This is my first fic that doesn't follow the actual anime/manga from plot to plot. This is my first attempt at doing a story like this so I hope that you enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I do not own or have created EscaFlowne. Get it I don't own it! This is my disclaimer for the whole fic.
Also, as of today, 4/30/06, I am currently in the process of editing this fic because of name errors, spelling errors, grammatical errors, whatever reason that I want to change it. I just thought that I should warn you. Thanks for the patience.
Chapter One – The Seer
On Gaea, there is a story, a legend on how there is a wing goddess, a woman who can either save or destroy Gaea. Most people thought it was only a legend, other people know it to be fact.
A young woman, with horribly cut short dirty blonde hair and green eyes stared out her window up at the two moons. She was a princess, a priestess, and a seer. Her name, was Hitomi Kanzaki, Princess of Tier. Tier wasn't a well known country such as Asturia or Fried, but it was well off. She stared up at the moons, wishing she could be away from here, away from this place she called home; away from people she called her family, away from everything. She was a princess, but yet, she was forced to live most of her life out in the cold room on the lower levels which once use to be part of a dungeon. The only time she was let out of this hell, was for formal occasions so that people wouldn't know that her parents had locked her away. The reason why she was kept "locked up" was because of her "gift". Her gift is the gift of sight, the ability to see the past, and future. She was a seer and a formal priestess of the country of Tier.
When the king and queen of Tier, her father and mother found out that she had such a power, they didn't want anyone to know of her power. During the last war that Tier was in, she was used as a weapon against her own will. She was the reason why Tier had won. Her parents, believed that if someone happened to find out that she was such a powerful seer, that they would want to capture her, and use her power for their own cause. Because her visions happened whenever they felt like it, her father felt as if it was too dangerous to let her roam free, and so they locked her here, in this make shift of a room, in the dungeons.
The door to her "room" was opened and she turned to face one of her maids who was bringing her the evening meal. "I am glad to see you well my lady." The woman said smiling and Hitomi could tell that she was nervous since everyone always acted nervous around her. There where even times to when her own parents where afraid to be around her, though there where at times she wondered if it was fear that kept them away from her or something else. The only one who wasn't afraid, was her older brother Mamoru Kanzaki, Crown Prince of Tier.
"How can one be well, if they are locked up in a cage Maium?" Hitomi asked with sadness in her voice. "Like a wild bird who is locked in a cage, they will eventually whither away and die, of unhappiness." Hitomi said which made the maid uneasy.
"You're brother also has come to see you, he waits outside though since he's talking to the guards about something."
Hitomi smiled at the mention of her oni-chan coming to visit. "Yes, thank you, I know that already though." Hitomi replied and watched as the door opened again and the maid bowed and then left. "Oni-Chan!" Hitomi said happily and greet her brother who walked over to her and smiled as he put his hand on her shoulder.
"I talked the guards in to secretly letting you go out tonight." Mamoru said. "I have arranged it with them and I told them that if we get caught, I would take the blame."
"Thanks, but you don't have to do that." Hitomi said sighing. "Mom and dad always find out."
"I'm taking you out, and that's that, besides I have something to talk about to you that you might want to know, and I know that those visions of yours don't show you everything!" Mamoru said as Hitomi tried to protest. "Alright, alright, fine!" The green eyed girl said giving in. "I'll come."
"Eat and then we'll go." Mamoru ordered which made Hitomi grin. "Yes your majesty." Hitomi said and bowed.
"Baka, I don't know what I'm going to do with you." Mamoru sighed. "I don't know why they locked you away." He said suddenly which made Hitomi stop eating after she had been eating for a few minutes. "Grandmother had the same gift, I think that it's a gift personally, not some damn curse like our parents say it is."
"Yes, well, their afraid that I'm going to go help their enemies country." Hitomi replied. "So they think that they can keep me caged up, so what is it that you want to talk to me about?" Hitomi asked and continued to eat as she listened.
"Did you know that you're actually engaged?" Mamoru asked grinning. "Mother and father engaged you at birth before they knew of your gift and you've been promised to a young king." The man said smiling and was on the verge of laughing. Hitomi dropped her silverware at this information.
"Are you serious?" Hitomi asked.
"Yes, dead serious." Mamoru said trying to make the most serious look on his face that he could. "You're suppose to marry him on you're eighteenth moons." Mamoru said grinning. "Which means, in a few days."
"But mom and dad never mentioned a wedding." Hitomi protested. "And I am not marrying some guy that I don't even know!" She protested.
"Too bad, mother and father tried to get out of it, but they couldn't. The contract was sighed in father's blood. It seemed like a good idea to father at the time." Mamoru said now laughing. "You can't get out of it Hitomi, breaking the contract will mean war."
"I'm not marrying this man that I don't even know." Hitomi repeated. "However, if it'll piss father off, and get me out of here, why not?" Hitomi asked.
"I hear that the king isn't interested in marrying either but if the contract is broke either way then well, we're going to war." Mamoru said shrugging in the end.
Hitomi sighed. "I wonder when those parents of ours are going to come to get me." Hitomi thought out loud. "The wedding is in a few days and I don't even have a dress yet!" She said sarcastically.
"Well, father and mother are still trying to get out of it." Mamoru explained. "They're trying to see if there are any loopholes in the contract to tell you the truth. And you where actually suppose to marry the oldest son, but he died in the process of becoming king; so now you're stuck with the youngest."
"How old is he?" Hitomi finally asked.
"Eighteen, almost nineteen." Mamoru replied.
"Which king is he?" Hitomi finally decided to ask.
"King Van Slanzar de Fanel of Fanelia." Mamoru replied which made Hitomi sink. The land of the dragons. "Why that small country?" Hitomi asked.
"Asturia has only princess, Fried has only a young ten year old heir, and well Fanelia wasn't too bad at military maneuvers at the time." Mamoru explained. "You're stuck little sister, either here in this cage, or in Fanelia. Fanelia's your best bet personally speaking and it's not that bad of a country."
Hitomi frowned as she finished her meal and stood up and started towards the door. "I'll be leaving Teir, but I won't marry Van." Hitomi thought as she walked by two drunk guards and followed her brother out her dungeon, and out of the palace. She wasn't going to be caged forever, she promised herself that.
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