| by the infamous duo: Chaos-chan and Kourin "Now Selena, stay still. . . Be a good girl for your big brother!" Allen Schezar cooed to his newly found sister, as she cringed in fear. "No! Onii-sama!" Selena cried, "No more hormone-injections! Please!" "But Selena, you don't want to become a bad girl…. Do you?" Allen crept closer to his darling sister. She hurriedly scampered away. "Come on Selena, if you don't soon, you'll even be a bad boy!" "Allen, I got her in a hold down!" Millerna cried. Selena desperately struggled but to no avail. Allen sweat dropped. "What's the matter Allen?" Millerna asked all innocent and wide-eyed. Allen merely pointed at her and Selena. Millerna had the poor girl straddled and her head between Selena's legs in a very unlady-like way. "If I didn't know you so well, I'd scream out hentai." Allen smiled as Millerna's face went red at the thought. "Let's get this over with before she switches to Dilandau mode and it really does become bad." Allen bent over and grabbed Selena's arm. "No, no Allen! You'll give her a nasty scar! You'll have to give her the shot elsewhere!" Millerna screamed. "You don't want the nobles of Asturia to think that your sister's one of those 'Heroin chic' fashion victims!" "But where?" Then inspiration struck. Allen recalled one time he had to take a shot when he was hurt badly in battle. Perhaps the same place would be appropriate. "Millerna-hime, could you please lift up my sister's skirt?" Millerna was about to protest, but then she understood. She lifted up the skirt. "Now, Selena, this won't hurt a bit." Allen then closed his eyes and stuck in the needle. "Allen! You're injecting me not your sister you nimrod! Open your eyes!!!" Millerna cried out. She looked at her arm which had been wounded by the needle. Blood began to come out. Millerna fainted. (Hey, Allen's a knight, not a doctor…) "Millerna -hime!" Allen rushed to catch her in her fall. "Millerna-hime. Are you okay?" He checked her pulse. It was beating. "Thank goodness, you're going to be okay…" "But you will not be… Allen Schezar!" 'That voice…' Allen turned around, afraid of what he might see. "I'm back…… And I'm badder than ever…" Dilandau smiled as he held up a burning match. "Hee-hee… Fire! Fire! Hohohohohohohoho!!!!" "Van-sama~" Merle crawled up to her loving and kind master, looking at his face. Van was looking off into the distance "Van-sama~, are you thinking about 'her' again?" No answer. "Van-sama~." No answer. Merle frowned. Her master/childhood friend wasn't the same anymore. No more fun, no more games. He just… kind of sat in his throne looking off into the distance. Looking at the Phantom Moon. It had been two years since that day. The day that they had defeated the Zaibach empire. Two years since Hitomi had returned to the Phantom Moon. Merle, knew since then, that Van had become less of a person. He was in love, and the distance brought between him and his love was…. Well… irritating. Merle found that having Hitomi gone was bringing back her old feelings for Van. And it had been a few years. Merle had finally hit puberty, developing into a tall slender, well proportioned cat-girl. But Van-sama never noticed. Folken-san, were he alive may have, but not Van. Since Hitomi's leaving, Van too had hit puberty. And puberty was *very* good to him especially considering the fact that he had become an uber-bishounen. While most kings had flowers thrown at them, Van had various underthings (some clean, some simple, some crotchless, some thongs, some dirty- eww…) thrown at his royal gorgeousness. But he never noticed. All that was in his mind was Hitomi. 'I never liked that girl. I knew she'd just break his heart.' Merle sprang out her claws in agitation. 'That… girl… stealing my Van-sama~ then leaving him all lonely like this! Grrrr…..' She needed something to scratch. Preferably Hitomi, but the nice post next to her would do. She thrust her claws into it, hoping that it might bring her some satisfaction. "Merle!!" Van shouted out in pain. "Van-sama~ I'm sorry! I thought you were a post!" Merle began to cry as she noticed what her anger had caused. 10 deep wounds scratched into Van's leg. Merle sobbed harder. "Van-sama~ forgive me!" Van just stared at her in shock as she cried. Suddenly a guard burst through the doors. "Van-sama! Asturia's been taken!" "What?!" Van stood up. "By who?" "Dilandau sire. The Zaibach empire has returned."
"Ho-ho-ho, Onii-sama~ I have something for you.~" Dilandau sing-songed. He walked into the dungeon below Asturia's palace. He smiled gleefully as he drew out the small pointy needle from his pocket and squirted out some of the liquid. "Onii-sama~" "Dilandau… Selena, I know you're in there… you can't do this!" "Selena is the whole reason I'm doing this. She wants so badly, for her brother to be with her… To know her pain…" Dilandau smiled in demented glee. "Now Onii-sama~ be a good boy… or girl……I mean think of it this way. You already have that beautiful shampoo-commercial quality hair to go with your new femininity anyway…" He then rammed the needle into Allen's arm, laughing merrily. "I always wanted to have a sister whose hair I could sculpt and then set on fire… bwahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!"
"Van-sama~" Merle pounced alongside Van as he walked down the hall of the palace into the war room. "Van-sama~ what's going to happen…" No answer. 'I'm getting tired of that.' She thought as they entered the room where all the samurai sat. "Van-sama.." The samurai bowed at Van's presence. Van sat down at the head of the table as Merle sat in a corner. "So, any suggestions? We can't let Zaibach destroy Fanelia again. And you know that is their next target… Dilandau, hates me remember?" Van relaxed in his chair as the samurai began to give their input. Not really listening. He already knew what 'he' was going to do. Bring back Escaflowne to life. And kick a lot of bad guy butt. After all… he was the hero of the story. But in order to be a proper hero he did require one thing more… a heroine. "Alright, I've heard enough… I am going to revive Escaflowne and go to the Phantom Moon. Hitomi will be able to help us defeat the Empire." Upon saying that he left with Merle at his heels. Leaving the samurai a bit confused. "Did you say anything about that girl?" "No, did you?" "Nope. I just said that we should take initiative and go to Zaibach first so we may beg for mercy on our pitiful, just reconstructed country…" "Hey, That's what I said too…" "Does Van-sama have a drug problem or something?" The other samurai looked at the samurai who suggested that thought and promptly started (in SD form) beating him up.
Merle's sharp cat ears heard those last few comments from the cowardly samurai. It was just too bad that the *real* Fanelian samurais were killed when Fanelia was destroyed by Zaibach two years ago. She looked at Van, whose face was dead-serious as he walked to Escaflowne. Meowing softly in the silent hallway, Van didn't notice her at all. 'This sucks!' Time for her to do something. It wasn't like Van-sama would notice. He was too preoccupied with beginning the war so he could get back Hitomi. 'Hitomi, Hitomi, Hitomi! It's always Hitomi!' She jumped out a window, up to the roof and scampered across the courtyard. After running through part of the woods, she came to a cave entrance partly hidden by vines, trees, bushes and various foliage. She brushed them inside and squeezed in. Lighting a small torch that was hidden behind a small boulder, she walked further into the cave where there was a fork in the path. She turned left andafter a few steps, was immediately on a ledge over a huge underground room. It was Folken's old laboratory. Even before he was unwillingly enlisted in Zaibach's service, he was already a budding scientist. Stashed there were various blueprints of experiments and mecha. Through various favors from people Meruru worked with during the Allied front against Zaibach, various parts of one Teiring units were shipped to this place, Merle's secret hideaway. She has studied the blueprints Folken had left (did you think she just sat there while Van drooled/dreamed about Hitomi? C'mon, she's much smarter than that...she has a life too) and throughout the course of two years was able to 'reassemble' the Teiring unit, although with some alterations. Her proudest alteration with the unit though, was that now it was colored peachy-pink, just like her clothes. It was important to be color-coordinated, you know. She jumped up onto the unit, picked up the armor resting on its shoulder and put it on. She then proceeded to board the unit. Everything seemed to be working fine as the started walking out of the cavern. Then, she remembered. "Oh yeah, this thing was brought in here as scraps. Oh well, best time to test my little machine's agility!" The extremely fashionable guymelef jumped up and was able to enter the entry area of the cave. Trampling aside the greenery covering the entrance, she walked to the shrine where Van was summoning Escaflowne. Standing behind him, she made her announcement of her acheivement. "Van-sama~ look what I made!" No answer. Merle did a lil' twirl in her newly made teiring unit, as if she were on a 'catwalk' (to the tune of that extremely genki Escaflowne chanting, no less). She loomed behind him. Still no answer came. He just continued with the ceremony of summoning Escaflowne. Merle was getting pissed . She looked on the inside of her helmet, 'aha!' finding the volume on her loudspeakers. She cranked it up on full. "VAN-SAMA ~!!!!!!" No answer. 'Oh forget it!' Merle sat down in her teiring unit behind Van, waiting paitiently for him to finish the ceremony.
~Meanwhile in a bar/brothel outside of Asturia~ The patrons admired the lovely beast that had just walked in. She was tall, with beautiful blonde hair , dainty, and very well-endowed, a fact that clearly showed on her cleavage-enhancing-exhibiting Zaibach vinyl bodysuit. All the patrons in the bar wanted to hit on her, but after one poor fool lecherously tried to score with her, and got....toasted.... by the flame thrower her gray/lavender-haired companion kept, they got the hint and stayed away. It was a dark, and stinky tavern-brothel combo in what used to be the old pre-Dornkirk Zaibach region outside Asturia. Dilandau his buxom companion were there trying to find whoever may have been left from the Zaibach army after the war. "Dilly-chan, this place stinks, my hair is starting to pick up the stench. This is no place for a lady like me!" Spoke the buxom blonde as she....tossed...her mousse/hairspray/gel sculpted hair. "Now now, my little blonde goddess, if we don't wait, I won't get more pilots for my plans for tomorrow night. Besides, this is going to be your new home. You might want to get used to this smell." "What are you gonna do tomorrow night, Dilly-chan?" "Same thing I did last night, Aleena," Dilandau answered as he snipped off a lock of Aleena's blonde hair and set it on fire. He smiled as the lock burned. His eyes glowed blood red. "Try to take over Gaea!" [insert music from Pinky and the Brain (copyrighted by the Warner Brothers) here] *It's Dilly and the blonde It's Dilly and the blonde One is a pyro, the other's a blonde To prove their gender's worth They'll burn Gaea to dirt It's Dilly, it's Dilly and the blonde blonde blonde *NARF* [end song. Note: This filk intermission here was mainly modified from a previously existing filk that has been circulating through the Fushigi Yuugi Mailing List for a while now titled "Soi and the Blonde". We can't take full credit for it.] "But first, my beautiful Aleena, we need," Dilandau said as he struck a pose. "O-KA-NE!" [that's the japanese word for money, for those of you who are japanese inept like Kourin, even though she came up with the word and I didn't ~C-chan] Dilandau said each syllable with a flourish and with a dramatic movement of his arm (Tamahome-style from Fushigi Yuugi, no less--Kourin). "How will we get it, Dilly-chan?" Aleena innocently asked. "Well, we could go rob a bank, but I don't think banks even exist in Gaea," Dilandau excitedly babbled on. "What's a bank?" Aleena asked. "Nevermind." "Oh." Dilandau looked around and saw the lusty looks from the bar patrons that were quickly covered up as he looked at them. A bright lightbulb popped up above his head, which he quickly grabbed, broke and burned. "Aleena-chan, tonight you will become a woman," Dilandau said quietly to Aleena, who was absolutely clueless. 'I knew there was a reason I was leaving her here!' Dilandau mused. He then tried to explain things to Aleena, who excitedly agreed, after all it was all for Zaibach. "So I wait in a room for guys, I pretend to take my clothes off and then when they're too busy drooling at the sight of me in a state of near undress I quickly grab my sword and tell them to hand over their money or die? Cool!" `Ahhh… a girl after my own heart' Dilandau thought as he cut off yet another piece of Aleena's hair and burnt it with a smirk as Aileena rushed off to one of the rooms upstairs.
*insert Gaian chanting* Eeeeeescaaaafloooooowneeee....Eeeeescaaafloooowneee.... escaaaaaaaa-- aaaaaaaa-----floooooooowwwwwwnneeeeeeeeee.... *end chanting* The unsealing ceremony of Escaflowne was successful. Van breathed a sigh of relief as he unsheathed his sword and proceeded with the next step [for those who don't know, the next step consists of slitting his finger and dripping blood on the energist his mommy gave him]. The jewel on Escaflowne glowed green and the hatch opened, allowing Van to enter. `Hitomi, I'm coming for you…' he thought as he jumped in. Meanwhile, Merle was snoozing in her Teiring unit, waiting for Van to hurry the hell up and finish the ceremony. She didn't notice as he stepped into Escaflowne and walked right past her (again). She just continued to snooze peacefully, even as Van went into rocket mode in Escaflowne and flew off towards wishing for Hitomi in his arms.
*Meanwhile on the Phantom Moon* "Hitomi!" Yukari yelled… Yukari stood, hands on her hips, as she watched Hitomi running to catch up with her. "You're late again!!! How many times have I told you!" "Sorry Manager!!" Hitomi replied. "Geez… this is the championship girl! You can't afford to be late!" "Sorry Midterms got in my way…" Hitomi rolled her eyes slightly. Damn,. She wished she could be near Van again… If for nothing else but to be away from her midterms. Suddenly, as if a prayer had been answered, a bright beam of light shot out of the Heavens grabbing hold of Hitomi. She gasped in shock. Yukari watched as Hitomi got carried away again by the beam of light once again. Slightly annoyed… Her mom was very understanding the last time, but Yukari was sure her mom was thinking "these kids must be on drugs". Now what'll they do to explain this?!
"Van!" Hitomi smacked Van across the face in rage. "How could you?! You know that I don't want to see visions anymore, and you still bring me here to help you in this war! How could you be so selfish?!" Hitomi began to sob into her hands. "What kind of a man are you? Don't you understand that there are things that you don't know yet? That you need to know before you can be with me?" Van just stared at Hitomi shocked. Didn't she know how much he needed her? How much he wanted to be by her side? And now… she was saying that he didn't know enough about being a man to be near her? What could he do? "Hitomi…" Van put a hand on her shoulder. "Don't touch me!" Hitomi slapped away his hand and ran into her room. Van just continued to stare in shock until she slammed the door. What was it she wanted? Then what she said earlier he finally understood. ~Insert instant flashback~ "What kind of a man are you? Don't you understand that there are things that you don't know yet? That you need to know before you can be with me?" ~End instant flashback~ She needed an experienced man! No wonder! She wanted someone who would already know the ways of loving a woman to be near her. Now he understood why Hitomi had been so infatuated with Allen. 'Well, then, I guess it's time to take action then…' thoughtVan 'There's a brothel just outside of Asturia… maybe I'll go there. I hear they have great whores.' He shuddered at that word. A whore was precisely what Hitomi was not. But he did want to prove his manhood to her. Even if he didn't like the idea. He walked out to Escaflowne and hopped in, immediately changing into Dragon-rocket mode. He sped his way to the borders of Asturia. "And while I'm trying to figure that out, I'll try to figure out how to give my hair a three-inch lift," Van said to himself.
"Well, lookie here~!" Sing-songed the head wench. "A genuine king of Fanelia!" She checked him out and motioned for the other wenches to join her. They began to Ooo and Ahh at his appearence. A few even began stripping off their clothes in preparation for his most kingliness. "Now! Now! Stop you fools! Can you see he's a complete virgin? He needs one of our more unexperienced wenches so he feels more comfortable." All the male patrons sitting at the bar blew up in laughter. Van just blushed furiously at what this wench could tell about him. Then he found a key pressed into his hand. Remembering the deal and the threats from Dilandau, the head wench whispered into his ear."Third door on the right. Her name is Aleena…" Van nervously slipped away from the women in the other room swooning over him and stepped to the mentioned room. He nervously tried to fit in the key, but his hands were shaking so badly he dropped it twice. Finally, the door was opened from the inside. An extremely attractive blonde woman was there, wearing what appeared to be a dominatrix outfit. Van didn't like the Zaibach theme of the outfit, though. * How did Van know it was a dominatrix outfit? I dunno.* After she closed the door, woman promptly started performing a slow striptease by pulling off her glove, finger by finger, by her teeth. With that done, she started singing in a sexy voice. "I feel pretty, oh so pretty..." Then she began to slowly take off the clasps of her bra. "Oh so pretty and pretty and..." The striptease was accentuated by a strange red light, the source of which Van could not pinpoint. Van could hear his heart pounding. 'This is all for Hitomi' he thought as he nervously licked his lips, trying as hard as he could not to projectile-nosebleed.
As for the next chapter: What will become of Van? Will Merle sleep in the shrine for this whole fic? What has become of Milerna-hime and Allen? And who is the new evil power behind Dilandau? Oh yeah, and Hitomi's in it too.
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Beyond the Light
By: Wing Serenade
A combined fiction effort by Kourin and I! Hitomi is stressing out from school while Van is pining away as Merle wonders why in god's name he waits for the girl who left him all those years ago. An old enemy is back and much insanity ensues. Whatever
Rated: Fiction T - English - Humor - Chapters: 3 - Words: 8,933 - Reviews: 19 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/27/2000 - id: 154512
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