Magic Knight Rayearth Fan Fiction ❯ Just Visiting ❯ The Jig is up! ( Chapter 7 )

"GET OUT! GET OUT! GET OUT! YOU PERVERTED LITTLE MARSHMELLOW!!!" the water night bellowed as a small fluff ball scurried from out of her room. A sky blue handled brush was suddenly whipped at the small creature as it tried to escape and cried out happy little "Puu's". "And if you ever crawl up my shirt again, the only use you'll be for is to make rice crispy squares!"

The creature simply twirled around and jumped up and down happily as it ran past the tall black clothed man who then picked up the brush and walked over to Umi, offering it to her.

Without a moments hesitance she quickly snatched the brush from his hand.

"I'm not even going to ask what that was all about." He said simply, and continued on his way.

Down the hall, Fuu's head suddenly popped out from behind her door. "What's going on Umi-san?" she called out. "What is all the noise? -Oh hello sir Mokona." She happily greeted and it jumped into her arms.

Running down the hallway with rage Umi yelled out, "Fuu, hold him steady so I can kill him!"

"Puu! Puupuu!" It cried, then jumped out of her arms and ran further down the corridor.

"Damn straight! You'd better run 'cause when I catch you, you're dead meat!"

"What ever did sir Mokona do to get you so flustered?"

The water knight had given up her pursuit once she'd reached Fuu's door but she was still fuming. "That perverted little fluff ball crawled up my shirt and tried to feel me up while I was asleep!"

"Oh, dear, now I can see why you are so upset…" the golden blond said as her cheeks burned scarlet.

"Upset? Upset?! I'm down right pissed off! I'm so angry I could-" It was then that her stomach chose to take over the conversation and grumbled. "Oh, I'm too hungry to be angry." Fuu fell over.

"Alright! First I'll eat! Then Mokona had better watch out 'cause I'll be out for blood!"

"Umi-san, you don't really mean that do you?"

"Ask me after I've eaten. Right now I'm likely to rip off that annoying little face of his!"

"Uh-Um… Why don't we go and see if Hikaru-san is up? I'm sure she would love to join us for breakfast," Fuu stated uneasily.

"Hmmm… yeah sure. Let's go…"

* * *

After the nice relaxing shower, the fire knight had found Umi and Fuu hanging around her door waiting for her, and once she was fully dressed, the trio headed to the dinning hall where they found Caldina, Presea and Primera just sitting down to breakfast. Caldina welcomed them to the table and they sat where three plates of food were, the illusionist then explained that she'd had a feeling that the three knights would come to the dining hall after being informed that they hadn't come down for breakfast yet, so she had the chef prepare three additional meals.

Hikaru listened in on the girlish chatter and put in her two cents now and then about certain topics, but for the most part remained quiet and quickly wolfed down her food. She was feeling incredibly hungry this morning and had even gone off and asked for seconds.

"Oh, I saw Lantis this morning." Hikaru heard Umi answer Premira's question as she took a seat at the table once again.

"You- you did?" The fire knight asked shyly.

"Yeah, peculiar though, now that I think about it, I mean what would he be doing up where our bedrooms are-" a thought suddenly crossed her mind and it seemed as though everyone else at the table was thinking the same thing and all eyes were suddenly on Hikaru.

"Uhh…"

"Hikaru…" Caldina began.

Umi continued, "You wouldn't happen to know why he was there this morning would you?"

"I- Um…" The red head was at a loss of words but the look on her face confirmed their suspicions.

"All right, little missy," Premira began. "Just what exactly happened last night?"

"Well, um… Lantis and I- we, uh… we-"

There was silence for a few moments. Umi was the first to speak. "OH… MY… GOD!"

"Wow." Was all Caldina was able to muster. While Presea and Fuu's faces matched the colour of Hikaru's hair.

Premira just became really quiet.

"Way to go li'l missy!" the illusionist then called out.

"C-Caldina!" Presea began but was cut off.

Caldina leaned over the table and got right up in Hikaru's face, "So, how good was it? Are you sore at all?"

"I- um… no. I was a bit sore the first time but-"

"You were sore, BEFORE? Before when? You mean to say that you and he- not back when we returned to Cephiro for the second time? Damn girl you must of known him for what? Five minutes then decided to get your freak on?!" Umi's voice was high and held notable shock.

Hikaru's hands fiddled with her napkin and her eyes were everywhere but on the other eyes within the dining hall. "No. I mean last Friday when I was transported here by myself…"

"So what'd you do? Just wake up and go jump his bones?" Caldina questioned with a smirk.

"I met up with Lantis in Mira's village a-and we were there for a little while, then we ended up camping out in a forest-"

"You lost your virginity in a dirty old monster infested forest?!" Umi screamed.

"Oh, how uncomfortable," Fuu simply stated.

"It wasn't uncomfortable, it was really nice and the forest was not infested with monsters." The red head defended.

"Tell us something juicy!" Caldina ordered and everyone looked at her. "Oh, come on. You all want to hear details about what happened between our little Hikaru and Mr. Monotone man admit it!"

Presea spoke first, "To be honest, I am rather curious as to what he was like for you. Was he wild or gentle?"

Fuu with a blush ripe on her cheeks said, "I too would like to know what the experience was like for you."

"I um…I dunno. Both, sort of… I guess…" though she really didn't want to talk about this, the fire knight knew better than to try and hide what had happened. If she did, they'd only pry until they got it out of her anyway…

"So then, the first time when you and Mr. tall dark and hansom screwed, how much did it hurt?" Umi questioned, her state of shock was passing and being replaced with curiosity.

"Huh?"

"Down where you were-um sore." Fuu jumped in.

"Not much," she said quickly.

"But didn't your insides feel like they were being torn?" Everyone suddenly looked at Umi, whom had asked the question.

"And just what would you know about it?" Caldina asked as she nudged her.

"Stop it! I didn't-I mean I have never…" Her voice lowered, "It's just… that's what I've read…"

"Read?" Caldina raised an eyebrow, "And just where would you read about such things?"

"On the internet!" She yelled as she tried to convince a doubtful illusionist.

"You read lemons as well Umi?"

"How did we get to talking about lemons all of a sudden? For that matter, what's a lemon?" Presea asked.

"They're a type of citrus fruit that's really sour and when you eat them, your face goes like this:" Hikaru's face scrunched up as though she was actually eating one. She didn't understand what lemons had to do with sex but at least the topic had changed.

"They're also a term in fan fiction." Fuu began.

What? But I thought lemons were those sour yellow coloured things… and what's fan fiction?

Umi continued. "A lemon is a story involving two or more characters from one or more TV series who well, basically end up Fucking in the end."

Hikaru cringed slightly. Umi did you have to say it like that? She said to herself she knew the words meaning in that sentence and she didn't like it. It sounded-she wasn't sure, but it made it sound as though the act itself was not out of love but rather out of a dirty, perverted desire, which in turn made her feel like she was dirty.

Oh… Poor l'ill Hikaru-chan doesn't like swear words? It would seem as though Nova was up and about, walking around in her head.

She gritted her teeth. Though no one seemed to notice.

Tee hee. That's to bad because Fuck, Fuck, Fuck.

Shut up!

Now that's not nice. There was a teary sound to her doppelgangers voice.

Go away please, I don't want to deal with you right now Nova! She then began to mentally seal her counter self away in a box.

Hey! Ah damn not again…Nova whined.

"Stop swearing!" and with that, for the time being, the pink haired devil was sealed away.

"What are you? The course language police? I only said the F-word once!"

"Huh? Oh, sorry. Never mind me…what were we talking about again?"

"About how your insides were being torn apart when Lantis stole your virginity."

"You make it sound like he's some sort of horrible monster or something," Hikaru said defensively.

"So then what was the pain like?"

What kind of dumb ass question is that? Nova questioned, while struggling to get out of her entrapment. The pain was like painful. Tsh, Idiots. Oh what a wonderful pain it was!

Get back in your box.

Your just lucky I don't feel like putting up a fight! And with that, the sound of a person marching up a set of stairs and slamming a rather large door sounded in the little knight of fire's head.

"Uh, painful."

"But how painful?"

"Let's see… okay you remember the times we were fighting against Nova in her reality?"

"Yeah."

"Not quite that painful."

"Oh, well that is certainly good to know."

"Oh, is that so? And why is that Fuu? Planning on getting freaky with Ferio?"

Hikaru blushed deeply. I'm too young for these types of conversations. She heard Nova laughing at that statement. This coming from the one who's doing these things… But still, how can Umi talk about such matters so casually?

"No. No! Umi-san I simply meant that that is good information to know."

Refocusing on Hikaru, Umi said, "How good was he?" Her friend's cheeks reddened further and a smile grew across her face. "Okay, so on a scale of like one to ten how good?"

"Ten... But then I again, I have no one to compare him to…"

Everyone fell over at that point.

Again there was silence and then, abruptly, Caldina stood, a fist was held in the air as she screamed out, "I WON!"

No one understood what the illusionist was referring to but then it suddenly hit Umi. "Ah, damn Caldina, how'd you know it was gonna be Hikaru?"

"Professional gamblers know!" she said simply.

"Gambling?" Hikaru asked dumbfounded.

Umi filled her in. "A bet actually. The five of us-Fuu, Caldina, Presea, Primera and myself made this bet back during the quest for the Pillar. Basically we had this bet going between the five of us about who was going to get laid first." Umi said bluntly.

"W-where was I when you guys did this?"

Umi thought a moment, "I don't know. But I can tell you I voted Caldina."

Fuu said, "I voted against Caldina-san as well.

"What? The both of ya's were against me?"

Umi said, "So what about you Primera? Whom did you vote against?"

The fairy had been decidedly quiet and the fire knight sensed that there was something wrong. She seemed to be off in her own little world but quickly snapped out of it and answered the question-pretending nothing was wrong, "Hah! Isn't it obvious? I picked Caldina."

"What, what, WHAT! I can't believe it!"

"Well to be honest Caldina, you do come off a little trampy." Umi stated.

"Presea, not you too. Please tell me you picked someone other than me."

"Um, actually I picked Umi."

"What!" the water knight shouted. "Why, why, why, why would you pick me over Caldina?"

"Uh… I don't know there's just something-"

"What?" Umi yelled. "Something about me that says "come screw me, I'm a frigg'n slut"?"

"I-I never said that. Nor did I mean it that way Umi." Presea tried to explain.

"I knew there was a reason why we'd decided not to say who we voted against." Fuu whispered but Umi heard.

"And just what does that mean?!"

Hikaru couldn't help but giggle, while the rest of them were either squabbling with Umi or trying to calm her down with the exception of Premira whom Hikaru had just seen leaving the dining room and something inside her told her to follow the small pixie. She felt guilt…

A light sob sounded and the fire knight rounded the corner to find the blue haired fairy sitting on the sill of a closed window crying.

"Premira?"

The fairy whipped her tear-stained eyes and turned to face Hikaru. "Oh, it's just the little, red-haired, short girl." She said in her usual arrogant voice.

"Premira?" Hikaru called softly. There was a distraught look in her eyes. "Gomen nesai." She said and the fairy looked up to meet her gaze, surprised at the apology.

Why's she apologizing?

"I'm sorry. I didn't think…"

"Huh?"

"But I should have. I can tell you're hurting over this-over Lantis and my- I didn't even consider your feelings. I'm sorry, I'm a horrible person."

"You're making it very hard for me to dislike you." The fairy closed her eyes, smiled and sighed. Hikaru blinked her eyes a few times and waited for Premira to continue. "I think I'm starting to see why he loves you so. Why he loves you and not me-or anyone else for that matter. You don't have to apologize for something you can't help. You're not a horrible person, quite the contrary."

"Premira…"

She flew off the sill and up to the red haired girl's face. "Do you know just how much he missed you when you left before? He tried to hide it but I could tell it was slowly eating him up. You were on his mind constantly and even before you left him-back when I was telling you he was mine, I knew he'd already committed himself to you. Even before you'd come into the picture I knew that him and I would never be anything more than traveling companions- good friends at most but I wanted to pretend for just a little while…"

"You're in love with him?"

The blue haired pixie shook her head, "Maybe I might have been, but I'll never know. I won't allow myself to be in love with him. Why put myself through that kind of pain? I never have and never will. I've always loved him but- well now I have to give him up and get over him completely. If being with you makes him happy, then that's fine but you'd better take good care of him and if you ever hurt him you'll have to answer to me!"

"I, uh…"

"That being said," Premira began and she held out her dainty little hand. "Let's leave past incidents in the past in the past and move on. Let's be…friends."

Hikaru smiled. She held out her index finger and they shook on it. "You're a much bigger person than I thought you were…"

Blue hair bobbed up and down as the Magic Knight of Water headed over to the throne room where Lantis was supposedly speaking with the Master Mage of Cephiro. Her jaw was set and a determined, serious look was etched on her face.

Without a moments hesitation she pushed open the large doors and confidently strode into throne room.

Clef looked up from where he stood when he heard the doors suddenly fly open and in walked the young water knight. He was delighted to see her and didn't even realize that she should have been scolded for barging in unannounced. Though she was a Magic Knight, that didn't give her the right to interrupt private conversations… "Umi-"

"You come with me." Her voice was low and commanding, her stare was like ice- but what surprised and hurt the master mage was that she brushed right passed him-seeming to not even acknowledge his presence and went straight to Lantis.

"I beg your pardon?" the kailu asked taken a back. He wondered for what reason did he have to do anything she told him to and where she got the nerve to-

"I think we need to have a little talk."

Lantis arched an eyebrow, "Can you not see that I am currently speaking with master mage Clef. What ever it is you wish to speak to me about will have to be addressed some other time-"

Umi grabbed his arm and pulled him along to follow her. Momentarily, he lost his balance but quickly reclaimed it. "Just shut up and come with me buddy!"

She sounds pissed He was about to say no, but had a sinking feeling that she wasn't going to leave him alone. Plus he was already half way out of the room.

They'd walked down a few hallways and now Lantis' hand was starting to lose circulation. Not to mention, he felt a tinge of annoyance. "Where are we going?" He coldly asked.

She didn't reply. And then he suddenly stopped and jerked his hand back, freeing himself from her grasp.

"I have no time to waste on you so if you're quite finished I'm leaving."

She felt anger course through her. She was about to cast one of her spells on him but realized that she didn't have her ovum glove. So she said what she had been thinking since she'd found out about her best friend's sudden jump into woman hood. "Why don't you tell me what Hikaru sees in you to make her open her legs for you?" She accepted the fact and pretended to be perfectly fine with it in front of the magic knight of fire but she was almost insane with rage towards Lantis.

Lantis froze in his tracks and his stomach knotted and turned to ice. Secret's out… he turned and faced her. "Who else knows?"

"Fuu, Caldina, Presea and that little fairy friend of yours. She seemed pretty upset over the whole ordeal." Her eyes were narrowed.

Shit. He said to himself. The Fuu girl seems to have feelings towards the young prince which means-if I know women-which I do, fairly well- that she'll probably tell him which means that that information will get back to master mage Clef. Not good. Caldina'll probably pass on this information to LaFarga and I'm sure he'll be more than happy to execute a punishment for me considering the strict laws around the Pillar with such matters. That could be even worse. Presea's probably smart enough to keep quiet but if asked she won't lie to the master mage and Premira-I'll have to have a talk with her later. Knowing her, She'll go insane with jealousy and try to harm Hikaru. Hikaru… I should have explained to you what we were getting into… "Damn it."

"I'm assuming Cephiro has laws against what you've been doing with Hikaru- Your countries Pillar! And I'm sure that I don't have to tell you that what you've done is morally wrong! If not here, then surely in Autozam, or one of the other countries you lived in. She's only fifteen years old and your what? Thirty?"

"I'm much older than that."

"Thirty, Three hundred that's not the point. The point is, you've risked something to satisfy yourself. What are you risking? And will Hikaru suffer the repercussions of the risk you've taken?"

"I risk my own life according to Cephirian law by involving myself with the Pillar-Hikaru."

"So Hikaru will suffer because of you if anyone else finds out."

"Possibly." He doubted that he would die. Clef wouldn't stand for that. He'd probably waver the age-old law. But there would be a consequence to pay if this became common knowledge.

Umi took in a deep breath and let it out slowly, "aside from everything else Hikaru's young and naïve, and she believes that she's in love with you and you her." Her voice now sounded more protective than angry.

"I am in love with her."

"For her sake and yours, I really hope you do."

There was a moment's pause. I don't want to see Hikaru get hurt. As strong as she is, she's new to love which makes her fragile. If you ever make her cry no matter what the reason, there'll be hell to pay!"

He looked at her skeptically. I tremble in fear. Of course he would never hurt her intentionally, but the thought of the water Knight trying to beat him up was almost laughable.

"I'm serious! If you ever-"

"I understand completely. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go and meet with Hikaru."

"Fine. Just remember what I said."

Had the Kailu been facing her, she would have caught him roll his eyes at her before he left to meet the beloved in the garden.