AU*I do not own Vision of Escaflowne

Here we go, this idea has been going on in my head forever. V/H alllll the way

It was pouring rain from black clouds as Hitomi ran. She ran as fast as she could. She tried to stay calm. Being calm is what made rational choices. However, having her dead sister's drug dealer, Jake, and his crew, chasing after you made fear and panic rush into her system. Therefore irrational decisions were being made in the directions she was taking to try and run them out.

Hitomi was a brave girl, there was nothing she feared. Except Jake. She had seen him destroy both of her sisters, Lulu and Rikku. Even if they were not blood sisters, they were the ones who took her in when she was found in the middle of the streets with no memory of where she came from except her name and very odd clothes. She also had a tattoo of a green shaped star on her forehead, which Lulu and Rikku thought was very weird for such a young child to have. They did not know her exact age but estimated her to be around 9 years old.

Lulu was the one who started working for Jake to try and earn more money to support Hotaru's medical demands. Hotaru was Lulu's daughter that she had when she was 19. But even though the money was there, Hotaru hadn't made it and passed away with a mysterious disease at 5 years old. Soon Rikku who could not deal with the pain turned to Lulu and bought drugs from her. A year later at 16 years old Rikku overdosed on heroin. As for Lulu, she was shot and died in a gang shooting leaving 2500 debt to the drug lord of the city, was now up to Hitomi to pay up.

Even though she went through all this, Hitomi still had a will to live with a smile on and a positive attitude. No one would know she went through such an ordeal because she never let herself cry since to her that would mean that 'the bad guys won'. There was just the odd time where Hitomi would drift off and look out into space with sadness and sorrow in her eyes.

And now after running for over 20 minutes, she came across her high school and ran across the campus until she arrived on the track and field. By this time she was out of breath and had to stop, putting her hand on her knees trying to inhale air as much as she could.

Seconds later she was surrounded by Jake and his gang members. Hitomi emerald eyes held such hopelessness. Jake took a step forward and looked at her with very angry black eyes.

The rain turned into a thunder storm. No one was in sight, most people would find it crazy to be out in such a storm.

"You little bitch," Jake spat, "you think I'm a fool?" He looked her over and noticed her backpack. "You weren't even going to pay me, look at you trying to run away."

Hitomi shook her head as she answered, "No! No! I'm not running away, Jake it's just I don't have the money yet. Lulu owed you a lot here, and I'm trying my best to pay you back but you're going to have to give me more time! I've managed to save up 500-"

Jake snorted "500? 500?"

All of a sudden two of the men surrounding Hitomi grabbed both of her arms to hold her still. This is when the beating started. The man named Jake threw a punch towards her stomach as she let out a yelp.

He continued the beating, "So you think that," WHACK

"is going to make up" PUNCH, "for 2500 dollars?" SLAP. After a few minutes of continuously beating Hitomi, she was barely able to stand up on her own.

She tried to take air in whenever she could before the next blow. "Please..." she uttered with all her strength.

"What's that? You know I'm sick of this bullshit. I gave you more time and what did I receive. I get 200 dollars more?" Jake took out a his pocket knife and Hitomi looked up at him with pleading eyes. He drew the knife to her cheek and made a slow horizontal cut under her right eye as Hitomi winced. Rain drops were sliding down the blade mixing with her blood and with a quick thrust Jake stabbed her into her stomach.

The stab made her yell out in pain, and blood started to go down her white shirt. Jake started to look her up and down with a weird look in his eyes. Was it...lust? A slow smirk came over Jake's face

"It'd be a shame to not have a little fun with you before you left for good.." The men holding her back chuckled in agreement.

Horror came over Hitomi's face. Jake's hand stroked Hitomi's face.

This was when the violent trashing came. "NO!" Hitomi screamed. She refused to die like this. There had to be something better in life than this, there had to. Instead of fear, she started to get very angry. Angry that all her life all she wanted was to laugh and have friends. Her only friends were her sisters. Everyone thought she was a freak because weird things would always happen around her. Kids sometimes called her a witch and so on. Hitomi had not lived the experiences she wanted. She was becoming angry that this man had taken away all that was dear to her and now wanted to take her dignity. No way. There was absolutely no way she would allow it. Hitomi shut her eyes and screamed again "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Jake's eyes grew wide as the green star on Hitomi's eyes started to glow and when Hitomi's eyes opened they were glowing green as well. The men that were holding her back didn't know what to do when they were blasted off of her 100 meters away. The ground started shaking and the thunder became even more intense.

Jake looked at her with shock "Wha-...what the fuck!"

Hitomi's eyes narrowed. She had no idea what was going on with her body but she felt powerful and that was good enough for her. The thing is she didn't really know how to control this new power. The bleachers of the track and field started trembling and wind started gushing around Hitomi. She realized she could control the wind and threw her hands back then thrust them forward to send the gusts of wind towards Jake who screamed out in fear and was knocked back.

The new power in Hitomi left her as soon as it had came. Her eyes stopped glowing and her star as well.

"What was that?" Hitomi wondered in fright and excitement. Although her mind was wired with thoughts, her body collapsed to the ground from all of the pain she had recently experienced and the exhaustion from the power she had summoned.

All of a sudden, a blue pillar of light surrounded Hitomi and lifted her towards the sky.