A/N: Hi everyone!!!! Well here's the next chapter for this fic...actually check out my others one, too specially my YGH one which will be up in a couple of days Thank you too all who have reviewed I appreciate it....I know I said there would only be a couple more chapters...like 5 chapters ago, lol, but I'm kinda likin this story so I don't see it ending anytime soon...maybe around Christmas it probably be wrappin up!!! During the Thanksgiving holidays more chapters will be up!!!

Disclaimer: Don't own them! Neither do I own the lyrics there from coldplay "Clocks"

Hitomi, Girl Dragonslayer: Hitomi Will Soon See The Unseen

Not everything appears to be what it seems...sometimes there's a hidden truth, so deep, so covered up...it wants out...

just like a trapped creature...especially when the creatures wants out, and it sees a small opening...It will try to get out...at any price necessary...

Lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead

Dilandau broke off the kiss. He turned his head away as the voice came back again. He tried to shake it off, but it kept showing him flashbacks. Pushing away from Hitomi, he sat on his knees, burying his face in his hands trying to make it all go away.

Hitomi had began to tell start to tell Dilandau off, when she notice his strange action. She quickly got off the bed and knelt beside Dilandau. She tried to touch him but he slapped her hand away. A mumbled "leave me alone." was all that was uttered. Hitomi had started to get some help. But was quickly pulled back by Dilandau's hand. She turned quizzically at him, but he made motioned of what he wanted. Against her better judgment she sat back down beside him and just waited.

Singin', come out if things aren't said
Shoot an apple off my head
And a, trouble that can't be named
Tigers waitin' to be tamed

Singing, yooooooooooooo ohhhhhh
Yoooooooooooo ohhhhhh

Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna, come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know

Hitomi had never been afraid, but now she was. There was something wrong with Dilandau, he began to slightly shake. Hitomi was now becoming very worried. She didn't know what to do, or who to go to. As she blinked her eyes, she felt herself being jerked into a vision, which soon landed her in front of the sorcerer Soren.

"Soren what's going on, I don't get it?"

"It is beginning."

"What is!" Hitomi bit out frustrated, none of this was making sense. "Soren Please Help me...Help him."

Soren sighed. His work here is done. He had visited everyone he needed to. "You will soon understand, Hitomi." with that he was gone.

Hitomi was quickly sent back, only to notice Dilandau was not beside her.

"Dilandau?" she called worriedly.

"You have some explaining to do, Tara...or should I say Hitomi?"

"But you--

"I am fine, a slight sickness spell," Dilandau lied. He felt like crap, that other voice kept pestering him, but he was able to block it...he had bigger things to be concerned about then about a nuisance presence.

Singin', come out upon my seas
Curse missed opportunities
Am I, a part of the cure
Or am I part of the disease

Singin', yoooooooooooo ohhhhhh
Yooooooooooooo ohhhhhh
Yooooooooooooo ohhhhhh
Yooooooooooooo ohhhhhh

Hitomi sighed, and leaned back until her head was resting on the bed. She looked at Dilandau who was now perched on a chair. What would she say...what could she say... She than remembered her grandmother telling her that all good stories have a beginning..."I was out running" Hitomi began.

Dilandau listened intently as Hitomi spun her tale of how she ended up under his command. He was surprised of how much she was able to stand, but not let her spirit die or even be conformed to that of a different person, by being taken away from a totally different world.

He looked at Hitomi closely...This girl got under his skin...she somehow had come to mean so much more during these past few months than he felt for anyone ever in his life...

An awkward silence passes as Hitomi finished her story. Dilandau opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by the sound of the ship's bells signaling the battle cry.

Dilandau stood up and headed to the bathroom to get dressed. Hitomi started after him but was cut off. "Your staying here." Dilandau shut the door. Hitomi stared at the door in front of her in surprise. 'Stay here? Why?' 'I have a right to go, too.'

Yooooooooooooo ohhhhhh
Yooooooooooooo ohhhhhh

Oh nothing else compares

Dilandau hurriedly got dressed and half ran out the bathroom. He was not shocked to see Hitomi sitting there waiting, equipped with her battle uniform on. She followed him out of the door as he went to the Vione to meet with his other Dragonslayer, Jajuka.

30 min later

Oh nothing else compares
And nothing else compares

Yooooooooooooo ohhhhhh
Yooooooooooooo ohhhhhh

Hitomi was steaming mad. How dare Dilandau leave her like that! He had no right! Hitomi replayed back the scene, still feeling the weakness of her knees.

-Flashback-

Hitomi was stepping up to board a guymelef, when strong arms yanked her down. She looked to stare up at two furious crimson eyes.

"I thought I told you, you are not going" Dilandau stated.

"I am going, whether you like it or not!" Yelled Hitomi, placing both hands on the sides of her hips. "Don't try to stop me, either."

Dilandau crushed his lips to hers, leaving her with no comprehensible thought. After a few seconds she was like butter in his arms, totally pliable to his every whim. The next thing Hitomi remembered was her waking up in the sick bay, the nurse telling her she had a fainting black out spell. The stupid jerk, had simply made her black out.

Hitomi sighed standing up. She made her way to the balcony of the control room. She might be able to see the battle from there.

-Dilandau's Alseides-

Dilandau sighed ticked, that he was coming on with a headache. He kept getting these flashbacks, and his eyes would water ever so often. He kept hearing a voice crying, asking for one of the most hated names in Gaia Allen Shezar. He wished this voice would shut up.

Dilandau also wished his other slayers were here. He glanced over at an opening in his Alseides unit, and was relived that Jajuka was following him, he hated being alone.

-30 min later-

Dilandau landed at the port of Asturia. He could not wait until he battle started. All that blood and fire, a maniac sneer marred his handsome features. He loved fire and the sound of human flesh suffering, pain was his forte, and he would deliver it mostly to his one sworn enemy. 'Today Van, you will pay for what you did to my face' Dilandau vowed.

Dilandau marched in the line with the other units of Zaibach. He looked out at the other lines, and smirked. 'Let the Battle Begin!'

-Other side of the battle field-

Van glanced out at all the Zaibach units. Today was the day he'd take revenge on Dilandau for stealing the one he had sworn to protect, Hitomi. 'I'll get you back Hitomi' Van promised. He loaded into his guymelf, ignoring Millernia's well wishes, and Merle's tearful good-byes. He softly smiled a lethal smile. Today was a day of reckoning, and new beginnings...today was a day of death.

Home, home, where I wanted to go
Home, home, where I wanted to go

Hitomi could see from her viewpoint that the battle had started. She gently closed her eyes, and wished that both Dilandau and Van would be safe.

Dilandau was having fun, he loved war. He loved it for the fighting, for the killing, for the pure skill of defeating a lesser mortal. He laughed as he bulldozed a couple of Asturia's soldiers, He made his way deep into Asturia's flanks looking for the one person that he was thirsty to shed their blood..

Van fought valiantly, taking pride in his skillful tactics of sword fighting. He loved besting his enemies and he one to best one most of all.

They both turned at the same time. One Dragon of silver, and the other a Warrior of Red. The caught sight of each other and both men smirked. It was time, time to engage in the greatest battle of all. As they approached each other, they skillfully cleared other soldiers out of the way. It was as if time had stood still as they finally squared off against each other. This is what they had both been waiting for. The time was now.

Van charged first, moving his guymelef at top speed, Dilandau not to be one that would hesitate changed his Crima Claw into a sword. That is when they began their dance. They blocked, parried, sparred and the same again. Over and over, minutes flew by but neither notice. Both sides were making leeway but neither noticed as they were wrapped up in their own battle.

Dilandau was tiring quickly. Something was going on, that presence was getting stronger and stronger...As Van made a thrust, Dilandau hesitated a second, and in an instant knew he had made a mistake. As he watched Van's sword come near him, he knew he had no chance. He closed his eyes...

The thrust never came. Dilandau cracked his eyes open to see, his dragonslayer Jajuka standing in front of him, having saved him.

"JAJUKA!!!" he yelled.

"STAY OUTTA MY WAY!!!" he added.

Jajuka turned to him, his eyes frightfully scary...they seemed familiar somehow. He led Van from him, and as they fought, Dilandau knew Jajuka was not going to last. He screamed his name one last time, but it was too late. Van was able to thrust his sword into him, to obliterate him. Before Jajuka departed his uttered one last thing to Dilandau, which set something inside him free.

"CELENA TURN BACK TO THE GIRL I ONCE KNEW CELEEEEEENAAAAA!!!!!"

Dilandau inside him raging. He thought of Hitomi, but something was pulling him down, pulling him into a deep abyss.

Van turned back to Dilandau. He would know finish what he started. He raised his sword to deliver a blow to Dilandau...

Home, home, where I wanted to go
Home, home, where I wanted to go

Van felt something blocking him. He looked and saw Allen in front of him. "ALLEN" he yelled, "What are you doing?!"

"Step back, Van..."

"NO, ALLEN!!"

"Move Allen"

Van watched Allen look over his shoulder. "Celena!" "CELENA!!" Allen yelled.

As Dilandau once was...there now stood a different person. A person who was liberated from the darkness.

Celena opened her eyes. "Brother! Oh Brother! Oh Allen, is that you?"

"OH Celena!" Allen cried.

Celena looked down at where she was. She didn't know what to do. Seeing a button she pushed it. It opened up this strange machine she was in. She stepped out.

Van looked at where Allen was watching. The Alseides opened and out stepped, a woman. Van looked at Allen in surprise. "But--

"Celena" Allen whispered again. Allen moved from Van and over to where his sister stood. He got out of his guymelef and embraced his sister. He had a dream, and a man told him he would find his sister today...and he did.

Brother and sister tearfully were reunited. "I'm home Celena" whispered.

Hitomi could see from where she was standing that the battle was clearing up. It seemed as if neither sides had really made any head way. She walked back to the Vione waiting for Dilandau to arrive anytime soon.

Allen gathered his sister and his crew and they headed toward his ship. Van trailed behind, still confused. 'Cerena was Allen's lost little sister...how can Celena be Dilandau. More importantly, where is Dilandau'? He would ask Allen tonight is this all about.

Celena felt better as she sat beside Allen. She couldn't remember what happened but she was back and as Allen said, that was all that matter.

I want my body back

Celena eyes widen. It was that voice...she knew that voice.

She closed her eyes, trying to block it out, but it kept pestering her.

What have you done to me!

Dilandau did not know where he was but he wanted out. This darkness, this complete obscurity was frightening, and most of all he was alone, he hated being alone. Hitomi, was all he remembered, home...Hitomi was home...and he wanted back there...

Home, home, where I wanted to go
Home, home, where I wanted to go