Chapter 5

The Emerald Sovereign

                         PH34R! It's my only serious story that's made it to their 5th chapter! WOOH! PH34R! Okie! I also realized this is very depressing and romantic as well...so I now claim this story to be the..."LES MISERABLES" OF MKR FANFICTION!

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                     I miss you mommy...

                           Fuu sat on the edge of the bed in the hospital. The moonlight filtered its way into the room through the sliding glass doors. Reminiscing on her own, remembering all those days, when life was good. There was no death surrounding her, when she believed the mother she knew in Tokyo was her own, when she believed in her father. She realized that her father had cheated on his wife...and went with Princess Emeraude.

                                 "Nothing's right anymore..." She said quietly to herself, "...All the people I truly love are slowly leaving my life."

                      She stood up on two very shaky legs as she walked to the glass doors and leaned against them and started remembering things that she had forgotten that happened long ago. She remembered when she had heard her "mother" yelling her father for having an affair. She was beginning to hate her father. Hate...and darkness...those two things were consuming her.

                            She looked up at the stars, and started singing quietly to herself. She looked at her monstrosity of an arm and she grimaced. She was so frustrated with herself.

                                   "Why...why am I so messed up?" She asked no one in particular.

                            "You're not messed up."

                              She looked up, startled, to see Eagle. Without his white robe and his armour on. He smiled at her and started walking towards the sad, broken girl. He sat down beside her on the cold tile floor, against the glass doors.

                   "Don't be so self-defeating..."

                        Fuu felt like crying again, but she vowed that she wouldn't. No more tears, she didn't want to be such a freakin' baby. Her cheeks got warm as soon as he held her hand, her heart beat quicker each moment longer he held it.

                      "I'm so ugly..." Fuu said in a solemn voice.

                Eagle looked at her surprised, "You're not ugly! What made you think that?!"

                      Eagle touched Fuu's cheek, felt it's warmth and immediately knew she was blushing. Even though the rest of the room was black, the area where they were sitting, was illuminated with moonlight.

                   Fuu smiled, she felt safe with Eagle, very safe. Her cheeks, although still quite pink, were no longer tear-stained. They both looked up at each other and stared into each other's eyes.

                       Fuu knew it, she loved him. But even so, it was so soon, how could she be in love already? Then she remembered how quickly she fell in love with Ferio, before she realized they couldn't be together.

                    Before either of them knew it, the space between their lips was minimal.

                             "Fuu..." Eagle said carressing Fuu's face.

                         Fuu looked down, shy, and her face now red. Eagle lifted her chin so their eyes met once again, and the space between their lips disappeared. Fuu's eyes widened in a bit of shock, then she closed them and she kissed back. Finally after at least a minute, they released.

                            Fuu was still in disbelief, "...M..my first kiss..."

                         Eagle looked slyly at her, "Only your first? I would've thought you had more..."

                             Fuu smiled and shook her head, "No...this is my first one on the lips."

                   They gazed at each other again and Eagle gladly gave Fuu her second one as well.

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                                              Ferio looked quite frustrated as he stared out at the moon on one of the crystals on the base of the castle. He watched the Autozam colony flicker in the distance, with all their fancy lights and big, power plants and everything. Ferio touched the barrier surrounding the castle and watched it make ripples.

                           Master Mage Clef had told him about Fuu's past and he remembered. Fuu was his little niece, no wonder their relationship hasn't gone any further. He reached into his pocket and took out, not only his orb, but the other half to Fuu's...or rather...Elantra's necklace.

                     Ferio smiled at the necklace, thinking of all the memories they had, "Awh...Elantra..."

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                            The moon slowly faded away as the sun rose over the big blue sea. Although everything seemed to be calm on the outside, the interior of the castle was warding off wave after wave of shadows.

                      "FLAME ARROW!! YA!!"

                A burst of flames shot through the shadows. Hikaru stood, victorious, but she knew that there were more shadows behind the wave she just destroyed. Hikaru whipped around and demolished more shadows with her swordstroke.

                        She sighed heavilly as she noticed the shadows fell back. She stood up and looked out the window.

                 "Fuu-chan...Please be ok..."

                    "Hey."

             Hikaru turned out quickly, whacking whoever was behind her with her braid.

                  "FERIO!"

                      "You've got a weapon I never thought existed!" He said rubbing the side of his face.

              Ferio smiled, as he looked the window with Hikaru.

 She noticed he was wearing a necklace, it was half of an angel. Hikaru admired the green gem on the centre.

                       "Ferio, what a beautiful necklace..."

                     Ferio held it in his hand, "...It means a lot to me..."

                         "What happened to the other half of the angel...?"

                       Ferio remembered when he was playing with his little niece, "It was when I was playing with my n...friend.."

                     Hikaru admired it a bit more, just before she turned back to admire the scenery.

                     "Wanna go and visit Fuu...?" Ferio said turning his head to the tiny red-head.

                        Hikaru's face lit up, "Sure!"

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                                  Eagle kept a close eye on the sleeping girl. It was peaceful, too peaceful, perhaps the girl who had appeared in the castle had been hurt as well? He couldn't tell for sure. Fuu was beginning to not care about her biomechanical arm, as long as she could still hold a sword.  But even so, she was still weak.

                            "Eagle..." Fuu said turning her head to one side, her eyes half open.

                     He smiled making his face light up, "Are you hungry...Fuu...?"

                              Fuu smiled back, "No...I just want you to be near."

                           Eagle smiled and moved from his position against the glass doors and he kneeled down beside the girl's bed. Fuu reached out her new arm, and held Eagle's hand. He stroked back her hair, and looked at her face. Half of it was covered in bandages from the previous battle, and you could tell she had been crying from the tear stains. It saddened him to know that her beautiful face would probably be covered in scars, even if it made no difference to his opinion of her.

                                  "I never thought it was possible..."

                           Eagle snapped out of his little trance, "Pardon?"

                                       "I never thought it was possible, me the daughter of the woman I helped murder..."

                                 Eagle stared surprised at the Wind Knight.

                                   "I mean...it seems too impossible to be true..."

                                "Fuu..."

                                     "I want to know...why...why I was also a magic knight..."

                                    Eagle just held her hand tighter, completely speechless.

                             Just then, the door behind them opened. Eagle turned his head, to see who it was. Hikaru and the  prince of Cephiro, Ferio, entered with an escort, one of the Autozam soldiers. Hikaru saw Fuu and gasped, almost everywhere they looked, she had a cast or more bandages on. Her breathing was quick, and short.

                                   Eagle smiled, greeting the two of them. Hikaru smiled back, though her heart was heavy, first Umi dies, then just as things were looking good, Fuu gets one of her arms ripped off.

                                          "Fuu-chan...just hang on."

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                                         "OW DAMNIT!!"

                                                 Darkside cringed, looking at her new wound. She too had gotten an arm ripped off, thanks to Fuu. She was still getting used to her new arm, it wasn't easy, even for a havoc-wreaking psychopath.

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                                       'Take this...to never forget, your mother will always love you.'

                                Fuu blinked awake, although, the bandages wrapped around her head blinded her. Her pulse was still racing, and her wounds were ever so slowly being treated by the nurses. But the one on her head, would leave a mark...and a big one at that.

                                  She felt the pain slowly from her, what was happening. All of her worldly sorrows began to slip away, nothing seemed to hurt anymore. Then she heard voices cry out...

                            "We're losin' her!"

                                   "Hold on!"

                                    Where am I...?                                                                                             

                                       What's...what's happening...

                                 Darkness began to engulf her, her bandages disappeared as she floated in the darkness, alone.

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                                         "FUU! Fuu! Just hang on!"

                                  Her body began to dematerialize, and all that was left were her bandages. Eagle, Hikaru and Ferio all stared at the bed in disbelief. Had she just died? No, she couldn't have, she was so strong!

                             "Fuu-chan..."

                                 "SHADOWS!!"

                             They turned to see a swarm of shadows right behind them, they escaped them and slammed the door behind them.

                             Eagle gestured to both of them, "WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF THE BUILDING!"

                               "B..But Eagle! What about Fuu?!"

                              Eagle sighed and just continued to run. Hikaru and Ferio just feared the thought of Fuu being dead.  The two of them chased Eagle through the corridors, whipping by armoured arsenals of darkness and other devious magic tricks. Suddenly, they were stopped by a shadow, it was small and it looked like your usual, bare shadow.

                          "This thing was following us!!" Ferio hissed.

                       Hikaru and Ferio drew their swords as the shadow, approached, but with caution. It didn't ready itself for attack or anything. It stared up at the three of them and stood there.

                        Although it looked docile, Ferio couldn't trust it. He took his sword and nearly rid the shadow of it's head, but missed slightly and ripped open the side of it's face...if you could call it that.

                            Eagle looked down at the bloodied shadow, it puzzled him, but it's sad eyes reminded Eagle of Fuu.

                         Fuu...

                           "Fuu...is that you?" Eagle said lowering himself to the shadows level.

                               Hikaru gaped at him, "Eagle! What are you talking about?!"

                             "That shadow is not Fuu!" Ferio yelled at the taller man.

                                 "It's Fuu...I know it is."

                               Then a whole bunch of shadows piled out of the rooms, and lunged towards the group of three and the mysterious shadow. Eagle hunched over the shadow protecting it, as it stared up at him. Just then, the evils approached and engulfed the two in darkness.

                             Eagle...? Is that you...?

                               Hikaru...Ferio....Umi...

                           A light...one to banish the shadows...fill the darkness with light...

                              Then Eagle felt warm, the shadow started to transform into a ball of light. It was so bright, it blasted all the other shadows away.

                        Hikaru and Ferio turned and watch in awe. Giant wings of light sweeped down the shadows, as a person stood up holding Eagle tight to them. A sword, and they spread their enormous wings...Locks of short and curly golden hair waved in the gust that the wings had made. It was a girl...but who was this girl...an Angel perhaps?

                       Glasses also appeared on the Angel's face...

                          Hikaru gasped, "Fuu?!"

                               Eagle opened his eyes and looked at the younger girl looking at him. It was Fuu, the girl he loved.

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          Note to self: Hate Exams forever more.
          Note to self: Hate Science forever more.

          Note to self: Get crackin on Chapter 6.

          Note to readers: R/R pwease? Even tho I'm slow on this one!