*I will not repeat any more, thank you very much! Look at my past author's note. Okidoke? Anyways, welcome back to the ch.4 of Rayearth the 3rd Story of what happens later. I want to thank you all who have come this far with me! Thank you!! (Hugs) Anyways, enjoy!*

Ch.4 He is Alive, Back into the Past.

~Back to the gang~

Hikaru and the rest sat down after the huge commotion, carefully listening to Cleff's explanations.

"Kei probably explained this to you, but this is very important. You would need to know this. Kage is made out of a crystal, made my fears. You know this, right?" Cleff said, and everyone nodded.

"Wait, so."Aska started. " The bad people is Kage, made out of Crystal, which is made out of us.? I'm confused!" The frustrated Aska screamed. "San- Yun! Explain this."

He nodded and started. "Aska-sama, the bad people is made up of Kage, which is controlling them. The Kage forms from a Crystal, made by us. So, it's basically a circle." He explained.

"Ohhh." Said Aska. "You sure know your stuff!"

"Thank you." He said.

"Well, anyways, on to the main story. You 3 need to destroy the crystal, so no humans will be harmed any more." Cleff said.

Hikaru, who was carefully listening said "Well, how do we destroy it? Do we need a special thing?"

"Yes, and I almost forgot. Here." Precea held out her arms and 3 weapons appeared. They flew to their owner, slowly resting on their hands.

"Oh, yes." Cleff nodded. "Accept!" Through the staff formed a light, and now Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu had their uniform back.

"Thank you!" Hikaru chirped up.

"Yes." As Fuu said this, the 3 swords went into the little jewel in their left hand. "Thank you."

"Yeah, you helped out a lot!" Said Umi, who was closely examining the armor.

"Your welcome." The 2 people said.

"Now," Cleff said. "you need to collect certain jewels to fit into your swords. Did you see the tiny hole in it?"

"Yeah, it had a hole right in the center on mine." Hikaru said.

"Yes, mine was on the handle." Fuu said.

"Mine was on the bottom of the handle." Umi said, who was still examining the armor.

"Ok, there are 3 jewels you need to find. Red, green, and blue. There are 1 for each of you. The jewel will raise your power, also giving more power to your swords." Cleff explained.

"That's cool!" Hikaru said.

"Yeah. I just hope you guys get them in time, before everything goes worse." Precea said.

Lantice, who was watching Hikaru looked up and said, "Well, you know that you magic knights don't have to risk your life on this. This is a serious mission. You guys need to be careful. We are forcing you to do this. You can drop out too, you know."

"Thanks, but no thanks. We want to save Cephiro." Hikaru said. "Also, you mean girls. We aren't guys." At this, everyone giggled.

"Oops, sorry." Lantice said. "Hey, Cleff, can you explain to us more about Kei?"

"What? You say that you trust her, when you don't really know her?" Umi yelled.

"Umi, I trust her. If Geo trusts her, then we can." Cleff said.

Umi was really upset and yelled, "What if he's behind her? Maybe he is tricking us?"

"Well." Cleff said, unable to answer.

"See!" Umi spat out.

"Oh, just forget it; I just want to know more about Kei. Every time we ask her, there was always interference." Lantice said.

"Oh yes, of course. I will." Geo said. "Kei is approx. 14 yrs. Old, and she is from another planet. While we, Otozam were trying to fix our planet, something interfered with our system. There seemed to be something in the system. We thought it was just an accident, but then after the 3rd time, we decided to check the inside out." Geo explained. "Then, the 3-D mail popped on and it was Kei. She said that she needs to get out. She said that she had a little accident, and ended up in the systems. So, we used some of our devises and got her out."

"How can she be in the systems?" Hikaru asked.

"We don't really know. After we got her out, she fainted, so we took her to a bed next to Eagle. She slept there. When she woke up, she saw Eagle, and she asked us about him. We just told her the out line. Then she like went into a deep thought. Zazu kept an eye on her, but she didn't do anything wrong." Geo was cut off by Zazu.

"She just sat there. She didn't even move an inch!" Zazu said.

"Do you think she's hiding something?" Fuu asked.

"Nah, we think it's just her thing. Every time she sees Eagle after that day, she always went into a deep thought." Zazu said.

"Wait, every time?" Lantice said. "So does that mean she stayed at your place for a while?"

"Yeah, for a while. She really helped us out. She got almost every machine to work, and everyone loved her." Geo said. "She even healed Ea." Soon, he was cut off by Umi, who was yelling again.

"Why does everyone like her so much?" What's up with this?!" Umi yelled at them.

"Umi, like I said before, she is helping us." Karudina said.

"But." Umi was cut off, for suddenly, she collapsed to the floor. Behind her, there stood Kei. She was holding up the piece of paper. It was different than the others. It was yellow, and it had silvery writing on them. "Fool." Kei said putting the paper back. "Thinks that it is so cool."

"Kei!" Cleff said standing up.

"What?" Kei replied, kicking Umi, who went flying over to the other side of the room.

"Umi-san!" Screamed Fuu, who ran to Umi.

"Leave that stupid thing alone, I need to take care of business here." Said Kei, who pointed her index and middle finger at Umi, the formation of "Hikari no Yaiba" "Now move!"

"No!" Yelled Fuu and Hikaru, who is now standing in a protective way for Umi.

"Kei!" Yelled Geo. "I thought you were going to help us! You even healed." Soon he was cut off by the others yelling at Kei, trying to stop her.

"I can't belive this!" Cleff yelled, pointing the staff at Kei. "Umi was right!"

"Oh! Umi!" Horrified, Karudina ran into La Farga who had hugged her in protective way.

"Umi!" Precea yelled.

"Oh, I can't believe you are trusting this idiot, you guys." Kei said.

"Yes, very weird." Said a man who was coming through the door.

"Hen, I can't believe you guys fell for it." Kei commented them then she aimed for Umi. "One last warning to you guys, move, or die." The girls just shook their heads.

"You won't even lay your fingers on her!" Hikaru said.

"Umi-san is our friend. I won't let you hit her!" Fuu said. "Midori no Shipu!" Her magic ran into Kei, but all of a sudden there was Lei in front of her, who had protected her with his magic.

"I told you, do not harm Kei-sama, or you'll be the one hurt." Lei said, growling at them. The 3 wolves popped out, running towards Kei, also standing around her, protecting her. There was no way to get to her now.

"Oh, we won't give up!" Hikaru yelled. "Honou no Ya!" Arrows of Fire shooted at Kei, but Canust had swallowed the fire, and no damage on him because his emblem is fire. Umi still lay unconscious on the floor.

"Rai-mon!" There was thunder noise, and out of Cleff's staff, came lighting, aiming for Kei.

"Yes!" Hikaru said. "You don't have anything to protect you, you have no." There was another wolf standing by, a different one, protecting her now.

"Thank you, Tsuki." Kei said patting her wolf. He apparently had the emblem thunder. He had yellow horn.

"Yes, my job is to protect you. Kei-sama." He said.

"Leave Umi alone!" Ascott said, drawing the gate and getting his "friends" out. "Get her!"

Kei sighed and mumbled. Now there was a glowing light covering her. The "friends" backed up.

"Don't you try to get me. You will disappear in a zap." Kei said.

"No!" Ascot said stomping.

The others stared at Kei hopelessly. They all knew Kei's powers.

"Why are you doing this? Why were you protecting Cephiro if you wanted to destroy it?" Lantice questioned.

"Did I say anything about destroying Cephiro?" Kei simply replied.

"But." Lantice started, but Kei had pointed her other free hand to Lantice.

"Lantice!" Hikaru yelled. "Leave him out!"

"Why? If anyone tries to stop me from getting that girl, they will get hurt. I am just trying to protect myself." She said.

"Well, we are trying to help our friend!" Fuu yelled.

"What ever." Kei said.

"No, not what ever!" Hikaru said. "I don't just watch my friend die in front of me ever again! I don't want to see anyone else dieing. Just like." She stopped.

"Hikaru-san." Fuu said looking at her friend.

"Hikari no. Yaiba!" Kei summoned suddenly. Yellow glowing arrows shooted out, swiftly going past the 2 girls protecting her, hitting Umi hard on the stomach.

"Nice." Said the man, who just came in. He had silvery short hair, wearing the Otozam uniform. He looks very familiar.

"Eagle!"