The next day (a good way to start when you can’t remember how the previous chapter ended…), the 3 new Pillars were eating breakfast (their new priestess had jet-lag and had slept in) when they saw, out the window, a big, spaceship-like thingy, a cool flying genie-lamp-thingy, and the three two Rune-Gods of Windam and Selece.

Katie blinked. "Why the heck is there a flying genie-lamp-thingy outside the window headed for our castle?"

        Angela also blinked. "I dunno. Why is there a big, spaceship-like thingy flying towards us?"

        Audrey blinked as well. "LOOK! GIANT ROBOTS!"

        "DUDE!"

        Ferio and Ascot blinked. "Those are the ships from Chizeta and Autozam, and those are Umi and Fuu’s Rune Gods." Ferio said. Ascot nodded.

        "WHY THE HECK IS EVERYONE BLINKING??" Inouva yelled.

        Clef looked at him. "You don’t blink?"

        Inouva shook his head sadly. "No…"

        The Pillars glanced out the window again.

        "FORMER INVADERS OF CEPHIRO!"

        "SHINY ROBOTS!!"

        "AHHH!! SCARY PAPER CLIP!"

        Audrey and Angela glanced at Katie. "Um…DUDE!!"

        The NSX arrived at the dock-unloady-spaceship thingy first. Eagle stepped out.

        "VEGETABLE MAN!!!"

        Eagle blinked at the three girls, and turned to Clef. "Um…so, where exactly is the new Pillar?"

        Clef looked at Eagle. "Didn’t you have a mysterious illness?"

        "No. I just wanted attention and didn’t know how to get it properly, and I was extremely lazy. I also wanted to see Tokyo in my FTO…"

        "I’m sure…" Clef replied, and glanced at the hatch of the NSX. A sign on the door read, ‘Geo Metro, On-Board Psychiatrist.’ That explains a lot…Clef thought.

        Eagle shrugged. "Anyway, where’s the new Pillar?" Clef sighed and pointed at the three girls.

        The Autozam…-ean…-ian…guy…blinked. "Which one is it?"

        "All of them."

        "What do you mean, all of them?"

        Clef glared at Ferio and Ascot. "Ask THEM…THEY went and found them, in a shoe store of all places…"

The Pillars looked at each other. They had been pretty sure it was a B. Dalton…

        Anyway, the hatch of the NSX opened again, and out came Geo, carrying a bunch of suit cases, followed by –

        "ZAZU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Angela yelled, and tackled Zazu.

        "Um, hello…?"

        Inouva, who had just walked in, gasped. "I feel so…so…BETRAYED!!"

        Audrey patted Inouva’s head. "Don’t worry, Zazu’s another of her bishonen…"

        "Yeah, it was you she sang the ‘Drunk Sugar Song’ about!" Katie said, from her spot hanging off of Clef’s shoulders. Even if her feet were dragging about a foot or two behind the rest of her…

        Inouva sniffed. "Oh, alright. I was starting to feel neglected, but…"

        Clef glanced at him. "I’ll trade with you, I don’t mind being neglected…"

        Katie sighed. "Of course you mind, now shush."

        Eagle meanwhile, was trying to get his suitcase from Geo.

        "No, Eagle, I’ve got it under control!"

        "Geo, I can carry my own suitcase…"

        "What about your mysterious illness?"

        "I thought you said there was no mysterious illness!"

        "If you will it, there won’t be."

        "You mean you lied to me?"

        "No, I didn’t!"

        There was a beeping noise from Eagle’s headband. "LIE! LIE! LIE!"

        Geo paled. "I THOUGHT YOU GOT RID OF THE BUILT IN LIE DETECTOR!"

        "I lied."

        "Help?" Zazu asked pitifully.

        At that moment, the two Chizetan sisters burst in. "HALLO ALL!!" Tarta yelled. "I heard Cephiro got itself a new Pillar!"

Tatra smiled. "Hello. Where’s the new Pillar?"

        Katie yelped and somehow managed to tackle Tatra while staying attached to Clef. "TATRA!! MY HEEEEEROOOO!!"

        Tatra blinked. "Hello. Are you the new Pillar?"

        "YUP! ME AND AUDREY AND ANGELA!!"

        Clef sighed. "Oh, for the love of Mokona, who gave her sugar??"

        Ferio and Ascot quickly left the room. A large, empty bag of candy corn fell out of Katie’s pocket.

        "Puu?" Mokona asked.

        "THAT STUFF IS PURE SUGAR!!" Clef yelled. Zazu, who was now sitting properly in a chair with Angela on his shoulders patting his hat, replied, "Actually, there’s food coloring in it too…"

        Umi and Fuu swept in. "Food coloring? Like the kind I use on my hair?" Umi asked, her hair swooshing and sparkling behind her like an Herbal Essences commercial.

        "I use bleach on my hair." Eagle commented.

        "Puu!" Mokona supplied.

        "Really? I didn’t know that you could use comic tones on your jewel or other shiny objects…" Audrey said. "I think I shall have to write a sequel to the Shiny Objects poem!"

        Fuu blinked. "If you had glasses, you’d look like me," she said to Audrey.

        "I am you!"

        "Really?"

        "Yup! OOOOHHHH SHAORAN!!!" Audrey called, and left through the door Ferio and Ascot had gone through.

        Clef sighed. "Not again…" He proceeded to bang his head against the wall. It was quite unfortunate that the blue, horn thingy was on his head.

        "Clef, don’t do that! You’ll break it!" Katie said, grabbing the horn.

        Fuu blinked. "Um…so…where’s the Pillar-sama?"

        Clef sighed again, and pointed. "There. And There. And There."

        "Oh my. You mean there’re three?"

        "Correct-a-mundo."

        The next day, Sandora was over her jet lag, and she and the three Pillars were talking about…stuff…over breakfast (Angela was using Inouva as a chair. Surprisingly, he didn’t mind.). Breakfast consisted of Formerly Killer Waffles, topped with Autozam’s famous maple syrup (motto: "Like Canada, only better!") and various beverages. And of course, candy corn.

Their visitors had all come in, dressed in various sleeping attire. The Chizetans were wearing their normal outfits, except different, and with slippers. Tatra’s were fuzzy bunnies and Tarta’s were not-so-fuzzy cows. The Autozam…-eans…-ians…guys… were wearing…whatever guys wear to bed, how the HECK should I know?? Umi was wearing sparkly, shiny blue pajamas and Fuu had on normal, Fuu-like pajamas.

        "Is that Autozam’s famous maple syrup? MY FAVORITE!" everyone who just entered the room cried.

        The Pillars and their new priestess friend glared. "IT’S OURS, GET YOUR OWN!!"

        "Except for Zazu." Angi said.

        "And Tatra."

        "And Fuu."

        "And…um…Geo!" Sandora said. Eagle pouted.

        "Vegetables shouldn’t eat Autozam’s famous maple syrup! It’s bad for their mysterious illnesses!" Katie said.

Geo winced. He had a feeling Eagle was going to yell at him again.

        Eagle pondered angrily. Somehow, this was Hikaru’s fault. (What isn’t?)

        The door opened again, and Clef came in, wearing his normal clothes (because we’ve discovered he looks weird in anything else…oO;;). He pointed out the window and said, "Look! It’s the sun!"

        Inouva, the new official secretary of the Pillars, took out his Official Secretary of the Pillars™ notebook and wrote (with paws? Oo) "To Do: Get Clef Better Image Song."

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        After breakfast, the three Pillars and Inouva were sitting in Lantis and Eagle’s tree (SHOULDERS!!), trying to decide what kind of havoc to wreak - I mean, how to help Cephiro next. ^^;; Inouva was sitting under the tree, pen (or whatever they write with in Cephiro) poised on the paper, ready to take notes. However, the three were getting a little…distracted…

        "Okay…’If you, somehow, had enough money to buy five Jaguars and paint them the same color as the Shinesmen…’" Angi read from the Anime Trivia Book (of Suncoast fame)…

        "’What colors would they be?’" Katie asked to no one in particular.

        At the same time, the three of them said, "Red, Moss Green, Grey, Sepia and Salmon Pink!!" Inouva popped his head into the tree. "WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Suddenly (gasp! Suspense!) the four of them heard paw-steps as Rayearth, in his lion-wolf-fiery form, walked up. He stuck his head up in almost the same matter as Inouva.

        "RAYEARTH!!" the three pillars yelled, grinning. Inouva face-palmed and muttered something about short attention spans. Rayearth looked at them, blinking confusedly. The Pillars looked at him. "What?"

        He shook his head, nearly knocking Inouva off the tree. (Inouva: "OO Mwyarr!!") "It’s nothing…I’m just not used to respect…" he shrugged.

        "Awwww…" Rayearth blinked again as the trio of girls hugged him. ’Hmmm…this respect thing could really work for me…’

        "You need an image song!!" Katie said.

        "CAN HE HEAR A WHISTLE??" Angi asked excitedly.

        "SURE!" Audrey said.

        Inouva grabbed The Official Secretary of the Pillars™ notepad and started writing with a sigh. Zagato popped up on the other side of the tree. "Can I have an image song too?"

        Inouva blinked. "Zagato-sama?" Zagato waved.

        "YES!" Aud yelled, grinning.

        "You can have Rhythm Emotion. It…works…" Katie said.

        "Emotion…with Rhythm!" Angi said. (Oo As soon as I typed that…Rhythm Emotion came on my Winamp…seriously…)

The three Pillars looked at each other and their eyes widened. Inouva, who could plainly see what was coming, face-palmed (pawed?) again, while Zagato and Rayearth blinked.

        "FREE IMAGE SONG DAY!!" They cried. Inouva reluctantly wrote it down. There wasn’t anything about this in the job description…

Co-Author's Note: Time to explain some stuff....

"VEGETABLE MAN!!!" - In one of the manga Geo says to Zazu "Its better than letting him turn into a vegetable."

He pointed out the window and said, "Look! It’s the sun!" - That's the name of Clef's song. We think its funny.

(SHOULDERS!!) - In the MKR2 artbook there's a picture of Lantis and Eagle in a tree, and Eagle has really big shoulders.

Angi read from the Anime Trivia Book (of Suncoast fame)… - Me 'n Katie ran into each other in Suncoast, found this book, and raised hell

"Emotion…with Rhythm!" Angi said. - Go to heerosferret.com, go to H.I.N.T. and got to GWMAMO... Its all there.

"CAN HE HEAR A WHISTLE??" Angi asked excitedly. - Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho) has a song called "I Hear A Whistle". We think the name is funny.