~~~Perfect Moment~~~

She ran along the edge of the lake as if something was calling her, beckoning her to come to it. She didn't know where she was going or why she was even running until one single thought that ran across her mind pulled it all together.

Van.

Now she knew why she had come up this solitary cabin on a lakeside, why she had left everything without a word of explanation to anyone. It explained why she had woken up in the middle on the night to stare at the blue moon shinning brightly over the crystal water and why she had suddenly broken into a run towards a now known destination.

Van.

She needed to see him, needed to know if she could close that chapter of her life and continue living as she had for so many years…alone.

Utterly and completely alone.

Hitomi then did something that she had promised someone she would never do again…she wished.

She wished with everything that she had in her.

I wish to see him again. I want to know…

Before she could even voice the rest of her feelings, an all too familiar column of blue light granted her wish, transporting her to the place where she could finish the last part of a quest that had begun long ago…

~~~

Van Fanel sighed deeply as he ran his fingers through the ebony locks that fell across his eyes. He never had have manageable hair, so it was to little surprise when it fell right back down into his eyes.

Van sighed again, much to his annoyance.

For months now he had been plagued by the same reoccurring thought: Hitomi Kanzaki.

The name in itself brought up in him such feelings of frustration and absolute despair that he didn't know what to do with himself.

Upset, he removed his shirt and tossed it on the floor of his study. Stepping out onto the balcony, he unfurled his majestic wings and quickly took flight, trying to leave all his thoughts behind on the ground, wanting to lose himself in the ocean of inviting darkness that surrounded him. He few high above his kingdom, wandering over the land to the wooded forest where he knew he couldn't be seen. The twin moons hanging in the night sky above him, the first one hung in the black canopy glowing brightly letting silver beams of light glide over the country, reflecting slightly on Van's white wings, making them seem almost aglow. The second moon was tinted a beautiful dark blue color, and Van could clearly make out the formation of the land upon it.

Where is her home? he wondered.

Where had that come from? Van shook his head. He was really losing it. It's not like it would matter if he knew which part of the Mystic Moon her home was located. For all he knew she could be in the same place he had last seen her like she could have moved far from there.

These were the thoughts running through his mind when he was suddenly engulfed in the bright column of light that pushed him to the ground. He hit the earth with a rather unpleasant thud, but before he could even open his eyes, he felt the light drop someone on top of him before disappearing into the night.

Van opened his eyes, trying to readjust to the darkness, noticing that the figure on tip of him was keeping him firmly pinned to the ground. He quickly observed that it was a woman, fully developed, probably around his same age: twenty-two or so. She wore pants, which confirmed the fact that she was *not* from Gaea.

His heart rate skyrocketed to an alarming rate when his eyes focused enough to notice her long sandy blonde hair.

She then brought her head up and Van found himself staring into the green eyes of Hitomi Kanzaki…