Chapter 7: The High Priestess
**The high priestess deals with all things supernatural.
Hitomi awoke to the sounds of arguing. She got up out of bed and almost forgot she wasn't on Earth anymore. She looked out the window and realized she was in Fanelia. She then realized she had to be in the castle. As she gazed down at Fanelia, she couldn't help but be in awe of it. Last time she had seen it, they were rebuilding it. Now it looked like it had never been destroyed.
She quickly broke out of the spell by the increased sounds of yelling coming from the next room. She didn't know whether or not to investigate but in the end her curiosity won out. She quietly opened her door and found there was no one in the halls. She listened and realized the arguing was coming from the next room. She carefully crept up to the door and realized it was Van arguing with someone whose voice she couldn't recognize.
"Why did you run off for three days? You didn't even tell us you were going! You are the ruler of this land. Plus if something happened to you, you have no heir! Therefore you cannot leave without telling us again!" said the anonymous man obviously very angry.
"I had business to do! Enough said." Van replied with agitation in his voice.
"Yes, and you returned with that girl from the Mystic Moon. How can you explain that?!"
"I..."
Just before she could hear what he had to say there was a tap on her shoulder.
"What do you think you're doing spying on Van-sama?"
Hitomi nearly jumped out of her skin.
"Merle? I..I..wasn't spying. I was just wondering where all the yelling was coming from."
"It's ok, Hitomi. I was just kidding around with you for old time's sake. I was coming to look for you and I saw you standing outside the door. I couldn't help it!" Merle said with a mischievous grin on her face. She then grabbed Hitomi by the hand. "Come on, there has to be some sort of sappy reunion, we haven't seen you in five years after all!"
"Who's we?" Hitomi asked having to semi-jog to keep up with Merle's fast pace.
"Hehe, that's a surprise!" Merle said. "Now close your eyes, no peeking!"
Hitomi let herself be lead for a few minutes, then Merle stopped.
"Okay, now open your eyes!"
She looked around to see Millerna, Chid, Allen, and Dryden all gapping at her. Everyone had changed and apparently from everyone's reaction so did she. Millerna was the first to come over to her.
"Hitomi? I can't believe it's you!" Millerna then preceded to glomp her. "It's been sooooo long and you've changed so much."
Hitomi looked up at Millerna. She was pretty five years ago, but now she was beautiful. She looked the same, but she had become more womanly.
"I know, it's been a while, everyone has changed so much." Hitomi said happy to see the people that had touched her life so long ago.
"Stop hogging her! Other people want to see her too." Dryden said as Millerna let go of Hitomi.
"Why are you guys all here anyway? It's not like anyone knew I was coming." Hitomi asked. The question had been burning at the back of her mind ever since she had seen them all together.
"We were called here by his advisors after Van mysteriously disappeared. They thought we knew something about it. We didn't, but then Van reappeared with you, so we put two and two together." Said Chid, he had grown up beautifully and now had an uncanny resemblance to Allen. As she thought that she looked over to see Allen. "My, Hitomi, you look as beautiful as ever." Allen said as he planted a kiss on her hand. "How have you been these past five years?"
Hitomi was at a lose for words. She wondered how he could always elicit that reaction from woman.
"Hitomi just returned from the Mystic Moon and you guys are already attacking her?"
Hitomi look over to see Van standing in the doorway smiling.
"We haven't seen her in five years, we were a little anxious to see her." Merle said with a giggle. "We were taking bets to see if we could guess how much she had changed."
"I haven't changed that much, have I?" Hitomi said incredulously.
"Then maybe you should look in a mirror. I didn't recognize it was you at first." Millerna replied. "By the way, I think I speak for us all by asking why is it that you have come back?"
"It's a kind of long story..." Hitomi said trying to find a summary of why she had returned.
"Basically, this spirit named Sora came to me and told me that someone was going to attack the portal between Gaea and the Mystic Moon. I had to go bring back Hitomi because she's key to helping protect the portal. Other then that she hasn't told us much else." Van said summarizing the whole story.
"Yea, that's about the jest of it," Hitomi said. "I just wish I knew more."
"Actually, guys I have to talk to Hitomi alone. It won't take long; I just have to show her something." Van said with a bit of urgency in his voice. He grabbed Hitomi's hand and led her away.
"Okay, see you guys later!" Hitomi said as Van dragged her away. "What do you have to show me?"
"It's your pendant, it's been acting strange ever since Sora first appeared to me. I don't know why, but maybe you do." He said leading her into a room. Van went into a draw and pulled out the glowing pendant. The pendant seemed to tug at her, calling to her. Unconsciously her hand reached for the pendant.
"Van, can I hold the pendant?" Hitomi asked as he handed her the pendant. "It feels like it's calling to me..."
Suddenly a bright light engulfed the room. Hitomi and Van found themselves in a weird place, yet it seemed vaguely familiar.
"What is this place? Where are we? Did the pendant transport us somewhere?" Hitomi asked as she looked around her
"I don't know, but it seems familiar." Van replied circling around.
'Van, Hitomi, you are in Atlantis. I want you to witness the last few minutes of Atlantis. Hopefully, using this, I can explain to you why you are needed,' spoke Sora into the minds of Hitomi and Van.
Van and Hitomi looked down to see all the Atlantians grouped together. In their hands they held pendants that were identical to the one Hitomi was now holding.
'This was when they created Gaea.don't worry...you won't be affected.'
They watched as a girl made her way into the center of the circle of Atlantians. In her hand she carried a pendant of her own.
'That girl is me. When they created Gaea, they knew that they'd be a disturbance in time and space, which would in essence be a portal between the Earth and Gaea. They knew they had to protect this portal so that it could never be used for evil purposes. So they chose me as guardian of the portal..'
Before they could get a chance to experience how Gaea was created, they found themselves back in Van's room. They looked to see Sora standing in front of them.
'I think I should tell you the rest of the story here. I was sent to Gaea to protect the portal. I carried with me my pendant to help me guard the portal with. But I was foolish. I fell in love with a man here on Gaea, and he betrayed me. He took my pendant and ran. Without the pendant I can no longer do anything but travel back and forth between worlds, I can't protect the portal. I lost track of the pendant until you acquired it. You are the only one that can wield its power to its full power. Therefore you are the only one that can protect the portal.'
"Me? Why am I the only one?" Hitomi asked incredulously.
'Because you are Atlantian. They knew something might happen to me, so as a precaution, two Atlantians sacrificed their souls to be reborn into future people. As the body of those two people die, the souls are reborn into new people. You, Hitomi, are one of those two people. There is another person, Van you are the other Atlantian, but Hitomi only your soul is fully awaken. Therefore, unless Van's soul awakens, you are the only one that can help. Please, both of you, help me. I know I was foolish to let the pendant go, but I don't want to see the worlds destroyed.'
"Who is after the portal?" Van asked.
'A group of power hungry rebels who have been searching for a way to conquer the Mystic Moon since they learned of the existence of life on it are after it. They want to take control of the planet and then destroy Gaea. They are close to finding out where the portal is. The group is called Quasar and their leader is Kurishima Matsu. You must find the portal before they do. Use the pendant and it will guide you to the portal. Hiaku! Leave and find the portal. I must go now.'
"Wait!" Hitomi shouted as she disappeared into a ball of light. "I guess I should just admit that my life will never be remotely normal." She turned to look at Van. "So we're reincarnated Atlantians?"
"If what she said is true, and I have a strong feeling it is, then yes we are." Van said with amusement. "Now we know how you came into possession of an Atlantian pendant."
"I don't know if I can handle another war. I don't like fighting. And I don't want to have anymore visions. But if that's what it takes to save Gaea and Earth, I can deal with it." She said to Van, yet he knew the last part wasn't too convincing.
"Are you sure?" He said as he took hold of her hand. "Because you know once we've started there's no turning back."
"Yes, I am sure. I'll be ok as long."
But before she could finish her sentence he drew her into his arms and kissed her sweetly on the lips.
"I'll be with you, so I won't let anything happen to you. We should head out starting sunrise tomorrow. So maybe you should get some sleep. It seems we're on a new adventure.."
**Blahhhhhhhhhh..this took me too long to write because I have no outline to follow ::sigh:: I like to make it up on the spot because it's fun. But I don't know how good this chapter came out, so please R&R. Give me your honest opinion. Also thanks to everyone that has reviewed my stories for the nice comments. I appreciate it. ^_^ I am trying to stick the romance in there too, but it seems to always come at the end of the chapter. I'll have to work on that...
**OO I am going on vacation Friday for 10 days so that's why I made this chapter fairly long. So I won't be updating for at least two weeks..o well I should stop typing now and post this up on FF.net
Hitomi awoke to the sounds of arguing. She got up out of bed and almost forgot she wasn't on Earth anymore. She looked out the window and realized she was in Fanelia. She then realized she had to be in the castle. As she gazed down at Fanelia, she couldn't help but be in awe of it. Last time she had seen it, they were rebuilding it. Now it looked like it had never been destroyed.
She quickly broke out of the spell by the increased sounds of yelling coming from the next room. She didn't know whether or not to investigate but in the end her curiosity won out. She quietly opened her door and found there was no one in the halls. She listened and realized the arguing was coming from the next room. She carefully crept up to the door and realized it was Van arguing with someone whose voice she couldn't recognize.
"Why did you run off for three days? You didn't even tell us you were going! You are the ruler of this land. Plus if something happened to you, you have no heir! Therefore you cannot leave without telling us again!" said the anonymous man obviously very angry.
"I had business to do! Enough said." Van replied with agitation in his voice.
"Yes, and you returned with that girl from the Mystic Moon. How can you explain that?!"
"I..."
Just before she could hear what he had to say there was a tap on her shoulder.
"What do you think you're doing spying on Van-sama?"
Hitomi nearly jumped out of her skin.
"Merle? I..I..wasn't spying. I was just wondering where all the yelling was coming from."
"It's ok, Hitomi. I was just kidding around with you for old time's sake. I was coming to look for you and I saw you standing outside the door. I couldn't help it!" Merle said with a mischievous grin on her face. She then grabbed Hitomi by the hand. "Come on, there has to be some sort of sappy reunion, we haven't seen you in five years after all!"
"Who's we?" Hitomi asked having to semi-jog to keep up with Merle's fast pace.
"Hehe, that's a surprise!" Merle said. "Now close your eyes, no peeking!"
Hitomi let herself be lead for a few minutes, then Merle stopped.
"Okay, now open your eyes!"
She looked around to see Millerna, Chid, Allen, and Dryden all gapping at her. Everyone had changed and apparently from everyone's reaction so did she. Millerna was the first to come over to her.
"Hitomi? I can't believe it's you!" Millerna then preceded to glomp her. "It's been sooooo long and you've changed so much."
Hitomi looked up at Millerna. She was pretty five years ago, but now she was beautiful. She looked the same, but she had become more womanly.
"I know, it's been a while, everyone has changed so much." Hitomi said happy to see the people that had touched her life so long ago.
"Stop hogging her! Other people want to see her too." Dryden said as Millerna let go of Hitomi.
"Why are you guys all here anyway? It's not like anyone knew I was coming." Hitomi asked. The question had been burning at the back of her mind ever since she had seen them all together.
"We were called here by his advisors after Van mysteriously disappeared. They thought we knew something about it. We didn't, but then Van reappeared with you, so we put two and two together." Said Chid, he had grown up beautifully and now had an uncanny resemblance to Allen. As she thought that she looked over to see Allen. "My, Hitomi, you look as beautiful as ever." Allen said as he planted a kiss on her hand. "How have you been these past five years?"
Hitomi was at a lose for words. She wondered how he could always elicit that reaction from woman.
"Hitomi just returned from the Mystic Moon and you guys are already attacking her?"
Hitomi look over to see Van standing in the doorway smiling.
"We haven't seen her in five years, we were a little anxious to see her." Merle said with a giggle. "We were taking bets to see if we could guess how much she had changed."
"I haven't changed that much, have I?" Hitomi said incredulously.
"Then maybe you should look in a mirror. I didn't recognize it was you at first." Millerna replied. "By the way, I think I speak for us all by asking why is it that you have come back?"
"It's a kind of long story..." Hitomi said trying to find a summary of why she had returned.
"Basically, this spirit named Sora came to me and told me that someone was going to attack the portal between Gaea and the Mystic Moon. I had to go bring back Hitomi because she's key to helping protect the portal. Other then that she hasn't told us much else." Van said summarizing the whole story.
"Yea, that's about the jest of it," Hitomi said. "I just wish I knew more."
"Actually, guys I have to talk to Hitomi alone. It won't take long; I just have to show her something." Van said with a bit of urgency in his voice. He grabbed Hitomi's hand and led her away.
"Okay, see you guys later!" Hitomi said as Van dragged her away. "What do you have to show me?"
"It's your pendant, it's been acting strange ever since Sora first appeared to me. I don't know why, but maybe you do." He said leading her into a room. Van went into a draw and pulled out the glowing pendant. The pendant seemed to tug at her, calling to her. Unconsciously her hand reached for the pendant.
"Van, can I hold the pendant?" Hitomi asked as he handed her the pendant. "It feels like it's calling to me..."
Suddenly a bright light engulfed the room. Hitomi and Van found themselves in a weird place, yet it seemed vaguely familiar.
"What is this place? Where are we? Did the pendant transport us somewhere?" Hitomi asked as she looked around her
"I don't know, but it seems familiar." Van replied circling around.
'Van, Hitomi, you are in Atlantis. I want you to witness the last few minutes of Atlantis. Hopefully, using this, I can explain to you why you are needed,' spoke Sora into the minds of Hitomi and Van.
Van and Hitomi looked down to see all the Atlantians grouped together. In their hands they held pendants that were identical to the one Hitomi was now holding.
'This was when they created Gaea.don't worry...you won't be affected.'
They watched as a girl made her way into the center of the circle of Atlantians. In her hand she carried a pendant of her own.
'That girl is me. When they created Gaea, they knew that they'd be a disturbance in time and space, which would in essence be a portal between the Earth and Gaea. They knew they had to protect this portal so that it could never be used for evil purposes. So they chose me as guardian of the portal..'
Before they could get a chance to experience how Gaea was created, they found themselves back in Van's room. They looked to see Sora standing in front of them.
'I think I should tell you the rest of the story here. I was sent to Gaea to protect the portal. I carried with me my pendant to help me guard the portal with. But I was foolish. I fell in love with a man here on Gaea, and he betrayed me. He took my pendant and ran. Without the pendant I can no longer do anything but travel back and forth between worlds, I can't protect the portal. I lost track of the pendant until you acquired it. You are the only one that can wield its power to its full power. Therefore you are the only one that can protect the portal.'
"Me? Why am I the only one?" Hitomi asked incredulously.
'Because you are Atlantian. They knew something might happen to me, so as a precaution, two Atlantians sacrificed their souls to be reborn into future people. As the body of those two people die, the souls are reborn into new people. You, Hitomi, are one of those two people. There is another person, Van you are the other Atlantian, but Hitomi only your soul is fully awaken. Therefore, unless Van's soul awakens, you are the only one that can help. Please, both of you, help me. I know I was foolish to let the pendant go, but I don't want to see the worlds destroyed.'
"Who is after the portal?" Van asked.
'A group of power hungry rebels who have been searching for a way to conquer the Mystic Moon since they learned of the existence of life on it are after it. They want to take control of the planet and then destroy Gaea. They are close to finding out where the portal is. The group is called Quasar and their leader is Kurishima Matsu. You must find the portal before they do. Use the pendant and it will guide you to the portal. Hiaku! Leave and find the portal. I must go now.'
"Wait!" Hitomi shouted as she disappeared into a ball of light. "I guess I should just admit that my life will never be remotely normal." She turned to look at Van. "So we're reincarnated Atlantians?"
"If what she said is true, and I have a strong feeling it is, then yes we are." Van said with amusement. "Now we know how you came into possession of an Atlantian pendant."
"I don't know if I can handle another war. I don't like fighting. And I don't want to have anymore visions. But if that's what it takes to save Gaea and Earth, I can deal with it." She said to Van, yet he knew the last part wasn't too convincing.
"Are you sure?" He said as he took hold of her hand. "Because you know once we've started there's no turning back."
"Yes, I am sure. I'll be ok as long."
But before she could finish her sentence he drew her into his arms and kissed her sweetly on the lips.
"I'll be with you, so I won't let anything happen to you. We should head out starting sunrise tomorrow. So maybe you should get some sleep. It seems we're on a new adventure.."
**Blahhhhhhhhhh..this took me too long to write because I have no outline to follow ::sigh:: I like to make it up on the spot because it's fun. But I don't know how good this chapter came out, so please R&R. Give me your honest opinion. Also thanks to everyone that has reviewed my stories for the nice comments. I appreciate it. ^_^ I am trying to stick the romance in there too, but it seems to always come at the end of the chapter. I'll have to work on that...
**OO I am going on vacation Friday for 10 days so that's why I made this chapter fairly long. So I won't be updating for at least two weeks..o well I should stop typing now and post this up on FF.net