CHAPTER ONE: Was it Just a Dream?

Hitomi stared at the night sky and sighed, it had been three years since everything had happened. "Did it really happen?" She asked herself as she remembered the first time that she had seen him. "Was it real, or was it all just a dream?" She asked herself silently. When she had got back, she wasn't really sure if it had happened. The only thing that told her that mad it happen was how many days had gone by from the time she had been gone. A home that she had loved the same as her own home, was it possible? She closed the open window and moved to her bed, still dressed in her high school uniform. Hitomi flopped down on to the mattress, not being in the best of moods for caring about anything but that. "Van." She thought and sighed. "Where are you? How are you?" She asked. "I miss you."

The sound of her door knocking could be heard next. "Hitomi!" Her mother's voice called out to her. "Dinner time."

"I'm not hungry." Hitomi answered.

"It's un-healthy to miss meals." Hitomi's mother said through the door. "I'll save you something so that you can eat later."

"Thanks mother." Hitomi yelled through the door not really meaning it. She sighed once more as she stayed there and laid her head down on the pillow. She closed her eyes, leaving the bedroom lights on and her homework un-finished. She didn't care about any of that, she only cared to be left alone. Hitomi didn't remember falling asleep or even knowing that she did, all that she could see was the world of dreams around her.

"In my dream, I dreamed that I was in Gaea, I was in my second home. I felt sort of silly, but I was floating, watching them. Every one was there, they all seemed so happy and seem to be doing well. The strangest thing was that I had visited the people first who I least expected it. At my first stop, I was floating around Millerna, who had become the first princess who had also become a doctor to help her people. I was glad because she had fulfilled her wish. I reached out to touch her shoulder as I stood there next to her, helping a sick child, but was swept away with the wind.

The next person who I was sent to see, was Allan. I know that I use to like him before I did Van, and he had even kissed me, but in the end, I knew that there was nothing between us. I have to admit that I was a bit surprised to see that he and Millerna still haven't gotten together since they had feelings for one another, but must have had to put those feelings aside because of silly titles. Allan, Gaddass and the others all continued to be together, in Allan's castle. I couldn't see it then, but I assumed that he had changed, for the journey that we had taken together had changed us all. I didn't bother to try to touch him, since when I wished that I wanted to, the wind once again took me away. I assumed that it would be pointless to try to touch whoever it had taken to me next.

"Fanallea!" I gasped recognizing the recently rebuilt country. "Van's kingdom." I could feel my mood lift once I recognized the kingdom. Merle was sitting out on the roof below me. "Merle!" I cried with delight as I saw the familiar cat girl. "Merle, its me, It's Hitomi!" It was strange because her ears seemed to perk up whenever her name was called. "Hitomi?" Merle asked and turned around, but just stared blankely at the spot in front of her. "I'm hearing things. There's nothing there." Merle said and turned back around, previously occupied by something else.

"Merle, its me, I'm here. Merle!" Before Hitomi could try to get the cat girl's attention once more, the wind carried her off once again. She was getting tired of this, the wind that kept taking her away from those who she loved. It was nice to see that they where alive and well, but it would be nice if she could actually stay and talk to them, to at least hug them, she did miss them terribly, just the same way as she had missed her family on Earth whenever she was away from them. They where her second family, just like Gaea was her second home. She almost didn't realize to whom she was now standing in front of, "Van." She breathed now seeing the one who she had wanted to see.

"Hitomi, is that really you?" Van asked as he stared at her with disbelief.

"You can actually see me Van?" Hitomi asked, tears streamed down her eyes.

"Yes, I…" Before Van could finish his sentence, Hitomi could start to feel the wind pull at her again. "Van!" She called out to him, stretching out her hand to him. She smiled as he clasped his hand in to hers, she could feel his warmth. She could feel something that was placed in to her hand, something small, but she couldn't tell what it was. "Van, I…" Before she could finish her sentence, she could feel it, that same wind that had brought her here was beginning to blow once again. Her brown hair(which was now long) was being pulled in every which way as the wind caught hold of her.

This time when the wind had pulled her away, it was different from the other times, this time she found herself back in her room, on her bed. The sun had been up for a few hours, or at least that's what it had appeared to be. She was back in her room, she realized and that it was just all a dream. Hitomi then remembered how Van had pressed something in to her hand before she was swept away. She realized that her hand was closing around something tightly. Hitomi opened her hand and gasped recognizing the thing that he had given her. It was given to her by her grandmother after all, it was her pendant, which she had found out that it was more then just a pendant. Van had given it back to her, she closed her hand around it once again and cried.

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Not much for the first chapter but I haven't worked on this in a while so I'm just trying to get my ideas straight. Also, I'm sorry that its so short, but I don't want to give too much away in the beginning, after all, what would be the point in continue to read later chapters right? Please tell me what you think and I promise to try to make the next chapter longer.