reclined himself back. He had found a nice maple tree to lie in, and he was quite comfortable. He sighed as he ran over the fact, for about the hundredth time, that he wasn't Yukina's true brother. It had been two weeks or so since he found it out, and the rest of the Tentai had been told the same story Hiei had been told. They reacted fairly well to the news and, although Hiei did not ask, they decided to do some research on Cepherio and this "Hikaru". If she was truly as important as Koenma said she looked, then there should be no problem finding out about Hiei's mother.

Thanks to the Reikai Library, Botan and Hinageshi were able to find information in a matter of days. They learned all about Cepherio's past, about the "Pillar System", about the three neighboring countries (Chizeta, Faren and Autozam.) and about the Legend of the Magic Knights. In the chapter about the Magic Knights they found the first trace of "Hikaru". The chapter went something like the following:

"'If something major affects Cepherio, "they" will be summoned from another world to become Magic Knights and fight using the power of the Spirits.'

"This is the first time that this legend has been recorded. In the past it was passed on purely through word of mouth. The Magic Knights were only summoned once before the Pillar System was destroyed. There was no need for the Knights if there was no Pillar.

"As it so happens it was the Knight of Fire, Hikaru Shidou, that destroyed the Pillar System and ended the tragedy that was the Legend of the Magic Knights.

"It was said to be a tragedy because the Pillar (as stated in chapter 4004: The Pillar System) was the one with the strongest Will in Cepherio. The Pillar was forced to give up her free will for the sake of Cepherio's people. The last Pillar before Hikaru Shidou was Princess Emeraude. Emeraude fell in love with her priest, Zagato. This was considered unforgivable, and Emeraude sealed herself away to try and forget her feelings for her priest. It was no use, and Emeraude knew if she continued on loving him she would think less and less of Cepherio's welfare and more and more of Zagato. Eventually Cepherio would fall apart. Emeraude could not allow that to happen. So she summoned the Magic Knights to kill her as the Pillar is not allowed to take her own life. That was the duty of the Knights and they did their duty however reluctantly.

"The Three Rune gods Windam (the Wind phoenix), Selece (the Water dragon), and Rayearth (the Fire lion) guided their respective knights (Windam: Fuu Hououji, Selece: Umi Ryuzaki Rayearth: Hikaru Shidou) to their fated battle after their hearts had grown strong enough to bear them. The Knights had been told that to save Cepherio they needed to destroy Zagato. They were told that Zagato had kidnapped the princess and was the reason the monsters had started to roam Cepherio, but it was the other way around. Emeraude sealed herself away and Emeraude was the reason there was monsters.

"So the Knights were left to think Zagato was their true enemy not Emeraude, and when Zagato was destroyed, Emeraude was so furious that Zagato had been killed that she used her Will to create her own Rune god and fought the Knights. The princess had been nearly completely taken over by anger when the last piece of her goodness held her back as she begged the knights to kill her or she would most certainly pray for the complete destruction of Cepherio. The Knights did not want to kill her, but in the end there was no way out. As the Knights struck their final blow in their combined Rune god, Emeraude threw herself onto their blade to be with her beloved Zagato forever . . .

"The Magic Knights were sent home, but not long after they were summoned again, by someone unknown. Cepherio was in the worst possible state. With no Pillar to support it, Cepherio was falling apart. The people of Cepherio were searching for the new Pillar but to no avail. The Pillar could not be found. The people of other neighboring countries (Faren, Chizeta and Autozam) were trying to invade and capture the Pillar System to claim Cepherio as their own. Each country had their own reason for invading. Chizeta, being a very small planet, wanted to expand their territory. Faren was ruled by a very young girl who had the incorrect fantasy that she could wish for what ever she wanted if she was the Pillar. Autozam wanted to have a world were they could go when there planet collapsed an became inhabitable.

"The Magic Knights did their best to protect Cepherio from these outsiders. What they didn't know was that two other beings were planning to take Cepherio for their own. Debonair and Nova were their names. Debonair was created by all the negative feelings of the people of Cepherio. Nova, on the other hand, was created purely by the negative feelings of the Knight of Fire in her last moments in Cepherio.

"In the end Magic Knight of Fire, Hikaru Shidou, and son of the President of Autozam, Eagle Vision, were the only two candidates for the Pillar. After Hikaru had convinced Nova to return to her body and Eagle Vision was knocked unconscious in a battle against Debonair Hikaru Shidou had been chosen for the Pillar position. Hikaru used her power as Pillar to drive away Debonair and destroy the system. Hikaru had laid the fate of Cepherio in the hands of the people.    

"Many years later the Knights settled down forever with their loved ones in Cepherio. The knight of Wind and the younger brother of Emeraude, Ferio, settled down together as did the Knight of Water and the court Palu, the Knight of Fire and the one and only Cail in Cepherio, Lantis. (For more information on Hikaru Shidou see page 810)"

When they turned to 810 they had read on to find out about the love triangle that had existed between Hikaru, Eagle Vision and Lantis, how Lantis was the younger brother of Zagato, the very man that Hikaru had killed, and about Hikaru and Lantis' first three children, all daughters. The book had also given information about how Hikaru had died. According to the text, she died protecting Cepherio from Debonair who had somehow returned to power. The thing that caught their eye though, was the last line in the chapter,

"It was rumored that the Cail and the Knight of Fire had a fourth child, a boy, whose name remains unknown to the common folk of Cepherio."

 After the group had seemingly gotten their fill of information, they left Hiei alone to ponder all this. It had been a week since he had seen any of them, but he didn't care. It gave him more time to think.

"But to think about what?" Hiei murmured from his place in the tree. "That boy mentioned at the end of the chapter couldn't have been anyone else but me. I know I have three sisters now. What were their names. . ."

"Oh, Hiei, you mean you don't even know your own family's names? I'm shocked!" A voice said from under him in mock surprise. Hiei looked down below and saw a short, petite woman with long, red-orange hair staring up at him with a hand shading her ruby colored eyes from the sun.

"Who are you?!" Hiei demanded. The girl smirked.

"Hiei, is that any way to treat your big sister?!"

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   ~End Chapter 2~