Magic Knight Rayearth Fan Fiction ❯ Magic Knight Rayearth: Medieval Mystery Series ❯ Forest of Silence ( Chapter 3 )

Magic Knight Rayearth, Medieval Mystery Series...Part 3.

I should mention something about ages in this story. Because the characters can't suddenly age shift in this version of Cefiro, I have had to make some decisions on ages. Not all of them are completely exact to the year, but the general description is this:

Emerald: She's got to be at least 20, as she is Ferio's older sister by about two or three years.

Clef: Older OAV type version.

Ascott: Kid version, as in MKR series 1.

Magic Knights: 16. Fuu's too sensible to devote her heart to someone at the age if fourteen, when you're mind and personality are still developing. I'm 17, and I still feel I have a ton of things to discover, about myself and the world, before I decide what kind of person I want to spend my life with. And besides, 15 year old pregnant teenagers are NOT cute!

Thanks for reading. C-chan.

(Actions)

Name: Thoughts.

Name: Speech.

Now, To re-cap...

*~*~*~*

Ferio: Idiot! I said MOVE!!!!

(He runs towards her. There is a giant CRASH that echoes through the woods sending birds flying out above the canopy. Back at the tree, Ferio and Fuu are both lying on the ground beside the tree. Ferio is on top of Fuu, trying to shield her from harm. After a minute, during which they both check and see that they're still alive, Ferio takes a deep breath.)

Ferio: Man, that was a close one.

(He pushes himself off of Fuu, who is still in shock. He looks at her for a moment.)

Ferio: Hey, are you alright?

Fuu: Huh?...I...think...I am.

(They both sit up and regard the tree at their feet. Fuu regards Ferio beside her.)

Fuu: Th...thankyou...Are you...alright?

(Ferio obviously hasn't thought that far ahead yet. He checks himself over and decides that he's ok. )

Ferio: I...guess so.

(He gets to his feet and stares down at Fuu with his arms crossed over his chest.)

Ferio: Anyway, tell me what you're doing here. This isn't a public forest you know, and it's dangerous here if you don't know what's going on bla bla bla...

(Fuu stares down at her feet.)

Fuu: Oh no. I'm going to be in real trouble now. He'll Probably take me to the Gendarm! (Police)

Ferio: bla bla...Hey! Are you listening to me?!

(Startled by his voice, she answers reflexively.)

Fuu: Sorry I... ...

(She remembers her aunts...)

Fuu: Oh No! The bucket!

(She tries to get to her feet, however a sore ankle keeps her glued to the ground.)

Fuu: ah...

Ferio: What is it?

Fuu: It's nothing, I'm ...

(Before she can protest, he bends down to take a closer look, genuinely concerned.)

Ferio: You'd better take it easy on that ankle. It looks like it might be sprained.

(He pulls down her sock a little bit to take a better look at it. It looks reddish, as if it hit a rock or something when she fell.)

Ferio: It should be ok. Just don't walk to far on it...huh?

(Fuu ignores him and crawls over to her bucket. The one pork roll is still wrapped up safely inside, however...)

Ferio: Do you have a hearing problem or something? I said...Hey, what's that?

Fuu: On no!!

(She looks despairingly into the bucket.)

Fuu: There's one missing! What am I going to do now?

Ferio: Stuffed Pork Rolls! (Drool.)

Fuu: Aunt Helga will be so angry...I...I'll probably have to go a week without dinner. I...

(She bites her lower lip to keep from crying.)

Ferio: Geeze, what a cry baby. Hmmmm...

Ferio: Don't worry! I'll find it. You just stay there, you shouldn't move with that ankle.

Ferio: He he! Finders Keepers!

(He runs off looking for the Pork Roll.)

(Meanwhile, Fuu is sitting on the ground looking at the tree that almost flattened her. Suddenly she sees something. She crawls under a branch and finds the wrapped roll resting on some leaves. Obviously it got tossed up into the air when she fell. She looks behind her to see Ferio frantically searching the undergrowth for "her" (he thinks it's his) roll. Then she sees that she can keep crawling to the other side of the fallen tree and escape when he's not looking. She looks back one last time...)

Fuu: Sorry sir, goodbye...

(...and crawls ahead. When at last she reaches the other side, she tests her ankle and upon finding it can hold her weight, takes off into the forest.)

Ferio (Still oblivious to this): Damn I can't find it...(To Fuu)...Hey girl, did you happen to see in which direction it fell?...Hey...Huh?!!

(She's gone. He stares at the clearing for a moment, realising what must have happened...)

Ferio: Dammit! How rude! Sneaking off without even saying goodbye.

(He's really just dissapointed she escaped with the pork roll. Ferio indignantly crosses his arms over his chest in a "Humf" way.)

Ferio: Well fine then.

Ferio: If that's the way she want's to be, then I hope she gets lost in there!

Ferio:...it serves her right...

(The wind whispers through the trees, and Ferio realizes that it's getting to be mid-afternoon. Then he thinks about Fuu's ankle and the troubled look on her face and...)

Ferio: (Sigh) Maybe I'd better tail her just to make sure she's okay.

(He packs his stuff away and heads off, easily following her trail.)

Ferio: Man, I'm too nice for my own good...

*~*~*~*~*~*

(It's now around 7:00, and the forest is growing slightly darker. Fuu wanders along, weary, hungry and sore. Ferio, silently following her.)

Fuu: Where am I?

Fuu: Everything looks the same.

Fuu: ...Helga-san is going to be furious when I get home...

Fuu:...that is if I ever get home...

(she winces as she lands a careless step on her sore ankle. Ferio, walking behind sees her.)

Ferio: How long does she plan to keep going like this? She must be stronger than she looks.

(he lowers his head, ashamed.)

Ferio: You know Ferio, if you weren't such a jerk you could have just shown her the way out ages ago...Huh?

(Fuu has stopped. She seems to have seen something up ahead. Suddenly she rushes forward, sore ankle and all, and Ferio has to run to keep up with her.)

Fuu: This has got to be it! It's got to be the way out!

(She reaches the clearing in the forest she thought was the exit, only to be stopped dead by disappointment. There lies the fallen down tree, the flat stump, the clearing in the forest that she started at...)

(She stares in total shock for about a minute. Then she curls her hands into fists and starts to tremble in exhaustion and frustration. She takes a quick step back, and then another. However her sore ankle can't take anymore, and it collapses beneath her.)

Fuu: ah!

Ferio: Watch it!

(Ferio catches her from behind, grabbing her shoulders with his arms and supporting her with his body, preventing her from spraining her ankle again.)

(It takes Fuu a minute to realise that she isn't on the ground in a large amount of pain. She's even more surprised, when she looks over her shoulder, to find out who it was that saved her.)

Fuu: ...You...

(Thinking he's come to take her to the authorities for snooping around on private land, she tries to push herself away from him. Her efforts are rendered completely useless however, when, in one clean motion, he scoops her off her feet, and sets her gently down on a tree stump.)

Ferio: I told you, you should take it easy on that ankle. It can't take much more of this.

(He's smiling kindly, a real sincere smile of genuine concern as he kneels down to take a closer look at her foot. Fuu gazes up at him with the "Deer caught in headlights" look as he takes a bandage out of his sack and wraps her ankle.)

Ferio: There, that should help.

Fuu:...

Ferio (Standing up): You don't have to look at me like that, I'm not some highway robber.

Fuu:...

Ferio (beginning to feel uncomfortable): Anyway, I wanted to apologise. I've been following you all afternoon, and guess I should have shown you the way out...but...

(Still no reaction from Fuu.)

Ferio (getting annoyed): Geeze, what a gloomy girl you are. Didn't anyone teach you not to stare?

(He does the arm crossing over chest thing again.)

Fuu: S...sorry. I guess I'm just not used to being around strangers.

(Ferio is surprised he even got a reaction out of her.)

Fuu: ...And thank you, for everything...

(They both look at the ground, trying to think of what to say next. Suddenly the silence is broken by the rumbling of Ferio's stomach. He looks at it, a bit surprised/embarrassed, and then tries to pretend he didn't notice it by looking in the opposite direction.)

(His acting doesn't convince Fuu, who slowly lifts the towel covering her pail and stares at the pork rolls for a moment. After a while, she sets her face with resolve and turns to Ferio.)

Fuu: Um, I don't know if you like pork rolls, however, if they aren't cooked soon they may spoil...

(Ferio looks at her with a surprised face, not believing his ears. Fuu looks sheepishly at the ground, not used to being seen, or listened too.)

Fuu: I...It would be a real shame if they were wasted, and I c...couldn't eat two by myself so...if you would like...we could...um...

(She's too nervous to continue, and Ferio, realising how shy she is, decides to make it easy for her.)

Ferio: It would be a pleasure.

(Fuu looks up at him, startled both by his politeness and the honesty in his voice.)

Fuu: R...Really?

Ferio (chuckling): Of course! I can't remember the last time I had stuffed pork rolls.

(Fuu is somewhat startled by this comment, she had thought that people of the palace ate really well. For a moment she looks at him, as if seeing him for the first time, and realises that they really aren't all that different. She was foolish to even fear him in the first place, and putting her nervousness aside, she smiles, revealing her true self to him.)

Fuu: You're welcome.

(Ferio is stunned by the change in her attitude/appearance.)

Fuu:...Oh, I haven't properly introduced myself. My name's Fuu Hououji.

(She extends her hand in a polite hand shake.)

Ferio: ... ...She's cute when she smiles...

(He scoops up her hand and bows to her on one knee.)

Ferio: Call me Ferio.

(still holding her hand, he tilts his head to her in a polite gesture, before getting up again and releasing her. Fuu is stunned by his politeness, and has even turned a little pink...)

Fuu: I...It's nice to meet you.

(Ferio smiles.)

Ferio: Now then, if we're going to eat, the first thing we have to do is start a fire...

(End Chapter 3)