The Anime series second episode.
Story
Guided by Clef's words stuck in their head, they reach the Silent Forrest. They are dropped off by the large griffin like animal, and wonder how they'll get into the mansion, when it's surrounded by a wall with no doors.
Fuu suggests on knocking. Umi is very skeptical, but when Hikaru starts to knock on the wall, a door opens. They try to call for someone, but no one is greeting them. They have little arguments on not being rude, and decide to enter without permission. They do not know it, but a monster crawling in the ground, manages to get in while they walk in.
The door shuts, and they enter the mansion. They wonder around a bit, until they hear noise coming from a room. It turns out to be a library, and they see mess coming from someone behind the chair. They ask if the person is Presea, but the person turns around. It turns out that the "person" is a small rabbit like creature called Mokona.
Suddenly a cage drops on them, and a woman comes forward. The woman is ultra happy, thinking she's captured Mokona, the creature that has been always been messing up her study. After thinking ways of torturing Mokona, she looks at the cage is surprised to see three girls in in.
Umi starts to complain, how it's not their fault they are captured since, the women, who they figured out it's Presea did not answer the door. She explains how Hikaru just knocked and opened by itself. Presea is surprised, and tells them only the Legendary Magic Knights could of done it.
The monster soon find them, and starts to attack them. Presea manages to let them escape from the cage, and Hikaru tries using her magic to kill it. But it has no effect, and they scream in fear. Presea then draws out her sword and slices the monster's head off.
Presea then brings them to a room, filled with weapons, since they obviously need them to fight back. After thinking they had to pay for them, she reveals she is just "loaning" the weapons to them... no charge. She then explains for their weapons to basically "charge up", they need to go to the Spring of Eterna to pick up the mineral needed called Escudo.
What they didn't know is the monster wasn't killed, and it comes for them again. Presea closes the huge door, and tells them to pick a weapon. The girls close their eyes, and they successfully chooses their weapons. Both Hikaru and Umi gets swords (Hikaru's sword is thicker than Umi's, whose sword is thinner like her fencing sword), while Fuu get a bow and arrows.
The monster then breaks through the door. They try to kill it, and manage to break it up into pieces. It then goes back together, and Fuu tells them it's probably made of mud. Hikaru then idea how to kill it. She asks Presea if they have a pond. She reveals it's in the back, and they head for it. Hikaru asks if she could use the table cloth as they pass through the kitchen. Presea tells her yes, as they head for the back.
Outside Hikaru tells them to distract the monster as she hides behind a pillar. Umi and Fuu does so and Hikaru throws the cloth over the monster's head. Hikaru charges forward, knocking the monster in the pond, where it proceeds to die.
They then get another surprise when the weapons suddenly disappear into their jewels on their gloves. Presea then tells them, the weapons will only appear when it is needed.
Outside the wall, Presea tells them to go to Eterna. She then tells them they will be guided by Mokona, who knows they way. They part ways for now, and Presea hopes the Legendary Magic Knights save their land.
Trivia
- The handle of Fuu's Escudo sword has a very familiar design. Its the same pointing tip of Sakura Kinomoto/Avalon's staff in the Cardcaptor Sakura/Cardcaptors series.
- The Magic Knights receive their first weapons. Hikaru and Umi get swords, while Fuu gets a bow and arrows.
- In the dub, Hikaru reads the episode title excluding the first "the". This error of reciting episode titles differently from what's posted occurs often as the series progresses.