Fiona ran like she had never run before. She was scared; she wanted to get
away from it all, her mother, as well as the bastard Zack, and anything
that had to do with their foolish crusade that had torn apart her life from
the very beginning. She wanted Van, she wanted to feel the warmth of his
arms, and his words of worry.
'No! I have put him through far too much as it is. I do not wish to hurt him more than I already have,' said Fiona and then she stopped for a few seconds to catch her breathe since she was sure that she was far enough away from them. It was then that she let go of the tears that she had been holding in for so long.
As soon as she started thought she stopped herself while wiping away the tear that had only a second before been coming down her face. "No, I will be strong. I won't allow to let myself become weak or else the ones that I love will be hurt," Fiona told herself.
Fiona looked at her surroundings. She was in the desert still but off in the distance she could see the faint outline of a town. Fiona sadly started to walk once again in that direction.
Fiona walked for about an hour or two before she came upon the entrance to the town. She figured that she could find a place to rest there before she headed back to once again face Van and their daughter. 'Great, I can't face Van and our own daughter is afraid of me because of what I had done. I don't know how I will be able to face either of them because of all that has happened,' thought Fiona with a frown as she walked down the crowded streets with all of its happy occupants. 'At least they are happy,' thought Fiona bitterly.
She continued to walk but stopped when she heard a voice call out to her. She didn't know where it came from so she turned to look around and saw and old lady with a smile on her face standing in the doorway of what appeared to be a hotel. "Greeting young on. Are you in need of a place to stay because we have some vacancies? I saw you just come into town so I figure that you must be in need of a place to stay. You must be tired because you were walking although I don't know how you managed to survive out there," said the woman with a bright smile upon her face.
Fiona knew that she was right. All that she had was a water bottle that she managed to grab before she ran away from her mother. It was all that she felt she would need at the time but now she was tired and hungry. "Thank you," said Fiona putting on a polite smile.
"Don't mention it. It is always nice to see new faces anyways," said the woman as she led her into the hotel but it appeared to be more of a home than a hotel on the inside. Fiona figured out that it must have been something like a boarding home more than likely. Either that or this woman loved to decorate it like a home.
Fiona didn't know why but she felt very at home in this place. It was calm, quiet, and very beautiful. It gave her a feeling as if it was her home when she first walked in but she never really had a home except for the small one she and her daughter lived in when she ran away from Van.
There were pictures everywhere of people that Fiona had never seen before. Then again she hadn't eve met these people so that was the reason that's she didn't know anyone in the pictures. One picture seemed to catch her eye however. It was a picture of a woman who appeared to be in her mid twenties. She was very beautiful with her long brown hair that reached down to her waist and sparkling blue eyes. It wasn't that that caught her attention however. Fiona couldn't help but feel that the woman looked very familiar as if Fiona had met her but she was also sure that she had never met the person.
"Are you hungry young lady? If you would like I will make us something to eat because I am starving as well," said the woman with a smile as she headed into a room that Fiona could only guess was the kitchen.
"Yes, please. If it is not any inconvenience. By the way, my name is Fiona," she said while still looking at many of the pictures that adorned the walls and shelves. They were all mainly about the woman but there were a few of two children who Fiona felt looked familiar as well. One of the children was a girl and she appeared to be a few years older than a boy but not by much. The boy was still a baby in the picture yet the look on his face reminded Fiona of someone she knew.
"Those are the pictures of my family, although I haven't seen any of them in years. All that is left as far as I know are my grandchildren however," said the old woman appearing behind Fiona so suddenly that it startled her greatly. "This one here was my daughter. She was very beautiful as you can see but sadly enough she died a few years back of some disease. These two here are my grandchildren. I have no idea what has become of either of them. I haven't talked to their father ever since my daughter died, so I ended up losing touch with my grandchildren," said the woman as her happy smile turned into a sad frown.
"I am sorry to hear that," said Fiona while still looking at the photo of the two children trying to decipher what this weird feeling that she was getting when she looked at them were.
"I have been living here alone with only my husband. I hope that sometime before I die I can see both of them again so that I would have more of my family around me. By now I think that my grandson is about your age if I am right. Anyways, why don't we head into the kitchen and get something to eat?" said the woman with a smile as she turned around.
The way that she was talking made Fiona realize that this place wasn't a hotel or a boarding house but just a regular, rather large home. "Why is it that you are helping me? I have never met you before but you suddenly come out of nowhere and give me a place to safety. Why is that?" asked Fiona as she followed the woman.
"It is because you reminded me so much of my daughter I guess. She always seemed to be sad a lot of the time like you were when you first came. Plus that and I have this strange feeling about you. I am not sure what it is but I just felt like I needed to give you a place to stay," said the old woman with a smile. "You may think of me as a senile old woman that way but usually my intuition tends to always be right," said the woman as she took a seat at the table.
"I don't think that at all. I am not positive about it but you maybe right," said Fiona with a weak smile. "So tell me about your family?" said Fiona trying to lighten the situation a little.
"All of my life since my daughter was born, I had wanted to give only the best to my daughter; Clothes, food, any supplies that she would ever need. She was always a handful though. Always running off and doing what she felt like. I guess that is how she met her husband," said the woman trying hard to remember as much as she could.
"I guess I know what you mean. I have a daughter of my own, and she is quite a handful at times. Either way I love her with all my heart because she was all I had for a while," said Fiona with a frown remembering what had happened.
"You're a mother? You look a little young to be one. But then again, my daughter was about your age as well when she had her first child. Why was she all you had? Where was her father?" asked the woman curiously finding the situation very interesting for some reason.
"I ran away. I loved him with all my heart but I was scared because I was going through a very tough time. For five years it was just my daughter Kristi and I. Then our village was attacked and I ended up back with him. I have tried since then to make things right but everything only seemed to go wrong. I couldn't take putting him in any more pain because of me and I left again. My life is a complete mess right now. My mothers crazy, I can't face the one I love, my daughter is slightly afraid of me, and I have someone that won't leave me alone. I just want a normal life," said Fiona with a sigh as she laid her head down on the table.
"I am sorry to hear all of that. You shouldn't run from your problems though. If the person that you love was willing to take you back even after you left then that shows that he must really love you. I guess I ran from it when my daughter died. I ran and missed out on many things that might of made things better for me. I think it would be best for you to go back to him," she said with an encouraging smile on her face.
"I'm not sure that I can. I have already messed things up beyond repair as it is. Wars are stupid, they tear families and friends apart, and cause us to lose those that are closest to us," said Fiona standing up and once again walking towards the pictures once again.
"I know what you mean. My son-in-law was part of the military. He was on a mission when he met my daughter and they almost instantly fell in love despite my attempts to pair her up with someone that I thought would make a much better husband. The thing is that you just can't stop love. No matter how much you try it is far to hard to try and stop it," said the woman but she stopped when she noticed Fiona looking into another picture with a strong stare. "Even as a child she was beautiful," she said noticing that the picture was one of her daughter when she was about 6 years old.
"She looks just like my daughter," said Fiona in amazement while staring at the picture. The something came to her mind. "What was your daughters name and also your grandkids?" asked Fiona as she walked over to some of the other pictures that she had seen before.
"My daughters name was Lily, and my grandchildren's... oh, what were they again? I haven't seen them in so many years that it is hard to remember at my old age. Oh yes! It was Maria and Van," said the woman with a smile.
Fiona felt like she had been hit by a ton of bricks. 'Oh the irony of things,' Fiona told herself. "Their last name wouldn't happen to be Flyheight would it?" asked Fiona a little scared yet anxious to know if it really was Van and Maria.
"Why yes it is, children of Lily and Dan Flyheight. You may also know of Van as the hero who saved planet Zi now that I remember that. I completely forgot about it. it might of made it easier to know where he is," she said with a laugh, then she noticed Fiona's shocked expression. "What's wrong with you?" she asked out of concern.
"V-V-Van is the father of my child," stuttered Fiona greatly surprised that she was talking to Van's grandmother of all people. "You mean that you are his grandmother?" asked Fiona a little more calmly.
The old woman's eyes were wide in shock. "You mean I am a great- grandmother? I never thought that I would live to see the day," she said only slightly shocked. She had known that there was something about Fiona when she had seen her and she now knew that this was what it was. "I am very glad for him then. You are a very lovely and kind woman," she said with a smile. "Why don't you tell me more about him and his sister and how the two of you met," she said rather excitedly. "Oh, I forgot to tell you my name, it is Mary," said Mary with a bright smile.
"They are both fine. About the way we met, it may sound kind of weird but it is the truth. He originally found me inside of a capsule. We traveled around together for a long time and I guess that is how I fell in love with him. I am not sure how he fell for me but I never really asked. Me and my zoidian powers have only brought him pain though," said Fiona sadly.
"So you are a zoidian? That explains why you were in one of those capsules. To tell the truth, our family had connections with many zoidians in the past. It made us unpopular for some of them but we were friends with most of them," said Mary remembering some of the things that she had been told when she was young by her parents.
"More then likely my mother was one of them. She dislikes me because I am in love with Van, and she hates my daughter for only being half-zoidian. She just suddenly came back recently and started to make demands for me to marry someone of her choice because of the child I am carrying right now," said Fiona in a disgusted voice.
"You mean the child you are carrying isn't Van's?" asked Mary a little disgusted but she could tell that there might be far more behind it than she could figure out at that moment.
"To tell the truth, I don't know. It could be his, or it could be from the man that I despise more than anything else on this planet. He had some sort of control over me. Although it was slipping at the time I ended up blacking out at that moment so I have no idea what happened. It is the reason that I left Van this time. It wouldn't be fair to him if it did turn out to be someone else's. I am not saying that I would go to that disgusting man. I would never do that," said Fiona finding it hard to reminisce about what had happened.
"I see, those kind of men are disgusting, forcing themselves on innocent people. What would you do if it did turn out to be Van's?" she asked hoping for a good answer out of Fiona.
"I don't know. I guess I will have to decide that when the time comes. I am not sure if it would change anything though. I think that things are over for us either way," said Fiona sadly. Tears started to come down her eyes thinking of a life without Van. She wanted him but she felt she couldn't have him the way that both of them would like.
"Why don't you go and get some sleep? It might do you some good to rest for a little while after all that you have gone through," said Mary with a smile as she led the way to one of the rooms.
"Thank you. I don't know how I can ever be able to repay you for all of the kindness that you have shown me today," said Fiona trying to think of some of the things that she could do.
"That is simple. Just take me to see Van and Maria and I will call it even. It will be nice to see the two of them once again," said Mary a little dreamily. "But for now get some sleep," said Mary pushing Fiona into the room and closing the door. 'Plus I want you to look good for Van because I want to try and fix what is going on between the two of you,' she thought to herself with a grin before walking away.
'No! I have put him through far too much as it is. I do not wish to hurt him more than I already have,' said Fiona and then she stopped for a few seconds to catch her breathe since she was sure that she was far enough away from them. It was then that she let go of the tears that she had been holding in for so long.
As soon as she started thought she stopped herself while wiping away the tear that had only a second before been coming down her face. "No, I will be strong. I won't allow to let myself become weak or else the ones that I love will be hurt," Fiona told herself.
Fiona looked at her surroundings. She was in the desert still but off in the distance she could see the faint outline of a town. Fiona sadly started to walk once again in that direction.
Fiona walked for about an hour or two before she came upon the entrance to the town. She figured that she could find a place to rest there before she headed back to once again face Van and their daughter. 'Great, I can't face Van and our own daughter is afraid of me because of what I had done. I don't know how I will be able to face either of them because of all that has happened,' thought Fiona with a frown as she walked down the crowded streets with all of its happy occupants. 'At least they are happy,' thought Fiona bitterly.
She continued to walk but stopped when she heard a voice call out to her. She didn't know where it came from so she turned to look around and saw and old lady with a smile on her face standing in the doorway of what appeared to be a hotel. "Greeting young on. Are you in need of a place to stay because we have some vacancies? I saw you just come into town so I figure that you must be in need of a place to stay. You must be tired because you were walking although I don't know how you managed to survive out there," said the woman with a bright smile upon her face.
Fiona knew that she was right. All that she had was a water bottle that she managed to grab before she ran away from her mother. It was all that she felt she would need at the time but now she was tired and hungry. "Thank you," said Fiona putting on a polite smile.
"Don't mention it. It is always nice to see new faces anyways," said the woman as she led her into the hotel but it appeared to be more of a home than a hotel on the inside. Fiona figured out that it must have been something like a boarding home more than likely. Either that or this woman loved to decorate it like a home.
Fiona didn't know why but she felt very at home in this place. It was calm, quiet, and very beautiful. It gave her a feeling as if it was her home when she first walked in but she never really had a home except for the small one she and her daughter lived in when she ran away from Van.
There were pictures everywhere of people that Fiona had never seen before. Then again she hadn't eve met these people so that was the reason that's she didn't know anyone in the pictures. One picture seemed to catch her eye however. It was a picture of a woman who appeared to be in her mid twenties. She was very beautiful with her long brown hair that reached down to her waist and sparkling blue eyes. It wasn't that that caught her attention however. Fiona couldn't help but feel that the woman looked very familiar as if Fiona had met her but she was also sure that she had never met the person.
"Are you hungry young lady? If you would like I will make us something to eat because I am starving as well," said the woman with a smile as she headed into a room that Fiona could only guess was the kitchen.
"Yes, please. If it is not any inconvenience. By the way, my name is Fiona," she said while still looking at many of the pictures that adorned the walls and shelves. They were all mainly about the woman but there were a few of two children who Fiona felt looked familiar as well. One of the children was a girl and she appeared to be a few years older than a boy but not by much. The boy was still a baby in the picture yet the look on his face reminded Fiona of someone she knew.
"Those are the pictures of my family, although I haven't seen any of them in years. All that is left as far as I know are my grandchildren however," said the old woman appearing behind Fiona so suddenly that it startled her greatly. "This one here was my daughter. She was very beautiful as you can see but sadly enough she died a few years back of some disease. These two here are my grandchildren. I have no idea what has become of either of them. I haven't talked to their father ever since my daughter died, so I ended up losing touch with my grandchildren," said the woman as her happy smile turned into a sad frown.
"I am sorry to hear that," said Fiona while still looking at the photo of the two children trying to decipher what this weird feeling that she was getting when she looked at them were.
"I have been living here alone with only my husband. I hope that sometime before I die I can see both of them again so that I would have more of my family around me. By now I think that my grandson is about your age if I am right. Anyways, why don't we head into the kitchen and get something to eat?" said the woman with a smile as she turned around.
The way that she was talking made Fiona realize that this place wasn't a hotel or a boarding house but just a regular, rather large home. "Why is it that you are helping me? I have never met you before but you suddenly come out of nowhere and give me a place to safety. Why is that?" asked Fiona as she followed the woman.
"It is because you reminded me so much of my daughter I guess. She always seemed to be sad a lot of the time like you were when you first came. Plus that and I have this strange feeling about you. I am not sure what it is but I just felt like I needed to give you a place to stay," said the old woman with a smile. "You may think of me as a senile old woman that way but usually my intuition tends to always be right," said the woman as she took a seat at the table.
"I don't think that at all. I am not positive about it but you maybe right," said Fiona with a weak smile. "So tell me about your family?" said Fiona trying to lighten the situation a little.
"All of my life since my daughter was born, I had wanted to give only the best to my daughter; Clothes, food, any supplies that she would ever need. She was always a handful though. Always running off and doing what she felt like. I guess that is how she met her husband," said the woman trying hard to remember as much as she could.
"I guess I know what you mean. I have a daughter of my own, and she is quite a handful at times. Either way I love her with all my heart because she was all I had for a while," said Fiona with a frown remembering what had happened.
"You're a mother? You look a little young to be one. But then again, my daughter was about your age as well when she had her first child. Why was she all you had? Where was her father?" asked the woman curiously finding the situation very interesting for some reason.
"I ran away. I loved him with all my heart but I was scared because I was going through a very tough time. For five years it was just my daughter Kristi and I. Then our village was attacked and I ended up back with him. I have tried since then to make things right but everything only seemed to go wrong. I couldn't take putting him in any more pain because of me and I left again. My life is a complete mess right now. My mothers crazy, I can't face the one I love, my daughter is slightly afraid of me, and I have someone that won't leave me alone. I just want a normal life," said Fiona with a sigh as she laid her head down on the table.
"I am sorry to hear all of that. You shouldn't run from your problems though. If the person that you love was willing to take you back even after you left then that shows that he must really love you. I guess I ran from it when my daughter died. I ran and missed out on many things that might of made things better for me. I think it would be best for you to go back to him," she said with an encouraging smile on her face.
"I'm not sure that I can. I have already messed things up beyond repair as it is. Wars are stupid, they tear families and friends apart, and cause us to lose those that are closest to us," said Fiona standing up and once again walking towards the pictures once again.
"I know what you mean. My son-in-law was part of the military. He was on a mission when he met my daughter and they almost instantly fell in love despite my attempts to pair her up with someone that I thought would make a much better husband. The thing is that you just can't stop love. No matter how much you try it is far to hard to try and stop it," said the woman but she stopped when she noticed Fiona looking into another picture with a strong stare. "Even as a child she was beautiful," she said noticing that the picture was one of her daughter when she was about 6 years old.
"She looks just like my daughter," said Fiona in amazement while staring at the picture. The something came to her mind. "What was your daughters name and also your grandkids?" asked Fiona as she walked over to some of the other pictures that she had seen before.
"My daughters name was Lily, and my grandchildren's... oh, what were they again? I haven't seen them in so many years that it is hard to remember at my old age. Oh yes! It was Maria and Van," said the woman with a smile.
Fiona felt like she had been hit by a ton of bricks. 'Oh the irony of things,' Fiona told herself. "Their last name wouldn't happen to be Flyheight would it?" asked Fiona a little scared yet anxious to know if it really was Van and Maria.
"Why yes it is, children of Lily and Dan Flyheight. You may also know of Van as the hero who saved planet Zi now that I remember that. I completely forgot about it. it might of made it easier to know where he is," she said with a laugh, then she noticed Fiona's shocked expression. "What's wrong with you?" she asked out of concern.
"V-V-Van is the father of my child," stuttered Fiona greatly surprised that she was talking to Van's grandmother of all people. "You mean that you are his grandmother?" asked Fiona a little more calmly.
The old woman's eyes were wide in shock. "You mean I am a great- grandmother? I never thought that I would live to see the day," she said only slightly shocked. She had known that there was something about Fiona when she had seen her and she now knew that this was what it was. "I am very glad for him then. You are a very lovely and kind woman," she said with a smile. "Why don't you tell me more about him and his sister and how the two of you met," she said rather excitedly. "Oh, I forgot to tell you my name, it is Mary," said Mary with a bright smile.
"They are both fine. About the way we met, it may sound kind of weird but it is the truth. He originally found me inside of a capsule. We traveled around together for a long time and I guess that is how I fell in love with him. I am not sure how he fell for me but I never really asked. Me and my zoidian powers have only brought him pain though," said Fiona sadly.
"So you are a zoidian? That explains why you were in one of those capsules. To tell the truth, our family had connections with many zoidians in the past. It made us unpopular for some of them but we were friends with most of them," said Mary remembering some of the things that she had been told when she was young by her parents.
"More then likely my mother was one of them. She dislikes me because I am in love with Van, and she hates my daughter for only being half-zoidian. She just suddenly came back recently and started to make demands for me to marry someone of her choice because of the child I am carrying right now," said Fiona in a disgusted voice.
"You mean the child you are carrying isn't Van's?" asked Mary a little disgusted but she could tell that there might be far more behind it than she could figure out at that moment.
"To tell the truth, I don't know. It could be his, or it could be from the man that I despise more than anything else on this planet. He had some sort of control over me. Although it was slipping at the time I ended up blacking out at that moment so I have no idea what happened. It is the reason that I left Van this time. It wouldn't be fair to him if it did turn out to be someone else's. I am not saying that I would go to that disgusting man. I would never do that," said Fiona finding it hard to reminisce about what had happened.
"I see, those kind of men are disgusting, forcing themselves on innocent people. What would you do if it did turn out to be Van's?" she asked hoping for a good answer out of Fiona.
"I don't know. I guess I will have to decide that when the time comes. I am not sure if it would change anything though. I think that things are over for us either way," said Fiona sadly. Tears started to come down her eyes thinking of a life without Van. She wanted him but she felt she couldn't have him the way that both of them would like.
"Why don't you go and get some sleep? It might do you some good to rest for a little while after all that you have gone through," said Mary with a smile as she led the way to one of the rooms.
"Thank you. I don't know how I can ever be able to repay you for all of the kindness that you have shown me today," said Fiona trying to think of some of the things that she could do.
"That is simple. Just take me to see Van and Maria and I will call it even. It will be nice to see the two of them once again," said Mary a little dreamily. "But for now get some sleep," said Mary pushing Fiona into the room and closing the door. 'Plus I want you to look good for Van because I want to try and fix what is going on between the two of you,' she thought to herself with a grin before walking away.