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Synopses, Translations, Ordering Information P a r t O n e : v o l u m e o n e 
The story opens with a princess asking for help. She asks the "Legendary
Magic Knights" to "save this world". The area lights up, and we are now
in Tokyo. It is the year 1993, and we focus on a group of junior-high
school girls who are at the Tokyo Tower on a field trip. As girls gripe
about their school's selection of a field trip site, we focus on Hikaru.
A slender, athletic-looking, energetic girl with a long braid down her
back, she is watching a house through binoculars, and notices a baby. As
she watches the baby, time runs out on those "100 yen per 2 minutes"
binoculars, and Hikaru panics to find money. A girl with shoulder-length
curly hair and eyeglasses—an intelligent-looking girl, even—inserts
money into the binocular, says that she has enjoyed watching Hikaru having
fun, and walks away. Hikaru runs after this girl to thank her, and gets
caught in another group of field-trippers. As Hikaru's classmates talk
about the girl from the "brainy school"—the one that inserted money
into the binoculars—and the pack of girls that Hikaru ran into—the
girls that go to a "rich-kids" school—they notice a girl with long,
straight hair. Hikaru notices her too, and their eyes meet. Suddenly,
there is a flash of light, and the three girls from the three schools hear
a plea for help...... and the girls sink below the floor of the Tokyo
Tower.  The three girls land on a
creature resembling a giant flying fish,
and they start to wonder where they are. They have no idea where this
fantasmic world is. Meanwhile, a man, who looks like the villain of the
series, taunts the princess: "So you have summoned the Legendary Magic
Knights........ We will see if they can become the true Magic Knights and
save you, Princess." The girls land on a patch of grass, and talk about
where they could be. Hikaru had noticed the volcano, and the mountain
that was floating in the sky—and concludes that this is not Tokyo.
They decide that introductions are in order because they have to help each
other find their way home. The shoulder-length haired girl is Fuu, and
the girl with the long straight hair is Umi. As Fuu and Umi become
bewildered that Hikaru is in their graduating class, a short man shows up
and debriefs them of their purpose in this bizarre world—he tells them
that they must become the Magic Knights and save Princess Emeraude, the
center of this world named Cephiro, from the evil hands of Sol Zagato, and
that they cannot go back to their world until they complete this mission.
The short man explains that in Cephiro, the power of the will exceeds
anything else, and that wishing for things strongly enough can get you
anything; and Princess Emeraude was the Pillar of Cephiro that prayed for
the well-being of the whole world.  Zagato, in the meantime, decides to
kill the girls off right then and there... and sends Alcione to do the
evil deed. The short man dresses the girls in light armor, and gives them
one magic group each. Hikaru obtains Fire, Umi obtains Water, and Fuu
obtains Wind (being respective to their names which mean Light, Ocean, and
Wind in Japanese). The man then proceeds to teach Hikaru her first spell
when Alcione attacks the group. The little man, whose name is Clef, puts
the girls on a griffon and sends them to the Forest of Silence, where they
are to meet Presea and Mokona. Alcione summons wolves to "take care" of
Clef, and chases after the girls. She attacks the griffon with her ice
spells, but is defeated with Blazing Arrow (Honou no Ya), Hikaru's first
spell. Meanwhile, Zagato tells Emeraude that he summons was a futile attempt and that the MK's will not make it to the castle. The girls land
in a clearing of the forest, and notice a house. They knock, but hearing
no anser, try the door—and find it unlocked. They enter the house,
looking for signs of life. In the study, they hear a noise—when they
get there, they are met by a fluffy rabbit (Mokona) and become trapped
inside a cage. Presea enters, daydreaming about punishment she should
torture Mokona with, when she realizes that there are 3 girls and no
rabbit inside the cage. Umi mumbles that she was being unreasonable
because the door was unlocked, and because of this comment Presea
realizes that the girls inside the cage are THE magic knights. Presea
lets them out of the cage, and lends them weapons. Hikaru takes a broad
sword, Umi gets a rapier, and Fuu gets a bow and arrows.  The weapons
disappear into their wristguards, but Presea explains that the weapons
will come out of the guards whenever they Knights wished it to. Presea
then describes what the girls must do—they must go to the Legendary
Spring of Eterna and get the mystic ore Eskudo so she can make them their
swords (the "key" to the Mashin). Presea sends the girls on their way
with Mokona. As they defeat the monsters with their weapons in the
forest (as the forest is the Forest of Silence, where all magic ceases to
work), they bump into a guy.....
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