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Chapter 1
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Hitomi sat at her crowded desk, staring out the open window at the cherry blossoms that were located outside her apartment. She let out a deep sigh, "I suppose I should really get this essay done," Hitomi informed the cherry blossoms that swayed in the gentle breeze outside her window. She stared blankly at the two sentences she had accomplished in the three hours she had been sitting at her desk. Another deep sigh escaped from her pale pink lips, as she stood and stretched her stiff muscles. It had been six years since Hitomi left Gaea, her body had changed in so many ways. She was now taller by at least a foot and a half, she stood about 5'6" feet tall. All those years of running kept her figure slim and toned, but she still had curves that made many man yearn for her. Her honey blonde hair now flowed to her shoulder blades, and her green eyes had lighten some, making them a rich sea green now. Hitomi had grown into a beautiful lady, she was quite popular at university. All the boys wished to be with her, and all the girls wanted to be like her, but even being popular couldn't satisfy her yearning to go back to Gaea. She had a family that loved her greatly, tons of friends, and majored in basically all her classes, she still felt like her life on the Mystic moon was over. This place didn't captivate her like Gaea did, it didn't have the lush grass, rolling hills, valleys or the king she longed to be with. An image of Van crossed her thoughts, a sad sigh came at the thought of him.
Her mind was a swirling pool of thoughts now, she'll never get back to her essay now. She walked to the font door and laced up her running shoes. "Might as well go for a run to clear my mind," she thought a loud. Talking to herself became an everyday thing now, she was always a lone so she had to keep herself company some how.
She briskly jogged down to a park that was a few blocks away from her apartment. The park was full today, children were running around playing tag, an old couple sat together on a bench admiring the children playing with smiles on their faces. A young couple sat separate from everyone else on the ground a few feet away from the walking path. They smiled at each other as they pulled one another closer into a tight embrace. Hitomi watched with envy and felt a pang of sorrow in her heart, oh how she missed him and wished to hold him like that. Their relationship never had the chance to really flourish into that stage. She gave the young couple one last glance over her shoulder one more time, when she looked back though the park was burning. Hitomi stopped in her tracks, she stared in shock. "Run!" she screamed, but her warning seem to drift away with the breeze that played with her bangs. The park faded away to reveal a city, Hitomi now stood in a city. The city was burning, she could her people crying, screaming and pleading for their life's to be spared. Something was strange about this city, what remained wasn't modern it had grand arches and the material used to construct the building wasn't metal or glass it was stone and wood. This city didn't belong on the Mystic moon it was a kingdom from Gaea. She watched as the flames destroyed everything in its path, just like fingers crushing dirt. The ground started to shake under Hitomi's feet, she looked wildly around her trying to locate the source of the earthquake. A brilliant guymelef charged through the burning city, the guymelef was white and its blue cape flowed behind it like a piece of cloth trapped in the wind. Hitomi knew this guymelef, it was Allen's guymelef!
"Allen," Hitomi screamed, she could feel the heat from the fire slipping into her lungs. The white guymelef kept running through the city, until it came to a halt and brought its mighty sword flying through the air. The sword sliced through a red guymelef, cutting it into two with one sweep.
"Zaibach guymelef," Hitomi questioned, she thought the Zaibach empire had been defeated six years ago. The flames danced higher as something came closer to the ground. Hitomi tried to see the shadowy figure through the thick haze of smoke. The figure was thrown from the sky to the ground with a sickening crash. Hitomi recognized the silver heap and her heart froze and her blood ran cold. It was Escaflowne in dragon mode, struggling to get back up and defend itself. A sickening laugh echoed from the smoke. Hitomi knew that bone chilling laugh anywhere, but how Dilandau was returned back to sweet Celena after the destiny war. A black guymelef with a silver flowing cape stepped from the burning rumble.
"So Van are you ready to surrender yet? I have strict orders to bring you back alive, which is rather disappointing. Toying with you is so much fun, but I want the games to end. But who to say it wasn't an accident," Dilandau bellowed from the black guymelef. A sword formed from the black guymelef's hand, and brought it hurling down onto Escaflowne. Hitomi shut her eyes, but the screech of metal on metal contact made her almost lose her stomach content. Hitomi screamed and tears flowed down her cheeks, her sobbing made the smoke enter her lungs making her gag. She slowly opened her eyes to look upon the mangled mess that held the man she loved, but when she did all she seen were a pair of man's blue eyes staring back at her.
"Miss are you ok," the strange man asked gently as he helped Hitomi into a sitting position. Hitomi looked around, there was no smoke, no flames and no mangled Escaflowne. She was back on the Mystic moon now, fifty pair of eyes staring at her all in concern. " You must have fainted and then you started to scream ma'am, I thought something was really wrong with you," the strange man informed her. It had been a vision, a very freighting vision.
"I'm ok, thank you," Hitomi's cheeks flushed a bright red as she slowly stood up, she nodded her thanks again to the man and quickly rushed back to her apartment to escape the horrible scene of embarrassment. She tightly closed her front door behind her, leaning against it she sighed. She needed to take a shower to calm down, she walked upstairs to her room. Scattered on her floor were her tarot cards, but how could that be she had put them away. She took another step closer to read the cards that were turned over, Hitomi's breath caught in her throat, her body started to shake and she dropped to her knees.
"But….but this can't be true, no…"
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