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create! It would be fun if I did though!
Chapter 1
He felt one of his headaches come on. 'This isn't good. I have to get away from here.' The young man looked at his team that was around him cheering and shouting for having won the nationals. "Hey guys I have to go. I promised my mom that I would help her with something." He rushed off toward his house.
There were black men coming toward his house. He didn't want them to get there but he knew that they would. He didn't ever remember having one like this. Most of them were like a dream but this one held urgency behind each coming scene in his mind.
He saw his mother come in from outside. She looked like she had been running home. She had left the track field about ½ an hour ago he knew. He didn't like the looks of this. She turned pale when he saw the men in her house. He knew she could only fight off so many men.
He heard a scream through his mind as he saw the scene change some before him. "NO!" The men in black clothes were in the scene going after his mother.
She had been trying to fight the men off but found that there were too many. He saw fear in her eyes as one of them were pulled a knife and plunged it into her.
Kanzaki Vanel began to run even faster to get to her. "Okaasan!" He ran through the door to see the men running out the back door. The sixteen year old boy looked over his mother very carefully.
Vanel pulled the phone out to dial 911. "No Van. We have to get to Gaia." Her hand lay limply on his arm.
"Mom if I don't then you will die."
"I'll be fine. WE have to get to Gaia. They're going to try." She didn't finish what she was saying because she passed out in her arms.
"Mom don't do this to me. How do I get us there?" His Mom had told him about Gaia and his father but she had never told him how to get there. Vanel made sure that he had properly bandaged her wounds before he carried her to the car. He had to follow his intuition to lead him to his high school track.
"Okay Mom we're here now what do I do?" He whispered as he picked her up.
"Follow your instinct." Something inside him said.
"Okay." He went to the center of the field. "Come on whatever is supposed to happen..." He whispered with urgency.
"Just as he finished speaking a blue pillar of light seemed to take them to another place. He had landed softly enough that but his mother had become even paler. "Come on Mom. You have to make it." He followed the light that seemed to lead out of the trees.
There was a low growl that stopped him just before he stepped into the opening of the woods.
"What are you doing with her?" A pair of yellow eyes greeted him in the shadows of the trees.
"I'm getting my mother some help. Someone tried to kill her." A wolf stepped out of the shadows.
'Hmmm. This boy looks familiar.' The wolf asked the boy. "What is your name boy?" He observed the woman in his arms.
"Kanzaki Vanel. Can we get my mother some help now?" He matched the glower on the wolf's face with his own glare.
'Kanzaki? That means that she has returned.' He thought for just a second. That wouldn't be the lady Hitomi would it?" He asked a little surprised to hear the name after all these years. The legends about the young woman had spread far and wide and were becoming more and more outlandish by the day.
Vanel looked at the wolf only slightly surprised that he knew his mother's name.
"Get on my back." The wolf ordered the boy that stood before him.
"Please hurry." The boy whispered. The wolf didn't miss the whisper.
"I will."
Fifteen minutes later he was stopped by a tall black haired man on a horse in the road. "Rhum where are you going?"
"To get help Lord Van. This woman needs it." Rhum answered.
Van observed the woman in the young man's arms. "Follow me. He ordered her." She looked just like Hitomi but then again sometimes he had a tendency to see things that weren't there. He turned the horse around and led them to a cottage.
The woman looked at him surprised. "Lord Van! What are you doing here?"
"Help this woman." He ordered her before they entered the cottage.
Vanel laid his mother on the indicated bed. The healer went about her work while Van thanked Rhum and dismissed him. "Okay lad what's your name?"
"Kanzaki Vanel." The boy whispered.
Van gave a start when he heard the boy's name. "Did you say Kanzaki?" his face had paled in the dimly lit room. "What happened to her? Who is your father?" He was confused. How was it that this boy had held Hitomi's name. She had promised that he was the only one that she loved. He ran his hand through his hair and began to pace the floor.
Vanel had wine colored eyes that had a mix of jade in them. His hair was a raven black like Van's and he had the physique of a runner.
"She was at home waiting for me to get there from track meet today. We were going to go out to a movie afterwards." He saw the confusion in Van's eyes. "A moving picture." He tried to explain what it was; knowing that Van probably didn't know. "Someone that was dressed in all black and the same colored capes tried to kill her and almost succeeded. She wouldn't let me call the ambulance and said that Gaia was in danger. I'm worried about her Otousan." He whispered the last line and Van barely caught the last one.
"Did you say Otousan?" Van asked the young man. Van thought back to when she had returned to Gaia for a short time.
-Flashback-
"Hitomi can you come back to Gaia for a small visit?" Van whispered into her dream. "We miss you. Merle will drive me crazy if she doesn't get someone to talk to. I can't spend as much time with her as I would like."
Hitomi had answered in her dream that she could and would be happy to. Van had come the next day in Gaian time anyways to get her. For mystic moon time that was about half a day. She was ready and waiting for him in the field where he had first met him.
He had barely touched the ground when she had jumped into his arms toppling him over. "Oh Van I missed you so much!" He could tell that she was crying softly on his shirt.
"Hey I missed you too." He whispered in her ear.
"Van how is everyone?" She asked.
"Well everyone is doing alright. Merle is driving us all insane trying to get somebody to pay attention to her. I want you there for a ball that they are getting ready to have. They're trying to marry me off again. I'm not interested in any of the women that they have invited."
"Who's they Van?" she wondered as she sat up.
"They are my advisors." The tone that he said it in made her wince.
"I take it that you don't like them." Hitomi commented.
"No I don't." He answered.
"Let's go before they discover that I've gone missing. We will really have trouble then." Van took her hand and guided her to the center of the field.
The pillar of light picked them up carrying them into the sky.
-end flashback-
Vanel took this opportunity to see that Lord Van had grown even paler if that were even possible. He hadn't meant to say it. Otousan had just slipped out. Lord Van ran his hand through his dark black hair. He was still in good shape as he continued to pace the floor. He spoke quietly. "Mama used to call you her angel."
Van smiled slightly at the old name. "She's the only one that ever called me that." The king looked in the direction where the healer was doing her work. "How is she?"
"She's taught her son well. I could use the extra hands sometimes." The woman spoke in a language that Vanel barley understood. He had always thought that his Okaasan stories were just that; stories.
"I thought that they were just stories to be told to me when I was little." Vanel said to no one in particular.
"The stories that you're mother told you are true. I'm sure that she didn't tell you all of them though. She saw things no person should have seen at her age." Van said to him.
"You are about the same age as her. What would make the difference in you seeing them and her seeing them?" Vanel asked.
"It doesn't really. I still have nightmares about what happened during the Great War." Lord Van looked at the young man that had just revealed that he was his son.
"Oh, she does too. She just keeps it all too herself." Vanel went to the bed and held her hand.
"Don't worry she will live." The healer was a worn-out woman as she was made her way to a book shelf that lay untouched for several years it looked like.
"How do you know?" Vanel looked at the woman strangely.
"She is a fighter. I was there during the Great War." She opened the book that she held in her hand to the middle of it.
"You were. Tell me about it." Vanel was becoming more and more interested in what was going on.
Lord Van had stopped pacing by now and sat on one of the chairs that were in the room. Though he knew that people had returned after the war he never knew how many had come home and he like to hear the stories that were told.
"Well I worked in your palace before you were crowned king." She nodded her head to Lord Van. "I was trying to take care of two children mostly by myself because my husband was in the army. That meant he was always on the move." She paused for breath. "On the day of your testing when you disappeared everyone was worried because you had vanished and couldn't be found. You showed up again a little while later but this time there was a girl with you." The woman seemed to stop for breath between every other sentence. "Soon after you finished the rights of Kinghood though we were attacked by invisible Guileless Everyone had run out or so I thought when I found myself trapped behind a locked door. She helped me out of their. She had fought the debris of the falling castle walls to get me out of that room. If it hadn't been for her I wouldn't be here today. It was just before you and she managed to escape and get to safety. After that everything went downhill. Later I wished I had died in there for a while. All of the children were starting to disappear and we didn't know where they were going. My boy was one of the last few that were taken. It broke my heart because he was my whole life. I saw him several years later. He had been brainwashed. He didn't remember where he had grown up, his parentage." Vanel couldn't imagine what it was that the woman that had gone through.
"I'm sorry." Lord Van whispered.
"The return of the seeress/wing goddess; has been foretold."
- - - - Okay this is my first Esca fanfic so just bear with me. I'll be learning the ropes on this story as well.
Chapter 1
He felt one of his headaches come on. 'This isn't good. I have to get away from here.' The young man looked at his team that was around him cheering and shouting for having won the nationals. "Hey guys I have to go. I promised my mom that I would help her with something." He rushed off toward his house.
There were black men coming toward his house. He didn't want them to get there but he knew that they would. He didn't ever remember having one like this. Most of them were like a dream but this one held urgency behind each coming scene in his mind.
He saw his mother come in from outside. She looked like she had been running home. She had left the track field about ½ an hour ago he knew. He didn't like the looks of this. She turned pale when he saw the men in her house. He knew she could only fight off so many men.
He heard a scream through his mind as he saw the scene change some before him. "NO!" The men in black clothes were in the scene going after his mother.
She had been trying to fight the men off but found that there were too many. He saw fear in her eyes as one of them were pulled a knife and plunged it into her.
Kanzaki Vanel began to run even faster to get to her. "Okaasan!" He ran through the door to see the men running out the back door. The sixteen year old boy looked over his mother very carefully.
Vanel pulled the phone out to dial 911. "No Van. We have to get to Gaia." Her hand lay limply on his arm.
"Mom if I don't then you will die."
"I'll be fine. WE have to get to Gaia. They're going to try." She didn't finish what she was saying because she passed out in her arms.
"Mom don't do this to me. How do I get us there?" His Mom had told him about Gaia and his father but she had never told him how to get there. Vanel made sure that he had properly bandaged her wounds before he carried her to the car. He had to follow his intuition to lead him to his high school track.
"Okay Mom we're here now what do I do?" He whispered as he picked her up.
"Follow your instinct." Something inside him said.
"Okay." He went to the center of the field. "Come on whatever is supposed to happen..." He whispered with urgency.
"Just as he finished speaking a blue pillar of light seemed to take them to another place. He had landed softly enough that but his mother had become even paler. "Come on Mom. You have to make it." He followed the light that seemed to lead out of the trees.
There was a low growl that stopped him just before he stepped into the opening of the woods.
"What are you doing with her?" A pair of yellow eyes greeted him in the shadows of the trees.
"I'm getting my mother some help. Someone tried to kill her." A wolf stepped out of the shadows.
'Hmmm. This boy looks familiar.' The wolf asked the boy. "What is your name boy?" He observed the woman in his arms.
"Kanzaki Vanel. Can we get my mother some help now?" He matched the glower on the wolf's face with his own glare.
'Kanzaki? That means that she has returned.' He thought for just a second. That wouldn't be the lady Hitomi would it?" He asked a little surprised to hear the name after all these years. The legends about the young woman had spread far and wide and were becoming more and more outlandish by the day.
Vanel looked at the wolf only slightly surprised that he knew his mother's name.
"Get on my back." The wolf ordered the boy that stood before him.
"Please hurry." The boy whispered. The wolf didn't miss the whisper.
"I will."
Fifteen minutes later he was stopped by a tall black haired man on a horse in the road. "Rhum where are you going?"
"To get help Lord Van. This woman needs it." Rhum answered.
Van observed the woman in the young man's arms. "Follow me. He ordered her." She looked just like Hitomi but then again sometimes he had a tendency to see things that weren't there. He turned the horse around and led them to a cottage.
The woman looked at him surprised. "Lord Van! What are you doing here?"
"Help this woman." He ordered her before they entered the cottage.
Vanel laid his mother on the indicated bed. The healer went about her work while Van thanked Rhum and dismissed him. "Okay lad what's your name?"
"Kanzaki Vanel." The boy whispered.
Van gave a start when he heard the boy's name. "Did you say Kanzaki?" his face had paled in the dimly lit room. "What happened to her? Who is your father?" He was confused. How was it that this boy had held Hitomi's name. She had promised that he was the only one that she loved. He ran his hand through his hair and began to pace the floor.
Vanel had wine colored eyes that had a mix of jade in them. His hair was a raven black like Van's and he had the physique of a runner.
"She was at home waiting for me to get there from track meet today. We were going to go out to a movie afterwards." He saw the confusion in Van's eyes. "A moving picture." He tried to explain what it was; knowing that Van probably didn't know. "Someone that was dressed in all black and the same colored capes tried to kill her and almost succeeded. She wouldn't let me call the ambulance and said that Gaia was in danger. I'm worried about her Otousan." He whispered the last line and Van barely caught the last one.
"Did you say Otousan?" Van asked the young man. Van thought back to when she had returned to Gaia for a short time.
-Flashback-
"Hitomi can you come back to Gaia for a small visit?" Van whispered into her dream. "We miss you. Merle will drive me crazy if she doesn't get someone to talk to. I can't spend as much time with her as I would like."
Hitomi had answered in her dream that she could and would be happy to. Van had come the next day in Gaian time anyways to get her. For mystic moon time that was about half a day. She was ready and waiting for him in the field where he had first met him.
He had barely touched the ground when she had jumped into his arms toppling him over. "Oh Van I missed you so much!" He could tell that she was crying softly on his shirt.
"Hey I missed you too." He whispered in her ear.
"Van how is everyone?" She asked.
"Well everyone is doing alright. Merle is driving us all insane trying to get somebody to pay attention to her. I want you there for a ball that they are getting ready to have. They're trying to marry me off again. I'm not interested in any of the women that they have invited."
"Who's they Van?" she wondered as she sat up.
"They are my advisors." The tone that he said it in made her wince.
"I take it that you don't like them." Hitomi commented.
"No I don't." He answered.
"Let's go before they discover that I've gone missing. We will really have trouble then." Van took her hand and guided her to the center of the field.
The pillar of light picked them up carrying them into the sky.
-end flashback-
Vanel took this opportunity to see that Lord Van had grown even paler if that were even possible. He hadn't meant to say it. Otousan had just slipped out. Lord Van ran his hand through his dark black hair. He was still in good shape as he continued to pace the floor. He spoke quietly. "Mama used to call you her angel."
Van smiled slightly at the old name. "She's the only one that ever called me that." The king looked in the direction where the healer was doing her work. "How is she?"
"She's taught her son well. I could use the extra hands sometimes." The woman spoke in a language that Vanel barley understood. He had always thought that his Okaasan stories were just that; stories.
"I thought that they were just stories to be told to me when I was little." Vanel said to no one in particular.
"The stories that you're mother told you are true. I'm sure that she didn't tell you all of them though. She saw things no person should have seen at her age." Van said to him.
"You are about the same age as her. What would make the difference in you seeing them and her seeing them?" Vanel asked.
"It doesn't really. I still have nightmares about what happened during the Great War." Lord Van looked at the young man that had just revealed that he was his son.
"Oh, she does too. She just keeps it all too herself." Vanel went to the bed and held her hand.
"Don't worry she will live." The healer was a worn-out woman as she was made her way to a book shelf that lay untouched for several years it looked like.
"How do you know?" Vanel looked at the woman strangely.
"She is a fighter. I was there during the Great War." She opened the book that she held in her hand to the middle of it.
"You were. Tell me about it." Vanel was becoming more and more interested in what was going on.
Lord Van had stopped pacing by now and sat on one of the chairs that were in the room. Though he knew that people had returned after the war he never knew how many had come home and he like to hear the stories that were told.
"Well I worked in your palace before you were crowned king." She nodded her head to Lord Van. "I was trying to take care of two children mostly by myself because my husband was in the army. That meant he was always on the move." She paused for breath. "On the day of your testing when you disappeared everyone was worried because you had vanished and couldn't be found. You showed up again a little while later but this time there was a girl with you." The woman seemed to stop for breath between every other sentence. "Soon after you finished the rights of Kinghood though we were attacked by invisible Guileless Everyone had run out or so I thought when I found myself trapped behind a locked door. She helped me out of their. She had fought the debris of the falling castle walls to get me out of that room. If it hadn't been for her I wouldn't be here today. It was just before you and she managed to escape and get to safety. After that everything went downhill. Later I wished I had died in there for a while. All of the children were starting to disappear and we didn't know where they were going. My boy was one of the last few that were taken. It broke my heart because he was my whole life. I saw him several years later. He had been brainwashed. He didn't remember where he had grown up, his parentage." Vanel couldn't imagine what it was that the woman that had gone through.
"I'm sorry." Lord Van whispered.
"The return of the seeress/wing goddess; has been foretold."
- - - - Okay this is my first Esca fanfic so just bear with me. I'll be learning the ropes on this story as well.