A young girl sat in her room alone. The girl was supposed to be doing her homework.
But for some reason she couldn't consantrate. " Oh Van " Hitomi whispered. Even though it had only been about 2 months since she left Gaea.

Ever since she had come back she hadn't been herself. She didn't feel comfortable around her friends and she rarely ever wrote to Amano. Some times she would wonder why she felt this way. Then she would scold herself. Of course she knew why. She missed Van.


She finished her homework without ease. She decided to go to shrine where she was first transported to Gaea. When she got there she suddenly had a vision. It was a terrible vision.

***vision**


It was Van. He was fighting a guymelef. But not just any guymelef. It was the Dragonslayer general Dilandau Albatou. While they were fighting Dilandau said, " So you decided to go into hiding again," " Well I'm not some stupid fool, you know ," " Thanks to emperor Dornkirk we found your pathetic air ship easily ". Hmmm that girl isn't with him. This will be an easy kill thought Dilandau.


Dilandau let his Dragonslayers takeover. Then he crept up behind Escaflowne and stabbed Van with his claw. Van sank to the ground and died. " Ah hahahahahaha hahahahaha ," crackled Dilandau. " I finally killed him. Now the future of Zaibach will not be destroyed,"

**end of vision**

"Oh no ," said Hitomi I have to warn Van. Please thought Hitomi. Send me back to Gaea. Then magically her running bag appeared by her feat. She did not care to check it because she knew that everything that was in it last time she went, was there. Except for the things Merle had stolen from her. Please take me back she said again. And once again she was engulfed in light and transported to Gaea.

******

When she arrived in Gaea she looked around and saw Dilandau and Van fighting. She ran up and shouted ," Van behind you ." He heard her, pushed back the guymelefs he was fighting and just in time blocked the claw. " What ," said Dilandau. " It's that girl."
" Dilandau " Folken's voice said inside his Alseides "Retreat back to the Vione at once ."
"Just when it was getting fun ," groaned Dilandau. Then he and the Dragonslayers retreated.


"Few ," sighed Hitomi. " Hitomi ," Van shouted as he came out of Escaflowne. Hitomi looked up. She saw Van jump off of Escaflowne and run to her. Oh Van she thought. He stopped in front of her. Hitomi blushed than gave him a hug. Van blushed then remembering how much he loved her embraced her into a hug also. Hitomi wondered why she even left. Then she remembered why.

FLASH BACK

It was just after she was watching Van and Allen spar when she had a vision about earth.
In her vision she saw something happen to a member of her family. " Oh no," she said. " What's wrong Hitomi ?" Allen asked. " I had a vision that something happened to one of the members of my family ," she said shaking. " I have to go back to earth ," she said. " Well if you must go than you must go ," Allen said. Van had stayed quite threw the whole conversation. The next day the set out to the place where she had first got there. When they got there Hitomi walked to a clear spot and said "Please take me back home," she wished.

Then she was wrapped in light and sent back to earth. When she arrived home she ran as fast as she could towards hers house. When she arrived at her house she ran inside to see her Mom crying on Yukari's sholder. " Mom ," Hitomi screamed. Her mother looked up.
"Hitomi," she cried. She ran up and hugged her mother. " Mom what's wrong ," Hitomi cried.
Her mother wouldn't speak. " Yukari what happened ," Hitomi screeched "It's your dad ,"
she said. " He... he's dead ."


Hitomi froze. One of the most important people in her life was gone. After the funeral Hitomi felt that she should stay with her Mom and her brother. So she did.


END OF FLASH BACK