Chapter ten: The discovery of the sleeping Mage.

Umi woke the next and as normal on Cephiro, it was beautifully sunny morning. However the silence was being shattered by the sound of a name being screamed out, by a female at the top of her voice and this scream was coming from somewhere within in the garden's confinement.

"CLEF!"

Umi sat bolt up right in bed, as she did she instantly recognised that name as well as the distressed and disbelieving tone it was being voiced by the person in.

Without thinking twice she grabbed her dressing gown, pulling it on as she ran out into the corridor.

The others were doing the same Lantis streaks ahead of them heading towards the garden, when she reached the garden entrance Lantis was already standing there, Clef in his arms behind him was the frightened Presea who had obviously been the one to find him.

Umi looked at Clef, the mage was soaked through and as pale as snow newly fallen, Umi's heart almost stopped, he looked dead. She looked up at Lantis. "Is he…?"

Lantis shook his head and Umi let out a sigh of relief that was cut off short as Lantis said. "But he might as well be, he's cold, pale, barely breathing and I can barely feel his presence. If he stays like this too long, he cant be considered alive but in a condition Hikaru told me you call on earth a Comer, but as long as he wants to stay like it, but not die he will and there is nothing any one can do about it."

Ferio looked up at that point. "I've never even when Clef was growing up, seen him look like this, he must have had a very bad shock to his heart to do this. If I'm right it must have been an attack consciously or not done by the other person, on something that is certainly important to Clef, that he really deeply believes in deep down in heart and its probably something he hasn't yet the courage to voice."

Lantis nodded his agreement. "All we can do is put him in bed and hope he comes too soon."

Lantis strode off towards Clef's apartments, Umi stood frozen to the spot the whole way through what had just taken place. After some time she groaned and covering her face with her hands fled the room.

Leaving the other magic knights, ladies and friends behind her very confused and worried about what was going on between Clef and Umi.