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The Serpent Chronicles



Wars at Rise





Molden had run off...... though he wasn´t as afraid as the others, he knew when it was best to hold his tongue and get away.

There would be a new war. Van could sense it. He was a swordsman, war had been his business, for some time.

"The Nordman." He said aloud. What Molden didn´t know was that Van secretly supported the Nordman. They were more powerful any other country. Van was concearned about Fanellia, so he´d seal a pact with the Nordman. It had taken him so much to rebuilt Fanellia, it couldn´t be destroyed again because he went with the wrong partners. He had to be on the winner´s side. The Nordman´s side. "I´ll go there on my own, to make a deal with them."



Van removed Escaflowne from it´s sleep and in the dark of the night he left Fanellia, direction Nordman´s lands.



At the same time in Asturia another group was heading toward the North: Allen and Cid, together with Dryden. Millerna and Celena stayed in Asturia, to calm down the hot minds of the Asturian people.



And another person was on her way: Merle. She had seen that Van had awakened Escaflowne and secretly left the castle.