Disclaimer: I do not own Van or any of the origanal characters from the show of escaflowne, but do own the new ones in her, and some parts of the plot line. okkkk lets get on with it.
- a bunch of those means, different scene.
--' these mean thoughts '
--"these mean speaking"
The Keys To Atlantis
Chapter 1
Saria and Thira were wandering the ruins, looking for a new shelter. For their last one had been destroyed completely by the dragon that had attacked them. They were now carrying/ dragging the cut up meet in somm ripped cloth, which was from the dragon, just so they could eat. The two finally discovered a good enough shelter that they could live in and keep dry in. Saria started to set up the place so that it would feel like home as much as possible. Thira took the meat to the small pond that she had spotted nearby and started to clean and trim it so they may use it as food. As Thira entered the new shelter that they made for themselfs, she smiled somewhat and gave some of the cleaned and trimed meat to Saria. Saria took the meat and began to cook supper with it, and Thira sorted the rest of the meat into packages, storing them into the shelving that Saria found in the shelter.
They gathered pervisions for a few months and Thira built some rough furniture.
Down in Austoria Von and Allen were going over the plan of going to see how bad the damage to Fanalia really was.
Von spoke up and said "ok, when should we depart to go to Fanalia on Escaflowne and yours?"
Allen responded by saying in a serious tone, "We will depart today. The sooner we get going the sooner we arrive in Fanelia." Von nods in approval to Allans decision and they left to get ready. About twenty minutes later they had Escaflowne and Allens ready to go and were off to Fanelia.
Saria and Thira had now been in their shelter for a few mounths , Saria spoke up to Thira "Lets go down to the pond and i will wash our clothes, you can get some fish and sharpen your tools."
Thira looks up from what she was doing and noded "Yeah ok, lets go." When they got all of their stuff ready they headed to the small pond and when they got there they thought that they spotted something in the sky but thought nothing of it. Saria began to sing in her beautifull voice, as she washed both of their clothes. Thira listened as she gutted and cleaned some fish, then started on sharpening some of her tools and weapons as a creapy mist started to creap around them.
Von and Allen landed saftly and started to look around at the devistation and destrucktion. "Woa, this is very bad. nobody could have survived this." Allen exclaimed. They both had started in the direction in which Saria and Thira were, but they didn't know that.
Saria had slowly started to stand up, she still sang, and Thira stood up as well. When they turned around they gasped as they caught sight of Allen and Von, they were standing stock still in shock. "AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Thira and Saria both screamed and bolted for their shelter.
"Saria hide here, I'll lead them off and NO objections." Thira huffed. And with that Thira was off again, while Von chased after her, Saria quickly hid under the cabinets. As Allen searched the house. Thira found a spot to hide and quickly slid into it. Von stopped and looked around with a confused look upon his face. There was plenty of dust where Thira was hiding unfortunatly and the dust was getting stirred up and tickling her nose, so she brought her knees closer to her chest.
Saria was still crouched under the shelves with her knees tucked up under her chin. She took a soft raspy breath trying to keep as quiet as possible. Saria shifted slightly and a vase of herbs and other spices fell to the floor as she bumped the shelves. Saria gasped and looked out of the shelves at the guy. Allen snapped his head to where the vase had fallen and he walked over to it. He slowly started to bend down to pick up the vase and brought it up to smell what had been in it. Saria took that chance to scamper to her left along the wall under the shelves. Allen heard the scampering and bent over to see the girl scampering away. Saria was breathing heavily as she sprung out from the end of the shelfs and ran out of the room, and into the living romm that Thira built.
Allen quickly ran after her and just saw her crouching behind the far chair, she was trying not to be seen. Allen slowly walked towards her and Saria's eye went wide. Suddenly Saria remembered what Thira had tought her so she quickly stood up and put herself in a fighting stance.
Meanwhile Thira was still hiding, and Von was still looking around for her around the area. Thira started to feel a sneeze comming on, so she tried to hold her breath. Von was starting to think to himself, 'They must of been here for a long time to know where to go easily.' Thira was having troubles with trying not to sneeze from the dust. Suddenly Thira couldn't hold it any longer and the sneeze came out loudly. She gasped and covered her mouth, and she saw the guy come quickly towards her hiding place, he crouched down and looked inside and met her cold stair. Thira pushed him aside as she ran out quickly, turning around she gets into a fighting stance, faceing the guy. Von gets up, brushing himself off and turns to face the girl, noticing that she was in a fighting stance, and had a cold expression upon her face.
Von started to walk over to her, but before he could get any closer, Thira started to attack him. He couldn't even counter attack, 'woa she's good, I can't even get a single punch in, and she punches hard.' he thought to himself as he tried to defend himself.
Allen had managed to explain why they were there to Saria, so he then took her wrist and dragged her off to try and find Von.
Thira was still going at it with Von when Allen and Saria found them, they saw that Thira was totally kicking Vons but. Suddenly Thira saw Saria being led along by Allen and stopped fighting Von. She yelled out "Saria!" and while her attention was somewhere else, Von slipped behind her, twisting her arm behind her back and made her kneel on the ground, and she cried out at the sudden pain. "Hey let me go!" Thira yelled struggling, and she yelped and Von twisted her arm more to stop her from sqwirming. By then Allen and Saria had finally reached them. "Ok now, were not going to hurt you, so stop struggling and well let you go. All we want to do is talk....." Thats all he was able to say before Saria burst out of his grip saying "Let her go now you idiot we won't run." She said as she ran to Thira's side, she was crying. Von let her go and went to stand beside Allen as Saria put an arm around Thira's shoulder. Saria stood up and yelled at Von, "How dare you make my sister cry. She has never cried a day in her life except for the destruction day. You just had to bring back those awful memories of hers!" Von had a sad look upon his face, along with Allen, Von knew what she meant, he had bad memories of then to.
Allen says, "Lets go back to your shelter then you can tell u s your story. I'm sorry about your sister, I'm sure Von didn't mean no harm." "yeah, i didn't mean any harm." said Von. Saria put a protective arm around a shaking Thira and led them back to the shelter where Thira stopped crying and shaking. Thira's face went impasive and she was now sitting by the wall sharpening her sword. While Saria finished cooking the meat and started to dish it out. "How did you get food in this place?" Von asked.
"The dragons that sometimes attack us, we kill them and use their meat for food." Explained Thira tonelessly. Allen and Von looked at them with shocked looks upon their faces.
"How could someone your size kill a dragon!?" asked Von astonishingly.
Saria smiled and said, " Actually Thira is the all weapons expert, she slays the dragons." Von and Allens eyes went wider yet.
"How old is she!?" Allen asked Saria as he looked over at Thira.
"Oh how rude of me, I'm Saria, 18, and this is Thira, 15' n a half. She tought me everything i know about fighting and tools." Saria introduced themselfs. Allen and Von sputtered at how young Thira was compared to Saria, and yet she kills dragons, and is has mastery of weapons. Not to mention that she acts older then Saria, it was weird all right.
"Tell us the whole story." said Allen, Saria smiled sweatly and sais, "Gonna have to have Thira do that. Thira?"
Thira sighed and put down her sword and joined them at the fire. "I guess so." she said, "We were once the daughters of a normal family, our father a respected priest of Fanelia." Von reconginsed that description of the priest, he was indeed well respected in Fanelia. "I was practicing as i usually did. Dad wouldn't let me join the army, so of course i trained myself in secrete. Saria followed after mother as a priestess, so she was always with mom and in classes. A sudden explosion sent everything into disarray. Our dad was killed, and I was trying to defend Saria, I almost defeated all of them but they........grabed me from behind and twisted my arms behind my back, and they had also caught Saria. But they didn't get a chance to do anything because a sudden explosion racked the building. We were thrown down by the force of it and the men/ monsters were thrown on top of us. When everything settled I pushed the guys off of me and noticed that they were all killed by the debree. I pushed the guys off of my sister and asked if she was ok, which she was. So we went to see if anyone else was still alive. But we didn't find anybody that had survived, but obviously you have. Ever since then we survived on our own." Thira finished. Von and Allen were quiet, then, "I'm sorry for your father and Fanelia." "Yeah." agreed Allen with a nod of his head. "I'm a dracoanian, I understand" Von said, Thira and Saria noded in understanding.
