~Remember I don't Escaflowne or its characters!~
~This character will explain about the connections between Gaea & the Mystic Moon.~
~For all you people who wanted to know what was up with Dilandau & Celena READ THIS
CHAPTER!~
~This might be a little confusing so read carefully~
~Enjoy!!!~






The Fate of Two Worlds
By Angel Wings

Chapter 14 ~ Connected By a Thread of Fate

~Vision~
Hitomi slowly followed the woman down the stone corridor. Their brilliant white wings glowed
softly pentrating the shadows looming throughout the hall. The seeress eyes scanned over the
drawings engraved into the stone walls. They appeared to be a way of explaining a story.
Hitomi's pale fingers brushed over the stone as they passed by several pictures. Something
about the stone felt familiar to her...... like an old dream buried beneath the depths of her mind.

Hitomi stopped when she noticed the queen standing at the end of the hall staring at one of the
walls. They had stopped at a dead end of gray stone which confused the young angel. The
seeress watched patiently as Queen Iris brushed away a few cobwebs away from the drawing
on the wall. Hitomi's emerald eyes stared in wonder at the large drawing.


The wall was atleast fifty feet high and the entire drawing filled almost the entire height. The
coloration was brilliant and the drawing sharp and detailed. It was the beautiful piece of
artwork that Hitomi had ever seen. The art was of a drawing of a blue aura surrounded by
angels. A red sky stood behind the globe merging with the blue color. White glowing hands
held the blue globe as if holding it in the sky.


Hitomi brushed her fingers over the drawing and felt a power flow beneath her fingers.
Someone had used their powers to draw these artworks.

Queen Iris voiced echoed down the corridor as she slowly began to explain the history of
Gaea, "Many years ago before anything was created there was a God. This God was the only
existing being and extremely powerful. He had many names, but our people know him as
Joutei. He was the supreme being,.....our lord,.....our god,......our creator.He was lonely and
wanted to have companions so he created the world known as Gaea."

They began to walk down the hall as the story continued allowing the drawings on the walls to
illustrate.


The next drawing was of a glowing form of a man floating over the surface of the world. White
lines whirled around the being to show power emitting from him....


"With his tears he created the waters and with his wisdom he created the earth. He dipped his
hands into the mud and created valleys and mountains. With his breathe he created the winds
and clouds."


An image of creatures running through the wilderness and beings walking through the world
stood as the next drawing. Shapes of dragons, deers, and other familiar creators decorated the
fields.


"After he made a place for his creations to dwell he created the animals. They were a
combination of animals on your world, and of creators in your stories. The animals did not have
thought and emotions though and Joutei was still lonely so he created spirits and covered them
with flesh and bones. The beings were of all forms......draconian....human.....part animal in fact
and he was content."


Beings of all shapes and sizes stood in a crowd. Some were raising their arms in praise while
others turned their backs.


"The beings praised the God of Creation and built shrines in his honor, but as time progress the
people forgot their God. Some were still loyal to him, but others turned away and said there
was no 'god'. Only Draconians stayed true their lord and so Joutei smiled upon our race and
blessed us with special powers. We were able to do great things with our powers, but soon it
began to blind us....one by one......


A pair of hands held a familiar pendant that glowed brightly....


"We became power hungry and roamed the lands as if the world was ours. Soon we became
so full of ourselves that we declared ourselves gods and goddesses. We even went so far as to
keep the power of our first king in a petrified drop of blood."

"That was the day the Creator frowned down upon our raced and cursed us. He sent fear into
the souls of our fellow beings and soon they came to slaughtered us. We were in fear of our
lives and were desperate to escape. Using what was left of my forces I call upon my greatest
warriors in hope of our survival"


Queen Iris stood at the head of a crowd of warriors as they fought against violent beings.


"We fought for days until we dropped from exhaustion.....My finest warriors had fallen at the
blade of their enemies.....I was taken captive and tortured nearly to my death.


An image of the queen beaten with her wings sliced off as she stood in the field now known as the Mystic Valley.....


"I was stripped of my glorious wings and whipped. Luckily I was able to escape and I created
the world known as the Mystic Moon......"

Hitomi turned to the woman and stared into her eyes, "But I'm still confused..... you said you
would tell me how our worlds are connected.... All you have told me is the history of creation....
How do they fit together?"

Queen Iris smiled at the woman, "Yes, let me tell you what is needed....."

The two angels left the great hall and returned to the center room. It gave Hitomi time to better
study the room. It was glorious and vast. Gray marble floors with rough gray walls. A glass
sunroof of flawless glass allowed sunlight to pour down like rain and create a spotlight on the
center stand where Queen Iris had once stood frozen. Curtains of red silk fell down from the
ceiling with gold ropes sashes tying them to the pillars. The curtains and ropes were faded with
age, but they were still beautiful and lite up the desolent room.

Queen Iris went sit on the steps that led to her platform and Hitomi sat beside her. The older
woman took the younger's hand and said, "When our people separated and went to the Mystic
Moon they left all knowledge of the world, Gaea, behind with the remaining Draconains. In
doing so our culture divided and progressed in different directions. Speech became one of the
many things that progressed differently. Both of the languages on the two worlds have a similar
origin, but have gone into different symbolisim......"

Hitomi stared into the woman's eyes desperate to understand, "What do you mean when you
say.....'different symbolisim'?"
"If you looked back to ancient writings on both our worlds" she said knowingly,
"then you would see our languages were identical,..... but if you watched the writings progress
over time you would see the languages would defringiate and become quite different...."

Hitomi eyes grew wide as the information soaked in, "Atlantian writing was the first known
language between our people!"

"Yes....." replied the beautiful angel, "It was...."

Hitomi frowned though, "But then how do I not know how to read Fanelian when I can read
Atlantian? Didn't Fanelian writing originate from Atlantian?...."

The woman smiled and shook her head, "No.....Remember how your planet had several
languages and cultures?"

The 'Angel' nodded, but was still lost. What had that to do with anything?

"Well" the woman continued, "You see Atlantian was our first language for 'our' people, but it
wasn't the first language with any other culture, for example Fanelia had its own first language."

Hitomi bowed her head as her head worked, "So that's why I can't understand Fanelian while I
can understand Atlantian."

Hitomi's head snapped back up and she asked, "Why then did my world have so many cultures
and languages?......tell me that."

The queen looked up at the skylight and the warm sunlight washed over her face giving it a soft
glow, "My daughter, Princess Rachelle, thought it was best. She created separate cultures and
languages to make the world seem more natural. In creating the cultures she made them
primitive causing them to have room for growth. Knowledge of our cultures were used as a
basis, but the cultures are rather different.....that is why there are similarities in our cultures.
You've noticed that ever since you arrived back on the Mystic Moon two years ago haven't
you?"

Hitomi slowly nodded. It had been something that Hitomi had always tried to piece together.
All the time she spent on the Mystic Moon the mystery had been like a thorn in her side. She
had always wanted to understand and now the knowledge was like a comfortable peace on her
soul.

Again Hitomi's mind whirled with thoughts and she asked, "What about the animals on our
world?....Why didn't we have creators like the ones you had?"

"You did" the woman replied warmly, "But only some of the animals....like deer, dogs, horses,
and cattle."

"Why?" Hitomi asked.

The lady brought her eyes back to the room and glanced over the statues, "Magic powers used
by some of creatures might have reacted bad to our world and cause us to regain our
memories....It deals a lot with the affects of magic crossing paths....sometimes if two blasts of
power collide a desature can occur. It was just best to keep them apart from us...."

"How come though" Hitomi asked, "we have stories about these creators?"

"Draconians traveled to and from the Mystic Moon all the time" replied the Queen, "They were
either from Gaea or royal heirs. They wanted to share knowledge of the mysteries of Gaea.
Unfortunately no one believed them and they soon became fictional stories or tall tales."

Hitomi's eyes now turned to the skylight letting the sun pour its light over her, "That explains a
lot, but......I still have a question......I saw Dilandau in Celena's dream. Somehow he's playing a
role in this new battle. It was just a dream, but I feel as if there is something more going on....
What is it?"

The woman bowed her head and she smiled with closed eyes, "Your doing a good job of
listening to your powers, Hitomi. Soon you won't even need the pendant or your Tarot Cards to
help you....."

"I got rid of the Tarot Cards" Hitomi stated silently, "Their power scared me....."

The woman turned to Hitomi with a small smile, "All you feared was your power, Hitomi."

Hitomi's eyes grew wide, "What do you mean?"

"Exactly what I said...." replied the peaceful woman, "All you feared was your own power,
Hitomi.....there was never any powers in the cards. They were only a tool that focused your
power. It was you who predicted what would happen"

Hitomi looked down at feet thinking about how she had always used the cards. In a way she
understood what the queen meant, but......

The seeress with angel wings brought her emerald eyes to the queen's, "Are you saying I hold
special powers?"

The woman stood up as she spoke, "You do have some powers, but not as powerful as the
pendant's....All of the royal family had to keep their powers to protect our people that's why
you have powers running through your veins."

Hitomi's eyes glittered as a few tears spilled, "Well.....I don't think I deserve whatever powers I
got....because I couldn't even protect them....."

A warm hand fell on the girl's cheek causing the girl to stare in her relative's eyes, "Hitomi,
believe me when I say you have done nothing wrong. You did what you could....even though it
was not enough....No one is blaming you except yourself.....Release your guilt and then you will
be able to fulfill your duty as Queen of the Draconians."

"Queen...." Hitomi whispered. The word seems so alien to the girl. It was so foreign to her ears.
Did she really have the wisdom to command a kingdom? Although there were no more of her
people alive she couldn't forget about her vow to Van last night. In a matter of time she would
rein over Fanelia as their queen.

"Now to get back to your first question..." replied the older angel catching the seeress's
attention.

"What question was that?" the girl asked.

The queen brushed away a few stray hairs from her eyes, "What was happening with Celena
and Dilandau....Dilandau is alive and well."

"WHAT?!" shouted Hitomi. The short haired girl jumped to her feet as her heart jumped into
her throat, "But it was just a dream!"

The woman shook her head silently causing her hair to shake in a beautiful wave of brunette
locks, "No, it wasn't. Dilandau has been alive since before you left Gaea. He has been torturing
the poor woman known as Celena for the last two years."

"What are you saying?" Hitomi shuddered, "What do you mean?"

The woman quietly replied, "Dilandau joined with Issac's two sons and with the help of their
limited powers he was able to walk through Celena's dreams. He even could torture her when
she was awake with hallucinations. Dilandau would have killed Celena in her last dream, but
you intervened before he could destroy her. You did a great deed for the woman."

Hitomi completely ignored the praise from the woman and said, "But that's impossible. Dilandau
was Celena and he died in the Great War. How could he be walking around when Celena is still
here?"

Iris smiled at the girl's confusion, "Calm yourself, 'Angel'. Don't let your emotions run free....
sometimes they cause ones death if acted upon rashily."

Hitomi eyes pleaded, "Please tell me what you know of it?"

Iris let out a heavy sigh and slowly began the story, "Celena was stolen as a child and taken into
Zaibach. Scientists experimented on her and soon Dilandau was created. He stormed across
the land bringing fire and torture, but sometime during the Great War he began to remember
past memories of himself and started have problems taking commands. Issac, fearing he would
lose such a good dragon slayer, ordered the scientists to give him another treatment. The
scientist did so, but they also created a clone."

"Why would they need a clone?" Hitomi wondered aloud.

"Well" said the queen, "When they created the clone that made him his own person and
removed any genes that were Celena's."

"But most of the genes were Celena's. How could they replace them?" the seeress asked.

"It wasn't difficult for the scientist" answered the queen, "With the help of science and a bit of
magic from Issac they were able to create a complete person. They created Dilandau....."

"What about Celena?" Hitomi asked worried for her friend, "Will....will Dilandau ever take
control of her again?"

The queen bowed her head and closed her eyes, "Only time can tell, but for now Dilandau no
longer roams her soul. Perhaps he is sealed forever, but never doubt that his evil half lingers in
her body."

Hitomi nodded and turned to the queen, "Well what do I do now?"

"You can do nothing at the moment except go to the Mystic Valley....." replied the woman as
she slowly made her way to her stand.

"Why do we need to go there?" Hitomi stated, "What could possible be there that would help
us?"

The angel woman placed a hand on the stone stand, "Do you remember how I used Atlantian's
power to create the Mystic Moon?....."

Hitomi barely whispered, "Yes...."

"That was where our homeland once dwelled and this temple stands at now" the woman turned
her head to see the girl's eyes, "If you go there your powers will heigthen in strength. You will
need as much power as possible to take on the great task laid before you."

The woman beat her wings and flew up a few feet so she again stood on her stand.

"But, wait!" Hitomi cried, catching Iris's attention, "What is the great task you speak of?"

"I'm sorry, young 'Angel', but my tongue cannot speak of it" she closed her forest eyes, "Fate
might be changed if I told you of it. Your grandmother has already warned you of that."

Hitomi bit her lip not ready to leave. She had a great source for information here. Their had to
be something she needed to ask.

"May I be premitted to ask just a couple more questions?" Hitomi voice begged.

The green eyes of the queen stared hard at the girl wondering if she should permit it. Time was
growing short and there was no time for questions, but as the queen noticed the distress
stricken on the girl she felt a swell of pity fill her heart. She had been through so much.....she
deserved to have a few questions answered.

With a warm smile she replied, "As you wish."

Hitomi smiled brightly and glanced around the room at the statue of seven warriors. Turning to
the queen she asked simplely, "Who are these statues of? Why are they important?"

The queen's eyes fell over the statues of warriors who had stayed loyal to the heir. She knew
every face well and remembered their deaths vividly.

"They were the seven greatest warriors" she answered sadly, "They died protecting the people
and the royal heir of their time. Most were part of my private army, but a few died in later years
while serving the royal heir of their time. They are known as the seven....."

Hitomi looked over at the woman seeing her come to a halt at the words. Iris closed her mouth.
She couldn't speak of that, not yet atleast. Her eyes saw that Hitomi had seen her stop. The
damage was done. She had to finish it.

"They are known as the seven warriors of Gaea" she averted her gaze towards one of the stone
figures not willing to look in the girl's eyes.

Hitomi frowned a little wondering what was wrong with the woman, but her thoughts were
disrupted when she noticed the woman turning to a soft shade of gray. She was transforming
back into a statue....

"Wait!" Hitomi pleaded, "Tell me how do I get to the Mystic Valley?"

The queen slowly got in the position she had been in when she had first been a cold piece of
stone, "Van knows the way, but it will be hidden. You must find the 'Book of Angels' and
follow its passage. It will lead you there."

The queen's feet became stiff and gray and her dress no longer fluttered, but held still. Her
hands began to deepen into a shade of the stiff color and no longer moved.

"Why is it hidden?" Hitomi voice urged as the woman began to become completely made of
stone.

The woman quickly answered just a moment before her transformation was complete, "If a time
would come when the Mystic Moon would be destroyed the Mystic Valley would be hidden
away and only can be found by the 'Book of Angels'. It was so no one of evil would go in
search of the pendant or the temple. Now, Hitomi, go to the Mystic Valley and stop the angel
of darkness from taken over Gaea......You are our final hope....." And with that the woman
ceased to speak and stood as the gray stone she had once been before.

Hitomi was once again alone as she stood in the center of the room. Placing a warm hand on
the surface of the cool stone she whispered, "I promise to do what I can for Gaea in memory
of my people..."

A tear slid down Hitomi's pale cheek as she turned to leave, but a soft red glow caught her
attention. She looked back and saw within Queen Iris's cupped hands was a ball of glowing
red light. Carefully Hitomi climbed the statue so she could see into the woman's stone palms
better. As her face grew close to item the light played over her face giving it a soft red glow.
The light slowly dimmed and revealed a pendant of red stone with a gold chain. It was identical
to Hitomi's pendant.

"How....?" the girl wondered.

Without even thinking the girl reached her fingers out to the stone to take it from its holder, but
before she had a chance to take the powerful stone a red light flashed throughout the room.....
~End of Vision~


Hitomi sat up in her bed and looked around the room. She was alone. She looked down at her
body and saw pale skin. No wounds....no blood.....not even a bruise.... She had somehow
been healed during the night. It astonished her to see herself without a marking on her body, but
her mind her mind was rushing her to get to the others. Without a moment's hesitation she
jumped from her bed and rushed over to her closet. She was still in her night attire and needed
some new clothes to wear. Her fingers ran over the rakes of dress and she almost took one,
but she knew that it would be a fight. She didn't want a dress to slow her down. Pushing aside
the hangers of dresses she proceeded to look through the shirts and pants.

She dug out a pair of blue pants and white turtle neck shirt. The pair of pants looked a lot like
jeans, but they weren't as rough and were quite soft. Personally Hitomi could have cared less at
the moment. She needed to get moving. Hitomi grabbed her tennies and tied the laces in a rush.
As she passed by the mirror she couldn't help, but think how weird it was to see clothes that
resembled Mystic Moon outfits in a closet on Gaea. It just didn't seem normal to see that kind
of clothing on that planet. Hitomi quickly forgot though for she knew there were more important
things to think about.

Hitomi tore open the door and rush into the hall, but she had only gone about five feet when she
came to a halt. She felt something......no, she heard something. It was mixture of several
different voices....of all ages and genders.....

"Hitomi....." the voices called.

"this way......"

Hitomi turned and her emerald eyes stared at a door of mud oak. Something about the door
seemed.....strange.......

"Over here....." the voice whispered, "Come this way....."

Some people might have run and others would have been suspicious, but the girl from the
Mystic Moon was trusting the voice. Her sneakers slowly made their way over to the door and
the girl quietly opened it to see what was inside.

It was King's Van royal study. A room bathed with expensive furniture and items decorated
the rather large room. It held a mud brown desk and a large bookshelf with hundreds of books.
As Hitomi glanced around the room she noticed it appeared to be empty.

The voice grew louder, "Hitomi......come over here....."

The girl didn't have to be commanded to come because she was already moving towards the
bookshelf of books. The voice continued to call Hitomi as the girl examined the large dark
shelves.

"I have to believe in my powers...." Hitomi whispered. Closing her eyes she let lose her senses
letting them tell her what to do. Slowly her fingers ran over the spines of the books feeling for
something special. Soon they came to rest on a particular set of books. Carefully Hitomi felt
behind the group of book and felt a cold rod of metal brush against her fingers. She didn't think
of what to do, but merely let her hand do whatever was needed to be done. Her fingers
clamped over the cold metal switch and pulled. A faint mechanical sound was heard and the
bookshelf slowly swung away from the wall. Hitomi leaped away and watched as the
bookshelves moved away to reveal a small door.

Hitomi quietly pushed opened the door and saw a set of stairs spiraling downwards past the
doorway. Giving no thought of turning around the girl softly walked down the stairs to their
destination. As she walked down the steps she wondered if it was a good idea to put so much
faith in her abilites. Could she really do what she required to do? She stamped out the thought
not willing to let doubt stand in her way. The path was rather dark and Hitomi soon began to
stumble. Luckily a faint glow from Hitomi's pendant began to radiate allowing her to see good
enough to watch her step as she made her way down the flight of stairs. As she went farther
down the pendant glowed brighter. Whatever it was that was reacting to her penadant she was
growing closer to it.

Soon the seeress found herself in front of a door of red wood. With a small creak the door
opened to reveal the room Hitomi had enter several days ago. It was the room in which the
Historians had worked in, but at the moment the area was vacant of any life.

"Over here, Hitomi....." the whispers called.

Her emerald eyes scanned over the room of items and came to rest on a glowing white book.
On its cover was a gold angel emblem. The light shone faintly over the room giving it a mystical
glow......

~Council Chamber~
"Historians, do have any information that might help us in this situation" asked the King, "You
must know something seeing that we are dealing with the Draconain culture."

The writer of the three old men hung his head sadly, "I'm afraid we have nothing to offer,
milord. All has been explained by the scrolls or by seeress."

Van nodded solmely, "That's quite alright. Dryden do you have anything to add."

"Nothing of any use..." the fellow king muttured.

"What do mean?" Merle piped up as she stared over the table at the king.

Dryden sighed heavily, "The scrolls' prophecy talks about something of extreme importance is
going to happen next."

"Like what?" Van asked the obvious question.

Dryden shook his head sadly, "I have no idea. They only speak of the 'Angel of Gaea'
performing a great deed. Its very unclear what though. The words are mostly figure of speech."

"Perhaps..." the blonde queen interrupted, "Perhaps Hitomi will know something we she
awakens."

"Perhaps" muttured the king as he thought of the young maiden.

The king brought his hand to his chin in thought, "Now what's our next move?"

Allen stood from his chair and everyone turned to see what he had to say, "We'll go after that
floating fortress. We can take the 'Crusade'."

Van nodded, but frowned, "But where has it gone? Where would we head to?"

The large double doors swung open in a loud creak and everyone's heads turned to see who
had arrived. Standing in her peculiar clothes and holding a glowing white book with a gold
emblem stood the Seeress of the Mystic Moon. She no longer held cuts or bruises and on her
face stood a look of determination.

She spoke in a courageous voice and said, "I know where to go......"







~Alright people did you get confuse? I hope not. I tried my best to explain the languages and
cultures. If I have some young readers you probably were the ones who got the most
confused~
~This chapter was probably one of the shortest ones. It's mostly information that I needed to
explain so you could better understand the connections between the two worlds~
~Okay I finally explained the Celena/Dilandau thing~
~Hope you liked this chapter! Please R&R!