Flight from the Mystic Moon

The ground was cold and I was flung head long against into a bench. That guy stood before me and now had a army of men standing behind him; which only set my mind to guard the only thing I figured a bunch of men might want. This was the worse planet… this hidden world in a sky earth could not see.

"Tell me your name once more." I wanted to cry, scream, and kick 'Allen' for all it was worth and to me, it might have been the world.

"Kanzaki Hitomi." The men behind Allen all stared dumbfounded and one came forward and tilted my head back which I promptly shook away from. I actually wanted to bite him.

"She doesn't look like her. Allen, this some kind of joke?" Allen grinned which set a chill over me.

"I'm not sure, why not ask her? She's the one that started the 'game'." This wasn't going in a direction I liked. It was dark and smelled of oil and grease and then there was the pack of men like ravenous dogs biting at my heels… it was too much.

"Ok then, let's see where and how the game ends." Someone from the back came forward and picked me up off the ground. I was so frightened I couldn't move and when he tilted his head this way and that to look at me… I almost, almost had the energy to kick him where it counted, but he turned with me still in his hands and walked away with me, the others just watching. My heart pounded like a fright-train that had gone off course.

I was going to die here. Mother had seen it.

"Don't!" His name came back to me. The name my mother told me to find! I could only figure it was some one that would be safe. Safer than here anyhow… "Van!... Van, he will find out and you will all regret this! I guarranty it!" The man stopped in his tracks and Allen came up from behind and looked at me very, very closely.

"Van-what?" My hands shook as they reached out and slapped him. The red forming on his face was enough for me before I was thrown painfully to the ground.

"Van, Van, Van!" I repeated this and coughed as I bite my lip. I thought I was going to die here. "She told me to find him!" My tears were hot on my face… I felt bruises on my legs and side that I knew would hurt for weeks. I had been run down, strung up, interogated and for what?

"Who told you to find Van?" Allen was so cold he was frozen. What did it matter? If I was going to die, I would at least let them know my name and my mothers. Those names would haunt them all when I was gone and I would know peace when they were all mad.

"My mother you half-wit!" Again I was dragged up from the ground and was set this time on my feet. Allen's face bent over in front of mine, his cheek bright red. God he was fricken tall.

"Half-wit." I couldn't help but grin.

"Did I stutter 'half-wit'?" I figured if I was to die, I might as well go out with some spunk. Allen chuckled and pushed me into a chair then took one him-self.

"And what is your mother's name? Hitomi?" He was an asshole and he was clearly proud of it.

"My mother's name is Hitomi Kanzaki. I used her name seeing as you'll never meet her and I don't know you freaks and rightfully so. Some knight." I loaded every word with venom and spite. This seemed to be interesting to Allen and his cronies though so too.

"And what name might we call you then?" He seemed slightly less likely to hurt me. Only slightly though.

"Keori Kanzaki. Daughter of Hitomi and Amano Susumu, what's it to you?" Allen seemed surprised somehow.

"Where are you from?" One of the men closed the door while the others gathered in closer… it was rather claustrophobic in here now. They looked ready to pounce on me and...

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you, so why bother?" A man from the crowd snickered.

"She's nothing like Hitomi…" It must be a common name here. Allen ignored the other mans comment and asked again which I only sighed at as I tried to hide the fact my heart was going to burst from fear.

"That planet up there, you see that moon?" I pointed my fingers out the window at my planet, 'the blue planet' and our sister moon. "I came from there. My mother lives there and that 'necklace' that you stole from me, she gave me before…" I stopped when I remembered how I was ripped from my bedroom and how my mother had simply let go of my hand. My chest ached.

"You said you're from the Mystic moon?" Allen stood up and once again I was hefted over his shoulder.

"No one touches the girl." The men groaned as he slammed the door closed and walked down very narrow hallways and opened another door. "Kanzaki Keori. Daughter of Amano and Hitomi and from the Mystic moon your mother once named 'earth'." I was stunned as he sat me down nicely and brought a wet cloth over from somewhere and wiped my face from the dirt and blood. "I have done you wrong and I will make this up to you. Your mother would… be most displeased I am sure… It is odd that you, her daughter are here now. What of Hitomi?" This prick knew my mother? I wanted to tell him she was going to kick his ass, but if he did know her, it was unlikely he'd believe me.

"She's… ok I guess." That was all I could say. Mother and I didn't really see eye to eye. "Who is Van? My mother told me to find him." Allen pushed back blonde hair that was brighter than the sun and had an rather uncanny face like my fathers.

"Van. Van Fanel is the King of Fanelia and is a… friend of your mothers. She and him have a past as do your mother and I. We all had grown close while she was here and before she returned to your earth and to father. I remember having been called that once when I met her. I am sorry I treated you ill, after you said your name was Hitomi and you bore her necklace I feared you were someone with bad intentions. I would not have guessed you as her child and ... you are her child... I will make this up to you. Forgive me." He almost seemed like a knight now when he wasn't frightening the life out of young people.

"I would, but I find it hard to believe my mother would associate with some one that beats young women. In fact, I know it for a fact that she wouldn't' have." I seemed to have hit a mark somewhere and he stood up, hurt on his face. "My mother hasn't so much has gone on vacation in over 20 years." Allen's face paled.

"I will make this up to you. Please excuse me now. Also, do not speak your mother's name or show anyone your pendant. Do not mention the Mystic moon, if any ask, you are to direct them to me." He left and the door closed, he did not lock it. This place was weird and upside down, they kidnap first and ask later then beg for forgiveness for being madmen. Mother would never have been a hundred feet near people like this. And if these men knew mother I could only imagine what 'Van' could be like. But how could they know her?