The Vision of EscaFlowne
Awakening of Wing Goddess
Sixteen
"Hitomi…" He said almost as soft as a whisper. "What on Gaea is going on?" He asked. A woman dressed in black appeared in front of him at that moment and smiled.
"King of Dragons," The woman said greeting him with an amused smile. Van recognized her from Hitomi's descriptions of her vision at once, she was the Wing Goddess, the person that his ancestors destroyed. "I believe that you have something that belongs to me." She added coolly. "And if you hand it over nicely, I'll let you live. After all, that is what you're precious "Tomi" would have wanted am I right?" She asked and laughed.
Van looked at the pendant and instead of its usual red color, it was red and black. His eyes widened not knowing what was going on since it didn't make sense. Hitomi had said that she was the Wing Goddess wasn't she? Why did this version of the Wing Goddess stand before him if Hitomi was the Wing Goddess? He closed his fingers around the pendant that Hitomi had given him and took a step back. "What did you do to Hitomi?" He asked, demanding to know what had become of his wife.
The Wing Goddess frowned at Van's last question. "She's dead." She answered. "Now hand me the pendant little man or I shall send you to meet your pitiful wife."
Even though the pendant burned through Van's glove, he still would not hand it over. He would die before he let Gaea be destroyed. "I don't take orders, I give them." He said plainly.
The Wing Goddess snorted. "I am not one of your pitiful human servants."
"Funny, I'm not a servant or human either." Van said with a smirk and made EscaFlowne turn in to its white dragon form and flew off. 'Hitomi,' He thought, hoping that his thoughts would reach hers where ever they where. 'Where are you?'
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Hitomi found herself now to be in a strange room that was familiar but yet unfamiliar to her. She knew this place and at the same time she didn't, was such a thing possible? She wondered. She knew that this was where she was suppose to come to awaken her power and become the true Wing Goddess. 'This is a strange room.' She thought as she looked around.
In the center, there was a large orb like thing to where she could see what was happening in Gaea. The war was over with at least. She thought with a sigh but was a bit surprised when every one started to fight against every one else, enemy against enemy and ally against ally; what in the world was going on? When was the fighting going to end? She wondered. She wanted to change all of that but her "other self" wanted to destroy every thing instead of trying to change it.
"Have you come here to purge the world, Wing Goddess, or save it?" A voice suddenly asked. "Either way this is where you make your choice."
Hitomi turned around to find herself surrounded by people who had been long considered dead. Her grandmother, Van's mother and father, a strange old man she had never met, and another man she didn't even know. "Who are you?" She asked to those she did not know.
"Who we are is not important." The old man with grey hair replied.
"What matters now is your choice." The man with a shabby look to him and the weird dark glasses covering his eyes said. She noticed how close he stood to her grandmother.
"I want to save them." She answered as she watched as Van fly away from her other self. "VAN!" She shouted as she watched her handsome king nearly get hit by the Wing Goddess attack.
"Be at ease child," Varie ordered. "You're worried heart can easily turn the tides to her side."
"Granddaughter," Hitomi's grandmother said which made her look at him. "We are the guardians of this sacred place, and of you though I hate to admit that we've done a poor job at it." She said sadly. "You see, you where suppose to be killed as a child to prevent this from happening but I would not let the priest kill you even though I knew who you where because I believed that you may one day save our world."
Hitomi remained silent.
"Do you know what you must do to unlock your true power, daughter of Tier?" Hitomi's grandmother asked.
"No." Hitomi answered. "If I knew I would have done it already." She said as she turned her eyes to the orb in the center of the room that was floating toward the ceiling.
"To unlock your power, you must be willing to sacrifice yourself." Van's father said speaking for the first time.
Hitomi could do nothing but stare at him and felt as if someone pierced her heart. "But what about Van?" She asked, demanding to know.
"He'll live, even though he'll be in pain. You will cease to exist once your task is over." Gaou replied.
"If you knew that I was going to die from the start then why did you make that damn contract with Tier?" Hitomi shouted at Van's father.
"We did it because we wanted you to be put under protection until the poison in your food killed you. Balgus never carried out those orders." Gaou said in disgust. "Van had fallen in love with you, even though he did not show it and Balgus could see that his king needed you. He would not allow himself to kill you because it would cause Van much sadness."
"So if I give myself willingly Van won't suffer as much?" Hitomi asked.
Gaou gave no reply.
"You must choose Hitomi, destruction or salvation." Hitomi's grandmother said.
She wanted to save Gaea from destruction because Van loved his kingdom and people dearly. She wanted to save it because she had made so many friends since her escape from Tier. Not did she only make so many friends, but she had found love, and she wanted to protect him with all of her heart but she didn't want to cause him pain.
Van would get over her in time, she realized. He would rebuild Fanelia and get married again some time in either the near future or distant future and have children with his wife and grow old and die together while she would cease to exist. It hurt her to think that Van would be having children and growing old with another woman, but if it meant that he would live then she was willing to do it. She wanted a safe place for Van's children to grow and live and play; she wanted Mamoru to be able to put things right again in Tier. Yes, she would sacrifice herself for her loved ones. She had made up her mind, she was ready. And then, with out even realizing it; warmth spread through her, and she began to glow.
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