Ch 4—Nothing mush happens in this chapter except at the end. It bascilly to explain Escaflowne to all who haven’t seen it.

They were back in the eating hall. True. Chid and two others were there. True. Heero was not there. True.

The gray spots had vanished from their eyes after the white light took them from the vision. As soon as he was set down, Duo had looked around for Heero. Heero was not there. He craned his neck and called out, but Heero did not come out the woodwork and smirk knowingly.

He was gone, gone! Did the dream, vision hold him? Was he even there at the vision? Duo had been too fascinated by the fight. Heero, where are you? He growled. He would find Heero, and He better be okay or else someone would be hurting, bad. But who would know? Who could help Duo? The woman, she seemed to know something

Duo stormed over to her. She was talking to her husband, but when he saw Duo coming he stepped in front of his wife, blocking Dou’s path.

“Move over buddy. I just have a few questions to ask your wife,” Dou growled. The man looked once at Duo and shocked his head.

“I just need to ask her a few questions,” he wined this time. The man sent a guilty grimace at his wife and stepped aside.

Duo smirked and strode right up to Hitomi’s toes. “Look lady, I don’t know what happened but I do know Heero is not here, which he was a few minutes ago, and you know a hell of a lot more information then I do. So speak and do it fast.”

Hitomi sighed and plopped into the nearest seat. “Okay, get comfortable; this might take awhile.”

“Not to long, I hope” Duo said while getting comfortable in the chair he chose, the chair that Heero sat in before the light took them and him away.

“Okay. It all started when my grandmother. No, no, it started when a beam of light brought Van, my husband, to the earth, which is called the Mystic moon in this land. Another light brought a ferocious dragon. They fought and Van killed the dragon, which caused another beam of light to come down and pick van, with me, up and take us to his world. Here we fought against the Zaiback Empire with his gamelif and my visions granted by the power of the pendent.”

“That pendant, why does Heero have one?”

“I do not know. But I am afraid that I recognize it. It is my pendant. I do not know how your, ah, friend got a copy, but I sensed when the pendants touched that your friend’s one was a bit older.”

“And that vision, that vision where Heero… Is that the type of vision that you were talking about earlier?”

“Yes, but I never shared with so many a vision before. But…”

“Wings, why did Heero have wings?”

“He may be a descendant of Atlantis.”

“A what?”

“Descendent of Atlantis, a Draconian (1) in other words. Atlantis was a real place and the Atlantians were real people. They had great power, enough to sprout wings on their back with their will. They made this world, Gaea and all moved here with that will. The pendant is theirs too. The Draconian are mostly gone except for my husband, me(2), and a few others, and you can recognize us by our wings when we unfold them.”

“Then how can Heero be a Drec… Draconian? He is from our world, not here.”

“I do not know.” A silence settled over the room with that. Duo started listing in his mind what could have happened to Heero.

Van, the man, frowned and whispered something in Hitomi’s ear. She furrowed her brows and shook her head.

“Duo,” she said, “Did you see a weird guymeluf watching the battle from afar?” Duo shook his head. “Van said he saw one with a triangle shape symbol on its chest.”

Duo lost all his already faded colour and said, “Was it, the symbol, made of bloody swords with hearts as corner pieces, and a dove of piece stretching its wings in the middle of the triangle.”

Upon translation, Van shook his head yes with a widening of the eyes.

“You know it!” Hitomi said with almost the same reaction of her husband.

“Yes, I know all to while. They took over my world and were about to kill us before we came here. Ziedian, that’s their name, Ziedian.” Duo lowered his head and wept.

Author notes

1-Droconian means sever, cruel according to www.m-w.com.

2-Her being Draconian will be discussed later in this story, might be another story altogether.

I am accepting ideas on how this fic should turn out.