AN: Oh my! Three reviews already? I wasn't expecting even one!
blazingIcEph0eniX: I reformatted chapter one! Thanks for reading despite the format problems. Sure, I'll read yours when I get the time, which should be real soon. Sounds interesting. ^_^
Miemu Akari: You'll probably see soon! No doubt they'll find out soon. I originally sorta saw Hakumei as Hikaru's clone, you know, endless amount of energy and short.
BlackOut: Thanks!
SUMMARY: Kumori, Kusaki, and Hakumei are three girls, all daughters of the Magic Knight. After fighting over a galss orb, Kuiki no Toki with a would-be thief, they land in the past. U/C H/L F/F
Unrolling the Future
Chapter Two- Face of Evil
"So..." Kumori began. "Uhh...what do we do?"
There was a period of silence. Everyone was thinking. It was often three girls pop out of nowhere, and it wasn't quite normal to see your mother as a teenager after a fight with an orb. And your dad? Well, you'll never know with him.
Hakumei yawned. She hadn't gotten much sleep. After, they stayed up WAY past midnight just to look at some orb that got them into alot of trouble and where they were now. Yawning again and resisting the urge to fall back alseep, she said, "Maybe we can straighten things out?"
"Well, I happened to be all out of ideas," Kumori muttered, before she too, yawned. I'm starting to envy Kusaki. Look at her! She's resting! I think I'll go jump into a cold bath right now.
"You guys tired?" Hikaru asked symphetically. "Why don't you guys go and rest?"
"Agraito, Hikaru-san," Kumori said, stiffling another yawn.
~*~
Hakumei flopped onto her bed and truned to face Kumori who slid back the covers of her bed and got in. She and Kumori requested a room together, and got one.
"Ri-chan," Hakumei said. "Do you have any idea of where we are? All I know is my mom deaged, about 22 years."
"I'll bet anything my mom did too," Kumori muttered. "I have a hunch. Maybe, I dunno, we're in the past? I mean, Otousan did say the dumb orb thing has something to d with time, so, maybe the holder can go anywhere in time? As far back as he wants?"
"Oh," Hakumei said. "That sounds complicated. I wanna go back home."
"Hakumei, in a way, we are home," a voice mumbled.
Kumori jumped, and Hakumei fell of the bed. Just then, Kusaki sat up, and rubbed her eyes. "We are home." Kusaki mumbled. "Don't we live in Cephiro's Palace?"
"Yeah, but..." Hakumei replied, climbing back on the bed. "I mean I like to be where my parents will know me!"
"I know, Hakumei," Kusaki said. "I do too." She fell back and stared at the ceiling.
"Kusaki!" Kumori snapped. "Don't do that!"
Kusaki giggled, and nodded. "Why don't we go to the library tomorrow?"
"Uh, Kusaki," Hakumei said. "I thought your mother forbid you to go to the library until the end of this week?"
"Oh yeah," Kusaki mumbled, slumping back in defeat. "I forgot."
"But they are not here." Kumori said.
"I know," Kusaki muttered. "That blonde woman was really a stranger."
"No, I mean our parents. The ones back home. The ones that knows us," Kumori said. "YOur mother doesn't Kusaki. Even if Fuu-san catches you in there, she won't punish you for doing something you are not supposed to do. She doesn't know."
"Are you saying," Hakumei said slowly, "that we take advantage at the fact that Fuu-san doesn't know Kusaki's punishment for sneaking around past bedtime?"
"Yeah. You don't know the whole story do you?" Kusaki asked/answered. When Hakumei adn Kumori shook their heads, Kusaki said, "Well, I was sneaking around to go to the kitchen because I was hungry, you know at that one time we had to miss dinner? I didn't know Okasan and Otousan were up and about and I accidently scared my mom and dad to death." KUsaki then grinned and calpped her hands together. "That's a great idea, Kumori!"
"Ri-chan, do you still have the orb?" Hakumei asked.
"Oh, I forgot!" Kumori pulled out an orb from her pocket. "Where do we put?"
"I think this is the room," Kusaki said. When KUmori and Hakumei gave her blank looks, Kusaki smiled swwetly and said, "My Onisan and Otoutosan found a hole in the wall. If we just cover it up, maybe they won't notice? But I doubt it since it's supposed to be behind a dresser."
All eyes turned to the three dressers across the room.
"We'll check Sa-chan's!" Hakumei announced, as she hopped off the bed and to Kusaki's dresser. "Come on, let's push this out!"
Kumori and Kusaki helped Hakumei push the dresser. After what seemed to be eternity, they managed to move it until they saw a hole.
"How deep is it?" Kumori asked.
"I dunno," Kusaki said, as she catiously put her arm in. She push it until from elbow down her arm was in. With the tips of her fingers she could feel the bottom. "It's not that deep. We'll be able to reach it."
"Kay," Kumori said, putting the orb in. After shoving the dresser in place, the girls fell on their beds, exhausted, and fell asleep.
~*~
"More then half the books are in a diffrent language!"
"Gah! I think I'm gonna fall!!! ...no wait, I just missed a step!"
"Is this written backwards???"
Kusaki, Hakumei, and Kumori were searching the library for the book on anything they could find with a realtion to the Kuiki no Toki, which wasn't much since more than half the books were written in a tottally diffrent language.
Other than that, they were getting a rather big pile of books.
Kumori, who was sharing a ladder with Hakumei, reached out for a book, when something snapped. Screaming, Hakumei and Kumori and the ladder fell, Kusaki letting out a small scream.
~*~
Umi was wnadering around the castle.She had no idea where she was going, all she knew was she was in the halls of the castle. Truthfully, she ahd no idea where she was. All the hallways looked the same. Maybe if she kept wandering, she'll get herself unlost...
She stopped in her tracks when she heard screams which came from down the hall, and from the big doors which she reconized. It led to the library.
Running like her life depended on it, she hurried foward and down the ailses until she saw Hakumei and Kumori on the floor, a book a few feet in front of Kumori, with a ladder on her and Hakumei.
"What happened?" Umi demanded, as she and Kusaki, who just jumped off her own ladder, pulled the ladder off of the two girls. Kusaki inspected the ladder. And when she got to the end, she let out an "oh!"
Just then, Clef, Hikaru, Fuu, Ferio, Lantis, Caldina, Ascot, Lafarga and Presea had just ran in.
"What happened?" Hikaru shouted.
"I'm really sure," Kusaki said, as she kneeled over the end of the ladder. She imediettly jumped up when there was a loud booming laugh.
"You think you've escaped me? Escape me? Never! Give me, the orb!"
I thought I left her with Otousan! Kumori thought.
"Well?" the voice demanded.
Drawing his sword, Lantis demanded, "Show yourself!"
Hakumei's eyes went wide, Kusaki gasped, and Kumori's jaw dropped when the woman who was trying to steal the orb stepped out of the shadows.
"You!" Clef growled.
"I thought we left you in that music room!" Kumori shouted, pointing at the woman.
"Well," she said, taking a step foward,"you thought wrong. I had contact with the orb. If that dancing freak had contact with the orb, she would be here with us."
Hikaru took a step foward. "Who are you and what do you want?"
"Who I am, and what I want isn't important to you!" the woman snapped. "But, if you do want to know, the Guru and those stupid brats have some answers."
Kumori held her breath and counted to ten, trying not to loose her temper from being called a stupid brat.
"You're not getting it!" Hakumei shouted.
The woman then suddenly growled, "You in luck this time, but I have to go!" WIth that, she disappeared.
Fuu truned to Kusaki and said lightly, "What exactly does she want?"
"The Kuiki no Toki," Kusaki mumbled, suddenly finding the floor very interesting.
"Hey! SHe mentioned that thing before!" Ferio said suddenly. "When Fuu and I first found her in the garden!"
"Clef-san? Who was she?" Hakumei asked.
"Osui Yaezaki," Clef answered. "She was one of the earlier canidates for a Water Knight. To become a Magic Knight, you must be able to don a Mashin. She failed the test and wasn't able to become a Magic Knight."
Kumori leaned against the wall silently, absorbing the new information. Atleast she knew who the woman was, but it didn't explain why she wanted the Kuiki no Toki.
"That doesn't explain why she wants the orb thing," Umi said. "Or why Kumori, Kusaki, Hakumei, and that Yaezaki woman are here."
"It was my fault," Kumori said quietly, and everyone looked at her.
~*~
She growled as she banged the goblet onto the table. Stupid Magic Knight wannabe's, she thought. At this rate, I'll never get that stupid sphere thing!!
"No progress, I presume?" a raspy male voice asked. "You have absolutely no talent in this, not that you'd be much better if you were off the Krish."
"Shut up!" she growled. "If that stupid offspring of the Water Knight and the Guru hadn't gotten her hands on that orb first, I would have had it!"
"She won't exactly be easy to get rid of, you know," the voice said mockingly. "She is the daughter of the Knight of Water and the Master Mage. You should've known she would be hard to get rid of. None of those girls should be taken lightly.
"There is a second part of the legend. Everyone knows the first part, but know one but I knows the second."
"Oh?" Yaezaki said interested. "And why is that?"
"It was more of a prediction than a legend. So over time, people have forgotten it. I remember when it was first predicted, nearly to milleniums ago. People didn't beleive it, nonetheless the need of the Magic Knights," the voice answered, followed by hacking.
"If it's what I think it is, we may have an advantage," Yaezaki mused.
~*~
Kusaki was in her favorite place to be in when she was skipping those dumb ettique classes she was forced to take. She had no idea why she was here, she needed need to hide from those snobby idiots, maybe it was a habit?
She was a bit envious of Kumori and Hakumei, who had nothing to worry about some stupid oh-so-important chair, or so she called it. All Kumori had to worry about was if she got a pell right or not, and Hakumei about her brother attacking some random nice guy for talking to his Hakky-imoutochan. Hikaru-san always did say Hakumei's brother seem to act like her older brothers...
Kusaki glanced at her watch. It was three in the afternoon, and she missed lunch. Kusaki hopped off the tree and walked into the kitchen and...got hit in the face with flour. Wiping the flour from her eyes, she glared at Umi, Hikaru, and Hakumei who were giggling madly, and Fuu who was smiling.
"What was that about?" she asked in an annoyed tone.
"Sorry, Ki-chan!" Hakumei said. "We were having a little food fight!"
"Oh," Kusaki replied. "Have you heard from Kumori, or is she still hiding and blaming herself?"
That wiped the smile off of Hakumei's face. Kumori had ran off when everyone looked at her, and Hakumei convinced them not to look for her. Now, several hours later, she was unsure of her decision.
To Be Continued...
AN: Yes, I know, short. Really short. But I thought I'd update soon.
Kumori Ryuuzaki
blazingIcEph0eniX: I reformatted chapter one! Thanks for reading despite the format problems. Sure, I'll read yours when I get the time, which should be real soon. Sounds interesting. ^_^
Miemu Akari: You'll probably see soon! No doubt they'll find out soon. I originally sorta saw Hakumei as Hikaru's clone, you know, endless amount of energy and short.
BlackOut: Thanks!
SUMMARY: Kumori, Kusaki, and Hakumei are three girls, all daughters of the Magic Knight. After fighting over a galss orb, Kuiki no Toki with a would-be thief, they land in the past. U/C H/L F/F
Unrolling the Future
Chapter Two- Face of Evil
"So..." Kumori began. "Uhh...what do we do?"
There was a period of silence. Everyone was thinking. It was often three girls pop out of nowhere, and it wasn't quite normal to see your mother as a teenager after a fight with an orb. And your dad? Well, you'll never know with him.
Hakumei yawned. She hadn't gotten much sleep. After, they stayed up WAY past midnight just to look at some orb that got them into alot of trouble and where they were now. Yawning again and resisting the urge to fall back alseep, she said, "Maybe we can straighten things out?"
"Well, I happened to be all out of ideas," Kumori muttered, before she too, yawned. I'm starting to envy Kusaki. Look at her! She's resting! I think I'll go jump into a cold bath right now.
"You guys tired?" Hikaru asked symphetically. "Why don't you guys go and rest?"
"Agraito, Hikaru-san," Kumori said, stiffling another yawn.
~*~
Hakumei flopped onto her bed and truned to face Kumori who slid back the covers of her bed and got in. She and Kumori requested a room together, and got one.
"Ri-chan," Hakumei said. "Do you have any idea of where we are? All I know is my mom deaged, about 22 years."
"I'll bet anything my mom did too," Kumori muttered. "I have a hunch. Maybe, I dunno, we're in the past? I mean, Otousan did say the dumb orb thing has something to d with time, so, maybe the holder can go anywhere in time? As far back as he wants?"
"Oh," Hakumei said. "That sounds complicated. I wanna go back home."
"Hakumei, in a way, we are home," a voice mumbled.
Kumori jumped, and Hakumei fell of the bed. Just then, Kusaki sat up, and rubbed her eyes. "We are home." Kusaki mumbled. "Don't we live in Cephiro's Palace?"
"Yeah, but..." Hakumei replied, climbing back on the bed. "I mean I like to be where my parents will know me!"
"I know, Hakumei," Kusaki said. "I do too." She fell back and stared at the ceiling.
"Kusaki!" Kumori snapped. "Don't do that!"
Kusaki giggled, and nodded. "Why don't we go to the library tomorrow?"
"Uh, Kusaki," Hakumei said. "I thought your mother forbid you to go to the library until the end of this week?"
"Oh yeah," Kusaki mumbled, slumping back in defeat. "I forgot."
"But they are not here." Kumori said.
"I know," Kusaki muttered. "That blonde woman was really a stranger."
"No, I mean our parents. The ones back home. The ones that knows us," Kumori said. "YOur mother doesn't Kusaki. Even if Fuu-san catches you in there, she won't punish you for doing something you are not supposed to do. She doesn't know."
"Are you saying," Hakumei said slowly, "that we take advantage at the fact that Fuu-san doesn't know Kusaki's punishment for sneaking around past bedtime?"
"Yeah. You don't know the whole story do you?" Kusaki asked/answered. When Hakumei adn Kumori shook their heads, Kusaki said, "Well, I was sneaking around to go to the kitchen because I was hungry, you know at that one time we had to miss dinner? I didn't know Okasan and Otousan were up and about and I accidently scared my mom and dad to death." KUsaki then grinned and calpped her hands together. "That's a great idea, Kumori!"
"Ri-chan, do you still have the orb?" Hakumei asked.
"Oh, I forgot!" Kumori pulled out an orb from her pocket. "Where do we put?"
"I think this is the room," Kusaki said. When KUmori and Hakumei gave her blank looks, Kusaki smiled swwetly and said, "My Onisan and Otoutosan found a hole in the wall. If we just cover it up, maybe they won't notice? But I doubt it since it's supposed to be behind a dresser."
All eyes turned to the three dressers across the room.
"We'll check Sa-chan's!" Hakumei announced, as she hopped off the bed and to Kusaki's dresser. "Come on, let's push this out!"
Kumori and Kusaki helped Hakumei push the dresser. After what seemed to be eternity, they managed to move it until they saw a hole.
"How deep is it?" Kumori asked.
"I dunno," Kusaki said, as she catiously put her arm in. She push it until from elbow down her arm was in. With the tips of her fingers she could feel the bottom. "It's not that deep. We'll be able to reach it."
"Kay," Kumori said, putting the orb in. After shoving the dresser in place, the girls fell on their beds, exhausted, and fell asleep.
~*~
"More then half the books are in a diffrent language!"
"Gah! I think I'm gonna fall!!! ...no wait, I just missed a step!"
"Is this written backwards???"
Kusaki, Hakumei, and Kumori were searching the library for the book on anything they could find with a realtion to the Kuiki no Toki, which wasn't much since more than half the books were written in a tottally diffrent language.
Other than that, they were getting a rather big pile of books.
Kumori, who was sharing a ladder with Hakumei, reached out for a book, when something snapped. Screaming, Hakumei and Kumori and the ladder fell, Kusaki letting out a small scream.
~*~
Umi was wnadering around the castle.She had no idea where she was going, all she knew was she was in the halls of the castle. Truthfully, she ahd no idea where she was. All the hallways looked the same. Maybe if she kept wandering, she'll get herself unlost...
She stopped in her tracks when she heard screams which came from down the hall, and from the big doors which she reconized. It led to the library.
Running like her life depended on it, she hurried foward and down the ailses until she saw Hakumei and Kumori on the floor, a book a few feet in front of Kumori, with a ladder on her and Hakumei.
"What happened?" Umi demanded, as she and Kusaki, who just jumped off her own ladder, pulled the ladder off of the two girls. Kusaki inspected the ladder. And when she got to the end, she let out an "oh!"
Just then, Clef, Hikaru, Fuu, Ferio, Lantis, Caldina, Ascot, Lafarga and Presea had just ran in.
"What happened?" Hikaru shouted.
"I'm really sure," Kusaki said, as she kneeled over the end of the ladder. She imediettly jumped up when there was a loud booming laugh.
"You think you've escaped me? Escape me? Never! Give me, the orb!"
I thought I left her with Otousan! Kumori thought.
"Well?" the voice demanded.
Drawing his sword, Lantis demanded, "Show yourself!"
Hakumei's eyes went wide, Kusaki gasped, and Kumori's jaw dropped when the woman who was trying to steal the orb stepped out of the shadows.
"You!" Clef growled.
"I thought we left you in that music room!" Kumori shouted, pointing at the woman.
"Well," she said, taking a step foward,"you thought wrong. I had contact with the orb. If that dancing freak had contact with the orb, she would be here with us."
Hikaru took a step foward. "Who are you and what do you want?"
"Who I am, and what I want isn't important to you!" the woman snapped. "But, if you do want to know, the Guru and those stupid brats have some answers."
Kumori held her breath and counted to ten, trying not to loose her temper from being called a stupid brat.
"You're not getting it!" Hakumei shouted.
The woman then suddenly growled, "You in luck this time, but I have to go!" WIth that, she disappeared.
Fuu truned to Kusaki and said lightly, "What exactly does she want?"
"The Kuiki no Toki," Kusaki mumbled, suddenly finding the floor very interesting.
"Hey! SHe mentioned that thing before!" Ferio said suddenly. "When Fuu and I first found her in the garden!"
"Clef-san? Who was she?" Hakumei asked.
"Osui Yaezaki," Clef answered. "She was one of the earlier canidates for a Water Knight. To become a Magic Knight, you must be able to don a Mashin. She failed the test and wasn't able to become a Magic Knight."
Kumori leaned against the wall silently, absorbing the new information. Atleast she knew who the woman was, but it didn't explain why she wanted the Kuiki no Toki.
"That doesn't explain why she wants the orb thing," Umi said. "Or why Kumori, Kusaki, Hakumei, and that Yaezaki woman are here."
"It was my fault," Kumori said quietly, and everyone looked at her.
~*~
She growled as she banged the goblet onto the table. Stupid Magic Knight wannabe's, she thought. At this rate, I'll never get that stupid sphere thing!!
"No progress, I presume?" a raspy male voice asked. "You have absolutely no talent in this, not that you'd be much better if you were off the Krish."
"Shut up!" she growled. "If that stupid offspring of the Water Knight and the Guru hadn't gotten her hands on that orb first, I would have had it!"
"She won't exactly be easy to get rid of, you know," the voice said mockingly. "She is the daughter of the Knight of Water and the Master Mage. You should've known she would be hard to get rid of. None of those girls should be taken lightly.
"There is a second part of the legend. Everyone knows the first part, but know one but I knows the second."
"Oh?" Yaezaki said interested. "And why is that?"
"It was more of a prediction than a legend. So over time, people have forgotten it. I remember when it was first predicted, nearly to milleniums ago. People didn't beleive it, nonetheless the need of the Magic Knights," the voice answered, followed by hacking.
"If it's what I think it is, we may have an advantage," Yaezaki mused.
~*~
Kusaki was in her favorite place to be in when she was skipping those dumb ettique classes she was forced to take. She had no idea why she was here, she needed need to hide from those snobby idiots, maybe it was a habit?
She was a bit envious of Kumori and Hakumei, who had nothing to worry about some stupid oh-so-important chair, or so she called it. All Kumori had to worry about was if she got a pell right or not, and Hakumei about her brother attacking some random nice guy for talking to his Hakky-imoutochan. Hikaru-san always did say Hakumei's brother seem to act like her older brothers...
Kusaki glanced at her watch. It was three in the afternoon, and she missed lunch. Kusaki hopped off the tree and walked into the kitchen and...got hit in the face with flour. Wiping the flour from her eyes, she glared at Umi, Hikaru, and Hakumei who were giggling madly, and Fuu who was smiling.
"What was that about?" she asked in an annoyed tone.
"Sorry, Ki-chan!" Hakumei said. "We were having a little food fight!"
"Oh," Kusaki replied. "Have you heard from Kumori, or is she still hiding and blaming herself?"
That wiped the smile off of Hakumei's face. Kumori had ran off when everyone looked at her, and Hakumei convinced them not to look for her. Now, several hours later, she was unsure of her decision.
To Be Continued...
AN: Yes, I know, short. Really short. But I thought I'd update soon.
Kumori Ryuuzaki