Disclaimer:

If I owned CLAMP, I would have no reason to be dissatisfied with their endings.

Foreword:

Okay, people! Let's do this right the first time!

I have here for you an entirely new, completely original, utterly amazing, already complete Magic Knights Rayearth fanfic! Yep, you heard me. Already complete. I finished writing this about a year ago, but I've never posted for personal reasons. waggles eyebrows mysteriously. Anyway…

The adventure picks up somewhere in the middle of the second season. For those of you who never saw the second season or really, really like the way things turned out, do not read. For everyone else, enjoy!

Prologue:

She looked up, her red hair flying in front of her face, obscuring her vision. All around her, black.

Teeheehee!

She stood quickly then, staring around herself wildly, searching out the source of the voice in the darkness surrounding her.

I see you, Hikaru!

Hikaru stopped her frantic movements.

"Nova!" she shouted, "Come out! Let me talk to you!"

Uh-uh-uh! the voice admonished, not yet! Debonair Mama says not yet!

Hikaru whipped around to where she heard the sound coming from.

"Nova, listen! You have to stop! Stop killing my most important friends!"

The voice laughed.

Hikaru! You're so cute! Nova will kill all your friends so Hikaru will only play with me. I'll kill them all for you, cute Hikaru!

"Nova! No! That's not what I want! Please!"

Still she did not appear. Hikaru waited, pleading, her voice on the edge of tears.

"Nova, I love my friends. I don't want them to die!"

But only girlish laughter answered her. Hikaru's hands clenched, her heart beating to fast in anger and fear, somehow knowing that though she dreamed, it was real. She knew if she could just get through, she would make Nova understand, and stop fighting. She knew she could. She had too. She lowered her tone to something resembling calm.

"Listen, Nova. I need you to talk to me. I need you to let my friends go!"

The voice giggled again.

Okay. Debonair Mama says we can talk now. Let's play, Hikaru!

And then a flash of light overwhelmed the red-haired girl, and she blinked back against it, and then she awoke, gasping, in her own bed.

For a moment, she sat there, panting, pulling herself together. Then she leaned back against the headboard of the bed tiredly, sorting out the various images from her last dream. Why would Nova not understand?

Hikaru felt a breeze behind her. She turned. Pink hair, flowing to her feet, surrounded young black eyes, now narrowed in something like happiness.

"Let's play, Hikaru!"

Okay! That's all for now. I can give you one chappy every two days, or one a week, or one every six months. It's up to you. Respond, review, critique, and we'll see how often I post…raises one eyebrow threateningly.

By the way, has anyone ever noticed how CLAMP is, like, horrendously afraid of any physical contact whatsoever? Even in MKR, there's only one kiss, and that's not even between the main characters! And they cover the screen when it happens! It's like a phobia or something…eww….

Ja ne, minna-san!