So hope you like this chapter, not a whole lot of action if you ask me! But I think things are flowing together for me at least. ?Hope everyone is liking it still! Thanks for the feedback guys :D It means so much!

Ash

Oh and um no muse music heh

Hitomi sat quietly while she ate, eyeing Dilandau, waiting for him to speak. For the last several day he had came at her meals, and when the man, whom she could only describe as a crazy mad scientist from one of those old horror movies, would address her head wound. Dilandau spoke minimal words, and lately Hitomi had been trying to make him speak more, with simple questions depending on "which" Dilandau was sitting next to her.

His features had became more broad slightly less feminine Hitomi noticed, and his hair was indeed no longer a light gray but a definite silver with white highlights. He was changing as his health seemed to become better from when she first seen him. He was becoming more familiar to her, and with each day she was more at ease with "new" Dilandau.

"Am I going to be able to get out of this room today?" She said not meeting his eyes but simply focused on the food before her.

"What is it you hope to see exactly?" Dilandau pressed smoothly.

Sersantis she thought quietly, if she could get near her she might be able to get out of here.

"Fresh air for starters..." It was becoming musty in her small room, and her legs were feeling cramped as her chain was even shorter than the room.

"It was concidence that you asked today, as I was taking you to see Seiz." Her rose from his chair and knelt next to her, taking her ankle roughly into his hand he unlocked it with a small key he pulled from his undershirt attached to his neck by a small golden chain.

"Who is Seiz?" Hitomi asked testing her bounds with Dilandau.

He gave her a look but that quickly turned into a sly smirk.

Hitomi turned her ankle around at the weight that was now free; it felt better, much better.

Dilandau stood at the door waiting for Hitomi to follow and she did so, without even finishing her meal. She had waited for this moment for a few days – days that seemed like weeks to her.

She walked slightly in front of Dilandau, watching him out of the corner of her eye. She wasn't sure what was appropriate to ask anymore. Last time she opened herself up to asking new questions her became the Dilandau that consumed her being with hatred and anger.

They followed the long corridors and up stairs for a good twenty minutes before stopping in front of two large metal doors. Dilandau pushed his weight into the doors and once they started to open they seemed to do it on their own, no longer needing the assistance of Dilandau.

The room was lightly illuminated. No windows or sunlight cascaded into the room, just a wall of candles. There must have be a thousand of them, like the stars there flames flickered providing dancing light through the room. There was a large bed, with a canopy of satin curtains, that appeared to be a deep burgundy but the lighting could have been playing with Hitomi's eyes. A large desk sat on the opposite wall of candles from the bed, and a large white circle with multiple strange markings crossing each other on the floor in the center of the room. Hitomi walked over it and only paused to see the center symbol of all the symbols and crossing lines was the one that was imprinted permanently on her forehead.

"Now Dilandau, Zeyran's jealousy will reach new peaks if she finds out that I was introduced to the Tsuni before her." Her voice echoed throughout the room.

"Then maybe Zeyran should have completed her task in a more timely manner Seiz, I should of sent you in her stead, maybe then we would be beyond this point and not messing with such petty circumstances." His voice was firm and she could feel his aura of anger returning slowly dropping against Hitomi's skin like small raindrops to the start of a storm.

Prepare yourself Hitomi thought. She needed to keep her bearings about her if this was going to go the wrong way.

"You need to come see me more Dilandau." To Hitomi's surprise a woman appeared from a small fog that had suddenly appeared before them.

She was a woman in every sense of the word. Hitomi couldn't compare her to any woman she had ever seen, even the models she knew of in her world could not compare to this woman's midnight black spiral body hair that hung loosely against her practically naked form. Even her curves seem to flow together as she swayed perfectly to Dilandau. Her skin looked light, soft, and perfect and her finger pressed against Dilandau's face following his features down to his chin.

Her aura made Hitomi shift; it was sweet, and terrifying. She held so many lustful natures and so much deceit, is was like thick syrup that stuck to Hitomi's skin. She could feel her body tingling with almost recognizable passion that she had experienced before, but what astounded Hitomi is how this woman before her could be having all of these emotions and remain calm, collective, and downright venomous.

Dilandau looked away from Seiz, and Hitomi couldn't tell if it was in disgust or that he was just simply focusing on Hitomi, either way it didn't help make her feel any more comfortable.

Seiz closed her space between her and Hitomi. All Hitomi could do was straighten and inhaled deeply holding her breath 1…2….3... She was trying to keep the feelings that pulsed through Hitomi from actually becoming acts. It was so hard, she couldn't tell if she wanted to claw at Seiz or wrap in her embrace but either way she didn't want to do it.

"You are awfully plain for a Tsuni." Seiz looked her up and down, in truth Hitomis body was rather matured she used to think until she stood next to this woman. She could tell if it was her own irritation from the remark or Seiz's but it was there.

Seiz raised her hand to Hitomi's forehead, and as her cool thin finger pressed against her head it was immediate taken back. A Bright flash of blue sent Seiz flying across the room from Hitomi, her body slamming against the large wooden desk that her arms now grasped to hold her up. Dilandau grabbed Hitomi's wrist and flung her back against the ground cursing something as he towered over her, waiting for Hitomi to do something, but she didn't know what she did in the first place.

"Dilandau I was careless, shes more powerful than I thought." Seiz swayed back to Dilandau side, seeming unharmed even with the forceful impact she had made against the desk.

Her grin was rather disturbing to Hitomi, and she knew Seiz was feeling pleasure from her newest discover, and Hitomi smiled back, but she wasn't sure if she was pleasured with the information or trying to mock Seiz.

"So what are our next steps?" Dilandau didn't pull his gaze from Hitomi who stood back up, not wanting to remain on the floor like some bruised dog that got kicked.

"I can't absorb her power without those bracelets, and furthermore, without my sister." Seiz turned and headed to the desk shuffling around its contents for something particular.

Seiz pulled from her desk a small chain with symbols and charms dangling loosely from it, and a long twisted dagger, with etching of words Hitomi couldn't read. Placing them on the desk she further searched, she opened a small box on the corner of the desk, and carefully pulling a green emerald from it. It hummed, Hitomi could feel it, it was part of a drag energist.

"Did you know there are dragons in this world that take on different colors and shapes, to elude their larger enemy?" She said tracing the small contours of the stone with an unsettling gleam in her eye.

"They are small dragons, and if it wasn't for their energist's we probably wouldn't even call them such." She approached Hitomi with the contents she had pulled from the desk.

"We call them Chamelions. Their energist's provide them with this marvelous gift of defense I have learned over centuries." She wrapped her cold clammy hand around Hitomi's wrist and pulled it closer to her, Hitomi stood froze. She felt intrigued, and yet unafraid.

Hit'zar Groen Chamelo mi form'lon Seiz chanted repetitively as she pressed the dagger firmly against Hitomis hand. Her chanting became louder and the world began to spin to Hitomi. She felt the ground shifting and the candles on the wall blurring yet, Seiz stood still in front of her unaffected. She pushed to keep her eyes open; trying to see what Seiz was doing but to help the unsettling nausea building she could only open her eyes for seconds. A sharp pain shot through Hitomis arm from her and she felt a cool solid object pressed against her palm as liquid trickled down the length of her elbow.

Hitomi thought she opened her eyes one last time, but the spinning world had stopped and in front of her stood her. A exact replica but without a confusing face, her face seemed more confident and mischievous. Hitomi went to grab at her only losing her balance and luckily before the floor met her face, she felt nothing or saw nothing but black.

Orinia couldn't believe it, she stood at the gates as the sounds of the city below erupted with rejoice welcoming their King and his army home. Orinia rushed the thought of the other banners that walked along with Van aside, trying to just enjoy his return. There would be time for answers later.

The sight of his Gymeluf flying above as the armies entered the city was one that took her breath away, she couldn't get used to it. He was elegant in all his maneuvers, and even any untrained combat eye could see that.

Escaflowne flew over the palace wall, ahead of the approaching parade of military men following him, and landed in the front court yard. Orinia tried to walk to him, but her feet wouldn't let her pace slow her from running up to him. As she neared him she collected herself trying to push away the thoughts she was having, hopefully slowing the beat of her heart with her pace.

"Your Majesty it is warming to us to see you home safely." She bowed deeply struggling with her emotions.

Van smiled, it was refreshing to see Fanelia, it brought him a sense of courage that he needed right now, and to see Orinia made him feel more comfort than he realized he needed.

"Orinia, it is good to see you." Van reached for her hand, and she obliged as they walked to the castle.

Orinia looked around and for a moment she was confused. Where's the girl she thought with a sudden hint of worry.

"Where's the Savior of Gaea?" It was when she saw the pain that flashed to Vans face that something had gone terribly wrong. She never did come to Fanelia, which Orinia waited for her and grew worried when she didn't show, she never received another letter from Van stating if she was even coming. All of these things she threw out the window when she heard the bells tolling his return.

"Dilandau has her Orinia. I have brought the allying armies; we plan to march to Lake Boren tomorrow to retrieve her." Orinia shook her head none of it made sense.

They were battling in Asturia last she knew, even if the battle had ended abruptly for Dilandau to travel all that way in this time frame was impossible. Van could see her confusion and decided it best to explain it to her privately with Storius while they planned their strategy.

"I will explain it later with Storius Orinia." Van said as they made their way past the docks, only to have his eyes catch a levi ship with masts holding crests to a county, no a King, that he didn't want to see at this time. His anger rose and he turned to Orinia.

"Rentra never left!" It wasn't a questions but a statement.

Orinia gasped, she forgot that Van didn't know of his extended stay and the repairs that needed to be done to his stones before he could depart.

"His Levi ship had a repair that was needed before it could safely depart, they should be done by the end of the week Sire." She said quietly, unsure if she should be ashamed of the situation or alarmed at the anger Van had for Rentra. He is just trying to help her thoughts slightly pulled but she shook it, that wasn't true either. She could tell Rentra was out for himself but what he was to gain with the Tsuni she wasn't sure from the information she had received.

She decided to back off from Rentra when his newly found mistress caught his attention. She wasn't sure, but the information she received from Kelta, who even wrote to other countries and nations for certain documents, never lined up with the story Rentra gave her. She would have been insulted that Rentra wouldn't find her intelligent enough to try and fool her, but she did realize arrogance was his main quality leaving him thinking he was smarter than anyone else. Between the mistress and Merle she was sure Rentra wouldn't be able to pull anything off without someone knowing about it. Now that Van was back, maybe he can shed more light on the Savior as he was with her for a short time.

"I see you at least greeted us Orinia!" Storius said as he galloped up to them. The men started pouring into the gate and making their way to the barracks as Storius approached them.

"LORD VAN!" the high pitched shrill from across the court yard belonged to only the lone cat-woman who ran quickly towards them.

Orinia rolled her eyes with a sigh as her gaze met Storius's who seemed to be staring at her with a seriousness that made her feel strange. She quickly looked away from him trying not to meet his unusual gaze. She knew she had seen it before, a similar one anyways, when he eyed the women in the taverns, but this gaze seemed deeper. He missed you? Orinia pushed the thought aside with smirk that she was sure he caught, but no one else.

Van braced himself for the impact from Merle. She collided into him, and he still managed to lose his footing and hit the ground. Laughing and she licked his face affectionately with her course tongue.

"Ok ok Merle!" He pushed her away softly, and she stood pressed against him when he stood up.

"Oh Lord Van! Where is Hitomi!" She asked her tone increased a notch excited as ever.

She glanced about and back to Van when her ears flattened at the scowl he had looking at the ground. Something had happened and she didn't want to pry in the court yard with so many ears Some things are meant for private conversation she heard Orinia scolding in her ear. If it wasn't just a memory of Orinia scolding her Merle would have stuck her tongue out at her.

The three of them followed Van into the palace, making their way to his private study. Van's pace set a sense of urgency that no one bantered with at this point, knowing it would be in their best interest.

"Then I suggest you dispatch your armies as soon as possible." Zeyran scolded Rentra. Her bind to him wasn't working like she expected.

"I do not believe that would be wise now that his armies are back wouldn't you agree?" Rentra continued staring at the small board with several colored stones.

"Van will be pressing on to Dilandau at Lake Boren, Fanelia will be open!" Zeyran wanted to fling the board across the room, she despised people who didn't give her their full attention and furthermore, resisted her bind.

"I do not want Fanelia right now, I can have it when I get the Tsuni Zeyran, and you're making things more difficult than they have to be." He picked up one of the white colored stones and placed it in another spot on the board.

"Then what is your brilliant plan Rentra." She was intrigued to know, she wouldn't deny he was cunning, more than she had given him credit for.

"My armies are already two days away Zeyran, Im waiting for the right moment." She felt the shock of his statement, but suppressed its outward appearance. Very cunning in deed.

She smoothed herself and stepped closer to him. Picking up a single stone she placed it in an adjacent spot and walked away from the board as he lit with frustration.

Zeyran headed back to her room, she needed to speak with Dilandau and to her sister. She needed to know why Rentra was resisting her bind and check on the growing concern she had for Dilandau. Rentra at least gave her a sense of ease. His armies were near and even without the bind if she played her cards right, she would get him to be her pawn one way or another.

She could hear the crowds roaring outside at the return of their young king I could use him as well she thought with a sly smirk on her face. She knew her errors last time she forced fated love apart and knew what her boundaries were, but there was still a chance for her, as a woman's heart holds more jealousy than one would care to know. She could get Orinia in on this to, besides her perfect elegance annoyed Zeyran, and her cowardly ways for her misguided love for Van could prove useful.

Lets move onto bigger and better things she thoughts as she entered her room closing the door with a soft click.

She walked over to the bowl and mumbled softly to it. If she wasn't used to Dohns presences his sudden appearance from the bathing chamber might have startled her but she gave him a stern look instead.

He gave her a smug look snd sat at the small table waiting for her to finish what she was doing.

Again fog rolled out of the bowl and Zeyran waved it away providing a new face on the other side, one she didn't recognize.

"Who are you?" She hissed.

"Now if I wasn't appearing as I am from where I am I might be offended sister." She smirked. The girl looked sort of plain compared to Zeyran, sure she was pretty, but not in comparison.

"You used the Chamlo-energist, very good sister." Zeyran slightly praised her holding back the jealousy of her being able to touch and see the power of the Tsuni before her.

"Im on my way to Fanelia, I should be there tonight." Zeyran knew her means of travel, Waystones but using them to get here sooner than that might weaken her, just at is did Dilandau.

"However, I think there will be a problem with Dilandau if something is not done soon. Hes reverting sister, somehow the Tsuni is completing him." Seiz's tone was uncertain.

"How!? He took the vial; he lost the soul, other than the blood flowing through there is no more of him to revert to!" Zeyrans fist met the table and the water reflection within the bowl rippled.

"I am as troubled as you are; right now its minor psychical appearances, I cannot tell if his emotional state is still drained or conflicting as well."

Zeyran's brow creased.

"I must go sister I will see you soon." Zeyran turned and headed to the balcony.

"Scowling is unbecoming on you Zeyran." Dohn commented if she had something to throw she would have.

Zeyran wasn't sure what Seiz was planning but this might work out to her benefit. If Rentra thought the Tsuni was here, he would invade, to claim her and destroy Van. If he destroyed Van that was one less obstacle, and during all of this she could obtain the bracelets and find an escape with Seiz. This was the perfect diversion and it couldn't come at a more perfect time. By this time tomorrow they would be back to Dilandau and she would deal with this forming issue before it became a real problem.

The girls sat around giggling to one another in the small court yard. It was pretty, all the hedges were neatly cut in a spiraling design and the roses color coordinated with the blooming buds on them. They were all dressed in simple white dressed, with a small shawl that dangled on each girl differently.

She pulled hers over her shoulders walking by the bushes and observing each flower individually. She felt like she was missing something, but she couldn't remember what it was.

"Almi…" A whisper broke her thinking, but she could recognize the voice.

She jogged to the far wall and stopped looking between the hedged square bushes for him.

His head poked out, he was younger, slightly younger, and his features weren't as sharp but more rounded. No he wasn't younger he was older than her she thought, not sure what she was thinking.

"Happy Birthday." He whispered, pulling from his pocket a beautiful delicate blue stone attached to a fine crafted silver chain.

She gasped, she held the tears back, it was nothing special, as the groups of girls over across the court were all in the same range of her, within days. So hearing birthday was a term she was growing old of hearing, but now it was special.

"My birthday isn't for two more days Leeran!" She said smiling and taking the necklace from his hands.

She pulled the chain to her face and looked into the stone, as she pulled it away from her face, she gasped as the scenery around her had changed. Keegran towered over her cackling madly, she could feel the free forming tears falling from her face, and she wasn't sure she understood why.

She looked down below to screams that were filling the air. They were in the coliseum, and below were women, children, and men of all forms screaming and looking up at her. She couldn't understand them; they were all painted with pain across their face.

"Keegran stop! I will listen to you there is no reason to do this!" She knew what he was doing, she would marry him, listen to him, but he didn't have to kill all these people.

He stared down at her, his eyes glistened with madness, his cackling continued.

"I will control all of you Almi, all of you will listen to me."

He looked over, and his advisor stepped out from behind him. Holding in her hands were two finely crafted bracelets with jewels inserted in the center. She couldn't tell the color as the night sky only illuminated when the crackling thunder danced across it. She would rather hear the thunder than the screams of the people below.

She tried to stand up but her body was weak, something happen to her, but she couldn't remember. She turned towards the pit of people again, four cloaked individuals stood evenly distance from each other along the circle rim of the screaming pit of people.

"Here are the bracelets M'lord" The advisor said with a hint of satisfaction.

Almi wanted to scream at her, but she could only listen while staring at the people They are all going to die, thousands of them going to die she felt the anger, the hate, the fear, the will to live, and she couldn't move because it weighed her down. She couldn't concentrate and focus on one thing to bring forth anything to help save them.

That's when her vision blurred, and thought the sounds of the people were there, her sight no longer seen them. Instead a marvelous white metallic dragon flying before her, with a man perched on it back. He flew through the clear skies over a city that she never even knew, or seen, Fanelia her voice echoed over the screams Fanelia? She never heard of it. Hope will come and she reached out, it was so close she could touch it, but it faded as quickly as it appeared. Van She screamed, but it drowned away with the sight of the victims below. Van her thoughts pulled, it was hard to feel something so familiar with a sense of unfamiliarity.

"You can join them Zeyran!" Keegran launched her from the stop of the stairs and she screamed as her body rolled down trying to grab at something to keep her from rolling into the enormous pit of people.

"I help you get here you arrogant pig!" She screamed, her voice rising above everything as she pulled her battered body up.

"You power was a tool Zeyran, besides did you not think I didn't know of your true intentions, you might be a Quartz, but you are not a great one." His cackle began again as the soldiers from the perimeter around the four cloaked individuals pulled her further trying to launch her into the pit. Zeyran fought them, kicking and biting, finally breaking her arm free she pulled from her pouch something that she held in her hand. She mouthed words and a red barrier formed around her, growing in color until she disappeared from Almi's sight. Her words echoed above all else.

"I MIGHT NOT HAVE YOUR KINGDOM NOW OR YOUR TSUNI, BUT I WILL"

And for some reason Almi shuddered with a terrible sense of truth to her statement. As if it was, could, and would happen.

Hitomi shot up clutches her chest. She felt a throbbing pain in her hand and looked at the white bandage wrapped around it. She knew how she was, She was Hitomi Kanzaki, from earth Mystic Moon her mind corrected. She couldnt be her in the dreams, she was this Almi. She didnt understand it How can I be someone else when Im me she felt the saddness remembering Almi. What if all this happened, a long time ago she was being called a Tsuni, and Hitomi didnt think she was unitelligant. They called her a Tsunmi because there were others like her Every 100 years her mind recalled. She sighed, she just wanted it to all be laid out infront of her, she was tired of these dreams, these powers, and most of all the enemies.

Seiz and her thoughts oulled her to the woman who turned into her. Van she cried into her pillow feeling so helpless for once, all this power and she couldnt even pull one ounce of energy to her being to do anything. She had tried, but it had to be something with this chain or room, because she couldnt feel anything, it was dormint, but there. At least it was there, and she would find a way to use it. No one was going to hurt Van, and the tears slowed, and her thoughts ebbed as she difted off to a dreamless sleep for once.