Fortune 17-A Light that Brings Back Memories

"Hitomi, get out of here," Van yelled, trying to keep the Guymelef distracted, although it's target clearly seemed to be the strange young woman. She looked strangely at the Fanelian king, he certainly hadn't changed. Hitomi wasn't sure whether she had changed or not, but she would not leave him behind. There wasn't anything she could do to help him, but she wasn't going to leave.

Star stopped mid-sprint and looked reproachfully at Blai, who had crashed right into her. "The pendant," she said, holding out her hand. She knew that the boy had it and silently cursed herself for not thinking of it before.

"What?" he asked, rubbing his head and looking just as reproachfully back. It had been her fault they had crashed into each other, she was the one who stopped.

The girl sighed as Chid stopped cleanly right next to them. "The pendant," she repeated, still holding her hand out for said object. The boy nodded in understanding and pulled his father's, Hitomi's, pendant out of his pocket. "What exactly is going on?" he asked curiously as he handed the necklace over to the girl.

She looked at him condescendingly and when she spoke it was on the tone of one explaining the obvious to a two-year-old. "Hitomi and Van are in trouble, I'm going to use the pendant to find them."

"No!" Blai said angrily, maybe it was her tone of voice that finally got to him, "I mean, what kind of trouble are they in."

Star looked stunned, she had not been expecting that, "They're being attacked by a Guymelef. Like the one from before," meaning, when she had been locked inside of her own mind to step aside for the woman who acted like the devil himself. Chid looked between them, slightly confused. He had been unconscious that entire time and therefore had no idea what was going on. But, as was to be expected, the girl from the Mystic Moon completely ignored the older man's confusion and went on attempting to find her cousin and the king of Fanelia through the pendant.

Hitomi tripped over backwards and watched wide-eyed as the sword of the giant Melef descended over her. Van slowly stood up from where he had hit the ground from the machine's last blow and as soon as the situation registered in his mind, he yelled Hitomi's name and reached out for her. A strange glow engulfed them both and they looked out not to far in the distance where another column of light had formed.

Star's hand fell to her side as a bright light penetrated her closed eye-lids. Not again! She screamed in her thoughts. It was the same light, the same light as the one from when she was younger, the same light as the one that had brought her to Gaea. She opened her eyes as she felt her feet lift off the ground and looked for her two companions to see if they, too, were coming along for the ride.

In an instant, the three of them had disappeared and when Star opened her eyes yet again, she was in that strange crevice in the ground in which her vision had shown her Hitomi and Van were fighting the Melef. But when the teenager looked around, there was no sign of any of them.

"Great, now how are we going to get out of this one?" she complained, rather unusual for her, as she looked up at the canyon's looming walls.

She felt something rub against her leg and looked down, Aiichirou had come along with them. Reluctantly, the young woman smiled as a sudden idea hit her. She looked around and caught sight of her two companions who were also slowly standing up and taking in their surroundings. "Blai, you have wings, right? Can you carry us up top?" The circumstances did not give the young prince much choice as he, too, looked up at the far-off top.

Blai sighed and spread his wings, grabbing Star by the hand as he did so. She looked at him reproachfully and bent down to pick up the cat-like creature that she had named after her brother before uncomfortably shoving her own gloved hand into his. Of course, the boy had realized after much thought that when he had touched the girl's skin, she had transformed into that self-proclaimed demon. He lifted her into the air and when the boy was sure that she was safely on the ground, he went back down to carry his old friend.