Here's another chappie. I had absolutely no idea what to call this one but
whatever. Titles don't matter.
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"Van...is he alright...I don't know...Van...wake up...say something...Van..."
The young king could hear Millerna and Allen calling to him, but their voices were but a distant echo in his mind. He knew they were trying to break the trance he was currently under but Van was not quite ready to return to reality. Going back to reality meant that he'd have to wake up. He didn't want to. He didn't want to lose the dream. He didn't want to lose her; not Hitomi...not again.
But he had. Hitomi was gone. For a brief second Van had seen the girl from the mystic moon, but that's all it was; a brief moment of bliss that vanished as quickly as it had come.
Van had often dreamt that Hitomi had returned to him but none of his previous visions were anything like what he had just experienced. Nothing had ever come so close to feeling so real. The young king could swear that he had been in the same room as Hitomi, had looked into her eyes, had heard her gentle voice, had held her in his arms but that was impossible. Hitomi was back on the Mystic Moon and Van was in his palace garden with Millerna and Allen. There was no way that Hitomi could be anywhere near Gaea.
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The girl was uncomfortable. Dilandau could tell by the way her breathing neared that of someone hyperventilating and her eyes never wavered from where he stood in the shadows by the door. She was studying him, trying to figure out who he was since he would not introduce himself.
When he had entered the dank cell he hadn't said a word. He hadn't said a word since, and he had been looming in the shadows for almost ten minutes now. As such, the room was engulfed in a deadly hush and that was the way Dilandau liked it. He loved seeing how the absolute silence bothered the young girl. He loved seeing her scared.
"Hello...Hitomi." Dilandau said in the whiny voice he often adopted when badgering his victims.
Hitomi's heart jumped in her chest at the sudden break in the silence. She was beginning to believe that her newest intruder did not have a voice, let alone one so terrifyingly familiar.
"Dilandau?"
The white haired Adonis stepped out of the darkness at the mention of his name, the soft torch light illuminating a crooked grin that had made its way to his face.
"I see three years on the mystic moon hasn't affected your memory. That's good, because I haven't forgotten about you either."
Hitomi drew farther back on the bed as Dilandau approached her. He moved in such a manner that was so casual, so unthreatening that it should not have scared her. But it did. His movements were so chillingly calm that they frightened her more than if he had simply launched himself at her. Hitomi would have expected Dilandau to do just that, but he didn't. The boy she now shrank from was not the psychotic fifteen-year-old she had met three years previous. Dilandau had changed, and not for the better. Every step he took was calculated and his crazed red eyes missed nothing.
Dilandau's fiery orbs danced with amusement as Hitomi reached the end of the bed. The girl's eyes had never left his the entire time he was stalking her but as soon as Hitomi's back pressed against the cold stone wall, she began looking wildly around her for an escape she would not find. Hitomi was trapped between the silver haired demon and the cell wall. She had nowhere to go and they both knew it.
"What's wrong Hitomi? Not happy to see me?" Dilandau grinned, brushing his hand across the girl's cheek before he placed a gentle kiss on her lips.
Hitomi shuddered in response. There was no affection in Dilandau's icy touch. He was only playing with her. He wanted to make her uncomfortable, before he made her dead.
"Don't touch me." Hitomi said in an uncharacteristically hard tone. "If you're going to kill me, then just do it; I don't want any false affection from you Dilandau."
Red eyes blazed as Dilandau lunged at the girl from the mystic moon. She did not have time to blink before he pulled her roughly to the mattress by her hair and straddled her tiny frame. "Don't ever order me to do anything, bitch." He spat the words. "I will kill you, but it isn't time yet-"
"And when is it time Dilandau?" Hitomi asked, the harsher tone returning to her voice.
Her question was answered by a cruel slap to her face. Tears leaked out the corners of her eyes from the sting. She wanted to get away, or a least fight back but her arms were pinned behind her and she could not remove them because of Dilandau's weight on her chest.
"I'd watch my mouth if I were you Hitomi." Dilandau warned, his gaze darkening.
Although Hitomi didn't want to heed his warning, she kept quiet. She didn't want to be slapped again; or have anything worse done to her. All she wanted was to be home and, at the moment, she wished she had never heard of Gaea.
"If only Van could see you right now...with me." Dilandau laughed wickedly. "He'd probably try to kill me; maybe even you...for cheating on him."
"But I'm not ch-"
"Shut up." The ashen haired boy glowered. "But as it is, he doesn't even know I'm back. I fought him in Scherazade and he's so clueless he still thinks it was Allen who attacked him. Ha, Allen. He actually thought he was a match for me." Dilandau laughed hysterically as he remembered what he had done to the former knight of Asturia.
Hitomi on the other hand became very concerned at the mention of her past crush. She wanted to know what Dilandau had done to the kind knight but thought better of asking. Maybe Dilandau would tell her, maybe not. She didn't want to risk being hit again.
"Then the bastard got away." Dilandau's euphoric state abruptly ended and he scowled. "And Van got away." His hands tightened into fists, his nails drawing blood from his palms. "HE PROMISED ME REVENGE!" He suddenly shouted. "But all I have is YOU. And I can't kill YOU, until HE says!"
Hitomi shut her eyes tight. This was the Dilandau she remembered. She was expecting him to take out his frustration on her, but a blow never came. Hitomi opened her eyes when the throbbing in her arms ceased and the weight was off her chest. She sat up to see Dilandau pacing around the cell, muttering to himself.
"He stops me right before I can finish them off...but why?"
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"Majesty, there you are."
"What do you want Rubies?" Velannaf asked without turning to face the tall gray haired man he knew had addressed him.
"You're guests are missing you, your Highness."
"Then I guess they'll just have to miss me a bit longer." The shadow uncaringly stated. "I have important matters to attend to."
Rubies laughed slightly. "But Lord Van, it is your birthday; certainly you can take time to yourself to enjoy it. Besides, I do not recall their being any matters that needed your immediate attention."
Velannaf stiffened as Rubies placed his hand on his shoulder. "Come, my lord, I will accompany you back to the ballroom."
"Are you ambidextrous Rubies?"
"Sire?" The tall advisor was startled by the seemingly unconnected question.
"You're right handed, yes?"
"Y-yes." Rubies replied hesitantly.
"And how well can you write with your left hand?"
"Not very well I'm afraid."
"Good, then you'll have plenty of time to practice."
With that, Velannaf grabbed Rubies' hand and squeezed until the loud popping of broken bones, along with the man's tortured cries, filled the hallway. It was a symphony of pain that accented the ballroom music perfectly.
"Now I have one last question for you Rubies." Velannaf would not let go of the tall man's hand. "Have you seen Merle?"
"N-no y-your m-maj-esty." Rubies could barely speak from the agony his broken hand was putting him through. Velannaf released his hand and the older man hugged it tightly to his chest.
"Excellent, then she should still be there." The shadow said to no one but himself. He walked down the hall, leaving Rubies to nurse his wounds.
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I was going to get to Velannaf's final plan for Van in this chapter but the scene with Dilandau and Hitomi was a lot longer than I had planned.
Oh well. You guys will just have to wait for the next chapter.
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"Van...is he alright...I don't know...Van...wake up...say something...Van..."
The young king could hear Millerna and Allen calling to him, but their voices were but a distant echo in his mind. He knew they were trying to break the trance he was currently under but Van was not quite ready to return to reality. Going back to reality meant that he'd have to wake up. He didn't want to. He didn't want to lose the dream. He didn't want to lose her; not Hitomi...not again.
But he had. Hitomi was gone. For a brief second Van had seen the girl from the mystic moon, but that's all it was; a brief moment of bliss that vanished as quickly as it had come.
Van had often dreamt that Hitomi had returned to him but none of his previous visions were anything like what he had just experienced. Nothing had ever come so close to feeling so real. The young king could swear that he had been in the same room as Hitomi, had looked into her eyes, had heard her gentle voice, had held her in his arms but that was impossible. Hitomi was back on the Mystic Moon and Van was in his palace garden with Millerna and Allen. There was no way that Hitomi could be anywhere near Gaea.
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The girl was uncomfortable. Dilandau could tell by the way her breathing neared that of someone hyperventilating and her eyes never wavered from where he stood in the shadows by the door. She was studying him, trying to figure out who he was since he would not introduce himself.
When he had entered the dank cell he hadn't said a word. He hadn't said a word since, and he had been looming in the shadows for almost ten minutes now. As such, the room was engulfed in a deadly hush and that was the way Dilandau liked it. He loved seeing how the absolute silence bothered the young girl. He loved seeing her scared.
"Hello...Hitomi." Dilandau said in the whiny voice he often adopted when badgering his victims.
Hitomi's heart jumped in her chest at the sudden break in the silence. She was beginning to believe that her newest intruder did not have a voice, let alone one so terrifyingly familiar.
"Dilandau?"
The white haired Adonis stepped out of the darkness at the mention of his name, the soft torch light illuminating a crooked grin that had made its way to his face.
"I see three years on the mystic moon hasn't affected your memory. That's good, because I haven't forgotten about you either."
Hitomi drew farther back on the bed as Dilandau approached her. He moved in such a manner that was so casual, so unthreatening that it should not have scared her. But it did. His movements were so chillingly calm that they frightened her more than if he had simply launched himself at her. Hitomi would have expected Dilandau to do just that, but he didn't. The boy she now shrank from was not the psychotic fifteen-year-old she had met three years previous. Dilandau had changed, and not for the better. Every step he took was calculated and his crazed red eyes missed nothing.
Dilandau's fiery orbs danced with amusement as Hitomi reached the end of the bed. The girl's eyes had never left his the entire time he was stalking her but as soon as Hitomi's back pressed against the cold stone wall, she began looking wildly around her for an escape she would not find. Hitomi was trapped between the silver haired demon and the cell wall. She had nowhere to go and they both knew it.
"What's wrong Hitomi? Not happy to see me?" Dilandau grinned, brushing his hand across the girl's cheek before he placed a gentle kiss on her lips.
Hitomi shuddered in response. There was no affection in Dilandau's icy touch. He was only playing with her. He wanted to make her uncomfortable, before he made her dead.
"Don't touch me." Hitomi said in an uncharacteristically hard tone. "If you're going to kill me, then just do it; I don't want any false affection from you Dilandau."
Red eyes blazed as Dilandau lunged at the girl from the mystic moon. She did not have time to blink before he pulled her roughly to the mattress by her hair and straddled her tiny frame. "Don't ever order me to do anything, bitch." He spat the words. "I will kill you, but it isn't time yet-"
"And when is it time Dilandau?" Hitomi asked, the harsher tone returning to her voice.
Her question was answered by a cruel slap to her face. Tears leaked out the corners of her eyes from the sting. She wanted to get away, or a least fight back but her arms were pinned behind her and she could not remove them because of Dilandau's weight on her chest.
"I'd watch my mouth if I were you Hitomi." Dilandau warned, his gaze darkening.
Although Hitomi didn't want to heed his warning, she kept quiet. She didn't want to be slapped again; or have anything worse done to her. All she wanted was to be home and, at the moment, she wished she had never heard of Gaea.
"If only Van could see you right now...with me." Dilandau laughed wickedly. "He'd probably try to kill me; maybe even you...for cheating on him."
"But I'm not ch-"
"Shut up." The ashen haired boy glowered. "But as it is, he doesn't even know I'm back. I fought him in Scherazade and he's so clueless he still thinks it was Allen who attacked him. Ha, Allen. He actually thought he was a match for me." Dilandau laughed hysterically as he remembered what he had done to the former knight of Asturia.
Hitomi on the other hand became very concerned at the mention of her past crush. She wanted to know what Dilandau had done to the kind knight but thought better of asking. Maybe Dilandau would tell her, maybe not. She didn't want to risk being hit again.
"Then the bastard got away." Dilandau's euphoric state abruptly ended and he scowled. "And Van got away." His hands tightened into fists, his nails drawing blood from his palms. "HE PROMISED ME REVENGE!" He suddenly shouted. "But all I have is YOU. And I can't kill YOU, until HE says!"
Hitomi shut her eyes tight. This was the Dilandau she remembered. She was expecting him to take out his frustration on her, but a blow never came. Hitomi opened her eyes when the throbbing in her arms ceased and the weight was off her chest. She sat up to see Dilandau pacing around the cell, muttering to himself.
"He stops me right before I can finish them off...but why?"
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"Majesty, there you are."
"What do you want Rubies?" Velannaf asked without turning to face the tall gray haired man he knew had addressed him.
"You're guests are missing you, your Highness."
"Then I guess they'll just have to miss me a bit longer." The shadow uncaringly stated. "I have important matters to attend to."
Rubies laughed slightly. "But Lord Van, it is your birthday; certainly you can take time to yourself to enjoy it. Besides, I do not recall their being any matters that needed your immediate attention."
Velannaf stiffened as Rubies placed his hand on his shoulder. "Come, my lord, I will accompany you back to the ballroom."
"Are you ambidextrous Rubies?"
"Sire?" The tall advisor was startled by the seemingly unconnected question.
"You're right handed, yes?"
"Y-yes." Rubies replied hesitantly.
"And how well can you write with your left hand?"
"Not very well I'm afraid."
"Good, then you'll have plenty of time to practice."
With that, Velannaf grabbed Rubies' hand and squeezed until the loud popping of broken bones, along with the man's tortured cries, filled the hallway. It was a symphony of pain that accented the ballroom music perfectly.
"Now I have one last question for you Rubies." Velannaf would not let go of the tall man's hand. "Have you seen Merle?"
"N-no y-your m-maj-esty." Rubies could barely speak from the agony his broken hand was putting him through. Velannaf released his hand and the older man hugged it tightly to his chest.
"Excellent, then she should still be there." The shadow said to no one but himself. He walked down the hall, leaving Rubies to nurse his wounds.
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I was going to get to Velannaf's final plan for Van in this chapter but the scene with Dilandau and Hitomi was a lot longer than I had planned.
Oh well. You guys will just have to wait for the next chapter.
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