The Wings of Darkness

Chapter 4: Savior and Pulled away

She sat up suddenly into pain and cried out, the door slammed open, she looked at the person through blurry pain filled eyes. "Fetch Lords Dilandou and Folken." Within minutes the two terrifying men entered the room, while the doctor was examining Yue. She was being cooperative for the old man and letting him poke and prod her injuries. "Oww!" She yelped when he poked a sensitive one. "sorry dear but I must know how much they hurt." When he was finished he told her she must rest and got her to take a few pills and lay against the propped up pillows. The doctor departed after a few words to the two men the woman-child was smiling at. "Sherizad"Dilandou spoke first. "Dilandou... I remember you carrying me. I was shot down. We met on my way to Freid to speak to Shied. We were flying and some one started firing at us... I smacked your guymellif out of the line of fire then its all blurry from there until a few minutes ago."

"You saved him from taking a shot in the back that could have killed him my Lady, we have your dragon carefully under guard." She smiled at Folken and noticed his hair was short and standing on end. "Folken what happened to your hair? It was long when we first met was it not? Or is that a trick the meds are playing on my eyes as well?" He told her about cutting it in the style of his people and she smiled at him. Dilandou was dismissed by his Superior. "Lady Yue. Your dragon is in good condition and seemed to take very little damage from the fall. Dilandou caught you in his hand so thats why your not more injured."

The days passed easily for the injured woman Dilandou or Folken would take small walks around the base with her building her muscles back up. "Where is my sword?"She asked Folken during dinner one night a month later. "In my quarters, waiting for you to be well." She smiled at him. " Can I have it back tomorrow and slowly begin practicing with it again?" He nodded and told her in a week he would be traveling to the kingdom of Fenailia and asked if she would like to go. She said she would and she asked if they could take her dragon. He agreed with a smile and they finished their meal.

Hitomi was using her cards to try and find her friend, but the card of separation and the card of change were a far as she could get. Then the worst happened to Hitomi, Van was taken hostage while giving the crusade time to flee. Little did she know he was taken aboard the same ship as Yue who was thrashing around in her bed seeing the future listening to the song of the draconians. A hand reached out and gently wiped her brow. Draping a large cloth over her form he whispered. 'Hush now little dreamer I'll protect you' and she dreamed of flying through the sky wrapped in someones arms. No longer was she falling but was safe and warm. As he left the room Folken looked at the woman now sleeping peacefully wit his cloak over her. He heard her breath in his scent and whisper his name before relaxing into a deep restive sleep. And Folken lacour de fanel smiled at the wing goddess.

As the crusade planned their rescue Folken and Yue spent their time packing supplies on her dragon and making other preparations for the flight to his homeland. As Folken was dealing with Van he had left instructions for the wing goddess' sword to be returned to her. After practicing for a while she returned to her room for a shower and a small nap. But the moment her head touched the pillow a vision hit her.

-Yue's dream-

They were under attack and she could see Folken standing on the ground with Hitomi they were staring at her. Van was closer to her but his back was to her and they were trying to get out of a ring of enemies. Then she saw Dilandou charge for Van and stepped between them sword ready to fight. Then she was falling and an angel came to save her from the screaming she heard below. Suddenly a light came down from the sky and she woke up. "Folken" she whispered.

She rose from the bed and dressed in her clothing she took the rest of her clothes to the dragon and strapped them in. She asked some of the servants for a bag of Folken's clothing and once it was brought to her she strapped it down also. Then she noticed the Escaflowne in the bay across the way from her. "Escaflowne." The attacks began then and they nearly unseated her from her dragon.

She got down and ran to the Escaflowne noticing the slender chains that kept it to the deck. She started pulling the pins freeing the white dragon, to save her friend's heart. With the last pin removed the chain net began to slide and it landed on Yue. Who cried out from her wounds being jarred so harshly. She wiggled out from under neath it and hobbled off to find Folken. Soon she was running full speed and ran into Hitomi knocking the sprinter to the ground. "Sherizad!" "Hitomi" They agreed it wasn't time to chat they had people to save so they darted off to save the people they were coming to love. "Hitomi the Escaflowne is in hanger four bay fourteen." Hitomi nodded and they separated.

Sherizad took the stairs and was up on the cat walks while Hitomi took the ground floor. Hitomi foresaw Dilandou being diverted by Sherizad She saw Sherizad's sword being broken in the process. And it happened just as Hitomi predicted Dilandou went for Van and Sherizad deflected the strike but her sword snapped in two. She turned and thrust her sword out and the deadly dance continued for a moment. Dilandou was blinded by his hatred of Van to realize he was fighting another. He tossed the injured woman across the floor the rest of her sword sliding off the edge into the sky. When suddenly there was another body before her own. "Dilandou that is enough!" The blood lust broke and he saw at last who he was fighting. "Sherizad.."

Her world went black. When she awoke she was in a different room then before and she saw someone's things lying in little nooks around the room. "Good morning Yue." She turned to see him and smiled her heart lifting, she had protected his little brother. "Morning Folken. Are we leaving early?" The man nodded. "I need to separate you from Dilandou for awhile. He's gone mad with rage over that scar my brother gave him before you interrupted their fight. Why did you do that?" She decided to tell him the truth. "I can see the future in my dreams. I have always been able to. Sometimes I have to interfere if I don't like the future I was shown." Folken was taken a back the wing goddess could see the future and trusted him enough to tell him so.

"What...What did you see?"He asked. Her haunted gaze caught his breathe in his chest. "Van died fighting Dilandou and in your rage you killed half the ship. I saw Van draped in black feathers. I had to protect you both. So I changed what I saw. Are you angry with me?"The man stiffly marched over to the bed and sat beside her and gently caught her chin. "I am not angry I am very pleased. You told me a great secret its time I showed you one in return." And with that he showed her his wings which she touched gently and he saw her shed tears for him when he told her his story. "Come my warrior wing goddess. Shed no tears for me now. I am strong enough to be your warrior and enter blood pact with your dragon. Will you accept me." She stood from the bed and rested her hands on the sides of his face.

"Folken Lacour de Fanel I accept you as my warrior and partner. Wrath my dragon will accept a drag-energist from you. Then we can truly fight as one. As Van and Hitomi do." They put on some travel clothes and left the fortress flying due west heading for Fenailia. She let him fly and was settled behind him arms around his waist laying against his back. She fell asleep until just before midnight when the winds changed and they woke her. "Im up and can fly until dawn if you would like that way you can land in your homeland." She yelled near his ear and he nodded. They switched positions and he gave her the heading and hunkered down to sleep against her back as she had his.

Flying through the night was a magical thing for Yue to all the stars and earth and moon in the sky. Time passed quickly for the two Yue blushed when he would snuggle into her to get away from the wind chill and smile at him when he would grumble when she moved away from him at all. Then in the blackness just before dawn she ran her fingers over his arm until his head lifted. "Ugh cold." She smiled right at him. Both watched the sun rise over the mountains. "Beautiful." he grunted but then the sun lit up the valley of the dragons and his homeland and he heard her gasp in awe of the land from which he came. "My home." She smiled handed him the controls and sat down to let him bring them in to land. He landed them in the burned out stables and they got down to explore the city. She told him something that made him stop cold though.

"Your brother is coming here. I will distract Hitomi so you can talk to Van alone." They separated and Sherizad found Hitomi before she could burst in on the brothers. "Hitomi don't." She said softly. "Help me find what is calling me here." Together they went and looked through the ruins of the castle until they found a box that seemed to not have been harmed by the fire. It was inscribed by wings and unknown to them the seal of the house of Fanel. Hitomi reached out and tested the box but let go when it pricked her fingers. Yue tried it and it pricked her finger but she kept shoving the lit and it opened. Inside lay a sword seemingly untouched by the fire with a red hilt and sheath. Using her bloodied hand Yue pulled the sword from its resting place and seeing the belt it carried strapped it on. "Forgive me spirits of Fenailia if I offend you by wearing this."

There was nothing else in the box but a single pendant like Hitomi's Yue took it and threaded it on the chain next to her grandmother's. They left the castle to come into a bloody mess Van and Folken were surrounded by men and they were looking for the guymellifs. "no no no no no no"Hitomi whispered. Yue screamed and the bright light appeared. Both dragon's floated as did the brothers and the girls were the last to be picked up by the light. Then they were gone taken to another place on Gaea.