A scar that will never go away
Chapter 3 : An escape gone wrong.
"what is your name girl!" He said with a small side glance.
"Alita, and what is yours?" She asked wondering is she should have said nothing.
"Dilandau, I'm general of the dragon slayers" While he said that he left Alita sitting there confused
' What are the dragon slayers?' Alita wondered to herself. But before she could start thinking again she wanted to get a head start in her plan.
Alita knew she would have to get out of here, since every time some one left, they would lock the door behind them. One of her classes taught her how to escape any lock, it also included the code locks. She looked through the small bag she had and pulled out some white powder. She then took the brush and wiped some of the white powder on the numbers, so that when a person left they put in the code and the powder would wipe off the numbers that they touched. The only thing holding back this plan was that Alita wasn't sure if they changed the code regularly or if it stayed the same. Alita knew she would be weak for the next few days since her small but effective injuries. Alita knew she shouldn't trust who ever brought her here, and not let the people here get to close. Since the accident Alita had a hard time allowing people to get close to her. She was afraid that if they got to close they would just be ripped from her grasp just like her family was. She only let her best friend Alex get close to her, oh how she missed Alex and wondered if she noticed that she was gone. Alita had now set up small but crucial parts to her plan. She had dismembered her walkman and made a small microphone and used the headphones for a speaker. Not many people knew that Alita was very talented with computers and electronics. Alita listened through the door to make sure that no one was coming cause if some one would find out she was planning to get out her plan would be worth nothing. So after Alita made the assumption that no one was coming she stuck the small microphone to the end of a wire hanger and bent the end until it looked like a 'L' and put it against the floor board of the wall. Hopping that no one would notice the small contraption she would be able to listen to the conversations within the listening distance. Alita was quite proud of her small listening devise, and was positive that it would work.
After about 3 hour of her inventive machine being out in the hall way she has found out that not many people were fond of Dilandau, and that a man named Folken was of higher rank and was wondering about the young lady that was being held captive by the evil general Dilandau and also that Folken had a small tattoo under his left eye. Alita was going to make use of the information she had collected to her advantage. She was going to make Folken help her get away without him even realizing what he had done. Hours had gone by and Alita was starting to get really hungry, she searched her bag for something to snack on cause she didn't want anything that these people gave her. Luckily she had some food in her bag that she could probably live on for a couple of days at the most, but she would have to get something else to nibble on until she could make a successful escape. Alita thought on why she had the food in her bag just in case she didn't want to eat it. Then she remembered one of the activities that she didn't quit was her martial arts and she knew that she wouldn't make it home until well after dinner, so she packed something just in case she got hungry. She had packed 2 sandwiches, 2 juice boxes, a bottle of water and some candy. Alita had to admit that she was addicted to candy, she always had some with her.
After Alita nibbled on some of the small supply of food she started to look around the room. Her eyes instantly found a balcony door. For some reason that Alita couldn't explain, was that she was drawn the the sky no matter what it looked like, she always loved the sky. Sometimes she would look for refuge in it, she would pray that the pain of life would be lifted off her shoulders and tossed into the ocean, and let it sink and to be never found again. Alita also loved the ocean, not for its size and not for its amount of sea life, she loved it because the water looked like it never ended. You could never see the bottom of the ocean, you would see to a certain point and then all you seen was darkness. Sometimes Alita would look into the ocean with her memories flooding back into her life and her sad blues eyes looking for herself in the icy cool water, thinking that this couldn't be her life. That she didn't do anything to deserve this life, she had always done the right thing and she still had something taken away from her. Alita walked up to the large door and opened it, and she gasped when the fresh air hit her lungs like a ton of bricks hitting her at once knocking the wind out of her. After her lungs got use to the fresh air she went to the edge of the balcony and looked over and noticed that she was very, very high up. Alita backed away from the edge not expecting the height to be that much. She seen that there was a chair against the wall and gladly took it for support. Alita wasn't very fond of heights, but she always dreamed of having wings and flying free through the sky's with nothing tormenting her mind. Alita sat in the chair and just stared at the sky, seeing its endless height. She must have lost track of time while she was lost in her day dreams cause she started to notice the sun setting into the horizon. When the sun set the sky was dark and it was like someone covered the sky with a large dark blue velvet blanket and only let the lights of the stars shine through. The dark gave Alita comfort when she was sad, she would always love the dark because no one could find her. Also she felt the stars acted like a guide, and helped her through her tough times. As Alita was thinking about her family tears stung down her face and she desperately wanted them to go away. She felt the tears would make her weak and she wouldn't cry for her family. She knew her family wouldn't want her to cry for them, they wanted her to be happy. But how could she be happy she was alone in a world that she didn't even know existed, and she knew no one else knew it existed too. Alita wiped away her tears and just sat there silent like morning rain falling into a small pond.
Then Alita jumped when she felt a hand touch her shoulder. It was Dilandau.
"What are you doing?" Dilandau asked seeing a hint of tears on her face.
"Nothing" She said with a small voice
"well Dinner is ready and Im sure your hungry, so Lord Folken would like you to join us for dinner" Dilandau said looking away from her, disgusted with himself that he was asking a woman to dinner.
"well thank you for the offer but I'm not hungry" Alita said staring at the sky once more.
" But you haven't eaten in 2 days" Dilandau trying to convince her to come, since Folken ordered him to bring her.
"Well I'm not hungry, but thanks again for the offer" Alita said getting up to go back into the room.
"Suit yourself, but you won't be able to get another meal until morning" Dilandau said leaving the room to tell Folken that the girl wasn't coming.
~ Folken's restricted room~
"Where's the girl?" Folken said impatiently
"She's not coming" Dilandau took his seat across from Folken
"And why not?" Folken said with a look upon his face that made Dilandau sick.
" She said she wasn't hungry, I tried to convince her to come but she just kept refusing"
"She must be hungry, she hasn't ate in over 2 days" Folken said silently to himself.
"Well let eat, may as well not let the food go to waste just cause some girl doesn't want to eat" Dilandau said starting to fill his plate with food.
~Back in Alita's room~
Alita left the doors of the balcony open. In hopes of a sign to whether or not escape from this place. Alita took a seat on the chair that was closest to the balcony and stared at the stars. She soon fell asleep in the large chair being over looked by the stars.
In the middle of the night Alita had a dream about a boy about her age had flew into her room. He had Raven black hair and the most beautiful brown eyes she had ever seen. He wore a red t-shirt and tan cargo pants. But what drew her eyes most of all was that pure white wings that came from his back.' He's an angel" Alita thought. But before anything else happened she woke up. She slowly let her eyes adjust to her surroundings, as her eyes took in the dim light she saw something that was unexpected. The Boy in her dream was real and he was standing right in front of her. The look on the boys face was pure fright, and she knew why. He was probably in there to find information and he found her in the enemy's domain. So before she could say anything the boy put a hand over her mouth and knocked her unconscious. When Alita woke up she had a painful headache and then remembered the boy. She slowly sat up and knew that was a mistake, she felt like the blood had rushed to her head,so she laid back down. She had seen the room she was in, it was a jail cell, it was cold and gloomy and had a weird smell like the water rust on something. Alita stared at the ceiling until the boy broke the silence.
"Who are you?" The boy asked while sitting on a chair in front of the bars.
"I should ask you the same question, and why did you hit me so hard?" Alita said putting her hand on her forehead and felt the same warm liquid running from her head. "Great another wound to add to the others" Alita said silently but The boy heard her.
" I'll get you something for that but who are you"The boy wanted to know who the woman was that he held prisoner.
"I'm Alita and why is everyone asking me who I am, That's exactly what they asked me at that other place.
" What the Zibach floating fortress?" He asked
"well if that's what you call that flying castle then yeah," Alita said felling the throbbing in her head get worse." And who are you?" Alita asked looking over into the brown eyes of the boy who held her captive.
"I'm Van Slanzar De Fanel, King of Fanelia" Van said proudly
"great another place I haven't heard about" Alita said staring at the ceiling again.
"What do you mean you haven't heard about Fanelia, where exactly are you from?" Van asked curiously.
" well the people on that flying fortress said that you call it the Mystic moon" Alita said softly.
"The Mystic moon!" Van said n surprise, but then his thoughts went instantly to Hitomi. Alita saw the sad look that over come the surprised king and she wanted to know why.
"What's wrong your highness" Alita wanted to be nice but she didn't know what to address him as.
" You said you came from the mystic moon, right?" Van asked looking at the floor.
"Yeah" Alita said simply.
"Did you know a girl named Hitomi?" Van asked hopefully that this girl knew who he was talking about.
" Who Hitomi Kanzaki?" Alita said thinking.
"YES!" Van said almost flying off his seat.
"I did know her but we became separated" Alita said moving her gaze from the ceiling to the floor. Van took this as a bad sign but he had to know what happened.
"What happened?" Van asked softly
"Well her parents were friends with my parents, and when the accident happened..." Alita found it hard to talk about this but she continued with a few tears falling down her face. " Hitomi's family moved away and I was sent to a boarding school for girls" Alita said keeping her gaze fixed on the floor.
"What accident, what happened" Van noticed the tears that fell down Alita's face.
" My family was killed"Alita said trying to hold back the tears.
" Im sorry" Van was sorry for asking her to remember that, he knew how she felt because his family was gone too.
" That's all right it was along time ago" Alita said while wiping away the tears. Alita was startled by the lock on the cell being opened.
" If you do what I say I will give you a better room and I could ask you some questions after we get that wound cleaned up" Van said with a small smile.
" Thanks" Alita smiled back at the young king.
Van knew the royal healer was away tending the countries wounded. So Van would treat Alita's wound, and help her to trust him.
"Ouch!" Alita said squinting her eyes as van cleaned her wound " Why did you hit me in the first place?" Alita asked opening her eyes to Van.
" I thought you would have told them about me and I would get caught" Van said while wiping the blood from her head.
" I wouldn't have been able to tell anybody, and I don't see why I would" Alita said biting her lower lip, like when she got nervous.
" And why is that?" Van said wondering why she wouldn't have been able to tell he was there.
" Well for one thing they locked me in that room and wouldn't let me out, and you looked like an angel and I haven't had the best luck lately so I didn't want to screw anything up" Alita averted her gaze to the floor.
Van was taken back by her statement about him looking like an angel. A lot of people fear draconians and wouldn't trust them enough to stay silent. The only thing Van thought was about Hitomi, and how she liked his wings. " you mean your not afraid of me?" Van said looking away.
"Why would I be, your wings are so beautiful" Alita said turning a light shade of pink.
Van started to blush because it has been a while since he had received a compliment from someone besides merle. Van finished bandaging up Alita's cut and wanted to ask her a few more things. " Why do you like my wings" Van asked looking into Alita's blue eyes.
" Well this is going to seem silly but, I've always dreamed of flying, free from the cares of the world I dread so much" Alita lowered her head as if in shame.
" Its not silly" van said with a smile. Van couldn't explain the feeling he was getting from this girl, it was a warm, comforting feeling like when he was young and his mother would sing to him in a soft angelic voice. " Hey would you like to go for a moonlit flight" van said waiting for the soft voice of the girl that sat beside him.
Alita was shocked in the question that was just asked of her. The boy that she had just met was going to for fill her dream. " really, are you sure you want to waste a experience like that on me?" Alita aid looking down seeing the design on the carpet made her dizzy.
"Why wouldn't I" Van said kneeling down to see her eyes, and to his amazement they changed from a blue to a green. " how did you do that?" Van asked
"Do what?" Alita looked up at Van.
"Make you eyes change?" Van said lifting his voice to make Alita more comfortable.
" They only change with my mood, which makes it hard to hide my feelings" Alita said with a small laugh that escaped her lips. Van found her voice soothing, and it took his worries away when she smiled.
"What colors do your eyes change?" The king asked wanting to know how to check her mood.
"well when I'm happy there green, when I'm sad there blue, and when I'm mad there red" Alita said softly but proudly. " It what made me different from any one else on the mystic moon" Alita's statement rolled proudly off her tongue.
" now how about that moonlit flight?" Van said in a tempting voice. Van took off his shirt and let out his wings and he held his hand out to her, Alita gladly took it. They flew for a little and then landed on a cliff and they sat there for a while and then Van broke the silence. " Who took you to the Zibach floating fortress?" Van asked hoping not to here one name.
" I think his name was Dilandau, he held me prisoner and then a man named Folken wanted to see me" Alita said while in thought.
Vans facial expressions had disappeared from Vans face all together. " Who took you to the fortress though?" Van said wanting more specific information.
" Dilandau, I'm sure of it." Alita said slowly. But before anyone could get one more word in there was an explosion and the cliff started to crumble beneath their fingers. Van Jumped and seen Alita was falling and falling fast, and Van seen who had disturbed his evening and it was non other than Dilandau and his dragon slayers. Van sped to the falling girl but before he could reach her a bright light emitted from her body and her body seemed to float there in mid-air. Then all of a sudden wings had sprouted from her back, but they weren't like Vans they were red but the wings didn't contain of feathers but they were wings of a dragon. While van was in shock over the sight before him Dilandau had shot and arrow at him and hit one of his wings, it wasn't where he was aiming but Van started to fall. Van was falling and the speed was increasing with each second he fell. Alita's eyes suddenly shot open, but they were glowing like she was under a trance. She shot down towards van like a arrow, straight and unaffected by the wind. She caught Van in her arms millimeters away from the ground, she landed and put van down. She blinked a few times and her eyes stopped glowing and returned to normal, but they weren't the sad blue or the happy green they were the enraged red. Alita felt this hatred towards Dilandau for damaging Van's wing and for keeping her a prisoner. Alita started to hover over the ground and raised her arms as if holding a bow with an arrow. A light began at her hands and the Bow and arrow appeared but the consisted of only pure light. Alita started to chant some thing, only Van heard.
' as the hatred builds inside
the voice is replaced with strings of pride
The bow of light can resist pure hate
The arrow of fire burns with fate
As the arrow is released from a cautioned hand
The arrow obeys on each command
I command this arrow to retreat the hate
but do not harm, that will be left up to fate.
" ARROW OF FIRE!" Alita raised her voice as she released the arrow. The arrow headed straight towards Dilandau, as he yelled retreat the arrow burst into flames and caught the men on fire. Dilandau and the dragon slayers fell to the ground trying to extinguish the fire when they heard " ARROW OF WATER!" Alita released another arrow. It headed towards the men on the ground, and a wave of water surrounded them until the fire was gone. Alita wrapped her arms around Van's waist and put his arm around her neck, and she took off. You could here Dilandau yelling at the top of his lungs " I will get you for this Alita, this isn't the last time you've seen me" Alita just giggled. Van was weak and just was comprehending what had just happened. Alita flew into Vans balcony window and laid him on the bed on his stomach so she could try to bandage his wing up as best she could. As soon as Van hit the bed he was unconscious, And Alita took this opportunity to lock the door so no one would come in, since she was sure that no one knew she was there. They would think that someone was trying to assassinate there king. She locked the door and grabbed the medical box that Van used and step by step she bandaged up his wing. It was a little harder than she thought since the feathers were so big. Alita was startled when there was a knock at the door:
" Lord Van Its Allen can I come in?" The man on the other side of the door asked. Alita was panicking on what she should do, and she decided to go out on the balcony and use her wings to go up on the roof and wait until the man went away. And that's what she did, she spread her wings and flew up to the roof.
After she took off and was almost to the roof she heard the door being broke down.
"Lord Van are you all right?" Allen asked when he first saw Van on the bed. Van had regained consciousness after the door broke down.
"what are you doing Allen?" Van asked Allen with a puzzled look.
" well you had your door locked and you weren't answering so I broke down the door." Allen said with a edge of simplicity in his voice.
As Allen was saying this Van remembered Alita " where is she" Van asked quickly
"Where is who" Allen once again looked puzzled.
"Alita, wasn't she in here when you broke down the door" Van said hopefully cause he had to repay her for saving him from the dark clutches of death.
" well no one was in here Lord Van" Allen said stepping out of the room to go get some one to come and clean up the mess he made.
"Allen create a search party to search the castle for a girl named Alita, just look for strange clothing like Hitomi's" Van said quickly. Before Allen could protest van was through the door and down the corridor. Van searched the castle all day and assumed that the girl had left and was never coming back. So Van needed time to himself, so he made his way up to the roof. When he first went up he just looked down upon his country, an then he was looking around the roof. The he caught a glimpse of red in the corner of his eye and when he looked back there she was. He walked over to her and sat down.
" hey Alita I've been looking all over for you" Van said with concern filling his voice.
"well here I am" Alita said staring into the horizon with her knees pulled up to her chest and her head resting on her knees. Alita's wings were still out and they were dark red in the day light.
" you should try and retract those" Van said pointing to her wings.
" how?" Alita asked because she never had wings before and didn't know what to do.
" Just relax and focus you wings getting smaller" Van instructed
Alita tried and they just stayed there, they didn't retract, She tried with all her might but nothing. "Nothings happening" Alita said to Van with a worried look cause there may be something wrong.
"we should go and check the library because your wings are different then mine, they may not work the same" Van said taking hold of her hand. While they were walking along the roof Alita relaxed and her wings wrapped around her and the hook looking part on the bent part of the wing hooked together. Van noticed her wings moving and turned around, her wings cover her whole upper body and hung down like a cloak. " You should keep your wings like that, so that no one will give you trouble" Van said in a suggesting way.
"All right" Alita agreed.
They walked to the library, but before they got there they ran into Allen.
" Hey Allen you can call off the search" Van said while he was walking.
" Is this the young lady that we have been trying to find all day" Allen asked. Van just simply nodded " You know m' lady Lord Van was really worried about you" Allen said looking from Alita to Van then back to Alita. Alita and van both turned a bright shade of red, Allen just laughed. When Allen finally walked away Van continued to the library. Van found all he books on wings, and winged creatures, after search for what felt like a life time Van found what he was looking for. It was a prophecy.
One shall fall upon geae.
with wings like a dragon.
their powers will either destroy or bring forever peace.
The fate of geae rests on the souls of the mystic tribe of the forgotten forest.
The chosen one will have to choose to side with good or evil.
This will bring the fate of the deciding planet.
Just one caution should be taken with care
Don't allow the chosen one to feel hatred upon you
or you are doomed to the fate of her opposing arrow.
Van read the book on this prophecy and found that the wings will not retract.
Authors note:
This chapter is longer and more interesting. Please review my story and what you think should happen to Alita or any of the other characters. Thanz for reading
Chapter 3 : An escape gone wrong.
"what is your name girl!" He said with a small side glance.
"Alita, and what is yours?" She asked wondering is she should have said nothing.
"Dilandau, I'm general of the dragon slayers" While he said that he left Alita sitting there confused
' What are the dragon slayers?' Alita wondered to herself. But before she could start thinking again she wanted to get a head start in her plan.
Alita knew she would have to get out of here, since every time some one left, they would lock the door behind them. One of her classes taught her how to escape any lock, it also included the code locks. She looked through the small bag she had and pulled out some white powder. She then took the brush and wiped some of the white powder on the numbers, so that when a person left they put in the code and the powder would wipe off the numbers that they touched. The only thing holding back this plan was that Alita wasn't sure if they changed the code regularly or if it stayed the same. Alita knew she would be weak for the next few days since her small but effective injuries. Alita knew she shouldn't trust who ever brought her here, and not let the people here get to close. Since the accident Alita had a hard time allowing people to get close to her. She was afraid that if they got to close they would just be ripped from her grasp just like her family was. She only let her best friend Alex get close to her, oh how she missed Alex and wondered if she noticed that she was gone. Alita had now set up small but crucial parts to her plan. She had dismembered her walkman and made a small microphone and used the headphones for a speaker. Not many people knew that Alita was very talented with computers and electronics. Alita listened through the door to make sure that no one was coming cause if some one would find out she was planning to get out her plan would be worth nothing. So after Alita made the assumption that no one was coming she stuck the small microphone to the end of a wire hanger and bent the end until it looked like a 'L' and put it against the floor board of the wall. Hopping that no one would notice the small contraption she would be able to listen to the conversations within the listening distance. Alita was quite proud of her small listening devise, and was positive that it would work.
After about 3 hour of her inventive machine being out in the hall way she has found out that not many people were fond of Dilandau, and that a man named Folken was of higher rank and was wondering about the young lady that was being held captive by the evil general Dilandau and also that Folken had a small tattoo under his left eye. Alita was going to make use of the information she had collected to her advantage. She was going to make Folken help her get away without him even realizing what he had done. Hours had gone by and Alita was starting to get really hungry, she searched her bag for something to snack on cause she didn't want anything that these people gave her. Luckily she had some food in her bag that she could probably live on for a couple of days at the most, but she would have to get something else to nibble on until she could make a successful escape. Alita thought on why she had the food in her bag just in case she didn't want to eat it. Then she remembered one of the activities that she didn't quit was her martial arts and she knew that she wouldn't make it home until well after dinner, so she packed something just in case she got hungry. She had packed 2 sandwiches, 2 juice boxes, a bottle of water and some candy. Alita had to admit that she was addicted to candy, she always had some with her.
After Alita nibbled on some of the small supply of food she started to look around the room. Her eyes instantly found a balcony door. For some reason that Alita couldn't explain, was that she was drawn the the sky no matter what it looked like, she always loved the sky. Sometimes she would look for refuge in it, she would pray that the pain of life would be lifted off her shoulders and tossed into the ocean, and let it sink and to be never found again. Alita also loved the ocean, not for its size and not for its amount of sea life, she loved it because the water looked like it never ended. You could never see the bottom of the ocean, you would see to a certain point and then all you seen was darkness. Sometimes Alita would look into the ocean with her memories flooding back into her life and her sad blues eyes looking for herself in the icy cool water, thinking that this couldn't be her life. That she didn't do anything to deserve this life, she had always done the right thing and she still had something taken away from her. Alita walked up to the large door and opened it, and she gasped when the fresh air hit her lungs like a ton of bricks hitting her at once knocking the wind out of her. After her lungs got use to the fresh air she went to the edge of the balcony and looked over and noticed that she was very, very high up. Alita backed away from the edge not expecting the height to be that much. She seen that there was a chair against the wall and gladly took it for support. Alita wasn't very fond of heights, but she always dreamed of having wings and flying free through the sky's with nothing tormenting her mind. Alita sat in the chair and just stared at the sky, seeing its endless height. She must have lost track of time while she was lost in her day dreams cause she started to notice the sun setting into the horizon. When the sun set the sky was dark and it was like someone covered the sky with a large dark blue velvet blanket and only let the lights of the stars shine through. The dark gave Alita comfort when she was sad, she would always love the dark because no one could find her. Also she felt the stars acted like a guide, and helped her through her tough times. As Alita was thinking about her family tears stung down her face and she desperately wanted them to go away. She felt the tears would make her weak and she wouldn't cry for her family. She knew her family wouldn't want her to cry for them, they wanted her to be happy. But how could she be happy she was alone in a world that she didn't even know existed, and she knew no one else knew it existed too. Alita wiped away her tears and just sat there silent like morning rain falling into a small pond.
Then Alita jumped when she felt a hand touch her shoulder. It was Dilandau.
"What are you doing?" Dilandau asked seeing a hint of tears on her face.
"Nothing" She said with a small voice
"well Dinner is ready and Im sure your hungry, so Lord Folken would like you to join us for dinner" Dilandau said looking away from her, disgusted with himself that he was asking a woman to dinner.
"well thank you for the offer but I'm not hungry" Alita said staring at the sky once more.
" But you haven't eaten in 2 days" Dilandau trying to convince her to come, since Folken ordered him to bring her.
"Well I'm not hungry, but thanks again for the offer" Alita said getting up to go back into the room.
"Suit yourself, but you won't be able to get another meal until morning" Dilandau said leaving the room to tell Folken that the girl wasn't coming.
~ Folken's restricted room~
"Where's the girl?" Folken said impatiently
"She's not coming" Dilandau took his seat across from Folken
"And why not?" Folken said with a look upon his face that made Dilandau sick.
" She said she wasn't hungry, I tried to convince her to come but she just kept refusing"
"She must be hungry, she hasn't ate in over 2 days" Folken said silently to himself.
"Well let eat, may as well not let the food go to waste just cause some girl doesn't want to eat" Dilandau said starting to fill his plate with food.
~Back in Alita's room~
Alita left the doors of the balcony open. In hopes of a sign to whether or not escape from this place. Alita took a seat on the chair that was closest to the balcony and stared at the stars. She soon fell asleep in the large chair being over looked by the stars.
In the middle of the night Alita had a dream about a boy about her age had flew into her room. He had Raven black hair and the most beautiful brown eyes she had ever seen. He wore a red t-shirt and tan cargo pants. But what drew her eyes most of all was that pure white wings that came from his back.' He's an angel" Alita thought. But before anything else happened she woke up. She slowly let her eyes adjust to her surroundings, as her eyes took in the dim light she saw something that was unexpected. The Boy in her dream was real and he was standing right in front of her. The look on the boys face was pure fright, and she knew why. He was probably in there to find information and he found her in the enemy's domain. So before she could say anything the boy put a hand over her mouth and knocked her unconscious. When Alita woke up she had a painful headache and then remembered the boy. She slowly sat up and knew that was a mistake, she felt like the blood had rushed to her head,so she laid back down. She had seen the room she was in, it was a jail cell, it was cold and gloomy and had a weird smell like the water rust on something. Alita stared at the ceiling until the boy broke the silence.
"Who are you?" The boy asked while sitting on a chair in front of the bars.
"I should ask you the same question, and why did you hit me so hard?" Alita said putting her hand on her forehead and felt the same warm liquid running from her head. "Great another wound to add to the others" Alita said silently but The boy heard her.
" I'll get you something for that but who are you"The boy wanted to know who the woman was that he held prisoner.
"I'm Alita and why is everyone asking me who I am, That's exactly what they asked me at that other place.
" What the Zibach floating fortress?" He asked
"well if that's what you call that flying castle then yeah," Alita said felling the throbbing in her head get worse." And who are you?" Alita asked looking over into the brown eyes of the boy who held her captive.
"I'm Van Slanzar De Fanel, King of Fanelia" Van said proudly
"great another place I haven't heard about" Alita said staring at the ceiling again.
"What do you mean you haven't heard about Fanelia, where exactly are you from?" Van asked curiously.
" well the people on that flying fortress said that you call it the Mystic moon" Alita said softly.
"The Mystic moon!" Van said n surprise, but then his thoughts went instantly to Hitomi. Alita saw the sad look that over come the surprised king and she wanted to know why.
"What's wrong your highness" Alita wanted to be nice but she didn't know what to address him as.
" You said you came from the mystic moon, right?" Van asked looking at the floor.
"Yeah" Alita said simply.
"Did you know a girl named Hitomi?" Van asked hopefully that this girl knew who he was talking about.
" Who Hitomi Kanzaki?" Alita said thinking.
"YES!" Van said almost flying off his seat.
"I did know her but we became separated" Alita said moving her gaze from the ceiling to the floor. Van took this as a bad sign but he had to know what happened.
"What happened?" Van asked softly
"Well her parents were friends with my parents, and when the accident happened..." Alita found it hard to talk about this but she continued with a few tears falling down her face. " Hitomi's family moved away and I was sent to a boarding school for girls" Alita said keeping her gaze fixed on the floor.
"What accident, what happened" Van noticed the tears that fell down Alita's face.
" My family was killed"Alita said trying to hold back the tears.
" Im sorry" Van was sorry for asking her to remember that, he knew how she felt because his family was gone too.
" That's all right it was along time ago" Alita said while wiping away the tears. Alita was startled by the lock on the cell being opened.
" If you do what I say I will give you a better room and I could ask you some questions after we get that wound cleaned up" Van said with a small smile.
" Thanks" Alita smiled back at the young king.
Van knew the royal healer was away tending the countries wounded. So Van would treat Alita's wound, and help her to trust him.
"Ouch!" Alita said squinting her eyes as van cleaned her wound " Why did you hit me in the first place?" Alita asked opening her eyes to Van.
" I thought you would have told them about me and I would get caught" Van said while wiping the blood from her head.
" I wouldn't have been able to tell anybody, and I don't see why I would" Alita said biting her lower lip, like when she got nervous.
" And why is that?" Van said wondering why she wouldn't have been able to tell he was there.
" Well for one thing they locked me in that room and wouldn't let me out, and you looked like an angel and I haven't had the best luck lately so I didn't want to screw anything up" Alita averted her gaze to the floor.
Van was taken back by her statement about him looking like an angel. A lot of people fear draconians and wouldn't trust them enough to stay silent. The only thing Van thought was about Hitomi, and how she liked his wings. " you mean your not afraid of me?" Van said looking away.
"Why would I be, your wings are so beautiful" Alita said turning a light shade of pink.
Van started to blush because it has been a while since he had received a compliment from someone besides merle. Van finished bandaging up Alita's cut and wanted to ask her a few more things. " Why do you like my wings" Van asked looking into Alita's blue eyes.
" Well this is going to seem silly but, I've always dreamed of flying, free from the cares of the world I dread so much" Alita lowered her head as if in shame.
" Its not silly" van said with a smile. Van couldn't explain the feeling he was getting from this girl, it was a warm, comforting feeling like when he was young and his mother would sing to him in a soft angelic voice. " Hey would you like to go for a moonlit flight" van said waiting for the soft voice of the girl that sat beside him.
Alita was shocked in the question that was just asked of her. The boy that she had just met was going to for fill her dream. " really, are you sure you want to waste a experience like that on me?" Alita aid looking down seeing the design on the carpet made her dizzy.
"Why wouldn't I" Van said kneeling down to see her eyes, and to his amazement they changed from a blue to a green. " how did you do that?" Van asked
"Do what?" Alita looked up at Van.
"Make you eyes change?" Van said lifting his voice to make Alita more comfortable.
" They only change with my mood, which makes it hard to hide my feelings" Alita said with a small laugh that escaped her lips. Van found her voice soothing, and it took his worries away when she smiled.
"What colors do your eyes change?" The king asked wanting to know how to check her mood.
"well when I'm happy there green, when I'm sad there blue, and when I'm mad there red" Alita said softly but proudly. " It what made me different from any one else on the mystic moon" Alita's statement rolled proudly off her tongue.
" now how about that moonlit flight?" Van said in a tempting voice. Van took off his shirt and let out his wings and he held his hand out to her, Alita gladly took it. They flew for a little and then landed on a cliff and they sat there for a while and then Van broke the silence. " Who took you to the Zibach floating fortress?" Van asked hoping not to here one name.
" I think his name was Dilandau, he held me prisoner and then a man named Folken wanted to see me" Alita said while in thought.
Vans facial expressions had disappeared from Vans face all together. " Who took you to the fortress though?" Van said wanting more specific information.
" Dilandau, I'm sure of it." Alita said slowly. But before anyone could get one more word in there was an explosion and the cliff started to crumble beneath their fingers. Van Jumped and seen Alita was falling and falling fast, and Van seen who had disturbed his evening and it was non other than Dilandau and his dragon slayers. Van sped to the falling girl but before he could reach her a bright light emitted from her body and her body seemed to float there in mid-air. Then all of a sudden wings had sprouted from her back, but they weren't like Vans they were red but the wings didn't contain of feathers but they were wings of a dragon. While van was in shock over the sight before him Dilandau had shot and arrow at him and hit one of his wings, it wasn't where he was aiming but Van started to fall. Van was falling and the speed was increasing with each second he fell. Alita's eyes suddenly shot open, but they were glowing like she was under a trance. She shot down towards van like a arrow, straight and unaffected by the wind. She caught Van in her arms millimeters away from the ground, she landed and put van down. She blinked a few times and her eyes stopped glowing and returned to normal, but they weren't the sad blue or the happy green they were the enraged red. Alita felt this hatred towards Dilandau for damaging Van's wing and for keeping her a prisoner. Alita started to hover over the ground and raised her arms as if holding a bow with an arrow. A light began at her hands and the Bow and arrow appeared but the consisted of only pure light. Alita started to chant some thing, only Van heard.
' as the hatred builds inside
the voice is replaced with strings of pride
The bow of light can resist pure hate
The arrow of fire burns with fate
As the arrow is released from a cautioned hand
The arrow obeys on each command
I command this arrow to retreat the hate
but do not harm, that will be left up to fate.
" ARROW OF FIRE!" Alita raised her voice as she released the arrow. The arrow headed straight towards Dilandau, as he yelled retreat the arrow burst into flames and caught the men on fire. Dilandau and the dragon slayers fell to the ground trying to extinguish the fire when they heard " ARROW OF WATER!" Alita released another arrow. It headed towards the men on the ground, and a wave of water surrounded them until the fire was gone. Alita wrapped her arms around Van's waist and put his arm around her neck, and she took off. You could here Dilandau yelling at the top of his lungs " I will get you for this Alita, this isn't the last time you've seen me" Alita just giggled. Van was weak and just was comprehending what had just happened. Alita flew into Vans balcony window and laid him on the bed on his stomach so she could try to bandage his wing up as best she could. As soon as Van hit the bed he was unconscious, And Alita took this opportunity to lock the door so no one would come in, since she was sure that no one knew she was there. They would think that someone was trying to assassinate there king. She locked the door and grabbed the medical box that Van used and step by step she bandaged up his wing. It was a little harder than she thought since the feathers were so big. Alita was startled when there was a knock at the door:
" Lord Van Its Allen can I come in?" The man on the other side of the door asked. Alita was panicking on what she should do, and she decided to go out on the balcony and use her wings to go up on the roof and wait until the man went away. And that's what she did, she spread her wings and flew up to the roof.
After she took off and was almost to the roof she heard the door being broke down.
"Lord Van are you all right?" Allen asked when he first saw Van on the bed. Van had regained consciousness after the door broke down.
"what are you doing Allen?" Van asked Allen with a puzzled look.
" well you had your door locked and you weren't answering so I broke down the door." Allen said with a edge of simplicity in his voice.
As Allen was saying this Van remembered Alita " where is she" Van asked quickly
"Where is who" Allen once again looked puzzled.
"Alita, wasn't she in here when you broke down the door" Van said hopefully cause he had to repay her for saving him from the dark clutches of death.
" well no one was in here Lord Van" Allen said stepping out of the room to go get some one to come and clean up the mess he made.
"Allen create a search party to search the castle for a girl named Alita, just look for strange clothing like Hitomi's" Van said quickly. Before Allen could protest van was through the door and down the corridor. Van searched the castle all day and assumed that the girl had left and was never coming back. So Van needed time to himself, so he made his way up to the roof. When he first went up he just looked down upon his country, an then he was looking around the roof. The he caught a glimpse of red in the corner of his eye and when he looked back there she was. He walked over to her and sat down.
" hey Alita I've been looking all over for you" Van said with concern filling his voice.
"well here I am" Alita said staring into the horizon with her knees pulled up to her chest and her head resting on her knees. Alita's wings were still out and they were dark red in the day light.
" you should try and retract those" Van said pointing to her wings.
" how?" Alita asked because she never had wings before and didn't know what to do.
" Just relax and focus you wings getting smaller" Van instructed
Alita tried and they just stayed there, they didn't retract, She tried with all her might but nothing. "Nothings happening" Alita said to Van with a worried look cause there may be something wrong.
"we should go and check the library because your wings are different then mine, they may not work the same" Van said taking hold of her hand. While they were walking along the roof Alita relaxed and her wings wrapped around her and the hook looking part on the bent part of the wing hooked together. Van noticed her wings moving and turned around, her wings cover her whole upper body and hung down like a cloak. " You should keep your wings like that, so that no one will give you trouble" Van said in a suggesting way.
"All right" Alita agreed.
They walked to the library, but before they got there they ran into Allen.
" Hey Allen you can call off the search" Van said while he was walking.
" Is this the young lady that we have been trying to find all day" Allen asked. Van just simply nodded " You know m' lady Lord Van was really worried about you" Allen said looking from Alita to Van then back to Alita. Alita and van both turned a bright shade of red, Allen just laughed. When Allen finally walked away Van continued to the library. Van found all he books on wings, and winged creatures, after search for what felt like a life time Van found what he was looking for. It was a prophecy.
One shall fall upon geae.
with wings like a dragon.
their powers will either destroy or bring forever peace.
The fate of geae rests on the souls of the mystic tribe of the forgotten forest.
The chosen one will have to choose to side with good or evil.
This will bring the fate of the deciding planet.
Just one caution should be taken with care
Don't allow the chosen one to feel hatred upon you
or you are doomed to the fate of her opposing arrow.
Van read the book on this prophecy and found that the wings will not retract.
Authors note:
This chapter is longer and more interesting. Please review my story and what you think should happen to Alita or any of the other characters. Thanz for reading