A/N: I Luffs the Dilly-sama! XD So, unfortunately, I'm at odds with myself... T_T You see, I want Dilly-sama to live, but to let Dilly-sama live is to forfeit Hitomi's and Van's happy ending and to do that... well, you would all butcher me alive and then roast up all the pieces, feeding them to homeless peoples. I dun wanna be bum food! DX So, I must ponder. Your input would really help... though I do have a pretty good idea of what to do. Still, I'm not entirely sure how plausible it is and, in writing, EVERYTHING MUST BE PLAUSIBLE!!! Seriously, it's in the rule book somewhere... Chapter six, section four, subsection 3, paragraph D or something like that.
"This is... impossible," Van said, staring into the wide, crazed ruby red eyes that belonged to none other than Dilandau Albatou, the of the former battalion known as the Dragonslayers. "This can't be possible. Completely impossible." His brain seemed to be stuck on the word "impossible".
"Is it?" Dilly-sama asked with a look of pure elation, "It is really, Mr. Van Fanel?" His voice sounded the way it always had, loud and boisterous with that deep, sharp edge to it that struck fear into the hearts of many and was often the last sound a person facing him ever heard.
Finally regaining himself, Van tried to send Hitomi a message, but all he got in return were little tidbits of her thoughts. All of the little snippets seemed to be centered around Van, Dilandau and the weight of the sword in her hands. He had no time to think about the sword bit, however, because the pyromaniac in front of him was already unsheathing his sword and preparing to attack.
Van leaned forward so that he was hunched over on the cot, his chin inclined so that he looked up at Dilandau as the sword came bearing down. At the last possible moment, the prince lunged out of the way, leaving enough of a time frame to keep from being sliced open with the sword, but not enough time for the crazed man waving a sword around to redirect his swing. He managed to get behind the man and, instead of knocking Dilandau out like he had originally planned, he simply ran hellbent for leather out of the cell and down the corridor, hoping he would run into somebody before Dilandau ran into him.
"We have to go!" Hitomi screamed as the last man finally landed on the ground and Merle pulled back the rope, "Dilandau is going to find Van! Van doesn't even have a sword or any armor! We have to go save him!"
"Yes, Hitomi," Allen said with forced patience, "But we can't just go storming in unprepared. We have to all go in as a group or we'll be caught with our metaphorical pants down and they'll massacre us."
"I don't care!" she shouted angrily, ferociously, amazed at how she sounded so much like Merle, "We have to go now!"
The blond-haired knight opened his mouth to speak, but Hitomi only rolled her eyes and ran in the direction of Zaibach, holding onto the heavy sword in her arms. The least she could do was bring him a weapon to fight with!
"Hitomi!" Allen shouted after her and she knew that they were chasing after her, but she didn't slow down or stop. She had to keep going and she would be damned to Hell if she stopped just so that the others could catch up. She knew how likely it would be that Van could be killed because she took the time to stop and wait for her buddies to catch up.
She pumped her arms harder, willing herself to go faster and she managed to go just a tiny bit quicker, but she knew this pace wouldn't last forever. Her heart was already feeling like it was going to burst at any time... but she didn't—couldn't—stop.
Van... I'll move the heavens and the earth to save you... God knows I'd let my heart burst if it meant giving you a chance at life.
Van got lucky and managed to catch one of the guards sleeping on the job. He managed to steal a single dagger and the man's shield before he heard the steadily-growing echoes of Dilandau's raving rant about how Van should fight him like a man.
"... what are you, you sorry, sucked up, flea-infested, ass-wiping insect of a man?" he was shouting on the top of his lungs, "What are you—chicken?! Are you a chicken, Van? Come on out and tell me, Van! Come out and tell me you're not a chicken! That's right! You won't because you are a chicken!" He then burst out in maniacal laughter and Van didn't have time to see him come rushing into the corridor, waving his sword every which way because he was running for his life once again.
He rounded a corner and turned into another stone corridor, but this time a guard was standing there. Not bothering to slow down, Van reached out an arm and allowed it to connect wit the man as he ran passed. He paused only to steal what weapons the man had and cursed his luck when he found no sword. "Dammit," he hissed, took the man's Combat knife and put it with the dagger he had found, and then started running again.
"Come on, Van!" Dilandau was still shouting, "Have a speck of dignity for yourself! Be a man and come and fight me!" Never had he ever sounded so utterly mad.
At the end of the corridor, Van found a staircase that led both up and down. He took the flight that led downward and hoped Dilandau would take the one leading up. He was disappointed once again.
"Oh, give me a break!" he exclaimed with exasperation and quickened his pace until he was practically flying down the stairs.
Finally, Hitomi made it into Zaibach, but she still didn't stop. She had to find the area of this place that had been untouched by any bombs or violence. That was hard seeing as everything she saw was destroyed.
The villagers were scurrying around like little mice and it seemed that most of them weren't paying a speck of attention on her. The ones that did, however, avoided her like the Bubonic Plague... probably because of the sword she held in her arms. She narrowly missed colliding into a few people as she ran, but didn't stop to keep from running into them, just swerved around with an apology.
Then, as though God has bestowed a miracle upon her, she found the buildings that had been in the vision Van had given her. She thanked Folken up in Heaven and then rushed inside the building at the center of the buildings untouched by violence.
She used the first staircase she found to head up. She just hoped she'd find Van soon before it was too late.
A/N: Got get him, Hitomi! Go get your man! XD