Love Has No boundaries





A/N Well everyone, I am back with an other fic. Of course it is v/h as always cuz they are so great together! Well here it goes. Please R&R and tell me what you think. Once again thanks AleGnA for putting up with my evil editing mistakes!





CHAPTER 1





It was a beautiful day in the peaceful world of Gaea. Everything looked like it was in a fairy tale of sorts. Merle sat outside in the hot sun waiting for Van to return from a trip that he had been on for a while now. He wanted to go alone. It was a sort of retreat for him to clear his head of all of his kingly duties. As every minute past, Merle became more and more excited. Being like a sister to him, she was always like this when he was going to come home from these trips. When he was gone, she missed him so much. The castle was waaaay too boring with out him around. She had no one to tease. No one to wake up early in the morning and watch get severely annoyed at her action. The minutes kept passing and passing and passing but still no Van. It had been hours now since he was suppose to come home. Merle started to be come worried. The more time that went by, the more edgy she became.

The sun started to set in the sky and that was the last straw for the worried cat girl. She ran in to the castle and went directly to see the advisers.

"Excuse me, but lord *pant* Van *pant* is *pant* not *pant* back yet."

"We realize that miss. I am sure that maybe he got held up. I don't think it is serious."

Merle could not believe that they were not worried for her best friend. Van was not one to be late and she knew it better than anyone else. She could feel the anger building up inside her.

"Well fine then! If you don't care about the king, I will go and find him myself!"

"With that, she got up and ran out of the castle. She would find him. She would, she would, she would!

Merle began to walk through the forests of Fanelia when something occurred to her. She realized that soon it would be night and she was afraid of the dark. She wouldn't let this stop her. She was too worried about Van to even care. As it became darker and darker, she became more afraid but tried to deny it. She kept walking and walking and walking, but to her it felt as if she was walking in circles. Everything looked the same now. Everything that she could see that is. All of a sudden, it started to rain. Next to hating and being afraid of the dark, Merle hated to be wet.

"Dammit! Could this night get any worse?"

With that statement said allowed, the thunder clapped around her. Great flashes of lightening filled the sky. She was now very afraid and very alone. She hadn't felt this afraid since before she was brought to the castle to live with Van. Feeling this way made her think of her parents. She did miss them, but was glad that someone like Van had found her in all of the rubble of her village. Now she was afraid that she had lost him to. She couldn't bare the violent storm any longer and all of the fear and panic in her body surfaced to her loud cries.

Somewhere unknown in the forest, Van lay on the ground. He had been captured by a band of strange looking men who were looking for someone other than him but he was mistaken for the person they were looking for. They injected him with something that Van did not recognize. When he tried to explain himself, they held him down and told him to not say anything. Then one of the men let go of him in shock.

"This isn't him! This is the king of Fanelia!"

After realizing their mistake, they ran from the scene leaving the king all alone and poisoned.

Now he lay on the ground, weak and very tired. He was afraid now. Afraid of dying all alone in this forest. He couldn't tell if he was in Fanelia or not. He could see that his vision was blurring. He felt a fever creeping up on him. If this poison was going to kill him, he wanted to be in his own country. That was his dying wish, but he knew that he couldn't move now. He would be alone now, all alone in this dark and rainy forest in the middle of nowhere. He felt alone. This was strange for Van to feel weak and alone, but that was all that he could feel. He could only think of one person. He thought of Hitomi. How he wished that she could come and save him. He missed her a lot and now he was going to die and probably never see the only girl he ever loved. He would never know is she was going to come back to him. He tried to contact her with some of the last drops of energy that he had, but couldn't get to her. It was blocked. Then, he thought of his best friend in the world. He thought of Merle. He could remember the day he found her all by herself. He finally realized how she must have felt. He wanted to see her one last time. He wanted to tell her how much she meant to him. He felt like crying but wouldn't. He just continued to lie there thinking of so many things at once. Then his random thoughts brought him to his country. "Who would take care of it for me? How would they know what to do. There is no heir." He became so worried but he knew there was nothing left now. Nothing to do but wait. That's when he just gave up. He decided to just lay there and close his eyes. He wanted this to happen fast. He didn't want to watch himself wither into nothing. Before he collapsed in to unconsciousness he prayed to the gods one mort time.

"Please great ones, let someone find me. Let someone save me from this hell on Gaea."

Merle continued crying for a very long time. She was soaked and her face was tear streaked by the time she calmed herself down. She knew she had to pull herself together. She had to find him. She decided to continue on her journey. She continued to walk for about an hour or so. The rain had let up so it wasn't as bad. She was still afraid of the darkness that seemed to swallow her up, but she had a lot of new found strength to continue looking for the man she considered her brother. All of a sudden she had a hunch. She would sniff him out. She tried this and could smell a slight scent of his clothing. She followed the slight scent until it grew more stronger. This made her excited.

"Oh Lord Van, I'm coming. I'm almost there. Please be alright."

She slowed down when she seen his sleeping figure. She wondered where his horse was. She also wondered why he looked so pale. Why was he sleeping on the ground. She decided to try to shake him awake. She touched his body and realized that he was burning hot. This made her even more upset and scared. She was sure that this was going to end up being the worst day of her life.

"Lord Van, wake up! It's me! Come on Lord Van, please!"

There was nothing. He wouldn't even budge. She was afraid now. She wasn't sure of what to do. She tried to lift his unconscious body, but it was no use. She needed someone to help her. She then decided to stay with him until the morning and when the first light appeared, she would go back to the castle and get a horse and some people to help her bring him back. She sat there and couldn't even sleep. She just stared at him. She was afraid of him dying. She couldn't wait until the morning fell. She started screaming at the top of her lungs. Screaming so loud that she thought that the whole world would hear her.

"Help!…. Please, please, please help! Someone! Anyone! If they are there, help me please!"

There was nothing. No one would answer her cries. This made her so frustrated. She didn't want her best friend to die. She needed him. He was the only thing that she had left. She had already lost one family. She didn't need to lose anyone else.

When morning finally came, she left Van alone once again. She before leaving gave him some water to cool his lips. Now she would run as fast as her small legs would take her. She would run to the castle and find someone and definitely have some words to say to his advisers for what they had done!





To Be Continued...