Chapter 3: A Broken Heart

"Hitomi! Get up!" Yukari yelled at her friend as she pulled off Hitomi's blankets in an attempt to get her out of bed. Hitomi reached for the blanket but was too tired to fight Yukari for it. "Hey, Hitomi, you don't look so good."

"I had a really bad dream last night." Hitomi replied with a yawn.

"What was it about?" Yukari curiously asked. Hitomi rose from her bed and headed towards her dresser.

"Well, I saw Van and he had obviously moved on." Hitomi said as she went through her dresser looking for some clothes.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"I mean he forgot about me and went off and fell in love with this really good looking girl." Hitomi said in disgust.

"Oh, I see . . . " Yukari said as she too got herself dressed.

Merle was sitting alone in one of the courtyards in the Asturain Castle. She was wearing a dress Millerna had bought her and had to almost force the cat woman to wear. It was a long white dress with a scarlet red, tight fitting bodice. Allen, who was just wandering the castle looking for Van, saw Merle and approached her. "What's wrong Merle?" he asked as took a seat beside the young cat woman.

"Hm, oh, well, it's just Van-sama. I'm worried about him. He hasn't been himself lately." She said gazing at the ground, not bothering to look up at Allen.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Well since yesterday when we were at the bazaar, he's been acting like something's bugging him. I've asked him about it but he say's there's nothing wrong. But I know that's a lie. Hey! Maybe if you talk to him, he'll tell you!" Merle exclaimed, her big blue eyes full of hope. "Oh please Allen! I can't bear to see Van-sama like this!" she begged. Allen didn't dare to fight her. He knew one way or another he would end up talking about it to Van.

"All right Merle, I'll talk to him." Allen said and stood up to leave. He continued on his search for Van. He finally found Van on the roof sparring by himself. "Van,"

Van stopped his sparring and sheathed his sword. He cursed and muttered a few words under his breath. Can't I get any time to myself here?

"Hi Allen," Van said unenthusiastically. "What do you want?" he asked while taking off his sweaty red tunic.

"Van, Merle has told me that you haven't seemed like yourself." Van just looked away from Allen. "So, what is it?" he asked. Van hesitated to answer.

"Well, yesterday some gypsy woman told me that when I see Hitomi again I will be jealous and angry. Then last night I had a dream where Hitomi said she didn't want to ever see me again."

"Hm, I see. You feel as if you two were never meant to be." Allen inquired.

"Exactly Allen. I just don't know what to believe." Van said and gathered his things before heading back to his room.

Van sat alone by the window staring up at the blue moon. He reminisced about all the time he spent with Hitomi. I should have told her how I really felt. How could I have been so childish? A Girl like her never walks into your life more than once.

Merle walked silently down the hallway and approached Van's room. She slowly and hesitantly went in and sat down beside Van.

"Van-sama," she started. "You should go to the Mystic Moon and bring back Hitomi." Van opened his mouth, but nothing came out. "Allen told me everything, if you still love her, you'll go and bring her back. I know she still feels the same for you." she said and hugged Van before leaving his room.

Van sat and thought about it. He wanted to see Hitomi but feared that what the gypsy said and his dream would be real. Finally he decided that the only way to know whether or not the woman was right was to go to the Mystic Moon and bring Hitomi back.

"Hitomi." Yukari said entering their dimly lit dorm. Hitomi was sitting on her bed, staring up at the clear night sky. "Go to him. I know how much he means to you. If you don't go, you might loose him forever." Hitomi was touched by her friend's words. "Don't do what I did with Amano. I waited too long and look what happened." Hitomi rose from her spot and hugged her friend.

"Thank you Yukari." She whispered and ran out of the room. She was going back to Gaea, back to Van.

"Your highness, the dragon is going to the Mystic Moon and the Girl is going to Gaea. What are your orders?" a young girl clad in lavender robes asked. The tall slender woman laughed softly to herself.

"They're making it too easy. You and your illusionist may put into action operation clone. Remember to make them believe that they no longer love each other."

"Yes your highness," the girl said as she disappeared. The woman laughed out of control.

"I shall soon become Queen Siren de Fanel . . ."

Van awoke laying in the middle of a grassy field. Had he really gone to the Mystic Moon? He wondered. He stood up and observed his surroundings. Strange tall buildings reached up high into the sky. People walked by wearing the strangest clothing Van had ever seen. He now knew he had made it to the Mystic Moon.

Hitomi found herself in a forest. She was lost and somewhat frightened. Tall trees surrounded her, blocking her view of the sky. She wondered the forest looking for a clearing. She stopped walking though as she heard footsteps in the distance. To her relief it was only the heavenly knight of Asturia, Allen Schazar.

"Hitomi?" he said as he dismounted from his horse and walked towards the slender girl.


"Allen!" she cried as she ran into his arms. They embraced each other in a friendly hug. Allen was happy to see he back on Gaea and Hitomi was happy that she had made it back.

Allen quickly noticed how much she had changed since he had last seen her, six years ago. She didn't wear that strange outfit that she called a school uniform. She was wearing tight black pants and a white, tight fitting t-shirt.

Allen hadn't changed much except for his muscles which had grown a bit from the last time he had held her in his arms. "Allen, I'm so happy I'm back. I never want to leave again." Hitomi cried into his chest. Allen smiled and offered to take her to the Asturian castle. Hitomi was overwhelmed by all of her memories of Gaea that she fainted in Allen's arms.

Allen mounted his horse and held Hitomi securely in his lap. They arrived at the castle late into the night. Merle was the only one awake at the time when Allen had arrived. She went to greet him and to her surprise, he had Hitomi with her. Merle was confused. What's she doing here? Poor Van-sama, what's he gonna do when he finds out that she isn't on the Mystic Moon? She wondered.

"Where did you find her?!" Merle yelled at Allen, thinking perhaps he had gone to the Mystic Moon and brought her back. He was rather confused by Merle's sudden shouting. He thought she would have been happy to see Hitomi back.

"I found her in the forest. Why?" he asked.

"This is not good at all." Merle murmured to herself.

"Merle what's wrong?" Allen asked her knowing he missed something while he had gone for his nightly ride into the forest.

"Well, uh, Van-sama left to go to the Mystic Moon to bring Hitomi back. But she's here and who knows when he'll come back. This is just so weird." Merle said as she began to walk into the large castle. Allen quickly followed carrying Hitomi in his arms. Merle showed Allen to a room where Hitomi could stay for the time she would be on Gaea. Allen went to his room in the palace and Merle went to her own room where she sat on the balcony hoping Van would return.

Van walked though the busy streets of earth searching for his love, Hitomi. Where could she be? He wondered.  He then figured the only way he'll find her is to ask every person he sees. He asked many people if they knew a Hitomi Kanzaki. Every person he had asked had no clue as to who she was. Van then asked a young girl who looked about his age if she knew Hitomi. To his relief, she did know.

"Please, could you tell where I can find her." Van begged. The girl nodded and showed him the way to Hitomi's dorm at the university. Once there, she left. Van knocked softly on the door. He couldn't believe that after six long years he would finally see her face again. Yukari answered the door. She was a little confused at they way the man standing in front of her was dressed. Van was not sure if this was the right Hitomi. "Uh, I'm looking for a Hitomi Kanzaki. Is she here?" Van asked breaking the silence.

"Um no she's not. May I ask who you are?" Yukari asked as she leaned against the doorframe.

"I'm Van Fanel." Yukari's eye's widened. Oh shit, this is bad, she thought to herself. Oh my god, she mouthed. "Is something wrong?" Van asked. Yukari shook her head and giggled.

"You wont believe this but, uh, Hitomi left to find you!" she laughed. Yukari let Van into her dorm and told him that he could sleep in Hitomi's bed for the night. She almost told him that her bed was Hitomi's, but that would have been nice to her friend. Van was like a god to Yukari. She now fully understood why Hitomi missed him so much.

Van sat down on Hitomi's bed.  He couldn't believe how small the bed was. But then again, he was a king and was use to sleeping in a much larger bed. Yukari laid down on her bed and told Van that once Hitomi see's that he's not on Gaea, she'll come back and he should just sit tight.

The following morning, Yukari took Van to a café just down the street for breakfast. There were so many questions she was dying to ask Van about this Gaea. While they were waiting for a table, a familiar sandy blond woman approached the two, holding hands with a tall and handsome man. Yukari saw the two and was confused.

"Hitomi? Who is this guy?" she asked as she tilted her head sideways. Hitomi smiled wickedly at the two young adults before her.


"This is Ricardo, my boyfriend." Yukari sensed something was not right. The previous night Hitomi was madly in love with Van and left to go and be with him. What was she doing back so soon and there was no way she could have hooked up with a guy that hot and be in "love" with him.

"But what about Van?" she asked. Hitomi laughed and had an evil grin across her face.

"I figured that we were never meant to be considering that every time I tried to go back to him, I failed. So I've moved on." she looked around and saw Van standing not to far behind Yukari. "Oh, Van, what are you doing here?" she asked innocently. Van was full of rage and sorrow. He could not believe his eyes; the one woman he had ever loved didn't even love him back.

Van turned away from them dashed off, away from the scene. Yukari slapped her "friend" across the face and chased after Van. He came to a stop at the field where he had landed the pervious night. Yukari had tried to keep up with him but lost him in a crowed of people.

A/N: *sigh* it feels like it takes forever to rewrite a chapter! Well I almost have chapter 4 rewritten so I hope to get it up either later today or by the weekend. Well I'm glad you guys are enjoying the fic. I'm sorta enjoying the whole rewriting processes myself. Even though it's time consuming, it's fun to laugh at how crappy this fic use to sound. Trust me, if you haven't read the original then you're lucky. I don't know how was able to write that piece of shit and I can't believe I had the guts to actually post it! Well, I g2g and finish up chapter 4!