Prince Ferio Wingdom of Cephiro looked down at the smaller woman walking beside him. Fuu looked up and smiled at the young god slash prince. His once solid forest green hair now was tipped with gold. Other than that nothing besides a couple of extra inches of height and a more muscular appearance (not too bad though I hate over muscled men. Yucky!) had simple made the young man more appealing.
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Fuu and himself had arrived at the castle, shortly before Hikaru and Lantis/Rayearth, and about half a day after Umi and Ascots/Selence's return. The 3 infused god-men (yeah that's just soooo lame I know T_T), the High Mage of Cephiro and both set of knights, present and future, were, after a good nights rest, found themselves in deep discussion about the intimate fate of the land.
"Shela will attack, soon from the looks of it," Clef paced the length of the room. "We have next to no knowledge of her abilities, other than what you three," his tired cornflower blue eyes flickered to the retired gods, "have told us. So far we know that she controls the souls of her dead subjects, whom, she killed, and locked away with herself. Wonderful. Only I have the
power to combat such forces, but my knowledge in that field is hazy at best. I had no real urge to learn it, nor do I now. It's dark magic, which one can only obtain should they sell their souls, to the Lady of the North, unless they were taught by some one else. The previous head priest taught Zagoto. Unfortunately he's well..." The Mage trailed off as he saw Umi, Hikaru and Fuu bow their heads in sorrow at the past deed, which had first called them to this world.
A sudden surge of power alerted all in the room of another's presence. The occupants of the room were up and in defense mode, as the looked for the source of the new power.
"Well now, isn't this nice. The Sky god bonded with the prince whore, just to be closer to the little blonde alien." Heads jerked trying to identify where the sound was coming from, while Ferio wrapped a protective arm around Fuu.
"You can't keep her safe forever, you know this right? Right now you all are at your weakest. The 3 present knights have no power," Umi, Hikaru and Fuu glared at everything they could find that might hold the voice. "The gods are weakened by their love for the weak little alien scum. The 3 new knights can't draw their power here, in a world still depending on 3 gods that care only for their little whores. And the mage can't attack, because his past fears hold him back! Isn't this hysterical?" The voice began to laugh, a high pitched, consistent affair. (Every hear Emerald laughing from the Sailor Moon dub? That's Shela's laugh. I already know that you knew it was Shela. So I never gave anything away. XD) As her laughter died down an image of her appeared on a floor length painting. You could still see the beauty that made her famous in the past, but it was marred by her insanity and the look of finally getting the revenge that drove her there.
"Well now, pretty little Knights, why don't you come visit me, hmm? It's ever so lonely here." On saying so the painting and her image faded to black, and became a vortex, sucking everyone in the room into it.
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The older Skylark, carefully kept his hand over his younger versions mouth, to keep him from crying out. His eyes glazed in sudden knowledge as he remembered how he had felt back then. Some of the most important people had gone to face the god's only knew what. Carefully removing his hand, he picked the little blonde boy up.
"Time to warn the others. We may very well need their help if they are to make it through this." The blonde boy nodded, but his thoughts were on his friends. 'Everyone… Angel Lady, please come back soon.' Tears pricked at the back of his eyes, but he refused to let them fall.
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Wow! I finally updated. Oh and to those, 3 who wanted to be in Council of 12, please I need more information than you just wanting to be in it. If anyone else wants a part as well, not a god, unless those 3 don't give me the info, but the Monster Masters (a.k.a. angels!) then send that my way as well. And Jen…. Sorry I haven't talked to you for awhile. We weren't at home for 2 or 3 weeks and school just started. But I'll write soon. I will make sure I write the next chapter. My writers block is gone! Yah!
Muse: Who cares?
Shut up! R/R please!