Disclaimer: * Goes insane * IF I OWNED ESCA DO YOU THINK I'D BE HERE RIGHT NOW?!?!?! I KNOW I DON'T AND YOU SHOULD TOO! Psychologist guys: It's OK, we're here to help! Me: AUGH! LEAVE ME ALONE! * Screams bloody murder as they carry her away *
A/N: Hey, I'm actually making a little progress in this fic, YAY!!! I hope you've been enjoying this so far, YAY! I ALREADY HAVE seven REVIEWS!!! If you are confused or have any questions ask and I will answer. Man, school is the 6-letter word for torture. I swear, they wish for us to have no social life whatsoever in Jr. High, even when we're at home we're doing schoolwork. It's so sad. But, luckily this month we get a few days off for Thanksgiving, Teacher's Institute, and Parent/Teacher conferences... THANK THE LORD!!! Enough of my endless babbling, on with the fic! ^_^; (And review when you're done!!!)
Omae wa ore no mono da sonomama- I THINK this means, "You belong to me now," If I'm wrong, please correct me.
Zutto- Forever
Chapter 3: Promises
"How far are we from the castle Allen?" Hitomi asked as they tumbled over the rough terrain.
"We'll be there... Now..." Allen proclaimed, parting the branches of a weeping willow to reveal the beautiful city of Palas, capital of Asturia.
"It's so beautiful..." Hitomi muttered, admiring the seaside city's magnificence.
'But it'll never be Fanelia.' She reminded herself wistfully.
'It'll never be that beautiful valley protected by dragons. Home of the boy who captured my heart.'
"I know it's no Fanelia. But it'll do, don't you think?" Allen had seemed to read her thoughts as he grinned at her boyishly while she blushed.
"Allen... I..." Hitomi muttered, not wanting to hurt her friend's feelings.
"It's alright. I understand how you feel about Van. You know how much he loves you." Allen replied in a knowing tone.
"I guess he does. Or, that's what HE says. I hope he's alright." She looked off in the direction of Fanelia, where the raven-haired boy was waiting for her.
"Just promise me something, alright?"
"What is it?" Hitomi asked, dreading the answer.
"Promise me that you'll marry him, no matter what happens, you won't leave him again."
Hitomi smiled in relief.
"Sure, I promise."
"It'll be nice to see the others again, even if we've only been separated a day or so." Hitomi commented as they rode onward.
The Asturian marketplace was back in full swing just like it was before Dryden and Millerna's wedding. Obviously, the people had been undergoing serious construction since the last time she'd seen it. Eager Asturian merchants screamed out descriptions of their goods, looking for buyers. Small children ran about the streets, playing tag, running into the wealthy with bulged moneybags who cursed at them as the children giggled, dashing away before they were caught and punished. A familiar laugh echoed towards them as Hitomi turned around, hoping it was who she thought it was. Her hopes were confirmed when the blonde princess jumped off her steed to stand before them, beaming happily.
"Hitomi! My friend! What are you still doing here?" Millerna asked curiously.
"Well... I..." Hitomi stuttered, not sure what to say.
"Oh Millerna." She sobbed, falling into her friend's embrace.
"What's wrong Hitomi?" Millerna asked in concern, not used to public displays of emotion.
"It's Van..."
"Has he not been treating you right? Tell me Hitomi, I'll have Allen teach him a lesson he won't forget!" Allen looked rather uncomfortable at this and slowly began to back away from the two girls.
"Well, I want, I want to marry him." Hitomi mumbled.
"That's a high ambition Hitomi. Have you even asked him how he feels about you?" Millerna, having no knowledge of Van and Hitomi's experience when she was trapped in Zaibach, was sure her friend was about to be heartbroken.
"He loves me. I know he does." Hitomi replied confidently.
"But one of his jerks, I mean ADVISORS, said I couldn't marry him because I'm not of royal blood." She said in a cracked voice between tears.
"Oh, Hitomi." Millerna whispered empathetically.
"I'm so sorry."
Allen felt like he was intruding on something.
"Ladies? Shall we go to the castle now?"
The two girls looked up.
"Oh yeah. Right." Hitomi muttered as she got up, wiping away her tears.
"Millerna, is it possible for you to help me get back to Fanelia?" Hitomi asked hopefully.
"Of course, I'll do my best. You are my best friend Hitomi, I will aid you and we will find a way for you to be with Van."
"Princess Millerna, you truly are a good friend." Hitomi whispered, as she took Millerna's hand and they walked towards the princess's home. Allen felt uncommonly left out as he trailed behind, keeping a close eye out for possible assassins.
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Van was still running blindly through the woods, when he halted all of a sudden.
"What am I doing?" He asked aloud, he sighed at his own stupidity, tossing his shirt aside. He then unfurled his majestic snowy-white wings as feathers swirled about.
"I'm coming Hitomi. I promise." He whispered to the night as two figures below nodded to each other. The plan was working wonderfully, and they should proceed to follow the young king to make sure it was carried out.
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"Millerna. Where have you been?" Eries asked anxiously as she spotted her sister walking up the path to the castle.
"I'm fine sister, and look who accompanied me." Millerna stepped back revealing Hitomi and more importantly, Allen.
"Allen." Eries mumbled. Millerna gave her a curious look, and Allen just remained grinning.
"I mean... It's good to see you again Sir Allen."
"The pleasure is all mine Princess Eries." Allen smoothly greeted her, getting on one knee to kiss her hand. Eries looked into his cerulean eyes and became lost.
Millerna did not like where this was going.
"Well then, we should be going inside now, shouldn't we?" The petrified Eries regained her senses and brushed Allen away, following Millerna and Hitomi. As they entered the great hall, a catgirl with dark blue hair emerged from a room, wringing her tail in her hand; staring at her feet.
"Shuti. This is Lady Hitomi. She in under your charge during her stay here." Millerna announced.
"Please take her to her room."
"Yes Milady." Shuti replied.
"This way, Lady Hitomi." And the catgirl started down the corridor, expecting Hitomi to follow.
"I'll see you later Hitomi!" Millerna called to the green-eyed girl as she followed the new handmaiden.
'Ragu, God of beasts, give me strength. My task is of the utmost importance, I shall not fail.' Shuti prayed to the beast patron saint for reassurance.
'I wonder if I should pray to Dicha too. Would a god of humans listen to a beast-girl?' She sighed; knowing the Sea God of Asturia would never pay attention to her requests.
"I cannot fail. I cannot let him down. He's counting on me." She hadn't wanted this assignment, but he had asked her, with those pleading eyes that burned into your heart, for HER to be the one to carry out this mission. She had not yet found the others, she assumed they were lurking around, waiting for the right opportunity.
"Huh?" Hitomi asked in confusion.
"Oh. Nothing Miss. Here is your room." Shuti opened a door to reveal a lovely guestroom that smelled of the sea.
"It's lovely. Thank you Shuti." Hitomi whispered in awe, flopping down on the soft canopy bed.
'She actually called me by name. I'm impressed.' Shuti remarked to herself.
'I must be successful, for his sake and hers.' She curtsied before leaving the room.
Getting off the bed, Hitomi sat in the window-seat, staring out at the immense blue ocean before her through the open window.
"It's one of the loveliest things I've ever seen." She remarked, suddenly, she saw a blur of white and rubbed her eyes in confusion.
"What was that?"
The white blur was drawing closer, and Hitomi squinted to make out the figure. She stretched her arm out and caught a snowy white feather.
"It's you..." She whispered, smiling brightly as her green eyes sparkled.
Yes it was him, it was her love, it was Van, and he was coming for her.
"VAN!" She called out to him in pure happiness. Losing her senses, she jumped out the window, attempting to reach him. She shrieked loudly when she realized she was going to keep falling.
Allen and Millerna heard her scream and dashed into her room.
"HITOMI!" Allen screeched in fear.
"Oh Allen." Millerna sniffled into his blue vest, fearing the worst.
"HITOMI!" Van called out to the falling girl. He sped up, hoping to catch her, although he knew he was too far away. He wouldn't make it. Just then, that all-too-familiar blue light enclosed Hitomi, and they could swear there were angels flying about her although heaven knows why. Two pearly white wings burst from her back, allowing her to safely float to the ground. (A/N: SHE IS NOT TOPLESS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SICK-MINDED!!! We will say she now wears an undershirt and it remained intact when her wings emerged!)
"She's... She's a Draconian..." Allen muttered in disbelief, his eyes growing wider by the second.
"Allen..." Millerna whispered in a rather frightened tone as she held on to him for support.
"Why does Hitomi have wings?" It was just then that she fainted from shock and trauma, and luckily for her, Allen caught her before she hit the floor.
"Millerna!" Allen inquired anxiously as he held her close.
"You... You... Liar!" A voice shrieked from behind. As a broken-hearted Princess Eries fled down the hallway, her tears spilling all over the marble floor.
'You told me that you loved me, and only me. You're such a liar, Allen Schezar. How could I have ever started loving you?'
"PRINCESS ERIES!" Allen tried to call her back, but he was in a fix, he couldn't just abandon Millerna in her predicament, it was his duty as a knight to aid ladies in distress after all. (A/N: Chivalrous duties get in the way ONCE again... * Rolls eyes *)
"She's just like me." Van murmured in amazement as he saw the angel that was Hitomi land softly in the gardens below. Lady Hiraki had told him of her heritage already, but seeing was believing. He soared over to the clearing she was in and touched down gracefully, staring into Hitomi's beautiful green eyes that had set his very soul on fire, from their first meeting. This was the first time two descendants of Atlantis had met face to face for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years, and been aware of the fateful event. It only made sense that the saviors of this world were both from another.
Allen gently set the princess down and stared off the balcony at the confrontation below.
"So Van, you've finally come. I'm glad. For both of you." He walked back inside smiling within as the princess remained outside, soaking up the fresh salt air.
"So Hitomi? Keeping secrets from us, huh?" Van asked in amusement.
"Unintentionally." She replied bitterly, staring at the fluffy white appendages projecting out of her back.
"Oh grandmother, why didn't you tell me?" She whimpered, as she fell to her knees, tears creeping down her pale cheeks.
Van slowly walked over to her, wings still outstretched. He crouched down and wiped away her tears with his hand.
"Oh Hitomi, I always knew you were an angel before, but now you look the part." He smiled at her lovingly.
"Omae wa ore no mono da sonomama, ne?"
"Hai." She replied, grinning as she looked up at him.
"Zutto." She ran into his warm embrace as he wrapped his wings around them, they acted like a blanket sheltering them from the pain of this world.
"Hitomi, I'll give up everything, just to be with you." He admitted to her.
"I'd even die for you. I'd do anything for you to be mine, because, I love you, Hitomi Kanzaki."
"Oh Van. That's how I feel too." They embraced in a passionate kiss that sent their hearts spinning.
"Come away with me Hitomi. We'll create the Gaea we always dreamed of."
"But Van, what about..."
"Kirus? I don't know what happened to him, he disappeared right after you left, and as for the others, I'll figure out something."
"Aishiteru." She admitted to him solemnly as he reached out his hand and she grasped it warmly. They flew off over the ocean. They were going home.
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"YES! FINALLY! THEY'RE OFF! THEY'RE TOGETHER! NOW WE CAN GO HOME!!!" Kirus cheered in excitement, smiling broadly.
"Iie." Lady Hiraki replied quietly.
"Nani?" Kirus asked in surprise.
"Why not mother? Destiny is being fulfilled; we've done our duty, now we can finally return to our world. I hate it here."
"And why is that my son? You know in our world you're dead." A tear slid down her cheek.
"Don't cry mother." He comforted her, hugging her tightly, afraid to let go.
"I just know everything will be OK. I just know it."
"I wish I had your confidence child. But we couldn't return home yet, even if I wanted us to. We must wait until EVERYTHING is as it is supposed to be."
"BUT KAASAN! THAT WILL TAKE YEARS!" He practically shrieked.
"Then so be it." She replied in her same cool tone.
"You're impossible. Do you know that?" He asked, combing his hair off his forehead with his fingers.
"I imagine so. That's why you left, I assume." She accused in a cold manner.
He looked quite embarrassed and afraid.
"I couldn't take it. It was too much. First father died in the war, then Rei was killed when the floating fortress crashed, and you were all bottled up in your room, plotting your next escapade to find that brother of yours."
"You don't know what it's like to lose everything." She replied softly.
"Everything."
"That's why I asked the gods for this mission, so I could save this world so it will not suffer the same fate as our own."
"Gomen nasai." He muttered, not taking her feelings into much consideration before.
"I loved your father, and I'll always remember and miss him. But nothing's going to bring him back. It's not your fault or mine that he's gone. We must accept it and keep moving forward. That's what he would have wanted." She barely got out the last part before crying into her son's shoulder again. It was all too painful for this gentle woman.
"We will wait..." She choked out.
"Hai." He replied finally, as he stared off into the distance, his blue eyes gleaming with hope that was all but forgotten in his own world.
"Perhaps now is the time, cousin, that I shall repay you." He whispered, wishing his relative could hear his ambitions.
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A/N: Who is Kirus? Who is Lady Hiraki? What's the deal with A/E? Will Millerna ever find true love? Who is Shuti? Is she somehow connected to Kirus and Lady Hiraki's quest? And where do Hitomi and Van tie in with all this? Will things be the same, or will fate be permanently altered? Was Daren's sacrifice in vain? Is there EVER going to be a villain in this stupid fic? WHERE ARE ALL THE OTHER ESCA CHARACTERS?! Find out next time... MWAHAHAHAHA! * Cough Cough * Review! I will only post the next chapter after I have 7 more reviews, but if it takes a really long time, I'll be more lenient. Arigatou and Sayonara!
~Trunks Gal~
A/N: Hey, I'm actually making a little progress in this fic, YAY!!! I hope you've been enjoying this so far, YAY! I ALREADY HAVE seven REVIEWS!!! If you are confused or have any questions ask and I will answer. Man, school is the 6-letter word for torture. I swear, they wish for us to have no social life whatsoever in Jr. High, even when we're at home we're doing schoolwork. It's so sad. But, luckily this month we get a few days off for Thanksgiving, Teacher's Institute, and Parent/Teacher conferences... THANK THE LORD!!! Enough of my endless babbling, on with the fic! ^_^; (And review when you're done!!!)
Omae wa ore no mono da sonomama- I THINK this means, "You belong to me now," If I'm wrong, please correct me.
Zutto- Forever
Chapter 3: Promises
"How far are we from the castle Allen?" Hitomi asked as they tumbled over the rough terrain.
"We'll be there... Now..." Allen proclaimed, parting the branches of a weeping willow to reveal the beautiful city of Palas, capital of Asturia.
"It's so beautiful..." Hitomi muttered, admiring the seaside city's magnificence.
'But it'll never be Fanelia.' She reminded herself wistfully.
'It'll never be that beautiful valley protected by dragons. Home of the boy who captured my heart.'
"I know it's no Fanelia. But it'll do, don't you think?" Allen had seemed to read her thoughts as he grinned at her boyishly while she blushed.
"Allen... I..." Hitomi muttered, not wanting to hurt her friend's feelings.
"It's alright. I understand how you feel about Van. You know how much he loves you." Allen replied in a knowing tone.
"I guess he does. Or, that's what HE says. I hope he's alright." She looked off in the direction of Fanelia, where the raven-haired boy was waiting for her.
"Just promise me something, alright?"
"What is it?" Hitomi asked, dreading the answer.
"Promise me that you'll marry him, no matter what happens, you won't leave him again."
Hitomi smiled in relief.
"Sure, I promise."
"It'll be nice to see the others again, even if we've only been separated a day or so." Hitomi commented as they rode onward.
The Asturian marketplace was back in full swing just like it was before Dryden and Millerna's wedding. Obviously, the people had been undergoing serious construction since the last time she'd seen it. Eager Asturian merchants screamed out descriptions of their goods, looking for buyers. Small children ran about the streets, playing tag, running into the wealthy with bulged moneybags who cursed at them as the children giggled, dashing away before they were caught and punished. A familiar laugh echoed towards them as Hitomi turned around, hoping it was who she thought it was. Her hopes were confirmed when the blonde princess jumped off her steed to stand before them, beaming happily.
"Hitomi! My friend! What are you still doing here?" Millerna asked curiously.
"Well... I..." Hitomi stuttered, not sure what to say.
"Oh Millerna." She sobbed, falling into her friend's embrace.
"What's wrong Hitomi?" Millerna asked in concern, not used to public displays of emotion.
"It's Van..."
"Has he not been treating you right? Tell me Hitomi, I'll have Allen teach him a lesson he won't forget!" Allen looked rather uncomfortable at this and slowly began to back away from the two girls.
"Well, I want, I want to marry him." Hitomi mumbled.
"That's a high ambition Hitomi. Have you even asked him how he feels about you?" Millerna, having no knowledge of Van and Hitomi's experience when she was trapped in Zaibach, was sure her friend was about to be heartbroken.
"He loves me. I know he does." Hitomi replied confidently.
"But one of his jerks, I mean ADVISORS, said I couldn't marry him because I'm not of royal blood." She said in a cracked voice between tears.
"Oh, Hitomi." Millerna whispered empathetically.
"I'm so sorry."
Allen felt like he was intruding on something.
"Ladies? Shall we go to the castle now?"
The two girls looked up.
"Oh yeah. Right." Hitomi muttered as she got up, wiping away her tears.
"Millerna, is it possible for you to help me get back to Fanelia?" Hitomi asked hopefully.
"Of course, I'll do my best. You are my best friend Hitomi, I will aid you and we will find a way for you to be with Van."
"Princess Millerna, you truly are a good friend." Hitomi whispered, as she took Millerna's hand and they walked towards the princess's home. Allen felt uncommonly left out as he trailed behind, keeping a close eye out for possible assassins.
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Van was still running blindly through the woods, when he halted all of a sudden.
"What am I doing?" He asked aloud, he sighed at his own stupidity, tossing his shirt aside. He then unfurled his majestic snowy-white wings as feathers swirled about.
"I'm coming Hitomi. I promise." He whispered to the night as two figures below nodded to each other. The plan was working wonderfully, and they should proceed to follow the young king to make sure it was carried out.
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"Millerna. Where have you been?" Eries asked anxiously as she spotted her sister walking up the path to the castle.
"I'm fine sister, and look who accompanied me." Millerna stepped back revealing Hitomi and more importantly, Allen.
"Allen." Eries mumbled. Millerna gave her a curious look, and Allen just remained grinning.
"I mean... It's good to see you again Sir Allen."
"The pleasure is all mine Princess Eries." Allen smoothly greeted her, getting on one knee to kiss her hand. Eries looked into his cerulean eyes and became lost.
Millerna did not like where this was going.
"Well then, we should be going inside now, shouldn't we?" The petrified Eries regained her senses and brushed Allen away, following Millerna and Hitomi. As they entered the great hall, a catgirl with dark blue hair emerged from a room, wringing her tail in her hand; staring at her feet.
"Shuti. This is Lady Hitomi. She in under your charge during her stay here." Millerna announced.
"Please take her to her room."
"Yes Milady." Shuti replied.
"This way, Lady Hitomi." And the catgirl started down the corridor, expecting Hitomi to follow.
"I'll see you later Hitomi!" Millerna called to the green-eyed girl as she followed the new handmaiden.
'Ragu, God of beasts, give me strength. My task is of the utmost importance, I shall not fail.' Shuti prayed to the beast patron saint for reassurance.
'I wonder if I should pray to Dicha too. Would a god of humans listen to a beast-girl?' She sighed; knowing the Sea God of Asturia would never pay attention to her requests.
"I cannot fail. I cannot let him down. He's counting on me." She hadn't wanted this assignment, but he had asked her, with those pleading eyes that burned into your heart, for HER to be the one to carry out this mission. She had not yet found the others, she assumed they were lurking around, waiting for the right opportunity.
"Huh?" Hitomi asked in confusion.
"Oh. Nothing Miss. Here is your room." Shuti opened a door to reveal a lovely guestroom that smelled of the sea.
"It's lovely. Thank you Shuti." Hitomi whispered in awe, flopping down on the soft canopy bed.
'She actually called me by name. I'm impressed.' Shuti remarked to herself.
'I must be successful, for his sake and hers.' She curtsied before leaving the room.
Getting off the bed, Hitomi sat in the window-seat, staring out at the immense blue ocean before her through the open window.
"It's one of the loveliest things I've ever seen." She remarked, suddenly, she saw a blur of white and rubbed her eyes in confusion.
"What was that?"
The white blur was drawing closer, and Hitomi squinted to make out the figure. She stretched her arm out and caught a snowy white feather.
"It's you..." She whispered, smiling brightly as her green eyes sparkled.
Yes it was him, it was her love, it was Van, and he was coming for her.
"VAN!" She called out to him in pure happiness. Losing her senses, she jumped out the window, attempting to reach him. She shrieked loudly when she realized she was going to keep falling.
Allen and Millerna heard her scream and dashed into her room.
"HITOMI!" Allen screeched in fear.
"Oh Allen." Millerna sniffled into his blue vest, fearing the worst.
"HITOMI!" Van called out to the falling girl. He sped up, hoping to catch her, although he knew he was too far away. He wouldn't make it. Just then, that all-too-familiar blue light enclosed Hitomi, and they could swear there were angels flying about her although heaven knows why. Two pearly white wings burst from her back, allowing her to safely float to the ground. (A/N: SHE IS NOT TOPLESS FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SICK-MINDED!!! We will say she now wears an undershirt and it remained intact when her wings emerged!)
"She's... She's a Draconian..." Allen muttered in disbelief, his eyes growing wider by the second.
"Allen..." Millerna whispered in a rather frightened tone as she held on to him for support.
"Why does Hitomi have wings?" It was just then that she fainted from shock and trauma, and luckily for her, Allen caught her before she hit the floor.
"Millerna!" Allen inquired anxiously as he held her close.
"You... You... Liar!" A voice shrieked from behind. As a broken-hearted Princess Eries fled down the hallway, her tears spilling all over the marble floor.
'You told me that you loved me, and only me. You're such a liar, Allen Schezar. How could I have ever started loving you?'
"PRINCESS ERIES!" Allen tried to call her back, but he was in a fix, he couldn't just abandon Millerna in her predicament, it was his duty as a knight to aid ladies in distress after all. (A/N: Chivalrous duties get in the way ONCE again... * Rolls eyes *)
"She's just like me." Van murmured in amazement as he saw the angel that was Hitomi land softly in the gardens below. Lady Hiraki had told him of her heritage already, but seeing was believing. He soared over to the clearing she was in and touched down gracefully, staring into Hitomi's beautiful green eyes that had set his very soul on fire, from their first meeting. This was the first time two descendants of Atlantis had met face to face for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years, and been aware of the fateful event. It only made sense that the saviors of this world were both from another.
Allen gently set the princess down and stared off the balcony at the confrontation below.
"So Van, you've finally come. I'm glad. For both of you." He walked back inside smiling within as the princess remained outside, soaking up the fresh salt air.
"So Hitomi? Keeping secrets from us, huh?" Van asked in amusement.
"Unintentionally." She replied bitterly, staring at the fluffy white appendages projecting out of her back.
"Oh grandmother, why didn't you tell me?" She whimpered, as she fell to her knees, tears creeping down her pale cheeks.
Van slowly walked over to her, wings still outstretched. He crouched down and wiped away her tears with his hand.
"Oh Hitomi, I always knew you were an angel before, but now you look the part." He smiled at her lovingly.
"Omae wa ore no mono da sonomama, ne?"
"Hai." She replied, grinning as she looked up at him.
"Zutto." She ran into his warm embrace as he wrapped his wings around them, they acted like a blanket sheltering them from the pain of this world.
"Hitomi, I'll give up everything, just to be with you." He admitted to her.
"I'd even die for you. I'd do anything for you to be mine, because, I love you, Hitomi Kanzaki."
"Oh Van. That's how I feel too." They embraced in a passionate kiss that sent their hearts spinning.
"Come away with me Hitomi. We'll create the Gaea we always dreamed of."
"But Van, what about..."
"Kirus? I don't know what happened to him, he disappeared right after you left, and as for the others, I'll figure out something."
"Aishiteru." She admitted to him solemnly as he reached out his hand and she grasped it warmly. They flew off over the ocean. They were going home.
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"YES! FINALLY! THEY'RE OFF! THEY'RE TOGETHER! NOW WE CAN GO HOME!!!" Kirus cheered in excitement, smiling broadly.
"Iie." Lady Hiraki replied quietly.
"Nani?" Kirus asked in surprise.
"Why not mother? Destiny is being fulfilled; we've done our duty, now we can finally return to our world. I hate it here."
"And why is that my son? You know in our world you're dead." A tear slid down her cheek.
"Don't cry mother." He comforted her, hugging her tightly, afraid to let go.
"I just know everything will be OK. I just know it."
"I wish I had your confidence child. But we couldn't return home yet, even if I wanted us to. We must wait until EVERYTHING is as it is supposed to be."
"BUT KAASAN! THAT WILL TAKE YEARS!" He practically shrieked.
"Then so be it." She replied in her same cool tone.
"You're impossible. Do you know that?" He asked, combing his hair off his forehead with his fingers.
"I imagine so. That's why you left, I assume." She accused in a cold manner.
He looked quite embarrassed and afraid.
"I couldn't take it. It was too much. First father died in the war, then Rei was killed when the floating fortress crashed, and you were all bottled up in your room, plotting your next escapade to find that brother of yours."
"You don't know what it's like to lose everything." She replied softly.
"Everything."
"That's why I asked the gods for this mission, so I could save this world so it will not suffer the same fate as our own."
"Gomen nasai." He muttered, not taking her feelings into much consideration before.
"I loved your father, and I'll always remember and miss him. But nothing's going to bring him back. It's not your fault or mine that he's gone. We must accept it and keep moving forward. That's what he would have wanted." She barely got out the last part before crying into her son's shoulder again. It was all too painful for this gentle woman.
"We will wait..." She choked out.
"Hai." He replied finally, as he stared off into the distance, his blue eyes gleaming with hope that was all but forgotten in his own world.
"Perhaps now is the time, cousin, that I shall repay you." He whispered, wishing his relative could hear his ambitions.
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A/N: Who is Kirus? Who is Lady Hiraki? What's the deal with A/E? Will Millerna ever find true love? Who is Shuti? Is she somehow connected to Kirus and Lady Hiraki's quest? And where do Hitomi and Van tie in with all this? Will things be the same, or will fate be permanently altered? Was Daren's sacrifice in vain? Is there EVER going to be a villain in this stupid fic? WHERE ARE ALL THE OTHER ESCA CHARACTERS?! Find out next time... MWAHAHAHAHA! * Cough Cough * Review! I will only post the next chapter after I have 7 more reviews, but if it takes a really long time, I'll be more lenient. Arigatou and Sayonara!
~Trunks Gal~