Title: A Second Vision of Escaflowne
Chapter 1: Rendevous
Series: Vision of Escaflowne, Tenkuu no Escaflowne
Author: Natsuki-chan (natsuki_v@hotmail.com)
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne. Yuzuru Yashiro (shoujo version), Katsu Aki (shonen version), Kawamori Shoji (original creator of it all) and whoever else owns it.
Author's Note: I just couldn't stand that huge cliffhanger that the Anime series left. And to make it so that I don't feel so disappointed and kinda sad about their splitting up, I decided to do my own fanfiction. ^_^ Hope you like it! Be easy on me, this is my very first one. Anyways, enjoy and tell me what you think about it.
Hitomi stood on the beach facing the rising sun, Van's almost transperant image outlined in the sun, catching the glowing colors radiating from it as he sat on the rocks, making him look even more like an angel with his wings.
"I'll be alright, Van," Hitomi said.
"-Tomi! Hitomi!" called a voice. Hitomi's eyes snapped open, seeing her younger brother jumping on her bed.
"What is it?" Hitomi asked groggily.
"Nothing!" he replied, jumping off the bed and running out of the room. "Just wanted to wake you up! Bye!"
"It's morning already?!" Hitomi whined. Outside her window, rain thunders down on the earth and lightning could be seen dancing across the sky.
"Van, where are you?" called a high pitched voice. A cat-girl wearing a short sundress with long flowing pink hair, long ears, and a long tail runs into the throne room. "Drats! Not here either!" She runs back out. A boy with raven colored hair, Van, sat on the roof of the newly rebuilt castle, stares at the setting sun, thinking.
"It's been almost three years, but it seems like forever," he thought to himself. "Fanelia's almost done rebuilding, ... and there's nothing to keep me distracted...."
"Van-sama!" a voice broke through his thought. "So here you are! I was beginning to think that you left this planet," Merle added, while Van continued to stare into the distance.
"Poor Van," Merle says to herself. "He still hasn't gotten over Hitomi. Hitomi, you idiot...." Merle had basically given up on trying to beat Hitomi for Van's love. She had somehow recognized that she would never win and settled for a sibling love between her and Van.
"Van," she said out loud, "Why don't you go and ask her to come back for a visit and then...," giggling almost evily.
"I can't do that!" he interupted her. "I don't know if she feels the same way as I do, and how would I even find her?"
"There's always hope, Van," Merle replied. "Come on, it's time for dinner." Van took one last look at the setting sun and at the two moons hanging in the sky then followed Merle into the dinning hall.
Two days later:
The rain had stopped at about midday, leaving the ground soft and damp when Hitomi walked home from school with Yukari. It had rained continuously for the past two days. Hitomi stared at her feet, deep in thought.
"You're still thinking about him, aren't you?" Yukari's voice interrupted. Hitomi looked at her best friend with light brown shoulder length hair. Within the first week of Hitomi coming back to Earth, or rather the Mystic Moon as she always called it now, she had told Yukari and Amano all of her adventures in Gaia.
"How did you know?" Hitomi asked, blushing and looking back down.
"Come on, Hitomi. I'm your best friend! Plus, you told us all the details of your adventure! How can I not know?" she teased.
"I don't know, it just suddenly became so empty in this world. I'm not enjoying it as I used to. It seems so dull .....and different." Silence.
"I think you should go back to Gaia," Yukari said seriously. "It's obvious that you don't like your life here on Earth anymore."
"Did you forget? I gave Van my pendant and even if I go back, I don't even know if he loves me or not," Hitomi said regretably.
"You'll never know unless you tell him."
"You're right, ...I guess. Thanks, Yukari-chan," she said happily.
"That's what best friends are for!" Yukari cheered.
"But if I do find a way, I'm gonna come back to see your's and Amano-senpai's wedding!" she smiled snuggly. Amano had returned to Japan half a year ago and Yukari and himself started going out. Hitomi could see the attraction between the two.
"Whatever makes you happy, Hitomi-chan!" Yukari replied happily.
"Your Majesty!"
"Huh?!" Van said, snapping back to reality.
"We would perfer it if you would pay more attention when we have these council meetings," said the Minister of Internal Affairs, Kumori, a young male in his 30's with light brown hair. "It has come to our attention that the citizens of Fanelia would like you to marry and produce an heir. It is suggested that you marry within a year to continue the happiness and prosperity of our people."
"I don't think I want to discuss this at the moment...," Van said, trying to stay calm.
"There are many good candidates for you," Kumori continued, obviously ignoring what he just said. "For example, Hasako of Solarus is very popular among the people...."
"No!" Van interrupted, standing up and slamming his fists on the table. "I will not marry unless I love that person. I will not be forced into a political marriage!"
"Then I suggest having a ball," said the Minister of External Affairs, Takino, a burly man with a beard and mustache in his late 40's. "It will please the neighboring countries and maybe you can find someone to fall in love with there."
"Fine!" Van said with a scowl on his face, trying to end the meeting as soon as possible. "Go ahead, but I'm telling you right now that this is going to do nothing. Any further business?" He looked around the room. "Then you're all dismissed."
The council got up to leave as Van sunk back into his chair with a sigh of relief. Merle then came waltzing in.
"So how is everything going?" she asked in her usual manner.
"Don't pretend like you weren't listening Merle!" he snapped back.
"Ok, ok! You don't need to bite my head off!" she said, putting her hand up in front of her in retreat.
"Sorry, Merle. What with everything going on and all these princesses trying to seduce me into marrying them, ...it's just been so tiring," Van apologized.
"Tell me about it. They're all so snobby, not to mention mean!" Merle agreed. "Too bad you don't have time to go and ask Hitomi to marry you," she said slyly, a wicked grin on her face.
"Merle!" Van said, blushing. "You know I can't!"
Merle starting giggling at the fact that he was blushing at just the mention of her name.
"Forget it, I'm going to sleep," he said and got out of his chair and walked to his room.
The king of the newly rebuilt Fanelia tossed in his sleep, unable to escape into the dream world. Finally, after about an hour of tossing and turning, he exertion claimed him.
Van opened his brown eyes sluggishly, finding himself in an open field of lush grass with a shallow stream running into a small covering of trees, which became thicker the deeper you go in. The tree that he was laying on stood tall over his head, casting a rather large shadow all around. Van looked around. Then there came a laugh, carried by the wind. It sounded familiar, but he couldn't put a name to it.
"Who's there?" he asked calmly. Still, the laughter continued. As his search for the source of the voice led him away from the massive tree and down near an area where the stream began to turn into a deep river, the laughter fading away.
"Is anyone there?" he asked. The snap of a twig could be heard.
"Van?" came the same voice.
"Hitomi?!" he asked, shocked and wide eyed. From the oposite side of the river where Van stood, Hitomi emerged from the thick coverings of the trees. To him, she had never been prettier. Her hair grew out, and tied in two ponytails on the side and brought to the front, her bright emerald green eyes shinning happily. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen before.
"I'm so happy I connected with you!" she said, smiling. "I knew you'd come!"
"What are you talking about?" Van said, trying not to just jump over there and give her a hug and kiss.
"It's like a dream," Hitomi explained. "This forest represents where I live and this river represents the gap between our two worlds." Silence as Van thought about what she had just said. Hitomi studied Van while he was thinking. He had a medium build and a bit taller, but still on the lanky side. But to Hitomi, he was the most handsome and nicest person she had ever met.
"Van, ... I-I've missed you, ...a lot," she said, now blushing, looking down and not being able to meet his eyes.
"Me too, Hitomi," he said, rather bashfully. "Stay right there, I'll fly over."
"No, you can't!" she said hastily, bringing her eyes to meet his, stopping Van in the process of removing his sleeveless red shirt.
"Why not?" he questioned.
"Something might happen if you do," she explained, blushing a deeper red and looking back down. "I just have this feeling...."
"Oh, ...ok," he said rather disappointed about it, letting his shirt tail drop back into place.
"Van, you can still come to my world, right?" she kept looking around, but Van still within her vision. Van nodded. "Good! Um.... T-tomorrow when the sun is half-way done setting, I'll be at the track course. C-could you.....," she trailed off, now crimson.
"Sure! I'll meet you then!" he answered, rather enthusiastic. Hitomi now all giddy inside, smiled a truthful smile, which she hasn't done in quite a while.
"Can we still talk or is this going to end soon?" Van asked.
"Why not?" she said, giggling a bit. They sat down, leaning against the trees and facing each other. Pause. They stared into each other's eyes, getting the feeling that the could stay like that forever, lost in each other's gaze.
"So anything special happened when I was away?" she asked, breaking the silence and looking into the river.
"Well, not a lot, but Millerna and Dryden have a son named Kenji and Celena is staying with Allen and she's doing fine," Van answered, still staring at her.
"What about in Fanelia? What about Merle? ...You?" she continued shyly.
"Well, Merle's the same as always, Fanelia's rebuilding is going fine, and I'm ...I'm doing okay too," he stumbled with the words in his last part of the sentence. They continued to talk until Hitomi's alarm clock broke off and pulled Hitomi away from the dream world, and Van.
Hitomi's jade green eyes opened slowly, not wanting to forget what had just happened to her in her dreams. The alarm clock, still continuing it's rude awakening sound, bore into Hitomi's head. She turned to the clock angrilly.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" she screamed. "You stupid clock! You stupid, dumb, idiotic...!"
"Hitomi? Is everything ok up there?" came her mother's voice.
"Uh, yeah, Mom," she called back. "I can't wait!" she thought to herself, giggling, clutching the clock in her hands.
"Mn........ Hitomi, ..... come back...," Van said in his sleep. Then, he suddenly fell off his bed from sleeping too far on the edge. He sat up, feeling more refreshed than he's ever been in a really long time.
"I have to finish everything I need, so I can go," he thought to himself, smiling broadly, which he hasn't done in a long time either. He rushed into the wash room and taking a quick shower, and contemplating how to finish off all of his "kingly duties" before sunset.
I decided to stop there, since I don't know what else to do after that. ^.~ I'm an idiot! Always planning things to do, but never actually doing them. ^^; Sorry! I don't think my head is on straight right now (I'm typing with my head slanted at the moment... !)
What else should I do after this? Should I change some of the stuff? I had different plans for this, but then decided to do another thing, then another... I just can't ever really make up my mind, can I?
Heh heh... sorry! Tell me if I should change anything or add stuff or anything else, ok?
Please Review and give me feedback! This is my very first fic, so take it easy on me!
Chapter 1: Rendevous
Series: Vision of Escaflowne, Tenkuu no Escaflowne
Author: Natsuki-chan (natsuki_v@hotmail.com)
Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne. Yuzuru Yashiro (shoujo version), Katsu Aki (shonen version), Kawamori Shoji (original creator of it all) and whoever else owns it.
Author's Note: I just couldn't stand that huge cliffhanger that the Anime series left. And to make it so that I don't feel so disappointed and kinda sad about their splitting up, I decided to do my own fanfiction. ^_^ Hope you like it! Be easy on me, this is my very first one. Anyways, enjoy and tell me what you think about it.
Hitomi stood on the beach facing the rising sun, Van's almost transperant image outlined in the sun, catching the glowing colors radiating from it as he sat on the rocks, making him look even more like an angel with his wings.
"I'll be alright, Van," Hitomi said.
"-Tomi! Hitomi!" called a voice. Hitomi's eyes snapped open, seeing her younger brother jumping on her bed.
"What is it?" Hitomi asked groggily.
"Nothing!" he replied, jumping off the bed and running out of the room. "Just wanted to wake you up! Bye!"
"It's morning already?!" Hitomi whined. Outside her window, rain thunders down on the earth and lightning could be seen dancing across the sky.
"Van, where are you?" called a high pitched voice. A cat-girl wearing a short sundress with long flowing pink hair, long ears, and a long tail runs into the throne room. "Drats! Not here either!" She runs back out. A boy with raven colored hair, Van, sat on the roof of the newly rebuilt castle, stares at the setting sun, thinking.
"It's been almost three years, but it seems like forever," he thought to himself. "Fanelia's almost done rebuilding, ... and there's nothing to keep me distracted...."
"Van-sama!" a voice broke through his thought. "So here you are! I was beginning to think that you left this planet," Merle added, while Van continued to stare into the distance.
"Poor Van," Merle says to herself. "He still hasn't gotten over Hitomi. Hitomi, you idiot...." Merle had basically given up on trying to beat Hitomi for Van's love. She had somehow recognized that she would never win and settled for a sibling love between her and Van.
"Van," she said out loud, "Why don't you go and ask her to come back for a visit and then...," giggling almost evily.
"I can't do that!" he interupted her. "I don't know if she feels the same way as I do, and how would I even find her?"
"There's always hope, Van," Merle replied. "Come on, it's time for dinner." Van took one last look at the setting sun and at the two moons hanging in the sky then followed Merle into the dinning hall.
Two days later:
The rain had stopped at about midday, leaving the ground soft and damp when Hitomi walked home from school with Yukari. It had rained continuously for the past two days. Hitomi stared at her feet, deep in thought.
"You're still thinking about him, aren't you?" Yukari's voice interrupted. Hitomi looked at her best friend with light brown shoulder length hair. Within the first week of Hitomi coming back to Earth, or rather the Mystic Moon as she always called it now, she had told Yukari and Amano all of her adventures in Gaia.
"How did you know?" Hitomi asked, blushing and looking back down.
"Come on, Hitomi. I'm your best friend! Plus, you told us all the details of your adventure! How can I not know?" she teased.
"I don't know, it just suddenly became so empty in this world. I'm not enjoying it as I used to. It seems so dull .....and different." Silence.
"I think you should go back to Gaia," Yukari said seriously. "It's obvious that you don't like your life here on Earth anymore."
"Did you forget? I gave Van my pendant and even if I go back, I don't even know if he loves me or not," Hitomi said regretably.
"You'll never know unless you tell him."
"You're right, ...I guess. Thanks, Yukari-chan," she said happily.
"That's what best friends are for!" Yukari cheered.
"But if I do find a way, I'm gonna come back to see your's and Amano-senpai's wedding!" she smiled snuggly. Amano had returned to Japan half a year ago and Yukari and himself started going out. Hitomi could see the attraction between the two.
"Whatever makes you happy, Hitomi-chan!" Yukari replied happily.
"Your Majesty!"
"Huh?!" Van said, snapping back to reality.
"We would perfer it if you would pay more attention when we have these council meetings," said the Minister of Internal Affairs, Kumori, a young male in his 30's with light brown hair. "It has come to our attention that the citizens of Fanelia would like you to marry and produce an heir. It is suggested that you marry within a year to continue the happiness and prosperity of our people."
"I don't think I want to discuss this at the moment...," Van said, trying to stay calm.
"There are many good candidates for you," Kumori continued, obviously ignoring what he just said. "For example, Hasako of Solarus is very popular among the people...."
"No!" Van interrupted, standing up and slamming his fists on the table. "I will not marry unless I love that person. I will not be forced into a political marriage!"
"Then I suggest having a ball," said the Minister of External Affairs, Takino, a burly man with a beard and mustache in his late 40's. "It will please the neighboring countries and maybe you can find someone to fall in love with there."
"Fine!" Van said with a scowl on his face, trying to end the meeting as soon as possible. "Go ahead, but I'm telling you right now that this is going to do nothing. Any further business?" He looked around the room. "Then you're all dismissed."
The council got up to leave as Van sunk back into his chair with a sigh of relief. Merle then came waltzing in.
"So how is everything going?" she asked in her usual manner.
"Don't pretend like you weren't listening Merle!" he snapped back.
"Ok, ok! You don't need to bite my head off!" she said, putting her hand up in front of her in retreat.
"Sorry, Merle. What with everything going on and all these princesses trying to seduce me into marrying them, ...it's just been so tiring," Van apologized.
"Tell me about it. They're all so snobby, not to mention mean!" Merle agreed. "Too bad you don't have time to go and ask Hitomi to marry you," she said slyly, a wicked grin on her face.
"Merle!" Van said, blushing. "You know I can't!"
Merle starting giggling at the fact that he was blushing at just the mention of her name.
"Forget it, I'm going to sleep," he said and got out of his chair and walked to his room.
The king of the newly rebuilt Fanelia tossed in his sleep, unable to escape into the dream world. Finally, after about an hour of tossing and turning, he exertion claimed him.
Van opened his brown eyes sluggishly, finding himself in an open field of lush grass with a shallow stream running into a small covering of trees, which became thicker the deeper you go in. The tree that he was laying on stood tall over his head, casting a rather large shadow all around. Van looked around. Then there came a laugh, carried by the wind. It sounded familiar, but he couldn't put a name to it.
"Who's there?" he asked calmly. Still, the laughter continued. As his search for the source of the voice led him away from the massive tree and down near an area where the stream began to turn into a deep river, the laughter fading away.
"Is anyone there?" he asked. The snap of a twig could be heard.
"Van?" came the same voice.
"Hitomi?!" he asked, shocked and wide eyed. From the oposite side of the river where Van stood, Hitomi emerged from the thick coverings of the trees. To him, she had never been prettier. Her hair grew out, and tied in two ponytails on the side and brought to the front, her bright emerald green eyes shinning happily. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen before.
"I'm so happy I connected with you!" she said, smiling. "I knew you'd come!"
"What are you talking about?" Van said, trying not to just jump over there and give her a hug and kiss.
"It's like a dream," Hitomi explained. "This forest represents where I live and this river represents the gap between our two worlds." Silence as Van thought about what she had just said. Hitomi studied Van while he was thinking. He had a medium build and a bit taller, but still on the lanky side. But to Hitomi, he was the most handsome and nicest person she had ever met.
"Van, ... I-I've missed you, ...a lot," she said, now blushing, looking down and not being able to meet his eyes.
"Me too, Hitomi," he said, rather bashfully. "Stay right there, I'll fly over."
"No, you can't!" she said hastily, bringing her eyes to meet his, stopping Van in the process of removing his sleeveless red shirt.
"Why not?" he questioned.
"Something might happen if you do," she explained, blushing a deeper red and looking back down. "I just have this feeling...."
"Oh, ...ok," he said rather disappointed about it, letting his shirt tail drop back into place.
"Van, you can still come to my world, right?" she kept looking around, but Van still within her vision. Van nodded. "Good! Um.... T-tomorrow when the sun is half-way done setting, I'll be at the track course. C-could you.....," she trailed off, now crimson.
"Sure! I'll meet you then!" he answered, rather enthusiastic. Hitomi now all giddy inside, smiled a truthful smile, which she hasn't done in quite a while.
"Can we still talk or is this going to end soon?" Van asked.
"Why not?" she said, giggling a bit. They sat down, leaning against the trees and facing each other. Pause. They stared into each other's eyes, getting the feeling that the could stay like that forever, lost in each other's gaze.
"So anything special happened when I was away?" she asked, breaking the silence and looking into the river.
"Well, not a lot, but Millerna and Dryden have a son named Kenji and Celena is staying with Allen and she's doing fine," Van answered, still staring at her.
"What about in Fanelia? What about Merle? ...You?" she continued shyly.
"Well, Merle's the same as always, Fanelia's rebuilding is going fine, and I'm ...I'm doing okay too," he stumbled with the words in his last part of the sentence. They continued to talk until Hitomi's alarm clock broke off and pulled Hitomi away from the dream world, and Van.
Hitomi's jade green eyes opened slowly, not wanting to forget what had just happened to her in her dreams. The alarm clock, still continuing it's rude awakening sound, bore into Hitomi's head. She turned to the clock angrilly.
"Ahhhhhhhhh!" she screamed. "You stupid clock! You stupid, dumb, idiotic...!"
"Hitomi? Is everything ok up there?" came her mother's voice.
"Uh, yeah, Mom," she called back. "I can't wait!" she thought to herself, giggling, clutching the clock in her hands.
"Mn........ Hitomi, ..... come back...," Van said in his sleep. Then, he suddenly fell off his bed from sleeping too far on the edge. He sat up, feeling more refreshed than he's ever been in a really long time.
"I have to finish everything I need, so I can go," he thought to himself, smiling broadly, which he hasn't done in a long time either. He rushed into the wash room and taking a quick shower, and contemplating how to finish off all of his "kingly duties" before sunset.
I decided to stop there, since I don't know what else to do after that. ^.~ I'm an idiot! Always planning things to do, but never actually doing them. ^^; Sorry! I don't think my head is on straight right now (I'm typing with my head slanted at the moment... !)
What else should I do after this? Should I change some of the stuff? I had different plans for this, but then decided to do another thing, then another... I just can't ever really make up my mind, can I?
Heh heh... sorry! Tell me if I should change anything or add stuff or anything else, ok?
Please Review and give me feedback! This is my very first fic, so take it easy on me!