Oh my! How long has it been since I've updated this! EEPS!! I am SOOO SORRY for not updating this! Well, homework has been killing me, demanding my time ever single day…blah. I'm here with this chapter, though! I have an idea for the next chapter, too, so it hopefully won't take too long for that one to be completed! Another sincere apology to all my reviewers and the people who read this fanfic. Hope you all don't hate my completely! The songs don't belong to me; obviously, they belong to Celine Dion "Falling Into You" Here's the chapter!

Worlds Apart: Chapter 9 The Future And An Invitation

Alearie remembered this place. This was where the fourteen planets were, and she was drifting in space again, watching as stars flew by.

A girl with what it seemed to be, light tinted blue hair that went all the way to her ankles, was clothed in an ornate white dress. The arms of the dress were thin white lace woven around her arms, and came down in thick, ruffled, cuffs at her hands.

She wore one ring on her long, slender, fingers with a star-shaped diamond, set in strands of gold and silver, so thin, wrapped around each other to support the diamond. Her dress was laced up at her torso with white behind it, and her dress was very elegant and puffy. Her long, straight, hair was decorated with white flowers, and her eyes were of a silver-blue pigment.

She smiled gently, and appeared to be saying something, and holding out her hand, and pointing to six of the fourteen planets, pausing at each one, and looking at her longingly. Each of the planets she pointed to had a specific element.

Each planet was a certain color. The first was shades of crimson red, in which that planet burned constantly. Second, were deep hues of blue, swirling around like mist in whirlpools of water. Third, were dark shades of green mixed with some browns, and this planet looked fairly bumpy and coarse. The fourth planet was deep shades of purple, with a solid form, but a few dark clouds hung over the planet. The fifth and sixth planets seemed special, or at least seemed to have more importance to Alearie.

The fifth planet was so bright; Alearie could hardly glance at it for more than a few minutes. It's light covered the entire planet, and a light white mist covered it, which helped Alearie look at it longer, and under the mist, you could see a very, very faint rainbow. Although the light covered the entire planet, you could still see parts of the actual planet, which was a golden yellow.

The sixth planet, however, was a silver color, under all its gray clouds and mist. It resembled the fifth planet very much, and reminded Alearie of the golden and silver strands on the girl's ring, except one was light, and very bright, and the other was a bright silver, but seemingly dreary and gloomy. Those six planets were in a circle, and each had a star near it, each the color of its planet, but in a lighter hue, and those six stars made an inner-circle in the circle of the planets.

Next, was a series of events. The beautiful girl looked back at Alearie, put one finger up, as if to wait, then looked sadly back at the scene, pointing her finger there again. All the stars in space seemed to be forming some type of writing that she could not understand across the sky, over, and over, and over again. A white light joined each of the planets and stars like a bond. Then, the sixth planet shifted out of the circle, causing the light between to become broken, but was still faintly there.

Dark black and gray swirls of mist overtook the planet, and then started to spread itself around to the other planets. The other planets soon became dull, except for the fifth planet. The white light that joined each of the planets and stars like a bond, in a matter of seconds, was turned red, and scattered, all aiming against one another. The force of this red light was so great, it turned into a big beam and an explosion was heard. All other planets were wiped out except the fifth and sixth planets.

Then, another girl appeared in the distance, her hair was flapping gallantly in space from the force of the explosion. She observed the planets below her. Her bangs were parting from her face because of the explosion, and because of this, revealed what looked like a combination of an alpha, omega, and infinite sign on her forehead. She looked extremely familiar to Alearie, and she didn't know why. Her hair was black, but had gold and silver streaks in it. She looked ready for battle, and looked very prepared.

Wearing a ruffled, pleated, very light, tinted, blue skirt, a silver belt hung loosely around it, leaning to one side, and it had strange writing on it, which was "messenger, angel". Her top looked slightly like a cami, which was white. Over her top was gold armor (yeah, I know, gold this, silver that, you probably know the meaning of the colors though…lol) that only covered her neck and right under her chest, which went around her back to the same spots (it stopped in mid-back like the front stopped right under her chest).

The armor looked slightly like it was cuffed, but without the buttons at the neck, and their was an engraved border around her armor. (I drew a picture of her, too bad I don't have a scanner to show people, since I'm so bad at explaining this…) An ornate spiral-like design was etched on the front of her armor. Above it, a large circle was placed right under the neck. Decorating it, was engraved angel wings on either side, parallel to her shoulders. Writing was present near the bottom of the armor. It looked like it said "Alearie" but in a different tongue.

There was not much on her arms, except two gold elbow shields, and thick silver cuffs on her wrists. She wore thin, white, battle gloves that were open at mid-finger, (yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I go into details…a LOT) and in her hands, held a scepter. (I'll tell you more about the scepter and the bow and arrows later…don't want to bore you all to death with my descriptions! Lol!) Slung around her shoulder and back, a pouch with a bow and multiple arrows laid.

Pure white wings protruded from her back as she solemnly flew down (Yeah, I know, no air, how can she fly? Well, she's SPECIAL…so THERE…) to the fifth planet, and stood a few kilometers above it.

Another person was standing across from her, a few kilometers above the sixth planet. He was tall, smirking maliciously, wearing dark navy, easily mistaken for black. Quite handsome, actually, his hair was short, a raven color, and his bangs fell like jagged, long, wisps, some parts falling below his fierce, bright, clear eyes.

He held a thin sword, a dark tinting gray black on bright silver. The sword had an interesting design on handle, which looked like the six planets. On the sword itself, the words were written horizontally, but going up vertically on the sword. It had the words "destruction" written very large on the front and back of the sword. However, oddly enough, on his belt, the word "hope" was engraved. Alearie didn't know how, but she could somehow read the writing.

He wore slightly loose fitting pants, a long sleeved shirt, thin gloves that covered the whole hand, and big combat boots, with spikes so long a big, you could see them when looking at his shoes. The only things that weren't navy, were one, his armor, which was dark gray, covering his whole backside and front, (it stopped at the waist line, and was sleeveless) two, his own belt that also hung loosely, but was a dark, black color, three, he also acquired tainted silver wings, four, his boots were black, laced up with silver, and finally five, his sword.

Then, the scene skipped to the other girl, seeming to power up from the planet, and a white flame engulfed her. Her scepter turned into a sword, with a design of different jewels representing each of the six planets on the handle. A larger jewel similar to the one the girl had on her armor was placed right above it, reflecting all the colors. The sword was a mix of greenish tones on the handle, but as long as she was tall, and very thin. The writing on it was just like the other person's sword, but said "peace" and "redemption".

Soon, the writing glowed blue, as well as the symbols on her forehead, and on the other side, the planet engulfed him in a dark purple gray, as the writing on his sword too had started to glow black. Once the flames that engulfed them had become gigantic, they other posed in fighting positions, gave a battle cry, and charged.

A bright light filled Alearie's mind as the two opponents neared each other, and their flames and swords collided. Then everything started to wipe out as she was thrown back from the sudden gust of wind from the collision. Soon, everything went black.

For a messenger lies unwoken,

Time's circle of stars has been broken,

Fire, Water, Earth, Darkness, and Light,

The Spirit within,

Shall release the shadows,

And bring eternal night.

Disharmony lies throughout,

And a message,

Shall be written in the stars,

To tell of destiny's fated call.

Only one to bring,

Harmony of the six,

But only one to bring destruction,

To the Universe of space and time.

She woke up. Again. Was this getting familiar, or what? Turning over, she groaned. Her body ached, as she recollected everything that happened before she saw black. The dream was starting to get more interesting, each time, and she even understood what was said, that time! She even understood the Greek writing, even though she had never taken Greek! It just didn't make any sense. Who were those girls? Why did one seem so familiar? Who was that guy? All these questions swarmed around her mind, while she tried to swat them away.

Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, she turned over, little too much, and started to slip off the bed, but not before grabbing anything she could out of her haste. Which, in this situation, were the pillows and blankets. Of course, this did no good in stopping her fall, and she dragged everything down with her.

Smooth move. She thought, rolled her eyes, and then blinked, looking up at the light white-yellow ceiling. The shadow of the sun was portioned on most of the ceiling, leading down to the walls and the floor of the room. Her eyes followed the dark shadow, as her bright hazel (her iris switches colors) eyes fell along the intricate designs on the walls.

Yevon writing, or she assumed was Yevon writing, lined the top of the wall in a pattern, but on each part of the wall, below it, was a character written larger, with an image painted of different beasts, each colorful, and having their own special scene. Absorbed in it all, she slowly looked around the room, examining each and every picture, and every time she looked at one, it was as if a memory or something unlocked in her mind, but was like a closed door, like she was missing something else, and she just couldn't remember what. Finally, her eyes rested on one in particular.

It looked really familiar, and it was like she had seen it before. But where? She thought. Crinkling her nose, her dark brows knitted together in deep thought, as scenes went racing through her mind. The beach. The backpack. Taking out the orb. The light. The necklace… Her eyes went wide in realization as she remembered the necklace.

Reaching down for it, she grabbed it, clutching it tightly as she looked it over, turning it around in her hands. Looking up at the picture on the wall, she looked back down at the necklace, confirming her thoughts.

Realizing she was still on the floor, with a bunch of sheets and pillows lying in heaps around her, she got up and smiled sheepishly. Then, while attempting to turn around and start to pick things up, she tripped over a pillow and crashed, bum first.

She did something that she hadn't done in a long while. Alearie started laughing. Laughing at her clumsiness, but once she started laughing, she couldn't stop! She hadn't laughing for so long, it was like she forgot how to laugh, and now that she was laughing, and she didn't know how to hinder it! It was like it was waiting to be freed, and it didn't want to go back yet.

She forgot all the hardships in her life these past weeks, and just let the laughter take all her sorrow away. Letting it all come out and drift away up into the air and disappearing forever like mist. After a long while of laughing, she remembered what she was supposed to do, and got back up, grinning while she picked up pillows.

Sliding around gracefully, she was about to softly sing to a song that reminded her of a story of a couple, who, although they would get into arguments, in the end, they really did care about each other, and the girl promised that she would never let him die, (they never aged, but they fought demons) although he wanted to die. She did everything to keep that promise, and he took a liking to her. Where, while she was talking, he asked just to hold her. Alearie sighed. It was such a sweet story, and she began to sing to her favorite verse.

I'm falling into you

This dream could come true

And it feels so good falling into you

Falling like a leaf, falling like a star

Finding a belief, falling where you are

Catch me, don't let me drop!

Love me, don't ever stop!

Falling into you

Falling into you

Falling into you

She glided and sang merrily, arranging the blankets and pillows neatly on the bed. Eventually, everything was off the floor and onto the bed. Gliding around again, she glided around the room happily dancing and swaying to the beat of her own drum, her raven hair flying in long strands at the back, her eyes shining bright with joy. A knock at the door disturbed her thoughtful dreaming.

She stopped completely and watched the creak open. A woman dressed in traditional Yevonite clothing appeared, timidly waiting by the door. She found her voice, and stuttering, said, "Lady Alearie, the Maester Apollumi has invited you to a dance in honor of the Praetor Baralai's services. It will be held in the ballroom later tonight, and an escort will arrive to take you there. A variety of assorted dresses are downstairs, where we will come to assist you shortly. Do you accept?"

Alearie nodded, her hands clasped together. "Thank you so much," Alearie replied, and bowed. The woman nodded, closing her door quietly, repeating, "We will come shortly to assist you in dressing."

Watching the door close, Alearie stared for a couple seconds at the door, then turned around, fiddling with her hands. She sighed and anxiously plopped on the bed. She couldn't wait for the dance to come. Rubbing her chin, she wondered what Baralai was doing right about now.

Her thoughts were disturbed when all these women dressed in Yevonite clothing came in, chatting around her. She looked around as was dragged out of the room, with some of the women pulling on her hair, some tugging on her arms, some measuring around her waist, and some pointing to her face and seeming to be calculating something.

Pretty much being dragged out of the room, all Alearie could do was to look around helplessly as the women forced her out the door, down the long marble staircase, while some of the women shot different colors of fabric in front of her face, pointing to it and asking her something that she couldn't understand because everyone else was talking.

After the long trip down the halls, while Alearie's head was spinning, they finally stopped at a room, and everyone piled in, shutting the door. Alearie was pushed into the seat as some of the women started putting up her hair, some puffing perfume, which Alearie sneezed, and make-up on her face. Alearie just closed her eyes, flaunting her arms to shoo it away, deciding to cover her face so no more noxious perfume and powder could come near her.

This was going to be a long night.

Wow! Another chapter done! Thanks to all my reviewers who've been there while I have writer's block!! SOOO SUPER-DUPER-MEAN-WRITER'S-BLOCK!! Not to worry, though! Since I don't have writer's block anymore, and an idea for the next chapter is already playing out in my head, the next chapter will hopefully be out soon! THANKS AGAIN to ALL my reviews!! You guys ROCK!!!

Cute-Kitty-lol!! Thanks for reviewing me! Yeah, I tend to get a little too hyper…hehehe! I drank a LOT of hot cocoa and got to raid some chocolate from my candy stash…muhahahahaha!!! Yup! That was her overdrive! Heeehee!! Watch out for the next chapter! It should come really soon, since Alearie and Baralai are gonna dance…hehehe what fun. .

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RueNeko-Yay! I'm really glad you think so! Hehe! That's true! There can never be too many Baralai/OC fanfics!! I'm probably gonna write more of 'em too! The world really does need more! Lol! Sorry to put you through all that waiting! Don't you worry! I'm already working on the 10th chapter! Thanks for the review!

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