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The Vision of EscaFlowne
Awakening of Wing Goddess
Thirteen
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"Hitomi are…" Folken started to ask but stopped once Hitomi stepped out of the bed, her gown following her. He moved back to get out of her way; knocking the chair over in the process. Hitomi wasn't exactly normal, not like Hitomi had been normal in the begin with but she was far from what you could call her normal.
"Hitomi," Hitomi said sounding puzzled. "Interesting name," She added as she looked at her reflection in the mirror. "Is that what you call this woman?" She asked in a voice that was her own but yet not.
"Yes…" Folken answered not daring to say much or do anything at all. Her having two colored eyes bothered him. 'Could she be the Wing Goddess?' He asked himself.
"I see, "She said and looked in the mirror. "It doesn't really matter if my body looks like this anyway." She said. "It'll all be over soon."
'So Hitomi really is the Wing Goddess.' Folken thought rather worried. "What are your intentions?" He dared to ask. "Do you really want to destroy Gaea?" Folken asked.
"You dare ask me that draconian?" Hitomi asked sounding rather annoyed by the question and quickly turned to face Folken. "I can tell that you have draconian blood running through your veins." She said as she walked over to Folken and ran her hand up his chest. "You're people destroyed me when I was only a child of five and only wanted to live. Oh yes, I remember I remember if it had just happened yesterday." She grinned as if something amused her. "Why is it that you care anyway Prince Folken?" She asked as she brought his lips down, almost touching them. "You where the one helping to revive me." She said coolly. "I could make you useful even though I hate that cursed blood that runs through you. I could make you apart of me and live even though everything else dies." She whispered and kissed his lips.
"What are you doing Hitomi-Sama?" Eriya's asked as she suddenly burst in to the room.
"Eriya, get out!" Folken shouted afraid of what the Wing Goddess would do. "This isn't Hitomi!"
Eriya looked at Folken as if he went crazy. "What are you talking about Folken-Sama?" Eriya asked. "That is Hitomi-Sama. Why is she hanging all over you? Do you mean to betray your brother and…" She never got to finish the sentence because the Wing Goddess sent a blast of energy at Eriya who was sent flying backwards and hit the wall in the hallway hard.
"ERIYA!" Folken shouted and tried to push the Wing Goddess off of him but she was stronger. "Why did you do that? Let me go? What did you do with Hitomi?" He asked angrily.
The Wing Goddess smiled. "Hitomi, ah, she's nothing now." The Wing Goddess said and brought her hand to Folken's stomach, an eerie purple glow formed around her hand. "I know what you're thinking Prince Folken, no or should I say brother?" The Wing Goddess asked. "These feelings you have for that woman that's possibly dieing now, you should have told her long ago shouldn't have you?" The Wing Goddess asked and laughed.
"Why Hitomi?" Folken asked, his eyes kept at Eriya's unconscious form against the wall, he watched as servants quickly ran to her side shouting "Call a healer!" He heard a servant in the hallway shout.
The Wing Goddess laughed at Folken's question. She moved her hand down Folken's chest. "You would make a great lover." She said sadly. He was so much taller then this woman. "Because, the last seal is about to be released." She answered. "Because it is what I was created to do." She answered after she broke the kiss. "I do not ask why I just do as I please." She frowned slightly. You could have been the perfect mate to recreate the world after it was destroyed." She said somewhat sadly. "Oh well, I guess like you only thought of this woman as a friend and perhaps as a sister." She said smirking. "Thank you for your services but they are no longer needed." She said as the purple energy around her hand grew and shot it straight at Folken, making him land in the mirror which was on the opposite side of the room of the woman that he loved. 'Love,' The Wing Goddess thought to herself. 'What an amusing thing.'
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"Fanel," The King of Tier greeted him before their swords clashed. Van could feel his hatred towards this man swell, a sudden urge to want to kill him tainted his heart. This was the guy who had betrayed his country and caused Hitomi much suffering in her past and even now. But it was also because of this man that Hitomi lived. That last bit did not matter to Van, no man deserved to be a father if they where only using their daughter as a tool of war; it was no better then being a slave. Not that he approved of slaves but he had quiet a few other countries had and most of the people in their palaces where slaves and treated as such.
They broke apart and came together again. This would be a fight to the death, and Van wasn't ready to leave Hitomi yet, not when they had the rest of their lives together. He would not leave her that he promised himself. He would not leave Hitomi alone to rebuild Fanelia on her own. No, once this man was killed, he Van Slanzar de Fanel, King of Fanelia, would then rage his revenge on Hitomi's mother.
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The Wing Goddess had a name once. She had long forgotten it so Hitomi would do nicely. She heard footsteps running up to her and then felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Queen Hitomi," The kind voice said. "Queen Hitomi, gods I've been looking for you everywhere! Millerna, her baby's been delivered. Even more of a surprise, twins." The woman said which made Hitomi turn around and look at a woman with short blonde hair and blue eyes and was tall. Her clothing told Hitomi/The Wing Goddess that she was high born and was one of the people who knew about the seal that condemned her to this form.
"Princess Eries!" A voice that was not her own said. "Run!" Hitomi, the real Hitomi pleaded from somewhere deep with in her mind. "Tell everyone who comes across me not to near me!" She begged. "I'm not safe!"
"That's enough out of you! "The Wing Goddess ragged. "YOUR SUPPOSE TO BE DEAD!" She shouted.
"Your power has not fully awakened yet and I will not die!" Hitomi shouted back which angered the Wing Goddess. "I will not let you hurt any more of my family or friends and," Hitomi continued. "I WILL NOT allow YOU to destroy Gaea!"
"Queen Hitomi?" Princess Eries said somewhat confused by the queen's sudden outrage. It wasn't until Hitomi looked at her when she stepped back somewhat shocked. 'Hitomi's the Wing Goddess?' She asked herself which caused the woman in front of her to laugh.
"So glad you finally noticed." The Wing Goddess said. "Now die Asturian bi…"
"RUN!" Hitomi shouted taking control once again only to hold back that other her that now had her body. Her energy was slowly being sucked dry and she didn't know how much longer she could keep this up. At least she could buy everyone some time. She wouldn't let everyone else die even if some humans didn't deserve to live it wasn't her life to take. The fact that the Wing Goddess wings haven't sprouted yet meant that the seal had yet to be placed on the great statue and that Hitomi still existed.
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Folken Lacour de Fanel opened his eyes and realized that he was still alive if barely. He was wounded and the healers had begun to treat him. "Eriya," He managed to whisper painfully to a woman at his right. "Eriya…" He managed louder.
"I'm sorry." The healer said. "She's weak milord." The woman with dark brown curly hair said sadly. "We fear for your fate."
"Everyone's fate has already been sealed thanks to your queen." Folken said which made the healer's brown eyes look at him rather confused. "The Wing Goddess…" He said and forced himself to stand up. He was now shirtless and bandages where covering his wounds.
"My lord you must…"
"Where is Hitomi?" He asked not caring what the healer said.
"What?" The healer on the left ask.
"Queen Hitomi Kanzaki de Fanel, I do not have time for games woman, where is she?" He demanded to know.
"I she walked out a couple of minutes ago. My lord you should be resting!"
"I do not have much time left to live anyway." He said with a smile. There was no way he could live with what had just happened and as much as he would have liked to see Van's and Hitomi's children, his nieces and nephews; he wouldn't live to be there. He walked out of the bedroom and in to the hallway. Princess Eries happened to come running this way.
"Prince Folken!" She said somewhat shocked and instantly noticed the big gap in the wall. "What are you… what happened?" She asked now noticing his wounds. "Millerna would be able to help if she had not just given birth."
"Send her my congratulations however you should add another message to that as well." He said. "Tell her that Prince Folken Lacour de Fanel hopes that she's happy with her choice." Folken said. "Your sister is responsible for breaking the last seal."
Eriya looked in the direction she had just come from. "I had thought that that's what that was about but I hoped that it was just Queen Hitomi being a little bit off." Eriya said. "She kept arguing with another self. My sister, is she going to get it!" She said fiercely. "She has sent us all to our doom."
"Not if I can help it." Folken said which made Eriya look at him. "But the seal…"
"Has yet to be placed." Folken interrupted. "Her wings are not yet out and how did you escape her?"
"Queen Hitomi seemed to be fighting with another being."
"Stay away from her." Folken said and walked down the hall where Eries had just come from and stopped by his room really quick to grab his sword. 'I'm sorry Van.' Folken said. 'But I can not let Hitomi live.'
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Prince Mamoru Tier Kanzaki blocked yet again the younger prince who was inexperienced. He on the other hand had been around for a little more then twenty years and had more then a few months training in combat. "I don't want to fight you." He told his little brother who wasn't even suppose to be able to walk yet. "I…" He blocked just in time.
"But I do." The younger prince Yuki said. (I guess like it's too late to change his name.) "Mother will be pleased and I have no worries about the crown. After I finish you I'll finish that whore of a sister."
Mamoru's teeth clenched together. How dare he insult Hitomi when he didn't even know her? What had his damn bitch of a mother been telling Yuki? 'Snow,' He thought to himself. 'Snow is gentle, it doesn't suit you.' (For those of you who don't know the name Yuki means snow.) "Hitomi, a whore you bastard?" Mamoru asked angrily and decided that he wasn't going to try and talk Yuki out of this any more. He could see that they had brainwashed him well enough. "Look at your precious mother and see what became out of your mother's whoring." He said and laughed. "Apparently you have never seen your own reflection." He charged forward and plunged his sword through Yuki's guymelef and could hear as Yuki screamed.
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King Tier was better then Van thought he would be. Well he knew that he would be good because he was a king but he didn't think he would be this much better then Mamoru was. Or maybe Mamoru had actually held out on him while they spared? King Tier's strength made him wonder.
Each of them where beginning to wear down and as much as he hated to admit it, he thought that he was more worn out then King Tier due to the fact that he had been fighting more hours then the other king since king's with large armies usually held back until the end. Noon had long passed and he was getting tired despite his advantage of being young; how much longer was this going to last? 'I'll protect her.' He swore, keeping what gave him strength to continue close to his mind.
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Thank you all who have reviewed so far! You guys and girls are the greatest. This fic is coming to an end soon with in the next five chapters or so. (Not a promised number.) I was tempted to kill it a while back but I never stop once I've lasted this long. Thanks once again and please review!
