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Hitomi stood 4 or 5 inches off the ground, lending her powers to the men who were working to move the collasped pieces of the palace. Van had insisted that Hitomi dress warmly even though it was sunny and the snow was begining to melt. She was too warm but wasn't about to tell Van that. He was using any excuse lately to make her rest.
It had been heart breaking to see their home in pieces but Van had had to rebuild before and he wasnt too worried which kept Hitomi calm enough to lend a hand.
If Van had freaked, Hitomi would have lost it. Her emotions had been a bit odd lately and even though she had been warned that that would happen she still didn't want to cry at the drop of a hat. Just the news that their bedroom had been destroyed had her eyes welling up. It wasn't that she was sad about the stuff they lost, she just had the huge urge to crawl into bed and stay there for a day or two right after they had returned to Fanelia. But she couldn't do that. She didn't even have a bed anymore.
Of course Van had them staying in another room in the remaining part of the palace but it wasn't the same.
A rather large piece of wall crumbled as Hitomi tried to move it and several men scattered, expecting to have rubble fall on their heads. Smiling, Hitomi caught even the tiny fragments and moved them off to the side.
"I got it, fellas." the Queen smiled at the men and then at her husband who had been one of the first to run, "It's nice to know you all trust me."
"It's just instinct to run when something that big is falling towards you." Aidren laughed, "It's nothing against you."
"Of course not." Hitomi picked up another chunk to reveal what had at one point been furniture of some sort.
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"And what do we do NOW!" Selena yelled into the empty room. She didn't care that many men had been killed for less. She was mad and she was going to make it known.
"Well, for one- we don't act like children." came the amused voice of the Master.
"Dilandau has become a traitor and is now working for the Demons. My BROTHER has left us! If that doesn't give me the right to rant like a child then I don't know what does." Selena almost stomped across the floor but held back, she didn't actualy want to show her Master just how much like a child she wanted to act at that moment.
"Why are you so upset? I thought you disaproved of him." The voice was deffinately amused.
"I did!" Selena slammed a chair out of her path and circled the room, "I still do! It's just that I thought he would see what it was we were doing and the killing edge would return to him. I hoped to be standing next to my twin when the Draconian line was destroyed once and for all!"
"Everyones hopes and plans have changed, soldier." The Master's voice was no longer amused, "Now we are forced to wait for the little royal brat to be born. We kill it's parents and raise the babe as a weapon. A full draconain with the powers of it's Seer mother and the rage it will be fed on from the day it is born."
Selena stopped in her tracks, letting the visual take root. She was surprised that the Master had told her this,"And when we kill the royals I ask that Dilandau be left for me. I will kill him for leaving us." Selena straightened up and looked around the room, "I will kill him."
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Hitomi was bent over looking through a trunk of rescued clothing in the shletering shade of a large tree when her stomack growled then flipped.
"Wow." Hitomi straightened up quickly, nearly knocking her husband over in the process.
"Whats wrong?" Van asked, catching his balance and moving to take Hitomi's arms, "Are you ill?"
Hitomi beamed and took Van's hand, "No." she placed his palm on her belly, "But our baby just did a back flip."
Van's eyes grew wide as he felt the fluttering inside Hitomi's belly and his smile was one of amasement and total joy, "The baby is moving!" he laughed and shouted, getting everyone's attention, "My baby just moved!"
Everyone laughed at Van's reaction but cheered out their own happiness for the couple. Hitomi stood there looking around at their friends and the smiles they all wore. Dilandau was even smiling from his place way off to the side. Hitomi couldn't have been happier standing there by the rubble of her home, surrounded by friends and family with her husband kneeling to lay his cheek against her swollen belly.
It was a very unkingly thing to do where everyone, friends, family, and subjects could see but Hitomi wasn't going to be the one to wipe the silly smile off his face.
The humming inside her grew and Hitomi watched as Van's smile faded and his eyes grew wide, "Hitomi..."
"It's ok, Van. The baby is happy." Hitomi smiled down at Van as he looked up at her.
"I can hear it." he said, amased.
"I'm not surprised."
The moment was broken by someone shouting that the guards were escorting two people onto the grounds.
Van stayed on his knees for a moment, trying to register what he had just heard. Escorts ment that these people weren't friends. Everyone had been told to be on guard for anything aside from the normal choas.
As five guards brought forward two figures Van stood up quickly to step before Hitomi as he recognised the faces.
"We've come to say that this isn't what we had in mind when we joined with Zaibach." Lord Karth tried to look apologetic but somehow managed to look gloating.
"We never thought they would go this far." Kaitlyn bowed keeping her eyes down, which Hitomi thought was a good idea seeing as she was sure those cold eyes would be full of joy. If that was the case Hitomi would have had no choice but to slam the pain in the ass into the closest tree.
"And yet you willingly joined them when you sent away from fanelia. Looking for others to join your little club were you?" Hitomi snarled. She didn't care that they were pretending to there apologising. Zaibach was after her baby and anyone on their side was deserving of a very painfull death.
"You look well, my Queen." Kaitlyn bowed to her, her dark eyes looking to Hitomi's belly.
"If I was your Queen you would be dead right now." Hitomi laughed.
"Why have you come? We know you are wokring with Zaibach, supplying them with the money they need and helping them inch closer to killing us. Do you honestly expect us to welcome you with open arms?" Van asked, keeping his body between his wife and the unwelcome guests.
"We have come to apologise and ask forgiveness. We have seen that Zaibach is too eveil, even for the likes of us. We have left them high and dry." Karth bowed, holding his hands out before him.
"Why do I not believe you?" Hitomi asked sarcasticly.
"But it is true!" Kaitlyn stepped forward, her eyes pleading for them to believe her.
Hitomi snorted, thinking she'd rather trust a rampaging bull around her baby than this obvious liar.
"No matter your words, you were banished from this land and your welcome hasn't changed. If you aren't out of my country by sundown you will both be killed." Van glared at them, so much for the happy moment he'd been having with his wife only minutes before.
"But we've come with information on Zaibach's plans. Surely you can't throw us out without at least listening to us." Kaitlyn took another step forward.
"I can and I will." Van growled, stopping Kaitlyn's movement.
"They no longer plan to kill the babe." Karth said lightly, "They now want to keep it and raise it as a weapon." The man was forced to jump back as the ground in front of him exploded. When the dust cleared Hitomi was only a few feet in front of him, looking very deadly with a sword in one hand.
"Did you expect that to agin you favor. Telling us something like that will bring about your death, not keep it at bay." her voice was deep and everyone shivered. No one had heard the Queen sound like that before and none doubted her ability to slice the man in two.
"We came to warn you!" Karth's voice shook violently, "Parent to parent, I felt you needed to know."
"And what did you want in return for such information?" Hitomi's voice was so cold. Van made a mental note to never, ever piss her off.
"A nights rest before we were back on the road. That's all! We're heading home and away from Zaibach." Kaitlyn said when her father seemed unable to speak any more but she didn't move. She was afraid of attracting the Queen's attention.
Cold green eyes turned on her and Kaitlyn had to force herself not to take a step back.
"You may stay in the empty stable. We will provide blankets and dinnner but nothing else. With the sunrise you will leave and never return." Van said and Hitomi's head snapped his way.
He met her gaze evenly and she nodded, "One night and then we never see you again."
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"They what!" Selena felt like her head was going to explode. She knew there was a reason for her deep dislike of Lord Karth and his spoiled daughter.
"They left yesterday morning." Marissa smiled at her as if it was normal for the Lord paying for the army's every need to just up and leave for the enemy's palace.
"And what do they plan to do?" Selena threw herself into a chair and looked down at her feet.
"No idea. The Master seems to know but won't share." Marissa sat across from the blonde, a smile still on her face, "I hope the Demon's kill them on sight." she confessed.
"They won't but if they did it would spare us a lot of frustrations." Selena sighed.
"And leave us without enough money to rebuild our army." Marissa pointed out.
Selena shrugged as if to say, 'It happens.' but she kept her mouth closed.
There was a lot for her to thing over now. First it had just been Dilandau's desertion and now now there was Karth's unknown plans.
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A/N: Yay me. I updated, finaly. Things have been crazy. More crazy than I can explain. Scott rushed home to make a movie for school, I was on crutches, and that's just the small of it.