Amano, Dilandau, Van, Amano, Dilandou, Von…Oh hi! Sorry about my spelling
*hides face with embaressment* Anyway, thank you so much for reviewing! I
was glad just for two people to review, so now I'm really, really happy!
I'll try to put up new chapters really often, but it takes 24 hours or
something like that for the chapter to be added for some reason. Oh and
Kara- I'm a digimon fan too! I'll read and review your stories when Exam
Week at my school is over (I know, what a drag)
Okay, well I suppose you just want to read the fic and I won't shut up, so I'll shut up now. Bye!
Juliet Riddle
Chapter 3- Good or Evil?
His mouth curled upwards, and in a grafeful movement he tossed his fringe out of the way of his eyes. "That's right, girlie," He said smoothly. "I'm back," And he chuckled. It sounded meanacing and made Hitomi tremble with fear. "What…what are you doing here?" Her voice trembled and sounded full of tears. He stood casually, as though they were a couple having a nice chat. What surprised Hitomi the most about him was his clothes- they were Earth clothes. He looked like any other teenage boy, handsome and young and normal. That was what chilled Hitomi the most.
"How…?" She croacked. "It's quite simple, really. When the Druids performed those experiments on Celena, they thought they were changing her, but they weren't. In reality, they were creating someone new- me. When Celena regained control of her body, my spirit was forced to flee, and I had to find someone new. That's when I thought of my plan." He chuckled again. "You don't need to know about that." He smiled a cruel, hard smile. "Do you know who I chose to be my host, Hitomi? Can you guess?" Hitomi felt terror rise to her throat. "Who did you choose?" She whispered. He tilted his head to on side, surveying her cooly. Hitomi felt as though he could see right through to her very soul, and it made her feel deeply uncomfortable. "I chose a young girl…reddish hair, quite pretty…her name was Yukari. A friend of yours, perhaps?" Hitomi gasped. "You're lying!" She shouted, feeling waves of panic all through her body. Within a second Dilandau had grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards him. Their faces were inches apart. "Don't…you EVER call me a liar again!" He said with barely contained anger. Hitomi looked into his eyes and the lack of sanity in them terrified her. He was holding her wrist so tight it hurt. "Let go! You're hurting me!" She whimpered, trying to break free. Dilandau just held her even tighter. "I'll hurt you even more if you don't shut up and listen!" He hissed. Hitomi stopped almost at once. 'Oh God…this can't be happening…' She whispered inside her head. Dilandau released her and she stepped back from him, rubbing her sore wrist. "Hitomi, do you know what I'll do if you don't obey me?" Dilandau had regained his cool composure, and his voice was as smooth as ever. She shook her head, praying that she wouldn't break down in tears or start screaming, unable to stop. "I'll kill Yukari," He said softly. "I'll stab myself. After all, this isn't my body. I don't have one."
"Leave her alone," Hitomi tried to sound brave and strong, but she was disgusted to hear how frightened and pathetic her voice sounded. "Hitomi, if I do kill Yukari, do you know who I'm going to choose next?" He leaned forward, and whispered in her ear: "You." Hitomi let out a small scream but put her hand over her mouth to muffle it. 'Oh God, help me…' She thought. It was a true prayer. "Wait a minute." she said loudly. "How do I know you're telling the truth?" Dilandau chuckled. "Clever little thing, aren't you?" He put his hand under her chin and lifted her head up so that they made eye contact. As frightened as she was, her disgust and fury at being touched by him outweighed the other emotions. She pushed his hand away from her. "Don't touch me!" She spat. As soon as she caught sight of his face she wished she hadn't said anything. It was full of hate and evil. She suddenly realized how easily he could kill her and how powerless she'd be to stop him. "Hitomi." He struggled to keep his voice even. She could tell he was desperate to hit her. "Are you willing to risk your best friend's life on a hunch? What if I'm telling the truth, Hitomi? What will you do then?" He laughed. "Check-mate!" He said. Hitomi sighed. "What do you want?"
"I don't need you yet- I'll find you when I do." He stepped back and seemed to melt into the shadows. "Oh and Hitomi…if you tell anyone about this, I will know. And when I do, I'll kill you," He laughed. "Sweet dreams," He said. Hitomi sank to the ground. He was gone. She let out a deep, shuddering breath and waited for her heartbeat to return to normal. When she was sure she had recovered enough to walk, she made her way out of the temple grounds.
She saw her Dad's car waiting for her and stopped in surprise. Her Dad saw her and rolling down the window, he called: "Come on, Hitomi! Your Mum'll be wondering where we've got too!"
"Huh?" She said, getting into the car. "Sorry it took so long in the office, Hitomi, I couldn't find the rightpaper work. Okay, lets go!"
'Paperwork?' Hitomi said to her self in a daze. "Ohh! The paperwork!" She said in a flash of comprehension. So much had happened in the past few hours she'd completely forgotten about her Dad, waiting to take her back home. Her Dad gave her a strange look. "Are you alright, Hitomi?"
"Err..yeah, I'm great." She would never understand that whenever she came back from Gaea, barely anytime had passed from when she'd left. "You feeling better now? Has the trip to the temple helped clear you thoughts about this boy you don't want to tell us about?" It took her a few seconds to remember what he meant. When she did, she felt a pang of unhappiness. "Yeah…we broke up. He was a creep. I never really liked him anyway," She said, looking out of the window so he wouldn't notice she was crying. "Hitomi, I'm sorry. You should have told us. We could have helped you through this." Hitomi smiled at her Dad, and suddenly felt the desperate need to talk about how she felt. "When I met him I really thought 'Wow, this is it. This is the love of my life.' I was so stupid, Dad." Her father glanced at her. He took hold of his hand. "Hey, don't think like that. That boy is the stupid one, not you. He was stupid to let my beautiful little girl go. You'll meet nicer boys and one day you'll find the right one and you'll stay together for the rest of your lives." He smiled, his eyes still on the road. Hitomi smiled as well, though it was fake. "Thanks, Dad. Was it like that with you and Mummy?" He looked at her quickly and nodded. " I love her and I always will. One day, I promise, you'll meet your man."
* * * * * * * * * * * *
It was a Wednesday night, and Yukari was now offically missing. For Hitomi, this was proof that Dilandau had not been lying. Every time a door slammed shut, or she heard footsteps, she was terrified that it was Dilandau. She'd gone off her food and spent almost all her time in her room. Her peaents were worried about her, but decided that she probably was just upset about Yukari, which she was. As she sat at her desk that night, trying to do her homework, Hitomi couldn't concentrate. Her eyes drifted from the page to the window. Once again, she felt fear overpower her. "Hello, Dilandau," She murmured. He was in the street, looking at her. When he noticed her, he motioned for her to come and then hid in the bushes. She shuddered. How did he know were she lived? Oh yeah. If what he said about Yukari was true, then he must have found her address somewhere in Yukari's room. Doh!
She got up, anxious not to annoy him. She decided to do her best to please him so there'd be no danger of him destroying Yukari's body while she could find out how to save her best friend. She crept out of the house, careful not to alert her parents. "Dilandau?" She called softly. She moved closer to the bushes. "Dilandau? Are you there?"
"Here, Hitomi," said a cold voice behind her. She whirled round. "Don't creep up on me like that!" she exclaimed. Dilandau scowled. Hitomi reminded herself to always be respectful towards him. It was dangerous not to be. "Do not tell me what to do. Next time you do that you might find something rather unpleasant has happenened to you overnight. You could find that you have a hand missing, for example. Do you understand?" Hitomi nodded, her heart beating so fast she thought it would explode. She doubted she'd ever been more afraid. "Yes…sir."
"Good," He smirked. "I see you're learning good manners at last," Hitomi suppressed the urge to slap him. "Come," He said, and walked off. Hitomi followed. She had no choice. He lead her to the run-down part of town, a place she'd never been allowed to go. He stopped outside an unsafe looking block of flats. "This is H.Q. The Ziabach soldiers you will see here are rebels- they escaped from Freid's rule thanks to me."
"Ziabach is now ruled by Freid?" Dilandau nodded, and entered the dingy looking buliding. Hitomi thought of Chid and wondered what had happened to him over the past year. She followed Dilandau up a flight of stairs and stopped in front of a flat door . Dilandau glanced over his shoulder at Hitomi. "This is the control room. I used the power of my wishes to obtain these machines."
He opened the door. Several Ziabach soldiers were operating the complicated controls, and they had lots of interesting gadgets and machines, but what intridgued Hitomi the most was something that looked like a lift, but had strange buttons and dials on the side. "Dilandau…what's that machine?" Hitomi pointed to it. "Lord Dilandau." Dilandau corrected. "Huh ?" Dilandau's expression was one of irritation. "You will refer to me as 'Lord Dilandau' or 'sir' for the time you will be working for me."
'Working for him? Who said I was going to do that? Oh God, what have I got myself in to?' Hitomi asked herself deseperately. "This machine," Dilandau gestured toward the lift, "Is a way of transporting people to and from Gaea. It is a controlled and invisible form of the pillar of light which you have already experienced. This was one of the projects Folken was working on before he became a whimp and rejoined Fanelia."
"Folken was not a whimp!" Hitromi cried indignantly. Dilandau hit her hard across the face, knocking her to the floor. "How dare you contradict me!" He yelled at her. She kneeled on the floor, her hand resting the side of her face. Her cheek throbbed and she felt like crying- no one had ever hit her before as her Mum didn't believe in it and her Dad was too soft- hearted. "Get up!" Dilandau spat. "Yes, Lord Dilandau." She muttered. She belonged to him now. As she got up, Dilandau explained what her first assignment would be."Using this machine that I have shown you, we will send you to Ziabach where you will learn how to behave like a gentlewoman of Ziabach. When you have finished your training you are to stay there and await further orders." Hitomi stared at him in disbelif. "You're sending me to finishing school?"
"Finishing school?" Dilandau repeated, looking disgusted at not knowing something. "Don't worry, it doesn't matter. Sir." Hitomi got into the strange lift-thing with a sickening feeling of dread. "Margen, set the transporter," Dilandau ordered. "Yes, sir." Dilandau smiled at Hitomi, though it wasn't a friendly one. It was mocking and cruel. "The transporter is still in the early stages, so you might end up on Mars." He laughed. "Have a good trip!" Hitomi opened her mouth to say she didn't want to go- it was too risky, and she might be to important in Dilandau's scheme to lose- but she realized it was to late as the room became blurry, as though she were looking at the world through a pool of water. Everything around her became watery and indistinct, until she didn't even know where she was anymore. She felt as though she was flowing with the water, a part of it. Then everything went black and Hitomi couldn't feel her body. Hitomi's last conscious thought was: 'I wonder if I'm dying?'
Did you like it? Sorry it took so long!
1 J.R
Okay, well I suppose you just want to read the fic and I won't shut up, so I'll shut up now. Bye!
Juliet Riddle
Chapter 3- Good or Evil?
His mouth curled upwards, and in a grafeful movement he tossed his fringe out of the way of his eyes. "That's right, girlie," He said smoothly. "I'm back," And he chuckled. It sounded meanacing and made Hitomi tremble with fear. "What…what are you doing here?" Her voice trembled and sounded full of tears. He stood casually, as though they were a couple having a nice chat. What surprised Hitomi the most about him was his clothes- they were Earth clothes. He looked like any other teenage boy, handsome and young and normal. That was what chilled Hitomi the most.
"How…?" She croacked. "It's quite simple, really. When the Druids performed those experiments on Celena, they thought they were changing her, but they weren't. In reality, they were creating someone new- me. When Celena regained control of her body, my spirit was forced to flee, and I had to find someone new. That's when I thought of my plan." He chuckled again. "You don't need to know about that." He smiled a cruel, hard smile. "Do you know who I chose to be my host, Hitomi? Can you guess?" Hitomi felt terror rise to her throat. "Who did you choose?" She whispered. He tilted his head to on side, surveying her cooly. Hitomi felt as though he could see right through to her very soul, and it made her feel deeply uncomfortable. "I chose a young girl…reddish hair, quite pretty…her name was Yukari. A friend of yours, perhaps?" Hitomi gasped. "You're lying!" She shouted, feeling waves of panic all through her body. Within a second Dilandau had grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards him. Their faces were inches apart. "Don't…you EVER call me a liar again!" He said with barely contained anger. Hitomi looked into his eyes and the lack of sanity in them terrified her. He was holding her wrist so tight it hurt. "Let go! You're hurting me!" She whimpered, trying to break free. Dilandau just held her even tighter. "I'll hurt you even more if you don't shut up and listen!" He hissed. Hitomi stopped almost at once. 'Oh God…this can't be happening…' She whispered inside her head. Dilandau released her and she stepped back from him, rubbing her sore wrist. "Hitomi, do you know what I'll do if you don't obey me?" Dilandau had regained his cool composure, and his voice was as smooth as ever. She shook her head, praying that she wouldn't break down in tears or start screaming, unable to stop. "I'll kill Yukari," He said softly. "I'll stab myself. After all, this isn't my body. I don't have one."
"Leave her alone," Hitomi tried to sound brave and strong, but she was disgusted to hear how frightened and pathetic her voice sounded. "Hitomi, if I do kill Yukari, do you know who I'm going to choose next?" He leaned forward, and whispered in her ear: "You." Hitomi let out a small scream but put her hand over her mouth to muffle it. 'Oh God, help me…' She thought. It was a true prayer. "Wait a minute." she said loudly. "How do I know you're telling the truth?" Dilandau chuckled. "Clever little thing, aren't you?" He put his hand under her chin and lifted her head up so that they made eye contact. As frightened as she was, her disgust and fury at being touched by him outweighed the other emotions. She pushed his hand away from her. "Don't touch me!" She spat. As soon as she caught sight of his face she wished she hadn't said anything. It was full of hate and evil. She suddenly realized how easily he could kill her and how powerless she'd be to stop him. "Hitomi." He struggled to keep his voice even. She could tell he was desperate to hit her. "Are you willing to risk your best friend's life on a hunch? What if I'm telling the truth, Hitomi? What will you do then?" He laughed. "Check-mate!" He said. Hitomi sighed. "What do you want?"
"I don't need you yet- I'll find you when I do." He stepped back and seemed to melt into the shadows. "Oh and Hitomi…if you tell anyone about this, I will know. And when I do, I'll kill you," He laughed. "Sweet dreams," He said. Hitomi sank to the ground. He was gone. She let out a deep, shuddering breath and waited for her heartbeat to return to normal. When she was sure she had recovered enough to walk, she made her way out of the temple grounds.
She saw her Dad's car waiting for her and stopped in surprise. Her Dad saw her and rolling down the window, he called: "Come on, Hitomi! Your Mum'll be wondering where we've got too!"
"Huh?" She said, getting into the car. "Sorry it took so long in the office, Hitomi, I couldn't find the rightpaper work. Okay, lets go!"
'Paperwork?' Hitomi said to her self in a daze. "Ohh! The paperwork!" She said in a flash of comprehension. So much had happened in the past few hours she'd completely forgotten about her Dad, waiting to take her back home. Her Dad gave her a strange look. "Are you alright, Hitomi?"
"Err..yeah, I'm great." She would never understand that whenever she came back from Gaea, barely anytime had passed from when she'd left. "You feeling better now? Has the trip to the temple helped clear you thoughts about this boy you don't want to tell us about?" It took her a few seconds to remember what he meant. When she did, she felt a pang of unhappiness. "Yeah…we broke up. He was a creep. I never really liked him anyway," She said, looking out of the window so he wouldn't notice she was crying. "Hitomi, I'm sorry. You should have told us. We could have helped you through this." Hitomi smiled at her Dad, and suddenly felt the desperate need to talk about how she felt. "When I met him I really thought 'Wow, this is it. This is the love of my life.' I was so stupid, Dad." Her father glanced at her. He took hold of his hand. "Hey, don't think like that. That boy is the stupid one, not you. He was stupid to let my beautiful little girl go. You'll meet nicer boys and one day you'll find the right one and you'll stay together for the rest of your lives." He smiled, his eyes still on the road. Hitomi smiled as well, though it was fake. "Thanks, Dad. Was it like that with you and Mummy?" He looked at her quickly and nodded. " I love her and I always will. One day, I promise, you'll meet your man."
* * * * * * * * * * * *
It was a Wednesday night, and Yukari was now offically missing. For Hitomi, this was proof that Dilandau had not been lying. Every time a door slammed shut, or she heard footsteps, she was terrified that it was Dilandau. She'd gone off her food and spent almost all her time in her room. Her peaents were worried about her, but decided that she probably was just upset about Yukari, which she was. As she sat at her desk that night, trying to do her homework, Hitomi couldn't concentrate. Her eyes drifted from the page to the window. Once again, she felt fear overpower her. "Hello, Dilandau," She murmured. He was in the street, looking at her. When he noticed her, he motioned for her to come and then hid in the bushes. She shuddered. How did he know were she lived? Oh yeah. If what he said about Yukari was true, then he must have found her address somewhere in Yukari's room. Doh!
She got up, anxious not to annoy him. She decided to do her best to please him so there'd be no danger of him destroying Yukari's body while she could find out how to save her best friend. She crept out of the house, careful not to alert her parents. "Dilandau?" She called softly. She moved closer to the bushes. "Dilandau? Are you there?"
"Here, Hitomi," said a cold voice behind her. She whirled round. "Don't creep up on me like that!" she exclaimed. Dilandau scowled. Hitomi reminded herself to always be respectful towards him. It was dangerous not to be. "Do not tell me what to do. Next time you do that you might find something rather unpleasant has happenened to you overnight. You could find that you have a hand missing, for example. Do you understand?" Hitomi nodded, her heart beating so fast she thought it would explode. She doubted she'd ever been more afraid. "Yes…sir."
"Good," He smirked. "I see you're learning good manners at last," Hitomi suppressed the urge to slap him. "Come," He said, and walked off. Hitomi followed. She had no choice. He lead her to the run-down part of town, a place she'd never been allowed to go. He stopped outside an unsafe looking block of flats. "This is H.Q. The Ziabach soldiers you will see here are rebels- they escaped from Freid's rule thanks to me."
"Ziabach is now ruled by Freid?" Dilandau nodded, and entered the dingy looking buliding. Hitomi thought of Chid and wondered what had happened to him over the past year. She followed Dilandau up a flight of stairs and stopped in front of a flat door . Dilandau glanced over his shoulder at Hitomi. "This is the control room. I used the power of my wishes to obtain these machines."
He opened the door. Several Ziabach soldiers were operating the complicated controls, and they had lots of interesting gadgets and machines, but what intridgued Hitomi the most was something that looked like a lift, but had strange buttons and dials on the side. "Dilandau…what's that machine?" Hitomi pointed to it. "Lord Dilandau." Dilandau corrected. "Huh ?" Dilandau's expression was one of irritation. "You will refer to me as 'Lord Dilandau' or 'sir' for the time you will be working for me."
'Working for him? Who said I was going to do that? Oh God, what have I got myself in to?' Hitomi asked herself deseperately. "This machine," Dilandau gestured toward the lift, "Is a way of transporting people to and from Gaea. It is a controlled and invisible form of the pillar of light which you have already experienced. This was one of the projects Folken was working on before he became a whimp and rejoined Fanelia."
"Folken was not a whimp!" Hitromi cried indignantly. Dilandau hit her hard across the face, knocking her to the floor. "How dare you contradict me!" He yelled at her. She kneeled on the floor, her hand resting the side of her face. Her cheek throbbed and she felt like crying- no one had ever hit her before as her Mum didn't believe in it and her Dad was too soft- hearted. "Get up!" Dilandau spat. "Yes, Lord Dilandau." She muttered. She belonged to him now. As she got up, Dilandau explained what her first assignment would be."Using this machine that I have shown you, we will send you to Ziabach where you will learn how to behave like a gentlewoman of Ziabach. When you have finished your training you are to stay there and await further orders." Hitomi stared at him in disbelif. "You're sending me to finishing school?"
"Finishing school?" Dilandau repeated, looking disgusted at not knowing something. "Don't worry, it doesn't matter. Sir." Hitomi got into the strange lift-thing with a sickening feeling of dread. "Margen, set the transporter," Dilandau ordered. "Yes, sir." Dilandau smiled at Hitomi, though it wasn't a friendly one. It was mocking and cruel. "The transporter is still in the early stages, so you might end up on Mars." He laughed. "Have a good trip!" Hitomi opened her mouth to say she didn't want to go- it was too risky, and she might be to important in Dilandau's scheme to lose- but she realized it was to late as the room became blurry, as though she were looking at the world through a pool of water. Everything around her became watery and indistinct, until she didn't even know where she was anymore. She felt as though she was flowing with the water, a part of it. Then everything went black and Hitomi couldn't feel her body. Hitomi's last conscious thought was: 'I wonder if I'm dying?'
Did you like it? Sorry it took so long!
1 J.R
