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Chapter #2

The Reunion

Van peered closer to the figure that was laying in the mud. The figure looked back at him. Once he saw who it was he wanted to jump and dance and sing he was so giddy. Then reality dawned on him, Hitomi had died. This couldn't be his sweet Hitomi. But he had to make sure.

"H-Hitomi?" Van asked.

"V-V-Van?" The figure asked in return.

'How can this be. Is it really her?' He thought.

"Hitomi!" Van cried.

He bent low and scooped her up, holding her in his arms. He had Hitomi and in his mind that meant that every thing was going to be alright. But how was it possibly? She had died. Hadn't she?

Van looked down into Hitomi's sparkling emerald eye's. 'Gods let this not be a dream.' He mentally begged.

"Hitomi?" Van asked. "How can you be alive? I saw your dead body, I helped bury you."

"Van sit down I have to tell you some thing." Hitomi said. Van obeyed and sat down with Hitomi in his lap cradling her. Once she thought that Van was ready to hear what had happed to her she told him of how she knew she was going to die, finding herself in the underwater fields of dead bodies, and the unknown. Van by the look on his face didn't want to believe that Hitomi had gone thou all that and he hadn't been there to protect her.

"Why did you do that Hitomi?!" He yelled. "That was so stupid! But at least your ok now."

Van sighed. He looked in Hitomi's eyes once more, she had the eyes of a old woman that had seen things that no person should ever see. Hitomi smiled at him, she was finally with the real Van not a false one. She could tell he did things that she didn't expect or foresee, like the false ones did.

Van picked Hitomi up and looked around. It had gotten dark. But if they were near Dark Reach swamp he knew where to go. He hopped into Escaflowne with Hitomi and took of westward so that they could rejoin with Allen and the Crusade.

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Allen sighed they had been looking for Van for hours. Once the pillar of light had taken him away they had left unnoticed by Dilandau and his dragon slayers. Since then they had been searching for Van and the Escaflowne. They were starting to think that they would never see both the Escaflowne or Van agene when they heard Merle's high pitch squeal.

"It's Lord Van!!!" She cried. "It's really him he's in Escaflowne over there."

Merle pointed to the figure of a mechanical dragon flying towards them. Allen along with some of the other crew from the Crusade ran to the hanger that the Escaflowne usually stayed while Van wasn't using it. When they arrived they weighted for Van to land the Escaflowne.

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Van was preparing to land the Escaflowne in the hanger, he glanced to Hitomi who had been exhausted from her 'battle' with the unknown and had fallen asleep. He smiled to himself Hitomi had said that she had missed him, she said that she would live a thousand lifetimes just to see him agene. 'Beat that Allen.' Van said mentally to himself.

There was a screeching of metal agent metal when the Escaflowne landed. Once Van opened the hatch he was met my Merle who jumped up on top of him knocking them both off Escaflowne and onto the floor where they met Allen and some of the Crusade's crew. Merle licked Van's face all over then she stopped when she felt that Van was carrying something in his arms. So being her normal curious self she looked at what he was carrying.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Merle screamed bloody murder. "O MY GOD'S! Van you dug up Hitomi's BODY!"

"What!" Cried a horrified Allen. Him and the other's looked closer to see that it was Hitomi.

"Van! How could you disgrace Hitomi! You dug up her corps!" Allen screamed.

"No Allen she's not dead she's alive!" Van said excitedly.

"The boy's gone insane. We have to lock him up!" Said Gaddis.

Since every one thought that Van had gone out of his mind they decided that locking him up was the best idea for the moment.

"I said that she's alive! Gods why the hell wont you just check!?!?" Van screamed as he was being chased around the hanger.

"Van just stop running ok? Were going to help you." Allen tried to coxes Van.

"Boss you go around the far end I'll cut him off" Yelled one of the crew of the Crusade.

"Shut the hell up Shazar! I'm not crazy!" Van yelled as he ran towards Escaflowne, and the unconscious Hitomi.

It was at the moment that Allen had a hold of Van that Hitomi had finally woke up to find Allen holding Van in a head lock only about five feet from her.

"Allen what are you doing to Van!?" Cried Hitomi.

Allen, and the rest of the people that had been chasing Van looked past Van to see a supposedly dead Hitomi slowly getting to her feet.

"Van you disgraced Hitomi's body by digging her up and now she's going to hunt us for the rest of our lives!!!!" Cried a terrified Merle.

"Merle I'm not dead." Said Hitomi.

"O my god's and it sounds just like her too!!!" Yelled one of the cure.

"It's the curse of the Mystic Moon!!!"

"She's going to cut out our harts and eat them!!!"

"SHUT THE HELL UP!!!" Hitomi cried finally loosing her patents. "I'm not dead. I'm very much alive now if you want I'll tell you why I'm standing her and not in my grave."

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After about a thousand questions and even more rants about the Mystic Moon curs or some thing about the sort Hitomi was in her bed aboard the Crusade trying to sleep. When Van took her to Crusade she had gone unconscious because she had been so tired, but with all of the other 'voices' in her head she couldn't sleep even if she wanted to. Not that she really wanted to, for some reason she didn't find herself tired at all only mentally because of all the commotion in her head. But Hitomi didn't mind because that gave her time to ask the voices questions.

By the time the sun rose high in the sky the next day she knew every language on Gaea. She even knew a dragon. Apparently they were pretty smart and had only a few words like for food, water, or leave me alone. Hitomi also knew the entire geography of Gaea, depending how much the land had changed since the persons memory had last seen it.

Then deciding that it was time for breakfast she clamed out of bed and headed for the kitchen. She'd been the worst cook before but now she had memory's that could cook up a master piece.

"So Merle on this planet women cook. Well I'm going to cook some thing so good that you'll eat your words about be being a 'Mystical Tomboy' as you so nicely said it the last time we met." Said Hitomi as she walked towards the kitchen

To Be Continued...

Author's note: Ok sorry it took so long to get this chapter up and sorry about how short this chapter is. I promise that the next one will also be a lot more interesting and please don't forget to review. And I'm sorry about the bad spelling, and the words that don't make any sense. For some reason my spell check some times automatically changes words to I some time's miss them when I manually correct it after the computer dose.