We have your priestess.

In no time we will force her

to become our priestess so

that we will win this civil war.

Hokkan

"Oh Shit!" Shiho said softly. "What? What is it?" Koukyuu asked.

"They have her. Hokkan has Celestial!"

"What are we going to do?"

"We'll have to find her And I suppose Rescue that little bitch!"

"Wait a minute here. I thought that you didn't think she was the priestess. Why are we rescuing her?"

"Hope, that if If she is the priestess, we'll be able to finally be in peace."

"Okay I see. Now the next problem, how on earth are we going to get into Hokkan's palace thing and rescue her?"

"I don't know, but we'll find a way?" Shiho murmured. Koukyuu knocked him over the head with her hand!

"Don't give me that I don't know but we'll find a way' shit! We need a plan Shiho, not a miracle. "

"Damn it, Koukyuu, I know that, I'm not dumb! What I was referring to was that we'll get a plan and then go and save her sorry ass!"

"OhSorry for hitting you over the head."

"You should be." Shiho muttered.

All Celestial could see was some burly men on horseback, and she was in front of one. She looked back to see, not a burly muscle-headed man, but a quite attractive man. His eyes were hazel and she saw dark chestnut colored locks of hair, which had escaped his helmet. She couldn't see the rest of his face, but his bone structure and his eyes looked strong and handsome. She had no idea where she was going and she also had no idea whom these men or guards came from.

It took them a couple of days to reach Hokkan, but at first sight, Celestial knew that they were in Hokkan, and that these men were soldiers or some kind of military people from Hokkan.

Oh man, I've gotten myself in some deep shit now, Celestial thought. They arrived at the palace soon after dawn, and Celestial was pushed into the room with the man whom she had been riding with. He took off his helmet and kneeled down to the emperor. She had a glimpse of his face before he had kneeled, and he was handsome, unlike someone she knew Celestial just stood there, not curtseying, but standing and waiting. After awhile of talking between the emperor and the guy, whom she had found out was a general in Hokkan's military, she asked, "What do you want from me?" All of the talking stopped as heads were turned and eyes were set on her. No one had seemed to notice her before, and Celestial found out that that was the way she would have rather preferred, but it was too late. "AhRight you, the priestess of Tenkyoku. You must have heard or at least had an idea of what we wanted, right?" The emperor questioned.

"Yes, I know that you want me to be your priestess."

"If you already know, than why ask such a silly question?" It was obvious that the emperor knew the answer, but she said it just to amuse him.

"I wanted to be sure."

"That's what I thought."

"If you knew that, than why ask me?" Celestial challenged.

"If you don't mind, I already think you know the answer to that question. Now, you will be escorted out and to your quarters." The Emperor waved her off and some maids, who took her to bathe and then took her into her room, soon accompanied her. Celestial walked into her room and told the maids to do something better than to annoy her. They went away. Celestial turned, and was shocked to see the general in her room. He had changed and didn't look so serious. The man bowed respectively. "What. What do you want?" She asked softly. The stranger closed the door. She watched him solemnly. "I wanted to apologize. Apologize for my rude behavior when we met. I haven't introduced myself, my name is Nikko Karura."

"Come into the light where I can see you." Celestial said. Karura stepped forward. In the light, his eyes turned into a bluish green. "Why are you being nice to me? Is it just because I'm supposed to be your priestess? I now as well as you know that I will not cooperate! I'm not afraid of you or this empire." Celestial said aggressively. Suddenly Karura started to laugh.

"What? What is it? What's so funny?"

"You!" Karura said coughing, pretending that his laughing was actually coughing. Celestial was stunned, she didn't think that generals of a military were supposed to be so nice andlaugh so much.

"Ahem. Sorry for that." He said. Celestial gave him a priceless look, one of her eyebrows was raised and she looked totally confused, or it might have been a look that told him that he was strange. Karura smiled and tried to hold his laughter. Celestial continued to look at him strangely.

"Why are you laughing? Surely you don't find the situation you are in a laughing matter, do you? Plus, you're a general you, of all people, aren't supposed to laugh during a civil war between five countries."

"You're right, obviously. I beg my pardon." Karura said, bowing and then leaving.

"Oh shit!" Yue said.

"What? What has Celestial gotten herself into this time?" Etsuko asked.

"She was just captured by Hokkan soldiers."

"Holy shit! Well How is she?"

"They want her to be their priestess!"

"She can't, she mustn't. What else has happened? Was she just captured?"

"Well she had been talking to the general of the Hokkan military. He wasn't very serious."

"That's odd, why would the general of the Hokkan military want to speak to her, and why was he laughing?" Etsuko asked reading the book.

" He doesn't sound like the type of person who would be a general, does he?"

"Not really. I'm going to try to communicate with this little trouble maker."
"Celestial?"

"Whoa? What was that?" Shiho asked as he and Koukyuu were riding on their horses, with Celestial's horse right next to Shiho's horse. They all stopped. Shiho dismounted off of his horse, and slowly walked towards Celestial's horse, which was where the sound was coming from. Shiho dug in her bags and found a small necklace with a topaz orb dangling from it. The orb said again, "Celestial? Can you hear me?"

"Aghhh!" Shiho dropped the necklace.

"What was that?" Etsuko asked. "It sounded like someone was kind of shocked."

"Um actually, you were speaking to Shiho, the necklace was in her bags and he took it out. I think the necklace scared him, since you were speaking through the necklace." Yue said He kept reading. "Oh, the girl picked it up, Koukyuu, yeah her."

"UmHello?" Koukyuu asked as she picked up the necklace." She heard, "Hello, this is Etsuko, one of Celestial's friends." Koukyuu frowned and looked at the small orb and the necklace. "I think that her friend from another world is trying to speak to us." Koukyuu said.

"Koukyuu, Celestial right now is at the emperor of Hokkan's palace. They are forcing her to be their priestess. So I guess she is their captive. I don't think they're going to hurt her, but she is in grave danger every second." Etsuko said.

"Wait? How do you know all of this? And how are we communicating?" Koukyuu inquired definitely confused.

"I'm reading all of this from our world. We're communicating through that necklace that you are now holding. I'm not quite sure how it's being done, but it has something to do with the connection of our friendship, Celestial's that is." Etsuko said, trying to explain to the confused girl and boy in the best way she could.

"So we're communicating through this necklace. What are we supposed to do about Celestial? How are we going to get into Hokkan's palace?"

"I don't know."

Abruptly, an arrow flew over Koukyuu's head. Koukyuu mounted her horse, as did Shiho.

"Koukyuu? Damn it, the connection was lost!" Etsuko said. "What happened?"

Yue was reading. "They were attacked by Hokkan soldiers, but they escaped."

Celestial sat on the bed in her living quarters. How am I supposed to escape? I can't become Hokkan's Priestess; I'm already Tenkyoku's Priestess! Damn it all!