AN: IMPORTANT! A little bit of knowledge of Magic Knight Rayearth is a good thing when you are reading this story. Also the Usual apologies for taking so long to update.
It was a fairly nice day today, cloudy but not rainy, windy but not cold, and there had been no earthquakes here in Tokyo. So why does everything seem so horrible? An answer to that would not be too hard to find if you knew him, the one who had made seeing this day possible. He had saved our world from certain destruction one year ago. Gohan Daimo sacrificed himself for our safety, my safety. I only knew him for a short time, but I felt as though he had always been there, and always would be. I miss him.
And with that Hikaru closed her diary and sighed before heading off to her room in order to catch some shut-eye. However, sleep would not come easily to her this time, in fact, her sleeping habits had gotten gradually worse as she thought about Gohan's death. This greatly worried Goten, who always spent the weekends at her house. He would often ask how she was coming along and try to console her, saying that he didn't believe that Gohan could truly die.
Indeed things had changed quite a bit since Gohan had died. Goku had a talk with Goten and the Shidou family and thus convinced all of them to let Goten live with him. Though goten would never get over the death of Gohan, he has become much more happy since he has started bonding with his real father. Goku had divorced Chi Chi and sent her back to live with her father the Ox King. Goku, having taking Gohan's life into careful consideration, tried his best to give Goten a normal life. Goten went to school, had friends, played video games, really the only thing Goku enforced was training. Training mostly involved such things as skill, as opposed to Gohan who always had to focus more on his power.
Kakeru and Masaru have started their own business, a music store. They received the idea after they had both been thrown out of college for listening to music in class instead of working, and pirating music instead of studying for the finals. It had every kind of music imaginable, with the exception of country music. It was very popular and both were making more than enough money with it. Not that they needed it since Gohan had given them all that money a year ago, but they decided that they needed to save that for an emergency.
Satoru still took care of the family, but since his two brothers had careers and there was no need to work he was able to spend more time with Hikaru. He and Goku had become friends since they both knew how it was to be a father, not to mention that Goku was interested in learning Kendo and Satoru wished to spread the art. Goku would often talk of how Goten was growing and learning, or he would tell stories of Gohan or Goten. Satoru also told stories of his brothers or his sister. Hikaru was now eighteen, and a senior in high school, along with her two friends, Umi and Fuu, who starting going to her school not too long ago. Of course Hikaru was the captain of the Kendo club, Fuu the captain of the archery club, and Umi the capitan of the fencing club. Considering that they were in their last year of high school, it was rather strange that the school board had decided to give the seniors a field trip to Tokyo Tower.
" Man, why the heck do we have to come here anyway? It's not like we are going to learn anything here, and there's nothing fun to do," Umi complained for the umpteenth time. This was something for little kids, not for Seniors.
Fuu looked over to Umi, "Well, I suppose that they had to do something to take up the time instead of teaching." Obviously Fuu was slightly miffed at the school boards attitude of the curriculum as of late, though she wasn't going to complain since now she had more time to play RPG games instead of homework.
Umi sighed, " I know, but I'm so bored. What do you think Hikaru"
"This is so much fun, I hope we can come here again. Isn't it awesome you guys?" Hikaru said, looking away from the telescope thing that let her see the city up close from the top of the tower. She was smiling as always.
' Of course,' Fuu thought, ' she is always smiling.'
Hikaru
" Did you guys just hear something?" Hikaru asked puzzled.
Umi
" Who is it?" Umi asked Hikaru.
Fuu
" What does it want?" Fuu wondered out loud.
Magic Knights save our world.
Suddenly the three girls were surrounded by a bright light and they fell through the floor, and soon after, they were falling through the sky.
Hikaru nervously looked at the ground far below that they were rapidly approaching, looking around she noticed something. " That is a huge volcano"
Umi was screaming in terror for she was about to die. " Oh my god we're all gonna die! Why couldn't we have ended up falling in that ocean?" Of course this kind of thinking was flawed, just imagine a belly flop after falling from a couple hundred meters.
Fuu was the only one that was perfectly calm, " Amazing, there's a flying mountain." When the three girls were about one hundred meters from the ground a flying fish caught them. A gigantic flying fish the size of a small apartment complex.
The fish flew them to a ledge and disappeared.
" So you are the magic knights? But you are just children!" Said a short boy behind them with lavender hair. He was wearing ornate clothes and weilded a staff with a large blue jewel at the top. Amazingly the staff was taller than he was. " Who are you calling children you shrimp?" Umi yelled at the boy who was a foot and a half shy of her five and a half feet.
" I am Master Mage Clef, and I am seven hundred and forty five years old. Now I suggest you listen to me"
" Mage? So you know magic?" Fuu asked.
" Yes"
" So you could send us back to Tokyo right?" Umi asked.
" No, the only way for you to go back home is to save our world, Cephiro." said Clef.
' Gohan probably would have scared the magic out of Mage Clef before he would save the world.' Hikaru thought.
" Our princess and pillar Emeraude has been kidnapped by the High Priest Zagato, and her absence has started to take a toll on this world. Tell me you three, do any of you know any magic?" At this the three shook their heads and Clef sighed. "You don't even know magic, what was Emeraude thinking? Oh well, Bestow Magic!" A swirl of flame twisted and swirled around Hikaru.
' I haven't felt this warm since he died.' Hikaru thought. She watched on as water did the same thing to Umi and wind for Fuu.
" Hikaru, close your eyes and clear your mind. What do you feel?" Clef asked.
" I feel something warm, something that cannot be described in words." Hikaru said.
" Good, that is your magic. Embrace it, for it is now a part of you. Now who's next?" Asked Clef looking from Hikaru over to Umi and Fuu. However, before either of them had the chance to answer, several ice spears landed near them.
A woman in a dominatrix costume was riding a flying horse, and she gave her own introduction, " I, magic knights, am Alcyone, and I can't let you live. Lord Zagato has given me orders." Clef summoned up a giant Griffen, "Head to the west, Presea waits for you in the Forest of Silence." He smiled before turning to face
The three girls landed in a small clearing next to what seemed like a fortress in the middle of a forest. They climbed off of the Griffin and walked towards the house.
" Hey," said Fuu, looking back at the clearing they had landed in, and noticing an eerie absence of the magical creature that had brought them to their present location, "the Griffin seems to have disappeared." Umi just seemed freaked out about it and Hikaru was oblivious to the comment since she was already heading toward the fortress.
Umi sighed, "We should follow her, after all, who knows what evil things could be lurking around here." With that the two girls followed the red headed girl.
After accidently stumbling into the building, Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu were looking around the library of the fortress looking for the one named Presea. So far, none of them had seen any signs of the building being inhabited other than the lit torches within it. They were about to abandon their search when they suddenly heard the sound of ripped paper coming from behind a chair.
The girls looked at the chair as it spun around slowly. To say they were shocked when the chair's occupant proved to be a small white ball of fluff would have been an understatement, but it would have to suffice.
"Hello, are you Presea? Clef told us to come and seek your..." Hikaru was unable to finish her statement as suddenly a cage had fallen down and trapped the three girls. As soon as this had happened, a maniacal laughter was heard.
A young blonde woman ran in, still laughing darkly. The girls noticed that she had war paint on her face.
"Finally Mokona, I have caught you in the act of messing up my study room! What should I do first...?" She started to trail off, but Hikaru could've sworn that she heard something about scalping.
"Excuse me, but I believe that there has been some sort of mistake." Fuu, the voice of reason, said, halting the crazy blonde girl during one of her victory dances.
After some convincing, the Magic Knights managed to have the cage lifted, and, shortly afterwards, recieved temporary weapons. Then they heard from Presea the existence of a place called the Magical Spring of Eterna.
" So Mokona, this is the Magical Spring of Eterna?" Hikaru asked the small white ball of fluff. It gave her a squeal and nodded. " But Mr. Mokona, there is only this line here," said Fuu, pointing to a line that seemed to just float there.
" What is wrong with the physics of this world! A line can't just be there." screamed Umi, sounding as though she were about to have a nervous breakdown. Of course, if one was a native of Cephiro, then such a thing would not have been a problem, but Umi was a rich girl from another world, so one can only imagine her narrow-mindedness.
Suddenly, Mokona started hopping away. Going up a small trail to a ledge that overlooked the line. Hikaru and the others followed him to the end of the ledge and gasped. Hikaru and Fuu looked over to Umi who was developing a nervous twitch in her left eye.
" Why the hell is there a two dimensional spring, how the hell is that even possible. . . . . " Umi continued to rant and rave for a few minutes before Fuu interupted her.
" The escudo we have to gather for Presea is supposed to be here but I can't see it." said Fuu. At that moment Mokona jumped into the spring and disappeared. The three girls soon followed. They needed to acquire the escudo in order to have Presea make custom swords that would evolve with them.
Inside the Spring of Eterna, the magic knights are supposed to overcome their hesitation in order to gain the escudo. Umi had to fight her parents, Fuu had to fight herself, and Hikaru . . .
" Gohan?"
He stared at her, she stared at him, and he attacked. He kicked at her head and she ducked, he punched and she sidestepped. She probably would have kept dodging instead of fighting back, but she noticed something very quickly, ' No, he is a lot faster than this.' With one slice of the sword she borrowed from Presea, she felled him and felt the room change around her.
Suddenly, she was standing in front of a Pedestal next to Umi and Fuu.
Magic Knights, take the escudo in front of you and use take it to Presea. Came the voice of Emeraude, which they had not heard since they had been summoned.
"You heard her guys, lets go!" Yelled Hikaru as she ran towards the Pedestal and grabbed the escudo. There was a flash of light, and then they were all back on the outside of the spring. " Yeah, we did it." she said. Umi and Fuu nodded in agreement.
All of a sudden there was a bright blue glow from the spring, and something shot out, and landed on top of Mokona. The three girls look at the figure on top of the white thing, only Hikaru showing any recognition on her face.
" Gohan!" She yelled before glomping onto him. He slowly opened his eyes and smiled.
" I must have slept in Eterna for too long and died, you're here so it must be heaven, though I didn't think the pillows would be so comfortable." Gohan said weakly before slowly standing up, which was quite a feat for a weakened person with another person virtually attached to them. Unfortunately, something he wished would never happen came to pass, he fainted in front of Hikaru.
" Gohan, Gohan!" Hikaru yelled, before looking over to Fuu, who nodded and used her magic to heal him, to no avail.
" How did that guy get here in Cephiro?" Umi said, about to have another breakdown.
" We should get him to Presea, she might be able to help him in ways that we cannot." said the ever-logical Fuu, " Maybe then we can ask him our questions.