A/N: I know I said I wouldn't post any more this weekend, but when I saw how many chapters CrimsonFire had, well, I just had to put up some of my own… Well, well, well… many of my reviewers seem to have become characters… and I congratulate every single one of them, because it shows that they have reviewed every single chapter… though some have had to face punishments before they would do as such… And think it all started out with a counsel between three characters, three reviewers… BlackMage, Galken, and of course, FireLord…This chapter is dedicated solely to NOVEE… due to the fact it is NOVEE's birth I am about to tell about…

Disclaimers: *Hiccup*… Wow, that was the *Hiccup* greatest cup a *Hiccup* I ever had. Oh, Darn. *Hiccup* I spilt my beer on these *Hiccup* papers. Oh, no!!! These are my forged deeds to Escaflowne… I mean real deeds.. Not forged...Real! *Hiccup* Uhhh… This isn't a good day…

Chapter 18: Hatching…

Doinkirk had labored quite hard with his latest machine, a contraption which would breed untold types of monsters. Each monster would be different. There was a risk. Should this mechanism be turned on, his Fate Alteration Machine would have to be shut down, at least for a time. Doinkirk decided to risk it.

"SWITCH ONE!!!" He yelled.

"Switch One." The servant replied.

"SWITCH THREE!!!" Doinkirk shouted.

"Switch three." The servant answered.

"SHUT DOWN FATE ALTERATION MACHINE!!!" Doinkirk bellowed.

"It is done!" The servant spoke back.

The Monster Maker moaned with an array of sounds as it stirred to life. It gurgled as liquids from the swamps of Zaibach were drained to fuel and be used as materials for the eggs, eggs which would hatch into Fanelia's worst horrors.

"YES!" Doinkirk smiled in triumph. Three eggs survived the procedure, each of a different hue. One was a vile green, another a black of shadows, and a third, a white which gleamed with silver.

"Turn the Monster Maker off. Turn on the Fate Alteration Machine again." Doinkirk turned and looked into his machine. "What is this?" Doinkirk stared it. He moved his eyes, searching. "I saw something. I can no longer see it… There it is again!" A white glaze had sped across the screen. "What is this!!! A dragon? Nothing to be bothered with…" Doinkirk smirked. Had he known that this was the dragon which would loom in his future for many years, he would have regretted the words that he had said. It was his first sighting of the dragon. It would never have occurred had he not turned off the FAM.

You see, FAM made the future the way Doinkirk wished to see it. When he turned it off, the dragon was able to flee its lair, and fly in the sky. In a way, Doinkirk caused the death of the Dragon Slayers, for the rising of the dragon, was also the birth of Van Fanel…

As the months passed, and the eggs hardened, Doinkirk forgot the eggs, focusing on the movements of the dragon.

After 7 months, the first egg hatched. It was the Silver white. When the egg fell away, what was left was a silvery mist, which looked like a ghost. This 'ghost' was implanted into a girl, years later, and he became Dilandau… And true to the legend, he was a horror unto Fanelia…

The second egg hatched hours after the first. Twas the jet black one which cracked asunder. Sitting in its place was a babe, a girl who seemed to rap the shadows around her as a cloak, a Mistress of Shadows, and the tricks she has played, have cast untold fears into the hearts of Fanelians everywhere.

And finally, there was the last venomous egg, from which hatched the horrid spider, whose poisonous bite fractured the shell, and whose toxins have been used on many blades, and thus killing the horrid people of Fanelia…

A/N: Now THAT was interesting… In a weird way, NOVEE, Mistress of Shadows, and Dilandau are like brothers and sisters… Interesting? I think so… I thought the part where we said that Dilandau was a horror unto Fanelia was pretty cool… but I'm sure that certain readers will disagree with how I told this story about their births… but this just part of the story… And I needed to tell it that way for a possible special purpose later on… such as a way to cause the Dragon Slayer's rebirth, maybe? We'll see… We'll see…