CHAPTER NINETEEN
Van seemed overly excited about him becoming a father and could barely control himself. Hitomi had to make him promise that he wouldn't give it away since she didn't want everyone to know yet. Especially since what happened in Fanelia that day, she didn't want to bring any more danger to their growing child inside of her. She was shocked at first yes, but she then finally accepted it, at least it was hers and Van's. Another secret that would bring them closer together until it was the right time to be exposed. Her wings however, she wasn't sure if she would ever tell anyone about those, she didn't want to tell anyone about those until she had to show them, as Van had promised his mother.
The two danced at the ball which was help after Duke Fried's ceremony and fights between guymelofs would come next. Some of the generals of Fried asked Van to participate but Van declined saying that EscaFlowne was never to be piloted again. "Van it's that man!" Hitomi whispered as she seen the familiar man from the market place on that day when that stranger tried to get the crowd of people turned against her.
"Are you sure?" Van asked as his eyes narrowed on to the man.
"Yes, positive." Hitomi said gasping.
"I'll kill…."
"Van you're in Fried now remember? And besides you can't kill everyone, killing isn't right." Hitomi said. "Besides, I'm… in the mood for you to hold me." Hitomi said lieing trying to get Van to calm down some.
"Tomorrow, I'm having a talk with the duke." Van said as he put his arms around Hitomi who blushed since they where in public. Fanelia, in Fanelia it was different well it just was, Fanelia was their home, here, this place wasn't.
"If he even dares touches you again… don't be alone Hitomi, no matter what when I'm not with you here." Van said which made Hitomi want to smack him aside the head. "Alright alright, I'll follow Allen-San around everywhere." Hitomi said playfully which made Van jealous automatically since he was still pained by seeing the kiss between Hitomi and Allen. Hitomi knew that Van was still jealous of Allen for Hitomi's stupidity and a younger girl's crush. "Ok Ok, knock it off, you know I wouldn't."
"I'll keep you to that promise, Hitomi Fanel." Van whispered to where only she could hear. The man came over to them and bowed and Hitomi could feel Van's body tense as he let go of her and stood in front of Hitomi and narrowed his eyes on the man. "Can I help you?" Van asked coldly.
"I was just wanting to ask to dance with Queen Fanel." The man said sweetly.
"No, go away." Van said and Hitomi kept her hand on Van's arm which was very tense at the moment.
"I just asked for a dance not for…"
Dryden luckily but in at that moment. "Ah, Queen Hitomi, King Van, just the people I was looking for." Dryden said and stepped in front of Van and the man. "Excuse us, I was already in line to dance with her highness just as Van had promised my wife a dance."
"Ah yes, of course, excuse me Prince Dryden." The man said as he bowed and escorted himself away.
"Was I rude to intrude your highness?" Dryden asked Hitomi.
"Hime Millerna is letting you do this?" Hitomi asked surprised.
"Of course, she's the one who told me to come get you." Dryden said as he talked through his teeth like Millerna had taught Hitomi. "What was that all about if you don't mind me asking."
"This isn't really the best place to explain it, but I will explain it to you sooner or later if my king allows me to do so." Hitomi said trying to act elegantly.
"Of course, I'll ask him myself later. After he fights." Dryden said.
"He's fighting in the tournament?" Hitomi asked surprised. "I thought he wasn't."
"He's doing it by borrowing one of Allen's guymelofs." Dryden explained. "Allen somehow got his hands on to two of them."
"Is that so?" Hitomi asked. "I'll have to talk to Allen later…" Hitomi said.
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"Did you get you're business taken care of this morning?" Millerna asked Van trying to distract him from glaring at the man.
"Huh? Yeah, I did thanks." Van said blushing slightly at the thought of Hitomi being pregnant
"I hope everything turned out well." Millerna said. "And by the looks of you two neither one of you are sick."
"I never said anything about being sick." Van said blushing fiercely now.
"Oh, sorry, I just assumed, but by looking at both of you you seem fine." Millerna said.
"Umm…. Yeah…" Van said still blushing fiercely.
"Thank you for the dance, King Fanel." Millerna said and bowed gracefully.
"You're welcome Hime Millerna." Van said and bowed as well.
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The guymelof battle came down to Van and Allen, that really didn't surprise Hitomi, but what did surprise Hitomi was the cloaking technology that was on Allen's guymelof.
"You don't seem to learn that that doesn't effect me any more Allen!" Van said as he easily blocked Allen's on coming attack.
'Damn, he saw me, but how? I thought that Hitomi was the only one who had that power?' Allen thought to himself. 'Van has it on his guynelof as well but he doesn't use it.'
"Only cowards hide Allen!" Van shouted as he swung the sword and which seemed to have broke the cloak on Allen's guymelof.
"Oni-Chan, I thought that he didn't need to use that." Celena said sadly as she watched the fight.
"I don't know, but I think that Allen wants to win this time." Hitomi said and Celena looked at her. "Remember the last battle of the Great War?" Allen had fought to protect Dilandu who was actually his sister Celena and Van fought Allen since Allen wouldn't let Van at Dilandu.
"Fight… Fight… fight…" Celena said which made Hitomi look over at the other woman suddenly. "Battle, war, I must…."
"Celena-Chan, are you alright?" Hitomi asked and grabbed hold of Celena as she started to fall but went in to a vision herself.
Dilandu, she could see Dilandu, why? He was gone, Celena had taken back over and lived as herself again. Dilandu was laughing insanely at her as he watched Allen and Van fight.
"Yes my oni-chan, fight that damn dragon!" Dilandu shouted.
"Celena, Celena you must fight it, whatever that is!" Hitomi called out to the other girl who was slowly fading away.
"Die already you damned girl, you held me back too long." Dilandu said to Celena who seemed to be fading slowly. Celena and Dilandu seemed to be separated, and Celena appeared to be fading away. "ONI-CHAN!" Celena shouted, her arm raised toward Allen.
Hitomi ran to catch after Celena who reached out to her since Allen was paying no heed to Celena's cries. "Hold on to me." Hitomi said to Celena who grabbed hold of Hitomi's hand and Dilandu angrily looked at the two of them.
"You, you, you're that damned girl from the Mystic Moon." Dilandu said growling dangerously.
"Be gone you damned shadow from the dark part of the mists." Hitomi suddenly said and Dilandu seemed to look at her strangely and it was then, when the pendant around Van's neck seemed to glow.
"Allen, we have to quit this, there's something wrong with Hitomi!" Van shouted once he looked down to where Hitomi was once standing, only now seeing Celena and his wife both unconscounce on the floor.
"Nice try Van, you won't get out of it this time!" Allen said as he charged again.
"Damn it Allen, get out of my way!" Van said angrily and seemed to knock Allen down with one more hit with out realizing it and didn't care. He quickly jumped out of the guymelof before Chid said who the victor was and ran to Hitomi. "HITOMI!"
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"Be gone you damned shadow from the dark part of the mists!" Hitomi shouted and a light emitted from her. "Go back to where you belong you evil fowl creature!"
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It was when Van ran frantically towards the direction to where Hitomi was standing was when he then realized that Van was not joking. "Celena!" Allen said now noticing that his sister had passed out. "Celena!" He jumped from his guymelof and followed in Van's footsteps and picked up the young girl and held her in his arms.
"Come on Hitomi, not now, not now!" Van said frantically worried about both, his wife and their child that they had just found out about earlier today.
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Celena and Dilandu seemed to join once again as one expect for the fact that Celena had control and that Dilandu was just became part of her. Hitomi could feel warm arms around her and she now looked up in to familiar reddish-brown eyes. "Van." She said softly aware of the crowd, being able to feel their eyes on them.
"Thank the gods." Van said relieved.
"Sorry your highness, I seem to always worry you." Hitomi said somewhat sadly and fell asleep, exausted from whatever it was that she had just done.
"She's just sleeping now." A doctor said to Van and then checked on Celena. "She appears to be asleep as well now, we need to get them out of this large room."
Van picked Hitomi up with out another word, and walked to the guest bedroom where Chid had placed them to stay. He laid her on the bed and ran his hands through her soft brown hair. "Hitomi…." Green eyes then looked up at him which surprised him since he thought she was asleep.
"Sorry Van, I just used too much energy that's all." Hitomi said as she looked in to Van's eyes. "It seems as if I do nothing but sleep, get hurt, or…" Van silenced his queen by giving her a short kiss. "Sleep if you need to then Hitomi, I do not want anything to happen to you or our child."
"Yes Van." Hitomi said and smiled weakly. "I'll explain it to you later, I promise, but before that can I have a good night kiss?" She asked blushing slightly and Van just grinned.
"Alright, just one." And with that he bent over and kissed her on the forehead and got a pout from his wife. "You never said where you wanted me to kiss you Hitomi Fanel, now go to sleep."
"Alright, goodnight." Hitomi said as she now closed her eyes, rather exhausted and then fell asleep.
Van knew that Chid would want to talk to him now to see if Hitomi was alright, since that was just Prince Chid, he didn't know if Duke Chid was any different so he walked out of his room and was right.
"Is Hitomi alright?" The new duke asked worried and Van nodded. "Yes, she's fine, she's just exhausted."
"Thank the gods." Chid said relieved.
"However, I need to talk to you about something, but I don't want to leave Hitomi alone, do you have time tomorrow to when we can talk? It's extreamly important."
"Yes, of course, I'll send for you right away." Chid said knowing by now when Van said that it was important, he meant it.
"Thank you, congratulations Duke Chid, if you'll excuse me." Van started to say and Chid nodded.
"Yes, of course, I need to go tell Aunt Millerna and Uncle Dryden, their worried." Chid said. "Good night." And with that the young duke left.
Van made his way back in to the bedroom and locked the door after him, not wanting any disturbances from that man tonight. He sat next to Hitomi and watched her for a few hours not knowing how long it had been before he had finally drifted in to a dreamless sleep.
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It really does seem like Hitomi does nothing but sleep doesn't it? O.O Well there's some action right? So she doesn't just sleep. Haha! UU Anyways…… I hope that you're
Enjoying it so far. If you're wondering why I'm updating so fast, I want to update
While I still have an obsession with EscaFlowne and not wait four years to
Finish this story if you know what I mean. If you read my first fan fic
"Friends Reunite you will understand what I mean. The ending sucks
After four years of hard work of writing over 33 chapters and then
Its just one of those rushed endings. I'm sure that you've read
Pleanty of stories like that or at least one or two stories like
That. I figured that Chid was either ten years old in the
Series or somewhere close to that age or at least he
Looks like an eight year old… Then again I'm
Eighteen and look like I'm about thirteen so
I guess like you really can't judge a persons
Age by the way they look… I'm living
Proof of that. Well thanks to all of
You who have been leaving me
Reviews, the reviews are the
Only thing keeping me
To want to write.
Thanks again
-Darkia-
P.S. That sort of looks like a tornado doesn't it? O.O