Chapter Thirty Seven - Visions and Warnings of the Real Fried War

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Now Van knew why they fled the castle, to create a diversion and to come here. This is where the important battle for Fried would be. This is where the secret treasure that his people had left for Fried, Tier, Zaibach, Asturia, and Fanelia to protect. It bothered him that Zaibach and Tier had one of these power sources. They must have known all along what they where doing when they joined an alliance together and attacked Fanelia.

It bothered him that Duke Fried had said that only the Crown Prince would know where the Power Source was. If that was the case why did Duke Fried have them come follow him as well? Did he want them to protect the Power Source as well? Or perhaps the Duke knew something more then what he was letting on. Another thought bothered him. The Power Source in Fanelia was lit, according to Duke Fried the Crown Prince, and royal family which he assumed would have been his mother and father would have known about it. How is it that Zaibach found out where to find it? The only three people that would have known about it where dead, and even Balgus was dead now as well. Could Balgus have been the one who had betrayed Fanelia and had said where the Power Spot was? No, Balgus wasn't that kind of man, Balgus was a honorable samurai who lived and died by the sword. If not one of those four then who? Who was it? Who was possibly left to have betrayed Fanelia?

His eyes opened once he felt a sword hit his.

Blonde hair and blue eyes. Van would know that man's face any where, it was Allen. He was already in a bad mood, this pretty boy showing up didn't make things any better. He wanted a rematch from the time when he was on Mamoru's ship. He attacked.

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A battle, it was a battle.

She stood there helplessly as she watched the men on both sides die. She watched as red blood poured on to the ground for those who where on foot and those that where in guymelofs ended up as nothing. She saw death, nothing but death.

The God of Death was laughing at them at the moment, the pitiful humans who where always at war with one another. Animals didn't create war, humans did, humans who where no better then the Atlantians. Atlantians tried to better themselves from the Gods and here humans where trying to bring themselves above the other species of animals. (No offence to people, but humans are technically classified as animals.)

There was so much pain from both sides, not just Frieds, but Zaibach's as well. The soldiers where just going out and doing what they where ordered, they had no choice for this life, this is the life that fate had given them. If she could only change that fate? This sad, constantly killing, constantly watching people die, this constant feeling of sadness. Was fate this cruel? She saw Allen, Amano, oni-chan and Van all out fighting on the battle field, Uncle was out there as well.

"I am Duke Fried, come and face me!" Uncle shouted. He held up his sword, and then arrows went shooting through him.

"UNCLE!" Hitomi shouted as she watched the man die.

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"He's going to die, he's going to die…" She began to mutter and clutched hold of the pendant, the thought of her uncle dieing, she couldn't stand it. War, why was this war necessary? Why did Zaibach want to fight? What where they after? She had to find Van.

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"So here you are." Mamoru said to Van who just looked at him.

"Mamoru." Van said.

"I want to talk to you." Mamoru said. "So please put your sword away." He asked nicely.

Van did as Mamoru asked. "What do you want to talk about?" He asked.

"That depends on what you answer." Mamoru said seriously. "I know how you are and I know that there are a lot of things that you don't like to answer so, I'll just ask the questions and you can answer them if you wish."

"MERLE!" Van shouted knowing that the neko was somewhere near by and as his instincts told him, Merle showed up. "Go play somewhere Merle."

"But Van-Sama…"

"Go Merle, this doesn't concern you, I'll be fine, don't worry, it's not like my own brother-in-law is going to stab me in the back."

"Alright, Van-Sama." Merle said and left.

"So what do you want to talk about?" Van asked again once they where alone.

"Mostly about you and my sister." Mamoru said which made Van narrow his eyes at him.

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Hitomi finally found Van, Mamoru was there to, but what where they doing? They where actually talking with out killing one another, that was amazing, she never thought she see the day. Wait, she came to talk about her vision. She was about to step forward when she heard their voices.

"I know when you where first married, six months ago, that you didn't want to marry my sister and I knew you had told her that you didn't love her." Mamoru said. "Do you still feel the same way?" He asked.

"Normally I would tell you that my feelings for Hitomi are none of your business, but since you are her oni-chan, I will answer that question. I have fallen in love with Hitomi." He said and looked in to Mamoru's green eyes as he said it. "I will not let anything happen to her."

"Zaibach already captured her once." Mamoru said and pressed his hand to where his scar was now from where he was stabbed. "I still can't figure out why they want her, I wonder if its because of her power." Mamoru said. "I don't know what they did to me to make me come back to life, but I don't like it." He added which made Van look at him with an unreadable expression. "If something should happen to me again, I want you to take care of Hitomi for me."

"As I said, I would protect Hitomi wife my life." Van said. "I don't know why, but when I am around her, she makes me feel at ease." He said closing his eyes at that moment. "I know our relationship got off to a rocky start, but after this war, I have the rest of my life to make it up to her."

Was Van really saying what she thought he was saying? He loved her. He really did love her, she knew it, but she rarely heard, never heard him say those words to her. The only thing that bothered her, was the part when Van had said, "I will protect Hitomi with my life." She didn't want him to go that far, if he died, she would die to, her heart ached to be with him, and if he died, she didn't know what she would do. "Van!" Hitomi said after gathering herself up and acted like she just ran in there. "Oni-Chan, I just had another vision…" She said making herself try to sound like she was out of breath.

"What was it?" Mamoru asked.

"Uncle…" Hitomi said with wide eyes as the vision came back in to her mind. "Uncle dieing."

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I noticed how many stupid mistakes I made and I'm surprised no one complained. I don't know if I said this already or not, but i'm saying it again because I am really glad that I am going back and am editing my story. I just rewatched EscaFlowne for like the hundreth time this past week, I had to skip over the episodes to where Hitomi was all gaga for Allen since I couldn't stand it! It made me gag. I know that this is another filler in a way, but in a way it isn't. Well, please review.