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"Milord, Milady, King Dryden and Queen Millerna have returned from their excursion."
Van and Hitomi nodded their consent for them to enter. "Van, Hitomi, Najeh is missing."
-Vanel-
"Some of the Draconians managed to escape to earth. They became as the humans there were because they knew what could happen. The knowledge was lost but in brief reference in legends. Your great grandmother as a girl went to Gaia somehow after she found a stone on the attic floor. She returned several years according to her but to everyone else she hadn't even disappeared. However, there wasn't a single one that could explain how she wore a ring on her left hand or the fact that she was pregnant with me."
-Analous-
"Until you come to your senses I will stay away."
He waited until she was no longer in hearing range. "Good riddance mother."
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Macky- I hope you keep enjoying the story. I know right now it might be a little hard to follow but of you're keeping up with all of the characters it's a little easier to do.
Disclaimer: I don't own them I only enjoy writing them.
Chapter 17
Hitomi walked through the halls until she found the library. She walked in to find the canine librarian putting books back into their proper place. She ran her hands along the leather bindings that you knew were old but still shined with the effect that they were new. "Milady, can I help you?"
Hitomi turned to look at the librarian. "I'm just looking." She looked above where the librarian stood. "Wow! Who did these pictures?"
"My Okassan." The canine answered. "My name is Midnight Call, the librarian here."
"I am Kanzaki Hitomi." He took her hand to kiss it.
"Lady Hitomi I was wondering when you were going to make you way here." Midnight pulled out a chair for her to sit. Hitomi picked up a book that lay on the table.
"Hitomi?" A soft voice finally broke her concentration.
"Millerna, how are you?" Hitomi knew that Millerna was worried about Najeh.
"Not so great. I was wondering if you could do a reading for me?" Millerna asked.
"Millerna I gave up fortune telling after the war over 20 years ago." Hitomi told her. "You're worried about her?"
"Yes." Millerna smiled quietly.
"Take my hands." Hitomi held out her hands to the Queen. When Millerna placed her hands into Hitomi's she saw what happened on the excursion, she felt her friends worry, and the fear of what would happen. "Don't think about what's going on inside of you." Hitomi whispered quietly. They made the connection go deeper to find what was going on.
Cave walls revealed themselves to the two women as they walked the tunnels to see what was up. "Your highness they are off on their journey."
"Very good."
"There is one more thing. Our seers were watching through the transitions. There is at least one among them that are imposters." The blond haired, brown eyed girl turned her head in interest.
"Is that so?" She asked.
"Yes. It is the one that found the rebel in the woods.
"Well keep an eye on them. Is the building just about complete?"
"Yes, we're waiting for the scrolls from Alexandria and we will be able to finish most of it."
"Excellent. Watch the boy he holds secrets that can destroy." The princess warned.
"Your Highness, the party will be finished in the specified period. The supplies are on the way." The yong woman who had helped Vanel earlier curtsied.
"Good now all we have to do is send out the invitations." The young woman looked the way that Hitomi and Millerna were watching her. She didn't see anything though.
Millerna let go of Hitomi's hands in shock. "Where is she?"
"I don't know but I guess we're going to find out soon enough." Hitomi said to her friend.
"Lady Hitomi, would you tell us what happened after you left?" Midnight came up.
Hitomi had a far away look in her eyes as she thought back to that day. "Van we have to go back to Earth."
"What's wrong Hitomi?" Van took her hand.
"My Okaasan needs us now." Hitomi put a bag together.
"What do you mean us?" He asked weary.
"I mean that you're my husband and it's time for you to meet her." She started on his bags.
A day later they left Gaia for Earth. She led them through the streets to her mother's house. "Mom! I'm home!" She called out.
There was no answer as Hitomi put her bags down. She checked through the house to make sure that everything was still in order. Everything seemed to be in order but there was a sadness in the house.
"Let's get dinner ready for her. She'll be home soon."
Mrs. Kanzaki walked in to an open house and what smelled like spaghetti. "Hitomi?"
In the kitchen." The table was set and ready for them to eat. Van was placing a plate filled with garlic bread on the table.
"Kanzaki-san," he pulled a chair out for her.
"Hitomi who is he?"
"Van Fanel, my husband." Hitomi answered.
"You're gone for two months and you get married." She looked him up and down. "He looks like he's a good guy. Why didn't you invite me to the wedding?"
"We couldn't get you there Okaasan." Hitomi answered. "We married on Gaia."
"Kanzaki-san, we…." Van started.
"Please call me Okaasan." She requested.
"Okaasan," Hitomi looked at her, "what's wrong?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that there was some reason that I had to return."
"I have cancer."
Later that evening, Mrs. Kanzaki heard someone walking the roof. "What is that?"
"Van, will you come down from there. Walking the roof isn't going to help much." She heard her daughter talking to her husband.
Time passed for two months and Okaasan became worse. She wasn't stuck in bed yet but she was sleeping more and she had definitely been slowing down. She enjoyed the time that she got to spend with the two and knew that she wouldn't have them for long. She had known that a long time ago even before she was diagnosed with cancer.
"Hitomi, I have really loved this visit to Earth but something is wrong in Fanelia." Van took her hand one evening.
"I know I've felt it for two days. I can't go with you right now. I want to but I have to stay with my Okaasan 'til this is over. The doctor says that she doesn't have long to live." Hitomi looked up at the moon.
"We'll still have our connection and you can return after all of this is over. I'm going to miss you." Van couldn't look at the tears building up in her eyes.
"It seems that whenever we start to make a go of things that we have to separate for some reason."
"I know but the next time we meet we won't have to be separated again." He whispered into her hair. "I love you." He kissed her before the blue light took him away.
It hadn't been long afterwards before she figured out that she was pregnant. She had tried several times to contact him but had found hat she hadn't been able to. The connection had been severed. He friends Yukari and Amano helped her through the pregnancy and her mother. They had gone out with Hitomi and Van about once a week while he had been there. Her brother had met him and scowled to no end at Van. She had Vanel about six months after Van had left. He was born with wings but the only people that knew that was Yukari, Amano, and her Okaasan. Her Okaasan had died 3 weeks later.
Hitomi shook her head quietly. She had thought about her mother in along time, to was the last time that she had seen Van before he had to return a little while later.
-Vanel-
Vanel tossed and turned. The scene had changed and there was fear all through the air. He was being beat to a bloody pulp while Loanna lay passed out tied to a chair. She was pale and he could not get to her no matter what he did. Whether she was really dead or not was left to be determined. What happened here? Where was he?
The room spiraled to reveal no edges whatsoever. It had a perfect diameter all around and there was no one in the room currently. That was until he looked up to see his Okaasan watching with tears streaming down her eyes. 'Okaasan, I don't know why but you can't see this.'
The vision ended and Vanel had to sit for minute. Loanna lifted his head to give him some water. "I'm fine."
"You're so fine that you were flying on air." She muttered.
"Oh great, it appears when the time comes all will be revealed."
"When the time comes it won't matter." She whispered.
-Analous-
Analous looked for wherever they had left his clothes only to find none. He wasn't going to lay down any longer while Queen Hitomi was in danger. She was his responsibility and he wasn't going to e broken. All he had to do was remember the deadly glare Lord Van had given him when the order had been issued.
"What are you doing?" Analous looked up from his sitting position on the bed.
"Where are my clothes?" He looked at Queen Millerna.
"You think that I am going to allow you up?" She allowed her gaze to go down his naked torso. She smiled as he hugged the blanket to his lower half.
"Majesty, please where did you put my clothes?" His cheeks singed red.
Van walked in with Dryden at that moment. Analous stood up making sure that the blanket covered him as he bowed to the kings. It was all that the group could do to keep from laughing. "You shouldn't be up."
"Majesties, how is Lady Hitomi?" Analous asked.
"She is fine." Van handed him a robe. "You'll need this."
-Hitomi-
"Lady Hitomi, this has just arrived by courier."
Hitomi looked at the beautifully engraved envelopes. Something in her said this was bad news and she could feel it. It came in the appearance of a good time but held secrets of deception that she had yet to be able to see.
"King Van Slanzar de Fanel and Queen Hitomi of the Mystic Moon, you are cordially invited to a ball on the fifth day of the red moon." It gave the location that seemed to be a long way off. There was also one there for Millerna and Dryden. "Well I guess we'll see how this plays out." Hitomi said to herself.
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Don't worry I'm trying to get as many chapters done before my classes start August 29. Hopefully, while the whole story will not be posted it will be finished.