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chapter 1 – the Princess' dream
Princess Hinoto Lay on her symbol filled floor on her platform at the Diet building basement, dreaming as usual. She tried to dream a dream of Kamui.
The leader of the Dragons of Heaven has been missing for a while, she dreamt about it too.
Now he's returned, confused and dazzled but still Kamui of Heaven. He could remember nothing from what he's been through, where he was taken to, nothing at all.
Now that he's here the battle for the end of the earth can restart and everything is fine again, as fine as it could be in this battle.
Hinoto remembered how horrible it felt when she first dreamt the dream of Kamui' kidnapping.
She was floating in darkness in her glass earth bubble and Kamui, and white feathers, the lot as usual.
At first she thought it was her dream of the two kamuis battling again, it was the same as before: two swords in an egg each, two Kamuis nearing the eggs, breaking the eggs, taking the swords, lifting the sword up in the air, growing wings, hugging their swords standing one behind the other like kids with their toys, smiling at each other playfully, charging at each other.
That's when the dream went wrong, that's when things changed and the wheels of time stopped their creaking slow spinning around her.
The two Kamuis who in her usual dream charged each other till the end where their sword clash something else came in.
From behind the Kamui with bat wings appeared something that looked like a warp in the fabric of the air around them (in Hinoto' dream? No, it was a part of Hinoto' dream this warp) and a rapture in the warp appeared. Out of the rapture she saw a man coming out, smiling he beckoned Kamui calling his name.
Hinoto looked at the man better and saw he looked a lot like Kamui' friend Fuma who now turned into the Dragons of Earth' Kamui. But it wasn't him, this man only looked a little like him but now quite that either.
This man was muscle bound, paler then white itself, dressed in black. He had green eyes that set Hinoto' skin crawl, there was something glowing in them and something inhuman in them, something malicious and evil. Yet he smiled, this strange version of Fuma, smiled and beckoned Kamui to him. He had black hair that fell around his face in a circle of black to frame his pale face, he had a symbol on his forehead: a black dot with a black circle around it.
those green eyes, the smile, Hinoto shivered in her ball of glass.
"Kamui, come to me" he said and Kamui with the bat wings, her Kamui, turned around and looked at him. A simple smile appeared on Kamui' face, his eyes twinkled with delight. He abandoned his battle against the white winged Kamui and flew to the strange man still half inside the warp.
The white winged Kamui did nothing, in fact he was frozen in mid air in the same position he was before the warp began appearing, as if the warp has stopped it as it stopped the wheels of time that decorated Hinoto' dream. The feathers stopped flying in the air and slowly all that was left in the princess' dream was the two men who defiled destiny.
Kamui flew to the Fuma-like man smiling so happily like she's never seen the real Kamui smile. The Fuma-like man was also smiling, a different smile now, it held no malice, no evil, only sheer joy.
The two men held each other, the Fuma-like man wrapping his thick arms around Kamui and Kamui nestling on the man' broad muscular chest. The Fuma-like man had bat wings as well, only his were bigger and scarier, he now wrapped those huge demonic things around Kamui as well, to enhance the protective embrace.
Slowly the Fuma-like man began drawing Kamui with him into the warp and beyond it to wherever it was.
Hinoto began screaming Kamui' name. It was to no use, the Fuma man was taking Kamui away from her and thus he stopped everything from happening, she saw this and could do nothing.
Before they disappeared completely from her dream and this world Hinoto struggled to take as much details of Kamui' kidnapper as she could. she noticed something meaningful: the Fuma like man' right arm, it had a small number tattooed on it in black.
The two man disappeared completely leaving Hinoto in her dream with nothing, but not alone. She looked to her right and saw the dreamgazer for the Dragons of Earth floating in the dream by her. He saw it too, he was as amazed and alarmed as her. They stared at each other puzzled "Kamui…" she said confused "is going to be taken away…" the dreamgazer mumbled as her "and everything will end" she whispered and wept, fear taking her ability to speak "no….everything will just stop….but not end". The dreamgazers woke each in their place, each in their way.
That very evening the Dragons of Heaven stormed into her basement shrine speaking of Kamui' sudden disappearance. Some of them saw it happening in real time, they were those most in alarm.
In front of their eyes, they said, Kamui began to sink into the floor like it was water, and completely disappeared. There was no evil magic in it, no charms or chanting brought this about, it was as if the world was suddenly sucking Kamui into somewhere else.
Kamui has taken his shinken with him as he sank, he was just about to seal it inside the CLAMP academy' heart. The place was filled with blessings and magic from all over the world but nothing could stop this disappearance, nothing from their world anyway.
In that world nothing could happen anymore, the battle froze in the stage it was in, like the white winged Kamui in Hinoto' dream. The Harbingers could do nothing and the Seals surely couldn't do more.
No Kekkais were broken, no Dragons attacked and no Draggons protected…nothing could happen, Kamui was taken away.
But that was almost three months from now and Kamui has returned by now. She saw that too, Princess Hinoto, in her dream.
She saw him thrown back away from the warp, thrown in front of the white winged Kamui and returning to battle against his rival as if nothing happened. She looked at the warp and saw a pale muscular hand reaching out, trying to catch Kamui again. It was the same right hand, she knew, it had that number on it. That number….
Now she woke from another nightmare, screaming mentally, calling over her two helpers and Saiki to kneel by her helpfully. "what is it Princess, what did you see?" Saiki' face was almost black with concern, who will die this time?.
"the Fuma man…." The princess was short of breath, even in her mental talking, in her body she was breathing so fast and her heart was racing, she was deeply frightened. "the Fuma with a number on his hand….." Sohi and Hien screwed their faces in confusion and frustration. "he was bursting out of the warp…he was coming here to get Kamui back….." the princess was becoming more and more frantic, almost on the verge of panic.
Then she suddenly calmed down and her face cleared completely. That's when her helpers realized she was still half imbedded in her dream, that she was still seeing her dreams though her eyes were as open as if she was awake.
"oh….I see…." She whispered mentally, her lips moving as if she really spoke "his eyes…they're soft, he doesn't want to hurt Kamui….he only wants him back….but he wants him back…..he wants him back…." The princess fell into a dreamless faint of a sleep in her helpers' arms.
(TBC)
