*Yay, I'm up to ch.17!! Heehee, I do not own Rayearth.*

Ch17 Going to the Wind Shrine

Karyu and Kei were talking for a while longer, happy to have each other back.

"Karyu, I'm so happy!" Kei was still hugging Karyu by the neck. Karyu grinned, and licked her cheek.

"So am I. I am sorry for all the rudeness I have done to you guys." He dropped his head.

"No worries!" Geo said, patting Karyu's head.

"Ya know, I could get some help here also." Celes was slowly gliding down towards the ship. Kei looked up, and smiled.

"Thank you, too Celes." Kei raised her hands and closed her eyes. "Iyashino Kaze!" (Healing Wind) Celes's wounds healed, and he was completely well again.

Karyu looked up, shamed of himself. "I am so sorry." Karyu looked down.

"Like he said, no worries. You helped us in the end, so no worries." Celes said, his mouth curving into a small warm smile.

"Oh, I forgot! Come out, Houryu, Kiryu, and Rairyu!" Kei said, and 3 dragons appeared out of her neckles. They looked down to Kei and Karyu, and they too, smiled.

"Your back, aren't cha?" Houryu said.

"Yup." Karyu said, looking up. The 4 dragons looked at each other for a while longer, quietly. Then, suddenly, they busted out laughing.

"Well, let's get some sleep, I need some rest." Kiryu said, still laughing.

"Yeah, I think that's a good idea." Kei said. "Here, come on you guys." The dragons, except Karyu and Celes, turned into the tiny ornament self, and went back. "What are you waiting for, Karyu? Aren't you going in?"

"Well, I don't really know how to." Karyu said, in a worried tone.

"Oh yeah, I forgot." Kei said. "Now, just imagine yourself as the ornaments. That's it." Kei said as she saw Karyu turn into his ornament form. "You'll get used to this later." Karyu transformed completely and returned to Kei's neckles.

"I think that's a good idea slso." Celes said, yawning. "I need some sleep." As he said that, Celes turned into the ornament form, and went back to Umi's bracelet.

"Good job, Celes." Umi said, as Celes went back.

As he returned, they heard a faint voice of Celes. "No problem, happy to be helping you guys once again, Magic Knights. Hope to see this place more beautiful after you defeat the christal."

"Happy ending!" Hikaru said, jumping up and down like Mokona.

"Yeah, all thanks to you guys!" Kei said, smiling. "Thank you!"

"You can thank us by helping us save Cephiro!" Geo said now who had his hand on Kei's head.

"Heehee, I will." Kei said, and Geo messed her hair. "Oh Umi, I forgot! You still have the jewel?"

"Yup, right here!" Umi said, holding up the boulder.

"Here, hand it to me." Umi handed over to Kei, and Kei observed the boulder. "Hmm" She carefully studied the boulder with the stone engraved into it. Then, she suddenly remembered the writings on the walls of the Castle. "Umi!" Kei suddenly said. "I know how to get this out!"

"Ya do?" Umi said, and everyone looked up.

"Yup, here, get your sword out!" Kei said.

As Umi got her sword out, the sword seemed to react to the jewel. The sword and the jewel glowed, and there was a sudden flash of light.

"What the!" Geo said, moving his hand to his eyes to block the light. Everyone else followed his moves.

"There you go!" Kei said happily. "You new sword!"

Umi found herself with the original weapon. It didn't look different at all, except for the part that the jewel was on the bottom of the handle.

"Wow. It feels like I have so much power." Umi said, carefully putting the sword away.

"You do have more power, Umi." Kei said happily. "That jewel will help you, trust me!" Kei winked. "Now, to the Wind Shrine! Where Fuu found her Wingdom!"

Fuu's face lit up. "Really? I really wanted to go back once more. I don't really remember the place clearly!"

"Yup, let's go!" Kei and the rest of them moved up to the control room, ready to head to the Wind Shrine. Other wise called the flying mountain. Anyways, back to the story.

As the ship continued its course to the wind shrine, the gang was having some snack breaks.

"This place is awesome, Kei!" Hikaru said, once more.

"Yeah, where did you get this?" Umi asked, taking a bite of her cookies.

"Heehee, it's a secret!" Kei said. The others pleaded for the answer, but Kei just shook her head. "I can't, it's a secret." Kei smiled, and went to get more tea.

"But I wanna know!" Hikaru said, with the kitty ears. "Please?"

"No." Kei said, laughing. "You guys get too curious."

"But ." Hikaru's sentence was cut off, for the ship stopped suddenly, making the ship wobble.

"What happened?" Geo said, looking around.

"I don't know." Kei got up, and went up to the control room. Everyone else followed her. Kei felt evil presence around here, and she didn't like that. As soon as they got up, they saw that there was huge nest on the wind shrine. It was all black. It even had eggs in there. Black eggs. The reason the ship stopped, they did not know.

"Whoa!" Does are huge eggs!" Umi said, looking at the eggs. They were really big. They were about the size of a van!

"Black eggs and black nest ." Kei said to herself.

"I heard of that before. A bird nests with black eggs and black nest is ." Eagle stopped in horror. Kei looked up in horror, finally remembering the bird's name.

Kei and Eagle said together, horrifying name. The nest they were looking at, was a killer bird's name. Akuma no Hitokui Tori. (Devil human eating bird)

*I couldn't figure out a good name for the bird. Sooo sorry. I think it was lame. Human eating bird. It was stupid. Oh well, if ne suggestions, tell me. ( Thanks for reading this far!*