Illmite L'Amour du Coeur
Disclaimer: Do I really need to say it again? You should know it by heart by now. If not, check the previous chapters.*grumbles about not owning Dilandau and Hitomi.*
AN: hey peeps! What's up! Well, anyways, I'm so so sorry about not updating forever. School can be like that when you're in French 4 AP and Chemistry Honors.
Chapter 5: What Happens Now?
Merle and Balgus stood in the conference room, talking about the plans. Sir Allen, Princesses Eries and Millerna, King Aston, Prince Chid, and Voris had since retired to their rooms. They had finally come to the consensus that they should find out the location of the nearest flying fortress and amass an attack upon it, hoping to find the one that was carrying Hitomi.

Hitomi awoke to a blurred face above her. Closing her eyes, and rubbing the sleep from them, she reopened her eyes and saw that Dilandau was hovering above her. "Hitomi, I have some bad news for you."
"What? What's going on?"
"Well, since you reacted so violently to the treaty with King Aston, the Emperor has ordered us to attack Palas."
"What?! But King Aston, the Princesses, and Sir Allen are in Fanelia, in the palace! And so is my godson Chid!" Hitomi slapped a hand over her mouth. "Oops!"
"Well, Hitomi, what say you?" Hitomi turned towards the door in time to see Folken emerge from the shadows.
"Folken-sama." Dilandau said, while staying by Hitomi nonetheless.
"What do you mean?" Hitomi regarded him, her surprise reflected in the depths of her emerald eyes.
"You have two choices. Since you just said yourself that King Aston and the other royals relating to Asturia and her sister country of Freid are at the palace in Fanelia, you can choose where we attack. We can attack the palace, as we might have had we been unsuccessful in our kidnapping of you, or we can attack an unprotected Palas."
"What kind of choice is that?" Hitomi shouted, indignant.
"It's the only one you have." Folken stated plainly. "However, we will issue a warning to the citizens of Palas. You may help craft it yourself."
"I-, I-, I don't have a choice. I can't lose my palace, for it would mean losing my friends and my godson, as well as my people."
"Good choice. Dilandau, you heard her. Now go alert the Ryuugekitai as to the status of our attack. I'll take Hitomi to the lab to send the post via our nearest fort." As Dilandau stood up to leave, Hitomi grabbed onto him, forcing him to help her up. Once she was standing up, she cried unto his shoulder. "What am I going to say? How can I condemn my allies?!"
"Hitomi, think of it this way. He betrayed you by having an alliance with us in the first place, and you're telling the people, so don't feel bad. Like Folken said, you don't have any other choice."
"I guess so."
"Well, Hitomi, come on." Folken waited at the door, while Dilandau helped Hitomi. Once the two reached the door, Folken threw an arm across her shoulders to steady her, while Dilandau left to debrief his Ryuugekitai. "I know you don't like doing this, but this was an order from the Emperor and it's our duty to follow it."
"I know, but how will I explain that to the people so that they take it seriously."
"Well, it'd be their loss if they don't recognize a warning coming from the Queen of Fanelia."
"That's not exactly what I meant, Folken." They stopped in front of a door at the end of the hall and Hitomi watched as Folken pressed in the code to open the door. As it slid open, Folken ushered her inside.
"Alright, now, I'd assume that you would just warn them that there's good evidence of an attack and that they should flee to Freid. That way, you'll have no deaths to worry about and no one will have to take any blame." Hitomi sighed, resigned to the fact that she was potentially signing the death warrant for thousands upon thousands of people. Sitting down at the desk that Folken stood by, she mechanically began to write her warning, whereupon finishing it, signed it with the usual flourish that was her signature. "Okay, I'm done. I think that it's satisfactory and factual enough without details to convince them to move." Hitomi said as she stood up and handed Folken the letter.
Folken scanned it and nodded. "I think it's enough. Alright, come with me. I'll show you back to your rooms, Queen Hitomi, and you can rest there until someone comes for you."
Hitomi just nodded her consent.

Okay, okay. I know it's short. But don't flame me, I'm element earth and I will burn. So, review, review, review. It took this long cause of school, by the way.