DISCLAIMER: Ojamajo Doremi © Toei Animation in 1999-2004. I don't get any commercial benefit from this fic.

Author's Note: Just like with 'ODPHS', this fic is also connected with one of my previous fic titled 'Another Witch and Her Brambles', and the antagonist there came from this fic's timeline (maybe I would mention the moments in that fic later). Chronologically, the moments in this chapter happened more than a year before the antagonist decided to go to the past in 'Another Witch and Her Brambles'.

The Future Story 2

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Chapter 13 – Grandmother's Treasure and the Mysterious Rival

"Nonono!"

"Fififi!"

In the next morning, Fami and the others went to Maho-dou as usual, and when all of them arrived there, they commanded their fairies to flew out from the fairies' crystal ball.

Once they flew out, Nono immediately hugged Fifi and greeted her cheerfully while Kiki and Zuzu flew up towards them.

"It seems like Nono miss Fifi so much," said Nozomi. She smiled, "I think I need to stay at your house next weekend, Fami-chan."

"Well, maybe it's because we're cousins, so they have a great bonds," Fami smiled back, "and I'll be happy if you really want to stay at my house next weekend. You know, recently my father keep saying that I'm the most beautiful ones in my house."

"No doubt, Fami-chan. You just live with him and ojiichan there. You're the only one girl," Nozomi pointed out, "Not to mention that they have short hair while your hair is long and pretty."

Fami giggled, then replied, "Thank you, Non-chan."

Meanwhile, Riri the turquoise fairy looked at her owner and said something, then Molly nodded to her and quickly took some breads out from the handbag she brought.

"Mom and I prepared these breads for our meeting today, in case we become hungry and need something to eat," she explained to the others, "We got the bread's recipe from Grandma, so it should be delicious."

"Alright, we'll eat all of those later," Fami decided, "I and Izumi-chan have already took our breakfast before we came here."

"It's okay. We have much time for today," Molly assured, "I just want to put these here so that if later one of us feel hungry and want to eat some, she just need to take the breads here."

"By the way, will we try to cast the Magical Stage today?" asked Izumi curiously, "We didn't have enough time to try it last night."

"Of course you will, everyone," replied Hana who immediately walked to them and added, "Is there something special that you want right now?"

"Actually, I want to help my grandmother find her teammates, so we can work together to open the rainbow gate once we become majingen," Izumi admitted.

"Hmm, that's a great thing, though, I doubt if all of you would find them easily with your powers now," Hana opined, "I don't want to underestimate you all, but… even I still can't find them with my power, despite the fact that I'm the Queen now."

"Oh, alright," she finally sighed, "I think we could instantly find them right now."

"It's okay. At least you show us your concern," Hana patted Izumi's shoulders, "Your grandmother will appreciate it, and I'm sure that even if you all can't do it right now, all of you will manage to find them someday."

"I hope so."

"Then, is there anything else? Anything for your first Magical Stage," asked Hana, "It's up to you all."

"Hmm, let me see…" Fami thought for a few minutes before she told the others about her idea, "How about go to the past? I really want to see my mother."

"Time traveling will be a difficult things to do for you all now," said Majorika, "Why did you all take your breakfast before you came here? If all of you were still hungry now, we can use the Magical Stage to summon some foods and beverages for us. Even, we can make a party here."

"Then, what should we do now?"

"I know!" shouted Nozomi before she asked her older cousin, "Fami-chan, do you know where obaachan put her precious playing cards? You know, those cards which she shown to us when we were still in the third grade."

"Uh, I see. Those cards from her friend who had the same name with you, right? I recall that she put it somewhere in my house but I don't remember exactly where it is."

"That's it! We can use Magical Stage to find those cards!"

"Alright then, you can use it for that ones," Majorika approved, "Although I actually want to celebrate your passing in your first exam."

"In the other words, you want them to get some late breakfast for you, as you woke up late this morning," Hana pointed out, "Am I right, Majorika?"

"Hey!"

"Calm down, Majorika. Don't be mad at me," Hana giggled, "If you want to get some late breakfast, you can get it by yourself. Let Fami-chan and the others do what they want."

She then asked Nozomi, "By the way, why do you want to find your grandmother's precious playing cards?"

"Well, when she shown those cards to me and Fami-chan, she asked us to take care of those cards once she… can't be able to keep the playing cards by herself," explained the green witch apprentice, "That's why I want to search it using Magical Stage."

"Even so, can you just search it by yourself rather than using the Magical Stage?" asked Hana, didn't understand, "Is searching those cards really difficult for you all?"

"Well, we just remember that obaachan put it onto a high place, so… it may be difficult for us to search it by ourselves."

"Oh, alright. It's up to you, anyway."

Just then, the six witch apprentices transformed.

"Puritti Witchi Izumichii!"

"Puritti Witchi Rizukochii!"

"Puritti Witchi Mollychii!"

"Puritti Witchi Shiroyukichii!"

"Puritti Witchi Nozomichii!"

"Puritti Witchi Famichii!"

After they struck their pose together, they summoned their poron and prepared to cast their spells, and somehow, they instantly found out their own Magical Stage's spell in their mind. All of them then started to chant.

"Pirika Pirirara Nobiyakani!"

"Piriran Pururara Pyantayakani!"

"Pakita Pikoto Shinayakani!"

"Pupuru Pupu Suzuyakani!"

"Paretun Rerokun Sawayakani!"

"Pikisho Pukishiro Hogarakani!"

"Magical Stage! Find the precious playing cards!"

In an instant, they were gone from Maho-dou, then appeared in Fami's house. There, a floating arrow approached them, made them know that it was pointing towards the playing cards. They then followed the floating arrow which flew up into the main bedroom in the house.

"So she put it in her room, huh?" Fami concluded, "Well, if that's the case, actually we don't really need to use Magical Stage to find the cards."

"Even so, is it wrong if we want to test our new power?" Nozomi retorted, then noticed that the floating arrow stopped moving and pointed at a large box on a cupboard in front of them, "Hey, so she put it in that box? I wonder if she put anything else there."

All of them then carefully took the large box, and once they did it, they were instantly back to Maho-dou with the box.

"Hey, I think you all will come with a small pack of cards, but… I see that all of you bring a large box right now. What happened?" asked Hana.

"Well, it seems like… the playing cards is in this box, but… we're also curious with the other items in the box itself," replied Fami, "Moreover, we arrive here right after we take the box, so we don't have time to take the playing cards out from there."

"Oh, alright then."

The six witch apprentices then decided to opened the box.

"Alright, here's the playing cards," said Nozomi while took a pack of playing cards out from the box. At the same time, Fami took an old photo album out from the same box and opened it.

"Ah, these are some pictures of her and her best friends!" stated her, "Minna, look at these photos. There are so many photos of my grandmother with all of your grandmothers!"

"Really? Let me see all of them," said Shiroyuki as she approached Fami and looked at the mentioned photos, "You're right. All of them were always together."

The other four joined with them, and they kept seeing the photos in the album one by one.

"Auntie Hana, we find an old picture of you here," Fami told Hana, "Do you want to see it?"

"Where is it?" asked Hana as she walked to them and noticed an old picture inside the album, "Hey, it's when I was still a baby."

"Ah, so cute," Nozomi commented, "Auntie Hana, you were a cute baby here."

Hana giggled, "Thank you."

They continued to see the photos until they saw the last ones, which shown the younger Fami and Nozomi sat down onto a sofa together.

"Hey, it was when we attended our elementary school's entrance ceremony!" exclaimed Fami, "Originally, we should take the photo at the yard, but… my chest wasn't feeling well."

"I remember it. That's why I put my right hand on your chest and hugged you with my left hand," Nozomi smiled, "Obaachan… put our photos here too."

"Yes. She also put some other photos of us both… in the same album which she put hers…"

"That's because she treasured you both," said Hana while she patted Fami and Nozomi's shoulder, "You're her granddaughters, after all."

"Anyways, is there another things beside the playing cards and the photo album inside the box?" asked Rizuko.

"Nope! I don't see any other things here," replied Molly, "Should we put the playing cards and the album back into the box?"

"Yeah, it's better if we just put these items there," said Fami as she quickly put the mentioned items back into the box and closed it, "I should ask ojiichan's permission to keep this in my room."

"Even so, can I keep the playing cards in my house?" asked Nozomi, "These cards are still looking good."

"Why don't you ask it to ojiichan then?" asked Fami back, "I don't really have right to allow you."

"Alright then, I'll ask him."

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Several hours later…

Nozomi asked Kotake's permission to keep the precious playing cards in her house while Fami asked his permission for the photo album, and he allowed them to keep those items.

"Just don't let anyone snatch those items away from you both or I would be very upset," the old man warned, "Those are your grandmother's treasure anyway."

"Of course, we'll keep these items carefully," replied Nozomi as she opened the box and took out the playing cards, "Well, maybe I'll play these cards so often, though… I promise there won't ever be any missing card."

"Me too. Even though this photo album are already old, I'll put it into my desk drawer," Fami added, "and I'll make sure that no one can snatch it away from me."

"Even though it's a boy named Matsumoto Daichi?" Nozomi teased her, "Are you sure that you won't ever let him see our photo in that album?"

"Non-chan, why do you talk about him again?" Fami protested, then teased back, "Don't say to me that it's you who have a crush on him…"

"What? Me? Have a crush on him? It's impossible," Nozomi denied calmly, "and for your information, my crush is one of Molly-chan's classmate."

"Really? Don't you lie about it?"

"Of course not. I say the truth."

"Hey hey, girls, what happened with you both? Why do you suddenly talk about your own crush?" asked Tsubomi curiously.

After their training at Maho-dou was over for today, Fami, Nozomi and Izumi's family were all gathered at Fami's house. It seemed like they wanted to talk about the photo album which was found earlier.

"Don't worry, okasan. I'm just kidding," Nozomi assured her mother, "Just for some jokes time with cousins."

"Whatever. I just don't want to talk about that Matsumoto anymore," sighed Fami. She didn't realize that her grandfather looked at what she did with smile on his face.

'Now I wonder with this Matsumoto whom they talked about. Is he really like me in the past?' he thought, 'Well, I just know that he isn't in the soccer club, as I don't know about him. I don't see his name in the soccer club's members list.'

"Unfortunately, I just came back from France a week after the entrance ceremony was held, so I didn't attend it," Izumi complained while changed the topic to the entrance ceremony which she couldn't attend to. She sighed, "and with that, I also couldn't have some pictures of me before the entrance ceremony like you both, Fami-nee, Nozomi-nee."

"Calm down, Izumi-chan. You can miss the entrance ceremony, but I'm really sure that you won't ever miss your graduation ceremony later. We'll take some pictures then," said Fami to the youngest witch apprentice. She then added, "We also can take some pictures in me and Non-chan's graduation ceremony. It's much sooner than yours."

"I hope so," said Izumi before she asked her father, "Otousan, you won't ever move to another country anymore, right?"

"Calm down, sweetie, we won't ever move to anywhere anymore," her father assured, "We'll be here with your grandparents."

Izumi smiled, "That's good. Thank you, otousan."

All of them then talked about their family until it was nearly 9 PM, when finally both Nozomi's family and Izumi's family went home to their own house.

That night, right before they went to sleep, Kotake asked Fami about her classmate named Matsumoto Daichi, as the old man was so interested with him.

"Ojiichan, why do you ask me about him, of all people?" Fami protested, "He often annoys me."

"Alright, I just want to ask you about his club anyway," Kotake assured, "Which club did he join into? I think he isn't in the soccer club."

"Well, he joined the basketball club since last year," replied the pink haired girl, "He isn't really tall though, I heard that he's a talented player there."

"Hmm, basketball, eh? Sometimes I played it too when I was still in the Elementary School. It sounds nostalgic."

"I heard that you actually had talent in any sports that time, right ojiichan?" asked Fami, tried to shift the subject, "Basketball, swimming, athletics…"

"Well, I don't want to be arrogant, but… I'm still quite good at those too, even now," the old man smiled, "It's just that, I like soccer more than anything else."

"Did you participate in the school's sport festival? In the athletic meeting?" she asked again, "I really want to know about your elementary school's life."

"Do you really want to know about that? I wasn't a smart and popular boy back then, and sometimes, I teased your grandmother too," Kotake sighed, "However, I did participate in the sport festival every year, and I always won in my race."

"Really?"

Kotake nodded, "That's right, and my best victory was in the third grade."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, that year was so special for me. As usual, I participated in the relay race… and I became the last runner who brought the victory to the team, but that's not all," he mused, "That time, someone special passed the baton to me, then I felt more powerful. We worked together, and we did it. That's why my victory in that time was my best victory."

"Wait, someone special?" Fami tilted her head, but then immediately shouted, "I know! She was obaachan, right?"

"Yes, it was her," replied Kotake as he smiled brightly, "She couldn't do it well in our training, but I trusted her that she would do her best in the race, and I was right."

They smiled at each other before Kotake called his granddaughter, "By the way, Fami…"

"Hmm? What happened, ojiichan?"

"Now that you're fully recovered, do you want to participate in the upcoming sport festival?" asked the old man, "This will be your first participation if you want to."

"It sounds interesting! I want to participate. I always want to," replied Fami, "I want to prove to all of my classmates that I'm not weak anymore now, because in the last four years, some of them always underestimated me."

"I see. You should show them your true power, but don't forget to be nice with them," Kotake advised, "They might be mean to you, but you should still be nice with anyone around you, okay?"

"Sure, ojiichan. You don't need to worry about that," Fami assured, "Anything becomes better recently at school."

"I'm glad to hear that," he kissed his granddaughter's forehead before left her room, "Well then, have a good sleep. We'll go to school together tomorrow."

"Eh? Don't you want to attend the soccer club's morning practice? If you want to attend it, you should go there earlier than me."

"Let's just say that I want to spend some time with you."

"Alright then, thank you, ojiichan."

With that, both of them slept in their own room, but five hours later, Fami woke up. Her face was full of sweat and she was trying to catch her breath, as if she just recently had a marathon.

"What is that? How can I have this nightmare tonight?" she whispered to herself, "Those Black Roses… and an evil witch…"

'By the way, why does that evil witch seem so familiar? It's as if I've ever met her before, but… When did I meet her?'

She immediately shook of her head and tried to sleep again, decided, "I think I should tell everyone about my nightmare tomorrow."

.O.

Meanwhile, on the rooftop at a building…

An unknown witch stood up there and said to herself, "So, it's those girls who would try to open the Rainbow Gate… Well, but I don't think that they'll successfully open the gate, because I, Majoroseline, will always try to prevent the Queen's plan."

She laughed cunningly before jumped into a portal and disappeared into a thin air.