The Visions of Escaflowne:
The Visions of Gaea

Chapter 1: The Faithful journey

The front door to the house hold slowly opens, In front of the door there is a hall that leads to the steps going up stairs, the whole house has a peaceful feel it to, but it soon becomes broken by the person opening the door. A girl with brown hair dressed in a school uniform enters the house hold. She places her back at the bottom of the stairs and then head to her room.

Hitomi opens the door to her room and walks over to her dressing table. She looks down at the dressing table move her eyes over to a box, the box that has Hitomi's Tarot cards inside and Van's feather, to remind her of the last time she stayed on this placed names Geae.

Hitomi then smiles to herself thinking of the memories with Van, Allen, Millerna and even Merle for that matter and how much she miss them, how much she misses Geae it's self. She then breaks the smile as she remembers what else is inside that box. She places her hand over the tops taking the lid of it and taking out the set of Tarot Cards. "My cards." She says in a low voice still thinking about Geae. "I said I would never do a reading with them again. I." Before she can finish what she is doing a knock on the door forces her to snap out of her dream land. "Oh I almost forgot, I am meant to be going with Yukari to the hospital to see my mother." Hitomi then slips the Tarot cards into her pocket before heading down stairs and out of the house.

~On Gaea~

Van a boy that looks around 15, 16 years old sits in the centre of the thorn room. He has black hair and wares a red T-Shirt. At his side there is a sword his blade that was given to him when he became King. On the same day that the quest with Hitomi and the others started, the day the war with Zaibach started.

"I wonder what Hitomi is up to now?" He asks as he looks at the pendent next to him. Hitomi's pendent or rather he grandmother pendent since that's how passed it down to her. He puts a tight grip around the reddish coloured stone. The stone then lights up glowing in a bright Red colour. Van places his hand in front of his eyes as he says sounding almost in shock. "What the??????"

~On Earth~

Hitomi and Yukari are sitting on the train on the way to the Hospital. "Thank you for coming with me Yukari" Hitomi says happy that she doesn't have to go and visit her mother alone since both her father and her little brother is away.

"No problem" Yukari answers as he places her hand in her pocket to get something to drink from the trolley that's coming down the train. She then asks "Hay Hitomi do you want anything?"

Hitomi then places her hand in her pocket to get out some of her own money as she says. "I'll pay for myself" She then pulls something out from her pocket that she didn't even know were in there, her Tarot Cards. "My cards? How? I must have slipped them in there with out noticing when I left home" She then gaps in shock as she starts to have a vision. The sky is black in her vision, the bodies of the dead lie everywhere and in the back ground there is the smell of burning. Above her and the bodies is a black shadow casting itself all over Geae. Hitomi then finds herself in a graveyard in front of five head stones that read the names, "Allen, Van, Merle, Millerna and Dryden," the people she was with on Geae. Hitomi then moves again inside her vision, this time to a battle field. Escaflowne in its dragon form fly's over her head heading to a black Guymelef. Escaflowne the white Dragon transforms into a Guymelef, something that's almost like a robot. Hitomi holds out her hand to Escaflowne yelling out to Van how is inside that thing. The black Guymelef slashes it's blade up at Escaflowne before he even has time to counter. The blade slashes the front of the Guymelef ripping it in two and forcing Van to bleed to death inside of Escaflowne.

"VAN!!! NO DON'T DIE!!! VAN!!!!!!!" She yells out in the middle of the train people in the carriage turn round looking at Hitomi and Yukari. The whole train grows deadly quite and looks at her as Hitomi gets up from her seat heading down the carriage after embarrassing herself and Yukari follows.

Hitomi leans against the train door, out of breath and gasping for air. Yukari looks round the corner to see if Hitomi is alright and then asks her, "Are you ok?" Still seeing that Hitomi is shaken by what has happened on the train.

Hitomi stand there in shock, breathing very heavily because of the visions she just had to watch. "V.V.Van.He is going to die.They are all going to die."

"What are you talking about Hitomi?" Ask Yukari.

"My vision.I saw it. I saw van's death. He is going to die along with Allen and the others." Hitomi answers starting to get back to normal getting over the shock that vision put her into.

Yukari stands there thinking, or course she had been told the stories of Geae and Hitomi's time with Van and the others. Not sure what to do she does her best to make her feel better by saying. "It's ok Hitomi."

When they are at the Hospital they head into Hitomi's mothers room. Yukari looks at her best friend with concern because of what happened on the train when they were coming her but she thinks it's best to keep quite. When they enter Hitomis Mother's room she is lying there in bad shape. Hitomi walks to the side of her mother's bed and looks at her, beaten up from the car crash she had been in. Yukari takes a seat not wanting to get in the way of Hitomi and her Mother.

Before she can say anything to her mother anther vision flashes before her eyes. She sees van lying in front of her. His chest is cut open and there is blood all across his body. He is no long breathing so it's clear that he is already dead. Before Hitomi can take it all in here vision is over. It lasted no more that about 5 seconds in all. She falls back to where Yukari is sitting not sure as to what see just seen in her vision.

With in about 30 seconds of the first vision anther one starts, Hitomi finds herself at the top of a hill in a field. Below her in ever direction they are graves, countless graves. A cold wind blows across from the west were the storm clouds are hanging. The storm rushes in lightning comes down from the sky followed by the ripping sound of thunder and then there is the cold rain. A mist than raises from the graves, the spirits of the dead raising up to the Darkness of the cold storm. The storm then starts to take its true shape. Soon the black Geae Guymelef that defeated Escaflowne in her earlier vision is back. The Guymelef seems to be a new model, faster and strong than the ones Zaibach used when she has on Geae. The Guymelef stabs it's sword at Hitomi. The blade of the weapon strikes Hitomi in the chest sending her to the ground but she never touches it. She finds almost seaming to float in the air around her are countless numbers of other people. As she moves her eyes around she sees Van and Allen with the rest of the gang but also Amano and Yukari are there with her. She then begins to start to notice more and more people she knows on Earth but before she can work out what this means her vision changes again. The sun in rising over a mountain top, there is a nice summer's breeze coming into her face and to her left they are children playing. This part of the visions seams to peaceful unlike the pictures of death from before.

"It's the carm before the storm" Hitomi says as she comes round from her vision to Yukari's surprise not really understanding what she is talking about.

Yukari stands up again as he watching Hitomi go into a state that seams like shock just like on the train before. She grabs Hitomi's hand and then asks her "What's wrong with you???" When Yukari utters those words Hitomi comes out the shock and turns looking to Yukari. "You.you were there in my vision. My visions" She then breaks the grip on her hand and runs out the door away from her mother's room and Yukari follows her.

When Hitomi gets outside the Hospital she looks up into the sky. "Why am I having these visions? Why am I forced to watch my friends die?" The doors behind her open as Yukari followers her outside seaming scared by the way Hitomi has been acting since they met up today. As they stand there a blue light comes down from the sky covering both of there bodies. The two girls rise up from the ground and into the sky on there trip to Gaea.

~On Gaea~

Van stands looking at the Moon and the Mystic Moon that hangs in the sky above Geae. In his right hand he holds the pendent that Hitomi gave to him the last time she was on Geae. "Why did you start glowing before?" He asks himself trying to work this out.

Vans face looks down in what seams to be almost shock as he see the pendent light up again. He puts his hand in front of his face to block out the bright reddish light that covers the whole room. He stumbles back into the wall and drops the pendent to the ground. As soon as the pendent hits the ground the blue light catches his eyes coming up from what looks about 8 or 9 miles away dead ahead.

"HITOMI!!!" he yells out as soon as he sees this light he then looks to his side and sees that the pendent Hitomi gave to him has gone. He looks around in almost total shock because he has lost the one thing she gave to him.

Hitomi looks up finding herself on the ground in the middle of a field. At the same time Yukari stands up since she has also been transported here. "Where are we?" Yukari asks now even more confused than ever. Hitomi stands up looking into the sky with a little smile and then when answers. "I am back? We are on Geae."

"Gaea?" asks Yukari.

Somewhere else in the world a man stands by his window. He has brown pants on and a black jacket. In his right hand he holds a glass like a wine glass. The man takes a drink from his wine glass and then says out loud to himself. "The blue light that means the girl is back. It's just as my vision shown me."