Baracuda Note: My first attempt at fanfiction. Really. I hope you enjoy it, and give me your honest opinion on what you think of it. I give you this warning now: I am a strange person that has her own little mind set…so you'll just either have to get used to me or just not bother with this. No I didn't mena that! But you will have to be patient with me. If you get confused along the way, it's okay….i do too…^_^;;

Awakening from the Vision of Escaflowne
 © Youjibaracuda

Disclaimer: I do not own Escaflowne or any of the characters mentioned in the following (although if I did there would be a second season of the show…) so please don't sue me.  ALL NEW CHARACTERS AND THE PLOT BELONG TO ME!!!! Enjoy!


Prologue: What if…?

What if…?

What if things had been different?

What would my life be like?

What if I had said 'no' and held on tight?

"Hitomi."

What if I could go back for just one second, would I do anything different?

"Hitomi"

What if…?

"HITOMI!!!"

"Huh?" Hitomi Kanzaki woke up with a start. "Oh, sorry Leila. I must have been daydreaming again." She seemed to be doing a lot of that lately.

Her friend frowned. "So what else is new? We're here. Try to have some fun, okay? That's the reason we came."

"Liar. You came to see all the guys from the frat house. I'm just here because I couldn't find a good excuse to get out of it."

Daleila Azusa smiled sheepishly; the tips of her hair turning slightly pink, handed Hitomi her car keys, and got out of the car. With a sigh, Hitomi did like-wise. It had been a while since she had gotten out of the house not to mention her friends were beginning to worry about her mental heath. So what could be more normal than going to a party on Friday night? Right.

The music from the party was loud and upbeat. People were everywhere; some drunk, some not. A typical frat party.

I really don't want to do this…

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I really don't want to do this…

Van Fanel sighed. He was listening to his advisors argue about where they were going to have the celebration for the country's anniversary. He knew the way this was going. First they would say that they should hold it in the market place because everyone would already be there. Then someone would suggest the palace and someone else would say something about having it somewhere else. Round and round it would go until finally it would be decided that it was going to be in the public square…just like every year. BORING! Van fidgeted in his chair. Where was Allen? He needed to get out of there. NOW.

As if on cue, the blonde knight entered the council room, requesting the King's assistance on a pressing personal matter.

Van jumped up and practically ran out of the room while muttering something about being sorry.

"You are a life saver," Van sighed in relief after they were outside.

" Don't I know it." Allen Schezar smiled. " I just figured that whatever was going on in there wasn't terribly important."

" I want to do something," Van responded. "Sparing maybe. Are you up for it?"

Allen snorted. "I've been waiting for you to ask since I got here. I'm sure you've got some new moves that are just dying to try out."

Van smiled sinisterly. "We'll see."

Baracuda Note: Whew. That's over. Okay this is only part of a LONG fic that I hope to be able to finish…eventually. I had it all planned out for me to finish in four months…that was over a year ago…now I realize I got myself in way over my head/ bit off more than I could chew/ (insert corny phrase of choice) and that now I'm stuck trying to finish it within a reasonable amount of time…which really sucks for me…I actually have the whole plot all figured out, I just need to put it in to story form, then edit, edit, get commentary, and edit some more. But in order to do so, I must receive feed back!!!! I need to know what you really think, that way I can go back and change stuff…isn't that what good writing is all about?? I don't mind flames, I actually welcome them/recommend them….the only way for your writing to improve is for someone to cruelly criticize what you write…right? (hey, I made a rhyme ^_^) but I digress….what are you doing still reading this????!!!!

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