"You really think you should do this?" Celes said.

"Yes.  By using my powers is the only way to discover what the crystal is
used for."

She touched the orb and closed her eyes.

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!" they both suddenly screamed in pain.

Then everything went black.

*****

"Uuungh. Rydia?"

"Right here, Celes."

They both picked themselves off the ground.

"I don't believe it - the crystal is too powerful for me to decode. I..."

"What is it?"

"Pharaoh." Rydia whispered.

Suddenly, a gold-colored head appeared, and then disappeared. Suddenly,
Celes started falling all over the place, getting hit from unknown blows.
It stopped.

"Ow."  She checked herself to make sure she still had all of her fingers
and limbs.  "Another summoned monster?"

"No.  An attack spell."

"I think I need some cure magic to..."  She froze; she felt better.
"Rydia, did I just cast cure?"

"I saw the sparkles. Try your other magic..."

Celes pointed to a tree. "Fire 3!"

The tree was immediately engulfed in flame.  "MY MAGIC'S BACK!" she cried
out happily.

"How can that be?" she asked herself.

"I think I've figured it out.  Anything that was made magic before the
loss of magic is still magical.  And when it comes in contact with
something or someone that has the capacity for casting spells, its power
rubs off on it.  That's why I gained this new spell and you got your magic
back." Rydia said, half in wonder herself.

"But that means I have to keep the orb with me if I want magic, right?"
Celes said, sad that it might not be permanent.

"Here." said Rydia. She took Celes' sword, raised it over her head,
whispered some words that Celes couldn't hear, and cut into the orb.
A little slab of it fell off.

She handed the slab to Celes. "This should be all you need to keep your
magic working."

Celes smiled, and fixed the slab to her necklace.

"Come on. Maybe there are more of those orbs down there."

*****

They seemed so easy now.  Now that she had magic, the monsters which had
once been hard were now easy.

Celes and Rydia cut through them all.

They ran through the tunnels trying to lose the monsters.

"Wait!" Rydia suddenly called.

Celes skidded to a halt. "What?"

"I have to go."

"What?!"

Rydia turned right, into a little room.

"The orb's secret can only be found by FuSoYa. Through this room I can use
the orb to go to the moon."

"The moon.  Rydia, I can't follow you to the moon.  How are we supposed to
get back?"

"It's alright.  I'm going to the moon, you can use your Warp magic to get
out of here."

"Rydia, wait!"

"What?"

"Thanks, for showing me such a good time."

"Thank you.  For waking me up, and giving me a friend."

They both smiled.

"We will meet again, right?"

"Bet on it."

They smiled again.

Rydia pressed a few buttons, and stepped onto a pad.

"Good-bye," she whispered, holding the orb above her head.

She disappeared.

"Good-bye." Celes whispered.

"Warp!"

*****

Celes looked up at the moon. "Rydia, you're up there, aren't you?  I hope
you've found your friends."

*****

Rydia looked at the "blue planet".  "Celes, wherever you are down there,
thanks again."

*****

During that week two people had overcome time to become good friends.

During that night, across space, two friends said good night to each
other.