The Vision of EscaFlowne
Awakening of Wing Goddess
Nine
"They're attacking from Fried's boarder." Hitomi said as the pendant circled a spot and then felt her hand jerk slightly to the north. "They're also attacking from…" Before she could finish her sentence she gasped and started to fall to the floor as a vision took her. Dryden managed to catch her.
"Hitomi!" Dryden shouted. "Damn it! I knew I shouldn't have asked!" He swore at himself. "Guards!" He said summoning the two guards who where outside the door. He remembered that he had locked the door and went to unlock it after putting Hitomi gently in his chair.
The guards came in once Dryden had unlocked the door. "Sire!" The two guards said in unison.
"Have someone take Queen Hitomi to her room. She fainted." Dryden ordered calmly as he glanced back at the young queen through his glasses with the corner of his eye.
"SIR!" The two guards said in unison.
"And one more thing, someone retrieve Allen Schezar for me."
………..
"Their attacking from Fried's boarder." Dryden said to the leader of the Calie Knights.
"How are you sure?" Allen asked.
"Two men came from the post this afternoon with a message saying that Zaibach was moving in." Dryden explained. It wasn't a lie, two scouts had come to him after Hitomi had fainted and had been brought back to her room.
"How many men."
"About 10,000 at least, they weren't sure about the exact numbers." Dryden answered with a worried look on his face. "This is going to be a bloody war."
"I'll get the soldiers informed." The Calie Knight said getting what the merchant king was saying.
"I'll send word to the alliances that the war almost upon us."
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Blood, there was so much bloodshed. Even the sky seemed to bleed. The sky was raining red water. Was such a thing possible? On Gaea, many strange occurrences had happened, however, the sky raining blood had never been recorded in any of Gaea's texts. She shivered as the blood-water touched her skin since she knew what it was. 'This,' Hitomi thought with horror. 'Is this the blood of the soldiers who had died?' She wondered.
She found herself watching her brother fight. She recognized his guymelef instantly. 'Brother?' She asked as she watched the Tierian style guymelef fight against another Tierian guymelef. 'Who is he fighting?' She wondered as she watched the black guymelef fight against her brother's.
The scene brought her to a different side of the battle field and watched as Amano fought. Scenes of Allen fighting and then she saw EscaFlowne. 'Van, who…' Before she got her answer, she was distracted by something other then the fighting. Her eyes turned to the sky and watched as the two moons and the sun disappear in a shroud of darkness. The sun even though it was hidden by the rain, had become totally eclipsed.
She collapsed to the ground. She suddenly could feel pain from all over. 'Why, why does it hurt?' She asked as it became difficult to breath. It didn't even hurt this much when she had got stabbed in the shoulder by the enemies guymelef so why did it hurt this much now?
Laughter roared in the air as she stayed in that position, paralyzed by pain.
"Hitomi!" She heard a voice call for her somewhere in the distance, it was familiar but yet not familiar at the same time. Who was calling? "HITOMI!" The man's voice called again and she found herself being picked up and carried off of the ground by a man with white wings. 'A draconian?' She asked.
"Van?" Hitomi asked, being somewhat disoriented as she found herself in their room with Van looking down at her with a concerned look on his face.
"Hitomi what…" Hitomi clung to him and cried. The vision, why could she feel the pain? Why? That had never happened before. She was frightened. Frightened beyond anything she felt before in her life.
"I'm scared." She whispered and Van's arms wrapped around her.
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"You'll be fighting on the front line along with your father Suburu." Queen Tier said to a boy who looked to be the age of sixteen. "I didn't have the Zaibach sorcerers speed up your growth for nothing. As heir to the Tierian throne, you must get some experience in war fair." Queen Tier said.
"But mother," Suburu protested. "What if I get killed? Then there will be no heir!" Suburu protested.
"Do not be afraid my son, you won't be killed." Queen Tier said. "Besides, don't you want to meet your dear older brother? He has yet to meet you."
"Yes mother." Suburu agreed reluctantly. "I will do as you ask."
'Besides,' Queen Tier thought to herself. 'You are easily replaceable with another child to pose as my son.' She thought and smiled cruelly. 'No one would believe that you where the young prince after what Zaibach did to you.'
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"Sorry." Hitomi apologized as she finished crying. "I just… a nightmare…" She said lieing. "Dryden, where is he? I need to speak with…" She nearly collapsed as soon as she stood up, had it not been for Van being there to catch her she would have fallen to the ground.
"He's busy and is preparing for war as the rest of us." Van said. "What's so important that it can't wait until you can walk properly?" He asked with a concerned look on his face.
"Nothing, it's just that we where talking and I guess like I fainted on him and I wanted to apologize for it." Hitomi explained. It wasn't a complete lie even though she felt bad lieing to her husband. She rested her head on his shoulder and sighed. "Just hold me." Hitomi begged. "For this for a little while please."
Van did as his wife asked and looked down at the blonde with a worried expression on his face. Hitomi was acting differently then normal and he knew that she wasn't telling him the whole truth but knew that Hitomi would tell him when she felt like it. He knew that this war was breaking down his wife emotionally with all of the visions that she kept having. About the upcoming battles, how the enemy was partly her own mother who had been cruel to her ever since her mother had found out about her gift, about the coming of the Wing Goddess, about everything.
Even though Hitomi acted strong he knew that this was beginning to come too much for her. Everything had started a little more then a year ago when Hitomi escaped Tier to come to Fanelia. After meeting Hitomi's mother he knew why she did what she did. However, even though Hitomi was no longer underneath that woman's care she was still being torn apart by her. He would protect Hitomi with his own two hands, even if it meant killing others to protect her. He would protect her.
This might seem like another pointless chapter and it mainly is but it kind of isn't and it kind of is, it's difficult to explain but well you'll understand in the end. I also thought that I'd do another chapter dedicated to mostly V/H while I still had the chance. Thanks for the reviews and as always please review!
