Prophesy Of War

Prophesy Of War

Allen opened her door and peeked in the room to watch Celena sleep. Even five years later, he was always worried that she would disappear again. He had good reason; everyone he loved had died, disappeared or left him, even she had disappeared at one time.

He thought about them all quite frequently, his mother Encia, his father Leon, his son Chid, Marlene, Celena and Hitomi, he though about Hitomi a lot. Although he couldn't honestly say he was still in love with her, he could say for sure that he had loved her, and he loved her like a sister now and forever.

He may be 26 now, but he could never forget any of them. Sometimes he saw Chid, whenever he visited Freid anyway, but it wasn't enough. So all he had was Celena. Now, he of course had his friends from the Crusade, and don't forget his white owl Natal.

As far as the Crusade went, he barely saw them anymore. He was still a Knight of Caeli, and therefore still fought, but the war had been over for almost five years now. He could move on with his life. They could move on with their lives.

With a content smile on his face he closed his sisters door and walked away. He wondered how long Celena would stay with him, after all, she was 20 now and absolutely beautiful, many men had asked her hand in marriage. She had turned them all down; she was waiting for that special someone to come along.

In a way he was waiting for that right someone to come along, and yet, in a way… he had already met that perfect someone.

"I wonder what Gaddes and the rest are up to," he thought mildly and sat down in the living room.

*

Celena stirred in her sleep as she heard some sort of cry coming from outside. Slowly, due to her tired state, she swung her feet of the bed and looked out the window to investigate the noise.

What she saw scared and shocked her a bit. There outside trying to make her way across the field was a girl wearing white rags that were clad in blood. She backed away from the window, her mind and heart racing a mile a minute. The blood could be hers and she needed to help her then, or it could be the blood of someone else…

She grabbed her coat and ran out of her room and was about to go out the door when she figured she would need some sort of protection. She then saw her brother sitting in the living room; he looked so sound when he slept.

Not wanting to wake him up she quietly took his katana out of its sheath.

"Gomen nasai Onii-Sama," she mumbled and started for the door again, Natal cooed at her leaving the room.

She got outside and spotted the woman again, she was nearing the edge of a nearby cliff. Worried that she might be so injured not to notice the cliff, she ran forward as fast as her legs could possibly carry her.

"Matte!!! Yamete!!!" She called hoping the woman could hear her, and to her great relief the woman stopped walking and slowly turned around.

The woman had long wispy white hair that had dried blood stuck to it. He eyes were light blue and she held a deranged and disorientated grin. Celena noticed something else about the woman; she was holding her stomach in pain. She was about to give birth to a child. Then without another though, the woman collapsed.

Celena ran forward again and as she reached the woman's side dropped Allens' katana.

"Are you ok?" She asked worriedly, the woman slowly nodded, the grin not going away. "You're going to have your baby aren't you?"

The woman nodded slowly.

"Wait here, I'll go get my brother!" She said and got up, she began to turn when the woman grabbed her wrist.

"No…" she managed to whimper out, then her grin faded and her face showed pain.

"What if she doesn't live through this?" Celena thought worriedly, but didn't go, she knelt back down.

She then took her coat off and put it under the woman's head to serve as a pillow.

"How long have you… have there been contractions?" Celena asked tripping over her words she was so nervous. She didn't want the child or mother to die, and there was still the matter of the blood.

"I'd say… a day…" she mumbled out quietly, her face still showing the pain she felt.

"The baby's coming any second then," Celena breathed out hurriedly. She couldn't fuck up, she had to make sure both lived. But what'd she know about delivering children? She'd never done it before; she'd never even been pregnant before. "How old are you?"

"18," she replied and Celenas' eyes went wide with shock. She was younger than her. She could not fuck up.

It wasn't much longer that she baby was coming out, the mother cursing her head off the entire time; Celena figured it was because of the pain. As she caught the baby girl in her arms she smiled idly, she'd helped bring a life into the world.

"I… did it," she said in a state of shock and bliss.

She then ripped a piece of her nightgown off to wrap the child up and clean some of the blood. She grabbed Allens' katana and then cut the umbilical cord.

The woman the looked up at Celena, flustered, but out of pain. She reached out for the child that Celena now held.

"Let me… hold her," she mumbled and Celena complied by handing her the small child.

The woman grabbed the child, but didn't look at her, instead she stared up at Celena, her face not showing happiness or regret, but staying emotionless.

"Gomen… I didn't mean to bother you," she mumbled, Celena smiled and shook her head saying that it was no trouble at all. "The second I realized the baby was going to be born I killed my husband."

Celena stopped smiling and look at the woman horrified, was she joking? She must be.

"I don't want anyone to live through what's coming, not me, and not my child," she said and with a quick motion, she reached up and snapped her newly born Childs neck.

"AHHHHHHHH!!!" Celena screamed backing away in a sort of crabwalk. "No… NO!!!"

"It's your choice if you want to live or not… I had the prophesy of war." she mumbled and then grabbed Allens' katana and slit her own throat.

Celena continued to scream, too scared to move or to run, but not quite realizing she didn't have to. The woman's dead corpse reflected itself in her eyes, and then the changed happened cutting her screams off.

*

Allen woke up with a start upon hearing the screams, Celenas' screams. Natal flew over to him, upon seeing he was awake flew out the door. Allen got the idea and began following him; he noticed his katana was missing and that the door was open and thought for the worst.

"CELENA!!!" He yelled as he saw the two figured by the edge of the cliff, she wasn't screaming anymore. Was that good or bad?

As soon as he could see the figures clearly he stopped dead in his tracks. There was a woman with her neck slit and lying beside her was a baby, it's face blue and it's head almost turned completely around. In front of the two was a quivering figure he assumed was his sister.

"Celena," he said calmly as he reached out for her.

She quickly pulled away and jumped unto her feet turning around to stare into Allens' eyes. Allen recognized the red eyes, the gray hair and the deep scar on his right cheek.

"Di… Dilandau!?!" He said taking a step back in shock. How was it possible? Wasn't that all of that over and done with?

"Allen Schezar," Dilandau said in his trademark mocking tone.

He remembered him, the last time they saw each other was on the battlefield… he had to kill him now. End the war and walk out victoriously.

In a quite motion he grabbed Allens' katana and was on him like a hound of Hell. Allen didn't have time to run or scream before his former sister was chopping him to bits and laughing his insane laugh as he did it.

Natal flew at Dilandau as Allens' body fell to the ground in pieces, but the owls' efforts were wasted. Dilandau killed him in one sweep on the katana.

As the night continued, Dilandaus' laugh was heard for miles.

*

Hitomi walked down the street, she had returned from yet another blind date that her best friend Yukari had decided to set her up on. After returning from Gaea, Yukari noticed how distant she was, how depressed she was.

True, she missed Van so much, and it depressed her truly. But she didn't need to go on countless dates; of course, she couldn't refuse her and Amano.

She sighed deeply, she could still feel Vans' watching eyes, she could still feel the love she felt for him run deep in her veins. She would never love another. 20 years old and had been single all her life.

Hitomi Kanzaki had kept her promise to Van Fanel. She had never forgotten him.

It was then suddenly when she felt something pulling at her. The feeling was so familiar… like whenever the pillar of light had appeared to take her to or from Gaea. She stopped dead in her tracks.

Could it be that she would return? She hadn't had any visions since being on Gaea and hadn't done a tarot reading for almost a year, she had told everyone she had given up on it, but she still did them sometimes.

Not sure what was going to happen, Hitomi began to run home. She could run a lot faster than five years ago, she was even on her Universities track team and her coach said she had enough talent to take her too Japans national track team.

All that didn't really matter; all that really mattered has getting home. She'd do a tarot reading and then-

Hitomi didn't make it any farther, a pillar of light suddenly surrounded her and she could feel herself being lifted into the air. How could this be happening? She didn't have the pendant anymore; she had given it to Van.

Could it be that Van was calling her?

Had something happened to Gaea?

Hitomi stopped resisting the pillar, even though resistance did nothing as she had learned from past experience. She could feel Gaea coming closer and closer, she closed her eyes for a second and then felt something rip at her soul.

She opened her eyes with a cry and then saw herself in front of her.

"Nani…?" The other her eyes were still closed like she was sleeping. Could this be an out of body experience? Had her soul somehow got disembodied?

Before she could think the matter further the light disappeared and she was sitting in a very familiar field, it was the same one her and Van had first arrived in. Looking around she couldn't see any other her, obviously she had returned back into her body.

Now, she had to find Van and Fanelia and figure out why she had been called.