Hi there!
Maybe some of you know already my first fanfiction "Second chance to change your destiny" about FF X (that I didn't finish by now – but I will... I just ran out of ideas and now I have to think about it...) but now, I decided to write down an Escaflowne-story spinning around in my mind for a long time.
Well, imagine Hitomi to be the princess of Zaibach but she doesn't like the castles and beeing just what everybody wants her to be. Then, one day, there is a feast at her father's castle and everything gets turned upside down. For all of you to know: This is going to be a Van/Hitomi story (even if Van appears for the first time in chapter 2 or 3, so please, don't be mad at me because it takes some time to get the things started... and to make sure you understand which character plays which role in this fanfiction... * smile *).
P.S. I don't own Escaflowne or earn money with it.
AND: If I get at least 3 reviews I'll post another chapter. Just to know that someone is reading this stuff, you know. I have to say that I already wrote chapter two and I'm just waiting for you to tell me that you want to read it. * hehe *
The young rebel
Chapter 1: Broken wings and a broken cage
The wind played with the blonde hair of a young women, yet maybe 17 winters living on this
planet that was named Gaea. The world she was living in was beautiful, no doubt. But it was
a golden cage. She, the only daughter of the Emporer of Zaibach, had been kept in the castles
of her father, well hidden so no one would see her.
She sighed and looked around, trying to find something interesting to look at. From where she
was standing, she could see the markte. People were walking there – she could see them.
Little ants, she could barely tell who was a woman and who was a man. Hundreds of people
were running around there – beeing free.
She wondered if her father would be back to celebrate the great winter- garden feast in about
two more days. This day was one of the days she was looking forward to. The whole castle
would shine and glimmer and there would be laughter in the castle beating up her loneliness
and maybe there would be someone interesting this year – someone she could talk to without
acting like the little princess everybody wanted her to be.
"Princesses don't run around like the child of a gardener."
"Don't shout, Princess!"
"My Lady, don't you want to wear the new dress your father bought for you. He would like
you to wear it this afternoon at the banquet."
A lot of people telling her what to do, what not to do, what to wear... It was too much. She
felt like a bird that wanted so badly to learn how to fly but that couldn't because his wings
were broken.
Tonight would be her father's perfect chance to show how his little girl to a lot of counts and
other noblemens who were living nearby. Boring people. Hitomi knew almost each of them
since she had been a girl that could hardly walk without help.
One of the candidates her father was thinking about was Allen, a great nobleman who was
going to make sure that she would share the first waltz with him. Maybe she could pretend not
to be able to walk because her ankle was broken. But that would mean she would have to
break her ankle for real and all this pain just for not to have to dance with Allen? She shook
her had and a smile could be seen on her lips. What was she thinking about?
She looked up at the sky and the sun was already sinking. Soon, the first guests would arrive
and every minute a maid would come to tell her that she had to get ready for the banquet. And
as if Makiko had just waited for this thought to appear in her mind, she walked out of the
small door behind Hitomi and said softly: "Lady Hitomi, you may come in and get ready for
the banquet. Your father arrived just a few minutes ago and told us he wanted to see you
before the first guests will arrive." A smile crossed the older girls face and Hitomi could tell
that the maid would be happy to go to the dance. She was the gardener's daughter and was
just like her father working for the Emporer. It was special for her to live in the castle but she
could just walk out of the door and see the people who were living in town out there. She was
allowed to leave this place when there was no work.
"Lady?", she asked as Hitomi got caught in her thoughts again and smiled even brighter as the
young princess turned around. Makiko couldn't find a thing similar to the Emporer in the
beautiful girls face. Green eyes full of curiosity and the wish of independence were looking
at the world out there.
"You should get ready now, really."
"You're right, Makiko. Father will be angry if I will be late."
She would have liked to go to the dance just like she was but she knew she would have to
change her dress.
With one last glance at the red turning sky she followed Makiko inside and returned into her
cage once more.
*** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Makiko was looking at Hitomi and smiled. The green dress she was wearing fitted exactly and
green was just the colour of the princess.
"Beautiful.", she whispered, looking at the long sandy brown hair. The princess was looking
at herself in the mirror.
Someone knocked at the door, then asked if the princess was ready.
"Can't you tell him I can't go, Makiko?", Hitomi asked and tried to sound like a small child
who was just asking for candy.
"No way!" Makiko grinned – she knew the little girl far too long to let her get her will. She
was going to be on this banquet, no matter what she was trying to do to avoid this feast.
"Your father will be so proud to see you wearing this dress."
"Of course, he will be proud that the doll he wanted me to be works perfectly."
When she forced herself to smile, she felt like her face would break into thousends of pieces
because of the try to smile against her real feelings. She had learned to smile no matter what
was happening around her. It was so much easier.
One last time, Hitomi turned around, looked at the green dress and decided that she liked at
least the colour, before leaving her room.
Some of the servents were running around like nervous rabbits and that could only mean one
thing: The first guests were arriving and the banquet was going to start soon. She'd better
hurry to meet her father before the hall was full of people calling for their maids and butlers
to lead them to their places or just to make them hurry around in the castle to get a new
pair of shoes for the wife of a nobleman who lost her own on their way to Zaibach. She made
her way through the crowd and knocked softly at the door to her father's private room. When
had she been here last time? After a second of thinking about it, she counted 8 months of not
seeing her father for a single minute. The soft answer from inside the room made her open the
door and she stepped in. There he was, her father, sitting in his dearest armchair, looking
exactly like the Emporer he was. The cold eyes of the man she once knew met hers,
he looked at her, pleased with what he saw.
"Hitomi, child. Come, sit down, please."
That was it – it made Hitomi listen carefully. What was going to happen? He wasn't acting
like the one she knew.
Hitomi made her way to a chair near the one her father was sitting on and smiled at him.
"You wanted to see me, father?", she asked, slowly getting a clue of what may would happen
the next few minutes.
Her father coughed, then looked at her, looking like someone who was going to give a great
gift to someone.
"Well, dear child. You know you will be out of age soon and it's time to think about your
future – I think you will be glad to hear that the great noblemen Allen asked to be allowed
to propose to you. He will be a good husband, of course... Not to question it. He is worthy
to become Zaibach's next Emporer."
He told her to go to the banquet after that and Hitomi didn't know how she made her way to
the place or who was greeting her on her way. She just answered the greetings – a habit she
had since one of the maids had shouted at her for beeing so unpolite.
There were so many people in the banquet hall and she knew most of them since she had been
a little child. She didn't want to talk to a single one of them but Hitomi knew that she had no
choice. But still she had had enough: Why did everyone think that he could decide what she
was going to do, who was the best one to be her husband...?! She couldn't believe her father
was doing this to her! He didn't even wait to hear what she had to say about this subject. It
was not as if she had to spend her whole life with a men she didn't even like. She hated to talk
to Allen, she hated to have to dance with him and she should marry this guy?! For real?!
Beeing maybe the mother of his childs in a few years?! Even the thought about this made her
feeling sick. And to make the situation worse, Allen appeared behind her, took her hand and
kissed it. "Dear Lady Hitomi. I gladly heared that your father informed you about my
proposal – I'm sure we will be happy."
Hitomi couldn't take it! He was really thinking that she would say nothing but yes and be
happy about becoming his wife?! She was almost about to shout at him but remembered that
her shouting wouldn't help. She went over at one of the big windows and looked up at the
dark sky where the stars were shining brightly. Hot tears caused by anger were running down
her cheeks but she didn't mind.
She wasn't paying attention to anything but the many thoughts running around in her mind
but the noise of splintering glass woke her up.
Three man were entering the roum through the smashed window and one of them took some
of the golden plates from the big table in the middle of the room before disappearing into the
dark outside again. Another one took a necklace from a women and the third one lifted
Hitomi up and ran out of the castle, holding her close to him. She couldn't help but giggle and
feel a rush of joy running through her veins. The men was looking at her, muttering
something about her beeing a very strange girl and then they entered the forest. For the first
time in her life she could smell the forest. There were no words to describe what Hitomi was
feeling at this moment.
Deep down in her mind the thought appeared that she should be afraid because she just had
been kidnapped but she felt nothing but her new won freedom.
When the castle was out of sight they ran about 20 minutes without taking a break before
stopping at a place that seemed to be in the middle of the forest, well hidden where no one
would find them before dawn.
"Great Ren, why did you have to take a girl with you?", one of the man shouted at the one
who had been carrying Hitomi.
"I don't know Aki, I just wanted to. She's special, I don't know what it is about her but I just
know that I wanted to take her with me."
"We'll just leave her here and the guards will pick her up tomorrow.", a third voice said and
Hitomi tried to collect the little bit of courage she had to talk.
"I... I want you to take me with you... wherever you are heading."
All three man turned around to look at her and Ren smiled.
"So, you want to become one of the rebels, huh? Why would you want this? Leaving your
easy life behind and taking a path no one knows where it will lead you?"
Hitomi swallowed hard before she answered.
"I don't know.", she said honestly. "I just don't want to go back. The people there are strange.
They decide about everything... never letting you make your own decisions..."
That's the best idea you ever had, Hitomi! Tell them the whole story of your life before they
even agree to take her with them!, she shouted at herself in her mind, looking at Ren, the
not told question burning in her eyes.
"What do you say, guys? Will we take her with us?" He turned around and shot glances to the
other two man.
Hitomi couldn't help but smile as she saw the pleading expression on Rens face and the the
others seemed to give in.
"OK, Ren! Have your way! We'll take the strange girl you stole with us but she'll have to
work as hard as we have – I'm not going to take care of a big baby.", Aki smiled and
grinned.
"So, what's your name, strange girl?", Ren asked.
What should she do? Tell them the truth? Something in the way Ren was looking at her told
her that he would knew when she was not telling the truth so she whispered: "Hitomi. My
name is Hitomi."
No one said something before Aki started to laugh like a maniac.
"Ren, friend, you got it! You stole the princess of Zaibach right in front of her father and
hundreds of noblemans!" He shook his head in disbelief but then stopped. "You're not joking,
are you?"
"She's not.", Ren answered for her, now smiling brightly. "Well, didn't the old women we
met in the forest said something like You're going to find a princess... a princess of the
rebels... yeah, that was what she said. I think that was what she meant."
His eyes rested on Hitomi.
"Her father will send hundreds of guards to find his only daughter, of course... but he won't
find you because you don't want to be found, do you?"
Hitomi shook her head and grimaced. "I told you I don't want to go back."
"We better go or we will get caught and spend the rest of our lifes under the castle... in a dark
hole without a chance of seeing the sun anymore. Where did you leave the horses, Aki?"
Aki shrugged. "I don't know. I thought they had to be here... I surely left them here!"
Hitomi narrowed her eyes and said: "What are you talking about? If you are looking for three
black horses then you just have to look behind the next four trees, they are standing there."
"Shut up, girl! What do you know...?!"
But Ren already walked to the place Hitomi was talking about and came back with the three
horses. "Here you go, Aki. Hitomi was right."
"Stupid girl...", Aki whispered before climbed on the horse's back, waiting for the others to
do the same.
As Hitomi was sitting in front of Ren, they disappeared into the forest. Without looking back
Hitomi felt joy, being free for the first time of her life.
TBC ***
Chapter 1 is finished! Tell me what you think, please! Just a short review, maybe? * please * I have to say I enjoyed writing this chapter – I don't know why.
So, hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing.
Maybe some of you know already my first fanfiction "Second chance to change your destiny" about FF X (that I didn't finish by now – but I will... I just ran out of ideas and now I have to think about it...) but now, I decided to write down an Escaflowne-story spinning around in my mind for a long time.
Well, imagine Hitomi to be the princess of Zaibach but she doesn't like the castles and beeing just what everybody wants her to be. Then, one day, there is a feast at her father's castle and everything gets turned upside down. For all of you to know: This is going to be a Van/Hitomi story (even if Van appears for the first time in chapter 2 or 3, so please, don't be mad at me because it takes some time to get the things started... and to make sure you understand which character plays which role in this fanfiction... * smile *).
P.S. I don't own Escaflowne or earn money with it.
AND: If I get at least 3 reviews I'll post another chapter. Just to know that someone is reading this stuff, you know. I have to say that I already wrote chapter two and I'm just waiting for you to tell me that you want to read it. * hehe *
The young rebel
Chapter 1: Broken wings and a broken cage
The wind played with the blonde hair of a young women, yet maybe 17 winters living on this
planet that was named Gaea. The world she was living in was beautiful, no doubt. But it was
a golden cage. She, the only daughter of the Emporer of Zaibach, had been kept in the castles
of her father, well hidden so no one would see her.
She sighed and looked around, trying to find something interesting to look at. From where she
was standing, she could see the markte. People were walking there – she could see them.
Little ants, she could barely tell who was a woman and who was a man. Hundreds of people
were running around there – beeing free.
She wondered if her father would be back to celebrate the great winter- garden feast in about
two more days. This day was one of the days she was looking forward to. The whole castle
would shine and glimmer and there would be laughter in the castle beating up her loneliness
and maybe there would be someone interesting this year – someone she could talk to without
acting like the little princess everybody wanted her to be.
"Princesses don't run around like the child of a gardener."
"Don't shout, Princess!"
"My Lady, don't you want to wear the new dress your father bought for you. He would like
you to wear it this afternoon at the banquet."
A lot of people telling her what to do, what not to do, what to wear... It was too much. She
felt like a bird that wanted so badly to learn how to fly but that couldn't because his wings
were broken.
Tonight would be her father's perfect chance to show how his little girl to a lot of counts and
other noblemens who were living nearby. Boring people. Hitomi knew almost each of them
since she had been a girl that could hardly walk without help.
One of the candidates her father was thinking about was Allen, a great nobleman who was
going to make sure that she would share the first waltz with him. Maybe she could pretend not
to be able to walk because her ankle was broken. But that would mean she would have to
break her ankle for real and all this pain just for not to have to dance with Allen? She shook
her had and a smile could be seen on her lips. What was she thinking about?
She looked up at the sky and the sun was already sinking. Soon, the first guests would arrive
and every minute a maid would come to tell her that she had to get ready for the banquet. And
as if Makiko had just waited for this thought to appear in her mind, she walked out of the
small door behind Hitomi and said softly: "Lady Hitomi, you may come in and get ready for
the banquet. Your father arrived just a few minutes ago and told us he wanted to see you
before the first guests will arrive." A smile crossed the older girls face and Hitomi could tell
that the maid would be happy to go to the dance. She was the gardener's daughter and was
just like her father working for the Emporer. It was special for her to live in the castle but she
could just walk out of the door and see the people who were living in town out there. She was
allowed to leave this place when there was no work.
"Lady?", she asked as Hitomi got caught in her thoughts again and smiled even brighter as the
young princess turned around. Makiko couldn't find a thing similar to the Emporer in the
beautiful girls face. Green eyes full of curiosity and the wish of independence were looking
at the world out there.
"You should get ready now, really."
"You're right, Makiko. Father will be angry if I will be late."
She would have liked to go to the dance just like she was but she knew she would have to
change her dress.
With one last glance at the red turning sky she followed Makiko inside and returned into her
cage once more.
*** *** *** *** *** *** ***
Makiko was looking at Hitomi and smiled. The green dress she was wearing fitted exactly and
green was just the colour of the princess.
"Beautiful.", she whispered, looking at the long sandy brown hair. The princess was looking
at herself in the mirror.
Someone knocked at the door, then asked if the princess was ready.
"Can't you tell him I can't go, Makiko?", Hitomi asked and tried to sound like a small child
who was just asking for candy.
"No way!" Makiko grinned – she knew the little girl far too long to let her get her will. She
was going to be on this banquet, no matter what she was trying to do to avoid this feast.
"Your father will be so proud to see you wearing this dress."
"Of course, he will be proud that the doll he wanted me to be works perfectly."
When she forced herself to smile, she felt like her face would break into thousends of pieces
because of the try to smile against her real feelings. She had learned to smile no matter what
was happening around her. It was so much easier.
One last time, Hitomi turned around, looked at the green dress and decided that she liked at
least the colour, before leaving her room.
Some of the servents were running around like nervous rabbits and that could only mean one
thing: The first guests were arriving and the banquet was going to start soon. She'd better
hurry to meet her father before the hall was full of people calling for their maids and butlers
to lead them to their places or just to make them hurry around in the castle to get a new
pair of shoes for the wife of a nobleman who lost her own on their way to Zaibach. She made
her way through the crowd and knocked softly at the door to her father's private room. When
had she been here last time? After a second of thinking about it, she counted 8 months of not
seeing her father for a single minute. The soft answer from inside the room made her open the
door and she stepped in. There he was, her father, sitting in his dearest armchair, looking
exactly like the Emporer he was. The cold eyes of the man she once knew met hers,
he looked at her, pleased with what he saw.
"Hitomi, child. Come, sit down, please."
That was it – it made Hitomi listen carefully. What was going to happen? He wasn't acting
like the one she knew.
Hitomi made her way to a chair near the one her father was sitting on and smiled at him.
"You wanted to see me, father?", she asked, slowly getting a clue of what may would happen
the next few minutes.
Her father coughed, then looked at her, looking like someone who was going to give a great
gift to someone.
"Well, dear child. You know you will be out of age soon and it's time to think about your
future – I think you will be glad to hear that the great noblemen Allen asked to be allowed
to propose to you. He will be a good husband, of course... Not to question it. He is worthy
to become Zaibach's next Emporer."
He told her to go to the banquet after that and Hitomi didn't know how she made her way to
the place or who was greeting her on her way. She just answered the greetings – a habit she
had since one of the maids had shouted at her for beeing so unpolite.
There were so many people in the banquet hall and she knew most of them since she had been
a little child. She didn't want to talk to a single one of them but Hitomi knew that she had no
choice. But still she had had enough: Why did everyone think that he could decide what she
was going to do, who was the best one to be her husband...?! She couldn't believe her father
was doing this to her! He didn't even wait to hear what she had to say about this subject. It
was not as if she had to spend her whole life with a men she didn't even like. She hated to talk
to Allen, she hated to have to dance with him and she should marry this guy?! For real?!
Beeing maybe the mother of his childs in a few years?! Even the thought about this made her
feeling sick. And to make the situation worse, Allen appeared behind her, took her hand and
kissed it. "Dear Lady Hitomi. I gladly heared that your father informed you about my
proposal – I'm sure we will be happy."
Hitomi couldn't take it! He was really thinking that she would say nothing but yes and be
happy about becoming his wife?! She was almost about to shout at him but remembered that
her shouting wouldn't help. She went over at one of the big windows and looked up at the
dark sky where the stars were shining brightly. Hot tears caused by anger were running down
her cheeks but she didn't mind.
She wasn't paying attention to anything but the many thoughts running around in her mind
but the noise of splintering glass woke her up.
Three man were entering the roum through the smashed window and one of them took some
of the golden plates from the big table in the middle of the room before disappearing into the
dark outside again. Another one took a necklace from a women and the third one lifted
Hitomi up and ran out of the castle, holding her close to him. She couldn't help but giggle and
feel a rush of joy running through her veins. The men was looking at her, muttering
something about her beeing a very strange girl and then they entered the forest. For the first
time in her life she could smell the forest. There were no words to describe what Hitomi was
feeling at this moment.
Deep down in her mind the thought appeared that she should be afraid because she just had
been kidnapped but she felt nothing but her new won freedom.
When the castle was out of sight they ran about 20 minutes without taking a break before
stopping at a place that seemed to be in the middle of the forest, well hidden where no one
would find them before dawn.
"Great Ren, why did you have to take a girl with you?", one of the man shouted at the one
who had been carrying Hitomi.
"I don't know Aki, I just wanted to. She's special, I don't know what it is about her but I just
know that I wanted to take her with me."
"We'll just leave her here and the guards will pick her up tomorrow.", a third voice said and
Hitomi tried to collect the little bit of courage she had to talk.
"I... I want you to take me with you... wherever you are heading."
All three man turned around to look at her and Ren smiled.
"So, you want to become one of the rebels, huh? Why would you want this? Leaving your
easy life behind and taking a path no one knows where it will lead you?"
Hitomi swallowed hard before she answered.
"I don't know.", she said honestly. "I just don't want to go back. The people there are strange.
They decide about everything... never letting you make your own decisions..."
That's the best idea you ever had, Hitomi! Tell them the whole story of your life before they
even agree to take her with them!, she shouted at herself in her mind, looking at Ren, the
not told question burning in her eyes.
"What do you say, guys? Will we take her with us?" He turned around and shot glances to the
other two man.
Hitomi couldn't help but smile as she saw the pleading expression on Rens face and the the
others seemed to give in.
"OK, Ren! Have your way! We'll take the strange girl you stole with us but she'll have to
work as hard as we have – I'm not going to take care of a big baby.", Aki smiled and
grinned.
"So, what's your name, strange girl?", Ren asked.
What should she do? Tell them the truth? Something in the way Ren was looking at her told
her that he would knew when she was not telling the truth so she whispered: "Hitomi. My
name is Hitomi."
No one said something before Aki started to laugh like a maniac.
"Ren, friend, you got it! You stole the princess of Zaibach right in front of her father and
hundreds of noblemans!" He shook his head in disbelief but then stopped. "You're not joking,
are you?"
"She's not.", Ren answered for her, now smiling brightly. "Well, didn't the old women we
met in the forest said something like You're going to find a princess... a princess of the
rebels... yeah, that was what she said. I think that was what she meant."
His eyes rested on Hitomi.
"Her father will send hundreds of guards to find his only daughter, of course... but he won't
find you because you don't want to be found, do you?"
Hitomi shook her head and grimaced. "I told you I don't want to go back."
"We better go or we will get caught and spend the rest of our lifes under the castle... in a dark
hole without a chance of seeing the sun anymore. Where did you leave the horses, Aki?"
Aki shrugged. "I don't know. I thought they had to be here... I surely left them here!"
Hitomi narrowed her eyes and said: "What are you talking about? If you are looking for three
black horses then you just have to look behind the next four trees, they are standing there."
"Shut up, girl! What do you know...?!"
But Ren already walked to the place Hitomi was talking about and came back with the three
horses. "Here you go, Aki. Hitomi was right."
"Stupid girl...", Aki whispered before climbed on the horse's back, waiting for the others to
do the same.
As Hitomi was sitting in front of Ren, they disappeared into the forest. Without looking back
Hitomi felt joy, being free for the first time of her life.
TBC ***
Chapter 1 is finished! Tell me what you think, please! Just a short review, maybe? * please * I have to say I enjoyed writing this chapter – I don't know why.
So, hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing.