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Hidden Wings
Plans and Dresses
When Hitomi woke up she had a feeling to go and visit Elise. So she quickly dressed and opened the door to be met by Merle. "Morning Hitomi, I'm going take a walk would you like to come with me?" Hitomi studied her; nothing was different so it seemed safe.
"Sure, maybe we'll meet a friend of mine." Merle smiled and they both left. Hitomi followed Merle until she saw Elise's house.
"Hey Merle, do you what to meet a friend of mine I was talking about earlier?" Merle looked at her and nodded. Hitomi and Merle saw Elise exiting her house so they ran to catch up to her. "Hey Elise! Wait up!" Elise spun around and greeted the two with a warm smile.
"Hitomi, how are you, oh I see you've brought a friend." Elise said gesturing to Merle. Merle was about to introduce herself but Elise beat her to it. "Yes I know your Lady Merle, The King's most trusted Advisor." Merle was left a bit speechless. " Oh come on do you think that just because you don't know someone that they don't know you?" Merle slightly blushed. Hitomi couldn't help but giggle, Elise still gave off that feeling that when you first meet her you feel welcomed and embarrassed at the same time.
"I see you haven't lost your touch, Elise." Hitomi replied. Elise gave her a look that said 'And I never will' which made Hitomi smile. "So are we going to stand here all day or are we gonna do something?" Hitomi asked after a few minutes of silence passed by.
"Well I was going to go shopping around if you ladies wish to join me." Elise answered. Hitomi looked at Merle who seemed like she agreed to the idea.
"Why not." Hitomi said as she leaned on a wall. "It's not like we've got anything better to do, right Merle?"
"Right! So lets get going!" Merle eagerly replied as she grabbed both Hitomi's and Elise's hand and pulled them to the market place.
"Energetic isn't she." Elise whispered to Hitomi.
"That's not the half of it, you should see her when she eats sweets." Hitomi whispered back.
"Hey I heard that." Merle said giving them a side-glance. "Besides I don't get that hyper when I eat sweets like I did when I was younger." Merle spotted a jewelry stand and rushed over to it. The other girls followed and saw what caught Merle's attention. She was looking at necklace that had a small gold shaped lily flower with a pink diamond embedded in the middle of it and it was hanging on a gold chain.
"Nice craftsmanship." Elise commented. She took a closer look at it and said, "I think it would go with you nicely Merle."
"Yeah but it's a bit expensive." Merle said. Hitomi probably had enough for it but not with her at the moment, besides she noticed a particular catman observing the group and she knew he must have heard what Merle said. Without the other two notices, she walked off to see what Kado was up to. He obviously didn't expect her to come because he tried to make it seem like he was busy with something else.
"So are you going to buy her the necklace?" Hitomi asked when she was close enough.
"Buy who what?" Kado tried playing dumb.
"Oh come on Kado, I'm not dense you saw what Merle was looking at and you heard what she said." Kado let out a sigh.
"Lord Van was right, no one can hide anything from you." Hitomi shook her head slightly.
"No. Like I said to Van you just can't hide the obvious." Hitomi looked at Kado who was looking at Merle. She just smiled and gave him a tap on the shoulders. He faced her and she said. "Why don't you just buy her the darn thing?"
"Well I'm not sure that I've got enough money for it." Kado replied turning his attention back to Merle. Hitomi smiled.
"You don't need to worry about that, look I'll send you something during lunch it should help you." Then she looked at Kado. "You should tell her how you feel soon or else someone else might come and take her. Anyway I better get back before they notice I'm missing." And with that she rejoined her friends leaving Kado to think about things.
"Talking to someone?" Elise whispered to Hitomi once she rejoined the group. Merle was looking at other things in the market place so Hitomi figured it was safe to talk about what she doing.
"Yeah a friend, who just happens to be fond of a particular catwoman." Hitomi whispered back. Elise smiled at her. Merle then ran up to the two.
"Hitomi I nearly forgot! We need to get you a dress!" Merle exclaimed grabbing Hitomi's wrist.
"What on Gaea for?" Hitomi was pretty sure she had made it clear to Merle that she wasn't that big of a fan of dresses.
"Because, tomorrow is Lord Van's birthday and there's going to be a big celebration in the castle and you're invited." Merle quickly explained. Hitomi looked at her with a slightly confused face.
"But what if I don't want to go?" Merle looked at her with shocked and yet stubborn expression.
"Well we're still buying you a dress anyway, you need one." She said as she dragged Hitomi off. Elise sighed and followed the two; she had a feeling that Hitomi would need her badly.
*~*~*~*~*~*
(In the outskirts of Asturia)
Allen Shezar was in his fortress sparring with an imaginary enemy when his one of his men and most trusted friend, Gaddes, came up to him. "Sir we have visitors."
"Who are they Gaddes?" Allen asked as he sheathed his sword
"I'm afraid I don't know but the guy who seems like the leader of the group says you know him." Allen arched an eyebrow and followed Gaddes to meet this 'visitors'. When Allen was in the room these 'visitors' were put in to wait for him, a man that had a cloak and hood on came up to him.
"Nice to see you again, Allen." He greeted. Allen blinked twice at the sound of the voice.
"Mamoru? Is that you?" Mamoru pulled back his hood and revealed his face. Allen smiled at him as he smiled back. "Good to see you're alive and well Mamoru but what brings you to Asturia, I doubt it's just for old times sake."
"Well as much as I would like to have a usual round of sword fights you're right, I need to ask a favor of you."
"Oh and what would this favor be." Allen asked as he lead Mamoru to a different room where they can talk with nobody else listening.
"Well Allen I need the use of your airship but I also need information." Mamoru replied as he took a seat. Allen also took a seat.
"Information about what?"
"Allen have you heard about the tournament that occurred a few weeks ago?" Mamoru inquired as he fiddled with his sword.
"Yes it was rather interesting, a woman had enter the tournament hidden under a cloak and hood and she wasn't revealed until the last match, she won second place." Allen replied as rubbed his chin remembering the information Eries had sent him in a letter.
"Yes well I need to know the whereabouts about this woman." Allen arched an eyebrow.
"What is so urgent that you need to find the whereabouts of a young swordswoman?" Mamoru stood up and walked to the window.
"Allen you know when we first met you were able to sense something wrong that had happened to me that seemed to caused great pain?"
"Yes, but you said you would tell me what was the problem when the time was right." Allen answered.
"Well, Allen you must have heard of the fire the burned Aklon to the ground, you were 11 and I was 17 at the time." Mamoru solemnly replied.
"Of course I've heard of it, it was considered an act of war but nobody knew who was responsible for it." Allen answered. Mamoru looked at Allen. Slowly he took off his cloak and lowered the collar of his shirt. Then he turned around and showed Allen his tattoo on the back of his neck. Allen gasped. "But that's the…"
"Yes I know, It's the tattoo given to the males that were born in the royal house of Aklon, I should know since I'm the one whom they gave it to." Mamoru replied as he put his cloak back on.
"So you're the prince of Aklon who would have guessed." Allen looked at Mamoru again. "But that doesn't answer why you wish to know the whereabouts of that swordswoman." Mamoru looked at Allen with a smirk plastered on his face.
"That swordswoman is my sister, the princess of Aklon." Mamoru couldn't help but laugh at the expression on Allen's face after that little piece of information.
*~*~*~*~*~*
(In the Dark fortress)
"Lord Alko, forgive for interrupting but we've got some information on the princess of Aklon." Alko turned around and faced Kiya
"Well what is it?!" he bellowed. Kiya was visibly frighten from the sound of his voice she quickly bowed and gave the piece of information.
"Sir, the princess was at seen at Asturia a few weeks ago, she was hidden under a cloak and hood and she was defeated in the last match. That's all we know for now." She quickly replied trying to control her voice from shaking.
"Good you just saved yourself from the 'cage' for now, but next time I expect more, after all you were given 13 years to find them." Alko said in a voice that could make your blood turn cold.
"Yes Sir." Kiya quickly replied. Alko waved his hand indicating that she was dismissed. She quickly left the room. Alko then walk up to his window bring light onto his features. He had red fire like hair, with bangs that brushed the top of his vision, his eyes were a dangerous color of icy blue. His body was obviously built to kill, he was wearing a midnight black vest and dark brown breeches with a blood red sash tied around his waist and two armbands on his arm (A/N: Well duh.).
"The prince and princess of Aklon will soon be at my mercy." He whispered evilly.
*~*~*~*~*~*
(Back at Fanelia)
Hitomi had already given Kado what he needed to buy Merle the necklace. But to Hitomi's regret Merle had her way and they bought Hitomi her dress but of course Elise help Hitomi find one that actually suits her and was comfortable. Merle decided to also invite Elise to the celebration so they bought her a dress too. Hitomi, Elise and Merle were all in Hitomi's room looking at their dresses, well Hitomi was actually trying to build up the courage to wear that darn thing. I mean she hasn't worn a dress since she was five. Hitomi's dress was simple and was made out of a silvery white material and it reached her toes. It was an off the shoulders dress and it had long sleeves that overlap the back of her hand a little bit. There was a white ribbon that went around the waist and was tied at the side with a white cloth rose on top of it. They also bought her a silver necklace to match it and white shoes, Merle bought some other things for her but she wouldn't show them to her until tomorrow. Hitomi didn't know how she got dragged into this. She looked at Elise who was fiddling with a necklace. "Where did you get that necklace, Elise?" Elise looked up at her.
"Someone gave it to me." She replied. Hitomi grinned.
"And who would this someone be?" she asked innocently. Elise looked at her said.
"An old friend." Hitomi's grin just broadened and she whispered in Elise's ear.
"You mean an old boyfriend." Hitomi started giggling when she saw Elise blushing a crimson red color. Hitomi took a closer look at Elise's necklace. It was made out of silver and it was shaped into the same serpentine dragon that Hitomi had on her neck but instead of having a green eye it had a small diamond for an eye and it had a small ruby in it's jaws. And it was hanging on a silver chain. Hitomi knew who gave it to her it was so obvious. When Elise turned back to her normal color she said
"I must be going now it's almost night and we all better get our rest." She gestured to Hitomi's window, which showed the sun setting. Merle and Elise left Hitomi's room and Hitomi lay back on her bed. She glanced at the dress then sighed.
"Tomorrow will probably be the worst day of my life." She whispered before sleep drew her into a deep slumber.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Hi people so what do you think about this chapter? And I'm sorry if there any mistakes here but I'm in a bit of a rush. Well leave your comment at the door. And I said this once and I'll say it again, well gotta blaze, bye.
Sereneblaze
Disclaimer: I don't own Escaflowne. And if you don't believe me then you can kiss my guymelef's rear end.
Hidden Wings
Plans and Dresses
When Hitomi woke up she had a feeling to go and visit Elise. So she quickly dressed and opened the door to be met by Merle. "Morning Hitomi, I'm going take a walk would you like to come with me?" Hitomi studied her; nothing was different so it seemed safe.
"Sure, maybe we'll meet a friend of mine." Merle smiled and they both left. Hitomi followed Merle until she saw Elise's house.
"Hey Merle, do you what to meet a friend of mine I was talking about earlier?" Merle looked at her and nodded. Hitomi and Merle saw Elise exiting her house so they ran to catch up to her. "Hey Elise! Wait up!" Elise spun around and greeted the two with a warm smile.
"Hitomi, how are you, oh I see you've brought a friend." Elise said gesturing to Merle. Merle was about to introduce herself but Elise beat her to it. "Yes I know your Lady Merle, The King's most trusted Advisor." Merle was left a bit speechless. " Oh come on do you think that just because you don't know someone that they don't know you?" Merle slightly blushed. Hitomi couldn't help but giggle, Elise still gave off that feeling that when you first meet her you feel welcomed and embarrassed at the same time.
"I see you haven't lost your touch, Elise." Hitomi replied. Elise gave her a look that said 'And I never will' which made Hitomi smile. "So are we going to stand here all day or are we gonna do something?" Hitomi asked after a few minutes of silence passed by.
"Well I was going to go shopping around if you ladies wish to join me." Elise answered. Hitomi looked at Merle who seemed like she agreed to the idea.
"Why not." Hitomi said as she leaned on a wall. "It's not like we've got anything better to do, right Merle?"
"Right! So lets get going!" Merle eagerly replied as she grabbed both Hitomi's and Elise's hand and pulled them to the market place.
"Energetic isn't she." Elise whispered to Hitomi.
"That's not the half of it, you should see her when she eats sweets." Hitomi whispered back.
"Hey I heard that." Merle said giving them a side-glance. "Besides I don't get that hyper when I eat sweets like I did when I was younger." Merle spotted a jewelry stand and rushed over to it. The other girls followed and saw what caught Merle's attention. She was looking at necklace that had a small gold shaped lily flower with a pink diamond embedded in the middle of it and it was hanging on a gold chain.
"Nice craftsmanship." Elise commented. She took a closer look at it and said, "I think it would go with you nicely Merle."
"Yeah but it's a bit expensive." Merle said. Hitomi probably had enough for it but not with her at the moment, besides she noticed a particular catman observing the group and she knew he must have heard what Merle said. Without the other two notices, she walked off to see what Kado was up to. He obviously didn't expect her to come because he tried to make it seem like he was busy with something else.
"So are you going to buy her the necklace?" Hitomi asked when she was close enough.
"Buy who what?" Kado tried playing dumb.
"Oh come on Kado, I'm not dense you saw what Merle was looking at and you heard what she said." Kado let out a sigh.
"Lord Van was right, no one can hide anything from you." Hitomi shook her head slightly.
"No. Like I said to Van you just can't hide the obvious." Hitomi looked at Kado who was looking at Merle. She just smiled and gave him a tap on the shoulders. He faced her and she said. "Why don't you just buy her the darn thing?"
"Well I'm not sure that I've got enough money for it." Kado replied turning his attention back to Merle. Hitomi smiled.
"You don't need to worry about that, look I'll send you something during lunch it should help you." Then she looked at Kado. "You should tell her how you feel soon or else someone else might come and take her. Anyway I better get back before they notice I'm missing." And with that she rejoined her friends leaving Kado to think about things.
"Talking to someone?" Elise whispered to Hitomi once she rejoined the group. Merle was looking at other things in the market place so Hitomi figured it was safe to talk about what she doing.
"Yeah a friend, who just happens to be fond of a particular catwoman." Hitomi whispered back. Elise smiled at her. Merle then ran up to the two.
"Hitomi I nearly forgot! We need to get you a dress!" Merle exclaimed grabbing Hitomi's wrist.
"What on Gaea for?" Hitomi was pretty sure she had made it clear to Merle that she wasn't that big of a fan of dresses.
"Because, tomorrow is Lord Van's birthday and there's going to be a big celebration in the castle and you're invited." Merle quickly explained. Hitomi looked at her with a slightly confused face.
"But what if I don't want to go?" Merle looked at her with shocked and yet stubborn expression.
"Well we're still buying you a dress anyway, you need one." She said as she dragged Hitomi off. Elise sighed and followed the two; she had a feeling that Hitomi would need her badly.
*~*~*~*~*~*
(In the outskirts of Asturia)
Allen Shezar was in his fortress sparring with an imaginary enemy when his one of his men and most trusted friend, Gaddes, came up to him. "Sir we have visitors."
"Who are they Gaddes?" Allen asked as he sheathed his sword
"I'm afraid I don't know but the guy who seems like the leader of the group says you know him." Allen arched an eyebrow and followed Gaddes to meet this 'visitors'. When Allen was in the room these 'visitors' were put in to wait for him, a man that had a cloak and hood on came up to him.
"Nice to see you again, Allen." He greeted. Allen blinked twice at the sound of the voice.
"Mamoru? Is that you?" Mamoru pulled back his hood and revealed his face. Allen smiled at him as he smiled back. "Good to see you're alive and well Mamoru but what brings you to Asturia, I doubt it's just for old times sake."
"Well as much as I would like to have a usual round of sword fights you're right, I need to ask a favor of you."
"Oh and what would this favor be." Allen asked as he lead Mamoru to a different room where they can talk with nobody else listening.
"Well Allen I need the use of your airship but I also need information." Mamoru replied as he took a seat. Allen also took a seat.
"Information about what?"
"Allen have you heard about the tournament that occurred a few weeks ago?" Mamoru inquired as he fiddled with his sword.
"Yes it was rather interesting, a woman had enter the tournament hidden under a cloak and hood and she wasn't revealed until the last match, she won second place." Allen replied as rubbed his chin remembering the information Eries had sent him in a letter.
"Yes well I need to know the whereabouts about this woman." Allen arched an eyebrow.
"What is so urgent that you need to find the whereabouts of a young swordswoman?" Mamoru stood up and walked to the window.
"Allen you know when we first met you were able to sense something wrong that had happened to me that seemed to caused great pain?"
"Yes, but you said you would tell me what was the problem when the time was right." Allen answered.
"Well, Allen you must have heard of the fire the burned Aklon to the ground, you were 11 and I was 17 at the time." Mamoru solemnly replied.
"Of course I've heard of it, it was considered an act of war but nobody knew who was responsible for it." Allen answered. Mamoru looked at Allen. Slowly he took off his cloak and lowered the collar of his shirt. Then he turned around and showed Allen his tattoo on the back of his neck. Allen gasped. "But that's the…"
"Yes I know, It's the tattoo given to the males that were born in the royal house of Aklon, I should know since I'm the one whom they gave it to." Mamoru replied as he put his cloak back on.
"So you're the prince of Aklon who would have guessed." Allen looked at Mamoru again. "But that doesn't answer why you wish to know the whereabouts of that swordswoman." Mamoru looked at Allen with a smirk plastered on his face.
"That swordswoman is my sister, the princess of Aklon." Mamoru couldn't help but laugh at the expression on Allen's face after that little piece of information.
*~*~*~*~*~*
(In the Dark fortress)
"Lord Alko, forgive for interrupting but we've got some information on the princess of Aklon." Alko turned around and faced Kiya
"Well what is it?!" he bellowed. Kiya was visibly frighten from the sound of his voice she quickly bowed and gave the piece of information.
"Sir, the princess was at seen at Asturia a few weeks ago, she was hidden under a cloak and hood and she was defeated in the last match. That's all we know for now." She quickly replied trying to control her voice from shaking.
"Good you just saved yourself from the 'cage' for now, but next time I expect more, after all you were given 13 years to find them." Alko said in a voice that could make your blood turn cold.
"Yes Sir." Kiya quickly replied. Alko waved his hand indicating that she was dismissed. She quickly left the room. Alko then walk up to his window bring light onto his features. He had red fire like hair, with bangs that brushed the top of his vision, his eyes were a dangerous color of icy blue. His body was obviously built to kill, he was wearing a midnight black vest and dark brown breeches with a blood red sash tied around his waist and two armbands on his arm (A/N: Well duh.).
"The prince and princess of Aklon will soon be at my mercy." He whispered evilly.
*~*~*~*~*~*
(Back at Fanelia)
Hitomi had already given Kado what he needed to buy Merle the necklace. But to Hitomi's regret Merle had her way and they bought Hitomi her dress but of course Elise help Hitomi find one that actually suits her and was comfortable. Merle decided to also invite Elise to the celebration so they bought her a dress too. Hitomi, Elise and Merle were all in Hitomi's room looking at their dresses, well Hitomi was actually trying to build up the courage to wear that darn thing. I mean she hasn't worn a dress since she was five. Hitomi's dress was simple and was made out of a silvery white material and it reached her toes. It was an off the shoulders dress and it had long sleeves that overlap the back of her hand a little bit. There was a white ribbon that went around the waist and was tied at the side with a white cloth rose on top of it. They also bought her a silver necklace to match it and white shoes, Merle bought some other things for her but she wouldn't show them to her until tomorrow. Hitomi didn't know how she got dragged into this. She looked at Elise who was fiddling with a necklace. "Where did you get that necklace, Elise?" Elise looked up at her.
"Someone gave it to me." She replied. Hitomi grinned.
"And who would this someone be?" she asked innocently. Elise looked at her said.
"An old friend." Hitomi's grin just broadened and she whispered in Elise's ear.
"You mean an old boyfriend." Hitomi started giggling when she saw Elise blushing a crimson red color. Hitomi took a closer look at Elise's necklace. It was made out of silver and it was shaped into the same serpentine dragon that Hitomi had on her neck but instead of having a green eye it had a small diamond for an eye and it had a small ruby in it's jaws. And it was hanging on a silver chain. Hitomi knew who gave it to her it was so obvious. When Elise turned back to her normal color she said
"I must be going now it's almost night and we all better get our rest." She gestured to Hitomi's window, which showed the sun setting. Merle and Elise left Hitomi's room and Hitomi lay back on her bed. She glanced at the dress then sighed.
"Tomorrow will probably be the worst day of my life." She whispered before sleep drew her into a deep slumber.
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Hi people so what do you think about this chapter? And I'm sorry if there any mistakes here but I'm in a bit of a rush. Well leave your comment at the door. And I said this once and I'll say it again, well gotta blaze, bye.
Sereneblaze