Am I Too Late?
Rating T
Only disclaimer in the beginning:: I do not own Escaflowne. I do have control over my spells as well as different characters that I make up (Ethen and Garret-actually two of my cousin's names) so do not steal those!
Chapter 1 A.I.T.L?
Hitomi and Yukari were walking towards the nature park close to their home in Tokyo. They just graduated from Tokyo University for Astrophysics and English education. Hitomi chose Astrophysics because of her time on Gaea and Yukari wanted to teach English to elementary students in her hometown. It was a quiet night after graduation. Their families couldn't make it but was there in spirit. They wanted to have lunch underneath the Sakura trees to cherish the peace and tranquility of Earth before they were submerged into real life.
"Hitomi! This is beautiful!"
Yukari spun in the Sakura petals that were released by the spent flowers. Her purple pleated skirt lifted into the air from her spinning. Her white button down shirt was also billowing in the wind. She had the picnic packed in a brown basket with two handles. The blanket was also inside. Yukari moved the basket a little bit out of her way. She reached over and rubbed her friend's hair to shake out the petals that was making her brown hair splotchy with pink clusters. Her friend laughed. Pollen was getting everywhere. Hitomi was wearing all black. She was wearing a pleated skirt with a chiffon shirt. The wind was going straight through her shirt. The only type of warmth was her backpack filled with all necessities she needed if she went back to Gaea. Hitomi packed 10 toothbrushes, four packs of toothpaste, an emergency blanket, five gallon bags of girl products, three bottles of Tylenol, a bottle of Midol, four pairs of clothes, twenty pairs of underwear, five bras, a green medieval dress she bought at a festival while in America, and a fifty piece First Aid Kit. She slightly shivered. She silently wished for the sun to come out from underneath the clouds but her backpack gave her some comfort.
"Yes it is. I wish that we could have done this in college." Hitomi laughed. She shook out the rest of the petals.
"I agree. Yukari, do you think I am weird?"
"You are weird but it's in a good way."
Both of the girls busted up laughing and then silence. Hitomi had an uncanny ability to sense when things were going to happen. Her intuition was very strong. Yukari picked up on the fact that Hitomi was strange when she got back from her 'vacation.' She was a completely different person. Her hair was longer and she grew two inches. Her tarot card reading days were over and she would no longer hear peoples' love lives. She devoted herself to studies of all things in this world, including the supernatural and witchcraft.
Her demeanor in life changed. She became a more mature woman. She must have fell in love while she was away. Yukari thought. They walked together in silence, their footsteps echoed in the silence of the trees.
"Yukari, I don't know if I am going to be able to see you after this." The wind seemed to bring an eerie feeling over the two friends. The wind blew to a strong and steady gust. The blossoms seemed to dissipate over the two girls and avoid getting into their hair. The wind spun the flowers like a tornado and only the wind made a sound; a soft sob. The trees shivered and moaned with the blustery wind.
"What do you mean? I will call you and text you. We have computers now and there's so many ways we can keep in contact." Yukari softly said. The wind was completely taking over her voice now.
"Remember the story about the dragon and how I was gone for a long time?"
"I remember that you were gone but I have never heard about a dragon. Dragons aren't real Tomi. It is all dungeon and dragons fantasy."
"Hey! Dungeon and Dragons is a fantastic game! Everything that happened was all true. The dragon was real. You don't remember the blue light that took me up towards the sky? You don't remember a warrior saving us from a land dragon?"
Yukari shook her head no.
"It must have been a dream. It had to be. I fell in love with that man that took me to another world. He made me the happiest person and I was so fickle. I love him Yukari. I don't belong here on this world. Now I feel so upset and hurt that I wasn't able to tell him how I felt before I was brought back here. I don't want to be on Earth. I want to be where he is."
"Where is he?"
"He is on Gaea."
"Ga-ea?"
"Yes. He is the King of Fanelia."
"Seriously? How did you get that one? Were you a mistress?" Yukari teased.
Hitomi smacked Yukari's arm.
"Hey!"
She stuck out her tongue and Hitomi responded with her own weird face. They continued to walk down the dirt path until they reached a clearing where the trees were surrounding them. It brought them enough shade to prevent them from overheating but enough light for warmth. Yukari took her pink cherry blossom blanket and spread it onto the ground. She used the wind that was gusting as an advantage. It shook in the wind. Yukari kneeled onto the blanket so that it wouldn't blow away. Hitomi sat down trying to control the blanket as well. Yukari put the basket on the side that the wind was blowing. She sat on the opposite side and the blanket was under control.
"Now lets eat!"
"I agree, I am starving Tomi."
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"Well well well, what do we have here?" Hitomi recognized that sinister voice. She knew it from somewhere, maybe her dreams. She shivered. Yukari looked over to Hitomi. She put her index finger up to her mouth to try to silence her friend.
She looked over towards the path and all around trying to find the source of that voice. I know that voice. I believe it was from Gaea. My intuition is telling me to run away. Hitomi thought to herself. As if Yukari understood, she started to pack up.
"What's your hurry sweetheart?" A different voice called out sweetly.
"Don't you want to have some fun?" Another voice.
"No thank you. We are leaving now." Yukari answered.
"Oh we have them scared now. We don't want our sweet little canaries being scared of their masters, do we Ethen?"
The man who had the sinister voice, laughed a hearty chuckle. It was cold as ice.
"Oh no not at all Garret."
Those names are not from this planet. Hitomi thought.
Hitomi's fist clinched and she stood up.
"Oh looky. We have our first victim." Garret teased.
"You aren't from this world are you?" Hitomi yelled confidently.
"Ooh aren't you smart. No wonder King Van fancies you, my dear." Ethen spat.
"Your voice is poison. I don't want to hear it again." Hitomi spat back.
"Oh really?" She was surrounded in a blink of an eye. They were all in cloaks and she could not decipher who was who. A sword lunged for her stomach. She was able to get out of the way doing a back hand spring. Her foot hit the cloaked figure in the face. "Ugh." He fell backwards. Another cloaked figure lunged towards her neck. Blocked. The figure tried again. It cut Hitomi's forehead. Blood started to run down into her eyes. She got herself ready to do a roundhouse kick. She spun her leg around and the figure blocked it. She tensed up her arm and leaned to punch the figure. Contact in nose and mouth. Blood was shot into the sky like Sakura blossoms in the wind.
"HItomi!" Yukari cried. Hitomi shifted her attention towards her best friend. A cloaked figure had a knife pressed against her throat. "I am sorry Hitomi. I am going to die. Tell my parents how much I love them for me."
"What do you want? Why are you attacking us? Why are you on Earth?"
"We want revenge of what you did to my people. You are a selfish bitch who used her power for her own selfish desires. You have ruined 100,000 people's lives. You destroyed my life and countless others. You were walking over our bodies like trampled flowers in the wind."
"I didn't mean to use it for my own selfish desires."
"You have destroyed too many lives to go unpunished. You are going to die after this witch."
"No please don't. Let her go. She is innocent."
"Too late."
Yukari's eyes opened wider and wider. Her throat was slashed in one sweep of the knife. Blood hit the cherry blossoms and all over Yukari's only friend. Hitomi's eyes started to produce tears. Blood covered Hitomi's body completely. "Yukâari. NO NO NO NO!" She screamed. She lunged towards the man with the voice of Ethen. She grabbed her friend's body from his grasp. She laid her friend onto the ground. Yukari was getting cold. "No. Yukari. No." Sobs wrecked through her body. "Don't leave me. Please come back." Hitomi shook her body and Yukari took her almost last breath leaving a wide eyed glare to haunt Hitomi for the rest of her life. She took her blood soaked fingers and pushed Yukari's eyelids down so her friend could rest in peace. She set her friend down onto the crimson ground. She moved her red hair out of her face and kissed her forehead. Hitomi slowly stood up. Her delicate hands turned into fists. Her eyes turned from emerald green to black. She could feel her anger take over her body. All her grief from losing her family and her friend spilled over into her eyes.
"How dare you do this to me?"
"This is what you get for being a witch. Witch's get hung and burned at the stake. Your eyes prove you are guilty witch." Garret's voice put emphasis on the 'guilty witch'.
"You are next." Ethen hissed.
"taluka vin natra requen trulka vera." Hitomi whispered. Those who hurt me will never live again. "igtra ghoun reqeih plauch bytru vaea" You will be banished into the underworld and never come out again.
"Those spells do not scare me." Garret sneered.
"gho blu'k awclhe quentsa bluask plicf asuk" Do not underestimate my spells. I will banish you.
It was like time stopped everywhere except for Hitomi. A dark purple portal appeared near Garret, Ethen, other cloaked men, and the body of Yukari. A dark aura surrounded them and everything was normal again. Hitomi fell onto the ground exhausted. She felt someone touch her shoulder. She would have sworn it was her King. She slowly got up. She was covered with blood. She grabbed her backpack and walked away. Hitomi wasn't badly hurt but she was sore from her martial arts. She followed the dirt path up to her apartment. The streets were completely empty. She looked like she went to hell and back more than once.
Blood matted her hair and it started to turn from a bright red to a dark blood red. She stepped into the shower, the blood dyed her hair red. She couldn't wash it out no matter how much shampoo she used. The red still dripped on the shower floor and it continued as she stood there. "Oh Van. Why couldn't they have killed me?" She turned off the shower. She grabbed a towel and wrapped it around her body. The 'dye' was still dripping out of her hair. She walked towards the glass sink. She noticed that her knife was on a blue hand towel instead of in it's sheathe. She took the knife that was laying in front of her and reflected it into the light. It beckoned to her. Hitomi pushed the blade towards her wrist and slowly cut it. She winced in pain. The blood moved steadily out of the cut. She dropped the knife onto the floor and stood there looking at herself in the mirror. This is the demon they turned you into Hitomi. You hurt people today and wasn't able to protect Yukari. I wish I never came back to the Mystic Moon. She felt dizzy and slowly slid onto the floor. A puddle of blood appeared around her knees. She was sitting in her own puddle of blood and she was okay with it. "Van..." She fainted face forward onto the ground.
A figure watched her from the door. A man with black hair and brown Crimson eyes watched his love fall onto the ground with a puddle of blood around her. His heart was beating loudly that he thought she was going to notice he was there. He ran over to his love and grabbed another towel near the sink and tried to stop the bleeding but he couldn't touch anything. He saw how much blood she was losing. Her body was covered with black and blue bruises and cuts.
Van woke up sweating. He had to see her and get her back to Gaea. He couldn't feel if she was alive or not. A feeling of not being able to breathe came over him. He was having a panic attack in his bed. He shook like he was having a seizure. Hitomi..I love you so much. Please don't die. I need you here on Gaea. A pillar of light appeared before him. It took him out of his panic attack and a woman with a white towel laying in a puddle of blood appeared before him. Her face was pale and she was barely breathing. Scars were up and down her arms. He could see her once athletic body is now thin and weak. Purple bags were under her eyes. "Hitomi?" He stumbled to his feet and landed next to her frail body. His hands were shaking. He reached out to her and she was real. She wasn't a dream. She was dying in front of him. "Merle!" Van yelled through the castle. He could hear Merle running on all fours down the hallway. "Lord Van-" "Hitomi is dying and she needs help. Please call Millerna." His voice pleaded. He was starting to cry. He hugged her in his body, she was very cold. Noticing his jumbled blanket on his bed, he laid it on the ground and then found another blanket on a chest in his room. He covered it over her.
What do you guys think about this? I know I shouldnt start a new fanfiction but I cant help it when it comes to me. This came to me in the shower. Please review!