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A/N: (headdesk) Darn it! I am so (headdesk), so (headdesk), so (headdesk), so (headdesk), so (headdesk), so sorry about the long delay! I am so bad! I left you people! I apologise! P.S: When Sky, Fai and Kurogane are speaking in the unknown language, it'll be in italics like this
Episode VI: Fai's Kudan!
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Sky stared at Fai and Kurogane with an expression akin to horror on his face. Fai and Kurogane were speaking in a language unfamiliar to him and judging by the looks on their faces, they had no idea what each other was saying as well.
Kurogane stuck a finger in his ear and tried to find what was wrong while Fai cocked his head from side to the other and looked about. Sky kept reading the note and looked around for Hanshin Castle, as well as trying to figure out what had happened.
Fai shrugged, "It's not as if my ears have gone bad..."
Kurogane growled, "But for some reason, I don't understand the words..."
Sky frowned and clutched the letter in his hands, "It's not as if we went anywhere..." Realization dawned on him at the same time as it did on Fai and Kurogane, judging by their wide-eyed expressions and they said at the same time:
"MOKONA!"
While they considered the possibilty, at Hanshin Castle, a young woman in her early twenties with waist-long, bright red hair was looking up skeptically at the boy who was bound to one of the roof's edges and was crying while the white, round thing bound next to him swung joyfully with every gust of wind, singing.
"Are you sure that's him?" she said doubtfully in a melidious voice. The men behind her nodded eagerly.
"Yes Primera-chan! That's him alright!" one of them spoke up.
"That-" she pointed at the still wailing Masayoshi, "is the 'great fighter' Shogo-kun was talking about?"
"Yes! He was with the dark spiky haired guy and the tall skinny guy. Shogo-san said that the youngest in the group was Sky!" the man nodded again.
Primera looked up at the boy again and sighed, ssweat-dropping, "Shogo-kun sure is weird..."
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"The Hanshin Castle is this way!" Sky yelled to Kurogane and Fai as they ran through one of the parks. At their garbled responses and blank stares, he sighed, "I knew they wouldn't understand me."
Fai grabbed his sleeve, pulling him to a stop and pointed up at the roof of the fifteen storey castle. Sky looked at it carefully, noticing the resemblance to the temples he and the rangers had seen in Kyoto. The architecture definitely seemed to have originated from Japan. On further observation, he saw Masayoshi and Mokona dangling off the edge of the roof, bound to it only by some rope.
"Masayoshi-kun!" Sky couldn't help but yell out.
"How'd you get up there?" Fai asked, waving. He was cheerfully oblivious to the fact that they couldn't hear him.
"You look like you're having fun," Kurogane folded his hands behind his head, "Or at least the white thing does."
Sky spun about and Kurogane and Fai pointed at each other in shock.
"I can understand you!" they said in unison and Fai rubbed his chin in thought.
"So it is Mokona's doing..." he said in realization, "Mokona has been acting as a translator for us all this time...amazing. Mokona not carries us to different dimensions, but also makes sure that we can communicate."
Sky took off in direction of the castle, Kurogane and Fai following him. He was more concerned about Masayoshi and Mokona's well-being rather than this new revelation.
"Does this mean whenever we get seperated from it, we can't communicate?!" Kurogane asked.
"Yup!" Fai said with a laugh.
"WHAT A PAIN!"
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"What is with these people?" Sky scowled as he tried to make his way past the humungous number of men who was hooting in front of the Hanshin Castle.
"Don't they have anything better to do?" Kurogane mimicked Sky's scowl as another man stepped on his foot. "SON OF A-"
"Now, now, Kuro-kun!" Fai's cheery voice chided as he ducked and weaved through the crowd with ease, his lanky body coming to his advantage.
The trio finally managed to break through the crowd and clambered onto the makeshift stage where the people were all facing. Sky took out the letter, unfolded it and held it out in front of the crowd.
"WHO WROTE THIS LETTER?" he yelled.
"That would be me," a melidious female voice came from the castle. Sky turned to see the young woman with bright red hair smiling at him.
"Who's that?" Kurogane scowled.
"You don't know her? You must live under a rock!" a man shouted, "that's Primera-chan! She's the greatest rock-star idol in the country!"
Sky kept his focus on the matter at hand, "Please let Masayoshi-kun and Mokona down!"
Primera's face took on a confused look and she pointed up, "You mean that isn't Sky?"
Sky sweatdropped, "I'm Sky!"
"YOU IDIOTS!" she screamed at the men who cowering behind her. She let out a sigh and smiled again, "No matter."
"Let them down!" Sky pleaded.
"If you want to get them down, you've gotta fight me first!" Primera held out her hand and pink energy emitted from it, taking the form of a mike.
"These Kudan can some as everything!" Fai specualted.
Sky prepared to summon his Kudan as well, but Fai grabbed his shoulder, "Fai-san?"
"I'll take care of this. You need to find Bridge's feather, am I right?" Fai smiled.
"But-"
"My Kudan is willing to help," Fai interrupted and stepped forward. He closed his eyes and white energy poured from his body, taking the form of a large phoenix which spread it's wings and curled them around Fai. the wind began to pick up and Fai began to slowly levitate off the ground, until he was soaring uptil the roof of the Castle, in front of Primera.
"If I can't fly neither should you!" she screamed into her mike.
Fai smiled and his eyes widened as large letters of the words she had been saying came at him. The was a loud explosion and a cloud of smoke surrounded the wizard.
"LOOK OUT!" Sky yelled.
"Look up there," Kurogane jerked his head in emphasis.
Sky looked up to see Fai safely floating about, chuckling merrily, "How..."
"That was a surprise," Fai grinned at Primera, "care to see if you get lucky again?"
Primera huffed and raised the mike to her lips again, "I think I do."
Fai dodged the letters easily and ducked and weaved his way closer to the pop-star. Down on the ground, Sky stared in complete disbelief at the sheer agility and grace Fai possessed, but with every move, realization seeped into his eyes until he was watching the fight passively.
"Looks can be deceiving," Kurogane growled, "look at that damn grin. The mage is a combat veteran."
"I thought so," Sky nodded.
"That doesn't surprise you?" the ninja cocked an eyebrow at him.
"It did at first. But now that I think about it, there are so many clues in the way Fai-san carries himself and the way he looks so comfortable in his body. He doesn't seem like much, but he's just as skilled, if not more, than the rest of us," Sky nodded.
"You both have faces that say 'Ignore me, I'm a fool', but I can see through it," Kurogane smirked. "You both are strong. I've foought with Kudan so I know...that even though you're using the Kudan's power, your muscles are your own body muscles."
"Meaning Fai-san's ability to fly and dodge like he's as light as paper is his own ability?" Sky wondered.
"Yup."
"I'd still like to help him anyway I can!" Sky clenched his fist.
"STOP MOVING!" Primera screamed at her inablility to hit Fai as he perched on top of a long flag pole.
"If I let you hit me, it might hurt!" Fai smiled.
"Well, then I'll take you out in my own way!" the mike in her hand began to change form as it elongated into a mike stand, similar to the ones used in old radio stations. "IS EVERYONE HAVING FUN?!" she screamed.
Fai's eyes widened at the enlarged letters and he managed to dodge some of them, before that letters of the last word connected and caused him to crash into a tree.
"Fai!" Mokona squeaked out in concern.
"I'm alright!" a hand came out of the leaf cover and waved as Fai pulled himself to his feet. He looked at Primera, "That actually hurt!"
She flared with anger, "YOU WON'T BEAT ME!"
The letters came at Fai again, but this time, he leapt up and ran along the letters at Primera. The pop-star was too surprised by this move to notice that Fai had reached her and dipped her like they were dancing.
"I really don't want to be th cause of harm to such a beautiful young girl," Fai said, "so why don't you stop this?"
Primera stared at him in shock, "I-I-" she closed her eyes and screamed, "THIS IS SO NOT FAIR!" The mike stand had been pointing upward and the words flared out, destroying th part of the roof where Masayoshi and Mokona were hanging. She stared at the mike-stand in horror.
Masayoshi screamed as he began to fall towards the ground, his Kudan clinging to him tightly, trying to save his master.
Sky ran towards them, summouning his Kudan, when suddenly, a blue Kudan appeared beneaht them and caught them with it's broad body, dropping them off on a more stable part of the castle. Sky sighed in relief and then recognized the Kudan. he turned around to see Shogo and his team standing there behind him.
"Sorry about this whole mess," Shogo sighed and glared at Primera, "WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! DESTROYING OUR NATURAL HERITAGE LIKE THAT?!"
Primera flared, "YOU DESTROY BUILDINGS EVERY TIME YOU BATTLE! YOU'RE NOT ONE TO TALK ALL HIGH AND MIGHTY TO ME, YOU RETARD!"
Shogo twitched.
"What is going on?" Kurogane muttered as Fai descended next to him.
"Don't know," Fai shrugged.
"You never come and see me anymore! All you care about are your battles. So I got some guys to get 'Sky'," she pointed at Masayoshi," over here. I thought that you'd come to him all the time and me too..."
"You are so stupid. THEY LOOK NOTHING ALIKE!" Shogo pointed at the real Sky.
"I am right here," Sky sweatdropped.
"Sky!" a small voice squeaked out. The ex-Ranger turned around to see Mokona staring at him from his place next to Masayoshi.
"Your eyes..." Sky whispered.
"There's a feather really close by!" Mokona yelled.
Shogo sighed, drawing Sky's attention back to him, "I am so sorry for this mess. I didn't want anyone to get hurt over here. However," he looked at Sky, "I will admit that I'm rather curious about your Kudan. They draw their strenght from their owners heart, you know. What makes yours so special?"
Sky didn't answer, but simply stared at him, thinking about what Mokona had said. The wave becomes stronger and weaker, meaning that it probably exerts most power when protecting it's owner. If that's the truth, then the only way to find the feather...is through battle.
"Sky?"
Sky blinked and looked at Shogo, "I'm sorry. You sai something?"
"Yes. I want to take you on with my Kudan. Do you accept?" Shogo questioned.
Sky narrowed his eyes and set his jaw, "Yes..." a wheel of flames appeared next to him, yaking the form of his Kudan. Sky put one hand on it's head and patted it gently, "I accept your challenge."
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Next chapter: The battle with Shogo is on and both Kudans are giving it their all! The feather is nearby, but where is it? Find out in the next chapter: True Strenght!