Since I was extremely unsatisfied with Hitomi leaving Van at the end of The Vision of Escaflowne I decided I should make a continuation to the beloved anime. This has nothing to do with the mangas or the movie just the anime.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne (clearly)
Exactly one year had passed since Hitomi had left Gaea. One year since she had last saw Van and she missed him terribly.
She missed his warmth and confidence. She longed to he held in his strong arms that relieved her of all anxiety and to hear his calming voice. She wanted something tangible instead of the apparition that appeared in her dreams every night. She had not forgotten him.
But Hitomi couldn't help but wonder whether he had forgotten her. She mulled over this thought while staring out the window of her Astronomy classroom. How ironic that this Astronomy class taught the cumulative knowledge of the universe and not one scientist had ever discovered Gaea.
Hitomi proceeded to stare out the window in a daydream as the teacher droned on.
Summer was around the corner. The streets where bordered by sakura trees with thick blossoms. The pink petals floated on the breeze and the sun dappled the streets in between the buildings. However, this beauty hardly caught Hitomi's attention.
She was envisioning the scene where she had left Van. She was in complete bliss; her heart was pounding while encircled by his arms.
This was the first and last time they had embraced. At that time, in the forest, the trees where in bloom just as they were here. She closed her eyes trying to recall every sensation of that moment. His hair smelt of grass, the warm breeze brushed her skin and the world was silent. She had never been happier.
The bell chimed signaling the end of the school day as well as dispelling her daydream. Hitomi saw Van vanish from her sight and was sucked back to her reality. She stood up, gathered her papers, quickly shoving them into her bag, and then noticed her friend Yukari smirking at her.
"What were you thinking about H-I-T-O-M-I?" she asked playfully, already knowing the answer. Hitomi flushed and her best friend giggled.
"Oh be quite Yukari!" she replied with acute embarrassment. Her face was boiling. Yukari knew everything. She had seen the very beam of light that had taken her to Gaea and had heard the many stories of Hitomi's experiences there. And, of course, she knew about Van. Hitomi was glad she had someone to confide in but sometimes it could be such a nuisance.
"Hey Yukari. Aren't you suppose be meeting Amano today? I mean he doesn't come around everyday and he'll be wondering why his girlfriend doesn't want to see him," sneered Hitomi.
"OH! That's right! I'm so sorry Hitomi, I totally forgot we can't practice together today. I'll make it up to you…I promise," she said as she excitedly bounded out the door. Hitomi sighed and left for her locker. Yukari had actually taken up running this year. Amano had convinced her to start running and to both Hitomi's and Yukari's surprise, she was quite good at it. Not as good as Hitomi but good nonetheless. They had begun to practice together on weekly basis. After packing up her homework she left for home, although, that wasn't where she ended up.
Hitomi knew she had been walking, she just didn't know where she was going. Once again, her mind was occupied elsewhere. She had started zoning out a lot recently and everyone noticed, especially her brother and mom. Hitomi knew this as well; she often escaped into her dreams about the past. Everything around her seemed so mundane and ordinary compared to Gaea. Since when had Gaea felt like home to her? Hitomi stopped walking and began to absorb her surroundings. She was back at the school standing in the middle of the relay track.
"How typical of me," Hitomi said to herself.
She laid down, not wanting to go home and began to weep. Life was so unfair. She loved her family more than anything in the world but Gaea was something she couldn't forget. And she hadn't realized how much she missed it until now. After all, today was the exact day she had returned home to Earth or the Mystic Moon.
But how could she make a choice? To choose between Earth and Gaea, her family or her love, wasn't going to be easy. Although really she didn't have much a choice to make considering there was no way back to Gaea. Fate had made that choice for her.
The sun was setting and the sky was slowly taken over by a brilliant orange. Hitomi remained on the track, her back flat against the cold ground.
She closed her eyes and grasped the pendant that hung from her neck. Then Hitomi had a vision, something that had not happened over the past year. Out of the darkness she saw a sunlit room, a bed covered in white sheets and a woman sitting in it.
But this vision was different. She was the woman in the bed. Hitomi had never before seen herself in a vision before and stranger yet; she was holding a blue blanket with a beautiful baby boy in it!
The image lasted for a few seconds and disappeared just as quickly. Hitomi eyes flashed open. What had just happened? Why had she had a vision just now of all times? (After all it had been a year!) Why was she holding a child? Where was that room? But what intrigued her the most was the smile that had been spread across her face. She couldn't remember the last time she had smiled like that.
Actually, she didn't know she could smile like that.
Hitomi was bubbling with unexpected delight. She jumped to her feet, staggering for a second and smiled. Then she remembered this was the exact place and time of day when Van had appeared for the first time. It must have been a sign, it was most definitely a sign! Not only that but there was that vision.
Every fiber in her body told her that she had to go back to Gaea. She had to see Van again. And to see that child… her child, and possibly Van's child. She didn't know how but she needed to go back. Hitomi walked over to the lanes on the track and took her stance.
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