Part 2! I'm so excited :P

This was it! This was her chance to return to Gaea!

She began to sprint. The wind rushed past her cheeks and the images that had been so clear before began to blur.

Hitomi felt the adrenaline pulsing throughout her body. Then something strange happened.

All of the color was drained from her sight and she was enveloped by darkness. It was hard to breath. She felt as though she were suffocating. The air was thick, heavy and almost nonexistent. Then her legs gave way and she collapsed, slowly losing consciousness.

Hitomi awoke lying on a forest floor. Her head was pounding and she felt nauseous.

The sky, peeking between the trees, was dark. The air around her was misty and circling, thick with moisture. The cold rain, pelting her body, had already soaked her uniform and the ground below her. The mud suctioned her body to the ground as she struggled to sit up. As she did so, the world spun and she turned to her side and vomited. She had never felt like this when travelling between the two worlds.

Disgusted and ill, she slowly edged toward the base of a large tree to escape the rain and perhaps nurse her sickness.

Slowly she recovered from her nausea and once she felt well enough to stand, she walked into the rain. Hitomi stared upward and opened her mouth, hoping the water would remove the vulgar taste. The mud slid from her uniform in chunks and slapped against the saturated earth.

Hitomi stroked her hair and shook her head. The rain, which had seemed so awful to her before felt refreshing now. She found a large root sticking up from the ground to sit on by the large tree she had been propped against. The forest floor where she had been laying was covered in flowers flattened into the mud by the rain. This was an old forest she gathered from the presences of large withered trees.

Hitomi pondered her situation for a while and finally the rain subsided. The sky revealed that it was night.

Hitomi began to walk through the forest to find a clear piece of sky in order to ascertain that this was Gaea.

She had been walking for a few minutes when she came across a small lake. She ran towards the water but when she arrived there she realized the water was like glass. The bottom was clearly visible.

Hitomi, mystified by the perfection of the water's sheen, took her hand and tested its perfection. The ripples shattered its clean surface. The lake was surprisingly very warm. Hitomi, still wet from the rain, waded into the water to warm her chilled body.

Then she remembered her purpose of coming here. She stared up into the sky and saw two moons that were incredibly close to her.

This was Gaea.

Hitomi submersed herself and then proceeded to lie on top of the water. She was extremely buoyant. After remaining in the same place for what seemed like hours, Hitomi realized she should find out where she had been brought.

She swam to the edge of the lake and waded out. To her surprise she wasn't cold. Then, in the distance, there was the sound of two people talking. Their voices where getting closer. They did not sound friendly in the least.

" Why must we go search for this woman? I'm a solider not a mere delivery boy," said a husky voice.

"Don't ask questions just do as you're told. We don't want the master to get mad now do we?" replied a snakelike voice.

"But we don't even know what she looks like! A girl with strange clothes… all I've seen is woman with strange clothes! And what makes him think she was brought to this forest? I thought she'd appear before us during the ceremony."

"He sensed it and that's not how the spell works, you know that. Besides, there are people everywhere searching for her. She has the key to overthrowing King Van."

Hitomi was stunned.

How did somebody know to look for her?

Then she realized that someone had brought her here, probably using some otherworldly magic. No wonder she felt so sick during and after the trip here. But what did they mean by her being the key to overthrowing Van? In any case, she decided that it would be best to hide. She dashed into the brush.

Immediately she felt a presence next to her and before she could look somebody covered her mouth but not before she yelped.

"What was that?" asked the gruff voice.

Hitomi felt her body hoisted up onto a muscular and moist pair of shoulders.

The arm that wrapped around her waist was unrelenting and she could feel claws digging into her stomach. They penetrated her skin and the warm blood trickled down her stomach. She saw the scenery whiz by as she realized the creature carrying her was running. She saw a large man was trudging behind her but her couldn't match their speed. He quickly fell behind.

After she had escaped one danger of being captured her fate had been placed in the hands of another possible menace.

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