Another chap!!! Yay!!! I am very happy. Every time I finish a chapter I feel better... the story is going on and everything is ok and I feel like jumping happily all around my house!!
Umm... sorry.. anyway. I am happy to see the story continuous to be accepted....that means that I should be able to finish it sooner. Actually, there have been popping some ideas in my mind this last weeks... but I have refused to write them until I finish this. They are all MKR and F/F =D
THANKS to all those who read this and SPECIAL thanks to all those who review!!!!
(MKR is not mine it belongs to CLAMP)
The Quest
Chapter 12: Rescued
Fuu was running through a dark hall, the windows only showed more darkness in the outside. There were some beams of light that appeared apparently without reason from anywhere. Fuu ran as fast as she could. She was afraid to look behind, but she did. The creature was still running after her. She could see the anger on its eyes. She ran even faster, but her legs weren't strong enough. She fell on the floor and looked at the beast in front of her. She tried to talk, but no words came from her mouth. She could only stare at her persecutor. The creature did nothing. It stayed there in the shadows and watched the young sorceress. Fuu felt no danger, although she could tell the creature was angry. And she knew perfectly why. The creature came out from the shadows and revealed, at last to Fuu. It was a giant bird with two wings. She couldn't tell the color. The bird's eyes where yellow almost golden, and it stared right at her own eyes.
"My name is Windam." It said inside Fuu's head. Fuu was at first confused but tried the same methodology. She tried to speak with it through it's head.
"I am Hououji Fuu." She said as calm as she could.
The bird stood quiet and Fuu wondered if she could truly speak with it in that way.
"I know." It responded. "You have not followed my advises." This time the voice was more calm.
Fuu looked at the bird. Windam seemed to be disappointed.
"I know I haven't. I am sorry...but I can not..."she said trying to gather all of her strength.
"You can not sacrifice that feeling." Windam said. "That feeling you have for the young man. Even if it meant saving other people, you couldn't."
Fuu felt guilty, she preferred to save Ferio than keeping that shadow prisoner. She had felt that it was a terrible thing to do. However, she knew nothing, she didn't know what was all of this about. What was really happening, the dreams, Mokona, Umi and Hikaru... she felt a strange bond with them and still... Fuu knew really nothing.
"Please Windam-san, tell me what is going on. I really do not understand anything, I feel things but can not understand its true meaning. You have been in my dream for some days now, so please, tell me. What is happening?" she pleaded as if finally she was about to uncover the greatest mystery ever.
"You are one of the keys to a new hope." It said leaving Fuu even more confused. Then a picture appeared between them. Fuu could see the world suddenly destroyed. There were people screaming and trying to escape from a terrible wave of monsters and evil people that laugh at their sadistic task. People were dead, and everyone was suffering. She, on the other side of the picture, could see a place she'd never seen before but knew immediately it's name. "Cefiro..." she whispered as another characters made their entrance. It was King Stephen and the minister from Kiam. They were laughing. But in all the catastrophe, there were three lights, red, blue and green. Fuu knew what it meant.
"You are three keys from four to prevent this to happen. However the fourth one was already taken by the enemy. You have to choose...."
The bird started to disappear and Fuu couldn't get it. "Choose what?" she said trying to grab Windam, but it vanished as a picture appeared in front of her. Fuu gasped.
"Ferio..."
"Is she really going to be alright?" a voice asked. Fuu blue eyes looked at her as a smile appeared on her face.
"Fuu!!!! You are awake!!" the woman said hugging Fuu with all of her strength. Fuu was all confused. Was that a dream again?
"O my gosh! You are really fine! Look at you, you are all weak and look like a doll that has been thrown to the garbage!" the woman kept talking. Fuu tried to hold herself but found out that she really was too weak to carry her own body.
"Ca...Caldina-san." She managed to say. The woman smiled and hugged her again.
"You remember this fabulous good looking lady!" she said smiling happily. Fuu gave her a small tired smile.
"Caldina, you can't be treating Fuu like that!" a man said from behind. He was a blonde man with blue eyes. He had his right arm in a bandage and he was obviously recovering from a fight. He got close to Fuu's bed and put his healthy arm around Caldina's waist. Fuu smiled as she sat on her bed doing a very strong effort to stay like that.
"Lafarga-san. I am very happy to see you two are alright." She said smiling. The couple smiled and looked at the other side of the room. Fuu followed their gaze to find the bed she saw before. The bed where Ferio was.
"You are the only one that has regained conscious." Caldina said looking sadly at Ferio. Fuu looked at him. He looked terrible, just as she might look. She felt her strength leaving her again. Lafarga got her before she fell.
"You must rest. Master Clef said that you had a very dangerous situation."
Fuu nodded. She was at home. At last back at the castle, and she didn't felt that happy. When she was back at jail, she had decided to die and never get back. The people she knew were good people, but her life, back then was empty. But...
"What happened?" she asked noticing she had missed a very long part of the story. "We were fighting that shadow, we were very far away from Kiam... how did we get hear?" she asked.
"It is a very long story, that not even we know. I was helping dear Lafarga with his wounds when suddenly Master Clef entered here, telling us that we needed some free beds. We arranged everything when a couple entered with everyone. You all were unconscious."
"Everyone?" Fuu asked.
"Well, you, this young man, the princess, another girl, and three other men. I believe one of them is a soldier from our enemy." She said looking nervous. Lafarga frowned and looked at the door on the left of the room. The infirmary had many rooms connected, Fuu and Ferio were in one of them, the rest must be in the other rooms.
"Three... three other men, you mean King Stephen?" Fuu said. She couldn't remember anyone else back then.
"Oh no! Not him.. "Caldina said looking puzzled. "Weren't you traveling with four men?" she asked. Fuu waved her head as in no.
"How strange..." Caldina said. "There is a young boy with brown hair, that keeps saying Princess Umi's name all the time. The soldier with black hair and another man with white hair..." she said trying to make Fuu remember.
"White hair?" Fuu said suddenly realizing. "He has white hair?" she asked.
Lafarga and Caldina nodded.
'It must be Eagle-san. He must had reach the river by the time Clef-sama rescued us.' She thought trying to make some connections.
"So, you know him..." Caldina said.
Fuu nodded. "Was Clef-sama, the one that rescued us?"
Caldina shook her head. "It was the strangers. A very beautiful blonde woman with blue eyes and a man that looks exactly like the solider. I believe their names are Emeraude and Zagato." Caldina said looking at the door from the left.
Lantis laid unconscious on the bed. He had terrible nightmares about Hikaru been harmed. Zagato and Emeraude were at his side.
"They were lucky." Zagato said looking at his younger brother.
Emeraude nodded. "Very lucky. If the rune-gods wouldn't have been there... they all would had..." she didn't finished the sentence. She remembered seeing her brother. He was bleeding... he was dieing. She tried to erase that memory.
"Have you spoken with Clef?" Zagato asked. "You have to tell him everything. He must be warned, now that Mokona has been taken."
"Yes... he knows a lot about this, however... what will he say when we tell him that his apprentice and more important, his princess, are keys?" she said sadly.
"He'll have to accept it." He said standing up. "If they have to die for our sake then... "
"Please Zagato, don't be so heartless!" Emeraude said. "Those girls are important to many people, like Hikaru for example! How will you tell your brother?" she said.
The door opened and Clef entered. He was carrying a transparent jar with some strange liquid.
"Good morning." He said approaching the couple. Emeraude and Zagato stayed quiet. Clef looked at them. Then he got near Lantis and gave him some of the liquid.
"I've manage to get the antidote. They'll be fine in some minutes." He said as he cleaned Lantis' mouth and headed now to Hikaru's bed.
"Master Clef. We need to talk." Emeraude said.
"I know." Clef answered. He gave Hikaru the antidote.
Zagato stood up and kissed Emeraude softly on the lips, then he headed to the door.
"I am leaving now. I'll return to my country." He said giving them his back. Emeraude looked at the floor, tears gathering on her eyes.
"There is a war I have to keep battling." He said as he left.
Clef looked at Emeraude. "That war is stupid." He said. She nodded.
"Yes... but he thinks he has to protect his country... even if..." she said. "...even if the reasons are stupid."
Clef closed his eyes. "What is it you want to tell me?"
Emeraude looked at the man. She then looked away and walked near Hikaru.
"It's about Cefiro." She said. "We are, as you know, in grave danger."
Clef nodded. If Mokona was in hands of King Stephen then...
"The most important key was stolen. Yet, we have to find the other three keys to close the evil from Cefiro." He said.
Emeraude looked at Clef, she managed to hold some tears. She shook her head.
"No, Master Mage... we do not have to find the other keys. They are already here." She said.
Clef was very surprised. "Are they already awake?" he asked. Emeraude shook her head again.
Clef sighed. Then a terrible fear appeared in his heart. He looked at Emeraude.
"Who are they?" he asked looking at Lantis. Pleading that it was the strangers. Selfish, he was. But he didn't want to see any of his loved ones as key.
"The little one." Emeraude said looking at Hikaru. Clef looked at her, he felt guilty for wishing something like that to a girl like her. Clef looked back at Emeraude.
"The wind sorceress..." she said. Clef felt a bolt in his heart.
"Fuu??" he said softly. Emeraude nodded sadly. Clef looked at his hands. She was more than his student, she was more like a daughter for him... and now she was. He tried to calm himself. Fuu's destiny couldn't be so dark. But there was more and he felt it... he knew who was next...
"...and the princess." Emeraude finished as some tears dropped on the floor.
Clef looked at Emeraude unbelieving, shock in his eyes. Umi was a key too. He clenched his fist and turned around.
'Why has destiny chosen those who I love the most? WHY?' he thought as rage gathered inside of him.
Caldina was helping Fuu with the pillow, she wanted to be sited since Caldina wanted to hear all the story, Caldina hadn't heard a thing since Fuu was captured in the battlefield. She actually was very surprised to see her again. She had feared the worst. Lafarga went for something to drink and eat, mostly for Caldina, the reason, the arrival of a new baby. Caldina was pregnant and the news made Fuu very happy.
"So... tell me everything." Caldina said very exited. "How in the world did you manage to escape from jail?"
Fuu looked back at Ferio.
"It would be his doing." Fuu said looking worriedly at Ferio. "We were at the same cage, and we both escaped the same day I arrived." She said returning her gaze at Caldina.
Caldina gave her a strange smile. Fuu looked puzzled.
"So...you are friends?" Caldina asked with a very weird expression.
Fuu got the message. She blushed furiously as she turned her head.
"We... yes... we are friends." She answered.
"Just friends????" Caldina said getting closer to Fuu.
"...Yes... just friends... "Fuu said remembering what happened before Eagle attacked Lantis.
-----Flashback-----
"Have you ever heard of love at first sight?"
-----End of flashback----
She blushed. Caldina smiled triumphantly.
"Then, why the hell did you kept saying his name all the time you were asleep?" Caldina said giving some giggles. Fuu couldn't believe her ears, she'd been saying his name? Fuu blushed even more.
"Gotcha!!!!!!!!!" Caldina said now laughing. Fuu looked at her... the situation made her feel very uncomfortable. "Seriously Fuu, you've got to be more careful with that subconscious of yours. You even said his name in front of Clef and the strangers..." Caldina said looking now strangely serious at her.
Fuu blushed more. She felt very embarrassed. She was happy Umi hadn't heard that, for she would have her bothering for a looooong time. In that moment entered Clef and Emeraude. Fuu and Caldina got quiet as soon as they so them come in. Clef was about to tell Caldina to shut up, when he saw Fuu awake. He looked very impressed at her.
"Fuu? You are awake." He said getting nearer. Fuu smiled and nodded.
"Hello, Master Clef." She said. "I am terribly sorry if I worried you."
"No, Fuu. There is no reason for an apology." Her master said. "I'm impressed you are awake."
Fuu remembered Caldina telling her that she was the only one already awake.
"I...I just..." she said trying to explain. "I do not understand what is happening Clef-sama." She said worried.
"I know..." Clef said, looking suddenly at Emeraude. "I'll explain everything I can."
Fuu looked confused at her master... he could explain things? She then looked at Emeraude, and she gasped.
Blonde hair, sad blue eyes... that face. She knew that face. Fuu looked shocked at the woman. Caldina and Clef looked at her. Emeraude smiled.
"Hi, I reckon you don't know me. My name is Emeraude." She said introducing herself. Fuu snapped out of the trance.
"I am sorry... I am...." She started.
"Fuu..." Emeraude said. Fuu stood quiet and nodded.
"Fuu, I have to thank you." She said taking one of Fuu's hands. Fuu looked at her not understanding.
"Thanks, for what? I have done..." she said but Emeraude shook her head slowly.
"I have to thank you, for saving Ferio's life." She said looking at Fuu's eyes. "If it wasn't for you...my little brother would be...." Emeraude said trying to keep her tears. Fuu stood there wide eyes open. So it was true. That woman that was in front of her was the little girl of her dream... she was Ferio's older sister.
Ascot had wondered through the castle undetected trying to find her. When he awoke he had the strange feeling that something was not fine. He stood and walked away from the nursery. His body was heavy and he could barely move. But he had to make sure. When he got up he saw Eagle on the other bed. He was still unconscious, he had a very bad feeling. He didn't know where he was, but he would guess. Finally he reached a tall door, it was covered with all kinds of blue garments. A woman was getting out of it. Ascot stood there.
"Umi-san..." he managed to say. The woman turned around and saw the young man. She ran toward him.
"What are you doing? Clef said you should rest." The woman said.
"Umi-san..." he repeated. The woman understood. She gave a small smile.
"She is fine. The Master Mage has already given her a medicine, she'll be fine, now go or I'll punish you as soon as you get better." She said smiling and giggling. Ascot looked at her and returned the smile.
"Thank you..."
"I'm Presea... don't worry... you'll all be fine."
Finish!!!!!!!!! Well... this is it.. I hope you liked it.. I feel that maybe it was kind of slow because it was given some info and stuff... and well I hope no one is confused... anyway.. Caldina and Presea finally appeared. That is wonderful! I feel that these characters are very special... like Umi, I think that they have strong and complicated personalities but at the same time make the story lighter... adding some fun and optimism. =D.... Well!!!!! I'll see you later!
Take care!
Kaze
Umm... sorry.. anyway. I am happy to see the story continuous to be accepted....that means that I should be able to finish it sooner. Actually, there have been popping some ideas in my mind this last weeks... but I have refused to write them until I finish this. They are all MKR and F/F =D
THANKS to all those who read this and SPECIAL thanks to all those who review!!!!
(MKR is not mine it belongs to CLAMP)
The Quest
Chapter 12: Rescued
Fuu was running through a dark hall, the windows only showed more darkness in the outside. There were some beams of light that appeared apparently without reason from anywhere. Fuu ran as fast as she could. She was afraid to look behind, but she did. The creature was still running after her. She could see the anger on its eyes. She ran even faster, but her legs weren't strong enough. She fell on the floor and looked at the beast in front of her. She tried to talk, but no words came from her mouth. She could only stare at her persecutor. The creature did nothing. It stayed there in the shadows and watched the young sorceress. Fuu felt no danger, although she could tell the creature was angry. And she knew perfectly why. The creature came out from the shadows and revealed, at last to Fuu. It was a giant bird with two wings. She couldn't tell the color. The bird's eyes where yellow almost golden, and it stared right at her own eyes.
"My name is Windam." It said inside Fuu's head. Fuu was at first confused but tried the same methodology. She tried to speak with it through it's head.
"I am Hououji Fuu." She said as calm as she could.
The bird stood quiet and Fuu wondered if she could truly speak with it in that way.
"I know." It responded. "You have not followed my advises." This time the voice was more calm.
Fuu looked at the bird. Windam seemed to be disappointed.
"I know I haven't. I am sorry...but I can not..."she said trying to gather all of her strength.
"You can not sacrifice that feeling." Windam said. "That feeling you have for the young man. Even if it meant saving other people, you couldn't."
Fuu felt guilty, she preferred to save Ferio than keeping that shadow prisoner. She had felt that it was a terrible thing to do. However, she knew nothing, she didn't know what was all of this about. What was really happening, the dreams, Mokona, Umi and Hikaru... she felt a strange bond with them and still... Fuu knew really nothing.
"Please Windam-san, tell me what is going on. I really do not understand anything, I feel things but can not understand its true meaning. You have been in my dream for some days now, so please, tell me. What is happening?" she pleaded as if finally she was about to uncover the greatest mystery ever.
"You are one of the keys to a new hope." It said leaving Fuu even more confused. Then a picture appeared between them. Fuu could see the world suddenly destroyed. There were people screaming and trying to escape from a terrible wave of monsters and evil people that laugh at their sadistic task. People were dead, and everyone was suffering. She, on the other side of the picture, could see a place she'd never seen before but knew immediately it's name. "Cefiro..." she whispered as another characters made their entrance. It was King Stephen and the minister from Kiam. They were laughing. But in all the catastrophe, there were three lights, red, blue and green. Fuu knew what it meant.
"You are three keys from four to prevent this to happen. However the fourth one was already taken by the enemy. You have to choose...."
The bird started to disappear and Fuu couldn't get it. "Choose what?" she said trying to grab Windam, but it vanished as a picture appeared in front of her. Fuu gasped.
"Ferio..."
"Is she really going to be alright?" a voice asked. Fuu blue eyes looked at her as a smile appeared on her face.
"Fuu!!!! You are awake!!" the woman said hugging Fuu with all of her strength. Fuu was all confused. Was that a dream again?
"O my gosh! You are really fine! Look at you, you are all weak and look like a doll that has been thrown to the garbage!" the woman kept talking. Fuu tried to hold herself but found out that she really was too weak to carry her own body.
"Ca...Caldina-san." She managed to say. The woman smiled and hugged her again.
"You remember this fabulous good looking lady!" she said smiling happily. Fuu gave her a small tired smile.
"Caldina, you can't be treating Fuu like that!" a man said from behind. He was a blonde man with blue eyes. He had his right arm in a bandage and he was obviously recovering from a fight. He got close to Fuu's bed and put his healthy arm around Caldina's waist. Fuu smiled as she sat on her bed doing a very strong effort to stay like that.
"Lafarga-san. I am very happy to see you two are alright." She said smiling. The couple smiled and looked at the other side of the room. Fuu followed their gaze to find the bed she saw before. The bed where Ferio was.
"You are the only one that has regained conscious." Caldina said looking sadly at Ferio. Fuu looked at him. He looked terrible, just as she might look. She felt her strength leaving her again. Lafarga got her before she fell.
"You must rest. Master Clef said that you had a very dangerous situation."
Fuu nodded. She was at home. At last back at the castle, and she didn't felt that happy. When she was back at jail, she had decided to die and never get back. The people she knew were good people, but her life, back then was empty. But...
"What happened?" she asked noticing she had missed a very long part of the story. "We were fighting that shadow, we were very far away from Kiam... how did we get hear?" she asked.
"It is a very long story, that not even we know. I was helping dear Lafarga with his wounds when suddenly Master Clef entered here, telling us that we needed some free beds. We arranged everything when a couple entered with everyone. You all were unconscious."
"Everyone?" Fuu asked.
"Well, you, this young man, the princess, another girl, and three other men. I believe one of them is a soldier from our enemy." She said looking nervous. Lafarga frowned and looked at the door on the left of the room. The infirmary had many rooms connected, Fuu and Ferio were in one of them, the rest must be in the other rooms.
"Three... three other men, you mean King Stephen?" Fuu said. She couldn't remember anyone else back then.
"Oh no! Not him.. "Caldina said looking puzzled. "Weren't you traveling with four men?" she asked. Fuu waved her head as in no.
"How strange..." Caldina said. "There is a young boy with brown hair, that keeps saying Princess Umi's name all the time. The soldier with black hair and another man with white hair..." she said trying to make Fuu remember.
"White hair?" Fuu said suddenly realizing. "He has white hair?" she asked.
Lafarga and Caldina nodded.
'It must be Eagle-san. He must had reach the river by the time Clef-sama rescued us.' She thought trying to make some connections.
"So, you know him..." Caldina said.
Fuu nodded. "Was Clef-sama, the one that rescued us?"
Caldina shook her head. "It was the strangers. A very beautiful blonde woman with blue eyes and a man that looks exactly like the solider. I believe their names are Emeraude and Zagato." Caldina said looking at the door from the left.
Lantis laid unconscious on the bed. He had terrible nightmares about Hikaru been harmed. Zagato and Emeraude were at his side.
"They were lucky." Zagato said looking at his younger brother.
Emeraude nodded. "Very lucky. If the rune-gods wouldn't have been there... they all would had..." she didn't finished the sentence. She remembered seeing her brother. He was bleeding... he was dieing. She tried to erase that memory.
"Have you spoken with Clef?" Zagato asked. "You have to tell him everything. He must be warned, now that Mokona has been taken."
"Yes... he knows a lot about this, however... what will he say when we tell him that his apprentice and more important, his princess, are keys?" she said sadly.
"He'll have to accept it." He said standing up. "If they have to die for our sake then... "
"Please Zagato, don't be so heartless!" Emeraude said. "Those girls are important to many people, like Hikaru for example! How will you tell your brother?" she said.
The door opened and Clef entered. He was carrying a transparent jar with some strange liquid.
"Good morning." He said approaching the couple. Emeraude and Zagato stayed quiet. Clef looked at them. Then he got near Lantis and gave him some of the liquid.
"I've manage to get the antidote. They'll be fine in some minutes." He said as he cleaned Lantis' mouth and headed now to Hikaru's bed.
"Master Clef. We need to talk." Emeraude said.
"I know." Clef answered. He gave Hikaru the antidote.
Zagato stood up and kissed Emeraude softly on the lips, then he headed to the door.
"I am leaving now. I'll return to my country." He said giving them his back. Emeraude looked at the floor, tears gathering on her eyes.
"There is a war I have to keep battling." He said as he left.
Clef looked at Emeraude. "That war is stupid." He said. She nodded.
"Yes... but he thinks he has to protect his country... even if..." she said. "...even if the reasons are stupid."
Clef closed his eyes. "What is it you want to tell me?"
Emeraude looked at the man. She then looked away and walked near Hikaru.
"It's about Cefiro." She said. "We are, as you know, in grave danger."
Clef nodded. If Mokona was in hands of King Stephen then...
"The most important key was stolen. Yet, we have to find the other three keys to close the evil from Cefiro." He said.
Emeraude looked at Clef, she managed to hold some tears. She shook her head.
"No, Master Mage... we do not have to find the other keys. They are already here." She said.
Clef was very surprised. "Are they already awake?" he asked. Emeraude shook her head again.
Clef sighed. Then a terrible fear appeared in his heart. He looked at Emeraude.
"Who are they?" he asked looking at Lantis. Pleading that it was the strangers. Selfish, he was. But he didn't want to see any of his loved ones as key.
"The little one." Emeraude said looking at Hikaru. Clef looked at her, he felt guilty for wishing something like that to a girl like her. Clef looked back at Emeraude.
"The wind sorceress..." she said. Clef felt a bolt in his heart.
"Fuu??" he said softly. Emeraude nodded sadly. Clef looked at his hands. She was more than his student, she was more like a daughter for him... and now she was. He tried to calm himself. Fuu's destiny couldn't be so dark. But there was more and he felt it... he knew who was next...
"...and the princess." Emeraude finished as some tears dropped on the floor.
Clef looked at Emeraude unbelieving, shock in his eyes. Umi was a key too. He clenched his fist and turned around.
'Why has destiny chosen those who I love the most? WHY?' he thought as rage gathered inside of him.
Caldina was helping Fuu with the pillow, she wanted to be sited since Caldina wanted to hear all the story, Caldina hadn't heard a thing since Fuu was captured in the battlefield. She actually was very surprised to see her again. She had feared the worst. Lafarga went for something to drink and eat, mostly for Caldina, the reason, the arrival of a new baby. Caldina was pregnant and the news made Fuu very happy.
"So... tell me everything." Caldina said very exited. "How in the world did you manage to escape from jail?"
Fuu looked back at Ferio.
"It would be his doing." Fuu said looking worriedly at Ferio. "We were at the same cage, and we both escaped the same day I arrived." She said returning her gaze at Caldina.
Caldina gave her a strange smile. Fuu looked puzzled.
"So...you are friends?" Caldina asked with a very weird expression.
Fuu got the message. She blushed furiously as she turned her head.
"We... yes... we are friends." She answered.
"Just friends????" Caldina said getting closer to Fuu.
"...Yes... just friends... "Fuu said remembering what happened before Eagle attacked Lantis.
-----Flashback-----
"Have you ever heard of love at first sight?"
-----End of flashback----
She blushed. Caldina smiled triumphantly.
"Then, why the hell did you kept saying his name all the time you were asleep?" Caldina said giving some giggles. Fuu couldn't believe her ears, she'd been saying his name? Fuu blushed even more.
"Gotcha!!!!!!!!!" Caldina said now laughing. Fuu looked at her... the situation made her feel very uncomfortable. "Seriously Fuu, you've got to be more careful with that subconscious of yours. You even said his name in front of Clef and the strangers..." Caldina said looking now strangely serious at her.
Fuu blushed more. She felt very embarrassed. She was happy Umi hadn't heard that, for she would have her bothering for a looooong time. In that moment entered Clef and Emeraude. Fuu and Caldina got quiet as soon as they so them come in. Clef was about to tell Caldina to shut up, when he saw Fuu awake. He looked very impressed at her.
"Fuu? You are awake." He said getting nearer. Fuu smiled and nodded.
"Hello, Master Clef." She said. "I am terribly sorry if I worried you."
"No, Fuu. There is no reason for an apology." Her master said. "I'm impressed you are awake."
Fuu remembered Caldina telling her that she was the only one already awake.
"I...I just..." she said trying to explain. "I do not understand what is happening Clef-sama." She said worried.
"I know..." Clef said, looking suddenly at Emeraude. "I'll explain everything I can."
Fuu looked confused at her master... he could explain things? She then looked at Emeraude, and she gasped.
Blonde hair, sad blue eyes... that face. She knew that face. Fuu looked shocked at the woman. Caldina and Clef looked at her. Emeraude smiled.
"Hi, I reckon you don't know me. My name is Emeraude." She said introducing herself. Fuu snapped out of the trance.
"I am sorry... I am...." She started.
"Fuu..." Emeraude said. Fuu stood quiet and nodded.
"Fuu, I have to thank you." She said taking one of Fuu's hands. Fuu looked at her not understanding.
"Thanks, for what? I have done..." she said but Emeraude shook her head slowly.
"I have to thank you, for saving Ferio's life." She said looking at Fuu's eyes. "If it wasn't for you...my little brother would be...." Emeraude said trying to keep her tears. Fuu stood there wide eyes open. So it was true. That woman that was in front of her was the little girl of her dream... she was Ferio's older sister.
Ascot had wondered through the castle undetected trying to find her. When he awoke he had the strange feeling that something was not fine. He stood and walked away from the nursery. His body was heavy and he could barely move. But he had to make sure. When he got up he saw Eagle on the other bed. He was still unconscious, he had a very bad feeling. He didn't know where he was, but he would guess. Finally he reached a tall door, it was covered with all kinds of blue garments. A woman was getting out of it. Ascot stood there.
"Umi-san..." he managed to say. The woman turned around and saw the young man. She ran toward him.
"What are you doing? Clef said you should rest." The woman said.
"Umi-san..." he repeated. The woman understood. She gave a small smile.
"She is fine. The Master Mage has already given her a medicine, she'll be fine, now go or I'll punish you as soon as you get better." She said smiling and giggling. Ascot looked at her and returned the smile.
"Thank you..."
"I'm Presea... don't worry... you'll all be fine."
Finish!!!!!!!!! Well... this is it.. I hope you liked it.. I feel that maybe it was kind of slow because it was given some info and stuff... and well I hope no one is confused... anyway.. Caldina and Presea finally appeared. That is wonderful! I feel that these characters are very special... like Umi, I think that they have strong and complicated personalities but at the same time make the story lighter... adding some fun and optimism. =D.... Well!!!!! I'll see you later!
Take care!
Kaze