You know what's kind of pathetic and I didn't really realize how depressing it is after all these years of having it? I have a Van/Hitomi/EscaFlowne doll. Not a plushie but a figurine. It was given to me like 7 years ago by my best friend's youngest brother who knew I liked the series. Sad isn't it? I'm still obsessed! Maybe I should go plaster my walls with EscaFlowne pictures instead of sailor moon posters huh?
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The Vision of EscaFlowne
Awakening of the Wing Goddess
Two
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With in the next day, Queen Millerna had summoned them to the council meeting. Who where they to be exact? They where Van, Mamoru, and Hitomi, each where of royal blood so each one had to attend the meetings at Millerna's request even though Dryden was the one doing most of the hard work since Millerna was heavily pregnant and a pregnant woman did not need to be bothered with such stressful situations. Or at least that was Dryden's excuse anyway. Hitomi wanted to yell at him that women, even pregnant women, where useful and not as useless as men thought. It wasn't her choice, so she held her tongue and remained silent as she stood next to Van which she had preferred to stand next to rather then her brother who would only embarrass them or whatever it was that he could be scheming.
Her mind had been swayed from the world of reality ever since she had her last vision because it bothered her greatly. After all, she knew Zaibach's true motive because of it since it all made sense and she had a bad feeling that Asturia would not be spared.
"Fried's battle was not unplanned according to those who where there." Dryden said and then ran his fingers through his through his brown hair and sighed. "We are suppose to be Zaibach's allies, however, Queen Millerna had decided to unofficially and now it is officially announced, that we are no longer their allies after they had attacked Fried. I perpose that perhaps it is not too late to get on their good side and get them to have us as allies again. I have a lot of money and as the saying goes, money talks."
"DRYDEN!" Millerna had literally shouted from her seat next to her husband and stood up and glared at him. "HOW COULD YOU SAY SUCH A THING?" She screamed. "Do you think that they wouldn't attack us because we have money? I thought I knew you better than that!"
"I agree with Queen Millerna." Van said speaking up suddenly. "They burned Fanelia and Fried. I don't believe that they would stop there. They won't stop until every country is under their rule." He said not wanting to tell Millerna about the seals yet since they where suppose to be private matters to the royal families of the countries that protected them.
"Fried was…" One of the council members started to protest.
"King Van is right." Millerna said sighing. "It is not our land that they want, but to be rulers of all of Gaea itself." She closed her eyes as to think and opened them again. "No one in Gaea is safe from Zaibach. We will continue to fight this war. Our alliance with other countries is helping us make our alliance stronger. We are not fighting for only Asturia, but all of Gaea. Fanelia was just the first among the countries that Zaibach attacked. We are already next." Millerna said loudly. "Do not think that any matter of talk will delay them because their ally, Tier has already long betrayed Fanelia and had helped in Fanelia's attack.
There it was again. Hitomi thought. Tier, her home country, she could feel angry turn towards her and her brother's direction. They where children of the traitors.
"You may say that Queen Hitomi and Prince Mamoru are traitors as well. Traitors to Tier that is so do not look at them like that. If we can not trust those who are in our alliance, than who can we trust?"
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The council members and other members of the alliance walked out of the briefing room and Van, Mamoru, and Hitomi, as well as Allen who had been waiting for it to finish, stood the side to wait for Millerna. Hitomi noticed the dirty looks they had given them but Van told her to ignore them.
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"Are you sure?" Millerna asked as they explained about how Duke Fried had told them about the five seals.
"Yes." Hitomi said quickly before any one of the three men could say anything. She closed her eyes and the vision quickly once again ran through her mind as it had done over a hundred times ever since yesterday. She had not slept well because of it and hoped that it did not show. "Fanelia was attacked because of the seal that was hidden there. Fried was attacked because of the seal that is there. Tier and Zaibach each have a seal as you already know, and they have already been lit."
"Impossible!" Princess Eries said not wanting to believe the claim. "Do you swear what you say is the truth?" She asked. "A guardian of the seal would not act with such recklessness."
"It's true." Mamoru was the one who spoke up and looked in to the older woman's blue eyes.
"Duke Fried had even given the order for the seal at Fried to be released." Van said finally speaking up.
"I have seen it in my visions." Hitomi said closing her eyes once again which made everyone, even Van look at her. She had not told him this yet because she did not want to bother him, and decided not to tell him until the subject of the seals was brought up once again. "As the last seal is broken," She said still closing her eyes and watched as the scene played yet once again in her mind. "The person who is the Wing Goddess shall be revealed." Her voice was mono-tone and she tried her best to keep it that way since she did not want any one to know how she truly felt about this whole matter. She was frightened, and her visions scared her even more. She also had another deep fear down with in her heart that she did not wish to bring up. One that concerned her vision, but at the same time it made her concerned for another matter. "The wings, one black, one white, when the last seal is released, her white wing turns black." She continued and took another pause trying to figure out how to describe what she saw. "Gaea, and all who dwell upon it, shall perish."
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Folken Lacour de Fanel stood in his room just thinking. Had he really been going down the right path? Dornkirk was not the man that he once was, and the man was beginning to go mad, or had been mad for years and he was too blind to notice it. Dornkirk had told him that he only needed to know where Fanelia's seal was, the old man never said anything about going after the other four seals. He didn't know if he could take this much longer, the next chance he had, he would escape from Zaibach and leave. Leave, leave where? He had no where to go, he was a traitor to Fanelia, and his home had been longed burned for nearly a year. Van, his younger brother who now piloted the dragon EscaFlowne, had become part of the alliance. He wondered if he would be welcomed there since he knew that by now the rumors that Folken Lacour de Fanel was working with Zaibach, it was only a matter of time before the rumors hit Van.
Naria and Eriya the two leapord twins that reminded him so much of Merle who he had rescued from their death when they where younger, where no longer together. Naria had been killed in the last battle of Fried by his own brother. He had lost someone he loved, betrayed by his only blood, but yet, something inside of him told him that Van had every right to do what he did even though he did not know that he was still alive and he was still angry at Van, but he still loved his brother. Van had once been a sweet, kind child, he wondered if he would be able to talk to his brother like that once more.
Knowing the rash, hot headed Van that he knew now; it probably would end up in a fight. He did not wish to fight his brother so he would have to first think of a plan before he escaped. He would need Eriya's help, and even though Eriya was in mourning for her sister, he knew that she would help him. She would understand how he felt to regain back the brother that he had lost.
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I barely finished this on time. I lost track of all days of the week and forgot that today was Friday. Phew, just finished it in time for Saturday. I hope that this one is a little more interesting, and since I'm kind of loosing interest on this story, it's getting difficult to write. Also, when I go on my vacation in like 2 weeks, don't be surprised that I don't update. You have a two weeks notice. Man, living with out the computer for a week! Kind of depressing…. Oh well, at least I'll still have anime!
Well, once again, please review!
