CHAPTER TEN
Van Fanel couldn't help but feel bored as he heard his councilors ramble on about things he already knew. His crimson red eyes couldn't help but to stare helpless up at the Mystic Moon. "Earth." He thought, remembering hearing Hitomi call it that before one time when she was here. "That's what they call that place." When Hitomi had gone back to the Mystic Moon five years ago, it had been difficult getting use to not having her around any more. He wondered if she still looked the same or had changed any, he wondered what she was doing and wondered if she was thinking of him; or had just forgotten about him completely? Maybe she pushed Gaea and him aside as if everything was just a dream. Gaea on the other hand, couldn't just push Hitomi over as a dream. Hitomi was now in all of their history books, since after Zaibach's defeat; their history books had been rewritten. Some of the people protested against it, but others came to it willingly. It was rewritten a lot, from where they came from, and a lot of other things that had been revealed by that war. History as they once knew it was changed.
"King Van are you listening?" One of Van's councilors asked Van in a loud voice.
"Yes." Van lied not wanting to let them know he was thinking about a girl, no a woman. It was none of their business what he was thinking of; unless if it had to do with Fanelia, and at this moment his thoughts where not on Fanelia, they where on Hitomi Kanzaki from the Mystic Moon. The Wing Goddess, the seer, and now, the latest title, the Messiah of Gaea. He had to grin at that thought and wondered what Hitomi would say to such a title. She would probably say somethinglike "Stop joking and be serious already!"Or at leastthat's what Van thought she would say. Hewanted to laugh at the thought but managed to keep his laughter inside.
They where pestering him about getting married again. He had put it off for five years now and knew that he knew that he wouldn't be able to put off not having a queen for much longer. His councilors where getting impatient and wanted a queen and a heir. Van thought differently on the subject, he figured that since Gaea was at peace there would be no rush in getting married or having an heir.He alsodidn'twant to marry someone because of their power, he wanted to follow in hisotousan's footsteps and marry someone he loved. The woman he loved was Hitomi, and he knew that he could not love another like her. He use to love being able tojust hear her speak, or to be able to look in those naive eyes of hers, that was all that he needed. Right now, was a different story. He was a king, but gods, he was a man as well. A man has feelings, and he began to wonder if he should have ever given Hitomi back. Then again, would she have stayed if he had asked her all those years ago? Van could only wonder. Then a thought hit him, their last conversation before he sent her off.
"Van, I like Gaea, and Fanelia to, I would like to see it when it's finished." Hitomi had said to him.
"You can see it, from there." Van had replied as he smiled at her and he had felt Hitomi's warm arms around his neck.
"I'll never forget you Van!" Hitomi had promised. "Even when I get old." It was then when he held up the energist and the pillar of light appeared. Hitomi smiled at him and held him until she was a distance off of the ground and handed him the pendant.
The pendant was all that he had left of Hitomi other then his memories. He was glad to be rid of the councilors when they finished discussing Fanelia's problems and other things that where going on. It was late in the evening, Van realized and he made his way out to the garden, not having had visited Folken in a while.
Hitomi got out of class late that evening since she had most of her classes later today. She had decided on going to the University near their home even though she knew it would have been better if she had just gone off to some school somewhere else. The only one who would have really missed her was her okaasan so she stayed for her okaasan. Something made her go to where her old high school was and sighed as she ended up at the track. This was the place where she had first met Van. He was really rough back then, and kind of rude. He had saved their lives, hers, Yukari's and Amano's; and she had saved his. He was still cocky about it afterwards even though she had told him that she didn't do it for the reward; he still had that cocky attitude of this which made her want to slap him accross his face and well she did.
Suddenly, she got the urge to run for some odd reason and walked over to the markets where the start was. She automatically went out of habit to her last spot, and put her feet in to the markers. "Three, two, one, GO!" She shouted in her mind and then began to run. Her running had improved a lot since that time as well as a few hidden tallents that she had that she didn't have to use here on Earth but they would have been well used in Gaea at that time. She wasn't wearing the proper running gear, since a skirt wasn't good to run in but she didn't care, she wasn't wearing high heals and all she needed where sneakers since she could run in practically anything. Her green eyes widdened as she saw one of Van's feathers suddenly appear in front of her and fall to the floor as she ran past by it. "He's calling me." She thought sadly. "But I can not go where he is, I don't know how." That's when she saw it, that strange pillar of light.
Van stood in the castle's gardens, where Folken was barried and he suddenly felt something very hot against his chest. It wasn't a painful type of hotess like when you burned your flesh on the hot flames of the fire, no, it was a different feeling, it was a calling. His eyes widdened as he saw the pillar of light appear before him and his legs seemed as if they where forced to walk toward it, and he pulled off his shirt with out a second thought. His wings came out, and white feathers fell around him as his wings came out. He stepped in to the light, almost spell bound to it and began to fly up.
When Hitomi reached the pillar of light, she was instantly taken off of the ground, her green eyes where wide with shock not having had expected that to happen since she gave her pendant to Van. Perhaps he was calling her, and perhaps he still cared for her after all of this time? She didn't know, but she figured that she would soon find out. "Please let him remember me." Her thoughts begged who ever could be listening to them at that moment and she was swept away from Earth and was being lead by the pillar of light once again to that strange world where the Earth and Moon hung in the sky, she was going back, back to Gaea.
Confused? Hehe. Well you really shouldn't be, it kind of makes sense in my mind. Or at least I think that it makes sense, since I'm the writer. Well tell me what you think. Yes it's a short chapter, but sometimes short chapters are better then longer chapters.