4/13/01


Righty-oh people-enos, I'm back *a chorus of Boos fills the room* Ha ha ha, Very funny people . . . anyhow, as I was saying, I'm back with chapter seven, *seven* do you know how many chapters that is to a fanfic writer? A lot. The entire thing is over thirty pages long, that's my longest fic yet. I just finished writing a one shot, "I'll Love You Again", unlike "The Only Battle Worth Fighting" its rated R, so read with caution. I received a great E-mail for FuuMegami, another Rayearth author; her works are wonderful, go read it at fanfiction.net. Also I would like to say thanks to suzanami, whose constant encouragement helps me get a new chapter out ever two weeks or so. Anyhow, that paragraph was *way* to serious so now I'm calling out the penguins!

*Millions of penguins come out, all of them dancing and wearing fake eyelashes and silly hats*

"The Only Battle Worth Fighting"
Chapter: *7* ßWho-ho! Rated:PG-13
Written by: Peach Goddess
e-mail:confused@crosslink.net

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The woman bent down, awkwardly holding a turkey pan in her arms. She carefully pushed the pan into the smoldering flames of the kiln and buried the pan with hot ash. If all goes well she should have plenty of time to get dinner ready before her husband comes in from working in the fields. The woman smiled as she looked out the window at her love, pushing his long black hair out of his face. He was getting the Ox set up to plow the fields they were to plant next week. Well, he was to plant; she couldn't do much of anything now and days not with the addition to their family. Who knew death was exactly like life? The woman stopped chopping the carrots for the stew and gently rubbed her stomach. Her eyes then went wide, her jaw dropped open and tears sprang to her eyes. The woman felt around blindly for a chair, finding one successfully she sat down immediately. After a couple of minutes of shock and silence happy tears began rolling down her cheeks.

"Ah, my Brother you have sure picked a good one," the woman mumbled still recovering from the onslaught of emotion and hope. It wasn't everyday she got prayed to now. Emeraude smiled again. The prayer she had received was from Earth, a very strange occurrence indeed, they mostly prayed to their own gods, not her. But what stuck her interest in the prayer was whom it was for. Her Brother. Oh yes, it did have it's part about how she was sorry for what her and the other Knights did, and how she learned and grew from the situation, but after that it went on for Ferio.

"All right Wind Knight, all right! I will help, but you must do one thing for me." Emeraude heard a sharp gasp on the other side from the Magic Knight; she obviously wasn't expecting a response to her prayer. Emeraude chuckled.

"Take care of Ferio won't you? He really misses you."

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Fuu took a step back from the small pagoda she had been kneeling at, staring at it in disbelief. Fuu took another step back and took off running, darting down the temple stairs as fast as she could, skipping every other step and almost tripping more times than she could count. She paused at the end of the stairs, leaning against the temple sign carved out of stone. Fuu heard a chorus of giggles behind her and she tuned her head gently and moaned in frustration. Great, just great, she heard the voice of the woman she killed and now she had to deal with them again.

"Well, what have we here? You look out of breath Houiji-san, did you see yourself in the mirror and run away scared?," Yuki taunted. Sashi just laughed. Fuu glared at the two. She wasn't in the mood for this now, she had to talk to Umi and Hikaru, problem was she had no idea where they lived.

"Yuki, Sashi, how nice to see you again, but I really have no time to chat, now please, get out of my way."

"My, my, my, is our little Fuu getting a backbone?"

"Did you not hear me Yuki, I need to go so please get out of my way," Fuu asked again, her patience wearing thin.

"You think you can order me around well you have . . .," Yuki's sentence was cut off by Fuu straightening up and glared at her eye-to-eye, a hand wrapped around the collar, threatening her to disagree.

"Will you move or won't you?" Fuu asked again, her fist tightening on Yuki's shirt with every word. Yuki nodded mutely. Fuu's face returned to its normal pleasant smile.

"Thank You, Yuki-san" Yuki was released from Fuu's grip and slowly slid to the pavement, watching as Fuu dashed away, backpack slung hap-hazardly across her shoulder.

"Yuki!," Sashi screamed, "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, come on lets go find Ai, I heard she just got braces."

"Oh, really? I bet she's really sensitive about it!"

"Yeah, now's the perfect time to deal a couple of blows to her self-esteem," Yuki said.

"But, what about Fuu-san?"

"Ah, she's no fun now. Plus Ai stole my boy friend, say, wouldn't it be great to steal him back?"

"Oh Yuki, your so devious!"

"Common now Sashi, what are you standing around for! Help me up!"

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Fuu ran a hand threw her hair in frustration and fell backwards onto her bed, somehow managing to crawl under the comforter and put her hair up into pigtails at the same time. She hadn't had any luck finding Hikaru or Umi, well, actually she had found Umi but gave up trying to talk to her when she saw the small army of security guards out side of her house. Who knew Umi was the daughter of the Prime Minister of Japan? And Hikaru, it was like she didn't exist! Her family name wasn't listed in the phone book, and she didn't know her parents' first names. Fuu adjusted the pillow under her head and shut her eyes, forcing herself to sleep, she needed to rest if she was going to get an early start on trying to find Hikaru and Umi after school, first stop, Tokyo Tower.

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"Are you sure you're not up to something?"

"For the last time, I'm not up to anything! Why do you keep suspecting me?"

"You look devious"

"How does one go about looking devious?" Emeraude asked her Husband, who was just finishing up his dinner.

"I don't know," Zagato said "But you do."

"I'm not doing anything wrong per say, I'm just . . . tying up some loose ends."

"Ah! So you are up to something!"

"Okay, fine, I'm up to something, happy?" Emeraude asked, clearly upset.

"Yes, very. Now, would you mind telling me what you're up to?"

"It's a long story."

"We have eternity, might I remind you that we are dead after all. Time has no real meaning to us."

"Did you ever think about being a Speaker for Cephiro? You have a way with twisting words around"

"Flattery won't work Dear, you might as well tell me what you're planning."

"It all started this morning as a matter of fact, when you were out working in the field," The Princess went on talking well trough the night, the candle burning all the while. It was hours before she finished, the food spoiled from not being properly stored, and the candle about to burn itself out.

"Emeraude my love, you have out done yourself, it's brilliant."

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Fuu rubbed her eyes and looked towards her window, the sky behind her blind was dark, not one ray of sunshine sneaked into her room. Thunder and lightning crashed and danced in the sky, puzzling Fuu, It was supposed to be sunny today, but then again the weatherman wasn't always right. She glanced at her clock, eyes widening at the flashing red numbers.

"9:15? Oh my! I'm running so behind! Sensei will be so angry! I might even have to hold the buckets straight to lunchtime!"

Fuu reached into her dresser, pulling out her school uniform and dashed to the bathroom attached to her room. She hurriedly brushed her teeth and hair, dressing completely except for the bottom two buttons on her blazer, she forgot about them as she hurried to put her shoes on, only stopping for a moment to wonder why her Mother hadn't woken her up. She grabbed her schoolbag by her door and dashed out into her small, carpeted . . . large, spacious, tiled hallway? That wasn't right.

Fuu looked around as a door slammed to her left and much to her surprise out stepped Umi, looking as shocked as she did.

"Umi-san?"

"Fuu?"

"Umi-chan? Fuu-chan?"

Both girls turned their heads to the right and gazed at Hikaru in shock. Hikaru smiled as tears rolled down her cheeks.

"I missed you guys so much . . . ," Hikaru sobbed, running forward, trapping Fuu and Umi an a death grip hug

"I missed you too Hikaru-san, Umi-san, I spent all yesterday looking for you"

"You did? Thanks Fuu," Umi piped in.

The girls just stood there in a group hug for many minutes, Hikaru sobbing all the while with Umi and Fuu trying to sooth her cries.

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Just what does Emeraude have planned? Where exactly are the girls? Why hasn't Ferio showed up the past two chapters? Why can't I stop asking questions? Find out the answers to these questions and more in the next chapter!
-Peach Goddess
confused@crosslink.net