Disclaimer: I do NOT, I repeat, do NOT own Escaflowne or Magic Knights Rayearth. So don't even think I do. I meant to do it with the other chapters, but forgot to.

Chapter 3: A meeting with the Wing Goddess and with a sinister Prince.

Abandoned Castle in Tundra, West from Fanalia

The Creature the Palu summoned appeared at a Castle that seemed to not been inhabited for a long time. The scenery was tundra, which is very strange because it is in a forest. Vines rapped the towers like green serpents. The roofs of the towers were an ice blue and seemed to be made of an ice crystal. Ice Crystal is a type of crystal that is colder then ice but doesn't melt nor becomes colder. But that doesn't stop the prince, who lives here. This prince was more like a demon then a prince. He hunted some people's dreams and one of them in particular, was from the Black Dragon Clan. The one he did the night last, was his best one yet and will do more to him the nights to come.

The Creature was flying into the castle doors and then landed on one of the arms of the thorn, which the young prince was sitting on.

"Your Majesty," The Nymph Pixie said with a bowed, "I have some . . .upsetting news."

The emerald eyes of the prince opened and looked in the Pixie's direction, "What do you mean by UPZETING newz?"

The pixie gulped, "The Fire angel is here but the pillar brought her to the dragon with the black demon wings,"

"WHAT!" François stood out of his throne with fury.

"And the worst part is that she's now going to see the Winged Goddess right this second," another gulp was made.

Of course, to the pixie's expectations, François started to curse under his breath in French. At every word, even though he didn't know what he was saying, the Nymph Pixie cringed because he knew those words won't be that pleasing . . . if you knew French anyways.

"You know that's not all that prince-like, François," a deep and sinister voice said in the shadows.

"But you know zat if zhe goez to ZEM then it'z not going to be eazy to capture her,"

"Don't fret, My Childling. Soon there will be a time that you can poses my powers," A man walked out of the shadows of the corridor.

He was about average height, the cloak covered his face, and small strains of the same silvery-blue hair fell out of the hood. He wore black boots, the pants were black with ice blue pinstripe on the sides, a black shirt that was unbuttoned showing his chest, and the cloak was a dark bluish-violet. Every word he spoke was like silk but in a disturbing way that would give you chills down you spin. The skin that you can see was paler then an albino, even whiter then snow. The smirk he did when he told François was as ominous as his voice.

François sat back down, now more calmer, "I guezz you're right. You and I will in due courze become one but zince you're just a sprit at the moment we can't do anything. The problem iz, that The Wing Goddess is a zeer and zhe might, just might, try to ztop us."

"True, but we must wait, My Adolescent. Soon, The time will come, soon." The he disappeared.

..oo00oo..

Fanalia Castle, Forest of Fanalia

Dilandau walked into the room with his fingers crossed . . . hoping that he was at LEST 10 minuets late. Allan walked into the room.

"Ahh, Dilandau! You're just in time. Well actually you're 10 minuets early as usual."

"AH MAN! This sucks! I was hoping I didn't have to deal with those damn politics. And the thing is that I walked in the market for, I think for an hour, too."

"And I'm still going to taunt you with that until the war starts." Allen smirked.

"You are so going to pay for this, Shezar!" the albino growled with gritted teeth.

"But, who's the little one over there?" Millerna said now just coming into the room.

"Huh?" Dilandau turned.

Hikaru was looking up at the paintings and the other wonderful things that was made by inhabits of here. Now seeing her height, she was actually on the short side. Many people would think she was stilling Junior High. But by the uniform she was wearing, that showed that she was in High School. Of course, this is a new thing on Gaia. He shook his head with a small smile.

"Her name is Hikaru Shidou. She came from Tokyo as well." Dilandau said now turning to face Millerna and Allen.

"Dilandau?" the red headed girl said with confusion. "How come, you're the war commander of Fanalia, if you don't even like going to the meetings and are still rivals with the king?"

Allen snickered; Millerna bit her lip trying not to bust out laughing. Dilandau glared that the two. This was one of the reasons why he hate being in the same room as those two, they always found a way to annoy him, the other reasons . . . he really didn't want to think about those. But during the meetings he found a way to get them back.

He turned to Hikaru, "You see . . . even though we're rivals doesn't mean we can't have an friendship and—"

Allen cut him off, "Oh really, then why were you two trying to kill each other with spells yesterday?"

"And IN the castle?" Millerna added.

Dilandau rolled his eyes, "we were training." He huffed.

"But it was still in the castle." Allen pointed out.

While the three was arguing, something that glistened in the sunlight on the ground caught the young girl's eye. She walked towards the little thing and saw it was a jewel that looked familiar. Hikaru picked it up and realized what it was when it disappeared and reappeared on her hand. It was the jewel used to summon Lexus, The Lion of Fire. Hikaru was wondering why it was here when she felt someone's percents behind her.

"Where did you get that?" Dilandau asked looking over her shoulder.

Hikaru turned. Of course, he was able to look over her shoulder fairly easy because of the fact that she was much shorter then him. She took a deep breath, "I know I didn't tell you but—"

"It time for the meeting, Dilandau." A deep voice said from the oak doors.

The man was tall and had raven hair. Is eyes was a deep brown like ambers and wore a red top with the end of the hem lined with silver. His pants were black with the same thing as his shirt. His sword was fasted to his hips and had a crest of an elaborate design. His calf-high boots seemed to be made of black leather. The circlet around his head was made of silver with a green jade imbedded into it.

"Come on, Van! Why can't I just stay out here just for maybe for ten or twenty minutes?"

"As much as you try to get out of these things, you're still stuck with it."

Dilandau groaned. Of course this was the thing that always gave him a headache. The damn arguments of those politics always made sure that he came back to the mansion with a throbbing migraine. But, he had no choice in the matter so he walked into the room.

"What about the little one?" Allen asked gesturing a hand towards little Hikaru.

Van looked up, "I guess she could come, but how did she get here?"

"Dilandau for some reason thought it was a good idea for her to see Hitomi," Millerna said with a small smile, "But, for once, I actually think it was a great idea." Now looking a Hikaru with the small smile still on her face.

"Well that's settled, we better get inside before the others start wondering where we were." And with that, they all went inside.

Before Hikaru walked in through the door, she looked behind her because she thought she heard a little cackle. She heard it again and she looked up. A gargoyle was sitting on one of the sides of the stairs. It's mouth opened wide with its fangs showing. It looked like part snake and part lion. The eyes were made out of rubies.

"HIKARU!" yelled Dilandau's voice.

"Coming!" and with that, she was in the next room.

The gargoyle sitting on the stairs, the eyes glowed in a sinister way and you could hear the cackling into a spin-chilling, boisterous laugh. The laugh echoed through out the room and then it was gone.

A/N: I know this is a bad way to end the chapter, but I have to have somewhat fun. Grins that's what dragons do when they have to do something to get the reader's attention. But I'll update as soon as I can.