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True destiny.
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This story is in the Point of view of Van and Hitomi. This is a V/H but not at first it's an A/H (which I think is a horrible idea) but it works for this story.
I'm having problem remember chapter numbers so don't worry and don't worry about my spelling as it will never get any better.
True Destiny
Chapter Fourteen
**Van**
When we reached the port it had been destroyed all the men and gymelefs, we searched foe any living people but the only one we found die after tell us that the Zaibach gymelefs were heading to Palas and over heard something about kidnapping a witch. The moment he said witch I realised it was Hitomi they were after. Allen must have thought at the same time as he ordered us all back to Palas, I prayed that they hadn't got her and if they tried she would use her powers against them. I tried call to her a few times but couldn't connect, as the link was weak.
I stood on the over hang looking back at the port
'They had no idea what hit them'
"Van" I turned to see Allen looking at me
"Yes Allen"
"So I'm right in think the witch is Hitomi"
"Yes you are"
'You blond hair ass that tried to rape a innocent 15 year old'.
"Who do you think it is" I turned back around so I could look at the cloud trying not to throw him off the platform and off the ship.
"Most likely Dilandau"
1.1 'You long haired freak'
Allen walked next to me and looked out at the sky too
"Are you only going to say 3 words to every question I ask you"
"Maybe I will" we stood there for a few minutes in silent, my mind was screaming for me to kill him but I couldn't act it out.
"So are you going to be my best man?"
'Now Fanel lift your sword and cut is dam girly head off'
I decide it was time to set every thing right not listening to the voice in my head ever if it was a good idea
"No I'm not going to be your best man, as I heard from Hitomi your two were over" I know Allen was shocked that I know that their were over
"She just nervous about the wedding"
'Your lying blonde'
"So your weren't spying on us the other night when we were under a tree together and then tried to rape her when she came to clear things up between you too" the look of pure shock was priceless I committed it to memory
1.2 'We got him, we are the best'
Ok my mind had finally lost the plot but it was some what true, ok I like that I was right and I had Allen shocked and backed in to a corner
"I got no idea what you're talking about? I would never hurt her" I turned and walked to the door knowing that Allen would properly come after me
"Remember one think thing Allen she was the one who knocked you old cold the other day" before I had even stepped off the step and out the door Allen grabbed my shoulder
"What was that meant to mean"
'Right now hit him Fanel, you know you want to '
That was it I had to hit him now and I did I turn and punched him with full force in the face
"Stay away form Hitomi, Allen if you ever touch her again I will make you life a living hell" I said in a dangerous tone. Then walked out the door and headed towards the crusades bridge, the whole time smiling about what I have done. Gossip around the ship was that Allen had stomped off to his room over a spilt end. I had tried to contacting Hitomi the whole trip but as it was very weak and she seemed to be moving I couldn't pin point her, but when I got close I could feel small flashes of fear. I had to make sure my vision didn't come true, that's when it hit me another vision.
I was a dark room all I could see the outline of someone in the dark crying suddenly a light came on blinding me and the person, as my eyes got use to the light I could see the person was chain to the floor and the person was Hitomi, blood was running down her sides from the whip marks which had cut through her dress
"Are you going to talk now?" I watched as Celena appeared through the door. She kneel next to her
"Where is your book of shadows? And how do we content the dragon?" the picture started to faded and I could feel the vision being lifted off me
"I think he is waking up"
"What do you think happened?"
"Didn't he black out the other day maybe he did it again"
"Maybe"
"You both know I can hear you?" I opened my eyes to see Gaddes and Kenko
"What happened Lord Van?"
"I had another vision that's all" the guys help me stand up; one of the other men called Kenko away leaving Gaddes and me on the bridge.
"It the little lady isn't it?"
"She has been kidnapped"
"Well if you do that little drowsing trick you and her can do, we will do after them" the shock of Gaddes idea was amazing
"Ok then lets do it" I closed my eyes and picture Hitomi in my mind the pendent in my mind spun east
"That way".
We started heading east, but no quick enough so I headed down to the gymelef hanger to use Escaflowne as it was faster, I climbed up to Escaflowne's chest, once inside I change from warrior mode to dragon then to jet mode. As I got closer to the Zaibach airship the more I felt Hitomi. Escaflowne was back in dragon mode, I could see the air ship about a mile away, I had pin pointed her position on the ship and tried to contact her but she was out cold. So far my plan was to smash in there and get out fast with Hitomi
'Great plan did you think that up all by yourself, what a moron you are'
I was hoping that I had the factor of surprise still
1.3 'I must have or they would have sent gymelefs at me by now'
I flew closer and closer till I was right on top of it and still nothing,
1.4 'What's going on here'
Just before I could land on it or anything a liquid metal was short pass me
'You had to open your big mouth didn't you Fanel, look they not doing anything let jinx it'
"So the dragon has come to safe his little wrench" I changed Escaflowne to fighter mode and dropped to the roof of the ship
"Dilandau I should of guessed" Dilandau gymelef revealed it's self. As I when to draw my sword the floor between us opened and a platform began to rise, I was waiting for the other gymelef to appear, but what I saw wasn't what I was hoping to see. Stood in the middle of the platform was Celena holding a knife to Hitomi's neck, memories of what happened at the Dragon's graveyard arose.
'What to I do?'
From what I could see my vision of her being whipped was true and this reminded me of the other vision I had, had. The only new plan I came up with was a complete and utter long shot, it was to change Escaflowne to Dragon then to jet mode, hopefully grabbing Hitomi then changing it to jet mode to escape quick enough to miss the flame-thrower of Dilandau's gymelef, I know it's a long shot but I couldn't not do anything.
1.4.1 "Here goes nothing"
'We're going to die oh for the love of god someone stop him trying this'
I changed Escaflowne in to dragon mode made it fly about a foot off the floor and flew at Dilandau, Hitomi must have had worked out what I was going to do as she escaped Celena's grasp and grabbed my arm as I flew pass, as soon as she was holding on to me I change direction and mode and was out of there, just missing the flames from Dilandau's flame thrower, but Escaflowne's tail was slightly blacken.
'Wow I'm impressed your stupid plan worked'
1.4.2 I feel whole as I could feel her emotions again, the crusade wasn't that far in front of us
"Hitomi we should be nearing back to the crusade" she hadn't said a word since I saved her, I didn't know if she was sleepy or what. Her grip around my waist slowly loosen, as her head rested on my shoulder and a floating feeling entered me
'She's a sleep, at last twice in a number of days she been hurt'
2 hours later
1.5 'Damn you blonde'
We had been flying for hours and still hadn't found the crusade, I tried drowsing and following its direction but still hadn't caught sight of it yet
1.6 'Allen must of ordered them back to Palas'
My arms had started to ache from flying against the wind, so I took Escaflowne lower. Trees all I could see were stupid green trees, the sky was getting very dark as a storm brewed I couldn't see anything in the distance. So decided to land somewhere, I saw a clearing next to a river.
"Perfect" landing Escaflowne in the clearing was more difference then I thought, as for a hiding the thing that was impossibly but as it was dark it didn't matter. I carried Hitomi to the fire which I had made form the broken branches that Escaflowne had caused to fall and laid her down gently on her stomach. I clean Hitomi's back as I didn't want it getting infected, I had to cut most of the dress away as the back material was starting to stick to her wounds this was more because of the burns she had. It was like the whip had been heated first as the edges were burnt.30 was the count of marks I got from what I could see, yet she had stayed a sleep the whole time I couldn't work out if it was pain or she was complete drained of energy.
Lucky the air was somewhat warm so we wouldn't freeze that much, but it didn't help that it was raining, but good for us the trees gave us enough cover to stop the rain getting to us, the sky was complete black and I could hear roars of thunder getting closer
'I wonder if Folken looking out his window going " yes this is the whether I like black dark and miserable", one thing will Escaflowne attract the lightning?'
Hitomi still slept next to me most of her wounds had started to heal like she did before. I thought we were about 3 and half hours away from Palas
"How did they get in to the castle"
"Celena helped them" Hitomi's voice made me jump
"So how made it my back?" she spoke without opening her eyes
"Pretty bad but your still beautiful"
'Oh god did I just say that'
"Thank you Van for coming to get me" her fingers entwined with mine. I slid down the tree. We just laid there in silence listening to the rain and the approaching thunder, I watch as the moons were slowly revealed as the clouds raced across the sky and the stars blinked. I felt her hand release mine as she tried to get up
"Want some help?" since I meet her I have learnt that she wasn't like other women all about hair and clothe she was strong, independent and just as stubborn as me and that my help wasn't always need
"Thank but no thanks" she slowly sat up and hugged her knees
"Hitomi are you ok?"
"Yeah just worried over something that Dilly said"
"Dilly"
"Dilandau I called him that to up set him it work to as you can see"
"Then you shouldn't have done it"
"It was funny the first time I called him it, he basically ran around shout "my name isn't Dilly its lord Dilandau blah, blah, blah" so on and so fore"
"That would have been funny, but what did he say?"
"How I would cause your downfall, and the death of all my friends here"
"You could never be my downfall as I would fight till the end and so would your friends, but isn't that me and Merle anyway"
"I would laugh but it hurt on much". I sat back up against the tree, the thunder started to get closer
"Do you think Escaflowne with attract the lightning"
"I was wondering that as well we'll just have to watch and see" she leant back against the carefully
"So how much of the back of this dress do I have because it doesn't feel a lot"
"Most was already damaged by Celena or Dilly as you call him and then I cut away the material close to your burns as it was starting to stick so there is some left"
"Well that will give Merle and Millennia something to do, more pink dress"
"I feel so sorry for you"
"No you don't I can feel what you feel remember and you find this funny"
"Damn it I forgot you could do that"
"And a bad liar too"
"I know that". She moved slightly so her head was resting on my shoulder, I didn't dare around my arm around her in case I reopened some of her wounds. In the firelight I noticed a thin pale scar running down her cheek just like Dilandau's but this was paler and almost gone.
1.7 'By morning she'll have no scar on her face if her powers kick in'
The rain really started to come down hard, as the storm got closer.
'Her back must be killing her, mine did when I was whipped'
I felt her shiver against me, I looked at her face to see that her lips were turning very light blue
"Cold"
"A bit but it doesn't help that my back is bare"
"Speaking of backs, it's go to be painful sitting like that"
"No not really" she slowly moved off my shoulder and laid with her head on my lap while on her stomach
"This is much better though, your don't might do you"
"No", I looked across her back to see that most of her wounds had started to heal
'Millennia was right she does heal quicker than normal people, what am I saying she above normal'.
The thunderstorm had stopped about an hour ago but it was still raining and a wind had picked up making it freezing in the woods. Hitomi had fallen back to sleep so I had pulled her up on to my lap so her head was under my chin and had wrapped her in my wings to keep us warm. Sleep kept creeping my on me, but I knew if I fell a sleep we could be attacked.
'You fell asleep you moron'
Sometime during the night I must of fell too sleep, as when I re opened my eye it was light. The fire had gone out some time ago as no one had tended to it, must importantly was still fast asleep in my arms. I was so wrapped up in watching Hitomi sleep I didn't notice merle tip toeing up to us until she stepped on a branch
"So enjoy yourselves?"
"Ssshhh Merle she still asleep, Merle?"
"Yes how did you know I was creeping up on you?"
"You stepped on a branch, how did you get here"
"Here is Palas and before you ask I found you because I watched you landed last night"
"How?"
"Far are we about hours walk" god I was way off by how many hours
'2 and a half you moron',
"Me and Gaddes decide to come and look for you two this morning, giving you some alone time with Hitomi" that's when merle started making kissy sounds and face,
"Damn you merle" I could hear Gaddes cursing as he approach our position, so I moved Hitomi so she was laying by her self then melted my wings back in and put my shirt back on which was wet with morning dew. Gaddes fell face first out of the woods in to the clearing.
"Merle when I get my hands on you, I'm going to kill you"
"Hello Gaddes, nice walk?" at the sound of my voice Gaddes quickly got up
"Lord Van?"
"Ssshhh" I pointed to a completely healed Hitomi lying on the grass
"How is she?"
"Fine" we whispered to each other
"Can you walk?"
"Yeah"
"You can wake her as I saw what she did to Allen, it was quite funny at the time"
"Ok, ok" before I could do anything Merle screamed her name in to her ear
"I hate you Merle," she grumbled as she opened her eyes
"Merle?"
"God not this again"
Merle suddenly started laughing at Hitomi hair until she saw the back of her dress
"What have you done to your dress?" Hitomi got up and walked over to me and Gaddes not listening to Merle what so ever, she then kissed me on the nose
"Morning"
"Morning sleep well?"
"Yeah, hi Gaddes"
"Hi little lady, I think merle wants you" pointing over to Merle who now looked like a fur ball
"You better answer her question"
"Why" Hitomi answered between her laughs
"STOP LAUGHING AT ME, now answer my question"
"I decided that the backless dress should be introduced to Geae" before nail were release on to Hitomi I cut in with
"Merle I had to cut away the back to clean Hitomi's wounds, which have now healed completely and I give up with this story" I was unsure on what reply I was going to get back so I decide been quiet
"But Merle now I can wear one of the dresses you and Millennia got me can't I?"
"Oh yeah"
"Ok lord Van and Ladies I think we better head back to the castle before anything else happens"
"I collect Escaflowne later, lets give it a rest in the wood for a while"
"Ok" they all said looking at me like I had just dances around naked.
'Off to Palas! How fun'.
39 40
'If I get hit in the face with one more branch I will burn this wood to the ground and laugh at it all'
41 we had been walking for 10 minutes and I had been hit in the face by 41 stupid branches
"I'll show us the way," Merle said before disappearing in to the woods, you would think something with pink and orange fur wouldn't be hard to find in a green wood, but no somehow the cat blended in the tree
'Where I get to the castle I'm going to shave Merle and her pretty little dog to whahahaha'
"Branch"
"Thanks for the warning this time" personal I thought Merle was leading us in circles. But much to my astonishment 30 minutes later we were in the town
"Finally Merle any longer in that wood and I would have skinned you" said Gaddes as we head to the castle. I don't know why but for unforeseen reason I kind of saw Gaddes and Merle ending up together as they got on each others nervous so much that they actually got along. And they seemed to enjoy each others company when not throwing evil remarks at each other and as Hitomi said opposite attracted. And in the term of Van Fanel's twisted mind that meant they would be together and live happily ever after.
'It's official Van Fanel of Fanelia has lost it, why is he saying think he said when he was 5? Answer please any one.'
The moment that we where within the castle grounds Merle dragged Hitomi off to change and when I mean drag I meant dragged, leaving me with Gaddes.
'I wonder if I should play matchmaker? Yes, no, yes, no I can't it has to be natural'
Unfortanly the voice in my head with continuously mocks me decide to butt in to my decision and for some weird reason the voice sounded like I did when I was 10?
'Play match marker if you don't I will haunt you with horrible metal picture of when you were younger',
1.8 'Ok I do it'
I have a very twisted inner child or voice or what ever he is.
"I feel sorry for you Lord Van, having to live with Merle"
"She's a pain most of the time, but not that bad"
"Yeah but you had to grow up with her"
"So was it Allen who order the ship back to Palas?"
"Yeah, oh evil black eye you gave him"
"Oh that thanks, why were you with Merle this morning"
"She decided that she would hide my sword until I helped her find you two, which reminds me to get it back"
"She likes you"
"What? Who? Merle?"
"Yes merle as she would have come alone other wise"
"Yeah right"
"So you do like her"
"OK a little bit"
"Really"
"No I like her a lot ok"
'Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding we have a winner'
"If you hurt her I will kill you, but until then, I tell you something when Merle like someone she doesn't let them out of her sight" I pointed to the balcony where Merle was standing and with that I disappeared into the castle doors laughing to my self for no reason.
"I'm good at this"
"Van de Slanzer Fanel" ouch my full name I pray that when I turned around it was Folken or Allen stood behind me,
"Hello Millennia"
'AGRH'
"Van Fanel why did you hit Allen"
"Because I felt like it"
'What was that Fanel, well done you have just won the worst liar of the year an awards how do you feel?'
"A real answer"
2 "When you stop make a shouting at me"
"Oh sorry"
"That's better I tell you why in the library" we headed towards the library in silence, Cleaning staff always remind me of ants run away when you uncover their nest or walk in to a room.
"So Van the reason"
"He was been rude toward my friend so I hit him"
'Where on Geae did that come from I have lied that bad since 10 that is happened'
"Really he told me you just turned around and hit him, I want the real true Van"
"This doesn't leave this room he hit Hitomi so I hit him" for the first time since I meet Millennia she was quiet
"He hit her"
"Yes he did, and if you don't mind I want to deal with this in my own way"
"Fine of course you have my support in the matter"
"Thanks Millennia, oh yeah if you see Gaddes in the next few hours tell him Merle is looking for him"
"Why"
"I'm trying to set them up"
"Ok"
"Oh Millennia don't call me but my full name a gain please"
"Sorry I was just angry at you"
'Poor Dryden having to marry that'
I wanted to spend the day do nothing but be around Hitomi, and visit Folken sometime just to say hi. As walked through the hall, weird ideas kept popping into my head, very childish like hiding behind thing and scaring the staff and throwing things out the window on to the soldiers below. By the time I reached Hitomi's room I really wanted to do those things
'What's going on today I feeling like I'm a little kid again',
"Merle I'm not wearing that" no doubt it was Hitomi's voice I heard through the door
"But you'll look cute for Lord Van"
"I don't care it's pink and a bright pink at that"
"Girls it you stopped fighting enough can I come in"
"Yes Van" the moment I entered the room Hitomi jumped in to my arms
"I missed you",
"I missed you too, do you feel weird today?"
"Immature but that's it of course that could be because of the hideous thing Merle just tried to make my wear" she pointed to a pink rolled up form of a dress with so many frills it could have hidden an army and the colour was so bright you could see you way in the dark if you worn it out
"Lovely colour",
"That's what I said, you should see it when it isn't in a ball shape"
"That bad poor you, where is her high and might in fashion anyway"
"Why" I lowed my head so I could whisper in her ear
"I'm playing matchmaker"
"Between who"
"Merle and Gaddes and he has already told me that he likes her"
"Hitomi I found the perfect dress for you, oh hello Lord Van" Merle said as she happily walked out the wardrobe carrying a box.
"What colour is it?"
"I'm not telling you"
"If it's pink there be one less cat to worry about" Hitomi realised me and walked off to her bathroom to get change. I went over and sat on the bed, which was covered in the ugliest dress you could imagine.
'Part two, you better hope this works as you will be merles scratching pole for god knows how long'
"So little sister how are you?"
"Fine why did you call me little sister?"
"I don't know exactly why ok, I want to know something"
"Which is" by now I was getting strange looks from merle
"What do you think of Gaddes?"
"Why?"
"Cuss"
"Cuss why?"
"Stop answering my question with questions"
"He's alright I guess"
"Well he likes you"
"What" that look of pure shock is so funny it's almost as funny as Allen's
"Repeat?"
"I said Gaddes likes you " which I said really slowly
"I'll believe that" Hitomi shouted through the door
"I don't believe any of you"
"We he told me himself"
"Really"
"And then Van told me" this time when Hitomi spoke it wasn't through the door. There she was standing in the doorway wearing the most beautiful emerald green dress in the world as it, hugged all the right place and had a thigh high spilt in it showing off her well toned legs
"I take that look as a I look good look"
"Of course you do and if you had your wings out you'll look like an angel"
"God you two are gross always drooling over one another and look at each other all starry eyed, it's sickening"
"At least I'm not the one drooling over Gaddes" why did Hitomi have to say that, as at that moment I knew full well a nice cat fight (sorry Merle) would start
"Why I ought" Merle jumped on to the bed and then jumped to get Hitomi causing me to fall to the floor, from the floor that's when I saw a flash of purple light
"Hey my powers work again" as I climbed I saw merle frozen about 2 feet off the floor and 3 inches away from Hitomi
"How?"
"Oh I forgot, I can freeze people surprise"
"How long does this last?"
"About 10 minutes I think"
"When?"
"Allen you know"
"Ok then who?"
"Me, you, Merle, Allen and Zaibach I think" I hate it when people answer my question before I finish asking them
"Can you stop that?"
"Ok" Hitomi pulled her book of shadows out from under her pillow and flicked it open
"What you doing?"
"I saw a great spell that changes hair colour and as Merles a cat it should change all her hair"
"Can we also do this on Folken as I've always wanted to know what he would look like with orange hair"
"Ok but first Merle" she quietly read something to her self turned to face merle and repeated the word just a quietly. You know when you pour paint on to something it slowly follows all the lines of what ever you poured it on too. That's was how Merles fur change, and the colour was the brightest pink anyone would ever see
"Evil just plain evil"
"Revenge is sweet, I believe its Folken now"
"To Folken" I didn't know why but today I felt like a big kid just playing around and playing jokes on people, and the fact Hitomi would get all the blame and even she was in a childish mood.
To my fans
Sorry chapter is very long
Rain Witch
But I do own my characters
True destiny.
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" Talking "
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This story is in the Point of view of Van and Hitomi. This is a V/H but not at first it's an A/H (which I think is a horrible idea) but it works for this story.
I'm having problem remember chapter numbers so don't worry and don't worry about my spelling as it will never get any better.
True Destiny
Chapter Fourteen
**Van**
When we reached the port it had been destroyed all the men and gymelefs, we searched foe any living people but the only one we found die after tell us that the Zaibach gymelefs were heading to Palas and over heard something about kidnapping a witch. The moment he said witch I realised it was Hitomi they were after. Allen must have thought at the same time as he ordered us all back to Palas, I prayed that they hadn't got her and if they tried she would use her powers against them. I tried call to her a few times but couldn't connect, as the link was weak.
I stood on the over hang looking back at the port
'They had no idea what hit them'
"Van" I turned to see Allen looking at me
"Yes Allen"
"So I'm right in think the witch is Hitomi"
"Yes you are"
'You blond hair ass that tried to rape a innocent 15 year old'.
"Who do you think it is" I turned back around so I could look at the cloud trying not to throw him off the platform and off the ship.
"Most likely Dilandau"
1.1 'You long haired freak'
Allen walked next to me and looked out at the sky too
"Are you only going to say 3 words to every question I ask you"
"Maybe I will" we stood there for a few minutes in silent, my mind was screaming for me to kill him but I couldn't act it out.
"So are you going to be my best man?"
'Now Fanel lift your sword and cut is dam girly head off'
I decide it was time to set every thing right not listening to the voice in my head ever if it was a good idea
"No I'm not going to be your best man, as I heard from Hitomi your two were over" I know Allen was shocked that I know that their were over
"She just nervous about the wedding"
'Your lying blonde'
"So your weren't spying on us the other night when we were under a tree together and then tried to rape her when she came to clear things up between you too" the look of pure shock was priceless I committed it to memory
1.2 'We got him, we are the best'
Ok my mind had finally lost the plot but it was some what true, ok I like that I was right and I had Allen shocked and backed in to a corner
"I got no idea what you're talking about? I would never hurt her" I turned and walked to the door knowing that Allen would properly come after me
"Remember one think thing Allen she was the one who knocked you old cold the other day" before I had even stepped off the step and out the door Allen grabbed my shoulder
"What was that meant to mean"
'Right now hit him Fanel, you know you want to '
That was it I had to hit him now and I did I turn and punched him with full force in the face
"Stay away form Hitomi, Allen if you ever touch her again I will make you life a living hell" I said in a dangerous tone. Then walked out the door and headed towards the crusades bridge, the whole time smiling about what I have done. Gossip around the ship was that Allen had stomped off to his room over a spilt end. I had tried to contacting Hitomi the whole trip but as it was very weak and she seemed to be moving I couldn't pin point her, but when I got close I could feel small flashes of fear. I had to make sure my vision didn't come true, that's when it hit me another vision.
I was a dark room all I could see the outline of someone in the dark crying suddenly a light came on blinding me and the person, as my eyes got use to the light I could see the person was chain to the floor and the person was Hitomi, blood was running down her sides from the whip marks which had cut through her dress
"Are you going to talk now?" I watched as Celena appeared through the door. She kneel next to her
"Where is your book of shadows? And how do we content the dragon?" the picture started to faded and I could feel the vision being lifted off me
"I think he is waking up"
"What do you think happened?"
"Didn't he black out the other day maybe he did it again"
"Maybe"
"You both know I can hear you?" I opened my eyes to see Gaddes and Kenko
"What happened Lord Van?"
"I had another vision that's all" the guys help me stand up; one of the other men called Kenko away leaving Gaddes and me on the bridge.
"It the little lady isn't it?"
"She has been kidnapped"
"Well if you do that little drowsing trick you and her can do, we will do after them" the shock of Gaddes idea was amazing
"Ok then lets do it" I closed my eyes and picture Hitomi in my mind the pendent in my mind spun east
"That way".
We started heading east, but no quick enough so I headed down to the gymelef hanger to use Escaflowne as it was faster, I climbed up to Escaflowne's chest, once inside I change from warrior mode to dragon then to jet mode. As I got closer to the Zaibach airship the more I felt Hitomi. Escaflowne was back in dragon mode, I could see the air ship about a mile away, I had pin pointed her position on the ship and tried to contact her but she was out cold. So far my plan was to smash in there and get out fast with Hitomi
'Great plan did you think that up all by yourself, what a moron you are'
I was hoping that I had the factor of surprise still
1.3 'I must have or they would have sent gymelefs at me by now'
I flew closer and closer till I was right on top of it and still nothing,
1.4 'What's going on here'
Just before I could land on it or anything a liquid metal was short pass me
'You had to open your big mouth didn't you Fanel, look they not doing anything let jinx it'
"So the dragon has come to safe his little wrench" I changed Escaflowne to fighter mode and dropped to the roof of the ship
"Dilandau I should of guessed" Dilandau gymelef revealed it's self. As I when to draw my sword the floor between us opened and a platform began to rise, I was waiting for the other gymelef to appear, but what I saw wasn't what I was hoping to see. Stood in the middle of the platform was Celena holding a knife to Hitomi's neck, memories of what happened at the Dragon's graveyard arose.
'What to I do?'
From what I could see my vision of her being whipped was true and this reminded me of the other vision I had, had. The only new plan I came up with was a complete and utter long shot, it was to change Escaflowne to Dragon then to jet mode, hopefully grabbing Hitomi then changing it to jet mode to escape quick enough to miss the flame-thrower of Dilandau's gymelef, I know it's a long shot but I couldn't not do anything.
1.4.1 "Here goes nothing"
'We're going to die oh for the love of god someone stop him trying this'
I changed Escaflowne in to dragon mode made it fly about a foot off the floor and flew at Dilandau, Hitomi must have had worked out what I was going to do as she escaped Celena's grasp and grabbed my arm as I flew pass, as soon as she was holding on to me I change direction and mode and was out of there, just missing the flames from Dilandau's flame thrower, but Escaflowne's tail was slightly blacken.
'Wow I'm impressed your stupid plan worked'
1.4.2 I feel whole as I could feel her emotions again, the crusade wasn't that far in front of us
"Hitomi we should be nearing back to the crusade" she hadn't said a word since I saved her, I didn't know if she was sleepy or what. Her grip around my waist slowly loosen, as her head rested on my shoulder and a floating feeling entered me
'She's a sleep, at last twice in a number of days she been hurt'
2 hours later
1.5 'Damn you blonde'
We had been flying for hours and still hadn't found the crusade, I tried drowsing and following its direction but still hadn't caught sight of it yet
1.6 'Allen must of ordered them back to Palas'
My arms had started to ache from flying against the wind, so I took Escaflowne lower. Trees all I could see were stupid green trees, the sky was getting very dark as a storm brewed I couldn't see anything in the distance. So decided to land somewhere, I saw a clearing next to a river.
"Perfect" landing Escaflowne in the clearing was more difference then I thought, as for a hiding the thing that was impossibly but as it was dark it didn't matter. I carried Hitomi to the fire which I had made form the broken branches that Escaflowne had caused to fall and laid her down gently on her stomach. I clean Hitomi's back as I didn't want it getting infected, I had to cut most of the dress away as the back material was starting to stick to her wounds this was more because of the burns she had. It was like the whip had been heated first as the edges were burnt.30 was the count of marks I got from what I could see, yet she had stayed a sleep the whole time I couldn't work out if it was pain or she was complete drained of energy.
Lucky the air was somewhat warm so we wouldn't freeze that much, but it didn't help that it was raining, but good for us the trees gave us enough cover to stop the rain getting to us, the sky was complete black and I could hear roars of thunder getting closer
'I wonder if Folken looking out his window going " yes this is the whether I like black dark and miserable", one thing will Escaflowne attract the lightning?'
Hitomi still slept next to me most of her wounds had started to heal like she did before. I thought we were about 3 and half hours away from Palas
"How did they get in to the castle"
"Celena helped them" Hitomi's voice made me jump
"So how made it my back?" she spoke without opening her eyes
"Pretty bad but your still beautiful"
'Oh god did I just say that'
"Thank you Van for coming to get me" her fingers entwined with mine. I slid down the tree. We just laid there in silence listening to the rain and the approaching thunder, I watch as the moons were slowly revealed as the clouds raced across the sky and the stars blinked. I felt her hand release mine as she tried to get up
"Want some help?" since I meet her I have learnt that she wasn't like other women all about hair and clothe she was strong, independent and just as stubborn as me and that my help wasn't always need
"Thank but no thanks" she slowly sat up and hugged her knees
"Hitomi are you ok?"
"Yeah just worried over something that Dilly said"
"Dilly"
"Dilandau I called him that to up set him it work to as you can see"
"Then you shouldn't have done it"
"It was funny the first time I called him it, he basically ran around shout "my name isn't Dilly its lord Dilandau blah, blah, blah" so on and so fore"
"That would have been funny, but what did he say?"
"How I would cause your downfall, and the death of all my friends here"
"You could never be my downfall as I would fight till the end and so would your friends, but isn't that me and Merle anyway"
"I would laugh but it hurt on much". I sat back up against the tree, the thunder started to get closer
"Do you think Escaflowne with attract the lightning"
"I was wondering that as well we'll just have to watch and see" she leant back against the carefully
"So how much of the back of this dress do I have because it doesn't feel a lot"
"Most was already damaged by Celena or Dilly as you call him and then I cut away the material close to your burns as it was starting to stick so there is some left"
"Well that will give Merle and Millennia something to do, more pink dress"
"I feel so sorry for you"
"No you don't I can feel what you feel remember and you find this funny"
"Damn it I forgot you could do that"
"And a bad liar too"
"I know that". She moved slightly so her head was resting on my shoulder, I didn't dare around my arm around her in case I reopened some of her wounds. In the firelight I noticed a thin pale scar running down her cheek just like Dilandau's but this was paler and almost gone.
1.7 'By morning she'll have no scar on her face if her powers kick in'
The rain really started to come down hard, as the storm got closer.
'Her back must be killing her, mine did when I was whipped'
I felt her shiver against me, I looked at her face to see that her lips were turning very light blue
"Cold"
"A bit but it doesn't help that my back is bare"
"Speaking of backs, it's go to be painful sitting like that"
"No not really" she slowly moved off my shoulder and laid with her head on my lap while on her stomach
"This is much better though, your don't might do you"
"No", I looked across her back to see that most of her wounds had started to heal
'Millennia was right she does heal quicker than normal people, what am I saying she above normal'.
The thunderstorm had stopped about an hour ago but it was still raining and a wind had picked up making it freezing in the woods. Hitomi had fallen back to sleep so I had pulled her up on to my lap so her head was under my chin and had wrapped her in my wings to keep us warm. Sleep kept creeping my on me, but I knew if I fell a sleep we could be attacked.
'You fell asleep you moron'
Sometime during the night I must of fell too sleep, as when I re opened my eye it was light. The fire had gone out some time ago as no one had tended to it, must importantly was still fast asleep in my arms. I was so wrapped up in watching Hitomi sleep I didn't notice merle tip toeing up to us until she stepped on a branch
"So enjoy yourselves?"
"Ssshhh Merle she still asleep, Merle?"
"Yes how did you know I was creeping up on you?"
"You stepped on a branch, how did you get here"
"Here is Palas and before you ask I found you because I watched you landed last night"
"How?"
"Far are we about hours walk" god I was way off by how many hours
'2 and a half you moron',
"Me and Gaddes decide to come and look for you two this morning, giving you some alone time with Hitomi" that's when merle started making kissy sounds and face,
"Damn you merle" I could hear Gaddes cursing as he approach our position, so I moved Hitomi so she was laying by her self then melted my wings back in and put my shirt back on which was wet with morning dew. Gaddes fell face first out of the woods in to the clearing.
"Merle when I get my hands on you, I'm going to kill you"
"Hello Gaddes, nice walk?" at the sound of my voice Gaddes quickly got up
"Lord Van?"
"Ssshhh" I pointed to a completely healed Hitomi lying on the grass
"How is she?"
"Fine" we whispered to each other
"Can you walk?"
"Yeah"
"You can wake her as I saw what she did to Allen, it was quite funny at the time"
"Ok, ok" before I could do anything Merle screamed her name in to her ear
"I hate you Merle," she grumbled as she opened her eyes
"Merle?"
"God not this again"
Merle suddenly started laughing at Hitomi hair until she saw the back of her dress
"What have you done to your dress?" Hitomi got up and walked over to me and Gaddes not listening to Merle what so ever, she then kissed me on the nose
"Morning"
"Morning sleep well?"
"Yeah, hi Gaddes"
"Hi little lady, I think merle wants you" pointing over to Merle who now looked like a fur ball
"You better answer her question"
"Why" Hitomi answered between her laughs
"STOP LAUGHING AT ME, now answer my question"
"I decided that the backless dress should be introduced to Geae" before nail were release on to Hitomi I cut in with
"Merle I had to cut away the back to clean Hitomi's wounds, which have now healed completely and I give up with this story" I was unsure on what reply I was going to get back so I decide been quiet
"But Merle now I can wear one of the dresses you and Millennia got me can't I?"
"Oh yeah"
"Ok lord Van and Ladies I think we better head back to the castle before anything else happens"
"I collect Escaflowne later, lets give it a rest in the wood for a while"
"Ok" they all said looking at me like I had just dances around naked.
'Off to Palas! How fun'.
39 40
'If I get hit in the face with one more branch I will burn this wood to the ground and laugh at it all'
41 we had been walking for 10 minutes and I had been hit in the face by 41 stupid branches
"I'll show us the way," Merle said before disappearing in to the woods, you would think something with pink and orange fur wouldn't be hard to find in a green wood, but no somehow the cat blended in the tree
'Where I get to the castle I'm going to shave Merle and her pretty little dog to whahahaha'
"Branch"
"Thanks for the warning this time" personal I thought Merle was leading us in circles. But much to my astonishment 30 minutes later we were in the town
"Finally Merle any longer in that wood and I would have skinned you" said Gaddes as we head to the castle. I don't know why but for unforeseen reason I kind of saw Gaddes and Merle ending up together as they got on each others nervous so much that they actually got along. And they seemed to enjoy each others company when not throwing evil remarks at each other and as Hitomi said opposite attracted. And in the term of Van Fanel's twisted mind that meant they would be together and live happily ever after.
'It's official Van Fanel of Fanelia has lost it, why is he saying think he said when he was 5? Answer please any one.'
The moment that we where within the castle grounds Merle dragged Hitomi off to change and when I mean drag I meant dragged, leaving me with Gaddes.
'I wonder if I should play matchmaker? Yes, no, yes, no I can't it has to be natural'
Unfortanly the voice in my head with continuously mocks me decide to butt in to my decision and for some weird reason the voice sounded like I did when I was 10?
'Play match marker if you don't I will haunt you with horrible metal picture of when you were younger',
1.8 'Ok I do it'
I have a very twisted inner child or voice or what ever he is.
"I feel sorry for you Lord Van, having to live with Merle"
"She's a pain most of the time, but not that bad"
"Yeah but you had to grow up with her"
"So was it Allen who order the ship back to Palas?"
"Yeah, oh evil black eye you gave him"
"Oh that thanks, why were you with Merle this morning"
"She decided that she would hide my sword until I helped her find you two, which reminds me to get it back"
"She likes you"
"What? Who? Merle?"
"Yes merle as she would have come alone other wise"
"Yeah right"
"So you do like her"
"OK a little bit"
"Really"
"No I like her a lot ok"
'Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding we have a winner'
"If you hurt her I will kill you, but until then, I tell you something when Merle like someone she doesn't let them out of her sight" I pointed to the balcony where Merle was standing and with that I disappeared into the castle doors laughing to my self for no reason.
"I'm good at this"
"Van de Slanzer Fanel" ouch my full name I pray that when I turned around it was Folken or Allen stood behind me,
"Hello Millennia"
'AGRH'
"Van Fanel why did you hit Allen"
"Because I felt like it"
'What was that Fanel, well done you have just won the worst liar of the year an awards how do you feel?'
"A real answer"
2 "When you stop make a shouting at me"
"Oh sorry"
"That's better I tell you why in the library" we headed towards the library in silence, Cleaning staff always remind me of ants run away when you uncover their nest or walk in to a room.
"So Van the reason"
"He was been rude toward my friend so I hit him"
'Where on Geae did that come from I have lied that bad since 10 that is happened'
"Really he told me you just turned around and hit him, I want the real true Van"
"This doesn't leave this room he hit Hitomi so I hit him" for the first time since I meet Millennia she was quiet
"He hit her"
"Yes he did, and if you don't mind I want to deal with this in my own way"
"Fine of course you have my support in the matter"
"Thanks Millennia, oh yeah if you see Gaddes in the next few hours tell him Merle is looking for him"
"Why"
"I'm trying to set them up"
"Ok"
"Oh Millennia don't call me but my full name a gain please"
"Sorry I was just angry at you"
'Poor Dryden having to marry that'
I wanted to spend the day do nothing but be around Hitomi, and visit Folken sometime just to say hi. As walked through the hall, weird ideas kept popping into my head, very childish like hiding behind thing and scaring the staff and throwing things out the window on to the soldiers below. By the time I reached Hitomi's room I really wanted to do those things
'What's going on today I feeling like I'm a little kid again',
"Merle I'm not wearing that" no doubt it was Hitomi's voice I heard through the door
"But you'll look cute for Lord Van"
"I don't care it's pink and a bright pink at that"
"Girls it you stopped fighting enough can I come in"
"Yes Van" the moment I entered the room Hitomi jumped in to my arms
"I missed you",
"I missed you too, do you feel weird today?"
"Immature but that's it of course that could be because of the hideous thing Merle just tried to make my wear" she pointed to a pink rolled up form of a dress with so many frills it could have hidden an army and the colour was so bright you could see you way in the dark if you worn it out
"Lovely colour",
"That's what I said, you should see it when it isn't in a ball shape"
"That bad poor you, where is her high and might in fashion anyway"
"Why" I lowed my head so I could whisper in her ear
"I'm playing matchmaker"
"Between who"
"Merle and Gaddes and he has already told me that he likes her"
"Hitomi I found the perfect dress for you, oh hello Lord Van" Merle said as she happily walked out the wardrobe carrying a box.
"What colour is it?"
"I'm not telling you"
"If it's pink there be one less cat to worry about" Hitomi realised me and walked off to her bathroom to get change. I went over and sat on the bed, which was covered in the ugliest dress you could imagine.
'Part two, you better hope this works as you will be merles scratching pole for god knows how long'
"So little sister how are you?"
"Fine why did you call me little sister?"
"I don't know exactly why ok, I want to know something"
"Which is" by now I was getting strange looks from merle
"What do you think of Gaddes?"
"Why?"
"Cuss"
"Cuss why?"
"Stop answering my question with questions"
"He's alright I guess"
"Well he likes you"
"What" that look of pure shock is so funny it's almost as funny as Allen's
"Repeat?"
"I said Gaddes likes you " which I said really slowly
"I'll believe that" Hitomi shouted through the door
"I don't believe any of you"
"We he told me himself"
"Really"
"And then Van told me" this time when Hitomi spoke it wasn't through the door. There she was standing in the doorway wearing the most beautiful emerald green dress in the world as it, hugged all the right place and had a thigh high spilt in it showing off her well toned legs
"I take that look as a I look good look"
"Of course you do and if you had your wings out you'll look like an angel"
"God you two are gross always drooling over one another and look at each other all starry eyed, it's sickening"
"At least I'm not the one drooling over Gaddes" why did Hitomi have to say that, as at that moment I knew full well a nice cat fight (sorry Merle) would start
"Why I ought" Merle jumped on to the bed and then jumped to get Hitomi causing me to fall to the floor, from the floor that's when I saw a flash of purple light
"Hey my powers work again" as I climbed I saw merle frozen about 2 feet off the floor and 3 inches away from Hitomi
"How?"
"Oh I forgot, I can freeze people surprise"
"How long does this last?"
"About 10 minutes I think"
"When?"
"Allen you know"
"Ok then who?"
"Me, you, Merle, Allen and Zaibach I think" I hate it when people answer my question before I finish asking them
"Can you stop that?"
"Ok" Hitomi pulled her book of shadows out from under her pillow and flicked it open
"What you doing?"
"I saw a great spell that changes hair colour and as Merles a cat it should change all her hair"
"Can we also do this on Folken as I've always wanted to know what he would look like with orange hair"
"Ok but first Merle" she quietly read something to her self turned to face merle and repeated the word just a quietly. You know when you pour paint on to something it slowly follows all the lines of what ever you poured it on too. That's was how Merles fur change, and the colour was the brightest pink anyone would ever see
"Evil just plain evil"
"Revenge is sweet, I believe its Folken now"
"To Folken" I didn't know why but today I felt like a big kid just playing around and playing jokes on people, and the fact Hitomi would get all the blame and even she was in a childish mood.
To my fans
Sorry chapter is very long
Rain Witch