Chapter 4
The Emerald sovereign
THE THING IS NEVER ENDING!!! ^O^ I like that. GO T.E.S.!!! *has a sore throat* Owchies. Remind me not to yell.
Warning: This chapter contains more violence and blood than usual
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Fuu woke and immediately, she had tears roll down her cheeks. She looked at her blurry surroundings, no one was there and it was dark. She reached and brought out a necklace, the same one she had in her dream. The gem was beginning to crack more and more, and remnants of scotch tape were hanging off the edges.
"...So is it true...?" Fuu said to herself, "Was I that little girl...?"
She lay her head back on her pillow, and closed her eyes. And cried. That's the only thing she did, for the rest of the night.
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Zazu still couldn't believe, his commander, Eagle Vision, had returned. She could've sworn he died when the FTO blew up.
"E...Eagle!!" Nevertheless, Zazu was estatic that Eagle was alive.
Eagle grinned, "I'm happy to see you to Zazu."
"After you died, Geo said that you were sick from using up all your mental energy! Are you still sick?"
Eagle shook his head, "Fortunately, no."
Zazu cheered and ran to go and find Geo. While Eagle smiled at his colony, with the blue skies. He missed the skies, and the emerald green grass. He chuckled lightly and fell back into the grass just to admire the clouds.
He began to doze off, in the middle of the construction of the colony, when he heard the sound of a bird. He shot his eyes open to see a huge bird soaring above the autozam colony. He sighed and stood up, someone from Cephiro was wanting a bit of a chat.
The bird landed in the middle of the colony beside Eagle and a young girl jumped off.
"Good morning Magic Knight," Eagle said cheerfully.
The girl jumped and looked up and officially, she realized it was Eagle, "Hello..."
Eagle smiled, "You look tired, want to come and have some tea with me...?"
The girl, although feeling very down, smiled and nodded.
Eagle the Magic Knight continued on to a completed building that hadn't been smashed to bits from things on carts.
"So...What's your name...?"
She looked up, her huge eyes met with his, "...My name is Hououji Fuu..."
"Fuu...What a nice name. It sounds simple...and clean."
Fuu smiled at him as they entered the building. They went up a flight of stairs to a lounge-like room. Eagle gestured to the table near the window and she sat down, and continue to reminisce.
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"WHERE IS THAT KID?!" an angry Caldina roared. She searched throughout the Magic knights' rooms. She peered into Umi's room, not knowing the tragedy that had occurred. She peeked into the room, seeing Clef using his Magic to support what life Umi had left. If there was any.
"Master Mage! What happened?!"
Clef looked solemn and stopped casting his magic, "Illusionist Caldina...Umi's heart was...stolen by the shadows. She's gone, until the Magic Knights can get her heart back..."
Caldina heart sank, "Poor Umi..." she whispered, "...Poor Ascot..."
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Fuu stared at the very, futuristic tea cup infront of her. The tea continued to swirl, and so did her head. She was so confused, and her heart continued to sink, lower and lower with each day that passed. She looked at her necklace, and watched a new blue light play around with the green gem.
"Are you all right?"
Fuu looked up, a bit startled, "P...pardon?"
"Are you all right?"
Fuu looked at him, he was indeed handsome. He smiled at her, his grin made her feel...warm. His pleasant nature forced her to smile back. Something was going on, Fuu felt it. But it was good, oh yes, it was good.
"I'm fine," She said quietly.
Eagle stood up to get more tea, "That's good. Would you care for more tea?"
Fuu felt her cheeks getting warm, she began to feel guilty. She was blushing around another man! But, she had figured something out during the dead hours of the night. If she was Princess Emeraude's daughter, it meant Ferio was her uncle. She couldn't be with him.
Just the thought of last night brought tears and sobs to her again.
"Is my tea that bad?"
Fuu looked up, embarrassed, "Oh...I'm so sorry...I'm just, a little sad. That's all."
Eagle looked at the pretty, young magic knight he had so brutally treated almost over a year ago. He wanted to apologize to her, she was quite beautiful. He finally had the courage to lift up his hand and stroke the tear-stained hair out of her pale face.
Fuu looked up, a bit surprised. She blinked the tears out of eyes.
"Eagle..." Fuu said, a bit choked up.
Eagle realized he was still stroking her face and immediately pulled back, "I...I'm sorry. Did you want tea?"
Fuu looked up at him, her cheeks still pink, but tears no longer making their way down her cheeks, "...Yes...please."
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"ERrr...THE SHADOWS ARE TOO WEAK!!! WE NEED MORE HEART CRYSTALS! SERIA! GO AND FETCH SOME!" A young, but loud female voice boomed.
There were steps heard down the dark hallways of dark castle. They were soft, but they could be heard. The young female whipped around and saw a tall boy standing in the entrance.
"Who the heck are you?" The girl snapped.
"I know you know where my friend's heart is."
The girl raised an eyebrow, "Yeah?"
The boy looked a bit nervous, "Please! I'll do anything! Just let me have it back!"
She had an idea, "Anything...no matter what?"
"ANYTHING!!"
The boys desperate pleas got through to the girl, he was going to do something, "Ok. Prepare to work boy. My alias is Darkside...I want you to destroy the Wind Knight who's currently in the Autozam colony...wait. Your name?"
The boy looked down, "M...my name is...Ascot..."
"Ascot...Now...I will give you the powers, TO CONTROL THE SHADOWS! If you fail, you'll know it. NOW GO!"
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I will rip your heart out...Elantra...
Fuu felt herself losing her balance off of the speedbike as Eagle and her were zipping their way back to the Castle. She began to see black blurs zoom past the bike and her eyes widened and she gripped onto Eagle even harder.
"What are these things?!" Eagle said as he squished one with the speedbike.
Fuu started to shiver, as the shadows got closer, her eyes became glazed over.
Eagle turned around to see what was wrong, "FUU!"
He turned the bike onto full speed and zipped his way into the castle. He used the bike as an explosion to distract the shadows, which was a big mistake. The Castle, too, was being swarmed by shadows. Fuu stirred and she blinked herself awake. Eagle picked her up and ran as fast as he could through the castle. Fuu started to whimper when she saw all the shadows, at least twice as big as they were before.
"IN HERE!"
Eagle turned to where the sound came from and he found himself in a large room with Hikaru, and the remaining leaders of Cephiro. They all gasped, which lead Eagle to believe that he wasn't supposed to be there.
A hissing sound came from behind Eagle, and the shadows began mauling the door to get in. But once they did, the light from the inside of the room instantly killed them. He set Fuu down away from the door, and looked at everyone.
"Eagle!" Hikaru exclaimed, "You're alive too?"
He smiled, "Yes..."
Presea, yes, the normal Presea, kneeled down infront of Fuu, "Fuu, are you OK?"
Fuu looked up, her eyes glazed over, and her voice was weak and quiet, "Th....th...the shadows..."
Presea checked her temperature, and even though she was wearing a glove, she pulled it off quickly. She was burning up, but she needed to defend herself. Presea stood up and made the Escudo swords appear. Hikaru jumped and grabbed her sword, while Umi's floated to her on the nearby bed, where she lay. Fuu blinked and stared at her sword slowly descending.
Angel's sword...
Fuu eyes watched the sword begin to glow a soft white.
The Shadows will fear...
She put one hand in the air to grab the emerald green hilt.
Fill the shadows with light...and wake up!
Fuu grabbed the sword and the whole sword just burst into a dome of light that slowly engulfed the whole castle. The light was a light, pastel green and the shadows disintigrated when they touched the light. The hallways had echoes of screams and hisses of pain.
Fuu stood, and her body seemed to be full of energy again. She held her sword with a tight grip and her eyes were set on the door incase any more shadows just so happened to drop in.
Everyone smiled that Fuu was feeling better. Clef looked at the two most powerful people in Cephiro at the moment, Hikaru and Fuu. He pointed his staff into the air.
"MAGIC GIFT!"
The two girls got back their magic, and their armour. They were ready for anything that was thrown at them. Well almost anything...
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"ASCOT! You didn't kill her, and you let the Master Smith give her the sword. You'll know that I'm going to hurt you now."
"Hurt me all you want, I'm still going to find Umi's heart!" He cried.
Darkside smiled, "Hmm...I think I'll make an acquaintance with our adversaries."
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Every person able to use powerful magic or had good swordsmanship was fighting the shadows. The people who had both were mowing the shadows down, but even so, the shadows just continued to grow out of the dark parts of the castle.
Eagle, although he didn't have magic, he was chopping away at the shadows with his beam sword. But he let his back turn for one minute and one of the shadows leaped at him, hissing as it got closer.
"WINDS OF PROTECTIO-" Fuu shot out, but she was cut off when her arm felt numb and all the feeling slowly slipped away.
She was in so much agony, after she lost all the feeling, her glasses fell off, which lead for her to be continually battered by the shadows because she couldn't see. She looked down and saw blood pouring into a pool beneath her from her arm.
"Fuu!!" She heard someone cry out from behind her, "LOOK OUT!!"
Fuu accidentally let her wounded arm fly to cast winds of protection, but instead, she felt something attach itself to her arm and rip it off. She whipped and let go of her sword and it crashed into the wall. One of the biggest shadows picked up the large escudo weapon, and made her watch as it crushed it to pieces.
Hikaru gasped and made her way to the wounded girl. By now, Fuu was screaming in pain, as her armour disappeared and blood from where her arm used to be fell to the ground. Hikaru looked around, and saw the shadows swarming around Fuu and herself.
"RUBY LIGHTNING!" Hikaru yelled as huge red bolts of lighting destroyed most of the shadows swarming them.
"H...Hikaru-san..." Fuu said as the pain only grew stronger.
"Just hold on Fuu-chan! I'll get you some help!!"
Right after Hikaru said that, Fuu stared above Hikaru and saw a small black sphere with a purple trail flying around the hallway. It slowly materialized into a girl, dressed in black clothes, but her hair was short and somewhat curly...like Fuu's own.
"Damn you, I will get your heart crystal yet...you annoying little rodent." The girl spat at Fuu.
Hikaru lay Fuu gently on the ground, "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?"
The girl glared at Hikaru before doing a backflip, making more shadows appear. She cackled as she disappeared slowly. Eagle picked Fuu up, and gestured to Hikaru to follow.
"Quickly! I planted a bomb over there! We have to get Fuu to a hospital or something!"
Hikaru nodded, "Yeah! Come on!"
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My daughter...please don't give up...
Eagle waited anxiously for the young girl to wake up. Yet, at the same time he was quite happy letting her rest. He didn't want her to face the world, face all the hatred, not like this.
"Nh..." Fuu moved slightly, as she started to wake up.
His heart felt heavy, "Fuu...Don't move, you're still hurt."
Fuu's brilliant, emerald green eyes fluttered awake, "....Eagle..." she said as she turned her head towards him...and her new arm.
She looked down and saw it. It was mechanical and you could tell, a tear ran down her cheek. She was a monster. Eagle saw her begin to tear and embraced her, let her cry on his shoulder.
"....Why me...."
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-.-;;;; Ok...that just REEKED LIKE MY DAD'S FARTS! UGH! That was indeed a sucky chapter! But nevertheless...R/R!!! ^^!
