"Merle I need help!"Hitomi yelled out in fustration.

"What's it this time, Hitomi?" Merle asked with a gigle.

The wedding was in the morning and dhe and Hitomi where

going threw the gifts.

Hitomi was stairing at the gift from Token a country beside

Zaibach. It was an ugly little animal that had been put in

the box.

"Oh, thats a Saram. It's supposed to bring...ummm.." Merle

started to gigle again.

"Bring what Merle?!"

"...Fertility...." Hitomi looked at the rat like creature.

"Well...go let him out in the garden, will you?" Hitomi

handed over the box to Merle. This wedding couldn't end

fast enough for Hitomi. She was ready for it, the begining

of the rest of her life.


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On a raised platform newly built in the formost square of

the Capital city of Fanila, the wedding took place. The air

was filled with exitment, almost like carnaval time.

Children ran through the crowd with bightly colored

streamers and noblity from the surounding Contries sat in

shaded boxed seats away from the noise of the crowd.

Hitomi stood in her lite voilet kamona withMerle and

Millerna beside her as Royal witnesses of the occasin. Van

stood with the anceint scrib on one side of him and a wise

priest on the other.

Hitomi approached the priest with shallow breath to begen

the ritual. Van came to stand so that the priest was

between them. They rasied their hands so that thier palms

and fingers were touching.

The priest took teir other hands so that they formed a

circle. The scrib wrote everything down on a scrowl opened

infront of him.

The priest spook." The circle of Lofe is now unbroken.

Life, Love and Family. Remeber that these are the most

important. Now, Lady Hitomi, do you pledge by blood

covanent to never leave this land, to always serve your

husband and your people. To forever do your best to uphold

peace in the eyes of the Gods for as long as your life

force is in your body?" His wise old eyes looked straight

into her soul. He saw how sincere she was, how she had

truly made this world her home.

"I do swear by blood covanent to uphold these things, or

may the Gods have mercey on my soul." Hitomi's voice was

steady as she looked at Van and gave her vow. A small boy

brought the ceramonal dager. It's hilt was encrusted with

rubys and diamonds. The blade was etvhed with the crest of

the Royal House of Fanel. The priest picked it up from off

it's velvet pillow. He put it to his lips in a holy kiss,

then he reashed for Hitomi's hand and slit her thumb. Red

blood driped from the wond as Hitomi turned and pressed her

thumb to the scroll. Then she turned back to rejoin her

hands with the priest and Van. Her blood driped down the

side of Van's palm. The priest spoke to Van.

"King Fanel, do you pledge by blood covanent to protect

your Queen as long as you have breath. To always deal

honorbly with her. To put her above your kingdom and before

every other thing as long as your life force flows through

your veins?" The anceint priest truned to his king,

awaiting his reply.

"I do swear by blood covanebt and the Gods to hold up these

things as thruth or may Escaflowne and the Gods have mercey

on my soul." The priest put the dager to Van's thumb and

Van in turn placed it to the parchment. The priest then

tool both of their thumbs and pressed them together over

the scroll. One dark red drop fell in between the bloody

prints. Holding up thier hands high, the priest declared.

"I pronounce in the sight of these Royal wintesses and in

the sight of the people of Fanlia that these two have

entered into the blood covanent of Husband and Wife. I give

you your new Queen!!" A shout rang up from the people oa

Fanlia, the likes of which had never been heard. Merle and

Millerna had tears in thier eyes as Van picked up Hitomi

and spun her around. The priest and the scrib bound and

sealed the scroll to be out with all the other royal

documents. Yes, this was a happy day in Gaea, and as the

sun set and the Mysitc Moon rose high above. the

celibrating crowd, everybody saw that it was shining

brighter than before.



End of Chapter.

But not end of FIC!! I still have a long way to go before this thing comes to an end!! I jsut don't write all fluff you know!! Now many of the readers I have on FF.net have been wanting me to write a sequal to 'Never Doubt' just so you know....THis is the sequal. A small referece to the fic was made in the 1st chapter!! I hope you all are in for a long ride because this fic is just geting good!!!