Man, it's strange what the lack of sleep can make you do. Even though I'm tired my hands have this insanely huge urge to write.

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The Vision of EscaFlowne

Awakening of Wing Goddess

Twelve

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Folken was surprisingly outside and in Palas garden. He was smelling a perfect red rose from one of the rose bushes and looked up once he heard Hitomi coming. He turned to his sister in law and greeted her with a smile knowing that she would be down in these dark times. "How are you Hitomi?" Folken asked stupidly.

"Folken!" Hitomi said loudly and clung on to Folken's good arm and a handful of his clothes covering his chest. What was she going to do? Van was out fighting and now they had to worry about some damn woman! Oh gods, why was this happening? Why? "Millerna, that stupid bitch!" Hitomi spat and actually swore which was a rare thing coming out of the young queen's mouth.

"Hitomi?" Folken asked a bit surprised; Hitomi's normal kindness had seemed to disappear. "What about Millerna?" He asked calmly not wanting to provoke the blonde even more.

"She, she just ordered the last seal to be released!" She said somewhat frantically. "The vision, the vision that I've been…"

"Calm down Hitomi." Folken said and looked around them. "First of all this is not the proper place to talk. People can over hear us and take our words to a different meaning if they don't know the whole story." Folken said which made the young queen calm down. A sudden loud clasp of thunder could be over head as dark clouds suddenly moved in fast. "Let's go inside before it starts to rain and you can explain everything to me then." Folken suggested and Hitomi nodded and followed Folken inside.

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Rain fell on the battlefield making the ground muddy and making it rather difficult for the soldiers to fight both on foot and in guymelefs but those who had a guymelef had a slight advantage over those who where on the ground. But then again, soldiers had been taught how to fight in any kind of weather. A soldier had to be prepared because a battle was not an easy task and anything and everything could happen.

Allen cut down the guymelef that was attacking him and then quickly blocked another enemy. 'How much longer are they going to keep coming?' He wondered as he fought. King Dryden had given them the orders and so he was caring out his king's wishes. They where his own wishes as well. Not only his future but all of Gaea's futures rested on this battle. If this was the last one or the second to the last one, he didn't know. The Wing Goddess wasn't something to be taken lightly since any man or woman with the power to destroy a whole planet with merely her wish was a dangerous person. Zaibach had already destroyed two countries for it, he wouldn't allow them to destroy his. He was Allen Schezar, leader of the Calie Knights and would fight till his death! Gaea would be saved even if he could not save his own sister he would fight to save the world that he lived on. A world to which Celena had loved.

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They had been fighting for what felt like hours. Had hours passed or was it merely minutes? In a war, no one could tell how much time had passed expect those who weren't fighting. The pink guymelef, he hadn't seen it yet, where was she? He knew that Yukari was with them so where was she? He was unable to save her then but now he had another chance. He would save her before Zaibach completely destroyed the one he loved. Amano promised himself that.

He blocked yet another attack and stood as close to Mamoru's back as he could with out bumping in to his prince. "Stubborn asses aren't they?" Amano asked Mamoru who snorted at the poor attempt to humor someone.

"I'd say that we're just as stubborn as they are." Mamoru answered truthfully. He was trying to keep an eye out for any of the Tier guymelefs. He knew well enough what they looked like and knew from experience that his father's was a deep blue, like the oceans. His was green which was suppose to represent the land and why his father, no King Tier had even said something so stupid he never figured it out. His brother had said that he would meet him on the battle field so where was he? For some odd reason he had a funny feeling that his brother and father wouldn't come out until the end and if he had to fight them two to one it would be hell for them. 'It's a good thing that Hitomi doesn't know that Zaibach did some shit ass experiment on him or me.' Mamoru thought to himself as he continued to fight. 'She'd probably freak out or something.' He thought and couldn't help but smirk at the thought.

Before he had left Palas, he had promised Hitomi that he would look after Van out on the field. He had tried his best to keep that promise but had failed desperately due to the fact that Van had been sent out as leader of a different division. 'Brother where are you?' Mamoru asked as he looked out through his guymelef. What he didn't know was that he would soon find out exactly where his little brother was.

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Hitomi explained to Folken to what Millerna did and Folken looked at her with a frown on his face. "She actually ordered for it to be put in the stone?" Folken asked not being able to believe his ears.

"Yes." Hitomi said answering her brother's question. "Eriya was there if you don't believe me."

"It's true." Eriya said urgently. "I don't know why this Wing Goddess person is so frightful but it's true. Queen Millerna," Eriya said. "Before going to labor ordered that the orb like object be placed and the seal released."

Folken looked as if someone had just slapped him in the face. "It's probably being placed in the seal as we speak." Folken said sadly as he could do nothing but look out the window. "There is nothing we can do but believe and hope."

'Believe…' Hitomi thought. So all of this was for nothing? She thought as she felt the world suddenly slip from underneath her. Fanelia's and Fried's destruction, this damn bloody war, their hardships. This was all done for nothing? 'Millerna…' She thought coldly. 'Had it not been for the fact that you're a mother or about to be…' Hitomi said not sure if Millerna was still in the process of childbirth or not. 'I'd kill you. Van suffered so much to protect the last seal and so did all of your friends and this is how you…' She didn't even get to finish that thought. Darkness took her. She couldn't even hear the distant cries of Eriya and Folken calling out her name.

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It felt as if something had hit Van square in the chest. Something was wrong, terribly wrong, he knew it instantly. What? What was it? And then he realized it, something was wrong with Hitomi. Damn it! He already had enough problems to worry about and now he had to worry about his wife. Was she sick, or did something happen to her? He couldn't help but have a sickening feeling in his heart like something terrible was about to happen.

Most of the men around him in his division had been defeated and only a handful of men where left. He had to worry about himself and his men, he didn't have time to worry about Hitomi. As much as he wanted to be with her right now, he knew that Hitomi was going to be alright. He knew that she was going to be fine because both Folken and Merle where with her and would never let anything happen to her while he wasn't there. At least he knew that much about Merle anyway. Folken, at times he wasn't too sure where his brother stood.

He saw it, a clearly recognizable Tierian guymelef had appeared colored in a deep blue, like the ocean. Blocking the Tierian guymelef's moves, as he fought, he tried to think of who was piloting it. The movement was slightly familiar and he had fought against someone with these moves. 'Mamoru fights like this.' Van thought as he charged forward at it and was blocked yet once again. 'Yes, I see it now.' He thought quietly to himself as their swords met time and time again. The man that he was fighting against was defiantly Hitomi's and Mamoru's father; King Tier. This was the man who had betrayed his word of an alliance and attacked Fanelia not once but twice, leaving nothing left but rubble on the ground. This was the man who was also partly responsible for Duke Fried's destruction as well as the surrender of Fried. "TIER!" Van shouted angrily. His attacks became more aggressive then before. He would get his revenge on Fanelia by killing this man.

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Folken had brought Hitomi to her room and laid her down on the bed. With out Van here all he could do is watch over his sister in law and queen as she slept. He noticed how she seemed to be in pain somehow and watched as she suddenly woke up. His eyes widened in horror as he looked at the colors of Hitomi's eyes. The left eye was black and the right eye was green. 'Hitomi…'