math-nerds-unite- thank you for finaily finding a chance to review. ps love ur name!

maeko14- no thankfully they're not really evil, just a royal pain in the butt.

TigerWolf - yes... well what else would you expect from hitomi? ; )

Adriel- as its probably obivous that i dont kno that much about horses, so i guessed that 'hands' was about 6-7"

linkinparkfangirl - im glad that u like that last chap

Macky- thankya, thankya

Clémence - yes i shorta wonder too...

trekker4life- i love demon too, just wait till next chap... XD

TheElvenHanyou- your right, it is just getting started, and ur welcome 4 the review

mysisterthinksimasquijum- well im sorrybut you of all pple should know that writing is hard...and srry this ones shorter;p

pure hope- well what can i say to that... maybe u should try and stay off of the coffee all together...

Chapter 17: Not Again

She was amazing.

She could take on his best knight and win, when the last time that she was on Gaea she didn't even know how to hold a sword properly!

But he couldn't have her. She had her life on the Mystic Moon. She was happy there, and he couldn't ask her to leave that.

Hitomi was the first to break the silence, "So is there anywhere in particular that we're headed?" Van pointed to a hill a little ways to the distance. She smiled, "Race Ya!" she called over her shoulder. But seeing the look in her eyes Van knew that she wanted to race, and was already gaining a lead.

Thinking that since she had the bigger horse, she could easily pass him, but as he heard her coming he urged Chikara to go faster, and maintained his lead -Chikara was the only other horse that could out-run Demon.

He heard her gasp in awe at the sight that awaited them on the other side of the hill. A lush green field was spread out before them, with a river running through it, surrounded by a thick forest.

"It's beautiful." She gasped her bright green eyes wide in awe.

"Well if you think that that's beautiful, just turn around."

She dismounted and turned around.

She was speechless. Stretched out before her now was all of Fanelia City. It was bigger then the last time she was there, stretching out past the original boundary. It reminded Hitomi of a circular maze. And at the very center was a statue, but they were too far away for her to see what it was.

That's when IT hit her…

They were on their way to Austuria.

They were on the Titanic, one of Van's levi ships. When all of a sudden, major cables broke. The ship crashed into the forest below.

There were no survivors.

Van saw she eyes glaze over, the way they always did when she had a vision. Then she collapsed. Thankfully he was at the ready, so he caught her before her head could hit the ground.

"Shit. Now how am I going to get her, and the horses back?"

He couldn't leave her there and go get help, and he really shouldn't just leave the horses there.

A twig snapped behind him. He turned around drawing his sword in one quick, fluid motion.

"Oh, it's just you."

"My Lord, I shall take care of the horses, while you take her to the palace."

Van nodded his agreement, then tossed his red sleeveless shirt to Konn.

Suddenly a pair of beautiful pearl white wings sprouted from the king's back. Van wasn't afraid or ashamed to show people his wings, well in Fanelia anyway. For Fanelia was dubbed 'the county where anything was possible.' He carefully picked Hitomi up and flew to the palace.

Van placed the sleeping Hitomi on her bed. He informed a maid to bring up some supper for him, and to tell Merle and Chid what had happened.

As expected Merle and Chid both came to the room once they heard what happed; wanting to make sure that Hitomi was over all ok.

Van stayed by her side the entire time, silently eating his dinner. To him it seemed that she might never wake up, then.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! VAN!" she sat up so quickly that they nearly banged heads. She franticly looked around the room.

"I'm here."

"Van, we can't fly to Austuria. For when we're about a day's ride away the ship will crash; there will be no survivors!"

"Then we shall ride to Austuria." He reassured her.

She sighed in relief. And he started to get up to go when he heard her whisper, "I'm sorry. I've been nothing but a nuisance to you." She laid back down on the bed.

"No you haven't. You've probably just saved many lives."

"I'm sorry about this morning, I didn't know that that was your bathroom as well."

"Well, that's sort of my fault. I should have made sure that you knew that the Queen's sweet was joined to the King's through the bath room." Luckily for him that the shadows in the room hid his faint blush. He saw that her over expressive eyes went large with shock when he told her this. "You did know that you're staying in the Queen's sweet, right?" he asked. She just shook her head, too embarrassed to say anything, he could see her face turning a hundred shades of red. "Well I had some food brought up for you, if your hungry, and I suggest that you get some rest we'll have to leave the day after tomorrow of we want to reach Austuria on time." She nodded.

"Good night." She managed to get out, as she slowly started to drift back to the dream world.

"Good night, Hitomi." He bent and lightly kissed her forehead. And quietly slipped from her room, to go and make the preparations for the weeklong journey.

Being on the edge of sleep, Hitomi thought that it was her imagination that Van had kissed her forehead, and she was fast asleep before he reached her door.

A/N: ok so who knew already that hitomi was in the Queen's sweet?XD and i want to know how many of you want to see some allen bashing?