She turned around revealing a cup with a foul odor. "Drink this. It will
help with that headache of yours child."
"I'm not a child." He protested before he took a sip of the concoction. He spit out the small sip that he had taken. "What did you put in here?"
"Tastes really bad but it's good for you. Now drink up and tell me about your vision." The woman nodded her head. - - - "What do you know about disappearing children, invisible figures, and robed ones?"
"Hitomi did you say disappearing children?" Dryden pulled her around to look at him.
"Yes I did. What do you know about it?" She asked again, surprised at the scared look on his face.
He motioned for one of the maids that were walking by to come over to them. "Go get Lord Van and Lady Millerna. We'll talk about this in the conference room. It's a lot quieter." - - -
Thank you!
Lady Winged Knight/Tramie/ Krissiness/ Emeley Raines/ Fuzzie/Twilight Hacker/ Officially Obessesed with Pyro/ Sisame21/ Ego/ Niffer/ aradow/ =p/ Laura
Wow you never realize how many people have reviewed your story until write them all down do you?
Disclaimer: I don't own them. I just have a lot of fun writing them.
Chapter 8
The group of four met in the conference room. Van and Millerna wondered what was so urgent that Dryden had called them to the conference room, just as soon as he and Hitomi had left their presence.
Dryden had a book opened to something. "Hitomi had a vision of disappearing children and mother's running around trying to find their children. There is a group, about every twenty years, that has taken children to their place to make them Cylanders. When they are older, they do the same thing. It is believed that this group has now had access to Zaibach technology for twenty years now. The last time they were unseen hands. This time who knows what they could be. It is the right time for them to start trying to take the children."
"What happens if we don't put a stop to what is going on?" Van asked, worried about his people. The last time, twenty years ago, would have been the Destiny War or the Great War as it was also known. There would have been far too much going on to notice that the children were disappearing as well."
"If we don't stop them then this will continue until it can be stopped by someone else. I was a lot younger when it happened and couldn't do anything. Van, have you thought about how your son is similar to you?" Dryden asked the same question that Hitomi had asked during their fight earlier.
"I have and there are several that I know of." Van answered, keeping to himself, for the time being, that his son also had the Draconian wings.
"Hitomi, in how many ways is he like you?"
"Where are you going with this?" Hitomi asked.
"I believe that if he has all the traits that I think that he has, he may be the one that can stop this whole mess."
"What do you mean Dryden?" Van asked.
"There is a prophecy that predicts the coming of 'the one.'"
"Well tell us what it says." Millerna ordered.
"The One will come in a flash of light barely known to this world. He will be accompanied by another of the past. He must be a strong one, with special skills passed along family lines."
"Oh Van, that wouldn't be the thing he saw. I hope." Hitomi whispered, barely loud enough for even him to hear.
He understood the importance of what she was saying. He didn't know how to comfort her either.
"I'm sorry Hitomi, but I think you are tied into this as well." Dryden continued.
"What do you mean?" Hitomi
"I mean that I have been told that you have had robed figures attack you twice. Do you know what these figures are?"
"No I don't. They ran away the last time when I was about to get the hood off of one of them." Dryden shook his head.
"Don't take their hoods off. If they are revealed to the light, then it might kill them. They are only doing what they have been told to do. If they don't, then they can be killed as well.
Hitomi paled at that. "Uh, does that mean partly what I think it means?
Dryden nodded. "The theory is that as they are exposed to wherever they are, they start to learn things that are no longer taught here in the Gaian world. They know the old arts, the old style of fighting as well. It is also believed that they live among the hills, but we have never been able to find them. If Vanel is the Chosen one, then we must find the one that is supposed to help him. He will need the other person to act as his balance." Hitomi didn't know what to do or to think with the last statement.
"Why does this happen whenever I come back from the Mystic Moon?" She shook her head to clear it. She could do this. She was the diplomat for Japan. She could do this. So she would keep telling herself.
-Vanel-
Vanel was on his way back to town. His head was filled with more questions than answers and that was annoying. 'What does she mean that I will be tested? I already know that they have some kind of test to give me. Why do they think that it is necessary for a person to have to take this test, when it is obvious who they are? What is the purpose of this test anyways? Is it to prove what kind of prince or king I will be? Why do they think that my mother has to take another test? Hasn't she already had to take one? Can they not go back and look to see what their history is?'
He knew the answers that he had been told. He knew that she would accept the test. However, he worried what they would do and how they would test her. It was his mother. He had a right to be worried about her.
His thoughts were broken by his balking horse. "Hey, it's okay." He tried to reassure the horse. He stopped trying to comfort the horse when he saw a huge three pronged foot on the road. He slowly looked up to see a tan under belly against a green scaly back. His eyes kept moving up the large body until he reached the fiery beady eye at the very top. The long nose seemed ready to do just about anything it wanted and breathing fire was the first thing on his mind. That was when he remembered the tale of The Boy and the Dragon.
-Flashback-
"Okaasan, tell me a story." A young Vanel requested.
"Oh honey. I've told you so many stories I wouldn't know which one to tell you." Hitomi sat down on the bed looking tired.
"Tell me about the boy and the dragon." He had asked.
Hitomi lay right by him as she told the story that he had requested. "Well there was a girl named Iris that was running at the track. She had a meet in a couple of days and she wanted to be ready for it. Juniper and Amon' were supposed to meet her there after she was done running, so that they could go out and eat.
"Just as she was finishing her fifth lap, there was a bright blinding blue light that revealed a dragon and a boy. The boy held a sword in his hand and was fighting off the dragon. Something wasn't right. To the boy everything looked different, but he had to take care of this dragon because if he didn't then there would be a lot of people hurt. It didn't occur to him that he had come to another world and this could really wreak havoc. There were a few scratches on his face where the dragon's tale had hit him with his spikes.
The girl saw something as the dragon looked at her. What she saw made her run and push him out of the way as the tail swung around and hit her instead. She lay just a few feet from them unconscious. The boy took another swing at the dragon somehow making his sword fly toward the dragon's heart. The dragon fell to the earth with a thud."
"Was the dragon dead?" He asked innocently.
"Yes it was."
"What happened next?"
"The girl still wasn't awake, which had the young man worried so he picked her up as the blue pillar of light appeared and took them away to safety."
"Where did the light take them?" He asked in a sleepy voice.
"The light took them to Gaia, but that is another story." She kissed his forehead and tucked him in.
-End Flashback-
"Duh! Iris is my mother's middle name. Maybe she told me more than I thought." He knew that didn't matter right now. He had to get this dragon out of the middle of the road.
-In the conference room-
A knock on the door interrupted the silence in the room. "My Lord, Lady Kitan has arrived with her son." A servant said.
Van gave an almost inaudible groan before they entered the room. "Lord Van, why wasn't I notified about this meeting? My son is supposed to be trained by you, so he can take your throne if something happens to you."
Hitomi looked at the stiff woman that seemed to have no heart as she spoke the words. She wore the gown of an upper lady with a hairstyle that just seemed so ludricous in the way it lay.
Her son was just as stiff, it seemed, with an emotionless mask on his face. His starched clothes seemed to crinkle as he bowed to the king. Hitomi got the feeling that it was more out of respect.
"This meeting is a private meeting and has nothing to do with the running of any country." Van said in his official tone.
"You mean to tell me that a meeting with King Dryden and Queen Millerna is more important than affairs of the country?"
"At this moment in time, yes." Van answered the irate woman.
"This meeting with this," She looked over Hitomi from head to foot, "woman."
Van was trying to keep his cool now. "This WOMAN happens to be my wife." He answered shortly.
The woman bristled at this. "Your wife! You don't have a wife!"
"I've been married for nineteen years."
"It doesn't count when there isn't a soul that knows of her existence."
Hitomi stepped forward. "Lady Kitan, if you would check your history books you'll find that I am in there. Look for a Kanzaki Hitomi."
The woman just stared at her. There was really nothing she could say, as this woman was queen. It would be treason to say what she wanted to say, especially in front of the king.
Her son smiled at this. Lady Hitomi, he thought, was really pretty. "My lady, it is a pleasure to meet you." He gave her a genuine smile that his mother didn't see as she still staring at the four. "Mom, I think that you can stop staring at the floor now. Last time I checked it wasn't in the polite protocol."
He received a glare from her. She then looked at Lord Van. "You still have no heir to the throne. He needs to finish his training."
"Your son has just about completed that training. However, I do have an heir. He currently isn't here. If you would like, your son can stay here while you enjoy tea with some of the other ladies of the court. I do have some things that I need to go over with your son. They are of a private matter." Van dismissed the woman.
The woman looked at them aghast. She couldn't believe that she was being dismissed. The woman took a forced, but graceful step out of the room while everyone else let out a relieved breath. "Van, is there something that you forgot to tell me?"
He rubbed his hand in the back of his neck. "Yeah. I guess we'll be in here for a little while longer."
-In another place-
"What do you mean, the plan isn't going to work?"
"Exactly what I said. I think that part of this prophecy is coming true."
- - - - Okay that is the last of this chapter. I'm so sorry that it took so long to write it. I will make the same promise to you that I have made to the readers of Rivals. I promise not to get so caught up in the fanfic reading that I forget to work on my fanfic writing. You know the drill. Give me an honest review. Arigato and ja ne!
"I'm not a child." He protested before he took a sip of the concoction. He spit out the small sip that he had taken. "What did you put in here?"
"Tastes really bad but it's good for you. Now drink up and tell me about your vision." The woman nodded her head. - - - "What do you know about disappearing children, invisible figures, and robed ones?"
"Hitomi did you say disappearing children?" Dryden pulled her around to look at him.
"Yes I did. What do you know about it?" She asked again, surprised at the scared look on his face.
He motioned for one of the maids that were walking by to come over to them. "Go get Lord Van and Lady Millerna. We'll talk about this in the conference room. It's a lot quieter." - - -
Thank you!
Lady Winged Knight/Tramie/ Krissiness/ Emeley Raines/ Fuzzie/Twilight Hacker/ Officially Obessesed with Pyro/ Sisame21/ Ego/ Niffer/ aradow/ =p/ Laura
Wow you never realize how many people have reviewed your story until write them all down do you?
Disclaimer: I don't own them. I just have a lot of fun writing them.
Chapter 8
The group of four met in the conference room. Van and Millerna wondered what was so urgent that Dryden had called them to the conference room, just as soon as he and Hitomi had left their presence.
Dryden had a book opened to something. "Hitomi had a vision of disappearing children and mother's running around trying to find their children. There is a group, about every twenty years, that has taken children to their place to make them Cylanders. When they are older, they do the same thing. It is believed that this group has now had access to Zaibach technology for twenty years now. The last time they were unseen hands. This time who knows what they could be. It is the right time for them to start trying to take the children."
"What happens if we don't put a stop to what is going on?" Van asked, worried about his people. The last time, twenty years ago, would have been the Destiny War or the Great War as it was also known. There would have been far too much going on to notice that the children were disappearing as well."
"If we don't stop them then this will continue until it can be stopped by someone else. I was a lot younger when it happened and couldn't do anything. Van, have you thought about how your son is similar to you?" Dryden asked the same question that Hitomi had asked during their fight earlier.
"I have and there are several that I know of." Van answered, keeping to himself, for the time being, that his son also had the Draconian wings.
"Hitomi, in how many ways is he like you?"
"Where are you going with this?" Hitomi asked.
"I believe that if he has all the traits that I think that he has, he may be the one that can stop this whole mess."
"What do you mean Dryden?" Van asked.
"There is a prophecy that predicts the coming of 'the one.'"
"Well tell us what it says." Millerna ordered.
"The One will come in a flash of light barely known to this world. He will be accompanied by another of the past. He must be a strong one, with special skills passed along family lines."
"Oh Van, that wouldn't be the thing he saw. I hope." Hitomi whispered, barely loud enough for even him to hear.
He understood the importance of what she was saying. He didn't know how to comfort her either.
"I'm sorry Hitomi, but I think you are tied into this as well." Dryden continued.
"What do you mean?" Hitomi
"I mean that I have been told that you have had robed figures attack you twice. Do you know what these figures are?"
"No I don't. They ran away the last time when I was about to get the hood off of one of them." Dryden shook his head.
"Don't take their hoods off. If they are revealed to the light, then it might kill them. They are only doing what they have been told to do. If they don't, then they can be killed as well.
Hitomi paled at that. "Uh, does that mean partly what I think it means?
Dryden nodded. "The theory is that as they are exposed to wherever they are, they start to learn things that are no longer taught here in the Gaian world. They know the old arts, the old style of fighting as well. It is also believed that they live among the hills, but we have never been able to find them. If Vanel is the Chosen one, then we must find the one that is supposed to help him. He will need the other person to act as his balance." Hitomi didn't know what to do or to think with the last statement.
"Why does this happen whenever I come back from the Mystic Moon?" She shook her head to clear it. She could do this. She was the diplomat for Japan. She could do this. So she would keep telling herself.
-Vanel-
Vanel was on his way back to town. His head was filled with more questions than answers and that was annoying. 'What does she mean that I will be tested? I already know that they have some kind of test to give me. Why do they think that it is necessary for a person to have to take this test, when it is obvious who they are? What is the purpose of this test anyways? Is it to prove what kind of prince or king I will be? Why do they think that my mother has to take another test? Hasn't she already had to take one? Can they not go back and look to see what their history is?'
He knew the answers that he had been told. He knew that she would accept the test. However, he worried what they would do and how they would test her. It was his mother. He had a right to be worried about her.
His thoughts were broken by his balking horse. "Hey, it's okay." He tried to reassure the horse. He stopped trying to comfort the horse when he saw a huge three pronged foot on the road. He slowly looked up to see a tan under belly against a green scaly back. His eyes kept moving up the large body until he reached the fiery beady eye at the very top. The long nose seemed ready to do just about anything it wanted and breathing fire was the first thing on his mind. That was when he remembered the tale of The Boy and the Dragon.
-Flashback-
"Okaasan, tell me a story." A young Vanel requested.
"Oh honey. I've told you so many stories I wouldn't know which one to tell you." Hitomi sat down on the bed looking tired.
"Tell me about the boy and the dragon." He had asked.
Hitomi lay right by him as she told the story that he had requested. "Well there was a girl named Iris that was running at the track. She had a meet in a couple of days and she wanted to be ready for it. Juniper and Amon' were supposed to meet her there after she was done running, so that they could go out and eat.
"Just as she was finishing her fifth lap, there was a bright blinding blue light that revealed a dragon and a boy. The boy held a sword in his hand and was fighting off the dragon. Something wasn't right. To the boy everything looked different, but he had to take care of this dragon because if he didn't then there would be a lot of people hurt. It didn't occur to him that he had come to another world and this could really wreak havoc. There were a few scratches on his face where the dragon's tale had hit him with his spikes.
The girl saw something as the dragon looked at her. What she saw made her run and push him out of the way as the tail swung around and hit her instead. She lay just a few feet from them unconscious. The boy took another swing at the dragon somehow making his sword fly toward the dragon's heart. The dragon fell to the earth with a thud."
"Was the dragon dead?" He asked innocently.
"Yes it was."
"What happened next?"
"The girl still wasn't awake, which had the young man worried so he picked her up as the blue pillar of light appeared and took them away to safety."
"Where did the light take them?" He asked in a sleepy voice.
"The light took them to Gaia, but that is another story." She kissed his forehead and tucked him in.
-End Flashback-
"Duh! Iris is my mother's middle name. Maybe she told me more than I thought." He knew that didn't matter right now. He had to get this dragon out of the middle of the road.
-In the conference room-
A knock on the door interrupted the silence in the room. "My Lord, Lady Kitan has arrived with her son." A servant said.
Van gave an almost inaudible groan before they entered the room. "Lord Van, why wasn't I notified about this meeting? My son is supposed to be trained by you, so he can take your throne if something happens to you."
Hitomi looked at the stiff woman that seemed to have no heart as she spoke the words. She wore the gown of an upper lady with a hairstyle that just seemed so ludricous in the way it lay.
Her son was just as stiff, it seemed, with an emotionless mask on his face. His starched clothes seemed to crinkle as he bowed to the king. Hitomi got the feeling that it was more out of respect.
"This meeting is a private meeting and has nothing to do with the running of any country." Van said in his official tone.
"You mean to tell me that a meeting with King Dryden and Queen Millerna is more important than affairs of the country?"
"At this moment in time, yes." Van answered the irate woman.
"This meeting with this," She looked over Hitomi from head to foot, "woman."
Van was trying to keep his cool now. "This WOMAN happens to be my wife." He answered shortly.
The woman bristled at this. "Your wife! You don't have a wife!"
"I've been married for nineteen years."
"It doesn't count when there isn't a soul that knows of her existence."
Hitomi stepped forward. "Lady Kitan, if you would check your history books you'll find that I am in there. Look for a Kanzaki Hitomi."
The woman just stared at her. There was really nothing she could say, as this woman was queen. It would be treason to say what she wanted to say, especially in front of the king.
Her son smiled at this. Lady Hitomi, he thought, was really pretty. "My lady, it is a pleasure to meet you." He gave her a genuine smile that his mother didn't see as she still staring at the four. "Mom, I think that you can stop staring at the floor now. Last time I checked it wasn't in the polite protocol."
He received a glare from her. She then looked at Lord Van. "You still have no heir to the throne. He needs to finish his training."
"Your son has just about completed that training. However, I do have an heir. He currently isn't here. If you would like, your son can stay here while you enjoy tea with some of the other ladies of the court. I do have some things that I need to go over with your son. They are of a private matter." Van dismissed the woman.
The woman looked at them aghast. She couldn't believe that she was being dismissed. The woman took a forced, but graceful step out of the room while everyone else let out a relieved breath. "Van, is there something that you forgot to tell me?"
He rubbed his hand in the back of his neck. "Yeah. I guess we'll be in here for a little while longer."
-In another place-
"What do you mean, the plan isn't going to work?"
"Exactly what I said. I think that part of this prophecy is coming true."
- - - - Okay that is the last of this chapter. I'm so sorry that it took so long to write it. I will make the same promise to you that I have made to the readers of Rivals. I promise not to get so caught up in the fanfic reading that I forget to work on my fanfic writing. You know the drill. Give me an honest review. Arigato and ja ne!