Make Me Change
A/N: Just to clear this up, I am a V/H fan. I just thought that something new wouldn't kill people. I get strange ideas when I'm sick and delusional, but hey, don't most people? Some of the characters (well, most actually) are OOC. Read and Review. I hope that you enjoy the story.
Disclaimer: I don't own any rights to Escaflowne. I only write the occasional fanfic.
Chapter 1: No One Gets Hurt
Hitomi walked briskly to her lane and stepped into her starting blocks. Yukari wished her luck as she took her friend's warm ups and went to stand next to Amano.
"Give it all you've got, Hitomi!" Amano yelled.
The gun sounded and Hitomi shot out of her blocks before the other girls could even blink. Ten meters. Twenty meters. Thirty-what was that coming from the sky? Fifty meters-it was a blinding blue light, but still she kept running. Seventy meters-a person was descending from the light! How could this be possible? The other girls were catching up. The finish line! It was a boy that had come.
"Track!" she cried in a last attempt to get him to get out of her way. She bumped into him and he shoved her to the ground.
Yukari and Amano were there, helping her up. Then the officials came. Was something wrong?
"Get away from me, girl!" the boy spat.
The starter came down the track, his gun still in hand. The boy seemed to take it as a threat as the starter waved the gun in the air. He reached forth and jerked Hitomi away from Amano and Yukari. She screamed in pain as her captor brutally wound her arms up behind her back. The stadium was silent. Tears of pain began to come silently down the captive girl's face.
"Hitomi!" Amano and Yukari shouted as one, taking a step forward.
The boy stepped back, taking Hitomi with him. He drew a sword from his waist and put it to Hitomi's neck. "Get away from me!" the boy shouted in a husky voice. "Step back and no one will get hurt. If you take one step closer, then this one gets it." He nodded toward Hitomi. To show that he was serious, he pressed his blade harder to her neck and blood welled up. She gulped.
Everyone that stood remotely close to him and his captive moved away. Sirens came. The police had been called and they were on their way. Hitomi sobbed as the official sat down his gun and stepped forward, raising his hands in submission. The boy drew Hitomi up closer to him and cold metal bit deeper into the girl's throat.
"Take it easy, I don't mean any harm to you. Just let her go. We haven't done anything to harm you. If you let the girl go, there won't be any trouble," the old man said, his eyes held fear for the girl that this mad man held in his grasp.
"Get away from me, or she dies! I'm not bluffing!"
Hearing his serious tone, the starter stepped backward, never taking down his hands. The police came now, guns pointing in their direction.
"Down your weapons men! He has a captive!" roared one of the policemen.
Yukari hid her eyes with Amano's arm and began to sob. Why was this boy doing this? Madness shone in his wine colored eyes. "Please, don't let him hurt her!" Yukari sobbed aloud frantically. It was clear that she was upset and scared for her best friend.
"Everything will turn out fine, you'll see," Amano whispered, though even he wasn't convinced by the words that he'd spoken.
The police began to move forward. One of them held up a megaphone. "We have you surrounded! Let her go, and we'll let you go!"
"I, Dilandau Albuto, will submit to no one! You have no men behind me! The most you have is six in front of me!"
All of the policemen visibly gulped. How had he known how many of them that there were? Was he in tune with the other side? How would they get this girl out of harm's way?
"I want everyone out of this place, you hear me?" he hissed evilly in her ear. "Tell them to leave. If you don't, I'll kill you here and now."
Hitomi nodded feebly against the blade at her throat. She felt fear even when he moved his sword so that she could speak. "You have to clear everyone out," she rang out to Amano and Yukari.
They stared at her.
"Go! Get up to the announcer's booth and tell everyone to get out now. Hurry!"
Sensing the urgency and desperation in her voice, Amano and Yukari turned and ran into the stands, and up to the announcer's booth. It wasn't long before a shrill noise filled the area.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, we must ask that you leave the stadium right away. Don't panic and please leave in an orderly fashion!" It was Amano's voice, but it was shaky. There was a hum as everyone stood and slowly walked out. There were many glances back toward the boys and the girl that he still held.
Hitomi's arms felt as though they would snap in two any moment. They ached and she wanted to be free. The sword lay against her neck, but even so, it's cold metal had still refused to become warm against her skin. She thought about this and nearly fainted when she felt heat begin to sear at her chest. She didn't dare to look down, for fear that the evil metal would bite too far down into her throat.
For a moment a pink light enshrouded the two and Hitomi heard her captor scream. The blue light came back and she was forced to shut her eyes against it. Even with her eyes closed, the light was almost too bright, but there was nothing else that she could do to block it.
Immediately, she felt as though she would throw up. She vaguely felt herself being lifted up from the ground. Her neck was finally freed from the blade, and her arms were finally released.
Darkness. Hitomi felt herself being yanked up and she came dizzily to her senses. At first her vision was blurry, but it soon cleared as she felt herself being half dragged by her hair. Where was she ? The pain became too immense to handle and she screamed.
"Let me go!" she cried as she kicked out. She was rewarded with a hiss and she was thrown once more to the ground.
"Watch how you behave, girl!" that boy, Dilandau, hissed.
Hitomi sat up on her knees and groaned. Her scalp hurt and her arms were sore. She looked down at her shirt. There was a small line of blood from where Dilandau's sword had bit her. She looked up to her captor. He had wine colored eyes and silver hair.
"Oh, come on. You're my age at least," she snapped, forgetting that she was in danger.
Dilandau growled and brutally dragged her up onto her feet. She flinched as she felt a slap land on her cheek. "Don't talk to me like you're above me. You are nothing but a woman." He twisted her arms behind her back once more and marched her forward.
Now she noticed that they were no longer at the Track Meet. They were some place that she had never seen before. Where was it? She looked up and wanted to scream. In the sky, in broad daylight, she spotted the moon; the moon was accompanied by the Earth. Was she having some sort of nightmare? She didn't think that was possible. She would have woken from this horror by now.
"Where are we?" Hitomi asked timidly before she could think to stay silent. She flinched and closed her eyes, waiting for the blow that she thought would come. She opened her eyes as she felt bright light-sunlight-hit them. It donned on her that they had been in a forest. They now stood in a clearing. In it's center there was a large structure that, to her, was shaped like a tooth. It seemed to be made of rock.
A smirk found its way onto Dilandau's face. "We are in my country. Zaibach. This is the levy ship called the Vione."
He kept marching her forward, closer and closer to the levy ship. The Vione.
"No, I mean, where are we? I see my planet it the sky. Why is that?" She heard her captor give an exasperated sigh.
"It's always been there. We are on Gaea. Now shut up."
Having her question answered, Hitomi complied with his demand. She was getting tired. How long had they been going on? Her arms felt as though they would fall off. He didn't care. He marched her closer and closer to his-was it his?- ship.
As they boarded, three men stood before Dilandau. They wore the same uniform, only in blue, not purple.
"Gatti, Shesta, Miguel." The men stood at attention. "Get this out of my sight. Take her to one of the cells." He shoved her toward them and left as they all gave a sharp salute.
Hitomi sighed with relief as her arms were able to go back into a normal position. One of the men, really they were also near her age, just as Dilandau was, grabbed her arm and a second grabbed her other. The third marched in front of them as they led her to their destination.
"He's not happy. I wonder where it was that he'd gone?"
"Best not to ask, Gatti. He's always in a bad mood. I don't suppose that it was a good place that he went to, if he brought back a foreigner."
"I wonder why he brought her back. He doesn't want her in his sight. Why bring her here if he doesn't want her for any reason?"
"Stay out of it, Miguel. If you poke around, Lord Dilandau will have our heads."
Hitomi was confused. Wasn't there a reason that she was here?
"Come on Shesta, don't be so eager to please Lord Dilandau." That was the one called Gatti.
"You may want to please him too, if you want to keep living."
"Would Lord Folken allow him to kill us?"
"We're his men, Miguel. I doubt that Lord Folken would care."
The one in the front looked straight back at Hitomi. "Where do you come from, Foreigner?"
"Don't pry, Miguel," Shesta warned, but Miguel didn't listen.
"Where did Lord Dilandau bring you from?"
All three of them had swords at their wastes. Hitomi gulped. "Earth."
All three looked confused. "Where's that?" they all asked at once.
"The blue moon in the sky."
All three paled. "He brought her from the Mystic Moon?" whispered Gatti. "The place is cursed. No wonder he isn't happy."
"Why'd he bring you back?" Miguel demanded, as he once more turned his attention to the halls in front of them.
"I don't know. I was racing, and a blue light appeared. He came down. The man who was running the race came forward and he grabbed me. He told everyone that he'd kill me if they didn't stay away. The blue light came back and then we were here." Fear showed in every one of her stuttered syllables.
They didn't ask her any more questions. They found their way to some sort of dungeon and the men locked her up. "If you behave, then no one gets hurt," they told her. As they were walking away, she heard them talk of how Dilandau would most definately kill her when she came to be too much of an annoyance.
"She won't last long," one of them said, but by that time they were too far away for her to discern which one had said it.
A/N: Wow. Just so you know, this story has changed a lot since I started writing it. (The first 5 chapters are done at this moment.) It's dramatically changed from the plot that I had first had in mind. To be honest, this is the only chapter that has remained the same as when I started writing. The rest have been deleted and rewritten several times. Hope you come back for the next chapter!