This is my first Escaflowne story. An idea for it came as I was cooking (I should do that more often) durring which I wrote the whole concept for the story. Chapters may be shorter cause I'm writing directly on my computer, and so can't really tell how much I wrote. And a big help as I was writhing was a song "Yakusoku wa Iranai" on which I got addicted.
And before I forget... no, I don't own Escaflowne... duh!!!
Van and Hitomi were standing at the gravesite in the woods behind the castle. Van has just taken out the energist from its slot and Escaflowne fall in a sleep. And the time has come for Hitomi to say 'Goodbye'.
"Here… keep this Van." She said giving him her pendant. Van pulled her closer in a hug. Their last hug.
"I'll never forget you, even when I become old. I'll never forget, no matter what..." a pillar of light appeared as Van holds up an energist and sending Hitomi away. Back to the Mystic Moon.
"I'll never forget!" she repeats her promise once again.
"Hitomi…" it was the only thing Van could say, his voice was braking. He loved her, but had to let her go.
He didn't know that they would see each other again. Sooner than he expected. And in a way no one would expected.
"Hitomi Kanzaki?" a voice appeared as Hitomi was walking to her house. It surprised her, bringing her out of the thoughts she was trapped in.
"Yes. Who wants to know?" she turned to see two older man's walking out of the dark. Their clothes were… unusual. For Earth, but not for- "Gaea… You are from Gaea…" she mumbled at their sight.
"Yes, Hitomi Kanzaki. We are the elders from Zaibach."
At their words Hitomi backed a little. Her memories were still all too fresh for her not to be afraid of them. After all only six months has passed since the war ended, and now their they were, enemy's of the alliance, people who wanted to hurt her standing in front of her and she suppose to believe they mean her no harm. It was too unbelievable for her to believe, to trust them.
"Please, we came cause we need help. People of Zaibach need help. Are land will fall under the pressure of our former enemy's." an old men broke in front of her "You can not let that the people pay for the mistakes of the individuals. We did not want war."
"I'm listening." Hitomi felt sorry for the old man. She understood that no one asked for their opinion before they strike first Fanelia, and than the rest of Gaea.
"We are trying to rebuild Zaibach, but unsuccessful. We have no leader, no one who will preserve us from the greed of Asturia."
"Greed? I don't understand?" Hitomi realized she is slowly but certain giving up to the ambassadors.
"They are asking for indemnity. I understand they want to rebuild their land as well, but the sums they are asking are incredible. And they always mentioning the flying fortress of Zaibach."
"And you want 'me' to do what? Convince them to stop asking for indemnity even though the land was destroyed by the army of Zaibach?" Hitomi was angry. How did they dare to ask something like that from her. She was there, she saw what they have done to Asturia.
"If you allowed us, we will show you what kind of help we need." A man took Hitomi by her hand and before she could react a light pillar appeared and she felt as it lifted her of the ground and towards the sky. Towards Gaea. Towards Zaibach.
They landed on the top of a building, a building that used to be Dornkirk's castle. But the sight from it has changed. Drastically…"
"This city looks sad for some reason. I wonder if the people of Zaibach are really happy." Hitomi remembered her own words. When she said them she was brought here together with Van and Allen against their will, and they were running away when she saw the capital of Zaibach for the first time. It was a cold and dark place, but now… It was a one big ruin. All the technology Dornkirk and his sorceress build was gone, leaving nothing but bare stone behind.
"Do you see now what we are asking of you?" an old man asked Hitomi.
"No." she answered looking at the city.
"Teach us how to subsist. How to make Zeibach a better place, a place where everyone would have a right to speak. A place of-"
"Democracy." Hitomi cut him off. She turned to two old men's just to see a glow in their eyes. She knows what she had done. She brought them hope.
"Will you help us?" a woman asked walking on the roof where they were standing.
Hitomi stood still for a while, her mind a mess. She wanted to help, it was in her blood, but one thought keep coming back-if she does help them will that be treason?