I do not own escaflowne or it's characters,
But I do own my characters
True destiny.
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" Talking "
** POV change **
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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
1.1.1 Chapter 16
**Van**
A purple wave washed over everything Zaibach, the men and Gymelifs freezing them in they places, yet my own troops and me could still move
"What's going on?"
The idea of killing the frozen red gymelef of Dilandau ran through my mind follow by something, which sounded like Balgus saying
"It would be a un sports man like kill lord Van"
'Damn you Balgus'.
The chain, which once held up the doors, was at my feet, I quickly picked it up and wrapped it around Dilandau's gymelef imprisoning it. So if the freeze thing wears off he couldn't cause any more fires or trouble.
The closer I got to the capital the more I felt something familiar ran thought me. It felt like Hitomi was here
'Impossible'.
All the Zaibach men were still frozen so the troops tied them together and disabled the Gymelifs. The Zaibach army was neutralised. I left Escaflowne outside the main building at the capital of Zaibach. I looked up at the pillar of purple
'Wasn't that green, wondered what happened'
We had decided to search and try and disable the powers of Atlantis, to do so we were slitting up, I got stuck in the team with the blond stupid knight, Gaddes and two soldiers from Palas. The building was like a maze the whole place was dark and smelt of wet; a few candles between doorways lighted the halls
1.2 'Folken's home away from home'
We looked in each room finding more and more frozen people. The once familiar feel had now turned to pain I could feel something pull at my wings, yet the pain wasn't fully there it was like a shadow of the pain as if I was remembering the pain of an old wound.
"Lord Van are you ok?"
"I'm fine Gaddes just a backache"
"Ok".
We had been following the halls for about 30 minutes but if felt like 8 hours, and yet we still had found the main room due to Allen's great direction. I looked out the window near to where we were resting to the sky; the earthy started to quake under foot as the purple wave headed back at us. I watched as everything started to unfreeze, I could hear Dilandau's screaming from a mile away as the wave washed back to it's source. A blood- curling scream echoed through the halls and the sense of emptiness filled me.
We picked up speed through the halls
'Please gods say that wasn't Hitomi'
We entered the main room I could see where once the powers of Atlantis would have stood. I could hear the soldier's whispers
"Maybe it just stops"
"Maybe as no one could handle that much power".
The room was a mess glass was sticking out all the walls and the support beams had fallen down, from what I could see a large chuck of glass had impaled Dunkirk. Gaddes and me decide well were chose by mister high and might Allen to go check and see if Dunkirk was completely dead.
We stood on the machine, which had once kept Dunkirk alive; the surface was covered in a green slime. Gaddes was checking on the old slimly man as I looked over the edge of the machine down in to the darkness of the hole below
"What do you think is down there?"
"Like I know" as I went to walk away a spark of pink caught my eye
"Van I think you better get down here" I turned away from the light and walked over to the side which I could see Allen from
"What is it Allen?"
'You blond baby who cries over everything, look I have a split end quick called doctor'
"Come down here" I slid careful down the slid of the machine to the floor not falling over once on the way down.
"What is it Allen?" he turned to face my yet it wasn't his blond hair I was looking at it was the pile of blood covered feather in his hand
"What are those" I already know the answer
"Draconian feather" suddenly everything came clear as I touched the feather, the freezing of the gymelef and the troops
"Hitomi"
"What about Hitomi"
"She's here those are her feather, oh god she must be under the rumble"
"Men search for a female draconian"
"Van we'll try and find her" I could hear Allen's evillest was he spoke like he didn't care from my frozen spot my heart was beating so hard against my rib cage it hurt
'She's down the hole you know it I know it now do something'
I walked to the edge of the hole and looked in to its depths again, I saw another flash of pink light
"Hitomi" I knew within my heart it was her pendent without think
'When do you ever think you stupid, stupid, stupid boy'?
I drove in to the hole. The closer I got tot the light the brighter it got. I called fore my wings about 20 feet from the floor gently gliding to the floor.
I looked around the area it had more machinery in it and glass then the upper level. I could hear Gaddes and Allen voices calling out to me but the darkness within the hole surrounded me kept me from the view. The only light I had was the pink glow of the pendent. I climbed over different things trying to find the lights source yet I had no luck. I pictured Hitomi in my mind the pictures were of the first time I ever saw her wings a true angel. I let my sense guide me to her position. They stopped in front of the largest pile of stones and metal, from its base I could see the light under it all.
I started pulling at the rocks pushing them out the way hoping to find here alive. I heard heavy ropes been dropped behind my yet I still carried on. The light was getting brighter and brighter the more rocks I moved. As I removed a largish rock I found Hitomi's hand my heart stopped in mid beat as I looked at the hand. The skin was so pale and blood had started to dried to it her pendent was wrapped around her limp fingers.
'She has to be alive'
By the time Gaddes and Allen had finished climbing down the ropes, I had completely uncovered Hitomi and moved her so she was laying in my arms, she looked a sleep yet I knew in my hearts of hearts that she would never wake up. I could hear them getting closer, so I wiped the tears away I could feel more on the way, I gently kissed Hitomi's forehead hoping to find some warmth but nothing
"Bye my Angel" I tired to whisper but my voice cracked every time I spoke
'Why does everyone I love leave me'?
'Van stop this she just girl, to the hell of it she was the love of our stupid live what are we going to do'
My inner voice was right she was the love of my life and soul mate
"Van you down here?"
"Over here" my voice started to crack again
"Pull your self together for a while Van" I quickly whispered to my self. I gently picked my self up off the floor, Hitomi's once beautiful wings now hung lifeless twisted and blood stained as they dragged across the floor. Every step I took up the hill was so hard and drained my energy; before I was half away up the hill Gaddes and Allen come over the top of the mount. From the way they looked at me they must have know that I had been crying. Allen's blue eyes coldly washed over Hitomi's from, no saddest or pain reflected in his eye, I walked passed his and saw Gaddes eye they showed saddest and worry in them,
"Now we have found her lets leave this pace"
Allen's cold voices echoed off the wall sides as he spoke
1.3 'Cold hearted blonde freak'
"We are taking her to Palas with us she disservices a proper" I didn't ever get to finish my sentences
"Fine Van but you have to carry her" Allen's coldest wasn't what I wanted at this moment, I wanted Hitomi's warm and emotions back.
I had climbed the ropes, as I couldn't work out how to carry Hitomi and climb at the same time. So I had decided to fly up instead it killed my wings and back yet I wouldn't have done it any other way. As I walked through the crusade I could hear the men whisper
"Isn't that the little lady"?
"Yeah those Zaibach scum must have killed her. I gently laid Hitomi down on the table in one of the back rooms of the crusade that was used for wounded men. I knelt beside the table brushing her hair carefully off her face
"Van" Gaddes voice filled the room
"I want to be alone Gaddes"
"I know you do I just want to get your sword"
"Why?"
"I've seen many men do in creditably stupid things when they soul mates die" I knew what he was getting at so I took off my sword and skated it across the floor to him
"Thanks", the moment the door closed everything poured out
"Why Hitomi? Why did you have to leave me" I wanted her to answer me. I just sat there and cried over everything that had happened. I could feel my body shake from the sobs.
It was along flight to Palas I had spent most of the time in the same room as Hitomi, I had clean the blood off her now blue face, her whole body was covered in cut and marks, all I knew was that she bleed to dead while sealing the powers of Atlantis, all the wounds which she had got from Dilandau had also returned. My thoughts kept returning too her family what would they been doing she's been missing from the mystic moon for 8 months now
"How would I explain this to them?" Questions like that ran thought my head over and over again, most of them anger at myself for bring her here the other where anger at her for leaving.
I felt the crusade descending which meant we were close to Palas, I feel a state and most likely looked like one to, my hair stuck out in more direction then normal and my eyes were red and sore from crying, I couldn't face those people so happy that we had won the war yet the real hero was the one laying on the table
1.4 'Angel'
My heart was smashed in to so many pieces you could fit them through the eye of a needle it hurt so much. Yet every time I tried to leave what was left of my heart stopped me.
I heard the anchor drop and the crowd start shouting about the return of loved one and the soldiers of the war. As I tired to head our again Hitomi pendent lit up. I walked over to the table again and gently ran my fingers across it. I felt her warmth and love locked within. A gift from her grandmother to her and now to me, I didn't understand how I knew that was why it was glowing but I did. I gently removed the pentagram and chain from around her neck and placed it around my own, the pentagram was warm to the touch yet I had placed it around her neck when I dug her out. It was an alien weight around my neck but it felt right. I left the room with a final look at Hitomi one of my hands wrapped around the star. I didn't care that is was a witches star, I had draconian, witches and human blood within my vein just like her so it was part of me to.
As I watched from the back, as people rejoined with loved ones, I saw the orange tail of Merle in the crowd as she raced towards Gaddes
1.5 'Well at least she is happy'
'Can't you go back to making me feel stupid and question everything I do'?
'Let me see no not yet not until you talk to her'
'Who Hitomi'
'No millennia of course Hitomi, if you speak from the heart the dead can hear you'
For the first time in years the voice in my head said something normal and nice OK I have a voices in my head deal with it. I side-stepped Merles tackle
"Not funny Lord Van"
"Merle leave Van alone" I guess from the way Gaddes was trying to make Merle leave me a lone he hadn't told her yet.
"He has a right to know they are married, Lord Van Hitomi is missing"
"Oh god" I heard Gaddes whisper as the small world I had build round my for a little while crumbled away
"Merle Hitomi's dead" I felt and heard my voice crack as I said that phrase, merle voice and look changed from happiness to pure saddest
"Lord Van" I wrapped my arms around her now crying from. My whole boy was tied and run down I had cried enough for today and wasn't going to cry again for now.
2 Days later
I was lying in Hitomi's bed; I had been there since I got back to the castle days ago sidestepping everyone. All my friends had came and checked on my Folken and millennia both had tried to get my to eat but I wasn't hungry. The whole bed smelt like her but it didn't help that I was hiding under the covers from the world and the truth. Hitomi's funeral was yesterday Gaddes and Merle had both tried to talk me in to going, but I couldn't if I watched then bury her I knew she wasn't coming back. I had decided from my covered position I would visit her grave by my self to night and say my good byes. I just laid there under the screens of her bed soaking in all that was left of her. The once magical alive book of shadows now lay dead on the bedside table as if it had die to, tears hadn't fallen from my eyes since the crusade but every time wanted they t appeared they wouldn't. Felt sleep pull at me again
'Great another dreamless sleep'
My dreams were gone as well; it was always dark now but at this moment that was all I felt.
The next time I opened my eyes, the last rays of pink sun shore through the window on to the bed making the screens pink form under them. I felt next to me hoping that it was all a bad dream and Hitomi was right next to me, but no luck I just found empty space. I pulled the covers off my face to spot a tray of food on the top of the bedside table next to the book of shadows; the tray was full of snack type food and desserts yet none appealed to me at first look a note was stuck on the top
++Van, Please eat something it's not health to do this to your self, so please eat, Millennia++
I looked at the tray again and stopped at one of the desserts, Hitomi's favourite. It was some sort of chocolate thing, which she always loved
'Mmm chocolate, eat it please before I force you too'
I smirked at my inner voice which had seemed to have returned to it's normal self. I wasn't a big fan of chocolate Hitomi always said Chocolate was a girl best friend and that man never could handle more then 2 pieces
Yet this seemed to be hitting the spot. I had managed to eat 5 before feeling sick as a dog
"How did she managed to eat 10 of these a night"
I said to no one, I looked out the window and saw that night had started to craw it's way through the town. I climbed out the bed and looked in the mirror and god what a mess, my clothes wrinkled, hair in 35 different directions and black bags under my eyes from lack of sleep.
'Don't we look hansom'?
I walked barefooted out on to the balcony and watched the last bit of sun slowly melt in to the sea. I picked 5 white roses off the brush next to me remembering how she loved white roses. I removed my shirt and hopped up on to the wall. Feather floated to the floor as I realised my wings and then I took to the skies.
I landed just outside the graveyard not bothering to hided my wings. I quietly walked between the stones being pulled in the direction of her grave. Her grave was simple and beautiful with the name Hitomi written on it no one other then a select few knew of her royal blood. Flowers decorated the grave all from her friends on this planet
'It's time Van remember from the heart you chicken'
Stupid inner voice, but it was right
"From the heart" I knelt in front of the grave gently placing the roses down before I started, as I knew this would be the hardest thing I ever had to do
"Hitomi I don't know if my message will get through to you but here goes. Form the moment I meet you I know some where along the line we would end up together ever thou I was really pig headed. If I had never dragged you in to my world you wouldn't be dead but if I hadn't I wouldn't have fallen in love with you and learn so many new things. I owe you my life on so many events, you're the only person other then my family and merle that didn't hate me for been a draconian I love you Hitomi and always will. I wish you were here with me still but you always putted other people before your self. Hitomi I'm going to return to Fanelia taking Escaflowne and your book of shadows too, I want to see a world without war like you wanted. So I'm going to take Escaflowne out in to the woods and deactivate it, placing in side your book to keep it safe. I'm now mad at you for leaving my anymore I love you Hitomi, please don't forget me in the summer land"
No tears fell this time as I had final told her how I felt, I had helped me to say those thing and feel like she was listening, I wrapped my hand around the pentagram
"I never forgot you".
As I slowly rose I felt someone's present, I went for my sword to find nothing then I remembered Gaddes had it
'Well aren't you stupid forgetting your sword once again and this time your wings and even out, I really got to find my self and new job'
I let my melt back it to my back covering Hitomi's grave with white feathers. Suddenly I remember my vision of me over a grave and Hitomi been kidnapped, I pulled my shirt back on and turned to see Allen behind me
"Allen what are you doing here?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing demon"
"I was saying good by to Hitomi blonde" I pushed past him try to forget the fact he called me a demon and headed to the gates
"It's you fault you know she's dead Van" I stopped dead in my tracks
'Kill him'
I felt my angry build inside me
"You and your demon family"
Pause find the air like he was waiting for my to snap but I didn't
"What the hell was that meant to mean"?
"She was stupid enough to follow you and your demon family and believe in that witch craft stuff"
"Leave my family out of this Allen or I start including your, your really just angry that Hitomi saw through your shallowness and married me" I turn and started heading out again
"No more killing" I whispered to my self, if we had carried on I would have killed him with my bare hands.
Suddenly a small vision hit me of Allen killing my, Hitomi had somehow given her power of visions to me
"Allen if you even think you doing what you about to do, you'll have a whole country on you, so if I was you I would shield you sword and never get in my sight as I have you killed" I heard Allen sword been replaced
"Oh and Allen never return to my wife's grave" I heard him stormed off some where in to the grave yard, I turned to look at her grave again before I exited the grave yard
"Goodbye Hitomi, wish me luck on my journey home"
3 years later
I sitting in the main ballroom of my new castle, witch look pretty much like the last one. Fanelia had been rebuild all it's people and dragons and the old men I have to call my council who keep trying to marry me to any princess that passes Fanelia returned. Escaflowne was hidden away from the town deactivated within it's chest was Hitomi's book of shadows. Merle and Gaddes got married about 5 months ago and Folken was somewhere in the basement he calls a lab, Allen hadn't bee seen anywhere since the grave yard thing, and Millennia and Dryden lived happily ever after.
My staffs were finishing preparing the room for some ball my council had arranged behind my back
'They are trying to marry us off again'
I suddenly felt Merles present and moved to see merle fly past me
"Hello merle"
"I hate it when you do that"
"Sorry what's up?"
"Lets see the ball is in about an hour and your not even dressed"
"I'm going" merle still lived in the castle with us she still tried to protect me form every women who walked in the door especially princess who dressed up to look like Hitomi hoping I would choose them for a bride. Merle followed me to my room as she always helped me chose the right outfit or really told me what to wear to these stupid events
'Stupid council'
As merle disappeared in to my closet, I followed my self-holding the pendent around my neck. Hitomi's start my council continually tried to make me remove it, but I wouldn't because it was one of the last things Hitomi had given me and it was part of me. I still woke every morning hoping it was a dream and she was laying right next to me fast a sleep, yet I still hadn't woken from this nightmare. After taking Hitomi's pendent I was able to receive visions, not as clear as hers would be but helpful to my people and me nonetheless it was her other gift to me.
"Thinking of Hitomi again"
"Aren't I always?"
"Half the time the other time it's food this food that"
"Why you little fur ball" Merle was gone before I could even turn around. Lying on my bed was the clothes she had selected for me
'Blue why in the love of the gods blue'
Then I remembered what colours the ball was
"Blue and white damn" I hated these events just as much as studying. The problem was I couldn't escape these; I quickly changed in to the clothes she had chosen and headed towards the ballroom.
I could already hear the music playing from the room
"How long was I in my room for?"
'Well lets see long enough for it to start you moron, that is it I'm finally leaving good bye so long, DAMN IT I forgot I'm stuck in you stupid head'
As I entered the room my name was shouted across the room telling everyone I had arrived, as I walk down the stairs I could see all my friends, unforturally I could also see about 20 women dressed up to look like Hitomi. All had cut they hair short and were wearing a pinkish purple stone pendent.
'Run it's the attack of the killer Hitomi look a likes'.
The whole night was like a blur, I had to dance with god knows how many look a likes. As I headed to wards the garden doors something weird happened, I felt whole again, the part that had died with Hitomi was alive. I could feel a connection be made to someone in the room. As it connected I felt love, happiness and fear fill me, I followed the feelings to the top of the stairs
"How?"
But I do own my characters
True destiny.
' Thoughts '
" Talking "
** POV change **
+++Text or messages+++
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
1.1.1 Chapter 16
**Van**
A purple wave washed over everything Zaibach, the men and Gymelifs freezing them in they places, yet my own troops and me could still move
"What's going on?"
The idea of killing the frozen red gymelef of Dilandau ran through my mind follow by something, which sounded like Balgus saying
"It would be a un sports man like kill lord Van"
'Damn you Balgus'.
The chain, which once held up the doors, was at my feet, I quickly picked it up and wrapped it around Dilandau's gymelef imprisoning it. So if the freeze thing wears off he couldn't cause any more fires or trouble.
The closer I got to the capital the more I felt something familiar ran thought me. It felt like Hitomi was here
'Impossible'.
All the Zaibach men were still frozen so the troops tied them together and disabled the Gymelifs. The Zaibach army was neutralised. I left Escaflowne outside the main building at the capital of Zaibach. I looked up at the pillar of purple
'Wasn't that green, wondered what happened'
We had decided to search and try and disable the powers of Atlantis, to do so we were slitting up, I got stuck in the team with the blond stupid knight, Gaddes and two soldiers from Palas. The building was like a maze the whole place was dark and smelt of wet; a few candles between doorways lighted the halls
1.2 'Folken's home away from home'
We looked in each room finding more and more frozen people. The once familiar feel had now turned to pain I could feel something pull at my wings, yet the pain wasn't fully there it was like a shadow of the pain as if I was remembering the pain of an old wound.
"Lord Van are you ok?"
"I'm fine Gaddes just a backache"
"Ok".
We had been following the halls for about 30 minutes but if felt like 8 hours, and yet we still had found the main room due to Allen's great direction. I looked out the window near to where we were resting to the sky; the earthy started to quake under foot as the purple wave headed back at us. I watched as everything started to unfreeze, I could hear Dilandau's screaming from a mile away as the wave washed back to it's source. A blood- curling scream echoed through the halls and the sense of emptiness filled me.
We picked up speed through the halls
'Please gods say that wasn't Hitomi'
We entered the main room I could see where once the powers of Atlantis would have stood. I could hear the soldier's whispers
"Maybe it just stops"
"Maybe as no one could handle that much power".
The room was a mess glass was sticking out all the walls and the support beams had fallen down, from what I could see a large chuck of glass had impaled Dunkirk. Gaddes and me decide well were chose by mister high and might Allen to go check and see if Dunkirk was completely dead.
We stood on the machine, which had once kept Dunkirk alive; the surface was covered in a green slime. Gaddes was checking on the old slimly man as I looked over the edge of the machine down in to the darkness of the hole below
"What do you think is down there?"
"Like I know" as I went to walk away a spark of pink caught my eye
"Van I think you better get down here" I turned away from the light and walked over to the side which I could see Allen from
"What is it Allen?"
'You blond baby who cries over everything, look I have a split end quick called doctor'
"Come down here" I slid careful down the slid of the machine to the floor not falling over once on the way down.
"What is it Allen?" he turned to face my yet it wasn't his blond hair I was looking at it was the pile of blood covered feather in his hand
"What are those" I already know the answer
"Draconian feather" suddenly everything came clear as I touched the feather, the freezing of the gymelef and the troops
"Hitomi"
"What about Hitomi"
"She's here those are her feather, oh god she must be under the rumble"
"Men search for a female draconian"
"Van we'll try and find her" I could hear Allen's evillest was he spoke like he didn't care from my frozen spot my heart was beating so hard against my rib cage it hurt
'She's down the hole you know it I know it now do something'
I walked to the edge of the hole and looked in to its depths again, I saw another flash of pink light
"Hitomi" I knew within my heart it was her pendent without think
'When do you ever think you stupid, stupid, stupid boy'?
I drove in to the hole. The closer I got tot the light the brighter it got. I called fore my wings about 20 feet from the floor gently gliding to the floor.
I looked around the area it had more machinery in it and glass then the upper level. I could hear Gaddes and Allen voices calling out to me but the darkness within the hole surrounded me kept me from the view. The only light I had was the pink glow of the pendent. I climbed over different things trying to find the lights source yet I had no luck. I pictured Hitomi in my mind the pictures were of the first time I ever saw her wings a true angel. I let my sense guide me to her position. They stopped in front of the largest pile of stones and metal, from its base I could see the light under it all.
I started pulling at the rocks pushing them out the way hoping to find here alive. I heard heavy ropes been dropped behind my yet I still carried on. The light was getting brighter and brighter the more rocks I moved. As I removed a largish rock I found Hitomi's hand my heart stopped in mid beat as I looked at the hand. The skin was so pale and blood had started to dried to it her pendent was wrapped around her limp fingers.
'She has to be alive'
By the time Gaddes and Allen had finished climbing down the ropes, I had completely uncovered Hitomi and moved her so she was laying in my arms, she looked a sleep yet I knew in my hearts of hearts that she would never wake up. I could hear them getting closer, so I wiped the tears away I could feel more on the way, I gently kissed Hitomi's forehead hoping to find some warmth but nothing
"Bye my Angel" I tired to whisper but my voice cracked every time I spoke
'Why does everyone I love leave me'?
'Van stop this she just girl, to the hell of it she was the love of our stupid live what are we going to do'
My inner voice was right she was the love of my life and soul mate
"Van you down here?"
"Over here" my voice started to crack again
"Pull your self together for a while Van" I quickly whispered to my self. I gently picked my self up off the floor, Hitomi's once beautiful wings now hung lifeless twisted and blood stained as they dragged across the floor. Every step I took up the hill was so hard and drained my energy; before I was half away up the hill Gaddes and Allen come over the top of the mount. From the way they looked at me they must have know that I had been crying. Allen's blue eyes coldly washed over Hitomi's from, no saddest or pain reflected in his eye, I walked passed his and saw Gaddes eye they showed saddest and worry in them,
"Now we have found her lets leave this pace"
Allen's cold voices echoed off the wall sides as he spoke
1.3 'Cold hearted blonde freak'
"We are taking her to Palas with us she disservices a proper" I didn't ever get to finish my sentences
"Fine Van but you have to carry her" Allen's coldest wasn't what I wanted at this moment, I wanted Hitomi's warm and emotions back.
I had climbed the ropes, as I couldn't work out how to carry Hitomi and climb at the same time. So I had decided to fly up instead it killed my wings and back yet I wouldn't have done it any other way. As I walked through the crusade I could hear the men whisper
"Isn't that the little lady"?
"Yeah those Zaibach scum must have killed her. I gently laid Hitomi down on the table in one of the back rooms of the crusade that was used for wounded men. I knelt beside the table brushing her hair carefully off her face
"Van" Gaddes voice filled the room
"I want to be alone Gaddes"
"I know you do I just want to get your sword"
"Why?"
"I've seen many men do in creditably stupid things when they soul mates die" I knew what he was getting at so I took off my sword and skated it across the floor to him
"Thanks", the moment the door closed everything poured out
"Why Hitomi? Why did you have to leave me" I wanted her to answer me. I just sat there and cried over everything that had happened. I could feel my body shake from the sobs.
It was along flight to Palas I had spent most of the time in the same room as Hitomi, I had clean the blood off her now blue face, her whole body was covered in cut and marks, all I knew was that she bleed to dead while sealing the powers of Atlantis, all the wounds which she had got from Dilandau had also returned. My thoughts kept returning too her family what would they been doing she's been missing from the mystic moon for 8 months now
"How would I explain this to them?" Questions like that ran thought my head over and over again, most of them anger at myself for bring her here the other where anger at her for leaving.
I felt the crusade descending which meant we were close to Palas, I feel a state and most likely looked like one to, my hair stuck out in more direction then normal and my eyes were red and sore from crying, I couldn't face those people so happy that we had won the war yet the real hero was the one laying on the table
1.4 'Angel'
My heart was smashed in to so many pieces you could fit them through the eye of a needle it hurt so much. Yet every time I tried to leave what was left of my heart stopped me.
I heard the anchor drop and the crowd start shouting about the return of loved one and the soldiers of the war. As I tired to head our again Hitomi pendent lit up. I walked over to the table again and gently ran my fingers across it. I felt her warmth and love locked within. A gift from her grandmother to her and now to me, I didn't understand how I knew that was why it was glowing but I did. I gently removed the pentagram and chain from around her neck and placed it around my own, the pentagram was warm to the touch yet I had placed it around her neck when I dug her out. It was an alien weight around my neck but it felt right. I left the room with a final look at Hitomi one of my hands wrapped around the star. I didn't care that is was a witches star, I had draconian, witches and human blood within my vein just like her so it was part of me to.
As I watched from the back, as people rejoined with loved ones, I saw the orange tail of Merle in the crowd as she raced towards Gaddes
1.5 'Well at least she is happy'
'Can't you go back to making me feel stupid and question everything I do'?
'Let me see no not yet not until you talk to her'
'Who Hitomi'
'No millennia of course Hitomi, if you speak from the heart the dead can hear you'
For the first time in years the voice in my head said something normal and nice OK I have a voices in my head deal with it. I side-stepped Merles tackle
"Not funny Lord Van"
"Merle leave Van alone" I guess from the way Gaddes was trying to make Merle leave me a lone he hadn't told her yet.
"He has a right to know they are married, Lord Van Hitomi is missing"
"Oh god" I heard Gaddes whisper as the small world I had build round my for a little while crumbled away
"Merle Hitomi's dead" I felt and heard my voice crack as I said that phrase, merle voice and look changed from happiness to pure saddest
"Lord Van" I wrapped my arms around her now crying from. My whole boy was tied and run down I had cried enough for today and wasn't going to cry again for now.
2 Days later
I was lying in Hitomi's bed; I had been there since I got back to the castle days ago sidestepping everyone. All my friends had came and checked on my Folken and millennia both had tried to get my to eat but I wasn't hungry. The whole bed smelt like her but it didn't help that I was hiding under the covers from the world and the truth. Hitomi's funeral was yesterday Gaddes and Merle had both tried to talk me in to going, but I couldn't if I watched then bury her I knew she wasn't coming back. I had decided from my covered position I would visit her grave by my self to night and say my good byes. I just laid there under the screens of her bed soaking in all that was left of her. The once magical alive book of shadows now lay dead on the bedside table as if it had die to, tears hadn't fallen from my eyes since the crusade but every time wanted they t appeared they wouldn't. Felt sleep pull at me again
'Great another dreamless sleep'
My dreams were gone as well; it was always dark now but at this moment that was all I felt.
The next time I opened my eyes, the last rays of pink sun shore through the window on to the bed making the screens pink form under them. I felt next to me hoping that it was all a bad dream and Hitomi was right next to me, but no luck I just found empty space. I pulled the covers off my face to spot a tray of food on the top of the bedside table next to the book of shadows; the tray was full of snack type food and desserts yet none appealed to me at first look a note was stuck on the top
++Van, Please eat something it's not health to do this to your self, so please eat, Millennia++
I looked at the tray again and stopped at one of the desserts, Hitomi's favourite. It was some sort of chocolate thing, which she always loved
'Mmm chocolate, eat it please before I force you too'
I smirked at my inner voice which had seemed to have returned to it's normal self. I wasn't a big fan of chocolate Hitomi always said Chocolate was a girl best friend and that man never could handle more then 2 pieces
Yet this seemed to be hitting the spot. I had managed to eat 5 before feeling sick as a dog
"How did she managed to eat 10 of these a night"
I said to no one, I looked out the window and saw that night had started to craw it's way through the town. I climbed out the bed and looked in the mirror and god what a mess, my clothes wrinkled, hair in 35 different directions and black bags under my eyes from lack of sleep.
'Don't we look hansom'?
I walked barefooted out on to the balcony and watched the last bit of sun slowly melt in to the sea. I picked 5 white roses off the brush next to me remembering how she loved white roses. I removed my shirt and hopped up on to the wall. Feather floated to the floor as I realised my wings and then I took to the skies.
I landed just outside the graveyard not bothering to hided my wings. I quietly walked between the stones being pulled in the direction of her grave. Her grave was simple and beautiful with the name Hitomi written on it no one other then a select few knew of her royal blood. Flowers decorated the grave all from her friends on this planet
'It's time Van remember from the heart you chicken'
Stupid inner voice, but it was right
"From the heart" I knelt in front of the grave gently placing the roses down before I started, as I knew this would be the hardest thing I ever had to do
"Hitomi I don't know if my message will get through to you but here goes. Form the moment I meet you I know some where along the line we would end up together ever thou I was really pig headed. If I had never dragged you in to my world you wouldn't be dead but if I hadn't I wouldn't have fallen in love with you and learn so many new things. I owe you my life on so many events, you're the only person other then my family and merle that didn't hate me for been a draconian I love you Hitomi and always will. I wish you were here with me still but you always putted other people before your self. Hitomi I'm going to return to Fanelia taking Escaflowne and your book of shadows too, I want to see a world without war like you wanted. So I'm going to take Escaflowne out in to the woods and deactivate it, placing in side your book to keep it safe. I'm now mad at you for leaving my anymore I love you Hitomi, please don't forget me in the summer land"
No tears fell this time as I had final told her how I felt, I had helped me to say those thing and feel like she was listening, I wrapped my hand around the pentagram
"I never forgot you".
As I slowly rose I felt someone's present, I went for my sword to find nothing then I remembered Gaddes had it
'Well aren't you stupid forgetting your sword once again and this time your wings and even out, I really got to find my self and new job'
I let my melt back it to my back covering Hitomi's grave with white feathers. Suddenly I remember my vision of me over a grave and Hitomi been kidnapped, I pulled my shirt back on and turned to see Allen behind me
"Allen what are you doing here?"
"I was about to ask you the same thing demon"
"I was saying good by to Hitomi blonde" I pushed past him try to forget the fact he called me a demon and headed to the gates
"It's you fault you know she's dead Van" I stopped dead in my tracks
'Kill him'
I felt my angry build inside me
"You and your demon family"
Pause find the air like he was waiting for my to snap but I didn't
"What the hell was that meant to mean"?
"She was stupid enough to follow you and your demon family and believe in that witch craft stuff"
"Leave my family out of this Allen or I start including your, your really just angry that Hitomi saw through your shallowness and married me" I turn and started heading out again
"No more killing" I whispered to my self, if we had carried on I would have killed him with my bare hands.
Suddenly a small vision hit me of Allen killing my, Hitomi had somehow given her power of visions to me
"Allen if you even think you doing what you about to do, you'll have a whole country on you, so if I was you I would shield you sword and never get in my sight as I have you killed" I heard Allen sword been replaced
"Oh and Allen never return to my wife's grave" I heard him stormed off some where in to the grave yard, I turned to look at her grave again before I exited the grave yard
"Goodbye Hitomi, wish me luck on my journey home"
3 years later
I sitting in the main ballroom of my new castle, witch look pretty much like the last one. Fanelia had been rebuild all it's people and dragons and the old men I have to call my council who keep trying to marry me to any princess that passes Fanelia returned. Escaflowne was hidden away from the town deactivated within it's chest was Hitomi's book of shadows. Merle and Gaddes got married about 5 months ago and Folken was somewhere in the basement he calls a lab, Allen hadn't bee seen anywhere since the grave yard thing, and Millennia and Dryden lived happily ever after.
My staffs were finishing preparing the room for some ball my council had arranged behind my back
'They are trying to marry us off again'
I suddenly felt Merles present and moved to see merle fly past me
"Hello merle"
"I hate it when you do that"
"Sorry what's up?"
"Lets see the ball is in about an hour and your not even dressed"
"I'm going" merle still lived in the castle with us she still tried to protect me form every women who walked in the door especially princess who dressed up to look like Hitomi hoping I would choose them for a bride. Merle followed me to my room as she always helped me chose the right outfit or really told me what to wear to these stupid events
'Stupid council'
As merle disappeared in to my closet, I followed my self-holding the pendent around my neck. Hitomi's start my council continually tried to make me remove it, but I wouldn't because it was one of the last things Hitomi had given me and it was part of me. I still woke every morning hoping it was a dream and she was laying right next to me fast a sleep, yet I still hadn't woken from this nightmare. After taking Hitomi's pendent I was able to receive visions, not as clear as hers would be but helpful to my people and me nonetheless it was her other gift to me.
"Thinking of Hitomi again"
"Aren't I always?"
"Half the time the other time it's food this food that"
"Why you little fur ball" Merle was gone before I could even turn around. Lying on my bed was the clothes she had selected for me
'Blue why in the love of the gods blue'
Then I remembered what colours the ball was
"Blue and white damn" I hated these events just as much as studying. The problem was I couldn't escape these; I quickly changed in to the clothes she had chosen and headed towards the ballroom.
I could already hear the music playing from the room
"How long was I in my room for?"
'Well lets see long enough for it to start you moron, that is it I'm finally leaving good bye so long, DAMN IT I forgot I'm stuck in you stupid head'
As I entered the room my name was shouted across the room telling everyone I had arrived, as I walk down the stairs I could see all my friends, unforturally I could also see about 20 women dressed up to look like Hitomi. All had cut they hair short and were wearing a pinkish purple stone pendent.
'Run it's the attack of the killer Hitomi look a likes'.
The whole night was like a blur, I had to dance with god knows how many look a likes. As I headed to wards the garden doors something weird happened, I felt whole again, the part that had died with Hitomi was alive. I could feel a connection be made to someone in the room. As it connected I felt love, happiness and fear fill me, I followed the feelings to the top of the stairs
"How?"