The battle
Van grabbed his sword and ran out of the palace, avoiding the blows from the enemy guymelefs. He quickly jumped into the awaiting escaflowne, and joining his allies defending Asturia.
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Hitomi and Malerna stared at the horrifying scene, the palace crumbling to the ground. Asturia's people retreating to safe grounds. Wild fire spreading rapidly, almost everything was turning into ruins of a broken country, all because of war. The guymelefs destroyed anything it set eyes on, and all they could do was watch.
Realizing quickly that they were in the open, Malerna rushed past the battlegrounds. Joined by Dryden and people of their country. They ran toward a clearing far away from the massacre. Leaving Hitomi behind, once again being part of an unmistakable battle. She somehow knew she had to help Van overcome this, he couldn't do it alone. Van didn't want to depend on dowsing, he needed to concentrate on defending Asturia. She decided she had to do it for him. She swiftly ran toward the battle, sensing where the invisible giants laid.
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"Van behind you!" she yelled as the guymelef tried to pierce through escaflowne. Van quickly whipped around, slicing the guymelef with escaflowne' s sword.
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Allen was on the battleground fighting the red guymelef, fighting Dilandau, fighting his own sister. He was careful not to harm her, for she was only shielded from the world by her evil counterpart.
Dilandau made the wrong movie trying to jab into Allen's guymelef. Realizing the opportunity Allen quickly used his sword piercing through the energist that fueled the great giant.
"Please change back into Celena!" Allen cried helplessly, as Jajuka once had. Jajuka once called to Dilandau tell him to change back to the sweet Celena, during the last battle of the Great War. That time it had worked.
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Van began to relax as he noticed that the red guymelef was now nonfunctional. Then suddenly it hit her, the liquid metal had hit Hitomi. She had been unable to detect it, unable to detect it's source.
"Hitomi!" Van yelled, as the liquid metal penetrated her. He quickly maneuvered escaflowne and sliced the guymelef in half.
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She cried out in pain, as her head hit the gravel from the ruins of the palace, and for a moment all was still; everything seemed to be going in slow motion. Hitomi could feel her heart going slower as her blood poured from the wound. Van quickly opened escaflowne jumping out and running to where Hitomi laid. Van kneeled down and gently laid her head on his lap, whispering comforting thoughts in her ear… nothing was heard. Her tears streamed down her cheeks, as she knew she would not live long. The only thing she heard was the soft whisper of Vans words, "Hitomi don't die on me now, I need you, I love you…"
TBC…
Authors note: Please don't be mad at me for yet again a short chapter, and for making Hitomi suffer…
But it is an interesting turn of events isn't it? Any ways I'll get working on the next chapter ASAP!
Please R&R! Thanks!