Birth of a child
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"Congratulations!!!! It's a girl!" Replied one of the nurses who had been assisting the doctor
"Oh isn't she beautiful?" commented another nurse "Yea! Gorgeous! She truly fits the title" replied the nurse nearest to the child
"By the way what will you name her?" asked a near by doctor out of curiosity
"Well…" replied the mother "we were thinking about naming her Hitomi" she replied as she looked up at her husbands gleaming eyes.
"That has a nice ring to it don't you think?" said the husband as he lovingly took a hold of his wife's hand in reassurance.
"Yes it does" replied the doctor
"So her name will be Princess Hitomi Kanzaki of Atlantis" the doctor paused "Sounds good…oh and don't forget the take her to the seeress she will be waiting."
In fact the official Atlantian seeress, for the Royal family, was none other then Hitomis' great grandmother who was about 90 years old. She was a sweet old lady just sometimes she was very mysterious, and so the Royal family made a visit to the royal seeress, Hope, (she had been renamed during her ceremony of acceptance)
Although, she looked the same as 20 years ago, when she was accepted, she hasn't aged a day! This was, after all, the Kanzaki's first child so this was a good opportunity to see if the rumors were true.
As they arrived to the entrance of the mystics residence they were astounded at how large there dwelling area was. There was a path leading all the way to the front where two enormous wooden doors stood (how on earth did those things open?!?)And on the sides of the path there were fountains and trees and gardens, it was like paradise. As our carriage pulled up we stopped and noticed that someone was already waiting for us at the doors.
"Congratulation on the new family member I am assuming you want me to make a prophecy" she asked as the Queen and King walked towards her
"Yes that is correct" replied the much anxious Queen
"Well I can't"
'WHAT?!?!" both the queen and king replied in shock
"Just kidding! Ha-ha don't have a heart attack! You should have seen your faces!" chuckled the seeress as she thought about how she could have made that prank better
"Well anyways the prophecy right… hand me the child"
Queen Kanzaki reluctantly gave her grandmother her child still bewildered at what she had done.
"Oh my child, you are special" said the seeress as she took a hold of her great grand child and looked at her
"Alright I will bring her back in a year" grinned Hope
"No you can't trick us this time"
"Well I wish I could take her, she is just SOOO CUTE! Who wouldn't want to have her? But I must go I will be back shortly" replied the seeress as she got up and walked off with the child in hand and her long black robe dragging behind her, across the floor, the door opened almost magically, she looked back. "Well your not gonna wait out there all day are you? Come along you can wait inside" she walked in and disappeared though one of the hall ways and we walked aimlessly thought the corridors when we finally came to a stop we were lost… we stopped in front of a picture of a boy with majestic wings and a little cat-like girl beside him. They were just staring at us, I wonder who they were.
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Hopes' POV
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Come child it will be fine! Don't cry yeah that's it… cutie hehe
Were almost there so its okay this will all be over before you know it.
Here we are and now you get to meet all of the other mystics!
"Greetings I have brought the child"
"Good we must commence the ritual as soon as possible" responded an ambiguous person who was shrouded by the shadows of the room.
The child was taken from me and placed in the middle of the room. It was prearranged and everyone had there own assigned spot we took up our positions and placed out hoods on. We were in a circle as we chanted
Will of thy show us your path…
Tell me your future
As well as your past
Will of thy show us your path…
Tell me your future
As well as your past
Then words just started to flow as if I had known the chant for ages
Times will be hard
As you prevail
But danger waits
In those we call soul mates.
Destruction of a fair land
Will be your will
The one you love,
Killed by an obstacle
But your love will be like Time
Forever and Always…
This is your Volition
As we stood there in the circle the words came at there own will as we ended
We chanted in unison something we didn't know and this is how it was always but this time it was different
As we stood there the head mystic came into the light and you could see her face and it looked weary and tired (We probably all looked our age right about now) she walked to the sleeping child and placed around her neck, a pendant.
How strange… I thought only mystics and priest got them… she is a princess she won't grow up to become a mystic will she? I doubt it
The pendant was blinding as slowly it disappeared! And yet Hitomi seemed to be aware of this.
Strange child
Well we will find out once we interpret the message…
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As we walked and looked at all the strange pictures and statues, I was confused I couldn't recognize any of it, strange animals and machinery and people. Where were they from? We came across a picture of a world with a moon but how did they get a picture of the earth from this point of view? Or was it even the earth? As I looked closer I saw what looked like a tiny white dragon fly but I was interrupted.
"Umm honey I think we should find our way back" implied the King
"That sounds like a plan but where to go…"
"This way of course"
"HUH?!? But where did you come from?" said the to now shocked couple
"Don't worry your not lost anymore." Grinned Hope
"But how did you know where to look for us granny?" asked Mz Kanzaki
"Easy dowsing of course, but you don't have to worry about that! Let's get going now"
Mz Kanzaki, now aggravated that her grandmother would not elaborate followed quietly.
We followed her through many winding corridors wow we walked a lot we came to a stop and a mystic walked up to us handing us a book
"This is for your daughters coming of age ceremony, show it to her then and no time else, it contains the prophecy." Said the peculiar Mystic "you may read it if you like"
Another mystic younger looking then the last one walked up with Hitomi in a blue blanket
"Here you are" she sweetly said
Hitomi was sleeping peacefully "thank you"
I cradled Hitomi and we said our thanks to Hope and the rest of the Mystics that had been present.
The door slowly closed as the mystics enter. There dwelling slowly grew smaller as we headed on our way to the palace to a party organized for the home coming of Atlantis' new princess, Hitomi. As we rode in the carriage I looked at the book that had been given to us, I looked at the intricate pattern that bordered it and thought of our new life and what the future held for us…