AN – Now, I realise that I haven't been here for a while, and that many people will have erased my existence from their memory, believing me to be no more, but...
Heh.
I've just finished watching the entire series again for the first time in a long while and I cannot deny that I've fallen in love with the characters all over again. It's been about a year since I have written any form of fanfiction and I decided that a whole twelve months is quite long enough. So, I'm er- making a comeback of sorts. I fully intend to finish the second 'Infestation' book, and write the conclusion. As sad as it may be, I fear the Red Planet (my first ever piece of fanfiction) will remain discontinued.
Now, as many of you know, I deal with AU fics and that isn't about to change ^.^
I love both 'The Dark Project' and 'The Great Light' but I cannot possibly hope to complete them both…unless…
…Well, I have decided in my fanfiction-deprived insanity to join these to pieces and create a new, but nevertheless recognisable idea. (Okay, it's sounds stupid but hear me out!)
The reason for this horribly long note, and the short snippet of a story which I've posted below, is that I am in desperate need of a betta. I am hoping that someone will read this note and the story section below and volunteer. (Though any reviews with encouragement – or even a 'Welcome Back' will, of course, be received with overwhelming gratefulness! ^.^)
So here it is, a mere few hundred words or so of what I hope will become a novel length AU tribute to the characters of Escaflowne.
A wise man once told me that the human mind is limitless. That there can be no boarders or boundaries placed upon it because we are too rebellious by nature to concede to them. That we are so incredibly different and yet unbearably alike at the same time that the friction, which exists between every single one of us, is unavoidable.
That wise man dead, and I wasn't the least bit surprised to find his charred body in the slowly gathering pile of corpses by the docks, a few days after the light came.
After all, what good is wisdom when you can't use a gun?
The ability to defend yourself is all that matters now. It's survival of the fittest, every man, or woman, for themselves, when it comes to fighting them.
And that's what I do, incidentally.
Fight them.
Their claim to this world is a false one. There accusations of my people equally so. And I, like so many others, have now joined the ranks of the Human Resistance in order to combat them. But don't make the mistake of believing this to be an all out war. Because that assumption couldn't take you further away from the truth. They're much to smart for that, they know there aren't enough of them to launch a full-scale attack and wipe us out.
Yet.
They work in pairs or small groups no bigger than three or four. Some are hackers, some are healers, many are just your basic all rounded soldiers, but some, are thieves. And it wasn't long before I realised how dangerous a thief of their kind could be.
Here are the stats for my story, for those interested in becoming a betta:
Title: Full Circle
Length: About 10 chapters
Pairing: V/H, a little F/M
Rating: PG-13 (due to violence)
If you are interested and/or want to ask me any questions, please feel free to email me.