Disclaimer: * Goes insane since she doesn't own Esca! * BUT I DO OWN ALL ORIGINAL CHARACTERS!
A/N: Last chapter was a little unexpected for you, the readers, and for me. I was going to cut off a few possible chapters, and just write a sequel, but I changed my mind when typing it. I love writing this; I just couldn't end it! But I promise those of you growing impatient, it WILL end, it'll just be a few more chapters and maybe a sequel chapter...or perhaps a sequel story, the possibilities are endless... Thanks for being so loyal in reading this; it is so much appreciated! And I'm sorry to those of you who think I put Allen ooc, you're right, he probably wouldn't act like that, but who knows, maybe Hitomi's rejection eventually got to him... Note: Aishiteru means: I love you Tadaima means: I'm back, I'm home in Japanese, thought it was appropriate, sorry, I'll try not to use so many phrases like that, I just couldn't resist when I saw these... Well, R&R! Remember: * Dream * Arigatou and Sionara! ^_^
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Chapter 28: Life is Precious...
* There was a beautiful sunset. It was red, orange, and pink, and it filled the usually blue sky with beauty. Three year old Mira sat on the ground with her parents. They sat on their favorite hill, overlooking the western mountains. Dilandau had his arm wrapped around Selena, and Mira sat in his lap, playing with the hilt of his sword.
"Look at that sunset," He remarked.
"It's red, just like my Alseides..."
"Can't you think of anything besides killing and your guymelef?" Selena asked in impatience.
Dilandau shrugged, "Hey, I think about my flame-thrower too..."
Mira wasn't disturbed by this battle, she knew her parents loved eachother, and this was just another one of their endless squabbles.
"Daddy, why does the sun set?"
Dilandau hesitated before answering.
"Umm... Because it, just does..." He replied.
Selena rolled her eyes.
"Great answer, Mr. Science."
"Well sorry! I never liked science much, that was Strategos's expertise!"
Selena sighed, and Mira was puzzled why her question hadn't been answered yet.
"So why does it?"
"Well, I guess so there'll be a tomorrow..." Selena replied, unsure of what to say.
"Great job MRS. Science."
"Give me a break..." She muttered.
The sun finished setting and the stars came out gracing the sky with their silent beauty.
"I think I know why Mommy and Daddy." The little Mira piped up.
"It's so we can see the stars."
The parents looked perplexed at their child's simple logic, and wondered if indeed that was the reason. They gazed at the stars for hours, pointing out constellations that they remembered to Mira.
"Mommy? Daddy?" She asked.
"What is it Mira?" They asked in unison.
"Will we always be together?"
The parents didn't know what to say. Mira was so innocent, yet she still was so naïve about life.
Dilandau decided what to say, "Sure we will Mira. As long as there are stars in the sky, we'll always be together."
And Mira fell asleep that night in her parent's warm embrace.
Mira remembered that. It seemed so long ago, that was before everything had changed. She missed that love. She missed it terribly, and she finally awoke from her troubled dreams... *
"W-Where am I?" She asked confused. She had expected to awake in the walls of the Fanelian castle. But she had awoken in a room that looked vaguely familiar.
'It's my old room, Tadaima...' She thought to herself.
"Glad to see you're up." A familiar voice said.
"Oh Gatty." She said, giving her old friend a hug.
"Why am I here?"
"Lord Dilandau brought you back home when we showed up at your wedding."
"Where's Daren?"
"Daren? Who's that?"
"My fiancé!" She angrily exclaimed.
"Ahh."
"I really don't know Lady Mira. But Lord Dilandau is waiting for you in the kitchen." And with a bow, he exited.
Mira couldn't find anything to wear. Everything in her closet was too small, and she hadn't been able to bring any extra clothes. The ones she was wearing now, her wedding dress, was not appropriate. She knew that her father would be angry with her for doing what she was about to do, but she had no choice. Quietly, she softly treaded down the hallway, into the room she hadn't been in for years. Her parents's room looked different then how it looked before her mother had died. When Selena had been there, there were always fresh cut flowers, and the windows were always open to let in the warm morning breeze. The windows were shut with the curtains closed, and a long-forgotten vase lay in pieces on the floor. The walls had once been a cheery sky blue with a hardwood floor; mother had even painted puffs of white to look like clouds on the ceiling. Now the walls were blood red, and the carpeting was midnight black. What used to be a bed, lie in splinters all over the floor. The fireplace looked like it was used quite often, and she noticed that her father had used parts of his bed as kindling. She wandered over to the wardrobe, and found a red and black uniform similar to her father's. She hurried to put it on, and tucked her sword in her belt; there was even an extra coronet. She walked down the hallway to the kitchen and stood at attention. Viole walked in, and not noticing Dilandau sitting at the table, bowed to Mira, thinking that she was his commander.
"Viole..." Dilandau calmly said, before striking his slayer across the face.
"Forgive me Dilandau-Sama..." He fell on his knees in reverence.
"Don't let it happen again..." Dilandau angrily told his slayer, pinning him against the wall. After a few minutes of fear and a bloody lip, he let him, go and Viole scurried off to the Dragonslayer's dorm.
"Hello daughter." He calmly greeted Mira.
"Father! How could you do this to me?" She angrily stammered.
"I was only acting in your best interest..." Dilandau smirked.
"Besides, how can your fiancé possible match up to your home, the home that you abandoned?"
"I didn't abandon it! I just couldn't take it any more, with you ignoring me and Mother and Philon's deaths, it held too many painful memories..." Tears threatened to spill down her cheeks, but she held them back, her father hated tears.
"I was going to be married, to a wonderful man..."
"Who is this wonderful man?" Dilandau asked mockingly.
"Daren... Daren Sidan de Fanel..."
"FANEL?!" Dilandau's face was amplified with fury.
"Yes, Fanel, Daren Sidan de Fanel, Son of King Van and Queen Hitomi, Prince of all Fanelia. You'd think you would be happy that your daughter is marrying royalty..."
"DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THE FANELS ARE OUR SWORN ENEMIES?!" Dilandau angrily replied.
"Maybe they are to you, father..." She coldly replied to his outburst of hatred.
"That spoiled prince's father cut my beautiful face!"
"Mom seemed to like you in spite of it." Mira replied, as she went reeling across the floor from her father's slap.
"Insolent girl. Don't ever mention Selena around me!"
"Why, why does the slightest mention of mother send you cowering?"
"That's none of your business, nosy girl."
"I'm making it my business." She persisted.
She walked up to her father, and put her hands firmly on his shoulders.
Suddenly, she was reeled backward into a world of black. She saw through her father's eyes, the Dragonslayers annoyed him with their stupidity and Mira, she looked so much like his lost love, Selena. Oh how that name haunted him so. 'It's all my fault, her death is all my fault...' He grieved.
Her father, he was, no he couldn't be, yes he was, he was crying. He was kneeling at her mother's grave crying his eyes out. His crimson eyes were even redder than usual and puffy. He placed some white roses by her tombstone, as his tears fell like silent raindrops. "Aishiteru Selena." He muttered.
'I guess that's what happens when you hold in your emotions,' Selena thought, 'You cry silent tears...' Unknown to her father, Selena's angel hovered above him and she was smiling at him lovingly. 'Mother loved father right up till the end, and father loved her just as much, maybe even more... Poor, Poor father...'
"Oh father, I'm so sorry, I now see how much you truly loved my mother..." She said, hugging him, forgetting that she hadn't embraced him like this for the last seventeen years.
Dilandau wasn't sure how to react. He just stood there letting her hug him, he didn't know why...
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The Fanel family, minus all the children except Daren, sat in the Escaflowne, admiring the scenery. It had been quite a long while since any of them had experienced such a beautiful view. This wasn't the time for happy thoughts though. Van and Hitomi could see Daren's crestfallen expression. 'He loves Mira so much, this is just breaking his heart...' Hitomi observed.
'Oh Mira... I hope you're all right...' Daren thought as the breeze rustled his raven hair.
They flew for several hours, Mira's face imprinted in Daren's mind. 'I'll save you Mira, I promise...'
Finally, they were in Zaibach. After the capital city had been destroyed, the Zaibachians had rebuilt, those who didn't wish to moved out into the country. Dilandau was one of these people who didn't want to waste time rebuilding the city of the future. He lived off to the east of it, in a densely wooded forest.
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Dilandau was still being hugged by Mira, when a strange blue column of light appeared...
A girl, no a woman, came down in it, she seemed a little puzzled, but she saw the two moons in the sky and looked relieved. She had blue hair and beautiful light blue eyed, 'They're like Selena's...' Dilandau noted. A dark blue hood covered her face, which she let down once she had landed. She had a sword attached to her black belt and she wore a simple white shirt and blue pants. She was beautiful. Dilandau looked up from his hug to look into her eyes.
"Hello, my name is Raena, I come to you, Dilandau Albatou, with a message, it's from Selena." (A/N: Did you think I'd never bring Raena back into the story?...)
"How do you know my name? What cruel joke are you trying to play on me?" Dilandau angrily replied when he heard the sender's name.
"It's no joke, it's the truth Dilandau."
"Selena's dead. I don't think she'll be sending me many messages." He sarcastically stated in a melancholy tone.
"How do you know Selena anyway?"
"She... was... my... best... friend..." Raena whispered in regret.
"But how can that be?" Dilandau wondered aloud.
"I was trying to find my family and I ended up here in Zaibach... You were off on some killing spree, so Selena let me stay here for about a month. She was so kind, she was the best, not to mention the only friend I ever had..."
"Oh Raena, I just don't understand Dilandau, all he does is fight and kill. He's so bloodthirsty, but he's so loving of Mira and me, I just don't understand... How can he kill all those men, when he knows that he just orphaned a child, or widowed a wife? They're not any different than us, I just wish I could make him see that..." She looked down at the little silver haired girl that was asleep in her lap.
"I don't know Selena, I don't even know Dilandau, just tell him how you feel..." Raena replied.
"I love him so much... I just wish he understood..." Selena whispered as she carried the sleeping Mira to her bedroom.
"Even though I only knew her for a short while, I treasured our friendship..." Raena said in a soft tone.
Raena had a unique ability to transfer her thoughts or memories into images for others to see, Dilandau had seen how depressed Selena had been on his attitude towards life.
"I never knew she felt like that about me..." He muttered.
"Dilandau, you mustn't mourn over Selena so, she loves you, you'll be together again someday..." She thrust the note into Dilandau's hand and drew her cloak back over her head, the blue light returned and she was gone...
'My dearest Dilandau,
Oh Dilandau, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry I had to leave you behind. But it was destiny, it wasn't your fault, or mine, or the children's. It was the fate alteration engine, it shortened my life, just like it did to you friend and commander, Strategos Folken. It was fate, we were meant to meet, but alas, we were also destined to be separated, but I swear to you, I'll always be beside you, because... well, I love you Dilandau. But I'm sure you already knew that... Remember when we first met, how we kissed under the cherry tree, the cherry blossoms swirled around us, and one landed on your nose, it made you sneeze and I laughed, that's when we discovered that you were allergic to cherries... Then there was that time that we slept under the stars, the sky like a blue blanket covering us, the stars like silver sequins lighting up the night, that seems so long ago now... Those memories make me smile. I remember when I first held Mira in my arms. She was so small and innocent, defenseless, she made me want to protect her, shelter her from all the pain this world brings. Oh Dilandau, I never got to live life to the fullest, those ten long years, I was deprived of half of my short existence in this cruel, cruel world...Sad really...I missed out on the joy that is life...I remember the flowers, my brother's voice as his hair blowed in the breeze, my mother smiling at me, I also remember, when father left, mother cried for weeks, her eyes puffy and red... I remember the flowers I picked for mother, as I dashed through the sunny fields in my sandals, made by her...Then I remember, being sucked into that horrible machine and taken far away from my home and what remained of my family... They cut off my hair with a sharp blade, laughing as if they were taking pleasure from my suffering...A servant kicked me into a dark room, which was musty and cold, I cried, I couldn't help it, it was all too much... Then, I know you remember him too, Jajuka, the kind dogman who cared for me, my childhood friend...We wandered around the pretty fields, looking at all the flowers... Then one day, they were taking me to the sorcerers' lab, Jajuka told them that he wouldn't let them take me, and they grinned evilly as they commanded a soldier to beat him. I cried as my blue eyes became watery, I screamed in protest, humph...like that would change a Zaibach sorcerer's mind... I was strapped to a bed, and then, everything went black... To think, those are my only memories until I was fifteen years old... I'm sorry I'm going on and on like this, but it's for Mira's knowledge. Dilandau, don't be so hard on her, she loves you as much as I do, it's no one's fault that Philon died, she can never be your son... It was meant to be... I miss you Dilandau, never forget, you must never forget, that I love you...more than anything...
Love,
Selena Albatou'
Dilandau stared at the letter, so many memories lay within, and it hurt now to dwell upon them. Mira had read over his shoulder, and was struggling to hold back tears.
"You can cry Mira, you deserve a good cry..." Dilandau quietly commented.
He put his hand on her shoulder and said, "Have a happy life daughter, it's what...Selena would have wanted..."
He smiled at her, not the smile of a bloodthirsty killer, but that of a human being, and that's when the blue pillar of light returned, taking Mira back to her "real" home...
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A/N: I know that was kind of lame, but don't flame it OK, I'm having a little writer's block, and I haven't gotten to a good stopping point yet, so, * sigh * bear with me... I've started school again too, so that doesn't help... I'm sorry I use ... so much, it's just what I do, so just try to ignore them if they bug you. There are a couple chapters left until it's over, so enjoy, and PLEASE review! Arigatou and Sionara! ^_^
~Trunks Gal~
A/N: Last chapter was a little unexpected for you, the readers, and for me. I was going to cut off a few possible chapters, and just write a sequel, but I changed my mind when typing it. I love writing this; I just couldn't end it! But I promise those of you growing impatient, it WILL end, it'll just be a few more chapters and maybe a sequel chapter...or perhaps a sequel story, the possibilities are endless... Thanks for being so loyal in reading this; it is so much appreciated! And I'm sorry to those of you who think I put Allen ooc, you're right, he probably wouldn't act like that, but who knows, maybe Hitomi's rejection eventually got to him... Note: Aishiteru means: I love you Tadaima means: I'm back, I'm home in Japanese, thought it was appropriate, sorry, I'll try not to use so many phrases like that, I just couldn't resist when I saw these... Well, R&R! Remember: * Dream * Arigatou and Sionara! ^_^
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Chapter 28: Life is Precious...
* There was a beautiful sunset. It was red, orange, and pink, and it filled the usually blue sky with beauty. Three year old Mira sat on the ground with her parents. They sat on their favorite hill, overlooking the western mountains. Dilandau had his arm wrapped around Selena, and Mira sat in his lap, playing with the hilt of his sword.
"Look at that sunset," He remarked.
"It's red, just like my Alseides..."
"Can't you think of anything besides killing and your guymelef?" Selena asked in impatience.
Dilandau shrugged, "Hey, I think about my flame-thrower too..."
Mira wasn't disturbed by this battle, she knew her parents loved eachother, and this was just another one of their endless squabbles.
"Daddy, why does the sun set?"
Dilandau hesitated before answering.
"Umm... Because it, just does..." He replied.
Selena rolled her eyes.
"Great answer, Mr. Science."
"Well sorry! I never liked science much, that was Strategos's expertise!"
Selena sighed, and Mira was puzzled why her question hadn't been answered yet.
"So why does it?"
"Well, I guess so there'll be a tomorrow..." Selena replied, unsure of what to say.
"Great job MRS. Science."
"Give me a break..." She muttered.
The sun finished setting and the stars came out gracing the sky with their silent beauty.
"I think I know why Mommy and Daddy." The little Mira piped up.
"It's so we can see the stars."
The parents looked perplexed at their child's simple logic, and wondered if indeed that was the reason. They gazed at the stars for hours, pointing out constellations that they remembered to Mira.
"Mommy? Daddy?" She asked.
"What is it Mira?" They asked in unison.
"Will we always be together?"
The parents didn't know what to say. Mira was so innocent, yet she still was so naïve about life.
Dilandau decided what to say, "Sure we will Mira. As long as there are stars in the sky, we'll always be together."
And Mira fell asleep that night in her parent's warm embrace.
Mira remembered that. It seemed so long ago, that was before everything had changed. She missed that love. She missed it terribly, and she finally awoke from her troubled dreams... *
"W-Where am I?" She asked confused. She had expected to awake in the walls of the Fanelian castle. But she had awoken in a room that looked vaguely familiar.
'It's my old room, Tadaima...' She thought to herself.
"Glad to see you're up." A familiar voice said.
"Oh Gatty." She said, giving her old friend a hug.
"Why am I here?"
"Lord Dilandau brought you back home when we showed up at your wedding."
"Where's Daren?"
"Daren? Who's that?"
"My fiancé!" She angrily exclaimed.
"Ahh."
"I really don't know Lady Mira. But Lord Dilandau is waiting for you in the kitchen." And with a bow, he exited.
Mira couldn't find anything to wear. Everything in her closet was too small, and she hadn't been able to bring any extra clothes. The ones she was wearing now, her wedding dress, was not appropriate. She knew that her father would be angry with her for doing what she was about to do, but she had no choice. Quietly, she softly treaded down the hallway, into the room she hadn't been in for years. Her parents's room looked different then how it looked before her mother had died. When Selena had been there, there were always fresh cut flowers, and the windows were always open to let in the warm morning breeze. The windows were shut with the curtains closed, and a long-forgotten vase lay in pieces on the floor. The walls had once been a cheery sky blue with a hardwood floor; mother had even painted puffs of white to look like clouds on the ceiling. Now the walls were blood red, and the carpeting was midnight black. What used to be a bed, lie in splinters all over the floor. The fireplace looked like it was used quite often, and she noticed that her father had used parts of his bed as kindling. She wandered over to the wardrobe, and found a red and black uniform similar to her father's. She hurried to put it on, and tucked her sword in her belt; there was even an extra coronet. She walked down the hallway to the kitchen and stood at attention. Viole walked in, and not noticing Dilandau sitting at the table, bowed to Mira, thinking that she was his commander.
"Viole..." Dilandau calmly said, before striking his slayer across the face.
"Forgive me Dilandau-Sama..." He fell on his knees in reverence.
"Don't let it happen again..." Dilandau angrily told his slayer, pinning him against the wall. After a few minutes of fear and a bloody lip, he let him, go and Viole scurried off to the Dragonslayer's dorm.
"Hello daughter." He calmly greeted Mira.
"Father! How could you do this to me?" She angrily stammered.
"I was only acting in your best interest..." Dilandau smirked.
"Besides, how can your fiancé possible match up to your home, the home that you abandoned?"
"I didn't abandon it! I just couldn't take it any more, with you ignoring me and Mother and Philon's deaths, it held too many painful memories..." Tears threatened to spill down her cheeks, but she held them back, her father hated tears.
"I was going to be married, to a wonderful man..."
"Who is this wonderful man?" Dilandau asked mockingly.
"Daren... Daren Sidan de Fanel..."
"FANEL?!" Dilandau's face was amplified with fury.
"Yes, Fanel, Daren Sidan de Fanel, Son of King Van and Queen Hitomi, Prince of all Fanelia. You'd think you would be happy that your daughter is marrying royalty..."
"DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THE FANELS ARE OUR SWORN ENEMIES?!" Dilandau angrily replied.
"Maybe they are to you, father..." She coldly replied to his outburst of hatred.
"That spoiled prince's father cut my beautiful face!"
"Mom seemed to like you in spite of it." Mira replied, as she went reeling across the floor from her father's slap.
"Insolent girl. Don't ever mention Selena around me!"
"Why, why does the slightest mention of mother send you cowering?"
"That's none of your business, nosy girl."
"I'm making it my business." She persisted.
She walked up to her father, and put her hands firmly on his shoulders.
Suddenly, she was reeled backward into a world of black. She saw through her father's eyes, the Dragonslayers annoyed him with their stupidity and Mira, she looked so much like his lost love, Selena. Oh how that name haunted him so. 'It's all my fault, her death is all my fault...' He grieved.
Her father, he was, no he couldn't be, yes he was, he was crying. He was kneeling at her mother's grave crying his eyes out. His crimson eyes were even redder than usual and puffy. He placed some white roses by her tombstone, as his tears fell like silent raindrops. "Aishiteru Selena." He muttered.
'I guess that's what happens when you hold in your emotions,' Selena thought, 'You cry silent tears...' Unknown to her father, Selena's angel hovered above him and she was smiling at him lovingly. 'Mother loved father right up till the end, and father loved her just as much, maybe even more... Poor, Poor father...'
"Oh father, I'm so sorry, I now see how much you truly loved my mother..." She said, hugging him, forgetting that she hadn't embraced him like this for the last seventeen years.
Dilandau wasn't sure how to react. He just stood there letting her hug him, he didn't know why...
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The Fanel family, minus all the children except Daren, sat in the Escaflowne, admiring the scenery. It had been quite a long while since any of them had experienced such a beautiful view. This wasn't the time for happy thoughts though. Van and Hitomi could see Daren's crestfallen expression. 'He loves Mira so much, this is just breaking his heart...' Hitomi observed.
'Oh Mira... I hope you're all right...' Daren thought as the breeze rustled his raven hair.
They flew for several hours, Mira's face imprinted in Daren's mind. 'I'll save you Mira, I promise...'
Finally, they were in Zaibach. After the capital city had been destroyed, the Zaibachians had rebuilt, those who didn't wish to moved out into the country. Dilandau was one of these people who didn't want to waste time rebuilding the city of the future. He lived off to the east of it, in a densely wooded forest.
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Dilandau was still being hugged by Mira, when a strange blue column of light appeared...
A girl, no a woman, came down in it, she seemed a little puzzled, but she saw the two moons in the sky and looked relieved. She had blue hair and beautiful light blue eyed, 'They're like Selena's...' Dilandau noted. A dark blue hood covered her face, which she let down once she had landed. She had a sword attached to her black belt and she wore a simple white shirt and blue pants. She was beautiful. Dilandau looked up from his hug to look into her eyes.
"Hello, my name is Raena, I come to you, Dilandau Albatou, with a message, it's from Selena." (A/N: Did you think I'd never bring Raena back into the story?...)
"How do you know my name? What cruel joke are you trying to play on me?" Dilandau angrily replied when he heard the sender's name.
"It's no joke, it's the truth Dilandau."
"Selena's dead. I don't think she'll be sending me many messages." He sarcastically stated in a melancholy tone.
"How do you know Selena anyway?"
"She... was... my... best... friend..." Raena whispered in regret.
"But how can that be?" Dilandau wondered aloud.
"I was trying to find my family and I ended up here in Zaibach... You were off on some killing spree, so Selena let me stay here for about a month. She was so kind, she was the best, not to mention the only friend I ever had..."
"Oh Raena, I just don't understand Dilandau, all he does is fight and kill. He's so bloodthirsty, but he's so loving of Mira and me, I just don't understand... How can he kill all those men, when he knows that he just orphaned a child, or widowed a wife? They're not any different than us, I just wish I could make him see that..." She looked down at the little silver haired girl that was asleep in her lap.
"I don't know Selena, I don't even know Dilandau, just tell him how you feel..." Raena replied.
"I love him so much... I just wish he understood..." Selena whispered as she carried the sleeping Mira to her bedroom.
"Even though I only knew her for a short while, I treasured our friendship..." Raena said in a soft tone.
Raena had a unique ability to transfer her thoughts or memories into images for others to see, Dilandau had seen how depressed Selena had been on his attitude towards life.
"I never knew she felt like that about me..." He muttered.
"Dilandau, you mustn't mourn over Selena so, she loves you, you'll be together again someday..." She thrust the note into Dilandau's hand and drew her cloak back over her head, the blue light returned and she was gone...
'My dearest Dilandau,
Oh Dilandau, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry I had to leave you behind. But it was destiny, it wasn't your fault, or mine, or the children's. It was the fate alteration engine, it shortened my life, just like it did to you friend and commander, Strategos Folken. It was fate, we were meant to meet, but alas, we were also destined to be separated, but I swear to you, I'll always be beside you, because... well, I love you Dilandau. But I'm sure you already knew that... Remember when we first met, how we kissed under the cherry tree, the cherry blossoms swirled around us, and one landed on your nose, it made you sneeze and I laughed, that's when we discovered that you were allergic to cherries... Then there was that time that we slept under the stars, the sky like a blue blanket covering us, the stars like silver sequins lighting up the night, that seems so long ago now... Those memories make me smile. I remember when I first held Mira in my arms. She was so small and innocent, defenseless, she made me want to protect her, shelter her from all the pain this world brings. Oh Dilandau, I never got to live life to the fullest, those ten long years, I was deprived of half of my short existence in this cruel, cruel world...Sad really...I missed out on the joy that is life...I remember the flowers, my brother's voice as his hair blowed in the breeze, my mother smiling at me, I also remember, when father left, mother cried for weeks, her eyes puffy and red... I remember the flowers I picked for mother, as I dashed through the sunny fields in my sandals, made by her...Then I remember, being sucked into that horrible machine and taken far away from my home and what remained of my family... They cut off my hair with a sharp blade, laughing as if they were taking pleasure from my suffering...A servant kicked me into a dark room, which was musty and cold, I cried, I couldn't help it, it was all too much... Then, I know you remember him too, Jajuka, the kind dogman who cared for me, my childhood friend...We wandered around the pretty fields, looking at all the flowers... Then one day, they were taking me to the sorcerers' lab, Jajuka told them that he wouldn't let them take me, and they grinned evilly as they commanded a soldier to beat him. I cried as my blue eyes became watery, I screamed in protest, humph...like that would change a Zaibach sorcerer's mind... I was strapped to a bed, and then, everything went black... To think, those are my only memories until I was fifteen years old... I'm sorry I'm going on and on like this, but it's for Mira's knowledge. Dilandau, don't be so hard on her, she loves you as much as I do, it's no one's fault that Philon died, she can never be your son... It was meant to be... I miss you Dilandau, never forget, you must never forget, that I love you...more than anything...
Love,
Selena Albatou'
Dilandau stared at the letter, so many memories lay within, and it hurt now to dwell upon them. Mira had read over his shoulder, and was struggling to hold back tears.
"You can cry Mira, you deserve a good cry..." Dilandau quietly commented.
He put his hand on her shoulder and said, "Have a happy life daughter, it's what...Selena would have wanted..."
He smiled at her, not the smile of a bloodthirsty killer, but that of a human being, and that's when the blue pillar of light returned, taking Mira back to her "real" home...
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A/N: I know that was kind of lame, but don't flame it OK, I'm having a little writer's block, and I haven't gotten to a good stopping point yet, so, * sigh * bear with me... I've started school again too, so that doesn't help... I'm sorry I use ... so much, it's just what I do, so just try to ignore them if they bug you. There are a couple chapters left until it's over, so enjoy, and PLEASE review! Arigatou and Sionara! ^_^
~Trunks Gal~