"Van! Lord Van!" an anxious voice called. Van searched for the source, but could find none.

"Close your eyes!" The same disembodied voice instructed. Sighing, the man complied and was surprised to see when he opened them a young girl. She could have been the twin of the blue-winged Draconian girl, though her eyes and wings were a shade of vivid silver.

"Van, Hitomi is danger! Kai--." She began to say the name, but cut off suddenly. "My twin tricked her, and she is in great peril! Use the pendant to find her, and hurry before it's too late!" Finishing her message, the girl turned and flew away, disappearing as she reached the window.

Van tried to digest what the girl had told him. Hitomi was in danger, and he was assuming that meant she was in Gaea. That was impossible, though. Then again, so were girls with wings appearing and giving cryptic messages.

"I really need to drink more."

~*~*~*~*~*

Meanwhile, two angels met outside the gardens.

"Kiana, why?" one asked.

"Why what?"

"Why all the lies?" the first answered, looking her sister in the eye.

"You have served him too! I've seen him giving you orders!"

"Yes."

"So you know how hard it is to disobey him!"

There was a brief pause, and then "You love him, don't you?"

"More then you know."

Yet another pause.

"Then I guess this is the end."

"Of what?"

She put her hand on her little sisters shoulder. "You'll see, Kiana, in due time."

~*~*~*~*~*

Hitomi was lost. Utterly, completely lost. She had been walking in hours, yet the forest hadn't changed at all. Suddenly, the forest parted into a clearing. This wasn't so odd, but what was in the center was. A polished stump, like a table, and in the center was a deck of tarot cards.

Walking cautiously toward the stump, Hitomi wondered who would have placed the deck here. Someone who knew about her-and knew she would be here. Picking up the box in one hand, she dumped the contents into the other. Sifting through the cards, she was shocked to find the pictures were not like those on most tarot decks. They were pictures of herself, Merle, Allen, Millerna, even.Van. She stopped to see the last card. The Tower. It showed a building being broken by lightning coming the hands of a Draconian girl.

"She looks like the girl from my dreams, but she's not colored blue." Hitomi said to herself, thinking.

Then, for the second time that day, Hitomi felt herself being lifted the ground and teleported to an unknown destination.

After the girl from the Mystic Moon had disappeared, a lone angel left the outskirts of the clearing, leaving only a single blue feather.



~*~*~*~*~*

Van stared at the pendant Hitomi had given him before she had left.

*Use the pendant! *

Closing his eyes, he focussed on the pendant as Hitomi had once taught him.

*Now concentrate really hard on what you want find. *

The young king could almost hear his love's voice as the memory of that lesson came back. Despite however hard he tried to find her, though, he couldn't. Van could only hope that Hitomi was all right and that he wasn't too late.

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AN: Wow, a semi-long chapter!!!!!!!!!! Sorry if this isn't great, I wrote it at 2 am. But I wrote it!!! Please review!!!!!