Head buried within the soft silk that was on her bed, Hitomi wept
silently. Crystal tears spilled onto the sheets of the bed and spread as if
they were trying to encase her into a small crystal fortress. Pounding her
fist against the mattress to release all the frustration inside her, she
wept some more at the vision she had while being held in Van's arms. After
a few more moments of crying she lifted her head and looked up. Her face
was stained with tears of sadness and pain. Taking her shirt and wiping off
the remains of the last few wet drops, she sat there on her bed to think.
Looking around she saw two doors that led to a balcony. She walked over to
the doors, opened them and went outside. She looked down at the people in
the town hustling and bustling within the active streets. 'If only it was
like this everyday,' Hitomi sighed. She lowered her head more and her hair
shadowed her eyes. A small soft knock was planted on the door. Thinking
deeply, Hitomi didn't hear it as well as not hearing the person come in and
stand right behind her. A gentle hand lie on her shoulder and a soft gentle
voice whispered, "Everything will be all right. Don't worry so much."
Hitomi still did not look up, but recognized the voice. Yuna stood there to
comfort her while her hand rested on Hitomi's shoulder.
"If only," Hitomi said very quietly. Yuna took her hand off of Hitomi's shoulder and smiled a small and soft smile.
"Everything will be all right. Now wipe your tears and get dressed. Everyone will be expecting the guest of honor to be there at the banquet," she said. Lifting her head and turning around, Hitomi faced Yuna. With a slight nod, Hitomi went back inside to get dressed. Yuna followed after her.
"I'll meet you down there," she said as she stepped through the door and left. Hitomi changed and fixed herself up. Then she walked out the door and headed for the courtyard. When she arrived, she saw that many flowered garlands were hung about the courtyard. There was a table in the middle of the courtyard filled with many different types of foods. Over to the left of the courtyard there was a table with refreshments. To the right a small orchestra was getting ready to play a soft tune. Lords and Ladies were all over the courtyard laughing and talking with one another. Walking in steadily, she looked around to try and find some familiar faces. The Lords turned to give her approving looks and the Ladies turned to see whom the mysterious, but beautiful woman was. Sighing heavily, Hitomi could see no one she knew. Wandering off to get a drink from the table with refreshments, a hand grabbed hers and pulled her back. The hand that grabbed hers was gentle and wasn't using any force. She turned to see who the person was, but when she looked, a mask hid the face. The figure pulled her into a dance as a soft melody played. She looked deeply into the eyes of the figure and had a sense of recognition. 'I've seen those eyes before. But where?' she thought. Hitomi looked around her and realized that they seemed to be the only ones dancing. Trying to stop her and the figure from dancing, Hitomi slipped and almost fell onto the hard floor of the courtyard. Grabbing her very gracefully as if she was a porcelain doll, he held her in his arms and looked deeply into her eyes. Then he smiled. A beautiful, soft smile, one that could melt your heart. Hitomi was lifted up and stood there looking at the man. Breaking the force, the figure took her hand and planted a soft and gentle kiss upon it. Then just as quickly as he came, he left.
"Are you all right?" a soft and gentle voice asked. Hitomi turned around and saw Millerna's bright eyes looking at her.
"Yeah. I'm fine," Hitomi replied staring back at the place where the figure disappeared.
"I'm sorry we just came. Something came up at the last minute, but everyone is here now," Millerna said still smiling. Hitomi turned back around and looked behind Millerna. Sure enough, everyone was standing behind her, but one face was missing.
"Where's Van?" Hitomi asked. Everyone looked around and saw that Van was gone and nowhere to be seen.
"Why don't we get some drinks?" Yuna said breaking the silence. Everyone nodded and went towards the refreshments table. Hitomi still looked around for Van, hoping to find him yet fearing to see him. A hand gently landed on her shoulder.
"He'll be here. I know he will," Allen said with a small hint of emotional pain. Just as quickly as the hand touched her shoulder, it came off. Hitomi nodded and gave him a smile. He looked deep into her eyes and then turned away to go get a drink for himself and talk to the Lords and Ladies that he saw in the courtyard. Hitomi pondered at why Van was not there until a thought struck her. 'Could Van be . . .' Hitomi thought. She turned back to look at the place where the mysterious figure had disappeared from. She smiled and turned around to join the others for a drink. Up on the second floor where the servants had hung the garlands, stood two figures both dressed in black as if going to a funeral.
"Look at them. Pitiless fools," the one on the left said apparently a man because of his deep yet haunting voice.
"Yes well you can't blame them. I would want to live out the few last moments of my life in a happy festive mood. Wouldn't you?" the one on the right said who was a woman with a similar mysterious tone in her voice.
"This is different," he said with a low growl, "They know that the most strongest force in all of Gaia can attack them at any moment and yet they choose to celebrate."
"Don't worry. They'll be all the more surprised. The dragon will die . . .by the hand of his most loved," the woman said with a chuckle.
"Come on. It's time," the man said to the woman as they both walked down to the courtyard using a secret passage and going undetected. Then, Van walked into the courtyard slowly. He walked over to the others who were still at the refreshments table getting drinks. "I'm sorry for being late," Van apologized.
"It's all right," Millerna said with a smile. Hitomi looked back at Van and then quickly looked down at the ground as Van caught her eye. Walking over silently, he came and put out a hand. Looking from his hand to his face, she understood. Taking his hand, they walked to the middle of the courtyard and again Hitomi found herself dancing with Van. As they danced, Hitomi looked up at Van's face and stared at it long and hard. Then she laid her head onto his chest. Closing her eyes, Hitomi felt as though she were in a dream.
The wind blew against her and made her hair flow. Standing in a field of grass, Hitomi looked around her and saw two figures at the other end of the field. Running towards them both, she found that she landed in the arms of the gallant knight and the Fanelian prince walked off into the darkness. 'Allen . . .' she whispered as the wind carried it away. His embrace was filled with love and passion. Hitomi held on to him as if he were the only one left in this world. 'Hitomi . . .' he whispered as Hitomi pulled back from the embrace. She looked down trying to avoid his face and ended up staring at her hands instead, which were bathed in blood. Filled with horror and disgust, Hitomi looked away only to stare into the face of her Fanelian prince. A look of pain and sadness shown on his face. 'Hitomi . . .' he said and fell to his knees. Suddenly Hitomi understood. 'No . . . I couldn't have . . .' Hitomi said falling to the ground as she tried to hold Van in her arms. 'Van . . .' Gasping and choking, Van stretched a hand out towards Hitomi's face. His warm hand was comforting to her but she felt it growing cold. 'I'm sorry . . .' she said weeping. 'Don't be . . .' he replied with a small yet strained smile. Then he breathed his last and slowly dissolved as tons of white feathers replaced him and blew away with the wind. Hitomi wept more and shook her head. Hitomi held her face within her hands screaming in pain and anger as she suddenly radiated with a soft pink glow. She silenced her screams and saw a blue pillar of light touch the ground, and watched as a guymelef stepped out. 'Escaflowne . . .' she whispered as she closed her eyes and was consumed with darkness.
Reopening her eyes and seeing herself within the safe and loving arms of Van, she stopped dancing. "What's wrong?" Van asked.
"Escaflowne . . ." she said quietly.
"What?" Van said with a look of confusion. Before Van could ask her more questions and before she could say anymore, the trumpets sounded as Prince Chid walking in. The Lords and Ladies turned and went toward the table that was in the middle of the courtyard. They all chose a spot and stood next to the chair waiting for their beloved Prince to sit down and give them the command. Van walked the unstable Hitomi towards one of the seats and helped her stand next to it. Prince Chid smiled and walked towards his seat and sat down. Just as everyone was about to sit down a servant boy came running. Walking slowly behind the boy, a mysterious figure wearing a black cloak with a hood to cover his face unsheathed his sword. The boy whispered into Prince Chid's ear and was stumbling with his words. Suddenly Prince Chid stood up and started to walk away from the table, as were the Lords and Ladies. He shouted at the guards, as they came running as fast as they could to protect the prince. Immediately the two guards were killed. Their blood stained the figure's sword with their lifeless bodies on the ground. Van and Allen unsheathed their swords, ready to fight and protect the people.
"Van . . ." Hitomi said slowly and quietly. Van turned to look at Hitomi and saw her point as something on his chest. It was the pendant that Hitomi had given Van before she left Gaia one year ago. The pendant began to glow faintly. When he turned to look at the figure, the pendant glowed even brighter and pointed at the figure. The figure raised his sword high into the air as an army of soldiers appeared behind him. The Ladies screamed and ran in panic as the Lords hid cowardly. Millerna started to back away with Merle close by her. Allen and Van, still confused at the pendants glow, stepped forward to fight. Millerna looked around her to see if everyone was safely hidden or gone until she noticed Hitomi. Walking towards her as quickly as she could, the figure dropped his sword slowly and the army behind him began to attack.
"Hitomi!" Millerna yelled. Somehow Hitomi regained her senses and looked around her seeing soldiers come at them with swords in their hands about ready to slit their throats. Finally reaching Hitomi, Millerna tried to run as a soldier was running towards them with his sword raised high in the air. Hitomi ended up running faster and helping Millerna instead of Millerna helping her. Just when they had thought they were dead, they heard a clash of metal and turned to take a quick glance. Van had blocked the soldier's attack in trying to harm the two girls.
"Run and don't look back!" Van ordered.
"Van . . ." Hitomi said with concern.
"Hitomi we have to go!" Millerna yelled. They began to run as they never ran before. Prince Chid was still stuck in the courtyard with a number of guards around him to protect him from the soldiers. One by one the guards began to drop. Then the last of them died as he told Chid with his last breath to run. Prince Chid turned around only to be confronted with two more soldiers. Raising their swords, they smiled with a cruel smile as their swords came down. Prince Chid closed his eyes. Seconds later he re- opened them to see why he hadn't been killed yet and saw the reason why. Two figures with masks covering their faces had killed the two soldiers that were about to kill Chid. They looked back at Chid.
"This is not the place for a prince like you," the figure with the red mask on said. Chid distinguished the voice as a woman's.
"Come with us Prince Chid," a gruff voice said. This person was wearing a white mask and took Prince Chid's hand as he led him away form the battle. Blood was spewn everywhere as dying men breathed their last. Van was fighting fiercely as was Allen. Both were dodging and attacking, but it was no use. There were too many soldiers coming in at once. Van took his chance and faced the one who signaled to start the massacre. The figure unhooded himself, but a mask veiled his face. The pendant around Van's neck was glowing uncontrollably and was moving in all different directions. Everywhere near Van he saw a red glow coming from the soldier's necks. As soon as they breathed their last, the red glow went out. Raising his sword, the figure accepted his challenge. The duel was set as the figure anticipated Van's attack. Dodging it, he evaded to the right and took a swift strike. Van managed to block it but not fast enough. His shirt had been cut open at the side and little droplets of blood dripped from his flesh as it hit the ground. After the last attack that was made on Van, the figure stood in front of him with his back turned. Van attacked. The figure quickly turned around and faced Van with a block from his sword.
"Why are you fighting me brother? You and I are the same," the figure said straining himself to keep Van's sword tied with his own.
"I had a brother . . . and his name was Folken!" Van cried as he pushed the figure away and stood in an attacking position, just in case the figure attacked him by surprise. The figure laughed and put his sword down by his side, but still holding it.
"That fool died because of his stupidity. Van . . . we are alike. Not brothers, but we are the same," the figure said slowly. The figure stepped back as Van looked at him with a sense of confusion.
"You are confused now, but soon you will see," he went on. The figure backed away back into the darkness from which he came and disappeared. "Besides, I'm not here for you . . . I'm here for someone else," his voice said while flowing through the wind.
"Van!" Turning around, Van looked at Allen and all around him he could see that everything had disappeared. The dead bodies of the soldiers, the soldiers who remained alive and everything else. The blood was not gone however leaving proof that there was a battle.
"He was here for someone else . . . but who?" Van questioned himself loudly as a piercing scream filled with terror broke through the courtyard.
"Hitomi!" Van said while looking at the second floor of the courtyard. Allen and Van raced up the stairs to the second floor, to try and rescue the one they loved. Along a corridor far from the courtyard Prince Chid, Hitomi, Millerna, and Merle were trapped as soldiers advanced on them. The two that had saved Prince Chid earlier were badly wounded. Swords near their throats, the soldiers were ready to slit them if they spoke a word.
"Everyone can go free if the Mystic Moon girl is given to us," the lead soldier said.
"Hitomi?" Millerna questioned, "What do you want with her?"
"No questions! Just hand over the girl!"
"Never. We'll die protecting her from the likes of you!"
"Then if that is what you wish, we will kill . . ." the soldier was saying as a white arrow pierced through his armor. He looked up at the one who shot the arrow and saw that it was a girl.
"Im . . . possi . . ." he uttered as he fell onto the staircase and breathed his last. A bright red glow faded from his chest. The three girls and the prince turned around and looked at the one who shot the arrow. "Yuna!?" Merle cried in disbelief.
A/N: i don't even know if you people read these things but yeah . . . sorry this took so long to write . . . school kept me busy and i just didn't have the heart to write anymore because of some stuff . . . but i'm fine now and i hope you enjoyed this chapter just as much as i did . . . the fight sequence . . . well i didn't really think that i did that part well enough . . . but yeah . . . *evil grin spreads across authors face* . . . i left you guys a nice cliffhanger to think upon . . . i mean weren't you wondering where Yuna went when the attack happened??? she should have been with the others . . . and where did she learn to shoot like that??? keep reading this fanfic and you'll find out everything . . .
"If only," Hitomi said very quietly. Yuna took her hand off of Hitomi's shoulder and smiled a small and soft smile.
"Everything will be all right. Now wipe your tears and get dressed. Everyone will be expecting the guest of honor to be there at the banquet," she said. Lifting her head and turning around, Hitomi faced Yuna. With a slight nod, Hitomi went back inside to get dressed. Yuna followed after her.
"I'll meet you down there," she said as she stepped through the door and left. Hitomi changed and fixed herself up. Then she walked out the door and headed for the courtyard. When she arrived, she saw that many flowered garlands were hung about the courtyard. There was a table in the middle of the courtyard filled with many different types of foods. Over to the left of the courtyard there was a table with refreshments. To the right a small orchestra was getting ready to play a soft tune. Lords and Ladies were all over the courtyard laughing and talking with one another. Walking in steadily, she looked around to try and find some familiar faces. The Lords turned to give her approving looks and the Ladies turned to see whom the mysterious, but beautiful woman was. Sighing heavily, Hitomi could see no one she knew. Wandering off to get a drink from the table with refreshments, a hand grabbed hers and pulled her back. The hand that grabbed hers was gentle and wasn't using any force. She turned to see who the person was, but when she looked, a mask hid the face. The figure pulled her into a dance as a soft melody played. She looked deeply into the eyes of the figure and had a sense of recognition. 'I've seen those eyes before. But where?' she thought. Hitomi looked around her and realized that they seemed to be the only ones dancing. Trying to stop her and the figure from dancing, Hitomi slipped and almost fell onto the hard floor of the courtyard. Grabbing her very gracefully as if she was a porcelain doll, he held her in his arms and looked deeply into her eyes. Then he smiled. A beautiful, soft smile, one that could melt your heart. Hitomi was lifted up and stood there looking at the man. Breaking the force, the figure took her hand and planted a soft and gentle kiss upon it. Then just as quickly as he came, he left.
"Are you all right?" a soft and gentle voice asked. Hitomi turned around and saw Millerna's bright eyes looking at her.
"Yeah. I'm fine," Hitomi replied staring back at the place where the figure disappeared.
"I'm sorry we just came. Something came up at the last minute, but everyone is here now," Millerna said still smiling. Hitomi turned back around and looked behind Millerna. Sure enough, everyone was standing behind her, but one face was missing.
"Where's Van?" Hitomi asked. Everyone looked around and saw that Van was gone and nowhere to be seen.
"Why don't we get some drinks?" Yuna said breaking the silence. Everyone nodded and went towards the refreshments table. Hitomi still looked around for Van, hoping to find him yet fearing to see him. A hand gently landed on her shoulder.
"He'll be here. I know he will," Allen said with a small hint of emotional pain. Just as quickly as the hand touched her shoulder, it came off. Hitomi nodded and gave him a smile. He looked deep into her eyes and then turned away to go get a drink for himself and talk to the Lords and Ladies that he saw in the courtyard. Hitomi pondered at why Van was not there until a thought struck her. 'Could Van be . . .' Hitomi thought. She turned back to look at the place where the mysterious figure had disappeared from. She smiled and turned around to join the others for a drink. Up on the second floor where the servants had hung the garlands, stood two figures both dressed in black as if going to a funeral.
"Look at them. Pitiless fools," the one on the left said apparently a man because of his deep yet haunting voice.
"Yes well you can't blame them. I would want to live out the few last moments of my life in a happy festive mood. Wouldn't you?" the one on the right said who was a woman with a similar mysterious tone in her voice.
"This is different," he said with a low growl, "They know that the most strongest force in all of Gaia can attack them at any moment and yet they choose to celebrate."
"Don't worry. They'll be all the more surprised. The dragon will die . . .by the hand of his most loved," the woman said with a chuckle.
"Come on. It's time," the man said to the woman as they both walked down to the courtyard using a secret passage and going undetected. Then, Van walked into the courtyard slowly. He walked over to the others who were still at the refreshments table getting drinks. "I'm sorry for being late," Van apologized.
"It's all right," Millerna said with a smile. Hitomi looked back at Van and then quickly looked down at the ground as Van caught her eye. Walking over silently, he came and put out a hand. Looking from his hand to his face, she understood. Taking his hand, they walked to the middle of the courtyard and again Hitomi found herself dancing with Van. As they danced, Hitomi looked up at Van's face and stared at it long and hard. Then she laid her head onto his chest. Closing her eyes, Hitomi felt as though she were in a dream.
The wind blew against her and made her hair flow. Standing in a field of grass, Hitomi looked around her and saw two figures at the other end of the field. Running towards them both, she found that she landed in the arms of the gallant knight and the Fanelian prince walked off into the darkness. 'Allen . . .' she whispered as the wind carried it away. His embrace was filled with love and passion. Hitomi held on to him as if he were the only one left in this world. 'Hitomi . . .' he whispered as Hitomi pulled back from the embrace. She looked down trying to avoid his face and ended up staring at her hands instead, which were bathed in blood. Filled with horror and disgust, Hitomi looked away only to stare into the face of her Fanelian prince. A look of pain and sadness shown on his face. 'Hitomi . . .' he said and fell to his knees. Suddenly Hitomi understood. 'No . . . I couldn't have . . .' Hitomi said falling to the ground as she tried to hold Van in her arms. 'Van . . .' Gasping and choking, Van stretched a hand out towards Hitomi's face. His warm hand was comforting to her but she felt it growing cold. 'I'm sorry . . .' she said weeping. 'Don't be . . .' he replied with a small yet strained smile. Then he breathed his last and slowly dissolved as tons of white feathers replaced him and blew away with the wind. Hitomi wept more and shook her head. Hitomi held her face within her hands screaming in pain and anger as she suddenly radiated with a soft pink glow. She silenced her screams and saw a blue pillar of light touch the ground, and watched as a guymelef stepped out. 'Escaflowne . . .' she whispered as she closed her eyes and was consumed with darkness.
Reopening her eyes and seeing herself within the safe and loving arms of Van, she stopped dancing. "What's wrong?" Van asked.
"Escaflowne . . ." she said quietly.
"What?" Van said with a look of confusion. Before Van could ask her more questions and before she could say anymore, the trumpets sounded as Prince Chid walking in. The Lords and Ladies turned and went toward the table that was in the middle of the courtyard. They all chose a spot and stood next to the chair waiting for their beloved Prince to sit down and give them the command. Van walked the unstable Hitomi towards one of the seats and helped her stand next to it. Prince Chid smiled and walked towards his seat and sat down. Just as everyone was about to sit down a servant boy came running. Walking slowly behind the boy, a mysterious figure wearing a black cloak with a hood to cover his face unsheathed his sword. The boy whispered into Prince Chid's ear and was stumbling with his words. Suddenly Prince Chid stood up and started to walk away from the table, as were the Lords and Ladies. He shouted at the guards, as they came running as fast as they could to protect the prince. Immediately the two guards were killed. Their blood stained the figure's sword with their lifeless bodies on the ground. Van and Allen unsheathed their swords, ready to fight and protect the people.
"Van . . ." Hitomi said slowly and quietly. Van turned to look at Hitomi and saw her point as something on his chest. It was the pendant that Hitomi had given Van before she left Gaia one year ago. The pendant began to glow faintly. When he turned to look at the figure, the pendant glowed even brighter and pointed at the figure. The figure raised his sword high into the air as an army of soldiers appeared behind him. The Ladies screamed and ran in panic as the Lords hid cowardly. Millerna started to back away with Merle close by her. Allen and Van, still confused at the pendants glow, stepped forward to fight. Millerna looked around her to see if everyone was safely hidden or gone until she noticed Hitomi. Walking towards her as quickly as she could, the figure dropped his sword slowly and the army behind him began to attack.
"Hitomi!" Millerna yelled. Somehow Hitomi regained her senses and looked around her seeing soldiers come at them with swords in their hands about ready to slit their throats. Finally reaching Hitomi, Millerna tried to run as a soldier was running towards them with his sword raised high in the air. Hitomi ended up running faster and helping Millerna instead of Millerna helping her. Just when they had thought they were dead, they heard a clash of metal and turned to take a quick glance. Van had blocked the soldier's attack in trying to harm the two girls.
"Run and don't look back!" Van ordered.
"Van . . ." Hitomi said with concern.
"Hitomi we have to go!" Millerna yelled. They began to run as they never ran before. Prince Chid was still stuck in the courtyard with a number of guards around him to protect him from the soldiers. One by one the guards began to drop. Then the last of them died as he told Chid with his last breath to run. Prince Chid turned around only to be confronted with two more soldiers. Raising their swords, they smiled with a cruel smile as their swords came down. Prince Chid closed his eyes. Seconds later he re- opened them to see why he hadn't been killed yet and saw the reason why. Two figures with masks covering their faces had killed the two soldiers that were about to kill Chid. They looked back at Chid.
"This is not the place for a prince like you," the figure with the red mask on said. Chid distinguished the voice as a woman's.
"Come with us Prince Chid," a gruff voice said. This person was wearing a white mask and took Prince Chid's hand as he led him away form the battle. Blood was spewn everywhere as dying men breathed their last. Van was fighting fiercely as was Allen. Both were dodging and attacking, but it was no use. There were too many soldiers coming in at once. Van took his chance and faced the one who signaled to start the massacre. The figure unhooded himself, but a mask veiled his face. The pendant around Van's neck was glowing uncontrollably and was moving in all different directions. Everywhere near Van he saw a red glow coming from the soldier's necks. As soon as they breathed their last, the red glow went out. Raising his sword, the figure accepted his challenge. The duel was set as the figure anticipated Van's attack. Dodging it, he evaded to the right and took a swift strike. Van managed to block it but not fast enough. His shirt had been cut open at the side and little droplets of blood dripped from his flesh as it hit the ground. After the last attack that was made on Van, the figure stood in front of him with his back turned. Van attacked. The figure quickly turned around and faced Van with a block from his sword.
"Why are you fighting me brother? You and I are the same," the figure said straining himself to keep Van's sword tied with his own.
"I had a brother . . . and his name was Folken!" Van cried as he pushed the figure away and stood in an attacking position, just in case the figure attacked him by surprise. The figure laughed and put his sword down by his side, but still holding it.
"That fool died because of his stupidity. Van . . . we are alike. Not brothers, but we are the same," the figure said slowly. The figure stepped back as Van looked at him with a sense of confusion.
"You are confused now, but soon you will see," he went on. The figure backed away back into the darkness from which he came and disappeared. "Besides, I'm not here for you . . . I'm here for someone else," his voice said while flowing through the wind.
"Van!" Turning around, Van looked at Allen and all around him he could see that everything had disappeared. The dead bodies of the soldiers, the soldiers who remained alive and everything else. The blood was not gone however leaving proof that there was a battle.
"He was here for someone else . . . but who?" Van questioned himself loudly as a piercing scream filled with terror broke through the courtyard.
"Hitomi!" Van said while looking at the second floor of the courtyard. Allen and Van raced up the stairs to the second floor, to try and rescue the one they loved. Along a corridor far from the courtyard Prince Chid, Hitomi, Millerna, and Merle were trapped as soldiers advanced on them. The two that had saved Prince Chid earlier were badly wounded. Swords near their throats, the soldiers were ready to slit them if they spoke a word.
"Everyone can go free if the Mystic Moon girl is given to us," the lead soldier said.
"Hitomi?" Millerna questioned, "What do you want with her?"
"No questions! Just hand over the girl!"
"Never. We'll die protecting her from the likes of you!"
"Then if that is what you wish, we will kill . . ." the soldier was saying as a white arrow pierced through his armor. He looked up at the one who shot the arrow and saw that it was a girl.
"Im . . . possi . . ." he uttered as he fell onto the staircase and breathed his last. A bright red glow faded from his chest. The three girls and the prince turned around and looked at the one who shot the arrow. "Yuna!?" Merle cried in disbelief.
A/N: i don't even know if you people read these things but yeah . . . sorry this took so long to write . . . school kept me busy and i just didn't have the heart to write anymore because of some stuff . . . but i'm fine now and i hope you enjoyed this chapter just as much as i did . . . the fight sequence . . . well i didn't really think that i did that part well enough . . . but yeah . . . *evil grin spreads across authors face* . . . i left you guys a nice cliffhanger to think upon . . . i mean weren't you wondering where Yuna went when the attack happened??? she should have been with the others . . . and where did she learn to shoot like that??? keep reading this fanfic and you'll find out everything . . .