Sorry I haven't added for a while---my server is goin nuts on me and frankly, i'm getting ticked off. so here i am, typin the rest up but nowhere to upload. so until i get a new server, u might not hear from me for a while. while waiting, i will be finishing off the story. enjoy!
~The Descent of the Priestess~
~Namida No Sora~
"He's gone!!!"
Meruru ran out of Van's empty chambers, sobbing and clutching the loose rags that once bound around Van's forehead and arm. Allan and Millerna looked up from their silent states to look at her. Millerna got up immediately and rushed to comfort the young catwoman. Allan was thunderstruck.
"There, there, Meruru..."
"Where could they have gone?" Allan mused to himself. "That baka king...pardon to the gods but Van has always been quite abrupt and irrational. First the brawns before the brains." He shook his head. "I don't know, that kid might even go back to the battlefield..."
"Allan!" Millerna scolded, looking up to him with a scowl.
Meruru stopped sobbing to watch with keen interest.
He glared down, a bit too harshly, he added. "It is true, and you know it!" he said, suddenly defensively. "You saw how recklessly he plundged himself into battle, how irrational he was being. Risking his life like that...baka, I tell you, baka!" he finished.
Wham! Millerna's hand met his cheek with a slap.
"Lord Van is NOT a baka, Allan!" Meruru shouted, fierce tears coming down her face as she started wailing again.
Both people were not paying attention at the sobbing Meruru, but were glaring at each other with deadly threats veiled behind their eyes, panting from the transaction. They just stood there, standing, glaring at each other, Millerna looking all angry and Allan with the flaming cheek.
At the same time, a maintenance worker rushed in, panting for breath and dripping with sweat as he rushed up to Allan and Millerna, unaware of the transactions that had just occured. "Princess, Sir, there's been a breach down at the maintenance sectors."
Allan walked up to the man. "What happened?"
"Someone bursted in and started rampaging his way to one of the guymelufs," he responded. "He seemed to be in a darn hurry, if I may say so. One of my men tried stopping him, but he knocked him down as if he were nuthin'. Escaped the area without clearance and blew out over a dozen different machinery---do you know how much those blasted things cost?"
Allan ignored the last comment. "Describe him."
"Tall, lanky, dark hair, sharp eyes---"
"Dammit, that's King Van!" Allan roared. "That baka...I knew it!"
Millerna shoved Allan aside and looked straight at the man in the eye. Since she was taller than him (probably because of the heels), it was easier to glare down at him. "Did he have anyone with him, or was he by himself when he committed this...little exersize?"
The man paused. "He was alone when he stole the guymeluf..."
Sighs of relief echoed the room.
"...but then, before he launched, this girl with long blonde hair and green eyes ran straight towards the guymeluf and he swooped her up before slamming through the security gates..."
Meruru gasped.
Millerna was thunderstruck.
Allan was...well..."Dammit! Hitomi! It must've been Hitomi!" he cried, slamming his bolted fist towards the table. "I should've known...an accomplice! She must've helped him escape the freakin' room so he can grab a guymeluf...but why? Why would she help him?"
"Because she loves him?" Meruru asked.
Allan glared at Meruru before thinking of a question. This is absurd, he thought angrily. They are acting like children, especially Van...what is going on? Most of all..."Man," he barked. "Tell me, which guymeluf did his Majesty take?"
"The white dragon, s-sir," the man stammered.
"Escaflowne!" He rushed out of the room.
"Allan---Allan! Come back here!" Millerna hollered after him. "Allan!"
"Ohmigosh, I can't believe we pulled it off!" Hitomi cried as she rode on Escaflowne's dragon mode in the sunlight of the clear blue sky. She was clutching onto Van, in case she fell. She had forgotten the feeling of flying on Escaflowne, how free she felt...
Van seemed tense as he held the reins to Escaflowne.
"Van?" she asked softly.
"Hmm?" He blinked.
"What's wrong?"
He shook his head. "Nothing."
She frowned; he seemed distant. She could feel it in her mind, in her soul. Something was uneasy there...but she couldn't place a finger on it. She had to get some answer. "Van, something IS wrong...I can feel it." She paused briefly. "Tell me...please."
He sighed. "It's those dark guymelufs I battled, the ones you saw," he told her softly. "I feel something is not right when I battled them; I never saw that squiggly silver line before...not 'til yesterday, that is. Some of the works appear to be Zaibach technology..."
"But I thought Zaibach was obsolete now," she reasoned.
"Yes, but their technology and people are scattered all over the place," he stated. "It's nuts, but it's the truth. Gaea is still threatened by Zaibach, even now, two cycles later. It's a crazy little world we have here and somehow, the past never lets go of us."
Hitomi sighed. "There's more to it than you say, isn't there?"
"I don't know," he responded truthfully. "Frankly, I've been thinking of scenerios the entire time I was lying in that room. They seem so strong...I...I can't understand it."
Hitomi looked away, towards the clouds and the brilliant sun. How could a world like this be in so much trouble? she wondered. She then looked back at Van. He was looking straight ahead now, his body tense and his face distracted. Poor Van..."I see you still wear the pendant."
He blushed. "Um...yah..."
How sweet, she thought. Then, she felt the form of an idea swarm in her mind. "Van, give me the pendant."
"What?"
"Give me the pendant. I may have the answer."
He nodded and slowly took off the pendant from around his neck gently. She admired the care and the patience he had taking it off; it was worth a great deal to him. He carefully placed it in her outstetched hands as she began to close her eyes and swing the pendant---
Earth.
Her mother sitting on the virande of their house, thinking.
Shuken, watching the stars twinkle in the sky.
"M-Mother, Shuken?"
Yukari and Amano, driving in Amano's new sports car.
"Yukari? Amano?"
Feathers.
Tarot cards.
The Dragon and the Priestess.
Hitomi was feeling dizzy. "What is going on?!" she cried.
"Hitomi?" Van's voice.
Hitomi was getting even more dizzy now as she was whirling in a cascade of images from Earth, the Mystic Moon, whatever. She kept on seeing her sad mother, her concerned and distracted friends. Feathers kept falling and the tarot cards kept on appearing.
What is going on? she wondered. Why is this happening to me?
On the reality plane, Van felt her her hands let go slowly from his waist coldly. He turned to face her with wild eyes as he shouted, "Hitomi? Hitomi! No, don't let go!"
She slipped back and fell off Escaflowne, still clutching the pendant, her eyes closed in a blissful trance. It made her look like a falling angel, only she was falling to what would be her death.
"Hitomi!" he shouted, pulling Escaflowne's reins and ordering it to swoon downward after her falling body in the air. "Hitomi!!!!"
***Down to the earth I fell/
Dripping wings/
Heavy things won't fly***
~"Tonight and the Rest of my Life" Nina Gordan
~End of Chapter~
Whoa! Flying free~will Hitomi be saved by Van? Or is something peculiar really up? R&R! Hopefully I'll get the next parts in time.
~The Descent of the Priestess~
~Namida No Sora~
"He's gone!!!"
Meruru ran out of Van's empty chambers, sobbing and clutching the loose rags that once bound around Van's forehead and arm. Allan and Millerna looked up from their silent states to look at her. Millerna got up immediately and rushed to comfort the young catwoman. Allan was thunderstruck.
"There, there, Meruru..."
"Where could they have gone?" Allan mused to himself. "That baka king...pardon to the gods but Van has always been quite abrupt and irrational. First the brawns before the brains." He shook his head. "I don't know, that kid might even go back to the battlefield..."
"Allan!" Millerna scolded, looking up to him with a scowl.
Meruru stopped sobbing to watch with keen interest.
He glared down, a bit too harshly, he added. "It is true, and you know it!" he said, suddenly defensively. "You saw how recklessly he plundged himself into battle, how irrational he was being. Risking his life like that...baka, I tell you, baka!" he finished.
Wham! Millerna's hand met his cheek with a slap.
"Lord Van is NOT a baka, Allan!" Meruru shouted, fierce tears coming down her face as she started wailing again.
Both people were not paying attention at the sobbing Meruru, but were glaring at each other with deadly threats veiled behind their eyes, panting from the transaction. They just stood there, standing, glaring at each other, Millerna looking all angry and Allan with the flaming cheek.
At the same time, a maintenance worker rushed in, panting for breath and dripping with sweat as he rushed up to Allan and Millerna, unaware of the transactions that had just occured. "Princess, Sir, there's been a breach down at the maintenance sectors."
Allan walked up to the man. "What happened?"
"Someone bursted in and started rampaging his way to one of the guymelufs," he responded. "He seemed to be in a darn hurry, if I may say so. One of my men tried stopping him, but he knocked him down as if he were nuthin'. Escaped the area without clearance and blew out over a dozen different machinery---do you know how much those blasted things cost?"
Allan ignored the last comment. "Describe him."
"Tall, lanky, dark hair, sharp eyes---"
"Dammit, that's King Van!" Allan roared. "That baka...I knew it!"
Millerna shoved Allan aside and looked straight at the man in the eye. Since she was taller than him (probably because of the heels), it was easier to glare down at him. "Did he have anyone with him, or was he by himself when he committed this...little exersize?"
The man paused. "He was alone when he stole the guymeluf..."
Sighs of relief echoed the room.
"...but then, before he launched, this girl with long blonde hair and green eyes ran straight towards the guymeluf and he swooped her up before slamming through the security gates..."
Meruru gasped.
Millerna was thunderstruck.
Allan was...well..."Dammit! Hitomi! It must've been Hitomi!" he cried, slamming his bolted fist towards the table. "I should've known...an accomplice! She must've helped him escape the freakin' room so he can grab a guymeluf...but why? Why would she help him?"
"Because she loves him?" Meruru asked.
Allan glared at Meruru before thinking of a question. This is absurd, he thought angrily. They are acting like children, especially Van...what is going on? Most of all..."Man," he barked. "Tell me, which guymeluf did his Majesty take?"
"The white dragon, s-sir," the man stammered.
"Escaflowne!" He rushed out of the room.
"Allan---Allan! Come back here!" Millerna hollered after him. "Allan!"
"Ohmigosh, I can't believe we pulled it off!" Hitomi cried as she rode on Escaflowne's dragon mode in the sunlight of the clear blue sky. She was clutching onto Van, in case she fell. She had forgotten the feeling of flying on Escaflowne, how free she felt...
Van seemed tense as he held the reins to Escaflowne.
"Van?" she asked softly.
"Hmm?" He blinked.
"What's wrong?"
He shook his head. "Nothing."
She frowned; he seemed distant. She could feel it in her mind, in her soul. Something was uneasy there...but she couldn't place a finger on it. She had to get some answer. "Van, something IS wrong...I can feel it." She paused briefly. "Tell me...please."
He sighed. "It's those dark guymelufs I battled, the ones you saw," he told her softly. "I feel something is not right when I battled them; I never saw that squiggly silver line before...not 'til yesterday, that is. Some of the works appear to be Zaibach technology..."
"But I thought Zaibach was obsolete now," she reasoned.
"Yes, but their technology and people are scattered all over the place," he stated. "It's nuts, but it's the truth. Gaea is still threatened by Zaibach, even now, two cycles later. It's a crazy little world we have here and somehow, the past never lets go of us."
Hitomi sighed. "There's more to it than you say, isn't there?"
"I don't know," he responded truthfully. "Frankly, I've been thinking of scenerios the entire time I was lying in that room. They seem so strong...I...I can't understand it."
Hitomi looked away, towards the clouds and the brilliant sun. How could a world like this be in so much trouble? she wondered. She then looked back at Van. He was looking straight ahead now, his body tense and his face distracted. Poor Van..."I see you still wear the pendant."
He blushed. "Um...yah..."
How sweet, she thought. Then, she felt the form of an idea swarm in her mind. "Van, give me the pendant."
"What?"
"Give me the pendant. I may have the answer."
He nodded and slowly took off the pendant from around his neck gently. She admired the care and the patience he had taking it off; it was worth a great deal to him. He carefully placed it in her outstetched hands as she began to close her eyes and swing the pendant---
Earth.
Her mother sitting on the virande of their house, thinking.
Shuken, watching the stars twinkle in the sky.
"M-Mother, Shuken?"
Yukari and Amano, driving in Amano's new sports car.
"Yukari? Amano?"
Feathers.
Tarot cards.
The Dragon and the Priestess.
Hitomi was feeling dizzy. "What is going on?!" she cried.
"Hitomi?" Van's voice.
Hitomi was getting even more dizzy now as she was whirling in a cascade of images from Earth, the Mystic Moon, whatever. She kept on seeing her sad mother, her concerned and distracted friends. Feathers kept falling and the tarot cards kept on appearing.
What is going on? she wondered. Why is this happening to me?
On the reality plane, Van felt her her hands let go slowly from his waist coldly. He turned to face her with wild eyes as he shouted, "Hitomi? Hitomi! No, don't let go!"
She slipped back and fell off Escaflowne, still clutching the pendant, her eyes closed in a blissful trance. It made her look like a falling angel, only she was falling to what would be her death.
"Hitomi!" he shouted, pulling Escaflowne's reins and ordering it to swoon downward after her falling body in the air. "Hitomi!!!!"
***Down to the earth I fell/
Dripping wings/
Heavy things won't fly***
~"Tonight and the Rest of my Life" Nina Gordan
~End of Chapter~
Whoa! Flying free~will Hitomi be saved by Van? Or is something peculiar really up? R&R! Hopefully I'll get the next parts in time.
