Chapter 13: Leaving

Van stood and wiped the sweat off his face. He'd gathered up the survivors of Fanelia that were in Austoria and had them return. Hitomi left two days before then. He suddenly got a strange feeling, and looked up. Standing up on the western ridge was a white dragon, "Hitomi?" Van whispered.

The dragon raised its nose to the sky, and began to sing. There were no lyrics, just sound. It was beautiful. Everyone stopped to listen to it.

"The dragon's call, milord." One of the old advisors told him.

"Dragon's call?" Van echoed.

"It's calling to the sky and land dragons. This is not good, milord."

Land dragons started gathering next to the white dragon, as well as alone the eastern and northern ridges. Sky dragons started to circle around, above the valley. The white dragon took flight, heading for Van. The dragon transformed into a fully human Hitomi, and landed lightly on the ground.

"Lady Starcross! (They don't know its Hitomi) Why did you call the dragons? They'll destroy us all!" The chief advisor yelled.

Van said nothing, he was courous him self.

"They are here to protect Fanelia. They will not harm anyone in Fanelia. If I should fail in killing Sairinaku, they'll know, and will protect you and everyone else forever. I just came to say my last good-bye, Van."

"Please return soon, beloved." Van said, and pulled her into a passionate kiss.

Hitomi whole-heartedly returned it. They came up for air, and Hitomi backed away. "SORA! KOKORO!"

Two sky dragons broke out of the circle, and landed in front of Hitomi & Van. "Yes, mistress." Said the light blue dragon.

"What do you wish?" Said the dark green dragon.

"Sora, can you take me inside the Ziback territory?" Hitomi asked.

"Of course mistress." Sora, the light blue dragon, responded.

"Thank you. Kokoro, I need you to guard Van until I return."

"I'd be honored to watch over the king of Fanelia, while my mistress is away." Kokoro, the dark green dragon, replied.

"Thank you, Kokoro." Hitomi turned to Van, "Farewell for now, my love." She turned to Sora, and jumped on her back, "Lets go, Sora."

Van watched as the love of his life flew away on a sky blue dragon out of his sight.



TBC

I'll be posting Chapters 14 - 18 within the next week.