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Chapter 3, woot! I'll be nice and give an extra chapter since I just finished 7's draft last night. Maybe extra nice since it's 3 more days till I start school. Thanks for reviews, really!
Chapter 3: Deciphered Writing
Lunch came slower than Hikari would have liked. She rushed through the history test so that she can get some extra time to drop by the library and pick up the book on one of the bloodiest wars in the feudal era. She was so engrossed in searching for the particular section she was looking for that Nozomi had to personally drag Hikari away from the classroom.
"Hikari, at the rate you are researching, you will need glasses," Nozomi reprimanded gently when Hikari protested. Hikari finally relented to let Nozomi drag her to where the entire gang were. Haruka looked up to see Nozomi pulling a very reluctant Hikari and forcing the latter to sit down.
"Just the person we're looking for," said Haruka. She gave Hikari some photos. All of them depicted a strange writing on a wall. "Ikari just showed it to us. But none of us had the real ability to see it as English as you can."
Hikari took them and glanced at Shinji who was staring at his own set of photos taken at the ruin site. Satoshi gave Hikari a spare piece of paper and Hikari began to write each character down. When she finished, she nearly could not believe what she was reading.
"Ok Ikari, start explaining," Hikari demanded. Shinji looked up and saw that the paper was nearly touching his face.
"Explain what? I don't have any idea what you are writing at all," Shinji said. Hikari mentally slapped herself. She had written them down in English and had not translated it to Japanese. She did a quick translation and shoved the paper to Shinji.
"Eh…? What's this?" he asked. Even in Japanese, the words still made no sense. He added the phrase that Reiji had found. "Maybe you were right Berlitz. It may have something to do with the siege of the Yuki castle." Hikari smiled happily. She loved it when she was right.
"I knew it," Hikari said triumphantly, "But I can't trace the crystal since then. Ikari, you're the archaeologist-to-be here. What do you think?" Kengo took it and read it over with Satoshi.
" 'A rock of pure white that spanned six centuries'. That's six hundred years," stated Satoshi. Haruka rolled her eyes while saying 'Who doesn't know that?" under her breath. But it sparked her interest as well.
" 'Colour that changes when red, gold and blue comes'. I know this. Ikari said it was related to the weather. But red, gold and blue? What's red, gold and blue?" asked Haruka. Shinji looked up briefly.
"Red, heatwave or draught. Gold, most likely thunderstorms. Blue, prolonged winter or another ice age," he explained. His brain was nearly fried, why was it so hard to find out the meaning of a damn block of writing? He wanted to kill whoever wrote it on the wall.
" 'When the weather phenomenon passes, three beings will become one'. Sounds like the legend of the lakes," Kengo stated. There were still more to come.
" 'Only with the power of the soul of the past with three lives will the calamity be calmed'. Oh? This is interesting," said Nozomi. "Sounds like reincarnation." She noticed something else. "Ikari, what's the bottom-most phrase?"
Hikari leaned over to look. " 'A girl named after day's first light will be the final'. No idea," Hikari recited with a questioning look. She looked at Shinji who seemed to have contracted a headache. "Did you add that last part Ikari?"
Shinji was obviously already very irritated and ready to snap at anyone who called him. "Oh, then forget I asked anything," Hikari quickly said. What they managed to get out still made no sense. If a crystal rock had existed for six hundred years, why wasn't there any record of it? Six hundred years dated back to the the mid Muromachi period, when the Yamato daimyo attacked an isolated state. Hikari's head began to hurt. Why is everything revolving around the Yuki siege? She asked herself.
A/N: eto... truly sorry for the shortness. No comments here, just R&R!!