Fiona had absolutely no idea on what she was going to say. She didn't have any idea how he could also just forgive her so easily after all that she had done to him. Her mind had no idea how to react but her heart was screaming yes to her.
Van stared at Fiona. There was hope pouring through his heart that she might accept it since she did once before. Everything had been cleared up concerning the child and it really was his. He wanted to spend the rest of his life with Fiona so he hoped beyond anything that she would actually accept.
"Van," Fiona finally managed to say after what felt like eternity in silence. Her voice was very shaken as a result of Van's sudden second proposal. "How can you just forgive me so easily after what I put you through so many time?" she asked staring at her hands clutching onto the bed sheet.
"Because I still love you despite all that has happened. You only did all that you did in order to protect my and our daughter. When I saw you and Zack working together when he had you under his control, my feelings for you only really increased. I knew that I had to have you back and get you away from him," Van spoke truthfully from every portion of his heart.
A tear fell from Fiona's face and landed on the bed sheet. His words just made her start crying. She felt a warm hand cup her cheek and with the thumb of the hand, it wiped away the tears that continued to fall. She looked into Van's face and eyes and before she knew it she lunged into him wrapping him up in a tight embrace before her lips came crashing into his.
Van was a little surprised at first but got into it very quickly and deepened the kiss. Both of the tongues clashed with each other in one of the most passionate kisses that the two of them had ever had. They only parted because of a desperate need for air but Van could clearly hear Fiona whimper at the lack of contact.
Van kept as close of contact as he could have with Fiona. He held her to his chest while his nose was buried into her hair taking in the scent of her fragrance. "Can I take that as a yes?" he asked with a small smile.
Fiona didn't feel like she needed to answer him but she did with a small nod of her head before wrapping her arms even tighter around Van never wanting to let go of him again. She had been without him for far too long that she was afraid that all of this was just a dream and that she would wake up alone.
Van was delighted with her wordless response. He just held her to him for a few moments placing light kisses all over her before he decided to speak. "I guess this means that we will have to start planning," he spoke softly with a small smile. "But first I think that you should regain your strength,' he said laying down with her before both fell asleep.
"You've got to be kidding me!" yelled Moonbay very happily upon hearing the news about what Van and Fiona were planning on doing. "You two are finally tying the knot," she said making a huge emphasis on the word finally.
Van just nodded his head. It was actually a week before that they decided on it but he wanted to give Fiona a little time in order to regain her strength before the decided to go through with it. They were both extremely glad that Zack didn't decide to pull anything in the last week. It had actually been very calm.
"Yeah, we are hoping to get it done soon before something else happens that will stop it," Van said earning an understanding nod from Moonbay because she knew exactly what he was talking about. "We have talked or sent letters to the few people that we actually want there already, we just need to talk to you and Irvine about it before we finally get married," said Van with a bright smile.
"You bet we'll be there," said Moonbay ecstatically. "I have been waiting for something like this for such a long time. It sure took you long enough though," Moonbay said causing a slightly nervous chuckle to be released from Van's throat.
Van's face suddenly turned kind of sad all of a sudden. "In a way I am kind of upset about the wedding we have planned. It will be so small that I doubt it would be the type of wedding that Fiona has always dreamed about," Van said looking towards the ground ashamed that he couldn't give Fiona her dream wedding.
"I highly doubt that Fiona will really care about how big or how small it will be Van. She has loved you for so long despite all that she has done. I think she will be extremely happy that it is just happening," Moonbay said trying to make Van feel a little better.
"I guess I see your point. However, I promise that when all this fighting with Zack is over for good that I will give Fiona another wedding that she could once only dream about," Van said with determination sparking within his eyes.
"I have no doubt that you will. I also have no doubt that you will also make Fiona the happiest person on Zi with or without that dream wedding of hers. When he is gone, then I know you will live happily. You two are going to probably end up having a very large family," Irvine said with a smirk sitting right next to Moonbay drinking some coffee.
"Lets focus on the present right now. Zack is still out there and I don't want to bring any more children into this world as long as he is alive. Just look what happened to Fiona and our unborn child," Van said seriously looking out a nearby window into the vast desert that was right outside of the base. 'It sure sounds tempting though,' he thought with a small smile.
Zack just sat there behind a desk with a look of hard concentration on his face. He had no idea why he hadn't done anything for a while. He wanted so desperately to get Fiona back, but he was just waiting there doing nothing while Van was out there with his woman.
"Why aren't you doing anything?" the voice of Fiona's mother asked as the door opened and she walked into the room. Her face was etched into one of a serious nature just like she always had. Zack was wondering if it was possible for her to have any other sort of look upon her face.
"Why don't you shut your trap?" Zack answered very rudely to the older woman. "I will do things when I am ready. Fiona will return to our side and Van Flyheight's family will see the last of its days. They were always too meddlesome. Took your friend's loyalty away from you and made her soft towards the humans. Now they took your own daughter. Not for long though," he said placing his chin into his fist.
"Do not take them too lightly. The power of the Flyheight family is stronger then you realize. If you want to win then you will have to plan things very carefully,' she spoke in a voice filled with wisdom.
"I already know that. He can't control anything though. I actually had to use my full strength to fight him last time and I serious beat the crap out of him. He will be dealt with soon and then his sister. The Flyheight family will soon cease to exist. Besides, I know of the perfect way to defeat them," he said with a malicious sneer on his face as the thought suddenly came to him out of nowhere.
It almost dawned on Amber immediately as to what the insane young man was thinking about. "You are insane. There is no way that you will be able to harness that sort of power. There is also no current location of the two of them," she said with urgency in her voice. Even she knew that he was going over his head this time. The thought of him with that sort of power even frightened her more than anything.
"I know. This world will be mine whether you like it or not. I am afraid to say that I won't need your help anymore though. Your usefulness has ended, goodbye," he said taking out a gun and pointing it at the woman before firing it with a resounding blast through the room.
A very familiar gustav came into the base entryway and the canopy of it opened and Moonbay jumped out of it. Following closely behind her was non other than Van's older sister Maria whom Van had requested Moonbay to bring immediately since their village was a decent distance away.
Van decided that he wanted to keep one thing from her though. That was the little fact of his child. He was aware that she was unaware of the fact that Fiona and him had a child up till now because he had not gotten the time to be able to tell her up till then. He knew she would be surprised about it though.
"Van!" Maria yelled happily upon seeing her younger brother come walking into the hanger bay. She noticed that Zeke was following behind him ass usually but what she failed to notice was the little sleeping person that was upon its back.
"Hey sis!" Van waved at her with his usual smile on his face. He walked up to her and stopped right in front of her and gave her a small hug before he took a step back. "Thanks for bringing her here Moonbay. It means a lot to me," Van said turning his attention to Moonbay.
"No problem but you know you owe me right?" Moonbay said in a joking matter as she leaned against the side of her gustav with a small smirk on her face. Moonbay then walked away leaving the two of them alone.
"Why is it that you brought me here Van. Your friends wasn't exactly giving me a whole lot of details about it," Maria said while her and Van started to walk down the halls in the direction of where Fiona was currently resting. Maria then heard a small feminine groan coming from behind her only to see Zeke. "You feeling ok Zeke? You aren't sounding too good," Maria pointed out with a small laugh.
A small head of blonde hair of a young girl with very tired eyes looked over Zeke's shoulder towards where Van and Maria were standing. Maria stared at her for a second before her face lit up. "How cute!" she said with an extremely kind smile. As she rushed to the girls side and picked her off Zeke's back. Kristi seemed to really like the attention that Maria was giving her. "What are you doing in a military base like this little one? Is she a orphan Van?" Maria asked turning towards Van.
Van just scratched the back of his neck a little nervously. "Not quite," he muttered but it was loud enough for Maria to hear very easily. He saw Maria turn away putting all of her attention back on the kid.
"Then where are you're..." she said before she suddenly noticed something that made her gasp. Not only did this girl bare a strong resemblance to Fiona but the marking on her face was the exact same as their family markings. The little girl suddenly jumped out of Maria's arms. "Why does she have our markings Van?" Maria asked but one thought suddenly jumped into her head and she turned to look at Van.
Kristi ran to Van and he scooped her up into his arms and placed her up onto his shoulder where her chin rested upon the top of his head. "What is so surprising about it? She is family after all," Van said with a grin that was mirrored almost exactly by the little girl on his shoulders.
Maria's eyes widened as full realization dawned upon her. "You mean that she's your?" Maria said but she felt like she wasn't able to finish her sentence out of shock out of the realization of the truth.
"Yep, I would like you to meet my daughter, Kristi," Van said pointing to the top of his head where Kristi was smiling at her aunt in a very van like smile easily showing the resemblance between the two of them even if she did look like her mother.
Maria was putting several things together in her head. The child was Van but the appearance of the child wasn't that of Van's but more like... "Does that mean that the mother of the child is?" Maria asked hoping at least that that was the truth about the mother.
"Yep, it's Fiona. Which brings me to the point of why I brought you here. Fiona and I are getting married soon and I wanted to have you here. Sadly enough, we couldn't get married before this one was born because of circumstances that were beyond out control. I didn't even know that I had a child until a few months ago," Van said sadly.
Maria looked at Van sympathetically. The girl is very cute; she looks just like her mother. I am glad that the two of you were able to get together. I knew it would happen sooner or later anyways. At least it was sooner rather than later," she said with a smile.
This is going to be a very small wedding though. There is too much at risk by having a large one now. Someone is after Fiona and we wanted to get married before he could do anything else that could harm Fiona in any possible way," Van said staring in front of him with serious and saddened eyes at the remembrance of all that he had done so far to ruin the happiness that they were trying to build. "By the way, grandma is here also," van said just remembering that fact.
"Oh really? I would definitely like to see her as soon as possible. I haven't talked to her for a while," Maria said realizing that Van was also trying to change the subject by brining that up. It made her curious as to what it was that happened to the two of them since she last saw them but she knew not to pursue it too far. "Now where is the lucky bride?" Maria asked brightening up instantly.
Van took a seat at the side of Fiona's bed. They were finally given a little bit of peace after Maria and Van's grandmother had stopped fussing over all that they had planned for the wedding and decided to go and rest. He saw this as a great opportunity to be able to have a little alone time with Fiona and he intended to use it because he didn't know how much of that he would be able to have within the next few days.
Van took Fiona's hand lightly into his hand caressing it and laying a few kisses onto the back of it. She just smiled and leaned her head onto his shoulder with a true smile on her face. It was one that she hadn't been able to use with all that had been happening and the pain that they had been continually put through.
"Tomorrow Fiona. Tomorrow we will be married and finally be able to start the life we had hoped for. That is as soon as we are able to defeat Zack and put a stop to all the pain that he has caused this planet," Van said kissing the top of her head as she gave a silent agreement to him.
"What do you think it will be like Van? I mean when we will be able to finally live our lives in peace and raise a family?" Fiona asked keeping her eyes closed as she felt the comforting feeling of Van's breath upon her neck. She closed her eyes and listened to the beating of Van's heart in his chest with contentment.
"We will have as many kids as you wants. I will always be there because after Zack is finally gone I won't work full time for the guardian force like I planned and we will live a peaceful life away from all the problems of this world," Van said wrapping his arm around her waist and bringing her closer to him.
"It sounds nice. I can't wait for it to actually happen. Without Zack we will live peacefully without any worries in the world. I know that it will be soon that all of this will come true. I know we will win soon enough," Fiona said in a dreamy voice as she finally drifted off to sleep within Van's arms.
'Just you wait, everything that you could only once dream about will come true. I will make sure of it. This will all end soon and we'll finally live happily,' Van thought in his head as he watched Fiona lean with her head on his shoulder in a peaceful sleep that he knew she deserved more than anyone.
Zack paced around his office with an overconfident smirk on his face as he thought about all that he had ready for his rise to power. Soon enough he would be ruler of the world and all would bow to his feet.
"Yes, soon enough all of my plans will finally come together. I will be rid of Flyheight; Fiona will be in my arms instead of his. I will also finally rule the world with Fiona as my queen. It will be soon that my dreams will finally come true," Zack with a malicious laughter. "Now that the annoying woman is finally out of my hair, I will do things the way it is meant to be done," he said with a smirk.
He stood up from his desk and walked out of the room. He didn't know what happened to the old woman because she suddenly disappeared but he knew that he would no longer have to listen to any of the orders that she gave to him. He would do things the way he felt like and not by the ways that someone else wanted him to do.
His plans were already laid out. He chuckled as he thought of what he knew would be the end result. 'Nothing will stand in my way. You days are numbered Flyheight. Yes, the countdown is on.'